Mr. Root also found that he had to make the best of the short breaks, usually just five or 10 minutes, that contestants get each hour. He perfected power naps and ate his fruits and nuts. Early on, he hit on a signature gimmick: sunglasses that he kept on day and night. That so spooked one contestant that she ran from the car screaming that Mr. Root was an alien.
Month: July 2002
The Salt Lake Tribune — Nevada Snags UVSC’s Romesburg
“I absolutely love this place. As exciting as this job in Nevada will be, I can’t imagine ever working at a place as professionally rewarding as this,” he said.
Since taking the helm in July 1988, Romesburg has transformed UVSC from a two-year technical school to a state college that offers about 23 bachelor’s degrees. Enrollment has more than tripled and the campus has doubled in size under his watch.
The Salt Lake Tribune — Nevada Snags UVSC’s Romesburg
It’s goodbye Happy Valley, hello Sin City for Utah’s most senior college president, Kerry Romesburg.
Romesburg announced late Tuesday that he is stepping down after 14 years at Utah Valley State College in Orem to accept the top post at Nevada State College, a new school opening this fall in Henderson just outside Las Vegas.
News of the 57-year-old’s departure may shock some in Utah’s higher education ranks. Romesburg, too, was surprised when late Tuesday he was offered the position a day after interviewing for it and weeks before finalists were supposed to be announced.
“I’m usually not at a loss for words, but I don’t know what to say. This is completely unexpected and very flattering,” Romesburg told The Salt Lake Tribune after learning he was picked as “top choice” from a pool of five semi-finalists.
The Salt Lake Tribune — Sierra Club Lauds ‘Smart’ Utah Transit
Utah has been singled out by the Sierra Club. In a good way.
The national environmental organization named the Utah Transit Authority’s TRAX light-rail system and planned commuter rail line as examples of smart transportation projects in an anti-sprawl report released Tuesday.
The annual report, titled “Smart Choices, Less Traffic,” notes that with a daily ridership of about 22,000 — 9,000 above original projections — TRAX is already playing a significant role in easing congestion and improving air quality along the Wasatch Front.
The Salt Lake Tribune — Pressure Led to Trib Sale
AT&T Corp. wanted to get rid of The Salt Lake Tribune by selling it to the LDS Church-owned Deseret News because of “serious threats to AT&T’s political interests in the state,” according to court documents unsealed Tuesday.
The “great outcome” of such a sale, wrote AT&T Broadband President Leo J. Hindery Jr. to AT&T board member John C. Malone, would be “the good will we will have preserved with the Mormon church and the political leadership of the state.”
The July 1999 memo to Malone was an effort to win his support of the Deseret News’ planned purchase of The Tribune for $175 million. Two years earlier, Malone had promised the family that owned The Tribune he would support their bid to buy the newspaper back Aug. 1, 2002. The McCarthey family intends to exercise that contested bid, the subject of a federal lawsuit, at one minute past midnight tonight.
Computer Chair by Roger Arrick
The adjustable seat makes a huge difference in my ability to completely become one with the computer. Considering adding accessories to enhance my digital experience such as a tube to supply a continuous stream of Mountain Dew and maybe a urnal. Next I’ll be working on submerging my entire body in a vat of hot salsa along with an automatic chip dispenser.
Cell Biology (washingtonpost.com)
The U.S. military has been one of the earliest institutions to both fear and see the possibilities in swarming. John Arquilla co-authored “Swarming and the Future of Conflict” two years ago for the think tank Rand Corp. and the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He sees swarming — “a deliberately structured, coordinated, strategic way to strike from all directions” — as spearheading a revolution in military affairs.
“The military has much to learn from Critical Mass,” he writes in an e-mail. “I used to go up to San Francisco regularly to see this leaderless swarm of bicyclists bring traffic to a complete halt for two hours. Once I asked a police sergeant, as he stood observing by the Ferry Building, what he was going to do about this. He shrugged his shoulders and asked back, ‘What would you have me do?’ “
Cell Biology (washingtonpost.com)
The difference was the amazing speed with which people could swarm. It created not only a new kind of protest, but a new kind of protester. “It’s a great way to get people who are in offices involved,” Christina Bautisto, who works in Manila’s financial district, said of her fellow professionals. “They don’t have to spend all day protesting. They just get a message telling them when it’s starting, and then they take the elevator down to the street. They can be seen, scream a little and then go back to work.”
Cell Biology (washingtonpost.com)
“A quite sophisticated text messaging network has sprung up,” an “insider” told the Scottish Daily Record. “If William is spotted anywhere in the town then messages are sent out” on his admirers’ cell phones. “It starts off quite small. The first messages are then forwarded to more girls and so on. It just has a snowball effect. Informing 100 girls of his movements takes just seconds.” At one bar, the prince had to be moved to a safe location when more than 100 “lusty ladies,” so alerted, suddenly mobbed the place like cats responding to the sound of a can opener.
Chalk up another life changed by “swarming,” a behavior that is transforming social, work, military and even political lives worldwide, especially among the young. It is the unintended consequence of people, cell phones in hand, learning that they can coordinate instantly and leaderlessly.
a letter to pyra, dissected; saturn.org.
ev assumed that blogger had become something bigger than the sum of its parts (or the sum of its creators) and in that, he was right. where he was wrong was when he convinced the congregation that his own motivations for keeping blogger alive were out of divine goodwill. the way he handled things is not the way someone handles a work of charity, it was like someone snatching a baton and then running on past all his teammates all the way to the finish line. as much as he may sincerely thank them later on for their help, it’s hard to find it very sincere given the circumstances.
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