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- Can I Be Enrolled Part-Time?
- Yes. You may attend as a part-time student with a minimum of 6 credits per semester; however, we recommend that you take 11 credits during the first semester to fulfill the Interdisciplinary Arts and Media discipline required courses.
- When Do Classes Meet?
- During the first semester, required Gateway courses meet during the day on Tuesdays and Thursdays. These courses cannot be substituted. All other Interdisciplinary Arts & Media courses—such as history, theory/practice courses, and graduate studio—are offered at various times day and night. Occasionally, we offer intensive and immersive courses on weekends, but these are never required courses. Selected studio courses are offered each summer.
- How Is the Program Structured?
- Our MFA program is a three-year program requiring 60 credits. You may transfer in 12 graduate credits at the discretion of the department.
YEAR ONE focuses on discipline-based work in media arts, and provides students with a foundation in both professional practices and art theory. The first semester, students are required to take five courses, four of which are two-credit gateways: Silence/Sonorous Objects, Excavating the Image, Code/Language, and Shaping Solid Light. These gateways (taken in sequence during the semester rather than simultaneously) provide conceptual and technical grounding in sound, image, code, and projection. Along with incoming students enrolled in the three graduate programs in the department, students of the Interdisciplinary Arts and Media program also take Arts as Discourse, a theory-based course. In the spring semester, students are required to take Art as Practice—part of our four-course professional practice series geared towards helping students advance and strategize their careers, along with electives from our history courses, theory/practice courses and graduate studio electives.
YEAR TWO is centered on interdisciplinary work through a series of thematic classes, both studio and history/theory, which will include students from across programs. Second-year students are also required to take an installation class (Space and Place OR Visual Environments), as well as Media Performance—an experimental course that examines media in the context of performance. In the spring a student's second year, they are required to take Connected Studio Practices, the second of our professional practive series of courses. Electives with any studio practices course are composed of students from both MFA programs, which will help them to further develop their body of work within an interdisciplinary atmosphere.
YEAR THREE emphasizes the deepening of a student's practice and body of work, leading to the creation and exhibition of a thesis project. Students are required to take a year-long sequence, Thesis I and Thesis II—the final courses of our professional practice series—to prepare for their thesis exhibition.
- What Kind of Background Does a Successful Applicant Typically Have?
- We are looking for students who have an ongoing creative practice, regardless of undergraduate degree area. Our program brings together students who have active practices creating works in the visual arts, media arts, video, photography, performance, dance, technical theatre, creative writing, experimental sound, music, and electronic arts. If you are a creative practitioner, are interested in expanding your art practice, and are interested in the inherently interdisciplinary and collaborative nature of media arts, you will find yourself among many likeminded peers.
- Are There Any Program-Specific Scholarships Available?
The Rosenblum Award was established to support Columbia's graduate students who are presenting at or attending professional conferences related to their fields of study. Awards are capped at $500, and preference will be given to students whose proposals have been accepted by conference organizers for presentation as part of the conference's official schedule.
- For a complete listing of College-wide scholarships, click here.
- Who Are the Core Faculty?
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- What Facilities Are Available to Your Students?
- The Interdisciplinary Arts Department has numerous resources for students to make artwork with: two computer labs, three installation labs, the finest printing, binding and papermaking studios in the nation, electronics lab, laser cutter, sound lab, and a black-box venue for staging work, visiting lectures, events, exhibitions, screenings, photo shoots and performance. The department has its own equipment center where students check out an extensive array of items including laptops, video cameras, sound recorders, and projectors. Through gateway course experiences, students are offered usage of equipment, materials and space in all department media. The College itself also has facilities and resources available. Significantly, the internationally recognized Center for Book and Paper Arts (CBPA) is part of the department. Additionally, we provide studios for all of our MFA students.
- Who Are Some Noteworthy Alumni?
- Erin Rehberg is founder and Artistic Director of Core Project Chicago and the Associate Director of Kim Nofsinger's Shelter Dance Repertoire. Her choreography has been featured at Beyond Boundaries, Dance Chicago, Breaking Bounds Dance Festival, Art Exposium, The American College Dance Festival and she was a 2010 recipient of a Chicago Cultural Center DanceBridge Residency. She is currently adjunct faculty of Dance and University Studies at Middle Tennessee State University.
- Dan Schwarzlose's work in Cambodia is the latest chapter in a consistently fascinating artistic life. In 1998, he helped found the Elastic Arts Foundation, a Chicago-based musicians' cooperative that produces live music, readings, art, theater, and multimedia events. While a student at Columbia, he worked with chef Homaro Cantu who runs the groundbreaking, surrealistic Chicago restaurant Moto. Schwarzlose toured with Cantu making videos of his amazing creations, and helped create and write the first season of Cantu's new reality show, Future Food, which premiered in Spring 2010 on Planet Green.
- Claudette Roper has more than two decades of expertise in corporate communications and media production and has worked on several groundbreaking television programs, including The Cosby Show and Donahue. In addition to teaching at her alma mater, the 2006 Albert P. Weisman Award recipient lectures and conducts workshops on culture, media and otherness. Her work as an interdisciplinary artist, educator and media maker focuses on issues related to justice, family/history, loss of innocence and oppression.


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Did you know that as a new freshman at Ball State University you are required to attend a Pre-Registration Advising Meeting prior to meeting with your academic advisor and planning your Spring Semester 2014 schedule?
During the Pre-Registration Advising Meeting you will receive your advising scheduling worksheet, learn how to track your progress with the DegreeWorks degree audit, and be given valuable information on how to prepare for scheduling classes and your academic advising appointment.
You must attend only one of the meetings during the week of September 9. Because attendance is mandatory, you will be required to have your BSU ID on hand for tracking purposes. Each meeting will last one hour (including presentation and check-out procedures). Plan to arrive on time and stay for the duration of the meeting. No late entry or early departure is permitted.
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Chanel may have grounded Zaha Hadid's Mobile Art Pod late last year, but one of the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's most recent fashion collaborations, a jelly shoe for the Brazilian brand Melissa, has just landed in Brooklyn. "We're the main destination for Melissa shoes in New York City, so our customers have been making the trek out to see the Zaha," says Adele Berne, who co-owns the Carroll Gardens shop Epaulet with her fiancé, Michael Kuhle. "We've had a few customers, including several guys, buy them just to display in their home." Berne assures us that despite some shoppers' proclivities to collect them like art, Hadid's curvy rubber shoes are actually quite comfortable. They're waterproof and washable to boot, and we prefer them to her design for Lacoste. Epaulet is the only store in the U.S. currently selling the shoes, and they're going fast.
I couldn't imagine anyone with less taste for shoe design… coherent? I'll give her that: it's rubber. but beautiful? never.
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Tyler Adam Dahlberg (USA) graduated from Iowa State University and currently works as research assistant for Dr. Ogneva-Himmelberger as well as an IDCE writing tutor. He is primarily interested in GIS as it applies to issues of public health and environmental exposure, as well as water conservation issues. His prior experiences before Clark included working as a GIS analyst for the New York State Department of Health's Center for Environmental Health, as well as the NYSDOH Bureau for HIV/AIDS Epidemiology. Tyler recently won a Geller Grant from Clark University to travel to Uganda and perform GIS research on sustainable microgrid development in 2013


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The Warhammer phenomena (both original flavour and 40,000 flavour) passed me by as a teenager. I certainly knew people who were into it: the gaming, collecting the figurines and painting them by hand, poring over White Dwarf, loitering in Games Workshops shops with other teenage boys. Looking back, I'm not sure why it passed me by; I ought, perhaps, to have been prime Warhammer material. As an undergraduate I shared a flat with three guys, one of whom was a heavy-duty Star Fleet Battles player, and another of whom had a large collection of hand-painted Warhammer miniatures. This latter gentlemen, towards the end of his third year, took his figurines to job interviews. 'You should see their faces,' he told us, delightedly, 'when I whip them out and put them on the table, halfway through the interview!' As I tried to picture their expressions, he went on, in a more solemn voice, that the figures demonstrated such exemplary indices of employability as 'dedication' and 'excellent hand-eye coordination' ('painting the details is quite a challenge,' he pointed out), which I suppose, in a sense, they did. I don't recall him actually getting any jobs, mind you. Although having said that, the individual in question was a medical student, and is now (I believe) a GP, so this strategy must have worked out for him at some point.
Why wasn't I like him? I don't think it was because I wasn't as geeky as he. Indeed, I'd say something the reverse was true: it was that I was too geeky. Whatever else you may say about wargaming, hanging out in Games Workshop shops and the like, it is at least a social activity. If I'm honest I was happier without that awkward 'interacting with other human beings' component to my SF nerdery; more comfortable solus in my bedroom reading a book. But the appeal of miniatures is surely core to the appeal of SF more broadly. There's a rather fine Hilaire Belloc passage at the start 'The Inn of the Margeride' (from The Hills and the Sea, 1906) that gets to the heart of this, I think:
Whatever, keeping its proportion and form, is designed upon a scale much greater or much less than that of our general experience, produces upon the mind an effect of phantasy.I quoted this recently in another place, and added: 'I suppose this appeals to me because my own fiction is, or seems to be (since, believe me, I'm as surprised about this as you are), so obsessed with shifts in scale of precisely this sort: from human beings to giants; from giant to microbe-sized beings; models, Big Dumb Objects, detailed sketches and plans of other SF fiction, and the like.' But it might be more apropos to relate the passage to the passion some SFF fans feel for miniatures. Perhaps the ground of this love is, precisely, a Bellocish sense of breaking through the vulgar illusion of daily sense (the combination, which wargaming figurines enable, of simultaneous minute attention to details and large scale imaginative transcendence -- 'showing to mankind in rare glimpses what places are designed for the soul--those ultimate places where things common become shadows and fail, and the divine part in us, which adores and desires, breathes its own air, and is at last alive'. Or perhaps that's merely pseudish.
A little perfect model of an engine or a ship does not only amuse or surprise; it rather casts over the imagination something of that veil through which the world is transfigured, and which I have called "the wing of Dalua"; the medium of appreciations beyond experience; the medium of vision, of original passion and of dreams. The principal spell of childhood returns as we bend over the astonishing details. We are giants--or there is no secure standard left in our intelligence.
So it is with the common thing built much larger than the million examples upon which we had based our petty security. It has been always in the nature of worship that heroes, or the gods made manifest, should be men, but larger than men. Not tall men or men grander, but men transcendent: men only in their form; in their dimension so much superior as to be lifted out of our world. An arch as old as Rome but not yet ruined, found on the sands of Africa, arrests the traveller in this fashion. In his modern cities he has seen greater things; but here in Africa, where men build so squat and punily, cowering under the heat upon the parched ground, so noble and so considerable a span, carved as men can carve under sober and temperate skies, catches the mind and clothes it with a sense of the strange. And of these emotions the strongest, perhaps, is that which most of those who travel to-day go seeking; the enchantment of mountains; the air by which we know them for something utterly different from high hills. Accustomed to the contour of downs and tors, or to the valleys and long slopes that introduce a range, we come to some wider horizon and see, far off, a further line of hills. To hills all the mind is attuned: a moderate ecstasy. The clouds are above the hills, lying level in the empty sky; men and their ploughs have visited, it seems, all the land about us; till, suddenly, faint but hard, a cloud less varied, a greyer portion of the infinite sky itself, is seen to be permanent above the world. Then all our grasp of the wide view breaks down. We change. The valleys and the tiny towns, the unseen mites of men, the gleams or thread of roads, are prostrate, covering a little watching space before the shrine of this dominant and towering presence.
It is as though humanity were permitted to break through the vulgar illusion of daily sense, and to learn in a physical experience how unreal are all the absolute standards by which we build. It is as though the vast and the unexpected had a purpose, and that purpose were the showing to mankind in rare glimpses what places are designed for the soul--those ultimate places where things common become shadows and fail, and the divine part in us, which adores and desires, breathes its own air, and is at last alive.
Anyhow, I came to this novel because I've been following up on my 'reading Ian Watson' plan, not because I'd developed any sudden middle-aged interest in Warhammer 40,000. But I must say: I was very pleasantly surprised. The story concerns the titular Inquisitor, one Jac Draco, a sort of futuristic Witchfinder General in a human-lead Galactic Empire, and his search to seek out and destroy 'heretics, mutants, aliens and demons'. These latter are manifestations of the forces of Chaos. They live in the 'warp dimension' through which spacecraft must travel, but are constantly breaking out into normal space to monstrous and destructive effect. The Galactic God-Emperor, in a centuries long coma and only kept alive by machine, in fact uses his prodigious willpower to sort-of-magically hold these forces at bay; but 'he is failing -- just as the Imperium is failing, slowly and haphazardly but failing nonetheless.' The novel starts with an assault on a pernicious mutant presence infecting the weapon-factory world of 'Stalinvast.' We then follow Jac and his three companions (the beautiful female assassin Meh'Lindi, the warp navigator and pilot Vitali Googol, and the Gimli-esque sidekick dwarf Grimm) as they scoot around the cosmos trying to get to the bottom of a conspiracy within a conspiracy, fighting all sorts of nasties, and generally having a great deal of monstrous fun. It's tosh, of course; but tosh of a exceptionally high calibre, and Watson gets the tone exactly right. In its own way, melodrama is very hard to write well, and the slightly fruity ponderousness of Watson's prose here (liberally sprinkled with exorcist's Latin) is just right.
Jac arose at last, staggering slightly. Crossing to her, he extended a palm against her brow. She flinched momentarily. Extending his psychic sense, he spoke words of power in the hieratic ritual language. In nomine imperatoris hominorum magistris ego te purgo et exorcizo. Apage, Chaos, apage! [93-4]Hmm; I wonder if the vocative of 'Chaos' is 'Chaos'? Shouldn't that be Apage, Chao, apage? No matter.
The warlock was a bloated, horned hermaphrodite draped in bilious green skin. Oozing sexual orifices puckered his/her sleeping belly. His/her long muscular tongue lashed and probed the air like a sense organ ... Acrid musk saturated the air. Jewel tipped stalactites hung from the cavern roof, aglow like many little lamps. [125]So, yes, Watson takes his job here seriously; and the result is wholehearted and often genuinely effective intergalactic Gothic. The grand guignol is evocatively written, the story is engaging, the moral dilemma of the central character -- a man who does terrible things, including ordering the destruction of an entire planet, genuinely in the service of what he believes to be the greater good -- effective, if one-note. Not least, Watson grapples heroically with the task of suggesting the improbable scales of his preset cosmos within the confines of an 80,000-word tie-in novel. Especially early on, the prose is full of rather artful Battleship Potemkin-y touches that sketch-in the populousness and enormousness of everything. As space marines battle through the vast hive-like cities of Stalinvast millions are killed, and millions more flee, 'a river of humanity':
Below, the surge was growing ever denser as if that river had met a dam ahead. Moving walkways must have failed under the weight they bore. Bodies were conglomerating together, asphyxiating. Corpses were carried along, standing upright. The nimblest escapees hopped across the heads of the living and the dead, till a twisted ankle or a grasping angry hand brought them down ... the very walls of the avenue seemed likely to burst. Upthrusts of men and women forced cones of tangled crushed bodies higher than the rest of the mass. The flood of tormented flesh appeared to be one single myriad-headed entity, which was now compressing itself insanely til eyes started, skin split, til blood vessels sprayed. [35]There's an E-E-Doc-Smithworthy profusion of modifiers such as 'vast', 'colossal', 'enormous'. Characters bicker over whose provenance is the largest ('"You're the hereditary lord of a whole world," Jaq found himself saying presently; "whereas I'm the emissary from the lord of the entire galaxy!"). In all this the aesthetic is that of the model miniature: things which are notionally huge described from the point of view of something even huger, such that the detail acquires the feel of intricate, miniature detail:
The Governor's sanctum was a leviathan suffused with the same dreary red light. Censers burned, further hazing the air. Goggled officials hunched over consoles around tiers of cantilevered wrought-iron galleries. Caged mutants with abnormally large eyes played complicated games on three dimensional boards.Of course they did.
At the heart of the enormous room an ornate marble building shaped like a pineapple squatted on a disc of steel. That disc must be a lifting platform which could raise and lower the Governor's sanctum sanctorum.This sort of stuff replicates precisely the gamer's buzz; the Bellocish sense of occupying the minute and the gigantic simultaneously.
My ignorance of the larger Warhammer 40,000 universe means that I can't be sure which of the many very cool details here are Watson's inventions and which are common currency. But, as befits a novel spun-off from a product as much about intricate detail as cool design, this novel is both full of wonderful details, and also a very efficient, well-designed piece of narrative space-hokey.
Veils of sickly pigment draped the void in all directions, lurid, gangrenous, and mesmerizing, as if an insane artist had been set loose to paint, on a canvas, the kaleidoscope of his mad, shapeless nightmare. [165]This supplants my previous front-runner (the Lawrentian 'Suave Loins of Darkness') as 'Phrase I'd Most Like To Use As A Band-Name Should I Ever Get Round To Forming A Band': Veils of Sickly Pigment goes straight to the top of that list.
Lightning forked across a jaundiced sky as if discharging the tensions between reality and irreality. Some clouds suppurated, dripping sticky ichor rather than rain. [171]It has been a disappointing summer so far, hasn't it.
Other great buildings were giant mutated solo genitalia. Horned phallic towers arose, wrinkled ribbed, blistered with window pustules. Cancerous breast domes swelled, fondled by scaly finger-buttresses. Tongue bridges linked these buildings. Scrotum pods swayed. [183]We recently moved house, and estate agents showed us several Scrotum Pod properties. Prince Charles has spoken out against them, I know, but I personally found them compact and affordable. Then there's the clothes! Splendid clothes!
Weapons and other devices hung within Obsipal's blood-red high-collared cloak; and his belted black robe was appliquéd with glaring white death's heads. [19]I honestly can't think of another Space Opera in which the main villain wears appliqué. Or later on:
"Wise Adeptus," interrupted a beige-clad novice. [226]This isn't just beige, of course. It's ironic beige. Rarely has a novel been as luridly coloured as this one. Decadent excess oozes from every sentence. Our heroes fight bird-footed women: 'her body, clad in a chain-mail leotard trimmed with rosettes and puffs of gauze, was blanched and petite; hair hair blonde and bounteous. Yet her feet were ostrich-claws, ornamented with topaz rings, her hands were chitinous, painted pincers' -- and Watson knows perfectly well that the most startling thing about her is the chain-mail leotard. Evil takes the shape of a vast tentacular hyrda composed partly of material ooze and partly of spirit energy from the warp (in a moment of icky quasi-hentai nastiness, Meh-Lindi is mind-raped by one of these tentacles). Beige? Hardly.
At any rate, I rattled through this and thoroughly enjoyed it. By the time Jaq Draco confronts the God Emperor, in a vast cavern hollowed out beneath the Himalayas, I was practically cheering. The Emperor speaks IN LONG STRETCHES OF BLOCK CAPITALS, and we're none the wiser. ('HEAR THIS DRACO! ONLY TINY PORTIONS OF US CAN HEED YOU, OTHERWISE WE NEGLECT OUR IMPERIUM, OF WHICH OUR SCRUTINY MUST NOT FALTER FOR AN INSTANT. FOR TIME DOES NOT HALT EVERYWHERE WITHIN THE REALM OF MAN. INDEED TIME ONLY HALTS FOR YOU. WE ARE AGONIZINGLY ALONE!') "How can a minnow understand a whale?" Jaq cried.' Wise words.


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percentage us population net worth over million
According to findings by PNC Wealth Management, an overwhelming number of high net worth Americans earned their wealth and are more likely to feel secure during challenging economic times compared to peers who inherited their money.
Conducted by PNC Wealth Management, a member of The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (NYSE: PNC), the fourth annual Wealth and Values Survey revealed that 69 percent of high net worth Americans with $500,000 or more in investable assets accumulated most of their fortune by earning it through work, business ownership or investments. This compares to the 6 percent who attained their wealth primarily through inheritance. The remaining 25 percent gained their wealth through a combination of inheritance and earnings.
Earned Wealth -- Why Worry?
The earners" majority, are more likely to be concerned about the likelihood of a recession, yet are more confident they can manage through a downturn, PNC found. When asked about a recession, 36 percent of high net worth earners said it was a concern, yet 77 percent agreed with the statement I feel I have a lot of control over my financial future."
Meanwhile, 27 percent of heirs expressed concern about a recession. Yet, 10 percent fewer -- 67 percent -- expressed confidence about control of their finances in the future.
The earners also have a higher risk tolerance than heirs. Thirty-nine percent of earners rate themselves as moderate to risky investors compared with 21 percent of heirs.
There is a strong correlation between those who earned their wealth, their willingness to take risks and confidence that they can recover from a major negative financial event," said Thomas P. Melcher, executive vice president and managing director of Hawthorn, PNC Wealth Managements ultra high net worth division. "Those who inherited their wealth often view themselves as stewards for future generations. As a result, they tend to be more conservative in their approach to investing.
By understanding the psychology of wealth, wealth managers are better able to deliver holistic advice measured both with investment returns and quality of life, the success of which is measured both through investment returns and appreciation for the lifestyle that wealth allows," he added.
Other survey highlights include:
- Happiness is Relative: Three quarters (76 percent) of earners agree "My financial success lets me feel less stress and worry" as opposed to 50 percent of heirs. And 51 percent of earners agree "as I have accumulated more money in my life I have become happier" vs. 33 percent of heirs.
- More Not Necessarily Merrier: Heirs are more than twice as likely to say Having a lot of money brings about more problems than it solves" (20 percent vs. 9 percent among earners).
- As Luck Would Have It: More high net worth people who have earned their wealth (37 percent) agree with the statement The money I have made so far has come from being in the right place at the right time" compared with 25 percent of heirs.
- Passing it On: Far more of earners (68 percent vs. 28 percent) agree with the statement Every generation should be responsible for creating its own wealth." In addition, 25 percent of earners vs. 14 percent of heirs agree with the statement I am concerned my children will grow up entitled." And more earners believe It is more important for children to learn the value of money through hard work" (92 percent vs. 71 percent).
Survey Methodology
The Wealth and Values Survey is well established as a measurement of the pulse of the attitudes and thoughts of Americas high net worth earners. Previous surveys have focused on the children of the wealthy in the Growing up Wealthy survey of 2007; relationships in the Love and Money survey in 2006 and handing down legacies to future generations in 2005.
The Wealth and Values Survey was commissioned by PNC to identify attitudes about wealth and wealth management among high-net-worth individuals, how it affects their lives and their needs in managing wealth.
The survey was conducted online within the United States by Harris Interactive? in September and October 2007 among a nationwide cross section of 1,509 high net worth adults (age 18 or older), with annual incomes of $150,000 or above (if employed), at least $500,000 of investable assets (unless retired) or at least $1 million of investable assets (if retired).
The total sample contains four distinct groups: 610 with assets of $500,000 to
$999,999; 668 with assets of $1 million to $4.9 million; 120 with assets of $5 million to $9.9 million; and, 111 with assets of $10 million or more. Figures for age, sex, race, education, region, income, asset level and propensity to be online were weighted where necessary to reflect the composition of the wealthy, high net worth adult American population. Findings are significant at the 95 percent confidence level with a margin of error of +/- 2.5 percent among the sample of national adults, and a margin of error of +/- 4.0% among the sample of business owners.
The survey was designed and managed by HNW, Inc. (www.hnw.com), a leading provider of wealth marketing software and solutions to financial services companies and intermediaries seeking to capture and serve the high net worth market.
The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. (www.pnc.com) is one of the nation's largest diversified financial services organizations providing consumer and business banking; specialized services for corporations and government entities, including corporate banking, real estate finance and asset-based lending; wealth management; asset management and global fund services.
This report has been prepared for general informational purposes only and is not intended as specific advice or recommendations. Information has been gathered from third party sources and has not been independently verified or accepted by The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. PNC makes no representations or warranties as to the accuracy or completeness of the information, assumptions, analyses or conclusions presented in the report. PNC cannot be held responsible for any errors or misrepresentations contained in the report or in the information gathered from third party sources. Any reliance upon the information provided in the report is solely and exclusively at your own risk.
For more information on the Wealth and Values Survey on high net worth Americans by PNC Wealth Management, please visit www.pnc.com
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HOOPESTON — City council members on Tuesday discussed the hours alcohol can be served following a request last month from Doug Wagoner from Fast Lanes Bowling Alley.
Wagoner requested uniform hours to accommodate gaming hours, especially for special events bars, clubs and the bowling alley have during the year. At present, the hours to serve alcohol are 6 a.m. to midnight Monday-Thursday; 6 a.m. to 1 a.m. Friday and Saturday; and Sunday until 10 p.m. with gaming tied to those hours. The state shuts the gaming machines off when alcohol is can't be sold. This causes a loss of revenue for the businesses, the owners say.
"If hours are uniform across the board, there would be no need to call Springfield to change time for one day," Wagoner said.
He added he polled several bar owners who didn't want to stay open past midnight Monday-Thursday or Sunday pass 10 p.m., but did want the gaming machines still operational for the events that run past those times. The exception would be if New Year's Eve fell during the week as it will this year. Everyone wanted the gaming hours to remain until 1 a.m. on that day rather than end at midnight.
Council members draw consider a proposal at their next meeting at 7 p.m. Nov. 5 in City Hall.
In other business, council members:
+ Heard an update from Mike Streff, Foth Infrastructue & Environment, that the EPA would start the loan disbursement in about four more weeks. He added that Leander Construction was drawing up the foundation design for approval and planned to move equipment in Oct. 21.
+ Learned that Hoopeston Vet Care, 901 W. Main St.closed its doors Friday. Another party is interested in the building, but not a veterinarian. The city will have to revert back to county resources for stray animals.
+ Heard Mayor Bill Crusinberry give an update on the FMC lot. Once an asbestos abatement on the remaining building is complete, the building will be torn down. The EPA will do borings at the joints, testing for hazardous contaminants, Crusinberry said. They did not want to remove the concrete if not necessary. He added the EPA planned to clean the concrete in the spring, clean the sewer system, the retention area and wrap up the project by next summer.


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By Bill Adair
Published on Saturday, February 11th, 2012 at 10:01 a.m.
This is the latest in our series putting controversial statements in their full context, the comments by Rick Santorum on women in combat.
From CNN's John King USA, Feb. 9, 2012
JOHN KING: OK. Let me, here's another one for you. A President Santorum might face. The Pentagon says it's easing roles on women taking a front line role - some front line roles in combat, as medics, as people involved in communications, perhaps opening the door to a broader role, ultimately, for women in combat.
A good idea or a bad idea?
SANTORUM: I don't - you know, look, I - I want to create every opportunity for women to be able to serve this country. And - and they do so in an amazing and wonderful way. And they're a great addition to the - and have been for - for a long time - to the - to the armed services of our country.
But I - I have - I do have concerns about women in front line combat. I think that could be a - a very compromising situation where - where people naturally, you know, may do things that may not be in the interests of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved.
And I think that's probably, you know, it already happens, of course, with - with the camaraderie of - of men in combat. But it's - but it's - I think it would be even more unique if - if women were in combat. And I think that's probably not in the best interests of men, women or the mission.
He elaborated on the remark in an interview with Jonathan Karl of ABC News.
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Northern New England – Whatever your back-to-school needs, Goodwill has you covered. With our vast supply of gently used clothing, housewares and other items, your local Goodwill store is the one-stop shopping spot for preschool, K-12 and college students alike.
In addition to the clothing, supplies, electronics, musical instruments, sporting equipment and other items you might normally think about for back-to-school shopping, other items can meet your needs with a little creativity:
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LONDONDERRY — Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in New England welcomes Linda McLaughlin to the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage office in Londonderry. As a sales associate, McLaughlin will provide residential real estate services in Londonderry as well as the surrounding towns. She has chosen a career in real estate after working as an office manager/bookkeeper. McLaughlin is a member of the Granite State South Board of REALTORS and the National Association of REALTORS. She is a lifelong resident of New England and has resided in Derry for 17 years.
METHUEN — Connie Doto, broker/owner of Connie Doto Realty Group, has been accepted as a member of the Realty Guild, a group of independent real estate business owners. Connie Doto Realty Group has had tremendous success and growth in business since opening in October 2010, at 119 Pleasant St., Methuen. By 2011, Doto was ranked one of the top two listing agents in Methuen by the
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KEENE — Paul Redmond and Deni Oven have been recognized as being in the Better Homes & Gardens The Masiello Group Top 20 Realtors for sales and marketing performance during the month of June 2012. This recognition is earned each month by the company's top 20 Realtors out of the group's more than 500 Realtors throughout northern New England.
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KEENE — Jane Costello has been recognized as being in the Better Homes & Gardens The Masiello Group Top 20 Realtors for sales and marketing performance during the month of July in the Windham office. This recognition is earned each month by the company's Top 20 Realtors out of the group's more than 500 Realtors throughout northern New England.
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MERRIMACK & NASHOBA VALLEYS — The Northeast Association of REALTORS (NEAR) reports that single family home sales during July in the 15 cities and towns from Boxford to Littleton climbed by 38.3 percent compared with July of last year, while the number of condominiums sold soared by 60.5 percent during the same period. Year-to-date, sales of both property types were up by more than 20 percent, with a 26.2 percent increase in single family home sales and a 23 percent gain in condominium sales. Compared with June, transactions in July were up for single family homes by 6.2 percent, and condominium sales month-to-month were basically flat, down by 0.8 percent. The report is based on data from MLS Property Information Network in Shrewsbury.
The report also reflected increases in the median sales price for both single family homes and condos sold locally during July, compared with July of 2011. Specifically, the median price for single family homes sold in July was $330,000, a 3.4 percent increase versus last July, but a 5.7 percent drop over June's median price of $349,950. For condominiums sold in July, the median price of $197,000 is an increase of 6.5 percent compared with last year and a jump of 14.5 percent versus June's median of $172,000.
The average length of time it took for the single family homes that sold in July to go from listing to closing was 112 days, an increase of 27.3 percent over last July's average of 88 days. It took an average of 122 days for the condominiums sold during July to close, an increase of 14 percent compared with last July.
Additionally, the number of pending sales for single family homes in the region during July were up by 13.7 percent compared with July of 2011, with the agreed-upon median price for those properties at $329,000, up 9.7 percent versus last July. The number of pending sales for condominiums locally during the month was also up, rising by 63.6 percent versus last July to 126 contracts signed, with the median price down by 5.6 percent to $169,900.
The report also provided inventory levels of area homes for sale as of Aug. 15, which at 1,474 available single family homes and 535 condominiums have each dropped substantially below last year's levels. The inventory for both single family homes and condominiums locally also remains well below the peaks set in 2006 and 2007, which were 2,242 for single family homes and 1,251 for condos.


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CATEGORIES Horror, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Deals, Remakes and Sequels, Movies, CinematicalMoviegoers are about to be up to their (succulent) necks in vampire movies. Currently in theaters is non-mainstream vampire fare like the Russian film Day Watch, the very limited release Rise: Blood Hunter and the short film "Quartier de la Madeleine", which is Vincenzo Natali's lame contribution to the otherwise enjoyable compilation Paris Je T'Aime. But on their way to multiplexes near you are the big-deal vampire pics Castlevania, I Am Legend, 30 Days of Night, Daybreakers, Cirque du Freak, Dracula Year Zero, The Un Dead, Hotel Transylvania, Bloodrayne II: Deliverance, Already Dead, Town Creek and Blood: The Last Vampire. And straight to your rental queue is Lost Boys 2: The Tribe. This isn't even counting a lot of the vampire indies being made right now.
Officially added to the pile now is Sony's adaptation of Elizabeth Kostova's novel The Historian. The movie was announced two years ago when the studio paid seven figures for the rights to the book, which hadn't yet hit stores. Finally, long after watching the novel become a bestseller (it was ranked #28 for 2005 by Nielsen BookScan), the studio is finally moving forward with the movie. Sony has hired former child actor (Starship Troopers) and singer ('Aladdin' in Aladdin) Brad Kane to write the script. According to producer Douglas Wick (Hollow Man), who is overseeing the project with his Red Wagon partner Lucy Fisher, it has taken two years to find just the right person to capture the novel's sexiness and its credibility. Kane has been rising as a screenwriter recently, having scripted an upcoming film titled These City Walls and having done rewrites on the Richard Pryor biopic, Live. The plot of The Historian deals with a young woman searching for her father who is in turn searching for the grave of Vlad the Impaler (the inspiration for Dracula).


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Take TRUVADA at bedtime. If you are taking with ISENTRESS you may experience insomnia. Tylenol PM worked for me. First three weeks were the worst and side effects subsided one at a time. I take it at night cause I get BAD DEPRESSION side effects for about 6 or 7 hours after taking. I try to sleep through those first 6 or 7 hours. It see,ms to work. I have no other drugs to comapre this ... Show Full Comment
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BEAVERTON -- The McMinnville girls basketball team's stay in the Class 6A state playoffs proved to be a short one.
The Grizzlies turned the ball over 18 times in the first half alone and wilted under Beaverton's backcourt pressure as the Beavers won Tuesday night's Class 6A first-round contest, 73-31.
McMinnville led 7-2 at the 5-minute, 15-second mark of the first quarter before the Beavers (19-6 overall) went on a 29-5 run that ended at halftime. Beaverton extended its lead by outscoring the Grizzlies 20-11 in the third quarter, putting the game further out of reach.
Audrey McMillan and Elizabeth Logsdon each scored eight points for the Grizzlies. Danielle Hartzog and Allison Mueller each scored 18 points for the Beavers.
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RALEIGH — The state Senate tentatively approved a far-reaching elections bill Wednesday that includes requirements for voter photo identification, eliminates automatic straight-party voting on ballots and limits early voting.
The often emphatic and occasionally angry debate lasted several hours and stirred up deep-seated feelings about the country's legacy of preventing women and minorities from voting, mixed in with stories from not long ago that North Carolina elections were once corrupted by payoffs and strong-arm tactics, and could still be compromised by fraud.
"We all don't have the same life experiences," Senate Minority Leader Martin Nesbitt, a Democrat from Asheville, told Senate Republicans, who had bristled at the implication that the legislation was racially motivated. "We can't pretend there's not this history, there's not this problem."
Several senators, including Sen. Buck Newton, a Republican who represents parts of Johnston County, took offense that motives were being questioned, and the bill was being characterized as immoral and even "evil."
"We're going to try to slap a racist label on the idea that people are going to vote for the person, not the party?" Newton said, referring to the elimination of straight-party voting. "It's somehow racist if we ask people to think who they're voting for? It's probably time to tamp down the rhetoric and get real about all this."
Sen. Angela Bryant, a Democrat from Rocky Mount, clarified that her criticism was not that the bill's supporters were racist but that the bill would "have a negative racial impact."
In the end, the vote fell along party lines 32 to 14. The Republican leadership decided to take a final vote on the bill Thursday rather than wrap it up Wednesday so that both sides felt it had been fully debated.
The bill will then go to the House, where Speaker Thom Tillis has said it would pass, as the session draws to a close for the year.
Although Democrats don't like anything about the bill, they did manage to soften the blow by persuading Republicans to support an amendment that ensures early-voting polling places will remain open for a specified minimum and consistent number of hours. It also allows county elections boards to use private property for polling places if they can't find publicly owned facilities.
Republican sponsors of the bill also agreed to include a requirement for a formal study on ways to improve access for the disabled and others needing assistance to vote, and report back before the 2015 session.
But that's as far as GOP senators were willing to go, turning back Democratic amendments that would have restored a week of early voting, saved pre-registration by 16- and 17-year-olds, allowed straight-ticket voting and same-day registration, and permitted the use of college photo identification.
Sen. Jerry Tillman, a Republican from Archdale, said the bill would go a long way toward preventing voter fraud, despite the fact that little fraud has been reported in the state.
"If you don't check it, you ain't going to detect it," Tillman said. "We don't know how many there are. … Not a single soul will be disenfranchised. What it does is disenfranchise fraud, and a lot of people don't like it."
Bryant countered with charts and statistics showing that 80 percent of African-American voters and 45 percent of white voters cast straight-party ballots.
After the vote, six people were arrested in a brief sit-in in House Speaker Thom Tillis' office. Shortly after 8 p.m., the group walked into Tillis' office and said they wanted to ask him to stop the legislation in the House.
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Images of Ana attending the launch party of the International Premier Tennis League, which she will compete in during the off-season, are now in the Galleries section.
Ana is set to take on 17-time Grand Slam champion and current world No.1 Serena Williams in a best-of-three sets exhibition match in Denmark. The pair will face off at the "Jyske Bank Boxen" arena on 19 November.
Click here to visit the official website of the "Champions Battle".
Ana and Nemanja Kontic have ended their coaching partnership by mutual agreement.
Kontic's contract expired after Wimbledon and, after amicable discussions, the pair decided not to renew it.
Under Kontic's guidance Ana won three WTA titles this season. She reached the third round of the French Open and exited Wimbledon at the same stage last week.
Ana plans to appoint a new coach in the coming weeks.
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The post-Wimbledon rankings were published today, with Ana unchanged in 11th place.
In the Road To Singapore Ana is positioned eighth: as it stands she would be the final qualifier for the year-end championships.
Current WTA Top 20:
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6 Maria Sharapova (Rus) 4,881pts
7 Eugenie Bouchard (Can) 4,460pts
The July competition is now online.
It is free to enter to members of Club Ana, which is free to join.
The prize is an adidas item signed by Ana.
The winner of the June competition is Victor Souza from Brazil.
He correctly gave "2007" as the answer to the question, "In which year did Ana last lose a match on court Philippe Chatrier at Roland Garros?"
Congratulations to him, he wins an adidas item signed by Ana.
The July competition will be launched shortly.
Images of Ana competing in The Championships at Wimbledon are now in the Galleries section.
Ana's Wimbledon campaign ended in the third round as she fell 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 to world No.19 Sabine Lisicki. The match, which started on Saturday evening, was interrupted twice and underwent a momentum switch at least as that eventually saw the German emerge victorious after one hour and 51 minutes of play.
Ana's third round clash with world No.19 Sabine Lisicki at the Wimbledon Championships has been suspended overnight at 1-1 in the second set. The match didn't start before 8pm local time due rain in London and was halted shortly after the German had taken the opening set 6-4.
Ana takes on world No.19 Sabine Lisicki in the third round of The Championships on Saturday. It will be the just the second meeting between the pair.
Ana won their first encounter, at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart earlier this year. However, that match was on clay, which appears to be the German's weakest surface.
24-year-old Lisicki, with her big serve and dangerous forehand, reached the Wimbledon final 12 months ago, where she lost to Marion Bartoli. En route she beat 17-time Grand Slam champion Serena Williams.


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Police in Warwick Township are looking into the latest attempted child luring to shock parents in Bucks County.
This time police say it happened as a Jamison Elementary School student was waiting for the Monday morning bus at the intersection of Guinea Lane and Turkey Trot Road.
The kid was asked by a man to get into a car but ran to a neighbor's house instead.
Warwick Police Chief Mark Goldberg said they did not get a good description of the man or vehicle involved in the luring attempt.
It is the latest incident to rock several neighboring communities including Solebury, Buckingham and Warrington in recent months.
Sharon Summers-Keller of Buckingham Township said the problem goes back even farther, when two of her boys were nearly lured by a man last September.
She wants better communication between the school district and the police departments to help stop the threat.
"It's scary," she said. "No one really seems to be doing too much about it."
Warwick Police said there did not appear to be a connection to Monday's incident and others in Bucks County.
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Our 2013 report Gaining ground in the oil sands looks at the challenge of developing the Alberta oil sands and explores how 10 obstacles can be turned into opportunities:
For lack of an alternate means of transporting Alberta oil to new markets, producers are restricted to selling that oil to the U.S. market at a discount.
Meanwhile, jurisdictional squabbles and environmental opposition have made it difficult to build new pipelines.
With Canada's abundance of hydro-electric, solar, wind and oil resources, the interests of environmentalists, governments and business can be aligned with the national interest by helping Canada get fair market value for its oil.
Mining, oil and gas accounts for a large portion of the Canadian economy and between 2000 and 2008, productivity in that sector was negative.
The symbiotic relationship between junior and independent oil producers as well as an improved capacity to maximize the value of Canadian oil exports will help improve productivity.
And the close to $100 billion invested in the oil sands over the past decade has driven both innovation and jobs growth and is expected to bear fruit in the coming years.
To continue to develop this resource endowment, the oil patch has to communicate these benefits to Canadians.
Over the next 25 years, oil sands development is expected to provide $2.1 trillion in economic benefits including tax revenues, supplies and services, and jobs across the country.
Improved energy literacy among consumers will go a long way toward securing Canada's energy future ensuring national unity. These are goals the oil sands industry should embrace.
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Kensington and Chelsea determined to protect streetscapes in broadband row
Kensington and Chelsea Council have hit back after BT pulled out of installing a new broadband network in the borough because of a planning row. The firm wanted to install cabinets in the borough's streets but the council wanted them underground or in sites where BT already had equipment.
A council spokesman said: "We regret that BT are not proceeding with superfast broadband in the Royal Borough but we expect other providers will want to offer superfast broadband to our residents, in a very valuable market, without ruining our historic streetscape."
– Jon Carter, Senior Media Relations Manager BT
"We can confirm we have ceased deployment of fibre broadband in Kensington and Chelsea. This is unfortunate but we were left with no option after having the vast majority of our applications rejected by the council. Other councils, including those of neighboring boroughs, have shown a greater eagerness to enjoy the benefits of fibre broadband. We will therefore re-focus our engineers' efforts in other areas where planning authorities have taken a positive approach and are keen to ensure their residents and businesses can benefit from this technology."
– Jon Carter, Senior Media Relations Manager BT
"Whilst I'm sure the residents of Kensington and Chelsea appreciate the historic streetscape, we don't believe this should have to mean that homes and businesses in the borough have to put up with historic broadband speeds."
"We have installed more than 4,000 fibre cabinets across London, including borough's like Greenwich - a world heritage site. We have successfully worked with 31 London Boroughs to provide fibre broadband speeds to their residents whilst minimising the visual impact of the necessary infrastructure. However, this does require co-operation on both sides."


text: The 21st annual Borns Symposium at the University of Maine, April 22–23, this year will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Climate Change Institute. The event, named for institute founder Harold Borns, features UMaine climate change scientists presenting their latest research. Highlights of the two-day symposium, which is free and open to the public, include the David Clayton Smith Lecture, "The History of the Climate Change Institute: A 40-year Record of Excellence," by professors emeriti George Jacobson and Hal Borns, 6:10 p.m., April 22, followed at 7 p.m. by alumni lectures: "The Human and Environmental Interactions in the High Andes of Peru: An Interdisciplinary Perspective," by Kurt Rademaker and Gordon Bromley; and "Late Glacial and Holocene Climate Changes Registered by Small Ice Caps at High and Low Latitudes," by Meredith Kelly. Research presentations take place the afternoon of April 22 and throughout the morning and into the afternoon of April 23. The symposium will be streamed using Google+. For more information or a full schedule of the research sessions, or to request disability accommodations, contact Betty Lee, 207.581.3406.


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19 Action News has learned a Cleveland Councilman wants to ban the use of handheld cell phone's for those behind the wheel in the City of Cleveland.
Cleveland City Councilman Zack Reed says he plans to introduce a law within weeks that will ban the use of all handheld cell phone's while driving a car in the city. This includes drivers who use the phones to call, text, email, navigate and more while they are behind the wheel.
"You have a two ton vehicle. You need to concentrate on that vehicle and the people around you," said Cleveland Councilman Zack Reed.
If you're driving in Cleveland, it would be illegal to have a phone in your hand.
Currently, Cleveland bans text messaging while driving. If the law is passed, the fine will be similar to that of a texting ticket.
Councilman Reed says phones are generally distracting and need to be banned within the city.
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Rowland-Smith set for last rehab start
Lefty expects to rejoin Mariners on June 11 in Baltimore
SEATTLE -- Ryan Rowland-Smith didn't necessarily get bored in his two months on the disabled list, but the downtime did allow the Mariners left-hander to philosophize about life's ups and downs.
"It obviously wasn't a good thing being out for that long, but it gave me time to reflect on a few things," Rowland-Smith said. "I think I learned a bit from it."
Rowland-Smith has been out since April 11 with left triceps tendinitis, but he'll make what's scheduled to be his final rehabilitation start for Triple-A Tacoma on Friday. He's slated to throw 100 pitches for the Rainiers and then rejoin the Mariners' starting rotation June 11 in Baltimore.
He said Tuesday that his recent reflections had a lot to do with tempering expectations that might have become a bit unrealistic when he exited Spring Training.
"I thought a lot about last year and a lot about Spring Training and how when I came into this season, I had certain feelings about how I had to perform," he said.
"It wasn't really a case of putting pressure on myself, but I was maybe thinking things had to go a certain way. Now I realize that I can't look at it that way. I just have to go out there and be healthy and have fun."
Rowland-Smith said he's been encouraged by the play of the entire team and especially the starting rotation, which has compiled a 2.09 ERA over its past 12 games, lowering the rotation's ERA this season from 4.69 to 4.06, which ranks third in the American League.
"I can't wait to get back in the mix," Rowland-Smith said. "I've felt really good lately and felt like I could jump back in, but obviously have to work back up to it.
"After three or four starts, I should be right where I want to be."
Doug Miller is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text: Inspiring Kids to Travel 5 Tips to Inspire Little World Travelers, From National Geographic's Mireya Mayor by Lisa Horten 6/19/12 0 Reactions 19 Shares Print 0 2 17 0 0 If your kiddos are beginning to get the travel bug, or if you're hoping to instill it in them, then National Geographic's Mireya Mayor has the advice that you're looking for to encourage their wanderlust. We were lucky enough to catch up with the two-time Emmy Award nominee, National Geographic Wildlife correspondent, and mother of four about the importance of exposing kids to different cultures and regions, whether it's from the comfort of your own home or en route to an exotic new destination. Check out Mireya's top five tips to inspire kids' enthusiasm for travel, and get ready to go global! Sources: National Geographic, Thinkstock Make Playtime an International Affair What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "There are a lot of ways in which the kids can have fun while still learning [about different cultures] at home. You don't have to go as far as leaving the country in order to get them inspired. I think that one easy way to do it is by playing, whether it's with puzzles, picture books, or coloring books. One of my personal favorites, because I am a mother of four daughters, is the Barbies of the World collection." Clockwise from top left: Melissa & Doug World Map Floor Puzzle ($12), Australia Barbie Doll ($30), Around the World Coloring Book ($4) 1 / 5 Track Your Dream Journeys What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "I didn't get to travel much as a kid, so I'm a big believer in exploring your own backyard and learning about what you find locally. Also, keep a map at home. Have the kids point or pin places that they've been to and share stories about their travels, their favorite moments, or places they'd like to go to." Source: Dirtsa Studio 2 / 5 "Different" Is Exciting! What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "The word 'different' should have a positive connotation. You present it as something exciting — they're going to try something new . . . new foods, a different language, and again, it's that wonderful opportunity to engage them in conversations about the fact that there are all these differences around the world. You can also point out the similarities, though. How kids in other countries might play in the same way, or whatever it is that you're going to do. . . . Point out those shared similarities, too." Source: Flickr user np&djjewell 3 / 5 International Dinner Night What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "Hosting your own international dinner night is a great way to expose kids to another culture. You can make that your own family fun adventure at home. The kids can sample cuisine from different countries, you can listen to the traditional music, and learn a local word and go around the table practicing it. It always amazes me — just give the kids a little bit of information and they have 50 follow-up questions. That's how you get them to really care and learn about all of these amazing, diverse places." Source: Thinkstock 4 / 5 Make Travel Fun What's Your Reaction? 0 0 0 0 0 0 "For that first international trip, I always say to bring lots of toys with you, especially on long flights. Keep the kids entertained, and use it as an opportunity to engage them in learning even more about your destination. Then, just as a side tip, take along any medicines you might need once you get there. The last thing you want to do is have to find a pharmacy in the middle of the night in a strange place. " Source: Thinkstock 6 / 5 0 2 17 0 0 Back to Homepage Comments Read More Family TravelNational GeographicInterview Family Travel The 10 Best National Parks to Visit With Kids 6/14 Surf's Up! The 10 Best US Beaches For Your Family's Summer Vacation 6/03 8 Mom-Approved Swimsuits That Will Actually Stay Put 5/16 Don't Hit the Road, Rail, or Skies Without Downloading These Fun Travel Games! 5/15 The Country's Most Kid-Friendly Airports 5/12 How to Stay Sane While Staying in a Hotel With Children 4/17 Link Love Mom forced to stop feeding baby homemade formula — BabyCenter Blog The easiest ways to save on organic food — The Stir A look inside Fergie's second baby shower — Celebrity Baby Scoop Danielle Jonas debuts her baby bump — People Moms & Babies 7 light and fresh recipes to take you through Summer — FitPregnancy Does where you live affect your risk for PPD? — The Bump Where to find the best deals on school supplies — Real Simple Now this is how you announce a pregnancy! — HuffPost Parents