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I bought these 2 years ago and fell in love. I had first purchased 1 pair of s/m firm (I'm 5'3), and after wearing it for a day I went back and ordered 6 more pairs! I started wearing these because of a blood clot in my left leg. These socks really helped with the swelling. Well, here I am 2 years later and I'm so disappointed!! The socks no longer fit snug and I'm always having to pull them up, it's annoying! The compression is much weaker than my previous purchases of this product. I guess it's time to search for a new compression sock since they're just not made the same anymore.
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By Just me, Carol
from Chicago, IL
About Me Casual/ Recreational
My Dr. gave me a prescription for compression socks. These are MUCH better than the ones in the pharmacy. They stay up and there is plenty of room in the toes. I highly recommend these socks! I will be ordering more in the future!
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By grammadeb
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These are great compreson socks. A little tough to get on, had foot surgery and one toe has a pin in it,but overall great, They stay up all day, no drooping.
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By brokenankle
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Did not use the product, the socks were sized too small.
Keeps swelling of ankles down
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Own a flower shop and can be on my feet 10-12 hours a day, sometimes longer. Really helps to keep the swelling in feet and ankles down.
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As a prospective direction of the activity of banks in creating the conditions for the elimination of the consequences of the world financial crisis, their participation in restructuring the activity of strategically important joint-stock enterprises make a significant impact in the core of real sectors in the economies (i.e., services and manufacturing) of the majority of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) countries. In particular, their potential impact can be in the creation of new jobs, the modernization of manufacturing processes, the production of goods for export, and the management of coorporate marketing efforts.
Considering their status and historically developed image as reliable financial institutions, and taking into account capitalization and financial mediation, the CIS banking sector is much better prepared in the role of institutional investors, than the operating companies or investment institutes. The CIS banks can accompany the joint-stock enterprises through the whole process of preparation and realization of programs of restructuring, as well as providing good capitalization, qualified managers, and provide a high quality of institutional investor.
Starting this modernization processes, commercial banks should represent accurately the maintenance and volumes of forthcoming changes in organizational structure of the joint-stock enterprises' management, in the industrial-economic sphere of the given specific category of the company, in the structure of their property, and also in the structure of actives and assets and liabilities.
The great value in the process of modernization of the joint-stock enterprises is the correct choice of various forms of restructuring that can include restructuring of the structure of its share capital, restructuring of available debts or restructuring of actives at the companies disposal. Restructuring of the structure of the share capital of a joint-stock company should be directed on optimization of corporate relations between shareholders, and attaining parity between the quantities of ordinary actions as a part of their large packages that are in the property of separate co-owners of the enterprise. Restructure of debts available for the joint-stock enterprise should be in repayment, write-off, a delay, installments, converting, debt consolidation, and also in purchase or sale of promissory notes, an exchange of separate kinds of debts. Restructure of actives at the enterprise should assume sales by bank of its superfluous actives, tenancy, transfer to pledge of a part of actives, property acquisition, parity change between real and financial actives, liquidation of unprofitable actives.
On the degree of influence on central direction of the business of a joint-stock enterprise, managers of the bank's investment divisions should not only be able to define the restructuring based on calculations for the long-term period of development of the enterprise, but also define financial re-structuring, assuming updating of the enterprise in the short-term period of time.
Proceeding from methods of restructurization used by banks, it is necessary to keep in mind differing, but closely interconnected, directions of restructurization for the joint-stock enterprises.
Considering a wide spectrum of forms and methods of restructurization of joint-stock enterprises, the activity of commercial banks in any given sphere of business should be based on market principles. In particular, timely research on the resources needed for the realization of the processes of restructurization of a joint-stock company. The rational distribution of resources, and most importantly, their use should be aimed at the principles of prompt repayment and recoupment of debt. In this connection, the mechanism of participation of banks should lean towards targeted loans to meet the needs of restructurization of strategically important enterprises, or on weighed business plans and technical-economic calculations. The commercial structures specially created for this purpose, must wish to be engaged, in this difficult capital-intensive and risky process on a professional basis.
The important starting stage of successful realization of programs of restructurization of strategically important enterprises is an active participation of banks in the research of necessary sources of financing. Thus the greatest effect can be yielded by the use of such sources.
One of the main difficulties in the way of participation of banks in the processes of restructuring of joint-stock companies in the CIS countries is the acute shortage of long-term financial resources at the majority of commercial banks. In this connection, the role of such tools as securities of commercial banks and the strategically important enterprises, allowing the mobilization of free financial resources of participants of the share market having their surplus increases, but not capable or unwillingness to develop their potential at the expense of own participation in investment business increases. However, for the escalation of scales of issue activity of banks and joint-stock companies, and also the attraction of resources of foreign and internal investors, state bodies and economic departments of the CIS countries should create a favorable mode of the activity, allowing compensation for the risks connected with restructuring of activity of domestic commodity producers.
In due time, prepared and qualitatively carried out with participation of banks, restructuring of various parties of their business has the capability to provide securities of the given enterprises to foreign markets of capital and to involve foreign investments for their innovative development, which will be positively reflected in the growth of investment appeal of securities markets formed in the CIS countries. Thus, the process of participation of banks in restructuring the strategically important joint-stock enterprises should be considered, as an obligatory stage on the path to the formation of the competitive market in the CIS countries, capable of providing a modulation of capitals and innovative development of most enterprises of real sector of economy. The given problem is not only especially economic, but is also of sociopolitical value, since it opens prospects for the creation in the CIS of new workplaces and the increase of a standard of life of the population of these countries.

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By James Neal, Staff Writer
Enid News and Eagle
ENID, Okla. —
As Trever Mason was preparing for this week's cattle sale at his sale barn, he was hoping, if things went well, he would sell one-fourth the number of cattle he sold this same week last year.
Mason, general manager of Northwest Stockyards west of Enid, experienced peak sales at his barn last year. It was a trend repeated across the region last year, as cattle producers liquidated their herds in the face of a crippling drought, little forage and expensive hay and grain.
This year, the drought has spread, leading to herd liquidations and increasing grain costs in other parts of the country, causing the sales volume and prices at Oklahoma sales barns to bottom-out.
"Our sale barn moved 1,700 head this week last year," Mason said. "This week, we'll be lucky if we move 300 or 400."
Sales trends have gone far below a return-to-normal after last year's liquidations. Mason attributed the drop in sales to a combination of decreased forage and increased cost of corn, which he said is further compounded by a growing demand for ethanol.
"The producers are having to compete with both the ethanol companies and the drought," Mason said. "Right now, we're seeing corn prices at $8.50 to $9.50 (per bushel) ... and that's just unheard of.
"The problem is, nobody has any place to put their cattle, because they have no grass. And, if you have to put them in a feed yard, then it goes from bad to worse, because you're putting that calf in a feed yard where it's going to cost you $9 per bushel to feed him, and the math just doesn't work out any more."
Because producers in other regions can't afford to buy as many feeder cattle this year, Mason is seeing fewer cattle come in for sale.
And, the prices producers and sale barns are getting for the cattle that do sell likewise are down.
"Cattle prices across the board have taken it on the chin," Mason said. "The calf deal is a lot softer, because of these corn prices and the drought."
Mason said feeder cattle now are selling $15 to $25 less per hundred pounds than they were this spring, while calves have seen a $30- to $40-per-hundred-pound reduction since the spring.
"There's a lot of things we're seeing right now that, for a guy who owns a sale barn and feed yard, it's scary," Mason said. "If I don't have any cattle in the community to sell, it's definitely going to affect my business. It's a scary time, no question."
The story at Northwest Stockyards is being repeated across the region as producers and sale barns feel the effects of the expanding drought.
"If we weren't back in a drought this year, we'd probably see people rebuilding their herds, but we're not rebuilding," said Greg Highfill, area livestock specialist for the OSU Extension Service. "People pretty much got their herds down to bare bones last year, and we haven't rebuilt. We're just holding our own this year."
Because the drought has spread this year to affect much of the cattle-producing land in the U.S., buyers in other regions can't afford to buy cattle from Oklahoma markets, Highfill said.
"Cattle prices are coming down, which is just a direct result of the drought in the midwest and the corn crop being so low," Highfill said. "Cattle feeders that are buying our calves simply can't pay as much for them because of the high price for corn in the midwest."
Derrell Peel, Extension Livestock Marketing Specialist for Oklahoma State University, said while the drought in Oklahoma and Texas this year isn't as bad as last year, the effects of this year's larger drought likely will be worse for local producers.
"What we're seeing in Oklahoma this year with the drought isn't even as severe as it was last year," Peel said.
What makes things potentially worse this year, Peel said, is the drought is much more widespread, affecting the entire U.S. cattle market.
"Nationwide, the drought is much more widespread, and it's affecting more producers," Peel said.
While Oklahoma and Texas suffered a severe drought and liquidated much of the regional cattle herds last year, other areas had good growing conditions to buffer the effects of the drought. This year, Peel said, those areas are suffering what Oklahomans experienced last year, and likewise are culling their herds.
"The market impacts last year were pretty minimal, because when we had to liquidate cattle, those cattle had somewhere else to go," Peel said. "Some of those places that had excellent conditions last year are having drought this year. What we're seeing now is some additional cattle liquidation and more impact on prices because the drought is so widespread."
Peel said this year, the market is affected both by a lack of forage and hay in the southwest and high grain prices due to failing corn crops in the midwest.
"The drought is having a significant impact on corn production, and that's adding to the magnitude of the impact for cattle, because these feeder cattle are going to end up in the feed yard eating that expensive corn," Peel said.
The net effect is the market for Oklahoma's cattle has shrunk, as buyers in other regions are themselves cutting back and are hesitant to take on the increasing cost of feeding out calves.
Far from the glut of sales seen in association with last year's drought-related herd liquidations, sale barns this year are seeing deep cuts in sale volumes.
"In the last four weeks, compared to the same period last year, our auction market totals for feeder calves are down 40 percent," Peel said. "It's even worse for cows, which are down 77 percent from last year."
Peel remained optimistic cattle prices have fallen as far as they're likely to go, and quickly could return to normal levels with "some good moisture."
"In some sense, the worst of this may be over," Peel said. "The markets look like they've probably bottomed out and may stabilize from here on.
"I think the market has gone about as low as it's going to go this summer. How much it recovers this fall will depend on whether we get some fall moisture for forage and winter pasture."
While prices could quickly recover, Tim Starks worries it could take much longer to reestablish herds that have been liquidated, and a prolonged drought could drive small producers from the cattle business for good. Starks is president of the Livestock Marketing Assocation and owner of Cherokee Sales Company, a Cherokee-based sale barn.
Starks said the worst of sales levels at local markets may be yet to come.
"We had the biggest January this year we've had in a long time, but that was mostly pulling the cattle sales way forward," Starks said. He said many producers sold their cattle early this year in anticipation of the drought, meaning sales levels likely will drop further as summer turns to fall.
"Where we're really going to see the impact of this is going to be later this fall," Starks said. "I expect we'll really see our numbers fall off dramatically."
The real long-term impact, though, may be in the loss of small producers who can't afford to wait out the drought.
"The older gentleman that had a 30- to 40-head cow herd, I'm definitely concerned that producer might not get back into the business," Starks said.
He said the U. S. cattle market, unlike the pork and poultry industries, still heavily relies on small producers for its total volume.
"They're vital to the size of the U.S. cow herd," Starks said. "The cattle business isn't like the hog or chicken industry. The small producer is still a major player in the cattle business, and a very large percentage of the U.S. cow herd is made up of herds of less than 50 cows."
Starks said cattle prices could quickly rebound, but supply will take considerably longer to catch up, especially if smaller producers are hesitant to restock their herds.
"As a market owner, that is of some concern to me," Starks said, "because the smaller producers keep the livestock auctions going."
Mason, like Starks, remains hopeful the weather will change in time to save small producers, and the local livestock markets.
"We need a little bit of rain and some luck," Mason said. "If we can get those things lined out, we stand a chance, but if we don't start seeing a more regular weather pattern, it's going to get ugly."


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Last Frontier Heliskiing: Seth, Kye, and Dana
Oakley and Teton Gravity Research just arrived at Last Frontier Heliskiing and the Bell II Lodge, deep, deep in Northern British Columbia for a film trip for the record books. Seth Morrison, Dana Flahr, Kye Petersen have been warming up while Tanner Hall is on his way, after just winning the overall Dew Tour Superpipe title.
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We hopped on a charter plane in Vancouver and flew four hours north, landing on a remote snow covered airstrip in the middle of nowhere. The nearest town is Stewart, more than two hours away. We are in the thick of some pretty amazing mountains.
The remote village that makes up the Last Frontier Heliskiing base is completely buried in snow. They have been having a great winter up here and we are all excited to be out of the low tide snowpacks in southern BC and the lower 48.
Today was the first day of the trip and we woke to grey skies and rumors of a storm coming in. Anxious to get out and check out the terrain, we headed into the mountains early. Despite grey skies, we had a great look around and got a few shots. The snow is great and the terrain even better.
I was here ten years ago when we filmed Uprising with Micah Black, Jeremy Jones, Dave Swanwick and Rick Greener. They have spruced the place up since then, when it was a few cabins and a helicopter behind a remote gas stop on the Stewart Cassiar Highway, the infamous road that runs west of the Skeena Mountains and east of the Coast Range (through the heart of some of B.C.'s coolest mountains).
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Title:Anderson University announces changes to School of Adult Learning
Changes are a familiar occurrence at Anderson University's adult education program. The changes usually happen to the adult learners because the program is all about changing, improving and enriching the professional and personal lives of the adults in the community. And more than lives have been changing recently as the adult and continuing education program has been renamed the School of Adult Learning. The School of Adult Learning has also changed locations on campus moving to 1303 East Fifth Street (formerly the executive office building for the Church of God Ministries) where they will share the the building with Falls School of Business.
"We are excited about the name change, and the potential that it brings," said Aleza Beverly, associate dean for the School of Adult Learning. Beverly believes the new name is a better reflection of their current mission as well as the future focus of the program. The program will continue to offer a stable schedule so adults can build their classes around their home, work and family responsibilities. "We are all about helping adult learners achieve their goals."
The School of Adult Learning is looking at ways to expand and improve the program to meet the educational needs of adults. "By extending our mission in different ways, we hope to alleviate some of the anxiety and eliminate some of the excuses adult learners can have about continuing their education," Beverly said. Offering distance learning opportunities and Internet courses are a possibility in the near future. Beverly would also like to increase the number of accelerated courses and accelerated degrees.
"We do more than just offer a program and courses," said Michael Collette, Vice President of Enrollment Management and Information Systems at Anderson University. "This is a place where adult learners develop special relationships and receive individualized attention."
The School of Adult Learning provides adults age 25 or older the opportunity to earn an associate degree in General Studies or Business by taking either day or evening courses. Bachelor's degrees in over 60 undergraduate majors at AU are also available to adult students. In addition, working adults can earn their bachelor's degree in as little as 18 months by attending only one evening class a week through an accelerated degree completion program (ADVANCE), which offers a bachelor's in Organizational Leadership.
A variety of non-credit classes are also available through the Center for Lifelong Learning including a summer campus program for kids (Kids University) and a weeklong series of opportunities for seniors entitled Elder Campus.
The School of Adult Learning serves the needs of adult learners living in Madison, Hamilton, east Hancock and north Marion counties. For more information, visit the School of Adult Learning Web site. Or contact them by e-mail or by phone at (765) 641-4250 or toll-free at 1-877-428-2765.
Anderson University is a four-year, private, Christian liberal arts institution of approximately 2,400 undergraduate and graduate students. Established in 1917 by the Church of God the university offers more than 60 undergraduate majors and graduate programs in theology, business, and education.


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The ZiPS projections for the 2013 Twins are out, so let's make a few snide comments about the math. (It's the only thing that can keep us from getting depressed.)
Since there's not any actual Twins news, here's some speculation and musing that likely will be rendered irrelevant in the near future. Happy offseason!
It seems like last year's fourth outfielder will be expected to be this year's starting center fielder. So who will the Twins look to for a backup outfielder in 2013?
Cody Ross does one thing that makes him a great fit for Target Field: pull for power as a right-handed hitter. Is he worth chasing?
Designated Columnist Bill Parker makes his guest debut at Twinkie Town and attempts to rationalize a way that the Twins could make their rotation respectable in just one off-season. Spoiler: he's a...
It's "baseball cool" to sign young, team-controlled players to long-term extensions. Do the Twins have anyone worth of such a consideration?
How long can Tsuyoshi Nishioka remain in the Major Leagues?
I can see the Twins bringing in Derek Lowe as a warm body. Couldn't you?
Warne examines why the Twins will likely sign Joe Blanton, and why that's actually a good thing.
Dave Cameron at Fangraphs is counting down his top 50 trade values across all of MLB. In 2011, not a single Minnesota Twin mad the list. Does anyone have a chance this year?
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text: Sacred Space for Advent and the Christmas Season 2011-2012 offers people a seasonal opportunity to discover the richness of the distinctive prayer method developed by St. Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuits. Inexpensive and portable, it is ideal for people who want to grab a few moments to read, reflect, and pray in the midst of their busy days. Ideal for parish-wide distribution and is a great companion to the Sacred Space website, www.sacredspace.ie.The readings start on Advent Sunday, November 27th and conclude on Sunday, January 8th, the Epiphany of the Lord. Information on an Advent Retreat is included.


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When I Grow Too Old to Dream - Julie London
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Dream Lover - Bobby Darin
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Iowa Economic Development Authority Director Debi Durham says the state exported to countries around the world products valued at more than $14.6 billion in 2012 up from $13.3 billion worth of goods the year before.
Durham says more than 2,500 companies in Iowa export goods. About 84 percent of Iowa exporters are small- to medium-sized companies.
Durham says the fact that Iowa's export growth significantly outpaced the nation's shows Iowa companies can successfully compete in a global marketplace.
She says Iowa's exporting companies supported about 5,000 additional jobs in 2012.


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"The Great River" by President Scott R. Olson
Delivered Aug. 20, 2012, by President Scott R. Olson as part of Winona State University Welcome Week.
Download the PDF version of "The Great River."
The day before Kelley and I started working at Winona State, we were at an AASCU conference in Santa Fe. Not too far from the hotel flowed the Santa Fe River. Anybody here been to Santa Fe? Whats your assessment of the river? The Santa Fe River flows the way a raindrop flows down a filament in a spiders web.
But Ive seen real rivers!
Back in 1995, I had co-written a Young Scholars grant proposal funded by NSF and they sent a group of us to a conference at Saint Michaels College in Burlington, Vermont. (Michael is often depicted holding a flaming sword.) I cant remember now if this was one of those PKAL Kaleidoscope conferences, but if not it was along those lines the pedagogy of science. You know: inquiry-based methods. Do any members of the faculty here use inquiry-based teaching?
The workshop wanted to expose us to new methods, and the pedagogy focused on the Winooksi River. We were divided into teams. My teams assignment was to measure the surge of the river the amount of force or power the river exerted. We were given a tape measure, tennis balls, and a stop watch. We timed the ball over a certain distance at the surface, then created neutral buoyancy and timed it at different depths in the river. We compared our notes afterwards with others who were logging flora and fauna, testing pH, and so on, and drew conclusions about the river from a multidisciplinary perspective.
We learned a lot that day. If knowledge was the sword given to King Arthur, then it was like the Lady of the Lake was lying in the Winooski River, and she handed us a little symbol of knowledge, a sword, a little Excalibur, not only to learn about the river, but to learn about learning.
The life of the mind is often associated with water, but thats another story.
The Santa Fe wasnt much of a river. The Winooski was impressive, but I hadnt seen anything yet.
This is the great river. By this is the great river, I dont mean the Mississippi per se, I mean that we are the great river. Learning is a river, and we are that great river, great at being that river, and we have been, are, and will continue to be great.
The less figurative among us will note that we are certainly in the river we are certainly a part of the river and thats right. Most of you know that Winona is actually in the Mississippi River. Once upon a time, there was a lot more water here. The Mississippi was deeper and wider. As the glaciers melted and the flood waters receded, the sediment piled up here, hundreds of feet above the original river bottom. The island that is Winona is part of these sediments. And the valley is still forming. Rain and wind and ice still move the sandstone and siltstone.1
Water formed us, carved us out -- and like water we have formed and carved out an unparalleled force of learning. Water forms and carves. Learning forms and carves.
We and the river have joined forces. We and the river are one. With our friends in the community, we and the river together forge the future of this place.
But I dont only mean literally that we are in the river or on the river I mean figuratively that we are the river. If you dont believe that we are the river then you need to revisit the Science Lab Center atrium , where you can see the water molecule above you, see the sediment carved out around you, see your fellow river creatures swimming amidst the islands while dreaming of the stars.
Were not just a river were the river the great river! We are a force, powerful and good and independent, that carves out a pathway of knowledge in the wilderness of ignorance.
In Arthurian legends, water is associated with leadership and with wisdom. The water is the knowledge. The Lady of the Lake confers a symbol of that wisdom and leadership through the sword. And we do the same. This university is like water, and we offer symbols of knowledge throughout the journey, like diplomas. No one is predestined to hold this knowledge it is a gift to all.
If you know your Arthurian legend, then you know that in many tellings of the tale, the sword Excalibur has a message etched on its blade. What embodiment of wisdom would be complete without a message? And so it is for us. An arm clad in purest shimmering samite2 holds forth the sword from the water, and here is what is inscribed on its blade:
Nos sunt communitas
Nos sunt discentium
Nos meliorem mundi
Translated into English, the inscription says:
We are a community
We are learners
We improve our world
We are a Community
This has two meanings:
Lets talk about the Community Within. We need to seek a common understanding of our purpose and direction. This will help us continue our leadership role. How do we do that? How do we promote the best possible community within? Heres how I believe we do that:
But what we know from the NSSE and A2S Education Trust data is that all of our students do not have the same experience of Winona State. For example, while our six year graduation rate for European-American students is 55%, for African-American students the rate is 32%. We can do better.
So, to ensure the highest quality of our undergraduate experience, we need to focus on access, success, and completion of all students, but given the differential, especially of underrepresented students. Every Winona State student should feel welcomed and supported and have full access to the excellence we offer.
As we build community within, we need to conclude many searches for leadership positions. We have a lot of interims at the moment. Ill look forward to conversations at the Meet and Confers about how many searches we can do in one year and how best to order them. My goal is first to resolve the question of the two Cabinet-level interim positions, then move on to the Dean-level interims and beyond. I hope to get the major questions resolved by the end of the next cycle of Meet and Confer and get some of the searches started soon thereafter.
Hopefully we can attract some strong interest because you have already built a great community here.
You chose this path because of your passion to improve our world and your belief that education improves the world better than anything else. You chose the most noble path ... helping others to achieve their dreams. So, what are OUR hopes and dreams? In the next few weeks I hope to begin conversations on campus about our hopes and dreams, to use them as a basis for envisioning where we will flow.
Those conversations are not only for the Community Within, but also for the Community Without. They have hopes and dreams for us, too. After all, Winona is the first word in our name. We are known nationally for civic engagement and service learning. The world out there craves to work with us, learn from us, partner with us. The world out there is wise to see us this way!
So we need to be a part of this community, this beautiful Winona community, serving it every way we practically can, learning from it as it learns from us. And this commitment should not stop here. We already serve Rochester well. Can we serve it even better? And thats still not where it stops. Minnesota is counting on us. America is counting on us. The world is counting on us. These are all our community.
As I learned from the diversity of flora and fauna in the Winooski, rivers are a community. My question is: If we are a great river of knowledge, then where will community flow next?
We are Learners
Part of what makes us such a powerful force for good is that we are the Peoples University we belong to everyone. We are great at what we do! And this is not mere self-assertion. (Micha-els name means who is like God? and his sword is a sword of humility!) We know this objectively and through external validation, such as:
So, what is our essence as learners, and where does the river flow next? We are already superb at the undergraduate experience. Therefore, we must extend the promise of our excellence in undergraduate education, and remain the best by innovating with quality in mind. We must ensure that students who come here are able to succeed here, regardless of family wealth, ethnicity, gender, or anything else.
We must ensure that we remain technology leaders. This has been one of our defining attributes and it needs to remain so. By carving out technology as a marker of distinction we have set a high bar for ourselves, and we must remain national leaders in a high-speed, evolving technology environment. Technology helps us find the answer, but it isnt the answer itself. And therein lies our ultimate victory. How do we compete with TED and the Khan Academy and iTunes University? According to Roberta Ness, we can provide something more than content: we can provide context.4 We can coach students to learn how to learn, to adapt, grow, and innovate. This is not just about technology, though technology is a powerful tool. This is about creating a robust learning environment.
Our commitment to sustainability must continue. Our theme house just opened. If you ever doubt its importance, please meet the students who are living there. Our commitment to civic engagement and volunteerism must continue. Our students are beloved, and we are too. These markers of distinction must continue to define us even as we look for new ways to innovate and express them.
At the undergraduate level, students must have a grounding in the liberal arts and sciences regardless of their major. I believe that there is no intrinsic conflict between liberal studies and the professions. Each has its place in this academy. Employers tell us that they value both. The professions are how we make our living, and the liberal arts and sciences tell us how to live our lives.
We already offer outstanding graduate education in selected areas. We have shown we can do this with high quality and without damming up the undergraduate mission. We must seek out a few select, distinctive, high quality, relevant and responsive graduate programs that meet the needs of Minnesota and that can be delivered in ways that best serve students. I think some of these are already in development, and others are being imagined.
We must reframe the way we think about learning lest our river stop flowing. Lets say we already provide the finest learning experience that is. Lets not ask do we provide the finest education that is? but, given our constraints, lets ask do we provide the finest education that can be? Because we are learners, we should not rest on a verdant shore, at the end of the trail, even though we have surely earned the right to do so, but we should put the boat back in the river and go exploring again. Only in doing so will we remain the leaders that we have been.
In short, being a Community of Learners means doing everything we can to deliver the highest quality education with the highest value the best deal in Minnesota, and the best investment in the future that a person can make.
Rivers learn. So, my question is: If we are a great river of knowledge, then where will learning flow next?
We Improve Our World
This means that we are willing to improve inside and out, first improving how and what we do, then using those improvements to help build a better world. I suppose that there are three counterproductive ways to think about improvement, innovation, and change:
We might think that we are powerless to do anything. We were blessed with fantastic performances of King Lear this summer at the Shakespeare Festival. In Act I, Scene II, Edmund makes fun of those who feel powerless and blame their fate on others, in particular fate imposed from above:
Edmund: This is the excellent foppery of the world,
Our budget picture has improved considerably. There are opportunities to reinvest. We have a Chancellor who invites us to be distinctive. We have the people of Winona, Rochester, and others behind us, willing to help. We are not powerless.
Or, we might think that we should utterly abandon the past, start over, re-route the river like the Mr. Go (MRGO) canal in New Orleans. We dont know a lot about the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus, but we do have this wonderful quote from him
Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.6
That phrasing is kind of cryptic, so here is how Plato rephrases Heraclitus:#
All things move and nothing remains still.#7
Everything changes and you cannot step into the same stream twice.
Here is a vision of a river we do not want to be: constant, ceaseless reinvention.Change is certainly a constant and appears unceasing, but change is never purely chaotic. Some changes can be predicted, like the decline in birthrate in industrialized countries, and what that might mean for enrollments. Given how excellent we are, Winona State has no call to blow things up and start over! So much of what we do is best-in-class that we need to honor our traditions. Improvement at Winona State cannot mean the abandonment of all we have been. Heraclituss river is chaos. And some climatologists think that re-routing the Mississippi through Mr. Go brought chaos to New Orleans.9
Or, we might believe that we must not change a thing: that we should repeat what we always have done and preserve tradition. This is the opposite perspective from Heraclitus. I dont understand much of James Joyces Finnegans Wake, but I know he is playing with repetition. The opening sentence says:
riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a
commodius vicus of recirculation back 10
Commodius vicus seems to mean vicious circle. Here is a portrait of another river we do not want to be. Joyce is true to his word because the novel itself is a vicious circle the novel ends
A way a lone a last a loved a long the 11
... which loops back to the beginning
A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore
Heres another example of that thinking from the Bruce Springsteen song The River:
I come from down in the valley where mister when you're young#
They bring you up to do like your daddy done #
Wed go down to the river#
And into the river wed dive.#
Down to the river wed ride.12Here, the river represents repetition, not change. In this view, we are condemned to do what those who came before us did. But thats not right, either. We did not become who we are by staying in place. Three of our great markers of distinctiondigital technology, sustainability, and civic engagementwould not have been our markers 20 years ago.
So, I want to encourage us to think of our great river neither as powerless, nor as chaotic, nor as repetitious. Is that the choice? Either we are powerless to do anything, or we are obliged to do everything, or we are condemned to repeat ourselves? Theres always another way.
And right here in Minnesota we have an example. Does anybody remember the old Paul Bunyan-land on the corner of Highways 371 and 210 near Brainerd? They used to sell a book there full of Paul Bunyan tall tales, printed by the folks at the Brainerd Daily Dispatch. I still have a copy. In one of these stories Pauls lumberjacks are frustrated when floating their lumber downstream. Rather than flowing down to Winona, the lumber keeps coming back to the same spot because its a circular river it just flows in a circle. (This is Paul Bunyan meets M.C. Escher I think.) So, Paul takes a huge shovel, scoops out the middle, and makes Round Lake which is just a few miles north of Paul Bunyan-land toward Nisswa.
We are not powerless. We can change the world. We can bring innovation without bringing chaos. And that change can move us forward in new ways while also respecting our traditions. We can preserve the past and make something new. Rather than thinking of change as a straight line or a circle, in terms of metaphor, how about change as a helix? A river empowered, preserving its shape and traditions, but also innovative and new. Always moving forward, yet also always returning to familiar parts of the curve. Innovation plus tradition.
We preserve our cycles and rhythms, we preserve our way of doing things, but we always strive to make things new and fresh, like a river. We can do things that are new while preserving our traditions. We can go about things the way our forebears did with integrity, passion, community commitment but we can change and grow too. These are not in conflict. These go side by side. We can innovate and improve not because we have to, but because we are so strong that we choose to!
How do we do this? Looking only inward is good for preserving traditions but not for innovation. We have to look out as we look in. Improving our world means a willingness to partner with those whom we serve. Where appropriate, this means partnering with our community, with K12 schools, with businesses and industry, with nonprofit organizations, with our colleagues Southeast Tech and RCTC and Riverland and other sibling institutions.
If we take diversity seriously, then we must partner in ways that help us serve our students in the ways they most need to be served. We can absolutely do this without compromising our quality and identity here at home in Winona. This is one way of improving our world.
We should be the most respected and valued partner in higher education: "we LOVE to work with Winona State!" just as Ive heard so many of you say, I love to work at Winona State.
Look around you and please never take any of this for granted: This beautiful campus, this beautiful city, this beautiful state. We benefit from these in untold ways. We have a duty to honor and preserve them, stewarding the next 150 years. All that we do here is possible because of the river, both the figurative river and the literal river. You built this: you, the river. The purpose of normal schools was to change the world through education. That was there from the beginning, and that hasnt changed. We are, at heart, still that normal school, still changing lives every day through education.
Rivers improve our world. So, my question for you is: If we are a great river of knowledge, then where will improving our world flow next?
The river has left its mark on this valley. Humans sometimes leave a mark, and sometimes leave just a marker. On the Island of Santorini there is a relic from 2,600 years ago, a 1,000-pound Volcanic stone with this message carved on it: Eumastas, son of Kritobolos, lifted me up from the ground.13 Who was Eumastas? Who was Kristobolos? Who knows? All we have is the marker. Or think of Percy Bysshe Shelleys Ozymandias:
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay #
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare,#
The lone and level sands stretch far away.14
All thats left around that marker is just a dry, sandy waste not a fertile valley. Markers of nothing. Signifiers with no signified.
Will we leave a mark, or a marker? 150 years from now, will our descendants look back on us and wonder who we were and what we did? Or will they look back on us and say, thank heaven for those Warriors! Thank heaven that they improved the world that we inherited!
The river left its marker and left its mark, and like Winona State the river is still here. We will both be here for a long time to come. As you know, theres a statue on the mall called End of The Trail by James Earle Fraser, a Winona native. Youll see this same image on the cover of the Beach Boys album Surfs Up. As usual, Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks are writing about water! Trails might end at the edge of the river. They dont end because we have no place else to go. They end because we are at the riverside, and the river can take us to places far beyond this trail, places we havent even imagined. The end of one trail is the beginning of another trail.
The surf is up again the river is ready to roar. It will sweep away ignorance. It will make the valley green and fertile. And we can make a paradise of learning here between these bluffs.
The river invites us to explore, to learn. Mary Shelley describes learning as precisely this type of adventure in her novel The Last Man:
I have chosen my boat, and laid in my scant stores. I have selected a few books; the
principal are Homer and Shakespeare. But the libraries of the world are thrown open
to me and in any port I can renew my stock.15
We can go anywhere.
You have chosen the noblest profession, all of you. Whether you teach in the classroom or provide frontline service to students or maintain these beautiful buildings and grounds, or sit behind a counter or desk or on a tractor or stand behind a lectern or with a rake or broom in your hands. You have chosen the noblest profession: helping others realize their dreams, helping others put their boat in the river and explore. Each of us does this. All of us do this together.
It doesnt matter what job you do here we are all part of the river and we all help students realize their dreams. We all do!
Youre all part of the river
All the professors are part of the flow,
Service faculty, with all that you know,
Student Affairs, Advancement, and Res Life,
(I live in Lourdes Hall with Kelley, my wife)
Office assistants and student workers
In ITS there sure are no shirkers.
GMWs, Facilities crew,
What do you know? Administrators too.
Somsen, Gildemeister, Kryszko, Minné,
Maxwell and Pasteur, now what do you say?
Phelps and Krueger and Wabasha and Stark,
Gathering down at the river, and hark!
Every student whos willing will ride
With us together in this rising tide.
All of us together, every IFO, ASF, AFSCME, MAPE, MMA, MSUSA, ABC, 123, Do Re Mi, Baby you and me!16 We are a community, we are learners, and we improve our world.
What great place will community discover next? What great place will learning discover next? What great place will improving our world discover next? If our thoughts and passions and beliefs and actions align, we can flow anywhere we want to go. If our minds and our hearts and our spirits and our hands work together, we can achieve anything.
We are the great river. We can stand in the Science Lab Center atrium and feel a part of it surrounded by water molecules and sediment, creatures of that clean, deep, strong force. You know, nationally there is a drought. Nationally, more than half of all counties are without water, the highest proportion ever. But not here. Here, the valley is green. Here, the river is rising. Here the water will wash away all the pain, wash away all the hurt, wash away the ignorance, wash away all the dreams unfulfilled. Warriors, trouble the water!17
The river is rising with hope. The river is rising with abundance. The river is rising with opportunity. The river is rising with wisdom. The river is rising with dreams. So, come on students, lets go down, lets go down, lets go down! Lets go down to the river today!18
As for the Lady of the Lake: The Lake is Lake Pepin. The Lady is Princess We-No-Nah. She lives! She jumped into Lake Pepin from Maiden Rock but she lives, like us she became one with the water, flowing downstream, making her home here, where she waits. We-no-nah offers knowledge like a flaming sword to all who seek it.
Despite all the adversity, knowledge lives. The sword of knowledge is truly magical. According to Thomas Malory, its " so bright in the eyes of the enemy that it gave light like thirty torches."19 The flame of knowledge here in Winona burns so brightly that the water doesnt diminish it in fact, the water acts as a prism and beautifully refracts Winonas knowledge in hundreds of ways.
Wade in the water and the Lady in the Lake will greet you the sword of knowledge lies in her hands, in Winonas hands, in the water waiting for you to claim it, knowledge yours for the taking! Look at the top of our logo the Flaming W and you will see its brilliance. 150 years? Thats nothing! Til every river it runs dry til every star falls down from the sky 20 We can do this together. We will do this together. Knowledge is a river, powerful, ageless and new. Were a community of learners and, like a great river, we improve our world.
1 DeBruyckere, A., Kroeger T., and Annexstad, J. (2000). Minnesota geology. Unpublished webpage located at http://www.hutchk12.org/geo/mngeo/index.html.


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I know, I know. . . . . . many people pan remakes or the THOUGHT of a remake without giving it a chance. Purists at heart ? Or narrow minded ? Or simply sold on the idea that the first is a classic ? (A genuine truth for most great movies) BUT. . . . . on many an occasion a remake has either stood side by side with the original, kinda the old classic and the NEW classic, and other times the remake has actually triumphed over the original. My favorite remakes are
THE FLY, RETURN OF THE FLY. (LOVE the great Vinny Price but the remakes rock) THE BLOB, HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL, THE CRAZIES, THE HILLS HAVE EYES, THE THING, HOUSE OF WAX, THE TOOLBOX MURDERS (2004), FRIGHT NIGHT.
What are your favorite remakes ? Why ?


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Reviews by tgbljb:
4.33/5 rDev +13.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
Enjoyed on tap at the brewpub.
Served as a deep amber colored beer with moderate white puffy head.
Smell demonstrates some navice caramel notes, with a touch of floral hops.
Taste combines a nice caramel backbone, with a light hoppiness and a firm crisp character.
Leaves a light refreshing feeling in the mouth.
Graet drinkabilty, refreshing, paired well with my meal.
Serving type: on-tap
09-27-2008 21:25:39 | More by tgbljb
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11-14-2011 12:58:47 | More by garuda
3.6/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
I had this on-tap at the Victory Brewpub in Downingtown, PA.
Appearance: The body is a clear amber color with a good sized white head that has good retention and ok lacing.
Smell: The aroma is close to being roasty complemented with an earthy hop smell.
Taste: The taste is dominated by sweet malt and has no noticeable hop flavor.
Mouthfeel: The mouthfeel is crisp.
Drinkability: The drinkability is pretty good.
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Serving type: on-tap
01-20-2009 00:26:09 | More by treehugger02010
3.35/5 rDev -11.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Pours a clear burnt honey color with a two-finger sandy head into a pint glass from my first growler! Lacing throughout the drink. Aroma is sweet caramel, nuts, a a bit of dark fruit. Mouthfeel is a little slick, medium-bodied with good carbonation. Taste is nuts, bread, caramel, very little hop presence. Overall this is a rather bland brew. Much better at the Victory brewery where I had it with the nacho platter (this was pretty good). Not a good score for my first growler-fill.
Edit: the Victory beer menu listed Almost Anton's with an ABV of 6.2%. Not 5.3%.
Serving type: growler
01-18-2009 21:56:54 | More by ljbrisson
3.85/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Draught @ Victory: This one pours a slightly hazy amber color with a small off-white head. The aroma is of caramel malts and a hint of floral. The taste is mainly caramel malts, with some light spiciness. Nicely balanced with hops. Very smooth. This is a very drinkable beer. This might be a new name for the Sunnybrook Auburn.
Serving type: on-tap
01-15-2009 01:13:36 | More by Boto
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3.63/5 rDev -4.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Reviewed on 7/10/08. On tap at Blind Tiger. Pours a dark, clear amber with a small head. Aroma of light fruits and butter. Flavor is all buttered toast with raspberry jam. Also some roasted/burnt malt and buttery popcorn. Very toasty. An interesting and tasty beer.
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Serving type: on-tap
12-20-2008 18:23:46 | More by LilBeerDoctor
4.08/5 rDev +7.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
A: Orange with a white head and nice lacing and retention.
S: Sweet, caramel notes and very clean.
T: Sweet yet dry on the finish with caramel and toffee notes.
M: Full and creamy with a clean, dry finish.
D: The dryness balances the sweetness very weel. It is something that I will keep going back to for more.
Serving type: on-tap
11-09-2008 19:43:47 | More by Biscuit033
3.95/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
On tap at Victory on 10/26/08.
A - Clear medium copper/dark amber body with ruby red highlights and one-finger off-white head that receded into a patchy film but left lots of lacing on the glass. Sparse amount of carbonation present.
S - Caramel malt with bready and grainy notes and a touch of floral hops. Hints of honey sweetness and very mild tea-like hops in the back.
T - Quite malty with plenty of sweet caramel and bread at the forefront. Hints of floral and noble hops follow, offering a very light bitterness. Finishes with some mild toasted grains and dark malts.
M - Medium body with syrupy texture and moderate carbonation resulting in a pretty crisp mouthfeel. Minimal bitter finish with plenty of sweetness on the palate.
D - Solid, quaffable lager that's a bit on the dark malty side. Lots of malt flavor ranging from sweet to dark and toasted. Nothing off the charts, but quite drinkable and flavorful.
Serving type: on-tap
10-27-2008 00:16:05 | More by ffejherb
4.1/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
On tap at the VBC on 8/29/08.
Pours a clear copper amber with a 1/2 finger of brite-white head. A solid 1/2 finger of retention that flares up well, leaving a nice cascade of lacing down the sides of the glass. The aroma is light toasted malts, caramel sweetness, and floral notes with just a touch of citrus in the back.
The taste is sweet caramel malts well balanced by a firm hop profile that is all encapsulated in an overall toasty feel that lingers on the palette. The mouthfeel is medium modied with a nice crisp bite and firm carbonation.
Nice take on the Vienna Lager style, with good balance between the sweetness, hops, and toasted malts. Fresh and crisp, I drank this 20 oz pint in no time flat. It looks like this is going to be a new year-around on draft. I'm looking forward to many more pints of this.
Serving type: on-tap
08-30-2008 14:50:00 | More by Kegatron
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Indiana State hurdler Greggmar Swift will run for his native Barbados in the London Olympics.
Swift ran a time of 13.52 at National Stadium in the 110-meter hurdles Saturday, taking second place in the Barbados national championships.
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Ryan Braithwaite won the event with a time of 13.38. Shane Braithwaite, who attends Texas Tech, was third.
"Greggmar had a real great start and had the lead at the third and fourth hurdles," ISU men's coach John McNichols said. "There is a lot of excitement in the country with three automatic qualifiers for the London Games in one event."
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this is so stupid i already as a canadian pay 20 somthing bucks a month for super channel only for stupid ass strikeforce. it's not even every month.. it's like every 4 months that i get to see a fight. there is no way in hell i'll buy a ppv for strikeforce fuck them. they aren't setup like the ufc to stop people from streaming anyways.
I find very hard to believe that the final of this tournament will be in October.
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The UFC has gotten dates and venue set for their events till the summer and Coker doesnt know yet where and when the semifinals n finals will take place...
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Herman Marvin Smith, 73, of Sunset, Texas passed away Feb. 7, 2013 in Decatur, Texas. Herman was born Dec. 6, 1939 in Pampa, Texas to Jasper B. Smith and Gertie B. Hanner Smith.
Herman worked for Vantex Electric in Fort Worth for 29 years. He was a member of Victory Baptist Church in Park Springs, and was loved by many who considered him family. He always had a smile and a twinkle in his blue eyes.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Margie Lokey Smith; parents, Jasper and Gertie Smith; brothers, Chester Smith and JB Smith; stepson, JA Payne; and great-nephews, Nathan Lemond and Troy Smith.
He is survived by his fiancé, Panda Moss; sons, Brent Smith and wife Andrea, Jeff Smith and wife Melissa; daughter, Angela Smith; other children, Melissa Payne, Marty Payne, Clay Woody, Kasey Woody and husband Jeremy, Angelina (Amy) Santini and husband Mark; grandchildren, Taylor, Sayer, Noah, Audrey, Maddie, Sam, Ladye, Katy, BJ, Morgan, Erin, Kaylee, Bryton, Evan, Gracie, Drake and Jacob; great-grandchildren, Brylan, Niyah, Gavin and Dre; brother, Gerald and wife Norma; and numerous nieces and nephews; and too many friends to count.
Visitation for Mr. Smith was Sunday, Feb. 10, 2013 in the chapel of Shaw's Funeral Home. Funeral service was at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 at Central Baptist Church with Pastors Mark Autry and Paul Henderson officiating.
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700,000 Undocumented Students to Benefit From Obama Immigration Policy
New policy halts deportations, but many details affecting high school students could fall to states.
Undocumented students breathed a collective sigh of relief last week when the Obama administration announced that it would stop deporting certain undocumented youth, often referred to as DREAMers.
The policy shift means young immigrants can qualify for deferred action—a temporary legal status—and work authorization if they meet the following criteria:
• They are not older than 30 and were younger than 16 when they arrived in the United States.
• They lived in the United States at the time of the announcement, and had been here at least five years.
• They are enrolled in school, have graduated from high school, or have served in the military.
• They have a relatively clean criminal history—meaning no felony or serious misdemeanor convictions.
• They pose no national security threat.
An estimated 700,000 K-12 students, including 150,000 currently enrolled in high school, could benefit from the change, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
[Read what the Debate Club thinks of the president's immigration policy.]
Simply put, deferred action means no threat of deportation for two years. When that time is up, students will need to reapply. Students must present documentation—school records, medical records, financial records—to prove they are eligible.
"For those that are here undocumented and meet the criteria, [the Obama administration has] lifted from them the fear of deportation, and that is about as huge as it gets," says Crystal Williams, executive director of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Qualifying for deferred action also means students age 15 and older can legally work in the U.S. if they apply for a work permit, pay the $380 fee, and are approved, according to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) website.
Undocumented students under the deferred action will not qualify for federal benefits such as school vouchers and financial aid, according to the Department of Homeland Security.
And neither deferred status nor work authorization guarantees that students can get a driver's license, enroll in colleges, or qualify for in-state tuition if they are able to go to college, Williams says.
[Find out how some states are enacting their own DREAM Acts.]
"They would be here under the color of the law," she says, "But it's a little up in the air whether they would be considered to have a status, and it may be state laws are going to govern that a bit."
Details of what the June 15 announcement means for undocumented students and their college and work prospects should become clearer as the date to apply for deferred status approaches. The Department of Homeland Security website estimates another 60 days before UCSIS will start taking applications for deferred status.
That uncertainty hasn't dampened the excitement of DREAMers like Arlette Pichardo, whose parents brought her to the United States when she was 4 years old.
"Holy macaroni! Like, God, I'm not going to be undocumented. I'm not going to have to watch my back," Pichardo told KPCC Radio in Los Angeles following the June 15 announcement. "That's so surreal. I don't know what that's like, not living in fear."
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When I first began practicing, it took about three months before I got tossed out on my own. My clinic had opened up a satellite
office and sent my "mentor" over to staff the place, leaving me at the main clinic with a few other veterinarians. Within
one week, the new clinic's entire staff threatened mutiny if they were forced to work with the guy one more day. So off I
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Granted, I have a bad habit of rushing into things. That's how I ended up in veterinary school—but that worked out OK. I've
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I later spoke about my misadventures with a friend whose husband is into mountain biking. She told me he bought her a $1,500
bike and took her out, where he proceeded to chastise her bad form so much that he eventually left her behind as she sat on
the curb, crying. And she hasn't ridden since.
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That's a perfect analogy for many of my colleagues who have left the veterinary profession, convinced of their insurmountable
inadequacy. Sometimes it's better to muddle through without knowing how badly you're doing.
So far I've done a ridiculous amount of things in life the wrong way—raising kids, mixing white wine with red meat and so
much more. You name it; I've messed it up. That being said, constructing life without an instruction manual has been immensely
rewarding for me. So I guess I'll just keep soldiering on and see what happens—though I suspect I'll benefit from a tire repair
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Pinnacle takes property that's home to moonshine, wax sculptures
Pinnacle National Bank is the new owner of Dogwood Plaza, a Gatlinburg retail property that's home to the Hollywood Wax Museum, Lineberger's Seafood and the Ole Smoky Distillery.
Earlier this month, Pinnacle acquired the plaza for $10 million in a foreclosure sale at the Sevier County Courthouse. The lender had supplied permanent financing for the project, which is located at 903 Parkway and was developed by MacKinnon Development.
Nathan Hunter, Pinnacle's Knoxville president, said the bank is looking to sell the property.
Andrew MacKinnon, of MacKinnon Development, said Thursday that construction was finished in 2007 and that at one time the plaza was completely full, with dozens of tenants in line to lease a space. But he said that after the economic downturn, the company couldn't fill the shops at the same lease rates they had previously garnered.
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Obama Official Denies 'War on Coal'
Industry experts criticize White House policy claims.
Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says coal will continue to play a role in meeting America's energy needs even as the Obama administration seeks to reduce carbon emissions and combat global warming.
A top Obama administration official denied the White House is carrying out a "war on coal" as suggested by conservatives, but also hinted the most effective way to curb carbon emissions would be to implement economic incentives – such as a carbon tax – and become less reliant on natural gas.
[READ: GOP Wages War on the 'War on Coal']
"There is no war on coal," said Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz, speaking to reporters at an event sponsored by the Christian Science Monitor.
Moniz, a longtime physics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, took over as head of the Depatment of Energy in May. He said President Barack Obama is working to make good on his efforts to curb carbon dioxide emissions – thought to be a major driver of global warming – by offering billions in loan guarantees for companies investing in developing advanced fossil technology and in carbon capture projects.
"The interpretation is that we must control CO2, but we must put in place programs with real resources walking the talk to develop these technologies," Moniz said. Obama recently directed the Environmental Protection Agency to develop regulations limiting the carbon output of existing coal plants, but the industry is upset because of the prohibitive costs of retro-fitting old plants with carbon sequestering technology.
"There are multiple instruments that can be used to squeeze down the carbon emissions; right now my job is to … really work to try to continue to drive the cost down," Moniz said. "The goal of innovation in this business is to drive the cost down across the board for low carbon options. I believe that it is only prudent to prepare options for a low carbon future."
And while the United States has enjoyed a recent boom in natural gas development, which has helped it meet the carbon emission cuts sought by the president, Moniz cautioned that true carbon reduction would call for a declining reliance on that resource as well.
[READ: Obama Unveils Carbon Reduction Plan]
"If we're going to get to real low carbon emissions, natural gas – just like coal – would need to have carbon capture to be part of that," he said. "But that looks to be quite a ways off. In the meantime, gas will be a part of the solution."
Moniz's comments come even as Obama continues to tout the country's declining reliance on foreign oil as a result of the natural gas boom, a common refrain during the 2012 campaign.
"We produce more natural gas than ever before and nearly everyone's energy bill is lower because of it," Obama said in his State of the Union speech. "And over the last four years, our emissions of the dangerous carbon pollutions that threaten our planet have actually fallen."
Moniz did not overtly state he would pursue a carbon tax as a means of forcing the market to pursue emission reductions, but he hinted it was an attractive option.
"There is a strong interplay between putting a policy in place and getting the cost down," he said. "Getting the cost down makes the policy a lot easier, so we'll see that interplay as we go forward and I would hope that we have a set of policy initiatives that accelerate our low carbon future."
[OPINION: The Real War on Coal Starts in Kosovo]
Tom Tanton, an energy and technology consultant who has worked in energy markets for 40 years, says a carbon tax would be misguided and do little to curb global carbon emissions.
"Keep in mind the United States is very efficient, has a low-carbon intensity and has been improving carbon intensity for over 20 years," he says. "If we drive agricultural and manufacturing production overseas where they are not better and they are in fact worse than us, we drive carbon emissions upward. We're not reducing them."
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Actor, writer and geek icon Wil Wheaton hosts TableTop, a fast-paced show about tabletop gaming. In what can only be described as "Celebrity Poker" for board games. In this episode, Wil Wheaton and guests Felicia Day (Actress, Producer, Writer -- The Guild), Patrick Rothfuss (Author -- Name of the Wind, The Wise Man's Fear), and Brandon Laatsch (Filmmaker and Co-creator of the FreddieW channel on YouTube) play Lords of Waterdeep!
Lords of Waterdeep is a strategy board game for 2-5 players. You take on the role of one of the masked Lords of Waterdeep, secret rulers of the city. Through your agents, you recruit adventurers to go on quests on your behalf, earning rewards and increasing your influence over the city.
In addition, recently released Scoundrels of Skullport adds brand new content for the game. It's not one, but two, complete expansions for Lords of Waterdeep: the sprawling dungeon of Undermountain and the criminal haven of Skullport.
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The movie goes from a character study to something that is quite nutty, and yet it loses nothing in the transition. . . . The result is an original picture, not entirely successful, but successful enough, and delightful in its ability to surprise viewers, and juggle tones and keep every ball in the air. — Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Some inner logic may not hold up under the sober light of day, but this unusual action-comedy has the loosey-goosey feel of something that can't miss, like a soused round of bar pool. — Jordan Hoffman, New York Daily News
As co-written by Pegg and [Edgar] Wright, "World's End" offers some comic insight into the pitfalls of arrested development and the perils of living in the past. — Claudia Puig, USA Today
At once a "Big Chill"-style old-pal reunion story and an "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" homage doused in beer and bad-boy humor, this third collaboration (after "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz") between [Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright] and co-star Nick Frost is a fast and funny action-comedy undercut by moments of midlife nostalgia. — Jordan Mintzer, The Hollywood Reporter
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