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Wildlife photography is a fantastic way to discover nature – using your eyes and a camera to really explore and enjoy the natural world. You can have great fun creating stunning wild images whatever camera you have (SLR, pocket compact camera or mobile phone) and wherever you live. Often the most exciting discoveries are right on our doorsteps – the highlight of my career was photographing a sleeping kingfisher just a few metres from house (they are unique images as far as I know)!
Whether you enjoy the artistic side of nature photography, or maybe wish to record the different wildlife and behaviour you see (probably a mixture of both) here are my top tips to help you take great wildlife shots.
• Local sites such as your garden, nearby park, beach or nature reserve offer some of the best opportunities for wildlife photography. By regularly exploring these local wild spaces you can build a detailed photographic study and create unique images. Visit sites at different times of the day and year to determine when wildlife activity is at its peak and where is the best spot to photograph.
• Do as much research as you can about the wildlife & habitats you hope to see – books, internet and wildlife charities are great sources. Quiz experts and local reserve staff for wildlife knowledge and advice, they are normally very happy to help.
• Get-up early, or go out late to get the best lighting conditions – especially in summer. If photographing bugs or flowers in middle of the day, use a reflector or piece of white card to bounce sunlight on to the shady side of your subject.
• Slow down and take time to think about your composition. Look for, bold colours, striking patterns or exciting action to create stunning photos. When photographing animals make sure you focus on the eyes. Experiment with composition by moving your subject off-centre and using scene features as natural frames
• Change your viewpoint. Get down low to your subjects eye-level for a better perspective and to portray nature in its own habitat. Don't forget to look straight up or down to discover beautiful natural patterns in plants and trees. Photographing from below can make things look bigger or more impressive.
• Compact cameras are fantastic for photographing mini-beasts or flowers – don't use the zoom, but carefully move your camera in close. The macro (flower symbol) setting on pocket cameras enables you to focus on something just a few cm away, creating striking frame-filling images.
• Learn how your camera works and don't be afraid to experiment with different settings, such as exposure and focussing.
• Above all else get out and photograph, the best photographs are created by spending time outside and not in a camera shop. And be patient with wildlife, you may have to wait or make several visits for that special image.
Iain Green is a professional wildlife photographer and founder of www.WildWonder.co.uk, a social enterprise engaging young people, schools and adults with nature through discovery and creativity.


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Dallas vs. Minnesota and a Kid Named AD
Good evening everyone,
Well "the boys" have their final tune-up on Thursday night when they play host to the Minnesota Vikings. This should be an interesting game even though in the opinion of this writer, I think the dress rehearsal was against the Texans. We probably will see very little of the starting units since opening day is right around the corner. If coach Phillips hold true to form, the last of the roster looks will take place before they cut down to that magic 53. In addition, I think the starters that are "banged" up need to heal before they take their opening day trip to Cleveland and go into the dog pound.
Unfortunately, we also will not get to see much of a kid that has a chance to be one of the most prolific runners the NFL has ever seen in Adrian "all day" Peterson. Now I know as Cowboy fans we share our true loyalty to our beloved Cowboys and everyone else is the enemy. I share those same sentiments as well, but I had the opportunity to see Mr. Peterson every Saturday when he played for my beloved Oklahoma Sooners. Yea, I know I have many University of Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor readers that come to this site and I certainly don't want to rub any salt in any wounds. I just happen to live 17 miles from Norman, Oklahoma and grew up a "Okie" that also loves the Dallas Cowboys. I just won't to say that even though he now plays for the Vikings, I have been a fan of Peterson every since he bolted from Palestine, Texas and became a star for the Sooners. In addition, over the years I have had somewhat of an opportunity to get to "AD" on a personal level as well.
Adrian Peterson was given the nickname "AD" by his mother when he was very young because he would be outside playing and would run everywhere he went. She said he never walked anywhere and that he is just ran all day. Peterson ran straight into the record books in his freshman season (not red-shirt freshman) but true freshman rushing for 1,925 yds and first team All-American. In addition, he finished 3rd in the Heisman Trophy balloting that same year. Even though he only played three seasons before going to the NFL he was OU's third all-time leading rusher. After being selected 7th in the first round by the Vikings his combination of speed, strength, vision and a highly aggressive attitude toward contact, he has already been compared to the likes of past legends like Eric Dickerson, O.J. Simpson, Walter Payton, Bo Jackson, Gale Sayers, and Jim Brown. His accomplishments since coming to the Vikings include the single game rushing record of 296 yds on 30 carries against the San Diego Chargers.
There is a dark side to this story as well. Adrian came from a very troubled life style growing up. When Adrian was young he witnessed his brother shot to death in a gang shooting and his father went to prison for 12 years of Adrian's life for various charges. Through all of that Adrian's mother did everything she could to insure Adrian stayed on the straight and narrow. In speaking with Adrian on several occasions in the past he owes all his success to his mother and his various coaches. He would fly home almost every chance he had during his 3 years at Oklahoma to spend time with his mother and go visit his father in prison. Adrian has never let his success go to his head. He always carries that big wonderful smile, and always meets and greets anyone that wants to speak with him. That is a rarity in the NFL or in pro sports in general anymore. Now I know a lot of our Cowboys are very true to the fans, but there is a much higher percentage of players in the league that not only don't really have loyalty to their respective teams but to the fans as well. I have always thought that was unfair because we pay good money each week to see our teams and then have players jump to other teams because more money is dangled in front of them.
Long gone are the days of Bob Lilly, Leroy Jordan, and Roger Staubach just to name a few, that played their entire careers with the Cowboys and never thought for a minute is the grass greener on the other side of the fence. Now, it is basically all about big business, huge marketing deals, and bottom lines. Still through it all we go every Saturday and Sunday and root for our teams because we love the game of football.

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Interracial dating varies depending on the gender also for the foreign-born.
There are so many strange wedding traditions around the world that can surprise you, like meal in toilet bowel! Black dresses are becoming more and more popular because considered really elegant especially for an afternoon wedding. But what happens when boy meets girl in italy's real world (as opposed to the one we have running in our minds thanks to popular culture and folklore)? do italians know something about love and romance that the rest of the world hasn't figured out yet? The groom should probably bring a cheap tie for this event.
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I went to a genealogy conference and found my family tree! Not exactly, but the Nebraska State Genealogical Society Conference held May 1-3 in Lincoln, Nebraska was rewarding and fun. The featured speaker, Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak was excellent. Be sure you take in her lectures if you are where she is lecturing.
While I did not find my family tree, I did find information to assist me with my research. That is also the fun of attending a conference. My sister-in-law and I planned our conference trip to go to cemeteries, libraries and archives ... no courthouses on this trip. I created a notebook with directions, including which exits to take, back roads that would get us to cemeteries along with the hours and directions to the libraries and archives. This is easy to do with Google Maps. I drove and she directed!
At Topeka, Kansas we visited the Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library. Unfortunately the day we selected for research was the day the Kansas Historical Society was closed. The public library made up for it. On the second floor, they have a very inviting genealogy section which includes state of the art equipment, moving shelves and a Victorian appearing Topeka room for research. It's not huge, but comprehensive with a lot of good books and maps, plus more. If you are passing through Kansas, take a jaunt to the library ... you will be glad that you did.
Conferences also mean laughing, telling a year's worth of genealogy stories, meeting old friends and making new friends. I enjoy being around people who speak my language which is the language of genealogy.
For those of you following my blog along with that of my daughter, Growing up Genealogy, you will be interested in knowing that my car was full in the back seat, trunk and around my sister-in-law's feet in the passenger seat. I took three bags and she took six. I took five pair of shoes and wore all of them. She took five pair of shoes and wore one pair. By the time we got home we had a lot of purchases in the way of books as well as memoirs from an ancestral home in Nebraska. The next time we travel together, I'll make certain she leaves half the bags at home!
Next week I'm heading out again, this time going west and north to do research and decorate graves for Memorial Day. I may not find my family tree, but I'll have fun trying.


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Putting a baby inside a piece of pizza may not be cruelty-free, but come next Monday, August 2nd, trivia totally is.
Are Skittles vegan? Who is the richest vegan in the world? What doesn't belong in hummus? Which vegan cheese company had a tie to the television series Home Improvement? You know you know.
What's Going On: A Vegan-Themed, Multi-Round Trivia Night, hosted by cookbook author Isa Chandra Moskowitz of the Post Punk Kitchen and special guest Quiz Masters.
But Why? This event is a fundraiser for THE VEGAN PROM OF TOMORROW: The Try Vegan Week's Third Annual Vegan Prom on 8/21 at Crush Bar, and House of Dreams Cat Shelter. Music by DJ Jet Boat Adventurer.
Vegan Prom tickets will be for sale at the event ($12 in advance, includes one complimentary raffle ticket).
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Show off your vegan knowledge, support great causes & events, and win PRIZES! (and eat pizza).
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The Vegan Prom…
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Ahmad Hashemi worked for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as an English, Turkish and occasionally Arabic interpreter. He is now a refugee from the regime. The Times of Israel has posted Hashemi's testimony regarding the aims of the regime under the heading "Don't be fooled: Iran wants the bomb." It's a timely reminder of a development that will likely come to fruition or be dealt with during Obama's second term. Hashemi writes, for example:
I was present at inner-circle conversations in which a number of high-profile Iranian officials made no secret of their intention to go atomic. I personally witnessed the following examples:
Former Revolutionary Guards commander: 'Holy Islamic bomb is a must'
In April 2005, after organizing several meetings in his office at the Discernment Council headquarters, I was invited to a meeting at the home of Mohsen Rezai, the Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council and a former commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) during the Iran-Iraq war. I was invited in my capacity as a founding member of of the short-lived Islamic Association for Students and Academicians (IASA, which was dissolved the next year), together with Ruhollah Solgi, the IASA secretary general. (Today, Solgi is the governor of Aran va Bidgol County in the Isfahan region.) We were asked to come and exchange views on the overall situation on the upcoming presidential election campaign in which Mr. Rezai was preparing to run as a presidential nominee.
Rezai's home was located in the Shahrak Shahid Daghayeghi Complex at the outskirts of the Lavizan forests in northeast Tehran. We went to a spacious, concrete villa on the last block of the fenced in and tightly patrolled neighborhood, which provides housing primarily for IRGC officers and other high-profile officials.
When we arrived, Rezai was busy meeting various military and political figures, including generals from the IRGC. At this private meeting in his house, while castigating former reformist president Khatami for his compromising approach towards the West, Mohsen Rezai strongly advocated the idea of acquiring nuclear bombs for "deterrent purposes." He referred to such a weapon as a "holy Islamic bomb" needed to defy the bullying approach of global arrogance. Mentioning that even Khomeini approved of acquiring an atomic bomb to safeguard the interests of Islam during Iran-Iraq war, he argued that everything is allowed for the sake of Islam, including using WMDs and the mass killing of civilians.
The A-bomb and Iran's National Security Council
In early 2012, Ali Bagheri, the deputy secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, was meeting his Indian counterpart at a dinner reception at India's embassy in Tehran. While we waited for the Indian official, who had been delayed in traffic, to arrive, I heard the Iranian foreign ministry's director for Europe and America, Ahmad Sobhani, ask Mr. Bagheri about the Supreme Leader's latest views on the 5+1 negotiations. Bagheri replied that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei remained adamant and increasingly convinced that "we should expedite our efforts and diversify our secret facilities to achieve our goal before it is too late."
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well i guess your right. still like the song would get annoyed of it if i listened to it 5x in a row. i see whatyour saying though patna.
why is it terrible? that song is legit.
What do you guys think about this Raiders music video?Da Problemhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxtPES5amBo
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The car of the future came to an unceremonious end 38 years ago today, when the last Citroen DS rolled off the automaker's plant in Aulnay-sous-Bois, France.
To say the DS stunned the automotive world upon its launch in 1955 is perhaps an understatement. Not only did the car look like a flying saucer, but it was nothing short of a technological marvel. A hydropneumatic system controlled both the disc brake system and the power steering rack, but also the suspension system., which could be raised and lowered to various heights and support the car on three wheels if a fourth was blown out.
The DS went nearly a decade before Citroen saw the need to update its styling; a refresh in 1968 ushered in a new nose with fared-in headlamps, along with a new dashboard and interior trims. The millionth DS was built in late 1969, but 1970 proved to be the DS' best year ever, with 103,633 cars rolling off the assembly line.
By that time, Citroen was aware that the DS' basic form was close to 15 years old (its four-cylinder engines were older yet), and began development of the DS' successor. That car – the CX – debuted in 1974, and essentially sounded the death knell of the DS. DS volumes amounted to 40,039 in 1974, and only 847 cars in 1975. The last car – a teal sedan – was the 1,330,755th DS ever manufactured. The Aulnay-sous-Bois line quickly ramped up CX production volumes, and that model served as Citroen's flagship sedan until its demise in 1991.
Although Citroen revived the DS name for a new brand of premium models (i.e. DS3, DS5, and so on), none quite follow entirely in the original DS' sizable footsteps. The Citroen C6, which was discontinued in 2012, was perhaps the closest thing to a modern-day successor, and there's no word if Citroen plans on replacing it with a DS-branded large sedan.
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Studying Cell Immune Responses to a Live Flu Vaccine in Healthy Adults
|The safety and scientific validity of this study is the responsibility of the study sponsor and investigators. Listing a study does not mean it has been evaluated by the U.S. Federal Government. Read our disclaimer for details.
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01730144
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : November 21, 2012
Last Update Posted : January 15, 2019
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- One form of the influenza vaccine is a nasal spray. It uses a live but weakened flu virus. Researchers want to better under how the live vaccine interacts with the body s immune system. They will test the nasal spray flu vaccine (called FluMist) against a saline (salt water) nasal spray. They will then look at blood and nasal cell samples to see how the vaccine affects these cells immune response.
- To look at immune changes in nasal and blood cells in people who receive live flu vaccine.
- Healthy volunteers between 18 and 49 years of age.
- Participants will have five outpatient visits for this study. Each visit will last up to 2 hours.
- At the first visit, participants will have a physical exam and medical history. They will give blood and urine samples. Nasal cell samples will also be collected.
- A week later, participants will have either the nasal spray flu vaccine or a saline spray. They will know which spray they will receive. Blood samples will be collected.
- Two days after the vaccination, they will have another physical exam. Blood and nasal cell samples will be collected.
- At the final two visits (1 week and 1 month after the vaccination), more blood samples will be collected.
- Those who had the saline spray will be able to have the actual vaccine spray at the last study visit.
- The ratio of participants who receive vaccine to those who receive saline will be 4:1.
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Two types of influenza vaccines are currently licensed in the US, trivalent inactivated vaccine (TIV), administered by intramuscular injection, and LAIV, administered by nasal spray. Both vaccines are safe and effective in their approved age groups. Neutralizing antibody in the serum has been found to be a correlate of protection for TIV, but the immune correlates of protection for LAIV are not known. Defining the origin and nature of transcriptional responses to LAIV in URT in infected and bystander epithelial and lymphocyte cells in healthy adults will be a highly informative first step in a systems approach toward understanding the molecular basis of viral replication restriction and the regulation of the local mucosal immune responses following LAIV administration.
This natural history study will use a systems biology approach to identify LAIV replication niches among a variety of URT cell types and characterize the host immune response to LAIV. Healthy volunteers aged 18-49 years will be prescreened for low (<1:10) serum HAI titer against the component influenza vaccine virus strains (influenza A H1N1 and H3N2, and influenza B) of the licensed seasonal LAIV. Ten HAIlow or -negative individuals will be vaccinated intranasally with LAIV (n=8) or will receive saline intranasally (n=2). One week prior to and 2 days after vaccine administration, an NP specimen will be collected using flocked NP swabs. A blood sample will be collected at the time of NP swabbing and on Days 7 and 28 after vaccination. Total subject participation time from enrollment/baseline to the final study visit will be 5 weeks.
We propose to recover cells from NP swab samples and sort individual cells of different subsets based on specific surface phenotypic markers. We will then utilize microfluidics-based real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (rRT-PCR) to quantify transcripts from bulk and single cells. These transcripts will include strand-specific influenza RNA for determining virus replication, genes for assigning cells to specific epithelial or lymphocyte subpopulations, selected genes in the IFN signaling pathways to determine innate immune responses, and genes involved in activation and effector functions of different immune cell subsets. Results will be analyzed with several bioinformatics tools, with an emphasis on the differential signaling responses between various cells types. The mucosal transcriptional data will be correlated with B and T cell immunity markers and traditional serology (HAI and neutralization assays) before and after vaccination to identify key factors affecting the immune response to LAIV.
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|Elucidation of the Mucosal Immune Responses to Live Attenuated Influenza Vaccine In Healthy Adults
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- Significant differences in transcription of selected genes in nasal mucosal epithelial and immune cells isolated from recipients of LAIV compared to pre-vaccination levels in the same cell populations isolated. [ Time Frame: One week prior to and 2 days after vaccine administration and on Days 7 and 28 after vaccination. ]
- 1) Development of serum antibody assessed by either HAI or microneutralization (MN) assays.2) Development of 200 influenza-specific interferon-gamma (IFN- >=)-secreting cells per million lymphocytes as assessed by enzymelinked immunospo... [ Time Frame: One week prior to and 2 days after vaccine administration, and on Days 7 and 28 after vaccination. ]
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|18 Years to 49 Years (Adult)
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|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- Adult males and females between 18 and 49 years of age.
- Females of child-bearing potential must have a negative serum beta-human choriogonadotropin (HCG) on Day -7 and agree to use an effective birth control method for the duration of the study (for example, pharmacologic contraceptives including oral, parenteral, and transcutaneous delivery; condoms with spermicide; diaphragm with spermicide; intrauterine device; abstinence from heterosexual intercourse, surgical sterilization). All female subjects will be considered being of child-bearing potential except those who have undergone hysterectomy and those in whom menopause occurred at least 1 year prior to the study.
- General good health, without significant medical illness, physical examination findings, or significant laboratory abnormalities as determined by the investigator.
- Agree to storage of blood, NP swab, and RNA specimens for future research.
- Available for the duration of the study. Subjects must be willing and able to make follow-up visits as specified by the protocol.
Any contraindiciations for adults for the receipt of LAIV:
--Hypersensitivity to eggs, egg proteins, gentamicin, gelatin, or arginine,or life-threatening reactions to previous influenza vaccination.
- Currently breast-feeding.
- Evidence of clinically significant neurologic, cardiac, pulmonary, hepatic, rheumatologic, autoimmune, or renal disease by history, physical examination, and/or laboratory studies including urine testing. Clinically significant alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels, as determined by one of the protocol investigators will be exclusionary at baseline, prior to vaccination.
- Evidence of upper respiratory tract illness (URI) including fever, sore throat, and rhinorrhea. Enrollment of subjects with evidence of URI on Study Day -7 will be temporarily deferred.
- Deviated nasal septum or nasal obstruction.
- Body Mass Index greater than 35.
- NIH employee involved in direct patient care, consistent with the NIH CC policy that employees should avoid patient care for 5 days following receipt of LAIV. In addition, NIH employees must not be under the supervision of the study principal or associate investigators.
- Behavioral or cognitive impairment or psychiatric disease that in the opinion of the investigator affects the ability of the subject to understand and cooperate with the study protocol.
- Seropositive to the influenza A component viruses of seasonal LAIV (serum HAI titer of greater than or equal to 1:10).
- Has had medical, occupational, or family problems as a result of alcohol or illicit drug use during the past 12 months.
- Other condition that in the opinion of the investigator would jeopardize the safety or rights of a subject participating in the study or would render the subject unable to comply with the protocol.
- History of anaphylaxis.
- Current diagnosis of asthma or reactive airway disease (within the past 2 years).
- History of Guillain-Barr(SqrRoot)(Copyright) Syndrome.
- Positive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and confirmatory Western blot tests for human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1).
- Positive ELISA and confirmatory test (e.g., recombinant immunoblotassay) for hepatitis C virus (HCV).
- Positive hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) by ELISA.
- Known immunodeficiency syndrome.
- Use of oral, injected, or inhaled corticosteroids (excluding topical preparations) or immunosuppressive drugs within 30 days prior to enrollment in the study.
- Use of any herbal supplement 30 days prior to study enrollment.
- Receipt of 2012-2013 influenza vaccine (TIV or LAIV).
- Receipt of a live vaccine within 4 weeks or a killed vaccine within 2 weeks prior to enrollment in the study.
- History of a surgical splenectomy.
- Receipt of blood or blood-derived products (including immunoglobulin) within 6 months prior to study vaccination.
- Current smoker.
- Travel to the Southern Hemisphere 30 days prior to study enrollment or anticipated travel to the Southern Hemisphere during the study.
- Travel on a cruise ship 30 days prior to study enrollment or anticipated travel on a cruise ship during the study.
- Receipt of another investigational vaccine or drug within 30 days prior to enrollment in the study.
To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the contact information provided by the sponsor.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01730144
|United States, Maryland
|National Institutes of Health Clinical Center, 9000 Rockville Pike
|Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
|Principal Investigator:
|Tara N Palmore, M.D.
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01730144 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|First Posted:
|November 21, 2012 Key Record Dates
|Last Update Posted:
|January 15, 2019
|Last Verified:
|August 14, 2018
Keywords provided by National Institutes of Health Clinical Center (CC) ( National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) ):
Nasal Spray Vaccine
Nasal Cells
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Immunologic Factors
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Part II of a special two-part interview with a novelist whose works have defined the essences of American places (Los Angeles, Miami, New York) and times (the sixties, the seventies, the eighties). Topics include the influences of T.S. Eliot, Joseph Conrad, Ernest Hemingway, and her contemporary, Joyce Carol Oates, the nature of resonance and the role of accident and intuition in the writing of novels.
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San Diego Veterans Job Fair
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1895 Camino Del Rio South
San Diego, CA 92108
San Diego Veterans Job FairFebruary 28, 2019 11:00 AM – February 28, 2019 3:00 PM
Our events average over 50 exhibitors, and the list is not final until the day of the event. Check back regularly for additions.
Featured Exhibitors
- AMN Healthcare
- DeVry University
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- Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR)
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The Hire More Heroes Act is misguided. There is no veterans' unemployment crisis.
"Americans may be shocked to learn that there is no veterans' unemployment crisis. The unemployment rate in 2014 for post-9/11 veterans was 7.2 percent, the lowest level in seven years of tracking these veterans. "
What Government Should Actually Do To Support Veterans' Employment
"The latest crisis at the Department of Veterans Affairs has called into question again the proper role of government in the care of our veterans. Whereas healthcare is clearly in shambles, veterans' employment is another realm in which well-meaning government involvement has been inefficient at best and ineffective or counterproductive at worst. "
Employment and Returning Veterans
"Peter Gudmundsson talked about the availability of jobs for returning service members."
Beyond Altruism
"Among the fondest memories Peter Gudmundsson '85 has of his three years as an active-duty U.S. Marine officer was the time in 1987 when, off the coast of Vietnam, he stood on the deck of a U.S. Navy ship looking up at the Soviet planes flying overhead. What was particularly memorable, he says, was not the plane flying overhead, but the reaction of the men in his platoon"
KSON John and Tammy Employment After Deployment
"KSON-FM (97.3 and 92.1) in San Diego is doing a segment called Employment After Deployment. They will be "featuring" a different unemployed veteran each week on their station. I have provided them with several veterans, pre-registered for the San Diego event. "
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"Money for Lunch host Bert Martinez interviewed Peter Gudmundsson. Discussed veteran hiring."
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"Mike Rollins is featured on America Now. Recently, America Now visited a RecruitMilitary job fair held at the Hurst Conference Center in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. "
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"Sgt. Rick Gomez tells NBC 7 reporter Lea Sutton about looking for work as a former active duty Marine."
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What is a RecruitMilitary Opportunity Expo?
A RecruitMilitary Opportunity Expo is an event where transitioning military, veterans, and their spouses can meet with recruiters from dozens of companies. These events are free for attendees. To learn more, watch this video from one of our expos in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Who are the exhibitors?
RecruitMilitary Opportunity Expos are enhanced job fairs or career fairs with four kinds of exhibitors.
- Employers
- Franchisors
- Educational institutions
- Veterans associations and service agencies
What if my only interest is getting a job?
Even if you are not here to discuss continuing education, we recommend that you talk with the education recruiters.
- Today's institutions deliver learning opportunities in many ways other than traditional, full-time, daytime classes on a campus. So a few minutes of conversation may lead to an unexpected continuing-education solution that is right for you.
- In addition, most of the institutions at our Expos are also large employers and might have job openings at a campus near you.
- We have similar advice for job seekers who have not been thinking of going into business for themselves. Franchise opportunities are available in a tremendous variety of fields. Financing may be easier than you think, with surprising discounts for veterans.
Are the employers actually hiring?
Yes, and they have a number of different priorities and requirements. As a result, their recruiters interact with job seekers in a variety of ways.
- Some recruiters have "hot fills," job openings that they need to fill immediately. If you happen to qualify for a hot fill, the recruiter may take you to a separate area for a one-on-one interview.
- Other recruiters are looking for transitioning and veteran military to apply for jobs that are almost always open. That kind of recruiter might ask for a paper résumé and/or give you a business card and ask you to call.
- Some recruiters have positions that are not available right now, but will be opening up soon. These employers want to identify candidates and get them in the pipeline now so they can fill those positions as soon as possible when they receive hiring approval.
Why don't all employers accept paper résumés?
A federal regulation called the OFCCP Internet Applicant Rule tells certain government contractors how to gather and retain job applications via the Internet. Because of the Rule, many contractors require that applicants use their online systems and not submit paper résumés.
- OFCCP is the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, an agency of the United States Department of Labor's Employment Standards Administration. The OFCCP enforces laws prohibiting employment discrimination by federal contractors.
- Some employers that are not bound by the Rule do not accept paper résumés simply because they have put their entire application process on the Internet. One great advantage to applicants is that large employers can easily route the online résumés of desirable applicants to the appropriate divisions, offices, plants, etc.
If they won't take my résumé, shouldn't I have stayed home and registered online?
There is great value in the time you spend talking to recruiters, even if you can't hand them your résumé.
- You have a great chance to make an outstanding personal impression. A person who presents himself/herself extremely well at a booth may even get an interview for a job opening that is not on the recruiter's list.
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An employer's primary industry or company name does not necessarily indicate what openings the company is trying to fill.
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The growth of any subscriber-based service model depends on increased penetration. This is especially true in emerging markets, where churn rates are constant even for top brands. Consistent marketing steadily increases penetration and solidifies brand growth in the long term.
Take Axiata Group Berhad, one of Asia's largest communications groups. Formerly the mobile and international operations arm of Telekom Malaysia Berhad, the company launched in 1992 with the tagline, Advancing Asia, reflecting their vision of Asian expansion. Axiata has controlling interests in mobile operators in Malaysia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Cambodia, and significant strategic stakes in India, Singapore and Iran. Axiata's brand's like Celcom (Celcom Axiata Berhad, Inc) in Malaysia and Smart Communications, Inc in Cambodia are household names in those countries. That geographic expansion has spurred significant growth in their brand.
Telekom Malaysia is another example. The company has moved into the enterprise space. Accenture's partnership with Telekom Malaysia has helped this Asian heavyweight streamline customer service to allow for expanding service lines from households to businesses.
These additional services expand their customer demographic greatly and allow for multiple tiers of service. Service expansion provides a natural dialog for brand growth.
The message is clear: companies should also look to new digital trends for brand growth. New technology brings with it new opportunities to disrupt—or to be disrupted. But which digital trends should emerging market companies pursue to accelerate brand growth? Inevitably, the largest factor at stake is ROI. Using analytics can help a company decide in which trend to invest.
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March 15, 2008
The Lipscomb Lady Bisons softball team swept an Atlantic Sun doubleheader at Jacksonville Saturday afternoon winning 4-3 in the first game and 4-0 in the nightcap.
In the first game the Lady Bisons spotted Jacksonville a run in the first inning.
Center fielder Lauren Dortwegt led the Lady Bisons at the plate with four hits, all singles, in eight trips.
In game one Dortwegt, shortstop Abby Keese, first baseman Heather Collins and second baseman Megan Rottler all had two hits as the Lady Bisons finished with 10 against a pair of Jacksonville pitchers.
The Lady Bisons scored what proved to be the game-winning run in the top of the seventh. Keese slammed a double to center with one out. Collins singled to center with two outs to drive Keese across the plate.
After giving up the opening run to Jacksonville the Lady Bisons also allowed single runs in the fourth and seventh innings.
In game two right fielder Sara Simons and Dortwegt were the only Lady Bisons with two hits. The Lady Bisons pounded nine hits for the game.
The game was scoreless until the top of the seventh. Left fielder McKenzie Tucker led off the inning for the Lady Bisons with a single to third base. Dortwegt was safe on an error by the second baseman, Simons doubled to center field scoring Tucker and Dortwegt.
Keese rapped a single up the middle to score Simons and advanced to second on the throw. With two outs Rottler singled down the left side to score Keese.
On the mound the Lady Bisons had both pitchers throw complete game victories.
In the opening game Christen Campbell scattered 11 hits and gave up two earned runs. She struck out two and walked one.
Alaina Jacobson held Jacksonville to only four hits in the second game. She did not record a strikeout and did not walk a player.
The Lady Bisons are 11-12 overall, 3-1 in the A-Sun. Jacksonville fell to 13-21 overall, 1-3 in the conference.
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Previously Creative Director and founder of Culture Advertising Design in Atlanta, Georgia. Over the past 15 years his work has included television, video, and radio advertising spots for Ford Motor Company, The Atlanta Football Classic, Levi,'s and Coca-Cola, print advertising for Wachovia, Kenya Tourist Board, Proctor and Gamble, Tylenol, out-of-home advertisements for Atlanta Metropolitan College and Bermuda Board of Tourism, and package design for SoftSheen Carson, Luster Products, and Colomer U.S.A. among others. Craig's approach to design is moving brands ahead through relevant concepts and visuals. Craig says "Today's society is moving so fast and we receive messages so quickly and frequently, that it is essential for brands to evolve so they do not fall victim to circumstance."
Craig has worked at agencies such as Roy Advertising, J. Walter Thompson, Nomenudum, and MLT Creative. In 2001 Craig founded Culture Advertising Design and has been successful in leading an award-winning design team.
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Chennai:Known for Telugu films such as `Sontha Ooru` and `Oka Romantic Crime Katha`, director Sunil Kumar Reddy always prefers working with new and not so popular faces because he believes in moving audiences with his characters.
"You don`t see an actor in a film but the character he or she is enacting. I always believe that the real hero of a film is the character," Reddy said.
"I like to move audiences with my characters but not by using a popular face of a hero. The purpose of a character is killed when it`s merely traded for a popular face.
"Only when a film has strong characters, can audiences take back home the memories of living with that character for a few hours," he added.
Reddy, who is currently working on his new film "Waiting for You" about pre-marital pregnancy, has roped in a new face for the lead role.
"The story is inspired by events. I met a girl recently who narrated this story about issues dealing with pre-marital pregnancy and the moral policing one faces from society. It`s a story that calls for performance but not for popularity of a star," he said.
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Circa 1970's – Unmarked, 2" tall off white bisque porcelain, here are 3 little cherubs kneeling toes to toes with the wings touching forming a circle to hold a candle. One of them holds a dove in his hands, the other a pink flower and the third one keeps his hands joined. Very cute baby face and in excellent condition. Feel free to ask for more pictures would you wish.
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A First-Time Toy: 1984 Toyota PickupPosted in Project Vehicles on December 1, 2010
Some people are just lucky! Bryon Porter of Hesperia, California, was given an '84 Toyota 4x4 pickup 20 years ago for his 16th birthday by his too-cool parents. Ever since then the classic 4x4 has slowly been transformed into one of the nicest trail Toyotas we have run across.
Bryon works at Western Fabricators in Hesperia, which brings his affinity for fabrication and four-wheeling full circle. Working at a fab shop gave him all the tools and equipment he needed to transform his Toyota into a very capable crawler and allowed him to craft trick parts like the utility box bedsides.
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My garden has never been more popular. It's a hotbed of activity at the moment… well, the little part garden with the bird feeder is. Though perhaps hotbed is the wrong word, since it's absolutely freezing!
When the temperature dropped a week or so ago the birds started visiting my garden in huge numbers, in a fever of feeding. The snow has made natural sources of food more difficult to find and they expend so much energy just trying to keep warm in these freezing conditions that they need to feed often.
Fatty food is best in the cold, so putting out things like fat balls, good quality nuts and seed, or even grated cheese is a real help. I use sunflower hearts in a seed feeder and they love it. In the last week I've had great tits, blue tits, goldfinches and robins, the occasional blackbird pecking around on the floor and even a nuthatch.
Here at the RSPB we've had stacks of calls from people telling us about the fieldfares in their gardens too. Not usually known for visiting gardens, fieldfares are being driven into them in their desperate search for food in these harsh conditions.
So, all of this garden activity could mean an exciting year for the RSPB's 34th annual Big Garden Birdwatch, taking place in the UK on Saturday 26 and Sunday 27 January. It's the world's biggest wildlife survey and everyone can join in by spending just one hour at any time over the weekend noting the highest number of each bird species seen in their garden or local park at any one time, then submitting the results to the RSPB. Schoolchildren and teachers will be doing the same in their school grounds as part of Big Schools' Birdwatch between now and Friday 1 February.
Given the extra birds using my garden due to the cold at the moment I'm expecting to have plenty to report.
You can find out more about taking part in the Big Garden Birdwatch, enter your results online and help with identifying the garden birds you see at www.rspb.org.uk/birdwatch.
Wendy Johnson, RSPB


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With corn production declining in the Southeast this year, effective and efficient irrigation for those who choose to produce the crop is a must. Inefficient irrigation can waste time, energy and, most importantly, money.
And without effective production of corn, profits could be in an even shorter supply.
According to the National Agricultural Statistics Service, Georgia is expected to plant about 260,000 acres of corn in 2006. This would be a 10,000-acre decrease from 2005 when the state reduced its corn crop by about 65,000 acres. The expected decrease in 2006 of about 22 percent of the state's crop from the past two years can be attributed to several factors, including the rising cost of fuel and a decrease in corn prices.
While prices may be beyond farmers' control, profitability begins with smart choices at the beginning of the season, including scheduling for irrigation.
Kerry Harrison, a University of Georgia Extension agricultural engineer who specializes in irrigation, says there are many scheduling methods available to farmers today, and they should choose the one that works best for them.
"There are about as many different methods as there are people these days," Harrison says. "They all pretty much fit into two approaches: cutting edge and average everyday."
Harrison says among the "cutting edge" approaches to irrigation scheduling are C-Probes, moisture blocks and tensiometers — or any measuring device that gets into the field and measures soil moisture. He says these devices can be beneficial to someone with a lot of land or even for the small-scale farmer, but they will be expensive for both.
"Any time there is a method that automatically measures soil moisture in the field, it's going to cost $100 to $500 per station," Harrison says. "That's expensive even if you use only one per field. You can make most of them accessible from your desktop, but at that point you're just adding cost."
Dewey Lee, a University of Georgia Extension agronomist, says that while soil moisture measuring devices can be expensive, they can be more economical depending on the size of the farming operation.
"I think for someone who needs that automated help on a large scale, it can get expensive, but also more economically feasible," Lee says. "It just depends on how much help you need."
In a paper written by Lee and Harrison titled "Scheduling Corn Irrigation," they explain that the most simple way of scheduling irrigation is to use the check-book method. This method helps keep track of the amount of available water in the field during the most important stages of the corn's life.
They advise growers to use the UGA Evaporation-based Accumulator for Sprinkler-enhanced Yield (EASY) Pan. The pan is a float-based mechanism that shows the grower the root depth of the crop and its holding capacity.
While the method of irrigation is important, it is just as important if not more so for farmers to make sure they get the timing right, says Harrison.
"With irrigation, there is a right time for every crop," Harrison said. "For corn, that time is around pollination."
Harrison explains that the lifespan of corn is a lot like the lifespan of a person in terms of how much water it needs at the different life stages. When the corn is young it needs frequent but not much water. He says a common mistake is to waste water early in the season.
The middle stage of the corn's life is when it needs the most water — similar to a teenager, he says.
"You don't feed baby formula to a teenage boy," Harrison says.
He adds that once the corn becomes mature, the amount of water it requires will decrease and level off. The timing of the water application is more important than the amount of water applied, he says.
A common misconception, he says, is that if the crop requires 1.5 inches of water twice a week, it's okay to apply 3 inches once a week if an application is missed.
"That water would just turn into runoff," Harrison says. "If that happens, the farmer needs to get back on schedule as soon as possible."
Lee says growers need to understand their soil as well as their crop when deciding the specifics of irrigation. The soils with the least capacity for holding water will need to be watered more frequently because of their porosity, he says.
Areas like Tifton, Ga., with loamy sand will need moderate intake because of the soils' average permeability, explains Lee. However, with a semi-clay loam, the water will need to be absorbed slower to avoid runoff.


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When Google bought Bump in September, Bump CEO and co-founder Dave Lieb told users of its Bump and Flock apps to "stay tuned for future updates." That update came New Year's Eve, and it wasn't welcome news for fans of the mobile file-sharing apps: Bump and Flock are going away.
Specifically, the two apps will disappear from both the iOS App Store and Google Play on Jan. 31, according to an announcement on the Bump blog that posted on Thursday. The Jan. 31 shutdown date aims to give users enough time to retain any data stored in either Bump or Flock. At the end of the month, neither app will work any more, with all user data deleted, according to Bump's Lieb. Both apps contain instructions on exporting your data.
Bump and Flock are being discontinued as the Bump team turns its attention elsewhere. "We are now deeply focused on our new projects within Google," Lieb wrote.
The photo-sharing Flock app let users combine photos shot on multiple phones into a single album. As for Bump, it let users share contact info, photos, and files by bumping their phones together. It also enjoys a place in App Store lore--it was the one billionth download from Apple's mobile app outlet.
"In many ways, Bump was a revolutionary product that inspired many subsequent advances and helped push the world forward," Lieb wrote. "We hope our new creations at Google will do the same."


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There's no one-size-fits-all approach to talking with children about the deadly explosions that have been saturating the news this week – first bombs at the Boston Marathon, then an apparent accident at a fertilizer plant in Texas.
But there is plenty of expert advice about how adults can tailor their responses according to the signs of anxiety that children may show or the difficult questions they may ask.
"All kids want to know that they are safe ... [and] kids need hope for the future," says Gene Beresin, director of Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Mental Health and Media and a Harvard psychiatry professor. "Teachers, parents, clergy, coaches, guidance counselors: Everybody has a role to play here."
What's appropriate largely depends on the child's age.
Preschoolers should be shielded, especially from television images of explosions – since they may perceive that new explosions are happening each time they see images of the same event, Dr. Beresin and others say. Parents should carry on the routine as much as possible for young children, while perhaps offering more cuddles and comfort if a child seems to be picking up on adults feeling worried.
For young school-age children who are aware that something bad has happened, adults can speak in simple language about good people outnumbering bad people – and how much the police and other officials are "working 24 hours a day ... trying to make sure it doesn't happen again," suggests Donna Gaffney, executive director of the For Action Initiative, which sprang up to offer free age-appropriate lesson plans in the years following the 9/11 attacks.
A 9/11 widow helped create the lesson plans after her own children had a middle-school teacher who pointed out one page in a textbook about the attacks when the anniversary rolled around, but seemed too uncomfortable to talk about it with her students, Ms. Gaffney says.
For older children and teens, "ask them what they are worried about," and rather than try to talk them out of negative feelings such as sadness or fear, talk through "how you manage them, how you cope," says David Schonfeld, director of the National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia.
Older kids may ask "more sophisticated questions and want to know your take on things," Beresin says. "You can even watch the news with older teens and say, 'What do you make of this?' " Kids may be nervous about attending a sporting event, or they may hear that bags are being searched at certain locations and assume that means a threat is there, and adults can help calm such fears once they've heard what's really on their minds, he says.
But don't be surprised, he adds, if they talk more while engaged in an activity: Sometimes that's more comfortable than a talk sitting down face to face.
Gaffney sometimes hears school administrators say they're not in the mental-health business, "but in fact teachers are first responders" when communities are affected by terrorism, so "we have to give them support and the language," she says.
In Boston, schools and partnering mental-health professionals have been working during students' vacation week to prepare for schools to restart Monday. Trained crisis counselors have already been on hand to assist schools more directly affected by the marathon bombing, says Andria Amador, assistant director of behavioral health services, including the Neighborhood House Charter School, where people are mourning the death of third-grader Martin Richard.
All Boston schools will have extra support personnel in place Monday "to assist teachers in having conversations with the kids at the developmentally appropriate level," Ms. Amador says.
The emphasis is on helping students feel safe and resilient, she says. If a student was more directly traumatized, perhaps by witnessing the explosion, he or she will be invited to talk about it privately with a counselor, because "you don't want that trauma to be shared with other kids," she says.
Anywhere in the country, children could be in need of extra reassurance. One mother from New York shared with Gaffney that her first-grader, who doesn't usually watch the news, suddenly became concerned about his upcoming communion because he saw a photo of Martin wearing his communion suit and now associates it with danger (a response that's not uncommon for his age).
For some children and teens, the combination of the bombings, the ricin letters, and the Texas fertilizer plant explosion may lead to confusion and questions about whether such events are connected.
On Thursday, that was on the minds of some of Reba Petraitis's history students at the Kent Place School for girls in Summit, N.J. "One girl asked, 'Why are these things happening – so quick, so soon, so many?' " she says.
Ms. Petraitis helped sort out the rumors, but she didn't have all the answers. At the time, she had seen only brief reports of the fertilizer plant explosion, which has still not been fully explained but appears to have been accidental.
Her 12th-grade, year-long contemporary history class is based on the For Action Initiative curriculum and explores terrorism from a wide range of perspectives. On Tuesday, students discussed whether the marathon bombing fit the definition of terrorism that they had come up with as a class after studying definitions from around the world. They decided they didn't have enough information: Did the bomber or bombers have a political agenda, or was the individual or individuals simply mentally unstable, for instance?
The discussion continued this week even after President Obama labeled it terrorism, with the class leaning in that direction but still not sure, she says.
The paradox about safety is that when people see armed guards or bomb-sniffing dogs, it may remind them of frightening events such as 9/11 or the marathon bombing, Gaffney says. But both adults and kids alike, she says, can learn to tell themselves that "the reason I feel anxious is because this reminds me of that other time, but I am safe now; these people are here to protect me."
Resources for talking with children and teens:
- National Association of School Psychologists – "Helping Children Cope With Terrorism"
- American School Counselor Association – Helping Kids During Crisis Web page
- For Action Initiative
- American Federation of Teachers – Guidelines for Responding to a School Crisis Web page
- Harvard Graduate School of Education – podcast interview with experts this week about how to talk to kids about tragedy


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|September 19, 2013
|Businesses Prepare for Winter as Tourist Season Draws to a Close
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Summer has come to a close, children are back in school, and the tourist season is ending. Just weeks ago, Moab hotels were full of people from all over the world, and businesses were booming in their wake. While Moab enjoys some year-round tourism, most of it comes during the spring and summer months, and as a result many businesses will soon temporarily close, or lay off many employees.
Much like some animals, the citizens and businesses of Moab are getting ready to hibernate for the winter. Many people will have been preparing by saving money before they are laid off, or prepaying rent for the winter months. Businesses, meanwhile, streamline themselves so that they can keep some employees and turn a good profit with the locals and the few tourists that come in the colder months. This also helps them to prepare for the spring, when they will need fresh new faces, and a lot of them, to deal with the influx of tourists.
This is not new, and there are always new attempts to make the years to come more profitable, such as the plans to build a campus here for Utah State University. The campus will be able to host upwards of 3,000 students when completed and will have year-round residency. In theory, this move will increase the economic growth of the town, and in turn provide for more jobs, and more ways for businesses to stay open in the winter. However, construction isn't likely to begin until 2016, and the campus will be built over a seven-stage period that will take roughly thirty years.
So, in the meantime, Moab, its people and its businesses, will continue to endure, as they always have.
Comic books have been a staple of Americana since their debut in the 1930s. The medium enjoyed spectacular success starting in the post-war 50's era, and national comic sales climbed well into the 1980s. In the mid 90s, however, major publishers like Marvel and DC re-invented many of their main characters story lines. Nihilism, realism, and darkness became popular motifs in superhero franchises, and sales declined.
The industry has since largely rectified its dark reinvention of these characters, but comic book sales in the 2000s remain at an all-time low. One possible explanation is that the public consciousness doesn't respond well to relentlessly negative stimuli, and the types of stories publishers were putting out were simply too depressing for consumers. Another popular theory is that the printed medium underwent a decline in relevance as video game consoles and digital media became popular with 90s youth. The idea gains credibility when one considers the spectacular success of Marvel and DC-branded superhero movies from the past ten years. The Batman, X-Men, and Spider-Man trilogies are among the highest grossing films of all time, after all.
It may be that the comic book industry simply needs time to adapt to a new digital environment. While it seems that many of the larger publishers are maintaining relevance by licensing movie rights, technology has also given small, independent comic book artists and writers an unprecedented chance for exposure. The ubiquity of devices like the iPad have already had a measurable effect on digital comic sales, and with so many easy-to-install Wordpress themes available, it's easy for independent publishers to showcase their comics online. No doubt adaptivity is a hallmark of business success, but it will certainly be a dark day when the steady whir of machine shop presses ceases altogether.
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Martin, Tenn. - The Tennessee State volleyball team moved to 5-2 in OVC play with a 3-1 (32-30, 22-25, 25-18, 25-23) victory at UT Martin.
Junior setter Erika Moss had a season-high 60 assists in the win which was just two shy of her career-high of 62 that she set last season.
Most of Moss' assists went to sophomore outside hitter Naomi Wells who led TSU with 18 kills. However, three other Tigers had double-digit kills including freshman middle blocker Lindsay Hornsby and sophomore Sherryce Butler and Rachel Ambroch.
Wells and Ambroch both had over ten digs as well, but senior libero Britani Hathorn had a game-high 24.Hathorn also chipped in with two assists of her own.
Neither team could pull away early in set one, and the score was tied at seven. Then, the Tigers went on a small 3-0 run with a kill from Ambroch sandwiched in between a pair from Butler. The Skyhawks fought back later in the frame and tied the score at 13 when a Hornsby attack went wide. The sides traded points for the next few minutes before a kill from Moss put the Tigers up three at 21-18. This score prompted a timeout from UT Martin, but the Skyhawks could not cut into the TSU lead. With TSU only needing one more point to win the opening period, UT Martin had back-to-back kills to tie the score at 24. The teams went back and forth for the reminder of the set with Butler, Moss, Ambroch and Wells all recording kills before the Tigers finally won the set, 32-30.
The Tigers could not build on their lead in the second frame, and quickly fell behind, 7-10. The Tigers clawed back to tie the score at 17 when Moss set up a perfect kill for Ambroch. UT Martin called for a stoppage of play, but that only benefitted the Tigers as TSU rattled off three-straight points. Again, the Skyhawks called time and this time they found their groove, ending the set on an 8-2 run.
With the match tied at one set apiece, the Tigers started the third frame on an 11-5 run that featured kills from four different players. UT Martin went on a 4-0 run and eventually cut the Tiger lead to two. More Moss assisted kills gave the Tigers a big lead once again and the team never looked back. Butler recorded two of the final three points in the period and the Tigers won set three by seven.
The fourth frame started much like the fourth as the Tigers raced out to an early 10-5 lead when Hornsby recorded her fourth kill of the set. UT Martin recovered and inched back to within four at 14-10 and then three at 19-16. The Skyhawks got within one before TSU took a timeout to stem the flow of UT Martin points. Kills by Wells and Ambroch immediately put the Tigers back in the driver's seat, but TSU would need another timeout before finally winning the match.
TSU's next match will be tomorrow at Southeast Missouri at 2 p.m.


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The great conversion from mono to stereo was traumatic. In 1958 all AM stations were still mono as were FMs. But in just a few years, home stereo systems were switching over to stereo even without a clear technical standard. The reason was that radio was feeling a little peer pressure in the stereo cabinet.
LPs were going stereo. Western Electric had pioneered the Westrex process called 45/45, a single groove stereophonic system. The important part is that existing monophonic equipment could still play the Lps ensuring instant consumer acceptance. It worked. Western Electric was the manufacturing arm of AT&T for the better part of a century. They started out in the 1850s making typewriters.
In the 1970s, the now flat-sounding mono records were commonly rereleased with "enhanced" sound. this was also called "Duophonic" sound after the Capitol records process. These were marketed as stereo versions of the original releases. But the monophonic master tapes had no stereo separation. So they had to fake it. The stereo effect was created through a couple remarkably simple techniques. Some audio filtering was used to separate out certain sounds to pan them. This usually produced noticeable audio artifacts. Also common were slight adjustments in EQ and phase which is what RCa seemed to focus on. An offset of 20 and 50 milliseconds was another very rudimentary change that mimicked the stereo effect.Worse yet was over-dubbing. A small trio would be brought into the studio to overdub minor parts to add stereo sound to the mono recording. There is an abominable Roy Orbison LP out there with a dubbed in accordion track that is a testament to the general badness of this idea. Also interesting is that as Stereo picked up, these old mono recordings went out of print. It left both radio and record collectors forced to either play the new clunky "enhanced monophonic" Lps or move on. Mono was essentially dead by 1978, but enhanced mono dragged out straight through the 1970s. Some Labels carried Mono, ST (Stereo) and DT (Duophonic) notations, but the collections were usually a mix of all three regardless of labling.
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Israel News - Stay Informed, Pray Informed
The Jewish online media scene is abuzz with a story published by Israel's Ynet news portal concerning a group of 1,000 American Christians who want to join the Israeli army and build a new settlement in Samaria.
According to the article, the group has signed a document stating its intentions, and its members' willingness to convert to Judaism.
The group is lead by Portland radio personality Baruch Avrahamovich, who has a large audience among the local Russian immigrant community.
Avrahamovich was raised as a Christian, but said that years ago he discovered that his roots are actually Jewish. Many Jews from Russia and other European countries were either forced to or scared into converting to Christianity over the centuries.
Avrahamovich has since worked tirelessly to help other Russian-speaking Christians to rediscover hidden Jewish roots.
"Ultimately, I understood that Judaism is the true religion and that my life's mission is to have Christians immigrate to Israel and convert," Avrahamovich was quoted as saying by The Jerusalem Post.
Last week, Avrahamovich secured a meeting with Israeli lawmaker Lia Shemtov (Israel Beiteinu), and presented her with his group's letter of intent. Shemtov responded very possitively and promised to help facilitate the move.
If their plans come to fruition, the group plans to undergo an Orthodox conversion to Judaism, join the Israeli army, and then purchase and settle a large piece of land in Samaria (the northern "West Bank").
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A Good Sign for the Caine Prize?
I'm looking for stories about Africa that enlarge our concept of the continent beyond the familiar images that dominate the media: War-torn Africa, Starving Africa, Corrupt Africa — in short: The Tragic Continent. I've been banging on about this for years because while we are all aware of these negative realities, and some African writers have written great novels along these lines (as was necessary, crucial), isn't it time now to move on? Or rather, for other kinds of African novels to be internationally celebrated. What other aspects of this most heterogeneous of continents are being explored through the imaginations of writers?I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with individual Tragic Continent stories — I like tragic stories! — but rather with the accumulated, repetitious weight of them, the monotony and predictability. (I wouldn't say "time to move on" — that implies we've "covered" the wars, the child soldiers, etc., and now we can read about happy things; I think it's vastly more complex than that, and I'm sure Evaristo does, too.) There have certainly been plenty of tragedies and atrocities that need to be represented and explored in fiction, but Evaristo voices my concerns exactly: why does African fiction have to be less diverse and heterogeneous than any other fiction? Is it because that's what publishers think European and American readers will read? Should the Prize really be governed by European and American stereotypes of the continent? The great potential of the Caine Prize is that it doesn't have to adhere to publishers' opinions about what Europeans and Americans think is "proper" African fiction.
Evaristo's final paragraph almost had me jump up out of my seat to exclaim, "Yes!":
For African fiction to remain more than a passing fad on the world stage it needs to diversify more than it does at present. What about crime fiction, science fiction, fantasy, horror, more history, chick lit? To be as diverse as, for example, European literature and its myriad manifestations. Imagine if the idea of 'European Literature' only evoked novels about the holocaust, communist gulags and twentieth century dictatorships. I'm looking forward to the time when the concept of 'African literature' also cannot be defined; when it equates to infinite possibilities and, as with Europe, there are thousands of disparate, published writers, with careers at every level and reaching every kind of reader.Now that's an idea of "African literature" I can get behind.


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