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By Mike Lehman, TTU Sports Information
COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – It didn't take long for Tennessee Tech men's basketball senior Dennis Ogbe to pick up another prestigious honor this season. Just two days after earning the Ohio Valley Conference Scholar-Athlete Award, the Munich, Germany native was named as a candidate for the Senior CLASS Award®.
Sixty NCAA® men's and women's basketball student-athletes (30 men and 30 women) who excel both on and off the court were selected as candidates for the 2013-14 Senior CLASS Award® in collegiate basketball. To be eligible for the award, a student-athlete must be classified as an NCAA Division I senior and have notable achievements in four areas of excellence – community, classroom, character and competition. The complete list of candidates follows this release.
"Dennis is the epitomy of what we want a Tennessee Tech basketball player to be," said head coach Steve Payne. "He's always been a great worker and student, but he's been more than just that. He's a great teammate and great citizen of Cookeville and represents our program and our campus in a very positive light."
An acronym for Celebrating Loyalty and Achievement for Staying in School ®, the Senior CLASS Award focuses on the total student-athlete and encourages students to use their platform in athletics to make a positive impact as leaders in their communities.
Of the 60 candidates, 20 have grade point averages of 3.5 or higher, including Ogbe. There are eight CoSIDA Capital One Academic All-Americans® and seven returning All-Americans. Twenty-four of the 32 NCAA Division I basketball-playing conferences are represented as well.
The Senior CLASS Award winners will be announced during the 2014 NCAA Men's Final Four® and NCAA Women's Final Four®.
Each of the 30 candidate classes will be narrowed to 10 finalists midway through the regular season, and those 10 names will be placed on the official ballot. Ballots will be distributed through a nationwide voting system to media, coaches and fans, who will select one male candidate and one female candidate who best exemplify excellence in the four Cs of community, classroom, character and competition.
"It comes as no surprise that he was selected as a candidate. He'd be very deserving if he won the award and we are very proud of who he is and how he represents our program."
Ogbe has played in nearly every contest in his time as a Golden Eagle, appearing in 89 games in three seasons. In 2012-13, he led the Ohio Valley Conference with a .613 field goal percentage while averaging 10.8 points per game and 5.4 rebounds per contest. His 40.6 3-point percentage led the Golden Eagles and he finished second on the squad with 1.0 blocks per contest. In conference play, Ogbe's numbers rose to 12.4 points, 5.9 rebounds, and 1.3 blocks per game.
Since joining the Golden Eagles as a freshman in 2010-11, Ogbe has been highly involved in the Cookeville community, participating in numerous community service events. He's run with the children of Algood Elementary School at their annual Tomahawk Trot. The event stands as the major fundraiser for the school every year and accounts for a large chunk of their expendable income. He's read to children of several elementary schools around the area. Ogbe has volunteered at the local food bank, assisting the movers in the morning with unloading perishables and other foods.
He has also helped the men's basketball team host the children of Mustard Seed Ranch for an afternoon of fun. MSR is an interdenominational Christian ministry, serving children who have been neglected, abused, orphaned, or are in need of a loving family environment. Ogbe has also spoken to different middle schools around the area about the importance of academics, staying active, and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. His involvement in the community is second to none on the Tech squad and this makes him a great leader both on and off the court.
Ogbe earned CoSIDA Academic All-District honors in 2012-13 and has proven as steady as they come in the classroom. An electrical engineering major, he owns a 3.90 GPA through the 2012-13 academic year and has been named to the Dean's List five times. Ogbe has earned a spot on TTU's Athletic Director's Honor Roll all six semesters at Tech and has also been named to the OVC Commissioner's Honor Roll each of his first three years. He earned the OVC Medal of Honor, given annually to the student-athlete(s) who achieve the highest GPA in a Conference-sponsored sport, two times. Ogbe is also a member of Eta Kappa Nu, the electrical engineering honors society, and Tau Beta Pi, the overall engineering honors society.
Also named as candidates from the OVC were UT Martin guard Heather Butler and Belmont guard J.J. Mann.
Click here to take a look at Dennis' profile on the Senior Class Award® page.


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If you're a music fan who woke up today expecting a Billie Joe Armstrong and Norah Jones collaborative album of Everly Brothers songs, we'd like to buy you a drink and get some advice for betting on the ponies.
The Green Day frontman and jazz-folk chanteuse indeed have a new album, "Foreverly," devoted to the classic vocal group. It's a full cover of the Brothers' 1958 album "Songs Our Daddy Taught Us."
Armstrong told Stereogum that the brisk nine-day studio collaboration was "kinda like a blind date" that started with a cold call to Jones.
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"I got into the Everly Brothers' record a couple years ago and I thought it was just beautiful," he said. "I thought it would be cool to remake the record because I thought it was sort of an obscure thing and more people should know about it, but I really wanted to do it with a woman singing because I thought it would take on a different meaning -- maybe broaden the meaning a little bit -- as compared to hearing the songs being sung by the two brothers. And so my wife said: "Why don't you get Norah Jones to do it?"
The album comes out Nov. 25 on Green Day's longtime label Reprise, and while no tour dates are planned for it, Armstrong sounds amenable to it in the interview. To judge by the first single "Long Time Gone," the two aren't afraid to kick into full classic-country mode, and their very contrasting voices actually stack up nicely in duet.
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Groups call for more regulation of Gulf Coast refineries
AP Business Writer
Environmental activists on Thursday said more stringent air-quality regulations are needed for oil refineries along the Gulf Coast, a region densely populated with petroleum industry plants.
The Environmental Integrity Project blamed state-level regulations that are weaker than in other parts of the country, as well as lax oversight, for above-average levels of noxious emissions.
The Washington-based advocacy group also released a list of the top 10 most polluting refineries in the country, based on an analysis of 2004 emissions data from the Environmental Protection Agency.
Topping the list, with nearly 2.1 million pounds of carcinogens such as benzene and formaldehyde was BP PLC's refinery in Texas City, Texas, though the advocacy group said that number was skewed dramatically upward due to a one-time release of nearly 2 million pounds of formaldehyde in 2004.
Eric Schaeffer, director of the Environmental Integrity Project, said the high numbers from BP, compared with other companies, raise questions about whether oil refiners are reporting their emissions accurately to the government.
"There's a gap between what people are breathing and what companies are reporting," Schaeffer said.
But BP spokesman Scott Dean said the number resulted from a "sizable error" the company made in its 2004 data, which inflated its carcinogen results by at least 1.2 million pounds.
"We're working very hard to get real monitoring data that can give us some real numbers," Dean said. In addition, he said, BP is spending $300 million in upgrades to cut down on toxic emissions at Texas City.
The National Petrochemical and Refiners Association called the report "misleading." Specifically, the association said that while the EPA data count total emissions, they do not measure human impact. A better measure, the group said, is air quality stations around the country, which have shown declines in toxic air levels since the early 1990s.
Moreover, all of the refineries in the report are operating "well within" EPA-permitted levels, Charlie Drevna, the group's executive vice president, said. "We are making cleaner and cleaner burning products, whether it's gasoline or diesel, and we have also significantly reduced emissions," Drevna said.
Second on the list was Exxon Mobil Corp.'s Baytown, Texas refinery. Third was privately held Koch Industries Inc.'s Flint Hills refinery in Corpus Christi.
Fourth was Delek US Holdings Inc.'s La Gloria refinery in Tyler, Texas, and fifth was Lyondell Chemical Co.'s refinery in Houston.
Fred Green, vice president and chief operating officer of Delek Refining, said in an e-mailed statement that his company, which acquired the Tyler refinery in spring 2005, has installed new testing equipment and expects to report a "substantial reduction" in benzene emissions for 2006.
Environmentalists noted that California's stringent pollution regulations kept that state's refineries off the top 10 polluters list, which included six in Texas, three in Louisiana and one in Pennsylvania. California's strict clean-air rules are also one reason the state's motorists pay some of the highest fuel prices in the country.
Texas refineries spewed more than double the amount of carcinogens per barrel of oil than California refineries in 2004, the study found.
Several activists said the Environmental Protection Agency has not been aggressive enough under the Bush Administration in overseeing refinery pollution, and also said public officials in Texas and Louisiana have been reluctant to confront oil interests.
"There simply isn't the political will, in Texas anyway, to impose the kinds of regulations that California has," said Meg Healy, research director of the Galveston-Houston Association for Smog Prevention, an environmental group.
Jennifer Wood, an EPA spokeswoman, said in an e-mail the agency has entered into settlements covering nearly 80 percent of the country's refining capacity and is "committed to holding polluters accountable."
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Anyone with a kid in Little League knows that standard equipment, like a bat, ball and a mitt, is only the beginning of the story. There are unexpected costs that make the investment in the sport much more than originally anticipated.
Of course, some sports are more expensive than others. What follows is a list of sports that have high price tags associated with them. Some require expensive equipment, others require monthly fees, and others appear down-market at first but have hidden costs that can really add up.
Read ahead to see what some of these sports are.
By Daniel Bukszpan
Posted 28 August 2012


text: Since launching the Ubuntu One music store on the web there has been a steady flow of traffic to the web store and away from the store embedded in Rhythmbox on Ubuntu. The music store in Rhythmbox is operated separately from the one on the web, which means it requires a fair amount of additional work to keep it running smoothly. In order to make the music store better for everyone, regardless of what device they may be using at any given moment, we're focusing on the web music store and removing the store from Rhythmbox in Ubuntu 13.04 as well as from previous releases, Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and 12.10 via a stable release update. With this change, all Ubuntu One music purchases will be made at https://one.ubuntu.com/music-store instead of in Rhythmbox. Your purchases will still automatically be delivered to your cloud storage, download to your computer and be available in Rhythmbox. Of course, if you have a music streaming subscription, you can also stream all your music from the web, Android, or iOS.Read more


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Now in the midst of setting the 2014 budget, the Leavenworth County Commission got some good news Thursday, agreeing to a health insurance package that will lower their costs by more than 8 percent.
Now in the midst of setting the 2014 budget, the Leavenworth County Commission got some good news Thursday, agreeing to a health insurance package that will lower their costs by more than 8 percent.
Options for health care coverage for county employees were presented by Reilly and Sons Insurance. Mike Reilly of Reilly and Sons said his company had received five different bids for the county's policy, but the two most competitive bids were from the county current carrier, United Health, and a company that provided the policy before, Humana Health. United proposed a reduction of 8.5 percent to the county's costs compared to the previous year. Humana proposed a 9.9 percent reduction compared to the 2012 numbers. The difference between those respective savings, in actual dollars, is about $26,000, according to county Human Resources Director Diane Collins.
Helping the price out in the United bid was a relatively low number of claims, Reilly said.
"All in all, from an annual perspective, we've seen very good utilization," he said, though several claims now in the system could lead to a slight spike. "So that, combined with us leaning on carriers and really leveraging the relationship that you've had with United Health Care and other carriers throughout the years, we think is resulting in some of these great numbers."
Though the Humana bid was lower, proposing a reduction in costs to the county by nearly 10 percent, Commissioner Dennis Bixby asked if there would be employees who would have to switch primary care physicians as a result of a change. Reilly said both carriers have both local hospitals and a number of physicians in their coverage networks.
"There will be some potential for some changes," she said.
Another consideration, Reilly said, were the "soft costs" ― the employee time and effort to implement a change in health insurance carrier.
"We're kind of in a crunch time, because of course you know we have to have open enrollment," Collins said. "If we do change carriers, our open enrollment is going to be more intensive than if you renew with United Healthcare."
Collins also said Humana has a vested interest in putting forth a low bid ― they're trying to get the business. Reilly agreed.
"There's certainly a risk that somebody could come in underbidding to the extent that you have a bad year next year and you end up getting a 20-percent rate increase," he said. "You hear those horror stories."
The commission voted to remain with United Healthcare and approved bids from Delta Dental and Humana vision, both of which were unchanged from the previous year.


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Doctors say one of four men burned in an oil platform explosion and fire has improved to fair condition. But two remain in critical condition and one in serious condition.
A news release on the Baton Rouge General Medical Center's website says 50-year-old Wilberto Ilagan told Dr. Jeffrey Littleton that he wanted his family and country to know that he's alive â" and, though he's burned, his heart and lungs are healthy.
The Advocate reports ( http://bit.ly/ZT9WLy ) that Littleton told a news conference the other men's names are being withheld because their conditions are more serious.
Two workers died at the rig; the body of one has been recovered, while crews continue to search for the other. Neither has been identified.
Authorities have said all the workers are from the Philippines.


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New York Post's Cunning Environmentalism
Careful readers will have noticed something strange about the New York Post, today: there's less copy on each page, and a disconcertingly wide margin at the top and bottom, as if someone made a mistake. It's not. Rupert Murdoch's New York tabloid is shrinking, tomorrow, in honor of Earth Day; but the dimensions of the printed area were adjusted a day ahead of the actual paper, hence all the the white space. Rewind a second. "In honor of Earth Day?" Corporate America may kowtow to the environmentalists, but the Australian media mogul's News Corporation remains a bastion of planet-destroying bravado, surely.
Fortunately, there is an alternative explanation for the Post's seeming political correctness. The new "mini" size is the equivalent of the Wall Street Journal, Murdoch's newly acquired business newspaper, folded in two. So the change will allow the Post and Journal to be printed on the same presses. The timing, on the environmentalists' big day, is pure theater; it provides excellent cover against any suggestion that the Post is shortchanging readers. And Murdoch's News Corporation, by hiding a commercial motive in environmental guise, remains reassuringly evil.


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The Friday Party Report
Whoopi Goldberg served as emcee at the National Board of Review's annual awards ceremony at Cipriani 42nd Street on Wednesday night. Attendees at the Bulgari-sponsored event included Alec Baldwin, Meryl Streep, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber (left), Clint and Dina Eastwood, Ed Norton, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Salma Hayek, Anne Hathaway, Julian Schnabel, Diane Lane and Josh Brolin, Sir Howard Stringer, John Patrick Shanley, Eva Amurri, Tim Robbins, Joy and Regis Philbin, Meredith Vieira, Heather Graham, Amy Adams, Debbie Bancroft, Veronica Webb, Bethenny Frankel, CNN's Alina Cho, Slumdog Millionaire star Dev Patel, director Danny Boyle, along with a smattering of Bulgaris, including Ilaria, Veronica, Nicola, Natalia, and Beatrice. [PMc, Wireimage, The Daily]
• Debbie Harry and Teri Toye hosted a party for Roger and Mauricio Padilha's new release, The Stephen Sprouse Book, at Atelier on Tuesday night, where guests included Marc Jacobs and Lorenzo Martone, Andre Balazs, Patrick McDonald, Jeffrey Deitch, Kenny Kenny, Michael Musto, Fern Mallis, Lauren Gurvich, Stephen Knoll, Kai Kuhne, Todd Eberle, Sylvia Miles, Bill Cunningham, and The Blonds' Phillipe and David Blond. [PMc, Wireimage, Style.com, The Daily]
• Paul Bettany and Brendan Fraser were both on hand for the premiere of their new movie, Inkheart, at the AMC Loews Lincoln Square last night. They were joined by castmates like Sienna Guillory, Rafi Gavron, Eliza Hope Bennett, and Andy Serkis, along with director Iain Softley, Warner Bros. President Alan Horn, and Paul's fiance Jennifer Connelly. [PMc, Wireimage, NYO]


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(a) In each county in the state, the Board of Ballot Commissioners shall be comprised of:
(1) The clerk of the county commission while holding office; and
(2) Two other persons as follows:
(A) One person appointed by the county executive committee of the political party that cast the largest number of votes in the state at the last preceding general election; and
(B) One person appointed by the county executive committee of the political party that cast the second largest number of votes in the state at the last preceding general election.
(b) If the county executive committees do not make the appointments in a timely manner, then the county clerk shall make the appointments.
(c) The county clerk shall serve as chairman.
(d) It shall be the duty of the county clerk to notify the chairman of the respective county executive committees of the two parties, at least five days before the time of the making of the appointments.
(e) If at any time after notice is given, and before or on the day so fixed for making appointments, the chairman of each of the committees shall designate, in writing, a member of his or her party as ballot commissioner. Each designee shall be appointed if he or she meets the qualifications of a voter: Provided, That a ballot commissioner cannot be a candidate for any office in any election held during the time he or she is serving as ballot commissioner.
(f) Ballot commissioners shall be appointed between the 15th and 30th days of January, in each year in which a general election is to be held, for a term of two years beginning on February 1 next ensuing.
(g) The ballot commissioners shall perform their duties at all general, special and primary elections held in the county or any magisterial district thereof during their term of office.
(h) A vacancy shall be filled in the same manner as an original appointment, but immediate notice of a vacancy shall, where necessary, be deemed compliance with the five-day notice provision.


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Brilliant Defensive Effort Comes Up Just Short on Homecoming
NEWTON, Mass. – Facing a team that was averaging over 35 points a game, Mount Ida held the Gallaudet Bison to just 7 points on Saturday afternoon and also recovered three fumbles and made three fourth down stops.
Unfortunately, the Mustangs could muster just six points and suffered a 7-6 defeat in front of over 1,100 fans, celebrating Homecoming at Alumni Field.
The game was the first Eastern Collegiate Football Conference (ECFC) action for either team this season, and saw the visiting Bison improve to 4-0, while Mount Ida slips to 1-3 on the year.
Jovan Wilkins (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) forced all three fumbles for Mount Ida and now has forced four fumbles in four games this season.
Gallaudet amassed 317 yards, all of them on the ground, to outgain the Mustangs, who racked up 286 yards, all but two of them through the air thanks to the arm of Jawad Yatim(Shrewsbury, Mass.), who completed 16-of-25 passes with a touchdown.
That score, which came with just under six minutes remaining in the second quarter, came on a 74-yard pass to senior tight end Mike Babich (Franklin Square, N.Y.), who rumbled into the end zone to give Mount Ida the lead, which remained at 6-0 after a missed extra point.
BJ Flores (Raymondville, Texas) ran for 130 yards on 29 carries for the Bison, who used a five-headed attack on the ground. Flores punched the ball in for his second rushing touchdown of the season with 2:10 left to play in the game and Chase Magsig (Hudsonville, Mich.) added the extra point that would prove to be the game-winner.
The Mustangs, who were just 3-12 on third down conversions, had a chance to win the game in its final moments after a 1:30 drive that took them from their own five yard-line to the Gallaudet 16. The big play was a 45-yard heave by Yatim on 3rd and 9 that Chandler McCoy(Norcross, Ga.) chased down and hauled in.
Freshman Matt Greenman (Portsmouth, R.I.), who led the Mustangs with five catches for 96 yards, also had an 18-yard catch on that drive to keep the chains moving.
With fifteen seconds left, the Mustangs lined up for an attempt at the game-winning field goal, and Nick Muccia's (Jefferson, N.J.) 33-yard effort was on line but came up just short.
The Mustang defense kept the Mount Ida lead for much of the game with key stops and timely turnovers.
The Bison took the opening kickoff to the Mount Ida 17, with the help of a pass interference penalty, but Wilkins got to Gallaudet quarterback Todd Bonheyo (Frederick, Md.) for the strip-sack. Chris Toyloy (Yonkers, N.Y.) pounced on the ball, then galloped 50 yards with it to the Bison 15.
Bonheyo was 0-6 on pass attempts for the game, as the Mustang's pass defense, ranked #1 in the nation, did not allow a yard through the air. The sophomore did rush for 39 yards, while Gallaudet got 73 yards on 11 touches from senior fullback Mike Hantge (Hutchinson, Minn.).
Though Mount Ida didn't score off of that fumble recovery, they would later force a three and out by the Bison at 5:56 left in the half, and Yatim and Babich connected on the next play from scrimmage for the touchdown, the senior tight end's second of the season and Yatim's fourth through the air.
It looked as though the visitors would take the lead on the next possession, but on third and one from the Mount Ida five yard line, Wilkins put a hit on Bonheyo and forced the ball to pop free, where it landed in the hands of sophomore DeAndre Lawrence (Middletown, Conn.), and the Mustangs were able to go into the locker room with a 6-0 lead.
A similar ending occurred on a Gallaudet drive at the end of the third quarter. Facing a first and goal on the Mount Ida 3, the Mustangs held their ground, with Wilkins making two key tackles, including one for a loss, and also batting down a pass in the end zone on third and goal. On fourth down, Ryan Bonheyo (Frederick, Md.) got to the goal line and ran into Wilkins, who popped the ball loose with a stand-up hit.
Again it was Lawrence who pounced on it and downed it in the end zone for a touchback and another red zone stop.
Gallaudet fought back by forcing a three and out, and then used strong work from Flores in a drive that they had good field position on, starting from their own 48. Flores rushed for seven of the nine plays on the drive, and capped the effort by barreling his way into the end zone with a 12-yard rush.
Junior Gregg McConville (Frederick, Md.) led the Bison with eight tackles, while Tyler Snider (Thornville, Ohio) was a force at getting after Yatim, collecting three of Gallaudet's five sacks.
Linebacker Kayln Smithson (Vilseck, Germany) had eight tackles for the Mustangs, while D'Andre Smith (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Wilkins each had 1.5 tackles for loss.
The Bison controlled the clock, with 38:41 of possession and converted on five of their sixteen third downs, for a 31% efficiency.
McCoy finished the game with four catches for 67 yards for Mount Ida, while senior Jordan Hyman (Middletown, Conn.) caught six balls for 47 yards.
Mount Ida hits the road next week for the first time since their home opener on September 6th. The Mustangs will travel to Vermont for another ECFC showdown with Castleton, this one at 1:00 pm.
Gallaudet returns home and welcomes in a team from Vermont, as they will host Norwich at 12:00 pm in Washington, D.C.


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North Korea and the U.S. Budget
WSJ reporters discuss the ratcheting up of tension on the Korean peninsula as well as the upcoming budget being put forth by the Obama administration.
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CEO somewhat sketchy ... leader and everybody's kind of testing boundaries for the party's your guests into what has ... been steadily ... the reason for Nestle ... so everybody everybody's ... probing everybody else the ... moment the switch doesn't make it less dangerous but it means that I'm that there's less behind the bluster perhaps then the word suggests it was all this week I'll ratcheting back Obama of these shows of force to either us but the but the North Korean right we got a big medium range missile today ... prop it up and say look at ... or write ... in you know ... we are being repaired ... day they're saying it depended on ... you know people fifteen to the big anniversary North Korea ... off the end of the nation's one of the grandfather's birthday so they traditionally do some generally pay taxes ... exactly ... um ... little known fact that ... oh we get our refund is out they should ominous ... they will do a test ... this may be before maybe after some time and that window ... a show of their might ... aam if the US things it's headed for a base they will try to intercept it they don't think that's ... well meantime I'm not quite middle fifties because April fifteen is gonna be an actual another budget washing this ... post to the real ones the president's budget ... comes out next week ... it's the budget that normally kicks off the great budget conversation Washington ... this year says is that the trail ended the conversation what's the meaning of ... what you can either see it as an afterthought you know ... the dollar ... you know too late ... but up with us to lead the Dow morning you can see it as a perfectly timed strategic move ... in the fact is that ... Obama has all of these excuses for why it's late welding couldn't calculate things because that that the fiscal cliff deal was reached so weight would just send a reverse January finally comes in January and then the House and Senate passed their budgets well it took them so long to get there in the administration budget together the house a Senate inquiry pass their budgets ... now what those budgets did was to stake out the EPA polar extremes of what the Republicans won and won the Democrats won so it kind of sets things up for Obama to come in with something in the middle and it was a question about whether he was just going to ... reiterate the Democrats partisan position ... or try to look more accommodating it's looking like he's going to ... try to make it look more like he's looking for a middle path ... not a new one is a tool that all the signs are that is he's going to ... put in his budget ... the Ellingson of the West offer he made to speak urbane or when they were negotiating in December ... the last offer for a big deal for a big deal and so that's the thing is that he started trying to jester up or jump start ... it and make a gesture towards ... still seeking a BDO and it's not clear whether any of the of the ... kind of pillars of ... the impasse or dinner break its results ... but I think Republicans do see it as more promising than if he just came out and reiterated how petty Mary style liberal ... democratic notion that this is this the president's doing something really inched in one hand he's making nice to Republicans today the budget comes out and see another group of Republican senators for dinner ... on the other hand he suddenly discovered his love for ... raising money for Democratic camp candidates for Congress he's running around the country ... wage a campaign against Republicans ... does this interfere with the budget negotiations or to politicians and capital services altitude ... well I think a lot of people look at it as politics as usual it isn't unusual for present surrounding campaign for people of their own party and raise money ... I do think they they really fuels one of his biggest problems among Republicans just a fundamental lack of trust ... their law to Republicans have shots don't believe that he really wants a deal ... and when he's out there campaigning they can say see ... he sees political gain in a continuation of the impasse because I think the Democrats are pursuing in the campaign is ... the Republicans are dominated by a tea party that doesn't know have a compromise ... so it does feel like that the political legislative aides are working ... are at cross purposes but the so the way to diffuse this um Obama budget that meant next week is to see it as an attempt to keep the dream of a big long term deficit cutting deal online ... aam is there enough but that ... is alive only if Republicans decide that the series but doing something that ... is ... so ... he isn't going to be something in there on entitlements that will show to Republicans seriousness of purpose ... so that when he says I need revenues as well as entitlement cuts ... will be making a plausible ... well ... you you farewell to basically it's this to be a deal ... the president insists that the Republicans agree to more taxes ... and there but insisted he do something more on benefits ... based on ... heretofore ... we fully expect him to put in the budget has to be the first Chinese actually put in a budget ... this proposal to reduce ... social security benefits a little bit by changing the way the inflation adjustment goes every year ... that would be a big step ... 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Buhr paced the Lady Bucs with 41 kills in three matches on the weekend, averaging 4.10 kills per game, along with 2.10 digs per game. The junior also swung a team-best .384 on the tournament, committing only eight errors in 86 attempts.
Emerson handled the setting duties on the weekend, averaging 11.40 assists per game, including a 54-assist performance in ETSU's 3-1 victory over Davidson. Also a contributor on defense, Emerson added 1.70 digs per game, the second-best tally on the team.
Both Buhr and Emerson have been impressive all season for the Lady Bucs, as Buhr leads the squad in total kills (95), kills per game (3.28), and digs per game (2.34). Emerson has stepped up as ETSU's top setter, averaging 10.07 assists per game, a team-high. Emerson is also ranked second on the team in digs per frame with 2.24.
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You will download the provided file and add to the name, your own name. It is basic 2D geometry that will need a few things created to make it functional.
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2. Now, come up with a minimum of 5 different products that you machine from that 2D geometry and quickly sketch them so you visualize what they will look like. All geometry must be used therefore you can't just face the top off and say it is one product and You CAN NOT ADD geometry.
3. Bonus: If you can come up with a 6th product, you will receive bonus points.
4. You now need to choose the Mill Default machine, set your stock (length and width) and the thickness will be 0.75".
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6. Your raw material choice should be Plastic-ABS.
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8. Under each toolpath group, you will choose your toolpaths (face, contour, pocket, drill, etc...) in order to machine the product.
9. This is ONE file, with multiple part toolpaths. Remember, we did this on the Smile/Frown project.
This exam is all about visualizing WHAT you want to remove as material to create your finished product. You need to know what the product looks like before you set a plan into place to machine it.
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Agency Coordination and Cross-Sector Collaboration in Fragile States
Abdul-Akeem Sadiq and Jenna Tyler
Despite myriad descriptions and indicators used to define a fragile state, the international community has come to an agreement that a fragile state lacks the ability to maintain physical control of its territorial boundaries, provide basic public services, facilitate economic growth, and interact as a full member of the international community. Fragile states have historically experienced a disproportionate amount of natural disaster-related losses. For example, from 2005 to 2009, more than 50% of those impacted by a natural disaster lived in a fragile state, resulting in over $200 billion in losses. When natural disasters occur in such areas, they exacerbate already weak governance structures and further undermine their governments' capability to respond to the crisis while simultaneously addressing challenges related to poverty and conflict. To remedy these and other complex issues inherent in fragile states, scholars are beginning to recognize the importance of investigating how fragile states can mitigate natural disaster losses through effective agency coordination and cross-sector collaboration. Agency coordination, in the context of natural disaster response, refers to the integration of facilities, equipment, personnel, and communication by public agencies for supporting incident response activities. Cross-sector collaboration refers to the sharing of information and resources by organizations in two or more sectors to achieve an outcome that cannot be produced by organizations in one sector alone. Because forecasts suggest that natural disaster-related losses will only increase in fragile states owing to population growth, urbanization, and climate change, there is a pressing need to understand the ways public organizations not only coordinate before, during, and after a natural disaster, but also how they collaborate across organizational sectors.
Agenda Setting and Natural Hazards
Rob A. DeLeo
Agenda setting describes the process through which issues are selected for consideration by a decision-making body. Among the myriad of issues policymakers can consider, few are more vexing than natural hazards. By aggregating (or threatening to aggregate) death, destruction, and economic loss, natural hazards represent a serious and persistent threat to public safety. While citizens rightfully expect policymakers to protect them, many of the policy challenges associated natural hazards fail to reach the crowded government agenda. This article reviews the literature on agenda setting and natural hazards, including the strain between preparing for emerging hazards, on the one hand, and responding to existing disasters, on the other hand. It considers the extent to which natural hazards pose distinctive difficulties during the agenda-setting process, focusing specifically on the dynamics of issue identification, problem definition, venue shopping, and interest group mobilization in natural hazard domains. It closes by suggesting a number of future avenues of agenda-setting research.
Bureaucratic Policymaking on Natural Hazards
Kristin O'Donovan
Bureaucratic politics, discretion, and decision-making for natural hazards governance present an important challenge of the use of autonomous bureaucratic discretion in the absence of political accountability. Understanding how these factors influence discretion and policymaking is of critical importance for natural hazards because the extent to which bureaucrats are able to make decisions means that communities will be safer in the face of disaster. But the extent to which they are held accountable for their decisions has significant implications for public risk and safety. Bureaucrats are unelected and cannot be voted out of office.
There are two significant areas that remain regarding the use of bureaucratic discretion in natural hazards policy. One key area is to consider the increasing emphasis on networked disaster governance on bureaucratic discretion and decision-making. The conventional wisdom is that networks facilitate disaster management much better than command and control approaches. However, the extent to which the use of bureaucratic discretion is important in the implementation of natural hazard policy, particularly for mitigation and preparedness, remains an open area of research.
The other key area is the influence of bureaucratic discretion and decision-making when communities learn after a disaster. The political nature of disasters and the professional expertise of public service professionals imply that in order to make communities safer, bureaucrats will have to use discretion to push forward more aggressive mitigation and preparedness policies. Bureaucratic discretion would need to be used for both political and policy purposes in order to engage in policy learning after disasters that produces a substantive change.
Collaboration and Cross-Sector Coordination for Humanitarian Assistance in a Disaster Recovery Setting
David Sanderson
While known to be important and essential for improved effectiveness and efficiency, cross-sector coordination and collaboration among different actors engaged in postdisaster recovery is fraught with complications. Among the challenges are (a) who leads, and how; (b) the capacity and roles of the host government; (c) governance structures within organizations (which may differ a great deal); (d) assumptions of power; (e) the trade-off between valuing relationships and "getting the job done"; and (f) the varying constraints (and opportunities) of accountability. Recognizing the need to improve joint actions for a better response, the Humanitarian Reform Agenda (HRA), begun in 2005, led to the remolding of collective models of disaster response and the adoption of the global cluster system, which is essentially organized around the delivery of goods and services (sectors) by traditional aid actors such as the United Nations (UN), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. While the cluster system has largely been acknowledged as an improvement in collaboration among actors, a perennial challenge of cross-sector coordination remains. One of the opportunities for improvement lies in better and more predictable leadership, one of the key areas identified by the HRA. Another opportunity lies in changing the focus from a supply-driven approach of prioritizing what aid providers deliver to a demand-driven understanding, such as that offered by area-based approaches, wherein sectors are more closely aligned.
A common form of collaboration within aid is partnership between various actors (e.g., the United Nations or NGOs). Partnerships assume more than a constructing relationship: Effective partnerships emphasize the need for transparency and equity, along with being results-oriented and competent. Recognizing this, the Grand Bargain, resulting from the World Humanitarian Summit, noted that aid providers should engage with local and national responders in a spirit of partnership and aim to reinforce rather than replace local and national capacities.
Partnerships, however, fall short all too often, especially when one partner has power over the other, which is often the case. The report Time to Let Go, by the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), notes, for instance, that "the relationships between donor and implementer, aid provider and recipient, remain controlling and asymmetrical, and partnerships and interactions remain transactional and competitive, rather than reciprocal and collective." The challenge remains to achieve the task at hand, while at the same time engaging in effective collaborative mechanisms that value the nature of the relationship. If this is not achieved, effective postdisaster recovery can be jeopardized.
Community-Based Disaster Risk Reduction
Rajib Shaw
Community-based approaches existed even before the existence of the state and its formal governance structure. People and communities used to help and take care of each other's disaster needs. However, due to the evolution of state governance, new terminology of community-based disaster risk reduction (CBDRR) has been coined to help communities in an organized way. Different stakeholders are responsible for community-based actions; the two key players are the local governments and civil society, or nongovernment organizations. Private sector and academic and research institutions also play crucial roles in CBDRR. Many innovative CBDRR practices exist in the world, and it is important to analyze them and learn the common lessons. The key to community is its diversity, and this should be kept in mind for the CBDRR. There are different entry points and change agents based on the diverse community. It is important to identify the right change agent and entry point and to develop a sustainable mechanism to institutionalize CBDRR activities. Social networking needs to be incorporated for effective CBDRR.
Corruption and the Governance of Disaster Risk
David Alexander
This article considers how corruption affects the management of disaster mitigation, relief, and recovery. Corruption is a very serious and pervasive issue that affects all countries and many operations related to disasters, yet it has not been studied to the degree that it merits. This is because it is difficult to define, hard to measure and difficult to separate from other issues, such as excessive political influence and economic mismanagement. Not all corruption is illegal, and not all of that which is against the law is vigorously pursued by law enforcement. In essence, corruption subverts public resources for private gain, to the damage of the body politic and people at large. It is often associated with political violence and authoritarianism and is a highly exploitative phenomenon. Corruption knows no boundaries of social class or economic status. It tends to be greatest where there are strong juxtapositions of extreme wealth and poverty.
Corruption is intimately bound up with the armaments trade. The relationship between arms supply and humanitarian assistance and support for democracy is complex and difficult to decipher. So is the relationship between disasters and organized crime. In both cases, disasters are seen as opportunities for corruption and potentially massive gains, achieved amid the fear, suffering, and disruption of the aftermath. In humanitarian emergencies, black markets can thrive, which, although they support people by providing basic incomes, do nothing to reduce disaster risk. In counties in which the informal sector is very large, there are few, and perhaps insufficient, controls on corruption in business and economic affairs.
Corruption is a major factor in weakening efforts to bring the problem of disasters under control. The solution is to reduce its impact by ensuring that transactions connected with disasters are transparent, ethically justifiable, and in line with what the affected population wants and needs. In this respect, the phenomenon is bound up with fundamental human rights. Denial or restriction of such rights can reduce a person's access to information and freedom to act in favor of disaster reduction. Corruption can exacerbate such situations. Yet disasters often reveal the effects of corruption, for example, in the collapse of buildings that were not built to established safety codes.
Disasters and Large-Scale Population Dislocations: International and National Responses
Anthony Oliver-Smith
Large-scale displacement takes place in the context of disaster because the threat or occurrence of hazard onset makes the region of residence of a population uninhabitable, either temporarily or permanently. Contributing to that outcome, the wide array of disaster events is invariably complicated by human institutions and practices that can contribute to large-scale population displacements. Growing trends of socially driven exposure and vulnerability around the world as well as the global intensification and frequency of climate-related hazards have increased both the incidence and the likelihood of large-scale population dislocations in the near future. However, legally binding international and national accords and conventions have not yet been put in place to deal with the serious impacts, and material, health-related, and sociocultural losses and human rights violations that are experienced by the millions of people being swept up in the events and processes of disasters and mass population displacements. Effective policy development is challenged by the increasing complexity of disaster risk and occurrence as well as issues of causation, adequate information, lack of capacity, and legal responsibility. States, international organizations, state and international development and aid agencies must frame, define, and categorize appropriately disaster forced displacement and resettlement to influence effective institutional responses in emergency humanitarian assistance, transitional shelter and care, and durable solutions in managing migration and resettlement if return is not possible. The forms that disaster-associated forced displacements are projected to take and corresponding national responses are explored in the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004 in Sri Lanka, a massive disaster in a nation riven by civil conflict; Hurricane Katrina of 2005 in the United States, where the scale and nature of displacement bore little relation to hazard intensity; and the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, Tsunami, and nuclear exposure incident exemplifying the emerging trend of complex, concatenating, multihazard disasters that bring about large-scale population displacements.
Executive and Legislative Competition Over Natural Hazards Policies
Deserai A. Crow
As with countless other policy areas, natural hazard policy can be viewed as a jurisdictional competition between executive and legislative branches. While policymaking supremacy is delegated to the legislative branch in constitutional democracies, the power over implementation, budgeting, and grant-making that executive agencies enjoy means that the executive branch wields considerable influence over outcomes in natural hazards policymaking. The rules that govern federal implementation of complex legislative policies put the implementing agency at the center of influence over how policy priorities play out in local, county, and state processes before, during, and after disasters hit.
Examples abound related to this give-and-take between the legislative and executive functions of government within the hazards and disaster realm, but none more telling than the changes made to US disaster policy after September 11th, which profoundly affected natural hazards policy as well as security policy. The competition and potential for mismatch between legislative and executive priorities has been heightened since the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) was reorganized under the Department of Homeland Security. While this may appear uniquely American, the primacy of terrorism and other security-related threats not only dwarfs natural hazards issues in the United States, but also globally. Among the most professionalized and powerful natural hazards and disaster agencies prior to 9/11, FEMA has seen its influence diminished and its access to decision-makers reduced.
This picture of legislative and executive actors within the natural hazards policy domain who compete for supremacy goes beyond the role of FEMA and post-9/11 policy. Power dynamics associated with budgets, oversight and accountability, and relative power among executive agencies are ongoing issues important to understanding the competition for policy influence as natural hazards policy competes for attention, funding, and power within the broader domain of all-hazards policy.
Financing Community Resilience Before Disaster Strikes: Lessons From the United States
Charlotte L. Kirschner, Akheil Singla, and Angie Flick
As more and more of the population moves to areas prone to natural hazards, the costs of disasters are on the rise. Given that these events are an eventuality, governments must aid their communities in promoting disaster resilience, enabling their communities to reduce their susceptibility to natural hazards, and adapting to and recovering from disasters when they occur.
The federal system in the United States divides these responsibilities among national, state, and local governments. Local and state governments are largely responsible for the direct provision of services to their communities, and the Stafford Act of 1988 provides that the federal government will pay at least 75% of all eligible expenses once a presidential major disaster declaration has been made. As a result, state and local governments have become largely reliant on transfers from the federal government to pay for disaster relief and recovery efforts. This system encourages state and local governments to ignore the risks they face and turn to the federal government for aid after a disaster.
This system also seems to underemphasize an important mechanism that can bolster disaster resilience: financing the costs of disasters in advance through ex ante budgeting. Four tools for budgeting ex ante—intergovernmental grants, disaster stabilization funds, the municipal bond market, and hazard insurance—are described and examples of their use provided. Despite limited use by state governments, these tools provide governments the opportunity to build community resilience to disasters by budgeting ex ante for them.
Fiscal Implications of Managing Natural Disasters for National and Subnational Governments
Qing Miao
Natural disasters cause massive social disruptions and can lead to tremendous economic and human losses. Given their uncertain and destructive nature, disasters invariably induce significant governmental responses and typically pose severe financial challenges for jurisdictions across all levels of government. From a public finance perspective, disasters cause governments to incur additional spending on various emergency management activities, and by disrupting normal business activities they also affect tax base robustness and cause revenue losses. The question is: How significant are these fiscal effects and how do they affect hazards governance more generally? Understanding the fiscal implications of natural disasters is essential to evaluating the size of the economic costs of disasters as well as forecasting governments' financial exposure to future shocks. Furthermore, how disaster costs are shared among different levels of government is another important question concerning the intergovernmental dynamics of disaster management.
In the U.S. federal system, the direct fiscal costs of natural disasters (i.e., increased government expenditures due to disaster shocks) are largely borne by the federal government. It is estimated that Hurricane Katrina cost the federal government approximately $120 billion while Hurricane Sandy cost $60 billion. Even in the years without large-scale disaster events, federal disaster spending is between $2 billion and $6 billion annually. Under the Stafford Act, the federal government plays a critical role in funding disaster-related programs (e.g., direct relief, mitigation grants, and subsidized insurance programs) and redistributing the actual costs of natural hazards, meaning that a considerable portion of the local disaster burden is shifted to all U.S. taxpayers. This raises a set of issues concerning the equity and efficiency of the U.S. disaster policy framework.
Managing disasters involves multiphased activities to mitigate, prepare for, respond to, and recover from disaster shocks. There is a common belief that the federal government inappropriately spends far more on ex post disaster response, relief, and recovery than what it spends on ex ante mitigation and preparedness, often driven by political motivations (e.g., meeting voters' preferences for postdisaster aid) and the current budget rules. As pointed out by many others, federal disaster relief and assistance distort the subnational incentive to invest in local disaster prevention and mitigation efforts. Furthermore, given the mounting evidence on the cost-effectiveness of disaster mitigation programs in reducing future disaster damages, the current practice of focusing resources on postdisaster assistance means substantial public welfare losses. In recent years there has been a call for the federal government to shift its disaster policy emphasis toward mitigation and preparedness and also to facilitate local efforts on mitigation. To achieve the goal requires a comprehensive reform in government budgeting for emergency management.
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The last few weeks I've seen tons of articles on Summer reading. In all kinds of places, from People to the New York Times to Oprah.
I had my own reading plans for the Summer, mostly conquering my to-be-read pile (or Mount TBR) for the next few months. That plan was derailed by reading Kresley Cole's A Hunger Like No Other. Well, for one thing I was REALLY trying to get back to some literary fiction reading (there is a huge part of me that feels guilty for CONSTANTLY reading romance). Word bookstore in Brooklyn has a monthly romance book club that I joined earlier during the Summer, and I chose Kresley's book thinking that I wasn't going to like it but I wanted to try something different. Not only did I like it, but as soon as I was finished I was desperate to read another book by her. I visited her website and read an excerpt from her forthcoming book, Macrieve . I found out it was coming out a few short days after I happened upon the excerpt. I tried to resist the urge but as soon as midnight on the 2nd struck, guess who was downloading Macrive to her nook?
Rewinding a bit, I NEVER EVER thought I would like paranormal romance. EVER. Granted, I liked Twilight, but that was the first book series that I read on my nook. Not only that when I first got my nook I had just started my 2 hour daily commute, so devouring those books was pretty easy. That being said I figured reading the series was my first, last and only visit to the land of werewolves and vampires. How (thankfully) wrong I was!!!
I suppose I should read Kresley Coles Immortals After Dark series in order, which I might eventually do. For now I'm content with the first two (completely out of order) books that I've read.
From the first moment I started Macrieve, I was hooked. It began with a really heartwrenching story about how Macrive lost his parents. I knew about Lykae (of which Macrieve is one) from AHLNO. They are werewolves, and the key in this story is the fact that once a Lykae mates they do so for life. The Lykae instinct is to protect their mate at all costs, and if their mate dies then they die too. When Macrieve's mother died his father killed himself.
His mother is killed because of his involvement with a succubus, another being in the IAD world. Succubi (sp?) feed off of their lovers, poisoning them to the point where they die if they don't have sex with the succubi often enough. I'm going into all of these details because they tie in with the entire book and the love story.
The succubus who Macrieve was with was a child molester; she started forcing him to be with her when he was 9. Yuck (to say the very least). He hated himself because his involvement (though unwilling) with a succubus got his mother killed. He hatedall succubus women because of what happened to him as a child.
He meets Chloe, his life long mate, and treats her with so much love and tenderness that you wonder where she has been all of his life. That is until he discovers that she is a succubus. His initial reaction was cringe inducing, but the best part of that is Chloe stood up to him toe to toe. She cursed him out, threw things at him and even stabbed him at one point (remember there is no need to be PC in a world full of immortals). My kind of girl.
Macrieve does everything that he can to express his disgust for Chloe, prompting her to declare that she will never want to sleep with him; she would rather starve. It is a romance novel, so we know how well that works for her. The scene where they first make love is heartbreaking, not for the act itself but for the immediate aftermath. Let's just say if I were Chloe that would have been my first AND LAST time.
The rest of the book is all about the story of how these two completely mismatched people end up falling in love. Macrieve learns a lot more about himself and his ability to love than Chloe she seems to be a much more fully formed person with fewer demons and less to learn about life. Surprising since she is so young without any of the experiences those around her have had. Chloe's biggest struggle was discovering that she was an immortal, which she seemed to work through pretty quickly.
I like Chloe as a heroine much more than I liked Emmaline in AHLNO. Chloe just seemed to be more believeable, while Emmaline went from a punk to a badass chick who killed her father in the span of a few pages. I loved AHLNO but that was not believable at all.
Both books use the I-Hate-Her-But-I-Treat-Her-Bad-Until-I-Realize-I-Love-Her plot device really well. It works for me, even though I don't think either hero has to work hard enough to get back into the heroine's good graces.
Ultimately, I realized that the right paranormal romance works for me. REALLY WELL. My politically incorrect love of old school bodice rippers (no judgement, ok) may be satisfied!
Now I'm SERIOUSLY taking a romance break. After A Hunger Like No Other and Macrieve I read two turkeys back to back. A Lady Never Surrenders and A Rose in the Storm. Blech to both books. My summer reading will continue, of course but I'm going to have to erase the memory of these two books by reading a whole different genre for awhile.
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The deadlift is by far one of the easiest compound exercises to learn, in my opinion. Then again, there are technicalities to it that cannot be avoided, and if done improperly, deadlifts can leave you in a lot of pain due to strain or injury.
So while it's not a difficult lift in theory (pick up the weight, put it down again), there are right ways and wrong ways to do it.
I'm going to break it down in points, and hopefully you can note an issue that you may be having as well and how you can fix it. This post will be covering conventional deadlifting.
[align=center]THE SET-UP[/align]
Everyone has a certain stance that suits them best. I have seen some people pull with feet no more than an inch apart, and I have also seen people pull in a semi-sumo stance, with their arms still on the outside of their knees. The key here is finding a stance that works for YOU. If you do not know exactly what that is, a good starting point is having your feet hip-width apart, or a little bit narrower.
If you are a slow puller off the floor (i.e. harder for you to lift the weight the first 2-3 inches rather than locking out), you should aim to have your feet a little straighter in front of you, at least while in training. Doing so will help you be a little faster off the floor. Pointing your toes out slightly will make it a little easier to engage your hamstrings and get your hips through at the top, which will support your lockout if you have the opposite problem (weak lockout, strong off the floor.)
After you have gotten your foot width decided, the next step is to see where the bar is relative to your feet. You want the bar right over the middle of your foot. You do NOT want to start with the bar already at your shins.
Next is your hand placement. Place your hands just outside your knees. I find that the closer my arms are to my legs, the tighter everything feels. I also use a mixed grip, which means one hand under and one hand over. It's much easier to lift heavier weights with this grip rather than double-over-hand. Especially if your grip is weaker and you are still building it up.
Some people prefer to bring their hips down and hold that position for a few seconds before pulling. In my opinion and in my own experience, this is very inefficient. I like to make use of a bit of stretch reflex at the bottom before I begin pulling, since it helps me engage everything and make sure that my muscles are tensed and ready to go rather than relaxed. So after I set my feet, I always set my hands, and then I do not dip down until I am ready to pull. I find that waiting in the pulling position before you begin limits the amount you will pull, because your muscles are not as tense and there is no "bounce" in a way.
SO. Set your hands first, and bring your hips down to pull only right before you start to make sure that you are engaging everything properly with no muscles relaxed.
[align=center]THE PULL
A big problem some people have that can result in bad injury is retracting their shoulder blades before they begin the pull. This is an absolute NO, and should never be done. When you stand up your shoulders are going to come back anyway. Retracting your scapula before pulling will only lead to injury.
Now that everything in the set-up is correct and you have your hands in place, bring your hips down just low enough so that your shins touch the bar. This is where you should be pulling from.
However, there are those of us who are a little bit at a disadvantage due to leverages, and sometimes you get what is known as a "high hip puller". I am one of them. Even bringing my hips down until they touch the bar is not always enough sometimes. What I suggest in this situation is a little bit of a "dip" at the bottom.
What I mean by dipping, is to bring your hips down a little lower than you would normally pull from, and then "bounce" them up to the correct height. The second you feel that your hips have met the appropriate height, begin your pull.
Again, this is what I do because I have a short torso and long legs, so it works well for my leverages. If you have great deadlifting leverages and can pull without having to dip down, then that's awesome. If your hips are too high at the start, try dipping down like I suggested. It makes a world of a difference.
Remember to keep your chest up and out. Take a deep breath and hold it. Arch your back. Your head should be in a neutral position. Fix your gaze on a spot in front of you and/or slightly down. Slightly up is fine, and I find that looking up as I'm locking out can help sometimes. Never look straight down on the floor when you pull because you will throw yourself off, and of course, never look in the mirror.
As you begin the pull, you want to keep the bar as close to your body as possible and try as much as you can not to let the bar drift in front. Ever see those guys with bloody shins after a deadlift? That's how close the bar needs to be to your body. Keep it in at all times.
[align=center]QUICK TIP[/align]
What I like to imagine, is that I am not pulling the bar off the floor, but rather I am pushing myself into the ground. This automatically tenses your glutes and hamstrings, engaging them in the movement. If you concentrate of pulling the bar off the floor a lot of the tension tends to shift to your upper back, taking your legs out of the picture. Your legs play a big role in deadlifting, so make sure that everything is fired properly.
Also, when you feel like you've been grinding it for an hour, it's probably been closer to a couple of seconds. Next time you feel like failing it when you're almost there, just give it a couple extra seconds (provided your form is at least passable). It may be all you need to lock out the weight.
[align=center]FINAL NOTES:[/align]
Everyone has different pulling styles, and it takes time to find your own groove. The best thing to do is play around with different widths, hand placements, etc. and find which one suits you best.
Most basics have been covered in this post, and pretty much anyone can benefit from at least starting with this form, and from there tweaking it to match their own bodies perfectly.
Never be one of those people that trains AROUND their weak points. If you have lagging body parts, build them. If you don't have good flexibility to get your hips lower, then stretch. Don't be one of those guys (or girls) that says "Oh, I'm not flexible enough for that, I'll just do it this way" or "My hamstrings are weak, so I have to pull more with my back", etc. All I hear is a bunch of lame excuses for your ineffective training. Admitting to your weaknesses is one thing, so long as you make a constant effort to improve upon them. Admitting to them and then doing nothing to strengthen them is what's the wrong thing to do.
Hope this helps. Happy deadlifting!
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New Study Finds Greatly Elevated HIV Infection Rates Among Young Black Gay and Bisexual Men in the U.S.
July 23, 2012
Study results released today by the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) show disturbing rates of new HIV infections occurring among Black gay and bisexual men in the U.S. (also known as men who have sex with men, or MSM), particularly young Black MSM. The HPTN 061 study showed that the overall rate of new HIV infection among Black MSM in this study was 2.8% per year, a rate that is nearly 50% higher than in white MSM in the U.S. Even more alarming, HPTN 061 found that young Black MSM -- those 30 years of age and younger --acquired HIV infection at a rate of 5.9% per year, three times the rate among U.S. white MSM. The overall infection rate among Black MSM in this U.S study is comparable to the rate seen in the general populations of countries in sub-Saharan Africa hardest hit by the HIV epidemic. HPTN 061 was a large multi-site study of HIV and Black MSM conducted in six U.S. cities, and the first to determine the rate of new HIV infection among such a large prospective cohort of U.S. Black MSM (referred to as HIV incidence).
The Fenway Institute worked with the Multicultural AIDS Coalition to coordinate the Boston arm of HPTN 061, dubbed Project S.O.S. (Saving OurSelves), which enrolled 237 study participants over two years. Kenneth Mayer, MD, Medical Research Director at Fenway served as the Protocol Co-Chair for the multi-site study and was the Fenway sites Principal Investigator and Ben Perkins, MDiV, served as the studys Project Director at The Fenway Institute.
"The HPTN 061 study results are part of an HIV prevention narrative that consistently continues to show that Black MSM are exceedingly vulnerable. The truth is that these troubling HIV infection rates are associated with underlying issues of stigma, discrimination, joblessness, homelessness, incarceration, and trauma. Any attempts to address the HIV problem will, therefore, by necessity, need to tackle these issues in order to make a real and lasting impact in the epidemic," said Perkins.
"These study results show that in proportion to their numbers, Black MSM are bearing the brunt of the HIV epidemic here in the United States, even in comparison to other groups of gay and bisexual men," said Mayer. "We found that the men had many unmet medical and social service needs. There is an urgent need to focus resources to address these high rates of HIV infection as part of the larger national strategy to combat the AIDS epidemic."
The HIV incidence results from HPTN 061, presented today at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington, D.C. are among the first findings to come out of the study. Other early analyses show that HIV infection in this study population was associated with very high rates of untreated sexually transmitted infections and with poverty. Of the self-reported HIV-negative or unknown HIV status study participants who agreed to be tested at time of enrollment, 12% were HIV-positive. This finding suggests low rates of HIV testing or delays in testing among Black MSM. All HIV-infected study participants were referred for HIV care and treatment services. During the study, all participants were offered the chance to work with "peer health navigators" to provide support and to assist them with access to needed services. In addition, they were provided with condoms, testing and referral treatment of sexually transmitted infections, risk reduction counseling and other standard HIV prevention services.
The success of the HPTN 061 in recruiting and retaining Black MSM in a year-long study, including 97% uptake of HIV testing, answered a primary objective of the study, and paves the way for the conduct of future HIV prevention research.
Commenting on the findings, HPTN 061 Study Co-Chair Darrell Wheeler, PhD, MPH, Dean of the School of Social Work at Loyola University said, "We have known that Black MSM are affected by HIV at disproportionately higher rates when compared to other MSM in the U.S., but the HPTN 061 HIV incidence rates were extremely high. They make it very clear that we must urgently find and implement ways to stem the spread of HIV among Black gay men in this country, and critically among young Black gay men."
"The HPTN 061 study findings are a sobering wake-up call," said Wafaa El-Sadr, MD, MPH Co-Principal Investigator for the HPTN. "These results, and others to be garnered from further analysis of the study, highlight the enormity of the challenges ahead and offer important insights into how to design research studies and programs for prevention of HIV among Black MSM."
Further analysis of data from the study is ongoing to assess how HIV risk among Black MSM might be affected by childhood experiences, social and sexual networks, discrimination, homophobia, incarceration and barriers to health care. These findings will help inform future research and prevention efforts.
The HPTN 061 study enrolled a total of 1,553 MSM in six U.S. cities; Atlanta, GA, Boston, MA, New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA, and Washington, D.C. and was conducted between 2009-2011. The study is funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH).
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I think you have to be smart about protecting your own interests. If you want to keep your job. It would be difficult if they asked you directly, if it is a work place where they discriminate against atheism. Or even just make it more uncomfortable for you to work in that environment.
It very much depends on your circumstances at work and if you think you will be accepted or rejected for your world view.
From my understanding, the basis of Christianity, is that Jesus was about love. He apparently talks in the Bible (I was brought up half in an India Kult as Theist and half atheist, by Hippy Anglo Saxon English Parents), about loving thy neighbour and loving thy enemy. So really if you wanted to get technical with the Christian co workers, you could address their faith, if they treat you any differently due to your differing world view then they are directly going against their faith of loving there neighbours and their enemies. Jesus was about love man! What's with all the name calling / heavy judgement / avoidance strategies???
The other reason that Christians might shun atheist colleagues is due to fear. Religious people tend to be scared of atheists because I reckon they get it confused with anarchist, or something, like an atheist is unpredictable. Perhaps it would be useful, if you do end up disclosing your atheisms, so qualify your position with references regarding your ability to distinguish behaviour that might harm others, with behaviour that is caring of others :) - you could also point out that Jesus was in fact a nonviolent anarchist - aiming to overturn the domination,oppression and abuse of his people, by the Romans, through practicing and advocating nonviolent resistance to the oppressive behaviour of the hegemonic culture.
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Paul J. "Jerry" Koehl, 71
Paul J. "Jerry" Koehl, 71, of Findlay, passed away at 11:58 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 26,
2013, at Bridge Hospice Care Center, Findlay.
He was born on Feb. 15, 1941, to the late Paul and Estella (Apple) Koehl in Dayton.
Jerry is survived by his wife, Janet M. Treece, whom he married on May 14, 1966.
Jerry is also survived by one son, Gregory S. Koehl of Findlay; one daughter, Susan M. Koehl of Las Vegas, Nev.; one brother, Jeffery (Dee) Koehl of Piqua; and one sister, Sandra (Ted) Hasis of St. Marys.
Jerry was a 1959 graduate of Memorial High School in St. Marys and served in the U.S. Air Force.
He retired in 2006 as a self-employed carpet installer. Jerry was a member of the Wayside Tournament Club and loved the outdoors. He enjoyed golfing and reading.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Wednesday with visitation from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Tuesday at Coldren Crates Funeral Home, Findlay, the Rev. Kathy Tomazic, officiant. Burial will follow in Maple Grove Cemetery, Findlay.
Memorial contributions may be made to Cancer Patient Services, 1800 N. Blanchard St., Findlay.
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Havelock students welcomed veterans to their schools to pass along messages of thanks.
Havelock students welcomed veterans to their schools to pass along messages of thanks last week.
"I was proud to be in the room as all the veterans here," said fifth-grader Melissa Chris-Anne Bratt, of Roger Bell Elementary. "They�ve done everything for us."
Bratt said she could tell how much the veterans, many of whom were parents of the children, appreciated the program.
"I think they did because I also saw some of them crying up there and it almost made me cry too," Bratt said.
"I didn�t know that some of my friends� parents were veterans before. I feel very proud because of all the veterans that came out and were here with us today. I felt very proud of that."
In between patriotic songs and other demonstrations of thanks, the children heard a speech from 88-year-old Marine Corps veteran William Franklin Odom, of Havelock.
Outfitted in his dress blues, the retired master gunnery sergeant told the students about his service in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.
He brought a jar of black sand from Iwo Jima to show the school.
"That was what the beach was like. You�d be up to your ankles in this stuff. Volcanic ash is what it was," Odom said. "It made it very difficult to dig in. You started digging and it was like a doodlebug. You�d dig down and the more you dug down the more the hole spreads out and you didn�t get any deeper. That�s what we had to dig into when we got onto the beach at Iwo Jima."
Odom was nearly killed by a rocket on Iwo Jima and shot in the leg in Guam.
"I got to thinking after Korea that there�s got to be an easier way to make a living, so I managed to get into the air wing," Odom said.
Odom flew as a helicopter door gunner on short hops during Vietnam.
"Sometimes you�d get back from the mission and you�d get out and look back at the helicopter and count the bullet holes," Odom said.
One time, he got down and found three bullet holes in his seat.
"If I hadn�t been up and shooting this way, then he would have nailed me three times," Odom said.
He made a point of recognizing the veterans who had come to attend the program, many of whom stood in the back.
"The people there in the back, they are the ones that are making it now," Odom said to applause. "They are just as brave as we were and a whole lot smarter. Some of you out there have relatives right now fighting in this very dangerous war. I take my hat off to them."
Students at Graham A. Barden Elementary felt the need to recognize the sacrifices of veterans during a special ceremony as well. After singing patriotic songs, the Havelock High NJROTC Exhibition Rifle Team put on a show. Fourth-grade students gave a history of Veterans Day and detailed the five branches of the armed services. Representing those five branches were Army Sgt. Neal Sanders, Marine Sgt. Brandon S. Miller, Air Force Airman Erica Jimenez, Coast Guard Petty Officer Devon Chaney and Navy Petty Officer Kenneth McIntosh.
"It�s important because they talked about veterans and how they served our country whether they are Marines, or Air Force or the Army," said Jaheim Webster, a fifth-grader whose grandfather is a veteran.
"I learned that being a veteran is very important and it means a lot to the country because they go out there to protect our country," said fifth-grader Shakira Frazier, whose uncle is a Marine.
Teacher Sharon Logan said the students� respect and pride for the veterans moved her.
"It�s awesome," Logan said. "It gives you a great sense of pride and you recognize how proud the children are of their parents. Some of their parents are deployed. The expressions on their faces when we celebrate the veterans is an honor and you can tell how proud they are of their parents."
Retired Marine Turner Bond attended the ceremony at Roger Bell in part because his wife, Sandra Bond, is a teacher�s assistant at the school.
"I�ve been retired like 12 years and sometimes people forget what service you�ve done for the country, but this kind of really makes you feel important. It�s like you get to deposit something with kids," Bond said. "This was awesome."
Marine Gunnery Sgt. Eric Parisi said he was awestruck at the program in which his children participated.
"It�s such a nice community and with so much military here. It�s nice to see all the kids and the teachers and everybody put forth so much. It�s wonderful," he said.
Jennfer Parisi, mother of two of the children, is now out of the military and was also swelling with pride as she stood next to her husband.
"It really makes me proud just to watch them thank veterans and understand what they sacrificed for them and to be so thankful for it," Parisi said. "It�s a very humbling experience. I�m awestruck right now."
The veterans, Bratt said, are regular citizens that often don�t get noticed.
"There are all kinds of veterans all around us but I don�t even know it," Bratt said. "Sometimes I would like to thank the veterans because they might be in the same room and you might not even know it."
"I think it�s good that you can spend time with you parents who are in the military who have been gone a long time to say thank you," said fifth-grader Ematrius McCoo. "They�ve been gone for like six months and you would really miss them. And then when they come back you would be so surprised and they will be surprised too and start crying. Thank you for surviving and doing great."


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