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Ouija Boards
How To Use a Ouija Board
A Ouija board can be an interesting experience. Some believe it is a doorway to another world and warn against its use, but most people see it as a harmless diversion, especially if it's not taken too seriously. Here are some guidelines.
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Mention the use of a Ouija board to a paranormal research group these days and you'll get a lot of head shaking and statements about "opening portals" and "demonic entities". How did the Ouija board and similar "talking boards" get this reputation? Is it deserved? How is it different than other methods of spirit communication?
The Ouija, the Bones and the Ghosts
When two cousins experiment with the Ouija board, they uncover a buried secret, which then triggers the appearance of three ghosts.
Are Ouija Boards Harmless Children's Toys, or Tools of the Devil?
About.com Guide to Paganism/Wicca, Patti Wigington, gives her opinion about the talking board and whether or not she believes it to be intrinsicly harmful.
Ouija boards - What readers think about Ouija boards
Readers give their opinions about the Ouija board.
Can the Ouija board solve problems?
A reader asks if the Ouija board can be used to get advice or solve problems.
Ouija Board Revelations
Ouija Board Revelations - October 2010
The Ouija Debate
Is the Ouija board a dangerous thing that can open doors to evil entities? Or is it a harmless game? Or maybe something in-between?
Ouija Experiences: Your True Tales
True stories from readers.
Zozo Encounter
Darren encounters the entity Zozo while using the Ouija board
Zozo Encounters
Some who use the Ouija board have reported contact with an entity known as Zozo, which they believe might be a demon.
Here are answers to frequently asked questions about ghosts, hauntings and life after death.
How the Ouija Board Swept America
Video: Mitch Horowitz gives a brief history of the Ouija Board, the homemade invention that came out of the spiritualist movement and captivated America for a century.
How to Make a Talking Board
Instructions on how to create your own home-made talking board, with links to some interesting designs you can copy.
The Museum of Talking Boards
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Ouija! Great graphics!
The Ouija Board: A Postmodern Trickster Archetype for the Paranormal W
There is no more maligned object or figure within the paranormal community than the humble Ouija Board. Is it really an evil, uncontrollable tool that opens a portal into demonic possession - or is there something less dramatic going on?
Prisoner of the Ouija's Dark Abyss
Your True Tales of Prisoner of the Ouija's Dark Abyss - January 2014
Ouija: The Spirits and the Positive Side of the Talking Board
Author Karen A. Dahlman explains the many positive benefits of using the Ouija to contact "spirit friends"
7 Reasons to Avoid Using the Ouija Board
There are good reasons to avoid using the Ouija board, but they are probably not the ones you've heard about or imagine. Much of the fear of the Ouija board is not based on objective reasoning, but on how it's been portrayed in the movies, exaggerated or misinterpreted stories of experiences, or simply fear of what is unknown. So if it's harmless, why should some people avoid using it? Here are seven reasons.


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Have read that I'd need a new windscreen, but the diy guide for the Golf says I dont. How different is the auto light/wiper system between our cars?
The link on that site doesnt really work for me, alternative below.
Does anyone have the part number required for the Audi? A guide would be champ as well, but I've googled long and hard to no avail :crying:
Used to think "meh..I can switch on the lights and wiper myself..no need to waste money on these techno wizardy", but after driving mom's tiguan with autoeverything, my S3 suddently feels "cheap" without these fancy gadgets.

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United States farm bill
In the United States, the farm bill is the primary agricultural and food policy tool of the federal government. The comprehensive omnibus bill is passed every 5 years or so by the United States Congress and deals with both agriculture and all other affairs under the purview of the United States Department of Agriculture.
It usually makes amendments and suspensions to provisions of permanent law, reauthorizes, amends, or repeals provisions of preceding temporary agricultural acts, and puts forth new policy provisions for a limited time into the future. Beginning in 1933, farm bills have included titles on commodity programs, trade, rural development, farm credit, conservation, agricultural research, food and nutrition programs, marketing, etc.[1]
Farm bills can be highly controversial and can impact international trade, environmental conservation, food safety, and the well-being of rural communities. The agricultural subsidy programs mandated by the farm bills are the subject of intense debate both within the U.S. and internationally.
In the 113th United States Congress both chambers took up separate proposed farm bills. The House version failed to pass on June 20, 2013.[2] The Senate's proposed farm bill, the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 (S. 954; 113th Congress) (S. 954), passed the Senate on June 10, 2013. A new farm bill would replace the current farm bill, known as the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, which is set to expire in September 2013.[3] On January 29, 2014, after a conference between the House and the Senate over the differences between their two farm bills, the House passed the Agriculture Act of 2014 (H.R. 2642; 113th Congress), a farm bill expected to be the final compromise.[4]
History of farm bills[edit]
The farm bill was first created during the Great Depression to give financial assistance to farmers who were struggling due to an excess crop supply creating low prices, and also to control and ensure an adequate food supply.[5] The first farm bill, known as the Agriculture Adjustment Act (AAA), was passed by Congress in 1933 as a part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.[6] The bill allowed farmers to receive payment for not growing food on a percentage of their land as allocated by the United States Secretary of Agriculture. It also enabled the government to buy excess grain from farmers, which could then be sold later if bad weather or other circumstances negatively affected output. The AAA also included a nutrition program, the precursor to food stamps.[7]
In 1938, Congress created a more permanent farm bill (the Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938) with a built-in requirement to update it every five years.[6] In 1996, the first major structural change was made to the farm bill when Congress decided farm incomes should be managed by the free market and stopped subsidizing farmland and purchasing extra grain. Instead, the government began requiring farmers to enroll in a crop insurance program in order to receive farm payments. This led to years of the highest farm subsidies in American history.[7]
Direct payments also began in the late 1990s as a way to support struggling farmers, regardless of crop output.[6] These payments allowed grain farmers to receive a government check every year based on yields and acreage of the farm as recorded the previous decade.[7]
Recent history[edit]
In 2008, the farm bill was passed as the Food, Conservation and Energy Act. The bill included approximately $100 billion in annual spending for Department of Agriculture programs, around 80 percent of which was allocated for food stamps and other nutritional programs.[6][8][9]
President George W. Bush had vetoed the 2008 bill due to its size and cost. However, the veto was overridden by Congress.[10] The 2008 bill was also publicly controversial due to its high cost and the uneven distribution of subsidy money among farmers. The bill was 47 percent more expensive than the 2003 bill, and, over the previous ten years, 10 percent of farmers had received 75 percent of subsidy dollars. Some of these farm owners were then-members of Congress and other public figures, including former president Jimmy Carter, who received thousands of dollars in direct payments.[10][11] In 2007, it was found that about 62 percent of farmers do not receive subsidies from the farm bill.[7]
In 2012, while writing the new farm bill, known as the Agriculture Reform, Food and Jobs Act, Congress proposed many ways to cut down the overall cost of the bill, including stricter eligibility standards for food stamps and moving away from direct payments to farmers.[6] However, food stamps and nutrition remained the largest portion of the bill's cost, amounting to a proposed $768.2 billion over ten years.[12] The 2012 bill ultimately failed to pass in the House, which caused Congress to extend the 2008 bill until September 30, 2013.[5][11]
Between the passage of the 2008 farm bill and the creation of the 2013 bill, the food stamp program changed its name to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and nearly doubled in size.[13] The proposed 2013 bill would cut funding to SNAP by about $400 million a year, which amounts to half a percent of spending from previous years. It would also reduce the government's responsibility to pay crop insurance premiums for farmers with adjusted gross incomes of more than $750,000. The new bill also proposed a new insurance program for dairy producers which would cut costs by eliminating other dairy subsidies and price supports.[13]
The 2013 farm bill was approved in the Senate on June 10, 2013[5] but did not pass the House.[14]
Amendment to reduce crop insurance subsidies for wealthiest farmers May 2013[edit]
The Senate voted 59–33 for an amendment introduced by Senators Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Tom Coburn (R-Okla.). The amendment will reduce crop insurance subsidies by 15 percent for the top 1 percent of U.S. wealthiest farmers, those with a gross annual income of more than $750,000.[15][16]
Non-farm bill agriculture legislation[edit]
- Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916
- Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933
- Frazier–Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act of 1934
- Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant Act of 1937
- Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1938
- Agricultural Act of 1948
- Agricultural Act of 1949
- Agricultural Act of 1954
- Agricultural Act of 1956
- Farm Credit Act of 1971
Farm bills[edit]
According to the Congressional Research Service, nine bills between 1965 and 2002 are "generally agreed" to be farm bills;[1] the 2008 farm bill is the tenth.
- Food and Agricultural Act of 1965
- Agricultural Act of 1970
- Agricultural and Consumer Protection Act of 1973
- Food and Agriculture Act of 1977
- Agriculture and Food Act of 1981
- Food Security Act of 1985
- Food, Agriculture, Conservation, and Trade Act of 1990
- Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996
- Farm Security and Rural Investment Act of 2002
- Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008
The latest 2008 Farm bill, known as the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, increased spending to $288Bn therefore causing controversy at the time by increasing the budget deficit. It increased subsidies for biofuels which the World Bank has named as one of three most important contributors, along with high fuel prices and price speculation, to the 2007–2008 world food price crisis.[17] On January 1, 2013, Congress passed the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 to avert the fiscal cliff and the next day President Barack Obama signed the Act into law. (Public Law No: 112-240) The "fiscal cliff" deal was primarily enacted to avoid automatic tax hikes and spending cuts, but also included provisions extending portions of the 2008 Farm Bill known as Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 for nine months through September 30, 2013. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has demonstrated a commitment to working on a new five-year Farm Bill by reintroducing last session's Senate Farm Bill in the new 113th Congress.[18]
Proposed farm bills[edit]
- Federal Agriculture Reform and Risk Management Act of 2013 (H.R. 1947; 113th Congress) (H.R. 1947) – failed passage in the House
- Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013 (S. 954; 113th Congress) (S. 954) – passed the Senate, failed in the House
- ^ a b CRS Report for Congress: Agriculture: A Glossary of Terms, Programs, and Laws, 2005 Edition – Order Code 97-905,
- ^ Kasperowicz, Pete (20 June 2013). "House rejects farm bill, 195–234". The Hill. Retrieved 24 June 2013.
- ^ Cox, Ramsey (10 June 2013). "Senate passes farm bill in 66–27 vote". The Hill. Retrieved 19 June 2013.
- ^ Nixon, Ron (29 January 2014). "House Approves Farm Bill, Ending 2-Year Impasse". The New York Times. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ a b c Alison Crissman (12 June 2013). "Senate approves new farm bill". The Daily Iowan. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ a b c d e Scott Neuman (13 June 2013). "Why The Farm Bill's Provisions Will Matter To You". NPR. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ a b c d Kathleen Masterson (26 September 2011). "The Farm Bill: From Charitable Start To Prime Budget Target". NPR. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ Dennis Sherer (30 April 2012). "Farm, food aid programs face debate about budgets". The Times Daily. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ Mannix Porterfield (16 May 2008). "Rockefeller blasts Bush on threatened farm bill veto". Register Herald. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ a b Chris Edwards (18 June 2013). "10 reasons the farm bill makes no sense". The Daily Caller. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ a b Curtis Houck (4 June 2013). "15 Members of Congress Received $238K in Farm Subsidies Last Year". CNS News. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ Brad Plumer (14 June 2012). "The Senate farm bill, in one graph". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ a b Mary Clare Jalonick (10 June 2013). "Senate Passes Farm Bill, Moving Debate to House". Time Magazine. Retrieved 18 June 2013.
- ^ Kick, Chris (1 November 2013). "Sense of urgency as farm bill conference begins". Farm and Dary newspaper. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ Cox, Ramsey (23 May 2013). "Senate votes 59–33 to reduce subsidies for the wealthiest farmers". Washington, DC: The Hill. Retrieved 4 June 2013.
- ^ "At the trough: An awful farm bill faces opposition". Chicago: The Economist. 1 June 2013.
- ^ Global Economic Prospects: Commodities at the Crossroads, ISBN 978-0-8213-7799-4, World Bank Report 2009 page 52
- ^ Riske, Laura (30 January 2013). "Farm Bill a Top Priority for Senate Leader Harry Reid". The National Law Review. Retrieved 3 February 2013.
Further reading[edit]
- Sumner, Daniel A. (2008). "Agricultural Subsidy Programs". In David R. Henderson (ed.). Concise Encyclopedia of Economics (2nd ed.). Indianapolis: Library of Economics and Liberty. ISBN 978-0865976658. OCLC 237794267.
External links[edit]
- U.S. Farm Bill 2007 Ag Observatory (Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy)
- Farm Policy Facts
- American Farmland Trust
- USDA Bets the Farm on Animal ID Program
- Farm Bill Budget Visualizer from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future


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It's amazing what people think they can get away with though, and I guess in many cases, do get away with.
It's amazing what people think they can get away with though, and I guess in many cases, do get away with.
I have no idea what the concept of premeditated murder involves in South Africa - but in this case, the fact he had weapons ready for use and went to the trouble of shooting through a locked door, after he'd already shot once and had the time to rethink, could well be enough to fit the description.
They wouldn't have gone for that charge if they felt they had no chance of getting a conviction.
In any case, where I live, if a homicide it isn't a premedited murder, it could also be a non premedited murder, which is worse than involuntary manslaughter.
It depends on the definition of premeditated murder in the jurisdiction they're in. In the US, definitions vary even from state to state.I wonder why the authorities are going after the premeditated murder charge instead of something like involuntary manslaughter, for example. I think it was a crime of passion that happened in an instance of rage and not something that he had planned to do, since early reports said that a panicked Pistorius tried to revive Steenkamp after the shooting.
Can any South Africans shed some light on South African legal terms?
The more I read about Reeva, the more I like her. Just from her modeling, she could have made a fortune large enough to fund her the rest of her life. But rather than resting on her looks, she graduated in the top 10% of her law school class and was an advocate for rape victims. I love this photo of her.
So if she was indeed wearing her nightgown, indicating she was in the house and not entering it (so no surprise and confusion with a burglar is likely) and was locked in the bathroom indicated she was trying to save herself. And if there was a bloody bat and she had a head injury that matched the bat, I think this case is open and shut.
I really don't see what the defense can do outside of a Twinkie defense (does that work in South Africa?) or an insanity plea.
"Nature is a damp, inconvenient sort of place where birds and animals wander about uncooked."
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A South African newspaper report:
Exclusive The case against Oscar
A bloodied cricket bat is the central piece of evidence in the unfolding murder investigation into ReevaSteenkamps death.
City Press can reveal that police are investigating different scenarios involving the bat one of which is that her boyfriend, Olympic hero Oscar Pistorius, used it to viciously assault her.
The police are also investigating two more possibilities: that Steenkamp may have used the bat in self-defence, or that Pistorius used it to break down the toilet door behind which Steenkamp was hiding from him.
We can further reveal that police specifically requested that Pistorius blood be tested for drugs and steroids.
Steenkamps skull was crushed and police tests on the cricket bat and her body will reveal if the injuries were caused by blows to the back of her head.
I'm having a difficult time wrapping my head around the premeditated part; to me, a scenario where he was loaded up on drugs and/or alcohol and an argument got out of control seems more likely.
Not that the two are mutually exclusive; and part of me does not want to think that Pistorius is capable of premeditated murder, so I realize this post is neither rational or logical.
It would all depend on the half-life of the drugs/alcohol that he presumably had in his system. By the time they got to testing, some of them may have gone down to undetectable levels or trace amounts. Depends what it is they are looking for.
"Nature is a damp, inconvenient sort of place where birds and animals wander about uncooked."
from Speedy Death
Not sure why people think drugs/alcohol are necessary for this to have happened.
"I miss footwork that has any kind of a discernible pattern. The goal of a step sequence should not be for a skater to show the same ice coverage as a Zamboni and take about as much time as an ice resurface. " ~ Zemgirl, reflecting on a pre-IJS straight line sequence
Re: why they wouldn't use involuntary manslaughter instead of culpable homicide as a charge - from what I can see in a brief review of South African criminal law, the elements of involuntary manslaughter are death caused by the perpetrating of an event that a reasonable person would be diligent/not neglectful enough to commit, and the rest are considered pure accidents or culpable homicide (murder), which includes premeditation and those where people are active in committing the act but perhaps not thinking of the full circumstance ("voluntary" as opposed to "involuntary").
There is nothing in between in South African law which formally contemplates extreme emotional states, and as such the part-defence of provocation (which exists in Canada, not sure about elsewhere) which can mitigate a charge of murder to manslaughter (because the intent component for a murder is theoretically not formable when one is in an uncontrollable rage) may be raised in court but again, it would result in a conviction on the lesser as opposed to the greater charge.
Also, with regards to why someone wouldn't "commit suicide" in this event or that it was more a "crime of passion" in Pistorius's position, I suspect more details of the history between Steenkamp and Pistorius will come out illustrating a greater link between this incident and domestic violence. Perpetrators of domestic violence, psychologically, have an overwhelming control view of such relationship, and will often go to extremes to make sure that their target does not escape them. This can degenerate to publicly exhibiting such control, because they have taken the psychological mindset that they continually need to exhibit such control in order to dictate to their target and others who may intercede that this is the relationship. Victims, on the other hand, start to believe they may actually deserve the situation and empathize more with the perceived plight of the perpetrator than their own - the term battered women's syndrome defines the victim's persona but I don't know its respective term on the perpetrator's part.
Regardless, for a perpetrator, the cycle and element of viewing control as such means that even if they are going to be found in public, it's better that they exhibit the finite element of control (which may include inflicting death) rather than what they may perceive as worse - the loss of control. I personally think going into their head and wondering "why didn't they do this or that" fairly senseless because you're not in the head of a person who is thinking rationally - you're in the head of a psychopath most often. A psychopath who knows what he is doing and justifies it to himself as needing to maintain control. And seeing what has happened in terms of lack of prosecuted domestic violence cases, Pistorius may also have seen this as something he could potentially evade.
Finally, I think maybe the alcohol and drug screen is to determine whether or not these elements were in Pistorius' system before he committed the murder. If there are unmetabolized elements in the amount of time, it would at least cast severe doubt on an intoxication/"roid rage" defense. I do wonder if these defenses exist in South Africa, and if they decide to try and bring in the domestic violence history, how the court will interpret the evidence as a whole to determine what, if any, conviction should be laid.
But even most abusers don't go to the level he allegedly did.
As for conviction, a poster on another forum I go to is from South Africa and he says the maximum sentence anyone ever gets is 10 years. Even for murder. (He said there was a recent case of child rape where the judge actually reduced the sentence to 8 years and there was huge commotion over that.) There is no death penalty. So this necessarily wouldn't ruin Pistorius's life, although a guilty verdict would destroy everything he's done, now and in the future.
This article says that it's 20 years minimum, up to life. It doesn't elaborate on how South Africa handles parole, though. Perhaps the poster to the forum you read is in another part of South Africa, just as different states in the US have different sentencing guidelines?
It depends on how South Africa defines premeditated murder. But it seems to me that if someone tries to hide from you and you make the choice to get a gun and go after that person, you have chosen to kill. Why else would you get a gun first? Even if you are in a rage, once the person is out of reach, you have the opportunity to back down and get control of yourself.
The police may also believe that he shot her deliberately because he was trying to cover up hitting her with a cricket bat (if that's what he did). He could have realized that she was badly injured, wondered how he was going to be able to cover that up, and deliberately killed her, thinking he could pass it off as an accident. That wouldn't be rational, given the circumstances, but he wouldn't be the first to come up with an obviously stupid story to cover up a murder.
I watch way too much ID.
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."-- Albert Einstein.
I don't think you're defending him, though. We're all just trying to find answers to this, because the very circumstances just boggle the mind.


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The Storm Prediction Center places the western two-thirds of the state in the slight risk category for today. The region does not include southeast Iowa, but it's close enough to bear watching. While forecasters draw the lines according to their best information, storms don't care too much about a line on the map. It's not uncommon for locations just outside the highest probability areas to see storms as well.
There's no question about the risk on Tuesday. The entire state is in the slight risk category. A stripe from central Michigan to northwestern Missouri has an estimated 30 percent chance of severe weather; that stripe includes southeast Iowa.
The risk drops considerably Wednesday, but storms are expected to the west and southeast. They're far enough out, at least at this point, that forecasters don't think severe weather is a significant threat for Iowa.
The heightened risk of severe weather coincides with a couple days where forecast highs reach above 90 degrees. A front will move through Tuesday and Tuesday night, returning temperatures for the rest of the week to near normal.


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An online journal about visual art, the urban landscape and design. Mary Louise Schumacher, the Journal Sentinel's art and architecture critic, leads the discussion and a community of writers contribute to the dialogue.
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I love the way RedLine Milwaukee describes itself as an "urban laboratory that seeks to nourish the individual practice of contemporary art and to stimulate the creative potential of the local community to which we are linked."
Amen to that. This organization, which has yet to open its doors, will house studio space for emerging and mid-career artists, create challenging exhibition programming and "connections to the institutional and critical vanguards of contemporary art." They also will train artists to serve as community educators, on many levels.
This organization seems pregnant with potential. I look forward to seeing what kind of impact RedLine has.
In the meantime, you can support their efforts at creating a state-of-the-art facility by attending the RedLine Print Show, an art auction, on Saturday evening. Bid on artworks in all price ranges donated by Milwaukee artists such as Della Wells, Marc Tasman, White Box Painters, Little Friends of Printmaking, Rina Yoon, Fahimeh Vahdat, Robin Kinney, Lori Bauman, Stef Bartz and Dara Larson.
And when you make a donation, receive a special hand printed gift... get one or collect all 8!
Incidentally, if you are an artist, you should know that the deadline to apply to become a resident artist is Friday, May 1 -- tomorrow.
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TRAVERSE CITY — "Over the River and Through the Woods" was a bit like coming home for theater director Bill Storrer.
The Old Town Playhouse production about family love and separation is set in Hoboken, N.J., Storrer's old stomping grounds.
"We spent many warm spring and summer days on the sidewalks in Hoboken having lunch," said Storrer, who lived in nearby Newark, N.J., for nearly 20 years before recently retiring to northern Michigan. "I know the places the characters shopped. It's like reliving a period of my life."
The show opens today on the OTP MainStage and runs through Jan. 26. It marks Storrer's debut at the community theater, though he's a seasoned director of some 40 productions on the East Coast and elsewhere, from summer theater on Cape Cod to professional theater in Southampton on Long Island.
Written by Joe DiPietro of "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change" fame, the play revolves around an Italian-American family on the verge of breakup. All his life, 20-something Nick (Michael Kania) has faithfully attended Sunday dinners with his grandparents, Frank and Aida (Larry Hains and Denni Don Hunting), and Nunzio and Emma (Mike Nunn and Nan Worthington), even after his parents and sister leave the familial home for other states.
But when Nick accepts a job promotion that requires a move to Seattle, his grandparents — immigrants who worked long hours at back-breaking work in order to create better opportunities for the families they hoped to keep close — are anything but understanding.
Though a comedy at heart, the play has its sentimental moments, as when Frank tells Nick about having to pretend he was Irish in order to get his job at the Ford factory in New Jersey.
"The first time reading it through, I said, 'This is a hoot, this is funny,'" Storrer said. "But then I began to see the other side of it, the human interest side, why these old people cling to this grandson who's been coming to Sunday dinners for 29 years, and why he's important to them, and what family means. The key phrase in the play is, "Tengo famiglia.' In English it means, 'I have family.' But in Italian it means so much more.
"There are sentimental parts, but they're not soapy-sentimental. They're not squishy. At the end, if you don't have a tear in your eye, I'll assume you fell asleep."
As the leading character, Kania can relate to the quandary of leaving family behind for the lure of distant places. The graphic designer grew up in downstate Michigan, where his family still lives, and, after school at the University of Michigan, moved across the country to Portland, Ore.
"There were a lot of tearful, heartfelt moments, but I knew it was something I needed to do," said Kania, who moved to Traverse City five years ago and took his first OTP role in "Cabaret." "It's that sort of confusion of wanting to be close to family but at the same time, it's a big world. That is where it's kind of a universal theme, especially now, when everything seems achievable."
Besides acting in the show, Nunn designed its unusual set, dominated by a large picture window with its view of Manhattan across the water. The cast also features Jeanette Hagberg as Caitlin, whom Nick's grandparents set up with Nick in an attempt to tie him down.
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Industrial Ethernet: Room for more, IPv6
IP version 6 (IPv6), developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), will be the next generation Internet protocol, replacing IPv4 and providing additional IP addresses for the increasing number of mobile devices and network-ready appliances, including for industrial applications.
Worldwide exhaustion of traditional IPv4 addresses has led to the rapid development and enhancement of Internet technology and network-ready appliances, according to Moxa, provider of industrial network hardware and software. In particular, Moxa said, IP version 6 (IPv6) has been developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as the next generation Internet protocol to replace IPv4 and provide additional IP addresses for the increasing number of mobile devices and network-ready appliances.
With a large number of appliances already functionally IPv6 network-ready, the transition to IPv6 is inevitable with foreseen implications for industrial control and automation arena in the near future as new industry developments and technology are introduced. As more network-enabled field instruments and control devices are required for various mission-critical applications, Moxa noted, IPv6 compliance has become a critical issue.
Since at some point IPv4 addresses will run out, and better support is needed for security, quality of service and mobility, Layer 2 DIN-rail managed switches can help until IPv6 is ready, Moxa said.
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This article was originally published in the May 2005 issue of Playboy magazine.
What follows is the final collaboration between Hunter Stockton Thompson and Playboy, based on a series of interviews he gave to Assistant Editor Tim Mohr last December. The two spent the better part of a week at Owl Farm analyzing a variety of subjects, from firearms to physical fitness, all of which interested Thompson deeply. "To live outside the law you must be honest," Bob Dylan wrote, but you must also possess great sensitivity to your environment and a wide range of esoteric skills and wisdom. In his 67 years on earth Thompson made himself an expert in matters great and small and loved nothing more than to expound on what he had learned. This assignment was interrupted by his death on February 20, but we could think of no better tribute to a great American writer than to present this small storehouse of vital knowledge in his own words. This is for old fans as well as those who may have come to the party only recently. - The Editors
Freedom is a challenge. You decide who you are by what you do. It's like a question, like a fork in the road. An ongoing question you have to keep answering correctly. There's a touch of the high wire to it. I've never been able to walk high wires, but I get the feeling.
The only way to drive is at top speed, with a car full of whiskey. It takes commitment, especially out here with so many deer and elk around. Car lights paralyze deer. You've got to lean on the horn, brace on the wheel and stomp on the accelerator. When you hit the brakes the front of the car dips down—that will put the beast into your windshield. Now, the significant impact will still occur if you step on the gas, but you're not helpless. It'll still destroy your grille and lights, but—unless it's a bull elk—it will kick the animal out of the way. Hitting the beast head-on will move it instead of popping it up onto the windshield.
It's the swerving that gets people killed.
You know how powder snow is great for skiing? It's great for driving, too. You just have to know the limitations of the car if you're going to drive on snowy roads. Once you've done 360s and drifts, you know what the road is like. And I always test the brakes, just to be sure I'm not going to go 400 feet when I think I have a grip. Once you get yourself into a full-bore drift, just downshifting won't get you out of it. A combination of things can, but downshifting alone can get you out of it only on asphalt. And Jesus, driving on "all-weather" tires... I can't imagine driving on those. I use studded snow tires. The metal studs sound like a tank and wreak havoc on the roads, but they are like bear claws. The difference between hitting your brakes in a blizzard with snow tires and the all-weather tires they put on rental cars? Goddamn.
I set the speed record on Saddle Road—in Kona, on the Big Island of Hawaii—in a heavy rainstorm. There are always going to be things like monsoons when you're trying to set a speed record. What do you do? Think better of it? Come back another day? Your life will change on decisions like that. I take a street-fighter mentality, an Ohio riverboat gambler attitude: It's out of the question to go back or turn around.
Never hesitate to use force. It settles issues, influences people. Most people are not accustomed to solving situations by immediate and seemingly random applications of force. And the very fact that you are willing to do it—or might be—is a very powerful reasoning tool. Most people are not prepared to do that. You can establish the right reputation in this regard—you might, right in the middle of a conversation, just swat some motherfucker across the room. Make his blood shoot out in big spurts. I'm giving away trade secrets here.
I've been beaten worse in New York City than I ever was by the Hells Angels. I used to go out looking for punch-ups in New York. It was worth it just to see an oncoming mob of angry preppies. These weren't fights. There was nothing personal about it. I didn't hate the people. I was just a brawler. It was good American fun. It was all frivolous. There wasn't any right or wrong. Just fucking Saturday-night whoopee.
I'm doomed all my life to violent actions. I'm closely associated with the gods of the underworld—not crime so much but the underworld.
My parents weren't gun people. Growing up I didn't know much of anything about guns except that my parents didn't want me to have a .22. A BB gun was okay. But I found a .22 anyway. I would shoot at lights out of the back of my house, out my bedroom window. There was an alley between the houses. There were light bulbs on the brick garages in the alley. They had metal grilles protecting them, like jail bars, so it was kind of a trick to hit the bulbs.
It was extremely dangerous. Some kid who shouldn't have had a gun, experimenting, shooting out of his bedroom, shooting down into the alley. I had no intention of doing anything other than putting out light bulbs. But I think about it now and think about what could have happened. The odds are going to catch up to you sometime if you keep shooting into the same passageway.
When I got to the military all I knew was the .22. The most accurate weapon in my house is an Olympic pellet gun—single shot, .17 caliber, pneumatic. I can hit a dime across the living room with it. It was given to me by the Mitchell brothers. I would pack it when I worked at their cinema. At the time it was the standard for Olympic shooting competitions.
For conditioning gunstocks, linseed is a good natural oil, but it has a tendency to be sticky. Tung oil is the thing.
I used to get most of my meat from game. A wild boar running out in the open is kind of rare. But it makes for a hell of a hunting day. All this fear of cooking pork rare? Shit on that. With wild boar you just cut it into steaklike slabs, more like pork chops, and cook it on a grill. It's delicious. One of the best things I've ever had. Dressing the animal is a huge part of it. First kill it by surprise so the adrenaline doesn't get released from the glands. A frightened animal tastes a lot worse than a peaceful one. You want to take it when it's grazing, not when it's running or panicked.
With a good rifle it's the shock more than the tissue damage that kills them. The shock sends out death rays all through the body. The animal can't operate. It's too much trauma on the nervous system.
I took all the Hells Angels photographs. Those were all mine. But I learned after trying for years that I could not keep the same focus as a photojournalist. The myth of "take your own pictures, write your own story" didn't work for me. As a photographer I had to keep getting longer and longer lenses. I didn't like to get up close. I didn't want to get in people's faces because you couldn't talk to them much after that.
I don't play cards much. Only once in a while for fun, to play around. I like to gamble where my own knowledge helps me—where if I'm smart about my betting I can affect my chances of winning. Unlike slot machines or dice games.
With sports betting it's always better to strike at the partisan, the home crowd, the emotional bettors. Go into a hostile town at night, visiting, and bet against the desperate, emotional bettors—they'll give you points, and that's the way to win at gambling. And the way to lose is to be one of those emotional bettors.
As a kid I played football, basketball, baseball. I was very much into it. I didn't start gambling until after I quit playing. But about halfway through high school I decided to fuck football and become a criminal. I made my choice between the sports life and the criminal life. Once you quit playing, you need that competitive factor. I don't give a fuck about a game unless I have a bet on it. You have to see it as an opportunity. Nongamblers see it as a chance to lose—and often feel they can't afford to lose. A gambler sees it as an opportunity that can't be passed up. Hell, go into debt.
Ed Bradley came out here one day and beat me for about $4,000 on a basketball game. I think it started as a hundred-dollar bet. But we kept doubling up. I paid him, of course. After all, I would have looked askance—and mentioned it in public—if he hadn't paid me. That's what makes it fun: the reality of it, having to pay up. It's good for it to hurt. Being labeled a cheater or a welch is much more painful to a gambler than getting beat up in the parking lot.
It's extremely bad karma to brag about things you've gotten away with. I'm a great believer in karma in a profound sense: You will get what's coming to you.


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Tony winner Scarlett Johansson, Benjamin Walker and more star in Rob Ashford's sultry revival of Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Find out what the cast had to say about the Southern-soaked drama on opening night!
Get a real taste of the new musical Rocky with this exciting new footage of Andy Karl, Margo Seibert and the rest of the cast. The boxing musical opens at the Winter Garden Theatre on March 13.March 13, 2014
See Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill star Audra McDonald and Broadway dog handler Bill Berloni audition pups to play Billie Holiday's beloved pooch Pepe in the new play at Circle in the Square Theatre.March 13, 2014
The new musical Rocky features amazing singing, dancing and fighting, but at the heart of the show is a love story between Rocky and Adrian, two lost Philly souls.March 13, 2014
On this week's Broadway.com Show, we got the scoop on new productions of On the Town and Fiddler on the Roof, Lin-Manuel Miranda's busy week, Zach Braff's boozy typo, Bryan Cranston's (illegal) campaign slogan and more!March 12, 2014
Broadway.com's Paul Wontorek chats with the creators of Love Never Dies about the show's future.March 12, 2014
Leslie Margherita says a bittersweet goodbye to her Matilda spouse, Gabriel Ebert, and a bunch of adorable maggots.March 10, 2014
It's Jessie Mueller's penultimate vlog, so settle in and listen up because the star answered your questions backstage at Beautiful! Yay!March 7, 2014
See Broadway favorites Stephanie J. Block and Andrew Rannells get ready to make a big splash at Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops.March 7, 2014
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston and the company of All the Way get political on opening night of this new play about LBJ. See what they have to say!March 7, 2014
Singer/songwriter Jonatha Brooke on discovering the funny and poignant moments during her mother's last days in her self-penned solo show My Mother Has 4 Noses.March 7, 2014
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The Federal Reserve's decision to keep printing dollars at an unchanged rate, mirrored by the Bank of Japan sticking with its massive stimulus programme, should have surprised nobody.
But markets seem marginally discomfited, interpreting the Fed's statement as sounding a little less alarmed about the state of the U.S. recovery than some had expected and maybe hastening Taper Day. European stocks are expected to pull back from a five-year high but this is really the financial equivalent of "How many angels can dance on the head of a pin". The Fed's message was little changed bar removing a reference to tighter financing conditions.
However, the top central banks have sent a signal that they think all is not yet well with the world – the Fed, BOJ, European Central Bank, Bank of England, Bank of Canada and Swiss National Bank have just announced they will make permanent their array of currency swap arrangements to provide a "prudent liquidity backstop" indefinitely.
On the liquidity front, ECB policymaker Ewald Nowotny has stated that more will be made available to euro zone banks as the more than 1 trillion euros of cheap long-term loans issued late in 2011 and 2012 expire. He didn't specify what that would entail. ECB board members Carlos Costa and Erkki Liikanen are speaking later.
We reported earlier this week that there are three trains of thought within the ECB about what policy move, if any, to make next. Some policymakers want to consider an interest rate cut, some to keep the option open of another long-term liquidity splurge for the banks a la last year's LTRO and others in the "core" euro zone don't want any policy shift at all. Nowotny has said there is not much that can be done to curb a resurgent euro.


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I am CMO Network editor at Forbes.
Adam Bain, president of global revenue, Twitter. Kevin George, senior VP and global CMO, Beam Inc. Kyle Schlegel, VP of marketing, Louisville Slugger. Doug VanDeVelde, senior VP of marketing, Kellogg Co. Dave Knox, CMO, Rockfish Interactive. Andrew Strickman, former senior director, global consumer marketing at Yahoo and now VP brand and creative services at Move Inc. Dave Hutchinson, head of North American marketing, SAP. Adryanna Sutherland, president of gyro Cincinnati. Carlos Cata, regional managing partner for Heidrick & Struggles' Marketing, Sales & Strategy Officers Practice in North America.
What do they have in common? They're all advertising and marketing movers and shakers–and they all graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
They will convene next month at Miami's Farmer School of Business for a first-of-its-kind, day-long discussion and workshop with the business school's marketing students called "Miami Rocks Marketing," presented by the Forbes CMO Network.
I interviewed Beam's George about a year ago, and I was excited to learn that he was–like me–a Miami graduate. And while my career has been in journalism, my beat has been marketing–giving me the chance to discover the many high-ranking marketing executives with Miami degrees: Michael Sprague, executive VP of marketing and communications at Kia Motors America; Doug Ray, global president of Carat; Jon Podany, CMO of LPGA; and John Birmingham, CMO of DeVry, for example. Brian Niccol, chief marketing and innovation officer of Yum! Brands' Taco Bell, graduated from Miami. So did Joan Lewis, senior VP of global consumer and market knowledge at Procter & Gamble, and Matt O'Toole, CMO of Reebok.
Knox and I agreed: We needed to bring back to Miami its marketing leaders. With Robert Dahlstrom, Department of Marketing chair and the Joseph C. Seibert professor at the Farmer School of Business, and the guidance of George, Schlegel and Cata, we've put together an event that couples Miami marketing alumni and students, providing a learning opportunity for all.
Stay tuned for insights from the event, designed to give back while showcasing the breadth of Miami marketing talent.
So don't just call it the Cradle of Coaches. Beyond Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, Ara Parseghian, Weeb Ewbank, Paul Brown and Sid Gillman, Miami is rocking the marketing world too.
Jennifer – This is an outstanding opportunity for Miami Marketing grads – of which I am also one. Having presented to Miami's marketing department a number of times, please pass my name along for future events for a small business marketing perspective.
To your point, yes, there are many successful Miami Marketing grads out here. :)
Great article Jennifer and thank you to bringing this to light.
Like Jeff, I too am a Miami Marketing grad and had no idea just how many great marketing minds have come out of Miami.
Can't wait to hear more about the event!
Sounds great. Looking forward to it!
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This is an awesome idea. My son is at Miami University, is the event open to parents? Would love to attend.
Will this be streamed at all? I know I'd love to watch it if it's available. Thanks again.
Perfect. Thanks again Jennifer. Really looking forward to it.
Quite an impressive group. More data I can use to persuade my son to consider our alma mater when selecting a university in the next couple years!
Thank you for sharing. I'm looking forward to reading your insights from what I'm sure will be an informative workshop.


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2:20pm Tuesday 8th March 2011 in Epsom
Just as every other Saturday mroning, I let my dog run free in Court Rec.
He loves it over there and makes so many friends, canine and human.
I was taken aback on February 19 when a football coach telling me to keep my dog on a lead and muzzled.
I think he must be more blind than me if he is not aware of the several other dogs not on a lead.
The reason he gave was that a few of his young footballers had been attacked by a dog.
Surely, such children need to be encouraged to have contact with gentle dogs, to allay their fears?
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heres the link http://wii.qj.net/Remembering-the-ic.../49/aid/132555Paul Theroux of the Telegraph could not forget the conversation that he had with Michael Jackson. Now that MJ has gone to that big Neverland in the sky, the journalist takes us back to the old interview, which revealed that eccentric as he was, Michael Jackson too was a sucker for video games. Not just any video game too - MJ loved MK.
In the interview, Michael Jackson revealed that he turned to video games, among other things, to help him cope with the intoxication that comes after a concert:
It makes people do strange things. A lot of our famous luminaries become intoxicated because of it they can't handle it. And your adrenaline is at the zenith of the universe after a concert you can't sleep. It's maybe two in the morning and you're wide awake. After coming off stage, you're floating.
How do you handle that?
I watch cartoons. I love cartoons. I play video games. Sometimes I read.
You mean you read books?
Yeah. I love to read short stories and everything.
Any in particular?
Somerset Maugham, he said quickly, and then, pausing at each name: "Whitman. Hemingway. Twain."
What about those video games?
I love X-Man. Pinball. Jurassic Park. The martial arts ones Mortal Kombat.
I played some of the video games at Neverland, [Theroux] said. There was an amazing one called Beast Buster.
Oh, yeah, that's great. I pick each game. That one's maybe too violent, though. I usually take some with me on tour.
When asked how he manages to bring the then big video games with him on tour, Jackson simply replied that they travel with two cargo planes. I don't imagine Jacko doing fatalities though, maybe he's more the Friendship type of finisher.
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There are superheroes, sci-fi and several selections for the entire family. However, this week's spotlight goes to the Disney-Pixar release, Finding Nemo. This movie has a little bit of everything; it's funny, sad and sweet. It also has a really cool Blu-ray, with options available for 2D and 3D viewing.
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This notebook combines 17 paintings and sketches of beautiful Siamese cats with plenty of space for notes and drawings on both ruled and plain pages.
The gorgeously quirky and individualistic Siamese cat. If you have ever lived with these graceful, intelligent and affectionate cats you'll know just how amazing they are from their stunning eyes to their insistent (!) musical voices, there is nothing like a Siamese cat. They are such social cats and their antics will fill your life with laughter. Here are a selection of paintings of some of the delightful Siamese I've met.
I hope you enjoy the notebook as much as I enjoy painting and sketching the cats.
The book is 13x20 cm or 5x8 inches
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Features 17 paintings of Siamese cats, including 1 Balinese.
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RALEIGH — Two entrenched factions have battled over the future of William Peace University for three years, but the distrust has hit a new level with a bold investment move by the schools administration.
The universitys recent decision to invest nearly two-thirds of its $33 million endowment to acquire the Seaboard Station retail center has further enraged some donors and alumnae who see a secretive and power-hungry new administration intent on changing everything about the former womens college and risking its financial future.
The universitys president, Debra Townsley, and the trustees say they are simply making difficult yet necessary decisions that will ensure that William Peace thrives for decades to come.
As the two sides argue, theres increasing evidence that the feud is straining relationships within the university.
The trust level is very, very low at this point, said George Griffin, who was to have been head of William Peaces education department but left the university in June after just six months. As is the communication between the faculty and the president.
This summer, faculty and staff were unnerved when they were asked to sign arbitration agreements that impose a time limit for disputes and prevent employees from taking the university to court. That followed a showdown earlier this year when faculty met with trustees to air complaints against Townsley, who arrived in 2010.
Meanwhile, turnover among university staff has been brisk. A vice president in charge of enrollment left earlier this month. Ann Denlinger, the chief academic officer and former Durham school superintendent, retired suddenly after only one year in the vice presidents job. She has declined to discuss why.
The university has seven vice president positions, while the full-time faculty has dwindled to 26, downsized by buyouts and department closures. Townsley said the full-time faculty will grow to 30 once new hires are finalized this summer.
The reduction in faculty comes as William Peace is moving aggressively to increase enrollment. Enrollment reached 791 last year, and the university hopes it will reach 1,000 by 2016.
Every year its growing, Townsley said. Our goal right now is to grow enrollment, and so far so good.
The 791 students enrolled at William Peace include 621 in the traditional day program and 170 in professional studies, which operates night, weekend and online classes. One-third of the new students last year were male. This falls enrollment figures arent final, according to the universitys public relations firm, but tuition deposits are up 43 percent from this time last year.
The growth has fueled speculation over the ultimate use of the Seaboard property. University officials have said Peace will form a separate entity to handle the retail development, which will be used as an income-producing investment. But the college is running out of space. This fall, for the first time, 200 students will move off campus to Wolf Creek Apartments, 6 miles away.
Townsley said people are understandably uneasy about all the new directions, but she defended them.
With any change youre going to get different perspectives, she said. What were doing is in line with trends in higher education. I think its what students and families are seeking. And I think our outcomes, which have been consistently strong, continue to be consistently strong. I think that speaks to what our faculty and staff are doing and what a great job theyre doing.
What are their priorities?
Griffin, a 38-year veteran in public education and former school principal in Durham and Burlington, looked forward to working at William Peace last January when he arrived as a part-time faculty member in the education department.
But at his first faculty meeting, he was taken aback when a trio of trustees arrived to hear the concerns of professors, who had complained about the president in late 2012. They were angry, Griffin said, because Townsley had rewritten the college course catalog without faculty input.
Despite the tension, Griffin said, the trustees made it clear the priority was the universitys financial condition, and they backed Townsley.
Griffin said he had a productive meeting with Townsley in June about the education department, which he was to chair starting in July. Then he received an email with an offer, arbitration agreement and a one-week deadline to sign.
Griffin sent back a counter offer that asked for changes in salary and teaching load, he said. Townsley responded, he said, with an email saying she would hire someone else. It was all done by email, which totally, totally shocked me and surprised me, he said. It was very abrupt.
He said he emailed her back and asked her to meet with him. She agreed. Two hours later, another email from Townsley said there was no need to meet after all, according to Griffin.
In an interview, Townsley said she could not comment on an individual personnel matter but said that faculty responsibilities are well defined, to keep faculty equitable across the board.
About the faculty unrest, Townsley said: Administrators and faculty always have their disagreements but I came up through the faculty ranks and I do understand the faculty position.
Days after his departure, Griffin was surprised to pick up the paper and learn about the Seaboard deal.
Youve just got to question, what are their priorities? Griffin said. They need to be, yes, financially solvent, but at the same time they need to focus on their academic program that theyre offering their students. And I think the faculty is very concerned that thats not happening.
A question of arbitration
Lawyers say the arbitration agreements that university faculty were asked to sign are becoming common in private industry. But Robert Kreiser, senior program officer at the American Association of University Professors, said he had never seen a document like it.
Its certainly not consistent with the norms of the academic community, Kreiser said after reviewing a copy of the agreement obtained by The News & Observer.
The agreement is a first for William Peace, which was sued by three music faculty in 2011 after they were dismissed when the department was disbanded. The case was settled for an undisclosed amount of money. The university instead established a musical theater major.
Townsley said arbitration doesnt interfere with tenure or academic freedom, but rather offers a different methodology for dispute resolution. She said she met with faculty to explain the agreement and gave them more time to think about it. All eventually signed, she said.
Its a more efficient process, she said. Im not sure it will keep legal costs down, but you hope that it will be a little bit less expensive and more timely for both the college and for the employees. Thats why I think so many organizations are endorsing it because the court system is so bogged down.
The universitys legal costs have increased since Townsley took over, according to William Peaces tax filings. The schools legal costs jumped from $208,000 in 2010-2011 to nearly $789,000 in 2011-2012.
The arbitration agreements are part of a rapidly changing education landscape, said Roger Christman, associate professor of communication and chairman of the universitys new program in simulation and game design.
With anything thats new, you have a little bit of angst and you want to understand it, Christman said. The arbitration agreement is a trend thats happening in higher education.
I loved Peace College
Moving students off campus is also new for the university. Townsley said more students than expected signed up for the option.
Amber Oliver, a senior from Islip, N.Y., is one of those students. Oliver said shes apprehensive about the move because she worries about the transportation options that will be available.
But she also had issues with the living conditions on campus. Oliver received a bill this summer from the university for more than $100 in room damage and checkout fees, even though for much of the year her heat didnt work and the ceiling was dotted with mold, she said.
I think theyre money hungry, she said.
Oliver also complained that shes having trouble finding available classes she needs to graduate. She changed her major from anthropology to liberal studies when the anthropology major was discontinued. She recently contacted her financial aid counselor and found out he no longer worked there, she said.
Oliver said the university wasnt living up to its motto: Your success. Our mission. She said she still loves her professors, and she still feels nostalgic for the college she chose originally.
I loved Peace College, she said. Loved it.
A surprise deal
The Seaboard deal, which came as a shock to many of the schools staff and alumnae, has reinforced the perception that the new administration operates without transparency.
Townsley said such accusations are unfair. The school cant discuss the details of acquiring Seaboard because of a confidentiality agreement as the propertys future is being decided in bankruptcy court, she said. William Peace has a purchase agreement to acquire the property for $20.75 million, but other bidders could still emerge and any sale must be approved by the bankruptcy judge.
Townsley said the purchase, which the trustees approved unanimously, falls in line with the boards overall investment strategy.
After talking to Townsley, some alumnae have embraced the purchase.
Former faculty member and alumna Carolyn Morrison said she and several others met with the president a few weeks ago.
I do think its probably a good thing to have more land around the college, said Morrison, a former Wake County school board member. I came away feeling better about it. When things change, you always feel a little apprehensive. She made me feel more confident.
But some donors worry that investing so much of the schools endowment in a single real estate project carries too much risk.
Since the Seaboard announcement, Julia Thomas of Cary, a former board of visitors member, said shes been trying to get answers about a family scholarship fund established in 2006 by her late mother. Despite two emails to William Peace officials, she has not received an explanation about how the Seaboard investment could affect the scholarship.
The scholarship has never been awarded because the funds were under water following the stock market collapse in 2008. Thomas worries the Seaboard purchase may ruin the chances of the scholarship ever going to a deserving student.
I find it interesting that WPU saw no need to inform the donors who made the endowment possible of the plans, Thomas wrote in an email to the university.
In an interview, Thomas said: My feeling is if you dont have anything to hide, why are you hiding?
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The Arizona American Italian Club is proud to present our annual Italian Car Show on October 11th, 2014 from 10am-3pm. Please join us for great food, drink, live music and, of course, plenty of gorgeous vehicles - best of all, the proceeds go to benefit a great charity.This year's event will celebrate the 100th year of one of Italy's most incredible beauties - The Maserati!
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Admission for the public is one non-perishable food item for St. Mary's Food Bank or dry dog food or treats for Lost Paws Animal Rescue. An inexpensive lunch consisting of sausage/meatball sandwiches, Italian sausage or pizza will be served plus we have a Beer Garden for your enjoyment. The Club dining room is also available should you wish to relax and enjoy the company of other car enthusiasts!Due to the popularity of the show and tight parking at the club, attendees must park at either Our Savior's Lutheran Church at 12th Street and Glendale Avenue or the Royal Palo Verde Shopping Center on the southwestern corner of 12th Street and Northern Avenue. Free shuttle service will be provided.Proceeds benefit the Military Assistance Mission, an organization that provides financial and morale aid to our current Arizona active duty military, their families, and wounded warriors regardless of their overseas deployment status.
The Arizona Republic has a great article on their website about the Car Show and it will also appear in the Friday, February 15th print edition in the Cars Section.The Channel 10 Fox Morning Show visited us on Friday February 22nd, to watch the video click here!
Six of the entrants from the Car Show participated in the Avondale/Goodyear A Tale of Two Cities Parade & Festival on Saturday February 16th. Click here to view photos from this great event.
Pietro Rainone will be performing at the event this year. Pietro is from Sorrento, Italy and will be providing authentic Italian music during the festivities. If you haven't seen him perform at the Club's Family Spaghetti Nights you'll want to be sure to catch him at the show!
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Established in 1957, the Arizona American Italian Club has always been involved with our community - whether it be through charity involvement, special events or wedding hosting. We work hard to be an integral part of the lives of our membership as well as the people of the city we call home.
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Due to the anticipated crowd the Club's parking lot will only be offering handicapped parking, click the map above for more information about our various parking and shuttle locations!
Proceeds from the show benefit Military Assistance Mission. Click here for more info about this fantastic charity!Food donations from the show benefit St. Mary's Food Bank.


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Home - Harnessing Nature – Fall 2009
The power of waves crashing on Maine's jagged coast has been captured in paintings and photographs for years. Now, it's time to capture that energy to help alleviate the state's dependence on fossil fuels.
Tidal power is tapped by submerged turbines with foils that are turned by ocean currents, similar to the way that wind moves turbines on land. But before full commercialization occurs, researchers and developers need to fully understand all aspects of the project.
"We know how much power potentially could be produced, but we don't know how much you can extract commercially and have it be economically feasible and environmentally responsible," says Michael "Mick" Peterson, UMaine Libra Professor of Engineering.
UMaine researchers are using a $951,500 federal appropriation to lead a collaborative effort to advance development of Maine's tidal power resource.
They are assessing current prototypes and models of turbines that can be submerged in the ocean to produce power using tidal currents. The researchers also will evaluate the potential environmental impact of harnessing tidal energy off the coast of Eastport in the Western Passage of Passamaquoddy Bay.
UMaine oceanography professor Huijie Xue is an expert in oceanographic computer modeling, which is key to understanding how much energy is produced by ocean currents. She points out that Maine's jagged coastline contains many channels and passages perfectly suited for capturing tidal power, including Cobscook Bay in Maine and the Bay of Fundy in Nova Scotia that have some of the highest tides in the world.
"(Eastport) is the most viable site with the highest tides in the continental United States," says Peterson, one of the driving forces behind the project. "If tidal energy is going to be commercialized in the U.S., it's going to be in Maine."
The impact on the ocean environment and how to lessen that effect is another issue researchers are working to understand.
"Since we've been talking about tidal energy, and it's been around for a long time, there's been obvious concern that when you put a turbine in the water, there could be potential (environmental) impact," says Gayle Zydlewski, a fish biologist with UMaine's School of Marine Sciences. "(But) if we do it right, it can be done in a safe and sustainable way."
Once the environmental and commercial viability questions are answered, it is likely that the technology can be implemented fairly quickly.
Maine Maritime Academy (MMA) and Portland-based Ocean Renewable Power Company LLC (ORPC), partners in the ongoing research, bring specialized skills and knowledge that will allow the research and turbine development to advance efficiently and safely, serving the state's economy and the environment.
"It's a technology that is something that we can implement in a fairly short term — a matter of years," says MMA engineering professor Rich Kimball. "For example, offshore wind has a much larger potential, but that's going to be a longer time frame to get that developed."
In addition to involving students from both UMaine and MMA in creating a new industry, there is abundant opportunity for Maine's small coastal communities to benefit from the prospect of jobs and positive economic spin-off.
"This funding will allow us to kick off an important project that is going to have significant economic impact in Washington County and throughout the state," says Chris Sauer, ORPC president and CEO.
The company estimates that in the next seven years, tidal energy has the potential to be a billion-dollar industry in Maine.
Throughout the summer, the company conducted in-water testing of the commercial design of its generator unit, which has turbines made of a composite material developed by U.S. Windblade LLC of Bath, Maine, and a composite structural frame made by Harbor Technologies LLC of Brunswick, Maine — two companies with ties to UMaine's AEWC.
Last year, ORPC proved that its turbine generator unit is technically viable; now it's time to continue with the process to demonstrate that it's ready for commercial use.
"It's critical that we are able to prove through this testing that this turbine generator unit is commercially viable," Sauer says. "It has the potential of catapulting us to the front of the tidal energy industry, while at the same time putting Maine on the world map as far as tidal energy."


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In our , readers selected Watkins Mill-Poolesville and .
Voting for week two games is currently open and will close at 11:59 p.m. Thursday. The game selected as week two's game of the week will be announced Friday morning.
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Vote for the Week 2 Montgomery County Patch High School Football Game of the Week and tell us in the comments why your school deserves to be selected!