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CO-LABS Governor's Award for High-Impact Research
Two researchers from NOAA's Earth System Research Laboratory received the CO-LABS Governor's Award for High Impact Research:
- Dr. Pieter Tans – For work in Atmospheric Sciences for the Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network. Tans and team developed and sustained the careful and continuous collection of atmospheric observations to create a long-term record of atmospheric trace gases that is helping scientists around the globe understand the Earth system and how humans are changing the dynamics of the climate on the Earth.
- Klaus Wolter – For his work in Sustainability for Helping Colorado Plan for Drought. Wolter has researched connections between the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and drought, and applied his expertise to support water resource management and drought planning in the state of Colorado and throughout the Southwest.
California DWR Climate Science Service Award
Marty Ralph and Allen White were presented with the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) 2013 Climate Science Service Award for the ESRL Physical Sciences Division's role in developing and implementing a cooperative partnership between HMT and DWR's Enhanced Flood Response and Emergency Preparedness program to design and install a 21st century observing system for extreme precipitation in California.
CO-LABS Governor's Award for High-Impact Research
Thomas Ryerson, Joost de Gouw, and researchers from NOAA and CIRES were honored for their work in amtospheric science. The researchers joined toegether to form the Deepwater Horizon Atmospheric Science Team that under urgent circumstances assessed the potential air quality risks posed by the 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The team calculated independent estimates of the oil leak rate and analyzed the fate of the leaked oil in the environment. Using NOAA research aircraft, they also were able to advance scientific understanding of the chemistry of the atmosphere in the unique environment.
NOAA Research Employee of the Year
- David K. Himes was posthumously awarded the 2012 NOAA Research Employee of the Year (Individual) for his work developing and sustaining Science on a Sphere®.
- The Benjamin Group of ESRL/GSD, headed by Stan Benjamin, was honored as the NOAA Research Employee of the Year (Group) "for the development, integration, and transition of the next generation of NOAA's hourly North American prediction, a foundation for realizing NOAA's 'Weather Ready Nation' strategies as well as position NOAA for emerging service areas."
NOAA Bronze Medal
Jeffrey S. Whitaker and Thomas M. Hamill received a NOAA Bronze Medal Award for excellence in research and development of ensemble-based and hybrid data assimilation techniques that improve operational weather forecasts.
NOAA Administrator's Award
Seth I. Gutman was the recipient of the NOAA Administrator's Award for "long-term leadership in establishing a national ground-based GPS observing network for measuring and monitoring atmospheric water vapor."
OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Awards
The Outstanding Scientific Paper Awards were established to recognize the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) researchers who published outstanding, peer-reviewed literature. Their research has made or has the potential to make significant contributions to products and services that protect life and property and promote sustainable economic growth. Winners of the 2010 OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Awards from ESRL are:
WEATHER AND WATER: Modeling Arctic Clouds to Improve Accuracy in Simulations of Snow and Ice Conditions in Clouds
- Amy Solomon, Ola Persson, Matthew Shupe, and Jian-Wen Bao of ESRL's Physical Sciences Division, along with Hugh Morrison at the National Center for Atmospheric Research are honored for their work modeling Arctic clouds. Their results fill critical gaps in our understanding of how to accurately simulate snow and ice conditions in cloud formations. Published in the Monthly Weather Review and the team used direct measurements provided by a Department of Energy experiment over the North Slope of Alaska to verify model outputs. This comparison allowed them to fine-tune the models, improving the way we understand the physics of water in Arctic stratoculmulus clouds. As Arctic conditions are examined in the face of aerosol emissions and global climate change, the results of this study will allow for more accurate model forecasts of variability in the region.
Department of Commerce Silver Medal for Scientific/Engineering Achievement
The second highest honorary award granted by the Secretary, a Silver Medal is awarded for exceptional performance characterized by noteworthy or superlative contributions which have a direct and lasting impact within the Department. Two groups of OAR employees earned Silver Medals in the area of Scientific/Engineering Achievement for 2009. The ESRL recipients are:
- Dr. Robert S. Webb, Physical Scientist (ESRL/PSD)
- Dr. Mary C. Penland De Garcia, Physical Scientist (ESRL/PSD)
- Dr. Rik Wanninkhof, Oceanographer (AOML)
- Dr. Mark Eakin, Oceanographer (NESDIS)
- Ms. Lauri Maclaughlin, Sanctuary Resource Specialist (NOS)
OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Awards
The Outstanding Scientific Paper Awards were established to recognize the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) researchers who published outstanding, peer-reviewed literature. Their research has made or has the potential to make significant contributions to products and services that protect life and property and promote sustainable economic growth. Winners of the 2009 OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Awards from ESRL include:
WEATHER AND WATER: Atmospheric Rivers
- Paul Neiman, Marty Ralph, and Gary Wick of ESRL's Physical Sciences Division and their colleagues at the University of Washington and Scripps Institute of Oceanography are being honored for their study on atmospheric rivers – long, narrow plumes of water vapor that travel toward the South and North Poles, which impact snow and rain patterns along the west coast of North America. The study, published in the Journal of Hydrometeorology described for the first time how these "rivers" are increasing snowfall in the winter and decreasing rainfall in the spring. The findings are expected to improve weather forecasting and flood prediction, water management and policy.
CLIMATE: Influence of Carbonyl Sulfide on Climate
- Stephen Montzka, Bradley Hall, James Elkins, Thomas Conway, Pieter Tans, and Colm Sweeney of ESRL Global Monitoring Division, and Paul Calvert of the CIRES have demonstrated for the first time that carbonyl sulfide (COS), a trace gas that impacts climate and stratospheric ozone levels, is closely connected to the global carbon cycle. The study, published in the Journal of Geophysical Research, demonstrates that variations in COS appear to be tightly linked to photosynthesis. This finding offers scientists a potential new tool for improving our understanding of the carbon cycle.
Stratospheric Ozone Protection Awards
David Fahey and John Daniel are winners of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 2008 Stratospheric Ozone Protection Awards. The Ozone Layer Protection Awards were founded in 1990 to recognize outstanding contributions to the protection of the Earth's stratospheric ozone layer.
Fahey and Daniel are among the authors of a groundbreaking paper published in 2007 that calculated the benefits to the climate from citizen action and the Montreal Protocol in phasing out ozone-depleting substances that are also powerful greenhouse gases. The team of five scientists found that the direct effect of the Montreal Protocol's emission reductions has been to delay climate change by 7 to 12 years. The award citation states, "This team reminds us that individuals can make a difference, that confident action can succeed under multilateral agreements like the Montreal Protocol, and that ground-breaking science can guide successful policies."
Fahey also received an individual award for his work on many aspects of stratospheric ozone depletion and the impact of aviation on ozone and climate. He has served on several international scientific assessments of ozone depletion and climate. Fahey was the lead author of "Twenty Questions and Answers About the Ozone Layer" for both the 2002 and 2006 updates of the Montreal Protocol's Science Assessment Report.
OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Awards
The Outstanding Scientific Paper Awards were established to recognize the NOAA Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR) researchers who published outstanding scientific peer-reviewed literature. Research conducted through OAR, is a driving force behind environmental products and services that protect life and property and promote sustainable economic growth. Winners of the 2007 OAR Outstanding Scientific Paper Awards from ESRL include:
- Earth System Research Laboratory - Global Monitoring Division
David J. Hofmann, James H. Butler, Edward J. Dlugokencky, James W. Elkins, Kenneth Masarie, Stephen A. Montzka and Pieter Tans, 2006: The role of carbon dioxide in climate forcing from 1979 to 2004: Introduction of the Annual Greenhouse Gas Index., Tellus, 58B, 614-619.
- Earth System Research Laboratory - Chemical Sciences
Owen R. Cooper, Andreas Stohl, Michael Trainer, Anne M. Thompson, Jacquelyn C. Witte, Samuel J. Oltmans, Gary Morris, Kenneth E. Pickering, James H. Crawford, Gao Chen, Ronald C. Cohen, Timothy H. Bertram, Paul J. Wooldridge, Anne E. Perring, William H. Brune, John Merrill, Jennie L. Moody, David Tarasick, Philippe Nédélec, Gerry Forbes, Michael J. Newchurch, Frank J. Schmidlin, Bryan J. Johnson Solene Turquety, Steven L. Baughcum, Xinrong Ren, Fred. C. Fehsenfeld, James F. Meagher, Nicole Spichtinger, Clyde C. Brown, Stuart A. McKeen, I. Stuart McDermid, and Thierry Leblanc, 2006: Large upper tropospheric ozone enhancements above midlatitude North America during summer: In situ evidence from the IONS and MOZAIC ozone measurement network. Journal of Geophysical Research, 111, D24S05, doi:10.1029/2006JD007306.
- Earth System
Research Laboratory - Physical Sciences Division
F. Martin Ralph, Paul J. Meiman, Gary A. Wick, Seth I. Gutman, Michael D. Dettinger, Daniel R. Cayan, Allen B. White, 2006: Flooding on California's Russian River: Role of atmospheric rivers. Geophysical Research Letters, 33: L13801, doi:10.1029/2006GL026689.
Presidential Rank Award
Dr. Alexander E. "Sandy"
Each year the President recognizes a distinct group of career Senior Executives with the President's Rank Award for exceptional long-term accomplishments. High-performing senior career employees are strong scientific leaders who achieve results and consistently demonstrate strength, integrity, industry, and a relentless commitment to excellence in public service.
Dr. Alexander E. "Sandy" MacDonald's leadership and success in technology development and transition to operations has helped make NOAA a leader in its operational systems. He is widely regarded as a visionary, who is able to both predict where science and technology are going, and to lead the way in important programs. In the last five years, Dr. MacDonald has made some extraordinary contributions to NOAA and the Nation.
He invented a new display technology, Science On a Sphere, (SOS) that visually displays global data in a truly spectacular way. His new SOS display technology was awarded a patent to the government in 2004. These popular educational systems are now in multiple museums, resulting in the education of hundreds of thousands of people on the workings of the global ocean and atmosphere.
In 2003, when OAR was without an Assistant Administrator, he led and organized a group of laboratory directors to serve as Acting Assistant Administrator (AA) and Deputy Assistant Administrator (DAA), and he served for two months as Acting AA, and another two months as Acting DAA.
Dr. MacDonald chaired the Physical and Social Sciences Task Team (PSTT) group that looked at the entire organizational and geographic structure of NOAA's research, and made recommendations that were unanimously accepted by NOAA's highest level of leadership.
In August of 2006, he became OAR's Deputy Assistant Administrator for Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes, and the first Director of Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL).
Explorers Club Award for Climate-Science Breakthroughs
Dr. Susan Solomon has been awarded the Explorers Club Award for Climate-Science Breakthroughs. The awards are presented by the president of the Explorers Club to groups of outstanding explorers who have distinguished themselves in a particular field. This year's awards theme is "Exploring Climate Change."
Solomon, a senior scientist at the ESRL's Chemical Sciences Division, is known for her climate and ozone work, including research that led to determining the chemical cause of the Antarctic "Ozone hole." Her research also helped lay the scientific foundation that led to an amendment to the Montreal Protocol that banned the use of chlorofluorocarbons, which were creating chemical reactions destructive to stratospheric ozone.
EPA Best-of-the-Best Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award
Dr. Daniel L. Albritton, the former Director of the Aeronomy Laboratory and ESRL Chemical Science Division, and now retired from NOAA, is one of only 31 individuals named as a recipient of the EPA's "2007 Best-of-the-Best Stratospheric Ozone Protection Awards".
The Award distinguishes the highest caliber recipients from over 500 individuals, organizations and teams who have earned annual Stratospheric Ozone Protection awards from 1990 to 2007. Dr. Albritton is honored for conducting path-breaking basic stratospheric research, integrating complex scientific findings, and explaining the science of ozone-layer depletion to policy-makers around the world in user friendly terms, thereby helping them in making well-informed decisions about protecting the ozone layer. He has led as Co-chair of the Montreal Protocol's Scientific Assessment Panel since its inception twenty years ago, communicating science-based information about the ozone layer to the Parties to the Montreal Protocol via the Panel's periodic scientific assessments of ozone depletion. Dr. Albritton received the EPA Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award in 1994. [More on International Ozone-Layer Assessments]
AGU William Bowie Medalist
Dr. Susan Solomon has been selected as 2007 William Bowie Medalist of the American Geophysical Union. The medal is awarded to Dr. Solomon in recognition of her accomplishments on several fronts:
- For her groundbreaking scientific research on the Earth's ozone layer and climate carried out via collaborations with U.S. and international partners;
- For synthesizing this information for the good of humanity via her work in leading the IPCC climate assessment report and in the ozone-layer assessments;
- For her lifelong endeavors to communicate science to educators, the public, and decisionmakers; and
- For her unselfish efforts to foster the next generation of atmospheric scientists.
EPA Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award
Steve Montzka, Brad Hall, Jim Butler, and Jim Elkins of ESRL and Geoff Dutton of CIRES have received the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Stratospheric Ozone Protection Award for "Measuring the effectiveness of the Montreal Protocol in Reducing Chlorine/Bromine Loading and Repairing the Ozone Layer". The award winning team reported the first measured declines in ozone depleting substances (ODS) in the troposphere in response to the controls on the production of these trace gases following the 1987 Montreal Protocol.
NOAA began monitoring stratospheric ozone depleting chlorofluorocarbon-11 and -12 gases 30 years ago from a globally dispersed network of four atmospheric baseline stations and at a site at Niwot Ridge, Colorado. The network has grown to include over 20 sampling locations and an additional 20 other trace gases of atmospheric interest.
FX-Net Project Researchers Honored
Sher Schranz and Jebb Stewart, members of the FX-Net project team, received awards in recognition of their leadership to ensure operational excellence via innovative development and maintenance of critical software for IMETS, at the annual NWS Incident Meteorologist (IMET) Workshop.
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|2011-11-08, 21:47
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Location: CO, USA
Well, the result was pretty obvious imo, since things become more interesting this way. But man, Chihiro was sooo cute this chapter. I don't think there is a series with as many lovable characters as TWGOK has. And poor Ayumi ;_; I'm sure youll get your chance! Its Keima we are talking about, after all.
|2011-11-09, 00:11
|Link #5944
Join Date: Mar 2007
I think I might cry if Chihiro ends up in tears if she gets outright rejected.
|2011-11-09, 00:50
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Australia
This chapter is killing me.....
Chihiro is just so adorable. And the whole thing about "let's go to somewhere isolated", "please be gentle" and "it's my first time"..... just so suggestive. I don't mind if Keima really tap her, considering all these developments. This is definitely the first for Keima,since all of the Weiss capture end when the host just come toterm with thier feeling.
But i think Keima already planned this out. Maybe that's why he asked Ayumi to "give him dating advice",so now he can 'chicken' out in the last minute, and claims that Ayumi didn't teach him to go this far, and then run toward Ayumi for advice (while play the "i realised that i love you after all" card). Too cruel for Chihiro through.
Keima, don't make Chihiro cry.
PS: or first thing next chapter, we see Vulcan kicking his ass, as Tsukio probably was hiding on the rooftop to watch the moon (or stalk Keima) or something. Keima will never be happier to see Vulcan then. And next thing we knows, he will have to conquest the 5 Goddesses as well
|2011-11-09, 01:59
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Honestly the part that pains me the most is that, well, somehow someway Chihiro is going to get hurt. Bad. Keima doesn't have the fact there's a loose spirit in her or her losing her memory right afterwards to fall back on.
It's weird because I know he's going to do something for the greater good (he has to) but for the first time in this series I don't want him to. I always enjoyed this manga for the variety it had, but I never actually got attached to any of the gals. Now though, well I am gunning for Chihiro hard.
Seriously, if they fix this all somehow she's either going to have her heart broken, disappointed, only to grow from it or she'll end up having her memory altered anyway.
Fuck man, just fuck.
|2011-11-09, 02:04
|Link #5949
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Canada
The very fact that everyone here is having their heartstrings tugged in one way or another right now proves how great this manga is.
I said it before, but now that it's confirmed I feel really bad for Chihiro going down the True Love route. Especially now that she's got me entranced. It's unbelievable, I didn't care even the slightest way back during her original conquest.
I love Ayumi, and what I'd do to see her as end girl (either that or True Harem End (ie. no open ending, Keima WINS EVERYONE)). But honestly, he's got to take responsibility here. He should have had an idea of what to do should he be wrong about the girl he chooses. After Chihiro saying that "I want to be with you forever" bit, I personally wouldn't be able to say no. She put everything into that, also putting into consideration that she really did have to go through her own personal change in that she now willingly chooses to openly be with the guy that everyone avoided until recently.
Her feelings here are much more pure than at the end of her conquest.
|2011-11-09, 02:14
|Link #5951
Join Date: Oct 2006
@angelfrench aka Wakiki !!!!
This is too cruel... ;_;
Eventhough i am happy because we can move to the next story after the latest goddess being revealed, but why am i crying... *bangs my head
For the first time, Keima is wrong about his prediction??
|2011-11-09, 04:27
|Link #5952
a random Indonesian otaku
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Xanadu
Age: 27
Keima : anyway, what do you like from me?
Chihiro : *blushing* hmm... it because you...
*suddenly both of them hear Ayumi's screams*
*running to check downstairs*
*rooftop scene ends*
I'm pretty sure it will be like that.... lol
so the next chapter will be a showdown between Mercury Vs Weiss
|2011-11-09, 07:50
|Link #5954
Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
I always enjoyed all the relations in this manga (even if ChihiroxKeima, HaquaxKeima and TenrixKeima were my favorite ones).
But now...damn. I really, really support ChihiroxKeima. Their relation is beautiful, and all that I wish is that they are together.
|2011-11-09, 08:04
|Link #5956
Join Date: Nov 2007
Age: 30
I think Ayumi is going to be in hurt both physically and emotionally, with Lune around.
P.S Now I have claimed 3 goddesses and their vessels! Mwuhahahahaha.......
|2011-11-09, 08:32
|Link #5958
Madder Sky~
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Asia
Age: 26
I have already expected this coming. It's very obvious, it doesn't really matter if the goddess is in Chihiro or Ayumi. One of them will be hurt in the end.
Seeing Ayumi cry really makes my heart ache. But.. I know Keima is going to become my pain killer very soon as he approach Ayumi only if he is faster than the villain.
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Batavia's student section did their rendition of that ever-growing chant, the one that's probably replaced "o-ver-rated" as the one I hear most at sporting events these days, Friday night during the Bulldogs' Class 6A playoff opener with Notre Dame.
You know the one. You hear it all the time now. "I believe that we will win, I believe that we will win!" Somewhat catchy I'd say.
But what I found telling Friday was not the chant itself but when the students did it.
It didn't come before the game. Perhaps they thought being 9-0 going up against 5-4 Notre Dame a win was a given. You didn't have to believe they would win, everyone knew Batavia was going to win and let's start looking forward to the matchups down the playoff road.
And I didn't hear it when they were down 21-0 in the second quarter or 28-7 at halftime.
But after a couple Noel Gaspari touchdown passes in the third quarter and their team within 28-21, then the chant went up. And with all the momentum on Batavia's side, the Bulldogs did indeed win, scoring two fourth-quarter touchdowns for a 35-28 victory nobody at Bulldog Stadium will soon forget.
A comeback for the ages, indeed.
But you've got to give credit to those who believed before that third-quarter rally started.
Because if they didn't believe then, even when it looked like Notre Dame quarterback Joe Montana, er, I mean Notre Dame quarterback Nick Pieruccini, was ever going to throw an incomplete pass or a bounce was ever going to go the Bulldogs way at the depths of that 21-point deficit, there wouldn't have been a second-half comeback to cheer.
People who believed like assistant coach Mike Gaspari who had a simple message at halftime.
"We were all upset but nobody was screaming," Batavia senior two-way standout Alec Lyons said. "They (the coaches) all talked to us. 'We believe in you.' Coach Gaspari has been saying that since Day One. That is his four favorite words, 'I believe in you.' Even when we are down like that. Slowly things started going our way."
That kind of faith is impressive especially when nothing seemed to be going Batavia's way. The jam-packed Batavia stands were silent in the first half.
"I tell you, I was heartbroken," Lyons said. "That is what I was.
"We all saw it slipping away. Luckily our big players came through with big plays."
"I think we were all a little nervous at the beginning," another two-way player Anthony Thielk said "I think at halftime we straightened things out and knew we were going to come back."
One of Batavia's captains Cole Gardner described the halftime scene.
"It was pretty calm. 'All right guys, we haven't been down like this before but we believe in each other.' We talked about the things we've been saying all year and what we need to do differently. The coaches talked some, the captains talked some. It was kind of a group change and we got it done."
Much of that 28-7 halftime deficit was their own fault. Penalties have been about the only thing that hurt Batavia in the regular season and there were a couple more critical ones early. And for an underdog to have a chance in a matchup like this it usually takes turnovers, and the Bulldogs fumbled twice that turned into 14 points.
But just as big of a part of the 28-7 score was the opponent, one whose 5-4 record came against an East Suburban Catholic schedule and the likes of Joliet Catholic and Marist.
"The seedings mean nothing, the whole thing is a fallacy," Batavia coach Dennis Piron said. "The setup is all random. Who you play in the regular season is a whole different deal and those guys play an incredibly tough schedule against really good football teams."
Notre Dame took its 28-7 lead mostly through the air and Dons coach Mike Hennessey tried to stay aggressive in the third quarter.
"We didn't feel we had the game won," Hennessey said. "We needed to keep possession of the football and not keep putting our defense out there the entire second half. Give credit to them (Batavia) for what they came out and did the second half."
What they did in the second half started at halftime, it started when everything in the world was going wrong in the first half and the coaches and players kept believing. Kept believing in all the work they have done to get to this point, all the talent on their sideline.
"I told them the story tomorrow in the papers could be the unbelievable comeback Batavia made or 9-0 team falls in the first round to 5-4," Piron said. "I don't think they liked the sounds of that."
Not nearly as much as the sound of "I believe that we have won."


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Old Falls Street, USA, will host three more lectures and book signings for the summer for 2013. The events are scheduled on Wednesdays at 2 p.m., at Old Falls Street's Wi-Fi Café area, closest to Niagara Falls State Park. The lecture series features local authors, who will speak on a variety of topics and sign copies of their books.
In case of inclement weather, the lectures will be held in the neighboring Barnes & Noble store, located inside the Culinary Institute Niagara Falls.
The remaining schedule of lectures includes the following:
•Aug. 7 - Tom Registad, author of "Scriblin' For a Livin' - Mark Twain's Pivotal Period in Buffalo"
•Aug. 14 - Nancy Rizzo, author of "Speaking Your Truth"
•Aug. 21 - Chris Stoainoff - co-author of "Niagara Falls 1850-2000"
Afternoons also feature "Backyard Board Games," giant versions of popular games such as chess, checkers and other trademarked favorites, offered free of charge on Old Falls Street's middle block (11 a.m to 4 p.m. each day, with extended hours during certain evening events). Guests are encouraged to borrow traditional chess, checkers and backgammon games from Old Falls Street's vending carts, located at the Wi-Fi Café, each Wednesday through Sunday, from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
This additional programming complements Old Falls Street's other weekly activities, which include visits by Encounter Niagara's historical re-enactors; the "Flicks on Old Falls" movie series on Thursday evenings; the "Fridays on Old Falls" evening concert series; and the "Jazzy Sundays" afternoon concert series.
Other returning favorites are the annual "Touch-a-Truck" family event where children are able to sit inside several emergency and maintenance vehicles, on Saturday, Aug. 10, from 2 to 5 p.m. The summer season ends with the ever-popular Niagara Falls Blues Festival. Celebrating its sixth year, the Blues Festival will be held on Labor Day weekend (Aug. 31 through Sept. 1).
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. - The co-Big West champion UC Santa Barbara women's basketball team will play in its 15th postseason in the last 16 seasons after receiving a bid into the postseason Women's National Invitation Tournament on Monday.
The Gauchos, 19-11 overall, will play at USC on Thursday. Game times will be announced by the WNIT on Tuesday. USC finished its regular season 19-12 and fell to Arizona in the Pac-10 Tournament quarterfinals.
"We are thrilled to have been invited to play in the WNIT and we're looking forward to playing a very talented USC team," said UCSB head coach Lindsay Gottlieb, who has now made the postseason in two of her three seasons as the Gauchos' head coach. "Mostly, I'm excited for our players, a group of young women who worked very hard and put together a season worthy of a postseason invite."
UCSB, which has won seven of its past eight games, is 11-13 all-time against the Trojans. USC has four players who average in double figures, led by Briana Gilbreath at 15.0 points per game. The junior guard also pulls in a team-best 7.5 rebounds per game.
The Gauchos are led by Emilie Johnson, who averages 13.5 points per game.
Fans interested in purchasing tickets should contact the UCSB Athletics Ticket Office at (805) 893-UCSB (8272). The game will be broadcast live on AM 990 and online online by clicking here.


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Liberal Arts Inspires "Entrepreneurial Spirit"by Steve Charles • April 7, 2008 Share:
"The soul never thinks without a picture," says Colorado-based TelWares Communications CEO Bob Knowling '77. "Entrepreneurs paint that picture."
If, in quoting Aristotle, Knowling (at right) sounds as if his approach to commerce comes more from a philosophy book than a business manual, that's no accident. He is one of 20 business and social entrepreneurs interviewed in "That Entrepreneurial Spirit," the Winter 2008 issue of Wabash Magazine. Twenty men who come at their vocations from many directions, but share a common belief—that their liberal arts education was the best preparation for what they do today.
"The College teaches you to think and to reason," says Knowling of the liberal arts education he received while he was a religion major at Wabash. "I didn't understand what this meant back when I was a student. I do now."
"While an undergraduate business degree from Purdue or IU could seem to many to be more valuable for a budding entrepreneur, I believe that one can be most successful if he has a broad liberal arts education," says Robert Meitus '87, co-founder and partner at the law firm of Meitus Gelbert Rose in Indianapolis and a political science major while at Wabash. "Strong writing skills and an understanding of history, philosophy, and economics are all important when building your own business. Specific business skills can be obtained later in graduate school or on the job, but the rich liberal arts education offered at Wabash can rarely be obtained later in life."
Andrew Shelton '03 (left), the 27-year-old president of Indianapolis-based TrackPack Cooler, sees parallels between his work as an inventor/business creator and his studies as an English major at Wabash.
"I think building a company and writing a book are similar trains-of-thought," Shelton says. "It was my love of structuralism that helped me understand how the many components of a business need to be arranged to come up with a working product. There is no step-by-step formula… you have to figure it out on your own."
"I have learned a lot about what it takes to start and grow a successful small business," says former biology major Charles Cleland '61, Program Leader of the Small Business Innovation Research Program at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. "You need to teach young men to think for themselves. Chemical formulas or historical facts don't teach someone how to think creatively. I am a strong believer in the value of a liberal arts education. You need to be exposed to courses in all three divisions of study [science and math, social science, and humanities and arts] to be a truly educated young man and, hopefully, to learn how to think critically once out on your own."
Former political science major Richard Elson '69 has won awards for films on subjects ranging from blue whales to science fiction writers—even an Academy Award nomination for The Colours of My Father. He takes an intentionally wide-open approach to the world.
"I believe that what I do is a reflection of the value of a liberal arts education," Elson says (poster from his production Bonjour! Shalom! shown at right). "Not just what I learned in the classroom, but from the exposure to people and ideas in a great variety of disciplines."
Even NASA rocket scientist Michael Patterson cites not scientific training, but rhetorical skills, as the difference between those he hires and those he won't.
"I particularly appreciate my speech class at Wabash, and I would encourage students to get as much public speaking experience as they can and consider a major or minor in rhetoric," says Patterson. "I will always employ an average scientist/engineer with excellent rhetorical skills over and excellent scientist/engineer without these skills."
"The entrepreneurial spirit is animated by the questions that are at the heart of the liberal arts," Wabash President Pat White writes in the magazine's Winter 2008 issue, which mailed this week and is currently available online.


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Saw in the news where Davy Jones of the old Monkees died yesterday from a heart attack; he was only 66. Where the hell did the time go?
Am I the only one who thinks Blogspot has its head up its butt? The Turing words are difficult to read, and the new format for comments sucks, bigtime.
Hopefully they'll get their shit together soon.
I've been tagged by a meme. I don't do memes very often, but the tagger was Zeke, from Engineering Johnson. I met him at the Gunblogger Rendezvous last year, and quite enjoyed talking with him and listening to him tell about some of his engineering jobs around the globe. I'm supposed to tag five other bloggers, with 200 or less followers. I don't know if these people will be interested, but here it goes:
Dum Vivimus, Vivamus
Politics, guns, and family, with general observations on the world around us.
The Reluctant Paladin
An animal control person commenting on life in general, and does some restoring of antiques that are quite good.
Momma Mia, Mea Culpa
Meleah Rebecca tells about family, her life, and comments on life and the WTF of the world. She has had me laughing more than once with some of her tales. She probably has lot more than 200 followers, but I felt she deserved a mention.
Total Survivalist Libertarian Bitch Fest
Some ladies with a blog. Their description says it best:
"We write about self-reliance, gardening, kids, politics, and whatever else we want. We like what we like, enjoy what we do and never take shit from anybody."
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A young lady in Montana who has recently started blogging again. Her interests are shooting, photography, camping, and life in general.
Not even going to mention the clown fight for the GOP slot; they're too busy rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
Any favorites or comments on this bunch?
"I Ain't Me, Babe" by Bob Dylan
"Red, Red Wine" by Neil Diamond
"Runnin' Blue" by The Doors
"Gypsy" by The Moody Blues
"Greensleeves" by Blackmore's Night
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen
"Sunshine of Your Love" by Cream
"Runaway" by Del Shannon
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MOSCOW, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Russia's telecommunications watchdog said it has blacklisted more than 180 websites for offensive content and will block access to the sites within Russia.
The Roskomnadzor agency, operating under a law approved by the Russian parliament in July, is creating a register of blacklisted websites that aims to protect Russians from harmful content, RIA Novosti reported Friday.
"Our experts are working hard and today more than 180 websites have been added to the register," Roskomnadzor chief Aleksandr Zharov said.
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Paul Harvey (...pause...) Good day! was his signature line at the end of virtually every broadcast. This past weekend saw the the passing of that American icon, Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009) The picture on the right was taken when he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005, the nation's highest civilian honor.
I enjoyed listening to Paul Harvey through the years. Long before Internet news sources, before today's talk radio format, and before the choices now available on cable TV for honest, thorough news coverage, Paul Harvey was unique in serving up insightful news that no one else was reporting, as well as off-beat or heart-warming stories about people, both famous and obscure. He will be remembered by many for his The Rest of the Story segments. Here's a neat one called "Gentle Legacy." (If you're reading this by e-mail or in a blog reader, you will probably have to go to the blog to view this video clip.)
He will also be remembered for his distinctive, resonant voice and for what has been been described as his "pregnant pauses." Danny Thomas once told Mr. Harvey, "You'd better be right, because you sound like God." (It's a unique voice, but I don't know if I'd go that far....) On another occasion Danny Thomas commented, "You can almost hear the amber waves of grain." Obviously, Mr. Thomas was a loyal Paul Harvey fan.
In my files I had a piece attributed to him that I especially like. I was able to determine at truthorfiction.com that he indeed wrote this piece.
If I Were the Devil
by Paul Harvey
© 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
If I were the devil...
I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world;
I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's effort, instead of God's blessings;
I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around;
I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue;
I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership;
I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies;
I would make it socially acceptable to take one's own life, and invent machines to make it convenient;
I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that the life of animals are valued more than human beings;
I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was grounds for a lawsuit;
I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I would get sports heroes to advertise them;
I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the mind of every family member for my agenda;
I would attack the family, the backbone of any nation.
I would make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family crumbles, so does the nation;
I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and movie screens, and I would call it art;
I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be accepted and marveled;
I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who call themselves authorities and refer to their agenda as politically correct;
I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, and the Bible is for the naive;
I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are optional;
I guess I would leave things pretty much the way they are.
Bet over at Dappled Things did a post yesterday on Paul Harvey. She found a quotation from him describing his entry into the field of radio at age 14: "As a boy, I fell in love with words and ran away from home and joined the radio."
Harvey is credited with coining or popularizing such terms as "skyjacker," "Reaganomics," and "guesstimate." I find it ironic that this post on Paul Harvey falls so close on the heels of my post on Dr. Seuss who also loved and coined words.
Do you think it would be fair to say that Paul Harvey was also a "word nerd?" Do you have any memories of or reflections on Paul Harvey's career?
"If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will." - Paul Harvey
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"I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist." - Paul Harvey
Paul Harvey ... Good day!
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SOCHI, Russia, Feb. 11 (UPI) -- Iouri Podladtchikov of Switzerland pulled off a shocking Olympic victory Tuesday and ended the reign of Shaun White as the king of extreme winter sports.
White had won the last two Olympic snowboarding halfpipe gold medals and was the overwhelming favorite to become the first American man to win the same event three consecutive times at the Winter Games.
Everything went as expected when White earned the highest scores of the day from the judges during qualifying with a performance that moved him directly into the finals.
With the lights beaming down on the halfpipe, however, White failed to produce in the finals. He took a tumble on a landing during the first of his two efforts and then, with Podladtchikov having put down a huge performance minutes earlier, White was unable to come through with the kind of dazzling show that has been his trademark.
White jumped high and performed all his big tricks in the second run, but two of the landings were slightly flawed and he was given a score that was only fourth best.
Podladtchikov won with a score of 94.75 while Japanese snowboarders Ayumu Hirano and Taku Hiraoka won the silver and bronze medals. Hirano received a score of 93.50, Hiraoka totaled 92.25 points and White was given a 90.25.
White was performing with a jammed wrist suffered during training for the slopestyle event, from which he later withdrew, but that could not be used as an excuse for his showing in the finals. His qualifying run had brought a score of 95.75 from the judges.
White has helped popularize snowboarding around the world and that, in turn, has been a major factor in the International Olympic Committee adding more and more extreme sports to the Winter Games program.
An additional eight disciplines in snowboarding and freestyle skiing were brought into the Olympics this year and those two sports will make up 20 percent of the competitions conducted at the Sochi Games.


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If $X_{i}$ are a bunch of iid random variables with mean 0 and finite second moments, we know that $\sum_{i=1}^{n} \frac{X_{i}}{\sqrt{n}}$ converges in law to a Gaussian. Furthermore, by the Berry-Esseen theorem, we have some bounds on the rates of this convergence. Similar results hold, even if $X_{i}$ are only mixing in some sense, rather than actually iid.
If the $X_{i}$ are now instead regularly varying with exponent 1 (and satisfying some other conditions), and are 'very strongly mixing' but not iid, then I know that their suitably scaled partial sums converge in law to an appropriate Levy function with exponent 1.
My question is, what is a reasonable rate for this convergence? Of course, it will have something to do with the mixing rate, and with the constants associated with regular variation, and maybe other things. Are there any standard results in this direction?
I am not much of an expert, and have so far tried only some very standard tricks (e.g. concentration of regeneration times) which work in very specialized circumstances, and often not very well. Any pointers would be appreciated.
Edited: In response to Igor's very nice answer below, to state explicitly that I did not wish to assume the $X_{i}$ were iid.


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When the power of love
Replaces the love of power
Man will have a new name:
Sri Chinmoy is a spiritual teacher who dedicated his life in service to aspiring humanity. With all of his soulful offerings - his prayers and meditations, his literary, musical and artistic works - Sri Chinmoy is trying to inspire mankind.
We hope that the simplicity, purity and light of Sri Chinmoy's offerings will also inspire you.
View: Sri Chinmoy.org in different languages
Aspects of Sri Chinmoy's activities in the West. Sri Chinmoy devoted his life to the pursuit of harmony and oneness between people and between different cultures. He dynamically pursued this vision through the arts, athletics and humanitarian service.
The Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run
The Peace Run is a global relay, created by Sri Chinmoy, that seeks to promote international friendship and understanding. People of all nationalities, faiths and traditions have been drawn to participate in this event since its inception in 1987.
Kind Words
Kind Words: Sri Chinmoy met with many world leaders, ambassadors and dignitaries to share his aspirations for a better world. A selection of kind words and tributes from different walks of life.
Biography of Sri Chinmoy
A short biography of Sri Chinmoy. Sri Chinmoy was born in India and came to the West in 1964. Sri Chinmoy lived in New York, until his Mahasamadhi in 2007.
Videos of Sri Chinmoy
Videos of Sri Chinmoy: Watch various activities of Sri Chinmoy. Including meditation, talks, concerts and other artistic activities.
Music of Sri Chinmoy
Radio Sri Chinmoy: Listen online to recordings of Sri Chinmoy's meditative music. Includes recordings by Sri Chinmoy and also by other performers.
Meditation Silence: Video Podcast
Meditation Silence with Sri Chinmoy Listen to the silence within you and learn the ancient art of meditation, at Sri Chinmoy TV.
Selected Writings
Selected Writings. An introduction to the spiritual philosophy of Sri Chinmoy
My ultimate goal is for the power of love
To replace the love of power
Within each individual.
My ultimate goal is for the whole world
To walk together in peace and oneness.
—Sri Chinmoy
"From the spiritual point of view, every seeker is a beginner. A beginner is he who has the inner urge to grow into something ever more divine, ever more illumining and ever more fulfilling. The moment you want to make constant and continuous progress, the moment you want to surpass yourself and enter into the ever-transcending Beyond, at that moment you become an eternal beginner. " (Read more)
Excerpt from: How to Begin Meditation
Be Happy
"Be happy in the morning with what you have. Be happy in the evening with what you are. Be happy. Don't complain. Who complains? The blind beggar in you. When you complain, you dance in the mire of ignorance-condition. When you don't complain, all conditions of the world are at your feet, and God gives you a new name: aspiration. Aspiration is the supreme wealth in the world of light and delight." (read more)
Excerpt from: Songs Of The Soul, Agni Press, 1971
Ingratitude and Gratitude
"Ingratitude is not our inability to acknowledge the gifts we receive from others. Ingratitude is our deliberate unwillingness to acknowledge the gifts we receive from others. Gratitude is receptivity, the receptivity that acknowledges others' gifts, others' love and concern. Each time we express gratitude, we expand our hearts." (read more)
Excerpt from My Rose Petals, Part 6, Agni Press, 1976
"Consciousness is the inner spark or inner link in us, the golden link within us that connects our highest and most illumined part with our lowest and most unillumined part. Consciousness is the connecting link between Heaven and earth." (read more)
Excerpt from The Summits of God-Life: Samadhi and Siddhi, Agni Press, 1974
Other Sites about Sri Chinmoy


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Avalokiteshvara – Special Mantra of Compassion
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Marketing to Customers in a Post-Recession Economy
The Great Recession officially ended in 2009, but it sure didn't feel that way for most consumers (or businesses). Now, however, the economy finally is on an upward trajectory, with consumer sentiment, business hiring plans and employment data all looking up. Whether your company targets consumers or businesses, here's what to keep in mind to successfully market to customers as their spirits rise and their wallets start to open again.
Take advantage of pent-up desire. According to Time magazine, one indicator of the improving economy is that sales of men's underwear are up. During tough times, you see, consumers put off restocking even the necessities, like boxers and briefs. Whether you sell discretionary items like cosmetics and tablet computers, or necessities like underwear and copy paper, chances are your customers have been scrimping on it for the past few years, and they're eager to let loose and buy.
Realize customers are still seeking value. A pent-up desire to buy doesn't mean customers are going to go crazy with their budgets. During the past few years, businesses and consumers alike have learned to make do, do without, and shop around for the best value. Keep in mind that best value doesn't always mean lowest price. If your marketing messages can show customers how your product or service will last longer, save them money or time, or otherwise make their lives easier, they'll be willing to spring for it even if your price isn't the lowest in town.
Focus on rewards. Customers don't want to seem or feel overindulgent or greedy, but they do believe they deserve some reward for the past few years of scrimping, saving and sensible spending. Marketing messages that portray your products or services as a well-deserved treat, reward or indulgence will go a long way toward convincing customers to buy. Keep in mind, though, that since we're just coming out of a recession, small splurges will sell best at first until consumers and businesses gain more confidence.
Prepare for change. With a shift in the economy underway, businesses and consumers alike will be more open to making changes in products, services and vendors. They'll be ready to trade "make-do" service providers for ones that offer better quality, services or selection. That, plus the natural sense of renewal that spring brings, means now is a great time to work on capturing new leads and pursuing old ones you may have given up on.
Emphasize optimism. Americans are an optimistic people and we like positive messages in our advertising. Even fear-based products like burglar alarms sell better with positive messages ("Protect your family"). Show how your product or service will make the customer's life, family or business better, stronger, happier. Use positive words and uplifting images. Coming out of a tough few years, people are ready to spend to achieve the positive.
Keep pace with technology. Consumers and businesses alike have become expert at seeking out the best products, services and prices using tools like mobile phones, tablets, review and ratings sites and local search engines. Make sure your business is taking advantage of this new approach to shopping by listing your business on search engines, rating and review sites, and optimizing your business website for mobile use so customers can find you wherever and whenever they're looking for what you have to sell.
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February 10, 2011
All four winter sports teams have been recognized by various organizations in the national rankings during one of the most successful winter seasons in Wabash history.
The Little Giant basketball team is ranked 13th in the latest D3hoops.com poll after their 69-68 overtime victory over unbeaten and top-ranked Wooster last Saturday afternoon. Wabash is ranked third in this week's NCAA Division III men's basketball Great Lakes Region rankings. The Little Giants are 16-4 against Great Lakes Region teams. Wooster, the only other North Coast Athletic Conference school to earn a spot on the list, remained the number-one ranked team in the region. Wabash will complete the regular season with three home basketball games, starting Saturday afternoon with a 1 p.m. contest against Hiram College.
The Wabash wrestling team moved to 16th in the latest Brute/adidas Division III team rankings. The Little Giants are 11-4-1 in dual matches this season with at least two major competitions still on the schedule. Wabash will travel to Manchester College this Saturday for the annual Midstates Wrestling Conference Championship meet. Wabash will serve as the host school for the NCAA Division III Midwest Wrestling Regional to be held Saturday, February 26 at Chadwick Court beginning at 9 a.m.
Junior Greg Rhoads moved into the top-10 of the 184-pound weight class rankings on the heels of his individual championship at the Pete Willson - Wheaton College Invitational.
The Little Giant indoor track and field team is off to a solid start this season, posting a fourth-place finish overall and second among Division III teams last weekend at the Tiger Invitational at DePauw University. The season results have moved Wabash to 13th in the latest D3Rankings.us Dual Meet Power RPI system. The team also moved up two spots in the US Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Great Lakes Region rankings, taking over the fifth spot on the list. The Little Giants will compete this Saturday at the DePauw Invitational in Greencastle at 11 a.m.
While the Wabash swimming and diving team has not cracked the top-25 in the latest CollegeSwimming.com/College Swimming Coaches Association of America DIII poll, the Little Giants did receive 11 votes. The Wabash team is in Canton, Ohio this Thursday, Friday, and Saturday for the annual North Coast Athletic Conference Men's and Women's Swimming and Diving Championships. Complete meet information can be found here.


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This lesson is based on the National Register of Historic Places registration file "Honey Springs Battlefield" and other sources. It was made possible by the National Park Service's American Battlefield Protection Program. The lesson written by Mike Adkins, a social studies teacher from the Moore School District, and Ralph Jones, Superintendent, Battle of Honey Springs Historic Site. The lesson was edited by the Teaching with Historic Places staff. TwHP is sponsored, in part, by the Cultural Resources Training Initiative and Parks as Classrooms programs of the National Park Service. This lesson is one in a series that brings the important stories of historic places into the classrooms across the country.
Where it fits into the curriculum
Topics: This lesson could be used in teaching units on the Civil War, particularly the war in the West, on Native American history, or on cultural diversity.
Time period: 1861-1865
Relevant United States History Standards for Grades 5-12
Relevant Curriculum Standards for Social Studies
Find your state's social studies and history standards for grades Pre-K-12
Objectives for students
1) To explain how and why American Indians of the Five Civilized Tribes became involved in a bloody conflict that started a thousand miles away.
2) To examine the effects of the Civil War on the Indian Territory and its citizens.
3) To learn how to interpret and compare battle narratives and use this information to create a map of the events.
4) To discover if distinct ethnic groups from the student's own community have worked together toward a common goal, as they did at Honey Springs.
Materials for studentsThe materials listed below either can be used directly on the computer or can be printed out, photocopied, and distributed to students. The maps and images appear twice: in a low-resolution version with associated questions and alone in a larger, high-quality version.
1) one map & table showing Indian Territory and its population;
2) three readings about the battle from contemporary accounts by soldiers;
3) one illustration and table of northeastern Oklahoma and the military units involved;
4) two illustrations & one drawing of the battle.
Visiting the site
Honey Springs Battlefield Park is located in southern Muskogee County and northern McIntosh county in east-central Oklahoma. Take the Checotha/Rentiesville exit off U.S. HWY 69 (approximately 2 1/4 miles north of I-40); then take Business 69 north approximately 1 1/14 miles to Rentiesville Road; Go east 2 miles to edge of battlefield and follow signs to the monuments and visitors center.
For further information contact the Superintendent, Battle of Honey Springs, Historic Site, 1863 Honey Springs Battlefield Road, Checotah, OK 74426-6301.


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Screening of STEM eXposure: The Meyerhoff Influence – Lessons From The Top
UMBC Campus – Academic IV Building, Lecture Hall 4
Saturday, April 28, 2012, 5:00-7:00 p.m.
Reception immediately following
Join the Meyerhoff Alumni Advisory Board (MAAB) and the Meyerhoff Scholars Program for a special screening of the documentary STEM eXposure: The Meyerhoff Influence – Lessons from the Top, featuring fellow alums. Alumni will join the Meyerhoff program staff and the 20th class of Meyerhoff scholars as they take a break from preparing for spring graduation. This event presents a unique occasion for you pass on wisdom to graduating students, network with Meyerhoff alumni and reminisce with the Meyerhoff staff after viewing the documentary that will highlight the achievements of some of alumni.


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Additional excerpts from our Tony Kushner interview
In Friday's Denver Post, Tony Kushner discusses his play, "Homebody/Kabul," which opens in its regional premiere Saturday at Denver's Curious Theatre. It was a wide-ranging interview that inevitably touched on far more topics than could make that story. Such as the prescient nature of the play, and his opinions on everything from the seeds of 9/11 to Sarah Palin (he calls her "the true daughter of Ronald Reagan — she just doesn't have as good of handlers as he had").
Here are additional excerpts from the interview, which Kushner graciously conducted from Louisiana "on three days of no sleep," following word that his father has taken ill.
Question: You stated that you think American troops should stay in Afghanistan until the country is more stable. Should we have gone in the first place?
Answer: It's difficult to say. That was such a terrible time. My first reaction when I heard (President George) Bush was going to order a military attack on Afghanistan was horror. I felt in 2001 — and I feel today — that who the commander-in-chief of the armed forces is makes a difference. And I felt then — and I feel today, and it's been completely borne out by subsequent events — that that man was not competent to be commander-in-chief. It ls not surprising to me that he surrounded himself by people like (Donald) Rumsfeld and (Dick) Cheney, who are ideologically blinded fantasists who ignored the best military advice that was being offered at the time, and set out with a conviction that they knew better than anyone else. …
The whole doctrine fomented by the right that you could just sort of draw a line around certain countries and say, "This country no longer exists: It's out of the League of Nations, or, it's on another planet, in another dimension, and so we're just not going to deal with it." … That never works. It's a completely idiotic thing to do.
Elaborating on his opinion of the U.S. invasion of Iraq:
Answer: We have so much information available. Yes, it's very hard to figure out sometimes, because information is one thing, and the complexities of a situation is something else. But the truth is usually not all that hard to discern. We didn't need to wait until 10 years of weapons of mass destruction not being found in Iraq to know that after 10 years of sanctions, and nonstop bombing with weapons coated with depleted uranium by the U.S. and NATO, that it was very unlikely Saddam Hussein had succeeded in creating biological warfare or nuclear weapons while countries like Iraq and North Korea could not figure out how to do it. It's very hard to make those things, thank God.
Question: What were your thought on the night "Homebody/Kabul" opened in New York just three months after 9/11?
Answer: My vivid memory of those audiences in that really difficult time is that people came in not knowing what they were going to get, and having a reasonably good evening of theater. … I certainly did not know when I wrote the play that by the time it opened, we would be in Afghanistan, and it never occurred to me that the Taliban would be essentially gone, which is what happened. I was relieved that they took off, because that made extensive bombing unnecessary. But since then, there's been the immense distraction of the completely illegitimate war in Iraq – what I think is a criminal war founded on intentional lying and deception of the American people and of the entire planet by the Bush administration, and a war conducted with a kind of grotesque indifference to the lives of the Iraqi people. Just as is the case with the Israeli-Palestine conflict, which received no attention during the Bush administration, so it was allowed to turn into the nightmarish mess that it's become, because everybody was focused on Iraq.
Commenting on foreign journalists who criticized the surge of patriotism in New York City following 9/11, specifically the sudden appearance of flags in every window:
Answer: I think one of the really magnificent things about New York City after 9/11 is that the city had great courage and determination to not fall apart. With the exception of the Ann Coulters running around, the city responded, for the most part, with comparatively little violent rhetoric. What I felt was an elevated form of patriotism after years and years of patriotism becoming a discredited thing. The idea of patriotism had been somewhat devalued, but at that moment of terrible loss, we discovered what we really loved about our country.
Question: Why did you write the housewife in "Homebody/Kabul" to be British and not American?
Answer: It was written for (British actress) Kika Markham. She's Corin Redgrave's wife. She played the lead character in "A Bright Room Called Day," my first experience in London. They were starting a new theater company around 1997 or 1998, and Kika said, "Would you write me a one-woman show, like an hour-long monologue?" I don't usually like one-person shows all that much, but I thought I would like to write about Afghanistan. The British have such a profound relationship with Afghanistan, with the construction of the cartography of modern Afghanistan, and the Anglo-Afghanistan wars in the 19th century. … Afghanistan is in so many ways a consequence of colonialism, and Britain was the great colonizer. So it felt like it would be interesting to do this with British characters. I went to the NYU library to see what they had on Afghanistan, and there was not really a lot of information, and I got very nervous about writing people whose lives are so completely different from mine. One thing that helped was there is no one in the play that I feel particularly "like." In some ways I find the British are more unlike me than the Afghans. The British are not Americans They are very different people. So writing British characters made it so the whole thing was happening outside my comfort zone. And that makes it easier. … If there were deeper reasons, they were unconscious at the time.
Question: You wrote just the "Homebody" portion of the play at first. So why did you feel the need to continue on and write "Kabul"?
Answer: The honest answer is I wrote the monologue very quickly. I was late with it, as usual. It just came out very fast and almost to this form. I could tell that I really liked it, and that people who heard it were responding with great excitement, but I didn't know what it meant. I think of myself as a traditional narrative realist dramatist. I have to be able to say to an actor, "Here is what your character is pursuing." But I didn't know what to say to anyone doing the monologue. I was really absolutely certain there is something in this monologue. I began to feel it was really one of the best things that I had written. And I thought well then, I've got to understand this. So in a certain sense, the play became an act of interpretation. By the time I had written the first draft of the "Kabul" section, I finally understood what that monologue is about … that she's talking to the audience about trying to make up her mind about whether she's going to Afghanistan or not. And it really did take (writing) the rest of the play for me to figure that out.


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While I lacked big red tomatoes to slice, I was flush with little cherry ones. Instead of leaving them whole, I took a trick from Kenji's recent pico de gallo post: the small tomatoes are chopped, tossed with salt, and left in a colander for 20 minutes. Water is drawn out and they intensify in flavor.
Any dreams of thick slabs of succulent pork belly disappeared once I realized how long it would take to render all that fat. I didn't have three hours to dedicate to the slow roasting process. Fortunately, I remembered that I've used pork belly in some quick stir-fry recipes before. All I needed to do was slice the pork belly very thin and cook it until well browned.
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The award-winning documentary film "Miss Representation" will be shown at Hope College with a panel discussion afterward on Monday, Nov. 12, at 7 p.m. at the Knickerbocker Theatre in downtown Holland.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The film explores how the media's misrepresentation of women, with an emphasis on youth and appearance, has led to the underrepresentation of women in positions of power and influence in America. It includes stories from teenage girls and interviews with politicians, journalists, entertainers, educators and academics, like Condoleeza Rice, Nancy Pelosi, Katie Couric, Rachel Maddow, Margaret Cho, Rosario Dawson and Gloria Steinem.
Written and directed by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, "Miss Representation" premiered at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and aired on "OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network." It won "Outstanding Documentary" recognition in the 2012 Gracie Allen Awards.
The presentation is sponsored by the college's department of education and women's studies program. The panel discussion, which will immediately follow the film, will include three members of the Hope community: Becky Schmidt, assistant professor of kinesiology and coach of the women's volleyball team; John Yelding, associate professor of education; and sophomore Emilly Hickmott, a communication major and women's studies minor from Decatur.
The Knickerbocker Theatre is located at 86 E. Eighth St.


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