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Does Virginia's spaceport have the right stuff?
(The Daily Press, April 15, 2013)
All his life, 65-year-old Craig Purdy has had his eye on the sky.
As a teenager in sleepy, rural Chincoteague in the early '60s, he watched "rocket shots" out of nearby Wallops, then a Naval air station on a marshy 6-square-mile slip of barrier island in Accomack County on the Eastern Shore. Small sounding rockets would soar into the upper atmosphere and beyond, hovering to study the winds, the sun, the moon or the elements before tumbling back to earth.
Purdy's father was a retired Navy man and electronic technician at the station; while an engineering student at Virginia Tech, Purdy worked there, too. After college he was hired full-time, conducting satellite research for decades before retiring last summer as deputy director of NASA Wallops Flight Facility. ...
In the mid-90s, engineering professors at ODU suggested using Wallops as a hands-on "enterprise center" for their students. According to Oktay Baysal, dean of the school's Batten College of Engineering and Technology, they saw long-term potential in a commercial spaceport.
They even saw potential for civilians in space one day, he said, and suggested the state make space travel one of its transportation modes and place it under the Secretary of Transportation.
"So we were way ahead of the curve then," Baysal said.
At the university's suggestion, the General Assembly in 1995 formed the Virginia Commercial Space Flight Authority to operate the spaceport, with ODU engineering professor Billie Reed at its helm. It was headquartered at ODU, which began funding the effort, but placed under the authority of the state Secretary of Technology, rather than Transportation. A $3.6 million, small-class launch facility was built.
The state partnered with Maryland on the spaceport, since many Wallops workers lived across the state line just to the north. They named it the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport to make it more inclusive. ...
"Once we got the Air Force contracts, I was free and clear," Baysal said. "Because I was paying the salaries of everyone from ODU for years. I was sort of under pressure - 'Why are you doing this? It's been 10 years.' And I said, 'Hang on, hang on, the time shall come.' And it did. We did not give up."
The Tide is just getting started
(Editorial, The Virginian-Pilot, April 15, 2013)
Hampton Roads' residents are finally getting a better idea of what The Tide started.
In November, Virginia Beach voted to ask the City Council to find a way to bring light rail to the city. In the past few weeks, a private group has floated a $235 million proposal to take the train to Rosemont Road. Last week, Hampton Roads Transit signed a $1.8 million contract for a study on how to get light rail to Norfolk Naval Station, a major employer and a huge source of traffic in the region.
It's worth remembering, as these various processes begin, that for $318 million, Norfolk didn't buy a light rail system. It bought a 7.4-mile starter line through the region's urban core, one that goes from Eastern Virginia Medical Center on the west side of Norfolk to Newtown Road on the east.
For The Tide to become anything like an actual transit system, that line will have to be extended. Spurs will have to be built. The train will have to go places it doesn't go now.
The naval base has always been the obvious destination, along with the strategic growth areas along Virginia Beach Boulevard. So action on those fronts is no surprise.
But if The Tide is going to be successful, it can't stop there.
Some dream of taking light rail to Old Dominion University, to Oceana Naval Air Station, to Norfolk International Airport. Some want the train to cross the James River. The Elizabeth. To go to Olde Towne. To Greenbrier. To downtown Suffolk.
Those dreams represent possibilities and fantasies. They also represent a future. (More)
With military's sequester squeeze, Hampton Roads forced to adapt
(Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 14, 2013)
Small businesses in Hampton Roads are spending a lot of time these days worrying about their biggest source of customers: the U.S. military.
Half of the federal government's budget sequester - $85 billion in automatic spending cuts that began last month - is being carved from defense spending, even though defense makes up about one-fifth of all federal spending.
Those cuts, along with long-term military spending reductions planned as the war in Afghanistan winds down, have businesses of all sizes in Hampton Roads fretting over their future.
"There is $20 billion a year in federal spending here, and the vast majority of that is Department of Defense spending," said Jack Hornbeck, president and CEO of the Hampton Roads Chamber of Commerce. "It accounts for about 45 percent of our economy, so when the federal government sneezes, we get a bad case of the flu." ...
Zack Miller is at the center of that change.
He's the founder and managing director of Hatch, a year-old incubator and accelerator for startups. ...
Norfolk, like Richmond, has several universities in and around downtown. The offices for Hatch and xTuple are within walking distance of Tidewater Community College and a short drive from the campus of Old Dominion University. Lilly said several of his company's employees were originally interns while going to school at ODU. (More)
Meet the 2013 i.e.* finalists: Success Without Limitations
(Richmond Times-Dispatch, April 14, 2013)
As a student at Old Dominion University, Victor Rogers and some friends developed an organization to help fellow students land internships and jobs.
Now they have incorporated to form Success Without Limitations, a business that aims to help high schoolers through the college application process and ensure that college graduates land jobs that fit their skills. Rogers said more than half of young college grads are unemployed or working in a job that doesn't require a degree. He wants Virginia to get below the national average.
Money from the i.e.* finals would go toward a pilot program and branding for the young company. Rogers also wants to use some on a scholarship for a deserving student who needs financial assistance.
He said the company will organize lectures and workshops that cover everything from internship applications to developing the "soft skills" needed to land a full-time job.
"I want to take students to places they aren't used to - bring them to meetings at spots like the Bull & Bear Club so they're prepared if they have an interview there in the future," he said. "I want to show students that they can do it." (More)
Economics club hosts development expert
(The Virginian-Pilot, April 14, 2013)
Doug Henton, co-author of "Civic Revolutionaries: Igniting the Passion for Change in America's Communities," will be the featured speaker at the "Community Matters" luncheon on April 23 in Norfolk. The event will begin at noon at the Norfolk Waterside Marriott.
Henton is co-founder and CEO of Collaborative Economics Inc. in San Mateo, Calif. He has worked for more than 30 years in economic and community development.
The event is sponsored by the Hampton Roads Community Foundation and the Economics Club of Hampton Roads at Old Dominion University. The cost is $35. There is no charge for pre-paid members of the economics club. The deadline for reservations is Tuesday. To reserve a seat or for more information, call 683-5138 or 683-4038 or email email@example.com. (More)
ODU is handling reseating process in an open, transparent manner
(Opinion, The Virginian-Pilot, April 12, 2013)
I don't know whether the process Old Dominion University established to reassign the 14,134 seats held by football season-ticket holders this spring at Foreman Field is fair.
Many of our readers, judging by their comments online, seem to think it's unfair, especially to loyal fans who could lose their tickets because they don't donate to the Old Dominion Athletic Foundation.
Basically, if you give to the athletic foundation, you move ahead of everyone on the season-ticket list who doesn't. ODU officials said that's necessary for the school to raise enough money to pay its bills.
I'll leave it to others to judge whether that's equitable.
But I have seen enough the last few months to know that ODU officials have handled this process in an open and transparent manner, and that they indeed seem to care very much about the little guys.
That has not been reflected in many of the comments online, nor in the headlines which ran with a print edition of the story I wrote for Thursday's newspaper.
ODU is in a difficult situation. Foreman field holds 20,088 people. Season ticket demand likely would fill a 30,000-seat stadium. The school has sold out 29 consecutive home games.
Mark Benson, who heads the foundation, got emotional when I asked him about fans who might lose their seats.
"That's a tough situation, very tough," he said. "It would be unfortunate. It's not something we want to happen. It would be great if we could accommodate everybody. (More)
Va. universities getting humanities grants
(WVVA-TV Richmond, April 12, 2013)
Nine projects at several Virginia universities are receiving a share of $17.4 million in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The federal agency announced awards and offers for 205 projects in 39 states and the District of Columbia this week. The Virginia projects are set to receive $426,878 total.
Projects receiving funding include an Old Dominion University project to develop an open-source tool to digitally archive web pages and a George Mason University project to create an interactive website on popular romance literature. Another projected from the University of Virginia aims to map and study the imaginary county in William Faulkner's fiction writings.
NEH Chairman Jim Leach says the projects being funded will expand the boundaries of human knowledge and deepen the connection to the past. (More)
ODU, moving forward
(Letter, The Virginian-Pilot, April 11, 2013)
Old Dominion University has much to be thankful for. Under the leadership of President John Broderick, we have a vibrant football team moving up in the NCAA, and we are now revitalizing the basketball team. Moreover, the university has a stellar academic program to boot. The colleges of engineering and oceanography are world class.
In my field, education, we have risen in the 2013 U.S. News & World Report university rankings from 115th to 65th nationwide. This is due to the direction set by Dean Linda Irwin-DeVitis and a $23 million grant obtained by Professor John Nunnery to train science and math teachers.
ODU refuses to rest on past glories.
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Va. Beach, Oceana working to keep base off 2015 BRAC list
(WVEC-TV, April 11, 2013)
Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel has made it official, formally requesting at least one new round of base closings in 2105.
That raises concerns about the future of Naval Air Station Oceana, which landed on the last Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) Commission's list in 2005.
"This process is an imperfect process and there are upfront costs for BRAC. This budget adds $2.4 billion over the next five years to pay for those costs. But in the long term, there are significant savings, as we've seen from past BRAC decisions," he said Wednesday.
Hampton Roads leaders have been warning about Oceana for weeks.
"I think we should be worried about BRAC. Oceana was on the list last time they had one," Rep. Bobby Scott (D-3rd D.) said two weeks ago.
On Tuesday, Old Dominion University Economics Professor Jim Koch briefed the Virginia Beach City Council and called Oceana "susceptible." Citing changing Pentagon priorities, Koch said it's possible Oceana will lose air wings in the coming years.
Base leaders insist Oceana is still vital to the Navy. Commanding Officer Capt. Bob Geis said, "We're a two-Ocean Navy, really a global Navy. I think we're going to have homeports on both coasts and we're going to need a Master Jet Base on both coasts, so I'd be surprised If the Navy decided that we're going to eventually not need Oceana. Oceana is the Master Jet Base for the east coast." (More)
Study of extending light rail to naval station begins
(The Virginian-Pilot, April 11, 2013)
A $1.8 million study of extending light rail to Norfolk Naval Station has begun.
Hampton Roads Transit announced Wednesday that it had told HDR Engineering Inc. to begin identifying potential routes for getting The Tide or another form of high-capacity mass transit to the base, a major source of congestion with some 80,000 vehicles coming and going daily.
The study, expected to take 15 months, is the first step in a yearlong process to pursue federal funding for an extension, said Tom Holden, a spokesman for Hampton Roads Transit.
The City Council passed a resolution in October asking the transit agency for the study. It is being paid for with federal and state money, Holden said.
The research will involve asking the public to help identify possible corridors for connecting Norfolk's $318 million, 7.4-mile light-rail line to the Navy base, gathering concerns and gauging the need. ...
Old Dominion University, located between Norfolk's existing light-rail line and Norfolk Naval Station, figures to play a significant role in discussions of where an extension might run. Jennifer Mullen, assistant vice president of marketing and communications at ODU, released a short statement by email.
"We would welcome any study that could possibly lead to light rail coming to Old Dominion and benefitting our students, faculty and staff," it said. (More)
ODU football will soon reassign thousands of seats
(The Virginian-Pilot, April 11, 2013)
This spring, as Old Dominion University undertakes the painful process of reassigning most of the 14,134 seats purchased through football season tickets, a free-for-all of sorts has ensued.
As the team won 38 of its first 48 games and became the nation's winningest startup program, the demand for tickets skyrocketed. Foreman Field's 20,088 seats have been filled for all 29 home games, and the season-ticket waiting list more than doubled in the last year to 4,500.
Most on the list were told it would be years, perhaps not until the stadium is expanded, before they would get tickets. Not anymore.
Those on the waiting list probably will be able to purchase tickets for 2013 - if they contribute enough to the Old Dominion Athletic Foundation, the school's athletic fundraising arm. Members will receive priority over those who don't join the foundation, officials said.
The process could leave some who have held season tickets all four years - but who don't contribute to the foundation - without seats, officials say. Nearly 2,800 of the season tickets are held by those who don't contribute. (More)
Economist warns Oceana "susceptible" to DOD cuts, loss of air wings
(WVEC-TV, April 9, 2013)
Naval Air Station Oceana could be endangered in the years ahead as the Department of Defense deals with sequestration and other budgetary issues, according to a noted economist.
Old Dominion University Economics Professor James Koch briefed Virginia Beach City Council Tuesday on the impact of defense spending reductions.
In his report, Koch discussed the short-term impact of sequestration, specifically furloughs for 39,000 Department of Defense civilian employees over 14 weeks, and the possible delays or cancellations of local ship-repair contracts.
"These cuts, while difficult, will be tolerable," said Koch.
However, Koch sounded an ominous warning about the City of Virginia Beach's long-term outlook, saying, "Virginia Beach is susceptible to significant reductions on D.O.D. spending."
Koch cited three factors- the repositioning of aircraft carriers, the possible de-emphasis of aircraft carriers in our nation's future military strategy, and the spiraling cost of major weapons systems.
Together, Koch said, the three factors, "point to the loss of air wings at Oceana Naval Air Station." (More)
Bring Tide toward ODU
(Letter, The Virginian-Pilot, April 10, 2013)
The benefits to extending The Tide light rail are increased ridership, relief from traffic congestion and reduced pollution from automobile exhaust. But extending light rail to Rosemont Road would do little to encourage Virginia Beach residents to ride The Tide.
Instead of looking east, planners should look west and consider a route that parallels Hampton Boulevard, past Old Dominion University and the port, to the Navy base.
How many workers at the base would park their cars at Newtown Road and take The Tide to work? How many would opt out of the daily bumper-to-bumper traffic jam on our roads during rush hour?
Between the morning and evening rush hours, students and faculty at ODU would ride The Tide. I would take The Tide to an ODU football game.
Extend The Tide into Virginia Beach, but first do it where it will benefit citizens the most.
Jeffrey Berlin, Virginia Beach (More)
Decision time on Norfolk hotel-conference center
(The Virginian-Pilot, April 9, 2013)
Opponents of a multimillion-dollar hotel-conference center in Norfolk made their voices heard Monday night, and a second council member joined a growing chorus with a clear refrain: Slow down.
Officials are scheduled to vote Tuesday on the $126 million project, which would give Norfolk a 50,000-square-foot conference center and 23-story, 300-room luxury hotel. Norfolk officials hope the new facility, which could be finished by spring 2017, attracts new conference business and diversifies the city's economy.
But it will take more to convince some Norfolk hoteliers and concerned residents. The Norfolk Hotel Motel Association and representatives of the Norfolk Waterside Marriott and Sheraton Norfolk Waterside Hotel have asked the city to delay the vote. And, on Monday night, about 100 people, many voicing opposition, showed up at a town hall meeting organized by Councilman Tommy Smigiel at the Crossroads Recreational Center. ...
The Marriott and Sheraton say a decrease in travel for the military and its contractors could hurt a region where defense spending makes up about 46 percent of the economy.
Those fears are not unfounded, according to Vinod Agarwal, an economist with Old Dominion University.
"I'm not sure the timing is correct," he said. "Having said so, the hotel is not going to come up overnight." (More)


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I'll be honest in that I was a little hesistant to go in as my last comedy experience was at the new Tommy T's in Pleasanton and it was awful. I paid $15 for three comedians and only one was half way decent. The drinks were overpriced and so was the food.
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Roger Federer defeated Tomas Berdych in an up-and-down match Sunday for his third Madrid Open Championship. The win vaults him to No. 2 in the ATP rankings, jumping his longtime rival Rafael Nadal.
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The West Virginia University men's basketball team are home again in the Oliver Garden to take on the Horned Frogs of TCU.
Trent Johnson Introductory Press Conference Thread
What is with all the basketball coaches making downward moves recently? First Frank, now these two clowns? I've heard of failing upward, but mildly succeeding laterally? That's a new one. I guess getting out ahead of the posse is the new trend in college basketball coaching.
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''We are at the bottom,'' she said, sobbing behind a black veil that left only her eyes visible. ''My kids are crying and I can't provide for them.''


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A two-vehicle crash Friday morning claimed the life of a Forkland teenager.
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The accident happened around 7:45 a.m. on U.S. 43 at the 140.2 mile marker, one mile north of Demopolis.
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Two public meetings to cover downtown parking
Original post made on Jun 17, 2013
Read the full story here Web Link posted Monday, June 17, 2013, 12:27 PM
on Jun 17, 2013 at 1:17 pm
Here's how this is gonna go: All the people that will benefit from the plan will argue its a great idea. Those who might be negatively impacted will say its a terrible idea. When giving reasons, neither side will state the truth "I'm opposed/in favor of this because I'm selfish and this is good/bad for me personally."
on Jun 17, 2013 at 1:25 pm
Complete waste of time until council realizes that pay per hour machines are needed in each city garage and lot. Meters would work too.
There seems to be absolutely no understanding that many people don't park all day every day. They park a few times a week or month for a whole day, or they need 4 hour parking or whatever.
I am often in downtown Redwood City and I can always park close to where I need to go and the meters take small change. Not a problem. Downtown Palo Alto is a big problem for me when I need to park for more than 4 hours every now and then.
on Jun 17, 2013 at 9:35 pm
The fundamental problem is that the City has approved a large number of University Avenue area office developments which don't include parking for their tenants. This has resulted in a "Parking Deficit" of around 1,000 spaces downtown (the city's estimate -- some private ones are higher). This is a very large shortfall, but is still growing rapidly as several more large "Parking-Exempted" developments are already underway, and yet others are in various stages of approval.
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|Following the pathway to college
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Students remain goal-oriented, looking forward to holidays
Staff Writer
Since the beginning of the school year, the students have been very busy with activities ranging from sports and school committees to personal projects and service/volunteer work.
"I am a member of The National Honor Society and participate in Quiz Bowl," Kramer said. "Every Monday, we (Quiz Bowl Team) travel to different schools to challenge ourselves and other Quiz Bowl teams."
Additionally, Kramer is a member of the prom committee and after the first of the year, will begin tutoring a fifth-grade student either at the middle school or in their home.
Corzine has been excelling on the school's wrestling team and practices with the team each day except for Sunday, the day he works at the Topp Chalet in the kitchen.
"I also tutor a sixth-grade student, complete all coursework for my post-secondary classes at OSU, work concessions and attend prom committee meetings each week," Corzine said.
Winhover just completed soccer season and said that right now she is focusing on writing, since it is the season for writing competitions. She explained that she just finished NaNoWriMo — National Novel Writing Month — in November, where the goal was to pen a 50,000-word novel.
"It was a huge project for me," Winhover said. "I actually went over the 50,000-word limit and hit 89,000 words so my novel would have an ending!"
Heiing said that as a junior at St. John's, it is a year that particularly focuses on doing service and volunteer work for others.
"Also, as a member of National Honor Society, I am expected to do a certain amount of extra service throughout the year," he added.
Each student is looking forward to a break in studies during the holidays and visiting with family and friends.
"Study time is not required and I'm taking a break," Kramer said. "I'll have more time for shopping and traveling to see family members."
Corzine said now that he has finished his post-secondary class finals at OSU, he has a lot more time to study high school coursework.
"I'm going to take some time off from studies," Corzine stated. "Gotta have fun or I will never enjoy school to its fullest extent."
Corzine said he is planning on spending some time with family and friends over Christmas break and traveling to Chicago with his mom over the New Year's holiday to see his friends.
Winhover said her studies are going okay, although she has a lot of long-term projects that she's been working on.
"The holidays keep me focused because I know if I want to enjoy the Christmas break, I need to get all of my homework done!" Winhover said enthusiastically.
"My studies have remained about the same as they were earlier in the year," Heiing said. "With Christmas break coming up, I have been slacking off a little but not too bad."
In October, the PSAT test was offered to students wanting to take a preparatory exam for the SAT test. Kramer and Winhover took advantage of the firsthand practice for the SAT, which also gave them a chance to enter the National Merit Scholarship Corporation (NMSC) scholarship programs and gain access to college and career planning tools.
The PSAT/NMSQT (National Merit Scholarship Qualifying Test) measures critical reading skills, math problem-solving skills and writing skills. "I suppose I did as well as I expected," Kramer said. "I'd like to improve by being better prepared rather than going into it blind."
"My results were as I expected them to be on the PSAT," Winhover stated. "I scored better in the reading sections than the math and that shows me where I need to improve."
Additionally, Winhover reported that guidance counselors will not know who is eligible for the National Merit Scholarship until September of 2014.
Each student has their own process when it comes to selecting a career field or the college they want to attend. After Kramer's visit to Rhodes State College on Dec. 13, she decided to remain open-minded and found interest in Forensic Science. She thought working in a lab doing fact-finding and perhaps someday, becoming an expert witness would fit her. "I first wanted something in the field of law, possibly become a lawyer," she detailed. "I don't know that I want to work or deal with demanding people."
Reid said he will go to OSU and major in Biochemistry and specialize in Pathology or Microbiology studying diseases and if possible, developing cures.
"I want to make a difference," he spoke seriously. "I want to facilitate cures for specific cancers or diseases, that's what I want to do!"
"I haven't done any more college searching," Winhover said. "I plan on finding a major that interests me and then searching for qualified colleges from there."
Heiing said looking at college has become a lot easier for him at school because the school now has the student resource room up and running.
"This allows students to get online and search information about careers or colleges that they are interested in," he said. "I haven't taken any campus visits yet, I plan to do that in the second semester."
After the first of the year, all four juniors will begin preparing for either the ACT or SAT test and each has their own strategy.
Corzine did not take the PSAT; instead he is preparing for the ACT, which is geared toward specific subjects including Science, Reading, Writing, Math and English.
"I'll probably take the ACT in January and prepare by practicing tests online," Corzine added. "I'm specifically focusing on math subjects, Trigonometry and Pre-Calculus."
Corzine has planned to attend the Ohio State University campus in Columbus and said he needs to score a 26 or better on the ACT to be automatically accepted at the main campus.
"The branch campus in Lima requires a student score 24 points on the ACT," Corzine added.
Heiing said he will be taking the ACT in February.
"I don't plan on attending any ACT prep workshops because I can take practice ACT tests and get tips on how to do better on the ACT by working on the Boost Your Score program that is available in the student resource center here at school," Heiing stated.
"I'm going to take the SAT in April," Kramer said. "I already took the ACT and scored a 27 out of 36 points."
"I plan on going to an ACT prep workshop in the new year and then taking the ACT right after that," Winhover said.


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School creates prayer room to help with exam stressby Charlotte Wilkins
Thousands of students will be sitting down to take exams across the country this month - but one school in Brighton & Hove believes it's not only good teaching and revision that gets the grades.
Cardinal Newman Catholic School has set up an interactive prayer room for pupils who are feeling the pressure. Charlotte Wilkins has been to take a look.


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This is a project-based course in creating visual rhetoric. Looking at case studies of protest art, news images of 9/11, and advertising (political and product), students will explore how words and images interact in persuasive messages. As they create varied visual messages, students will consider what makes an image iconic, how visual and verbal elements contribute to meaning, and what role images play in news stories. Lab required.
Mode of Inquiry: Creating in the Arts
The basic structure of argumentation and advocacy are examined with a view toward being able to participate in debate and other public advocacy events. Each student will be required to participate in a minimum of six debates in order to complete the course..
Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values
Effective communication in front of an audience. Discovery and development of ideas, organization of material, use of language and the modes of presentation. Classroom speeches of different types, short papers, examinations.
Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values
This course explores the way the media deals with environmental issues and images, particularly biodiversity. We focus on the emergence of the environment as an important media issue beginning in the 1970s; the way news and entertainment media have presented the environment; and the links between media texts, the culture which they create and reflect and the viewer/reader's response to these messages. Students will learn textual analysis of news stories (print and television), documentary films, and environment and children's programming. We pay particular attention to how these messages reflect the way the culture values and reasons and to how these messages argue for a particular view of the natural world and our relationship with the environment. Part of the environmental cluster. This is a paired course; students must enroll concurrently in BIOL 210 Biodiversity: Discovering Life. Together these courses fulfill two course credits and two writing-centered credits.
Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values; Interpreting Texts; Environmental Cluster
General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered
The primary aim of this course is to offer students the opportunity to creatively apply the core principles of rhetoric to a persuasive campaign they develop from start to finish. Students will learn about key rhetorical variable such as audience and context as well as major rhetorical tools ranging from argument to framing. In addition, the role of visual elements in persuasion will be explored. Each student will produce a complete campaign plan that will be presented in class. Student projects can focus on politics, corporate advocacy, and non-profit organizing. Opportunities for working with organizations in the Salem community are available.
This course investigates methods of arguing about ethics. First, students will be introduced to the general question of whether matters of right and wrong are susceptible to argument. Are questions of right and wrong merely personal choices or do argumentative methods exist to distinguish right from wrong? Second, students will be introduced to various methods of arguing about ethical matters. Finally, these methods of argument will be applied to several examples of ethical questions including life and death, personal liberty, personal responsibility, and ethical rhetoric.
Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values
History and survey of principal theories of rhetoric including Plato, Aristotle and Cicero.
Political rhetoric and advertising serve as case studies for the use and influence of persuasion and propaganda in contemporary society. Special attention is paid to the role of the mass media in this process and to the ethics of persuasive and propagandistic techniques.
Mode of Inquiry: Analyzing Arguments, Reasons, and Values
This course explores the ways rhetoric can foster effective leadership. Topics include: an examination of the leader's symbolic action through credibility, identifications, persona, values and agency; an exploration of group culture and roles; and a consideration of the leader-group interaction in decision-making and ethics. The course includes a required practical component.
A writing-centered course focusing on the criteria and methods for analyzing discourse. General critical forms such as the analysis of situation, argument, structure and style will be addressed, as well as more specialized methods like cultural analysis and Burkean analysis. Students will write papers employing the various methods.
General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered
Many formulations of rhetoric, citizenship and democracy assume the existence of "the public" and theorize the ideal "public sphere." In this course, we will examine scholarship about the public, investigate how civic engagement is shaped by this powerful term, and consider how conceptions of the public sphere can both facilitate deliberative democracy and reinforce inequalities.
Prerequisite: RHET 231, RHET 261, RHET 326, WGS 245, or WGS 353, or consent of instructor
This course examines how national identity is structured and conflict is portrayed in film depictions of the disputed homeland of Israel/Palestine. Most films are by Israelis or Palestinians. This course will consider problems of documentary films, stereotyping, nontraditional narrative structure, and docu-animation within the contest of the religious, social and political tensions in the region. Subject films will range from archival footage and independent documentaries to major feature films.
Prerequisite: Any one of RHET 231, RHET 261, RHET 326, or consent of the instructor
The role and influence of mass communication media in contemporary society. Effects of mediated communication on the individual. The scope of the course includes a variety of topics: communication theories, history of mass media, social effects, regulation, industry's social responsibilities and profit motive, and future developments. Attention is given to television, newspapers, radio, magazines and film. An in-depth research project on a subject chosen by the student is required as well as class discussions of research methods and findings. Perspectives integral to the course are drawn from all social science disciplines, as well as from the field of communications.
Prerequisite: RHET 261, or consent of instructor
An advanced course that examines the character of rhetoric, the evolution of rhetorical theory, and forces that have given rise to variations in the classical paradigm.
Prerequisite: RHET 231 or RHET 261
This course will provide students with tools for analyzing the persuasive nature of technology. Students will investiage the location of rhetorical agnvy in interactions between humans and techology, explore the debate about social determination of thechnology vs. technological deterination, and discuss hte epistemological, material, and practical aspects to technology.
Prerequisite: Rhet 231, RHET 261, or RHET 326
This course focuses on reasoned discourse: the techniques for planning and making arguments as well as for the critical analysis of arguments.
Prerequisite: RHET 231 or consent of instructor
This course develops a rhetorical framework for understanding campaign communication, the symbolic nature of the presidency and the way groups and the media control political realities. Language is studied as a symbolic means of creating and projecting images and issues.
General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered
Prerequisite: RHET 261 or consent of instructor
An exploration of the dramatist theory expounded by Kenneth Burke, the most influential theorist in contemporary rhetoric. Drawing on a selection of texts, students will examine language symbol manipulation, identification, motive and pieties.
Prerequisite: RHET 231
This course examines rhetorical practices through which advocates of equality cultivated political agency among disenfranchised Americans, developed a powerful movement for social change, and challenged norms that excluded women from the public sphere.
Prerequisite: No first year students
This course examines rhetorical practices through which Americans since 1920 have developed and challenged feminist politics, redefined expectations for gender performance and public leadership, and pursued the promise of "liberty and justice for all" in the United States.
Prerequisite: No first year students
This course surveys significant developments in narrative theory. Narrative in this context is defined broadly, not only as a style or technique of writing, but as a paradigm for understanding human thought and communication at large. Attention is directed to particular case studies that illustrate characteristic functions of narration.
Prerequisite: RHET 231
This course provides the flexibility to offer special topics of interest in rhetoric and media studies. Topics might include marginalized discourse, non-Western rhetoric, or mass media and the global village.
Prerequisite: RHET 231 or RHET 261 according to topic focus on theory or criticism, or consent of instructor
This course explores the role of gender performativity in the creation, practice, and criticism of rhetoric. Students will investigate the relationship between sex and gender, analyze the ways that relationship is used as an interpretive lens for popular and political communication, and consider the role of mediation in the rhetorical construction of gender identity.
Mode of Inquiry: Understanding Society
Prerequisite: RHET 231, RHET 326, or WGS course
This course examines conceptual and critical approaches to the study of war rhetoric. The first half of the course focuses on international participation in the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States. The second half of the course is a case analysis of Gulf War rhetoric. Students will explore media images opposing nations employ to characterize the other; strategic choices in public rhetoric that create and sustain the Cold War or acceptance of the Gulf War; and the literalized metaphors and ideological frames that characterize war rhetoric. Closed to freshmen.
Prerequisite: RHET 261 or consent of instructor
This project-based course explores the emerging and interdisciplinary investigation of visual culture and rhetoric. It begins with an overview of the relationship between words and images followed by case studies focused on memory and memorials. The course explores the visual rhetoric of witnessing by examining representation, war, the cultural trauma through the images of tragedy, photographs of war, and war memorials. The course will examine exhibitionary rhetoric through case studies of the role of memorials and reconciliation in Chile and controversial exhibitions in the U.S. Lab required.
Prerequisite: RHET 261
This course examines news accounts as they construct the meaning of the events they report. Students explore how reality is shaped when the media privileges a particular frame for the events; sketches familiar plotlines, characters, or ideologies; or gives authority to some voices and silences others. Finally, the course addresses the effect of media conventionalizing, in the symbolic complexes addressed and the formulaic stories they spawn, on both the range of interpretations and the range of topics that are publicly addressed. Closed to freshmen.
General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered
Prerequisite: RHET 261, or consent of instructor
This course is intended to shift our attention from the typical "real world" concern about persuasive effectiveness and refocus attention on the consequences of manipulating language. Accompanying an examination of the theoretical bases for ethical communication, we will examine case studies selected from: social protest, evangelism, propaganda, advertising and political campaigns. Closed to freshmen.
Prerequisite: RHET 231 or consent of instructor
This course is an exploration of what the use of metaphor does to and for us. The course covers two units roughly corresponding to the theory and criticism of metaphor. The first unit surveys a variety of scholarly attempts to define metaphor and explain metaphorical function. The second unit examines ways that metaphors can be evaluated and the reasons that they should be evaluated. Class periods will primarily be devoted to lecture, guided discussions and reports.
General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered
Prerequisite: RHET 231 or consent of instructor
Individual program in which a student can study a topic not normally available in the department curriculum. A student could conduct critical or experimental research in the field or pursue a detailed program of study in a specific area of interest. Each independent study plan must have the approval of the Rhetoric and Media Studies faculty.
Students and department faculty will read and discuss current research in rhetoric and media studies. Each student will write and present a major paper. Participation in the seminar and completion of comprehensive examinations will constitute the Senior Year Experience.
General Education Requirement Fulfillment: Writing centered
Prerequisite: RHET 231, RHET 261 and two additional Theory courses


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Written by Ed Salas Friday, 08 February 2013 08:00
McALLEN – Sharyland's boys and girls wrestling teams sent a combined eight grapplers to the regional tournament that got underway Thursday at San Antonio's North East Independent School District Blossom Athletic Center.
The Rattlers claimed second place at the Feb. 1-2 District 16-5 Meet held at McAllen Memorial with team score of 203.0. The host school won the meet with 222.5 points.
Read more: District Wrestling Tournament: Sharyland boys, Juárez-Lincoln capture second at district


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Save C&O Canal Park and Potomac View at Georgetown
Recently Georgetown University sent an email to all students, requesting them to sign a petition in support of a GU boathouse for a location within the C&O Canal National Historical Park. However, we should recognize that many people in the community -- environmentalists, hikers, boaters and even women voters -- have expressed concern about this project because of its potential significant impact to the Park. While they recognize the need for a GU boathouse, they believe a location outside the Park would have many technical, environmental and practical advantages, including protection of parkland and safety. If you believe that (1) the National Park Service should conduct a full Environmental Impact Statement for the GU boathouse that will provide further analysis of the environmental consequences to the Park from the proposal, as well as serious consideration of alternative locations, sizes and uses for the boathouse outside the C&O Park, and (2) Georgetown University should recognize nationwide people\'s concern as well as our neighbors\', and better communicate with them, and seriously consider every possible alternatives, rather than holding to the current plan, please sign the petition below. Note that the National Park Service invites public comments on the proposal until June 15 at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfmprojectId=15645&documentID=14911 *** Please read more about our concerns and alternatives as well as **NEWS** at the right side of this page ***
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I would like to try the Spray/Rapture link-up. Both routes are great.
That would kick ass if you did. Probably will be a while before we see a new guidebook for this area, so anything helps.
Thanks for the info. Can't wait for the guide though, although MP helps a lot it still doesn't compare to having a guidebook at your disposal. I know a lot of climbers who will also be glad to get their hands on it. Thanks again.


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Behavioral Activation: Increasing Enjoyable and Mastery Activities to Decrease Distress
Jeanne Gabriele, G.V. Sonny Montgomery VA Medical Center, USA
Theme: Anxiety, stress, and emotions
Program ID: WKSP-35
Presentation: October 5, 2013 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm
Room: Magnolia
Behavioral activation is an empirically-supported treatment for depression (e.g., Jacobson et al., 1996, Dimidjian et al., 2006). According to the behavioral model of depression, low positive reinforcement and high punishment results in increased depressive symptoms. As depressive symptoms increase, individuals disengage from enjoyable and mastery activities which results in a further increase in depressive symptoms. According to behavioral activation theorists, the key to stopping this cycle is to change what an individual does which will in turn change how the individual feels (Martell et al., 2010). Within the Department of Veterans Affairs, behavioral activation is being used to 1) increase physical activity in depressed individuals and 2) prevent and treat depression and anxiety in Veterans adapting to injury, return from deployment, and transition from military to civilian life. These techniques are of utility to sport and exercise psychologists working with sedentary individuals who wish to increase physical activity or athletes experiencing distress as a result of burnout, end-of-career transition, or injury. The current workshop will introduce components of a brief behavioral activation intervention. After attending this workshop, attendees will be able to 1) describe the behavioral activation model for depression, 2) implement key behavioral activation techniques, and 3) recognize ways in which behavioral activation can be of utility to sport and exercise psychologists. Behavioral activation techniques covered will include creating value-based activity hierarchies, monitoring activity for pleasure and mastery, scheduling activity, developing graded tasks assignments, and countering avoidance. Didactic instruction, modeling, and videos will be used to introduce key components of a brief behavioral activation intervention and illustrate these techniques. Audience members will receive a syllabus for a 8-week behavioral activation protocol being used with Veterans as well as example handouts and provider tip sheets for each technique discussed.


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An update on POA IMAX NYCEvents
We still have a few hundred tickets available for POA IMAX NYC, and we're thrilled to update the information we posted earlier this week.
The movie will start between 4:00 and 4:30 pm, and the exact starting time is probably 4:10 pm. Melissa and I will be there to hand out tickets starting at 2:00 pm in the theater atrium, although remember that you won't be able to get into the theater until 15-20 minutes before the movie's start time. We will begin handing out prepurchased popcorn and sodas a little after 3:00 pm.
Remember - you can order your tickets here - if you're sending a check or a money order, it must be in the mail by Tuesday, May 18, 2004, or there's a risk we won't get it in time. If you want to pay via PayPal, you can order tickets until they sell out, or until May 30, 2004.
We're also planning a few surprises for before and after the show! Hope to see you there!
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December is a month full of shopping, decorating, eating and being with family. Watching movies together is a holiday tradition for many families who gather and watch the same flick year after year. Here at Palmetto Dunes some of our favorite holiday movies are, of course, based around a vacation! Check out our list and see if any of our favs are on your list too!
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) - This is the ultimate holiday vacation movie that will have the whole family in hysterics! The Griswolds prepare for Christmas by inviting their entire family to their home. As all the family members arrive from their travels you quickly see the Griswol's genuinely just have the worst luck!
Home Alone (1990) - A true holiday classic, Home Alone is based on the McAllister family and their decision to vacation in Paris, France for Christmas. Things go haywire for their son, Kevin, when he's left home alone on accident. While being home without his whole family seems incredibly fun at first, Kevin ends up spending Christmas Eve protecting his house from two crazy burglars!
The Holiday (2006) - If you and your family are more into romantic comedies, then this contemporary Christmas movie will do the trick. Two heartbroken women decide to switch houses in different countries for the holiday. Iris leaves her home in London to move into Amanda's LA home, and Amanda travels to London to stay at Iris' cottage. Both women might start their season off with boy-troubles but by Christmas they have both fallen in love!
So, hit the TV guide, Red Box, Netlfix or your movie collection and enjoy. Happy Holidays!Â


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What started off with a bang ended with a whimper as Atlanta took the first game against San Francisco but then proceeded to drop the last three in excruciating fashion. Here are some quick summary facts from the Braves' series.
- Atlanta really only had one good hitting performance this weekend, and that was from the recently-returned Brian McCann. Mac started 3 games and went 4-10 with 2 home runs, 5 RBI, and 2 walks.
- Justin Upton didn't go deep, but he continued his good on-base work, going 3-14 with 3 walks, a double, and a triple.
- Brother B.J. still hasn't fully gotten his bat going, but he reached base 5 times in the series, a definite move in the right direction. The elder Upton was 2-13 with 3 walks.
- Juan Francisco drew 3 of the 4 starts at third this weekend, going 2-9 with a walk.
- After their win on Thursday, Atlanta was manhandled by San Francisco's starting trio of Matt Cain, Madison Bumgarner, and Tim Lincecum. The three combined to throw 22 innings, and allow 3 runs on 9 hits while striking out 25. Make no mistake, though, Cain and Bumgarner are arguably 2 of the best 10 pitchers in baseball right now, and Lincecum is a two-time former Cy Young.
- Atlanta's pitching wasn't much better than their bats either, as the Braves were outscored 23-4 in the last 3 games of the series.


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SSO & OAuth for Mobile Apps – Live Discussion, Feb 26
In case you haven't heard, we are living in the age of mobile applications and the APIs that power them. Sometimes it's called the API economy.
Smart phones are ubiquitous, social networks are the norm and we are connected to applications on our devices all the time. We love applications like Instagram, Twitter, Evertnote and Snapchat. But we don't like signing in and out of each of these applications across networks or devices. It's awkward and cumbersome and we're often doing it while on the go or commuting, with only one hand to use while tapping in our passwords. Besides, who wants to remember all those passwords anyway? And it's not safe to use the same one for every application.
This is the major downside of using all these great new mobile applications. Most of us would gladly invite a scenario where we'd only need to log in once to access multiple applications. There's social login – but is it safe and is our privacy secure? Remember what happened to Burger King's Twitter account? Enter Single-Sign-On & OAuth for Mobile Applications.
On Tuesday Feb 26, we'll be hosting a live interactive Tech Talk on security and Single Sign-On (SSO) for mobile applications. And I'm excited to welcome back Layer 7′s Chief Architect and resident OAuth expert Francois Lascelles. He'll discuss how to provide SSO for mobile applications, without compromising the security of the apps or the APIs that power them. Francois will also be taking your questions throughout the Tech Talk. So, this will be a great opportunity to get answers to your questions about your own applications and the security that surrounds them.
Click here to get the event details and a reminder in your calendar.
On the day of the event, click here to join:
Submit your questions:
- Tweet using the tag #Layer7Live
- Email firstname.lastname@example.com
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Miami Dolphins offensive lineman Jake Long exited practice on Monday after suffering a right leg injury.
Various sources witnessed the injury, with Armando Salguero providing a picture on Twitter. Trainers removed Long's knee brace while working on his latest injury.
Long, who is entering the final year of his contract, has only missed two games throughout his four-year career with the Dolphins. Despite his durability, Long has been hampered by injuries, and in 2011 suffered injuries to his knee, shoulder and back.
Another leg injury is the last thing Long and the Dolphins need, especially since rookie quarterback Ryan Tannehill has been named Miami's starting quarterback.
Miami selected Jake Long with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2008 NFL Draft, instead of quarterback Matt Ryan or running back Darren McFadden, who went third and fourth overall, respectively.
For the latest on all things Miami Dolphins, be sure to head over to The Phinsider and join the discussion.
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CATEGORIES Classics, Horror, Remakes and Sequels, CinematicalOne of the coolest chapters in Bram Stoker's Dracula (the book, not the Coppola movie) is the one in which the titular bloodsucker is on a boat ride from Bulgaria to England, and he uses the crew as a rather messy all-you-can-eat buffet. It's a sequence that certainly seems spooky enough to warrant its very own film, so I say it's good news that Marcus Nispel is on board to direct The Last Voyage of Demeter.
Variety describes the story with a bit more clarity than I can muster at 6am on a Sunday morning, so here goes: It's "based on a chapter in Bram Stoker's "Dracula" describing the arrival of the vampire count in England on a cargo ship that has crashed into the rocks at Whitby with no crew and the dead captain lashed to the steering wheel. Stoker tells the story via the captain's log of the voyage, which begins in Bulgaria and becomes increasingly disjointed as members of the crew disappear."
Given Nispel's affection for tackling old-school horror (like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th), it'll be interesting to see what he does with Dracula. It's not like Demeter could be any more outrageously ridiculous than the Frankenstein adaptation the director did for the USA Network a few years back.


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Hi, everyone. We're please to share with you this updated summary by Dr. David Parkhurst of the current state of knowledge concerning the safety of polycarbonate plastic when used for storing water and other consumables. In addition, new signs will soon be placed in the stores, providing a summary of this information as well as sources of additional information.
Are polycarbonate water bottles safe?
In the past Bloomingfoods has believed that polycarbonate plastic containers were ideal for the storage of our filtered water, and indeed this kind of plastic was for a time considered to be safe for water and food. However, over the past decade or so, research results have accumulated, indicating that like many plastics, polycarbonate containers may transfer an undesirable compound into their contents.
The information brochures we offered earlier contained information regarding polycarbonate plastic bottles that can no longer be considered correct. In particular, these two statements about polycarbonate jugs require modification and explanation:
1: "Unlike PVC jugs, there is no leaching of odors or chemicals from jugs."
2: "To sterilize: Use ½ teaspoon (or just a few drops) household bleach per gallon of water. Swish around and let stand 3 minutes. Pour out and rinse well. Air dry, then SEAL."
Recent summaries provided by scientific panels that met in late 2006 (see below) have concluded that:
1. A compound called bisphenol A (BPA) does leach from various polycarbonate materials into water and other contents, especially as the bottles age or are damaged or bleached. Bleaching is not recommended.
2. This compound has been shown to act as a synthetic estrogen in numerous animal tests, causing a wide variety of undesirable health responses in the test animals.
3. Effects in humans are less well known, but some of the researchers are concerned that similar responses could happen with people. It is, of course, much harder to study health effects of chemicals in people.
4. Pregnant women, and women who might someday become pregnant, should be especially cautious about ingesting BPA.
5. Bloomingfoods has ordered glass bottles as an alternative, and is looking into finding bottles made from a different, safer plastic as well.
To add to that earlier information, here are some quotes from a New York Times editorial of this date:
"What do you do when one arm of the government says everything is O.K. and another tells you to watch out? That is what is happening with bisphenol-A — a chemical used in many plastics and epoxy resins now found in baby bottles and liners for canned goods. The answer is a truism in every family rulebook — when in doubt, especially when it comes to children, err on the side of caution. That means it is a good idea to keep the young away from bisphenol-A, or BPA. "
"The Food and Drug Administration said last month that the small amounts of BPA that leach out of containers and into food or milk are not dangerous. Then this week, the National Toxicology Program, the federal agency for toxicological research, reported that their research shows "some concern" about the effects of BPA on the brain development and behavior of fetuses and young children. "
"A new study by the Yale School of Medicine is cause for even more concern. In tests on primates, researchers found that BPA "causes the loss of connections between brain cells" that could cause memory or learning problems and depression.
"John Bucher, the associate director of the toxicology program, said there is still considerable uncertainty about whether the changes seen in animal studies are causing the same problems in humans. "But we have concluded that the possibility that BPA may affect human development cannot be dismissed."
Scientists from the toxicology offer this advice:
¶ Watch for the numeral 7 on the bottom of plastic containers. That often means they contain BPA.
¶ Search for baby bottles and other baby products that are BPA-free.
Some states are considering bills to restrict the use of BPA for the young, and Congress is assessing several possible remedies including a BPA ban in children's products or a ban on BPA in packaging that touches food [emphasis added]. The best effort, however, would be the Kid-Safe Chemicals Act. It would require that children's products are proved safe before they are sold, not — as with BPA — the other way around.?
Research has shown that a chemical substance known as bisphenol A (BPA), from which polycarbonate bottles are made, does leach, generally in very small amounts, from polycarbonate bottles into food and water or other liquids that they contain. (These studies were not necessarily performed on the specific brand of bottles sold by Bloomingfoods.) This is potentially of concern, because BPA has been shown to act as a synthetic estrogen in animal tests. The amounts leaching out are likely negligible in new bottles, but as bottles age, are subjected to heat or harsh detergents, are scratched, or are bleached, then amounts leached may increase.
Because bleaching may increase the transfer of BPA from the bottles into their contents, use of chlorine bleach is definitely not recommended, in contrast to Statement No. 2 above from the brochures provided by Mountain Fresh prior to October 2007.
Four US government agencies including the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences convened 38 scientists in Chapel Hill, NC, in November 2006 to consider the health effects of BPA. The results of that meeting are more up-to-date than many earlier reports.
On the leaching question, Vandenberg and co-authors (2007⎯see the references below), some of the scientists at the Chapel Hill meeting, stated that "BPA has been shown to leach from food and beverage containers, and some dental sealants and composites under normal conditions of use." Thus, Statement No. 1 from the Mountain Fresh brochure cannot be considered valid. The question then becomes, why does that matter?
These authors went on to describe numerous specific undesirable health effects of BPA on animals other than humans that have been identified in laboratory research:
"There are now over 150 published studies describing low-dose BPA effects in animals, including prostate weight and cancer, mammary gland organization and cancer, protein induction in the uterus, organization of sexually dimorphic circuits in the hypothalamus, onset of estrus cyclicity and earlier puberty, body weight, genital malformations and others …."
Many of those effects were found in animals exposed to BPA levels lower than the US government's reference dose (a supposed safety level for humans, established in 1988) of 50 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day. Interestingly, the European Union uses a value of 10, allowing only 1/5 the exposure allowed by the US reference dose. The EU standard was established in 2002.
Because these kinds of effects cannot be studied directly in humans, less is known about the toxic effects of BPA, at the levels in our bodies, on humans. Kuehn (2007) reported as follows on the conclusions of second study panel:
"Another panel, convened in mid-August by the National Toxicology Program (NTP) Center for the Evaluation of Risks to Human Reproduction, reviewed about 500 studies (http://cerhr .niehs.nih.gov/chemicals/bisphenol /draftBPA_MtgSumm080807.pdf). Although the panel rated the likelihood of human reproductive problems as 'minimal' or 'negligible,' based on existing studies, it did have 'some concern' that exposure could have neurological or behavioral effects in pregnant women, fetuses, infants, and children."
"One reason for the differences in the groups' conclusions is that the NTP panel chose to exclude studies in which animals were exposed to BPA through injections."
The panel justified those exclusions because humans are usually exposed to BPA by ingestion, and there is some loss before the substance enters the bloodstream. However, a fetus in the womb can receive BPA directly across the placenta.
Kuehn (2007) also noted that "The panel identified several other areas where more research is needed. These include human research involving occupational exposure to BPA; studies of how BPA is metabolized in pregnant women, developing fetuses, infants, and other groups; and further investigation into potential effects of exposure during development and at other life stages, [Dr. Jane Adams] said."
Because of these concerns, many Bloomingfoods customers (especially pregnant women and those of child-bearing age) will likely want to avoid regular use of polycarbonate bottles. A further consideration is that we are all exposed to other synthetic estrogens, and no one knows the extent to which these may interact.
Bloomingfoods has ordered glass bottles as one alternative, and is looking into alternatively plastics, such as high-density polyethylene (HDPE) which is thought not to give off estrogenic compounds.
Kuehn, BM. 2007. Expert panels weigh bisphenol-A risks. Journal of the American Medical Association, October 3, 2007, Vol 298(13):1499-1500,1503.
Vandenberg LN, Hauser R, Marcus M, Olea N, Welshons WV. 2007. Human exposure to bisphenol A (BPA). Reproductive Toxicology 24(2):139-77. The abstract of this paper is available at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=pubmed&uid=17825522&cmd=showdetailview&indexed=google. (That entire URL must appear on one line in your browser.)
Prepared by David F. Parkhurst, October 18, 2007
Revised September 6, 2008