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Christchurch is a perfect base for exploring the amazing Canterbury Region
Fancy a lifestyle where you can go skiing in the morning and surfing in the afternoon? That's the type of variety you can experience in this region.
Christchurch is the gateway to the pastoral Canterbury region crisscrossed by braided rivers and a patchwork of farmlands. Spend time in Timaru, the historic main centre of South Canterbury and shop for crafts and gourmet foods in the country town of Geraldine. Get in touch with French settler history in the quaint village of Akaroa, swim with dolphins in the harbour or take a brisk and breezy walk across the hilltops of the Banks Peninsula. Farther afield lays Methven, close to popular ski fields and the magnificent Southern Alps which come alive in winter with skiers and snowboarders and an ideal location to escape the hustle and bustle of the busy city.
Don't miss Matariki - Maori New Year
Matariki - known as the Maori New Year - is celebrated throughout Christchurch in June. Ngā Hau E Wha National Marae (Pages Road) will be lit up with festive lights from 13 to 24 June and there will be cultural entertainment, stargazing, craft activities and exhibitions at the marae, Christchurch City Libraries/Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi and other venues. The appearance of the star cluster Pleiades or Seven Sisters in the north-eastern pre-dawn sky in late May/early June, Matariki is one of the most significant celebrations on the Maori calendar.
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Fancy a lifestyle where you can go skiing in the morning and surfing in the afternoon? That's the type of variety you can experience in Christchurch and Canterbury. And it's all so easy to get to! There is nowhere else in the world where within two hours of an international airport you can ski at a world class alpine resort, play golf, bungy jump, go rafting, mountain biking, hot-air ballooning, wind surfing, whale watching and visit world class wineries and gardens.


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I first want to thank the co-sponsors of the Paid Sick Leave ordinance for the work they've done and the attention they've brought to this worthwhile issue.
After reviewing the original proposed ordinance and engaging in multiple meetings with stakeholders and advocates, it seems clear that despite much consensus on the value of a Paid Sick Leave policy, there is room for debate on the details we include and the complexity of the issue. While our typical process is to submit amendments to a provided ordinance, in this case, due to the complexity, I felt it more prudent to offer an alternative in total.
Attached is a substitute ordinance I will be proposing for first reading only at the council meeting on February 15 and can discuss at work session on Tuesday, Feb. 13.
In this new proposed ordinance, the language more closely matches the PSL policies offered in cities as pointed out to us by various advocates, thereby eliminating the need for more study. This includes micro-business exemption and tiered-accrual maximums. Additionally, this new ordinance:
• Adds more specific provisions around reporting, appeal, and enforcement provisions that closely resemble those in the Minneapolis policy.
• Creates more specific definitions around employer and employee to avoid the imposition of extra-jurisdictional enforcement which resulted in a negative judicial ruling for the Minneapolis policy.
• Affords for more specifically defined options for businesses to implement PSL policies that match their business models, accounting, and payroll systems, or other needs.
• Adjusts the maximum accrual provision to more closely match an employee's average work schedule.
• Adds a provision that prohibits an employee from asking for additional shifts and then getting paid for sick leave for those shifts if requested within 3 days.
• Adds a reporting requirement so that even after implementation, the council will still be briefed on the policy's impact on the city budget and on the community at-large.
• Adds a provision that allows an employer to be exempt from this policy if they reach agreement with an organization representing their employees on pay and benefits.
These new provisions are intended to tighten-up areas I felt were too undefined, to fix some areas of concern, and to enable employees to organize and develop their own benefits package.
I look forward to discussing this on Tuesday and receiving feedback from the community. Since I will be proposing this for first reading only, we can affirmatively vote for this on Feb. 15, and then handle any legal concerns or amendments before second/third readings at the following council meeting.
Many thanks to the co-sponsors of the original ordinance for bringing this important issue to the dais. I hope they will consider adopting this alternative solution in the spirit of collaboration in which it is intended.
Draft ordinance: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 092210.pdf
Provision comparisons: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 091208.pdf
Definition comparisons: http://assets.austintexas.gov/austincou ... 091440.pdf
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Buena Vista Sportman's Clubhouse
Trap Shoots on Wednesdays and Saturdays at 10 AM at the Clubhouse. The trap range consists of four trap houses. We shoot singles and doubles with voice-activated traps. The public is invited to shoot with Club members. The cost per round of 25 birds (targets) is $3.50 for members, $5.00 for non-members. 12-gauge ammunition may be purchased at the Clubhouse.
All shoots are dependent on the weather. All shooters must follow range rules and practice gun safety at all times. Shooters must provide their own arms and ammunition.
Shooters interested in 5-Stand or in a special event for another club/organization should contact the Shotgun Division Manager about scheduling and cost.
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Directions From Buena Vista
West from the stop light on Main Street (CR306) 0.8 mile to Rodeo Rd. Left on Rodeo Rd. (CR321) 1 mile to the Club sign on the right. Right on the access road 0.6 mile to the clubhouse.


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Product Type: Framed fine art print with a glass and mount finish.
Outer Frame Size: 34" x 24"
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We have always worked in the fields of art, design, sculpture, painting, fused glass, framing and graphics throughout Ireland, the UK and internationally from Ethiopia to America and even Switzerland, not to mention Cruise Liners on the Med.
Based in a truly unique wagon topped building with a brook running below our artisans create lots of wild, weird & wonderful things many sold on a totally exclusive bases. Lead by Colm, Damien & Leona for almost 30 years, the business has gone from strength to strength and Spires artworks can be seen in many locations around the globe.
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Farmingdale State - 78, Purchase - 62
Purchase, N.Y. - Junior guard Camille Romero (Queens, N.Y.) scored a career-high 29 points for the Rams as Farmingdale State earned a 78-62 victory at Purchase in their first Skyline Conference game of the season. The Rams improved to 2-4, 1-0, while the Panthers fell to 3-3, 0-1.
Leading 7-5 in the opening minutes, a 23-6 Farmingdale State run put the Rams on top 30-11 with 9:33 left to play in the first half. Purchase would trail by double-digits the entire half as the Rams went into the break with a 44-28 advantage. Romero led the way with 17 points after shooting 5-of-6 from the field in the first half.
Farmingdale State would increase their lead to as many as 22 points midway through the second half en route to the 78-62 road victory.
Romero led all scorers with 29 points after shooting 10-of-14 from the field, including a perfect 4-for-4 from 3-point range. Senior guard Nicky Young (Queens, N.Y.) tallied 17 points, while junior guard Christina Merrill (Levittown, N.Y.) pitched in with 15 points. Junior guard Jeanette Spillane (Islip Terrace, N.Y.) and senior forward Lushanta Savadel (Bellport, N.Y.) each had a game-high 10 rebounds for Farmingdale State.
Sophomore forward Jazmin Garcia (Peekskill, N.Y.) led Purchase with a team-high 26 points.
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With Cut the Rope and Cut the Rope Experiments, UK developer ZeptoLab created a pair of the most popular games on any mobile platform, along with one of the most beloved mobile mascots, the candy-munching OmNom. If anything can build on that success, it's pudding.
Due out later this month, Pudding Monsters looks to be a game about sticking pudding creatures together in order to form larger, more powerful ones, with the ultimate aim being to save your friend from being devoured by the fridge owner. So it's more of a pudding rebellion than just me sitting about in my pajamas eating a large tub of chocolate pudding. Mildly disappointing, but I'll live.
Eventually the monsters will leave the fridge, striking out into the world at large in a way that's incredibly un-pudding-like. They'll discover new species of pudding creatures, including a green slime monster that leaves a trail behind it as it moves, perhaps a homage to Kroger's Jelly Belly Very Cherry pudding, which does the same thing despite being red.
I can only imagine the pressure ZeptoLab is feeling right now, introducing its first new property since the one that's been downloaded more than 250 million times and launched a merchandising frenzy. Pudding Monsters probably won't unseat Om Nom from his candy throne, but if it's tasty enough it could be deemed worthy of his presence.


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Boston tough guy John Martorano gets back on the stand this morning. I think all 20 of Martorano's confessed murders have been covered in detail by the end of direct questioning. It's possible we glossed over a few. The prosecution wraps up by asking him, "Do you regret your life of crime?"
Martorano releases a hearty chuckle. "Of course," he says with a smile. "Who wouldn't?"
At this point, I think most impartial observers in the courthouse would like to see this evil person—who lives the life of a free man, remarkably—receive some sort of comeuppance. At 11:27 a.m., we get the best we can hope for: cross-examination.
I'm imagining defense attorney Hank Brennan pacing in circles around his living room last night, pressed suit on its hanger, practicing his opening question again and again. When Brennan strolls to the podium this morning, he's raring to go. He eyes Martorano and begins his cross.
"Mr. Martorano, you are a mass murderer, are you not?"
That'll wake up a courtroom.
"I don't think so," Martorano replies, with the slightest of squirms. It's not clear which part of the statement he objects to.
He has confessed to shooting unarmed people in cold blood. So unless he's devised an elaborate, Jesuitical argument it seems pretty fair to term him a "murderer." Does he feel that a mere 20 murders do not justify the modifier "mass"? Do you earn that word only after you've killed, say, 35 or 40? Or perhaps Martorano interprets the phrase—if you'll allow me to get vaguely Jesuitical myself—as a reference to murder in a Catholic church during the Eucharist?
As Brennan bears down, Martorano remains remarkably placid. He admits to killing innocent people who were misidentified. He admits to killing friends—looking them in the eye before shooting them in the head. There are two moments when the killer gets worked up:
1) During a hit on Herbert Smith, Martorano jumped into Smith's car, saw three people there, and shot them all. It later turned out that one was Smith, but the other two were an innocent woman and 17-year-old boy. Martorano repeatedly insists that he couldn't see who they were. "They were just silhouettes," he explains, almost pleading with us to believe him. "It looked like they were wearing hoods. After I shot Smith, everything went blind in the car. If you try that sometime you'll see."
2) When a man named John Banno came at Martorano with a knife, outside an after-hours club, Martorano grabbed the knife away and stabbed Banno in the chest with it. Banno wouldn't give in, so Martorano stabbed him again—20 times, according to later reports. Brennan now hectors Martorano on the stand, asking why he'd keep stabbing an unarmed, bleeding man. Martorano deflects, deflects, deflects … and then finally erupts, " 'CUZ HE WOULDN'T SHUT UP!" He adjusts his glasses and tries to regain his composure. Brennan pauses for a few beats, letting the outburst echo around the silent courtroom.
Martorano remains strangely calm when he describes killing his close friend John Callahan. As Martorano describes him, "He was a high-priced accountant [during the] days, put on a leather jacket and wanted to hang out with the rogues at night." In 1981, Callahan hatched a scheme to take over the World Jai Alai company. (Bad trend-forecasting there. Maybe should have invested in extreme sports instead.)
Callahan convinced Martorano to assassinate the WJA president, Roger Wheeler, a legitimate businessman in Tulsa, Okla., with the thought that Wheeler's wife would then sell the company in her grief. So Martorano ran up to Wheeler in a country club parking lot, just after the man had finished a round of golf, and shot him right between the eyes. Soon after—fearful that Callahan would go soft and admit the crime to cops—Whitey Bulger convinced Martorano to kill Callahan, too. So Martorano picked up Callahan at the Fort Lauderdale airport, greeted him warmly, took his bag, ushered him into the front seat of a van, and then shot him in the back of the head. (By the way, the wife refused to sell.)
If I were on the jury, I'd be profoundly confused about the import of today's testimony. We heard a whole lot about the crimes of John Martorano and only a little about the crimes of Whitey Bulger. Mostly, what we learned—or at least what I learned—is that Martorano is a straight-up, horrifying sociopath. And frankly, based on what we've heard in court thus far, it seems like Martorano should be at the defendant's table and Whitey should be testifying against him.
Meanwhile, it is increasingly inconceivable to me that Martorano isn't in prison or dead by the hand of a state executioner. Twenty murders, of the very coldest kind. Assassinating a man who had zero ties to organized crime, strictly for money. Wantonly shooting an innocent woman in the head. This guy lives among us? And has for the past half-decade? We should be genuinely frightened and appalled.
Martorano pays lip service to remorse, but his frequent smiles, chuckles, and defensive answers betray him: He's not sorry. He thinks he deserves to be free. And I have no doubt he'd take up crime again if it suited him.
"Who told you it was OK to murder someone to protect your friends and family?" asked Brennan.
"Family comes first," answered Martorano. "My father taught me that. The priests and the nuns that I grew up with told me that." Later, he added: "I always try to be a nice guy."


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TV director fired for ties to Muslim Brotherhood
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has fired the director of an Islamic TV channel for his role as the leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Kuwait.
He wrote Sunday on his Twitter account that he sacked Tarek Al-Suwaidan "for admitting he belongs to the Brotherhood terrorist movement."
Al-Suwaidan, a Kuwaiti, was the director general of Al-Resalah channel, which belongs to Alwaleed's Rotana Group — a large pan-Arab media conglomerate based in Riyadh.
MORE: Security forces storm Egyptian mosque
Al-Suwaidan has sharply criticized Egypt's military-backed government and voiced support for deposed President Mohammed Morsi on his Twitter account.
Saudi King Abdullah, whose country has pledged $5 billion in aid to Egypt's interim leaders, supported Cairo's crackdown on the Brotherhood, saying the kingdom stood by Egypt's fight against "terrorism and strife."
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Okay, so the trailer for the new Spider Man movie is out and appearently our friendly physicist from the neightborhood came up with something. However I can't find out what this is.
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Adresse : 308 promenade Legget Drive bureau 100, Ottawa K2B 1Y6 Canada
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To be honest, variations on the Manhattan Cocktail are just about my favorite cocktails in the whole world. So when I heard Lindsey from the blog, "Brown, Bitter, and Stirred," was hosting a Mixology Monday, I knew I had no choice but to participate. But what to feature? Well perhaps my favorite new bitter substance, Gran Classico, from Tempus Fugit Sprits.
According to the importers, Gran Classico is a "Bitter of Turin", as is Campari. It is a bit similar to Campari in some ways, but in others more interesting. Campari's bitterness is very single noted, almost entirely Quinine and Gentian, without much additional subtlety. Gran Classico, on the other hand, is deliciously complex, with quite a bit more varied herbal notes than Campari.
With the recent release of Gran Classico, a lot of people have been resurrecting the Old Pal Cocktail: Equal parts Rye, Campari, and Dry Vermouth, but replacing the Campari with Gran Classico. It is gosh darn delicious.
While I was thinking about which Campari recipes worked well with Gran Classico and which didn't, another of my favorite cocktails came to mind: The Brooklyn.
Now I've been known to mess up the Brooklyn recipe, it is true, making it by accident, or intention, with Sweet Vermouth or Punt e Mes instead of Dry Vermouth.
So I thought I'd mess with it a bit more.
Eighteenth Cocktail
2 oz Rye
3/4 oz Dolin Blanc
1/2 oz Gran Classico Bitter
1 barspoon Luxardo Maraschino
Stir with ice and strain into a chilled cocktail glass. Squeeze lemon peel over glass and drop in.
As it is traditional to name Brooklyn variations after neighborhoods or districts, I cast about for some inspiration. I made up the cocktail at our house, in Bernal Heights. As much as I love Bernal Heights, this really didn't seem like a "Bernal Heights" cocktail. Maybe after the area where Heaven's Dog is located? Nope, "SOMA Cocktail" even less appealing than Bernal Heights.
I asked the importer of Gran Classico the name of the neighborhood he lived in. He replied, "Bahia". I was like, wha? Maybe if this was made with aged Cachaca or Pisco instead of Rye Whiskey… After a long bit of back and forth involving home towns, neighborhoods, and other sundry geographical designations, I finally asked him the neighborhood where his business partner lived in Paris. "He lives in the 18th, or Dix-Huitième in French." Whew, finally, something I can hang with! The Eighteenth Cocktail. Mysterious enough to be puzzling, but not obscure. The fact that it was his partner's neighborhood even gives it a good story. That works!
Now I like this cocktail as it is, but some have said it is a tad sweet. It's not far from most modern Brooklyn variations, like the Slope or Greenpoint, but if you are a person who prefers aperitif type drinks, it is also good as a more literal Brooklyn, using Dry Vermouth instead of Blanc. Give the Eighteenth Cocktail a try either way, and let me know what you think.


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Ebola Outbreak Analysis
The tragic Ebola outbreak in West Africa became a leading news topic around the world. Like all hot topics, it generated a tremendous amount of data from a variety of sources.
When looking at epidemic data, it's important to understand how events related to an epidemic can have negative regional and global impacts that make controlling the epidemic more challenging. For example, if villagers aren't planting crops because they are too sick or scared to leave their homes, this could result in malnutrition or starvation in the future. And if other countries depend on those crops, not receiving them could prevent those countries from providing needed aid.
This interactive SAS Visual Analytics report focuses on readily available public data that outlines the health and mortality side of the Ebola outbreak.


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If you weren't among the 4.7 million people who watched the Wednesday airings of FX's new spy thriller "The Americans," the network is making it available right here (and on Hulu and any other site that wants to embed it).
The 9 p.m. CT Wednesday premiere drew 3.22 million total viewers, and after combining that with encore airings Wednesday FX came up with the combined 4.7 million total viewers. The first airing outperformed the premiere of "American Horror Story" in total viewers (3.18 million) and "Sons of Anarchy" in adults 18-49 (1.55 million).
"We're very happy with premiere ratings for 'The Americans' and, just as importantly, we're proud of the widespread critical acclaim the show has received," said John Landgraf, president and general manager of FX. "We have no doubt that when we get the Live+7 time-shifted ratings from last night, 'The Americans' will rank among the best series debuts ever on FX. We're grateful to executive producers Joe Weisberg, Joel Fields, Graham Yost, and to our outstanding cast led by Keri Russell, Matthew Rhys and Noah Emmerich, as well as the entire team behind this great show."
"The Americans" debuts new episodes at 9 p.m. CT Wednesdays on FX. Enjoy the premiere episode below.
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Seemingly overnight, a number of creations have SPRUNG up among the blooming trees and shrubs in Longenecker Horticultural Gardens.
SPRUNG, a site-specific outdoor sculpture exhibit by UW Art Department students, will embellish the garden landscape from May 4 through May 18. Each artist considers the natural landscape of the Arboretum to create a singular sculpture that investigates how the artwork, the environment, and the viewer all interact.
The public is welcome to get close, gently interact, and respectfully touch. Please do not move, roughly handle, or sit, stand, or climb on any of the artwork.
Visitors are welcome to come meet and talk with the artists in the garden on Friday May 12, from 3 to 5 p.m. (The meet-and-greet will be cancelled for rain.)
Participating artists: Hannah Best, Chase Boston, Anthony Deibner-Hanson, Eric Ford, Kaylyn Gerenz, John Hallett, Evan Hawkins, Mariah Tate Klemens, Mike Lind, Jeremy Nuttall, Jeff Repko, and Bre'annah Stampley.
The exhibition is facilitated by Wisculpture, the sculpture program at UW–Madison, with support from Eyelet Crew Sleeve Ruffle J Dress adtqnqW, the Evjue Foundation, and the Arts Institute.


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LS9: Change in command
One of biofuels' most-celebrated technologies makes a change at the top; the struggle to raise capital dogs a high-profile biofuels star.
A new chapter is underway at LS9 with the appointment of Tjerk de Ruiter — the former CEO of Genencor — as president and CEO.
It's not wholly unexpected. Four weeks ago in Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2013, we observed:
"It'll be another tough year for financing — this year, the pain will shift from cellulosic biofuels to the synthetic biology wave as they move from demonstrations to full-scale commercial."
The financing struggles
The company has been known for its awesomely promising technology, leisurely pace towards commercialization compared to synth-bio companies like Amyris, brutal fundraising struggles, and for its regular turn-over in CEOs. The original acting CEO, Doug Cameron, gave the reins to Bob Walsh in July 2007, who handed off to Bill Haywood in October 2008, and Ed Dineen arrived in December 2010. Now de Ruiter appears, after serving several months as the company's chairman.
The capital raises were relatively light along the way – the company always balancing the need for cash against maintaining valuations and "giving the company away".
Let's look at the funding rounds as they happened.
Series A, 3/07, raised $5 million from Khosla and Flagship.
Series B, 10/07, raised $15M and added Lightspeed to the investor base and board.
Series C, 10/09, raised $25M and added Chevron Technology Ventures' venture capital arm, CTTV Investments.
Series D, 12/10, raised $30M and added Blackstone.
When Haywood arrived in 2008, the company had hoped to raise $100 million to support its demonstration phase. Instead, it made do with less and, under CEO Ed Dineen, focused intensely on its development of fatty alcohols – a target of its partnership with Proctor & Gamble — and biodiesel production. Two product development agreements were established with P&G, the first in 2009, the second in 2010 – but we had not heard of extensions or renewals after that.
The rocky toad to consolidated bioprocessing
The technology is simple to describe, awesome in ambition, tough to execute. LS9 aimed to genetically modify e.coli to induce the bacteria to produce hydrocarbons and high-value alcohols — like Amyris (which was modifying yeast, by contrast) it was part of the wave of "drop-in fuel" companies that were producing biofuels that required no infrastructure change.
It's special appeal: LS9 could make the conversion from sugars to products in a single step — its microbe was a stand-out in the days when one-step processes were hailed as the "Holy Grail of Consolidated Bioprocessing." Three companies made substantial progress down that route: Mascoma, Qteros and LS9.
The dextrose-sucrose challenge
When US dextrose prices soared, the collective attention of companies like Amyris, Solazyme and LS9 shifted focus to Brazil (and lower-cost sucrose from sugarcane) for lower-value products, and to renewable chemicals and other higher-value items for geographies where feedstock costs were high.
In July 2011, LS9 opened an office in Sao Paulo and Dineen trained the company's focus on Brazil, noting "Not only is Brazil an attractive market for our biofuel and biochemical portfolio, it is also strategically important to us as a source of feedstock, and for strategic partnerships with Brazilian companies." But the company had not, after 18 months, landed a signature Brazilian partnership.
LS9 was the first company to prove that it could make its drop-in fuels from cellulosic sugars in one step, but that promising avenue of R&D slowed as the company focused on driving commercialization of nearer-term opportunities.
The company had shared with Virdia in a $9 million grant from the Department of Energy (DOE) together with partner Virdia to improve and demonstrate an integrated process to convert biomass feedstocks into fermentable sugars and then into diesel and other fuel and chemical products – but dextrose was the feedstock of choice at the Florida demonstration facility.
The company's prospects brightened substantially in 2009-10 when it acquired that (extremely low-cost) demonstration site in Okeechobee, Florida – buying a site and equipment out of bankruptcy. The demonstration plant moved from acquisition to opening by September 2012, where the microbes were introduced into a 135,000 liter fermenter environment. Quickly, LS9 reported "The first run at 135,000 liter scale produced several tons of fatty alcohol with "excellent replication of technical metrics".
The synthetic biology challenge
In The Hillary Step, in profiling LS9 we observed:
A couple of advanced fermentation technologies have had substantial hiccups at the final transition to full commercial scale production – so nothing is going to be certain, in the public's eyes, until that step has been successfully negotiated. Plus, LS9 is likely to need another capital round for its equity requirements in funding full commercialization – hot technologies have a lot of friends, but its been tough in the equity markets to find equitable prices of late.
Last May we reported:
A friend of the Digest writes: "I was in Brazil last month and got an earful about that from a very high up there on [Amyris]. If their shiny high grade fermenter was not up to snuff they are really in trouble…having worked in nice university labs and clean room pharmaceuticals they did not know what was awaiting them in the down market dirty world of biofuel. You can't make biofuels with anything you got to keep that clean."
At the time, we commented: "There are two polar views one can take of that comment: Panicked alarmism, or a lonely voice in the wilderness leading us back to real expectations. Perhaps, and probably, the truth lies between those extremes."
There remain a lot of companies in the wave that came to the biofuels space working with modified microorganisms and focused on the opportunities beyond first-generation technologies and fuels: Solazyme, Cobalt Technologies, Algenol, Mascoma, Sapphire Energy, Joule, Proterro, Gevo, Amyris, Butamax, INEOS Bio, Lanza Tech, Coskata, and Aurora Algae among them.
Cobalt and Aurora have long since trained their focus on higher-value products and certainly now Amyris too (though Total has continued to train Amyris technology on the fuels sector). Solazyme, Joule, Mascoma, LanzaTech and INEOS Bio are chasing a portfolio of fuels and higher-value products. Proterro is focused on producing intermediate renewable sugars. Coskata has pivoted towards natural gas as a feedstock. Leaving only Butamax, Algenol and Sapphire Energy avowedly focused on a fuels-first strategy.
More on LS9
Why Affordable Renewable Sugars are a Monster Prize.
12 Signs that your favorite biofuel venture might be in trouble.
Digest note: An earlier version of this story appeared this morning, taking a dimmer view of LS9's short-term prognosis and noting that layoffs are underway at the company. We reported that the exact organizational shape of the company's assets and technologies could be in for some radical reorganization, and probably was — but a key company investor today contacted the Digest to say that the company is marching on, although under new leadership. We'll accept that.
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Negotiating Resilience Project (2007-2010)
Negotiating Resilience is a qualitative exploration of how youth from five different countries cope with daily challenges using video technology.
Most of us have felt out of place at one time or another. So how do youth who experience adversity cope with this feeling; a youth with a physical disability being educated among able-bodied youth, or an Aboriginal youth living off-reserve in an urban environment, or a child refugee displaced from his/her home community. Using visual methods this research seeks to understand how youth coped with these challenges and how resilience is understood and experienced across cultures from the perspective of youth themselves.
Negotiating Resilience investigates the highly intricate and interactive nature of the processes that protect youth whose lives are in transition and who feel 'out of place' in some way, against adversity. While the team explored the tensions between homogeneity and heterogeneity of wellbeing among youth in transition, the emphasis was on capturing the variability of young people's experiences as case-studies, rather than focusing on comparing data across the sites. To access the experiences of young people, the NRP uses an innovative combination of visual methods – including videotaping a day in the life of youth and photo-elicitation – as well as observation, qualitative interviews and reciprocity between researchers and youth.
The purpose of the project is to understand the interactive processes associated with positive development among children and youth who are in transition between two (and possibly more) culturally distinct worlds. We are interested in learning both what resilience means, as well as the pathways to resilience, from the perspectives of youth who are "out-of-place" in some way and coping well with their displacement (for example, a youth with a physical disability being educated among able-bodied youth; an Aboriginal youth living off-reserve in an urban environment; a multi-ethnic youth whose identity must be negotiated in an ethnically diverse community; and a child refugee displaced from her/his home community).
The Negotiating Resilience Project is a three-year, multi-site, visual methods study funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) and administered through the Resilience Research Centre at Dalhousie University.
The project has several goals. Specifically, the Negotiating Resilience project aims to:
- Document a plurality of protective processes in the lives of youth exposed to significant amounts of risk as defined by different communities, from the perspectives of youth themselves.
- Further our understanding of children as social actors, interacting with their environments in ways that shape, and are shaped by, their social ecologies.
- Explore gender-based differences in youths' interactions with their social ecologies and the protective processes they engage in.
- Develop a set of qualitative protocols for gathering visual methods data useful to the study of resilience across diverse cultures and contexts.
Sixteen 13 to 16 year old youth, one boy and one girl from eight research sites (Nova Scotia, Quebec, Saskatchewan, British Columbia, China, India, South Africa and Thailand) where youth are facing more than one 'tension' or 'adversity' in their communities, participated in the study. We chose to document the lives of 13 to 16-year-olds specifically because of the developmental crossroads they have reached in their interactions with their wider communities.
Youth were nominated to the project by youth advocates in their communities. The youth were suggested to the project because they were seen as being resilient despite the multiple adversities they face, including migration, poverty, racism, and other social and economic risks. In other words, were seen as "growing up well under adversity." Each research site in Canada was matched with an international research site, based on the nature of the transitions faced by the participant pairs.
The Negotiating Resilience project is using an innovative combination of visual methods, observation, qualitative interviews and reciprocity between researchers and youth to deepen our understandings of resilience from children and youth's own cultural and contextual viewpoints.
The methodology is based largely on Cameron et al.'s (Cameron, Tapanya, & Gillen's 2006) ongoing Day in the Life (DITL) studies of 30-month olds in different cultures (so far children in Peru, Italy, Canada, Thailand, the UK, the US, and Turkey have participated). Prior to working with the youth participants, the Negotiating Resilience Research Project team first developed the research methodologies and received local comment on the interview questions and methods to ensure that they would make sense to youth at each site. The research documents were then translated into each site's local language. Data collection and analysis proceeded as follows:
- Preliminary interview: Youth participants took part in a confidential, semi-structured interview focused on the youth's understandings of their risks and experiences of their own resilience.
- Photo-elicitation (Harper, 2002): The youth were provided with a disposable camera so that they could take photographs of the places, people and things that were important to them. Images were later developed and used as prompts for in-depth interviews and as research data to understand from the youths' perspectives what helped them overcome challenges and cope in their transitional environments.
- Day in the life video recording: A day in the life (Gillen et al., 2006) was recorded for each youth via video, consisting of 8-12 hours of the youth's day. Two researchers were present during the filming. One researcher filmed the day using a digital camcorder. Another researcher already familiar with the young person's context took detailed observation notes of interactions, places, and people that the youth encountered.
- Creation of the compilation day in the life DVD: At least four researchers (both familiar and unfamiliar with the youth's context) independently viewed the full video footage for each youth, and made selections of the day's events and scenes that seemed to exhibit aspects of resilience. Through deliberations, the researchers reached consensus on 5-6 segments (for a total of 30 minutes) that they felt demonstrated aspects of positive development for each youth, or selections they were interested in hearing more about from the youth.
- Second iterative stage: The local researcher returned to the youth with the youth's developed photographs and the 30 minute compilation DVD of his or her day. The youth were asked to reflect on each segment in the compilation as well as their photographs. The compilation video of a youth from the paired research site was also shown to each youth for comment and reflection.
- Reflection periods: Integral to this methodology was the involvement of the members of the international team in all aspects of the research initiative. Periods of active, dialogical reflection between our team members and between the researchers and participants ensured our analyses accounted for specific contexts and cultures, and were essential in helping us to understand the youth's interpretations of their images.
- Data analysis: The data analysis is ongoing. The methodological approach taken in the Negotiating Resilience Project encourages youth to work with the researchers in creating and reflecting on their data in ways that are meaningful to them. The analysis of data involves extensive dialogue between researchers at each site and between sites. We are drawing on a combination of analysis methods, including grounded theory, postmodern discourse analysis, thematic analysis, and narrative analysis.
The emerging themes presented below are recognized as concepts independent of one another, and are preliminary as data analysis is ongoing at each site. The themes include: individual strengths, identity development, nurturing relationships, contributions to the community, resilience-promoting communities, social justice, respect for the environment, and cultural roots. These protective resources emerged as important to youths' perceptions of their own healthy psychosocial development across each of the research sites. However, the ways in which each of these factors functioned in the lives of the participants were nuanced and bounded by each youth's local developmental, economic, geographical, historical, socio-cultural and temporal situation.
Individual Strengths
Youth participants spoke of the importance of believing in one's self, of having a positive outlook, of maintaining a sense of humour even in challenging situations (E.L. Cameron, et al., in press), and setting high aspirations for themselves. They commented on their ability to solve problems, to be innovative and to persevere despite their challenges.
Identity Development
In earlier work, team members found that across diverse contexts, nurturing a positive identity - however that may look or be theorized across cultures–is one of seven key "tensions" or "resolutions" critical to fostering youths' positive psychosocial development (Ungar et al., 2007). In our current work, youth participants expressed that they were trying to come to an understanding of their place in the world as a way to make sense of their experiences of transition.
Nurturing Relationships
Participants reported that their relationships with other people, including family members, teachers, community mentors, and peers, played an important role in offering positive guidance and helping them deal with their problems.
Contributions to the Community
Resilience - Promoting Communities: Community Spaces, Structures and Material Resources
In addition to our conversations with youth, the use of visual methods allowed us to capture the health-promoting community structures and resources available to youth in different contexts. Basic instrumental needs, such as food, housing, clothing, and medical care were discussed by youth as vital to their resilience and well-being.
Youth also commented on aspects of their communities that they felt were negative, such as exposure to violence, gangs, poverty, drug addiction and alcoholism. They talked about aspects and amenities of their communities they felt could contribute to their resilience if only they were available, such as opportunities for age-appropriate work, meaningful rites of passage, perceived social equality, and recreation opportunities and structures.
Youth spoke of the importance of access to educational opportunities and learning resources, and noted that it was often the people in these systems, such as community mentors and teachers, who helped young people feel valued in their communities.
Social Justice
Many of the youth participants told us of their experiences of prejudice due to their race, social status, ethnicity, illness, gender, or because of preconceptions about the places where they live. The youth were very well spoken concerning their feelings of disenfranchisement. They told us powerful stories of how they planned to overcome these challenges, as well as how they had previously stood up for their rights, both individually and collectively. Youths' stories of social justice point to the importance of power, control and self-efficacy in fostering their resilience.
Respect for the Environment
Many of the youth showed respect for nature, and expressed recognition of the intertwining of their well-being with a resilient and healthy environment. Some of the youth spoke of being most at peace when they were outside in nature. Others told of how they are actively working to protect the environment, and yet questioned whether their hard work would even have an impact.
Cultural Roots
The combined use of visual methods, reciprocity between youth and researchers, and reflective interviews brought to light a number of "hidden" or previously unrecognized protective resources related to youth's cultural traditions and beliefs. Youth spoke of the many supportive things they received from their cultures, including a sense of belonging, a shared history, a set of values, spiritual identification, an ideology, and the opportunity to participate in meaningful activities. Work done thus far on the relationship between cultural adherence and resilience suggests that resilience-promoting cultural practices rely on adults to function as custodians of protective practices and values, and on youth to accept their roles as active co-custodians (Theron et al., 2009).
Research Sites:
The research sites involved in the Negotiating Resilience study have been selected based on findings from the International Resilience Project (IRP).
Canadian Sites
- Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Halifax, the capital of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, is a port city located on the east coast of the country. We are working with youth from two areas in the Halifax Regional Municipality (HRM). Our Halifax site brings us access to youth who are living in government-supported housing or with families who are struggling to make ends meet.
- Montreal, Quebec
- Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
- Saskatoon is centrally located in the prairie province of Saskatchewan, Canada. Our research site in Saskatoon allows us to connect with aboriginal youth living off-reserve.
- Vancouver, British Colombia
- Vancouver, British Columbia's largest city and the third largest metropolitan area in Canada, is situated on the Pacific coast. Our research site in Vancouver provides us access to Mexican immigrant and refugee youth.
- The city of Montréal lies between the Ottawa and St. Lawrence Rivers. Our research site in Montreal allows us to work with youth with visual impairments in integrated education programs who confront a number of challenges.
International Sites
- Jinan, China
- Jinan, the capital city of Shandong province is located along the bank of the Yellow River. The main risks that youth face in China include the greater gap between rich and poor; the negative impact of internet and TV; divorce; and left-home children and migrant children.
- Guwahati, India
- Guwahati, the largest city in the North-East region (NER) of India, is one of the most rapidly growing cities in India. North-East India has experienced political uncertainty and violent unrest in recent years.
- Vaal Triangle, South Africa
- The Vaal Triangle is a major industrial region approximately one hour South of Johannesburg that straddles the Vaal River. The site provides us access to youth affected in a myriad of ways by poverty and the struggle to make ends meet in a location experiencing both increasing gentrification and increasing poverty.
- Chiang Mai, Thailand
- Chiang Mai is the largest city in northern Thailand, and is the capital of Chiang Mai Province. In this research site we connect with youth who have been displaced from their homes.
|Tensions/ Transitions
|Canadian Sites
|International Sites
|Urban youth living in, or next to, rapidly gentrifying communities.
Halifax Regional Municipality, Nova Scotia, Canada:
Urban youth living in and next to rapidly gentrifying communities.
Zamdela, South Africa:
Urban youth living in a township in the Vaal Triangle, a rapidly gentrifying industrial area about an hour from Johannesburg.
|Youth with disabilities.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada:
Youth with visual impairments in integrated education programs.
Meghalaya, Northern India:
Youth with hearing and speech impairments participating in a church-based education program.
|Displaced/ refugee youth.
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada:
Mexican youth seeking refugee status in Canada.
Chiang Mai, Thailand:
Youth displaced from their homes and now living in Chiang Mai.
|Displaced/ refugee youth.
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada:
Urban Aboriginal youth living off-reserve.
Jinan, China:
Rural peasants who relocated to rapidly industrializing city in China.
Each site includes a small advisory committee of two to three local individuals who can help to identify appropriate ways to access youth, help to define the construct of resilience, and oversee the ethical application of the research in their community. These individuals are also influential in their community of service providers and act as aids for dissemination of results to practitioners and policy makers.
Principal Investigator
- Dr. Michael Ungar - School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada (Principal Investigator)
- Dr. Ann Cameron - Department of Psychology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada (Co-Applicant)
- Dr. Linda Liebenberg - Resilience Research Centre, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada (Co-Applicant)
- Dr. Les Samuelson - Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
- Dr. Nancy Heath - Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
- Dr. Nathalie Trépanier - Département de psychopédagogie et andragogie, University of Montreal, QC, Canada
Site Researchers
- Nora Didkowsky - School of Social Work, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
- Dr. Carolyn Brooks - Department of Sociology, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
- Cindy Lau - University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
- Elise Milot - University of Montreal, QC, Canada
- Masai Mabitsela - Department of Education, North-West University, South Africa
Overseas Partners
- Dr. Jerry Thomas - Don Brosco Provincial Office, Guwahati, Assam, India
- Chun Li - Faculty of Education, Shandong Teacher's University, Jinan, Shandong, China
- Sister Sini Anthony - Ferrando Speech and Hearing Centre, Meghalaya, India
- Dr. Wenxin Zhang - Faculty of Education, Shandong Teacher's University, Jinan, China
- Dr. Linda Theron - School for Educational Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle, South Africa
- Dr. Sombat Tapanya - Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Cameron, C.A., Theron, L., Tapanya, S., Li, C., Lau, C., Liebenberg, L, & Ungar, M. (2013). Visual perspectives on majority world adolescent thriving. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 23(1), 149-161.
Liebenberg, L., Ungar, M., & Theron, L. (2013). Using video observation and photo elicitation interviews to understand obscured processes in the lives of resilient youth. Childhood. Available at: chd.sagepub.com.
Liebenberg, L., Didkowsky, N. & Ungar, M. (2012). Analysing visual data using grounded theory: An exemplar of the Negotiating Resilience Project. Visual Studies, 27(1), 59-74.
Cameron, A., Theron, L., Ungar, M., & Liebenberg, L. (2011). Adapting visual methodologies to identify youth processes in negotiating resilience across cultures and contexts. Australian Community Psychologist, 23(2), 68-84.
Theron, l., Cameron, C., Didkowsky, N. Lau, C., Liebenberg, L., & Ungar, M. (2011). A 'day in the lives' of four resilient youths: Cultural roots of resilience. Youth and Society, 43(3), 799–818.
Ungar, M., Theron, L. & Didkowsky, N. (2011). Adolescents' precocious and developmentally appropriate contributions to their families' well-being and resilience in five countries. Family Relations, 60(2), 231-246.
Ungar, M., Theron, L., & Didkowsky, N. (2011). The relationship between adolescents' contributions to their families' well-being and resilience in five countries. Family Relations, 60(2), 231-246.
Didkowsky, N., & Ungar, M. (2010). Using a development-in-context approach to conceptualize the impact of sociopolitical restructuring on youth resilience in Russia. Youth and Society.
Didkowsky, N., Ungar, M. & Liebenberg, L. (2010). Using Visual Methods to Capture Embedded Processes of Resilience for Youth Across Cultures and Contexts. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 19(1), 12-18.
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Pledge of Allegiance
For more information, see the Wikipedia article:
Originally written in 1898 by Francis Bellamy, the United States pledge of allegiance currently reads:
- "I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands: one Nation under God, indivisible, with Liberty and Justice for all."
Under God[edit]
In 1954, the words "under God" were added to the pledge. This is often referenced by apologists as evidence that America is a Christian nation.
9th Circuit decision in Newdow v. Elk Ridge[edit]
- "To recite the pledge is not to describe the United States; instead it is to swear allegiance to the values for which the flag stands: unity, indivisibility, liberty, justice and -- since 1954 -- monotheism"


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By Walter Geiger
In, perhaps, the biggest rout since Hitler vs. France in 1940, the Lamar County Trojans rolled into Roberta Friday night and went all blitzkrieg on the hapless Crawford County Eagles, rolling to a 53-0 win that could have easily been 153-0.
The entire game was played in one hour and 38 minutes as the Trojans built a massive lead and the officials went to a running clock with over three minutes left in the first period of play.
Realtime scoring from the game was provided by Walter Geiger.
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Micah Banks (2) takes a pass from JV quarterback L.J. (Ballboy) Smith to the house for a 36-yd. TD in Lamar's 53-0 rout of Crawford Co. Friday night. (Photo: Walter Geiger)
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Waite Phillips
From MeritBadgeDotOrg
Waite Phillips (January 19, 1883–January 27, 1964) was an American oil pioneer, banker, and rancher who also developed office complexes. Phillips gave his 72-room mansion to the city of Tulsa, OK and 127,000 acres of his Philmont ranch in New Mexico to the Boy Scouts of America, together with his 23-story Philtower Building in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
See: BSA Philmont Article
Waite Phillips become interested in developing a ranch out of the old land grant in 1922. He eventually amassed more than 300,000 acres of mountains and plains in a ranch he named Philmont (derived from his name and the Spanish word for mountain, "monte").
The Philmont Ranch became a showplace. Immense herds of Hereford cows and Corriedale sheep grazed its pastures. Phillips built a large Spanish Mediterranean home for his family at the headquarters and named it the Villa Philmonte. He developed horse and hiking trails throughout the scenic backcountry along with elaborate fishing and hunting cabins for his family and friends.
Phillips realized that the cost for maintaining and developing the property could not and should not be derived entirely from camper fees. As an endowment he included in the gift
See also
External links
- BSA Philmont Article
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waite_Phillips Wikipedia Article]
- Bio on Phillips


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Bulldogs Beat
Georgia's G-Day plan: Restraint, and fundamentals
ATHENS – There have been times during spring practices when Georgia's offense got competitive, and tried harder to beat the defense in the drill. The response, according to one player, has been indifference.
"(Offensive coordinator) Bobo might try to win the drill, but we're just trying to do stuff to get us better, and work on our fundamental stuff and our schemes," linebacker Jordan Jenkins said.
That likely is a preview of what fans will see at G-Day on Saturday.
The format for the game is the same as last year: The first-team offense and first-team defense on opposite teams, going at each other, and likewise for the second-team offense and second-team defense. Bobo coaches one team, new defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt the other.
But whereas last year Bobo and defensive coordinator Todd Grantham had a spirited competition – with Grantham's team coming out ahead – Pruitt's focus will not be on winning.
"I hope (fans) see us get lined up. I hope they see us play hard every snap. I hope we tackle well. I hope we play the ball in the deep part of the field," Pruitt said. "Just fundamental: Striking blockers, keep the ball leveraged, that's what we've been harping on all spring. Hopefully they'll see that."
It's important that fans not overrate what they see in Saturday's game. Remember, last year's G-Day saw the defense essentially beat the offense, whose star was receiver Jonathon Rumph.
When the season rolled around, the offense carried Georgia, but with little help from Rumph, while the defense struggled.
This time, the offense will also be limited by injury: Receivers Malcolm Mitchell and Justin Scott-Wesley, tailback Keith Marshall and tight end Jay Rome are all out. In fact if Jordan Davis (knee sprain) doesn't play, the only scholarship tight end in the game will be converted fullback Quayvon Hicks.
There's another reason not to put much stock in the game: Head coach Mark Richt also said that – like in most spring games – both the offense and defense will hold back things they want to save for the season.
"I don't think we're gonna try to do a lot of things on defense," Richt said. "We'll try to line up and play some good solid fundamental defense. Being the fact that it is Jeremy's first year as the coordinator, people look at our TV spring game. You know, people try to get clues on what they can figure out.
"I'm sure Clemson'll be getting our spring game, we'll be getting theirs. South Carolina will be getting ours, we'll get theirs. They'll be looking for any clue they can get that might help them over the offseason as to how to prepare. So I doubt we'll do everything we'll do in the fall, obviously. But I would say it'd be pretty base. Try not to trick anybody. See who can play defense."
Ultimately, that will be the key thing to watch on Saturday: Which defensive players perform the best, and thus have the best chance to play heading into the summer.
Offensively, there are some intriguing storylines as well:
- Which quarterback – Faton Bauta or Brice Ramsey – has a better day, as they battle to be Hutson Mason's top backup.
- Whether skill position players battling for spots can show up. That includes Hicks, tailbacks Brendan Douglas and A.J. Turman, and receivers such as Rumph, Blake Tibbs, Kenneth Towns and Uriah LeMay.
- Finally, the offensive line. The guard spots still seem up for grabs, as might right tackle. But John Theus appears to have locked down left tackle after a strong spring.
"I feel like Theus at left tackle is going to be a force to be reckoned with this fall," Jenkins said.
The game will consist of four 12-minute quarters, and there will be the usual limits, especially on special teams: Instead of kickoffs, the ball will just be placed at the 25, most punts will just be marked off 35 yards, and there will be no rush on field goals and extra points.
Realistically, the first two scrimmages might be more important, because they were closed to the public. But because G-Day is in front of a crowd, players admit the intensity will be ratched up.
"There are people in the stands. You want to show out," receiver Chris Conley said. "Hopefully the guys will take this seriously, like they have in the past. And they'll compete."
Jenkins said the defense wanted to give Georgia fans some hope.
"Just to showcase how we feel like, to really make amends for last year, and showcase what this season is going to be like in the fall," Jenkins said. "And just to show off all the effort the coaches have put into us, and the effort we put into this program in the last couple months."


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Decker Scores Twice, Gavin Adds Goal, Two Assists
LOWELL, Mass. – UMass Lowell pulled out all the pomp and circumstance for its first women's soccer home game as a Division I institution. There were a number of local youth players in attendance and the pre-game introductions were done Champions League style.
"It was a very nice soccer spectacle," said Yale head coach Rudy Meredith.
Meredith and his team, though, put a bit of a damper on the festivities, knocking off the River Hawks 3-1. Freshman Geneva Decker scored twice and Melissa Gavin added a goal and two assists to lead the Bulldogs.
The score was tied 1-1 at halftime, but Yale tallied twice in the second half to come away with the win.
"We were a little sluggish at the start but got it back together in the second half," Meredith said.
Gavin scored what turned out to be the game-winner midway through the second half when she took a feed from Frannie Coxe and chipped it in.
Decker's second goal of the day then sealed the victory with less than five minutes remaining. She settled a pass from Gavin and blasted a shot into the back of the net from nearly 25 yards out.
Decker, the Coastal League Player of the Year last fall at The Bishop's School in California, had given the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead with her first career goal at the 17:04 mark of the first half. That one was also set up by Gavin.
"Geny gave us a big spark," Meredith said. "It's not easy to be productive off the bench, but we need that, especially playing our second game of the weekend."
UMass Lowell's formation, a 4-4-2, caused the Bulldogs some problems early in the game.
"It took away our wide area," Meredith said. "We had to play through the middle and it took us some time to adjust."
Elise Wilcox made three saves to earn the victory in goal for Yale, which outshot the River Hawks 12-5.
The Bulldogs, who opened the season with a 1-0 victory over Stony Brook on Friday, have won their first two games of the season for the first time since 2009.
Yale will look to get to 3-0 next Friday at Georgetown.
Report filed by Tim Bennett, Yale Sports Publicity


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Without Carmelo Anthony, the Knicks fought valiantly against the rival Heat but fell 99-89 at the American Airlines Arena in Miami. Surprisingly, Bill Walker was the Knicks high scorer with 21 on 7/12 shooting and all 7 shots being 3 point shots. Dwayne Wade did not disappoint Heat fans in his return. Wade buried the Knicks with 28 points and 5 steals.
Here are some notes from the game:
- What on earth got in to Bill Walker? A la something out of Space Jam, Billy Walker went unconscious from 3 in the 3rd quarter. He finished the game 7/10 from 3 point land. Yes. 7/10. He was unreal shooting the ball tonight. I thought his defense was still horrid and he had 6 turnovers but Billy Walker won over a morsel of my respect tonight. If he keeps shooting 70% from 3 he will continue to win more of my respect.
- I was surprised how the Knicks struggled against Wade. In my opinion Dwayne Wade is the best player in the NBA. He is good defensively, he is a prolific scorer and he has won a ring. I think he's the greatest shot blocking guard in NBA history and his athleticism is off the charts. However, I thought the tall, athletic guard combination of Iman Shumpert and Landry Fields would be able to at least slow Wade down. Tonight, they failed miserably. Wade had 28 points on an efficient 11/19 shooting. I still do believe that Landry Fields and Iman Shumpert have the size, athleticism, length and defensive prowess to match up with Wade but tonight they did not do a good job defensively.
- I applaud Mike D'Antoni for his game plan today. I think he realized that the only way the Knicks could compete is if they fired away from 3 and that is what they did. The Knicks shot an insane 43 shots from beyond the arc. This was their best 3 point shooting game of the season. They hit 18/43 for 41.8%. On the season the Knicks have shot 30.4% from 3 so tonight was a big improvement. In terms of the game plan, I thought Miami did an excellent job rotating on Stoudemire when he tried to get to the paint. Stoudemire was 3/7 from mid-range but primarily tried to get to the rim. I did not think Stoudemire played poorly tonight. He still is not dominating but I did not have a problem with his shot selection tonight despite his 5/14 shooting. While people love to criticize D'Antoni, his game plan tonight kept the Knicks in the game till the end. With Miami being an excellent defensive team around the rim, D'Antoni preached the 3 point shot. The Knicks took 14 shots at the rim. They made 4. If D'Antoni had preached a normal kind of game plan, the Knicks would have lost by 40. Having gambled and planned around the 3 point shot, the embattled coach was able to keep his team in the game until they flared out and lost to the better team late in the game.
- I thought the Knicks were good defensively. The Knick half court defense tonight was pretty solid. Miami shot only 2/10 on 3 point shots. The Knicks really did what I said they couldn't: they got killed in transition. The Knicks were outscored 20-7 in fast break points which included some thunderous Miami dunks. Despite their poor transition defense, the Knicks half court defense kept them in the game. I thought they did an excellent job on Chris Posh aka Bosh Spice. The finesse Miami "power" forward was 4/18 with 13 points. As much as I hate to say it, LeBron was very good tonight. He wasn't the killer though. Wade was the one that got a bucket anytime the Heat needed one. Wade came in to a close game in the 4th led Miami to a victory.
- In the 2nd quarter, Wade broke out on a fast break and went up for a dunk. Iman Shumpert came from behind and fouled him, although he got most of the ball and probably does not get called for a foul on a regular player. Wade, showing Wade-like arrogance, tried to show up the Knick rookie. Wade got in his face in ridiculous fashion as the foul was not hard or malicious and Wade did not even go down to the floor. I was so happy to see how the Knicks got in-between the two guards and got up in Wade's face. It was asinine for Wade to act in that fashion and I was glad to see the Knicks stick up for their rookie point guard.
- Unfortunately Steve Novak sucked tonight. He was 2/6 shooting and seemed to not know his role. He was forcing 3's with hands in his face and he was shooting 3's off the dribble. I NEVER said Novak was rotation worthy because he isn't. My thing was Novak could play 5-10 minutes a game and give the Knicks some outside shooting that they desperately needed. I wasn't expecting much from Novak but his forcing of shots was awful tonight.
- Landry Fields continues to get his shooting stroke back on offense. As of late he has been great getting to the rim and tonight he hit some 3 pointers. Fields was 2/5 from 3 which is a great sign to see. I really do like Fields and I think he's going to continue to improve. He scored double digit points for the 6th straight game tonight and seems to be finding his spot in the offense.
- The "Toney Douglas" offense sucks. When the Knicks get down in the 4th quarter they seem to always revert to this "Toney Douglas" offense. In a situation where they should get the ball out of Douglas' hands, the Knicks seem to put their trust into his hands. Of course the offense fails. He starts running high pick and rolls and then he either turns the ball over or bricks 3's. I do not understand. I think this falls under D'Antoni. D'Antoni must tell his "point guard" to get the ball to Amar'e. To move the ball earlier in the shot clock. Whoever's idea it was to run these stupid high pick and rolls with Douglas ought to have their IQ tested because it NEVER works and always ends up burying the Knicks late in games.


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How To Change An Images Color Profile On Mac OSX Lion
While looking into all of the specifics of the screencapture application on Mac OSX Lion I came across some interesting information about Color Profile. The Color Profile is assigned to each image captured with screencapture and I assume other media utilities function in the same way meaning they use the color profile that was configured when the image was created. The Color Profile stands for ICC Profile or International Color Consortium Profile and specifies a configuration file or set of configuration details that include color attributes. As you can image not all monitors display colors in the same way the same as not all graphics cards output colors in the same way so the Color Profile assigns settings that can be adjusted to make colors or any form of graphics look different.


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AR Philosophy - Index > Morality - Index > Speciesism - Index
How Chimps Avoid Temptation
By Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
Most children practice this mental trick: When asked to wait patiently for a promised treat--say, an hour of television--they occupy themselves with a toy or a book. Researchers have now shown that chimpanzees engage in similar self-distraction, a finding that further blurs the cognitive and behavioral boundary between humans and other primates.
The discovery comes from a study conducted at Georgia State University in Atlanta. Psychologists Theodore Evans and Michael Beran put each of four chimps in front of a container connected to a candy dispenser. The chimps could reach over and pick up the container to eat the accumulated candies at any time, but doing so stopped the dispenser from delivering any more. That allowed the chimps to delay the reward as long as they wanted--so that they could get more of it.
In another experiment, the chimps were presented with the same scenario but also given some toys. Just like fidgety children, the chimps were able to hold out longer in this situation by distracting themselves with toys, the team reports online today in Biology Letters. To test whether playing with the toys was indeed a distraction technique, the researchers set up yet another condition in which the chimps could see the candy container filling up but couldn't reach it. Most of the chimps spent significantly more time playing with the toys when they could access the container than when they could not, indicating that their play was a deliberate strategy to control the impulse to eat the candies.
Frans de Waal, a primatologist at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, says the study fills yet another "mental gap" between humans and other species, adding to a list of impressive cognitive feats by animals such as the use of tools and planning for the future (ScienceNOW, 18 May 2006). "In humans, we'd certainly classify this as a form of self-awareness in relation to temptation: the knowledge that you'll fall for it unless you distract yourself," he says.
The authors say the study also suggests a more sophisticated self-awareness in animals than previously believed. "It makes us think about just how much of their own psychology chimps and other animals are aware of," says Evans. "Are the chimps aware that they are being tempted by the accumulating candies in the same way that some of us realize that items strategically positioned at the checkout counter tempt us to buy unnecessary goods?"
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Higher wages or lower taxes?
Some extra land was discovered Feb. 12 within the 3.79 million square miles of the United States. It was the common ground found during President Barack Obama's State of the Union address.
The president proposed raising the federal minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $9 an hour by 2016 and linking future increases to inflation.
Obama argued this could benefit employers.
"For businesses across the country, it would mean customers with more money in their pockets," he said during the speech.
His logic is this: Business owners would get a boost from the economic impact that would result from putting more money into the hands of more Americans.
This is the exact argument conservatives are making in regard to lowering tax rates. This is the common ground.
There's another aspect to the president's stance.
"Corporate profits have skyrocketed to an all-time high," Obama said. "But it's also true that for more than a decade, wages and incomes haven't gone up at all." ...
So, we can agree that getting more money in the pockets of Americans would be good for the economy, not to mention the citizens. But how should that be accomplished? Get employers to raise wages? Or reduce tax rates?
-The Advertiser-Tribune, Tiffin, Ohio


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The constructive lift monad is the coinductive type $T(A) \equiv \nu\alpha.\; A + \alpha.$
The intuition is that an element of this type either tells you a value of type $A$, or tells you to compute some more and try again. Nontermination is modeled by the element which never returns a value, and always keeps telling you to compute some more.
Our goal is to construct a general fixed-point combinator $\mu(f : TA \to TA) : 1 \to TA$, which takes an $f$ and then produces a computation corresponding to the fixed point of $f$. To fix notation, we'll take the constructors to be:
\mathsf{roll} & : & A + TA \to TA \\
\mathsf{unroll} & : & TA \to A + TA
Since this is a coinductive type, we also have an unfold satisfying the following equation:
\mathsf{unfold}(f : X \to A + X) : X \to TA \equiv \mathsf{roll} \circ (\mathit{id} + (\mathsf{unfold}\; f)) \circ f
First, we will explicitly construct the bottom element, corresponding to the computation that runs forever, with the following definition:
\bot : 1 \to TA \equiv \mathsf{unfold}(\mathsf{inr})
This definition just keeps telling us to wait, over and over again. Now, we can define the fixed point operator:
\mu(f : TA \to TA) : 1 \to TA \\
\mu(f) \equiv (\mathsf{unfold} (\mathsf{unroll} \circ f)) \circ \bot
What this does is to pass bottom to $f$. If $f$ returns a value, then we're done. Otherwise, $f$ returns us another thunk, which we can pass back to $f$ again, and repeat.
Of course, this is exactly the intuition behind fixed points in domain theory. Lifting in domains is usually defined directly, and I don't know who invented the idea of defining it as a coinductive type. I do recall a 1999 paper by Martin Escardo which uses (a slight variant of) it, and he refers to it as a well-known construction in metric spaces, so probably the papers from the Dutch school of semantics are a good place to start the search. This construction has seen a renewed burst of interest in the last few years, since it offers a relatively convenient way to represent nonterminating functions in dependent type theory. It's also closely related to step-indexed models in operational semantics, since, given a terminating element of the lift monad, you can compute how many steps it takes to return a value.
It's stuff like this that makes me say I can't tell the difference between operational and denotational semantics any more.