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Sousei no Onmyouji Episode 34
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Sousei no Onmyouji Rokuro is from a family of exorcists who remove the evil Kegare, but his real dream is to be a singer, a soccer player, or anything other than an exorcist. When another exorcist name Benio arrives, Rokura is suddenly inflamed with competitive spirit and decides to put his natural knack to good use. Their rivalry gets more complicated when they both learn they are the destined "Twin Star Exorcists," two ultimate fighters fated to marry and create the prophesied child who will eliminate all the Kegare in the world.
Rokuro Enmado is a young boy who used to be a powerful aspiring exorcist, before a tragic incident left his friends dead and made him abandon the profession. One day, he has a fateful encounter with Benio Adashino, a girl around his age and a well known exorcist from the east. According to prophecy, Rokuro and Benio are the "Twin Star Exorcists", and are destined to marry and have a child which will be the ultimate exorcist, capable of cleansing all evil spirits, or Kegare, from the world.
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PRODUCERS TV Tokyo Music, Avex Pictures
GENRES Action, Fantasy, Shounen, Supernatural
Sousei no Onmyouji Episode 34
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The Volkswagen New Compact Coupe concept bowed a little early today, previewing an Audi-esque Golf variant that's like a Scirocco but not as sexy. But hey, it's got a hybrid powertrain that lets it hit 45 mpg.
The New Compact Coupe isn't exactly what you'd call a performance hybrid, but with a claimed 0-to-60 mph run of 8.1 seconds, it's no slouch. A turbocharged, 150-hp, 1.4-liter four-cylinder and a 27-hp electric motor live under the hood.
The attached images come from a slightly early post on Worldcarfans. We'll have more details later, but for now, bask in the glory that is a seven-speed, twin-clutch-equipped, turbocharged four-cylinder hybrid. (Now that's an interesting combination of words, isn't it?)
Pretty car. Why can't we have the Scirocco again?


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I'm reading Comprehensive Mathematics for Computer Scientists 1. On the second chapter: Axiomatic Set Theory.
He first states the axiom of the empty set, the axiom of equality and then he proceeds to the axiom of union:
Axiom 3 (Axiom of Union) If $a$ is a set, then there is a set:
$\{$$x$ | there exists an element $b\in a$ such that $x\in b$$\}$.
This set is denoted by $\bigcup a$ and is called the union of $a$.
Notation 2 If a = {b,c}. or a = {b,c,d}, respectively, one also writes b $\cup$ c, or b $\cup$ c $\cup$ d, respectively, instead of $\cup$a
I've learned the definition of Union while I was in school, but it wasn't with axioms, they just gave an intuitive example:
$a\bigcup b=\{1,2,3,4,5\}$
I can't see how the notion of this intuitive example happens on the axiom of union. In my example, it's easy to understand because there's a mention to another set, where's the mention in this axiom?


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Good Morning friends!
Yesterday I missed to post my project for My Time's Challenge; my little one Joshua wasn't feeling very good, he got the flu (thank God he's feeling much better now and is back to normal, you know what I mean: noises, mess around etc)--so even though I had my project done, the photos were not ready to go online.
Our challenge for this week was to use one of Lauren's Templates to package candy. I know Christmas is around the corner, so I wanted to try this awesome "Tucked Away" box and look how beautiful my project turned out:
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The service of Privateers contributed significantly to the operation of the military forces of this Nation, because the early United States had almost no official Navy. Without the service of the Privateers, this Nation might not have come to be, since the Privateers curtailed the flow of supplies to the British military forces. It is a sad fact that the service of those establishing, supporting, maintaining, and manning the Privateers has been neglected and devalued in American history.
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Matthew Kahn kicked off his talk at The Actors' Gang with a big question.
"What is the future of our great city?" said the UCLA Luskin scholar and professor. "Are we going to take it on the jaw and be knocked out like Muhammad Ali in the 60s, or is there any room for optimism?"
In an event co-presented with the UCLA School of Public Affairs' Luskin Center for Innovation, Kahn, author of Climatopolis: How Our Cities Will Thrive in the Hotter Future, outlined the threats Los Angeles and other cities face from hotter temperatures, and why the consumer culture that so contributed to climate change could actually help save us from it.
Not Ronald Reagan
As an environmental economist who talks about climate change, Kahn has faced his share of criticism – from the right that denies the impact of global warming, and the left that criticizes him for emphasizing adapting to climate change. "They've said this guy is trouble," he said. "I'm a mild-mannered professor losing my hair and gaining weight. I'm not trouble."
But Kahn continued forcefully, noting that leaders around the world failed to pass a global carbon deal, the Senate failed to pass climate change in the U.S., Barack Obama hasn't pushed through controls on emissions, California's emission reduction plan is under attack by a ballot proposition, and China and India are emitting ever more greenhouse gases. Given the lack of forward-thinking steps to mitigate climate change, Kahn suggested, a realistic approach may be to adapt.
"I'm not Ronald Reagan. I don't believe in wishful thinking," he said. But he's optimistic, he said, that people are risk-averse and self-interested enough to adapt to climate change – at least if they had good information. Just as Los Angeles County's restaurant ranking system made for a healthier city, Kahn suggests we need to know how different areas of Los Angeles will be hit by climate change. "How many of you eat at a grade-C restaurant? Armed with this new information, you made different choices," he said. "And if I'm running a C-grade restaurant, I might call in the exterminators."
Kahn noted that his colleague at UCLA Alex Hall (a past Zócalo guest), is creating such a bank of information by observing how different parts of the region will be hit by higher temperatures, lower rainfall, and other measures of climate change. Kahn added in Q&A that we should observe whether the same person, living in two different places, would consume more or less energy – which would suggest something about the place is the problem.
A hundred Detroit homes
As we start acting on climate change information, Kahn said, the 300 American cities – not to mention those around the world – could enter a competitive phase. Kahn noted that today, one home in Westwood is worth the same as 100 homes in Detroit, but with climate change, the calculation could flip. "If Los Angeles or New York became unlivable because of climate change, we could move to Fargo. We could rebuild our cities at other latitudes," Kahn said.
"If a city is foolish enough not to address climate change, mobile, foot-loose, skilled people will leave. That city will become the Detroit of today," Kahn said. "It's not about having the port or having the steel industry." This trend would create strong incentives for local politicians, Kahn said, even if they don't believe in climate change.
Let prices rise, give peace a chance
Short of migration, we could change how we build and run our cities, and how we consume, Kahn said. Although L.A. has yet to commission a "crystal ball study" on the matter, we know that the city will face particular challenges that it can answer with some innovation. With rising temperatures, Kahn suggested, demand will increase for housing in temperate parts of the city. "If we ripped out every golf course in West L.A., how many people could live there?" Kahn asked. "And I'm a fan of golf. I still like Tiger Woods." If builders faced NIMBYism, he said, the city would have to step in to regulate land use.
To address water scarcity, Kahn suggested we follow the economists' solution: "Let prices rise. Give peace a chance." Currently, he said, the price of a gallon of water in Los Angeles is half a cent. If prices rose, households would economize, and demand water-efficient durables and appliances, creating a strong new market. As he explained in Q&A, such a system would have to ask how much water we need daily "to have a good day," and provide for those earning lower incomes to afford this amount of water at the new market prices.
For rising sea levels and fire risk, Kahn pointed to smarter insurance policies, which would charge higher prices than they have. This would either encourage people to live elsewhere, Kahn suggested, or build more smartly, citing Thom Mayne and Brad Pitt's effort to create $180,000 floating homes. He noted that even natural disasters – like the heat wave in Moscow this year – could make us keener to innovate and adapt to climate change more quickly.
Kahn emphasized that whether consumers are Mr. Spocks – rational planners – or feckless Homer Simpsons, whether they believe in climate change or not, they're likely to catch on to such innovations and act in their best interest as a market arises. "It's like selling lemonade on a hot day," Kahn said. He did note in Q&A, however, that each advance would likely need to be evaluated case-by-case – for example, some argue that Prius batteries create environmental problems even as the cars emit less. And immediate action for poorer people may be required in the interim, using simpler coping mechanisms for heat, like cooling centers.
Green guinea pig
Politics could stand in the way of innovation, Kahn noted. "If we don't allow insurance prices to rise or water prices to rise, there are winners from the status quo." As he added in Q&A, Al Gore may even have made it harder to break the status quo on climate change. "I could imagine an alternate world, in 'The Twilight Zone', where climate change was a national security issue," Kahn said. "But when Al Gore wrapped this issue around himself, Republicans, like the Sarah Palins, defined themselves by what they don't believe in."
But Californians at least could be getting it right with AB32, the state's plan to reduce emissions. Creating a market for green goods requires, Kahn aid, a "green guinea pig" – someone to make room for these products and create an incentive for entrepreneurs. With the legislation, California, "with our liberalism and our high incomes despite the recession and our high education – we are volunteering to be that guinea pig for the world," Kahn said. "Are we a hero or a sucker? Why aren't we free-riding like everybody else? I think we're heroes." He added that once California creates good green ideas, they could easily travel around the world, including to India and China, and accomplish what Kahn strongly advocates: decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas emissions. Until now, as Kahn admitted during Q&A, capitalism has mostly been the cause of greenhouse gas emissions.
And in fact, Kahn said, that stream of green ideas may go the opposite direction. China, he noted, is offering low-interest loans and free land to green entrepreneurs. "For years China stole our intellectual property – Microsoft Windows, Hollywood movies," Kahn said. "If China makes a breakthrough in green tech, we'll steal it from them."
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I'm a confessional Calvinist, but I have the nagging sense that God slipped up when he allowed me to pastor a church. A number of questions go through my mind as I consider God's decision to allow me to …Read More
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There are times when men and women are called to action (Est. 4:14–17). We live in an "instant" society, so accustomed to getting everything our way and in our time, we forget that you can wait too long to …Read More
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The temptation to pursue a new way of salvation, a new path down the road to righteousness, is an eternal struggle. The Puritans experienced it and warned us of the vanity and shear arrogance of creating our own custom-fit cult …Read More
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How This Lesbian Couple Got Pregnant Is Truly Beautiful
A lesbian couple have enlisted the help of one of their closest friends to start a family and it worked in just 14 months.
The best part? They didn't even use professional IVF treatment.
Brisbane couple Jade Richard, 36 and Ann Gard, 32, are expecting their first child after their friend Jarrad Evans, 36, donated sperm by depositing it into a syringe made to impregnate horses because the couple thought IVF would be expensive.
The women wanted to start a family when they met, so when Jarrad offered, they instantly accepted.
When speaking to the Daily Mail, the couple and their donor, who is also gay, decided to see if they could get pregnant without the help of professionals.
'We figured we were both healthy so we may as well try without everyone's help,' Jade said. Jarrad made monthly visits to the ladies' home where he produced his sample, filling a syringe for the women to use.
The couple then went straight to the bedroom where they hoped their 'DIY attempt' of insemination would end in pregnancy.
At the start, it was all trial and error, with the three adults putting their heads together and they admit ''We went into it blindly because we didn't know anyone else who had done it,' she said.
'Turkey baster's don't work.
'Ann and I bought one at first but then Jarrad told us they don't actually hold liquid so we used something you inseminate horses with – it is a syringe with a long tube attached to it. 'Jarrad was really good every time we said 'OK it is time come over', he would be there.'
'We found groups on Facebook with other people trying different methods but they were all pretty similar to what we were doing.'
The different 'methods' all worked around different types of syringes, some with tubes some without, and angles to 'apply' the 'specimen'.
The couple had looked into IVF before they decided to try to get pregnant without professional help, but found waiting times and potential costs detouring.
'When you bring your own sperm donor you have to wait six months for the sample to be cleaned before you can use it,' Jade said.
'I wanted to have a baby as soon as possible – so didn't want to wait for that to happen.
In 14 months the couple and Jarrad attempted the 'DIY fertility treatment' 14 times - but Jade only took one pregnancy test.
'At the beginning I told myself I wouldn't check every month because I wanted to avoid disappointment.
'The last time I just had a feeling it had worked – and then my period was two days late. 'It was New Year's Eve when I found out.
'Ann and I sat on the bathroom floor waiting for the test results – as soon as two lines showed up we messaged Jarrad and mum,
'I don't think Jarrad, who was on holiday, believed us at first – and he said he was not going to get excited until the 12-week mark. But he was.'
What an amazing story! The three of them have decided that Jarrad will be called Dad but the baby will live with Jade and Ann.
H/T Daily Mail


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Obama, Hillary Clinton wax nostalgic as she nears exit
PHNOM PENH—With Secretary of State Hillary Clinton planning to wrap up her service in the next few months, she and President Barack Obama have been spending some quality time together, waxing nostalgic about their work in office over the past four years and their history as rivals in the hard fought 2008 presidential campaign.
"On the flight back from Rangoon to Cambodia, they spent basically the entire flight alone in his personal office on Air Force One just reminiscing about the last four years, but as the president said, it wasn't just the last four years, they've been through a lot together over the last five or six years and, in fact, unqiue among people they've been at this working as hard as they can for five or six years now," Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters as Obama and Clinton were in Cambodia for Asian summit meeting.
"I think what the president expresses and what he believes is not only has she done a great job as secretary of state, but they've really come to become not just partners, but close friends and it's a friendship that he values very much and that he'll want to continue going forward," Rhodes said.
Rhodes made the comments as the White House announced that Clinton is being dispatched on a trip to Israel, the West Bank and Egypt, aimed at quelling the violence between Israel and the Hamas-controlled Gaza strip. "Right now, there's urgent business to be done. As they were reminiscing, they were also talking about the situation in Gaza and the international challenges that remain," Rhodes said.


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Kix Brooks 'New to This Town' Video Sees Things in Reverse
Kix Brooks isn't the new guy in the video for his Joe Walsh-assisted song 'New to This Town.' He's more like the narrator who witnesses everything and follows the action. The clip also features Brooks as a character in the middle of the plot scenes, singing his song while events unfold around him. Then, things occur in reverse. Sadly, we don't get do-overs in life nor are we able to undo things once they've happened. But it's fun to pretend like we have that power or ability for a few minutes in a video for a country song that muses about what could or should be in life.
With his worn-in flannel and trucker hat, Brooks looks like a blue collar road warrior who hits the local greasy spoon in a small town, singing while seated at a booth. He's also performing on stage at a party event, as well.
Throughout the clip, the singer happens upon a variety of circumstances, which then take place in reverse. A waitress is distracted and overfills a coffee cup, causing the hot liquid to spill on the counter. A fighting couple throws stuff at one another, while she cries. A marriage proposal goes horribly, horribly wrong. A bullrider is thrown from his beast. There's lot of subtle details and insinuations about the average people whose lives are featured in this video, so pay attention and try and surmise what's going on besides reverse action. It's incredibly engrossing.
It's the stuff of life and everyday Americana. It reminds us that we can't change the past, even if we hit the rewind or reset button.
Watch Kix Brooks 'New to This Town' Video


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Tom Galante
Galante has served in senior management since 1987, including CFO and CIO. His leadership has driven Queens Library's continued reputation as a national leader known for its innovative approach to delivering public library services. In fiscal 2006, Queens Library loaned 20.2 million items, one of the highest circulating libraries in the U.S. for more than a decade.
Mr. Galante holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from St. Bonaventure University, an MBA with distinction from Hofstra University, and an MLS from Queens College.
Learn more about Queens Library at http://www.queenslibrary.org
Karen Hyman, Transformation Chair
Karen's 12-step Reinventing Your Library programs have been a feature at every Public Library Association Conference since 2000 and have been presented at library conferences, staff days and trustee workshops in 37 states/provinces in the US and Canada.
Publications that people remember include "What Makes a Project Work?" (American Libraries, April 2006); "Struggling in a One-Stop Home-Shopping World, or People Want What They Want When They Want It –-Don't You?" in Library Networks in the New Millennium: Top Ten Trends, American Library Association, 2000; and "Customer Service and the Rule of 1965: Stalled on the Way to the New Millennium" in American Libraries, October 1999.
As a result of friends on many committees, Karen was the 1997 Librarian of the Year for the New Jersey Library Association and received their 2002 Library Service Award. She is the recipient of the 2003 Leadership Achievement Award from the ASCLA Division of the American Library Association.
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Jennifer Morris
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George NeedhamIt's All Good."
A librarian for thirty years, George has worked in a variety of settings: at three public libraries, as state librarian of Michigan, and in several library-related nonprofit organizations. He holds MLS and BA degrees from the University at Buffalo, New York, and has taken additional coursework at the Advanced Library Management Program at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, and Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University.
Because of the popularity (or notoriety) of the three major reports OCLC has made to the library community since 2004, George has given over 100 presentations in four countries during the last three years. The topics include the library environment, perceptions of libraries and information resources by Internet users, and other issues facing the profession.
His sole brush with non-library fame was as a two time champion on the TV quiz show Jeopardy!in 1994.
See more about the OCLC Reports at http://www.oclc.org/reports and about George at http://www.oclc.org/.
Kathy Schalk-Greene
Kathy was named New Jersey Library Association's "Librarian of the Year" for 2005 in part for leading her library team through the Trading Spaces: Reinventing the Library Environment Project.
She is past-president of the American Library Association's CLENE Round Table for staff development and training.
Pam Sandlian Smith
Pam Sandlian Smith is the Library Director for the West Palm Beach Public Library. Over the past ten years she has worked with the staff to transform their library from top to bottom. They are becoming known as the Mildly Delirious Library for their work in the hospitality field. Transforming libraries into centers of community, communication and creativity is a recurring theme in her work in libraries since 1978. Previously, she worked at the Denver Public Library as the Manager of Children's Services. She directed the project team that designed the Kid's Catalog. She has her MLS from Emporia State College. She enjoys traveling, writing and inventing library programs that help people fall in love with libraries and reading.
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Maureen Sullivan
Maureen Sullivan is an organization development consultant whose practice focuses on the delivery of consulting and training services to libraries and other information organizations. She has more than twenty four years of experience as a consultant on organization development, strategic planning, leadership development, introducing and managing organizational change, organization and work redesign, establishment of staff development and learning programs for today's workplace, creating a work environment that supports diversity, revision of position classification and compensation systems, and the identification and development of competencies. Her experience includes twelve years as the human resources administrator in the libraries at the University of Maryland (1977-1980) and at Yale University (1983-1991).
Ms. Sullivan is a past president (1998-1999) of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL). During her term as President, she helped establish the ACRL/Harvard Leadership Institute in partnership with the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is now a member of the faculty for this annual program. She was president of the Library Administration and Management Association for the 1988-89 term. In 1999, she received the Elizabeth Futas Catalyst for Change Award from the American Library Association.
She received her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Maryland in 1974 and her M.A. degree in Library Science from the University of Maryland in 1976.
Joan Frye Williams
Just to give you an idea of how long Joan has been interested in library issues: her first library job was as a junior page in 1964. Since then she has been continuously employed in the library field. Along the way she received an MLS from the University of California at Berkeley.
Her many clients include libraries of all types and sizes, library consortia, state library agencies, professional library associations, library boards, library vendors, and architects.
Joan is best known as an acute--and sometimes irreverent--observer of emerging library trends, issues, and practices. She is an internationally recognized library futurist and designer of innovative library services.
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Stanley Wilder
Stanley Wilder is an Associate Dean at the River Campus Libraries, University of Rochester. He has also worked at Louisiana State University and the University of Illinois at Chicago. Stanley's primary interests are tracking the demographics of academic librarianship, and saying mean things about information literacy. He also has experience in reworking technical services workflows and organization, and helped manage change resulting from information technology. He has made mistakes in each of these experiences that he hopes to help you avoid!


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The Most Complete Volume
of Vampire Tales Ever Published
Edited and with an Introduction
by Otto Penzler
Vintage: 1034 pp., $25 paper
"You have heard, no doubt, of the appalling superstition that prevails in Upper and Lower Styria, in Moravia, Silesia, in Turkish Serbia, in Poland, even in Russia; the superstition, so we must call it, of the vampire," wrote Sheridan Le Fanu in his classic "Carmilla," first serialized in London in 1871 and 1872. It's not just Le Fanu's language that feels antique but his ethos and geography.
Vampires no longer appall us or even stir superstitions; these days a vampire is much more likely to rise up in a high school corridor than from the graveyard mists of some decaying Eastern European pile. Audiences still want their vampires to inspire fear, but they also need them to be human, maybe better than human. Suddenly, and weirdly, vampires feel as integral to the culture as burger chains, except the undead don't chow down on Big Macs.
In "The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published," editor Otto Penzler assembles 80-plus stories that offer a survey of the genre from the early 1800s to the present day. Byron wrote a vampire poem, as did Samuel Taylor Coleridge (the wonderfully erotic and spooky "Christabel"), likewise John Keats, whose "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" Penzler includes.
Swinburne (not here) carried this sadomasochistic strain to some sort of giddy peak, fantasizing, in rhythmic and memorably swooning verse, about women whipping him and crushing his neck beneath their feet before they sucked his blood and killed him. Plenty to answer for, those English schools. Meanwhile, this longing for, and fear of, the sexual other was reflected in both Gothic and Victorian popular fiction. The femme fatale, or homme fatal, became a genre staple, often embodied in the figure of the vampire.
"I felt a stinging pain as if two large needles darted, an inch or two apart, deep into my breast. I awoke with a scream. The room was lighted by the candle that burnt there all through the night, and I saw a female figure standing at the foot of the bed, a little at the right side. It was in a dark loose dress, and its hair was down and covered its shoulders. A block of stone could not have been more still."
That's from Le Fanu's "Carmilla" again, a story in which both vampire and victim are young women and that laid out much of the plot paraphernalia that Bram Stoker, a stage manager for the great Shakespearean actor Henry Irving, subsequently adopted for "Dracula," the most famous vampire novel of all. Stoker got his settings, sharpened stakes, garlic and crucifixes from Le Fanu, as well as the figure of the vampire hunter (although LeFanu's vampires slept in blood, not earth).
Stoker also gave Dracula mesmerizing sexual power, a trope that runs like DNA through many of the stories in "The Vampire Archives." Check out Hume Nesbit's "The Vampire Maid," "The Princess of Darkness" by Frederick Cowles, Fritz Leiber's "The Girl With The Hungry Eyes" or Everil Worrell's genuinely spine-tingling "The Canal." Ideas of sexual command, and sexual submission, tend to get writers' juices flowing, and the figure of the vampire is often all about control, about the liberating removal of free will.
"She stroked his cheek, held the back of his neck in a vice grip, all the while smiling, cat-like. Scarcely feeling her own skin, but vividly feeling the nourishment under his. He tried to repel her, laughing uneasily, taking it for an erotic game," writes Mary Turzillo in her terrific "When Gretchen Was Human," published in 2001. "Then he was fighting, uselessly. He twisted her thumb back, childish self-defence. She felt no pain. Then he was weeping, softening, walling into a trance. She kissed his throat with her open mouth. Drank from him. Drank again and again. Had he fought, she could have broken his neck. She was completely changed."
A notable exception is the work of M.R. James, perhaps the most admired of the horror writers, who is featured here three times, with "Count Magnus," "An Episode of Cathedral History" and "Wailing Well," a story originally written for a gathering of Boy Scouts (!) that starts like a romp and winds up creeping your socks off.
James' scary stuff is glimpsed in a blur, as if at the edge of the frame. "He looked at the field, and there he saw a terrible figure -- something in ragged black -- with whitish patches breaking out of it: the head, perched on a long thin neck, half-hidden by a shapeless sort of blackened sun bonnet." This evil, though described as "shapeless," still effects very real results. "Over his shoulder hung the corpse of Stanley Judkins. He had cut it from the branch to which he found it hanging, waving to and fro. There was not a drop of blood in the body."
James was the provost of King's College at Cambridge and later Eton, a scholar who never married, never had kids but had strong ideas about how supernatural stories should be written. "Sex is tiresome enough in novels," he noted. "In a ghost story, or as the backbone of a ghost story. I have no patience with it." James was repressed, perhaps, and his fiction works by restraint, as does Ray Bradbury's famous "The Man Upstairs" and "The Death of Halpin Frayser" by Ambrose Bierce.
"The Vampire Archives" runs to 1,000-plus pages and features a multitude of styles and tones: Poe's Gothic, the sly elegance of E.F. Benson, the purple-hued terror of Lovecraft and Clark Ashton-Smith, the tough-guy smarts of Dan Simmons. We see too how the vampire-as-metaphor has evolved, encompassing not only erotic anxiety but fear of disease transmitted through blood -- which drives Richard Matheson's landmark "I Am Legend." By the time of Stephen King's "Popsy," published in the late 1980s, the vampire has become protective and paternal, another indication of who we are and what we need.
Vampire stories currently dominate the horror genre. The boom is probably rooted in the mid-1970s, when King wrote "Salem's Lot," a novel that bore many intentional similarities to "Dracula" but unfurled in a contemporary setting, and Anne Rice published "Interview With the Vampire," a novel spanning centuries and handing its hero, the vampire Lestat, a biography of lush and romantic intricacy.
Rice has written few short stories, but she is represented in this anthology by "The Master of Rampling Gate," which shows again her intimate fascination with the vampire's social network. Such an idea carries through into Stephenie Meyer's "Twilight" series, where the vampire is no longer a symbol of outside evil but rather an outsider with immense charisma, no longer "it" but "he" or "she."
Were Dracula to appear now, he might still be saying, "I don't drink -- wine," but then he'd be rushing to see his therapist or school counselor. "The Vampire Archives" traces the arc of that long lineage, featuring useful introductions by Kim Newman, Neil Gaiman and Penzler, some stories you'll know (Maupassant's "The Horla," Conan Doyle's "The Sussex Vampire"), and plenty you won't, such as Peter Tremayne's startling and unsettling "Dracula's Chair," not to mention more bad-girl roles than even Megan Fox could ever play.
Rayner is the author, most recently, of "A Bright and Guilty Place" and writes the Paperback Writers column, which appears monthly at latimes.com/books.


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SAN JOSE, Calif. - Earthquakes Club Ambassador Kelly Gray visited Arbuckle Kidango in San Jose, Calif. on Friday, in the seventh Amway Kicks for Kids event of 2011. In its third year of existence, Amway Kicks for Kids teaches local youth about the importance of a healthy diet and an active lifestyle.
The day began when the principal and teachers from the school gave a brief introduction and presented Gray to an enthusiastic ovation. The group of 125 children of the after school program welcomed him with chants and cheers. By special request, Gray ran through a decorated Earthquakes banner that two of the girls made, accompanied by all of the children.
The Palo Alto native stressed the impact a healthy diet and active lifestyle had on his journey to becoming a professional athlete. He told the kids that he reached his goals because he exercised every day, drank water instead of soda and other sugary drinks, and ate healthy foods. He emphasized that because of these decisions, he received the opportunity to play soccer professionally for the San Jose Earthquakes.
During the question-and-answer session, Gray chatted with the elementary school students and then invited several of the children to join him in a soccer-ball juggling game. He asked everyone for their favorite fruits and vegetables and stressed the importance of making the right choices when it comes to diet and lifestyle.
To conclude the afternoon, Gray signed player cards and Earthquakes staff handed out 125 replica jersey t-shirts and tickets, courtesy of Amway, to the students for San Jose's ninth home game of the season on Saturday, July 2 at 7:30 p.m. PT at Stanford Stadium against the New York Red Bulls.
The Earthquakes and Amway teamed up to create Amway Kicks for Kids in 2009. The program is in its third season in 2011. Through Amway Kicks for Kids, Earthquakes players will visit 17 schools or community centers in the Bay Area to discuss the importance of being active and living a healthy lifestyle.


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Newborn mice who receive their mother's milk experience a biological process that boosts their metabolism, possibly lowering the risk of obesity and diabetes in adulthood, according to a new study.
Breastfeeding confers several protective benefits in human babies. Some research suggests, for example, that breastfed babies have a lower risk of obesity and diabetes later in life. The new study sheds light on a little-known process that takes place just after birth in mice. Researchers in Spain found that suckling the mother's milk prompts the newborn's liver to produce a molecule that then turns on heat-generating brown fat. That process helps the baby's body adapt to a lower environmental temperature than it experienced inside the mother's womb.
The protein that is released in response to suckling, called FGF21, also appears to be important in regulating metabolism. In the study, researchers injected the protein into fasting newborn mice and found that the treatment prompted heat generation within brown fat and boosted body temperature. These brown fat cells burned more energy and glucose. Recent studies in humans have found that greater activity in brown fat appears to protect against obesity.
"There are many evidences that alterations of dietary, genetic, environmental, or other origin in the metabolic performance during the fetal and early neonatal life can make an individual prone to develop diabetes and obesity in adulthood," the lead author of the study, Francesc Villarroya, of the University of Barcelona, said in a news release. "It will be important to know whether any disturbance in this naturally occurring event (the burst of FGF21) may have negative consequences in adulthood."
Researchers still don't know yet if this process observed in mice is similar in human newborns. The study is published in the journal Cell Metabolism.


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- Ryan McDonald once tipped the scales at 530 pounds
- Giving up fast food and soda helped him lose 300 pounds
- He's competed 5K and 10K runs, a half-marathon, a duathlon and a sprint triathlon
Ryan "Mac" McDonald's friends and family describe him as a teddy bear: charismatic, gentle and unassuming.
The description is fitting -- the former Texas all-state offensive lineman weighed as much as a small bear in 2000 when his friends bought him a gym membership for his 25th birthday.
Not wanting to appear ungrateful, Mac went to the gym and a personal trainer promptly put him on a treadmill.
Mac, now 38, got to work, putting one foot in front of the other. But it wasn't long before he looked down and saw smoke emerging from underneath the treadmill's track. The trainer rushed in, quickly explaining that the treadmill was old, on its last leg and he would set Mac up on a better one.
Mac obediently followed the trainer to another treadmill. The track moved and Mac walked. Before another 10 minutes passed smoke again rose from underneath the belt.
"After that I knew enough to stay off the treadmills," he says. "That was another one of my excuses."
Mac would balloon to more than 500 pounds and be attacked by a life-threatening, flesh-eating bacteria before re-entering a gym with any serious intention to improve his health.
But when he did, the stay-at-home dad would lose 300 pounds in less than three years.
'He never stopped putting in the calories'
At 6 feet tall, Mac was always a big guy, says his best friend, Tim Scrivner, owner of Fieldhouse Fitness Center and Jailbreak, a Texas-based adventure race-event company.
The men met when they were sophomores in high school at Liberty Christian School.
"I played tailback and he was an offensive tackle, which made me automatically like him," says Scrivner.
Mac weighed between 260 and 275 pounds when he played football and made all-state his junior and senior year. He played one year in junior college and then quit.
"(Football) wasn't life for him," says Scrivner. "His personality was being a big, nice guy that everybody loves."
Mac moved to the family farm near Wichita Falls, Texas, where people began noticing his rapid weight gain. His younger brother Clint remembers visiting and seeing a mini-fridge in the living room next to Mac's chair.
"I think he never stopped putting in the calories, even though he was no longer expending them," he says.
Mac was up to 350 pounds and taking classes at Midwestern State University in 1996 when he met his future wife, Jessica McDonald.
"He was the cool guy that had the cool apartment that everybody hung out at," she says.
A year later, Mac asked Jessica on a date. She accepted with reservations.
"I remember telling a friend, 'I don't want anything serious because I've got goals to accomplish, and he is not very healthy,'" she says.
But Mac won her over with his chivalry and charm. Jessica remembers that they were only supposed to go miniature golfing on their first date but ended up going to dinner and a movie, too.
"I remember thinking, 'Oh, mercy. I'm in deep,'" she says.
Mac's relationship with Jessica did not change his eating habits. Fast food continued to contribute to his weight gain.
He'd devour bacon double cheeseburgers from Whataburger, gobble chicken McNuggets from McDonald's and wolf down bean burritos from Taco Bell. When these off-the-chart sodium servings made him thirsty, he'd wash them down with "the nectar of the Gods," Dr Pepper.
Nothing could keep him from frequenting these eateries, even hitting the big 5-0-0 on the scale.
"That's the thing about drive-through windows," he says. "You can hide when you order five things, and they ask you if you'd like two drinks with it."
Jessica remembers going on vacation to the Biltmore Estate near Asheville, North Carolina, where she toured the mansion's sprawling gardens by herself because Mac was too embarrassed to walk around.
"I wanted to be so protective of him because people would just stare," she says. "He saw the world from the seat in the car."
In November 2009, Mac saw the world from a hospital bed when necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating skin bacteria, assaulted the left side of his body.
The infection was dangerously close to his heart, forcing doctors to remove softball-size chunks of infected tissue.
Mac tried to laugh off what was happening but the situation scared him. He didn't want to die.
The low-hanging fruit method
A year later, Mac hit 530 pounds and realized he had to try to lose weight.
"There is not an 'aha' moment," he says. "It was more like, 'OK, if I'm going to try to do this, I'm going to have to do it a little bit at a time. But I better do something before I lose my family to my untimely demise.'"
Mac started "dabbling" at Scrivner's gym. Next he gave up fast food and all-you-can-eat buffets. Then stopped ordering soft drinks. Finally, he started buying healthy food from the grocery store.
Mac describes his strategy as the "low-hanging fruit" method. It allowed him to lose weight without having gastric bypass surgery, hiring a nutritionist or discovering a dieting secret folks in Hollywood would give their big toe to know about.
"It was simple, but it wasn't easy," says Mac. "I knew that I had to make a change because I was sick and tired of not being able to do anything I wanted to do."
Rachel Berman, a registered dietician and director of nutrition for Caloriecount.com, says setting small, attainable goals like the ones Mac made is a better approach to weight loss than using an "all-or-nothing mentality" because people appreciate the progress that comes from each change.
"If you do too much at once, it can be overwhelming and that makes you less likely to maintain it," she says.
Scrivner says he avoided Mac when he first started showing up at the gym, asking members to not say anything to his friend.
"We've hounded him so much over the years," he says. "We were all just kind of holding our breath and hoping he would stick with it."
After Mac lost about 50 pounds, Scrivner approached him about entering an upcoming Jailbreak race.
Together they made a video inviting people to sign up to run the approximately 3-mile obstacle course, promising Mac was going to keep exercising and enter the event, too.
True to his word, Mac competed in the Jailbreak race at 350 pounds.
"I just knew I wanted to complete it," says Mac. "I remember crossing the finish line and being ecstatic."
He has since entered and completed 5K and 10K runs, a half-marathon, a duathlon and a sprint triathlon. He will enter the Hotter 'N Hell Hundred-mile bicycle race this August.
At 230 pounds, Mac is now light enough to ride a motorcycle, an activity his weight kept him from for years. In November he will fulfill a lifelong dream by racing a motorcycle in the Baja 1000 in Baja California, Mexico.
"I had people in my life that I could go to and ask questions and I could use their knowledge," he says. "I did not do this alone."
Mac still does weekly weigh-ins and says the battle to maintain his weight will last the rest of his life. He spends his free time with Jessica and their two children, Matthew, 3 and Libby, 5. The McDonalds will celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary in December.
"I think we're stronger now than we've ever been," says Jessica, who is writing a Ph.D. dissertation about obesity's impact on the learning process. "He's my biggest cheerleader."
Mac also takes time to share his story with others struggling with obesity. He has a blog and occasionally speaks to kids at the YMCA of Metropolitan Fort Worth, encouraging them to begin healthy nutritional habits early. He recently took two 500-pound men grocery shopping, invited them to his house to show them the types of foods he now eats and gave them some of his old regular and workout clothes.
Scrivner says he believes Mac's story is better than a personal trainer for those trying to lose weight, because he has walked in their shoes.
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Tan vs. Black
Tan vs. Black
I grew up in Phx and we never had a car with a black interior. I'm now out in the mid-Atlantic area and have a tan interior. Love it. Though the car cools down quickly, the seats are not ventilated as you know, so wouldn't suggest black.
iPhone app should do it, cool it off before you get in. May want to look at solar window tinting as well?
My Infiniti has black leather and I park in the sun all day in phoenix. It's not noticeably hotter than any other color leather. Obviously cloth is better, but really what's the difference when we're talking 150 or 155...
I like black interior because it makes it much darker inside the cabin, especially with tint.
got 85 with tan...
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classic ferrari look was red with brown int so I went with it but really how can you lose?
We live in Phoenix, AZ. MS windows are very dark-tinted. Today, the temperature mid-day was 99 degrees. We had to park outdoors in uncovered parking (away from all other cars, obviously) in direct sunlight for a few hours. When leaving the building, I grabbed my iPhone and called up the Tesla app. The interior of the car (with windows vented) read 108 degrees. I set the interior temperature to 70 degrees as we were walking. We walked less than a minute. When we arrived at the car, we could hear the fan and compressor running. Interior temperature read 90 on the app. (Impressive)
But... when we opened the door, the air was cool and no leather seat surface was hot to the touch.
I've owned black leather interior cars in Phoenix -- everything gets hot in Phoenix in the summer, everything!
This car can cool it off for you.
Got a silver P85 with black interior and live in the Phoenix area. All our cars have black interior (we just don't like the look of tan). I really don't think it makes much of a difference when you talk about temps above 100F. I would agree with you on the exterior color which IMHO is more important in hot climates than the interior. Don't get a black car in Phoenix:-)
+1. IMHO you just HAVE to do the black with red accent. You will manage the heat with the app and love the look against the red exterior! Stay cool and Enjoy!
I have tan, go for it. It's really beautiful and much nicer than the picture in design studio. It contrasts with the silver and black accents beautifully.


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Bulger's lawyer seeks to delay trial 1 year
The lawyer for gangster James "Whitey" Bulger has asked that his high-profile trial be put off for a year beyond its scheduled Nov. 5 date, saying they "cannot possibly be prepared" on time.
"Indeed," lawyer J.W. Carney Jr. said in a 17-page filing Wednesday night, "to maintain that date will eviscerate the defendant's rights to due process of law and to effective assistance of counsel under the Fifth and Sixth Amendments to the Federal Constitution."
The court-appointed Carney and his team of lawyers have maintained since Bulger's arrest in June 2011 that they have been inundated with voluminous evidence in the decades-old case, and that the notorious gangster will certainly go to trial to face racketeering charges, including accusations of murder.
More than 300,000 documents, 30 videos, and 1,000 cassette tapes have to be reviewed, Carney said. That does not include documents the lawyers wish to review on their own, such as the books written by Bulger's alleged cohorts.
Reviewing the records alone would take them until the spring 2013, Carney said.
Moreover, the lawyer said his ability to discuss the case with Bulger has become problematic: Bulger demands high-security treatment and refuses to discuss the case on the phone with lawyers.
He will also not communicate with Carney by mail after learning that his communications were being reviewed by security, including materials labeled "attorney-client privilege."
"James Bulger has a view, based on his personal experience, that all levels of law enforcement are corrupt and will disregard the law if it suits them," Carney said.
Prosecutors have argued, however, that Bulger, 82, is trying to postpone his trial. They say that much of the evidence has long been made public and that their strategy for trial has been clear.
Families of Bulger's alleged victims have also demanded a quick trial.
A hearing on the request to delay the court date has been set for Monday.
"The trial of James Bulger will be fair only if he has an adequately prepared counsel to zealously represent him," Carney said.
The lawyer also pointed out that some of Bulger's codefendants had their cases languish for as long as five years, though prosecutors are trying to rush this case in a year.
Bulger's trial could be the area's highest-profile criminal proceeding in recent history. The former head of the Winter Hill Gang was one of America's Most Wanted until his arrest in Santa Monica, Calif., last year, after 16 years on the lam.
He fled after being tipped off about his pending federal racketeering indictment in 1995. He is accused of participating in 19 killings.
His girlfriend, Catherine Greig, was sentenced earlier this month to eight years in federal prison for helping him remain on the lam. Greig, 61, has indicated she may appeal her sentence. She pleaded guilty in March.
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When I got a little bit older, I went out and worked on the railroad awhile. I might say, too, that in my early days I got in bad company and I broke off from my mother's and father's advice and got to drinking and gambling and playing up right smart. I read about Frank and Jesse James. I thought if Frank and Jesse could be crack shots I could too. I used to gallop my horse around a tree with a revolver and muss up that tree right smart. And I got tolerably accurate, too.
And one night, after being very drunk and fighting, I got in after midnight, and found my mother sitting up waiting for me, and I asked her, "Why don't you lie down?" And she said, "I can't lie down. I don't know what's going to become of you when you are out drinking, and so I wait until you come in." And then she asked me, "Alvin, when are you going to be a man like your father and your grandfathers?" I promised my mother that night I would never drink again; I would never smoke or chew again; I would never gamble again; I would never cuss or fight again. And I have never drunk any whiskey, I have never touched cards, I have never smoked or chewed, and I have never fought or rough-housed since that night. I was very fond of tobacco, too.
I had already told my mother I would quit the things I had been doing, and at that time I had already quit gambling and drinking and fighting and was ready to begin another life. I joined the church and became an elder. I was teaching singing schools and led all the singing in the church before I went in the army. That is why they used to call me the Singing Elder.
OCTOBER 8th 1918
I don't know whether it was the German major, but one yelled something out in German that we couldn't understand. And then the machine guns on top swung around and opened fire on us. There were about thirty of them. They were commanding us from a hillside less than thirty yards away. They couldn't miss. And they didn't!
They killed all of Savage's squad; they got all of mine but two; they wounded Cutting and killed two of his squad; and Early's squad was well back in the brush on the extreme right and not yet under the direct fire of the machine guns, and so they escaped. All except Early. He went down with three bullets in his body. That left me in command. I was right out there in the open.
And those machine guns were spitting fire and cutting down the undergrowth all around me something awful. And the Germans were yelling orders. You never heard such a 'racket in all of your life. I didn't have time to dodge behind a tree or dive into the brush, I didn't even have time to kneel or lie down.
I don't know what the other boys were doing. They claim They didn't fire a shot. They said afterwards they were on the right, guarding the prisoners. And the prisoners were lying down and the machine guns had to shoot over them to get me. As soon as the machine guns opened fire on me, I began to exchange shots with them.
There were over thirty of them in continuous action, and all I could do was touch the Germans off just as fast as I could. I was sharpshooting. I don't think I missed a shot. It was no time to miss.
In order to sight me or to swing their machine guns on me, the Germans had to show their heads above the trench, and every time I saw a head I just touched it off. All the time I kept yelling at them to come down. I didn't want to kill any more than I had to. But it was they or I. And I was giving them the best I had.
Suddenly a German officer and five men jumped out of the trench and charged me with fixed bayonets. I changed to the old automatic and just touched them off too. I touched off the sixth man first, then the fifth, then the fourth, then the third and so on. I wanted them to keep coming.
I didn't want the rear ones to see me touching off the front ones. I was afraid they would drop down and pump a volley into me.
--and I got hold of the German major, and he told me if I wouldn't kill any more of them he would make them quit firing. So I told him all right, if he would do it now. So he blew a little whistle, and they quit shooting and come down and gave up.
I had killed over twenty before the German major said he would make them give up. I covered him with my automatic and told him if he didn't make them stop firing I would take off his head next. And he knew I meant it. He told me if I didn't kill him, and if I stopped shooting the others in the trench, he would make them surrender.
He blew a little whistle and they came down and began to gather around and throw down their guns and belts. All but one of them came off the hill with their hands up, and just before that one got to me he threw a little hand grenade which burst in the air in front of me.
I had to touch him off. The rest surrendered without any more trouble. There were nearly 100 of them.
Sgt Alvin C. York used to be known to every American. This Veterans Day I would like to honor this forgotten hero. I would also like to honor my Dad who landed on Normandy with the 474th Fighter Group two weeks after D-day when it is was still pretty hot. I have a picture of Bob Hope in a P-38 supposedly wearing my Dad's service cap. Likewise I would like to honor my son who went all over the world in the Army and had to take a medical discharge because his knees gave out after 7 years of service. Had they not he would have gotten his Ranger Tabs. My brother in law who as a Lt. in Nam took a round in the ear and lost a thumb. My two nephews, one a graduate of the Air Force Academy and one currently a cadet.


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In the April 8th episode of Celebrity Apprentice, Teresa Giudice raised $60,000 for her charity of choice, The NephCure Foundation.
At an event held yesterday at Trump Tower, Teresa presented the check to nine-year-old kidney disease patient Matthew Levine, whose dad serves on the board of directors of The NephCure Foundation.
Teresa shared in the press release: "No one — especially a child — should have to deal with FSGS or Nephrotic Syndrome. I have met a number of kidney disease patients since I joined up with NephCure. Many of them you wouldn't even know are sick. They look healthy from the outside, but these diseases are tearing apart their kidneys. Anyone who has FSGS or Nephrotic Syndrome should contact NephCure; they are making a difference."
"I am so grateful that I can use my platform to help. Life is too short for drama and negativity and my work with NephCure reminds me every day to focus on what really matters in life. Please make a difference and join me in supporting NephCure."
On hand to show Teresa some support was her husband Joe Giudice and also Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. This is reportedly the only time the Trump family showed up for any of the charity check ceremonies.
Only a few more days until the season premiere of The Real Housewives of New Jersey! Are you ready?!
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Innovation on Display at Business Competition
Dec. 13, 2013
From left: Senior lecturer Dan Boschler joins Team Pad Putty, consisting of Zac Evans and Katherine Huston, which won first place in the undergraduate division.
An electronic blueprint system for the architecture, engineering and construction industry and a silicone pad that protects horse hooves won the top prizes at last month's UT Dallas Business Idea Competition.
The winning graduate and undergraduate teams each received $5,000 for their ideas as part of the annual contest sponsored by the Institute for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, which is based in the Naveen Jindal School of Management.
The innovations were among dozens of entries in the competition that gives students the opportunity to develop and present their business ideas for a total of $20,000 in cash and scholarship prizes.
Almost 150 students in 46 teams entered the competition. The teams pitched their products to local CEOs, entrepreneurs, corporate employees and investors from companies including Ericsson, Texas Instruments and Sabre, who served as judges.
Team Thermone – Tantan Liu, Zhaodi Liu, Chen Xia, Cheng Gu and Zhen Xu – won the Ericsson Innovation Award in the graduate division and the Dallas Entrepreneur Network Green Award.
Matthew Hinson, a student in the Jindal School's new Startup Launch Program, and teammate Alejandro Jacobo, a recent MBA graduate, won the top prize in the graduate division for the second year in a row. This year's idea was a rollable electronic blueprint system.
The teammates said they could not have succeeded without their entrepreneurship professors' mentoring and rigorous courses. Jacobo said he appreciates how the professors encourage students to figure out their own solutions.
"They say, 'Here's how I see it. Think about it and fix it,'" Jacobo said. "They make us think harder."
The first-place graduate division team won last year's competition with a "crowd scholarship" business they continue to operate. The social networking approach to college funding also recently helped Hinson win a $10,000 scholarship from the Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation.
In the undergraduate division, Katherine Huston and Zac Evans won first place for Pad Putty, a product that protects horse hooves.
Team Horizon – Addison Kim, Zac Evans, Kelsey Drake and Michelle Abuda – won the Ericsson Innovation Award in the undergraduate division and the Campus Favorite Video Competition.
Huston, an accounting senior, said the prize money will allow her to move forward with the product.
"As an avid horse person, I have such a passion for this product and its target market, and I now know that others believe in it, too," she said.
Evans, a finance junior, said he enjoyed serving as Pad Putty's brand advisor.
"I helped develop the logo and got to work with Katherine on how we could create packaging that would appeal to her target market," he said.
Two new awards were added to the competition this year. The Dallas Entrepreneur Network sponsored a $1,000 award for environmentally friendly products. The award went to Team Thermone, which created a system that can heat or cool rooms in a house at different temperatures to save electricity by focusing only on rooms in use.
For the first time, the event also included a video competition. Sixteen teams submitted 90-second videos that were posted online and garnered 700 total votes.
Dan Bochsler, the senior lecturer who organized the competition, said competitors receive advising and training to refine their ideas and improve their presentation skills.
"The experience of presenting and receiving comments in front of a diverse group of judges across the D-FW business environment provides an important education experience bridge to their futures," Bochsler said. "Every year, it is great to see the range of ideas and creativity from every direction."
John Antos, a consultant and angel investor who has volunteered as a judge for the competition for several years, said the program gives students a great opportunity to apply what they learn in their courses.
"It's one of the most valuable experiences they can have in college," Antos said. "It teaches them so much about the business world, and it teaches them a lot about themselves."
Amy Cockerham, volunteer judge and chief development officer for RiverRock Holdings LLC, said she was impressed with the presentations. She said students made compelling arguments for their products and backed them up with facts.
"Even though it's called an idea competition, it really is about how well can you present the idea. And, beyond the idea, is it a viable solution to the marketplace?" Cockerham said.
The Eighth Annual UT Dallas Business Idea Competition will be held in November. More information will be available on the IIE website in August.
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Author Notes: Kale is often something of a one-note vegetable, delivering a heft of brassica that is awesome in its own right, but can be a lot to stomach on a regular basis. My solution to friendlier kale is to pair it with strong ingredients that don't necessarily overpower it, but join forces to steer it in an interesting new direction. In this case, kale is sauteed up with some olive oil and garlic, and then laid down on top of an uncooked pizza crust (I find that a whole wheat dough is particularly good at standing up to the strong flavor of kale). It's then topped with walnuts to give a nutty depth, funky blue cheese to spark it up, and a handful of thinly-sliced onions that will soften invitingly. All of these strong and pungent flavors hold their own, and combine with kale to make a beautifully balanced pie. —deensiebat
Serves: 4
balls pizza dough (~10 ounces each, preferably whole wheat)
tablespoons olive oil, plus more for drizzling
cloves garlic, minced
bunch kale, if it's really large, or two smaller bunches (I like Red Russian), washed and dried and roughly chopped
wedge lemon
Handful flour or semolina, for dusting
cup roughly chopped walnut halves (do not toast, as they'll brown in the oven)
cups crumbled blue cheese, depending upon your taste
red or yellow onion, sliced into thin half-moons
- Preheat your oven, with a pizza stone if you have, to 500 degrees for an hour. If your pizza dough has been refrigerated, let it sit, covered, at room temperature for about the same amount of time.
- While the oven is preheating and the dough is warming, prepare the kale. Heat the olive oil in a large pot over a medium heat. Add the garlic and saute until starting to brown. Add the kale along with a pinch of salt, and saute until softened, covering the pot between stirring to help the kale wilt. When it's almost done, squeeze the wedge of lemon over the top and stir to combine. Turn off the heat and set aside.
- Place one ball of the pizza dough on a lightly-floured counter top, and press outward into a thick disk (leaving a 1" unpressed area along the edge as the crust). Pick up the disk and let it drape over the backs of your hands, letting gravity help you stretch it into a 12-14" circle. If the dough resists, let it relax for a few minutes, then try again. Place the stretched dough on a peel (or overturned cookie sheet or cutting board) that's lightly dusted with semolina or other type of flour.
- Take half the sauteed kale, and sprinkle evenly over the dough. Scatter half the walnuts, half the blue cheese, and half the onions on top. Drizzle lightly with olive oil, and sprinkle with a pinch of salt. Slide the pizza onto the preheated stone in your oven, reduce the heat to 450, and bake ~7-10 minutes, until the crust browns. Remove the pizza from the oven, let cool for a moment, and slice into wedges (or, for appetizer servings, cut into squares) and serve.
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"Adam ate an apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. It's a shame we ran out of apples." -- The Sage.
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