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BRENT LATHAM - Wednesday, February 17, 2010
For those who follow world soccer closely, you will have noticed that last week, Nigeria took the remarkable step of firing their caretaker coach, Shaibu Amodu, after a third place finish in the African Nations Cup, and with only months to spare before the World Cup.
"The federation was sensitive to the demands of passionate Nigerians, both highly placed and not so highly placed," Fed President Sani Abudullahi said.
Makes an American soccer fan think, doesn't it? Is it crazy to fire a coach so close to the big date? Or is it the best choice if a mediocre or worse performance is the best case scenario?
Now, I'm not here to reignite the "fire Bob Bradley" debate, as it may seem. That ship has sailed. This is Bradley's team, he'll run it the way he sees fit, and we'll see where he gets them this summer. After three plus years in charge, if nothing else, he's at least earned the right to tackle the World Cup in his way.
But that reality shouldn't preclude us from what could be a useful exercise, in the context of the Nigerian example: thinking about what might be different if Sunil Gulati's trigger finger were as itchy as Abdullahi's.
Let's set some ground rules. It's not really important who the imaginary coach that might take over a U.S. team with only three months to spare might be, because I am not advocating replacing Bradley, and don't want to talk about tactics, or skew the discussion by introducing a coach perceived to have a higher profile or simply be better than our current one. So let's say deposed Nigerian coach Amodu were, for some reason, brought in for the job.
Omitting the admittedly important tactical changes that might take place, what tweaks in personnel might a fresh pair of eyes make with the Nats, with so little time to spare? Here are a few issues that might receive immediate attention from a new coach in our alternate Nigerian universe:
Issue #1 A central role for Jose Francisco Torres.
Torres is a young, but unique player. Formed outside the American system, he can do things most of our players still cannot. Though Torres is still very green, his ability to control a game's tempo in the midfield and distribute with flair and success are still pretty unique in the American pool. The comparisons to a young Claudio Reyna, who at Torres' age was captaining the midfield, are apt.
I think one of the first changes our Nigerian coach would make would be to give the young Texan a serious run out with the first team. In the "friendly" capitulations late last year against Slovakia and Denmark, the Americans' main problem was not that they couldn't recover the ball, it was that they simply couldn't hold it when they got it, or complete a pass out of midfield. Torres, in his few brief appearances thus far, has demonstrated the ability to change that. In this Nigerian dream world, Torres would get his chance to prove he is ready now to take that place alongside Michael Bradley in the center of midfield.
What Bradley will do The American coach clearly sees Torres' potential, or he wouldn't have brought him in so many times over the last year and a half. But Bradley still seems to think Torres is too green, and not fully adapted to his system, to take such an important role.
But Bradley's hand has been forced with young players in the past - see Charlie Davies. With Benny Feilhaber and Clint Dempsey out for the Holland match next month, and other contenders like Robbie Rogers and Sasha Klejstan having had their chance to impress, there would seem to be a place in the midfield for the young Pachuca standout, who has continued his solid play for one of the better teams in Mexico early this season. Whether Bradley gives him some time to show his wares is a question soon to be answered. Amodu would.
Issue #2 What to do with DaMarcus Beasley?
No one still in contention to make the plane for South Africa 2010, not even Freddy Adu, looked more out to sea at the onset of this club season than two-time World Cup veteran DMB. But since his reinsertion into Rangers lineup following an injury crisis in December, the former Chicago Fire man has responded with a sizzling run that seems to have surprised everyone but him.
Beasley's immediate reinsertion into the lineup after injury suggests Walter Smith's newfound confidence in him the coach actually said Beasley brings Rangers "qualities no one else does" - is enough to keep Beasley on the field for the rest of the club year, and force his way into Bob Bradley's plans. Our Nigerian coach would surely be eager to look at a resurgent Beasley as a key alternate in the midfield.
What Bradley will do - Beasley is a known quantity to the national team coach, so he's very likely to concur with our man Amodu. Bradley has made no guarantees, but Beasley's form at a top club and ample experience are very likely to get him on the plane. The recovery of one of the team's veterans just in time for the World Cup is good news all around. Beasley is a usable and somewhat flexible bench option in midfield, and he may be an alternative at left back in a severe pinch (a distinct possibility).
Issue # 3 What's to be done in central defense?
Amodu would likely get to work immediately reassessing the centerback position. The candidates to deputize alongside the standbys have been woefully inadequate, and time is running out.
Defenders, and central backs in particular, are at a premium at the World Cup because they are the most likely to be suspended for yellow card accumulation, and three or even four CBs will see the field if the US makes a deep run into the tournament. Those cards naturally accumulate at the end of the first round and in the knockout rounds so the selection of backup CBs is more than a triviality.
With Oguchi Onyewu's status uncertain, it's troubling, then, that the same group that has failed time and time again to get the job done against backup CONCACAF competition continues to get all the looks. I think Amodu might throw caution to the wind and test the upside of Omar Gonzalez, who like Torres is still green, but has been improving in leaps and bounds since he came into the MLS at the beginning of last season, and may be ready for a further breakout.
What Bradley will do On this one, little. Bradley is loyal to his veteran players, and loath to test young players too soon. That helps explain why the same second string center back pool, which has proven time and time again that it doesn't have what it takes, are still getting looks. The coach has called in Clarence Goodson specifically for the El Salvador game, and with Chad Marshall also in the mix, Gonzalez is unlikely to get an extended look this year.
Bradley sees Gonzalez as one for the future. It's easy to understand the coach's preference for veterans, but as Amodu might claim, what good does it do to hold back a young prospect on the rise in order to give a veteran another shot, if that veteran is not up to the task?
Issue #4 What, if anything, to do with Freddy Adu?
Where does the one-time prodigy belong in this discussion? Adu has shown glimpses of life in Greece - hardly the stuff World Cup dreams are made of - but Adu's backers still see something special in the ex- DC United, Real Salt Lake, Benfica, AS Monaco, Belenenses attacker.
Hector Cuper, a fine coach, also seems to see it, and that alone should provide some proof that Adu is not finished yet. He does bring a special quality, an ability to take on defenders one on one that is somewhat lacking though less and less - in the American player pool. But Amodu might not be fully convinced.
What Bradley will do- If he were a straight-up forward, Adu's skills would be more interesting at this point, but the U.S. is stacked at midfield and Adu just doesn't add what the other, more regular players do. I think any coach would feel about the same as Bradley on this one.
Still, given his recent resurgence, both our imaginary and real coaches would likely give Adu one last look in March. If he can continue to impress, against Holland and for his club, he may snag one of those leftover forward spots as a hybrid attacker.
Issue # 5 The Jermaine Jones affair.
Amodu will have been surprised to see everyone stateside throwing in the towel on Jones, despite his continued struggle to recover from that chronic leg injury. An outsider would immediately recognize the value of Jones to any team. To a new coach, Jones would be this year's John O'Brien the one guy you might take even if he's not fully fit. He's that much better than the other options.
Admittedly, choosing a recently fit Jones is a risk. But it is one that our alternative Nigerian coach would almost certainly take. This is a risk-reward scenario that provides a significant upside. Jones at anywhere near the top of his game would be an addition that could make all the difference in a second round or quarterfinal matchup. It's hard to say that about the alternates at the position, Maurice Edu and Ricardo Clark, who will also likely be in shaky playing time situations for the next three months.
What Bradley will do - If Jones sees the field this season, and I'd put those odds at a little below even, it won't be until after Bradley has had his last chance to take a look at players in Europe. So if Jones were to return in, say, early April, for the last six weeks of the season, then Bradley would have to choose a player who has never worn an American shirt for his World Cup roster.
"Team chemistry" is likely the issue weighing most heavily on Bradley's mind here. Remember, our Nigerian coach doesn't have to worry about that we've destroyed any chemistry that existed by bringing in a new coach at T minus 100 days. If, in a dream scenario for American fans, Jones gets healthy, what Bob Bradley does about it will go a long way towards demonstrating his approach to the Cup.
Issue # 6 The goalkeepers.
The U.S. has a solid starter and leader in Tim Howard. But something is happening right now in the Premier League that might catch Amodu's attention. Brad Friedel's form, all the more impressive for his advanced age, has been nothing short of scintillating. As good a goalkeeper as Howard is, at this point in time it's pretty clear that Friedel is the better choice between the sticks.
Of course Friedel retired from international soccer after his all-tournament worthy performance in South Korea and Japan, and hasn't looked back in the eight years since. Would he come out of retirement for one more World Cup if Amodu called him up and told him the starting job was his? Only Big Brad knows the answer. But I wonder if Amodu wouldn't give it a shot.
What Bradley will do - Nothing. This is a non-issue. Luckily, Timmy is a great keeper in his own right. Plus, it would be grossly unfair to Howard, who has put in the work over the years to get the team to South Africa.
For Bob Bradley, fairness is certainly part of the calculation. Less so, perhaps, in Nigeria, where coaches are jettisoned after winning four of six games in continental competition. So unlike our imaginary Nigerian coach, this go-round at least, the U.S. will likely rely on the known qualities rather than the X-factors that could blow up in their faces.
Which approach will pay off? It's easy to jump to the conclusion that the Americans' steady hand is a more intelligent approach. But soccer is not nuclear physics. A deep World Cup run for a second-tier soccer nation like the U.S. or Nigeria is sometimes more about catching lightning in a bottle by finding the mix of players that works now, than about establishing a team and sticking with it.
All the Americans' planning could lead to little if the U.S. doesn't take the chances needed to get past the big teams in South Africa. Even with the most careful preparations, as another famous Nigerian would tell us, unknowns arise and things fall apart. In June, we'll find out which approach bears fruit.
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I like the Torres support, and I like the frank talk about the lack of depth in the defense, and in central defense in particular. Beasley is done, because he has lost some of his wheels and that is what made him a high level player. Beckerman barely deserves to start in MLS, and should not see anything outside of post WC friendlies in the MNT shirt. I love seeing Edu getting the time and taking advantage of the run. I love to see Bradley having to fight his way back after a run of bad form, and doing it in a decisive way. No need to comment on the rest of the guys, as I believe we are doing better as a team at this point than most are giving us credit for. I just want to see Jones get healthy enough to force Bradley to make a choice (you better bet he picks him, because it looks like it could come down to him or Torres and Bradley has no vision for Torres' talent) and get Clint back.
Sunday February 28, 2010 3:52 pm
To Chase:
How is Bradley not an attacking midfielder? He scored all those goals for Herenveen, when he led the league, from an attacking midfield role.
Tuesday February 23, 2010 9:03 am
brent sure has toned down his language from maybe 18 months ago when he was in fact ultra critical of us soccer. after a while it seemed like it was getting to be to much. the US team beats the number one team in the world, it does well in qualifing and this team in fact has looked at many different players.
im not sure it is such a given that one of these hypothetical non american coaches would have had the foresight to look at so many players. it does not seem that coach bradley has ruled anybody out. just a couple months away from the world cup and the coach may still be capping players for the first time.
Chase Gipson
Friday February 19, 2010 12:50 pm
The problem with Jones, Edu, and Clark is we are then playing with two defensive midfielders. Thus the neverending problem with our midfield - M. Bradley, who will play every minute of every game as long as Daddy is in charge, is not an attacking midfielder in any sense of the word- but lacks the defensive acumen to function as a sole holding midfielder.
Friday February 19, 2010 11:42 am
Brent Latham the only true American soccer writer. The only one to be critical of USSF and its failed formula.
Thursday February 18, 2010 6:25 pm
beasley should start. he is a good player: so good walter smith has been using him when he had other options. he has earned his spot in the starting 11 back, period. he should be on the wing opposite donovan with dempsey and altidore up front. that is the best possible attack we could formulate.
Thursday February 18, 2010 11:16 am
Beasley is done! We have tons of players with speed, except they also have technical abilities, ball control or at the very least can swing in a cross.
Thursday February 18, 2010 10:16 am
Interesting read but I feel like you failed to address the rather critical striker situation, a key one for both Bradley and any coach who might come in. Jozy's booked his ticket and then...yeah. Dempsey to striker? Donovan in the hole?
Thursday February 18, 2010 12:25 am
You make some good points, but MAN are you Way off on the Beasley as left back option. How many times do we need to see that disaster video?
It seems that almost everyone is finally coming around to Torres in the center. Except for those who think Beckerman deserves to play in a World Cup, but we'll let them be.
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The settlers have been identified as Eitam and Naama Henkin, from the settlement of Neira to the north of Ramallah. Four of the couple's six children were in the car with them at the time of the shooting, none of whom were injured.
The Abdel Qader al-Husseini Brigades, a group affiliated with Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, has claimed responsibility for the shooting, The Times of Israel reports.
IDF spokesman Peter Lerner tweeted that 4 battalions would be deployed in the field, "to prevent escalation" and search for the "terrorist" involved in the shooting.
Shortly after the shooting, Israeli settlers began attacking Palestinian homes and vehicles, including an ambulance, across the West Bank. In the village of Beitillu, settlers torched a car and spray-painted "Revenge Henkin" on a wall, Ma'an News Agency reports.
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The Internet has revolutionized the way we think. As a matter of fact, I believe that it's going to change the way we operate and perceive the world around us a lot more than we can even imagine right now.
In other words, there's never been a better time to be a creator instead of a consumer, to be exposed to so many different points of views and beliefs, absorb them, and then offer your own thoughts to almost everyone who can find your words and read them.
What does this mean for you?
Well, for one, it means that your words, if carefully crafted, can nudge the world a bit.
If that isn't something to get excited about, I don't know what is.
But in order to put a dent in the universe, you must make sure you are putting out high-quality content.
You must blog like a boss.
1. Write as if the world rests upon your shoulders
There's no doubt there's an epidemic of passivity, negativism, and self-doubt going around these days. People seem to have lost hope, to have lost that perspective on life that allows them to aspire towards greatness.
It's your job to think big, to infuse every word you write with passion, to offer people a different perspective, to inspire them, to offer them the right information at the right time, just so they can make their dreams come true.
Life is kind of short, if you think about it. Terribly unpredictable. Why not do your best to leave the world a better place? Do your own bit of soul saving, your own bit of changing the world… you'd be surprised at the impact your words have when you start writing about big topics.
2. Do your best, your absolute best, nothing but your best
If you had time to write just one last blog, what would it be about? How would you choose to write about it? How much care and passion would that blog contain?
Well, write your last post, the post that is going to stay at the top of your front page forever. The first post people are going to read when they visit your blog. The last thing you'll ever write. Your very best piece, your magnum opus.
And write that post every single day for the rest of your blogging career. That's what a boss does.
3. Take a stand
Don't be one of those wishy-washy bloggers who don't have the fortitude to take a stand. Hate something? Write about it. Love something? Write about it. Break free from social conditioning. Tell it as it is, even if it's an uncomfortable truth you need to offer your readers. A harsh wake-up call.
The world isn't all sunshine and rainbows, as Rocky Balboa so eloquently put it. If you are lucky enough to take a peek behind the curtains, do tell us what you saw. We'll be grateful for it.
4. Embrace the uncertainty, the paradox, the nuanced points
Mainstream media presents simplistic truths, but life rarely works like that. It's much more complex. There are paradoxes and nuanced points everywhere. Everything is debatable.
A blogging boss knows that, and offers his readers both sides of the coin. The good and the bad. Yes, this means that you will be misunderstood by some people, hated by others, but there will be far more who will admire you for it.
We are conditioning ourselves to fail if we do not embrace how uncertain things are, how we do not know as much as we think we do, how subjective things are.
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Say what you mean, mean what you say. Don't use ten words, when five will do. Tell it as it is, don't sugar coat it for fear of stepping on someone's toes.
In the age of Web 2.0 you'll be stepping on someone's toes even if you try to please everyone, which leads me to the next rule…
6. Don't be afraid to piss people off
I'm not saying that this should be one of your goals, but all I am saying is that it will happen at one point or another. You have complete freedom when it comes to your blog. Imagine that. Creative freedom like never before. You are so lucky just to have that.
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My favorite quote on reputation is from Don Delillo's Cosmopolis:
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People build reputations, even in this online ecosystem, as if building a gargantuan sandcastle. The odds of some wave destroying is too great.
If people understood how fragile reputations are, they'd just be themselves and not give a damn about what anyone else thinks or says about them.
In order to blog like a boss, you must assume full responsibility for your content, which is something that few people ever do. You are the one who is writing those words, and you must accept whatever consequences – let's face it, it's highly unlikely someone is going to kill you for some blog post.
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(Phys.org)—A new paper from Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy proposes a national marketing campaign to better inform consumers about measures that they can take to decrease fuel use, particularly during a rapid increase in fuel prices. A relatively modest publicity campaign could create substantial savings for consumers, the authors said.
The paper, "A Marketing Campaign to Reduce Vehicle Use," was co-authored by Joe Barnes, the Baker Institute's Bonner Means Baker Fellow, and James Coan, a former research associate in the Baker Institute's Center for Energy Studies who is now a consultant at Houston-based PacWest Consulting Partners.
"The federal government should initiate a marketing campaign, either in conjunction with the Ad Council or as a separate public-private partnership," the authors said. "Its objective would be to inform consumers how they can alter the manner and frequency of their driving. The cost of such a campaign would be modest in comparison to its potential role in mitigating the effects of higher transportation costs and empowering consumers to take greater control of their expenditures on fuel."
The authors said there are a number of steps that consumers can take to limit the deleterious effects of high and quickly rising fuel prices. Measures include so-called "smart driving," such as accelerating gradually and adhering to the speed limit to maximize fuel mileage; routinely maintaining cars; using new technologies such as those providing real-time feedback on fuel consumption; ridesharing (carpooling) to reduce vehicle use; and telecommuting and/or compressed worked schedules to decrease the number of commutes. These also yield other benefits such as improved safety, better air quality, lower carbon dioxide emissions and reduced congestion.
"There is no shortage of information about these measures or even programs to promote them, but the information is mainly found on websites that can be difficult to find unless consumers are specifically searching for them," the authors said. "A number of countries, notably in Western Europe, have already undertaken more concerted efforts. Additional market research should be conducted before rolling out the campaign. Such research would also focus on the development of a consolidated, user-friendly website."
The need for such a campaign is very real, the authors said. "The United States is ill-prepared for another 'oil shock' driven by instability in major petroleum-producing regions, notably the Middle East," they said. "Given the importance of oil to the transportation sector, the effects of such shocks are both widespread and substantial. An oil shock has preceded all but one recession since World War II. A release from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) can only play a limited role in restraining short-term unexpected volatility in the price of gasoline and diesel. Together, the measures discussed here could be thought of, conceptually, as 'a demand-side SPR.'"
The authors believe that a relatively modest publicity campaign—an average Ad Council campaign, for example, receives $25 million-$30 million of donated media—could create substantial savings for consumers. Americans spent more than this on gasoline in just one hour in 2011, when their annual gasoline expenditures totaled more than $475 billion. "Studies generally show a reduction in oil consumption of 5-15 percent from smart driving. Ad Council partners who run ads exert substantial control over which advertisements are shown, and we expect that more will want to show ads about ways to lower fuel use during an oil shock," the authors said.
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Personally I leave it switched on - the one positive is it is much less irritating than it was in Vista.-Carol Haynes (July 19, 2011, 02:33 PM)
The only time I install an anti-malware app is when I suspect I've been too trusting to something I shouldn't have, or if I just want to make sure I've got a clean slate.-wreckedcarzz (July 19, 2011, 02:47 PM)
It's a pity that Microsoft hasn't been able to devise a better tool after all this time.-cyberdiva (July 19, 2011, 03:04 PM)
It's a pity that Microsoft hasn't been able to devise a better tool after all this time.-cyberdiva (July 19, 2011, 03:04 PM)It's a pity 3rd party developers are ***hats who don't want to follow official programming guidelines - if they did, we wouldn't need administrative privileges (and thus an UAC popup) nearly as often.-f0dder (July 19, 2011, 03:30 PM)
And now we all suffer with all this idiocy of counter measures because MS never enforced the available security.-Ath (July 19, 2011, 03:31 PM)
Personally I say put it to max and leave it there. If you have a badly written app that needs Admin privileges always then select that checkbox in the shortcut compatibility tab. Sure you'll have to ok it every time it runs, but at least you won't ever forget it manually have to right click and say "Run as Administrator".-Eóin (July 19, 2011, 04:41 PM)
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The Climate Group and the German State of North Rhine Westphalia hosted a high-level meeting of 15 subnational governments and global businesses in Bonn – marking the half way mark on the road to COP16 in Cancun.
Discussions focused on the specific work being done and the leadership being shown by subnational governments to tackle climate change. Participants looked specifically at how states could partner further with businesses in order to accelerate the deployment of key low carbon technologies, as well as looking ahead to what new commitments can be developed on a subnational level for Cancun.
The day kicked off with a closed session of subnational government Ministers and representatives, meeting on behalf of the states and regions alliance and chaired by Climate Group CEO Steve Howard. The states discussed their ongoing efforts to deliver on the commitments made at Copenhagen, and reconfirmed their appetite for continuing to share expertise and experience with one another to produce smarter, more effective legislation and policies.
The states also issued the joint Bonn Statement, presented to the UNFCCC. The statement emphasized that 50 – 80 per cent of the actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to keep global temperatures below 2 degrees centigrade will happen at the subnational level, and called on world leaders to formally recognize this significant role of subnational governments.
The afternoon technology conference opened with UNFCCC General Secretary Yvo de Boer who noted in his speech that the current economic crisis has created a unique window of opportunity to shift the world's energy sector onto a 450 ppm CO2 equivalent scenario. This is because the downturn had affected investments into unsustainable high carbon technologies much more significantly than investment in renewable energies, which have been less badly hit and quicker to recover.
Mr de Boer also noted that private investments into sustainable development had been identified by the financial sector as a new mega-trend with investment in renewable energy increasing markedly around the world since the second half of 2009.
Dominique Ramard, Vice President of Brittany, and Pilar Unzalu, Minister for Environment, Agriculture and Fisheries of The Basque Region, both announced that their regions were joining The Climate Group to further develop their work and policies on climate change.
Mrs. Unzalu said: "The challenge of tackling climate change requires joint and coordinated action by all, in particular, at the subnational level, where both public and private sectors can work in partnership to greater efficiency. Climate Change is a major political priority for the Basque Government. We are delighted to be joining The Climate Group today."
Dominique Ramard said: "For us as a region, tackling climate change is not just a matter of developing green business – the job is to green the whole regional economy. That is the objective that Brittany has set itself in joining The Climate Group."
In the first panel discussion, Clay Nestler, Vice President of Global and Sustainable Energy for Johnson Controls, Frank Robert, Director Smart Grid Business Unit at Cisco and Harry Verhaar, Director of Energy and Climate Change at Philips joined regional government representatives from Wales, Catalonia and South Australia in discussing how to progress smart infrastructure with states and regions – particularly focusing on smart grids, measurement and LED lighting. All participants emphasized that financially viable technologies were ready to go now, and the huge scope for public-private partnerships that will reduce emissions and improve people's lives in the process – further galvanising support for action.
This was followed by a discussion which focused on ways of scaling up electric vehicles quickly in which Amit Yudan, European Business Development Director of Better Place and Jens Knoth from Ford Germany offered differing company perspectives. Representatives from Quebec, Ile de France, North Rhine Westphalia and The Basque Region all outlined separate regional approaches to increasing electric vehicle use in their region, illustrating an exciting number and variety of pilot projects currently underway at a range of levels of government.
Representatives of The Climate Group's States and Regions Alliance will meet again at COP16 in Cancun, Mexico where they will report back on the commitments made in Copenhagen and make further commitments to advance the deployment of critical low carbon technologies in their regions.


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TD Ameritrade Institutional (AMTD) named former Morgan Stanley (MS) executive and Merrill Lynch (BAC) financial advisor Christine Gaze (left) as its new director of practice management on Monday.
Gaze, a 16-year industry veteran, will be in charge of developing and executing the strategic direction of practice management and business-consulting services to help TDAI's more than 4,000 affiliated independent registered investment advisors (RIAs) run and grow their businesses.
"Throughout my career, I've developed a track record of connecting deeply with advisors and understanding what they are struggling with, as well as adding insight and coaching to help them take their businesses to the next level," Gaze said in an interview with AdvisorOne.
"TDAI is already doing a good job at just that and found that RIAs working with consultants had a 17% growth rate last year vs. 9% without a consultant," she said.
Most recently, Gaze was an executive director at Morgan Stanley Private Bank, where she led new business-development initiatives that helped advisors focus on cultivating relationships with high-net-worth investors.
Before that post, Gaze helped build the practice-management consulting group for Wachovia Securities. She also has held a variety of sales and leadership roles at firms such as Merrill Lynch, Prudential and AllianceBernstein.
"Christine started her career as an advisor providing financial planning for wealthy families. She's spent the last decade researching best practices of top advisory teams, sharing insights and coaching financial advisors …," said Zohar Swaine, managing director of product and strategy for TD Ameritrade Institutional, in a statement.
According to Gaze, TDAI has a "deep bench of consultants that work with RIAs," an effort that focuses on strategic relationships and is led by George Tamer.
"I'll be in charge of the thought leadership, white papers, online information and insights, and other tools," said Gaze. "George and I will be joined at the hip in this symbiotic effort."
The former advisor says it's a natural step for her and for TDAI to use her wirehouse experience in the RIA space.
"Growing up in the wirehouses formed the foundation of how I see the business as client-focused financial planning and wealth management," she explained. "Throughout my career, I've had variety of roles and opportunities to study top advisors and best practices in the industry, which I now bring to TDAI."


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There's something reassuring about the predictability of the Creative Assembly's production strategy. As a rule, the studio takes a panoramic view of period warfare, treating both turn-based campaign strategy and spectacular real-time battles, before following that title with an expansion that focuses the lens on the exploits of a particular country, campaign or character.
By and large, Napoleon: Total War is no exception but for two further details: First, that it follows on from Empire: Total War, an ambitious title, but one that was in many ways flawed. Secondly, that Napoleon is such a dramatic overhaul of Empire, it ships as a stand-alone sequel.
The most notable departure from Total War's traditions is Napoleon's linear narrative focus. Previous iterations of the series presented a canvas, defining the parameters of technology and tactics before stepping back to allow the player and the AI to shape the course of history in a single grand campaign.
Napoleon spans three campaigns. Each is more limited in its scope than its predecessor, and each recounts the compounding exploits of the titular general – from his command of the Republic's armies in Italy and Austria, his Egyptian campaign to crimp British trade to the subcontinent and finally, his conquest of Europe.
With this tighter focus comes much smaller and intricate campaign maps. Initially, they beg comparisons to Empire: Total War's Road to Independence mini-campaign, itself a rough blueprint for Napoleon. But Napoleon's campaign maps soon distinguish themselves and peg Independence for the prototype it was.
Turns are now composed of two weeks instead of Empire's six months. Immediately, it adds credibility to the passage of time spent on campaign, but it also increases the rotation of variable conditions that players will have to deal with. Unlike previous Total War games, weather has a direct impact on armies on the campaign map, adding a new layer of strategic depth. Previously, moving in snow or across a desert incurred a penalty to speed – a simple trade-off one turn to the next. Now, armies suffer from attrition as the rank and file desert the corps or succumb to sickness. As winter and summer each run on for six consecutive turns, to say nothing of the intemperate changing seasons, campaigns must be more thoroughly planned.
Strategists will find more to recommend Napoleon to them than previous titles in the series. The micromanagement required is thin next to titles such as Hearts of Iron, but players who consider the campaign map little more than a lengthy pause between battles will endure a small learning curve. Armies are moving towns that must be supported by supply lines and depots. These depots act as a counterweight to attrition, reinforcing depleted regiments as long as that region can recruit that unit type – but they also must be garrisoned against enemy harassment.
Empire's espionage units have been reconsidered. Rakes are out, to be replaced by a more functional unit type, spies. The judicious application of spies can be crippling: Used to infiltrate and sabotage, spies can hamstring an army's march, leaving them stranded in a mountain pass as winter closes in, for example. Gentlemen, previously constrained to research and duelling, can now increase a populace's happiness, or incite rebellion abroad. Both spies and gentlemen have a radius effect, and gather information on units within their line of sight, though as you'd expect, spies are much more proficient at this.
Empire's diplomatic menu returns, with some much needed enhancements. In addition to their previous functions, such as making and tracking alliances and trade, players can now request other factions actively engage in a campaign, halt trade or break alliances.
If that sounds familiar, it's because many of those functions have been available in much earlier Total War games. Quite why they were removed is anyone's guess. Happily, pillaging towns after a successful conquest also returns. Accompanying this option is a menu detailing the relative benefits and dangers of looting – usually an exchange between immediate financial gain and long term income and population depression.
Buildings available to players once again fall into one of three archetypes: industrial, military and municipal. Napoleon: Total War adds further functionality here by introducing a "change building type" button, which allows players to repurpose one archetype for another. For a smaller fee and in fewer turns, dockyards become trading ports and vice versa, allowing players to better manage their resources as campaigns ebb and flow across the map.
The impression we have is that Napoleon is leagues ahead of its predecessors when it comes to campaign detail: The range of options and, therefore, the flexibility of strategies is vastly improved. A linear narrative focus, we said earlier. That's true: Objectives are predefined and usually lie on the far side of the map. What's different is the greater number of conditions players must juggle and the methods available to players to achieve their goals before battle lines are drawn.
Perhaps more so than previous Total War titles, the commanders of the Napoleonic era are well-known and well documented characters. The Duke of Wellington, for whom our capital is named, Admiral Lord Nelson (another), Tsar Alexander, and the doughty French Emperor himself. To highlight the game's historical narrative focus, all generals are recruited from a pool of such contemporaries. These commanders level up as generals have in earlier Total War games, and are irreplaceable. Their usefulness has been greatly enhanced. On the campaign map generals act as mobile depots, replenishing units under their command in friendly territories. On the battlefield, they afford a range of benefits.
The most immediate is the deployment order. Higher ranking generals have the luxury of deploying after their enemies, greatly increasing tactical advantage. Knowing the disposition of enemy artillery and where the enemy general is can result in an unsporting coup de tête in the opening artillery exchange, but one that dramatically increases the odds of an otherwise one-sided encounter.
This will become particularly apparent as players come to terms with their generals' two further battlefield functions, rallying and inspiring units within their sphere of influence. Moving a general to the rear of a bloody engagement can tip the scales in your favour, especially if that general is particularly admired among his men. It also exposes him to stray bullets. Generals are very much a force in themselves in Napoleon, china tigers.
The battlefield user interface has undergone significant improvements. The Creative Assembly have removed much of the mouse-over text relating to units and replaced it with permanent visual prompts relaying the same information in real-time. Instead of mousing over a chaotic melee to read "wavering" or "winning slightly", unobtrusive bars sit above each unit's flag displaying the same. Units also rank up in real time, allowing you to better rotate veteran units and reinforcements.
Graphically, the battles leave Empire in the dust, featuring five times more particles per effect . Napoleon supports multi-core systems and each battlefield is run through an art filter prior to deployment. Napoleon also compromises some small realism for minor stylisations. A dragoon is flung from the saddle as his horse is shot out from underneath him; shells explode overhead, shredding foliage and scarring paddocks.
The game features over 300 new unit types, many of which are faction-specific, and all of which have unique benefits and short fallings per faction. On the battlefield, each regiment has a minimum of four different models and a maximum of 64, finally making each appear to be composed of individuals.
The enemy AI is also an improvement on Empire's passivity. All units on the field correctly rank the importance of all information they receive and have a better understanding of tactics. In large part this is because the game analyses battlefields before deployment (much like the art filter) so that it can take more realistic advantage of its position. For all of that, however, we're already noticing a small lack of ruthlessness in opposing armies – more than once we've found ourselves significantly compromised but have managed to plug the gap.
While it's important for the Creative Assembly to get it right, the new online multiplayer campaigns make it a less pressing concern. First touted for Empire, Napoleon allows two players to go head to head in a campaign. Turn times can either be set to a timer, or left until the second player has hit end turn. Napoleon also features drop in battles that allow an online opponent to control any otherwise-AI enemies in your campaign.
Aside from benefitting from the same graphical and AI improvements as land units, naval combat has also had a real-time repair function added. Ships can now disengage and repair themselves, but doing so leaves them exposed. Perhaps we're suffering from an 'auto-resolve' hang-over from our Empire days, but naval combat still feels foreign to us.
Where Empire broke new ground roughshod, Napoleon paves it. Empire was a game with unbridled potential and ambition, Napoleon picks up where it left off, rounding out its predecessor's rougher edges and delivering a gameplay experience that will set the course for future titles in the series. In addition to the fact that the Creative Assembly has now tapped most of Western military history's richest veins, the trend is clear: Less campaign scale, fewer factions, more detail, more dynamic battlefield action.
Total Civil War? More than possible.
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There is a particular statement that I have heard on Labor & Delivery units — not just on one, but on every single unit where I've attended women's births. I have heard it from nurses, I have heard it from OBs and anesthesiologists, I've even heard it from midwives.
What happens before the statement is made is that a woman is laboring. She is in pain, and she is doing something to express that pain: perhaps she is calling to her family members for help; perhaps she is unable to keep still in the bed, causing the fetal heart monitor to fall off. Perhaps she is saying over and over that she can't get comfortable, or begging to be allowed up out of bed to walk, although she will not be allowed to because of her epidural. She may be asking why she is still in pain despite the fact that she had an epidural. She may be loudly vocalizing her contractions — she may be screaming as they occur. Perhaps she has been doing some combination of these things for hours.
The nurse has wandered in and out of the room and said that the woman can't possibly be in that much pain at only 4 centimeters dilated. The anesthesiologist has been called in and swears that the epidural is in correctly and that the woman is just feeling pressure, not pain. The midwife, shame on her, has stood three feet from the woman's bed and said that she can ask the anesthesiologist to replace the epidural catheter, if that's what the woman would like.
Everyone clears out into the hallway, leaving the woman alone in her room. And then someone turns and says to me, the student, as if offering some great wisdom: "Sometimes you have to just walk away and then she'll calm down."
I am recording this here because this statement should never become normal or acceptable to me, no matter how nonchalantly it is said, no matter how reasonably intentioned the person who says it. Bear in mind that I don't mean a situation where a woman asks for privacy to labor (privacy being something that she will never get in a hospital), but rather one in which the clinician judges that the woman would be better off by herself.
The assumption behind this statement is, first and foremost, that the woman will essentially be alone in her labor. There is no expectation that she should be continuously supported throughout labor (as has been shown over and over again in research to lead to the best outcomes), no expectation that one should do anything other than spend a few minutes at a time dealing with her.
This statement also represents the feeling that a woman asking for help in labor is, after a certain point, just a complaining, attention-seeking, pain in the ass. Her pain, discomfort, or distress isn't real — especially if you already gave her medication. She's just being melodramatic, and what she really needs is for you to ignore her a little bit so that she can spend some time alone in her room. Like a child. You acknowledge that the woman is having anxiety and frustration — and your reaction is to walk out.
I have recently had the realization that the people who make this statement are also fundamentally ignorant — despite being professionally involved with women giving birth, they have almost no idea how to comfort them, calm them, and make them feel cared for. It's not exactly their fault; most clinicians have lots of patients and are taught to use very few tools to relieve suffering apart from epidural anesthesia. Nevertheless, it is galling to see that this is apparently good enough for them, and that they consider it natural not just for women to be in pain in labor, but to suffer deeply as well. (The difference between these things is a topic for another time, but sufficed to say that they do not have to go hand in hand.)
Finally, this statement begs an obvious question: If you've left the room entirely, returning only hours later or when she shouts loudly that she is going to push the baby out right now so you'd better get in here, how on earth would you know if you helped her to calm down?! You left her alone, you fool — you have no idea whether she is curled up in a knot of suffering, or whether she's actually glad to be rid of your ham-fisted, anxiety-provoking presence.
I know that there are some future midwives reading this post, so my reminder to all of us is this: the next time you hear someone offer you this particular "wisdom", remember that a gentle hand, a low voice, and a calm, steady presence can be the difference between a happy, healthy birth and a violent, traumatic one. Go back into the room and stay with her.


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If House Republicans can't hold together, they have no leverage at all.
Perhaps the only war strategizing more inept than President Obama's on Syria are GOP plans for the budget hostilities this autumn. Republicans are fracturing over tactics, and even over the nature of political reality, which may let Mr. Obama outwit them like a domestic Vladimir Putin.
In our view the GOP would be less confused if more House Members appreciated the power of 218. That's the number of votes that makes a majority and it is the only true "leverage" Republicans have while Democrats hold the Senate and a Presidential veto.
The latest GOP internal dispute is over a continuing resolution to fund the government at sequester-spending levels. The current CR runs out at the end of the month, and about 40 to 50 House Republicans (out of 233) want to attach a rider that either delays or defunds the Affordable Care Act for a year and leaves everything else running.
Speaker John Boehner floated a CR with an arcane procedure that would force the Senate to take an up-or-down vote on the anti-ObamaCare component. But pressure groups like Heritage Action and the Club for Growth rebelled and the vote had to be postponed, like so many other unforced retreats this Congress. Here we go again.
These critics portrayed the Boehner plan as a sellout because of a campaign that captured the imagination of some conservatives this summer: Republicans must threaten to crash their Zeros into the aircraft carrier of ObamaCare. Their demand is that the House pair the "must pass" CR or the debt limit with defunding the health-care bill. Kamikaze missions rarely turn out well, least of all for the pilots.
The problem is that Mr. Obama is never, ever going to unwind his signature legacy project of national health care. Ideology aside, it would end his Presidency politically. And if Republicans insist that any spending bill must defund ObamaCare, then a showdown is inevitable that shuts down much of the government. Republicans will claim that Democrats are the ones shutting it down to preserve ObamaCare. Voters may see it differently given the media's liberal sympathies and because the repeal-or-bust crowd provoked the confrontation.
With his own popularity fading, Mr. Obama may want a shutdown so he can change the subject to his caricature of GOP zealots who want no government. He'll blame any turmoil or economic fallout on House Republicans, figuring that he can split the tea party from the GOP and that this is the one event that could reinstall Nancy Pelosi as Speaker. Mr. Obama could spend his final two years going out in a blaze of liberal glory.
The defunders sketch out an alternative scenario in which Mr. Obama is blamed, and they say we can't know unless Republicans try. But even they admit privately that they really won't succeed in defunding ObamaCare. The best case seems to be that if all Republicans show resolve they'll win over the public in a shutdown, and Democrats will eventually surrender, well, something.
If this works it would be the first time. The evidence going back to the Newt Gingrich Congress is that no party can govern from the House, and the Republican Party can't abide the outcry when flights are delayed, national parks close and direct deposits for military spouses stop. Sooner or later the GOP breaks.
This all-or-nothing posture also usually results in worse policy. The most recent example was the failure of Mr. Boehner's fiscal cliff "Plan B" in December 2012, which was the best the GOP could do because Mr. Obama had the whip hand of automatic tax increases. The fallback deal that was sealed in the Senate raised taxes by more and is now complicating the prospects for tax reform.
The backbenchers are heading into another box canyon now. Mr. Boehner is undermined because the other side knows he lacks 218 GOP votes, which empowers House and Senate Democrats. They want to reverse the modest spending discipline of the sequester, and if the House GOP can't hold together on the CR they will succeed. The only chance of any entitlement reform worth the name is if Mr. Boehner can hold his majority and negotiate from strength.
We've often supported backbenchers who want to push GOP leaders in a better policy direction, most recently on the farm bill. But it's something else entirely to sabotage any plan with a chance of succeeding and pretend to have "leverage" that exists only in the world of townhall applause lines and fundraising letters.
The best option now is for the GOP to unite behind a budget strategy that can hold 218 votes, keeping the sequester pressure of discretionary spending cuts on Democrats to come to the table on entitlements. The sequester is a rare policy victory the GOP has extracted from Mr. Obama, and it is squeezing liberal constituencies that depend on federal cash.
The backbenchers might even look at the polls showing that the public is now tilting toward Republicans on issues including the economy, ensuring a strong national defense and even health care. Some Republicans think they are sure to hold the House in 2014 no matter what happens because of gerrymandering, but even those levees won't hold if there's a wave of revulsion against the GOP. Marginal seats still matter for controlling Congress. The kamikazes could end up ensuring the return of all-Democratic rule.
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In January I posted about one of the first buildings to use individual LED's to create a digital billboard, it was called the Rundle Lantern in Adelaide, Australia. It used about 1,000 big LED's to great effect. But this takes the cake, it's the Bayer Headquarters in Germany, wrapped in 5.6 million LED's covering the entire 17,500 square meter building!
It created a 3D animated LED billboard that could be seen for miles from any direction! Wow.


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I have been an advocate for 3 years now but I have never been so equipped like I did with this training and it will go to show even in my work as a radio presenter, even in areas that are not Mental Health related.
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Wesleyan Music at The Modern
- November 2, 2013 2:00 PM
Showcase concert presented by the Texas Wesleyan University Music Department
The Texas Wesleyan University Music Department will present a showcase concert at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth on Saturday, November 2 at 2 pm. The concert will be a true 'sampler,' featuring student ensembles, student solo performers, and faculty solo performances. Admission is free. We invite you to discover the many facets of Texas Wesleyan's Music Department. Smaller. Smarter. For more information, please call 817.531.4992.


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VIDEO: Atuhirwe Carol is a cancer patient in Mulago – she just died
The pain. Such pain. Did you ever feel pain? It is impossible to love a country and return to it when it does not have medical care. Below is an article I wrote about Carol. BUT maybe we should not cry. Maybe her death is to tell us the system is broken. ============ [THERE IS A PRESS RELEASE INCLUDED IF YOU OPEN THE ARTICLE. THE DOCTORS FROM CLEVELAND OHIO WERE INVOLVED IN THE CONSULTATION. MILTON ALLIMADI CAN CHECK INTO THAT.] Health ministry says the initial medical team working on Carol Atuhirwe agreed that "it is less risky to handle herRead More


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(Chris Webster – President and PI at DIGTECH, Co-Founder of Field Tech Designs, LLC, and host of the CRM Archaeology Podcast)
First, a big thanks again to the organizers of this event! It's a lot to put on something like this. Go and buy something from their store to support this for many years to come!
Welcome to my fourth Day of Archaeology post! Hard to believe this has been going on for four years now. Every year, so far, I've been at a different stage in my life. Nothing stays the same around here, ever! Here are my last posts: 1st year here and here, 2nd Year, and 3rd Year.
Last Year
When I wrote my 2013 Day of Archaeology post my new CRM company was just seven months old. I had done a few projects, but, I was mostly focused on the arduous task of business development (BD). I've never been good at BD. It seems that no one actually teaches you how to do it. So, I never really learned the ins and outs. I do have some networking skills, which helps, but that's not all BD is about.
This Year
I've got a few more contracts down, but, I seem to have put the CRM side of DIGTECH on the back burner. That's not to say I would turn down a contract if I were approached, I just don't have time to go seek them out right now. What I'm really focusing on is my other company, Field Tech Designs.
Field Tech Designs
This is what I've been working on for much of today's Day of Archaeology.
Excavation Forms
I've been subcontracted to do the excavation for a project in Lake County, CA and the fieldwork starts next week. It's actually a pretty sweet gig. DIGTECH will do all the fieldwork, but, we aren't doing any of the artifact analysis and report writing. While I do enjoy those phases of work, I don't really have the time for it right now. So, this gets me out in the field, shovel in hand, and then allows me to get back to other tasks.
For the fieldwork, we'll be using iPads rented from my other company, Field Tech Designs, to record the shovel tests and excavation units we'll be digging. I've created custom forms for the shovel tests and spent a portion of today creating the excavation forms.
Working digitally will allow us to transmit the completed paperwork (should digital forms be called, electrowork? digiwork?) to the PI at his office 200 miles away every day. With cell service, we can transmit the forms as we finish them.
Tablet Rental Program
I've also spent some time coming up with the various pricing models we're going to have for our tablet rental program. Over the last few months I've gotten the sense that some companies are a bit apprehensive about buying a fleet of tablets for their fieldwork. I don't know if it's the upfront cost of the tablets or the thought that they could easily break (which isn't true). Either way, I thought that since they are used to renting things like Trimble GPS units anyway then a tablet rental would just make sense. Renting the tablets allows Field Tech Designs to assume the burden of keeping them maintained and updated while always giving the client the latest and greatest.
Video Tutorials
For the custom forms we are creating for our clients I always make a video detailing the use of the form and how to turn the digital data into a CSV file and then a Word Document. It's pretty straight forward, but, if you've never done it there are a number of steps that just make more sense when you can see them.
Working on video editing this afternoon made me realize just how old my MacBook Pro is getting. I could really use an upgrade soon!
I spent some time thinking about, and taking notes on, some things we're going to talk about in the podcast we're recording on Saturday. The CRM Archaeology Podcast is up to episode 38 and we're still going strong. We've released an episode every other Monday for the last year and a half and we never lack for things to talk about. That's why I've come up with another idea…
New Podcasts
I feel that the current podcast could really be split into a bunch of other shows. The shows would be essentially single topic shows that focus on really digging into whatever issue they are concerned with. I'm not going to go into too much detail right now, but, stay tuned for a lot more content about CRM Archaeology in the coming months.
Third Company
The last thing I did today was some research for a new company. This new entity will have something to do with aerial drones but I'm not going to go into it right now. We're in the research phase right now. Since the FAA here in the U.S. is still up in arms about using drones for commercial purposes, we have some time. I'm a licensed pilot, though, and that might go well for me if the regulations go the direction I think they are going to go based on some information I recently received from an FAA official here in Reno. Interesting times are ahead in the world of Drones.
So, working on tablets with Field Tech Designs, researching a new drone company, and trying to, sort of, find more work for DIGTECH so I can test out all my ideas…busy day. Unfortunately, nothing I did today directly made me any money. One thing you learn while you're indulging your passions and chasing your dreams is that money isn't always the reason to do things in life. If you keep doing what you love and work hard at it then the money will come.
Oh, I also turned my popular series of blog posts, the Shovelbums Guide, into a helpful guidebook for CRM Archaeologists at any level. The book was published by Left Coast Press in April and is called the, "Field Archaeologist's Survival Guide: Getting a Job and Working in Cultural Resource Management". You can find it on Amazon and at the Left Coast Website.
Enjoy the other posts for the 2014 Day of Archaeology!
Thanks for reading and I'll see you in the field!


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This morning, in conjunction with the start of New York's World Science Festival, the Kavli Foundation announced the winners of its third set of awards, honoring research in three fields: nanoscience, astrophysics, and neurobiology. THe three fields have a few things in common: they often involve research that crosses traditional boundaries between disciplines, they've all seen impressive progress in recent years, and they don't fit neatly into the subject areas honored by the Nobel Prizes.
The neuroscience prize was a bit of a grab-bag, united under the umbrella of perception. Cori Bargmann of Rockefeller University was honored for her work with C. elegans, a small worm that enables researchers to do both complex genetic experiments and track the fate of every single cell. Bargmann helped identify the neural circuits that lets the worm respond to changes in its environment. Ann Graybill was cited for her work with primates, where she helped identify the circuits involved in learning habits.
Winfried Denk is the odd one out, in that he's cited for developing techniques. One is a form of electron microscopy that gave an unprecedented view of the wiring of the brain. The second, called multi-photon microscopy, lets scientists image live cells by turning some of the molecules they normally contain into convenient fluorescent labels.
For nanotechnology, the award went to MIT's Mildred Dresselhaus, who has helped characterize phonons, the quantum version of vibrations in solid materials.
The award in astrophysics recognized the first identification of Kuiper Belt objects (KBOs), which orbit beyond Neptune and are likely to preserve the sorts of materials that went into building our solar system. David Jewitt and Jane Luu built a camera specifically designed to detect these objects, finding the first of them in 1992. Brown, who goes by @plutokiller on Twitter, led the project that discovered Quaoar, Makemake, Eris, and Sedna. These are KBOs that, in some cases, were larger than Pluto. This set off a debate that eventually led to the establishment of the class of objects known as Dwarf Planets, which now includes Pluto.


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It's the early 1990s, and Agnes is running out of people she can count on. A new college student, she is caught between the broken home she leaves behind and the wilderness of campus life. What she needs most is her mother, who has seemingly disappeared, and her brother, who left the family tragically a few years prior.
As Agnes falls into new romance, mines female friendships for intimacy, and struggles to find her footing, she writes letters to her mother, both to conjure a closeness they never had and to try to translate her experiences to herself. When she finds out she is pregnant, Agnes begins to contend with what it means to be a mother and, in some ways, what it means to be your own mother.
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"...[A] touching, delightful, and satisfying novel about motherhood."—Publishers Weekly (Best Books of 2017)
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"One of the most unforgettable protagonists I've read in recent years - as if a Dickens heroine was reimagined by a literary girl gang made up of Deb Olin Unferth, Katherine Dunn and Lydia Davis."—Porochista Khakpour, author of The Last Illusion
"Kristen Iskandrian is an utterly thrilling voice, and MOTHEREST will slay you with its inventive, spiky, and heartrending investigation into the dark mysteries of family life - and the quest for a private identity within it. A smart, gorgeous, and singular debut."—Laura van den Berg, author of Find Me
"This is a book of wombs, physical and metaphorical, an exploration into the ways we make spaces to become ourselves - both divine and misguided - and what it means to be a daughter. Kristen Iskandrian's prose is both compulsively readable and structurally unique, investigating the mysteries of human feeling through a beautiful epistolary form."—Melissa Broder, author of So Sad Today
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"Kristen Iskandrian has done more than write a book: she's created a world. So particular and familiar is its setting (the '90s; college), so nuanced is its narrator (broken, whip-smart, wildly perceptive and yet frozen in her own fate), and so poignant is its writing (there are poems in these paragraphs!), you'll find yourself lingering in this world long after you've turned the last page. MOTHEREST is a fresh and devastating deep dive into womanhood, motherhood, teenagehood, and grief, and is an important reminder of the aches and wonders of being alive."—Molly Prentiss, author of Tuesday Nights in 1980
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Old Home Day
1638 - Town of Hampton - 1960
404 Winnacunnet Road
The home of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur C. Johnson at 404 Winnacunnet Road (in 1960), was built for his great grandfather, Captain David Perkins in 1825.
Captain Perkins was owner of a coasting schooner which carried freight from port to port up and down the coast. His vessel the "Virginia" was lost, with all hands, in the Bay of Fundy in October 1851.
The house has been changed very little since it was built. Two small additions have been made and of cource in recent years modern improvements were made in the kitchen and bathroom.
The furnishings of the house are principally Victorian.