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As you may have heard there was a massive earthquake in Colombia last week. The epicenter was in the western half of the country, which has given us the Chará brothers, Dairon, Mosquera, Fory, Caicedo, Perlaza, Moreno, Arboleda... Basically, every Colombian player that the Timbers have ever had is from the affected area. Stuff on the ground is *dire* y'all...

Diego is calling us to action, so if you have a couple of bucks to spare, consider donating to:

• UNICEF's fund for supporting children affected by the earthquake

• Catholic Relief Services's Colombia Earthquake Relief fund

These two are particularly good because they already had established networks and relationships among the affected communities (esp. many of the ones out in the middle of nowhere, where other NGOs never show up) and boots on the ground. They will still be there after all the other NGOs leave.

You can also donate directly to the Colombian Red Cross and support front line relief efforts.

A few dollars go a long way when the exchange rate is 3050-to-1!

Looked pretty bad ass from field level...

Just kidding... Everybody look!

At around the 37th minute mark, the commentators on the Spanish language broadcast of the RSL match said that Cifuentes is very likely to bring his longtime assistant Xavi Calm with him to Portland. Calm has been his assistant dating back to his time at Rubí, Sant Adreu, and L'Hospitalet in the Spanish 3rd division and also at Hammarby in Sweden and QPR and Leicester City in the Championship.

More on Calm [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavi\_Calm).

I'm organizing a career panel at a large national conference about jobs at primarily undergraduate/teaching focused institutions. I am interested in figuring out what grad students and postdocs coming from traditional research universities might want to/should know faculty positions and the job search process at PUIs. The emphasis is on STEM, but if you are in the Humanities or Social Sciences and have something that you think might apply to all PUI faculty, I'm definitely interested in hearing it. If you are a faculty member at a research university and have students that approach you about pursuing careers at PUIs, what information do you not have that you wish you had to give them?

Obviously novelty in antiquity especially when it comes to ideas is hard to pin down, but did the Macedonians have any specific world views that might have been different than what was the norm at the time that drove Alexander's drive for conquest or was it more "More land + subjects = Good" like conquerors dating back forever? I.e., were Alexander's campaigns (and Phillip's before him) actually driven by any particular higher philosophical ideas beyond straight up conquest/expansion/thirst for power/wealth?

Just got around to watching yesterday's match. Carlos Ramírez said a team source told him there is already somebody signed and the announcement is coming early next week. It was somewhere around the 6-7' mark.

There hasn't been a formal announcement of him being let go or signing anywhere and he was still doing ads for local car dealerships a week or two ago. Bunch of Timbers (and even former Timbers) responded to the ad but really only Finn responded to the cryptic message that suggested he was leaving from mid-May.

¿Hay algún sitio chévere donde vaya a haber buen parche?

¿Hay algún sitio chévere donde vaya a haber buen parche?

I'm organizing a panel of engineering/physics/applied math faculty from teaching focused and/or primarily-undergraduate institutions to talk about their experiences in front of an audience of postdocs and grad students. If you were in the audience, what would you like to learn about these career paths or what questions would you ask people on the panel if given the chance? (I'll try to answer your questions here as best as I am able given my experience teaching at several PUIs)