As a club member, we invite you to attend the 87th Annual Far West Ski Association Convention scheduled for June 13-16, 2019 at the fabulous Hyatt Regency Indian Wells Resort & Spa, hosted by the Orange Council of Ski Clubs, with volunteer support from the Los Angeles Council of Ski Clubs. This year's theme is Fun in the "OC" Sun.
The Hyatt Regency is a real oasis in the desert. Spacious rooms provide the ultimate luxury in accommodations, and there are five dining options to choose from on the property. There are two championship golf courses, seven swimming pools, three hard-surface tennis courts and a 24-hour Fitness Center which includes complimentary classes. Bicycles are even available on a complimentary basis for a relaxing ride. Take the opportunity to come early and stay late for a once-in-a-lifetime group rate at this world renowned Resort and Spa.
This year's activities will highlight the greater Palm Springs community, with a visit to the Palm Springs Air Museum and a Legends & Icons Home Tour on Thursday. Our traditional Get Your Party On Pub Crawl Thursday Evening features a visit to the iconic "Street Fair" in downtown Palm Springs. Friday's optional Events include the 13th Annual Michael German Memorial Golf Tournament, a ride on the San Jacinto Tram and a Spa Day at Agua Serena Spa, followed by a private Pool Party at the Hyatt hosted by the Central Council of California.
Friday evening will kick off with the Club Happy Hour with snacks, followed by a Welcome Party with a hosted drink, and the 34th Annual Silent Auction and Snowsports Trade Show. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the United States Adaptive Recreation Program (USARC) at Bear Mountain. The event features over $85,000 in snowsports and adventure trips up for bid. Dancing to the tunes of Victor Cannon of Can Do Productions will be featured throughout the evening.
We are conducting 3 Snowsports Leadership Academy sessions again this year, with snowsport, leadership and club educational topics, Public Affairs Panels with Forest Service personnel and celebrity guests, and a Racing Seminar. Module presentations include club liability and insurance, planning and executing a successful ski trip, and how to overcome objections to build your membership and leadership pipeline in your club and council. Facilitators include an impressive list of experts in their designated fields. Special guests will include Billy Kidd, Olympic Silver Medalist and host for the FWSA's 2019 Ski Week to Steamboat, Colorado.
Saturday evening will be amazing. Enjoy dinner and dancing to DJ Victor Cannon, with FWSA friends and industry partners. The theme for the evening's event is Swing and Sway in the Desert Breeze. Sunday's agenda includes the FWSA's annual business meeting with election of officers, and presentations of charity, club and council awards.
For complete details regarding all Convention activities and to make your room reservations and registration, please visit www.fwsa.org. You can also contact Debbi Kor, FWSA Convention Chair, fwsadebbi@comcast.net or Sheila Van Guilder, Orange Council President and Convention Coordinator at svanguil@yahoo.com.
We have many sponsors for this Convention, which will be full of many fun and educational events. This one will provide you with memories of new adventures! It's time to visit the Palm Spring and take in all that the desert community has to offer! This Convention will be one not to be missed. Come and join the fun!
✶ President: Head of the Council Executive Board; represents NWSCC at Far West Ski Association board meetings and at National Ski Council Federation meetings.
✶ Vice President: Assumes duties of the president when needed and handles other duties as assigned.
✶ Treasurer: Responsibility for Council financials. Experience with bookkeeping software and GAAP necessary.
✶ Secretary: Records Council minutes and correspondence as needed; keeps corporate records.
Time involved: Scheduled Council meetings; a monthly board meeting; other duties as assigned or as you volunteer to work on.
Current candidates who have announced they are running for election are: President, Christine Ciardi; Vice President, Sue Rimkeit; Secretary, Jeanne Reinhardt; Treasurer, Bill King; at-large director positions (2 will be elected): Linda McGavin. Nominees are welcome to run for any position!
If interested in running for election to the NWSCC board, please contact Barbara Bousum at Trips@nwskiers.org for more information or to put your name on the ballot. We need your input and support, and want YOU to consider serving on the Board!
If you are interested in running for a PACRAT Board position for 2019-2020, please contact Peter Dodd at president@pacrats.org. Please provide information on what position you would like to run for and why you are interested in doing so. He will be assembling the ballot. You will need to be at the meeting to say a few words about why you'd like to run and what you plan to do, or have someone else show up and speak on your behalf.
PLEASE PASS THIS INFORMATION ON TO YOUR FELLOW CLUB MEMBERS.
On January 30, 2019 the Outdoor Industry Association (OIA), Snowsports Industries America (SIA), and National Ski Areas Association (NSAA) announced the formation of the "Outdoor Business Climate Partnership" to provide leadership on climate change. Leaders of seven state and regional ski area trade associations including the Pacific Northwest Ski Areas Association, Colorado Ski Country USA, Ski Utah, Ski California, Ski Vermont, Ski Areas of New York, and Ski New Mexico have also joined.
The "Outdoor Business Climate Partnership" is committed to providing leadership and advocacy for climate solutions across the country. The announcement was followed on February 20th, 2019 with a press release from the resorts on Mt. Hood, OR, to support federal and Oregon state legislation designed to limit our country's greenhouse gas emissions. The Pacific Northwest Ski Areas Association followed this announcement with a press release in support of federal, Oregon and Washington legislation concerning climate change.
The members of Northwest Ski Club Council (NWSCC) are concerned that climate change will affect the future operations of our ski areas. NWSCC applauds the recent actions of the members of our industry to provide leadership on climate change and we support policies to combat it. Our Council would like to be an active partner in the common goal of addressing the critical issues concerning climate change.
1. We support S. 3791/H.R. 763, the Federal Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act of 2019. This Act stands out with its market-based approach to meeting aggressive emissions reductions targets while providing citizens with a dividend. The federal legislation is bipartisan, embodying an American ideal of working together to find common solutions that are effective and long-lasting.
2. We support the basic framework of Oregon House Bill 2020 which creates an Oregon Carbon Policy Office to administer the Oregon Climate Action Program. This Act would adopt an economy-wide "cap and invest" system to regulate greenhouse gas emissions in Oregon.
3. We support the Washington House and Senate Bills H.R. 1211 and S.B. 5116 which enhance the transition of Washington's clean energy economy to a clean, affordable and reliable energy future.
Even though aspects of Oregon and Washington legislation will change during the legislative process we encourage our Oregon and Washington representatives to adopt meaningful legislation this session.
NWSCC is a non-profit association in its 40th year representing 10,000 members of 25 ski and snowboard clubs and 13 charitable associations in Oregon, Washington and Hawaii. Our clubs offer a wide variety of snowport activities including recreational alpine ski racing, ski trips, and many year-round sports and social activities. We are active supporters of many on mountain charitable causes and provide scholarships for junior ski racers with hopes to participate in a future Olympics. NWSCC is a member of the Far West Ski Association which represents 50,000 skiers in 12 western states and also a member of the National Ski Council Federation which represents 300,0000 snowsport enthusiasts nationwide.
The annual FWSA convention includes the opportunity for your club to be recognized with several awards competitions. In addition, there are special annual awards which include valuable prizes, such as ski trips for two people to the sponsoring ski areas! We would like to see MANY of our clubs entering the awards competitions and sending their members to Convention. There are no opportunities quite like this for your club to gain recognition for its accomplishments!
The Outstanding Club application was streamlined last year to eliminate some redundant criteria. Your club will be judged against other clubs of the same size throughout FWSA, and it is really fun to WIN! If your editors and webmasters would like to view last year's winning entries, they can see the winners on the FWSA website and google the clubs to see their websites and newsletters. Submitters should also look at the scoring criteria attached and online to see how content will be judged.
Your club can also enter the "Club & Council Historical Recognition" Program with a history of your club - potential museum or library reference resources!
Is your club active in community service or charitable activities? Then enter the "Charities and Our Community Service Recognition" program for the chance to be one of 3 clubs to receive checks to be donated to the charity of your choice!
Individual awards (with prizes!) that are well worth entering are for the following: THE DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MARCH 31 FOR THE FOLLOWING THREE AWARDS ONLY!
Western Ski Heritage Award: The purpose of the Far West Western Ski Heritage program is to raise the awareness of skiers and non-skiers alike of the contributions made by individuals, groups, or companies to all aspects of skiing – competitive as well as outdoor winter recreation and fitness. A parallel purpose of this award is to convey the positive role skiing has had in its contributions to the communities in the West. The prize is open to an individual or a group leader (not restricted to FWSA members) and can be self-nominated or nominated by a club or club member. Prize is awarded on basis of a history product or a work in progress. Sponsored by Steamboat Ski & Resort Corporation since 2000 – the winner is awarded a five-day ski package for two in Steamboat with lodging, lift tickets, rentals, lesson, lunch, and more!
Safety Person of The Year Award: This yearly award honors the person who has done the most to promote safety consciousness within the association. This can be done through a variety of methods including safety articles, on-mountain activities, presentations, public speaking, working ski patrol, creating posters or banners, and many other activities. Sponsored by Telluride Ski Resort & Mountain Lodge Telluride – the winner is awarded a five-day ski package for two in Telluride with lodging, lift tickets, and rentals.
Environment Award: From Fran Long, Chairperson of this award: This is a wonderful award that has had very little response over the past couple of years. Please encourage your clubs to apply for the award even if their idea doesn't exactly fit the criteria. Aspen/Snowmass and I can provide coaching to the applicant to help them refine their idea/program. See this information for ideas.
The Environment Award is designed to encourage good stewardship of our environment. We want to inspire and reward creative efforts to conserve and protect our environment. This award should recognize a special action that the applicant took, or something he or she put in place that made a difference. Some areas to consider are: Volunteering at the community level – particularly in some leadership role; conducting or arranging for an environmental oriented event(s) – either for club, council or public; writing a series of columns regarding environmental conservation, education or protection in your ski club or council newsletters; being proactive in environment protection. Sponsored by Aspen/Snowmass, The Gant, and The Crestwood – the winner is awarded a 5-day ski package for two in Aspen/Snowmass with lodging split between The Gant in Aspen and The Crestwood Condominium Hotel in Snowmass, including lift tickets, rentals, and group lesson.
Bend, OR – With massive back to back winter storms blanketing the region in as much as 2-4+ feet of snow, skiers and riders are enjoying some of the best powder turns in recent memory. With more snow predicted for later this week, the snow suffocation hazard is high. Snow Immersion Suffocation (SIS) is not typically on the forefront of our recreational mindset when we head up to the regions many winter sports facilities or back country, but the danger is very real.
• Snow Immersion happens when a skier or boarder falls head–first into a tree well or deep loose snow.
• A tree well is the void around the base of a fir tree containing a mix of low hanging branches, loose snow, and air — treat all tree wells as dangerous.
• In an inverted position you can become trapped under the snow. It is extremely difficult to get out without the help of others.
• Breathing becomes difficult as the loose snow packs in around you. Without immediate help from your partner, you may suffocate.
All winter sports enthusiasts are advised to be educated on the risks involved with these snow conditions. www.deepsnowsafety.org is a recommended resource that all skiers and riders should utilize. Skiing and snowboarding with a friend is a best practice, always keeping your partner in sight.
The Pacific Northwest Ski Areas Association is a non-profit trade association, which represents the interests of 36 ski and snowboard facilities located in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and California. The Association's member ski areas – most of which operate on public land – collectively host an estimated 6 million visits annually. For additional information on Pacific Northwest skiing and snowboarding, contact the PNSAA office at (877) 533-5520, or visit www.pnsaa.org to link to the website of your favorite mountain.
La Conner, WA – On the heels of another great season in 2017-2018, PNSAA resorts have had a busy off-season preparing for the upcoming winter including new lift installations, expanded snowmaking systems, 'tuning up' ski lifts, new and remodeled lodges, summer brush cutting/grooming on runs, new rental equipment, and creating a compelling array of learning programs. With the 2018-2019 winter season fast approaching, following are highlights of what's new at the region's resorts.
Mt Ashland: improved and expanded glade skiing, new and exciting terrain park features, learning center improvements, Wi-Fi on the mountain, as well as several new LIVE webcams, and the final touches of a $1.7 million-dollar lodge renovation that was started last year. Also offering an enhanced shuttle schedule will provide convenience and a reduced carbon footprint for all guests.
Mt Hood Skibowl: has added the "SnoFlake Machine", an all-weather snowmaking system which allows snowmaking above freezing temperatures. The resort's Westside parking lot has been expanded and widened, increasing capacity by 150 parking spaces. Travel lanes are also larger, making it much easier for guests to navigate in the parking lot.
Crystal Mountain: was acquired by Alterra Mountain Company as of October 1st, 2018. Alterra owns 14 year-round mountain destinations throughout North America. Crystal Mountain Resort is available on the Ikon Pass for winter 2018/2019. During the summer snowmaking was added on Arwine's, the Burn, Lower Bull, and Lower Deer Fly trails for a total of 16 more permanent Super Puma Fan Guns, 5 more hydrant pedestals location bringing a total of 53 guns and 116 acres of snowmaking.
Stevens Pass Mountain Resort: was purchased by Vail Resorts, Inc. (NYSE: MTN). Stevens Pass is the Company's second resort in the Pacific Northwest and is part of Epic Pass with access to the twelve North American resorts of Vail Resorts.
49 Degrees North: has expanded snowmaking to improve early and late season conditions. The expansion is part of a phased project that will see continued additional snowmaking improvement in future years. New haul rope for the West Basin Chair 4 Lift is 10,600 feet of 1 ¼" wire rope. The lift accesses Tamarack glades - Stockholder, Cy's Glades, Bakken and others.
Bogus Basin: spent $5.7 million installing a new automated snowmaking system providing top to bottom coverage on three of the area's seven chairlifts. Installation of the brand new, fully automated system included construction of a 13-million-gallon snowmaking pond and the acquisition of 24 fan guns. The snowmaking system was funded entirely by a community fundraising campaign that was conducted in 2017. Also new, a fleet of rental skis and snowboards and boots from Rossignol, new demo skis from Rossignol with Look bindings, new Volkl demo skis with Marker bindings, and new lease skis and boots from Rossignol.
Eaglecrest Ski Area: substantial measures to improve snowmaking capabilities - a new pump house providing enough water pressure to make snow to the top of Hooter. As part of the expansion, the pump house will supply 2,400' of pipeline, which will be installed in phases, to allow snowmaking across the lower mountain (Phase 1) and, eventually, over to the base of the Black Bear Chairlift (Phase 2).
The Pacific Northwest Ski Areas Association is a non-profit trade association which represents the interests of ski and snowboard facilities located in Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Idaho, Montana, and California. The Association's 35 member ski areas – most of which operate on public land – collectively host an average of 5.6 million visits annually. For additional information on Pacific Northwest skiing and snowboarding, contact the PNSAA office at (877) 533-5520, or visit http://www.pnsaa.org to link to the website of your favorite mountain.
Far West Ski Association Adds 10th Council Member!
It is with great pleasure we announce that the National Brotherhood of Skiers - Western Region (NBSWR) has joined Far West Ski Association (FWSA) as the tenth council in the association.
On June 10th, the Far West Ski Association Board of Directors approved an invitation to the NBSWR to become the tenth FWSA Council. The NBSWR member club presidents voted on September 29, 2018 to accept the FWSA invitation.
The NBSWR is comprised of thirteen member clubs serving communities from San Francisco to San Diego and Las Vegas to Los Angeles. The Western Region clubs are part of the National Brotherhood of Skiers (NBS), which is also one of the largest organized ski associations in the country. A non-profit organization, the NBS was formed in 1974 by thirteen ski clubs across the country and now has a membership of over fifty clubs, representing nearly fifty cities. The primary goals of NBS are to promote winter sports among minorities and develop educational programs among minority children to stimulate a sportsman like attitude regarding winter sports and provide scholarship funds for potential Winter Olympic athletes of color.
FWSA is one of the largest ski associations in the United States, now with ten active councils representing more than 53,000 skiers and boarders from more than 160 clubs in twelve western states – Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington and Wyoming.
For additional information regarding the Far West Ski Association, please visit our website at www.fwsa.org.
What's new in the ski industry?
Less than three weeks after Vail Resorts closed on its acquisition of Stevens Pass in Washington, Alterra Mountain Company has entered into an agreement to purchase Crystal Mountain Resort, located about three hours south of Stevens. The acquisition would bring Alterra's portfolio to 13 mountain resorts in North America, plus CMH heli-skiing in Canada.
Red Mountain in BC is working on installing a connecting lift from the Grey Chair to the Silverlode Chair, while also adding additional parking, along with building a new hostel. There is also a new ski-in, ski-out on-mountain hotel – The Josie.
Whistler Blackcomb is undergoing $50 million worth of upgrades and updates this summer, which includes three new lifts. A 10-person gondola will replace the Wizard and Solar lifts on the Blackcomb side of the mountain, while the resort's Family Ski Zone's four-passenger Emerald Express is replaced by a new high-speed six-passenger chair. The three-seater Catskinner lift is also being replaced by a new high-speed four-passenger chair.
Big Sky Resort, Montana will soon be the first ski destination in North America to feature an eight-seater chair. Dubbed the Ramcharger 8, the high-speed mega lift will be the first of its kind in the world, featuring bubble chairs with heated seats and a high-resolution LED screen located at the lower terminal which will provide skiers with up-to-date mountain information. Additionally, the Shedhorn lift, which is currently a double chair, will be replaced by a high-speed quad.
Deer Valley Resort is making $8.1 million in mountain updates for the 2018-19 season. The Utah resort is replacing the Homestake lift, which transports skiers from the Silverlake Village to the top of Bald Mountain, with a detachable high-speed quad. Deer Valley is also installing more efficient snowmaking equipment.
Heavenly Ski Resort is replacing the two-seater Galaxy lift with a three-person chair this summer. This upgrade will increase skier access to 400 acres of Heavenly's intermediate terrain.
FWSA 2020 Convention to be held in Portland!
I am extremely happy to announce that the FWSA 88th Annual Far West Convention will be held May 28-31, 2020, at the Red Lion Hotel on the River Jantzen Beach in Portand, Oregon, hosted by Northwest Ski Club Council. For those who were around and involved, it was also the site of the 1997 Convention. Located on the beautiful Columbia River, the Red Lion has recently renovated all of their guest rooms, and will be doing other upgrades between now and 2020.
Sheri Parshall has graciously accepted the duties of Host Council Coordinator. All of us in Northwest Council are very excited to be hosting this fabulous, milestone event, during which Far West will be celebrating its 90th birthday.
Please feel free to share this news with your clubs and councils. We already have committees forming and will be meeting soon to decide on a theme and logo for the event. For those who have spent time in the Portland area, or even if you haven't, believe me when I say that Portland is a beautiful place to visit, with tons of fun things to do. We are so happy to have this opportunity to show off our city to YOU!
July 18, 2018. R.L.K. and Company, the Operator of Timberline Lodge and Ski Area, has purchased the iconic Summit Ski Area in Government Camp, Oregon. Included in the sale is Snow Bunny, a snow play area and parking lot, approximately 1.5 miles east of Government Camp. Both Summit Ski Area and Snow Bunny will operate under a special use permit issued by the Mount Hood National Forest.
Established in 1927, Summit Ski Area is the second oldest continuously operating ski area in the United States and the oldest ski area in the Pacific Northwest. In 1959 a T-bar was installed and in 1966 the present lodge was constructed. In 1980 the current 2,300 feet long chairlift was built. Jeff Kohnstamm, Timberline President and Area Operator, says, "We are very pleased with the acquisition and plan to operate Summit Ski Area as a family oriented, affordable, friendly mountain resort." Kohnstamm sees Summit as a place to "break down the barriers to skiing and snowboarding surrounding accessibility and affordability".
With Portland's population growing rapidly and more people visiting Mt. Hood, Timberline also views Summit Ski Area as an opportunity to help address public transportation and parking needs while having a greater connectivity to Government Camp. In the short-term, R.L.K. and Company will roll out Summit with an updated brand and website. Summit will operate under its current footprint with ski and snowboard rentals, lessons, snow tubing, and an expanded food and beverage offering with some basic lodge upgrades. Timberline operates a free winter shuttle bus between Summit ski area and Timberline. The Alpine trail runs from Timberline to Summit ski area.
The long-term view for Summit includes exploring expanded product offerings for both summer and winter. John Burton, Timberline spokesman, said Timberline is looking into adding a chairlift or gondola that spans the two properties. "Does it just go to the bottom of Jeff Flood lift or do we take it all the way to the hotel?" Burton said. Of course, the prospect of a Government Camp/Timberline connection is far from certain. Putting in a new chairlift is a 5 to 10-year project, Burton said, and the first step is an environmental impact study that takes a minimum of two-and-a-half to three years. But the project is within the realm of possibility, he said, and Timberline wouldn't need to acquire the land between Summit and Timberline to run a lift connecting the properties.
NWSCC's 25 member clubs are found throughout a large geographic area, primarily in Washington and Oregon, and even Hawaii. We held our annual elections in late June 2017, and the new officers and directors hit the ground running for our new fiscal year. Our annual planning retreat was held in August, as we developed our plans for the year.
NWSCC uses both our Facebook presence and our own website to keep our widespread member clubs informed about Council events, meetings and trips, reported Director Chris Ciardi. And we also support our local industry partners by sharing their posts of interest to our members. Ski trips organized by our council and FWSA are promoted on Facebook, too. All our clubs are encouraged to share their schedule of club activities, which can be found on our website, www.nwskiers.org, edited by Director Linda McGavin. Linda strives to keep the website updated with activities and club trips, so members can always discover opportunities to participate. Also, email newsletters drive members to the website.
NWSCC is fortunate that three of our Directors serve geographic areas to keep clubs and the board informed about what's happening in their areas and share council information and activities. Rod Robinson was our central Oregon representative and reported that the Bend Ski Club continues to grow in members. A continuous flow of retirees moving to Bend, along with Bend's Mount Bachelor in its backyard, help contribute to the club's growth and success. Last season, Rod and his wife Becki led the Bend Ski Club's first-ever club trip to Mt. Hood Meadows and Hood River, OR. Norvin Peer keeps track of southwest Washington, and Bill Becroft covers the Seattle area. We are grateful to each of them.
We participated in our first pre-season event in October at Snowvana, the 2nd year for the season kick-off featuring area ski resorts, clothing and equipment retailers, entertainment and more. Both NWSCC and our racing arm Pacific Northwest Area Clubs Recreational Alpine Teams (PACRAT) hosted booths. We each held drawings for a lucky winner of a pair of skis and took the opportunity to encourage club membership. November found us talking up clubs again at the annual SkiFever show in Portland. Each event allowed us to reach out to the skiing and snowboarding community about the camaraderie we enjoy in our clubs. Also in November, NWSCC hosted Presidents' Night where club presidents and NWSCC board members could network and share ideas.
In December, we hosted our first Winter Fair. At this event, open to all club members as well as the public, we announced our Woman and Man of the Year, socialized over craft beer and pizza, and enjoyed the fun of a silent auction. This evening social and fundraiser helps support NWSCC events throughout the year.
In February, NWSCCers descended upon Banff for FWSA Ski Week. We enjoyed wonderful powder and the beautiful scenery of the Canadian Rockies. Our council night at the Balkan was a rollicking evening of delicious food, joining the belly dancer in her moves, dancing throughout the restaurant, and throwing plates!
NWSCC again hosted a Bachelor Blast event in Bend, OR in early April. Participants represented five different NWSCC clubs. A hosted reception on Saturday evening brought everyone together, including club members with their own housing in Bend. While the weather on Mt. Bachelor was not spring-like (snowy and windy), everyone found something to do if they weren't skiing, from shopping to hiking in the surrounding areas (from the Badlands to Smith Rock). Those who stayed over until Monday enjoyed a return to true spring skiing, including blue skies, light winds, warming temperatures, and the opening of the Summit lift with developing corn snow leading to delightful skiing. However, everyone said they had a wonderful time and want to go again next year!
Andy Hobart, our PACRAT President, reported that five races at all three Mt. Hood resorts were completed this season. Sadly, the two planned NASTAR open races were both cancelled due to lack of snow. The PACRAT race league hosted its annual awards banquet April 14, 2018 at Mt. Hood Meadows, with an after-party immediately following at Charlie's Mountain View. Four PACRAT racers attended the 2018 NASTAR Nationals in Squaw Valley, California, marking the 50th anniversary of the event. Representing the men were Dan Lane, Kyle Taylor, and Mark Stanford, and for the Lady PACRATs, Breanne Morton. All skied well, given some challenging weather with rain during the slalom and snow pellets blowing in sideways at times during some of the GS events. All-in-all, racers reported steep, icy and race-worthy courses and a beautiful venue which was a blast for free-skiing during sun breaks between events. We congratulate all the racers for representing PACRATs well at Nationals this year. Dan Lane placed 3rd (in the Silver 55-59 age bracket) in the GS; Kyle Taylor placed 3rd overall in the GS; Mark Stanford placed 3rd (in the Platinum 55-59 age bracket) in the GS; and Breanne Morton placed 2nd overall in the GS. Racers enjoyed meeting and racing alongside Olympians Marco Sullivan, Mt. Hood local AJ Kitt, and Daron Rahlves, a personal friend of Govy coach Richy Tichy. Coach Tichy attended the NASTAR Nationals this year on course crew for the event and as coach for Kyle Taylor and Breanne Morton. PACRAT looks forward to the 2019 NASTAR Nationals!
NWSCC is grateful for our hard-working officers and Directors. In addition to those already mentioned, V.P. Sue Rimkeit played a major role, helping in a myriad of ways to organize, set up, and arrange our various activities and meetings. Her creativity and enthusiasm continue to be an asset to NWSCC. Secretary Jeanne Reinhardt keeps accurate records of our meetings, and Bill King is our accurate and diligent Treasurer. Other directors are Sheri Parshall, whose very important role is to enroll our industry members, and Steve Coxen, who keeps us abreast of public affairs in the northwest that affect skiing and the ski industry.


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The game is set in the Pacific theater of World War II, off the coast of the Midway Atoll. The goal is to attack the Japanese Air Fleet that bombed the players' American Aircraft Carrier, pursue all Japanese Air and Sea forces, fly through the 16 levels of play, make their way to the Japanese battleship Yamato and destroy her. 11 Levels consist of an Air-to-Sea battle (with a huge battleship or an aircraft carrier as an End-Level Boss), while 5 levels consist of an all-aerial battle against a squadron of Japanese Bombers and a Mother Bomber that needs to be destroyed. As in 1942, players pilot a P-38. Two buttons are used: one for regular attacks (with several weapons) and one for special actions that executes either a loop like in 1942 or one of three special attacks that damage the plane. Unlike 1942, the player only has one life, with one refillable energy meter. Destroying a complete formation of red enemy planes will result in a power-up, such as a health boost or a temporary special weapons which replaces the default twin gun.
The game takes place in the heated battles of 1944 during the Second World War as a super ace pilot attempts to defeat an entire army. The game operates and plays like most standard shooters. The objective of every level is to shoot enemy planes, tanks, trains, turrets, battleships, and defeat the boss after each level. Unlike its predecessor, 19XX: The War Against Destiny, the game plays more like the early games in the series.
This compilation includes the arcade games Strikers 1945 and Strikers 1945 II, though "Strikers" was removed from the title everywhere in the game. They are the same ports that where released individually (separate for Japan and the US, both under the name Strikers 1945) for the PlayStation in 2001. In 1945 earth is attacked by aliens, conquering most of the planet. US, German, Japan and British forces join together to fight back. At the beginning of the game you get to choose which fighter aircraft you want to use.
1945kIII is a scrolling shooter arcade video game. It was developed and published by the Korean developer Oriental Software in 2000. In this game, the player controls a fighter and has to shoot as many enemy fighters as possible while the stage is moving forward. There are many bonuses and new weapons available. The gameplay is reminiscent of several 1980s scrolling shooter arcade video games, and is therefore considered a retro game.
Drei Jahre nach dem Überraschungserfolg "Outcry" bringt Phantomery Interactive ein weiteres Horror-Mystery-Adventure mit äußerst dichter Atmosphäre. "1953 – Im Netz des KGB" basiert auf realen Projekten, die vom sowjetischen Innen- und Außendienst durchgeführt wurden.
19XX: The War Against Destiny is a vertical scrolling shooter arcade game made by Capcom in 1995 (copyrighted in 1996). The game is the 4th of a series of World War II vertical shooters made by Capcom. The story takes place before a fictional war (Hence, the 19XX) as a lone pilot tries to defeat an entire army/evil organization from starting another World War, which soon escalates to a nuclear apocalypse.
Levels are set in real world locations, scattered throughout North America, Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. The actual design, however, is fictitious. The single player campaign comprises a series of championships in different vehicle classes, where the player unlocks new vehicles and locations, based on their score. Vehicles range from utility vehicles to light buggies and are either fictional or inspired by actual production vehicles. Though the names do not correspond with any actual vehicle, the fact is evident both visually in-game and in the names of the game's files.
2 in 1 game. Super Spike V'Ball / Nintendo World Cup was a pack-in game included with the Nintendo Entertainment System Sports Set. The package included a standard NES console, four game controllers, and the Four Score Multiplayer Adapter. The cart included two games developed by Technos: # Super Spike V'Ball, a two-on-two beach volleyball game where you played on a tournament, ending with the world championship. The game supported up to four players on one match at a time; # Nintendo World Cup, a soccer game where you (and a friend) chose to represent a team and played several matches until you won the World Cup. The game featured little to no rules, which means that you could hit your opponents as much as you want, without fear of the Ref getting in the way. Both games were compatible with the included Four Score NES multiplayer adapter.
20 em 1 (20 in 1) is a compilation of twenty previously unreleased games in a single cartridge, which came bundled with Tec Toy's Master System III Compact (Master System II in Europe and US). The game has only two songs, one played at the title screen, the other played during all gameplay. All the text in the game is in Portuguese.


When I retired, my brother gave me luggage and said, "Don't forget to travel." Going on the road keeps my juices flowing. Last Thursday Tim and I took a little road trip to Mason City to explore some local architectural history.
The city recently opened the Historic Park Inn, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and meticulously restored to the tune of about $20M. It is amazing! Besides the hotel, Frank Lloyd Wright's Stockman House is a great example of the Prairie School of architecture. On Friday we walked through a neighborhood just east of downtown of well-preserved homes from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The area includes Prairie, Craftsman, and Victorian styles. There are brass plaques embedded in the sidewalks with the name of the architect, the year the home was built, and the style of architecture.
We were pleasantly impressed by the vibe of Mason City. We ate three excellent meals at three very fine local restaurants. I didn't expect that the local food movement had reached a town in northern Iowa. But Ralph's is all about it. They are able to get nearly all their meat and eggs within 30 miles, and buy as much other food locally as possible.
Mason City's other claim to fame is the boyhood home of "The Music Man." Meredith Willson grew up there, and Tim and I both worked backstage on our high school productions of his famous play. We walked the footbridge over Willow Creek, but Tim drew the line at the tour of "Music Man Square." Next time.
When we visited Florida last month, I painted two landscapes on the beach. I put my apron over my swimsuit, set up my plein air easel, and voila. Because the scene changes so quickly–people and umbrellas move, the light changes–there's no pressure to take the time to get it down perfectly. I feel I captured the stormy feeling of the sky, and the carefree attitude of the coast.
A couple years ago, I made a trip to Greece and Turkey I had dreamed about since I was about twelve, and read "The Moonspinners." My daughter and I explored Delphi, the Acropolis, and Meteora, archeological sites that inspired my childhood interest in Greek myths.
Though famously struggling these days, Greece has preserved its culture, identity, religion and homeland through Turkish, Persian, Roman, German and American occupations. After several weeks in Greece, I concluded the secret of their survival is complete confidence that the culture that began there will prevail through time.
What's the point? That getting out of the daily routine gives us new eyes. It opens possibilities we don't see in day-to-day life. If I'm struggling with a project, even taking time out for a walk can loosen my mind enough to find the answer.


Here's a quick demo of how you play Gamergate The Card Game – as people were asking.
These are the home-printed cards.
You can get the download HERE.
#Gamergate – The Card Game RELEASED!
Update 5: Steve Jackson Games have refused to sell the product on e23, on the grounds they believe it would negatively impact their digital sales. SJ Games tends to have a fairly right wing and mercenary bent, to the point of not sharing the Munchkin millions with the people who started off the whole thing, in this case it seems like the mercenary bent won out – but at least they were honest and straightforward about it and it's a purely commercial decision. OneBookShelf (RPGNOW/Drivethru) inform me that there'll be a consulting period and some actual, generally applicable rules will be come up with to decide what can and should be banned, when and how. So please do continue to contact them and express your PoV as a consumer that free expression is important and that you're capable of making your own decisions about what you do and do not buy. More importantly, if you're a creator who sells through any of their sites you should have concerns about any such rules – as they may turn on you in the future – and should make your opinion known. Contact form via this link. For my part it's simple. If it's not illegal, it should be allowed – properly streamed and tagged. If you wish to express your displease at SJ Games refusing to host the download, you can do that HERE.
Update 4: The hardcopy of the game is currently up for sale HERE. Hopefully there won't be any issues with that but it remains to be seen. Be cautioned however that the cards and box have only been virtually proofed at this point, so I can't 100% guarantee the final print quality – but I've had no problems in the past. Shipping outside the US is a sonofabitch via Gamecrafter, so if non-Yanks want copies I suggest clubbing together and sharing the cost. If you want to show support to me please do so politely via this link. You can also support me by buying my products and books (links in the side bar) though I also have free products and downloading these would also be a show of support – plus I'd like to get those out there. Another way to show support would be to support my art scholarship fundraiser. I still have no real idea what the issue with the Gamergate card game is for Onebookshelf (RPGNOW, DriveThruRPG) other than that they were being threatened by some other publishers if they didn't withdraw it. Otherwise the concern seems centred around assumptions about the game and disinfo about Gamergate itself. I am pursuing other avenues of sale, but for those who do not know, Onebookshelf is kinda like the 'Amazon' of ebook RPG sales with a market dominance that is concerning – at least when it's potentially abused like this.
UPDATE 3: For the time being you can by the PDF of the game HERE.
UPDATE 2: As well as complaint bombing, part of the problem seems to be other companies threatening the site with the pulling of their own products! Interestingly, at least one of them is one of those I called out in the pulled Escapist interview.
UPDATE 1: The game has been pulled from the current sales site without explanation, apparently due to 'complaint bombing' at this link. These people man, these people. I'll explore other avenues and try to find out what's going on, and keep you posted.
Gamergate the Card Game commemorates THE defining culture war of this generation – by taking the piss out of all sides.
Comics fans had Frederic Wertham.
Tabletop gamers had Pat Pulling.
Computer games previously had Jack Thompson.
Now all we have to contend with are upper middle class people with blue hair, buckling under crippling white guilt… fighting trolls.
A two player adversarial game, you'll compete with the Social Justice Warriors trying to get away with egregious breaches of ethics before Gamergate can create enough of a fuss and social pressure to expose them, all the while flaming each other on Twitter, screaming for attention and being trolled hard.
Download the Print & Play version HERE.
A hardcopy version should follow at The Gamecrafter next week or the week after.
Review copies available on request, just be sure you disclose it!
Hardcopy versions of Privilege Check Or: An Egregious Example of the Tone Deaf, Silencing, 'Humour' of the Heteropatriarchal, White, Oppressor Class are now available via the Game Crafter, officially.
The simple design works very well as physical objects and the game – while not to everyone's taste – works well.
The game replicates the bitter cut, thrust and partisan divisions of online arguments about social justice issues, making fun of both the hypersensitive Tumblrina style special snowflakes, and the cruder attitudes of their opposition. The hope is (was) that people could laugh at themselves.
If you prefer to pick up the PDF you can get that HERE.
If you prefer to express your outrage you may feel free to leave a comment below.
For those outside the US the shipping from Game Crafter is somewhat prohibitive, so I would suggest clubbing together to get several copies and then distribute them once they arrive in your country.
Machinations of the Space Princess Tarot: Hardcopy!
You can now buy the Machinations of the Space Princess tarot in hardcopy. You can get it HERE.
The cards are pretty damn good, come in a nice blue tuck box and with a little booklet telling you what things mean and so forth. You're meant to use them to make up spacey card games, to inspire adventures and to provide a much needed poke to your inspiration glands when you need to come up with an NPC, a situation or some local colour on the spot.
Shipping is HIDEOUS for people outside the US, so I'd suggest clubbing together to get a few sets shipped wherever you are and then send them on. I would also encourage you to ask Gamecrafter to find a better international shipping solution.
The Empress represent rule, legitimacy, tradition, motherhood and strength of character.
Her presence indicates tradition, prosperity, continuity and security while her inversion indicates poverty, conflict and directionless disorder. Inverted, though, her presence indicates novelty and a chance for things to change.
In games, drawing The Empress for inspiration might prompt you to bring in a leadership figure, an older woman or imperial (or similar) forces.


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of us in the mirror.
we are the secrets never revealed.
while I live in perpetual gloom.
My scarlet tears colour the sky.
used to keep me tame.
even if I am the Upside Down.
Once more photo prompt via John at The Eclectic Contrarian.
***This is the 2nd picture prompt from John over at The Eclectic Contrarian.
that surrounds my castle of sand.
by the cruelness of fate.
I need to excise these feelings.
I need to eradicate this love.
I wonder was I to pass the time?
I was wrapped in your arms.
when monsters tortured my dreams.
when really we both need to be?
should I get over you?
never have you told me not to.
Author Jay-lyn DoerksenPosted on January 17, 2019 Categories Word of the dayTags Creative, Fantasy, Love, Monsters, Pain, Poem, Poet, Poetry, Relationshiop, Uppercut, Word of the Day Challenge35 Comments on Help?


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Introducing the Samsung Galaxy Camera 2
By Bogdan C. on Jan 02, 2014 - Devices, News
It's only the second day of the year 2014 and we already have big news: Samsung has announced its next device in the Galaxy Camera series, the Samsung Galaxy Camera 2. The Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 will feature an interesting design, with Samsung's "fake leather" material being put to use again, after the Galaxy Note 3. The Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 will have many things in common with the first one, including here the 16 megapixel camera, the sensor sized at 1/2.33-inch, 21x optical zoom and xenon flash. However, it does bring new features, the most important of them being the brand-new state-of-the-art image processing system that is allegedly able to deliver pictures of better quality than the one before. This remains to be seen but it is still good news and there are reasons to look up to this device being officially launched. But let's see the modifications brought to the hardware in more detail. The new Galaxy Camera 2 is now hooked up with a 1.6 GHz quad-core processor, 8 GB internal storage space with the possibility of adding an SD card as well, 2 GB of RAM, 4.8 inch 720p display and it will be able to connect via Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and NFC. Its battery is a 2000 mAh model that apparently brings the number of photos you can take with a single recharge up to 350. Charge once, take 350 pictures; that's not too bad if you ask us. But the hardware was not the only one to suffer changes. On the software part, with the Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 we get new shooting modes (we now have 28 different shooting modes) and Android 4.3 Jelly Bean. All of these specs look good and all but as we've said before, we'll just have to wait and see if it will be the actual improvement that everybody is expecting. The predecessor to the Galaxy Camera 2 was not cheap at all, priced at $499 while delivering standard quality images, so we are quite curious about how much the new gadget will cost and how well it will fair. You will be able to see the Samsung Galaxy Camera 2 at CES the following week. In the meantime, are you thinking of buying the Samsung Galaxy Camera 2?

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Dr. Mikaela Hazard and Dr. Jered Vislisel, both second-year Endodontic residents, each received awards for their oral presentations at the 2019 American Association of Endodontics Annual Meeting. According to Dr. Fabricio Teixeira, DEO of the Department of Endodontics, "this was a magnificent achievement considering the level of presentations at the meeting. We had a total of 875 presentations and the University of Iowa had two winners among the 10 ten in the Oral presentations category. They did a superb job and made all of us very proud."
Dr. Hazard and Dr. Vislisel are shown in the center of the photo.
For each month spent on the International Space Station, an astronaut will lose approximately one to two percent of bone mass. Since the skeleton is not being used to support the full weight of the body, the bones weaken and lose mass and density. When a bone is not being properly stimulated, it usually undergoes disuse atrophy and subsequently shrinks. When a tooth is removed from its socket, this resorptive phenomenon also occurs with the alveolar bone—the bone that provides direct support to the teeth.
Just as scientists have found ways for astronauts to maintain and strengthen bones while living in space, Dr. Gustavo Avila-Ortiz is exploring new therapies to preserve the alveolar bone.
It is common to lose a significant amount of alveolar ridge volume in the first three to six months after a tooth extraction. "Without a tooth there to stimulate the bone, the alveolar ridge volume will decrease," Avila-Ortiz explained. "Bone loss can lead to an intense remodeling of the contour of the alveolar ridge, which may make it difficult to replace a missing tooth with a dental implant," he added.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, clinicians began to explore various ways to preserve the alveolar bone. "Over the years different bone substitutes, like bovine-derived xenograft or a human-derived allograft, typically applied in a particulate form, have been used to fill the tooth socket after tooth extraction in an attempt to reduce alveolar bone resorption. It has also been shown that sealing the socket orifice with a barrier material, such as a biocompatible membrane, is important to protect the underlying bone during the healing process. This approach, known as alveolar ridge preservation, is a widely used therapy in contemporary practice. But it is not the only available option" Avila-Ortiz commented.
Another alveolar ridge preservation treatment involves intentionally leaving part of the tooth in the socket to stimulate the bone. "Although it can work, this treatment is technically hard, it isn't always possible, and it may increase the risk of infections and failure of implant integration," Avila-Ortiz said.
Although he admits that there is no single fix-it-all solution, Avila-Ortiz has been researching how different biomaterials can preserve the natural architecture of the bone after an extraction, minimize the detrimental effects of tooth loss, shorten the healing time between extraction and placing an implant, and reduce the need for additional bone grafting to allow for implant placement.
Recently, Avila-Ortiz has been working with Dr. Liu Hong and Dr. Brad Amendt, using the extraction socket as a research model, on therapies that would apply microRNA therapy for oral bone regeneration purposes. "It's really very promising, and we are almost ready to initiate the first clinical trials with humans," Avila-Ortiz said.
One of the main goals of Avila-Ortiz's research in this area is to discover both new therapies and the influence that patient-specific factors (i.e., local and systemic) have on the outcomes of treatment. "One size does not fit all. One of our objectives is to deliver individualized care to each of our patients," Avila-Ortiz explained.
With over 100 presentations from students, staff, and faculty and an excellent keynote address by Dr. Rena D'Souza, the College of Dentistry's Annual Local AADR Research Day was a great success.
Our keynote speaker, Dr. D'Souza, is Professor of Neurobiology, Pathology, and Medicine and the Associate Vice President of Research at the University of Utah School of Medicine. As an outstanding scholar, leader, and mentor in our profession, she has held and continues to hold many prominent positions at her university and in the wider profession, including serving as President of the International Association for Dental Research, the 41st President of the American Association for Dental Research, and many other prominent positions related to oral health.
According to Dr. Brad Amendt, this is the first time that the current IADR president has addressed the college for our Research Day.
Dr. D'Souza's keynote address covered a variety of topics including important areas for research in dentistry and the oral sciences, her goals for the IADR, and the specific kinds of genetic research that she has explored personally.
College of Dentistry researchers are playing important roles in some of the important areas for research that Dr. D'Souza highlighted, including big data analysis, precision and personalized medicine, genomic research, microbiome research particularly regarding prebiotics or probiotics for the oral microbiome, and translational and clinical research.
And Dr. D'Souza's own research shows the great value of collaborating with colleagues in a variety of related fields—from clinicians working with basic science researchers to oral science researchers learning from hair follicle research.
After her keynote address, Dr. D'Souza spent a great deal of time talking with faculty, staff, and students.
It was a wonderful opportunity for the college to deepen our relationship with Dr. D'Souza.
Research Day really starts years in advance as students, faculty, and staff produce their research. These posters are a reflection of their work, and the support from our excellent staff in Ed Media. Presenters hung their posters the night before Research Day.
Research Day started bright and early with a great deal of snowfall the night before.
Dean Johnsen speaking with our keynote speaker, Dr. Rena D'Souza.
Despite the weather, Dr. D'Souza was speaking to big crowd.
As a part of Dr. Butali's broad collaboration with researchers around the world, Dr. Butali and his research team will sequence DNA from cleft families and controls from Puerto Rico. They will also analyze and interpret results. Furthermore, Dr. Butali will provide input on all aspects of future specific study designs, train personnel from the San Juan site, and assure safety and quality of the data.
This project is part of his larger research goal of understanding population differences in cleft etiology and providing new insights in craniofacial development.
Dr. Butali discusses this on-going work in this video.
The New York Institute of Technology (NYIT) granted Dr. Erliang Zeng a subaward grant for a project funded by the National Cancer Institute, a part of the NIH. The project, Molecular Circuit of Multi-ciliogenesis Regulates Choroid Plexus Differentiation and Tumor Development, investigates how the molecular circuit of malignant choroid plexus tumors in children interact with signaling pathways as the tumors are formed. Dr. Zeng will be responsible for leading efforts in bioinformatics development and data analysis for the project. Dr. Zeng brings significant expertise to provide outstanding support for the project on the omics data integration and bioinformatics analysis. This project will foster the already existing relationship and collaboration between subaward PI Erliang Zeng at UI and PI Haotian Zhao at NYIT and will strengthen the bioinformatics program development in the Division of Biostatistics and Computational Biology of the UI College of Dentistry.
Dr. Teixeria's project continues a long-term partnership between the College of Dentistry and Tokuyama. More specifically, Dr. Teixeria and her research team will conduct a 36-month randomized controlled clinical trial to evaluate and compare the esthetic outcomes and patient satisfaction of a simplified newly developed dental composite system for the esthetic region to a nanohybrid composite system. Although dental composite systems have been used extensively for the anterior region, it can still be difficult for clinicians to select the proper shade and the materials may not last as long as clinicians would like. This new system has been developed to improve the esthetic outcomes and patient satisfaction by enhancing its blending capability.
Dr. Teixeria research team includes: Drs. Amira Ahmed, Steve Armstrong, Hanan Elgendy, Sandra Guzman-Armstrong, Aditi Jain, Justine Kolker, Rodrigo Maia, Patricia Meredith, Cristina Vidal, Marcos Vargas, Xian Jin Xie, and research coordinator Karen Kluesner.
From baseball to politics, big data has taken the world by storm. It has revolutionized our recreational pursuits and our health care decisions. Oral health research is no exception to this trend, and the College of Dentistry is on the cutting edge of that trend.
The Division of Biostatistics and Computational Biology provides statistical and computational expertise for the college's research projects. Although in past generations statistical analysis was mostly performed by an individual researcher, it is now an expectation that elite biomedical research centers have a designated biostatistics division.
"A single person is simply not adequate anymore. The databases are too large and of great complexity, and any person would have to know database management, frequentist methods, Bayesian methods, bioinformatics, structural equation modeling, etc.," said Dr. Xian Jin Xie, director of the Division of Biostatistics and Computational Biology.
Xie joined the college a little over a year ago in fall 2017, and since then, his division has worked with over 40 researchers at the college. Xie has really appreciated the collegial working environment. "Everyone is so easy to work with and the faculty really support one another," said Xie. "This environment really lays the foundation for achieving more NIH grants, and potentially large multi-investigator program grants," Xie added.
And Xie has asked for a lot! Ultimately, he aims for the division to become a model for dental colleges across the country. "We are the first college in the country to have a division of biostatistics and computational biology," Xie said. This new methodological focus is poised to become the new standard.
Xie's first year plan had three goals for accomplishing that ambitious goal.
First, he sought to recruit high quality faculty and research staff, like associate professor Dr. Erliang Zeng, a new faculty member in the division who specializes in bioinformatics. Adding Zeng was crucial for establishing the division's expertise in computational biology.
Second, he wanted to continuing building on the college's grant writing success, and his division has helped with 10 NIH grant submissions and many foundation sponsored grants this past year.
Although a great deal of Xie's attention is dedicated to serving as the director of the division and advising on dental research projects, he also conducts and publishes his own statistical research on 1), statistical model diagnosis; 2), high throughput data analysis; and 3), new design of Phase I Clinical trials.
"In my position, you need a breadth of knowledge to support various basic science and clinical research projects, but it's always fulfilling and enjoyable to have your own research too," said Xie.
The Division of Biostatistics and Computational Biology is located on the first floor of the north wing of the Dental Science Building and is available for consults for upcoming research projects.
Dental researchers at the college have a strong history of pursuing basic, clinical, and translational research in a collaborative and supportive environment with the goal of improving patient care. "The ultimate goal of our research is to benefit and contribute to our community and society," said Dr. Cristina Vidal, assistant professor in operative dentistry.
The college's translational and clinical research has flourished by drawing knowledge and experience from College of Dentistry colleagues and other disciplines—from medicine to physics, from public health to engineering.
"Many questions in dentistry can be addressed, at least in part, with advances that have been made in other fields such as medicine or engineering. So I often start by asking 'What approaches are being used in other fields?'" said Dr. Kyungsup Shin, assistant professor in orthodontics and director of clinical research for the college.
For example, in the field of Oral and Maxillofacial Radiology, clinical professor Dr. Trishul Allareddy has been using his expertise to improve the quality of dental radiographic images as the co-chair of the Standards Committee on Dental Informatics for the American Dental Association and Co-Chair of DICOM international standard for Dentistry.
Having high-quality images requires a goldilocks level of radiation—just enough to get sufficient information for clinical judgments, but not too much, which exposes the patient to too much radiation.
"Unfortunately, many of the digital intraoral radiographs that dentists take are not clinically useful as the patients are underexposed and the radiographs do not have enough information," Allareddy explained.
In addition to creating standards for the use of x-rays in dental clinics, Allareddy is also researching best practices for the use of cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) in dentistry. CBCT technology is used when regular dental radiographs are not sufficient—for example, in cases of oral cancer or for dental implants.
"Dentists need to be aware of what imaging tools are useful in which contexts; it's really about optimizing our care for each patient," Allareddy said.
That's also a central part of Vidal's research. Whether designing materials that will take less time to use or discovering bioactive materials and mechanisms that can stimulate and regenerate teeth, Vidal's research is focused on patient well-being.
Two of Vidal's recent projects illustrate this line of research. In one, she is investigating a novel universal bonding agent that doesn't require any light curing—and thus, it could reduce the time a patient spends in the dentist's chair. Her research team will determine how well this new agent performs and make recommendations for its use in clinics.
In another, her team is exploring how a certain plant-derived compound that can preserve, repair, and restore the bond between dentin and resin material.
Although these particular clinical applications are important, Vidal is also interested in the underlying mechanisms. "By understanding both the enzymes that degrade collagen, and the natural processes that inhibit degradation of the resin-dentin bond, we will have a greater understanding of the most efficient and least invasive approaches in the clinic," Vidal said.
Like Allareddy and Vidal, Shin's research—specializing on the temporomandibular joints (TMJ)—exemplifies the college's patient-oriented and collaborative research.
After asking about approaches in related fields, Shin found out that an orthopedic research group (Dr. Don Anderson) had used medical CT images of leg fractures to determine the risk for developing arthritis as a result of the fracture. Shin wanted to apply that research to his specialty, the TMJ.
Drawing on Allareddy's expertise in radiology and CBCT images, Shin hopes to develop a predictive diagnostic tool using CBCT images to assess the risk of developing osteoarthisis in the TMJs after trauma to the joint. Post-traumatic osteoarthritis in this joint is particularly challenging to treat, often requiring extensive surgical procedures.
"Without reliable predictive diagnostic tools, we don't really know when to intervene to prevent long-term complications associated with post- traumatic osteoarthritis," Shin explained.
Shin has also been collaborating with colleagues in other colleges—Dr. Aliasger Salem in pharmacy and Dr. James Martin in medicine—on basic science research concerning bone and cartilage tissue regeneration in the TMJ.
Allareddy, Vidal, and Shin are wonderful pictures of the collaborative, translational, and clinical research being conducted at the College of Dentistry. Whether patients are having a dental radiograph made, having a broken tooth repaired, or having surgery on their temporomandibular joint, these researchers are finding a way to make a difference.


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Guillemots @ KOKO, London
by Max Raymond
published: 17 Nov 2011 in Live Music Reviews
With their most recent album, Walk The River, Guillemots have reverted to a more straightforward and melancholic sound that took a while to get used to. After the theatrics and playfulness of their two previous records it's some detour and it does need a few listens but it's more than a match for the dizzying heights of debut Through The Windowpane. As they enter the final leg of their UK tour at Camden's majestic Koko the band are keen to replicate their back-to-basics approach (well, by their standards anyway) on the road.
Their setlist contains a broad range of material from all three albums with the odd b-side here and there and for the most part, it's a satisfactory mix with the band gamely attempting some of their more grandiose moments. What they lose in terms of a big orchestral sound they make up for by thinking up of more band-friendly arrangements. Annie Let's Not Wait works wonderfully as an acoustic jam, Little Bear is breathtaking thanks in part to some effective use of the theremin and Falling Out Of Reach is far more successful in tugging the heartstrings in a live setting than on record, where it felt little bit like a by-the-numbers track.
There are some other nice touches that make the evening worthwhile. Opening with Kriss Kross, a standout from their rather patchy second album Red, is a pleasant surprise whilst If The World Ends is absolutely beautiful with the crowd either transfixed by its power or by the equally pretty disco ball reflections. A brand new song called Southern Winds (played by Fyfe on his acoustic guitar) hints at possibly another new direction to come; his singing is in falsetto throughout and the tone is of stark contrast to their discography so far.
Ultimately though it's those early hits that get the most recognition from the crowd. Made Up Love Song #43, the song that brought them to the attention of a larger audience in the first place, is an early highlight with Fyfe playing the opening melody on what appears to be the flattest portable keyboard in the world – looking as if someone has painted the keys and dials on to a piece of wood. After this quiet intro the rest of the band join in with a sense of purpose and urgency. This rush of euphoria is matched by the wonderful Trains To Brazil and traditional closer Sao Paulo in all its glory – turning from starry-eyed slow waltz to an infectious and glorious carnival tune.
There are certainly moments where things fall flat slightly – Get Over It and I Don't Feel Amazing Now in particular are somewhat forgettable by comparison – and it's hard to deny that there are points where you're thinking "This is good, but if they had a few more bells and whistles – orchestra, choir, whatever – this would be a bit more special". The trade-off though is a surprisingly intimate show that it is a solid representation of their career to date.
Guillemots played: Kriss Kross, Go Away, Made Up Love Song #43, If The World Ends, Vermillion, We're Here, I Don't Feel Amazing Now, Little Bear, The Basket, I Must Be A Lover, Falling Out Of Reach, Southern Winds, Annie Let's Not Wait, Trains To Brazil, Yesterday Is Dead. Encore: Get Over It, Sao Paulo.
Guillemots MP3s or CDs
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If you walk into a Disney Park, you'll quickly recognize that something feels ... different. Even if you've been to a place like Busch Gardens Williamsburg or Knott's Berry Farm, your first steps into a Disney park feel unlike anything you've experienced before.
This, of course, is intentional. Disney has spent over half a century honing its techniques that turn an ordinary vacation destination into an extraordinary one.
We all know about the big things Disney does — from the scale of their theme parks to the intricacy of their design work — but let's instead focus on some of the smaller things they've become known for. These smaller creations are, in many ways, more important that the big stuff Disney gets credit for.
One of the odder characteristics Disney has become known for over time is its use of scents. The are entire swaths of the fan community who debate which iconic Disney smell is the best. And, truly, there are some olfactory experiences at Disney that are not to be missed.
But, while some of these are accidental strokes of magic — like the water smell of Pirates of the Caribbean — and others are core parts of an attraction experience — like Soarin' Around the World — Disney's most important scents are the ones used on Main Street USA.
Every smell from fresh popcorn to just-out-of-the-oven cookies is specifically designed by Imagineering to cultivate a sense of child-like wonder and amazement. The nostalgia of Main Street USA — from its turn-of-the-century charm to its Anytown USA architecture — exists to make you feel as comfortable in the park as possible. It's a sensory trigger designed to relax you.
Smells are critical to that relaxation, and in filling Main Street USA with some of our brains' favorites, Disney is able to set itself apart from many similar parks from our first steps onto the grounds.


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Los Angeles: Fans of the singer Bob Dylan will be able to seek refunds after the book's publishers acknowledged that "hand-signed" versions really contained a printed facsimile of the star's signature.
After the release of the music legend's latest book, "The Philosophy of Modern Song," on November 1, fans were given the opportunity to purchase $600 copies of the book bearing his signature. However, some fans expressed dissatisfaction with the authenticity of the star's handwriting, according to aceshowbiz.com.
Simon & Schuster executives issued a statement apologising for the error and promising refunds: "We wish to apologise to everybody who bought the limited edition of "Philosophy of Modern Song." It turns out that Bob's original signature is included in the limited edition books, albeit in a penned imitation version. We are responding to this information by issuing each buyer a prompt refund." Using many fans believing multiple iterations of the singer's autograph had been utilised, it has been alleged that the autographs displayed in the book had been inked using "autopen" -- a device that can replicate a real signature with a pen without the author having to sign any duplicates.
On Bob's official Twitter account, a previous tweet implied that the folk singer had personally autographed each book.
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Changes Affecting Version 6.2
The following sections describe changes that can affect programs originally written with ACUCOBOL-GT Version 6.2.
UNIX: New Default Installation Directory
On UNIX systems, the ACUCOBOL-GT development system (compiler, runtime, utilities, etc.) has a new default directory location. The new location is: /opt/acucorp/720. This change has been made to conform with the Version 2.3 Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS). Installing into the FHS standard location provides consistency and improves system integration. For more information about the FHS standard, please visit www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html.
Initialization of External Data Items
Versions of ACUCOBOL-GT prior to Version 7.0 had the behavior of initializing external data items to LOW-VALUES, even when the rest of Working-Storage was initialized to spaces. Beginning with Version 7.0, all Working-Storage data items are initialized to spaces or the value specified with the -Dv compile option. This includes external data items.
To maintain compatibility with programs that rely on the old behavior, you can compile for semantic compatibility with Version 6.2 or earlier. Use the -C## compile option to do this (for example, -C62 for Version 6.2 compatibility). When you compile for compatibility with Version 6.2 or earlier, external data items are initialized to null bytes, regardless of how the rest of Working-Storage is initialized.
Starting with Version 7.0, ACUCOBOL-GT has added significant new features to the C interface, allowing you greater flexibility for calling COBOL programs from C and C++.
For existing programs, this means:
The cobol() and cobol_no_stop() functions are still supported but have been deprecated. The new function, acu_cobol(), extends the options available in the C interface.
Information on the deprecated cobol() and cobol_no_stop() functions is not documented in Version 7.0. See Appendix F in previous versions of the ACUCOBOL-GT documentation set for this information.
Compiler Changes
Two compilation switches provide compatibility with Version 6.2:
-C62 Causes the compiler to generate code according to the rules used by Version 6.2.
-Z62 Creates object code that can be run with a Version 6.2 runtime.
Runtime Changes
The runtime now automatically corrects most reference modification range errors. It applies the following rules:
A start reference less than 1 is treated as 1. For example, var(0:3) is treated as var(1:3).
A length reference less than 0 is treated as 0. Moving a zero-byte item is equivalent to moving spaces to the destination item. A zero-byte destination is not affected by the move. In a STRING statement, a length of zero for a string source is treated as 1, not 0.
A start plus length reference that is past the end of the item is treated as meaning to the end of the item. For example, if the var is a PIC X(5) item, var(4:23) is treated as var(4:2).
The WARNINGS runtime configuration variable provides some control over how reference modification range errors are handled. See its entry in Appendix H.
The behavior of the character-based tree view control has changed. In previous versions, the MSG-TV-SELCHANGE message was not sent if the COBOL program deleted an item. Nor was it sent when the COBOL program first ACCEPTed a tree view control. Beginning with Version 7.0, the MSG-TV-SELCHANGE message is now sent in both cases.
Beginning with Version 7.0, when the runtime reduces the size of a window to fit the screen, it includes any fractional lines and columns that fit, provided the COBOL program attempted to create a window with fractional lines and columns. For example, if the program creates a 70.0 line window, but only a 66.4 line window fits on the display, the runtime detects that no fractional lines were attempted, and truncates the number of lines to 66.0. However, if you attempt to create a 70.1 line window, the runtime recognizes the fractional measurement and displays a 66.4 line window. In prior versions, the runtime always reduced the size of the window to a whole number. To preserve the old behavior, set the configuration variable V62_MAX_WINDOW to 1 (on, true, yes).
Beginning with Version 7.0, the Web runtime uses ANSI_FIXED_FONT as the standard font. Because some systems may depend on the old font, this change is configurable. To use the font standard from Versions 6.2 and earlier (SYSTEM_FIXED_FONT), adjust the setting of the configuration variable STD_FIXED_FONT, described in Appendix H .
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Q: Config MongoDB Servers Following the Oreily Scaling MongoDB book, I saw the following command:

Let's say we have three data centers: one in New York, one in San
  Francisco, and one on the moon. We start up one config server in each
  center.

$ ssh ny-01
ny-01$ mongod
$ ssh sf-01
sf-01$ mongod
$ ssh moon-01
moon-01$ mongod

$ ssh ny-02

ny-01$ mongos --configdb ny-01,sf-01,moon-01 Press Enter, and now all
  the config servers know about each other. The mongos is like the host
  of the party that introduces them all to each other.

Question:
Does ny-01, sf-01, and moon-01 mean the machine name or machine IP address?

A: In the book example, hostname. I believe you can use either, but use IPs in order to avoid having to resolve them, and to be sure that any failure is not due to hostname resolution issues.

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May 5 - Eastern Orthodox Church calendar - May 7

All fixed commemorations below celebrated on May 19 by Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar.

For May 6th, Orthodox Churches on the Old Calendar commemorate the Saints listed on April 23.

Saints
 Righteous Job the Long-suffering.
 Martyrs Danax, Mesirus (Mesiurs), and Therin
 Martyrs Demetrius, and Donatus
 Saints Mamas, Pachomius, and Hilarion, monks
 Martyrs Barbarus the Soldier (Barbaruldier), Bacchus, Callimachus, and Dionysius, in Morea (362)
 Martyr Barbarus in Thessaly, the former robber (9th century)

Pre-Schism Western saints
 Saint Lucius of Cyrene (1st century)
 Martyrs Heliodorus and Venustus and seventy-five others in Africa (284–305)
 St. Benedicta, virgin, mystic and nun, lived in a convent founded by St. Galla in Rome (6th century)
 Saint Edbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne (698)
 Saint Petronax of Monte Cassino (c. 747)

Post-Schism Orthodox Saint
 Saint Vladimir II Monomakh (Volodymyr Monomakh), Sovereign of Kievan Rus' (1125)
 Venerable Micah (Micheas), the disciple of the Saint Sergius of Radonezh (1385)
 Venerable Sinaites of Serbia (from Ravanica) (14th century):
 Romilus of Ravanica; Romanus of Djunisa; Sisoes of Sinai and Sisojevac; Martyrius of Rukumije; Gregory of Gornjak; Zosimas of Tuman; and Gregory of Sinai (Mt. Athos)
 Saint Seraphim of Mt. Domvu (Seraphim of Livadeia) (1602)
 Venerable Job of Pochaev, abbot and wonderworker (1651)
 Blessed Sophia of Kleisoura (Myrtidiotissa in Schema), the ascetic of Kleisoura, Fool-for-Christ (1974)  (see also: April 23. )

Other commemorations
 Translation of the relics (1238) of Saint Sava, first archbishop of Serbia (1235)
 Translation of the relics (1675) of Saint Pachomius of Nerekhta (1384)
 Commemoration of Theophylact Lopatinsky, Archbishop of Tver, Defender of Orthodoxy (1741)
 Birthday of Royal Martyr Tsar Nicholas II

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References

Sources
 Protection of the Mother of God Church, List of Saints (POMOG)
 May 6/19, Orthodox Calendar (PRAVOSLAVIE.RU).
 May 19 / May 6 , HOLY TRINITY RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (A parish of the Patriarchate of Moscow).
 Dr. Alexander Roman. May. Calendar of Ukrainian Orthodox Saints (Ukrainian Orthodoxy - Українське Православ'я).
 May 6. Latin Saints of the Orthodox Patriarchate of Rome.
 May 6, The Roman Martyrology.
Greek Sources
 Great Synaxaristes:  6 ΜΑΪΟΥ, ΜΕΓΑΣ ΣΥΝΑΞΑΡΙΣΤΗΣ.
  Συναξαριστής. 6 Μαΐου. ECCLESIA.GR. (H ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ ΤΗΣ ΕΛΛΑΔΟΣ).
Russian Sources
  19 мая (6 мая). Православная Энциклопедия под редакцией Патриарха Московского и всея Руси Кирилла (электронная версия). (Orthodox Encyclopedia - Pravenc.ru).
  6 мая (ст.ст.) 19 мая 2013 (нов. ст.). Русская Православная Церковь Отдел внешних церковных связей. (DECR).

May in the Eastern Orthodox calendar

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What is the secret behind Lily Aldridge's toned core, defined abs and slim waist? It's her diet – and her favorite abs workout.Lily Aldridge's favorite abs exercises target both upper, lower abs and the obliques. To mold her famous runway figure, the six-time Victoria's Secret Fashion Show supermodel ups her training regime from three to six gym sessions a week. "I do Ballet Beautiful and I love yoga and Pilates and boxing," Lily Aldridge said.
Incorporate Lily Aldridge's abs workout into your workout three times per week.
Stretch both legs out on the mat and pull the stomach in tight.
Lift the right leg and left arm and twist the upper body to the right. Hold for a few seconds and change the leg and arm keeping stomach pulled in all the time.
You can do this exercise with or without a dumbbell.
Pull your abs to your spine and lengthen your spine as you bend slowly to the right. Return to standing upright, and then slowly to the left.
Keep your pelvis still as you bend to the side.
This exercise engages abs, lower back, and waist muscles, along with your arms and legs.
Lie on your left side with your legs extended, your left elbow directly under your shoulder, and your right hand palm down.
Put your right foot on top of the left. Contract your abs and lift your hips and knees off the mat, keeping the side of your left foot and your left forearm and elbow in contact with the ground. Inhale and slowly return back onto the floor.
Repeat 15 times for each side.
Modification: you can raise your upper leg straight to make it more challenging.
Lie on the floor with your lower back pressed against the floor and knees bent.
Lift your shoulder off the floor and keep this position throughout the exercise.
Start making side crunches touching your left foot with left hand, and right foot with right hand simultaneously.


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Etrema paucimaculata é uma espécie de gastrópode do gênero Etrema, pertencente à família Clathurellidae.

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Whether you're speed walking or taking up the challenge of crushing your previous run's distance, treadmills are essential to building stamina and a healthy heart. Start slow on a walking machine and build pace with every session, or progress to medium jogs before leading up to a powerful sprint on the running machine. Either way run freely, put miles under your feet and push the limits with a machine that's perfect for you. Choose from treadmills that provide heart rate information, health analytics and pre-programmed runs to build your fitness level. Browse through the best treadmills and shop online with us today.


Enables management of smartphones, tablets in integrated endpoint management solution.
CenterBeam Inc., a specialist in hosted IT services, has released its new Mobile Device Management Service, a cloud-based solution that provides enterprises with greater control over the growing number of smartphones and tablets being used by their employees. With CenterBeam's Mobile Device Management Service, users can manage iPhones, iPads, and Android-based smartphones and tablets, as well as laptops, PCs, servers, and other endpoints, from a single platform.
"The trend of employees bringing their own smartphones and tablets into the enterprise is just beginning and it will be a growing challenge for IT staff, which will be responsible for supporting and ensuring that these consumer-owned mobile devices adhere to corporate policies," said Shahin Pirooz, CSO and CTO at CenterBeam.
In terms of IT management, CenterBeam believes the new mobile devices should be treated the same as other endpoints. Its single platform lets enterprises monitor, manage, and secure every type of endpoint while enabling employees to use corporate applications the same way across all devices.
An extension of CenterBeam's unified endpoint management solution, the Mobile Device Management Service is based on the IBM Endpoint Manager for Mobile Devices, which is built on BigFix technology. With this service, enterprises can support a wide variety of platforms, including Apple iOS, Google Android, Nokia Symbian, Windows Phone, and Windows Mobile.
Management Actions: Selective or full wipe of any device if the employee leaves the company or the device is stolen. Other features include denial of e-mail access, remote lock and user notification.
Application management: Take an application inventory on the devices, whitelist or blacklist certain applications, or offer an enterprise app store where employees can download pre-approved applications.
Policy and security management: Set password policies, encrypt devices, and offer jailbreak and root detection.
Enterprise access management: Configure e-mail, VPN access, and Wi-Fi capabilities.
Available now, the CenterBeam Mobile Device Management Service reduces the need to purchase and maintain hardware. The cloud-based content delivery model enables enterprises to rapidly update their system with no need for costly software upgrades or time-consuming installation.
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When orphaned nine-year-old Ikar is placed into foster care, everyone calls him Courgette. At first, the other kids laugh at him and tease him out of spite, but Courgette soon learns about friendship and love among them. It's because the best family might be the one you choose yourself. The charming animated film was greeted with excitement at the 69th Cannes IFF and awarded at several international festivals.


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Student Senate passes anti-discrimination bill
A resolution passed by the UNH Student Senate on Sunday, Oct. 9 urges the state of New Hampshire to implement statewide protection on the basis of gender-identity and gender-expression in the areas of employment, housing and public accommodations. As of now, 20 states have put a similar law into place. New Hampshire, however, is not one of them.
Former student senate speaker and current Student Senator Douglas Marino has been actively and vigorously working with the Student Senate to make this change.
"That [bill] would protect people from statewide discrimination in employment, housing and public accommodations," Marino said. "So things like restrooms and restaurants, so that people couldn't be discriminated against and turned away from basic services that are open to the public and open to everybody."
In states where it's illegal to discriminate, all individuals have a legal recourse to take legal action. The legal consequence for those who perpetuated the gender discrimination could vary from a fine, settlement or whatever the court decides based upon the magnitude of the circumstance.
According to Marino, implementing this bill at the state level is going to take some work because of the difficulty that comes with passing a bill at the state level in New Hampshire. However, there are campaigns already pushing to get this bill passed, such as Freedom New Hampshire.
Freedom New Hampshire is a statewide organization that is campaigning for these protections to be implemented at the state level.
His hope, Marino expressed, is that in January, when new legislature is put into place, they'll be able to provide a piece of legislation and work with the Freedom New Hampshire campaign in order to push this bill through. There are currently five state representatives in Durham that fully support this bill and wish to see it put into action, according to Marino.
"There are people in the legislature who know us and who are willing to work with us," Marino said. "Those relationships can help us as we try to do this with equal rights bills when budgets come up and get more money for the university. So those connections can [be] really important."
The time frame of the potential passing and implementation of the bill is unknown.
Marino said that he believes people will act quickly, and that he will do whatever it takes to get this bill passed by state legislature. It would need to be passed by the New Hampshire House of Representatives and Senate, then signed by the governor; the legislature can also override a governor's decision by a two-thirds vote.
"It means a lot to us, as students, because we're an institution that prides itself in equal rights and fairness for all people," Marino said.
According to him, many other surrounding towns have gotten on board with the movement and urged the state to act upon implementation of gender discrimination policies.
Marino expressed his pride in Student Senate's continuation to fight for equal rights and fairness.
Last year, Student Senate passed a resolution that transformed all single-use bathrooms into gender-inclusive restrooms. These single-use restrooms can be seen most frequently in the Memorial Union Building.
"Personally, people would love to see us go further and have even more gender-inclusive restrooms, but I think our [gender-inclusive] resolution is a good place to start and is heading in the right direction," Marino said.
Marino said that his biggest hope in passing this resolution is to raise awareness of the issue as he noted that there remain a lot of people who don't know that New Hampshire doesn't have any laws protecting transgender people from discrimination. He believes that if more people were to be aware of this, there would be an increase of people taking such action on the issue in the state.
Marino said that he urges people, especially young people, to join the Freedom New Hampshire campaign.
"This is an issue that cannot wait and can't wait any longer," Marino said. "People are getting discriminated [against] in New Hampshire and that situation needs o be fixed immediately as far as I'm concerned."
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F.C. Resident Wins Alumni Award from Stony Brook U.
February 15, 2016 4:41 PM by FCNP.com
Falls Church resident Raymond K. Wong was recently selected as a 40 Under Forty Alumni Award winner at Stony Brook University, where he graduated from in 2007 with an electrical engineering degree.
"My vision of a great university includes an alumni network so strong that students want to come to Stony Brook because they know their alumni organization will be standing by to support them and their university," said Samuel L. Stanley, Jr., president of Stony Brook University, at an alumni event honoring the award recipients. It was the university's second annual 40 Under Forty event.
Wong is a foreign service diplomat for the U.S. Department of State as well as a former senior consultant for Booz Allen Hamilton. He also served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a marine officer and radio operator.
Other award recipients include Major League Baseball pitcher for the Miami Marlins Tom Koehler, Los Angeles Rams National Football League reporter Dani Klupenger and neuroscientist Heather Berlin. For more information, visit stonybrook.edu/40underforty.
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"Outside the cage I hate no one. Life is too short for that. In side the cage my Job is to destroy! Glover is done on Jan 26 n Chicago," Rampage tweeted Tuesday night.
The light heavyweights were slated to battle at UFC 153 until Rampage was forced to bow out with an injury. Instead, Teixeira went on to beat Fabio Maldonado last month in Brazil.
The scrap marks Rampage's final fight inside the Octagon. After dropping a unanimous decision defeat to Ryan Bader at UFC 144, the former 205-pound champ went on a worldwide tour blasting the UFC for their inadequate pay structure and lack of appreciation.
The 34-year-old then demanded to be released from the promotion, but UFC officials said they can go their separate ways after he fulfills the last bout on his contract.
Rampage was forced to undergo surgery on both of his knees in March and has been on the mend ever since.
Teixeira's long-awaited big league debut had been postponed due to visa issues, but the Brazilian made up for lost time by quickly disposing of Kyle Kingsbury with a 1stRound arm triangle choke at UFC 146.
The 33-year-old hasn't lost a scrap since March of 2005, rattling off 17 straight victories during that span.
United Center in Chicago, Illinois hosts the January 26th festivities.