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Vermont Quarterly
The Good Fight
Tuna Snider furthers UVM's proud legacy of argument
- 10-25-2012
- By Lee Ann Cox
"I've seen extraordinarily crazy debates about ridiculous stuff," laughs junior Stefanie Doucette, last season's policy squad captain. "Serious arguments that people actually get very into." And she's talking about what debaters do when they're just hanging out, an inclination their other friends don't always appreciate, "Will you guys stop arguing, just please stop talking," apparently a common refrain among the uninitiated. But that's what UVM debaters do—and do exceptionally well—thanks in large part to the university's Lawrence Debate Union director of thirty years, Professor Alfred "Tuna" Snider, an international icon in the field. At the high point of their 2011–2012 season, UVM was ranked seventh in the world by the International Debate Education Association, just behind Cambridge, Oxford, and Yale and ahead of the likes of the London School of Economics, Harvard, and Stanford, all in an elite top thirty among hundreds of competing institutions.
Winning is sweet, no doubt, but Snider both proselytizes and democratizes debate. For him, trophies and point tallies are not the prize. It is students and what they gain, the people they become. What is important, Snider says, is "building the citizens of the future and in doing that, the world of the future… the kind of skills you develop through debate are twenty-first-century success skills. Wherever you go, whatever you do, you're going to have to take information and shape it into messages that influence people. You have to be able to critically analyze ideas, arguments, and positions."
That is Snider's pitch and it's echoed by alumni like Charles Morton '87, a partner at the law firm Venable who also has a faculty appointment at Johns Hopkins University. "Not a day goes by that I don't rely on a lesson I learned in debate," Morton says. "In my practice of law, in teaching—it framed my view of the world and helped to empower me as someone who can compete successfully."
Despite his vigorous passion for the mission of debate, Snider is anything but a Type A personality. He is a man of gentle heart and he brings a unique sensibility to the LDU. At UVM it is not about an intellectual elite. It's more of a big family—with lots of spirited arguing and hand banging—but everyone is welcome at the table.
That sense of camaraderie and inclusion extends beyond the current team of debaters, to the long legacy of debate at the university, making students feel part of a powerful continuum. Snider keeps the history alive, beginning public events by faithfully thanking those who made it possible. The program, then known as the Green and Gold Debate Society, was founded in 1899 by three students, including Edwin W. Lawrence, Class of 1901. "He went on to be a very successful lawyer-banker-railroad tycoon," says Snider, "and he attributed the fact that he was rich, successful, and happy to what he learned debating." To offer the same experience for future students, Lawrence created a sizeable endowment that currently generates about $80,000 a year to cover the basic budget, which is supplemented by alumni donations and funding from the Student Government Association.
Another character in the tale of UVM debate history is famed coach Robert Huber, who held the position here for thirty-eight years. Unofficially, but ubiquitously, the building at 475 Main Street that houses the debate coaching offices and practice space is called Huber House and the university's debate tournament is named in his honor as well.
It was Huber who was here when Lawrence reached out with his donation, also securing an endowment for the Edwin Lawrence Professor of Forensics, the chair that Snider has held for three decades. If it sounds to the modern ear as if he's prepping people for CSI, forensics refers to the public delivery of rhetorical argumentation—Snider's academic expertise is personal and social influence. He is a scholar of persuasion. Snider puts that talent to work in many ways, but following tradition, he's begun thinking of his predecessor's parting wisdom.
"If you're going to be here for a while you need to pave the way for the next person. You have to create structures," Snider says recalling Huber's words. "He had created the structure of the endowment, which made my life wonderful and so I committed myself to raising money." Snider had a $1 million goal, but he barely got to test his powers of persuasion when an alumnus made a bequest for the full amount.
So now he's doubled the mission to $2 million. "One of our jobs is to produce great alumni," Snider says, which he believes the LDU has done and that it explains their propensity to give. Debaters tend to be successful and therefore have not only the means but also the strong connection and loyalty that generates that desire. And much of that is directly attributable to Snider.
"Tuna was a phenomenal mentor for me," says Laura Ellingson '91, associate professor of communication and women's and gender studies at Santa Clara University in California. "He taught me how to put together an argument, how to think on my feet—I learned extraordinary research skills from him." Beyond that, Ellingson drew something deeper from Snider's faith in her when she was diagnosed with cancer shortly after joining UVM debate. "He's an amazing man," she says. "He just kept saying, 'I believe in you,' over and over. I have such deep affection and gratitude for his support mentoring me as a debater and as a human being."
For all of his commitment to history and tradition, Snider has also shaped the way forward for a newer style of competitive debate known as the worlds format, an approach that he believes better develops students' ability to improvise than the traditional policy format, where they debate the same issue all year. It prepares them for more "real-life" situations.
In worlds, teams learn the topic only fifteen minutes prior to the start of the debate. After that they can talk only to their partner, no coaches, and have no access to the internet, though written materials are permitted. It requires that debaters be broadly informed and able to think fast on their feet to develop a convincing argument they will deliver in a seven-minute speech.
Topics run the spectrum including economics, ecology, the military, technology, social policy, criminal justice, sports. "You want some of everything," says Snider, who helped create the "holy secret" of motions for the final debate last season in Oregon. But he notes that it would be a foolish debater who went in without a solid understanding of unfolding events in Syria and the Eurozone.
"You need to read the news constantly," he says. The occasional curve ball can come—a favorite Snider recalls is a motion granting independence to Abkhazia, which could be a bit troublesome if you've never heard of it.
One thing that's noted universally: everyone remembers stumbling through that first speech which was maybe only a few minutes long, if that. No one is judgmental. New people want to come to practices and just watch but the goal is to push them into the fray. "And once we get them to a debate tournament," Snider says, "they're ours." Because it's really fun.
"Like any competitive activity, it's extremely addicting," says last year's LDU co-president Paul Gross '12, who was named sixth of the top ten worlds format debaters in the U.S. National Championship in April. Even in practice debates (of which there are three or more a week all year), the adrenaline is palpable.
Debaters crowd in the long, narrow Huber House meeting room with trophy-lined walls and a portrait of the legendary coach, their backpacks slung to the floor. The debates are styled after the British Parliamentary system; so, on one spring evening, a motion reads, "This house would not allow those wrongly accused of being gay to sue for defamation." The teams, two pairs on each side, half arguing for the government, half for the opposition, separate and move into action for fifteen minutes of formulating their best cases, lobbing ideas and arguments for the best means of attack: "Your right to free speech ends where my reputation begins"… "The goal of government is not to change society but to protect citizens."
The time passes in a flash and the first speaker begins, addressing the adjudicator and "the house" at large with established formality, but the room is rowdy. Between the first and sixth minutes of a rapid-fire, impassioned speech anyone on the opposing side can stand up to offer a Point of Information, essentially a question or attack on the speaker's argument—but at the risk of being waved into silence.
In both worlds and policy formats, during some point in a tournament every debater will be arguing for both the affirmative and the negative. Asked whats it's like to take a side you personally oppose, Gross, a political science and philosophy major from the Washington, D.C. area, says he finds that almost more fun, recalling a conversation with an attorney who told him being in court was like boxing with your brain.
"It's like you get to embody this person that you wouldn't otherwise be and it's just purely an intellectual exercise. It's just a game at that point. It's who can make the best argument, and I find that really engaging." But he allows that it not only helps him evaluate his own positions more critically in his private life, he is also more likely to be thoughtful in taking others' opinions into account.
Someone once suggested that "every debater is Tuna Snider's debater." That estimate gives the man a laugh. "I do feel that way. I want to help them all—even from Cornell," Snider says. He jokes about the Ivy because the Cornell debate director was once his assistant coach. "I taught him what he knows." But Snider's service is no joke. He says he's done debate training now in thirty-eight countries, not charging except for help with travel expenses. He spends more than a hundred days a year traveling, with much of it dedicated to promoting debate in places such as Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and China.
"We're not getting everywhere but we're just about," says Snider. "Amazing countries have vibrant debate scenes now. Bangladesh—one of the poorest, most crowded countries in the world with almost no natural resources, and debate is solid there. They are serious because everybody sees it as a way to get ahead. (They think) 'I need not just to speak English, I need to speak English well and be able to persuade people.' And the other thing is, it doesn't cost any money. I could go out under a tree and have a debate. So they teach each other."
Different countries have different reasons for seeking out debate. For South Koreans, according to Snider, it's a means to get in top English or American schools. In Latin America, it's people who are concerned about the future of democracy. In former communist countries, it's about trying to get critical discourse accepted. In China, he says, there were initial problems. "The party was very suspicious about debating and now it's growing explosively there," says Snider. "I think the University of Vermont did a lot of the groundwork."
But much of Snider's time on the road is spent with UVM students—again with a nod to old Mr. Lawrence—who get to be a part of that international experience with the advent of the new worlds debate format. "I've gotten to travel the world for free. I've been to Serbia, Slovenia, South Africa, the Philippines, Botswana…," says Jessica Bullock '12, the other LDU co-president who was seventh of the top ten American debaters (Drew Adamczyk, now a junior, was ninth, making UVM the only school to have three students in the top ten).
Bullock has also been coaching Spanish debate here for the last two years, with at least two teams, some novice, debating in both English and Spanish. Cornell hosted the first Spanish language tournament ever in the Northeast last year, Bullock says, and UVM made it to the semifinals against teams from Colombia and Venezuela. "For us to make it to the semifinals against native speakers," she says, "I was very proud."
All of it, including the way international debate cuts across cultures—the influence of machismo in Latin America when debating women's rights or political history debating capitalism versus socialism with someone from Eastern Europe—"It's eye-opening for a girl who came from rural Vermont," Bullock says.
An English major, Bullock has taken a position with Teach for America in Baltimore for the next two years with an eye toward educational policy and maybe law school. Meanwhile she'll be teaching elementary school, with hopes of introducing the youngest students to debate, something fun like, "This house believes cats should be on leashes."
She'll be sticking by her coach's credo: "I think we're about promoting debate everywhere for everyone," Snider says. "Close to home, far away—that's what we do."


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If Eldric were to tell the story, he'd likely begin with himself. That's where proper stories begin, don't they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?
But this isn't a proper story, and I'm telling you, I ought to be hanged.
And so begins the story of Briony the Witch, who can hear and see the Old Ones in the swamp; Briony the deceitful, who damaged her sister's mind and burnt down the library; Briony the poisonous vine, who let her stepmother die.
Just outside of London, Briony lives in Swampsea with her distant Reverend father and her mentally damaged sister. In this fantastical world, the inventions of the early 20th century – railways, motorcars and gaslights – are still trying to find their way into a small town where the swamp is haunted by the Old Ones, and witches are hanged by the neck until they are dead. Bad news for Briony who has been hiding her wicked state and wickeder deeds behind a mask of bland amusement and a soul filled with self hate. Especially now that the railway is coming, along with plans to drain the swamp, something the Old Ones will fight with every weapon they have.
And that weapon happens to be the only girl who can hear them.
With the railway come Eldric, the fidgety boy-man with the lion eyes who sees everything that Briony keeps hidden and asks questions of those things she knows to be facts.
In the town of Swampsea Franny Billingsley creates a lush, decaying world inhabited with one of the barbed characters I have read in a very long time. Briony hates herself for the wrongs she believes she has committed and for being a being she perceives to be sinful, truly hates herself. This is not an emo play for attention; she prides herself on never letting anyone see what is going on, but a deep hatred of self. Yet at the same time, she has this prickly sense of pride and humor that wind their way through her narration. This self loathing that Briony feels will make it hard for some readers to connect with her – I admit that I find it eye opening, and after a few pages momentarily wondered what I'd gotten myself into – but once you do connect, she is one of the most interesting characters I've read in quite sometime. Briony is a puzzle – to herself and to others – and it takes Eldric's arrival and his curiosity to make her question some of the pieces she's already put in place.
It is because Briony is so inwardly focused on examining the pieces that Eldric may come across as a bit of a cipher. His character is there, but it's doled out in bits and pieces as he questions and reconstructs our heroine. It is his arrival that allows Briony to escape from the monotony and preconceptions that have clouded her mind. It is his support that allows Briony to tell us the true stories…or at least as true as she can see them.
Chime is making its way on to many "Best of" lists and the awards are well deserved. Franny Billingsley has created a truly unique world filled with mystery and characters that capture you long after you stop reading. With its slightly antiquated language and self loathing main character, though, I know it won't appeal to all readers. This is not an easy read, but if you stick with it, I believe you'll find that it is a wonderful one. Highly recommended.
You can purchase Chime from these fine retailers: Powells, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Borders, Your Local Indie, or you can pick it up at your local library.
Book Source: why, my local library, of course. I read this book thanks to your tax dollars.

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About Accra
2 days of Marathon meetings and plenary sessions.. with a Chinese dinner on 13th evening. This was a great experience. As soon as the meeting finished on 14th me and David ran towards the airport as we had to catch a flight at 8:30 and we had to report 3 hours prior. The roads were not empty and also not full as we see in India. We took slightly longer to reach the airport. On the way I purchased few Ghanian chocolates "Golden tree" from a roadside vendor. All the Ghanian Cedi I had were supposed to be exchanged at the airport but I me and David were surprised to know that they had just one private exchange stand that too not in the premises. So i waited with our luggage and David exchanged Cedi for both of us. I was relieved. The Kotoka Airport is a small one with only 4 gates. Our flight was from gate 1. I just bought a water bottle from the airport and went to sit near the gate. Although I was hungry nothing seemed tasty on the counters. The flight was late again. So I started with the book sharing a 'made in India' cake and chocolates with David. I encountered 3 Indians who were booked on the same flight. The lobby near the gate was now full and everyone inquired about the flight time. After 1 hour of wait we could board the flight which came from the Freetown Sierra leone. It was nearly 10 pm Ghana time. As soon as I had meal on the flight I shut my eyes to open them before landing at Nairobi, the other day. I was awaiting this day..
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Imagining a positive outcome for a strategy as dumb as the fiscal cliff is a challenge. If all the provisions went into force, the cliff would, in fact, do a lot to put the budget on a sustainable course. But the price is potentially another recession, which we cant afford. Whenever I think about our leaders concocting the cliff idea, its hard not to recall the famous justification for bold action in Animal House: What this situation calls for is a really futile, stupid gesture on somebodys partand were just the guys to do it!
But that defines the problem in Washington terms, and Im convinced those are the wrong terms. Everyone is searching for a budget deal Washington can accept. My ideal outcome would be to use this opportunity to get a deal the public the vast majority of Americans outside the Beltway can accept.
Budgets are about choices. Theyre about deciding, as a nation, what should be done and what were willing to pay to do it. The tradeoffs may get ugly, but thats precisely why public support is so important. No budget deal is worth anything unless the American people can say, Yes, this is what needs to be done. I may not like it, but I can live with it.
Right now the federal government spends two thirds of its money on just five fast-growing items (Social Security, defense, Medicare, Medicaid, and interest payments). But tax rates are also at historic lows. The public needs to face that conflict. If those are the priorities we want, great. Lets own them, lets pay for them. If not, wed better change them now, while we still can. The fiscal cliff is a great moment for doing that if we seize it.


text: Fred A. Rowley, Jr. co-teaches Supreme Court Clinic with Professor Stuart Banner. He is a litigation partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger Tolles & Olson LLP, and is a leader of the firm's Appellate Practice Group. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was Articles Editor for the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. He clerked for Judge James R. Browning on the Ninth Circuit (1997-98) and for Judge David F. Levi in the Eastern District of California (1998-99). Between 2002 and 2006, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Criminal Appeals Section of the U.S. Attorney's Office. Professor Rowley is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the California Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and a board member and past president of the Federal Bar Association of Los Angeles. He currently serves as Co-Chair of the Central District of California Lawyer Representatives to the Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference.


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Long Term SODAR Wind Profile Measurements Over the Coastal Ocean
Eugene Terray, Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
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We propose to investigate the performance of Doppler SODAR for profiling winds in the coastal marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) over a wide range of atmospheric stability. Measurements will be conducted for a one year from the MVCO Air-Sea Interaction Tower. The motivation is to provide a new tool for studying the complex interaction between the atmosphere and the coastal ocean arising from the differences in the surface heat flux and roughness between the land and water. In the case of on-shore flow, the stress at the surface is strongly correlated with the roughness due to the surface waves, and can be enhanced near the coast due to shoaling (Sun et al., 2001). The situation for off-shore flows is much more complicated. If the water is warmer than the air, an unstable internal convective boundary layer develops and wave growth and air-sea fluxes in general are enhanced (Attie and Durand, 2003; Sun et al., 2001). The dynamics in the case of warm air flowing over cooler water is, by contrast, poorly understood. The formation of a stable boundary layer lowers the surface stress and reduces wave generation (and hence the surface roughness - which in turn feeds back to damp the atmospheric turbulence), as well as imparting less momentum to the currents. The vertical structure of the MABL in this case also is complex (Mahrt et al., 2001). Because the surface layer turbulence is suppressed, the capping layer above can become partially decoupled and accelerate, leading to the formation of a low-level maximum in the wind - similar to the formation of a nocturnal jet over land (Fig. 1, Vickers and Mahrt, 2004). This process was recently modeled using both mesoscale (COAMPS) and LES models. Both models reproduced the qualitative features discussed above, but under-predicted the momentum flux at the surface. Although we have couched our discussion in terms of land/sea flows, similar effects are associated with temperature changes across fronts located well offshore (Mahrt et al., 2004), and have also been observed in the open ocean as a positive correlation between the sea surface temperature (SST) and wind stress derived from satellite observations (Xie, 2004). In contrast to the understanding of MABL development (which itself is not complete), there is even less theoretical understanding of the response of the ocean to these horizontal stress gradients. Spall (2006) has looked at the effect of SST/wind stress coupling on the growth rate of baroclinic waves. However, his specific mechanism is mainly relevant for low latitude, strongly stratified flows, and we are not aware of similar work in the coastal ocean - although there one might expect that bathymetry, the existence of strong temperature gradients and the presence of crossfrontal winds would lead to interesting effects in the coastal circulation. But in any case, advances in theoretical understanding are likely to be stimulated by advances in observation. In addition to its scientific interest, the vertical structure of MABL winds is an important factor affecting the performance and life expectancy of offshore wind turbines, where knowledge of the expected shear across the turbine blades (which can have a span of almost 150 m) is an essential design consideration. Despite their importance, acquiring long-term wind profiles at sea under a wide range of conditions has been a notoriously difficult problem.


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Q: I have a set of old Advent stereo speakers. Would they be of use in my home theater system for front speakers? They were nice sounding for stereo audio and the home theater system speakers look so puny. My AV surround receiver is a Denon AVR-1312 and the speakers that came with it are Boston Acoustics MCS160. Or, would I be better off retiring the Advents to Craigslist?
A: Ideally you should have speakers that are "timbre-matched," meaning they have the same sonic signature. This is what you have with the MCS160 speaker setup. As you have noted, the speakers are very small and as a result the midrange will likely sound noticeably thinner than the Advents. It is worth trying the Advents up front to see if you like them better. The difference will be most noticeable with music.
Place the Advents an equal distance from each side of the TV, so if the right speaker is 2 feet from the TV, place the left speaker 2 feet from the other side. Go to the receiver's audio setup menu and set the center speaker to the "none" or "phantom" position. This will take the center channel information and mix it equally in the left and right speakers, creating a virtual center speaker that sounds as if it is coming from the center of the screen.
This usually sounds better than using a mismatched center speaker, which can stand out like a sore thumb across the front stage. You can get away with different surround speakers a lot easier than a different center channel.
It seems you like your Advents, and they are unlikely to fetch much on Craigslist. If you stay with the small home theater speakers, why not go to Craigslist and find a nice stereo receiver for $25 and use them in a music-only system somewhere else in your home?
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The D-Link SharePort Go II was one of the neatest products I saw at the Consumer Electronics Show. Traveling tablet users will love the way it combines several essential functions into a package about the size of an iPhone and that weighs 8 ounces. It is simple, elegant and affordable at $119.99.
The SharePort Go II can turn a wired Internet connection into a secure Wi-Fi hot spot. My Las Vegas hotel offered free wired Internet but charged for Wi-Fi, so I realized how useful that can be as the wired-only connection kept me from using my tablet for Web surfing or playing online games as I relaxed in bed. It can also take an existing Wi-Fi hot spot and expand it to connect all your mobile devices.
The SharePort Go II has an SD Card slot that can be used to wirelessly stream content to your mobile device. A USB port allows you to add up to 250 GB of storage, and a built-in 4000 mAh battery not only powers the SharePort Go II, but can be used to recharge your devices. So, in one compact package you get a device that creates Wi-Fi hot spots, wirelessly transfers media from SD cards, adds storage and can even recharge your iPad or other mobile device. The D-Link SharePort Go II will be available in April.
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Fortunately though, nobody needs to spend much time worrying about Cottonmouth nests. They don't exist.
A nest is an area or structure where an animal lays its eggs or raises its young. Cottonmouths give birth to live young so they don't need nests to hold eggs. And, Cottonmouths don't take care of their young after they are born, so they don't need a nest for that either.
So, what is the origin of this myth? Perhaps the simplest explanation is that someone noticed a number of baby Cottonmouths shortly after they had been born. In those early moments, the little snakes were probably still clumped together; perhaps mom was there too. But, before long, all snakes would head their separate ways.
Another potential explanation is that what some may think is a nest of Cottonmouths is actually a breeding congregation of non-venomous water snakes. When a receptive female water snake is in the area, she may attract several males, which tend to be much smaller. The competition and confusion of this rendezvous may make it appear as one of the fabled Cottonmouth nests of lore.
Cottonmouths are opportunistic predators, they will eat just about anything and are happy to take advantage of situations that make their prey easier to catch. Due to their close association with wetland habitats and their tendency to prey heavily on fish, they may congregate around ponds as they shrink in size during droughts. In these rapidly shrinking puddles of water, it may appear as though there are very high densities of Cottonmouths in small areas. I've suggested this occurrence may explain the myth of Cottonmouth breeding balls, but perhaps it could also explain the myth of Cottonmouth nests.
I believe I'm running out of Cottonmouth myths to debunk…Have I forgotten any?
This isn't the first time I've written about Cottonmouths. For a discussion of Cottonmouths allegedly dropping into boats, click here. Or, to read about breeding balls, click here. To learn about where in the world you can find Cottonmouths, and where you can't, click here. Worried about getting chased down by one of these snakes? Then you need to read this. Not concerned about being bitten by a Cottonmouth in the water? You should be.
I wrote about how these snakes are quick to show up when a lot of toads (= food) appear here. I've also written about accompanying Cottonmouth researchers as they wade through swamps to catch snakes in the spring as the reptiles try to take advantage of the new warmth and at night in the summer as the venomous snakes swam around me. Finally, I provide some tips on recognizing Cottonmouths from non-venomous watersnakes here.


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Cole included as Hodgson rings changes
Ashley Cole has been handed his 99th England cap for Tuesday night's World Cup qualifier against Poland in Warsaw.
As expected, manager Roy Hodgson made sweeping changes to his starting line-up, with six of the side that beat San Marino last Friday losing their places, including two-goal Danny Welbeck.
Cole's return was significant because it was the first time he had been chosen since the Twitter storm erupted 11 days ago that led to the Chelsea man being charged with misconduct and forced him to apologise to Football Association chairman David Bernstein.
The 31-year-old is part of a much-changed defence, with Glen Johnson returning from suspension and Joleon Lescott chosen to partner former Everton team-mate Phil Jagielka in central defence.
Skipper Steven Gerrard is also back after serving a one-match ban, and he too is making his 99th England appearance.
Jermain Defoe has edged out Welbeck for the right to partner Wayne Rooney, having done so well in the striking role during the first two games of England's World Cup qualification campaign.
Although Hodgson has opted for the added insurance of James Milner on the right after selecting Michael Carrick to partner Gerrard in central midfield, Manchester United midfielder Tom Cleverley retains his ever-present record this term, with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain the man to stand down.


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Former provost donates $300K to Liberal Arts
Stanley McKenzie, provost emeritus and literature professor at RIT, has pledged $300,000 to the College of Liberal Arts that will help the college make significant strides in two ways.
The Stan McKenzie Salon Endowed Fund will allow faculty, staff and students to gather to discuss research and current events, provide an honorarium to featured speakers, help with event marketing and provide released time for up to one course for a faculty coordinator each academic year.
Extensive renovations will create The Stan McKenzie Commons to "provide a comfortable, intellectual and social environment for faculty, staff and students." The renovation will include new equipment, furniture, technology upgrades and hospitality services, as well as renovations to the entrances and exits to the College of Liberal Arts building.


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New SHOWTIME Pilot to Begin Production in 2012
LOS ANGELES, CA (December 5th, 2011) - Multitalented actor Liev Schreiber has been cast in the title role in the SHOWTIME pilot RAY DONOVAN, a drama set in Hollywood, California. Production will begin in Los Angeles in early 2012. RAY DONOVAN is a SHOWTIME production and is created by Southland creator Ann Biderman. Biderman, Mark Gordon and Bryan Zuriff will executive produce.
Ray Donovan is Hollywood's best professional "fixer." He's the one called in to solve the complicated, confidential and controversial problems of the city's elite. He can make anyone's problem disappear, except the ones created by his own family. The series, which has comedic undertones, will take a novelistic look at contemporary Los Angeles.
Considered one of the finest actors of his generation, Liev Schreiber's repertoire of resonant, humanistic and oftentimes gritty portrayals have garnered him praise in film, theatre and television. Schreiber recently completed production on P.J. Hogan's comedy Mental alongside Toni Collette and will next star in Mira Nair's thriller The Reluctant Fundamentalist opposite Kate Hudson and Kiefer Sutherland. Schreiber will also be seen in Goon with Jay Baruchel and Seann William Scott.
Schreiber's many feature credits include Salt with Angelina Jolie; X-Men Origins: Wolverine; Defiance with Daniel Craig; Repo Men; The Painted Veil; The Manchurian Candidate opposite Meryl Streep and Denzel Washington; The Sum of All Fears; Ang Lee's Taking Woodstock; Kate & Leopold; Every Day; Michael Almereyda's Hamlet; Spring Forward; The Hurricane; A Walk on the Moon with Diane Lane; The Daytrippers; Nora Ephron's Mixed Nuts; and Wes Craven's Scream trilogy.
His portrayal of Orson Welles in Benjamin Ross' "RKO 281" brought Schreiber Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominations. His other telefilm credits include George C. Wolfe's "Lackawanna Blues" and John Erman's "The Sunshine Boys", opposite Woody Allen and Peter Falk. As one of the documentary medium's foremost narrators, he has lent his voice to such works as "Mantle", ":03 from Gold", "A City on Fire: The Story of the '68 Detroit Tigers", "Nova", and "Nature".
Last year, Schreiber received his third Tony nomination for his role in Arthur Miller's "A View from the Bridge" alongside Scarlett Johansson. His performance as Ricky Roma in the 2005 Broadway revival of David Mamet's "Glengarry Glen Ross", directed by Joe Mantello, earned him his first Tony Award. He was again a Tony nominee for his portrayal of Barry Champlain in the 2007 Broadway revival of Eric Bogosian's "Talk Radio", directed by Robert Falls, Other stage work includes the Public Theater's Shakespeare in the Park production of "Macbeth", in the lead role opposite Jennifer Ehle, directed by Mois�s Kaufman; "Iago"; "Hamlet"; "Henry the V"; and "Cymbeline".
In 2005, Schreiber made his feature directorial debut with Everything is Illuminated, which he also adapted from Jonathan Safran Foer's best-selling novel of the same name. The film, starring Elijah Wood and Eugene Hutz, was named one of the year's 10 Best by the National Board of Review.


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Your editorial, "Food stamps have evolved into farm bill Frankenstein," (July 11) grossly misstates both the number of people receiving SNAP benefits (food stamps) in the U.S., and the ratio of people receiving SNAP to those working in the private sector. The editorial stated that 101 million people receive SNAP, and that this figure is more than the number of workers in the entire private sector of the economy. According to the latest USDA data (from April 2013), 47.5 million people receive SNAP, less than half the number cited in the editorial. And according to the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics, in June 2013 there were 114 million people working in the private sector, well over twice the number on SNAP.
The Eagle should correct its statements. The SNAP program is an essential nutritional support for needy Americans, and it is not breaking the bank.
Editor's note: The editorial was incorrect. It should have stated there are 101 million recipients of food stamps and other forms of federally subsidized food assistance, including WIC, Head Start and school meal programs.


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July 25, 2012
After spending a day with her two young sons at Disneyland, Sheryl Crow delivered a solid, if unremarkable concert at Pac Amp on July 25.
Don't assume that's a backhanded compliment, because while I've seen a long list of better shows, the fact a svelte 50-year-old breast cancer survivor and single mother of two with meningioma – whether she's rich or not – delivered as musically sharp and entertaining a performance as she did should make many of us feel like the lazy asses we are.
Crow crafted a 15-song set that seemed well catered to the county fair audience and routine time restrictions at the venue. It was a breezy tour of her greatest hits with a new song from her currently unfinished album and her contribution to the Pixar movie, Cars, thrown in. All of it washed over just fine with the mostly female 30-somethings to 50-somethings who sang along virtually the entire show and left with big smiles.
Leaning almost entirely on her first three albums, it seemed at several points Crow really wanted to stretch out musically. A few extra bars here. A deep album cut there. She must have wanted to promote her last few albums too. It's unlikely the multi-instrumentalist and gifted singer gets to do that very often, but to her credit, Crow shows none of the contempt for her audience that Pat Benatar has demonstrated for decades.
Opening with "Steve McQueen," before jumping right into "All I Wanna Do" gave the show momentum. But "Members Only," in the first half of the set and "Home" in the second, were nice surprises and as close to the aforementioned stretch the evening got.
One of Crow's biggest hits, the Cat Stevens' cover "The First Cut is the Deepest," got the first big sing-along of the night, followed late in the set by the girl-power anthem "If It Makes You Happy." But the evening's highlight was "Strong Enough," the poignant ballad from her debut album Tuesday Night Music Club. Crow has publicly weathered her share of romance and as the women in the audience kept with her on every syllable, the moment of sisterhood was made complete.
Yes, you'll see more exciting performances, but not many that go down this easily. And sometimes, you just have to relax and let well-made pop music wash over you on a pleasant summer evening, pretty much like Crow directed in her closer "Everyday Is a Winding Road." Basically the lesson here: "Jump in let's go/lay back enjoy the show."


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After a recent user group presentation I was asked what advice I had for developers looking to break into the business. The result was the brain dump below. For some reason I'm a huge fan of bulleted lists, so below is my advice in bulleted form. The first two are really all you need. The rest are just icing.
- Find a mentor What we do is a craft, and the best (quickest, at least) way to go from layman to craftsman is to go through an apprenticeship.
- Focus on the "why", not the "how" There are many ways to skin a cat, but the biggest question is: what are you hoping to accomplish by skinning the cat? Our craft is filled with subtlety, nuance, and often strong opinions. The goal is to create working, useful software and the tools we use to do that are often different with each scenario. Thus, the best answer to "how should I do this?" is "It depends."
- You might want to be an "ASP.NET developer", but ASP.NET and even .NET as a whole are just a piece of the larger development world. Languages and syntax are not universal, but fundamental concepts and techniques are. When you know the fundamentals you can apply them to quickly grasp any new technology or concept.
- Soak in as many blogs and podcasts as you can Working physically alongside a mentor cannot be beat. But, if you are trying to "break in to the business" it is often not a viable option. In lieu of face-to-face collaboration, go to the web! Online tutorials and API documentation tells you the how, but blogs and podcasts usually offer far more insight into the why. Find as many blogs and podcasts as you can and immerse yourself in them. Here are a few that I love:
- Code, code, code! Focus on the why all you want - it's useless without the how! You need to learn languages and frameworks and - like spoken languages - the best way to learn them is to use them... over and over. Until your fingers hurt.
- Find all the tutorials you can and run through them (considering the why along the way)
- Make up your own projects and complete them. Try to come up with things that resemble "real world scenarios"
- Browse the source of open source projects and see how they do things (this is a tactical twist on the "mentor" concept).
- Commit to an open source project! Not only will this force you to figure out how to write the code, most open source project coordinators will give you a "free" code review to boot. (Hey, that sounds almost like in-person mentoring!)
Software development can be fun, exciting, and very rewarding (in many ways), but in order to get the most out of it, you have to put the time in to learn the craft.
Good luck, and happy coding!


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As I absorb the afterglow of my first race and look forward to the next one, I wanted to share a few things that I learned from the experience. Here are eight nuggets that I will take with me as I compete in more SUP races in the future.
8. Learn from the best. It was awesome jumping in with Dan Gavere's clinic the day before the race. His concepts really got the juices flowing in my head and got me fired up for the race.
7. If possible, paddle the racecourse before the event. Picking landmarks was definitely very helpful for pacing and gauging how hard to push.
6. After they announce <1 minute, be ready to go. Focus in once you get that warning- the gun could come at any time, and it surprised me a bit.
5. Practice all types of starts. I won't sugarcoat it- I ATE SHIT at the start. It was a beach start, and I was trying to run as far into the water as I could before jumping on the board. Well, needless to say I tripped and found myself in the drink two seconds after the race started! Hopefully someone got video of it. I will be practicing this maneuver in the future…
4. Bring hydration/sugars for 1+ hour races. I debated bringing my Camelbak or not, but in the end I was glad that I had Gatorade for lap two of the seven mile course.
3. Layer properly. It was cold (35 degrees) the morning of the race, but it was obvious that the sun was quickly warming things up. I passed quite a few paddlers simply because they were fiddling around with shedding wetsuits and other layers. I wore street clothes over my race attire until the last second to stay warm beforehand.
2. Show some modesty. As you can see from the 12'6 Elite podium photo (the first photo in the gallery below), maybe I should have toned down the stoke a bit up there…
1. Enjoy yourself! The SUP community is an extremely welcoming and friendly place, and people were even saying hello as we raced. I can't wait to meet more of the crew. —Chris Gragtmans
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By Cody Willard
How many markets can you name that will double and triple in size in the next three to four years? How many multibillion dollar markets can you name that will grow like that? How many markets tap into what will eventually address two to three billion customers?
Whatever else you do with your investments, get into apps. Right now.
In searching for the best app stocks, I realized that I needed a map of which companies are doing what. So I broke down the app ecosystem into eight different categories and started analyzing every single stock that's got big exposure to the App Revolution right now. And then I assigned each stock a rating on a scale of 1 to 10
The resulting 56 page report is now called "Cody Willard's 50 Stocks for the App Revolution" and it has helped me understand how we should be positioning the part of our Revolution Investing model portfolio that we've allocated to the this incredible market place. I'm offering the report to the public for $79 at http://AppRevolutionStocks.com or as an eBook for your Kindle or iPhone at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/31192. Or you can sign up for my weekly Revolution Investing newsletter and I'll send you one section of the report per week and then the whole report when complete your one month trial.
My former mentor and old friend Jim Cramer himself wrote about the me and the report for his twitter followers last week saying:
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Willard gets the App Store revolution that I have talked about…
Here's the Oracle write up from that report:
Company: ORCL – Oracle Corporation
Summary: Oracle Corporation develops, manufactures and markets middleware software, application software and hardware systems worldwide.
Balance Sheet: Cash and Cash Equivalents: 9.9 B
Short Term Investments: 8.5 B
Long term Investments: –0
Total Cash: 18.4 B
Total Debt: 11.5 B
Net Cash: 6.9 B
Outstanding Shares: 5 B
Net Cash / Share: 1.38
Share Price: 28
Enterprise Value / Share: 26.6
Total Market Cap: 141 B
Enterprise Value: 134 B
2012 Sales Growth: 6.9%
2012 Earnings Estimate: 2.19
Enterprise Value Multiple: 12 Times Forward Earnings
Dividend & Yield: .20 (.7%)
The story here is Oracle's new software/hardware combination of offerings, Exalogic and Exadata, which help corporations, media companies, banks and just about every other thing that will run apps work. And Exalogic and Exadata are catching huge traction, as the incredible leap in efficiency in running any kind of data-crunching intensive information makes these puppies pay themselves within months.
Oracle's long-been out strategizing its major competitors and the open source world by locking-in customers with proprietary offerings and creating de facto standard platforms with its software, but the brilliance of buying Sun Micro on the cheap with its huge net cash balance was pretty awesome. I just wish they'd stop wasting shareholder value by buying billions of dollars of their own shares and would up the dividend to a 3% plus yield.
Not as cheap as it could be right now, at 12x forward earnings, but in ten years I think it's a pretty good bet that Oracle will be higher than it is today.
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In the report, I give you some of my trademarked cut-throat Revolution Investing analysis including some history of the company, how it's trying to position itself for the app revolution and how much I like or dislike the investment prospects for that company.
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That little peaceful town by the sea — Port Hueneme — manages more than its share of news. And guess what? It's about to explode in the headlines again.
To review 2012's tumultuous year; Port Hueneme fired its city manager, who lost a power struggle with the police chief, who later lost a power struggle with the interim city manager (who replaced the guy she got fired) over who got to carry a gun. You can't make this stuff up.
The interim city manager is the former city manager of a few years back — Dick Velthoen. For the geographically challenged, the city of Port Hueneme is adjacent to the Port of Hueneme. They are separate agencies that, for the most part, coexist peacefully but quite separately. The city officials don't know how to run a port and the port does not know how to run a city. The peace is kept by a million-dollar payment the port pays to the city every year for wear and tear on the roads caused by the trucks that leave the port.
The amount of money the port pays is determined by an old formula that was negotiated decades ago and is generally renewed with little grumbling. But back in his day at the helm, Velthoen screamed about the payment and claimed it was not enough. He also claimed the port was getting more money at its end but not paying any more to the city. No one was happier than the port when Velthoen retired.
But now that he is back, guess what issue is back on the table? Velthoen wants to revisit the formula for the payment. What's different this time is the port leadership. While Velthoen has a fairly similar council, the port has new commissioners and a new executive director. Kristin Decas is very capable and well-regarded in the business community for her level head and business skills. Velthoen never played nice with others and is known for his confrontational, blustery manner of negotiation. Stay tuned.
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA--(Marketwire - March 3, 2013) - HELI-EXPO - Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC) has launched Automatic Power Assurance Check (APAC) to run on its FAST™ (Flight data Acquisition Storage and Transmission System) engine diagnostic solution for P&WC-powered helicopters. APAC will give operators an end-to-end application for managing all helicopter engine performance data. The announcement was made during the Helicopter Association International (HAI) HELI-EXPO in Las Vegas, Nev. P&WC is a United Technologies Corporation company (NYSE:UTX).
FAST™ measures the engine's performance parameters, automatically calculates the power assurance check and makes the information available to the pilot. At the end of every mission, the diagnostic, trend and power assurance data is sent wirelessly to an appointed Designated Analysis Centre (DAC) that uses WebECTM™ for trending and notification of the engine's performance. This will eliminate the need for manual power assurance checks and manual data downloads saving both time and money. Customers can also choose where and how they wish to be notified of their engine's performance data.
"Because FAST™ integrates all performance metrics into a single hardware and software solution it has considerable appeal in the helicopter industry," said Raffaele Virgili, Vice-President, Customer Service, P&WC.
"With FAST™, operators can predictively plan their maintenance sessions. Because the system provides early detection, preventive maintenance can be conducted without affecting dispatch availability. It also provides timely post-flight event review, which enables determination of an aircraft's immediate availability."
The FAST™ system is optimized to work with WebECTM™, used by the designated analysis centres to provide a complete hands-off end-to-end solution, from acquisition to automated and data-analysis triggered event alerts, monthly reports or easy web access to the data and analysis. WebECTM™ is the only tool that uses P&WC-provided analytical equations and processes that are optimized for P&WC's engines.
FAST™ is unique in that it goes beyond traditional diagnostics, prognostics and trend monitoring; the product can also acquire, store and transmit data from the Flight Data Recorder thus allowing for customer review of full-flight helicopter flight data monitoring. This represents a competitive advantage for operators of helicopters powered by P&WC engines.
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Come and see us at HELI-EXPO, booth N3718: Interested operators are invited to drop by P&WC's booth to speak with a customer service representative.
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Just letting you know I'm working on getting Duke shipped to you. My sister and I are making arrangements today with Delta, I will email you later this afternoon with the prices before I actually finalize everything. She has shipped dogs in the past and knows just what to do. I will purchase an airline approved crate with the gift certificates that "Angie" has given me over the past year for our Pits. She thought I was using them on our pits, but instead I saved them for her Pit I just wanted to keep you informed. Thanks
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Vegas Odds: Season Edition Vol. 1Posted by rtmsf on December 16th, 2008
John Stevens is a featured columnist for RTC. His columns appear on Tuesdays throughout the season.
It seems like we're still feeling things out, getting our bearings, and getting to know some teams in this college basketball season, but believe it or not we are one-third through the 2008-09 campaign. Pretty soon it'll be the Christmas-time tournaments and then conference play, at which point the season seems to accelerate until we get to those beautiful, life-affirming days of the conference tournaments, Championship Week, and the NCAA Tournament. I was browsing through some of the pre-season columns here on RTC and came across this one that talked about how the fair, wonderful, and beautiful people in Las Vegas saw the season shaping up. Specifically, there's a pretty sweet table listing every Division One squad with even the most remote chance of winning the 2009 title, and the money line they were offering for each team.
(Note: My sentiments above regarding the gambling gods in Las Vegas have nothing to do with the fact that the yearly RTC Vegas field trip is coming up in March. I think those things are true, no matter what. Wonderful, good-looking people they are, all of them. Every one. God bless them. Seriously…)
Now, in case you don't know how a money line works, here's the deal. Let's say you go to a casino in Las Vegas and look up at the big board at the sportsbook and you see something that says North Carolina +300. This means that if you think UNC will win the title in 2009, you walk up to the incredibly nice man at the front of the sportsbook and tell him you want to make that bet. +300 means that if you bet $100 and UNC wins, the man will give you back $400, meaning the $300 offered in the money line, and your $100 bet (minus a small commission). Often, you'll see a negative number next to a team, like (and I'm just throwing this name out) Fordham –200. This means that if you bet $200 to win (money lines can be applied to single games, conference titles, national championships, whatever) on Fordham, and Fordham wins, the nice man will hand you back $300 – the $200 you bet, and the $100 offered on that money line. A positive number means that's how much you'll win if you bet $100. A negative number means that's what you have to bet in order to WIN $100. And of course you can bet as much as you want up to the maximum, i.e. with UNC above, you can bet $10 and win $30, or you can bet $500 and win $1500.
The original article covered pretty much everything noteworthy about the accompanying preseason table, but a couple of other items stood out to me. First of all, the very top. Everyone knew how great UNC was going to be, but here's Vegas, telling us that they're willing to give us FOUR TIMES our money if we have the so-called guts to put some cash down on what might end up being one of the all-time great college teams. Yeah, that sound you're hearing right now? That's me kicking myself. And without recapping the whole original article – who wouldn't take a shot on Louisville and Connecticut (+1200 and 1400?!?)? I also literally get dizzy and have to sit down when I see Pitt (+2000), Oklahoma (+3500), Gonzaga (+4000!!), and a pretty doggone hot and versatile Wake Forest team (offered at an abominable +8000). Hey, Cincinnati readers, you looking for Xavier? They're not even listed. You'd have to have your bet cheapened by taking the entire field at +1200.
But of course this is all with benefit of hindsight. I had this information in the preseason just like everyone else and I just sat on it. So the question becomes, where are we now? What is Vegas offering? Is there any value comparable to what we could have had in the preseason? Well, wonder no more, my friends. Here's the latest:
Vegas is still willing to almost triple your money with a bet on UNC, offering +175, claiming there's a 36.4% chance that they'll be raising the trophy in early April. It looks like they've woke up to Gonzaga and Tennessee as well, despite recent losses, but certainly not enough to put anyone off such a wager. But look at Louisville – true, they have a couple of things to iron out but that loss to Western Kentucky is far enough back in the rearview mirror, and since his days at Providence Rick Pitino has been the best in the business as far as 1) "learning" about his team from losses, and 2) getting his teams, and specifically the defense they play, to peak in March. Are you telling me that if one of your friends came up to you right now and said, "Give me $10 right now. If Louisville wins the title, I'll hand you back $150," you wouldn't take that bet?
Obviously the story here is that, because of the sheer dominance of North Carolina and the way they've just eclipsed the entire college basketball landscape, most of the tremendous value that was on the board back in November is still there even a third of the way into the season. For some teams it's come back a little (UConn, Oklahoma) but it's still pretty inviting. For other squads you can get even better deals than back in November (Louisville, Texas, Kansas, Pitt), and you have the Tar Heels to thank for that. I mean, come on — they still don't even bother to list #7 Xavier. Vegas is telling us here that any bet against UNC is basically a sucker bet. They might be right. But they're certainly willing to reward you like crazy if you feel adventurous enough to bet against the Tar Heels, should they falter.


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