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Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa has chapters at 286 colleges and universities in the United States, nearly 50 alumni associations and more than half a million members worldwide. Noteworthy members include 17 U.S. presidents, 40 U.S. Supreme Court justices and more than 140 Nobel Laureates. The mission of Phi Beta Kappa...
A haul of Viking treasure has been unearthed from a field in south west Scotland by an amateur using a metal detector.
Derek McLennan, a retired businessman from Ayrshire, made the find in Dumfriesshire in September.
Experts have said the discovery is one of the most important Viking hoards ever found in Scotland.
The items are believed to be worth a six-figure sum.
Mr McLennan last year uncovered Scotland's biggest haul of medieval silver coins.
Among the objects within the hoard is an early Christian cross thought to date from the 9th or 10th Century.
The solid silver cross has enamelled decorations which experts consider to be highly unusual.
The haul also includes possibly the largest silver Carolingian pot ever discovered, with its lid still in place.
Stuart Campbell, National Museum of Scotland's head of Scotland's treasure trove unit, said: "This is a hugely significant find, nothing like this has been found in Scotland before in terms of the range of material this hoard represents.
"There's material from Ireland, from Scandinavia, from various places in central Europe and perhaps ranging over a couple of centuries.
"So this has taken some effort for individuals to collect together."
Mr McLennan said he had dragged himself out of his sick bed to pursue his passion for metal detecting on the day he found the Viking treasure.
He had been given permission to search the site and after an hour he found a silver object, at first he thought it was a spoon but when he rubbed the surface he recognised the Viking decoration.
Further excavation unearthed more than a hundred items of silver and gold including a bird pen, metal vessel, armbands, cross and brooches. Experts say it's one of the most significant Viking hoards ever found in Scotland.
He said: "I dragged myself out of my sick bed because I had two friends that wanted to detect and I'm a bit of an obsessive.
"I unearthed the first piece, initially I didn't understand what I had found because I thought it was a silver spoon and then I turned it over and wiped my thumb across it and I saw the Saltire-type of design and knew instantly it was Viking.
"Then my senses exploded, I went into shock, endorphins flooded my system and away I went stumbling towards my colleagues waving it in the air."
Fiona Hyslop, Cabinet Secretary for Culture and External Affairs said: "The Vikings were well known for having raided these shores in the past, but today we can appreciate what they have left behind, with this wonderful addition to Scotland's cultural heritage.
"It's clear that these artefacts are of great value in themselves, but their greatest value will be in what they can contribute to our understanding of life in early medieval Scotland, and what they tell us about the interaction between the different peoples in these islands at that time.
"The Dumfries hoard opens a fascinating window on a formative period in the story of Scotland and just goes to show how important our archaeological heritage in Scotland continues to be."
"As ever, the Scottish government will work to facilitate and support the discovery, analysis and exhibiting of finds like this, for the benefit of people here and abroad.
"With that in mind I would like to echo the praise for the responsible behaviour of the metal detectorists: without their continued cooperation this would not be possible."
NEW YORK, Feb. 2, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- Last Friday, three Finalists – Beyond 12, the Education Advisory Board and Kinvolved -- were announced for the Robin Hood College Success Prize. The Prize is designed to find the most promising interventions that are capable of helping community college students with remedial need...
"MyCoach translates the most effective actions of a coach, like motivation and nudges, to a highly scalable mobile platform," said Alexandra Bernadotte, founder of Beyond 12. "The MyCoach app is a direct result of a personal conviction and commitment to ensure that other students don't face the same struggles that I di...
"Consequences of mistakes made in onboarding compound and cascade across a student's entire college career. This is why our solution focuses on upfront intervention to support and guide students towards their goals," said Catherine Shaw, principal, EAB Strategic Planning at The Advisory Board Company. "We are honored t...
"Attendance – or lack thereof – is the first and easiest indicator that there might be a problem. If students don't show up to class, their chances of achieving academically are diminished," said Alexandra Meis, co-founder and chief product officer for Kinvolved. "Our app uses attendance as an indicator of major proble...
It's an unfortunate fact that millions of students who graduate from high school simply aren't ready for college-level work. In order to catch up to their college-ready peers, they must take and pass remedial classes, which can cost the same amount as full-credit courses but do not count for college credit, which means...
Robin Hood – New York's largest poverty-fighting organization – recognizes that education is the key to living a life free from poverty.
"As part of our strategy to help the 1.8 million New Yorkers who live in grinding poverty day in and day out, Robin Hood develops and tests bold, audacious programs – nascent programs that hold out tremendous potential to transform the well-being of our worst-off neighbors," said Michael Weinstein, economist and chief ...
The finalists were chosen from more than 100 applicants from the U.S. and a dozen countries around the world. These were then narrowed to 18 semi-finalist teams in August 2014; each team received $40,000 in funding to help further develop their products and an invitation to participate in an interactive workshop with i...
Beyond 12: The Beyond 12 "MyCoach" app helps students keep track of deadlines and milestones, and, based on the college students are attending, provides them with personalized tools and tips to help navigate their college experience. Students receive automated alerts (mimicking the nudges from a live coach) on their mo...
Education Advisory Board: The road to success at community college starts before a student's first day of classes; it starts as soon as they apply. To give every student her or his own personalized pathway to success, EAB (a division of The Advisory Board Company) has built a platform that marries goals with outcomes, ...
Kinvolved: Kinvolved is improving graduation rates of community college students with an app to increase attendance and real-time communication among student support networks.
"I'm excited about each semi-finalist's innovative work and their commitment to helping improve the educational and economic prospects for students in need," said Phil Oreopoulos, professor of economics and public policy at the University of Toronto and one of the judges for the Prize. "The tools developed by our three...
To prove their merit, the Finalists will be evaluated in a randomized-control trial that will run for three years, beginning with the Fall 2015 freshman class at CUNY. The Grand Prize of $3.5 million will be awarded – if at all – to the team whose product increases the three-year graduation rate of CUNY students who pl...
"When we first announced the College Success Prize in March of last year, we could not have hoped for such strong responses from developers, students and academics," said Joshua Wright, executive director of ideas42. "It's safe to say that we are thrilled with the imagination of the semi-finalists and the quality of th...
"For generations, CUNY has helped millions of students gain the skills, confidence and credentials they need to build exciting careers and fulfilling lives for themselves and their families. The more students who earn a degree, the greater their chances for success – and the success of their children – later in life. C...
Robin Hood is New York's largest poverty-fighting organization, and since 1988 has focused on finding, funding, and creating programs and schools that generate meaningful and measurable results for families in New York's poorest neighborhoods. Since its founding, Robin Hood has raised more than $2 billion in dollars, g...
ideas42 is a non-profit behavioral ideas lab that uses behavioral science to do social good and have impact at scale. The organization grew out of behavioral research programs at top academic institutions and its work draws upon decades of experimental scientific research in decision-making and behavior. Over the past ...
The City University of New York provides high-quality, accessible education for more than 269,000 degree-credit students and 247,000 adult, continuing and professional education students at 24 campuses across New York City. The University is an integrated system of senior and community colleges, graduate and profession...
Bill Mesler is a Baltimore-based journalist who writes frequently for The Nation.
Forget Three Mile Island! The buzzword now is "environmentally preferable."
Still from the film “Chi-Raq,” directed and co-written by Spike Lee.
This has been one of Hollywood’s worst years in my memory, but it has been a terrific year for movies over all. The anticipated Oscarizables have mainly ranged from the blandly enjoyable to the droningly disastrous. Partly, the problem is merely one of scheduling: most of Hollywood’s inspired directors, the ones whose ...
There are a lot of independent films on the list. I do like them, but no more than other kinds of movies per se. There’s no aesthetic value built into a film’s provenance or budget, but as Hollywood increased its dependence on overmanaged franchise films, independent filmmaking on low and ultra-low budgets became one o...
I’m unhappy to note that very few of the movies on this year’s list were directed by women. It’s a reminder that there aren’t enough women making movies, at every level and branch of the art. Nonetheless, many of the best directors now working are women, though mostly outside the Hollywood system—including Agnès Varda,...
Most of the season’s prestige releases, the films being ballyhooed for Oscars and already racking up awards in critics’ groups, fall into one of two categories. Some reflect the bludgeoning, dulling force of directorial will to bravura exertions that seemingly declare, with the pompous vanity of each image, that they a...
It’s no longer enough to tell a story, because television does it—not better, but more, and more easily. The power of the cinema remains undiminished, but few of the directors of this year’s run of “prestige” releases make much use of it. It’s a commonplace that movies are a visual medium and that, when movies started ...
No amount of willfully controlled staging and planning and composition can endow an image with the spark of the absolute; the creation of a movie isn’t visual or logical but metaphysical—beyond the filmmaker’s intentions—inseparable from the filmmaker’s very being. The most inspired directors make images with an innate...
The cinema’s self-conscious modernity arose when its makers put a virtual mirror into its lenses and revealed the filmmaking process in the films themselves. They reflected the world around the movie within the movie, the director on the screen. But television has outrun the cinema here, too, by replacing the mirror wi...
While enduring the fetishizing aestheticism of “Mad Max: Fury Road,” I wanted George Miller to stop the action and show the trickery involved in endowing Charlize Theron with Imperator Furiosa’s prosthetic arm. With the vast and sparsely populated landscapes of “The Revenant,” I wanted Alejandro González Iñárritu’s bal...
The very best movies of the year are works of hard-won freedom, reflecting the exertion to overcome external or internal obstacles, horrific and violent persecutions, or the oppressive psychological weight of personal habits or inherited styles. In “Chi-Raq,” Spike Lee returned from a virtual exile from the film busine...
In “Li’l Quinquin”—which was made for French television and broadcast as a miniseries—Bruno Dumont, in his mid-fifties, shed the quasi-religious self-containment of his earlier work and made a film that’s as outrageously comical and straightforwardly tender as it is riotously surrealistic and probingly documentary. I w...
It’s in no way intended to diminish the risks of prison or death faced by several of the directors on the list by comparing their audacity to that of filmmakers working here or in Europe in comfortable circumstances. The difference in courage and risk is enormous. But the monstrous difficulties that Abderrahmane Sissak...
Some other films among the year’s best only apparently flaunt a classical style of unmediated storytelling. With movies such as “Digging for Fire,” “Results,” “Stinking Heaven,” and “Wild Canaries,” the form is only superficially classical. Their very subject is stories themselves—where stories come from, how they’re u...
For the past half-century or more, moviemaking has been demystified—and reinfused with another mystery, that of the studio director as artist. The reflexive mode has revealed the methods of moviemaking, even as it posited the makers themselves as elusive demiurges, magicians who showed how their tricks were done even w...
Movies were born to nourish and enrich solitude in public. Alfred Hitchcock told François Truffaut (in a moment that’s the climax of Kent Jones’s superb documentary “Hitchcock/Truffaut”) about his effort to “use the cinematic art to achieve something of a mass emotion.” (He also added, drolly, “It’s the kind of picture...
No one can see everything, and I hope to be able to add to the list when catching up with good things I’ve missed. This year, I didn’t predetermine the number of names in a given category but followed my pleasures to fill up to ten slots. One twist: this is the year of paired performances that are both equal and insepa...
New Yorker writers look back at the year that was.
Richard Brody’s list of the best movies of 2014, as well as his selections for best actress, best actor, and best cinematography.
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — David West is disgusted with the choice of Donald Trump for president.
"The guy who got elected, it's not just the fact he got elected but people voted for him," West said after shootaround Wednesday. "That's the disheartening thing. I just think a lot of the things he was saying publicly, the majority of this country feels privately. They proved that through their vote. ... He got the pl...
The Golden State Warriors met as a team Wednesday before shootaround to discuss Trump's win over Hillary Clinton. Coach Steve Kerr expressed disappointment in the result and the discourse in the election, saying Trump regularly used "racist, misogynist, insulting words" more appropriate for "The Jerry Springer Show" th...
"The whole process has left all of us feeling disgusted and disappointed," Kerr said. "I thought we were better than this."
Kerr said it was tough to face his wife and daughter Tuesday night as the votes were announced and then again as he faced his players before their game against Dallas. Players like West were still in shock over Trump's win.
"The message was loud and clear last night," said West, who is African-American. "I don't think there's any room to sort of not face the obvious truth. He speaks for the majority of the people in this nation, his attitudes about black people, about Muslim people, about women, about just about every sort of political gr...
The Warriors, whose brass have said how seriously the franchise takes its role as a positive influence in the community, are going ahead with their plan discussed in the preseason to bring in civic leaders to meet with players and staff in an effort to build trust and improve communication . The meeting is scheduled fo...
West called it "a shame" voters hid behind their ballots to show who they really are. He said the choice of Trump is "unnerving and unsettling when you think about some of the things he's said, hasn't apologized for. The man's 70 years old, so he is who he is."
Golden State has discussed 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest . Kaepernick said Tuesday he didn't vote for president after he criticized both candidates in late August and called Trump "openly racist."
"I really didn't play too close of attention because I have been very disconnected from the systematic oppression as a whole, so for me it's another face that's going to be the face of that system of oppression," Kaepernick said on a conference call with reporters covering the upcoming opponent Arizona Cardinals. "To m...
Adams, a third-generation Asheville native, runs the place with Chris King who moved here from the Boston area about 15 years ago. They both have industry experience — Adams worked at the Double Crown in West Asheville and King worked as a bartender at the Rankin Vault downtown. But since 2014, they and a small staff h...
Xpress recently talked with Adams and King to find out a little about the Burger Bar’s past and what it’s doing now.
Mountain Xpress: Tell me a little about the bar’s history.
Celeste Adams: From 1931 to 1954, it was the Bridge Service Station. It then sat vacant from 1955 to 1957. In 1958, it began its restaurant/bar career. Starting as Joe’s Place, it changed hands and was called the Haywood Bar and Restaurant and then was dubbed the Burger Bar in 1960. A few more ownership transitions too...
What’s the deal with the name? You don’t serve any food, right?
Correct. In 1975, the place stopped serving burgers, but they continued to serve a popular beer called Burger Beer, so the name stuck. [Burger Beer was manufactured in Ohio and was known as the beer for the Cincinnati Reds.] They stopped making it for awhile, but I think it’s back in business now. We don’t currently ca...
What changes have you made since you owned the place?
Adams: Yes. We have picnic tables, and there are often food trucks or food buskers here. We also have several takeout menus so people can call for things like pizza when they get hungry.
Tell me about your clientele. Locals? Visitors? A mix of the two?
King: Everyone is welcome. I’d say, we’re more of a local place, but often a visitor will pop in and say, “Oh yeah, this is what I’ve been looking for.” It’s not unusual to strike up a conversation with a local at the bar who has some old Asheville stories to share.
If you had to describe the place, what would you say?
King: Simple and honest. In some ways, the Burger Bar reminds me of a place you’d see at the beginning of a Quentin Tarantino movie. We’ve just got that local vibe, but we’re not too cool. In a nutshell, the Burger Bar is short on frills, but long on character. It’s a dive bar in every sense. We want to keep it that wa...
The Burger Bar is at 1 Craven St. Hours are 3 p.m.-2 a.m. daily. The bar closes only on New Year’s Eve. Look for the Burger Bar on Facebook and Instagram.
I love the link with Burger Beer which was still available when I moved here in 1983 (I can still see the white can with the red logo). Now it comes in blue cans with a new red logo. Hopefully BB will start to carry it for its nostalgia vibe. The beer isn’t bad either although it’s in the PBR mold.
Yeah, fact checking is not exactly a fine art for rags that devote more print space to hopping trains, barefooter rights and crystals than rampant gentrification and development. I caught that too.
Hi, Chip. Thanks for reading and for pointing out the typo — I’m sure fans of both the Cincinnati Reds and the Boston Red Sox appreciate it! We’ve redacted the text accordingly.
Cool- thanks- you narrowly avoided a European style soccer fans brawl among fans of a real baseball team and the one from Boston.
Great place! I’ve been meaning to go for a year, but when my friend invited me out for a birthday beer, this was my choice. Lively, lotsa stuff on the wall, and the guys were playing pool. Nice bartender. The place feels homey. And Celeste is the best.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that Israel will "welcome" the delegation U.S. President Donald Trump is dispatching to the Middle East later this month in an effort to renew the peace process.
"We will welcome American envoys Kushner and Greenblatt who want to advance the peace process," the prime minister said.
On Friday, a White House official said that Trump is sending a team of senior officials headed by Kushner, his senior adviser and son in law, to Israel, the Palestinian Authority and several Arab states. Kusner will be joined by the president's envoy to the peace process Jason Greenblatt and Deputy National Security Ad...
The White House official said Trump is still committed to advancing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and believes that following the diffusion of the Temple Mount crisis a new opportunity has emerged to continue the efforts the president had started shortly after taking office.
It’s one of the many sayings by the late coach John Wooden of UCLA.
Pat McLaughlin, a teacher at Mariners Elementary in Newport Beach, tries to follow the philosophy every day.
She also tries to encourage her third-grade class to embrace the 15 building blocks of Wooden’s famous Pyramid of Success, something that’s long caught fire within the corridors of the 750-student school on Irvine Avenue.

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