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International Olympiad of the Global Universities Association
Over 130 students from China, South Korea and Europe attend Russian Language Summer School
Winter school-2017 is over
TPU Students from Germany, Vietnam and India Plunged into an Ice-Hole on Epiphany
Prime Minister Presented Tomsk Polytechnic University with RF Government Quality Award
National Games Championship to be Held in TPU
TPU's Alumnus from India About City and Career for Previous 13 Years
Prospective students from 25 countries and 65 regions of Russia applied at Tomsk Polytechnic University
Best foreign graduates told about their studies at Tomsk Polytechnic University
Egyptian teacher will study alternative energy within postgraduate program at TPU
International Graduates Received Diplomas of TPU
150 foreign students will get TPU diplomas this year
Two students of IIE&LC will represent TPU at UN headquarters in New York City
From Ghana to Siberia for Oil and Gas Studies
TPU Team Won Basketball Tournament Among Mongolian Students
Results of the Contest "Best Short Film in a Foreign Language-2016"
Victory Day and Indian Dances at Veterans House
TPU Student from Vietnam Won All-Russian Online Festival devoted to 71st Anniversary of World War II
TPU Students Participated in All-Russian Session of "The Association of the Foreign Students" in Russia
"Through the Front-line Album" Festival: IIE&LC Team Presented the Best Script!
Online Voting for Best Short Film in a Foreign Language-2016
The Association of Mongolian Students in Tomsk Expands its Boundaries
Let's Get Acquainted
Results of Online Quiz "German Kaleidoscope"
Indian Applicants Competed for Studying at TPU
Spring is in the Air
Results of All-Russian Online Olympiad in the German Language-2016 among School Pupils
Multinational Indian Dance of TPU Students
TPU has its page on the website «Study in Russia»
Tomsk Spring for Students from the University of Bristol
Siberian Adventures Of Italian Journalist
Results of National Culture Days at TPU
Admission Procedure for Foreign Citizens for Study in Russia
Dear students!
A Young Scientist from Indian "Silicon Valley" Will Study Material Science in TPU
"National Dances" contest
Attention! "Student Spring" contest!
Lunar New Year's Celebration
St. Valentine's Day at Pre-University Department
Apply for language courses at "Cosmopolit"
Winter school 2016
How to Study in Russian, told Fifth-Year Student from Cote d'Ivoire
Another New Year: What do Djibouti citizens rarely have on their festive tables?
Students of leading Indian Institute had internship in TPU
Another New Year: Do Hindus believe in Santa Claus?
Christmas in Germany
TPU tutors teach the Russian language to Vietnamese pupils
Online-quiz results in the Russian language
Independence Day of Mongolia
Online-quiz in the Russian language
"Dancing Polytechnic"- Festival of Friendship and Creative Work
TPU student took the second place in DAAD Contest "German in my profession"
Everyone is welcomed to Mongolia
New students from Zambia, Congo and the Republic of South Africa
Golden Voice of Vietnam
Decade of the Russian Language and Culture 2015
International Dance Festival
TPU delegation visited China Education Expo 2015
TPU Lecturer is the Best Foreign Expert in Chinese Province of Jilin
TPU Student - One of the Best at International Mathematics Olympiad in Israel
Matriculation for Mongolian Students
Almost 1000 foreign citizens have passed Russian Language State Exam at Tomsk Polytechnic University
Representatives of Stihting Nuffic (the Netherlands) visited the Institute of International Education and Language Communication
Student from Djibouti came to study Russian at IIE&LC
Freshman Day: sports victory, new records and presents
Students from France, Germany, Venezuela and 20 other countries will study at Tomsk Polytechnic University
High-level delegation from Egypt visited the Institute of International Education and Language Communication
American banker from Switzerland arrived at TPU to study Russian
First students from France, Greece and Cote d'Ivoire are awarded TPU Diplomas
Regional Centre for German Language and Culture: fighting stereotypes
Russian unites nations
TPU delegation visited leading Kazakh Universities
TPU Lecturers To Teach At Chinese University
Tomsk Polytechnic University and Indian Institute of Technology Delhi will exchange students, faculty members and research experience
TPU: cooperation with Universities of China
TPU: partnership with Indian Universities
Universities of Russia in Vietnam - 2015
International Scientific Council of TPU visited the IIE&LC
Visit of the Foreign Delegation from PRC Embassy in Russia to Tomsk Polytechnic University
Lunar New Year
Russian for Mobility
I like the noodles = I like the children
Tomsk Polytechnic University Has Presented A New Logo
For the attention of foreign students!
Results of the VI annual University contest «Best short film in a foreign language»
Mongolia: yesterday, today and tomorrow…
Polytechnics want, can and will speak foreign languages
Dear Students and Teachers!
Attention! The competition BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE SHORT FILM 2014 to be held soon
Jack-o'-lantern at "Phoenix"
Tomsk Polytechnic University in 2015 plans to train more students from China
TPU's delegates warmly welcomed by Indonesian Universities
Forum Competition Won by TPU Student in Kaspiysk
National Day of the People's Republic of China Celebration in the International Cultural Center of TPU
Representatives of the Institute of International Education and Language Communication Took Part in the Seminar within "5-100" Programme
Mongolian Central Television to Shoot a Film about TPU
No Smile on the Face Does Not Mean Unamiability. We are just Earnest!
Jilin University's Intention to Send More Chinese Students to Study at TPU
TPU Delegates Proved Themselves as Active Participants in Events
Top Level Meeting
Visit of Royal Thai Embassy to IIELC
Summit of the Asian Network of Major Cities (ANMC21)
Vietnamese Students of TPU Discussed Job Prospects with Petrovietnam Representatives
International Scientific School «Resource-Efficient Technologies: Experience of Russia and Germany»
Tomsk Polytechnic University Took Part in the International Exhibition "Russian Education" in India
Foreign Lecturers from Asia on Training in TPU
The VIII All-Russia Contest of Scientific and Creative Works of International Students and Post-Graduates Completed
International Students of TPU Made Short Films to Tell About Their Life in Siberia
TPU Students Took the Third Place at the VII Festival of Russian Speech of Foreign Students from Russian Universities
Students of IIELC Commemorated Fallen Soldiers of the Second World War
Attention! Contest "The Best Short Film in a Foreign Language"
Real Russia in Siberia or Meeting with International Students
TPU Takes Part in Rossotrudnichestvo Project "Universities of Russia"
Ministry of Education of PRC Recommended Chinese Students to Study at TPU
Lunar New Year at TPU
TPU Foreign Students Won the Contest for the Tomsk Region Governor's Scholarship
Chess Tournament Took Place as Part of the "People's Friendship Cup"
The Student of TPU IIELC Traveled on the Friendship Train around China Cities
Results of the III contest "The Best Short Film in a Foreign Language"
Ph.D. Student from Iran is the First to Become a Candidate of Science in the History of the Department of Russian as a Foreign Language!
Mongolian Students Celebrated the Independence Day of Their Country in Style
The II Screening Tour of the «Golden Voice of Vietnam" Contest Took Place
Halloween Celebration at "Language for Mobility"
A piece of America in Tomsk
Students from Germany and Austria at "Language for mobility"
64th Anniversary of the People's Republic of China
Visit of Van Tao, Director of Beijing Company of Cultural Exchange "MOST"
Attention! Contest of Short Films in a Foreign Language
«Misfortune unites»
Golden Voice of Vietnam - 2013
Phoenix invites!
Lecturer Robert Bosh Foundation will teach German language in TPU
90 Foreign Students Received TPU Diplomas in 2013
An interactive exhibition «IMAGINARY: through the eyes of mathematics»
Admission for intensive course programme "Language for Mobility"
Results of the II competition of short films "The Best Short Film in Foreign Language"
Concert celebrating the National Day of the People's Republic of China
Friendly football tournament
Grand ceremony of diplomas distribution to IIELC graduates
Lilac alley
The Children's Day
Preparatory department students' visit to the Institute of natural resources
International chess tournament
Dear participants of the International Internet – academic competition in Russian as a foreign language
The VI All Russia national review competition of scientific and creative works of international students and postgraduates of Russian universities was completed
Chinese students know how to study even better!
Congratulations to the participants and winners of «Miss and Mister IIELC 2012» contest
A great event was held - «Dragons' summit»
Congratulations to all the students from China
TPU is the second among the technical universities of Russia
Starting new academic year
Students of the Institute of International Education and Language Communication got their long-awaited degrees
Results of the fifth All Russia fair of scientific and creative works of international students and post-graduates
Regional competition among the students learning Russian as foreign language
«The last bell» - 2011
Beauty contest "Miss Institute of International Education and Language Communication"
Celebration of Asian Lunar New Year
Mongolia's Independence Day
Tomsk Polytechnic University celebrated International Students' Day
Tomsk Polytechnic University Invention has been Highly Appraised in China
Tomsk Polytechnic University celebrated the Millennial Anniversary of Hanoi
In Strasbourg (France) European Salon of Inventions "Lepine Competition" (Concours Lepine Le'alon Europeen de l'invention) was held
The Branch of the Graduates' Association in the Socialist Vietnam's Republic is opened
The competition "Musical Polytechnic University" was held at TPU
The evening of the Persian poetry devoted to Omar Khayyam (1048 - 1122) was held at Tomsk Polytechnic University
Visit of the head of the Federal Agency for Education
Mysterious and Merry Lunar New Year was held at TPU
The President of the Russian Federation Mr. Dmitry Medvedev paid a visit to Tomsk
From Warm Africa to Wintry Siberia with the Aim to Reach an Agreement
International Reciter's Contest in the Institute for International Education and Language Communication
He, who does not know any foreign language, has no notion about his own
On the way of international scientific cooperation
Students from Vietnam take part in the campaign "hello"
Sixtieth anniversary of Foundation of People's Republic of China is celebrated in International Hostel of the Institute for International Education and Language Communication of TPU.
Tomsk Polytechnic University has become the National Research University of Resource-Effective Technologies
The Society of Russian-Vietnamese friendship visits "The star of Bethlehem"
Art competition "Bursts of Creativity"
Bell-ringing in Tomsk
Miss Institute for International Education and Language Communication - 2009
The Pancake festival 2009
Lunar New Year in Tomsk
New Year Greetings
Russia's Sukhinova crowned as new Miss World.
The Ambassador of Germany to Russia Mr. Walter Jürgen Schmid thanked TPU
In October 2007 Tomsk Polytechnic University became an associate member of T.I.M.E.
According to the Ministry of Education and Science of Russian Federation TPU ranked fifth out of 164 technical Universities in 2007.
The graduates of TPU Heriot-Watt Petroleum Engineering Approved Support Centre have been issued the diplomas
A Regional Centre for the German Language and Culture has been opened at TPU
"Druzhba" Festival in Novosibirsk State Technical University
Chinese Delegation
«Miss IIE& LC»
Russian Maslenitsa (A Pancake Week)
International Women's Day at IIE&LC
Eastern year of Rat
14 July 2016
Ahmed Ibrahim is going to get a postgraduate degree at Tomsk Polytechnic University. Since October 2015 Ahmed was having a language training at preparatory courses for undergraduate and postgraduate students within the unique program developed at TPU. This summer Ahmed has successfully passed all final exams and now he is preparing to study at the Institute of Power Engineering.
Ahmed obtained Bachelor's and Master's degree Diplomas at Zagazig University. Zagazig is located 76 km away from Cairo.
"Power engineering or rather alternative energy sources is my research field. I'm going to study methods of electricity generation from wind power at TPU", says Ahmed Ibrahim.
Nowadays development of alternative energy sources is one of the most essential scientific fields in Egypt.
"Our main task is to learn how to convert energy from natural environmental sources into electricity inexpensively and in large quantities. It is also one of the safest and most environmentally friendly ways of electricity generation", Ahmed Ibrahim.
Meanwhile, conditions for the development of such technologies in Egypt are quite favorable - sunny climate, and windy in deserts.
"You will probably ask me why I decided to leave hot, sunny country and move to Siberia? Firstly, I believe that Tomsk Polytechnic University is one of the best Russian universities. It is prestigious to study here. Secondly, TPU has a very profound power engineering school. It gives not only fundamental knowledge but also applied sciences. There are many good teachers and modern laboratories. It is worth studying here".
From October 2015 to June 2016 Ahmed has been studying at the preparatory course of the Institute of International Education and Language Communication within the unique program that prepares international students for studies at Tomsk Polytechnic University.
"I could not say a word in Russian when I came to Tomsk. Now I speak fluently and I can understand Russian without an interpreter. I believe it is my great achievement. I also studied Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Philosophy and other subjects. I had to study very hard. I even lost some weight during this time ", says Ahmed. In my free time I like to play football and tennis. Every Sunday I spent in the University gym with students from Vietnam who also came here to study Russian. We became good friends during that time. We went to the cinema together to watch movies in Russian and even walked around Tomsk."
After all final exams Ahmed is going to spend the rest of summer in Egypt, and in September he will continue his studies in Tomsk.
Tomsk Polytechnic University
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Police Shut Down Wild 'Project X' Party After Kids Post Public Invite on Craigslist [VIDEO]
In the movie 'Project X,' a few teenagers decide to raise their social rankings by throwing an epic party that goes wrong.
But here in the real world, doing that can get you in serious trouble — especially if you're dumb enough to post a public invite.
After some not-terribly-bright kids put a post on Craigslist in which they invited anyone and everyone to a "Crazy Project X Type Party" they were planning to throw at a barn on a vacant property in Collin County, Texas, police there got a tip and decided to be first revelers in attendance.
More than 400 people — including 100 juveniles — were turned away, and 14 of them were arrested on drug and alcohol charges. Deputies said if they hadn't intervened, things could've quickly spun out of control and resulted in physical and sexual assaults, plus extensive damage to the party site, which currently has a sale pending.
Kim Norris, who lives on neighboring property, said, "It was a sight to see out here that night. Starting at dark, the traffic started up and by 11 o'clock, there were literally hundreds of cars driving up and down our street."
"They were going to see if they could have the worst possible party they could," she added. "It's scary. It's really scary."

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Packers tight end Jermichael Finley was removed from the field on a stretcher after a shoulder-to-helmet collision in the fourth quarter of Sunday's game against Cleveland.
According to Kevin Harlan of CBS, Finley has "feeling in all of his extremities." Finley did appear to be moving his arms as he left the field.
According to the Packers, Finley has a neck injury.
Finley's head collided with Browns safety Tashaun Gipson's shoulder as the defensive back tackled Finley. Gipson was penalized on the play.
Finley suffered a concussion in the Packers' Week Three loss to Cincinnati, an injury that prompted his five-year-old son to tell him to give up the game.
Finley scored the game's first touchdown Sunday on a 10-yard first-quarter reception.


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EAST LANSING, Mich., March 25 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have announced the first-ever discovery of a two-headed bull shark, confirming it was a single shark with two heads, not conjoined twins.
Michigan State University researchers studying the specimen found in the uterus of an adult bull shark taken in the Gulf of Mexico April 7, 2011, said it was the first record of the phenomenon known as dicephalia ever seen in bull sharks although it has been seen before in other species of shark.
"This is certainly one of those interesting and rarely detected phenomena," MSU fisheries and wildlife Professor Michael Wagner said. "It's good that we have this documented as part of the world's natural history, but we'd certainly have to find many more before we could draw any conclusions about what caused this."
A fisherman found the two-headed specimen when he cut open the adult shark, Wagner said, and it died shortly thereafter.
It would have had little, if any, chance to survive in the wild, he said.
"You'll see many more cases of two-headed lizards and snakes," Wagner said in a university release Monday. "That's because those organisms are often bred in captivity, and the breeders are more likely to observe the anomalies."
An MRI scan revealed two distinct heads, hearts and stomachs with the remainder of the body joining together in the back half of the animal to form a single tail, the researchers said.


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'■".'..<} deeds trustee deeds * imissioner's deed sheriff is chattel mortgages ov for sale at this offic ' eap chattel mortgages • other blanks tor sale here iran mn r * a murphy having again organized for business have just opened a stock of goods entirely new and fresh in tbe room formerly occupied as the hardware store and next door to bingham & co to the inspection of which they most cor dially invite the public their entire stock was carefully selected by ibe senior mem ber of tb firm in person and bought at rates which will enable them to sell as low for cash as a ity ho 0 e i in lhe city for goods of same quality tlieir stock is gciicl'al embracing all the v.wioue branches of dry goods groceries crockery ware boots and shoes suu leather calf and binding skins grain and crass scythes cup letter and note paper ex ve lopes pens ink __•_*., and a beautiful assortment of mm aasmss tbey feel assured of their ability to give entire satisfaction and especially in vite old friends and customers to call and bring with them their acquaintances they expect aud intend to maintain llie reputation of the old murphy house which is well known throughout western xorth carolina all ihey ask is an ex amination of their stock and the prices no trouble to show goods so come right along their mot small profit read pro and quick sales with a good stock low prices fair dealing and prompt attention they will endeavor lo merit their share of the pub iic patronage they are in tbe market i'm all kinds nf produce and solicit calls iv mi both sellers and buyers r & a murphy robt murphy andrew murphy salisbury march 23 f 27:ly mills boyden wholesale am retail ei*aas©e:si:i__.^^i and commission merchants salisbury march 1st 1872 r p constantly on hand a large ami choice stock ..!' general merchandise - comprising dry goods groceries wares etc of which they would especially mention - sugar and coffee of all grades molasses ba on lard mii.i and upper leather shoes & boots hats bonnets prints mackrel salmon trout flour and meal soaps pepper and spicks tobacco liquors of all kinds always on haad of choice quality especial attention given to consign ments ami prompt returns made 24:tf a rare chance to secure a beautiful xx o 300c 3e3 * and valuable real estate consist in oi a modern and commodious honse am ple out buildings good water a fine large gar den and from 3 to 38 acres of excellent land all lying in the suburbs of salisbury ; all in i and elligible for building lots the above property is oneof the mosi desi rable in this part i ihe country and will l.e im r i c.l iii v •.:.! *■: !*\* she completion ot the contem plated rail roads to tl.is place persons in terested in such property are invited to call on ,•;* a li tin subscriber jno a bradshaw salisbury n (.'. a iii is 1s72 31:tf fancy hair work mrs s v terrell will do any kiud ' :' fancy hnir lvork !'•"•'.'. r braidws make nils switches or naiiieiits and jewelry setts : als make fami ly hair int wreaths and boou.*_s for terms call at her residence on church street west of the methodist church sam pies can be seen at s w tbb__eli/,3 store on inr.iss street may i 187 34tf [ published by request of the authoress a southern heko a true stoky how lonely is the house to-niglit it still and silent as the tomb so low has burned the fire light its fitful glare makes fitful gloom that lingers bout the silent room dancing o'er tbe painted wall willi a strange unearthly glow in the form of death's dark pall falling in bhadowa long and low bringing to memory days now gone — iiark days of sorrow and woe lja-i scenes now crowd upon ine fast both form and scenes ut long ago alas alas and i ii just i'l at now those tonus are lying low all crumbling to their native dust it brings to mine that bitter day that took all joy from my young life twos then onr darling went away t mix within tbe batik's strife twas then he joined onr southern band who went to light the coming foe they wont to free our sunny hind and lay the vile invader low our hearts with misery hei were filled and on our lives there fell a blight whilst every joy ol life was stilled for now oui house must sink in night for he the star that beamed so bright the only brother dear hud we must leave his parents kindred all and go obey that stern decree in answer to his country's call our father had been gone all day from home and had not yet returned ; our brother too was gone away ; but soon a dreadful truth we learned for when the sable night bad n eared he came and sought onr parlor room ; and to'd us then he'd volunteered oh ( rod ! the grief that wrung our hearts when this dread news struck on the ear ; none knew but lie who strength imparls to bear the cross without a tear but oh our hearts were filled with woe when ihus was broke the home band link how could we let our dear one go ( h bitter was the cup to drink i -;:- * -::- * * * * he looked so handsome brave and grand as on the morn he marched away to tight for this our southern land o'er hi.s fair face a smile did play ; and in his dark eyes gleamed a light which said dear mother weep no more for with ood's belli i'll do the right and when this war dear mother's o'er and 1 have won the wreath of fame then to vour arms i'll come again ; come with a glory covered name and bring you joy for every pain alas alas for lour long years uur southern heros fought in vain whilst friends at home were shelling tears involved in ruin care and pain oh where was he our cherished one who had been gone from home so long ah had his earthly race been run or was he doing right or wrong ( ih be had kept hi.s promise well aiid kept his place upon the field where thickly till the ball an.l hell ; and where llie strongest soldier reeled as thick and fast the death-shot hew an.l loud the artilery pealed yes at his post he stood him true stern courage written on his face whilst towered high his noble form that rising form of manly grace which well might brook the battle's storm four long years sped wearily by but oh the south had sunk in gloom all o'er the land the orphan's cry bewailed her dire and dreadful doom for northern leagues oppressed her now whilst cold within the silent tomb lay our gallant jackson's brow ; and many brave men too had sunk ah sunk alas to rise no more since first the south wiih blood got drunk and when the cruel war was o'er t'wjis ihen we saw ur darling one but oh so changed in form and faee the mother scarcely knew her son bar gone lhe boy-hood's tender grace and dim the once bright sparkling eye and sad ihe high and noble brow how oil i've heard lhe mother sigh l\.r him who's sweetly sleeping now he stayed with us a few short years our own dear darling noble boy ; llul oft there came cold sick'ning fears that soon would end our earthly joy we saw tin hush that often crept i i to his cheek so while and pale we saw how feeble grew his step and from our hearts there rose a wail of anguish deep and still — a wail that could nol be repressed and through our hearts there went a thrill of ] iin that would not let us rest at la there came a dreadful day when he was stricken down in death while yet upon his bed he lay wiih fading eye and heaving breath his words were these oh father now in st paul's place i sweetly rest he spoke no more cold grew his brow — he's living now amid the blest thy work is done ob brother sleep no angry winds can reach thee now ; thy slumber too is calm and deep — ■no troubles can assail thee now then rest mv brother sweetly rest within that sweet and holy spot for thou art now amid lhe i lest and ble.-s'd are thev who find thy lot cede deo _ m*^m • — north carolina news items is there no remedy — the u s circuit court is now in its fourth week and since its commencement there have been in tlio city a large number of kn kiux so called defendants and witnesses who have not a yet been permitted a hearing and have exhausted every ex pedient to come before tbe court these men or a large majority of them are poor and unable to pay hotel bills and arc necessarily compelled to shift about us best ibej can wc learned n yesterday lhal many o them arc getting sick and if something is rot speedly done lor them the consequences will be awful we visited on yesterday a young man from sampson n cl fendant in a ku kluz case who was lving dangerously ill in a smaii garret room n fayettevilie street s close and uncomfortable lhat a well nun could no more thai survive three days confinement i:i it and yet it was the best he could do we ask in the name of humanity if something cannot be done by the court to relieve these poor unfortunates either let them be tried or recognized — raleigh news the amended bankrupt law under our ftate constitution and laws poor deltois are allowed a homestead of the value of 81,000 and personal proper ty of the value of 500 the homestead is exempt from sale under execution du ring the ter«a of his natural ipe the life of his wife and until his youn^st child arrives at the age of twenty years the personal property is exempt only during the term of his own 1 and goi s to his personal representatwea at his death after that the homestead reverts to his creditors for the satisfaction of his debts until afier that time the rever i sion cannot be sold under the state laws if the debtor improves his land by build i ing or otherwise so as te increase its value il is liable to a re-assessment if be acquires property of any fe id it is li able to be seized as soon as acquired and s.dd under execution if he makes any money he is liable to be harrassed by sup plemental proceedings he is therefore left without any incentive to further ex ertion than may be necessary to furnish a bare subsistence for his family ileean not hope to educate his children and fit theui for society and for the great duties of life lie can only expect after his death to see them thrown upon the cold charities of the world homeless and pen nyless without any preparation to meet the difficulties that must confront them and in the meantime his creditors have gained nothing they are no belter off than they would have been had ihey re cipted the debtor in full and discharged him from all his obligations at the close of the war for what they may be able to obtain from the reversion of a worn-out and exhausted homestead which may not fall in for a quarter ofa cent ury tliey would have gained from the increased prosperi ty of the country is there no remedy for this state of things . there is it is furnished by the recent amendment to the general bankrupt law as amended the bank rupt law aillows to the bankrupt 81,000 worth of personal property or money — it also allows him a homestead worth 81,000 precisely as it is allowed by our state constitution and laws for in adopting the suae homestead and person al property exemptions the bankruptlaw adopts them sub modo it exempts to the bankrupt precisely the same eetate in the properly thai the state law does butit discharges him front all his indebtedness it enables him to commence lhe world anew it makes him once more a free man he may then appropriate his earn ings to the purposes whicli god and na ture intended lie should appropriate them — to the support of his family and the edu tion of his children if he makes more than he finds necessary for these purposes then he is morally hound to pay the bals ance on his debts the impression seems to prevail that where judgments have been docketed against a debtor they create a lien upon his homestead and that consequently he will lose it it he goes into bankruptcy but this is a mistake the particular es tate created by the homestead law is exempt from execution our supreme court has decided that docketed judgments do not attach to and bind the homestead estate but only the reversion the bankrupt therefore so lar as his homestead is con cerned will be left precisely where the state law leaves him but he will be al lowed s500 more in personal property it is true that llie bankrupt courts will order the reversion oi remainder ofhis homestead lo le sold but how much worse off will he be for that i he can't possibly be any icorse off andhemaybea i great dadbetler off as lhe money arising from the sale ofthe reversion must o iu almost every instance to pay the expen ses of the bankrupt proceedings no credi tor wiil be specially interested in bidding for it in most instances it will sell for a ! mere song and the friends ol the bank ' nipt will buy it for him and allow him to i redeem it in this way most ol the bank ' i opts mav soon become the owners of their j homesteads in fee simple in any event 1 he will have all that lhe slate homestead ! and exemption laws allow him and mu0 i more if he happens to have it when be , files bis petition in bankruptcy at the i same time he will be discluzrgedfrom all | his debts this must necessarily be so un ! less the decision of om supreme court in i hoi ps kesler should be reversed on an ! appeal to the supreme coin ofthe uni ■ted staks in that event the homestead i can only be secured by the operation of | the bankrupt law so it is plain that the i only entirely safe course for debtors who are deeply involved is to take advantage ofthe amended bankrupt law while they j may for there is a strong party in the j country iu favor of its repeal and they ' may succeed davidson i j itm the subject has been under discission : among our citizens of purchasing the en : tire block where the court honse former j ly stood and setting it apart as a public ! square with the new court house in the | centre the property can be purchased [ at a moderate figure and we trust earn • cstly that the movers iu this happy un dertaking may be successful 1 he city needs a public square bas i needed one for a long time and no better opportunity will ever be presented of securing one in an eligible place a few mills on the dollar of taxation will accom plish ir and then we wiil have something of which our little city may be proud a meeting will be held to-uight at odd fellow's ball to take this suhject under discussion when it is hoped there will be a full attendance of our citizens greensboro patriot it is expected that senator wilson of massachusetts republican uotninae for vice president will be in this state for the pur pose of canvassing by the 1st of july grant's horses houses dog j carts etc a long branch correspondent of the world is writting up the personnel sur rounding of gen grant there we quote **. some of the newspaper men have said | that lie brought eleven horses here from ' washington the president's horses and j gen porter's came together and that j caused undoubtedly the misstatement of his static the president has but seven j horses — a pair of large carriage horses three ofthe trotting bpecies and two used * lot hacking by the young grants and for marketing the carriage horses are mag i nificeut creatures of kentucky stock and cosl s2 000 the faster trotting horses are not so grand or imposing hut cosl more while the others are ordinary horses with no considerable value his carriages consist of a barouche a dog cart a light wagon for speed in trot ting and a pony phaeton the stable i.s splendidly furnished with harnesses for the various turnout saddles i briddles and clothing indeed it is just j such a stable as you might expect con j sideling the president's great taste and j judgment in this direction i made au i estimate of the cost of his stable which | will liot be found to be far out of the way : 2 can iage horses s's.ooo 3 trotting horses thev cost more 3,900 2 ordinary horses 3,00 1 barouche 1,200 1 dog cart 1,000 1 trotting wagon 350 1 phaeton 150 harnesses saddlep clothing mc 1,050 total 9,950 iiis dog cart the president's dog-cart is considered the most stylish thing of the kind ever seen here it is bis favorite vehicle i saw it pass up ocean avenue let me describe it : here is a sensation the childien on the porch drop theip playthings the croquet ting maiden leans on her mallet and lhe jersey gardener lost in admiration for the approaching show stands holding a bunch of weeds he has just pulled do yon see that pair of large well matched bay horses ? indeed the van so much alike incolor shape and action vou conclude at once i some horse parly lias had a hand in the buying of these for their fortunate owner and theliarness too—bright,massive ly golden and georgeous — are strictly in keeping with the magnificence of the horses : so that so far as both of these are concerned you are also reminded of lhe equipages of the wealthy and aristocratic if your thoughts have ever turned in that din ction 15ut still more conspicuous as they ap proach you are the driver and his com panion jet isn't a circumstance to the black ness of their faces ; while their costumes are white corduroy and white flannel trimmed with silver with white tap boots as nearly as you can make out ; and he contrast between their costumes and los sy hats and faces is as marked and distinct as that • f daylight aud darkness the taller holds the reins but lie is equal to the emergency and so far as the unpractised white eye can determine there is not a ripple of any kind on his nubian face the shinier seems entirely for orna ment and sits with his arms folded across big chest — a black and wl.it monument to wealthy and social greatness the carriage is sueh as the fox hunting people ol another country g > to the meet with the part whereon sit lhe driver and his ally is cotisich rably elevated above the rest while the rear which by the boh briton is us for tin transportation ol hi bird logs is here converted into a seat for the proprietor of ail tins 1 isky splendor perhaps you like carriages painted yel low — tis altogether a matier oi':a.-t — and if so vou would like this one for the sides and under parts are pale yellow not a sickly bnt a sort of an aristocratic p.etieal pale while the rest of the vehicle is black and that man there with around head surmounted by a white stovepipe hat with a face that don't indicate anything you would be likely to mistake for great ness but seems to give show both ' i thi larder and the cellar why that the president says the honest jersey gar dener 1 * .**. ' ' , oh yes i knew that team tia just the biggest fetch on this shore stran ger . . von don't mean to tell me that this is the man 1 saw on a bay horse near the apple-tree in virginia .'" i don't know nothing about no vir ginia apple-tree but that's giant tbe president of the united states and them bays and the niggers just lay over any thing 1 ever saw gen leach and p 1 morehead address ed ;, urge number of people al co shops monday evening if the voters of ala ftance evince the same interest in the issues of the day that the people about ;!,.. shops do we *.*■ill carry alain mce countv l.v four bundred at least gret nsboro patriot the great northwest the groui l swell is beginning the people are gett % tired of waiting for baltimore j hi . hold in any longer all the prames wrapt inflame before november th wheat cr«p in surry bounty is better thin it haa been foryeara noi-i.k einimknis we make the following extracts from tbe speech of gov palmer at decatur i'll whit a noble contrast it bears lo the proscriptive haw 1 ings of the radical leaders who mistake passion fur patriotism and hate for ntutes ii;-ii-hip if such men as palmer were in power we might look for peace indeed now i come to one question about which there is some difference if vou elect jen grant you retain in power men who like morton insist that there is still a fight between the boys iu blue ai d the boys in gray ; the class who are al ways appealing to the public prejudices always eager that there shall be some grounds of bitter btrife in the country that they may have the benefit of the popular cry but it you elect horace greeley — you recollect the admirable language ofhis letter — the people will shake bands over-ibis period of blood and we shall be brethren again the question ia often asked whal i < rermany ' doing with the vast sums . f money wrong from france in the shape ofa war indemnity '.* the whole amount which france is to pay ii ots ap ' somewhat in excess of 1,441,4s7,96 thalers ofthis sinn however france receives back 86,066,666 thalers for therailways of alsace and ' loraine ihe german governmenl 1ms used this sum tiis in aiding and restoring the pi . vinces previously annexed giving 36,700,000 thalers to per an i coi pi • ttions whose pi property wasdestroyed and spending 11,440 00 thalers in replenishing ihe rolling stock on the railway lines large sums hav been paid to tbe families of the land-wher ; 4,01 * * * tl den have been distributed among tin -. ful gen erals and ten lime thai sum has been set apart as a reserve fond for the next war it can thus he seen that germany not only makes france pay for the past war but also furnish funds to forge chains for herself in the future this isa sad conclusion to a *.*■ar comm nci d ■'■r the pur pose of upholding an imperial dynasty in france — philadelp ia age judge settle of north carolina who presided over the great convention at phila delphia was an outspoken secessionist he fore the war and subsequently a captain in the rebel army what a howl would m up from the grant camp should ihe coining democratic national convention seled a con federate captain to preside over its delibera tions ! cheertxg news proji old johxsox — a private letter from a prominent citizon of julius ni county to a gentleman in this city savs the democrats and conservatives are at work in earnest johnson will un doubtedly poll a larger conservative majori ty than ever before constitutional amendments passed in the house of representatives i january 17 ls~i2 an act to alter the constitution of north carolina the general assembly of jsorth carolina do ei'.ae three-fifths of ail ihe members of each house concurring i thai the constitution el this statt be altered as follow to wit : amend section six of the lir.-i article hy striking ont the firsi clause thereof down to and inch ling the word " but :" this being thei lause relating to the state debt amend section two of the second article by striking out the word " annually and inserting in lieu thereof the word biennially being in reference to the sessions of the general as sembly amend section fiv of the second article by striking out all that precedes the words the said senate districts and by striking out the phrase as aforesaid or in said - *.. :. ; the parts so stricken oat having reference to tin suite census add i new section to the second arti 1 to i i stvled " section 30 and to read as follows — the members of the general .'*. ably shall each receive three hundred dollars ;■■a m pensation for tin ir sen ices during their term suhject to si datitin in regard to time i i pavment and reduction for non-attendance as may be prescril 1 by law bul they may have an additional allowance when they are called tog ther iu -• • cial session and mih age shall lu ten ct nts p r mile for eai li sessi . amend si iion one of the third article by striking out the nor is * yeai *•*," wher occur first in - :; 1 section and inserting in li i thereof the w rd " two years heing in refer ence to the terms of i sccntive offici rs strike out the word " su ■tinti ndi nl ofpuh ;; ■works \, iii revi r they <■enr in the < ttitii : . tliii aboli ' ■■■ce ameud ' ' of the tlii e by : strikii g oul the w rd annually " an i in serting in lieu thereof the word **:•'• nnial y so as to conform t the provisions re specting the sessions of the general as bly . , 1 strike out sections two and three ol the -' . irtb arti le b ng the pn *...<•..;•• ! fer to the appointment aud dul es • i thi ( ode < ommissioni . • ■alter s ction :' ui of the fo u th article - ■that said si ction shall readasf •■- : *■'! i ** ■idicial power ■•:' tl -' sh be ve a curt for the trial of in ••• ts a .*- i preme court superior courts sue i * courts as may be establisl i ■! by law au i ( ourts of justici of tin peac am i secti eight of the f dd ■■a e i all re i : the su ■■■■■•■c urt sha justice and two associate 1 tic : .' ./■i ti at this sl il not ap ; to 1 * during their pn -• at term i :' office * by death resi n or a ■' * ber of ass ciate justices shall be reduci tl to two alter sectii i twelve of ihe :' rtl : so that said ■• shall read as th state shall be dividi •": into □ *.* : eial .. sl icts i r • acl f whicl judges be chosen and in each district a s • courtshall be !.* id at least twice year i ntiaue for such ti ne :*. • iv i spectively as n ay be | the genei il ass tricts : ■: d ■■time so ju ig s .. ay be chosen and beg al term at thi : -* .* • ■■■• • '• be-s of i g era assembl - after : e ratific ition ol the general a ; reduce of districts to tafc al the en of < ■■'""'• • sl ike out -■*■' t-en of 1 * * ' tri "**■.... amei i section i * f the 1 • .- by strikiug * '■■'-' **• .':';■■." and ii i strick '- ' : - ■' * : • assen bly sh * - • . ! rotation i * • idge i u thes i trict t rice iu s ......,-..-■■also ,-:..-! tange disi . ' may be prov ded by ui section r ■•■'■oi the f urth ar tide a j insert in lien tl ereof the f-diow ing liit generala seuibly shall have uu p •• *• er to 1 ; rive the judicial department of any p ■• • ; or jurisdiction which rightfully - * it as a coordinate department i ' the general assembly shall allot and te tl kt rti":i of this power and ju ■'*. d es not pertain to the su ;. ■.. g the < ther courts pre n this coustit or m hich may be ishi i snch u anner as it ma deem best also a proper si stem by l<t w when ; - iry ;! •■metl ■1 of proceeding in the exercise of their * vers of all the court the t e c .: t s , far as the same ithi .: c inflict with other pro visions ■: tnis c utii u si ont sections sixteen seven :,,*.:. twenty five and thirty-three of tie :' mrth article am ei 1 section twenty-six of tbe fourth article i y striking out all that part which 1 •■e:ns with and follows the word but ia said section aud in lieu pf the part so stricken out inserting the following — 1 he judicial officers and the clerks ofa courts which may be established bylaw shall be chosen by the vote of the qualified electors and for such term as may be pre scribed hv law t »■voters of each pre cinct established as is e's.-vvhere provided for in this con , shall elect two jus tices oi the peace for such term as may be fixed by law whose jurisdiction shall ex ad throughout their respective counties the ral a •■bly n . provide for the elec ;' more than two justices fi the peace in those precincts which contain cities or towns ur i:i which ther special reasons ren der it expedient the chief magistrates cm and incorporated towns shall have i . alp wers of justices of the peace amend section thirty of the fourth article byst'iking out t1 ■• word township and serting iu lieu thereof tbe word pre cincts also in the last sentence uf tbe same section sti ke oul the words the commis sioners of the county may appoint to such . i fur ihe unexpired term and in lieu i hereof insert au appointment to till such vacancy for the unexpired term shall be made as may he prescribed by hue amend sections one and seven of the ti th article by striking onl the words oo-dmis sioners of the several connties wherethej occur in said sections and in lieu thereof in serting the words county authoriiies es tablish il and authorized by law strike oul section four of the fifth article relating to taxation to pay the state debt and interest amend section six of the lit'th article bj inserting after the word instrument in said secti ut the words or any other per s i'.il propel ty insert the word ami before the word surveyor in section one of tbe 7th article and strike oul ii words and five commis sioners in said seetion also add t said section the lollowing the general as sembly shall provide for a system of county goveruineul for the several counties of the state amend section two of the seventh article by striking out the word commissioners and in i'i thereof inserting the words e untv authoriti s established and authorized l,v law and in the same section strike out the words the register of deeds shall he ex officio clerk o the board of commission ers ' strik out si ction three of the seventh ar ticle and in lieu thereof insert the following ti county autl orities estahlishcd and an i tho iz.-.l by law shall seethat the respective countii s are dividi 1 into a suitable number sub divisions as compact and convenient in shai '* as ] ' marked out hy de finite boundai es ivi ici may be altered when sa i sul livisi - shall be known acts they shall have 1.7 r ... ate powers th township jjov ents are abolished the boundariesof t ,. pr chiefs shall 1 the same which here 1 1 fore il bui d the tow uships until they shall ! e altered strik - four five six ten and en of thi th article which relate to ish i p sy st . amend sections eight and nine ofthe .,.*. m article by striking out the words or . nships « io re they occur in said sections ui sect i tl :•■•• of tl ninth article .* : the general assembly shall make suitable pro vision ' nn magement and regu lation ol the ] •'*■■is and for * erfect ing the systi re public instruction sjtril •• nl section sve of the ninth article thereof insert the following : • pi .■general assembly bhall ha powerto provide for the eh ction ol i •■' iie i'niversity of n rth can lina in . horn i ,, -. . . dl be vi -•• d all the pri ■g -, rights fran diisi - and ( udow mi - eto grai *• d t or <*■ferred np on the li .. d ol '!-•',- of said universi ty i gem i assembly may make .•.,.;, pri.vi reg itions from i • me :. i y be necessary and ex pedient f ■■' "■nance ai i a . ige i university * irteen f art en aud • fg to tbe j ■* ;, • i . a • : -••*• -. . ... the ■'•■*'. ntl ■tide by striking s-ord a1 the charge of * •■state " by the • rn property ed in this < tion or it owl ill be ' tin sl * - . f the teentb ar that said read asfol : • ; . ol any ol trust ' .... ler ••'•:-*.'" ! or . . ■■f trust or . the aui hority _ be i . • a sea in eit general ass . ■i ■■1 it nol rag extend to justici ' pe . '-• ' ■- speci p ■to the foortheenth w e to bi ••.*■' -•" and to n , ... i • ■ic>-s of ' . -.■offices ale _■.* '■■;' ■"•:• the i • .* ■*..-•■til ai ;■provil ..- ■. order i give •- . •' - thealteral **, so fai as relates - . - . ers shall • le li i ber the seel thosi articles f i - is 1 •■••:. stricken en t another in its stead i and give to any new section that number ethod ■: have 1,,-en given for which it it subsrited and tlterat hall be e_nb died t j th i oonstitution and the • a sections nnni . bi*r»d e*ns mt * ly
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Office Hours and Phone Numbers
Housatonic Community College
Continuing Education
900 Lafayette Boulevard, Bridgeport, CT 06604
Beacon Hall Room 274 (Second Floor)
Office Hours: Monday - Thursday, 7:30 am - 6 pm; Friday, 7:30 am - 5 pm; Saturday and Sunday Closed
State Holidays Closed
General Information: 203.332.5057
Registration: 203.332.5057
Fax: 203.332.8558
On Campus Emergencies: ** and 9-911
Campus Security: Beacon Hall - 203.332.5040; Lafayette Hall - 203.332.5025
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Public Transportation
HCC is served by Greater Bridgeport Transit Authority (GBTA) (buses), Metro North (rail service) and The Bridgeport and Port Jefferson Steamboat Company (Ferry).
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Registration Form
A registration form can be found by clicking here.
Registration & Program Availability
Registration in any program may be made via the instructions outlined in the Registration section of this web portal. As registrations are accepted on a first-made, first-confirmed basis, we encourage registering early. Because most programs are maintained with strict census limitations, wait lists will be established for programs which exceed capacity. All space is subject to availability.
Program Fees
Program fees include attendance and participation in the selected program, specifically listed materials, and specifically listed activities. No other materials nor activities are included. Meals and/or beverage breaks are included only if specifically mentioned in individual program descriptions. Travel and lodging are not included. We will be happy to provide local hotel accommodation referrals upon request. HCC will not be liable for unusable of non-refundable transportation tickets purchased or other expenses incurred in anticipation of participation in a program that is cancelled for any reason.
Payment Policy & Forms of Payment
Payment for individual program registrations may be made by personal or company check, money order, purchase order (bill-to-company), or by utilizing MasterCard, Visa, or Discover credit cards. Bill-to-company instructions must be approved in writing by an authorized agent of the company. Full payment is expected at registration for individual enrollments prior to participation in the program. Fees include instruction, specifically referenced learning instructional materials, specifically referenced food and beverage service, and use of related facilities during the period established for instruction.
You must submit your registration form with 100% FULL PAYMENT in order to enroll in Continuing Education courses. You may use a credit card (Visa, MasterCard, or Discover), cash, check, or money order to pay for a Continuing Education course. Please make the check or money order, for the amount of your fees, payable to Housatonic Community College.
Confirmation Letter
You will receive a Confirmation Letter in the mail within days of registering for a Continuing Education course. The letter includes the class meeting days, times and room number. It also includes information on textbooks (if required) and has an attached Temporary Parking Pass.
Tax Deduction For Educational Expenses
Program fees and expenses for professional development purposes (including travel, meals and lodging) paid to maintain and improve professional skills may be tax deductible. HCC recommends that you seek the advice of the IRS or a qualified tax adviser to determine your individual status.
Special Needs & Accommodations
HCC conducts its programs in barrier-free facilities. Prior arrangements to provide special assistance or accommodations must be requested directly through the Disabilities Support Services Office by calling 203.332.5018 at least five business days in advance of the accommodation need. Please also advise your registration consultant at the time you register.
Transcript Information
A complete, computerized record of each professional development activity attended is maintained for those individuals satisfactorily completing a non-credit seminar, workshop, course or program, which awards CEUs. Individuals can request transcripts of Continuing Education records, since the inception of the record keeping protocol. Call Continuing Education at 203-332-5057. A nominal service charge may apply for transcripts.
Continuing Education Units
Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are awarded upon satisfactory participation in non-credit programs offered by Housatonic Community College based on the national standard developed by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training. The criteria for awarding CEUs is based on the ten criteria issued by that organization. One (1) CEU is defined as "ten contact hours of participation in an organized continuing education experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction, and qualified instruction." An hour of time is based on the sixty (60) minute hour. "Satisfactory participation" at HCC non-credit programs is defined as either 80% participation (attendance) in attendance monitored programs or 80% pass rate on programs utilizing objective evaluations or the passing grade determined by other regulating authorities.
CEUs are not convertible to degree program credits. Specialized versions of certain CEUs such as state board certified (SB-CEUs) or Life Education Units (LEUs) are utilized in certain professional areas. Where such specialized credits are awarded, those credits conform to the standards of the monitoring or regulating institution/association.
Certificates of Participation
Certificates of Participation are awarded upon satisfactory completion of each non-credit program. Individual participants will receive a certificate suitable for framing. The certificate indicates only that the individual satisfactorily met the attendance requirements for the program.
Certification Programs
Certification programs provide participants the opportunity to enhance current skills and increase opportunities for success by participation in an objective evaluation process. Participants satisfactorily completing each program evaluation within a carefully planned sequence of individual courses earn Certification in a specially designated discipline/content area. Certification programs, where applicable, are described in detail within this web portal.
Group Sales
Account Representatives are available to provide assistance for group training activities. Every training program outlined on this website can be delivered at your location, or anywhere you need us. In addition, any program can be customized to your exacting group needs. Special discounts for groups or on-site/in-house corporate programs, etc., may apply for certain program types. Please contact an account representative at 203.332.5150 for additional information.
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Advice & Consultation
For information about proper placement within programs according to skill, ability, or program content levels, call and speak to a Program Associate at 203.332.5057. Assistance will be offered according to the information which you provide. We are pleased to help you in any way possible.
Laboratory Access
Some non-credit computer seminars and workshops offer hands-on instruction in one of the dedicated computer classrooms located on campus. Because these facilities are extensively scheduled for a complete array of program offerings, additional laboratory time is not included in the program fee. Some instructional programs require or suggest additional computer time to complete assignments or practice related exercises. We suggest that participants have access to a personal computer at another location to complete supplementary exercises or use one of the HCC open labs during normal operating hours.
Books & Other Materials
Textbooks may be required for your class. If a textbook is required, it may be at an additional cost. Your Confirmation Letter will let you know if required textbooks are needed for your class. Do not purchase the textbook(s) more than one week before your class begins, in case of cancellation. Textbooks are available to purchase in the Campus Bookstore. Sometimes other materials are needed for a course (i.e. paint & brushes, drawing pads, etc.) When additional materials are required, they will be listed with your confirmation letter.
Special Interests
If you have an idea for a course that you would like to see offered, or if you would like to teach a course, call 203.332.5057.
Campus Bookstore
The campus bookstore is located in Beacon Hall Room 137.
Phone: 203.335.2949
Hours: Please call the bookstore for current hours
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Smoking is not permitted within any campus building or in the Central Courtyard. Smoking is allowed on campus in 2 specially designated areas.
Changes to Program Offerings
HCC reserves the right to modify or cancel programs and substitute presenters without notice at HCC's own discretion. If a course is cancelled, Continuing Education makes every effort to promptly notify all registered students by phone. A full refund is automatically processed, unless the program participant elects to transfer to another course or section. (See Refund Policy).
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. – After carrying a no-hitter into the sixth inning of Saturday's 15-1 victory over Harvard, junior left-hander Vinny Lally has been honored by the Ivy League as its co-Pitcher of the Week. Lally allowed just three hits and one earned run in seven innings of work to earn his team-best sixth win of the season.
On the season, Lally is 6-2 with a 4.93 earned run average. The southpaw, who faced the minimum through 3.1 innings on Saturday, has 47 strikeouts in a team-best 49.1 innings of work. In Ancient Eight play, Lally is 2-2 with a 4.67 ERA.
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Wildmon and co-hosts alleged conspiracy between "mainstream media" and undocumented immigrants "to weaken the Red States"
The American Family Association's Don Wildmon, Fred Jackson, and Ed Vitagliano claimed the "mainstream media" have a "vested interest" in promoting recent nationwide immigrant rights rallies: to swell Democratic voter rolls and, ultimately, "to weaken the Red States."
On the April 10 broadcast of American Family Radio's AFA Report, American Family Association founder and CEO Don Wildmon, AFR news director Fred Jackson, and AFA Journal news editor Ed Vitagliano claimed the "mainstream media" have a "vested interest" in promoting recent nationwide immigrant rights rallies: to swell Democratic voter rolls and, ultimately, "to weaken the Red States."
From the April 10 broadcast of AFA Report:
JACKSON: You talk about confusion that's out there many times. You look at how the mainstream media's covering these protests today. Over and over and over again, I have seen the mainstream media calling these "pro-immigration" rallies. And I look at those headlines and I say, "Wait a minute, this is not about immigration -- it's about illegal immigration." That's what's going on here, but the mainstream media is trying to color this.
WILDMON: Tell me why ABC, NBC, and all the others -- tell me why they are pro-illegal immigration. Tell me why they are putting the illegal immigration front and center as being, basically, the right thing to do is to accept these people who have come in illegally -- I'm not talking about the legal, now -- tell me why. Because they've got some vested interest. The mainstream media doesn't give promotion to something they don't agree with. Are they saying these people will come in and vote liberal? That's the only thing I can figure out.
JACKSON: I think there are a couple things. They are making the immediate assumption that all of these 12 to 20 million people who are living in the country illegally came in here because they are oppressed -- every one of them are oppressed. And they had to get out of that country or they would die. That's one thing. But number two, number two: And I have heard a number of stories on this on the weekend, some of these illegal immigrants being quoted on radio as saying, "Whatever party gives me my legal status here, I will vote for them forever." So, yes. Because we know the vast majority of mainstream journalists are liberal in their theology and in their politics, they see these people as helping to vote Democrat in the coming elections.
WILDMON: So they could carry Florida and Texas.
JACKSON: California.
WILDMON: California.
JACKSON: New York. All of those places.
WILDMON: What you're saying -- this is a way to weaken -- which state is the Repuplican party in? Is that the red or the blue?
VITAGLIANO: Republican is red, I believe it is.
WILDMON: This is a way to weaken the Red States.
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North Carolina State came inquiring again with Western Alamance rising senior Brock Deatherage and this time he took the Wolfpack�s offer to play baseball.
Deatherage gave coach Elliott Avent a verbal commitment Tuesday during a visit to campus.
It came less than a week after he withdrew from a similar commitment he made to rival North Carolina more than a year ago, citing the need to find a better fit and suggesting he rushed into the decision only midway through his high school years.
�It�s a big relief,� Deatherage said after the latest recruiting trip to Raleigh. �I got there and that�s where I needed to be. We spent a lot of time with Coach Avent and Coach (Chris) Hart and they made me a great offer.�
Deatherage, a center fielder who also has perked the interest of professional scouts, can ink a national letter-of-intent during the November signing period.
He said N.C. State�s academic offerings are more in line with his interests in agriculture and engineering. He�s likely to pursue course studies in one of those areas, he said.
Deatherage, a standout defensive back and receiver in football, said he�ll be done with that sport when Western Alamance�s season ends this autumn. He had been a football recruiting target of N.C. State (before the coaching change last November) and other colleges for that sport.
N.C. State baseball coaches reached out after Deatherage pulled back from North Carolina. He originally received a baseball offer from the Wolfpack about 14 months ago. He said it was one of the first he had received.
�It has been a long time,� he said. �I had no clue they were still interested. We�ve always enjoyed State, the coaches there and the facilities.�
He grew up an N.C. State fan and his family has supported the Wolfpack.
�He�s tickled to death and we were, too,� said David Deatherage, his father. �It�s a lot of pluses for him.�
North Carolina and N.C. State played in the College World Series this year, so they rank among the top baseball programs nationally.
Senior Brett Williams was N.C. State�s center fielder this year, with rising junior Jake Fincher (who batted .313) potentially moving to that spot from right field. Fincher could be a 2014 draft prospect. That would leave an opening by the time Deatherage arrives.
�They�re giving me a very, very good opportunity to compete and play center field as a freshman,� he said.


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Team Vortech will debut supercharged ponycar at SEMA 2013 auto show
What do you do if you're looking for a 2014 Ford Mustang GT in yellow? Sorry folks, Ford doesn't offer that color as an option. We suppose the next best thing would be to build your own, right? Well, that's precisely what the Vortech team accomplished this year for the 2013 Specialty Equipment Manufacturer Association (SEMA) show in Las Vegas, Nevada, November 5th – 8th. This year, the Vortech project ponycar, "Yellow Jacket," is debuting at the 2013 SEMA auto show. It's equipped with a rockin' 5.0-liter Coyote V-8, topped with a Vortech V-3 Si supercharging system feeding 7.5 psi of boost. This exclusive yellow 2014 Ford Mustang GT is capable of a whopping 605 horsepower, and a stump-pulling 473 lb-ft of torque.
"As a lifelong Ford fan, I was inspired to create this project car when I realized Ford doesn't offer yellow on the 2014 Mustang," Brian Ellis, sales, marketing and social media manager for AirPower Group, said. "We wanted to create something really eye-popping with a mechanical package to match the appearance."
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The Yellow Jacket also sports exterior and interior features that make it ever more distinctive. A 3D Carbon's Boy Racer kit was installed to give the car a more aggressive look, while a carbon-fiber cowl induction hood helps reduce weight and draw more air into the engine bay. Carbon accents from TruFiber help lighten the car and give it a unique look, while a Webasto electronic sunroof gives the passengers a look at the sky. What's most visually impressive is the custom paint supplied by DuPont that gives the 2014 Ford Mustang GT a color otherwise unobtainable from the factory.
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Small Business, Big Impact: Celebrating Our Country and Small Businesses
Small Business, Big Impact: Celebrating Our Country and Small Businesses
Independence Day is right around the corner, and across the U.S. we're preparing for our favorite 4th of July festivities – a day off filed with backyard barbecues, pool parties, fireworks and fun.
While we celebrate our country and the challenges we've overcome to achieve what we stand for today, there's no doubt that this profile of greatness includes our small business owners and entrepreneurs. Facing difficulties from every angle with passion and perseverance, these businesses may be small, but they have a big influence on our country.
By the numbers
According to SBA's Office of Advocacy, small businesses make up a whopping 99.7 percent of U.S. employer firms, and have accounted for 63 percent of the net new jobs created between 1993 and mid-2013! Since the end of the recession (from mid-2009 to mid-2013), small firms accounted for 60 percent of the net new jobs.
In fact, over half of America's workers either own or work for small businesses, which create two out of every three new jobs across the country. This strengthens not only local communities and economies, but bolsters the foundation of the economy nationwide.
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In this article from Small Business Trends, Scott Shane cites findings from a 2010 Pew Foundation survey that demonstrates how highly we regard our small business owners. Seventy-one percent of Americans see small business "as a positive influence on the way things are going in this country." In the United States, small businesses are viewed more favorably than most institutions."
Additionally, 86 percent of American respondents indicate that they trust small businesses "a great deal" – nearly thirty percent more than they indicated trusting big businesses. Clearly, small businesses and their owners are held in high esteem.
From the quantitative to the qualitative, it's easy to see the positive impact of small businesses. And at SBA, we support and celebrate those entrepreneurs. For instance, our annual National Small Business Week events recognize the contributions of small businesses. And all year round, our staff, partners and resources are available to make sure you have what you need to succeed in your business ventures.
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Hundreds of years into the future, the Cullens live in Panem, a country that lies in the ruins of North America. The poverty-ridden nation is ruled under the iron fist of the Capitol, a ruthless group of dictators, who force the citizens to compete in the Hunger Games. To show the people if they revolt again, they will be crushed.But what truly caused the war? The humans think they know- but do they really? Guilt-ridden and miserable, Jasper volunteers for the games. But he's not the only supernatural being out there... there are others that have withstood the sands of time. Crossover between Suzanne Collins' Hunger Games and Twilight. Contains spoilers.
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Two days until the Reaping. This was the worst time of year. Everybody was tense and worried- will I be chosen? And once someone was, there was a flood of sadness, knowing a friend or family member was about to die.
It hurt, the emotions pounding in my head. The guilt was the worst though, knowing one little slip, one mistake, had caused these awful Games. Had caused the deaths of so many innocent Tributes. Only four from our district had ever survived. I lay on the couch wallowing in misery- partially that of others, partially mine. "Alice!" I called, clutching the arm of the couch.
She danced into the room, her beautiful face glowing. She was the girl nobody could help but love. Her bright cheeriness instantly lifted my mood.
"Oh no," she murmured. "Not that time again." And she dashed out.
"No, wait! Don't…" The pounding headache resumed and I fell off the couch.
"Jasper!" Alice was back, with Bella and Emmett in tow. She helped me up and told the other two "He needs his annual 'Happy Pill'".
"No problemo." Emmett said. He dragged out an ancient set of controllers.
Bella groaned. "Why can't we just throw a nice little party like last year?"
"Because it's my turn to choose. Now, get your groooooooooooooooove on…" He shouted strapping on a pair of gloves and shoes. The old XboxAction booted itself up.
"You suck." Bella fake-pouted.
Emmett tugged on his goggles and flicked his fingers. "I think it's time for a little good old-fashioned DDR, eh?"
The two danced around following invisible commands. The problem with the XboxAction was that the virtual reality the goggles projected blocked out everything else. You couldn't see the person beside you. It was eventually pulled from the market. People threw theirs out, but we kept ours. I rested my head in Alice's lap and watched Emmett and Bella bang into each other. We all laughed, and their laughter made me even happier.
"What's going on?" Renesmee hobbled into the room. Her mother and uncle, continued on, oblivious, but Alice and I both cringed. She knew how much Nessie hurt me.
Her once beautiful face was blackened and burned on one side, and her left leg was missing from the knee down. I could feel the pain in each step, Renesmee's struggle to keep smiling for everyone else. A victim of the war, the war I caused. All it had taken was one little bite, one little sip. I moaned. But oh, who could resist la tua cantante.
Alice wrapped her arms around my neck. "Shhh… It's alright." She whispered nuzzling her chin against my ear.
"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry!" Renesmee exclaimed. Her eyes watered. "I didn't know! I heard laughter and I…"
"No, no, it's not your fault." I said softly. It's mine, I thought. "All of District 12 has the blahs."
"Poor Uncle Jasper." She frowned and hugged me. "Oh!" she perked up. She grabbed her crutches and tottered away as fast as she could. "Auntie Rosie!"
Rosalie came and dropped a dead fawn at my feet. "Miserable, lazy creep." She sneered. She hated me for what happened to Renesmee. But you couldn't blame her. Sometimes I hated myself too.
I picked up the limp body and drank greedily. I never did my own hunting anymore. Not after the last time, we couldn't risk another incident. I couldn't control myself when I was feeding. With the frenzy of bloodlust, no one was safe.
The rest of the week carried on in the same fashion. The closer we got to the Reaping, the worse the headaches became. Alice, Bella and Emmett were constantly by my side, and Carlisle and Esme worked to keep Rosalie and Nessie as far away from me as possible. Edward would come home everyday with a deer or two, and whatever else he could find.
On the day of the Reaping, Bella asked me "Where are you going?"
I shrugged on my coat. "I want to watch." I said simply.
"Are you out of your mind?" Alice gaped. "Do you have any idea how miserable the people are going to be out there?"
"I don't care."
"We can make it an outing." Carlisle jumped in. "When was the last time this family did something together?"
Later, we were huddled at the back of the crowd.
"It is a time for repentance and a time for thanks. Please welcome our previous winning tributes!" the mayor announced with a fake smile.
Katniss Everdeen slinked onto the stage. She looked like a cat, tensed up and ready to spring at any moment. She was followed by Peeta Mellark, who grasped Katniss's hand as if afraid to let go. Finally, Haymitch Abernathy stumbled after them. He hasn't been sober for at least twenty years. It's surprising he actually won.
Effie Trinkett picked at her nails, clearly bored. She had been stuck in District 12 fourteen years without the promotion she had hoped for. "Happy Hunger Games. May the odds be ever in your favor." She addressed the crowd in a dull monotone. It's sad, how far she has fallen from her old enthusiastic self. "Our first tribute is Cressant Wyle."
A teenage girl sullenly walks onstage. The crowd is silent as she slumps into her chair.
"Congratulations Cressant!" Effie drones on. "Our male tribute is… Sterling Toll."
Seeing the little boy, bone thin and trembling, make his way towards the podium, made me decide.
In those thirty seconds three things happened.
Alice collapsed into a vision and was caught by Carlisle.
Edward swiped at me and yelled "Jasper, no!"I stood up and said in a loud clear voice "I volunteer for the Hunger Games."
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New approach needed to prevent major 'systemic failures'
A Purdue University researcher is proposing development of a new cross-disciplinary approach for analyzing and preventing systemic failures in complex systems that play a role in major disasters. Examples range from huge power blackouts to the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster and the subprime mortgage crisis.
"The striking similarities in such catastrophes necessitates a broader perspective to better understand such failures," said Venkat Venkatasubramanian, a professor of chemical engineering. "In the history of systemic failures, a few disasters have served as wake-up calls. The Flixborough chemical plant accident in the United Kingdom in 1974, where a Nypro UK plant explosion killed 26 people, was one such call."
Other such major catastrophes, he said, include the 1984 Union Carbide accident in Bhopal, India, which killed more than 2,000 and injured more than 100,000, and the 1988 failure of an oil platform operated by Occidental Petroleum in the North Sea, which resulted in 167 deaths and about $2 billion in losses.
"Such systemic failures are not limited to the chemical and petrochemical industries," Venkatasubramanian said. "The Northeast electrical power blackout in 2003 and a recent massive recall of drug products are both systemic failures. Financial disasters such as Enron, WorldCom, the subprime mortgage derivatives crisis and the Madoff Ponzi scam also belong to the same class."
The need for a new cross-disciplinary framework to address such systemic failures was introduced in an article appearing in the January 2011 issue of the AIChE Journal.
"We must study all disasters from a common systems engineering perspective so that one can thoroughly understand the commonalities as well as the differences in order to better design and control such systems in the future," Venkatasubramanian said. "There is an important role for universities here, as well, in creating and disseminating knowledge about abnormal-events management in complex engineered systems and their public and corporate policy implications."
Such studies need to be carried out, he said, with public policy experts so that the scientific and engineering lessons get translated into effective policies and regulations.
"Typically, systemic failures occur due to fragility in complex systems," Venkatasubramanian said. "Modern technological advances are creating a rapidly increasing number of complex engineered systems, processes and products, which pose considerable challenges in ensuring their proper design, analysis, control, safety and management for successful operation over their life cycles."
The sheer scale and complexity of interactions between elements, including people, in such systems-of-systems make them fragile.
"In particular, the nonlinear interactions among a large number of interdependent components and the environment can lead to what we call 'emergent' behavior," Venkatasubramanian said. "In other words, the behavior of the whole is different than the sum of its parts and can be difficult to anticipate and control. This is further compounded by human errors, equipment failures and dysfunctional interactions among components and subsystems that make systemic risks even more likely if one is not vigilant all the time."
Postmortem investigations have shown that major disasters rarely occur due to a single failure of equipment or personnel. Instead, layers of failures of equipment, systems, processes, regulations and people usually are at fault, he said.
Often, Venkatasubramanian said, the responsibility for an accident rests with the top levels of company management and a poor corporate culture regarding safety.
"Professor Venkatasubramanian's article in AIChE discusses the surprising commonalities of systemic failures that lead to disasters, such as the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and outlines a role that academic institutions can play to prevent such destructive events from happening in the future," said John W. Bickham, director of Purdue's Center for the Environment and a professor in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources. "The highly interdisciplinary field of systems engineering will play a key role in the development of policies and procedures that can protect the environment and human health and safety in the future."
Systemic Failures: Challenges and Opportunities in Risk Management in Complex Systems
Venkat Venkatasubramanian
Laboratory for Intelligent Process Systems, School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University
The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster has reminded us, once again, the fragility of complex engineered systems. We have been here before but we do not seem to have learnt all the important lessons yet. This is a Santayana moment: "Those who cannot learn from the past are condemned to repeat it!" While these are different disasters that happened in different domains, in different facilities, triggered by different events, involve different ingredients, and so on, there are, however, certain common underlying patterns behind such systemic failures. There is an alarming sameness about such major accidents, which underscores important fundamental lessons that need to be learned in order to prevent such events from recurring. To understand these patterns and learn from them, one needs to go beyond analyzing them as independent one-off accidents and examine them in the broader perspective of the potential fragility of all complex engineered systems. One needs to study all these disasters from a common systems engineering perspective, so that one can thoroughly understand the commonalities as well as the differences, in order to better design and control such systems in the future.
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I disagree with the idea that we need a new approach to prevent major systemic failures.
"Minding the Machines: Preventing Technological Disasters," by Evan; "Inviting Disaster: Lessons learned from the edge of technology," by Chiles; "Why things bite back: technology and the revenge of unintended consequences," by Tenner and 10 or 15 other good books on the subject of technological failure and another 100 papers also on the subject and the only approach we need to take is to find out why people failed to follow process or protocol.
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An avid hunter, Mastersmith Aaron was never able to find the perfect skinning knife. However, despite a lifetime of working with knives it wasn't until 2003, when he lived in Florida, that he visited Cliff Parker's shop in Zephyrhills. He was so impressed with Cliff's picture mosaic damascus that he was inspired to begin making his own knives.
In 2003, Aaron attended the Knifemakers Guild Show in Orlando, FL. and met fellow maker Corbin Newcomb, who generously invited Aaron to spend a week at his shop in MO, learning to make knives. He jumped at the offer, of course, and found Corbin to be very generous with his knowledge of damascus and forging. Aaron says, "It was a great learning experience and very memorable."
At the end of 2003 Aaron moved to Redding, CA, where he lives and works today. He built many of his own tools including an air hammer and hydraulic press – all to facilitate creating knives. He considers sole authorship a point of pride – he forges all his own blades, makes all his own damascus and does all his own leather work. He was awarded the title of Journeyman Smith in 2009 and became a Mastersmith in 2013. Attending a class on making folders taught by Mike Vagnino in 2001 brought to life a new aspect of knife-making.
Aaron prefers to use natural materials – his knives are truly one-of-a-kind. He uses the best techniques available for heat-treating – including triple tempering and triple quenching. He hopes that his knives will feel like a natural part of the new owner's hand, and does all his making with the expectation that the knife will be passed down from generation to generation. Aaron has been a full-time maker since July 2012.