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Beth English and daughter, Caroline Why on Earth did I pick lasagna, I thought while I stirred the sauce, checked the noodles and answered a steady stream of questions from my 3-year-old, Caroline. Seriously, couldnít I have written about something simple like a bar of chocolate? Sometimes ideas have a way of grabbing you and thatís just all there is. When we first began envisioning this food issue the economic downturn was hitting home and all I wanted to do was go home and bake a warm, comforting lasagna something I rarely do. But as we talked about food, I was struck by how we carry a deep desire for comfort food in times of uncertainty or crisis. For me and I suspect for most people comfort foods are sometimes not so much about the food itself but about the memories connected with it. In my case, I laugh a little because my earliest lasagnas came from a Chef Boyardee kit. But how I loved that dish! I always requested it on my birthday, a day my mother made special by allowing us to choose our favorite foods and then creating magnificently decorated cakes. And thatís just one food memory of many. I still feel a thrill when I think of my motherís homemade yeast rolls, Grandma Tatumís chicken and dumplings or Grandma Kirbyís biscuits. The memories center me, helping me know where I come from and where Iím going. Food is something that is so basic, yet has so many layers of meaning. I found myself making another lasagna this July for the photo shoot to go along with the ďFood for the SoulĒ article. My husband, Chris, is the photography editor. The concept: take pictures of our children eating comfort food, specifically lasagna. Small problem lasagna is my comfort food, not theirs. They donít particularly like it. These thoughts were running through my mind when one of my sonís friends, Hannah McFarland, popped into the kitchen to ask a question. Ah-ha, I thought. Hannahís a great eater; Iíll invite her to dinner. So thatís the beautiful girl you see pictured with the story. But the best part of the story is how our son, Clay, the pickiest eater in the house, attacked his plate with gusto because his dad was shooting pictures. And then asked for seconds. And finished by patting his tummy and telling me that he loved my lasagna. Iíd like to think that maybe this will be one of his special food memories, made doubly sweet because itís recorded in photos taken by his dad. It was a full table that night with my in-laws and Hannah there, but thatís how food should be enjoyed in the comfort of the people who love you best. Hearing other people talk about special foods in their lives has been a wonderful part of creating this issue. I hope you take a moment to share some of your food memories. Beth English '07 MALS, Editor
Ryan McKillop runs a fascinating operation at McKillop U/W. Social media is deeply integrated into his design process enabling him to produce and change products in line with his customers feedback, yet he produces his truly unique underwear with classic, almost old-fashioned handmade techniques. His hands-on approach allows him to be extremely nimble with releasing different versions of his product. In fact, he’s so far made several significant changes to his collections this year due to feedback he’s received from his customers on twitter or on his blog. “It’s a severely premium product — there’s so much construction and elastic,” McKillop said in a phone interview. “Each piece takes about two hours: They’re individually hand-pinned, and sewn on three different machines. There are some companies that sew two legs at the same time, or are cut by lasers. We’re trying to make sure that we’re quite separate from that, which drives us to come out with some really unique stuff that nobody else would make.” By remaining on the boutique/couture side of the spectrum, McKillop is able to impart an attention to detail that would seem impossible from a larger industrially-sourced brand. His funky one-offs like last month’s Sweater Jock and this month’s Denim Jock are the result. They manufacture the items after ordering, too — they don’t run into a warehouse and grab a box off the shelf. “The reason we do this is to allow a longer life of the fabrics and elastics for the customers. It takes a little longer to receive a Mckillop, but it is worth the wait,” he said. “I was trained in classic fashion design, and that informs the finishings that I use,” explains McKillop. “I don’t want to change that. I use old techniques by hand. Also, everyone in the industry is doing the exact same thing and I think that its tired. My aesthetic is more something that you would wear to the opera with a tux, rather than to the gym to work out. We’re trying to define a higher-end line of clothing.” Of course, McKillop knows that his customers are wearing his underwear to the gym, too — he gets feedback from them all the time on Twitter, Facebook and his blog. But that doesn’t faze him. “The fun part is my customers make more of the rules than I do – I listen on all the channels. I just adapt and change.” “We have a very close-knit customer base,” McKillop said. “All the people on twitter, anyone that messages me, I’ll engage with them. A lot of the design elements have been a result of those conversations. When people say things on the blog, or polls, we’ll change the product. We’re our own factory.” “I’m very old school as a person,” he goes on. “I still believe that people spend time getting dressed. The branding within my head and what I’m creating.. its still going to be a brand that’s designed for that — designed for a luxury customer base that wants a premium good.” As for the customer responsiveness, “That’s how it should be done,” he opines. “And if its not being done by the bigger companies, then that’s a mistake. You have to listen to your customers. Quite honestly, my customers steer McKillop in different directions. I had no idea I’d be making butt lifters — I liked it, they made me feel great, but it turned out that that’s what my customers want, too. So that’s where I am.” Even though it could seem that by listening to customers so much, McKillop might lose its own vision and focus, it turns out that the opposite is true. McKillop says that “the brand changes every day. We just learn as we go along. We learn from mistakes and we get better. At the very beginning, I spent so much time trying to figure out what the identity is, [but] it’s like self-discovery as you go along. At this point, three years into it, it kinda seems real simple that the brand has turned into so much of myself. The more I’m true to myself, the better the brand is performing.”
2012 (Sophomore): Appeared in eight games as reserve running back and special teams contributor ... Rushed 10 times for 49 yards and a touchdown in season-opening win over South Dakota Mines (Aug. 30) ... Credited with a special teams tackle at Eastern Washington (Oct. 6) ... Earned second letter. 2011 (Redshirt Freshman): Appeared in all 11 games as a reserve running back and special teams contributor ... Rushed 12 times for 62 yards and one touchdown during the season ... Posted season highs with seven carries and 42 yards vs. Black Hills State (Sept. 24) ... Scored his first collegiate touchdown on a 19-yard run in that contest ... Carried the ball five times for 19 yards in win over Montana Western (Oct. 8) ... Earned first letter. 2010: Redshirt season Before UND: A 2010 graduate of Warroad High School ... Named to the 2009 Heart of the Lakes first team ... Finished his senior season with 876 yards on 96 carries (9.1/game) and 11 touchdowns. Personal: Majoring in criminal justice ... Son of Lisa Shaugabay. - Go UND -
UNESCO Director-General condemns wave of journalist killings "The wave of journalist killings we have seen in recent days is cause for deep concern and must stand condemned," said UNESCO Director-General of UNESCO, Irina Bokova, following the murders of four journalists between 5 and 8 September. The Director-General urged national authorities in the countries concerned to do everything within their power to bring the assassins to justice. Irina Bokova condemned the murders of Afghan journalist Sayed Hamid Noori, Angolan journalist Alberto Graves Chakussanga, and Iraqi journalists Safaa al-Khayat and Riad al-Saray as grave violations of the basic human right of freedom of expression. "The work of media professionals is vital for the fundamental right of freedom of expression," the Director-General said. "The defence of this right is all the more important in countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq where conflict has wrought so much damage to the social fabric of the nation. I trust the authorities will do their utmost in each of the cases to investigate the crime and bring the culprits to justice." Sayed Hamid Noori, a well-known former news anchor of Radio Television Afghanistan (RTA), was stabbed to death on September 5 in Kabul. Noori, 45, had become spokesman for the speaker of the Afghan parliament after leaving RTA but continued to be a committed political journalist, according to the non-governmental organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Also on September 5, Angolan journalist Alberto Graves Chakussanga was shot dead at his home in Luanda's Viana district. Chakussanga had presented a weekly, Umbundu-language news call-in program on private Radio Despertar. Prominent Iraqi television anchorman Riad al-Saray, was shot dead on 7 September in Baghdad. Mr Saray, 35, presented religious and political programmes for al-Iraqiya TV, the state broadcaster. Reporters without Borders (RSF) said Mr Saray is the 15th al-Iraqiya journalist to be killed since the end of Saddam Hussein's regime. On September 8, Iraqi journalist Safaa al-Khayat was killed by gunmen in the northern city of Mosul. Media reports say that Safaa al-Khayat was shot dead as he was leaving his house to go to work at Al-Mosuliyah television, a privately-owned provincial station where he presented a religious programme entitled "Our Mosques". The Director-General has condemned the killings of 36 journalists and media workers so far this year. According to the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, almost one in five of those who lost their lives was covering corruption, making that subject more dangerous than conflict. UNESCO is the only United Nations agency with a mandate to defend freedom of expression and press freedom. Article 1 of its Constitution requires the Organization to "further universal respect for justice, for the rule of law and for the human rights and fundamental freedoms which are affirmed for the peoples of the world, without distinction of race, sex, language or religion, by the Charter of the United Nations." To realize this the Organization is requested to "collaborate in the work of advancing the mutual knowledge and understanding of peoples, through all means of mass communication and to that end recommend such international agreements as may be necessary to promote the free flow of ideas by word and image..."
UNODC Framework for Action Oct 25 2010 Download right click "save as" The Framework for Action is a technical assistance tool that aims to assist United Nations Member States in the effective implementation of the United Nations Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children (United Nations Trafficking Protocol). The Framework for Action consists of a narrative part and a set of tables. The narrative describes key challenges in the implementation of the United Nations Trafficking Protocol and proposes general measures that can be taken in order to more effectively address these challenges. The set of tables details these measures further, through five pillars containing practical actions to support the implementation of the United Nations Trafficking Protocol.More information about human trafficking on the website of UNODC. - Russian Union of Journalists, OSCE Manual on Reporting on Human Trafficking - IOM Manual Human Trafficking and Legalization of Criminal Profits. Russian. - IOM Manual on THB crimes typologies. Russian. - IOM International Conference. “Improvement of International Cooperation in Counteracting Human Trafficking” Russian - ILO OSCE Anti-Trafficking Response in Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia - ILO Preventing Forced Labour in Russian Construction Industry - Trafficking in Persons to Europe for sexual exploitation - First Aid Kit Russian - IOM Direct Assistance to Victims Handbook 2007 Russian - Needs Assessment Toolkit Russian
Women's Hockey Falls Short to Northeastern, 3-1 DURHAM, N.H. – The University of New Hampshire women's hockey team fell to Northeastern University, 3-1, Thursday night. The loss puts the Wildcats at 10-12-2 on the year and to 6-5-1 in Hockey East play while the Huskies improve to 13-9-2 overall and to 7-6-1 in conference action. NU's Kendall Coyne got the scoring started in the first period when she scored her 21st goal of the season. Casey Pickett played the puck to Rachel Llanes who in turn found Coyne near the goal. Coyne lifted a point-blank shot over the glove of New Hampshire netminder Jenn Gilligan (Maple Ridge, British Columbia) and into the goal. The Wildcats gained momentum in the period, outshooting the Huskies 9-5. After the first period, the Huskies held a 1-0 lead. Brittney Redlick (Biggar, Saskatchewan) tallied her fifth goal of the year at 14:27 on the second period. Alexis Crossley (Cole Harbour, Nova Scotia) sent the puck off the boards to Redlick who then carried the puck up the ice, weaving her way in and out of traffic and into the Huskies' zone. She then sent a shot to the top corner of the net and past NU goalie Kelsey O'Sullivan. Coyne netted her second goal of the game on a shorthanded, delayed penalty situation. Coyne intercepted a pass in the neutral zone and skated in to tally the second goal of the game. At 18:28, Brittany Esposito tallied the third and final goal of the game on a power play during a 5-on-3 situation. Maggie DiMasi and Pickett picked up assists on the play. The Wildcats kept the offensive pressure on during the period, ringing the post twice while on a power play. At the end of two periods, NU led 3-1. New Hampshire's Katie Brock (Marblehead, Mass.) nearly notched another goal for the Wildcats in the third period when she ripped a shot from just inside the blueline that rung the post and bounced away. Gilligan made saves on all 10 shots she faced in the period. Through three periods of play, the Huskies held on to win, 3-1. Gilligan got the loss in net for the 'Cats after making 21 saves on the 24 shots she faced. Her record falls to 7-2-1 on the year. O'Sullivan tallied her first win of the year for Northeastern after saving 27 of 28 shots the Wildcats sent her way. The Wildcats went 0-for-3 on the power play while Northeastern was 1-for-4 with the advantage. New Hampshire outshot NU by a margin of 28-24. New Hampshire will return to the ice as it hits the road to face fifth-ranked Boston University on Sunday, Jan. 27. Puck drop is slated for 3 p.m.
October 2006 - Paula Crisostomo 2006 Hispanic Heritage Month Paula will be speaking the Thursday, October 5th at 7:00 PM. Her keynote is in conjunction with the film Walkout, which will be privately screened the evening before. Wednesday, October 4 from 8:00 - 10:00 PM. The struggle for equal rights in America has often been advanced through the courageous actions of ordinary individuals. Paula Crisostomo is one such person. It was as a high school student that Paula stepped into the spotlight of the Chicano struggle for equality and the fight against racism. Appalled at the deplorable quality of the education she was receiving, Paula led the largest high school student protest in this country's history. In early March, 1968, Chicano students from five East Los Angeles high schools walked out of their classes as a direct protest against the sub-standard quality of their education. Not only was it the first time Chicano students walked out, but it was also the first major mass protest against racism ever undertaken by Mexican-Americans. It was a watershed in the struggle for equal rights. By the time the historic "blow-outs" were over, a week and a half later, more than 20,000 students had participated in East Los Angeles and in sympathy walkouts at other high schools across the city. This story has been made into an HBO movie, Walk Out, which premiered in March of 2006. Directed by Edward James Olmos and starring Alexa Vega as Paula, the movie tells the story of a piece of history that has become a seminal point in the struggle for educational equity in the Chicano community. It is told through Paula's voice and experience. Walk Out is Paula's courage and leadership in this historic event has been documented in numerous books and she is featured in the PBS documentary Chicano!: Taking Back the Schools. Today, Paula Crisostomo is the Director of Government & Community Relations for Occidental College in Los Angeles. She provides leadership and direction for the college's community outreach strategies, including neighborhood relations, local and federally sponsored services programs in education and local and state government relations. History comes alive as Paula Crisostomo talks about the East Los Angeles high school walkouts that were the first mass protest by Mexican-Americans in our country's history. She talks about the racism that she and her classmates struggled against in their efforts to get a quality education, and the momentous decision they made to stand up for their rights as citizens. At a time when we are celebrating the anniversaries of some of the seminal moments in the Civil Rights Movement, Paula's story provides an excellent perspective on the struggle for equal rights from the Chicano perspective, and highlights a forgotten but important moment when a community, and a people, found their voice.
\|© UNICEF video\| \|Workers load insecticide-treated bed nets onto barges in Kinshasa, DR Congo. The nets are being transported up the Congo River for distribution to remote regions of the country.\| By Eva Gilliam KISANGANI, Democratic Republic of the Congo, 1 October 2009 – Mikala Mobanda’s four-year-old son has been suffering from fever and lack of appetite for several days. He is lethargic and complains of pain. In this area of DR Congo’s Province Orientale – where malaria is endemic and nearly every child will contract it – there is little doubt of the diagnosis. The child is tested and treated with anti-malarial drugs. He should be better in about a week. Unfortunately, the chances are high that he will return to the health centre within a month’s time. Health experts estimate that each child under five years of age in DR Congo has 6 to 10 attacks of malaria per year. This is equivalent to as many as 100 million episodes, or even more, annually. Approximately 90,000 Congolese children under five die from the disease every year, and many others are orphaned when malaria weakens and kills their parents. Prevention is a challenge In communities such as Orientale, local hospitals and health centres must keep up with a constant stream of malaria cases. Leon Faliala, a nurse at the Umoja Health Centre on the outskirts of Orientale’s capital, Kisangani, treats many patients each day. He says that prevention efforts here are necessary but difficult to implement. \|© UNICEF DR Congo/2009\| \|Barges loaded with nets prepare to leave Kinshasa for Kisangani, as part of a massive campaign to distribute the anti-malarial nets throughout DR Congo.\| “We try to encourage people to use mosquito nets and clear stagnant water from their homes, but it is hard,” said Mr. Faliala. “Nets cost money, and in the rainy season, who can control the water?” ‘A huge undertaking’ With the rainy season just days away, UNICEF, along with partners including UNITAID and the World Food Programme, is mobilizing the distribution of some 5.5 million mosquito bed nets in DR Congo. Each has been treated with insecticide and can help reduce the risk of contracting malaria for those who sleep under them at night. The operation hopes to reach each household with three nets. “This is an emotional moment for us,” said UNICEF Representative in DR Congo Pierrette Vu Thi. “It is a huge undertaking, with serious logistical challenges, and now it is happening.” On 18 September, eight massive barges left Kinshasa for Orientale and Maniema Provinces, carrying about 2.2 million bed nets. But distribution poses a serious logistical challenge. Province Orientale alone is the size of Spain and has few roads. “The weather is a big factor,” said Pierre Singa, a Congolese sailor who is helping to push the barges upriver. “There can be breakdowns, and even capsizing or sinking.” UNICEF and local partners are preparing to work at the household level to ensure proper distribution and use of bed nets after they reach Kisangani. ‘The mission is worth it’ While treated bed nets will not totally eradicate malaria, they will greatly reduce the risks to children. Evidence suggests that sleeping under insecticide-treated nets, when consistently and correctly used, can save 6 child lives per year for every 1,000 children sleeping under them. “We feel that this mobilization and distribution of treated bed nets can make a real difference,” said Ms. Vu Thi. “The mission is worth it,” added Mr. Singa. “I feel like I am doing something for my people, helping them fight malaria.” The following external links open in a new window:
N´DJAMENA, 31 august 2012 - Pau Gasol, Silver Medalist at the 2012 Olympics, the two-time NBA champion and a UNICEF Spain Ambassador since 2003, visited in the last days several areas in the Kanem region, in Chad, where thousands of families are affected by the nutritional crisis in the Sahel. After seeing firsthand the work of UNICEF with 71 partners and affected communities, Pau ended his trip to Chad noting that "thanks to everyone’s help many lives are being saved, only in Chad half of the children affected have been treated for malnutrition, but we must not forget that in the whole Sahel region there’s still hundreds of thousands of children who need this treatment, we have to keep the work and momentum going”. UNICEF has reached more than 335,000 children with nutritional treatment in the Sahel region so far this year. The goal is to reach 700,000 in the coming months to address the consequences of this crisis affecting 18 million people in nine countries in this African region. The crisis has its causes in extreme poverty, drought, rising food prices and conflicts. While in Chad, Pau Gasol spent three days in the capital, N'Djamena, and three days in Kanem, where he saw UNICEF projects in Mao and Miouh, a small village where a feeding center has been opened, a water well has been installed, schools are supported by training teachers and supplies are distributed. I addition, hygiene habits are promoted while providing supplies and practical information to prevent diseases such as cholera. "It is very important to reach places like Miouh, where families have problems that could not be addressed without the support of organizations like UNICEF," said UNICEF Ambassador. As an example of the scope of support, he referred to one of the girls he has met on this trip "Fatime, treated for malnutrition at a treatment center in Mao. She lives 60 kilometers away from the center, in a village in the middle of the sand, without roads, but thanks to a network supported by UNICEF and other organizations, is now recovering. Stories like this are repeated. " In Mao, Pau also visited a UNICEF program aimed to promote hygiene habits among children. He refereed a football game and made sure that the children washed their hands after finishing, since this practice prevents deadly diseases. In the same school, he shared a few hours with children attending ‘resit’ courses for pupils who have failed to complete the course due to the nutritional crisis. Besides FAO and WFP, he also visited a wadi, oasis-like area in which the implementation of a simple system of irrigation and seed distribution contributes to the survival of thousands of families. In N'Djamena, Pau Gasol met with ministers of the Government of Chad to share the idea that sport is "an exceptional tool for the promotion of values, for the development of children and to contribute to the development of their countries." While attending an event organized by UNICEF, the Government of Chad and the basketball federation and league, Pau delivered this message and joined several youth teams matches. Chad is the fourth country Pau has visited as a UNICEF Ambassador. The first trip was in 2005 to South Africa to see projects related to the fight against AIDS in children, the same in Angola in 2007. His third trip was in 2010 to Ethiopia where the basketball player decided to engage personally through the Pau Project, that supports Schools for Africa, an initiative of UNICEF, the Nelson Mandela Foundation and The Hamburg Society, to promote education for all. Pau’s Project has been reflected in a documentary produced by laSexta. Since its launch in 2010, Pau’s Project has led to the following: Apart from its direct link to the project in Ethiopia, Pau’s Project has promoted campaigns and initiatives for child survival and development, particularly in support of UNICEF nutrition and health programs for preventing malnutrition and also humanitarian crises such as the Horn of Africa (2011) and the Sahel (2012). Pau Gasol is working at UNICEF initiatives in Spain and the United States, where he lives. For more information about the work of Pau Gasol with UNICEF: UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. For more information about UNICEF and its work visit: http://www.unicef.org For further information, please contact: Dailo Allí, UNICEF Spain, Tel + 34 609160051, Food crisis in the Sahel
National Children’s Forum brings young voices to Niger's electoral process Niamey, Niger, 20 December 2010 – A quiet revolution is taking place in the unlikeliest of places, with children at its forefront. “I want our rights to be respected and ask that the new president build schools with well-built classrooms,” said Hourey Amadou, 12, who was among the 161 participants in a National Children’s Forum held late last month in Niger’s capital, Niamey. At the forum, children from 36 districts had the unique opportunity to speak out about their concerns during three days of meetings with political leaders, researchers, journalists and UN staff. Children from all backgrounds came together in this first-of-its-kind initiative, with support from civil society and the media, at a time when the country is at a crossroads between military rule and a democratically elected regime. Children’s voices heard In the run-up to the forum, a UNICEF-supported training programme gathered children in their respective regions and encouraged them to express their needs and concerns through messages that would then be shared with decision-makers. On 26 November, the children invited members of the country’s three main political coalitions, as well as government ministries, UNICEF staff and others, to attend a ceremony that ended with the youth delegates reading a declaration. In it, they summoned leaders to listen, stating:“We want to live our dream of a better tomorrow. We have some proposals to make. Do listen!” “The rights that we have been talking about must become reality and not remain empty shells easily talked about during official speeches,” says UNICEF Representative in Niger Guido Cornale. A national study on child poverty and disparities in Niger, published in 2009, found a high level of vulnerability in this regard: More than 9 out of 10 children are deprived of at least one right essential to their well-being, while almost 8 in 10 children are deprived of at least two essential rights simultaneously. Efforts by the government and its partners in the past decade have made only a limited impact on the quality of child health and education, and the reduction of gender disparities. As a result, 34 per cent of girls are married before the age of 15, and about half of all children between the ages of 5 and 14 have to work. As part of this process, candidates for the presidency also will be invited to share their visions and concrete action plans for the betterment of children’s living conditions. They will then be asked to sign a memorandum sealing their commitment – a first step in holding future Nigerien leaders accountable for ensuring child rights. “It has been 50 years since our country has been independent, yet we still suffer from hunger and poverty,” said Ibrahim Boubacar, 14, a National Children’s Forum participant. “In 15 years, I see a prosperous and rich Niger, a country where all children would live happily.” By Halimatou Hima Moussa Dioula
Meghan Haley-Quigley ’11 is this week’s Kenney Community Center Volunteer of the Week. Haley-Quigley has worked to promote sustainability and green initiatives on campus. She regularly volunteers at Ozone Café, which offers organic and locally-produced foods each week. She is also actively involved in Ozone House, a green-minded theme house. Haley-Quigley is co-president of U-Sustain and the Environmental Club. She is from Glen Cove, N.Y., and is an environmental policy major and French minor. To nominate someone to be Volunteer of the Week, contact Janet Sweeney at 388-6609.
However, Sacco was very impressed with the way that the North Hudson Regional Fire & Rescue conducted themselves in the face of tragedy at the 308-unit, 15-story facility located at 64th and Grand streets. "I saw the monumental job that the Regional had in fighting that fire," Sacco said. "There was horrendous heat and thick smoke. There were firefighters on top of the building, hanging down on ropes and trying to lower themselves in through windows, all some 15 stories above the ground. These were very dangerous conditions." While the life of 71-year-old resident Mary Cosentino was lost that evening, the conditions were so severe that it was fortunate that there weren't more casualties. Last Wednesday, Sacco and the North Bergen Board of Commissioners showed their appreciation for a job well done by presenting representatives of the NHRFR with an official proclamation honoring the Regional's efforts in fighting the multi-alarm fire. It marked the first time in Sacco's 16-year tenure as mayor that he issued such a proclamation. "They did an outstanding job," Sacco said. "This was our way to honor them properly. It was worthy of receiving the first proclamation." NHRFR Co-Director Michael DeOrio, who accepted the proclamation on behalf of the entire Regional, was impressed that Sacco and the commissioners took the time to honor the firefighters. "Mayor Sacco saw it firsthand and realized that the fire could have escalated into something more serious," DeOrio said. "I think he wanted to honor all of those who fought the fire, and this was a special way to do it." DeOrio, who was a member of the North Bergen Fire Department before it became part of the five-municipality Regional four years ago, firmly believes that there would have been more casualties if the old system of only one fire department fighting the fire was still in place. "If it was still just our fire department, we wouldn't have been able to handle it," DeOrio said. "No one town, with 25 men, could have handled this fire. But with the Regional, with at least 60 men responding to the fire, it kept the casualties to a minimum." The fire was located on the 14th floor of the facility and began in Cosentino's apartment. "When our men got to the 14th floor, they encountered heavy smoke," DeOrio said. "When they opened the door of the apartment, they found heavy flames. It immediately went to the fourth alarm." Residents were instructed to remain inside their apartments while the firefighters fought the blaze. According to DeOrio, most residents followed the instructions, putting wet towels under the door frames to keep the smoke out as much as possible. That also helped to keep casualties and injuries to a minimum. The 14th floor received some smoke and water damage, so residents of the 13th, 14th and 15th floors were evacuated and placed either with family members or in other temporary housing. With the exception of the 14th floor residents, most have returned to their homes. Ten residents were treated for smoke inhalation and anxiety, but all have recovered. Eighteen members of the NHRFR were treated for a variety of injuries, ranging from facial burns to a broken nose. Although DeOrio accepted the proclamation, along with NHRFR Co-Director Jeff Welz, NHRFR Chief Edward Flood and Deputy Chief Brian McEldowney, the proclamation was essentially given to all of those who fought the blaze. "It's for the men who battled the fire, who took the risks and sustained the injuries," DeOrio said. "They really risked their lives. The recognition is truly deserved and we're happy that the mayor and the commissioners took the time to present this honor. Usually, we're criticized for what we do. It was nice to see a mayor give such a presentation of appreciation."
Home » Opinion » Editorials Casino revenues: Who will resist the temptation? Last week the state Senate voted 16-8 to bring a casino to New Hampshire. Support came from the usual suspects - Lou "Diamond" D'Allesandro, D-Millenium Gaming, and Chuck Morse, R-Salem, principally - and new converts. Sen. Molly Kelly, D-Keene, for example, is not what one would call a gambling enthusaist. She voted for a casino, she said, because the state really needs the money. The state's current revenue problems, though, are more economic than structural in nature. Grafting a casino onto the state's revenue structure will not solve them. Though we are not sure how well she gets the first part, Sen. Martha Fuller Clark, D-Portsmouth, was a voice of reason last week in explaining the second. Casino revenues, she correctly observed, are never as robust as promised, and they are always unreliable. They will be no panacea for New Hampshire's current budget problems, and the tide of other problems that washes in with them will cause trouble for this state forever after. Though we seldom see eye to eye with Sen. Fuller-Clark, she deserves a lot of credit for refusing to be seduced by the Casino God's promise of revenue riches. The economy's temporary struggles are no justification for permanently changing the culture of New Hampshire. May the House remember that. READER COMMENTS: 0 - Page One Editorial: Control of NH’s future: Today’s House vote will be one for the ages - 17 - Consider Nevada: Gambling always expands - 9 - Missing the point: The IRS scandal and state power - 25 - Helping panhandlers: A method worth trying in Manchester - 7 - For the people: A century of the NH primary - 0 - What innovation? The casino way is the lazy way - 10 - Not so merry: Giving Robin Hood a bad name - 4 - Disengaged: Obama's lousy excuse - 15 - Underestimating NH: Gun control picks two wrong targets - 35 READER COMMENTS: 0 - NH Senate kills House-passed gas, tobacco tax hikes - 0 - Senate Finance Committee rejects Medicaid expansion - 5 - Man wielding pipe robs Cumberland Farms in Goffstown - 0 - Buchholz moves to 7-0 as Red Sox post win - 0 - Gambling bill scuttled, 'Now it is going to be really tough' for budget - 29 - NHIAA Roundup: BG girls’ tennis team sweeps Pinkerton - 0 - NHIAA box scores, summaries for May 22 - 0 - Officials say Goffstown High ‘safe’ after threat of violence - 1 - Manchester Community College graduates told ‘speak your minds’ - 0 License revocations for DWI announced Memorial Day events in New Hampshire Consider Nevada: Gambling always expands
PM sees `historic breakthrough´ with Palestinians (HA´ARETZ NEWS) By Aluf Benn and Arnon Regular 01/28/05) HA'ARETZ} NEWS SERVICE HA'ARETZ} NEWS SERVICE Articles-Index-Top Prime Minister Ariel Sharon struck a note of optimism yesterday when he said "the conditions have been created that will enable us and the Palestinians to reach a historic breakthrough in our relations." Speaking at a meeting of the Contractors Association, he described the breakthrough as one "that will bring us to calm and security and in the future to the desired peace." Sharon said "we are following with great interest the recent developments in the Palestinian Authority and it is apparent that there is a positive approach to the fight against terrorism and to the furthering of the diplomatic process. "If the Palestinians take extensive action to end terrorism, violence and incitement, we will be able to proceed in our contacts for the implementation of the road map and it is even possible to coordinate a variety of actions regarding the disengagement plan," he added. "We are seeing encouraging signs, but these things need to stand up to the test of time," Sharon said. Among the signs Sharon was referring to was an edict issued yesterday by the new Palestinian leadership banning civilians from carrying In issuing the decree, Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia stressed that the "chaos of the weapons" had led to a rise in lawlessness. Also yesterday, sources in the PA said that Nasser Yousef was due to be appointed interior minister in the Qureia government. Yousef was in charge of cracking down on militants in the mid-1990s and his likely appointment is another signal that the new PA leadership is serious about restoring law and order. Amos Gilad, in charge of the diplomatic and security sections at the Defense Ministry, visited Cairo on Wednesday, where he met with the Egyptian head of intelligence, Omar Suleiman. The two discussed the plans for the Egyptian military deployment along the Philadelphi route, on the Egyptian side of the Gaza Strip border. Not all details were concluded during the meeting and the dialogue will continue. Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz met yesterday with the British Prime Minister Tony Blair in London and informed him of plans to meet with Mohammed Dahlan on the possibility that security arrangements can be completed in time to initiate the transfer of West Bank towns to Palestinian security control. Mofaz expressed his hope that the transfer will take place as soon as the Palestinians are ready to undertake the responsibility. For its part, the Bush administration is giving strong backing to newly elected Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and expects Israel to assist in his success. "This is the best man in the foreseeable future and he must be given a chance," senior administration officials told their Israeli counterparts. They also asked that Israel "give time" to Abbas in order for him to gradually deal with terrorism, without ignoring the overall responsibility of the Palestinians to combat terrorism. In the new, second-term administration of President George Bush, a quartet is being organized for dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian file. It includes Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Elliot Abrams, a White House aide who will be moved up to the number three spot in the National Security Council, and State Department diplomat David Walsh, currently the ambassador to Cairo, who will move to head the Middle The senior administration officials told their counterparts in Israel that if there are terrorist attacks, Israel should not respond by suspending diplomatic contacts with the Palestinians. According to the American officials, the U.S. had supported Sharon´s decision two weeks ago to suspend contacts with Abbas following the attack at the Karni crossing, but they now believe this should not be a policy in response to every attack. Sharon met yesterday with the outgoing head of the State Department´s Middle East section, William Burns, who was on a farewell tour of the region. Burns has been appointed U.S. ambassador to Moscow. The American diplomat told Sharon that the Bush administration has been favorably impressed by Abbas and by the measures undertaken by Israel to facilitate the elections in the territories. Shin Bet chief Avi Dichter met yesterday with Hadley in Washington, and brought him up to date on the steps taken by the Palestinian Authority to curb terrorism, and the role of Hezbollah in fostering militant activities in the territories. Also yesterday, Palestinian Authority sources said that Israel is considering the release of 900 Palestinian prisoners as part of a goodwill gesture. (© Copyright 2005 Haaretz. 01/28/05) Return to Top MATERIAL REPRODUCED FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY
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\|Discontinued Amateur Handheld Transceivers\| The Kenwood TH-25AT is a simple, yet very advanced 2 meter HT. Frequency selection is via a rotary VFO knob on the top of the radio. Plus there 14 multi-function memory channels with Lithium battery backup. Memory and bandscan capability is featured. Preprogrammed automatic repeater offset can also be changed manually. RF output may be selected at 500 mW or 5 watts (with optional PB-8). Receive is from 141 to 163 MHz. There is an optional TSU-8 CTCSS encoder. The TH-25AT comes with PB-6 battery, wall charger, flexible BNC antenna, belt hook and dust caps. Size: 2.28 x 5.41 x 1.16 inches 0.88 lbs. (58x138x30mm 400g). The Kenwood TH-45AT is similar to the TH-25AT, but covers the 440 MHz band instead of 2 meters. RF output is 5W with PB8, 3.5W with BT-6, 2 W with PB-5/6/7/9 or 0.5 watts on low power. The Kenwood TH-55AT is similar to the TH-25AT, but covers the 1200 MHz band instead of 2 meters. Frequency coverage is 1258-1300 MHz. RF output is 1W with PB8 or BT-6, 0.8 W with PB-5/7/9 or 0.1 watts on low power. Copyright 2007-2011, Universal Radio, Inc. #0000 87 D000/000 Q50/65 JP 01/11
\|\| Home. \| Universe Galaxies And Stars Archives. \| \| \|\| Universe \| Big Bang \| Galaxies \| Stars \| Solar System \| Planets \| Hubble Telescope \| NASA \| Search Engine \|\| Sea Launch Lofts Koreasat 5. A Zenit-3SL vehicle blasted off Tuesday morning from the Sea Launch facility, carrying a Koreasat 5 telecommunications satellite into orbit. The launch occurred at 0327 GMT (11:27pm EDT, Aug 21), and the spacecraft was placed successfully into a geosynchronous transfer orbit about an hour later. The satellite will operate at 113 degrees east, and provide both commercial and military communications services. Sea Launch Company today successfully delivered the Koreasat 5 communications satellite to geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO). Early data indicate the spacecraft is accurately positioned and in excellent condition. A Zenit-3SL vehicle lifted off at 8:27 pm PDT (03:27 GMT, Aug. 22) from the Odyssey Launch Platform, positioned at 154 degrees West Longitude in the equatorial Pacific. All systems performed nominally throughout flight. The Block DM upper stage inserted the 4,448 kg (9,806 lb) Spacebus 4000 C1 platform to GTO, on its way to a final orbital position of 113 degrees East Longitude. A ground station at Fucino, Italy, acquired the first signal from the satellite shortly after spacecraft separation. Built by Alcatel Alenia Space for the KT Corporation and Korea's Agency for Defense Development, the hybrid multi-band satellite will be part of South Korea's new high-capacity Spacecom System over the Asia-Pacific. This is Sea Launch's fourth successful mission of 2006 – two additional missions are planned for this year. Following the completion of the Koreasat 5 mission, Rob Peckham, president and general manager of Sea Launch, congratulated the Agency for Defense Development, KT Corporation and Alcatel Alenia Space. “We take great pride in successfully delivering South Korea's first dual-use spacecraft,” he said. “At Sea Launch, we strive to exceed our customers' expectations and build collaborative relationships built on honesty and trust.” “I want to extend our thanks to everyone involved in achieving this milestone event. In particular, I want to thank our partners and contractors and the entire Sea Launch team for continuing to build our legacy, one successful launch, one satisfied customer at a time.” Sea Launch Company, LLC, headquartered in Long Beach, Calif., is the world's most reliable heavy-lift commercial launch service. This international partnership offers the most direct and cost-effective route to geostationary orbit. With the advantage of a launch site on the Equator, the robust Zenit-3SL rocket can lift a heavier spacecraft mass or provide longer life on orbit, offering best value plus schedule assurance. For additional information and images of this successfully completed mission, please visit the Sea Launch website at: www.sea-launch.com Universe - Galaxies and Stars: Links and Contacts \|\| GNU License \| Contact \| Copyright \| WebMaster \| Terms \| Disclaimer \| Top Of Page. \|\|
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Herschel looks deep inside the heart of a dark cloud located 1000 light years away in the constellation Aquila, the Eagle.Credit: ESA and the SPIRE and PACS consortia The science teams from the Herchel telescope are meeting this week to discuss their first results from the intial months of observations by the newest infrared space telescope, which was launched in May. While details of the scientific findings won’t be released until Friday after everyone at the meetings has had a chance to share their results, ESA released a few stunning new pictures to give everyone a sample of what is to come. In addition to the images shown here, hints of other upcoming images include the most distant known quasar, a dwarf planet, and water sublimating from a comet’s surface. Some of the images have been described as among the most important images obtained from space for decades. Above, Herschel peered deep inside an unseen stellar nursery in located 1000 light years away in the constellation Aquila, the Eagle, revealing a surprising amounts of activity. Some 700 newly-forming stars are estimated to be crowded into filaments of dust stretching through the image. The image is the first new release of ‘OSHI’, ESA’s Online Showcase of Herschel Images. Another images release of the Southern Cross shows that even the darkest patches of sky can shine brightly to Herschel. Usually, this region looks like a bland cloud of dust, but Herschel shows it to be a place of intense star formation with filaments and condensations of dust cocooning newly forming stars. The dust forms into clumps along magnetic lines – like pearls on a necklace. Each clump is a very early star – at its embryonic stage. The third image is of the spiral galaxy M51, also known as the Whirlpool Galaxy, showing off its spectacular infrared colors. Two huge waves of star formation encircle its central nucleus, making beautiful spiral arms. Each one shines brightly with its dust being warmed by the young stars.
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Wow! What a view of Active Region 1542 on the Sun! César Cantú from the Chilidog Observatory in Monterrey, Mexico says this is “another way” of looking at the active region. “It is an inverted image,” César said via email, which means it is essentially a negative which is then processed. “The process was done with software: Registax, PhotoshopCS5 and PixInsight,” he said. César took this image on August 8, 2012. Note the incredible detail of the Sun’s swirling surface, the black bottomless pit of a sunspot, a tornadic-like prominence on the right and other wisps of solar material just above the surface. He used a Meade 10 inch SC, with Coronado 90 mm and BF30 filters, along with a DMK31 camera. “The focal length is 2500 mm and correlated with the camera, approximately 210 X,” César said. See the original at his website. Want to get your astrophoto featured on Universe Today? Join our Flickr group or send us your images by email (this means you’re giving us permission to post them). Please explain what’s in the picture, when you took it, the equipment you used, etc. Image caption: Active Region 1542 on August 8, 2012. Credit: César Cantú. Used by permission.
Rio Rancho has a population of 51,765 and is located in Sandoval county. The average in-state tuition for full time undergraduate students in computer networking schools in Rio Rancho during the 2009 - 2010 school year was $11,340.00. The average tuition was $11,340.00 for non-residents studying in New Mexico. The average cost of books and supplies for computer networking schools in Rio Rancho is $1,350.00. Students have a choice of one computer networking college in Rio Rancho to attend. In the 2008 - 2009 school year, reportedly 0 students completed computer networking programs in Rio Rancho. \|Profession\|\|Average Salary\|\|Number Employed in City\| \|Computer and Information Systems Managers\|\|$99,420.00\|\|500\| \|Computer Support Specialists\|\|$45,890.00\|\|2,150\| \|Computer Systems Analysts\|\|$73,360.00\|\|960\| \|Network and Computer Systems Administrators\|\|$63,740.00\|\|700\| \|Network Systems and Data Communications Analysts\|\|$63,630.00\|\|420\|
We've recently posted articles about how smoking makes you fat (contrary to popular belief). No one should smoke (and that means YOU), but if you do, start eating cruciferous vegetables: cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, kale, turnips, collards, Brussels sprouts, radish, turnip and watercress. They may protect you from lung cancer?IF you have the right genes. The prestigious medical journal The Lancet says while earlier studies have suggested that these foods might play a role in preventing lung cancer, their results weren?t conclusive. The latest research indicates that a person's genetic makeup may either influence or mask this effect. Here's how it works: Cruciferous vegetables are rich in isothiocyanates, which are proven cancer fighters. Despite this, most people's bodies are programmed to eliminate them, because poisonous food have a similar bitter taste, and our ancestors evolved a self-protective dislike of this taste. When the first President Bush announced that he didn't like broccoli, he didn't know it, but he was talking about his DNA. In some people, the genes that do this are inactive, reducing their ability to eliminate isothiocyanates. They have an inactive form of what's called the GSTT1 gene, causing them to retain higher concentrations of isothiocyanates when they eat these vegetables. Isothiocyanates combat carcinogens by neutralizing them, reducing their poisonous effect, so they can pass harmlessly out of the body. In a study, scientists studied 2,141 patients with lung cancer and compared them to 2,168 age and sex-matched controls from six countries in eastern and central Europe, where many people smoke AND they also eat a lot of cruciferous vegetables. The participants completed a food questionnaire, and the researchers got their DNA from a blood sample.In people who had an inactive form of the GSTM1 gene, weekly consumption of cruciferous vegetables had a 33% protective effect against lung cancer. Since even nonsmokers can get lung cancer, we should all eat these vegetables regularly, even if we have to overcome our heredity in order to do it. Already thinking about the Christmas cards you're going to send this year? Don't send the usual dull old cards, send your friends personal holiday greetings on our beautiful crop circle postcards instead! And give the exquisitely beautiful 2006 crop circle calendar as Christmas gifts. If you act now, the 2005 crop circle calendar will be included free, but hurry?supplies are limited! If you want to learn how to eat in the midst of masses of conflicting advice, consult Anne's diet book. A new chapter is posted every Monday. It's short, it's sharp, it's based on real science and it's FREE. Our website and radio shows are free too, but not really?they cost us a lot of money. So if you want us to still be here for you tomorrow, you need to subscribe today. You can start out as low as $11.95 for a 3-month subscription. Give up cigarettes and you'll be able to easily afford it! Art credit: http://www.freeimages.co.uk NOTE: This news story, previously published on our old site, will have any links removed.
Launching the International Year of Water Cooperation, Hungarian Ambassador Csaba Kőrösi today said “we are inching towards a water crisis”. He pointed out that the amount of water available today is the same as ten thousand years ago, but the number of users today is eight thousand times greater. UNTV Subject to the Terms of Usages of UNifeed, UNifeed materials are available free of charge for news purposes only. UNifeed materials may not be sold or redistributed to third parties without the prior written consent of the UN or the UN entity which is source of the UNifeed material. All users of UNifeed materials must provide due credit to the United Nations or any UN entity source(s) in their use and broadcast of UNifeed materials.
Maldives marks first anniversary of its ever first Methadone clinic 'Methadone was my cure' Prevention of drug use is amongst the top priorities for the Government of Maldives. To adress this problem the government is focusing on better understanding of the risk factors associated with drug use. UNODC South Asia has been working with the Government of Maldives to increase the accessibility to health services for drug users in Maldives by introducing the Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT) Programme which began on 16 Octocber 2008. The Methadone clinic popularly known as 'Gagan' clinic in Maldives celebrated its first anniversary and on this occasion one of the drug users who is a client of the MMT programme, shares his candid experience. "I have been in addiction for around 16 years now. I started with cannabis at the age of 18 years and then slowly went into heroin. When I was 25, I was actively involved in heroin addiction earning the title of a hard-core addict. But my internal state was different. I wanted to quit heroin at all cost. I isolated myself on islands where heroin was not available and went through the worst of pain. I tried this method, but each time, the moment I landed in Male, I found myself thinking about my dealer from where I could get my fix! I also tried my hand at rehabilitation centres, but in vain. I went to India and Sri Lanka for medical detoxification but that was of no use. I had a strong will to stop heroin, but was powerless when it came to withdrawals and cravings. I also started studying about heroin and addiction related matters. I started collecting information about relapse prevention, stress management, anger management, life skills, coping skills and so on. I started attending the Narcotics Anonymous (NA) meetings organized by the NGO JOURNEY and other sessions held by recovering addicts. In spite of all these, nothing seemed to be working with me. My cravings weren't coming down and I wasn't getting any better than before. Even though I became knowledgeable, it wasn't doing much to my addiction problems. I felt as if I was being drawn deeper and deeper into the tangles of addiction. I lost all hopes of living a sober life and that made me more depressed. I lost my wife, my job, my reputation, respect and I definitely was not myself. During such a stage of my life, where everything seemed dark and hopeless, Methadone came as a ray of hope into my life. My friend, Faseen called me up and told me about Methadone. Even though I had very little hope in the Methadone Maintenance Treatment (MMT), I still wanted to give it a try! So I ended up signing for the MMT, where the doctors explained to me in detail about all aspects of MMT. Since I had taken a shot of heroin, the doctors asked me to come the following day without taking heroin. So I went on the next day in withdrawals. I was given my first dose of Methadone and kept under observation for 3 to 4 hours. After taking Methadone, my withdrawal symptoms became much milder and more tolerable. So my hopes started rising. I stuck to the treatment and gradually started noticing my mental and physical changes. As the days progressed with MMT, my frequency of usage of heroin decreased. Around a month into the treatment, I was using Methadone every alternate day. By the end of one and a half month I touched a dose of only 75mg of Methadone and this time I was a free man. Today I don't think of heroin and most importantly I am leading a normal and active life without using heroin. Today when I walk on Majeedhee Magu, I suddenly realize that even though I have walked these streets a thousand times in the past eight years, I had never noticed the number of shops and the people walking on the street. It is a new beginning!" UNODC supports the Government of Maldives in the designing and the implementation of its ever first Drug Control Master Plan which was approved in March 2008. Within this Plan the government implements the comprehensive package of services for Injecting Drug Users and their sex partners with the support of UNODC and local NGOs. The UNODC work in Maldives is possible through the contribution of the Australian Agency for International Development (AusAid)
In memory of Prof. WANGARI MAATHAI, UNRIC in partnership with the Kenyan Embassy, UNEP and the Millenium Film Festival invites you to the screening of: Wednesday, 5 October - 6:30pm at the Goethe Institute Brussels. CINE-ONU presents the screening of the film Taking Root. The film tells the dramatic story of Kenyan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Wangari Maathai, who sadly passed away on 25 September 2011. Her simple act of planting trees grew into a nationwide movement to safeguard the environment, protect human rights, and defend democracy—a movement for which this charismatic woman became an iconic inspiration. The film will be introduced by: H.E Kembi-Gitura, Ambassador of Kenya to the Kingdom of Belgium, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and Mission to EU Thierry Lucas, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) The film will be screened in English and has a runtime of 81 minutes. * WHERE: Goethe Institute Brussels, Rue Belliardstraat 58 1040 Brussels * WHEN: 5 October 2011- 6:30 PM The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities. United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe (UNRIC Brussels) Residence Palace, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 155, Block C2,7th and 8th floor, Brussels 1040, Belgium Tel.: +32 2 788 8484 / Fax: 32 2 788 8485
In everyday life we are surrounded by horrifying sights…We all know perfectly well that such things are ugly, not only in the moral but in the physical sense, and we know this because they arouse our disgust, fear and repulsion. Marginal as the voice of art may be, it attempted to remind us that…there is something implacably and sadly malign about this world. - Umberto Eco, On Ugliness The first thing that struck me about Far Cry 3 is how much I dislike Jason Brody, the character whose skin I am forced to wear during my time on the Rook Islands. He is a professional tourist whose life revolves around thrill seeking and excessive drinking, the perfect archetype of the rich, white, directionless mook. He is empty of ambition, a waste of potential with an asinine haircut. In Far Cry 2, the player isn’t forced into a particular character. Rather, you can choose from a roster of characters of various ethnicities and backgrounds. I chose Paul Ferenc, a Hungarian-born Israeli national who made his way in the world as a smuggler and ironmonger. Like everyone else in that game’s war-torn African nation, Ferenc was there for little more than blood and money. Beyond his biographical sketch at the character selection screen, Ferenc (or any other character you choose) is a cipher, but you at least know he is a man of action – you know that he chose to be an amoral mercenary. Brody, on the other hand, literally falls into Far Cry 3 by skydiving onto the wrong island. After a few hours of play, I am fairly sure the only choice he’s ever made was to live his life as a willfully clueless shithead. I would much rather be a man who makes bad choices than one who makes no choices at all. After a series of set pieces in which Jason escapes the clutches of the psychotic pirate Vaas (whose menacing homicidal potential is on full display in the game’s cover art), you meet Dennis, a former marine who decides to help Brody save his friends and guide him, by way of mystical mumbo jumbo, into fulfilling his potential as a warrior. Dennis also happens to be black, a Liberian expatriate, and, for some critics, his appearance is the start of a downward spiral into problematic stereotypes. For them, he is a Magical Negro at the front of an army of Noble Savages, encouraging a White Savior to deliver them all from their troubles. The problem here is that Dennis is obviously just as insane as Vaas, only in a less murder-everyone-violently way. He isn’t magical; he is a spreader of delusions – a tired cliche turned inside out and unsettling by the mania that infects the islands of Far Cry 3. Because Brody is an idiot or because he is reeling from psychological trauma, he buys in. He lets himself believe. From that moment, his entire journey on the island is a fever dream, replete with sorcerous tattoos and firearm vending machines. That there is something terribly wrong with Jason’s fundamental perceptions is immediately apparent. Dennis explains that to become a true warrior, Jason must master the island by hunting its animals and exploiting its plant life. This is the only guidance Jason gets before getting shoved into the jungle, and it shows – despite the fact that the game clearly calls for Jason to skin his prey, the animation shows Jason removing the viscera and dropping the gory mess into his rucksack. As for the plants, he mixes them according to color for injection via syringe. These are not the actions of a clear mind. The very first thing you see as Far Cry 3 loads up is a butterfly made of guns, a mirror image reminiscent of a Rorschach inkblot. This image of a beautiful and harmless insect formed out of the implements of violence is the first sign that what lies beyond is completely open to interpretation. Brody’s long hallucination is populated with stiff, unfortunate stereotypes because that is how he sees the world. To dismiss that as a poor or insensitive choice on the part of the developers is to unfairly simplify it. Our job as players is to try to reconcile the dissonance within the game. Why do all the friendly NPCs have the same character model? Why do all the pirates have the same voice? Why is it so much easier to kill another human being than it is to kill a tiger? Far Cry 3 is a game about games, and about gamers – the same way Naked Lunch is a novel about writing novels, and about writers. It is a mirror, a Rorschach test, allowing multiple interpretations about violence, racism, madness, trauma and a whole host of other unpleasant topics. And if this philosophically hostile yet incredibly playable game was designed with the intent to simply pander to the impulses of our lizard brain, or made for some mythical every-bro gamer, then that is something we need to confront as well. Last week, a very real mentally unstable man threw another man in front of an oncoming Manhattan subway train. A photographer from the New York Post captured a picture of the victim staggering to his feet and trying to climb back onto the platform seconds before the impact and his terrible death. In the ensuing uproar over whether it was right for the photograph to be taken or for the Post to have run it on the front page, the real story was forgotten – people took refuge in their outrage. I am glad I saw that photograph because it is so awful a thing to see. It is a reminder of just how ugly people can be to each other, how horrible and unforgiving the world is. It forces you to appreciate how precarious life can be and just how much work we have to do to just not be overwhelmed by the rising tide of shit. It isn’t a good heart and a philanthropic spirit that drives us to try and change the world for the better, it is being exposed to suffering and madness and pain. I would rather not see photographs like that, of course. I would much rather get my dose of darkness filtered through art and the written word and games like Far Cry 3 – flawed and pale in comparison to reality though they may be. Andre Serrano, the photographer behind the controversial piece “Piss Christ” once said, “I don’t see anything wrong with provocative art and… I look forward to the day when I can make work that will even disturb me.” So should we all. Stu Horvath has a long way to go before he is anywhere close to finishing Far Cry 3, thanks to those damned unkillable tigers, so follow him on Twitter @StuHorvath to see how his ideas about the game evolve.
UKRAINIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH OF THE USA CONSISTORY OFFICE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS 25th Anniversary of Chronobyl Nuclear Explosion Remembered in Chicago! About two hundred faithful of Ukrainian Orthodox and Ukrainian Catholic parishes in Chicago Metropolitan area gathered at St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral at 5:23PM on April 25, 2011 to pray for the victims of Chornobyl Nuclear Disaster that happened exactly to a minute on August 26, 1986. The timing of this prayer service was crucial, as the time difference between Ukraine and Chicago is 8 hours. While the bells of St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral struck in Chicago at 5:23 pm on Monday, April 25th, it was exactly 1:23am in Ukraine on August 26 – the time of the 25-year old explosion. His Grace Bishop Daniel the Ruling Hierarch of the Western Eparchy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA led the prayer service with clergy of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Very Rev. Bohdan Kalynuk – pastor of Holy Trinity Ukrainian Orthodox parish in Bensenville, IL; Archimandrite Pankratij – pastor of St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago, IL; Rev. Fr. Walter Hwostik – pastor of Annunciation of the Birth-Giver of God Ukrainian Orthodox parish in Milwaukee, WI; Rev. Fr. Vasyl Sendeha – pastor of Sts. Peter and Paul Ukrainian Orthodox parish in Palos Park, IL; Very Rev. Fr. Andriy Shelvakh and Protodeacon Mykola Dilendorf of St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral in Chicago, IL) and Ukrainian Catholic Church (Rev. Bohdan Nalysnyk – pastor of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Chicago, IL; Rev. Ihor Koshyk – associate pastor and Rt. Rev. Archimandrite Ivan Krotec – pastor-emeritus of St. Volodymyr and Olha Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago, IL) of Chicago Deaneries. The Consul General of Ukraine in Chicago, Honorable Konstantyn Kudryk as well as numerous representatives of Ukrainian community organizations joined the faithful in the memorial service. The Bishop opened the evening with the reflection, quoting the Pastoral Message from the Ukrainian Catholic and the Ukrainian Orthodox Hierarchs of United States of America and Canada, stating: “A quarter century on, the catastrophe in Chornobyl remains the largest and most devastating nuclear accident in history and has rightly been described as the technological disaster of the 20th century. Recalling and reflecting upon these sobering and saddening facts on the 25th anniversary of the Chornobyl catastrophe, we can only lift up our hearts in prayer to the Almighty God and beg for His continued mercy and compassion as we remember those who suffered indescribable pain and loss. We recall firstly, on this solemn anniversary, the many innocent men, women and children who perished in this tragedy and we pray for the repose of their souls. We remember in particular the brave and selfless firefighters, who, in the hours and days following the explosion, knowingly and willingly exposed themselves to mortal danger and almost certain death in order to extinguish the flames and construct and place the sarcophagus on the smouldering ruins of the reactor. Of such men Christ speaks eloquently when He declares: “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends.” (Jn. 15:13) We pray that God grant them eternal rest in a place of everlasting light where there is no pain, sorrow or mourning. We also remember and pray for those whose health was irrevocably damaged by the radiation that was released that day, those who were taken ill and are living with sickness to this day, and for their families, and for those whose lives were cut short by premature death. We especially remember the children, most of whom who were born after the catastrophe itself, who suffer physical and psychological disabilities today because of Chornobyl. We also remember and pray for the many thousands of people who were forced, by the noxious cloud of radiation, to flee their homes and leave behind forever, everything that was familiar and loved by them: the villages, houses, fields and farms where they and generations before them were born, lived, laboured and died. May God grant all who suffer His peace, hope and consolation. And, in a special way, we also remember and pray for our beloved homeland of Ukraine: so rich, generous and abundant, yet so often neglected, plundered, and abused over the centuries by the men who ruled over her.” In conclusion, Bishop Daniel made references to the latest nuclear tragedy in Japan, while making references to the tragedy of Ukrainian people in Chornobyl and sharing his memories of the very first days following the Nuclear Explosion, as he was in Kyiv just a few days passed the tragedy occurring only 50km away from the capitol of Ukraine in 1986. As the prayer service concluded, Rev. Fr. Bohdan Nalysnyk – a pastor of St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral in Chicago, IL made a presentation to the Orphanage Mission Fund of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA in the amount of $2400 – the proceeds from the Nativity Concert that annually takes place at St. Nicholas Ukrainian Catholic Cathedral with the choirs of the Ukrainian Orthodox and Catholic parish communities participating. The choir of St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral, under the prayerful and skillful direction of Volodymyr Popowych led the singing of the Pascha Memorial service for the victims of the Nuclear tragedy. Following the prayer service, the faithful gathered at St. Volodymyr Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral’s social hall for a presentation of His Grace Bishop Daniel on the charitable work of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA with the orphanages in Ukraine. 25th Anniversary of Chronobyl Nuclear Explosion Remembered in Chicago! - 04/25/11Photos by Subdeacon Vasyl Dovgan
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American Indian Law Deskbook, Fourth Edition "Students and practitioners of law, American Indian history, cultures, and contemporary issues; tribal officials; people who need quick, reliable, and basic information (e.g., journalists and legislators); and lawyers who do not specialize in Indian law but need a broad overview of particular legal issues will find this resource useful." - American Reference Books Annual A collaborative effort from attorney general offices faced daily with legal questions involving state and tribal relations, the American Indian Law Deskbook, Fourth Edition is an up-to-date, comprehensive treatise on Indian law. The Deskbook provides readers with the neccessary historical and legal framework to understand the complexities faced by states, Indian tribes, and the federal government in Indian country. Included are the following: -The evolution of federal statutory Indian law and the judicial foundations of federal Indian policy. ? An extensive compilation and analysis of federal and state court decisions. - Reservation and Indian lands ownership and property interests. -The parameters of criminal jurisdiction in Indian country. -Concepts of tribal sovereignty and jurisdiction relating to a number of specific areas, including tribal courts, hunting and fishing, environmental regulation, water rights, gaming, and child welfare. -Cooperative approaches used by the states and tribes for resolving jurisdictional disputes and promoting better relations. Thorough, scholarly, and balanced, the American Indian Law Deskbook, Fourth Edition is an invaluable reference for a wide range of people working with Indian tribes, including attorneys, legal scholars, government officials, social workers, state and tribal jurists, and historians. This revised edition includes information from more recent court decisions, federal statutes, administrative regulations, and law reviews. Electronic Book: $85.00
Blackberry reportedly ready to launch their latest smartphone, they named it 'Blackberry London' As Updatec.com read from Crackberry, story about Blackberry London is not just a figment, due in November, the first pictures of the Blackberry London has rocked theworld of the Internet and smartphones of course. and that makes people curious about their OS development course, the BBX is worth waiting for our innovation,whether it can compete with Android and Apple. Blackberry London about the design of above, it looks like the BlackBerry Playbookphonified, featuring rounded corners and all-black look RIM's first tablet. And as proposed Crackberry, Both TI and Qualcomm chipsets OMAP5 are being tested(1.5GHz dual-core processors). if we look at the BlackBerry history, it Could be Thatis for the Qualcomm CDMA carriers. As we know, if the BlackBerry Playbook worked on processor at 1GHz, that with1.5GHz as the baseline of the BlackBerry 10 (Blackberry London) phones will not belacking in the performance. Stay updated news from Updatec.com by hit like our facebook page, and circle'dgoogle page + us. thankyou so much.
Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya 296 pages \| 6 x 9 \| 15 illus. Cloth 2006 \| ISBN 978-0-8122-3964-5 \| $55.00s \| £36.00 \| Add to cart Paper 2009 \| ISBN 978-0-8122-2092-6 \| $24.95s \| £16.50 \| Add to cart A volume in the Contemporary Ethnography series View table of contents and excerpt "An engaging, provocative intervention in cultural theory."—Journal of the American Academy of Religion "Straight's . . . work reminds the reader of the important ways that theory and ethnography can mutually inform and illuminate, and the book is an important contribution to the existing literature for both area specialist and the theoretically inclined."—American Anthropologist The Samburu of northern Kenya struggle to maintain their pastoral way of life as drought and the side effects of globalization threaten both their livestock and their livelihood. Mirroring this divide between survival and ruin are the lines between the self and the other, the living and the dead, "this side" and inia bata, "that side." Cultural anthropologist Bilinda Straight, who has lived with the Samburu for extended periods since the 1990s, bears witness to Samburu life and death in Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya. Written mostly in the field, Miracles and Extraordinary Experience in Northern Kenya is the first book-length ethnography completely devoted to Samburu divinity and belief. Here, child prophets recount their travels to heaven and back. Others report transformations between persons and inanimate objects. Spirit turns into action and back again. The miraculous is interwoven with the mundane as the Samburu continue their day-to-day twenty-first-century existence. Straight describes these fantastic movements inside the cultural logic that makes them possible; thus she calls into question how we experience, how we feel, and how anthropologists and their readers can best engage with the improbable. In her detailed and precise accounts, Straight writes beyond traditional ethnography, exploring the limits of science and her own limits as a human being, to convey the significance of her time with the Samburu as they recount their fantastic yet authentic experiences in the physical and metaphysical spaces of their culture. Bilinda Straight is Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Western Michigan University and is the editor of Women on the Verge of Home. She has worked with the Samburu in northern Kenya off and on since 1992.
HOUSTON, June 23 (UPI) -- The United States trails many countries in life expectancy and the poorest Americans live about five fewer years then the wealthiest, researchers say. Principal author Justin Denney of Rice University and colleagues said the average life U.S. expectancy for a person born today is 78.49 -- significantly lower than for people born in Monaco, Macau and Japan, which have the three highest life expectancies at 89.7 84.4 and 83.9 years, respectively. In addition, the poorest U.S. citizens tend to live five years less than their more affluent countrymen, Denney said. The study, scheduled to be published in the Social Science Quarterly, found average life expectancy in the United States rose from 59.85 years in 1930 to 77.1 by 2000. "But when broken down, these numbers show that those gains were mostly experienced between 1930 the 1950s and 1960s. Since that time, gains in life expectancy have flattened out," Denney said in a statement. "During periods of expansion in length of life, a similar expansion has occurred between more and less advantaged groups -- the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, inequality grows and life expectancy is dramatically impacted." Despite disproportionate spending on healthcare -- U.S. healthcare costs more than double that of the second-most expensive healthcare -- U.S. life expectancy continues to fall down the ladder of international rankings of length of life, Denney said. "It goes to show that prosperity doesn't necessarily equal long-term health," Denney said. \|Additional Health News Stories\| LAUDERHILL, Fla., May 23 (UPI) --Police said they have arrested a Florida man who mistakenly pocket-dialed 911 while planning a killing earlier this month. LONDON, May 23 (UPI) --U.S. rocker Jon Bon Jovi is advising 19-year-old pop star Justin Bieber to respect his fans if he wants to have a long and successful career. WASHINGTON, May 23 (UPI) --U.S. President Barack Obama was the last obstacle to getting the Keystone XL oil pipeline built through the country, the chairman of a House committee said.
Its official, Kris and Kim are getting a divorce. Despite repeated attempts from Kris Hunmprhies' lawyers to keep him legally married to Kim Kardashian, the judge overseeing the divorce has finally set a date, TMZ reported. Kardashian's lawyer, Laura Wasser was hoping they'd be able to begin the trial next month, but the court has set the date for May as it was the first available time. According to TMZ, Humpries' lawyer tried, once again, to delay the trial date, but was unsuccessful . Earlier today it was reported that Marshall Waller, one of Humpries' lawyers, left the case yesterday citing "irremediable breakdown of the attorney-client relationship." TMZ's sources say the lawyer bailed on the basketball star because he did not think they could get the annulment Humpries so desperately wants since there is no proof of fraud.
TOM CRUISE RUNS WITH OLYMPIC TORCH IN LOS ANGELES Actor Tom Cruise (L) hands off the flame to Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Janet Evans inside Dodger Stadium as fans look on, Wednesday evening, June 16, 2004, in Los Angeles, California. (UPI/Jim Ruymen) UPI Almanac for Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012. Rebecca Adlington won the Olympic gold medal Saturday in the women's 800-meter freestyle in Beijing. Christopher Knight will be seen lighting himself on fire for his second week act on the new U.S. competition series "Celebrity Circus," NBC said. U.S. singer Joey Fatone is to act as host of the upcoming television competition series "Celebrity Circus." Australia's Sydney Anglican Media, under the control of the Archbishop Peter Jensen, has created a television show on the Ten Network called Good Sex. Michelle Kwan, the most decorated figure skater in American history, Tuesday was named the winner of the 2001 Sullivan Award, which is presented to the year's t NCAA tourney opens quietly Figure skater Michelle Kwan, Chicago Cubs prospect Mark Prior and track sensation Alan Webb were named among five finalists for the Sullivan Award Tuesday.
I don’t know who had the insane idea to put James Gunn and Suda 51 in the same room, let alone have them make a game together, but they are madmen. Glorious, glorious madmen. “Lollipop Chainsaw” has the complex, subtle plot we’ve come to expect from the guy who gave us “Slither”: a cheerleader in a skimpy outfit runs around with a chainsaw/grenade launcher combo and kills zombies in the most athletic/titillating way possible. So far, the gameplay itself looks pretty straightforward: pretty much hack and slash. That said, this is Suda 51; he’s got something insane up his sleeve. Meanwhile, Gunn wrote the story. Gunn, for those unfamiliar, really did work his way up the totem pole: he started at Troma and last did “Super”, a movie we heartily approve of. It’s nice that this game puts its influences right up front, although we really hope the one-liners improve. Check out the trailer, which sadly lacks her boyfriend (a disembodied head), after the jump. [ via the suckers at io9 ]
About Us: Jim Zampini Jim is a partner of UpShoot and co-owns the company with his daughter, Maria. Before founding UpShoot, Jim was the CEO of Lake County Nursery, Inc. in Perry, Ohio. As CEO, he oversaw a staff of more than 250 people and led the nursery’s related businesses—South Ridge Trucking, New Plants Inc., Champion Garden Towne and a residential and commercial landscaping firm. Beyond the nursery, Jim’s legacy lies in new plants. Jim has bred, selected and introduced more than 200 patented and trademark plants to the industry. UpShoot continues to license, market and sell these varieties. Jim has served in a number of horticultural and community organizations. He is a member of the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association, American Nursery and Landscape Association, National Association of Plant Patent Owners and a member and past president of the Nursery Growers of Lake County, Ohio. In the past, he has served on the Lake Metroparks Board of Park Commissioners, the board of the American Heart Association and is the Director Emeriti for Lake Erie College. In his long, distinguished career, Jim has also been recognized with a number of awards. Notable honors include an Honorarium from the Nursery Growers of Lake County, Ohio, the Distinguished Contribution Award from the Ohio Nursery and Landscape Association and Honorary Life Membership from the Ohio and International Chapters of the International Society of Arboriculture in “Recognition of Dedicated Efforts and Excellence in the Development of Tree Cultivars for the Urban Environment.” For more information about Jim, click here.
It seemed a morning like any other, if you chose to ignore the thousand and one catastrophes raining down on Clint City, which was definitely a thousand too many. After having read the mysterious letter posted under your door in which you are asked to SAVE the World, you throw yourself into this final fray to Rescue Clint City. Fill up the Community Rescue Gauge to win the trust of this character and see him added to your collection! Click here to find out all there is to know about this new cataclysmic event and save Clint City from catastrophe! We thought about it and we overestimated the number of RP that could be done in the event. So we decided to give the next level of prizes to the players. 200 Pilzken instead of 100 will be given for each prize pool. The wrong message for the lottery is only a visual bug and will be corrected, don't worry, all the persons who partipated in the event will be in. This whole thing sounded amazing what with the prophecy coming tru and the secret of room 13 but now its just a huge let down. UR have really let themselves down. I mean its one character that has nothing to do with the hints. Also no ones recieved him like they said we would we have to wait till 2!!!!!!!!. This sucks!!!!!!!!! The Urban Rivals team is made by lovers of all kind of Collectibles Cards Games and Trading Cards Games like: Magic the Gathering, Dominion, Vampire, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokemon, Wakfu TCG, Assassin Creed Recollection, Shadow Era, Kard Kombat and Might & Magic Duel of Champions.
NOT fear of the same (yeh yeh, I know, but lets not argue literal translations of the word). NOR is it disaproving with flagrant homosexuality or gay pride or toilet sex or whatever (though non of the above would have cause to exist were it NOT for homophobia!). Homophobia is a rabid fear in men of male homosexuality, and/or the possibility of being treated like one through association, to the point of unprovoked sometimes violent outbursts, vocally or physically, against gay men. It's existence can be directly connected to the attitude of the immediate environment and local laws. 1. In straight men, it normally has very little to do with fear of any actual gay sex act or gay men, rather it's the fear that, for whatever reason (his job, his peers, police attitude, the religious extremists in his area...) any association with or acceptance of anything 'gay' could mean people might think HE is gay, and he therefore would lose the respect of his peers and maybe even ruin his life (or in extreme cases, END his life!) via the open prejudice he see's enacted against gay men around him. So he 'acts out' to assure people that he is definitely NOT gay nor would he condone it! 2. With gay (or bi) men its when a 'straight acting' gay is trying to keep the respect of his straight peers and, again, doesn't want to get the prejudice and disrespect he see's enacted towards more obvious or 'out' gay men around him. He's often deeply in the closet, at least with his straight friends, and very vocal about his dislike of queers and how very straight he is, even when unprompted! He may even have a girlfrend or wife or even go gay bashing, and it's these sorts of guys that keep alive illicit homosex in toilets and sauna's and such, as they need to keep hidden. You don't get so much of it in more liberal inclusive societies where it isn't considered socially unpalatable or dangerous to be gay, or with guys who are totally assured in their heterosexuality, as the fear of being perceived as gay is no longer present. On a personal note, how come all gay prejudice, anti gay laws and religious dogma is only ever directed at gay MEN when all arguments for it's justification should apply to either sex!? That in itself shows homophobia! Maybe if The Pope just lost the frocks... 1. 'Backs against the walls lads, don't bend over, don't let him look at your cock when you piss, no you CANNOT buy me a drink you fucking queer, GET AWAY FROM ME!!!' 2. 'Backs against the walls lads, don't bend over, don't let him look at your cock when you piss, no you CANNOT buy me a drink you fucking queer, GET AWAY FROM ME!!!'' <later has sex in a public toilet with a random married guy then eases his guilt by gay bashing the out ones outside the local gay club> A severe condition, usually prominent in Republicans and most of American culture, leading one to: - innacurately use bible quotings for the justification of killing homosexuals - restrict the rights of millions - hide in their rooms crying if they looked at the nude body of one of the same gender and did not vomit - insessantly call things "Gay" My mom won't let me go out for the big ethnicity-bashing because of my cerfew! That is so GAY! The fear that gay men will treat you the way you treat women. -"This random guy just came up to me and told me I was cute. WTF is up with that? I should have kicked his ass." -"Sounds like you have a case of homophobia to me." the irritation of having faggotry shoved in your face homophobia is not fear of fags A term created with intent to subtly pressure society into accepting homosexual behavior. Similar to young peers challenging one another's bravery or "manhood" in attempt to pressure each other to partake in daring activities. 1) "Hey, I understand if you don't want to fight him. If you're scared just say so. Everyone gets scared." 2) "Hey, I understand if you don't want to hang with gays. A lot of people still suffer from homophobia. We all have our fears" An irrational fear of going home. Homophob(ic) one who is reluctant for the evening to end and finally go home and face what is/not there. Can describe one who is aware that 'home is not where the heart is, but where the tax bill is' and is reluctant to cross that threshold. "Hey, where are we going now?" "Whoa, it's 3pm, we've been going solid since yesterday lunch" "Uhuh, so where are we going now?" "I diagnose acute homophobia my friend" "Look a taxi.." 1. fear of things that are the same if you look at the basic meanings of its Greek roots: but in everyday usage means: 2. fear of homosexuals 3. condition where one person has the same fears as someone else 1. With his homophobia, he can't look at a bunch of paperclips or go to a prep school without freaking out. 2. My homophobia restricts me from watching most home improvement TV shows. 3. We're both claustrophobic, making us homophobic as well. Dislike, fear, hatred, and/or disapproval of gays and/or homosexuality, often (but not always) for religious reasons or because of insecurity about one's sexual orientation. Many people who suffer from homophobia do not realize it and even deny it. Others will kill gays or accuse them of molesting children.
Japaquiddick is the slutty Japanese porn district in which Ted Kennedy ran over a homeless, lipless prostitute. I hate Kennedy. Isn't he a killer? No, dood, you're thinking of Japaquiddick. She was only Japanese. They come with auxiliaries. They all look the same anyway, and go everywhere in these huge flocks of like 300 people. You ever tried to piss in the Louvre?
Lattétude© is Latté + Attitude + Latitude. It has various meaning realating to coffee, milk, and other foods and beverages. 1) the bowl in which the beverage is served. 2) the beverage itself. 3) a state of being 4 a name of a cafe or restaurant offering such a beverage, cup, or state of being. Invented by Larry Matthews, Wanganui NZ ©1995-2005 "I like that Lattétude bowl." "I would like to order a lattétude with milk and espresso." "They have Lattétude." "Let's go to Lattétude for a coffee."
Verb: to go on a manventure while longboarding, skateboarding, snowboarding, etc. Men manboard to find inner peace with themselves and nature, and to grow closer to their fellow man. Two or more men necessary to be considered "manboarding." No women allowed. 1. My friends an I went manboarding last week to get away from our girlfriends and to appreciate the scenery. 2. Dude, do you want to go manboarding? We can call up Allen and Jimmy too, if you want.
1. Work that has been niggerriged. 2. Work done without any aparent consirn for safety to the end user of the product or the task of production. 3.A word expressed with a tone of racism to convey a feeling of pissed-offededness. 1. "The jobsite was full of niggerriggery." 2. "I got fuct up by some niggerriggery." 3. "The perminate connection was lost, because it was niggerriged, so the park lights were off, due to someone's niggerrigery." 4."That shit was some fucked up niggerriggery."
A feeling, or moment, of extreme awe, disbelief, shock, and/or randomness. Could be used as an Adjective or a noun. 1. Being so shocked your mind is just thinking "What the fuck". 2. Not believing that you have actually done something that is this amazing and/or someone else did. 4. Something happenes very very very unexpectedly that leaves a lingering presence of "What-The-Fuckness"
In the language of politicians and those who govern, the constituency are those who are governed, or supposedly represented, by legislators and executive officials. Legislators really represent attorneys. See politician, legislator, attorney, and conflict of interest for further details. In a true Democracy, the constituency would be self-governing. However, that might endanger the livelihood of legislators and politicians, so it isn't done that way.
Someone who is absolutly amazing or, Katiecakes. There like zebra cakes... except they're not delicious, and it's really another name for calcium build-up. so, katiecakes makes me HORNEY! woooooo! shes so cool, lke you have no idea. My best friend in the whole wide world! Is a smart intelligent beautiful chick who doesn't know her true potential. She can party like a rock star, but is always hella chill. She is caring compationate, her only flaw is her attitude. But it comes in handy soo often. She completes me. :) I love my KatieCakes.
Pseudo Patriots are people who use patriotism as a tool to silence all criticism by anyone who does not support what majority political party thinks. These type of people tend to hate free speech unless it applies them This term can not be attributed to any one political group, cause, ect. Anyone from Conservative to Liberal is capable of being a psuedo patriot. "Those pro-war supports are nothing but Pseudo Patriots, Paul" told his son. If you can't respect the right to dissent then you are no Patriot.
Tally's Good Food Café 1102 S. Yale Ave., 835-8039 Eating at Tally's is like time traveling back to the '50s, thanks to the retro neon sign that greets customers and the classic diner interior. Tally's is right on Route 66 (aka 11th Street), and the restaurant follows the promise of timeless home cooked fare. Get your fill of bacon, eggs, waffles, and blueberry pancakes after a late night on the town. Tally's won Best Diner at the 2009 Absolute Best of Tulsa awards, too, so you know they're good! Fire Rock Grill & Bar 7020 S. Memorial, 252-0422 Feel comfortable from the moment you walk through the door at this south-side restaurant that serves up "Contemporary Comfort Food." All the food is made for scratch right in the kitchen. Momma-made style entrees include Beef Stroganoff, Freddie's Spaghetti, Breaded Chicken Fried Chicken and Grandma's Grilled Meatloaf. "Welcome Home to Fire Rock." MON-THURS 11AM-9PM; FRI-SAT 11AM-10PM; SUN 10AM-9PM 4329 S. Peoria Ave., 743-2442 An authentic Italian restaurant serving entrees, updated seasonally with imported ingredients from Tuscany, Sicily and other Italian regions. Try the Butternut Squash Ravioli or the Panna Cotta for dinner. Sample the best of what Biga has to offer in a three-course meal from the Prix Fixe Menu for $20. Biga also features an all-Italian food friendly wine list. HOURS: TUES-SAT 5-10PM; SUN 5-9PM 7007 S. Memorial Dr., 250-0700 Great food, drinks and scenic mountain views! This Hooters competitor is known for its fun, friendly and flirty atmosphere. Stop in for some late night grub any night. The menu includes Starters, Salads, Well Built Sandwiches, Big Plates and even a Kid Menu! Try some wings or a hamburger, while trying not to get distracted by the friendly service. HOURS: SUN-SAT 11AM-12AM Share this article:
At the time of Sister Anna Margaret’s death, the Office of Institutional Advancement established The Sister Anna Margaret Random Acts of Kindness Fund. Members of the faculty and staff, along with alumnae and friends, were very generous in their support of this fund which will perpetuate the kindness which Sister Anna Margaret so exemplified in her own life. We would like to invite all faculty and staff members to join in making this “random acts” fund a reality in the life of the College. If you see a student doing an act of kindness, we ask that you fill out a RAK card. The card asks for the student’s name, date and your signature. You are asked to briefly describe the student’s act of kindness on the back of the card and then you would give the student the card and ask her/him to take it to Mullen 242 where she/he will be given a gift card. Claudia Shipman recieved a Sr. Anna Margaret Random Acts of Kindness award for holding the door open for staff members who were preparing for a meeting. Thanks for your kindness Claudia! Sam Hamilton received a Sr. Anna Margaret Random Acts of Kindness award for returning money she found. Thanks for your kindness Sam! Akira Jones received a Sr. Anna Margaret Random Acts of Kindness award for taking her roommate to a doctor appointment. Thanks for your kindness Akria! Tonisha Carelock received a Sr. Anna Margaret Random Acts of Kindness award for making a study guide for an upcoming AP test to share with her classmates. Thanks for your kindness Tonisha! Jamie Carter, a junior English major, is the first Random Acts of Kindness award recipient. When visitors were lost on campus, Jamie offered to not only direct them, but walk the group to their desired destination. Thank you for your kindness! Some examples of Acts of Kindness: Student leads a person to a place/office/person she is seeking, rather than just pointing the way Student goes out of her/his way to assist another student having difficulty in class Student goes out of her/his way to assist a fellow athlete having difficulty mastering a skill Student assists another person carrying several items or a heavy item Student cleans up someone else’s mess on campus or picks up litter anywhere on campus Student invites a residence hall student to her/his home for a weekend or holiday RAK cards are located in the following areas: Mullen Reception Desk Library Reception Desk Pilla Book Store Secretary, Development Office Mullen 242 Secretary, Nursing Office Mullen 349 Secretary, Student Activities Mullen 206 Secretary, Athletic Office O’Brien Center 105 Secretary, Office of Graduate Studies Mullen 302 Secretary, Arts and Science Office Mullen 332 Secretary, Art Therapy Fritzsche Center Secretary, Ursuline Studies Mullen 318 Secretary, Student Affairs Mullen 130 UCAP Office Pilla 204 If you would like some RAK cards to keep with you, please contact Megan Hallo at ext. #8355 or email@example.com
Now that my first ever visit to Kuwait has come to an end — in which I was involved in events and discussions designed to raise the profile in Kuwait, and internationally, of the two remaining Kuwaitis in Guantánamo, Fayiz al-Kandari and Fawzi al-Odah — I feel as though I have been away from my home in London for weeks, and not just for five days, as the time was so busy. I recorded an interview for the Al-Rai TV station along with the attorney Tom Wilner, which was aired along with a subtitled version of "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo," the documentary film that I co-directed with Polly Nash, and I also traveled out to Kuwait’s main prison, to visit the rehabilitation center which was established for the four remaining prisoners in 2009, but which, after two of these four were freed that year, has been lying empty ever since, its staff and facilities awaiting the return of Fayiz and Fawzi, who, like the majority of the 171 prisoners stili in Guantánamo, 89 of whom have been cleared for release, remain trapped because of the cynical twists and turns of American politics — in the Obama administration, in Congress and in the courts. I was also driven through the desert, on the highway to Iraq, to visit the grand and spacious farm of a prominent sheikh, in order to discuss the cases of Fayiz and Fawzi, and I also attended two dewaniyas (social events described by Wikipedia as being "the core of Kuwait’s social, business and political life, the places where topics of interest are discussed, associates introduced, alliances formed, and similar networking activities undertaken"), with lawyers and with the family of Fayiz. In addition, I met up with the former prisoner Fouad al-Rabiah and with Khalid al-Odah, Fawzi’s father, and briefly met another former prisoner, Adel al-Zamel. I also had intense discussions with my hosts, Col. Barry Wingard and his team (representing Fayiz), as well as with Tom (representing both men) and with the journalist Jenifer Fenton, who has been covering the Kuwaiti prisoners’ stories since last summer, and is undertaking some wonderful research. On a lighter note, I also found time to visit one of the country’s great landmarks, the famous Kuwait Towers. I will be writing in detail about some specific aspects of this trip in the days and weeks to come, but for now I just wanted briefly to recap on these exciting five days, in which I was treated with great warmth and hospitality throughout, and was provided with many insights into Kuwaiti society, as well as great opportunities to publicize the plight of Fayiz and Fawzi, and to my great delight, some new and very promising ways to hopefully secure their release, involving strategies for discrediting what passes for evidence on the part of the US government, but which, to anyone who has studied it closely, is largely a tissue of lies, produced through the torture. coercion or bribery of the prisoners themselves, or of their fellow prisoners. On Tuesday, after a sleepless overnight flight, a traffic-choked ride to the Marriott Hotel, and an opulent breakfast with Barry and the team, I caught up on my lost sleep, and woke up for a journey across town to a dewaniya at the house of Adel AbdulHadi, the founder and Managing Partner of Al-Oula Law, who is Fayiz’s lawyer in Kuwait. See a recent article here by Mr. AbdulHadi, which is a powerful call for more commitment from the Kuwaiti government, and also please sign the petition asking the US government to release Fayiz. This is hosted on the law firm’s website, and it has, to date, received over 20,000 signatures, mostly from within Kuwait, which is a phenomenal achievement. At the dewaniya, a wonderful array of delicious food was presented to us, and I met many fascinating people, including Mr. AbdulHadi’s brothers. Almost everyone I met was well-traveled and very knowledgeable, with an excellent command of English, either through visiting or through studying or living in the US or the UK, who understood why the US had reacted with such sweeping anger after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, but who all regarded the continued detention of Fayiz and Fawzi, over ten years later, as thoroughly unjustifiable. Also represented were younger activists, whom I was also delighted to meet, and who have been exerting pressure on the government through protests over the last year — culminating in an extraordinary fracas in the Kuwaiti Parliament, an unprecedented protest outside the US embassy, and the replacement of the Prime Minister. One group who I am very much hoping to work with is the IAGC, the International Anti-Guantánamo Bay Committee, which has been campaigning vigorously within Kuwait for the release of Fayiz and Fawzi. I also met the head of another organisation, Kuwait Student Power, who wanted to liaise with me regarding coordinated student protests in Kuwait, the US and the UK, which I thought was an excellent idea. On Wednesday, before the recording of the interview that Tom Wilner and I undertook to accompany the first ever broadcast (on Friday) of "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo," which has only just been translated into Arabic, we — myself, Jen, and Lt. Col. Wingard’s colleagues, Lt. Cmdr. Kevin Bogucki and Sgt. Chad Darby — had the opportunity to undertake a brief burst of tourism, and visited the Kuwait Towers, a great landmark, with a viewing platform which revolves slowly and provides a wonderful view over the Gulf and across the whole of Kuwait City, with its collection of creative skyscrapers which, at night, are lit up with shifting patterns of lights like giant toys. In the viewing platform, photos of the damage inflicted on the towers by Saddam Hussein’s forces 21 years ago provide a constant reminder of the close bonds between the two countries that were so thoroughly cemented at this time. In the afternoon, I met up with Tom, Mr. Adel and Ashraf, Tom and Barry’s long-term interpreter, at Al-Oula Law’s offices, where I was also pleased to meet Sanabil Jafar, the Director of the International Department, who provided invaluable assistance with the Arabic translation of "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo," and liaised extensively with myself and Polly Nash in the weeks before the visit. At Al-Rai’s studios, the recording of the interview with Tom and myself was initially a little challenging, because of the technical issues involved in translating live from one language to another, even for a pre-recorded interview, but the end result was very powerful. Tom and I had proposed questions, which had then been reworked at Al-Rai, but the end result was exactly as we had wished — a chance to explain why, shamefully, Guantánamo is still open, despite President Obama’s promise to close it, why Fayiz and Fawzi are still held, how they are surviving their long ordeal, and, most crucially, why the Kuwaiti people need to keep exerting pressure on their government to do more to secure their return. We were able to explain how it is insulting for such a close ally of the US as Kuwait to be treated so badly when it comes to securing the return of Fayiz and Fawzi, how, sadly, Guantánamo has become normalized under President Obama, and the remaining 171 prisoners are now, effectively, subjected to arbitrary and indefinite detention, and how no one will be released without great effort on the part of those who, like the Kuwaiti people, have prisoners still held. We were also able to explain how the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, just last month, provides a spur for renewed calls for the prison’s closure — and for calling for an end to the continued detention of men like Fayiz and Fawzi, against whom nothing in the way of evidence has actually been presented. We also had the opportunity to explain how another new possibility for bringing this dark chapter of US-Kuwaiti relations to an end has been presented in recent legislation passed in the US (the National Defense Authorization Act), in which the President and his administration now have the opportunity to bypass restrictions on the release of prisoners that were imposed by Congress and have prevented the release of any prisoner from Guantánamo since January 2011. That evening, at the end of a long day, we attended another dewaniya, this one at the house of Fayiz al-Kandari’s family, where I met Fayiz’s father, and numerous relatives, many of whom summoned up the spirit of Fayiz through their marked resemblance to him. Fayiz’s father, a softly-spoken and polite man, was evidently deeply disturbed by the ongoing loss of his son, as, by all reports, is his mother, but Tom, Barry and myself did our utmost to point out all the positive developments, and why there is still hope. In between the discussions, we were treated to the most phenomenal feast of marinaded, yoghurt-coated lamb cubes on skewers, cooked on huge barbecues, and there were jokes and there was laughter amidst the sorrow, which, as well as endearing me to the family, also revealed the huge support network — in the form of a giant extended family — that would be available to Fayiz on his release, and that would also be available to Fawzi, through his own family. On Thursday, our entire visiting party traveled to the main prison, located outside Kuwait City, where, in a compound within the prison, an entire block was refurbished back in 2009, and the grounds landscaped, to create a rehabilitation center for the last four Kuwaiti prisoners, with medical and psychiatric personnel, and facilities for socializing and greeting visitors. The staff graciously agreed to guide us around the establishment, which I intend to review in a separate and forthcoming article, but what needs establishing primarily is that, although the center, modeled on a largely successful program established in Saudi Arabia, might well be able to combine detention with reintegration, the security angle is, to be blunt, only of interest to the US, as what Fayiz and Fawzi may need, when they are finally released, will be medical and psychological support in a supportive environment, but not detention as a result of distorted American fears regarding the perceived danger of released prisoners. As I mentioned above, however, I plan to write more on this in the near future. For now, after the return from the rehabilitation center on Thursday afternoon, I had a wonderful meeting with Fouad al-Rabiah, a former Guantánamo prisoner whose story I was drawn to while researching my book The Guantánamo Files, and whose release in December 2009 followed an extraordinary victory in a US courtroom three months earlier. A businessman, and an executive wth Kuwait Airways, Mr. al-Rabiah had a history of taking vacations to be involved in humanitarian work abroad, although his visit to Afghanistan in October 2001 led to eight years in US custody, in which a familiar pattern at Guantánamo — pressurizing prisoners, by various means, to produce false allegations about themselves or others — led, in his case, to an invented scenario involving a relationship with Osama bin Laden and with al-Qaeda in the Tora Bora mountains (the scene of a showdown between al-Qaeda and Taliban forces, and the US and their Afghan allies), which, on examination by the judge, turned out to be a story he had been trained to repeat, and was not the truth at all. This was alarming enough, but what also became clear is that, in the summer of 2002, he was identified by a Arabic expert from the CIA as someone who had clearly been seized by mistake. The expert visited Guantánamo to interview a cross-section of the prisoners, to assess how many did not fit the hyperbole of "the worst of the worst," but his findings — that there had been systemic failures of intelligence across the board — were suppressed by Bush and Cheney’s senior lawyers, Alberto Gonzales and David Addington. Unsurprisingly, Mr. al-Rabiah is still seeking justice for the manner in which he was so scornfully treated by the Bush administration, whose most senior lawyers blocked the crucial knowledge of his wrongful detention, and he also has an interest in telling his extraordinary story, which, to my mind, is certainly one of particular interest, as it provides so many insights into the horrors of the regime of torture and lies that the Bush administration established at Guantánamo, and I hope that we will be able to find a way to take this project forward. That evening, we had all planned to watch the screening of "Outside the Law" and the studio discussion with Tom and myself, which had already been extensively promoted, but it was postponed until Friday, to make way for an urgent interview with a parliamentarian. We therefore had an opportunity to relax — although what happened is that Jen and I became deeply involved in discussions about, and research into the stories of all the Kuwaitis, with some powerful implications that will become apparent in the not too distant future. On Friday, through the auspices of Fayez al-Dousari, a Senior Partner at Al-Oula Law, all of the lawyers, and Ashraf and myself, were invited to visit the farm of Sheikh Ali al-Jaber al-Ahmad al-Sabah, Fayez’s father-in-law, and a significant figure in Kuwait. To get to the farm — a large complex of land and buildings not too far from the Iraq border, which was commandeered by Saddam’s army and completely destroyed in 1991 — Tom and I were taken by Fayez on a memorable drive in his Range Rover through the desert, on the highway most readily identified by Westerners as the "highway of death," where Saddam’s forces were brutally massacred by US forces as they retreated from Kuwait at the end of the first Gulf War, 21 years ago today. The physical reminders of those days are gone, replaced by the proliferation of farms, and of tents here, there and everywhere used by other families to recapture their roots — along with camels, giant pylons striding across the land, feeding electricity into Kuwait City, and, on occasion, the flames and the black clouds of the refineries that have created the massive wealth of the Gulf countries. After the journey, the farm — with greenery, greenhouses, artificial lakes with swans, geese and ducks, and acres of trees and crops — was very clearly a huge effort to reclaim and maintain from the hunger of the omnivorous desert, and was an impressive achievement, which we appreciated in a convoy of golf buggies. The rest of the complex was also impressive, with its helipads, aviaries, villas, an aircraft hanger-sized reception room, and a tower built over the farm’s impressive water tanks, from which the full extent of the estate was visible. After meeting the sheikh, being shown around the various buildings, and then being taken to the main lounge, where Tom regaled our host with some excellent anecdotes, we were ushered into the dining room for the most spectacular lunch I have ever seen — or been invited to partake of — in my entire life. It was, of course, all delightful, and afterwards, as we made our way to a covered outdoor area for dessert and tea, we had the opportunity to present Fayiz and Fawzi’s case to the sheikh, and to hope that he would mention the many themes outlined above to the emir, and to those close to him, to stress that, after ten years, the continued detention of Fayiz and Fawzi is not only intolerable, but their release is possible if the government is prepared to exert pressure on Washington. After this truly extraordinary outing, Tom and I returned to the hotel, as he was preparing to fly back to the US, and had a last meeting scheduled with Khalid al-Odah, Fawzi’s father. As the head of the [add organization], who has been campaigning for ten years for the release of all the prisoners, Khalid’s efforts are, of course, well known to me, and it was a great pleasure to finally meet him, first with Jen, and then with Tom as well, and I was moved by his quiet and softly-spoken dignity. Later, after Tom had set off for the airport, and Khalid had left, the rest of us got together, over pizza, to watch the Alrai show, which was 70 minutes in total. Although the whole film was not shown, the sections that were — essentially the first half of the film, split into segments and punctuated by the interview with myself and Tom — worked very well indeed, and I am glad to report that it will be shown again on Al-Rai. I’m also delighted to report that it has been made available online, in five parts, by Adel AbdulHadi on Al-Oula’s YouTube channel, and I’ll be posting the videos here very soon. I also hope that other opportunities for screenings of the film will follow throughout the Gulf and the Arabic-speaking world, now that a version of the film, subtitled in Arabic, is available. With the broadcast over, and Kuwait in the grip of celebrations — of independence, and of the liberation from Saddam Hussein, on National Day (February 25) — it was disappointing that Saturday was a washout, as I had hoped to visit the souq, and I know that the Kuwaiti people had been looking forward to celebrating in the streets. Nevertheless, Jen and I had further opportunities to discuss our work, and our shared enthusiasms, before she left in the afternoon, after she had interviewed Adel al-Zamel, another former prisoner who I also met briefly, and I also had the opportunity to spend some time discussing plans with Col. Wingard. In the evening, the US team took me out for a final meal at a Lebanese restaurant, and, on our return to the hotel, through the wind and the rain, we said our farewells — not, I hope for the last time — and I tried and largely failed to get a good night’s sleep, as I had to be up at 5.30 for my return flight to London. My thanks to everyone responsible for my trip, which was a wonderful experience, as it enabled me to gain the kind of insight into Kuwaiti society, Kuwaiti politics, and the families of Fayiz and Fawzi that cannot be gained through the kind of Internet-based research that I generally undertake — although that is not, of course, meant to belittle the kind of work that not only myself, but others do by rigorously examining publicly available evidence that most of the mainstream media avoids. It also led to me, for the first time, making contacts in the Middle East that will hopefully lead to effective and rewarding collaborations, and, it turned out, also led to some exciting new approaches opening up through meeting Jen, and both of us spending time with Tom, that would not have happened otherwise. We all still face a huge uphill struggle for justice and fairness to prevail, and for Fayiz al-Kandari and Fawzi al-Odah to be released, but the future is a little brighter after the last five days. Andy Worthington is the author of The Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (published by Pluto Press, distributed by Macmillan in the US, and available from Amazon — click on the following for the US and the UK) and of two other books: Stonehenge: Celebration and Subversion and The Battle of the Beanfield. To receive new articles in your inbox, please subscribe to my RSS feed (and I can also be found on Facebook, Twitter, Digg and YouTube). Also see my definitive Guantánamo prisoner list, updated in June 2011, "The Complete Guantánamo Files," a 70-part, million-word series drawing on files released by WikiLeaks in April 2011, and details about the documentary film, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo" (co-directed by Polly Nash and Andy Worthington, and available on DVD here — or here for the US). Also see my definitive Guantánamo habeas list and the chronological list of all my articles, and please also consider joining the new "Close Guantánamo campaign," and, if you appreciate my work, feel free to make a donation.
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Karina Lombard stars as Alana in the third season of the USA Network original series THE 4400. Lombard has made a career out of portraying sexy, strong and exotic women. Born in Tahiti to a Lakota Medicine Woman and a Swiss-Russian-Italian aristocrat, Lombard was raised in Spain and attended schools throughout Europe where she became fluent in Spanish, English, Italian, French and German explaining the unique and sultry accent that has enraptured audiences for over a decade. At a young age Lombard relocated to New York City where she began modeling, dancing and acting. Her numerous films include "Legends of the Fall" opposite Brad Pitt and "The Firm" with Tom Cruise, "Wide Sargasso Sea" and "The Doors." In 2004, Lombard broke barriers with her portrayal of Marina in Showtime's controversial series "The L Word." Lombard received high critical acclaim for her performance in the series as the seductive, manipulative lesbian and now even after the death of the character, Showtime is still bombarded with fan mail and requests for the revival of Lombard's infamous character. Lombard's stage work includes "Uncle Vanya," "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," "Summer and Smoke," "M. Butterfly," "Joan of Arc," "Betrayal" and "Danny and the Deep Blue Sea." In addition to her acting talents, Lombard has proved to be an accomplished musician, singer and writer and is working on her debut album as well as a music project with the world renowned Cirque du Soleil. Lombard resides in Los Angeles.
SUN CITY, South Africa (AP) — Even a first win in more than a year and a beefy $1.25 million check couldn't better that momentous Ryder Cup moment for Martin Kaymer. The German held on through the final five holes at the Nedbank Golf Challenge for a 2-shot victory at a rainy Sun City on Sunday, giving him something else to take from 2012 along with his Ryder Cup-retaining putt back in September. "I will still never do a bigger putt in my life," Kaymer said, remembering Medinah minutes after securing his first Nedbank triumph. Kaymer finished with an 8-under 280 ahead of South Africa's Charl Schwartzel in second. Kaymer and Schwartzel both closed with 69s, but Schwartzel's bogey on No. 17 after closing to within one shot eventually gave Kaymer enough breathing space. "It was always tight. Charl played a great round of golf," Kaymer said, adding he only felt comfortable once his par putt on 18 had dropped to confirm his victory. "I was telling (my caddie) I need a win. I need a win in 2012." Kaymer was twice in trouble toward the end, first pulling his tee shot deep into the rough on the par-5 No. 14. He blasted out through the trees and into the middle of the fairway and eventually made a brilliant birdie. He then bogeyed No. 15 to allow Schwartzel to get within one, but recovered his composure with pars on the last three to close out a first win since the WGC HSBC Champions in November 2011. Schwartzel had three birdies, including one at 14, but a bogey five at No. 17 eventually saw another Nedbank slip away from the home favorite, who was still looking for his first success after four attempts. "It was really tough out there. The course played long but I'm doing a bit better every year here," Schwartzel told CCTV News. "I gave it a good shot, I just came up short at the end." American Bill Haas was third on 3 under, a shot ahead of Kaymer's final-round playing partner, South African Louis Oosthuizen, who was fourth on 2 under. Two-time defending champion Lee Westwood's run at Sun City ended with a 73 for a 1-under 287 total and fifth place. The rest of the 12-man field were all over par at a tough Gary Player Country Club layout, where narrow fairways, stubborn rough, gusty winds and — on Sunday — steady rain made scoring consistently difficult. No one shot better than 69 all week. Kaymer eagled the par-5 No. 2, double-bogeyed No. 3, then had three birdies before his crucial recovery on the 14th. Deep in trouble, he found his way out of the bushes and put his third to within 10 feet. He made the birdie putt to ensure he had enough of an advantage through the closing holes. Kaymer's long-awaited win came after restructuring his swing and at the end of a memorable year that was still marked more than anything else, he said, by that putt at the Ryder Cup in Europe's thrilling win over the United States. He also completed a German double at Sun City after Bernhard Langer won the seniors' event on Saturday. Langer called Kaymer straight after his victory to congratulate him. Westwood's attempt to become the first player to win three straight Nedbank titles ended at the telling 14th hole, where the No. 6-ranked Englishman took two shots to get out of the rough, then found the bunker and missed a bogey putt to come away with a challenge-ending double-bogey seven. Behind him, Paul Lawrie was sixth on 1-over 289 after a 74, Francesco Molinari and Carl Pettersson were tied for seventh on 2 over and Peter Hanson was ninth on 3 over. Nicolas Colsaerts, Justin Rose and Garth Mulroy were 10th, 11th, and 12th. Copyright 2012 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
Release Date: Mar 27, 2012Contact: 888-249-NEWS U.S. Chamber Opposes New EPA Rule Attacking American-Made Energy Sources EPA Playing 'Dangerous Game' with Energy Prices, Jobs and National Security WASHINGTON, DC—U.S. Chamber of Commerce Executive Vice President for Government Affairs Bruce Josten issued the following statement today upon the release of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants: “With today’s proposed rule on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, EPA has once again shown that the administration’s ‘all of the above’ energy policy is really ‘some of the above.’ Today’s proposal could lead to higher energy costs that are bad for families and businesses. “Having been thoroughly rejected by Congress, EPA is now attempting an end-around designed to place an indefinite ban on the construction of conventional coal-fired power plants in America. Coal is an essential part of a diverse, reliable, and affordable energy mix, supplying nearly 40 percent of our electricity. It remains a cost-effective and secure source of power in a time of soaring energy prices. The proposed rule could also affect natural gas generation, because several types of natural gas-fired generation plants may not meet EPA’s prescribed greenhouse gas emissions standards. “EPA’s proposal is rife with legal and structural deficiencies that could ultimately allow the scope of the rule to expand well beyond the entities EPA seeks to regulate. Even worse, the agency has proposed this dubious new regulation while a legal cloud hangs over the fundamental question of whether it can regulate greenhouse gases at all. “Today’s announcement is another in a long string of actions this administration has taken that weaken our energy security and raise energy prices. Given recent court decisions finding that EPA overreached—including three in the last week—the Chamber will be evaluating all of its options to overturn this rule if it is ultimately issued.” The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is the world’s largest business federation representing the interests of more than 3 million businesses of all sizes, sectors, and regions, as well as state and local chambers and industry associations.
There’s a lot to like Colorado College’s chances in the Midwest Regional. The top-seeded Tigers feature the WCHA Player of the Year (Marty Sertich), the league’s Defensive Player of the Year (captain Mark Stuart), and a total of three first-team all-conference picks (Sertich, linemate Brett Sterling and goaltender Curtis McElhinney). And there’s plenty more where that came from on the Tigers’ roster. That’s the task facing Colgate, which got into the NCAA tournament by winning last weekend’s truest do-or-die game, the ECACHL’s third-place contest, where a win over Vermont put the Raiders in the national field. Colgate’s appearance this year is a contrast from last season’s NCAA fortunes, when the Raiders were left out of the field of 16 despite the ECACHL regular-season championship. Friday’s other game features familiar opponents in Michigan and Wisconsin. For the Wolverines, making their 15th straight NCAA appearance, it’s same old, same old after CCHA regular-season and tournament championships. And the Wolverines will almost certainly have the crowd on their side, just a couple of hours away from home in Grand Rapids, Mich. Michigan’s semifinal opponent, Wisconsin, doesn’t have as much to cheer about entering the NCAAs. The Badgers endured a brutal stretch run against the WCHA’s top teams, then bowed out in the play-in game at the Final Five against North Dakota, leaving Badger fans holding their breath until a lack of upsets in other conference tournaments sent Wisconsin into the field of 16. But before you mark down Michigan’s spot in the regional final, consider this: the teams have already met this season, as they always do in the College Hockey Showcase. The result? A 3-1 Badger victory. Colorado College vs. Colgate Friday, 5 p.m. ET, Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Mich. Colorado College Tigers Record: 29-8-3, 19-7-2 WCHA (t-first) Vs. 2005 NCAA tournament teams: 11-6-1 (.639) Seed: No. 3 overall, No. 1 Midwest How in: At-large 2004 NCAA tournament: none There are plenty of reasons to be in a state of anticipation when it comes to the NCAA tournament. Colorado College has one more. The performance with which they’ll enter the NCAAs left a bad taste in their mouths. A 1-0 loss to Denver in the WCHA Final Five championship game last Saturday was the second time in 15 days the Tigers, who feature the top two scorers in the nation, had been shut out, both times by the Pioneers. Worse yet, while they were trying to rally in the third period, they got only three shots on goal. “That’s definitely not a good stat,” Tigers forward Marty Sertich said. “We needed to be more desperate.” And they’ll need to be more desperate in the Midwest Regional, starting with a first-round game against Colgate. In CC’s last eight games against NCAA tournament teams, they have an average of just 1.5 goals scored per game. That comes from the team that features 61-point scorers in Sertich, the WCHA Player of the Year, and Sterling, the Final Five MVP in a losing cause. It isn’t exactly an offensive crisis with the Tigers because they have to potential to break out and score goals in bunches, but the recent trend has to be concerning for the CC coaches. The game against Denver may have been a motivator. “Our guys don’t feel like they left it all on the ice,” CC coach Scott Owens said. Said CC captain Mark Stuart: “We need to play better than we did. We’re looking forward to [the NCAA] tournament.” But don’t let that fool you into thinking all was lost from the Final Five. The Tigers got two notices out of the pair of games: their defense is in order and goaltender Curtis McElhinney can play on consecutive nights and be effective. “There’s some good, positive things,” Owens said. McElhinney had split time with Matt Zaba for most of the season, but made his first back-to-back starts since Dec. 3-4, 2004, at the Final Five. He allowed three pucks past him, but only one counted because of video review. That leaves McElhinney, who has a 19-3-1 record, a 1.93 goals against average and a .934 save percentage, in line to be the go-to goalie this weekend. Record: 25-10-3, 14-5-3 ECACHL (third) Vs. 2005 NCAA tournament teams: 4-2-1 (.643) Seed: No. 14 overall, No. 4 Midwest How in: At-large 2004 NCAA tournament: none The last two years have been far from typical for Colgate. Just before the start of the 2003-04 campaign, longtime head coach Don Vaughan stepped up into an interim athletic director’s role, leaving experienced associate head coach Stan Moore to take over behind the bench. The result was a 22-win season and a regular-season title. This year, Vaughan and Moore each returned to their previous roles and the team was forced to adjust again. Luckily for Colgate, this is a veteran team with excellent leadership. They didn’t miss a beat. The Raiders have won 25 games to date and earned their first NCAA tournament bid since 2000. It’s also the program’s first-ever back-to-back 20-win seasons. “It means quite a bit for our program,” said Vaughan. “With the inclusion of scholarships (last year), we’re trying to be more consistent. Stan, [assistants] Andrew Dickson and Shep Harder did a great job last year. I had nothing to do with that; I was on the sidelines.” Vaughan has had a much better view of Colgate’s success this season. It’s a campaign in which a nine-member senior class has been the team’s cornerstone — from Steve Silverthorn in goal to rock-solid blueliners Joey Mormina, Justin Spencer and Eamon DelGiacco to tri-captains Adam Mitchell, Darryl McKinnon and Dave Thomas. Forwards Anthony Masotto and Dmitry Yashin have also played important roles. “Leadership is a big part of what we’ve done all year,” said Vaughan. That was never more evident than in last weekend’s ECACHL final four, where the Raiders lost a grueling double-overtime semifinal to Harvard on Friday only to bounce back with one of its most inspired games the next day to secure the at-large bid with a win over Vermont. “They came through last weekend,” Vaughan said about his seniors. “It was a tough loss Friday. Then we played the most important game of the season on Saturday. They took control of the team. “Mormina was unbelievable. I’ll never forget it. He refused to let the [Friday] game end. After scoring to tie it once, they came down and took the lead and he did the same thing again. It was an unbelievable effort. He really stepped up. “I don’t even want to know how many minutes he played Friday.” Given the difficulty of the loss, which included late-game line-juggling by Vaughan because players were cramping up all over his bench, the coach deserves credit for getting his team ready for a challenge the next day. “We were disappointed to lose,” said the bench boss, “and pretty emotionally drained. I let the guys sit with that.” And then Vaughan reached into his motivation toolbox. “I found out that if we won [Saturday] we’d probably be in [the NCAA tournament]. I took a bit of a risk saying that because you never know what the committee will decide, but I told them we needed to win to get in. It was something else to look forward to. “I knew I could prepare them emotionally, but I wasn’t sure physically.” The players took care of that, never showing fatigue as Mormina scored the game-winner and Silverthorn made 34 saves against UVM. “It was one of the most memorable games ever during my coaching career at Colgate,” acknowledged Vaughan. “It worked, we’re in.” Silverthorn’s performance went a bit unheralded, but he had one of the better weekends, making critical saves at big moments. “He’s done it all year,” explained the coach. “That’s who we are. We play under the radar screen … maybe some of it is where we’re located. “But it’s all about Steve. We’ve come to make it a part of our game.” The seniors will need to step up again this weekend, as will rookie Tyler Burton, who leads the club with 19 goals and 34 points. “We feel good,” said Vaughan. “We’re healthy and excited to be one of only 16 teams left. We feel we deserve it.” The Raiders proved throughout the year that this is exactly where they belong this weekend, but they’ll have their hands full against Colorado College, which comes as no surprise to Colgate’s coach. “We knew that,” said Vaughan. “We’re not going to play any easy teams now. I watched them on tape this week; they are a very dangerous team. They are explosive offensively and skate really well. “We’re going to need to be on top of our game. We’ll try to counter them and be patient … take our chances as they come.” The Tigers lead the all-time series against the Raiders, 3-2-1, but Colgate won the last meeting, 3-0, on October 23, 1999. Michigan vs. Wisconsin Friday, 8:30 p.m. ET, Van Andel Arena, Grand Rapids, Mich. Record: 30-7-3, 23-3-2 CCHA (first) Vs. 2005 NCAA tournament teams: 3-3-1 (.500) Seed: No. 6 overall, No. 2 Midwest How in: CCHA tournament champion 2004 NCAA tournament: Lost in regional final Fresh off their third CCHA Super Six championship in four years, the Michigan Wolverines (30-7-2) are making their 15th consecutive appearance in the NCAA tournament as a No. 2 seed in Grand Rapids, a mere 132 miles from Yost Arena. Head coach Red Berenson understands that this is an advantage. “I think it’s the purpose of regionals, really, is to have regional teams there so that their fans can go to the games. The implications of travel for teams and fans are easier if you can go on a bus two hours down the road. “The convenience of it is good, and it’s convenient for our fans. Obviously, we have to show up and play well.” Given the dominance of the Wolverines in the CCHA for the last 15 seasons, there’s no doubt that Berenson and Michigan’s 10-member senior class will prepare the Wolverines to do plenty beyond showing up. This has been an interesting season for the 30-win Wolverines. Late in the campaign, Michigan solidified its hold on first place in the CCHA with a win against second-place Ohio State in Columbus, and from that point on there was no question that the Wolverines would earn the regular-season title. When it came to the CCHA championship game, a rematch against 2004 Mason Cup winner Ohio State, the Wolverines were so overpowering in the first 10 minutes that the Buckeyes could scarcely catch their collective breath. The game turned out to be a 4-2 decision with an empty-net goal, one in which Michigan’s big players stepped up, including senior Milan Gajic and junior Jeff Tambellini. And struggling goaltender Al Montoya played a highlight-reel game, the only gaffe a loose puck that found its way into the net — luckily for Michigan, after the referee had blown the whistle. Because of the two wins in the Super Six, Michigan enters the Midwest Regional “on a bit of a roll,” said Berenson, who added that the level of play in the title game prepared the Wolverines for NCAA action. “Every team that went down to Joe Louis really wanted to win that tournament for obvious reasons. I think playing in a game like that game helped us. I think just playing at a higher level, against a tough opponent like Ohio State, is a big help. “Number one, our power play was a factor in the game against a good penalty-killing unit. I thought we scored timely goals, whether you can call them lucky, but both Gajic’s goals were big goals from a big player. “Our penalty killing did a pretty good job against what I consider the best power play in the league.” Beyond preparation, the Wolverines are loaded with talent, with more 10-goal scorers than any other team in the CCHA — eight — have a solid defense, and a goaltender who can rise to the challenge, even if his statistics are less than stellar. Montoya (2.52 GAA, .895 SV%) is the only tournament starting goalie with a save percentage below .900, but according to Berenson, “The only statistic that counts is his number of wins.” Montoya has 29 of those. The Wolverines have shown that they are capable of overcoming defensive lapses with one of the most high-powered offenses in the country. T.J. Hensick (22-30–52), one of the most creative forwards in the CCHA, leads Michigan in scoring. He’s fast and skilled with the puck; watch for his signature move of circling the zone with the puck to set up his own scoring opportunity. Jeff Tambellini (21-31–52) had a slumpy sophomore season but is back in full force this year, making something out of nothing every chance he can, as Ohio State found out last week when he bounced the game-winning goal off Buckeye Jason DeSantis’ chest. Freshman Chad Kolarik (18-16–34) has 11 power-play goals, and the Wolverine PP is sixth in the NCAA, converting at 22.6 percent. There are a host of other Wolverines worth mentioning, including senior defenseman Eric Werner (8-21–29) and senior forward David Moss (10-19–29), who has been out with an injury but is expected to play this weekend. With four goals and four assists, senior captain Eric Nystrom (12-19–31) leads all Wolverines in NCAA scoring, and is one of the best two-way forwards in the nation. Berenson said that he sees Wisconsin “as similar to Ohio State. Their penalty killing is number-one in their league, and they score a lot of goals. “They’re a physical team, a blue-collar team, and [freshman] Joe Pavelski is a great player. They’ve got their share of high-end players. They’ve had a tough [year]. When you look at their record, they’re better than their record. They’ve had a bear of a schedule.” The Wolverines are riding a 10-game win streak and are 6-2-1 at neutral sites this season. They average 4.28 goals per game, tops in the nation. They’ve also won at least one game in the NCAA tournament in each of the last 10 years, and captured the national title under Berenson in 1996 and 1998. Even with all that league and NCAA success, Berenson knows that anything can happen in Grand Rapids, especially since Wisconsin beat Michigan 3-1 when they last met, in the College Hockey Showcase Nov. 27, 2004, in Madison. “When you look at Colorado [College], they’re probably the best team in the West,” said Berenson. “They’ve got everything. We’ll see. We hope we get a chance to play them, but right now we’re focusing on Wisconsin.” Record: 23-13-4, 16-9-3 WCHA (t-third) Vs. 2005 NCAA tournament teams: 8-8-2 (.500) Seed: No. 11 overall, No. 3 Midwest How in: At-large 2004 NCAA tournament: Lost in regional final The cold, hard facts are tough for Wisconsin to avoid. The Badgers won just four of their last 14 games before the NCAA tournament, playing a tough schedule that put them through a series of tournament-esque challenges. They could have just packed it in, if not for the fact that they’ve been so close in most of those games that they have a belief that they can compete with, and beat, anybody. The Badgers’ last seven games all have been decided by one goal — if they were decided at all — and that streak is a program record. “We’ve had so many lessons that we’ve learned down the road these last five, six, seven weeks in these close, one-goal games,” Wisconsin captain Adam Burish said. “If you take all those lessons we’ve learned and if we have been filing them away and storing them, we can use all this stuff at the end of the year here. We’ve been in these situations, we’ve been in these tight games, we’ve been in these rowdy environments. When you put that all together, you can do something special.” To do that something, the Badgers will have to start getting production out of their offense, starting with a first-round game against Michigan. Since a 5-1 victory over Colorado College on Feb. 18, Wisconsin is averaging just 2.11 goals per game of offense. “The results haven’t been there, but the fact is we’ve outchanced our opponents,” Badgers coach Mike Eaves said. “The biggest thing is we haven’t put the puck in the net. So you have to go on the fact that we’re doing things well when we don’t have the puck. “We’ve done a lot of good things, and I think the players understand that when you’re on the inside out, [we're] disappointed in the outcome, [we're] disappointed that we didn’t put the puck in the net, but there are other things we did well that indicate that we’re OK.” Wisconsin will have to get a good performance out of its defense and senior goaltender Bernd Brckler to advance past the Wolverines. But that’s not out of the question — the Badgers defeated Michigan 3-1 both this season and last season. Brckler appears to be close to, or all the way back to, form after being pulled from a start for the first time in his career in Game 1 of a WCHA first-round series against Alaska-Anchorage. He said he’s ready for what Michigan’s potent offense will throw at him. “As a goaltender, obviously, you know what’s coming then,” Brckler said. “If you know you have a high-powered offense coming against you, you just have to really be on top of your game, always be ready for a shot, prepare early.” Wisconsin isn’t apologetic about getting into the tournament despite its late-season swoon. It just gives the Badgers a little bit more to prove, and playing in front of what should be a pro-Michigan crowd in Grand Rapids is as good an opportunity as any, “I think it fuels the guys to play in front of a crowd that you know is going to be against you,” Brckler said. “You know you have to come out and prove to them that you’re the better team on the ice.”
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Dr. Xiaohua Yang is Associate Professor of International Business and heads the Globalization of Chinese Enterprise program in the School of Management at the University of San Francisco. She specializes in internationalization of Chinese firms, international R&D strategic alliances, and foreign market entry strategies. She has taught and lectured in the USA, Australia, China, Taiwan, and Europe. She regularly teaches MBA and EMBA students and supervises doctoral students. A recipient of the Best Paper Award from 6th Harvard University’s China Goes Global Conference in 2012, and the prestigious China Natural Science Foundation grant, and widely published in international journals, she is currently the Senior editor of the Journal of Asia Business studies, among other editorial credentials. Dr. Yang has served on numerous boards and has consulted companies and government agencies in a number of countries, including US, China, Australia, Finland, and Armenia. She has designed and delivered training courses for Chinese companies. Recently, she has been appointed as a member of advisory board of Oceanus Academy, a part of Silicon Valley Women Federation. She is a fellow of Tim Fischer Center for Global Trade and Finance at Bond University, Australia, a 2012 Academy for Global Business Advancement Distinguished Fellow, and an honorary professor of Center for Business Ethics at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, China. She currently coordinates a large study on Chinese enterprises in the U.S. in collaboration with China General Chamber of Commerce-USA. Her work on globalization of Chinese business has not only attracted attention from the academia, but also from the media. She has been interviewed by Wenzhou Daily, Sing Tao Daily, and Lihong Radio. She is frequently invited to speak at international conferences, forums and symposia. Recently, she was a keynote/panel speaker at HYSTA annual conference, Berkeley China Forum, Wenzhou Pareto Public Policy Colloquium, and Harvard conference on China Goes Global. Dr. Yang earned her PhD in International Business/Strategic Management from the University of Kansas, her MBA from Iowa State University, and her BA from Shanghai University of International Studies. Ph.D., International Business/Strategic Management School of Business, University of Kansas, USA. - Global business strategy - Cross-cultural negotiation - Doing business in China Yang, X. and Rivers, C. Cross-Border Differences in Company Attitude to Corporate Social Responsibility, Journal of Business Ethics, in press. Michael Carney, M., Gedajlovic, E. and Yang, X. 2009. Varieties of Asian capitalism: Toward an institutional theory of Asian enterprise, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 26 (1): 361-380. Yang, X., Lim, Y., Sakurai, Y., & Seo, S. 2009. Comparative Analysis of Internationalization of Chinese and Korean Firms, Thunderbird International Business Review, 51 (1): 37-51. Yang, X., Jiang, Y., Kang, R., and Ke, Y. 2009. A Comparative Analysis of Internationalization of Chinese and Japanese Firms, Asia Pacific Journal of Management, 26 (1): 141-162.
The powerful methods of mathematics are used in virtually every field of study from the natural to the social sciences, from business to philosophy. The Mathematics major provides excellent preparation for graduate school and for careers in such fields as aerospace, computing, education, environmental analysis, and statistics. As one of the oldest departments in the College of Arts and Sciences, the Mathematics Department strives to further the primary mission of the University of San Francisco as embodied in the University Statement of Mission and Goals. Thus it seeks to educate its students within the framework of the Jesuit tradition. In addition to these general goals, the specific aims of the major in Mathematics are: - to provide students with a mature understanding of fundamental mathematical concepts and techniques; - to teach students how to engage in rigorous logical reasoning and to refine their analytical skills; - to teach students how to solve real-world problems by formulating, analyzing, solving and refining appropriate mathematical models; - to train students for life-long learning by teaching them how to read mathematical and other technical material with critical comprehension; - to provide students with a sound working knowledge of computer systems and software in a mathematical, problem-solving context; - to enhance communication skills by teaching students how to write and speak about technical subjects to both specialized and general audiences; - to prepare students for a variety of careers in which mathematics plays an important part; - to prepare students for graduate study in mathematics; - to provide co-curricular experiences that further these general and specific goals.
Human Resources Administrative Practice Manual: Classification, Compensation, and Payroll Workweek and Overtime \|Official Title\|\|Policy on Workweek and Overtime\| \|Abbreviated Title\|\|Workweek and Overtime\| \|Responsible Office\|\|Human Resources\| Institutions of the University System of Georgia shall establish a standard workweek of forty (40) hours and abide by the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The distribution of hours throughout the week shall be a matter of scheduling left to the individual institution. This policy applies to all employees including public safety officers. Overtime work shall be authorized for employees who are not exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act only when the work is deemed necessary by the departmental supervisor authorized to make such decisions. Payment for overtime work will be made in accordance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. In lieu of payment for approved overtime work, compensatory time may be granted at the rate of one and one-half hours of compensatory time for each hour of overtime worked. Approved compensatory time is subject to a maximum accumulation of sixty (60) hours and must be expended by the end of the succeeding calendar quarter. Reason for Policy This policy ensures consistency among institutions of the University System as necessary, ensures compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, and affords the appropriate level of flexibility needed at the institutional level. Entities Affected By This Policy All units of the University System of Georgia are covered by this policy. Who Should Read This Policy All Human Resources personnel and employees within the University System of Georgia should be aware of this policy. \|Office of Human Resourcesfirstname.lastname@example.org\| \|Institution Chief Human Resources Officers\|\|See University System HR Officer Listing at http://www.usg.edu/hr/officers/\| Website Address for This Policy - Fair labor Standards Act – http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/flsa/ - Fair Labor Standards Act Leave – http://www.usg.edu/hr/manual/category/time_away_from_work/#pfair_labor_standards_act_leave These definitions apply to these terms as they are used in this policy: Overtime: time worked by a non-exempt employee above the normal forty (40) hour work week. Workweek: A seven (7) day period that begins at 12:01 a.m. on day one (1) and ends at 12 midnight on day seven (7), in which the required working hours for full-time employees equal forty (40) hours, with distribution of such hours during the workweek a matter of scheduling left to the individual institutions. The University System of Georgia has established a policy to allow for consistency among institutions regarding work schedules and overtime. Each institution shall establish procedures to implement this policy. The responsibilities each party has in connection with this policy are: \|Vice Chancellor for Human Resources, USG\|\|Maintain and revise workweek and overtime policy as appropriate.\| \|Institution Chief Human Resources Officers\|\|Each institution shall establish and maintain an adequate procedure for implementing this policy, including designation of an official institutional workweek.\| Garnishment of Pay
O. T. & I. T. At the same time another case argued, before the Supreme Court of Kansas, was the habeas corpus case of Edward B. Justus. This case involved a point of considerable interest to lawyers, and for that reason I make note of it here. Justus was indicted for murder in Noble County. A change of venue was asked under a statue which made it mandatory upon the Judge to grant it upon proper showing. This showing was made, but the Judge refused to grant the change. However, the application for the change and the order made thereon, were not embodied in the record of the case in the Supreme Court of Oklahoma, by bill of exceptions, or case made, as is provided by statue. Under this state of facts, the Supreme Court of this Territory held that there was nothing before the court for their determination. The record was regular. This point was also argued in the case before the Supreme Court of Kansas, but the Court waived consideration of that point, and denied the writ upon the ground that a failure to grant a change of venue under circumstances of this kind, did not deprive the court of jurisdiction. It was an error probably which could be corrected by an appellate court, but was not an error which could be inquired into collaterally by proceedings in habeas corpus. An important case to the Territory is now pending in the Supreme Court of the United States, it being the case of Thomas P. Queenan, appealed from the decision of the Supreme Court of the Territory of Oklahoma, affirming the District Court of Oklahoma county. This case will probably be argued in the Supreme Court of the United States in February, 1903. A case of some importance was taken from the Supreme Court of the Territory on error to the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting in St. Louis. This was the case of Amos E. Pierce vs. The Territory. It was submitted on the 2nd day of June on printed briefs, and was recently decided; the decision being an affirmation of our Supreme Court. The record of this office with reference to the result of litigation in which the territory ha been interested is a matter of considerable gratification to me. Of the great number of cases briefed and argued, all have resulted favorably to the Territory with the exception of one. The judgement in that case upon a re-hearing, was partially modified, which compelled its being remanded to the District Court. Submitted by: Jennifer Ammons The copyright (s) on this page must appear on all copied and/or printed material.
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Decision support system based on a mathematical model for traffic problems caused by "great traffic generators" Head of project at USI: Sergio Albeverio Starting date: 1 Giugno 2006 Duration: 36 months - S240 Town and country planning - P001 Mathematics - P002 Physics - Accademia di architettura - Paolo Giordano - collaboratore - Alberto Vancheri - collaboratore - Denise Andrey - collaboratore Other partners involved: Amministrazione Cantonale: Sezione Mobilità, Sezione Sviluppo Territoriale, Sezione Protezione Aria Acqua; IFEC Consulenze SA - Rivera; Urbanisti Associati - Locarno The project "Decision support system based on a mathematical model for traffic problems caused by ´great traffic generators´ (GTG), is an important part of the main project "Supermarkets and other great traffic generators: proposal of strategy" in due course at the Department of Territory of the Canton Ticino, which has the aim to develop some criteria needed for a correct localization of structures with large affluences. One of the main objective of our project is to develop a mathematical model as a decision support system concerning the management of great traffic generators. The Department of Territory has indeed the demand to take important decisions of territorial planning, or of traffic planning, with the possibility to verify if the adopted strategies will carry out the requested improvements or if they will have the desirable consequences. Without a seriously validated mathematical model in general these decisions are verifiable only once the work is completed. Some important questions about these type of problems are: - How to take into account the forecasts of the urban development necessary to estimate the consequences on the traffic after the introduction of a new GTG? - How to take into account the forecasts of the urban development necessary to estimate the consequences on the pollution or on the induced economic activity? - A given planning strategy about the management of GTG will they have the desired consequences? - Are planning decisions stable regarding to several future scenery forecasted by the mathematical model? - Which are the best localization of a new GTG? With the mathematical model for the study of the evolution of the territory and the traffic dynamics developed by our research group it is possible to simulate the impact of interventions both from a city-planning point of view and of the traffic planning, and to estimate their consequences on a long period.
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With cheerier news coming from the housing market recently, it's easy to think that the dark days of the worst housing bust in recent history are far behind us. But for the majority of the nation's local housing markets, things are far from back to normal. According to a new report from real estate research firm RealtyTrac, 65 percent of local markets are worse off than they were in 2008. RealtyTrac evaluated more than 900 counties on five key metrics that impact housing, including average home prices and share of distressed sales. "The U.S. housing market has shown strong signs of life in recent months, but many local markets continue to struggle," Daren Blomquist, vice president at RealtyTrac, said in a release. The culprits holding back housing markets across the country are very familiar. For starters, while the national rate has edged down slightly, unemployment rates increased in 854 counties of the 919 analyzed by RealtyTrac, a whopping 94 percent of the total. The massive pool of negative home equity also poses a huge challenge for the housing market going forward. Millions of Americans owe more on the mortgages that what their home is worth, trapping many who want to sell in deeply devalued homes. High unemployment and high negative equity levels increase the potential for foreclosures and while another flood of distressed properties has not materialized nationally, many neighborhoods still face a backlog, which tend to drag down property values overall. According to RealtyTrac, 37 percent of all residential sales are of distressed properties. "While the worst of the foreclosure problem is in the rear view mirror for a narrow majority of counties, others are still working through rising levels of foreclosure activity, inventory and distressed sales as they continue to clear the wreckage left behind by a bursting housing bubble," Blomquist added. All those factors have conspired to drive down average home prices in more than 70 percent of the counties RealtyTrac analyzed. That's kept more families underwater on the mortgages and less likely to sell and put more pressure on families in financially precarious situations. Here's a look at where housing is worse off than it was four years ago: *All figures are percent change from 2008 to 2012 - Getting Buff Could Save You Pain at the Pump - Cramped Cabins: Airfare Expected to Rise While Legroom Shrinks - Sour Grapes: Bad Weather to Bring Europe Worst Harvest in 50 Years Meg Handley is a reporter for U.S. News & World Report. You can follow her on Twitter or reach her at email@example.com.
By Deborah Kotz, Washington Whispers Add Planned Parenthood to the special interest groups assailing Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak for potentially holding up passage of Speaker Nancy Pelosi's health reform bill until it clearly states that public funds cannot be used for abortions. He says the current bill leaves open that possibility, while Planned Parenthood says he's trying to reduce the number of insurance plans that currently cover abortions. Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards described Stupak, the Michigan congressman, in ways the group normally reserves for talking about conservatives. "There are those of us who want to see health reform passed and those who want to use it for their demagogue issues. Stupak has lost the big picture, in my opinion. He's trying to re-litigate the abortion issue, and it's unfortunate to see," she said. In a statement, Stupak says the legislation would mandate "abortion services for the first time in our nation's history." Richards says she doesn't think that "pro life" voices have gotten stronger in the Democratic Party: Stupak has always held his views, she says, and he's always been in the small minority. On the other hand, she adds, "pro choice" Republicans are being squeezed out of their party. "I can count on one hand the number of pro-choice Republicans in Congress," she insists.
Marbella Cup Preview with U.S. U-20 MNT Head Coach Tab Ramos The U.S. Under-20 Men's National Team is set to square off against Canada, Scotland and Azerbaijan next week in the 2012 Marbella Cup in Spain and ussoccer.com caught up with head coach Tab Ramos before the team departs for the country's southern Mediterranean coast. Ramos spoke about the upcoming opponents, a couple new selections for the team and scouting the U-18 MNT during its European camp in September. Oct. 2, 2012 © U.S. Soccer The U.S. Under-20 Men’s National Team is set to square off against Canada, Scotland and Azerbaijan next week in the 2012 Marbella Cup in Spain and ussoccer.com caught up with head coach Tab Ramos before the team departs for the country’s southern Mediterranean coast. Ramos spoke about the upcoming opponents, a couple new selections for the team and scouting the U-18 MNT during its European camp in September. ussoccer.com: What factors went into putting the roster together for this particular trip? Tab Ramos: “For this trip in particular, there was no specific thought in terms of needing to select a certain percentage of players from any one camp that we’ve had. I think this was good opportunity for us to call in the guys who are playing in Europe. It’s a FIFA date, so everyone stops and they’re all so close over there that the clubs are more likely to let them go. This team doesn’t necessarily reflect the team that will be qualifying in February.” ussoccer.com: What can you tell us about the teams you’ll be facing at the 2012 Marbella Cup? TR: “I’ve gone through the rosters of the teams. The Scottish team is mostly players based in Scotland. The Canadian team has eight players who played for the Vancouver Whitecaps Residency program, which we know from the U.S. Soccer Development Academy here and they are very good players. I really don’t know a whole lot about the Azerbaijan team other than we played them in November, but that was their older Under-21 team. I’m not really concerned with the other teams. I’m more concerned with our players and how they perform. A lot of these players will be very important for us moving forward.” ussoccer.com: You handed Zack Steffen and Shane O’Neill their first call-ups to the U-20 MNT. What have you seen from them over the last couple months to warrant the call? TR: “Shane O’Neill was on my radar already this summer. I went to watch him at the showcase in June and he got injured and had to go home after the first day. The goal was to watch him play in three games at the showcase and then bring him to the Milk Cup. Now, I’ve spoken with Colorado and he’s playing more consistently and I think he’s probably back in form and I definitely wanted to see him with us and what he looks like playing center back for us. Zack is really one of those guys where, at this point, he’s at a very good level. He’s a ’95 and, even though the main concern is qualifying for the World Cup, we also want to be looking at what’s coming down the road and what the core of the next cycle is going to be. To me, it looks like Zack Steffen is going to be one of those guys and we want to start bringing him along when we can. For qualifiers, we will have three goalkeepers, so there’s a good chance he’ll be one of the keepers in that group.” ussoccer.com: You recently spent time with the U.S. Under-18 MNT during its European camp in September. What did you see from that team that can help you when looking toward the future? TR: “I thought they played well as a team. Their understanding of the tactics was excellent; their performance in practice was excellent. They play hard and understand all the concepts and they are willing to do what it takes. I’m really encouraged with that group. Javier (Perez) is doing a great job with them and I think it will be an easier transition for that group going into the U-20s in the next cycle.” ussoccer.com: There are players coming in from clubs in the U.S., Mexico and Europe. How closely are you able to monitor their progress at their specific clubs throughout the season? TR: “I’ve had a chance to see most of these players play. I’ve seen everyone, other than Shane O’Neill, so I know where they fit into our program. It’s important to bring along for the first time somebody like Marc Pelosi who has had to deal with a number of injuries throughout the last 12 months that really have kept him from coming into the team. I know what they can give and how much they have and how competitive these players are.” ussoccer.com: A handful of players have seen first-team minutes with their respective clubs this year. That has to be a big benefit to the Under-20 Men’s National Team program. TR: “It’s tremendous for us because that experience, in terms of qualifying games or World Cup games, it’s invaluable. There’s no question guys like Anthony Brooks, Luis Gil, Jose Villarreal or even Jerome Kiesewetter at Stuttgart – even though he isn’t playing on the first team – these are guys that are very valuable for us down the road. I’m hoping as the year goes by that also other guys get opportunities. I know Benji Joya has already played for the first team (at Santos Laguna); Caleb Stanko is on the verge. Marc Pelosi is really highly considered at Liverpool, obviously that’s a difficult next step for him, but I know Liverpool thinks very highly of him and that he’s close. I think that a lot of these guys are on the verge of becoming somebody in the soccer world and I’m excited to have them around in our camps.” ussoccer.com: What’s the importance of taking international trips for player and team development? TR: “I think we can’t get that type of competition at home. The national teams we normally play, not so much at the U-18 age group but certainly at the U-20 age group, are built with professional players, and they’re built with players that are playing day in and day out against men. I think their strength is at a different level than ours. When you look at our team in general, maybe not this team that we gathered together to go to Marbella, but in terms of us putting guys together when we select mostly college guys or especially on the first part of the U-20 cycle when we have mostly Academy players, they’re players who are not used to playing against men day in and day out. I think when they get the opportunity to play the international game they see what that strength is like. It has nothing to do with height or weight or anything like that, it just has to do with strength on the ball and the balance that some of these players have from playing against men at the top levels.”
Inaugural Recipient Dr. Thomas Fleck [Pictured with wife Jan and Sam Snow, Coaching Director of US Youth Soccer] US Youth Soccer Excellence in Youth Coaching Education Award, "The Dr. Thomas Fleck Award" was designed to honor a lifetime of dedication where one has with integrity, honor, humor and humility made extensive and far reaching contributions to the process by which youth soccer coaches are educated in America. Future recipients of the "Dr. Thomas Fleck Award" will be awarded based on merit as determined by the US Youth Soccer State Directors of Coaching when deemed appropriate, but not necessarily on an annual basis. 2011 Jimmy Conway - Portland, Ore. 2010 Virgil Stringfield II - Orlando, Fla. 2009 Dr. David Carr - Barboursville, W.Va. 2008 James "Jay" Hoffman 2007 Dr. Ron Quinn - Cincinnati, Ohio 2006 Dean Conway - Jamaica Plain, Mass. 2005 Dr. Thomas Fleck - Philadelphia, Pa., Inaugural Recipient
Spice Bans in Utah Counties & Cities Spice, incense laced with synthetic cannabinoids or other chemicals that produce a marijuana-like high, is being sold in smoke shops and convenience stores throughout Utah. However, many counties and cities have enacted bans on the sale and/or use of spice and the Utah State Legislature will consider a similar statewide law in the upcoming 2011 legislative session. Among the cities and counties that have passed local ordinances, Cache County (see page 9), Iron County, Kaysville (see 6-4-5), Layton, Ogden, and Providence City have made their ordinances available online to view. If a local ordinance is not available online, contact the local city or county clerk for a copy. As noted in the Controlled Substances Advisory Committee minutes, the committee has recommended the legislature examine a statewide law to regulate spice. The Salt Lake Tribune reported that on November 24, the federal Drug Enforcement Administration temporarily placed five of the synthetic chemicals on the list of forbidden controlled substances, making it illegal to distribute or possess them, effectively criminalizing the use of some spice sold here in Utah. The DEA's statement regarding this action is here.
The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) The National Postdoctoral Association (NPA)is a member-driven organization that provides a unique, national voice for postdoctoral scholars. The NPA is also a collaborative organization that seeks to work with all stakeholders to improve the postdoctoral experience in the United States. The mission of the NPA is to advance the U.S. research enterprise by maximizing the effectiveness of the research community and enhancing the quality of the postdoctoral experience for all participants. UTHSC is a sustaining member of the NPA. UTHSC Postdocs may join the NPA for free as an affiliate, non-voting member by registering using their @uthsc.edu email address. Postdocs may also join as individual dues-paying members and will receive their own vote. The NPA also hosts an Annual Meeting every spring, and travel awards are available. National Association Website Please visit the National Postdoctoral Association website for more information. UTHSC Postdoctoral Office 920 Madison Avenue, #407 Memphis, Tennessee 38163
Martinez Rogers recognized for creating mentoring program Student success is a top priority for Dr. Norma Martinez Rogers, assistant professor in the department of family nursing care. It is so important that she created the Juntos Podemos (Together We Can) program. Juntos Podemos, which has been in existence for two years, assists disadvantaged nursing students through its mentoring component. The program was recognized for its excellence March 22 during the annual Ford Salute to Education awards ceremony and reception. Dr. Martinez Rogers received a grant from the Ford Foundation to continue the program at the Health Science Center. "Many of our students, especially those who come from underserved educational institutions, have more barriers to succeed in college than other students," Dr. Martinez Rogers said. "Not only do they have the rigorous demands of school, they also have demands from family and employment. Many of them must rely on loans, grants and scholarships to finance their education because they are financially disadvantaged. Sometimes these demands weigh too heavily on a student and he or she ends up dropping out of school." Through a mentoring component the Juntos Podemos program teams second- and third-semester nursing students with first-semester nursing students who are considered to be at-risk for dropping out of school. The mentors serve as role models who positively influence and guide students to continue through school and to realize their career goals. Mentors receive a stipend and serve as tutors, counselors and resources for their protégés. Third-semester nursing student Christopher Lee Navarrette has been involved in the program since its inception. He started out as a protégé himself and now mentors four protégés who look to him for guidance and advice. "I had such a positive experience with my mentor that I want to pass that experience along to other students," said Navarrette. "A lot of the students in the program don't have the support systems they need to succeed. I feel good about being able to help provide them with some of the resources and encouragement they may be lacking." For more information about the Juntos Podemos program, call Dr. Martinez Rogers at ext. 7-2547.
was not the best known musician in San Diego's talent-rich jazz scene, but he was undoubtedly one of the most respected by his fellow artists and listeners alike. His death on July 18, following a stroke, is still being lamented by many here, while his legacy lives on in the many musicians he worked with and mentored. He will be celebrated by an all-star lineup night at 6 at Croce's Restaurant & Jazz Bar the downtown nightspot where he regularly performed over the past 23 years as a solo pianist and leading his own bands. As self-effacing as he was talented, Meyers was a graceful pianist who enriched any band with which he performed. His résumé included collaborations with such jazz luminaries as Ella Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Woody Herman, Anita O'Day, Charlie Haden and dozens more. He also provided musical accompaniment for such pioneering comedians as Lenny Bruce, Redd Foxx in addition to serving as an arranger for the Radio City Music Hall Orchestra. Meyers, who moved here from New York in 1977, recorded three albums as a leader — all available through — and each captures his supple touch, trademark lyricism and ability to play exactly what a song required. He made his biggest mark here as a tireless performer, be it every Tuesday night at Croce's, at various benefit concerts (including the Muscular Dystrophy Association Jazz-A-Thon) or at myriad schools and convalescent homes across the county. It's no surprise, then, that the lineup for Sunday's memorial concert read's like a Who's Who of San Diego jazz. Among those scheduled to appear at the four-hour concert are: saxophonist-pianist Bob Magnusson, Kristin Korb (Bell and Lettau were both in the first San Diego band Meyers played in). Also on the bill are brothers Tom Azarello, Dave Curtis, Kamau Kenyatta, Flip Oakes, Lillian Palmer, Peter Pavone and more TBA. Admission is $25 at the door and all proceeds go to the Shep Meyers Memorial Fund Oak Park Elementary School Music Program for the purchase of used musical instruments for students. Given Croce's intimate size, reservations are strongly suggested: (619) 232-4338, ext. 10. ANOTHER TRIBUTE, THIS ONE RICH AND CREAMY The old saying that the cream rises to the top certainly holds true in the case of A deviously talented drummer, who was born in England and lives in Orange County, he performs night at 8 at Bay Park's Brick By Brick in a concert being billed as “a tribute to Cream.” Baker happens to be the son of Cream drummer but this is no cheap cash-in show, especially since Kofi can play things on the drums his father never dreamed of. Moreover, rather than rehash Cream's bluesy classic-rock repertoire from the 1960s, the younger Baker uses songs like “White Room,” “Politician” and the inevitable tribute, “Crossroads,” as launching pads for edgy, throughly contemporary improvisations.
San Diego is going back to the California Coastal Commission next month in hopes of getting the 12-member board to reverse itself and approve a major pollution permit for the region's main wastewater treatment plant. It might seem like a long shot, but the city used a similar tactic successfully in 2002 — the last time San Diego needed permission to continue operating its Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant below federal water-quality standards. City officials have pegged upgrading to the “secondary” level of treatment at up to $1.5 billion. In August, commissioners voted 8-1 to deny San Diego's request for a third exemption from the Clean Water Act despite support for the waiver by the coastal agency's staff and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. San Diego leaders had said they would appeal the August ruling to the U.S. Commerce Department, which oversees disputes in the coastal zone. They still may do that, but first they are trying again at the state level in hopes of avoiding a time-consuming and costly federal appeal. “I am just pleased that the Coastal Commission is willing to rehear this,” Mayor Jerry Sanders said yesterday. Pat Kruer, a coastal commissioner from Rancho Santa Fe, cast the lone vote in favor of the waiver in August. Kruer said yesterday that he will likely back it again but doesn't know whether any of his colleagues have altered their positions. City officials are assessing whether they can add new commitments or safeguards in their application to garner more votes. One major unknown is Oceanside Councilwoman Esther Sanchez, who was named to the commission after the August meeting. Sanchez said she won't decide how to vote until next month's session. Bruce Reznik, executive director of San Diego Coastkeeper, said Sanchez is pivotal because coastal commissioners often defer to elected officials on issues affecting their home region.
Alex Hann is attempting to rekindle happy football memories at El Cajon Valley High. Hann is trying to resurrect the Braves' razzle-dazzle 5-Wide offense of 2005, when quarterback Abraham Muheize vaulted El Cajon Valley into the Division II championship game at Qualcomm Stadium. Muheize compiled a state-record 5,203 yards total offense, including a San Diego Section-record 4,050 passing yards during that 11-3 season. Hann, a senior southpaw, doesn't expect to break Muheize's records, but he does intend to benefit from the assistant coach's guidance this season. “I look up to Coach Abe because he has been so much help,” said Hann, who is 44-for-82 passing for 522 yards and four touchdowns in two games for El Cajon Valley (1-1). “I'd like to be as good as he was — try to match some of the great things he did. He's given me loads of pointers. I'm becoming more comfortable in the 5-Wide offense every day.” Hann, who was sacked five times in the Braves' season-opening win over Montgomery, believes the number of sacks will shrink the more he masters the 5-Wide. Muheize likes Hann's confidence. “He has a stronger arm than I do,” Muheize said. “I know he got sacked a lot against Montgomery, but I remember being sacked seven times in one of my early games. But Hann is a great scrambler who knows how to make people miss.” And when Hann is pressured out of the pocket? “He's not afraid to run guys over,” Braves head coach Danny Goodrich said. Hann has rushed for 107 yards and two TDs on 32 carries as El Cajon Valley prepares to host Granite Hills at 6:30 p.m. tomorrow in a renewal of the teams' Madison Avenue rivalry. Although being tasked solely with the job of linebacker would be Hann's first love, he doesn't mind taking snaps in the Braves' shotgun formation. The 6-foot-1, 195-pound Hann is powerful enough to break tackles on offense while making dozens of defensive stops as a linebacker and free safety. Hann said playing on the defensive side has bolstered his offensive skills. “It helps me because I know the majority of a linebacker's drops and coverages,” Hann said. Goodrich said Hann's collegiate future is most likely on the defensive side — as a linebacker. But he doesn't rule out Hann playing quarterback at the next level. “In the right spread offense I think he'd make a nice fit,” Muheize said. Receiver Anthony Jackson might agree, considering Hann delivered three scoring passes his direction in the Braves' opener. “What makes him good is more than just his skill level,” Jackson said. “He's always positive — gives everybody props. Those are the things that make him a great leader.”
Hoping to boost revenue, MySpace Music has begun experimenting with audio advertisements that users must hear if they want to listen to music for free online. The 30-second ads began appearing last week when users listen to songs on artist profiles, album pages, playlists and pop-out players. They expand on a trial that began in December. The ads are impossible to avoid, unlike the visual, banner ads that can be put out of sight in background windows as users listen along while doing other Web surfing or computer work. But the audio ads are timed so that a user can listen to up to 100 songs on a playlist or to a full album with just a single interruption after the first song. The oral pitches make online listening more like over-the-air radio, although online listeners can choose which songs they hear. MySpace Music, a joint venture between major recording companies and News Corp., wants to boost the frequency of such ads this month before settling on how often they'll be running. Other online music sites such as Pandora and Yahoo Music already run similar audio ads. "We're testing some new ad products and the response from our users has been positive," MySpace Music said in a statement. "As always, we are interested in hearing feedback from our users and advertising community as we run these tests." Some early advertisers include TurboTax and Office Depot. The ads are sold by online audio ad company TargetSpot Inc. News Corp. Chief Executive Rupert Murdoch said last week that MySpace's turnaround is "not yet where we want it." The company said its digital properties, including MySpace, experienced a fourth consecutive quarter of falling ad and search revenue. MySpace is being overhauled by Owen Van Natta, a former Facebook executive who joined the company last April as its CEO. Once a leading social-networking site, MySpace has lost market share to Facebook and others. Last year, MySpace cut about 720 jobs, reducing its work force by about 40 percent. - Ryan Nakashima, AP Business Writer AOL integrates Facebook chat with AIM SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Users of AOL's main instant-messaging service can now chat directly with friends on Facebook. AOL Inc. said Wednesday that a new version of the AIM software connects with the chat function on Facebook's Web site, letting AIM users communicate with friends who are logged on to the social network. The AIM user still needs a Facebook account, however, and it's the Facebook persona rather than AIM's that appears to the friend on Facebook. Users who download the new AIM software and link it with their Facebook profile will see their AIM buddy list include online Facebook friends in a separate section. New York-based AOL said it was making the changes as part of ongoing efforts to improve the user experience. Excluding mobile, AIM has about 17 million users - a fraction of the more than 400 million on Facebook. Before the rise of cell phones and social sites such as Facebook and Twitter, AIM was a pioneer in online social networking. Its instant-messaging service was one of just a few that made it easy for people to communicate instantly on the Web.
Watching "Top Chef: Just Desserts" leaves me craving chocolate and a large mallet. Not always in that order. Bravo just aired the third episode of the "Top Chef" spin-off, but thanks to all the drama, it feels more like 30. Apparently, dessert chefs are the divas of the cooking world, and as much as I love my sugar and carbs, watching these weekly meltdowns is getting old already. As usual, last night's episode featured solid challenges, fun guest judges and some yummy looking desserts. It also featured more drama from the increasingly unbearable Seth, more tears from the perpetually time-challenged Malika and some unnecessary whisk rattling from the sour Danielle. Once again, Seth decided the challenges applied to everyone but him, and once again, the show let him slide. In the wedding-cake Quickfire Challenge, Seth made a mini "engagement cake." And in the bake-sale Elimination Challenge, Seth made a kid-unfriendly mocha Financier Cake. Not surprisingly, Seth was part of the dysfunctional losing team, which was unfortunate because the losing team was representing the geeks from the glee club, while the winning team represented the popular kids from the pep squad. Poor Zac almost lost it over that one. The loss was also unfortunate because it inspired an appalling round of under-the-bus action, with Danielle complaining about Seth for no challenge-worthy reason and Heather defending her boring peanut butter cookie before the judges even brought it up. Oh Heather, you should have listened when Zac suggested you spruce up that cookie with a little chocolate or something. Don't let the rainbow sprinkles hit you on the way out. Anyway, the elimination was a dreary mess. I barely know these people, and I'm sick of them already. But there were some TV goodies to be had. Guest judge Sylvia Weinstock was so funny and adorable I wanted her to adopt me. The classy Erika continues to pile up the kudos and prizes while also acting like a perfectly normal human being. Zac the Glitter King is also the Prince of Quips and Eric the Baker is an underdog hoot, even if he did overreact over the lack of peanut butter. Eric ended up winning for his Nutella crispy treats, so I hope he'll calm down now. Meanwhile, Morgan remains creepy. Get your mallets ready. EPISODE GRADE: B-
Health Watch — Senior Issues: Weight Loss Surgery Health Watch is a Public Service of the Office of News and Publications and is intended to provide general information only and should not replace the advice of a medical professional. You should contact your physician if you have questions about any of these topics. This week on Health Watch, we’re talking about health issues that affect older adults. Previously, we mentioned the fact that the oldest seniors — those over 85 — may lose too much weight. But for people older than 65 who need to lose weight, one method may not be recommended. Bariatric surgery helps the very obese lose weight by restricting the size of the stomach. Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center found that people older than 65 were less likely to have good results from bariatric surgery, and they were more likely to have complications. Dr. Edward Livingston, chairman of gastrointestinal surgery at UT Southwestern, says adverse outcomes with this surgery increased with age. Complications included heart problems, gastrointestinal problems and respiratory problems. Also, older patients generally required longer hospital stays following the surgery. Health Watch is heard Monday through Friday nationwide on ABC Satellite Radio. Call your local radio station and ask if they carry the program.
Dec. 17, 2012 - No. 10/12 Tennessee will wrap up a two-game road trip to the Lone Star State on Tuesday, Dec. 18. The Lady Vols, now 7-1 on the season, take on No. 3/3 Baylor in a 7 p.m. Central time (8 p.m. ET) match-up with the Lady Bears (8-1). - Tennessee enters the contest on a seven-game winning streak after dropping the opener to Chattanooga, 80-71, on Nov. 9. - Baylor has strung together six straight victories since falling to Stanford, 71-69, at the Rainbow Wahine Classic in Honolulu on Nov. 16. - While Baylor has all five starters back from its 2011-12 NCAA Championship squad, Tennessee lost its entire starting five. - Holly Warlick faces off vs. a top-five-ranked squad for the first time as head coach. - ESPN will televise the contest live to a national audience.
The proposal of 'Traffic Circulation Plan around Development of Multilevel Automated car parking & Commercial Complex at Kamla Nagar' was approved by the 34th UTTIPEC Governing Body in its meeting held on 20-01-2012 under the Chairmanship of Hon'ble LG, Delhi as recommended by the 32nd Working Group II-B meeting held on 02.12.2011 with the certain observation. i) Police & MCD to take care of the encroachment near parking & nearby roads. ii) Consultant to be appointed by MCD to work out detail Street Design as per the cross section which will be submitted to UTTIPEC alongwith proposed Road Markings & Signages etc. within 2 months iii) Since the location of the Traffic signal point were not properly shown on the plan, MCD to show the detail of traffic signals on the plan clearly. Working Group recommended the proposal with above observations for consideration of the Governing Body. As recommended by the Working Group, the Governing Body approved the proposal with the above observations and Commr. (MCD) informed that the project will be completed by March'12.
JACKSON, Tenn. – May 14, 2004– Each year Union University signals the beginning of the end of the academic year by holding a special Awards Day Chapel. Recognition is given to the hard work and perseverance that has been achieved by students, faculty and staff during the year. Parents and families of award recipients also attend. Carla Sanderson, provost to the university, officiated. More than 70 awards were presented, including the prestigious Faculty and Staff of the Year Awards, which went to Dr. Kelvin Moore, professor of Christian studies, and Helen Butler, assistant to the dean of the school of education and human studies. Other awards that were presented follow: The Barnabas Leadership Award promotes the ideals of servant leadership in the Union community. Recipients are awarded $750 each and asked to designate $250 to the charitable agency of their choice. This year’s recipients were Cindy Harrell and Bethany Morse. The Betty Hillix Foellinger Memorial Award, which recognizes the editors of the student publications, was presented to Patrick Compau, editor of the college paper “The Cardinal and Cream.” The Bettye and Kermit Whiteaker Freshman Biology Award, which is presented to a freshman Biology major or minor with outstanding scholastic achievement and also includes a $500 scholarship for the following academic year, was presented to Justin Hutto. The Bettye and Kermit Whiteaker Chemistry Award, which is presented to a freshman chemistry major or minor with outstanding scholastic achievement and also includes a $500 scholarship for the following academic year, was presented to Rhett Barker. The Broadman and Holman award, given annually to a graduating senior who is deemed to have the greatest potential for significant contribution to the field of ministry, was presented to Connie Cooper. The Dr. Bill Bouchillon Psychology Excellence Award, given to an outstanding graduating senior with a GPA of 3.5 or greater in psychology and selected by the psychology faculty, was presented to Jill Baine. The Chemical Rubber Company Freshman Chemistry Award, which is given to encourage and sustain interest in the sciences and is presented in recognition of outstanding achievement to a freshman chemistry major or minor, was presented to Amanda Blakenship. The Chi Omega Award, which is awarded to the woman of the junior or senior class who has distinguished herself in the behavioral sciences through class contributions and by her scholastic achievement, was presented to Jill Baine. The Class of 1962 Award, which recognizes seniors with the highest grade point average who have attended Union University for their entire college career, was presented to Katherine Ann Gould, James Richard Layton, Catherine Embry Lee, Callie Pritchett, Anna Katherine Thomas and Miranda K. Wallace. The Chemistry Research Award, which is given by the faculty of the department of chemistry and physics to the student who presents the best research paper for the year, was awarded to Megan Ellis. The Curtiss E. Scott Business Excellence Award, which is presented to the outstanding senior business major as chosen by the faculty of the McAfee School of Business Administration and the members of the Business Club based on both academic and leadership achievement, was presented to Justin Butcher. The Fred Delay Memorial Award, which is presented to the honor athlete of the senior class who is an outstanding athlete, a person of high academic standing, unquestionable loyalty and good character, was presented to Leah Gronberg. The Georgia Wilson Memorial Award for Clinical Nursing, which is presented to the member of the graduating class who is deemed by the nursing faculty to have been the most outstanding in clinical nursing, was presented to Jennifer Vandiver. The Greek Scholarship Cups, which are awarded annually to the two social fraternities with the highest average, were presented to the men of Lambda Chi Alpha and the women of Chi Omega (57th year). The Helen Blythe Creative Writing Award, which is presented by an endowment of Union University’s Women’s Club to the graduating English major who has demonstrated outstanding originality in writing during his or her Union University career, was presented to Andrew Terhune. The Professor James Alex Baggett History Research Award, which is an award which recognizes the best original research papers presented in regularly scheduled history courses for the current academic year, was presented to Mariann Martin (first place), David Patterson (second place), and Ian Crawford (third place). Alpha Chi Honorary Scholastic Fraternity recently initiated their newest members. They are Jill Baine, Connie Cooper, Holly Dougan, Megan Ellis, Catherine Lee, Miranda Miller, Reema Nasrallah, Nicholas Ellis, Carlyn Layton, Hanna Miecznikowski, Laura Lee Moore, David Patterson, Lauren Robbins and Amanda Scott. Alpha Sigma Lambda Honor Society recently initiated their newest members: Barry Autry, Toni Cole, Larry Cox, Mary Dillard, Christopher Hemphill, Antonio Hunt, Cheryl Johnson, Teresa Johnson, Kimberly Kennel, Kelly Long, Stella Nwokeji, Mary Rush, Audrey Spencer, Cheri Stadler, Mylene Strohm, Paula Walton and Kelley Windsor. Intramural Male Athlete of the Year – Matt Nason Intramural Female Athlete of the Year – Reema Nasrallah Intramural Male Group Award – the men of Sigma Alpha Epsilon Intramural Female Group Award – The Independent Women The Kappa Delta Memorial Scholarship, in loving memory of Denise McGee, a 1993 nursing graduate, is given to a non-graduating nursing student with a minimum 3.0 GPA and must be nominated by the nursing faculty. This year’s award was presented to Laura Harber. The Nora Smith Barker Student Teachers of the Year Award is presented to the student teacher chosen from the Fall and Spring classes who has demonstrated the highest degree of skills and attributes considered characteristic of outstanding teachers and shows the greatest potential for professional achievement. The Elementary Student Teacher of the Year Award was presented to Sarah Hubbard. The Secondary Student Teacher of the Year Award was presented to Justin Clermont. Wolfram Award in Computational Science is sponsored by Wolfram Research Incorporated and chosen by the department of mathematics and computer science and is presented each year to a freshman calculus student who has demonstrated outstanding achievement, enthusiasm, ingenuity and creativity in mathematics. This year’s award was presented to Kendal Hershberger. The Zeta Tau Alpha Award, given to the seniors of the May class graduating Summa Cum Laude with the highest rank on the Jackson Campus, was presented to Holly Dougan, Katherine Gould, James Layton, Catherine Lee, Callie Pritchett, Allen Smith, Anna Thomas and Miranda Wallace. The Zondervan Greek Award, given by Zondervan publisher, was presented to the graduating senior who is deemed to have the greatest potential for serious scholarship in the original language, Nicholas Ellis. The Teagle Awards were given to the following faculty: Grants for course redesign or development of a new course were awarded to the following: Patty Hamilton, Michael Chute, Bryan Dawson, Dwayne Jennings, Michael Mallard, Camille Searcy and Melissa Mathis, Julie Glosson and Ray Van Neste. For Active Learning Pedagogy Grant, grants were awarded to Tom Proctor, Kyle Hathcox and David Ward, David Vickery, Chris Blair and Jan Wilms, Ken Newman and Michele Atkins, and Terry Blakely and Mary Anne Poe. The Howard Newell Innovative Teaching Award recognizes faculty members who have demonstrated creativity and innovation in classroom teaching. Selections are made by a faculty committee. Faculty receiving honorable mentions were Bryan Dawson, Patty Hamilton, Terry Blakely and Debbie Newell. First place winner for the award is David McClune for “The Use of Rudolf Laban’s Dance Movements in the Teaching of Conducting.” Academic Excellence Medals – Presented by Union University to the graduating senior with the highest grade point average in each discipline, provided the student’s GPA in the major is not less than 3.50. A student minoring in a discipline in which there is no qualifying major or in which no major is offered is also eligible for a medal. The following students received medals for academic excellence: Major in Art – Rebecca Phillips Minor in Biology – James Layton and Stefani Martin Major in Accounting – Jason Yaun Major in Economics/Finance – Daniel Chaney and Anna Thomas Major in Management – Jonathan Walters Minor in Management Information Systems – Jason Vaughan Major in Marketing – Kyle McDiarmid Major in Organizational Leadership – Jennifer Knapp Major in Chemistry – Megan Ellis Major in Christian Studies – Connie Cooper Major in Philosophy – Kyle Mask Major in Biblical Studies-Languages – Hanna Miecznikowski Major in Christian Ethics – Matthew Harber Major in Digital Media Studies – Sarah Belcher and Catherine Bland Major in Journalism – Katherine Gould Major in Public Relations/Advertising – Callie Pritchett Major in Broadcasting – Patrick Compau Major in Theatre/Speech – Miranda Wallace Major in Learning Foundations – Bethany Davis and Erin Joseph Major in Special Education – Jennifer Johnson Major in Liberal Studies – Sarah Hubbard Major in English – Erin Hetzel Major in History – David Patterson Major in Political Science – Janice Miller Major in French – Nicole Vassar Major in Spanish – Jennifer Sanders Minor in Teaching English as a Second Language – Jennifer Downing Major in Computer Science – Allen Smith Major in Mathematics – Nicole Vassar and Allen Smith Major in Music – Amanda Scott Major in Nursing – Catherine Lee and Latrondria Brown Major in Physical Education and Health – Luis Ortiz Major in Sports Management – Kellye Staudt Major in Sports Medicine – Nicole Thomas Major in Athletic Training – India Hickman Minor in Athletic Coaching – Alecia Robertson Major in Psychology – Amanda Smith, Jill Baine, Holly Dougan, Leah Gronberg and Jason Lee Major in Physics – Dustin Rapp Minor in Human Studies – Holly Dougan, Hanna Miecznikowski and Reema Nashrallah Major in Family Studies – Holli Glidewell Major in Social Work – Cynthia Nichols
an International Conference to be held at Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada October 5th-8th, 1996 Conference web site: http://www.unb.ca/web/wwwdev/naweb96.html Educators have found the World Wide Web to be fertile ground for developing and implementing new educational resources, strategies and methods. This single-stream conference will focus on practical ways in which the Web is being and will continue to be integrated into education. Topics for the conference include, but are not limited to: All submissions based on the conference themes should be sent in the form of an abstract of 300-500 words. This abstract will appear in the online conference program if the submission is accepted. Normally, papers will be presented in 30 minutes. The committee particularly welcomes proposals that involve active participation by the conference attendees. Online proceedings will be published for this conference. Full papers should be submitted in text or HTML markup to the addresses below. Please use the template for the paper provided at: http://www.uvm.edu/~hag/naweb96/paper.html The following information must be included: Submission Deadline: August 16, 1996 Notification of acceptance will be sent by August 23, 1996 Submission Deadline for Online Full Paper for Proceedings: September 13, 1996 Come be a part of a conference specifically devoted to WWW development for education!
Classroom Testing Center (CTC) Information on classroom testing hours. Student Score Information - Log in to chitester.uvu.edu using your UVID and log in - Highlight Exam Name - Click on "View Test Scores" if you do not know your UVID Log In, contact the IT Support Desk at (801) 863-8888. For students using UVU Testing Services, we consider the following behaviors to be academically dishonest: - Copying from another person's work during an examination. - Allowing someone to copy from you during an examination. - Using unauthorized materials during an examination. - Taking an examination for another or permitting another to take an exam for you. - Obtaining or providing answers to an unadministered test. - Removing or attempting to remove a test, its answers, or any portion thereof, from Testing Services - Discussing the contents/answers of an examination already taken with a student who has not entered to take the exam. Consistent with the expectations of Utah Valley University, individuals caught engaging in any of the above-described behaviors will receive a zero on their exam and be referred to Campus Police and their instructor for appropriate disciplinary action. Is it worth it? DON'T TAKE THE CHANCE! Cell Phone Policy All cell phones must be turned OFF before entering the Testing Center, not on silent or vibrate. If your cell phone rings or vibrates in the Testing Center you will not receive a score after completing your test. A $10 fine must be paid in order for a score to be given to the student and the Instructor. Children in the Classroom Testing Center Classroom Testing Center supports the UVU policy on “Children in the Classrooms” policy. Campus police will be notified when children are found unattended in the halls around the Testing Center. Part of Student Rights and Responsibilities stated, “ The College expects all students to obey the law, to show respect for properly constituted authority...observe a high standard of conduct for the academic environment….a student enrolled in the College accepts the obligation to conduct himself/herself in an adult manner acceptable at an institution of higher education”. For more on Student Rights and Responsibilities please refer to the current catalog. Classroom Testing Center understands the stress students are going through before testing. We strive to give the best service to all of our clientele at all times. Any issues or concerns about our service, please email our office at firstname.lastname@example.org. Things to Know Before Coming to the Testing Center - Know class name, course number and instructor’s name. - A current Government issued picture ID is required to test (UVU ID, driver’s license, military, or passport). - A #2 pencil is needed for bubble sheets. - All books, papers, notebooks, etc… must be contained in a backpack or in a Testing Center blue bag (provided) and placed under your desk. - Cell phones, pagers and palm pilots must be powered off before entering the Testing Center and placed into the blue bag. There are no electronic dictionaries allowed, only paperback, if authorized by the instructor. - Food and drink are not permitted. - While testing, items should never be taken out of your bag without checking with a Testing Center employee first. It could be interpreted as cheating. SCRATCH PAPER, CUE SHEETS, TESTING AIDS - Students are required to supply their own scratch paper, ONLY if authorized by the instructor to a maximum of 5 pages. - All paper used for testing will be stamped with a CTC stamp and will be collected at the end of the test. The scratch paper will be discarded unless we are told otherwise by the student. - Cue sheets/notes should meet your instructor’s specifications for size and number of pages. The testing center staff has the right to refuse any cue sheet or notes that are questionable. - Scientific, graphing and programmable calculators are allowed only when specified by your instructor and the memory must be cleared. - The following are NOT permitted for use: electronic dictionaries, headphones, computers/laptops, cell phones, pagers, palm pilots, or any other electronic devices. PAYMENT OF FEES - Pencils and blue books are sold in the Classroom Testing Center. Pencils are $0.25 and blue books are $0.50. - Taking the test on the “fee day” will result in a $4.00 fee. (Students can check online to look up their tests schedule and scores online). Log in to your Chi Account (using your UVID and password) for this information. - Classroom Testing cannot make change for anything greater than a $20.00 bill. All charges must be paid in cash. There is an ATM available in the building that dispenses $1's, $5's, and $10's for your convenience. TURNING IN A FINISHED TEST - Students should leave their backpack/blue bag closed until they have turned in the test. - ALL testing materials (including scratch paper) must be turned in to the employee at the counter. Scratch paper will be discarded unless student tells us otherwise (to hand in). - After the exam has been scored the student will not be able to review the test or see answers from their scantron. Any questions regarding answers or test questions should be directed to the instructor, not a Testing Center employee. THE REMOVAL OF TESTS OR TESTING MATERIALS FROM THE TESTING CENTER IS VIEWED AS CHEATING AND WILL BE REPORTED TO THE INSTRUCTOR, THE DEAN OF STUDENT LIFE AND CAMPUS POLICE.
Date: 26 May 2004 TO: UWL Faculty Senate FROM: Tim Gerber, Chair and Faculty Senate Library Committee [Gwen Achenreiner, William Barillas, Paul Beck, Cynthia Berlin, Scott Dickmeyer, Anita Evans (consultant) Karl Kattchee, Glen Knowles, Darlene Lake, Susan Murray, Elisabeth Peyer (student representative), Denis Provencher (committee recorder), and Elizabeth Seebach] RE: Faculty Senate Library Committee Report for 2003-2004 Academic Year Duties, responsibilities, and charges: - Study and recommend means of improving library services. - Provide liaison between faculty and library staff regarding policy-related issues. - Report on library usage. Suggest ways to improve usage, if necessary. - Report on budget reductions and the process used to enact the reductions. - Report on departmental budget appropriations and the process by which these dollars are spent. Eight, one-hour Faculty Senate Library committee meetings were held once each month from September-December 2003 and February-May 2004. Minutes from each meeting are posted at http://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/facultyLibrary/minutes/index.html. This final report summarizes work the committee has done in regard to its duties, responsibilities, and charges (see above). Improving library services. Several initiatives are underway at Murphy to improve library services. Input from the committee regarding these initiatives constituted a large part of our meeting time for the year. (1) UW-Digital Collections (UWDC) – Murphy Library is part of a new initiative associated with UWDC. A. Evans and P. Beck discussed the potential of such new technologies for UWL faculty and class instruction. The committee discussed several issues regarding digital formats being used at Murphy including the dissemination of information using new technologies to faculty across the four UWL colleges, the challenges associated with digitization of material in certain disciplines (including digital journals) and the efficacy of such online services as Interlibrary Loan Services (ILLIAD) and Odyssey. The committee was concerned about the quality and reliability of digital journals, the access to such information by community members, and the desire to maintain hard copies when possible. At present, at least one hard copy of all journals purchased by UW-system campuses is held providing access to a paper copy. The Murphy Library website is being used as a means to disseminate up-to-date information to UWL faculty. (2) Curriculum Resources Center (CRC) – Murphy library staff (John Jax, Michele Strange and Karen Lange) are trying to increase the use of the CRC. The Curriculum Center, 2nd floor of Murphy, houses teacher education related materials. With support from School of Education (SOE), Murphy Library has been able to fill a ¼ FTE position to help with this initiative. UWL SOE and affiliated faculty were sent a web-based questionnaire to help measure how the CRC was being used and to improve materials found at the CRC. Murphy Library is trying to rebuild the center in terms of usability, and would like further input on collections. (3) Electronic databases - Galadriel Chilton is working on a “database of databases” management tool. Currently, there are approximately 200 different databases at Murphy. Chilton’s goal is to create comprehensive list of databases to better manage an increasingly complex collection of databases. (4) Faculty training - Stefan Smith distributed an informal survey asking committee members to respond as a representative sample to four questions regarding faculty training and publicity communications. Faculty discussed responses to the questionnaire and most gave Smith written comments during the meeting. Smith noted that the library is planning to send department-specific e-mails once yearly outlining critical changes in information related to that department. Discussion about best times for walk-in workshops and feedback Smith received on the questionnaires lead to a recommendation to focus on the pre-week and first week of fall classes rather than the week prior to classes, and to expect greater participation in fall versus spring semesters. Also, targeted e-mail notifications with clear subject headings seem to be effective, and more valuable than walk-in visits. (5) Information Literacy - Cris Prucha noted the following related to the Information Literacy Instruction Program and progress on the document, “Recommendations Regarding the Integration of Information Literacy into the General Education Curriculum,” which the Library Committee worked on the prior year: (1) the freshman seminar UWL 100 was taught using problem-based learning and according to Emily Johnson it was very successful, (2) other disciplines have used the program, including Occupational Therapy and Psychology, and (3) the program is available to all faculty for use in their classes. Additional information is available in “The Information Literacy Imperative,” at http://www.uwlax.edu/murphylibrary/fp/Spring2002.pdf. Prucha, the first recipient of the Information Literacy Award from the Wisconsin Association of Academic Librarians, and Smith wrote a proposal for modernization funding for Murphy Library room 30 for approximately $28,000; the project was funded. This will be used to purchase new furniture, computers and an instructor’s station to accommodate group learning. (6) UW-campus LibQUAL+ survey - The UW System funded LibQUAL+, a survey instrument to measure the quality of library services across the UW Libraries and identify best practices in library services. The questionnaire is comprised of a series of 22 to 25 questions that are sent out to a sampling of users (faculty, students, non-academic sectors; support people) who are asked to evaluate services. LibQUAL+ is a qualitative and not a quantitative tool. Perhaps other instruments like focus groups may also need to be used. In order to tailor the questionnaire to UW-La Crosse, Murphy chose from a menu of “canned” questions. Preliminary results of the LibQual+ survey - Since the start of the survey through April 23, a total of 481 responses were received. The average time to complete the survey was 16 minutes. All user groups reached the 15% response target, with undergradate and graduate student responses exceeding expectations. A total of 143 responses included comments, mostly on library space and service. Results will be interpreted by next year’s committee. (7) ExLibris MetaLib implementation progress - SFX is now active and will provide users with a link between databases and on-line full text articles. MetaLib will also link multiple databases so that users do not need to enter a search term multiple times. MetaLib probably will be implemented in the Spring 2005. (8) Shared UW Collections - Universal Borrowing statistics for July 2003 through March 4, 2004 (Appendix A) indicates that UWL now borrows more materials than it lends. The CUWL Collection Management Taskforce formed this spring will be looking at duplication across the UW library system. Report on library usage. The use of materials at Murphy continues to change as electronic sources become a preferred avenue of access to information and budget constraints increase reliance on the “one system, one library” concept. Library users are relying more on electronic journals (number of hits/usage) and document delivery (interlibrary loan (ILL)). ILL (both borrowing and lending) has seen a steady increased over the last decade. This past year, Murphy library was a net borrower of materials with 1,351 total loans and 1,493 total materials borrowed (Universal Borrowing Activity, July 2003-March 2004). Turnstile counts (number of people who come through the front door) are up 4,000 this quarter (Fall 2003) in comparison to Fall 2002. Library instruction is also up, which is attributed to the recent emphasis on information literacy and classes taught in the library. In contrast, circulation numbers are on the decline (86,000 this year in comparison with 96,000 last year) as use of electronic materials increase. Monograph (books) usage is also on the decline. Increased funding for staffing has been approved as reported in the February 12 Faculty Senate meeting to address budget cuts that compromise Library services related to 4+4+4 plan (summer session). Report on budget reductions. Electronic holdings are increasing at Murphy while journal subscriptions and book orders are decreasing. Although the library budget will remain constant over the next year (approximately $1,000,000), the library will actually see a decline in purchasing power due to inflation. The inflation will impact most significantly in terms of journal subscriptions. While the book inflation rate is approximately 6% per year, the serial inflation rate averages 8-10% annually. Hence in cooperation with UWL faculty, Murphy will continue with its “de-selection process” by targeting no and low use titles (among other criteria). This will continue to occur three to four times a year via the help of departmental library liaisons. Faculty and students are encouraged not to shelve periodicals when they are used in the library as student library workers count the number of journals used. Faculty are encouraged to work with the library to reduce subscriptions to recreational and leisure titles and to maintain titles related to teaching and research. In terms of system-wide resources, UW System has had to abandon electronic resources such as Alt Heath Watch, Columbia Earthscape, BIP, Science NEXT WAVE, Ulrich’s, and HRAF. Murphy staff will reallocate funds in order to keep some of these resources. Murphy Library’s Periodical Collections from 1999-present: Between 1986 and 2001, periodical prices have increased in price by 8.5% per year and Jen Holman noted that journal prices grew twice as fast as health care prices during the same time period. In 1999, Murphy Library had spent $378,000 for 1406 titles; in 2003-04, the Library spent $434, 000 for 1366 titles. In sum, many American universities are unable to keep up with the inflation rate and are canceling periodicals. Murphy Library has been functioning with a cancellation philosophy based on several criteria. A periodical will be cancelled if: 1) the title has received little or no use; 2) the title is available electronically through Project Muse; 3) the title has a current cost/use ratio of greater than $35. If journal cost/use is more than $35 than it is better to buy it through a document supply service; 4) the title no longer supports the curriculum. Murphy Library has cut almost all that it can and what remains are primarily core titles (i.e. there is not much left to cut across departments). Periodical cancellations and the budget formula for acquisitions: In FY 2004, Murphy Library will cancel $57,490.09 in microform and journal subscriptions. This includes $19,796.43 in microform cancellations and $37,693.66 in journal cancellation (Appendix B). Holman presented a few options for faculty members to consider: 1) Post a copy of one’s own article to personal web site or institutional web site if contracts do not preclude; 2) Investigate the possibility of free archives that become available to the public from publishers after a relatively short time period (for publicly funded research). One option in this regard is High Wire Press. Some commercial publishers to avoid: include Elsevier, Wiley, Kluwer; 3) Continue to seek out author friendly publications. Holman also pointed out contract terms that authors should look for in this regard. Holman created a web site in response to these recommendations. Ken Frazier, Director, UW Madison General Library System, spoke on “Responding to the Crisis in Scholarly Publication and Communication,” April 2, 2004 in the Ward Room of Cartwright Center from 2:00-3:00 p.m. The program’s message was alternative methods to share scholarly information without exclusive reliance on high priced commercial publishers in light of budget cuts/cuts to journals due to increasing costs. The presentation, attended by campus faculty and area academic librarians, was sponsored by the Faculty Senate Library Committee, Murphy and the Provost’s office. Report on departmental budget appropriations. Murphy’s book formula for book orders: In 1985, Murphy developed a crude formula for book orders. Departments received funds based on previous years’ expenditures. In 1989, a more systematic formula, based on FTE and credit hour production, was developed. This system has evolved into the current formula whereby Murphy calculates a departmental book budget based on the following criteria: 1) student contact period (receives a weight of 4); 2) FTE (Undergrad/Grad Faculty) (wt of 4); 3) average cost of books in discipline (wt of 5); 4) circulation of books (wt of 4) (see Appendix B). John Jax conducted a survey in the UW System to determine what other campuses use for budget formulae. Eight out of 13 institutions responded: five other UW institutions have an allocation formula, another institution is currently developing one while two others used ratios and allocations based on needs. Jax would like departments to look at the current system to see if it is equitable. He reminded the committee that some additional start-up resources are not built into this system. For example, programs that develop new minors receive $500 and new majors receive $2000. Suggested items for next year’s committee: - Follow up on the quality of e-journals by having faculty check their respective fields in terms of e-journal and document reliability. Early in the year, the Committee had expressed concern about the quality of graphics (e.g. charts and footnotes) in electronic articles. These concerns were shared with the UW System staff overseeing ILLiad Odyssey (desktop delivery of electronic articles) implementation. In the final meeting, Glen Knowles expressed his success using electronic journals which he has accessed primarily through J-STOR, but more review is needed.. - Investigate the results of the LibQUAL+ survey and discuss deficits (e.g. electronic materials; physical space) and how to address them. - Continue to monitor budget reductions, equity in terms of subscription cancellations and departmental responses to modification (cancellation) requests, and department budget formula. The committee should work as an advocate for alternatives sources to subscriptions such as the exploration of documents delivery items. - The committee should consider further development of the web smart page to educate faculty about electronic resources. Acknowledgements: Special thanks to those guests (G. Chilton, J. Holman, J. Jax, C. Prucha, S. Smith) who spoke, attended, and/or gave presentations at our meetings.
May 29 2012 Manu Tuilagi will jet out with the rest of the England squad for their tour of South Africa after a citing charge brought against him was dismissed by a Rugby Football Union disciplinary panel. After a two-hour hearing in Bristol, the three-man panel declared they were "not satisfied" that Tuilagi should have been penalised for a tip-tackle on Danny Care during the Aviva Premiership final between Leicester and Harlequins on Saturday. An RFU statement said: "A citing charge brought against Manusamoa Tuilagi of Leicester Tigers was tonight dismissed." It continued: "An RFU disciplinary panel of Christopher Quinlan QC (chair), Dan White and Nick Dark was not satisfied on the balance of probabilities that the referee was wrong in not sending the player off for a tackle on Harlequins' Danny Care during the Aviva Premiership final between the teams on May 26. "Tuilagi is therefore free to continue playing and will fly out to South Africa with the England squad tomorrow evening."
Broadcasting is changing to digital and the UK’s existing analogue service is set to be switched off by 2012. We’re promised more channels, high-definition content and exciting new services. While many people will simply choose a set-top box, digital TV and the PC are natural bedfellows, allowing you to use the PC to record programmes and put it at the heart of an entertainment system. Take a look around PC stores, though, and you’ll get the impression that where TV on your PC is concerned, terrestrial reception is the only game in town, with analogue or Freeview (DVB-T) tuners easily available. But what if you want channels that aren’t available on Freeview, or you’re in one of the many areas where you can’t even get a decent signal? If you can’t get Freeview, want to sample the BBC’s HD service, or just fancy a few extra free channels, a satellite receiver for your PC may be the solution. If you just want to dip your toe in the waters with satellite TV, without worrying about HD – or you plan to upgrade to a graphics card that will do it justice later – you don’t need to worry about a codec. You just need software that will tune in your satellite card or adapter, and play the Mpeg2 video streams, and maybe record them on your hard drive. ProgDVB is a software solution and can be downloaded for free, although it lacks the slick interface of Cyberlink’s Power Cinema. It can record shows, display TV full screen and will decode HD streams if you have a suitable codec installed. Setup is a little bewildering for newcomers. Note that this the free 'Standard Edition' of ProgDVB and includes a MPEG-2 codec that will work for 21 days. After 21 days you'll need to either buy the MPEG-2 codec, find an alternative or upgrade to the Professional version of ProgDVB. There is a 64-bit version of ProgDVB available from their homepage. Do you agree Business Software (418) Desktop Tools (47) File Management (161) Internet tools (20) Mobile Software (260)
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Hey guys! Today I’m going to talk about how awesome IMATS Vancouver was! It was so awesome getting to meet so many like minded beauty enthusiasts (even if a lot of them were pushing and shoving!). IMATS Vancouver was July 21 & 22 at the Vancouver Convention Center. I’ll talk a bit about the convention and then show you all of the goodies I scored below! We stayed at a hotel in Richmond, not far from Vancouver (and way cheaper) so we had a little bit of a drive to the convention center, WHICH IS GORGEOUS. The center was right on the water and you could see all sorts of cruise ships coming and going. My fiancee, Chris, took care of our little waffle butt (don’t ask) so I was free to peruse the convention floor. IMATS Vancouver is MUCH smaller than L.A, but since we had our son with us, we were sort of glad. I get easily overwhelmed in crowds so I think Vancouver was a great prelude to IMATS L.A in January! There were quite a few exhibitors there, but I was really only interested in four: Crown Brush, NYX, Makeup Forever, and Zuca. When we arrived, the floor was fairly empty, EXCEPT FOR THE MASSIVE MAKEUP FOREVER LINE. It was so ridiculous that I didn’t even try to get in. Chris jumped in line for me at some point but when a MF rep came by with a little card and telling everyone to write down what they were interested in checking out I decided to leave the line (I got an eye roll from her when I told her I had no idea what I wanted). The Crown Brush booth was one of the biggest and most packed. You got a little bucket and could “shop” around for what you wanted then hand it to a rep and they’d ring you up. I must have circled that booth 4 times and still only ended up picking up two things. Everyone shopping the booth were just really in the way, and like I said before, I get easily overwhelmed so I just picked up the two things that caught my eye (I had kind of pre-shopped online) and bounced. I ended up getting a contour brush (my e.l.f one just doesn’t make the cut) and a nail art brush set (SO HAPPY ABOUT THAT). Now here is something funny. For all of the people at IMATS that were pushy and shove-y, there were just as many awesome, helpful folks. I went to the NYX booth which was almost as crazy as the Makeup Forever one, and had a little bucket of quite a few things. I was waiting in their not quite massive line next to this nice woman and we started chatting. She was a makeup artist from the Vancouver area and she was super sweet! We exchanged cards and I made a joke about being disappointed Sugarpill and LimeCrime weren’t there, that I’d just blow my whole IMATS budget there and she leaned in close to my ear and whispered “I heard Nigel’s Beauty Emporium has Lip Tars”. First, I loved that she assumed (correctly) that I would want to get my hands on some Lip Tars, and second that she kept her voice down, because I had heard a bunch of people wishing that OCC was there, I think everyone was trying to keep a stampeded from happening (not that it helped). I’m sure my eyes bugged out, because she started laughing and I asked her what the best non-annoying way would be to hand the stuff I had picked out was (the NYX reps were getting hammered by customers and I felt bad just ditching my bucket). I ended up putting 90% of the items back myself and then booked it to the Nigel’s Beauty Emporium booth. The line was CRAZY, but a lot better than NYX or Makeup Forever. They did in fact have Lip Tars and I was really disappointed to see they didn’t have Anime, the one that I would have strangled someone for. I ended up grabbing Feathered, Black, Harlot, Chlorophyll, and Belladonna (you can check them out below.) Another thing of note should be Naked Cosmetics. I know of the brand from Xsparkage of youtube, but I had never really been able to check out their products. Well I hustled over there to meet Leesha (and made a fan girling ass of myself I’m sure) and afterwards got to talking Samiee, one of their Utah Reps. SHE WAS AMAZING. We chatted mostly about makeup, but there was some True Blood and travel talk in there as well haha. She gave me a little tour of their pigments and showed me her personal favorites (as a freelance makeup artist herself she showed me a great one for bridal clients as well as a CRAZY bright collection for fashion shoots). I loved meeting her so much, and she even gave me a sample of the Naked Advanced Skin Cream (you can see my review of it here.) I also grabbed some Red Cherry Lashes and Chris surprised me with an IMATS Apron, lanyard, and bracelet. He did such a wonderful job of keeping our little dude chill, and all of the ladies at the Naked booth flirted with him! It was great getting to meet Chantel (the beauty editor of Makeup Artist Magazine and the Education Director for IMATS), she’s gorgeous and it was awesome that she was able to help me get into IMATS. Unfortunately, I got hit with a wall of suck after we left day one. We headed down to the MAC Pro store in Vancouver and I was in and out pretty quickly because I wasn’t feeling too hot. The wisdom teeth are coming in and on top of that I had a huge sinus head ache. Just needed a nap I thought! Well, we got back to our hotel and napped FOREVER. But when I woke up I was worse. And in the morning I had a pretty bad head cold. So bad that we ended up heading home early. I would like to say that I was crushed, but I felt so terrible that the idea of plowing through the day with all of those people just did NOT sound appealing. I had such a wonderful time at IMATS, from the exhibitors and getting to chat with people from companies that I loved to all of the speakers and mini classes they had going on, it was amazing. There was a Once Upon A Time panel and some of the actors walked the floors afterward, which was so crazy cool! Meeting Leesha from Xsparkage was kind of weird because she is who inspired me to blog and I was really nervous meeting her (that’s also pretty much all I talked about, HOW nervous I was, guhhhh). I also got to meet Sokolum 79 which was also really strange in an awesome way. I felt weird bothering them, walking up and being all “HIIIIII” haha but I suppose they are sort of used to it? Anyway! Below you can check out all of the goodies I was able to snag at IMATS, along with my MAC Haul. I will probably do a video haul of all of the stuff I got, just going over and reviewing it all at once might be easier than individual blog posts. We shall see! From left to right: Feathered, Chlorophyll, Harlot, Black, Belladonna Crown Brush Contour Crown Brush Nail Art Set Mac Goodies: Chromaline in Process Magenta, Creme Liner in Black, Blush in Fever, E/S in Satin Taupe, and Lip Pencil in Stone
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When it comes to headlight technology, not much has changed in the last several decades. LEDs are on the cusp of becoming standard issue and adaptive headlamps that turn with the wheel have been around for years. But a system from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University has the potential to change the way we see in adverse weather by illuminating the road around droplets of rain and snow. As anyone who’s driven in a torrential downpour or a snow storm can attest, the road isn’t the only thing that gets lit up by the headlamps. Particles of snow and beads of water reflect light back at the driver, making bad visibility even worse. And that’s where Carnegie Mellon University’s Professor Srinivasa Narasimhan and his team come in. By coupling a video camera with a digital light projector and a beam-splitter, the system can identify a raindrop as it falls into the headlight’s view. An on-board computer figures out the drop’s trajectory and then selectively turns off the bank of lights in the path of the rain. All of this happens in 13 milliseconds, and because the detection and termination of the light happens so quickly, there’s no perceivable flicker to both the driver or oncoming vehicles. The only downside is that the headlights can’t illuminate quite as far or as intense as standard, non-adaptive halogen lamps. But that’s just a product of the lights being intermittently turned on and off – a reasonable trade-off compared to seeing bits of road behind a wall of water or snow. The other issue is accuracy. According to the research by Carnegie Mellon, the system detects particles around 70 percent of the time at about 20 mph, and drops precipitously as speed increases, with only 15 to 20 percent of droplets recorded in a 10-foot range when traveling at 62 mph. Still, with the right assortment of ultra-small and ultra-powerful LEDs – or even lasers, something BMW is working on – a more accurate camera and a faster processor, the system could be feasible on a production vehicle. The only question now is what breed of “magic” Mercedes-Benz will brand it… Via Wired Autopia: http://www.wired.com/autopia/
It is hard to imagine just how much political trouble Vision Vancouver is in right now. The pushback over its attempt to put its hands into the pockets of the city's community centres makes past protests over spot zoning or the imposition of homeless shelters relatively insignificant annoyances. Let me explain why by first telling you a story. In 1934, 22 neighbours around East Hastings near the PNE each put 50 cents in the pot to come up with $11 dollars. That was the amount they needed to register a society for the purpose of protecting their park from the encroaching exhibition. The neighbours then went to the park board of the day and asked for money to help develop public tennis courts and a lawn bowling facility. The park board said: We don't have any money but you go right ahead and raise the funds on your own. Which they did. That small group of volunteers would grow to become the Hastings Community Association, which was frequently required to be self-reliant in meeting neighbourhood needs. That story is not unlike any number of inspirational stories generations of volunteers, who have served on the boards of Vancouver's community centres, have woven into their cultural history. To my knowledge, none of the Vision Vancouver park commissioners - who form a majority on the board and are central to the attack community centres now feel they are under - has ever served on a community centre board. What is worse, they fail to grasp just how disrespectful, how insensitive, how politically threatening their actions are. They most certainly must be unaware of the damage they are causing themselves as they spill the political capital that Vision has accumulated while in power. What is most appalling is the strategy being employed to roll out Vision's new policy. We are told it will bring "equity" to all centres, rich or poor, East Side or West Side, and the people who chose to access the facilities. None of the centres, by the way, has a problem with that. It is about who controls the money that has community centre boards more than twitchy. When was the last time you saw a government introduce a new policy where an elected official hasn't been front and centre to either cut the ribbon or take the heat? Yet what do we see here? On Tuesday night at the Kerrisdale Community Centre meeting, while a couple of Vision Park commissioners pasted themselves against the wall and refused to speak (except to the media) and city communications bureaucrats scurried about, it was park board manager Malcolm Bromley who took to the stage to be booed by the packed room and two other spaces that were quickly set up to handle the overflow crowd of about 400. In fact, for virtually all of the past briefing meetings with community centre boards, park commissioners have been told not to attend. It has been Bromley and, usually, city manager Penny Ballem. When the NPA's Melissa De Genova tuned up at one briefing the board invited her to, Bromley turned on his heel and walked out. This is one reason why Hastings Community Association president Eric Harms is just one of many who say this whole attempt to get control of the community centre funds is a conspiracy being driven by the city manager: "When Malcolm Bromley speaks you can see Penny Ballem's lips moving." Of course it would be naïve to think Ballem would do anything of this magnitude without support from the mayor's office. But the tone at the top around that joint always has our mayor heavily insulated against criticism. With six full-time city staff apparently attached to this strategy, is it any wonder that a few of the community centres have decided, for better or worse, on funding a public relations campaign of their own? This is particularly understandable when the park board's idea of communications has included installing locked glass bulletin boards in community centres where they alone control the content of the messages and they hold the keys. How smart is that? How smart is any of this? email@example.com
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Let’s Call Creative: A New Slogan for the Poorly Received Greek Austerity Measures The increasingly frightening European nation of Greece is not responding well to its new austerity measures. Earlier today in Athens, nearly 100 people were arrested during a violent mass demonstation that included rock-throwing, tear gas, and fire. According to CNN: “The riot, widely described as one of the worst in Athens since Greece began dealing with its crippling debt crisis in 2010, broke out after the Greek Parliament approved a new package of austerity measures in return for a new eurozone bailout of the debt-stricken country.” Said austerity measures call for a lower minimum wage and for government layoffs, which certainly justifies any outspoken frustration—but probably not rock-throwing and fire. (Very little, save for cooking and coldness, justifies fire.) Maybe it’s a problem of branding: “austerity measures” screams “something you hate.” Maybe something more upbeat like “money strengtheners” would be better?
II ORDINARY SPECIAL ASSEMBLY FOR The Church in Africa at the Service of Reconciliation, Justice and Peace. This Bulletin is only a working instrument for 34 - 25.10.2009 - CONVIVIUM WITH THE HOLY FATHER - PAPAL CHAPEL PRESIDED OVER BY THE HOLY FATHER FOR THE CONCLUSION OF THE II SPECIAL ASSEMBLY FOR AFRICA OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS - ANGELUS DOMINI CONVIVIUM WITH THE HOLY FATHER - GREETING BY THE HOLY FATHER After participating in the Twentieth General Congregation, for voting and approving the Propositions, Saturday 24 October 2009 the Pope had lunch at 1:00 pm, with the Synod Fathers and the Participants of the II Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, in the atrium of the Paul VI Hall in the Vatican. At the end, he addressed them with the words which we publish here below. GREETING BY THE HOLY FATHER Dear brothers and sisters, Now is the time to give thanks. First of all to the Lord who convoked us, united us to listen to His Word, the voice of the Holy Spirit, and thus gave us the possibility to find the path of unity in the multiplicity of experiences, unity of faith and communion in the Lord. Therefore, the expression “Church-Family of God” is not only a concept or an idea, it is a real experience we have lived these past weeks: we were truly united, here, as the Family of God. We also did some good work, with the Lord’s help. I could say that the theme itself was not an easy challenge, containing two dangers. The theme “Reconciliation, justice and peace” certainly implies a strong political dimension, even if it is obvious that reconciliation, justice and peace are not possible without a deep purification of the heart, without renewal of thought, a metanoia, without something new that can only come from the encounter with God. But even if this spiritual dimension is profound and fundamental, the political dimension is also very real, because without political achievements, these changes of the Spirit usually are not realized. Therefore the temptation could have been in politicizing the theme, to talk less about pastors and more about politicians, thus with a competence that is not ours. The other danger was - to avoid this temptation - pulling oneself into a purely spiritual world, in an abstract and beautiful world, but not a realistic one. A pastor’s language, instead, must be realistic, it must touch upon reality, but within the perspective of God and His Word. Therefore this mediation involves, on one hand being truly tied to reality, taking the care to talk about what is, and on the other hand not fall into technically political solutions: this means to demonstrate a concrete but spiritual word. This was the main problem for this Synod and it seems to me that, thanks to God, we managed to resolve it, and for me this is also a reason for thanks because it makes the post-synodal document easier to be draft. Now I would like to return some thanks. Above all I would like to thank the presidents delegate who moderated the meetings of the Synod with great “sovereignty” and also with cheer. I also thank the relators: we now have seen and touched - so to speak - with our hands that they bore the greatest burden of work, they worked nights and even Sundays, they worked at lunchtime and now truly merit a round of applause from us. Here I can announce that I have decided to nominate Cardinal Turkson the new president of the Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, successor to Cardinal Martino. Thank you, your Eminence, for having accepted; we are happy to have you among us. Then, I thank all the Fathers, the fraternal delegates, the auditors, the experts and thanks, above all, to the translators for they too have a part in the weave of “creating Pentecost”. Pentecost means to understand each other: without translators this bridge to understanding would be missing. Thank you! And especially my thanks go to the Secretary General, his team, who silently guided and organized us very well. The Synod ends and does not end, not only because the work goes ahead with the Post-Synodal Exhortation: Synodos means common path. Let us remain on the common path with the Lord, let us go before the Lord to prepare the roads, to help Him, to open the doors of the world that He may create His Kingdom among us. In this sense my blessing is upon all of you. Let us now say the prayer of thanks for the meal all together. [00343-02.03] [Original text: Italian] At the end of the Convivium, the Holy Father announced the nomination as the President of the Pontifical Council Justice and Peace His Em. Card. Peter Kodwo Appiah TURKSON, Archbishop of Cape Coast (GHANA), Relator General of the II Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops. PAPAL CHAPEL PRESIDED OVER BY THE HOLY FATHER FOR THE CONCLUSION OF THE II SPECIAL ASSEMBLY FOR AFRICA OF THE SYNOD OF BISHOPS - HOMILY BY THE HOLY FATHER At 10 this morning 25 October 2009, XXX Sunday of Ordinary Time, in the Vatican Basilica, at the tomb of the Apostle Peter, the Holy Father Benedict XVI presided over the Celebration of the Eucharist with the Synod Fathers, for the conclusion of the II Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops which was celebrated in the Synod Hall of the Vatican from 4 October 2009, on the synodal theme:The Church in Africa at the Service of Reconciliation, Justice and Peace. “You are the salt of the earth ... You are the light of the world” (Mt 5:13,14). 239 Synodal Fathers and other participants and collaborators concelebrated with the Pope, of which 33 are Cardinals, 75 Archbishops, 120 Bishops and other 8 Presbyters (8 Synodal Fathers, 5 members of the General Secretariate, 4 Auditors, 15 Experts, 2 Press Attachés, 25 Assistants, and 3 Translators). In total there were 294 Concelebrants. While the Holy Father and the Concelebrants approached the Altar, “Enwere m anuri” (“What joy”) in Igbo and Psalm 46 “Iubilate Deo” were sung. The following went to the altar for the Eucharistic Prayer: the President Delegate His Em. Card. Francis ARINZE, Prefect Emeritus of the Congregation for the Divine Cult and the Discipline of the Sacraments (VATICAN CITY), His Em. Card. Wilfrid Fox NAPIER, O.F.M., Archbishop of Durban (SOUTH AFRICA) and His Em. Card. Théodore-Adrien SARR, Archbishop of Dakar (SENEGAL); the General Relator His Em. Card. Peter Kodwo Appiah TURKSON, Archbishop of Cape Coast (GHANA); the Secretary General His Exc. Mons. Nikola ETEROVIĆ (VATICA CITY); the Special Secretaries His Exc. Mons. Damião António FRANKLIN, Archbisop of Luanda (ANGOLA) and His Esc. Mons. Edmond DJITANGAR, Bishop of Sarh (CHAD). The First Reading was in Portuguese, the Responsorial Psalm in Italian and the Second Reading in English. The Gospel was in Latin. The Prayer of the Faithful was in French, Kikongo, Malagasy, Swahili and Igbo. During the offertorial rites the “Tewo gbebowa” (“Receive our sacrifice”) in Yoruba was sung; the Lamb of God was sung in Efik, “Eyen eron”. The communion hymns were Psalm 118, in Latin, and “Munzo ya” (“Lord we are here”), in Hausa. At the end the “Ave Maria” in Igbo and a liturgical chant in Ge’ez. During the Holy Mass, after the proclamation of the Gospel, the Holy Father gave the following homily. HOMILY BY THE HOLY FATHER Dear brothers and sisters! Here is a message of hope for Africa: we have just listened to the Word of God. It is the message that the Lord of history never tires of renewing for the oppressed and overcome humanity of every era and every land, since the time he revealed to Moses His will for the Israelites slaves of Egypt: “I have witnessed the affliction of my people... and have heard their cry... so I know well what they are suffering. Therefore I have come down to rescue them... and lead them out of that land into a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and honey” (Ex 3:7-8). What is this land? Is it not the Kingdom of Reconciliation, Justice and Peace, to which all of humanity is called? God’s plan does not change. It is the same as that prophesied by Jeremiah, in the magnificent oracles called “The Book of Consolation”, from which today the first reading is taken. It is an announcement of hope for the people of Israel, laid low by the invasion of the army of Nebuchadnezzar, by the devastation of Jerusalem and the Temple and the deportation to Babylonia. A message of joy for the “remainder” of Jacob’s sons, which announces a future for them, because the Lord will lead them back to their lands, by a straight and easy road. The persons needing support, like the blind or the cripple, the pregnant woman and the woman in labor, will all experience the strength and tenderness of the Lord: He is a father for Israel, ready to care for it as if it were his firstborn (cfr. Jer 31:7-9). God’s Plan does not change. Through the centuries and turns of history, He always aims at the same finality: the Kingdom of liberty and peace for all. And this implies His predilection for those deprived of freedom and peace, for those violated in their dignity as human beings. We think in particular of our brothers and sisters who in Africa suffer poverty, diseases, injustice, wars and violence, forced migration. These favorite children of the heavenly Father are like the blind man in the Gospel, Bartimaeus (Mk 10:46) at the gates of Jericho. Jesus the Nazarene passed that way. It is the road that leads to Jerusalem, where the Paschal Event will be take place, His sacrificial Easter, towards which the Messiah goes for us. It is the road of His exodus which is also ours: the only way that leads to the land of reconciliation, justice and peace. On that road, the Lord meets Bartimaeus, who has lost his sight. Their paths cross, they become a single path. The blind man calls out, full of faith “Jesus, son of David, have pity on me!”. Jesus replies: “Call him!”, and adds: “What do you want me to do for you?’. God is light and the creator of light. Man is the son of light, made to see the light, but has lost his sight, and is forced to beg. The Lord, who became a beggar for us, walks next to him: thirsting for our faith and our love. “What do you want me to do for you?”. God knows the answer, but asks; He wants the man to speak. He wants the man to stand up, to find the courage to ask for what is needed for his dignity. The Father wants to hear in the son’s own voice the free choice to see the light once again, the light, the reason for the creation. “Master, I want to see!” And Jesus says to him: “Go your way; your faith has saved you. Immediately he received his sight and followed him on the way.” (Mk 10:51-52). Dear Brothers, we give thanks because this “mysterious encounter between our poverty and the greatness” of God was achieved also in the Synodal Assembly for Africa that has ended today. God renewed his call: “Take courage! Get up...” (Mk 10:49). And the Church in Africa, through its Pastors, having come from all the countries in the continent, from Madagascar and the other islands, has embraced the message of hope and light to walk on the path that leads to the Kingdom of God. “Go your way; your faith has saved you” (Mk 10:52). Yes, faith in Jesus Christ - when properly understood and experienced - guides men and peoples to liberty in truth, or, to use the three words of the synodal theme, to reconciliation, to justice and to peace. Bartimaeus who, healed, follows Jesus along the road, is the image of that humanity that, illuminated by faith, walks on the path towards the promised land. Bartimaeus becomes in turn a witness of the light, telling and demonstrating in the first person about being healed, renewed, regenerated. This is the Church in the world: a community of reconciled persons, operators of justice and peace; “salt and light” amongst the society of men and nations. Therefore the Synod strongly confirmed - and manifested this - that the Church is the Family of God, in which there can be no divisions based on ethnic, language or cultural groups. Moving witnesses showed us that, even in the darkest moments of human history, the Holy Spirit is at work and transforming the hearts of the victims and the persecutors, that they may know each other as brothers. The reconciled Church is the potent leaven of reconciliation in each country and in the whole African continent. The second reading offers another perspective: the Church, the community that follows Christ on the path of love, has a sacerdotal form. The category of priesthood, as the interpretive key of the Mystery of Christ and, consequently, of the Church, was introduced in the New Testament, by the Author of the Letter to the Hebrews. His intuition originates from Psalm 110, quoted in today’s words, where the Lord God assures the Messiah with a solemn promise: “you are a priest for ever of the order of Melchizedek” (Ps 110:4). A reference which leads to another, taken from Psalm 2, in which the Messiah announces the Lord’s decree which says about Him: “You are my son, today have I fathered you” (PS 2:7). From these texts derives the attribution to Jesus Christ of a sacerdotal character, not in the generic sense, rather “of the order of Melchizedek”, in other words the supreme and eternal priesthood, of divine not human origins. If each supreme priest “is taken from among men and made their representative before God” (Heb 5:1), He alone, Christ, the Son of God, possesses a ministry that can be identified to His own person, a singular and transcendent ministry, on which universal salvation relies. Christ transmitted this ministry of His to the Church through the Holy Spirit; therefore the Church has in itself, in each of its members, because of Baptism, a sacerdotal characteristic. However - here is a decisive aspect - the priesthood of Jesus Christ is no longer primarily ritual, rather it is existential. The dimension of the rite is not abolished, but, as clearly seen in the institution of the Eucharist, takes its meaning from the Paschal Mystery, which completes the ancient sacrifices and surpasses them. Thus contemporarily a new sacrifice, a new ministry and a new temple are born, and all three coincide with the Mystery of Jesus Christ. United to Him through the Sacraments, the Church prolongs its saving action, allowing man to be healed, like the blindman Bartimaeus. Thus the ecclesial community, in the steps of its Master and Lord, is called to walk decisively along the path of service, to share the condition of men and women in its time, to witness to all the love of God and thus sow hope. Dear friends, this message of salvation is always transmitted by the Church by joining evangelization and the promotion of humanity. Let’s take the example of the historical Encyclical Popolarum progressio: what the Servant of God Paul VI elaborated in terms of reflection, the missionaries created and continue to create in the field, promoting a development that respects local cultures and the environment, following a logic that now, more than 40 years later, appears to be the only one capable of allowing the African people to emerge from the slavery of hunger and sickness. This means transmitting the announcement of hope, following a “sacerdotal form”, that is, living the Gospel in the first person, trying to translate it into projects and undertakings that are consistent with its principle dynamic foundation, which is love. In these three weeks, the II Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops has confirmed what my venerable predecessor John Paul II had already clearly focused on, and that I also wanted to look at more closely in the recent Encyclical Caritas in veritate: what is necessary, therefore, is the renewal of the model of global development, in such a way that it be capable of “including within its range all peoples and not just the better off” (No. 39). What the social doctrine of the Church has always maintained is what is required today of globalization (cf. ibid). This - we must remember - should not be understood fatalistically as though its dynamics were produced by anonymous impersonal forces or structures independent of the human will. Globalization is a human reality and as such can be modified in line with one or another cultural impositions. The Church works with its personalist and community concept to steer the globalization of humanity in relational terms, in terms of communion and the sharing of goods (cf. ibid No. 42). “Take courage! Get up”... This is how the Lord of life and hope addresses the Church and peoples of Africa at the end of these weeks of Synodal reflection. Get up, Church in Africa, Family of God, because you are being called by the Heavenly Father whom your ancestors invoked as Creator, before knowing His merciful closeness, revealed in His only-begotten Son, Jesus Christ. Set out on the path of a new evangelization with the courage that comes from the Holy Spirit. The urgent action of evangelization which has been spoken about so much in these days, also involves an urgent appeal for reconciliation, an indispensable condition for instilling in Africa justice among men and building a fair and lasting peace that respects each individual and people; a peace that requires and is open to the contribution of all people of good will irrespective of their religious, ethnic, linguistic, cultural and social backgrounds. In such a challenging mission, pilgrim Church in Africa of the third millennium, you are not alone. The whole Catholic Church is near to you with its prayer and active solidarity, and from heaven you are accompanied by the African saints who, with their lives to the point of martyrdom sometimes, testified to the fullness of their faith in Christ. Courage! Get up, African continent, land that welcomed the Savior of the World when as a child He had to take refuge with Joseph and Mary in Egypt to save His life from the persecution of King Herod. Welcome with renewed enthusiasm the Gospel proclamation so that the face of Christ may light with its splendor the multiplicity of cultures and languages of your peoples. As it offers the bread of the Word and the Eucharist, the Church also undertakes to operate, with every means at its disposal, to ensure that no African should be deprived of his or her daily bread. For this reason, along with the work of primary importance of evangelization, Christians are actively involved in interventions in favor of promoting humanity. Dear Synodal Fathers, at the end of these reflections of mine, I want to salute you most warmly, and thank you for your edifying participation. Return home, you, pastors of the Church in Africa, take my blessing to your communities. Transmit to everyone the oft-heard appeal of this Synod for reconciliation, justice and peace. As the Synodal Assembly draws to a close, I have to renew my most vivid thanks to the General Secretariat of the Synod of Bishops and all their collaborators. I express my grateful thoughts to the choirs of the Nigerian community in Rome and the Ethiopian College who are contributing to the celebration of this liturgy. And finally I would like to thank everyone who has accompanied the Synodal work with their prayer. May the Virgin Mary recompense each and every one of them, and allow the Church in Africa to grow in every part of that great continent, spreading the “salt” and “light” of the Gospel everywhere. [00344-02.01] [Original text: Italian] - WORDS BY THE HOLY FATHER At the end of the Holy Mass celebrated this morning in the Vatican Basilica for the conclusion of the II Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops, the Holy Father Benedict XVI went to the church steps to recite the Angelus with the faithful and pilgrims present in St. Peter’s Square. The Holy Father spoke the words which we publish here below. WORDS BY THE HOLY FATHER Dear brothers and sisters! A short while ago, with the Eucharistic celebration in St. Peter’s Basilica, the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops ended. Three weeks of mutual prayer and listening, to discern what the Holy Spirit says today to the Church that lives in the African Continent, but at the same time to the Universal Church. The Synodal Fathers, having come from all the Countries in Africa, presented the richness of the local Churches’ realities. Together we shared their joys for the dynamism of the Christian communities, which continue to grow in quantity and quality. We thank God for the missionary impetus that found a fertile terrain in many dioceses and which expresses itself by sending missionaries to other African Countries and to other Continents. Special emphasis was given to the family, which also in Africa constitutes the primary cell of society, but which today is threatened by ideological currents coming from outside as well. Then what can be said about the young people exposed to this sort of pressure, influenced by models of thought and behavior that contrast with the human and Christian values of the African peoples? Naturally during this Assembly, today’s problems in Africa came out, as well as its great need for reconciliation, justice and peace. To this the Church answers re-proposing, with renewed impetus, proclaiming the Gospel and the act of human promotion. Enlivened by the Word of God and the Eucharist, it strives to make everyone have the necessary to live and that all may live an existence worthy of a human being. Remembering the Apostolic Visit to Cameroon and Angola I did last March, which also had the aim of beginning the immediate preparation for the second Synod for Africa, today I would like to speak to all the African populations, in particular those who share the Christian faith, to give them ideally the Final Message of this Synodal Assembly. It is a Message that comes from Rome, the See of Peter’s Successor, who presides universal communion, but we can say, from another true sense, originates in Africa, gathering its experiences, expectations, projects and now returns to Africa, bearing the richness of a profound communion in the Holy Spirit. Dear brothers and sisters who are listening to me from Africa! I entrust to your prayer the fruits of the work of the Synodal Fathers’ work in a special way and I encourage you with the words of the Lord Jesus: be the salt and the light of the beloved African land! While this Synod is ending, I would like to remind now that a Special Assembly for the Middle East of the Synod of Bishops is scheduled for next year. On the Occasion of my Visit to Cyprus, I will have the pleasure of presenting the Instrumentum laboris for that assize. Let us thank the Lord, who never tires of building His Church in communion, and we invoke the maternal intercession of the Virgin Mary with trust. [in French] I welcome you with joy, for the prayer of the Angelus, dear French-speaking pilgrims. On this day when the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops is ending, the liturgy reminds us that only Jesus Christ can fully heal the human person from the misery of a wounded heart. May our prayer be instantaneous so that all the peoples of the earth, and especially the peoples of Africa, may walk with Him on the path of life, reconciliation, justice and peace. May Our Lady of Africa protect and guide the men and women of this beloved continent! Good Sunday! [in English] I am happy to greet all the English-speaking visitors present today in Saint Peter’s Square. We have just concluded the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops which has been a period of grace. I invite all of you to pray for our brothers and sisters of Africa. May the Lord, who granted sight to the blind man of the Gospel, renew their faith that they may always see and follow clearly the path of reconciliation, justice and peace which leads to salvation. Upon all of you and upon all the people of Africa I invoke God’s abundant blessings. [in German] From the heart I welcome the German-speaking guests here today in St. Peter’s Square. This Sunday’s Gospel, which we have just listened to during the Eucharistic celebration for the conclusion of the Synod of Bishops for Africa in St. Peter’s Basilica, tells about the healing of a blind man. Jesus heard the insistent cry of Bartimaeus and gave him back his sight. This encourages us, with all our personal trials, as well as the challenges and needs of the African continent, to turn to Christ full of faith and trust. He also gives us help and salvation. May the Lord watch over you and your families. [in Spanish] I greet the Spanish-speaking faithful with affection. With the Eucharistic celebration in St. Peter’s Basilica this morning, the Second Special Assembly for Africa of the Synod of Bishops is coming to an end. In an atmosphere of deep and fraternal ecclesial communion, we listened to eloquent testimonials of the great missionary dynamism of the African Church, as well as the important challenges it must face today. We ask the Lord, through the intercession of the most Holy Virgin Mary, to give the People of God in Africa a renewed evangelizing impetus, in the service of reconciliation, justice and peace. Good Sunday! [00345-02.02] [Original text: plurilingual]
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