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On Friday, we flew off to Montreal to connect with the Holland America Cruise Ship. It was a treat watching my wife's eyes light up as we took in the magical sights of Montreal and Old Quebec city, then the magic happened when we disembarked in Charlottetown PEI and rented a vehicle, we shot across the amazing Confederation Bridge connecting PEI and New Brunswick. Enjoying the beautiful road trip as we shot through to my hometown of Springhill NS. It was a magical moment as we pulled into my parents yard and I heard my Mom yell " They're Here! " Out came my Mom & Dad and Beagle and puffy tear filled eyes were unavoidable by all. We had a short but special visit with family for 2 1/2 hrs before trekking back through NB across Confederation Bridge and back to Charlottetown and dropping off the rental car with only 15 mins before our Ship was set to sail...we made it!
We would enjoy a beautiful time in Cape Breton the next day but the following day we would be blessed with a meet-up with my parents who drove to Halifax ( our next stop ) and took us on a personal tour of Peggy's Cove. Another beautiful day with my parents and Aunt and Uncle from Halfax and we were back on the ship and on our way to Bar Harbour Maine. My wife was flying high since the start of the cruise. An engagement ring had caught her eye and she always said that she wanted to pick it out and nothing ever caught her eye, this one did and I made sure she got it, both of our hearts pounded during the purchase and her glowing smile was worth every cent. We had such a memorable cruise from start to finish and thought what the heck when asked to purchase a Cruise Lottery ticket. On the last day of the cruise before disembarkation the next day, we thanked the staff with a standing ovation in the ship showroom, then the Cruise Lottery was drawn and we couldn't believe it! We had won a choice of a Caribbean or Mexican Holland America Cruise!! We both were so very grateful for such a Dream Cruise Vacation and count our blessings indeed :)


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I think it's safe to say when Webb took over in the playoffs that number didn't trend upward.
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I think it's safe to say when Webb took over in the playoffs that number didn't trend upward.
I seem to remember when we drafted Kslil that the rubes were saying he would give ponder so much time yo throw the ball and the WRs so much time to run their routes that the passing game would flourish, doesn't seem to be panning out. Maybe they should have done something to fix the QB spot instead.
I like Ponder and think he's a good kid. I think he has talent. He has weapons.
If he has more sub-100 yard games (!!!!!), he can go fuck off in free agency or with some other team. I'm pretty sure Steve DeBerg was tossing more than 100 yards a game with a goddamn cast on his throwing hand, playing Marty ball with the Schott.
Like I said, I'm not closing the book on the kid, but any more sub-100 yard games and I'm done defending him at work.
I'm sure he'll lose a lot of sleep over that threat.
Musgrave seems to play it safe when he knows he can attempt a field goal and doesn't take a lot of chances with Ponder's arm in those situations. To me that seems indicative of a lack of trust by Musgrave.
The biggest negative for Ponder is his response to pressure. He seems to be that NFL caliber QB when he has time to throw, but makes poor choices when pressured.
That should improve with better pass blocking, better receivers, and more experience reading defenses.
But right now he is a QB that can be rattled.
The best NFL QB's can burn the defense when they blitz. Ponder has yet to reach that level.
I keep hearing people say he can " make all the throws", so I can only assume the problem is between his ears. If he can remain calm when pressured, I believe he could have a much better year.
We are the only team who runs a pure WCO. Bears, Tampa, Seattle, Colts, KC, Arizona, Pitt all run a WCO but they all mix it up with Run N Gun. When Bevell had Favre he had the second offense. When bevell had tjack here and Seattle his offense sucked. He gets russell wilson and his offense is good again. Musgrave needs to let it fly with ponder, and if he doesnt make it, lets move on.
OTOH I find it interesting how much hate you have for Ponder- Did he steal your woman or what?
I understand you went don fighting for the Honor of Jackson and all and that blew up but Ponder, while he may never end up being a franchise QB, is still better than he was and you can spend your days digging for stats to try to make Ponder look as bad as you can while you spend the same time trying to find stats to make Jackson look better than he was but in the end Ponder is still better than Jackson ever was and he may need to be replaced at some point this year but that still doesn't change that fact. ;)


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The first floor is up a flight of stairs to a tiled entry hall. Also on this floor is the master bedroom. The yellow, blue, and green checkered king bedding and white wood furniture make this room feel bright and beachy. Along with a TV and DVD player is the master bath with separate shower and bath tub and, with a door to the hall, a separate half bath for guests.
On the right of the tiled entry hall is the spacious kitchen and breakfast area. A bay window houses a glass table with 4 brightly checkered chairs. The kitchen is tiled with all white appliances and has a breakfast bar with 2 stools.
The living and dining areas have hardwood floors and a décor of blues and tans with white furniture maintains the beachy feel of this lovely home. Next to the dining table seating 6 is the comfortable living area with 2 sofas, one a sleeper, an armoire, a flat screen TV and an attractive blue floral rug. Sliding doors off the dining area lead to a small deck with a wrought iron table and 2 chairs for morning coffee. Stairs from this deck lead to the pool area and backyard.
Upstairs are 3 bedrooms. You will find the ideal children's room with 2 bunk beds and 2 twin beds with red, blue, and white plaid bedding and a TV. This bedroom shares a bathroom with shower only with another 2 twin bedroom decorated with a blue and white shell motif and offering a TV and DVD player. The fourth bedroom has a queen bed with bright striped bedding and an en suite private bath. This room also has a TV, DVD, and VCR players.
Take a short picturesque walk through a beach park with playground, then stroll down a raised boardwalk through pine trees and you will be at the beach in just 4 minutes. The small beach park also features a new children's playground.
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Ryszard Kapuscinski, 1932-2007 | A witness to (soccer) war that lay in wait
Published originally in Warsaw in 1978 (Czytelnik), Wojna futbolowa (The Soccer War) contains the title essay recounting Kapuscinski's on-site reportage in Tegucigalpa and at the front during the 100-hour war with El Salvador in 1969.
Warsaw, Poland | Ryszard Kapuscinski, 74, who died on Jan 23, rarely wrote about football. True, the title of one of his best-known collections is The Soccer War (Granta, 1990), in which the title essay, translated from the Polish by William Brand, chronicles Kapuscinski's insertion into the Honduran capital as war breaks out with El Salvador across the shared border.
In legend, the conflict, which lasted barely six days, became known as the soccer war due to the timing. In June 1969 the two nations played a best-of-three series to determine a place in the 1970 World Cup finals in Mexico City. "Nobody in the world paid any attention," Kapuscinski writes, as violence, taunting of rivals and diplomatic insults escalated.
Following the first game, a 1–0 victory for Honduras in the capital, Tegucigalpa, El Salvador fan Amelia Bolanios, 18, secured a kind of martyrdom by shooting herself in the chest after the Hondurans' winning goal in the final minute. Her funeral was televised. After the second match, on 15 June, a 3–0 victory for the Salvadorans in San Salvador, the border between the two states was closed as the Honduran team sought evacuation in armored cars. Two Honduran fans died.
Reading the tea leaves in Mexico with the help of Mexican journalist Luis Suarez, Kapuscinski opts, as he would throughout his career for the Polish Press Agency, to see for himself. His jacket credit reads that he witnessed, in Africa, Latin America and the Middle East, 27 coups and revolutions. The football matches—El Salvador would prevail in the series, 3–2, in extra time, at a 27 June decider in Mexico City—had political portent, while not bearing responsibility for the hostilities that ultimately began on 14 July.
In Latin America, [Suarez] said, the border between soccer and politics is vague. There is a long list of governments that have fallen or been overthrown after the defeat of the national team. Players on the losing team are denounced in the press as traitors. When Brazil won the World Cup in Mexico, an exiled Brazilian colleague of mine was heartbroken: "The military right wing," he said, "can be assured of at least five more years of peaceful rule." On the way to the title, Brazil beat England. In an article with the headline "Jesus Defends Brazil," the Rio de Janeiro paper Jornal dos Sportes explained the victory thus: "Whenever the ball flew towards our goal and a score seemed inevitable, Jesus reached his foot out of the clouds and cleared the ball." Drawings accompanied the article, illustrating the supernatural intervention.
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Three people have been charged after a bleacher clearing fight that police say was sparked by a racial slur at a basketball game in Ware Shoals.
Authorities say there were several injuries reported as a result of the fight, including to two officers responding to the brawl.
It happened on Friday night after the Ware Shoals High School game against Tamassee-Salem High School.
According to a police report, an officer noticed things starting to become heated between two players of opposing teams during the game.
After the buzzer blew and the game ended, the team lined up to shake hands when a player from Tamassee-Salem said a racial slur to the Ware Shoals player. The Ware Shoals player then threw a punch, according to the report, prompting a bleacher clearing brawl.
Eventually, officials were able to break up the fight and clear the court, but police say the tension spilled over to the parking lot later that night.
At this point, three people have been charged. Several others are being looked at.
The investigation into the fight continues and additional charges are possible.School district officials released a statement Monday stating they are embarrassed by the behavior that took place Friday.
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LSU tied a school record with 22 SEC wins in a season, hitting four solo home runs to beat Ole Miss 7-1 in the first game of their final regular season series at Alex Box Stadium Thursday night.
Seniors Mason Katz and Raph Rhymes both went 3-for-4 and connected for round-trippers to start their senior weekend in style.
With LSU leading 2-0 in the fourth, Katz ended a home run drought dating back to March 31 with a solo shot, his 14th of the season.
Christian Ibarra also homered later in the frame to make it 4-0. Rhymes' exciting inside-the-park homer came in the sixth inning, when he flipped over Ole Miss catcher Stuart Turner in front of home plate to make it 5-0.
Sean McMullen added the final solo shot in the seventh, after Stuart had put the Rebels on the board with an RBI single off Cody Glenn. The sophomore went seven innings, scattering eight hits and allowing just one run to earn the pitching victory.
"We beat a very good pitcher tonight," LSU coach Paul Mainieri said. "Mayers has had a lot of success against us over the years, and we really respect his ability. I liked our approach at the plate – we got off to a great start in the first inning and swung the bats well throughout the game."
Cody Glen picked up the win for the Tigers improving his record to 6-2.
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LSU 47-7 (22-6) has won 22 conference games twice before, in 1986 and 1997. The Tigers now have 41 homers on the season, compared to just 19 for Mike Bianco's Rebels (35-19, 14-14).
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Tennis comes up short at Greensboro College
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Greensboro, NC- The Salem College tennis team lost at Greensboro College, 3-6. Kim Wisen (Madison, OH) continued her hot singles play by defeating Brittany Cates (1-6, 6-1, 6-3). Betty Teka (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia), playing for the first time this season, won her singles match (6-0, 6-0). Salem falls to 2-3 with the loss.
Elise Rouse (Wilmington, NC) returned to number one singles, but fell short against Brittany Price (3-6, 5-7). Samantha Niemiec (State Road, NC) paired with Jessica Hunter (Booneville, NC) to win the number three doubles match, 8-1.
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Choosing the right team is a survival skill for entrepreneurs — especially in cleantech and sustainability. We face problems such as emissions rising, resources becoming tightly constrained, water availability and quality growing more problematic, and the interconnections between air, energy, food, water and health becoming ever more complex.
Many great gains notwithstanding, the challenges are getting steeper, and it's becoming clear that doing more of the same things with the same people just won't work.
Cast your memory back to the playground of your childhood. Remember choosing teams to play a game — kickball, soccer, flashlight tag, whatever? Assuming players of more or less equivalent ages, the winning team wasn't made up of kids who were already best friends, or all looked the same, or were the same gender, or lived on the same block or had the same favorite sports idols. The best team was inevitably made up of the mix of kids who collectively had the best combination of skills. The key was choosing kids with skills that complemented yours. The same applies in cleantech and sustainability.
Homophily is not your friend
Most of us feel most at ease when surrounded by others similar to ourselves, whether in educational backgrounds, beliefs or political views, or cultural references and social habits. This is called homophily, and most of the time we're not even aware that we're exercising preferences; it just seems "natural."
Especially in often contentious fields such as cleantech or sustainability, we choose employees, collaborators, advisors and partners who share our perspectives because we believe that working with like-minded collaborators will reduce conflict and improve productivity. But choosing team members according to homophily is less than optimal.
Organizational research shows that for very straightforward tasks, a heterogeneous team — one in which members have very different backgrounds, skill sets and training — may perform comparably to a homogeneous one. For tasks requiring pure speed of execution, a homogeneous team is often superior. However, for complex tasks, the heterogeneous or multidisciplinary team outperforms the homogeneous team. The more complex the task becomes, the wider the gap between the teams.
In the book "Diversity and Complexity," Scott E. Page explains how "diversity underpins system-level robustness, allowing for multiple responses to external shocks and internal adaptations; how it provides the seeds for large events by creating outliers that fuel tipping points; and how it drives novelty and innovation."
But what about the discomfort that comes with bringing in collaborators who don't speak the same lingo, share the same shorthand or even laugh at the same jokes? Aren't those important considerations for team dynamics?
Researchers from Brigham Young University, Northwestern University and Stanford looked at the social interaction effects of introducing outsiders to preexisting homogeneous groups, examining whether the discomfort of accommodating newcomers from different backgrounds would lead to positive or negative disruption.
As their 2009 article reports, "the mere presence of socially distinct newcomers and the social concerns their presence stimulates among old-timers motivates behavior that can convert affective pains into cognitive gains."
In other words, yes, heterogeneity can introduce frictions that require additional effort to manage. And those discomforts actually can stimulate the group to perform better — especially when the group is tasked with doing something really difficult. Think, for example, of delivering significant sustainability gains, launching a new cleantech company or making energy policy.
The people and organizations highlighted in the GreenBiz State of Green Business Report 2014 — which notes collaboration among unlikely partners as a growing trend — are actively embracing that discomfort to pioneer exciting new solutions.
Drawing inspiration from other sectors
MIT Professor Bob Langer might be the poster figure for cognitive gains from heterogeneous collaborations. Langer is a chemical engineer who — working with diverse collaborators — famously has pioneered new methods and materials for disease treatment, drug delivery and health and beauty applications.
For the first decade of his career, the idea that a chemical engineer untrained in medicine could contribute to biomedical research was considered ludicrous. Yet he has more than 1,000 patents and over 250 licenses to companies; more than 1,200 publications, with nearly 100,000 citations; more than 200 honors in science, technology, engineering, chemistry, life sciences, materials science, medicine and biomedical research, and invention; and appointments to the National Academies of Sciences and Engineering and the Institute of Medicine.
Remarkable as he is, Langer is not alone in his approach. Broad Institute Entrepreneur in Residence Katrine Bosley was quoted in FierceBiotech along a similar vein: "Given the complexities of discovering, developing and commercializing new medicines, I've found that seeking a variety of experiences and perspectives has been critical to both leading and to being an effective team member."
Just as in cleantech and sustainability, there is still a long way to go in health and medicine, and the challenges are steep. But often breakthroughs come because bringing diverse perspectives to bear on a complex problem enables the team to reframe the problem.
A homogenous team is perfectly good — and perhaps preferable — if your goal is to streamline an existing process or to systematize best practices. But if you want to achieve a breakthrough, assemble a heterogeneous team around a clear and audacious target. Encourage members to throw out preconceptions and prevailing wisdom in favor of diligently exploring unconventional, impossible or even ludicrous ideas.
Putting heterogeneity into practice in cleantech
My company, Vodia Ventures, makes seed investments in companies with business models designed to crack the unsolvables. We actively look for and cultivate heterogeneity in our portfolio companies.
For example, Resolute Marine Energy is combining technologies and methods and collaborators from previously unrelated sectors to provide affordable, local, off-grid potable water supplies for arid coastal communities around the world.
This is an increasingly urgent sustainability need, and at the same time a complicated, multifaceted challenge marked by technical, financial, operational, cultural, political and community impediments. The team has sought involvement from diverse parties — from bank executives to government officials, from engineers and scientists to private investors, from community leaders to NGO representatives and many more.
But had the founders focused their efforts on achieving "reasonable" goals, or on working strictly with sustainability experts and cleantech promoters, it's likely they never would have overcome numerous and often fiercely entrenched obstacles to new infrastructure propositions. As it seeks to build the world's first wave-driven municipal water facility, embracing heterogeneity among stakeholders will be even more vital.
Embrace heterogeneity to build a winning team
Launching a startup is by definition a highly complex task. Launching a startup to achieve breakthroughs in cleantech or sustainability is even more ambitious.
These are incredibly complex challenges, and we need to focus on forming alliances with people as different from one another as possible, willing to seriously and thoughtfully question our collective preconceptions, whose primary common element is a shared definition of success.
Whatever sustainability or cleantech challenge you have taken on, you already know that you face a complex task. Maximize your likelihood of success by leaving aside "common sense" notions of working with likeminded friends and colleagues. Take the plunge and actively embrace heterogeneity. Invest serious effort to find collaborators who care about achieving the same breakthrough, and who bring a vibrant mix of different backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
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Quent and I had been married for 12 years, a couple for 16. And we were happy together, just the two of us -- no children. Quent had three boys from his first marriage and didn't want to raise a family again. So I put away my baby fever, which, to be honest, had burned in me only for a very short time. Once it was gone, however, that other fever roared through, one that had been there all along. I wanted a dog. Yes. I had to have a dog. My dog.
"No dog," said Quent. Non-negotiable, said his tone of voice.
I was getting a dog.
"Please don't get a dog."
Was it possible I had married a man who didn't like -- no, love -- dogs? No. It was impossible because it was unthinkable. Wasn't it?
I wanted a Labrador retriever with a silky yellow head.
"They shed. It'll ruin our apartment," Quent said.
"Our apartment is basically yellow," I argued.
He wasn't the only naysayer. Friends who'd have been thrilled if I had a child behaved as though I were a lunatic to want a dog. Why was everyone against my dog? Did they think I didn't carry the maternal gene? My resolve and commitment strengthened. I was getting a dog.
A friend told me about a special Labrador adoption program. The organization Guiding eyes for the Blind breeds its own dogs and trains them, but not all the trainees are cut out to be service dogs, so some become pets. I applied for one and, after a three-year wait (and lots of arguments with Quent), Eliza was mine.
Quent and had made a family when we married. But here's a guilty secret. It wasn't until Eliza came to live with us that really felt we were a tribe. We'd added one more team member, albeit four-legged, and our twosome-turned-threesome felt stronger.
Once Eliza was around, my husband and I began relating to each other somewhat differently. Had Quent and I ever said pee and poop to each other? Um, don't think so. And if we had, we'd certainly never said it so many times a day, every day. "How was your walk?" I'd ask as we read the paper and drank our coffee, Eliza lying across someone's feet. "Anything interesting to report?" There almost always was.
"I never noticed how many people have dogs," Quent would say. "Eliza pees in the same spot right in the middle of Barrow Street every day. She was unusually frisky this morning.... There was a beagle who wanted to tussle, but Eliza just walked away." The man who didn't love dogs was capable of fatherly pride.
We'd rented a country house that first summer, and Quent commuted daily from the city. Eliza's joy in seeing Quent as he got out of the car was a splendid thing. The two of them romped in the backyard with a ball as I prepared dinner, and if Eliza abandoned the game to race after a rabbit or a deer, he knew exactly how to lure her back.
Once, though, she wouldn't be lured, and instead disappeared into the high grasses for a while. That night, as she leaped onto the bed with her usual nimble grace, he admitted to me how scared he'd been: "I thought, How am I going to tell Lesley she's lost?" And when that silky head happened to rest itself on his knee and not mine, I felt a twinge of something like jealousy. Hey -- what happened to My Dog? The answer was becoming clearer and clearer. Eliza had become Our Dog.
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CHARLES TAYLOR holds a degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California and a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law. He also has an LL.M. in taxation from the University of San Diego School of Law. As a law student at the College of Law, Mr. Taylor enrolled in the Community Development Law Clinic where he represented non-profit and community based organizations that provided assistance to low income individuals. He also participated in Moot Court and routinely ventured to the Carrier Dome to cheer on the Syracuse University football and basketball teams.
Mr. Taylor joined the California State Controller's Legal Office as a Staff Counsel in December 2008. The State Controller is California's elected chief fiscal officer. In addition to his many other responsibilities, the State Controller administers California's Unclaimed Property Program. In his present role, Mr. Taylor resolves appeals brought by individuals, banks, life insurance companies, business owners and other organizations under California's Unclaimed Property Law. Between 2002 and 2008, Charles worked for the California State Board of Equalization (BOE) as a Tax Counsel where he advised on state and local tax matters within the BOE's jurisdiction.
In addition to his duties at the State Controller's Office, Mr. Taylor is a Major in the United States Army Reserve Judge Advocate General's Corps where he is assigned to the 425th Civil Affairs Battalion as an International Law Officer. In this role, he applies his experience and skills in Civil-Military and Rule of Law Operations to support International Rule of Law Missions, and to assist state and local authorities when needed for domestic emergencies and other designated activities.
Mr. Taylor is licensed to practice law in California, New York and New Jersey, and admitted to the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and the United States District Court for the Central District of California. In addition to his professional responsibilities and military duties, he participates in a variety of state and local bar association and community activities. He is also a former Vice President of the State Bar of California Taxation Section Executive Committee, and a former member of the Hollywood Community Housing Corporation Board of Directors.
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By JOHN KLINE
Today marks the 20th anniversary of the annual MLK Study Day at Goshen College.
A day reserved for celebrating the life and legacy of famed human rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., the college's MLK Study Day has evolved over the years from a single day of remembrance to an annual catalyst in the continued examination and exploration of who the man was, what he cared about, who he has influenced and how those individuals and groups are currently working to change the world for the better.
"More and more in this country, I think there is a growing emphasis on the resonance of the message, not just the specific day... an exploration of how his message can have a greater, lasting impact," said GC Director of Public Relations Richard Aguirre. "For a lot of our students, they've grown up with that message, so I think the evolution of MLK Day at GC is both societal, and also has to do with the resonance of Martin Luther King Jr. with the Mennonite faith, and incorporating his life and legacy as a teaching opportunity and incorporating that into what students are encountering in college and how the whole commemoration can have more meaning than just that one day."
As an example, Aguirre noted how the college decided to get a jump-start on its MLK Day events this year by hosting a full-length screening of the documentary "A Hole in the Head: A Life Revealed" by filmmaker Dr. Wilbert Smith on both Tuesday and Sunday. Smith, one of two keynote speakers headlining MLK Day this year, was also introduced to the public early during a special conversation with the community on health care and race at the college's Umble Center Sunday evening.
Joining Smith as a keynote speaker this year is author Dana Johnson, whose original work exploring themes of race, identity and alienation were also showcased early this year during a special reading at the college's Newcomer Center Saturday evening.
Smith and Johnson are just the latest in a long list of accomplished and influential leaders to have graced the GC stage since MLK Day's inception 20 years ago. Others who have shared their stories and insights with the college community over the years include: African-American religious historian Dr. Quinton Dixie and Latino fiction writer Manuel Luis Martinez; Mennonite African-American singer Tony Brown and poet Brenda Cárdenas; the professional theater group Asante Children's Theatre (ACT) of Indianapolis; Dr. Vincent Harding, a Mennonite associate of Martin Luther King Jr.; and the Rev. Dr. C.T. Vivian, a distinguished veteran of the civil rights movement and close associate of Martin Luther King Jr.
"Really I think our main goal with MLK Day is just for people to pause and remember Martin Luther King Jr., what he did, what he believed, and how he acted on his faith," Aguirre said. "I think our next major goal is for people to know what he cared about, and what the people that influenced him cared about, and how that is still very relevant today in trying to create a world where there is no discrimination and no inequality."
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What's more, Aguirre said there is also the important goal of communicating the knowledge that there is still work to be done and that people today can make a difference if they put their minds to it.
Along those lines, GC Assistant Director of Diverse Student Support Sophie Metzger noted that the college currently has two projects in the works designed to extend the spirit of MLK Day throughout the year.
The first, a nationally recognized project known as the 40 Days of Peace initiative, involves a pledge to perform a daily act of peace each day for those 40 days. This year, however, GC staff decided to make the initiative a little more personal by crafting it to better mirror this year's MLK Day theme, "Shalom: That we may be whole,",shalom being the Hebrew word for peace.
"We found that the 40 days were written very generically to fit a national audience," Metzger said, "so this year we rewrote them and renamed it 40 Days of Shalom. So it's that idea of starting peace within the person and kind of spiralling out to affect a much larger base."
GC students this year will also be creating a special peace quilt over the next few weeks that draws on the MLK Day shalom theme.
"Basically how it will work is the students will cut out pieces of fabric and ask people to write a word or symbol on them involving their own interpretation of the word shalom," Metzger said. "The fabric pieces will then be placed on a quilt with a purple background and a white peace sign that once completed will be displayed during Goshen's Peace Week this coming March."
Fabric pieces will be available for decoration by students and members of the public following today's MLK Day convocation, Metzger said, adding that additional fabric decoration opportunities will also be available at designated work stations across the campus throughout the week.
For more information on today's MLK Day events, visit the college website at http://www.goshen.edu.


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SURPRISE, Ariz. -- The glass is definitely half full, maybe even three-quarters full, for the owner of the Royals.David Glass, the Royals chief executive officer and owner who watched his club top the Rockies, 6-2, on Wednesday, believes an improved pitching staff will make .500 an attainable goal. "I think this team can play .500 baseball," Glass said. "I'm encouraged. I'm feeling really good about it and a lot of my optimism is based on the optimism that I feel here with general manager [Dayton Moore] to field manager [Buddy Bell] to the coaches and to the players. I think there is a different atmosphere than there has been in the past. "My goal is always to get to .500. I think that is the first major milestone. Once you get to .500, then you can change that by 10 games and be competitive in your division. You're close enough so then you've got a base to build on, where maybe one important player move can change it and then you are in the hunt." The Royals lost 100 games last season, but Glass approved appreciably hiking the payroll, which allowed Moore to sign free-agent pitchers Gil Meche, Octavio Dotel and David Riske. The Royals' 5.65 ERA in 2006 was the last in the American League and the highest in franchise history, so it was an area that needed to be addressed. "Our pitching was the worst in the Major Leagues," Glass said. "Pitching is where we've been deficient. As I analyze our pitching and look at it down here, the guys we'll head into the season with have got to be a lot better than what we had last year. "Starting with Meche right on down, they'll be better. I think pitching alone, the improvement in that, plus the improved play of some of our position players will get us to .500." The addition of Dotel, who combined to save 36 games with the Astros and Athletics in 2004 and has allowed just one hit in three innings in Spring Training, and Riske, who has been one of the first-rate setup relievers in recent years, should solve one Royals problem -- 31 blown saves last season.
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Two former title contenders meet at UFC 156 as Jon Fitch (24-4-1(1) MMA; 14-2-1 UFC) faces Demian Maia (17-4 MMA; 11-4 UFC). This Welterweight fight is the second of five PPV main card fights. UFC 156: Aldo vs. Edgar airs live from Las Vegas this Saturday night, February 2, with the PPV main card beginning at 10:00 p.m. ET / 7:00 p.m. PT.
Both Fitch and Maia have been in title contention before, losing to Georges St. Pierre and Anderson Silva respectively. They've both spent the past few years trying to get back to that title shot, though have never quite made it. This will be a big step in that direction for the winner - a hard step back for the loser. And with both men in their mid-30s, it may be a tough step back to recover from. This is also an example of one of MMA's classic style battles - wrestling vs. jiu jitsu.
How do these two stack up?
Fitch: 34 years old | 6'0" | 74" reach
Maia: 35 years old | 6'0" | 72" reach
What have these two done recently?
Fitch: W - Erick Silva (UD) | L - Johny Hendricks (KO) | D - B.J. Penn (Maj. Draw)
Maia: W - Rick Story (Sub) | W - Dong Hyun Kim (TKO) | L - Chris Weidman (UD)
How did these two get here?
Jon Fitch is the epitome of the hard working, grinding wrestler. He is a master at just wearing his opponents down. That style has not earned him many fans, and in his last outing, he seemed out to change the perception of him as a boring fighter, putting the pressure on Erick Silva in a great fight. Prior to that fight, he hadn't won in over two years, with a draw to Pen, a heavy KO loss to Hendricks, and a fair amount of time off. Fitch is now in his 11th year as a pro - if he wants another run at the belt, it has to be now, though he should never be overlooked as a tough opponent.
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Demian Maia is a superb jiu jitsu fighter, who started his career with a great 11-0 run at Middleweight. But after a KO loss to Nate Marquardt, and a humbling performance against Anderson Silva, he gave up on his jiu jitsu and adopt a very dull, uninspiring kickboxing style. A bad loss to Weidman last year prompted him to drop down to Welterweight, which has seemed to reignite the old spark. He's 2-0 at 170, with a pair of impressive performances, including his first submission in 10 fights. Maia is fighting like the man who won submission of the night honors in 4 of his first 5 UFC fights, and that's a good thing. He is most definitely a sudden contender in this division.
Why should you care?
This is another close, great fight at UFC 156. Very hard to call this one, and the ground battle between these two men could be ferocious.


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Dr. Phyllis Moore is director of the School of Liberal Arts, program head of the creativing writing program and coordinator (with Dr. Reed Anderson) of the Paris Study Abroad Program.
She earned her Ph.D. in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Her collection of short stories, "A Compendium of Skirts," was published in 2002 by Carroll & Graf. The story "Rembrandt's Bones," first published in The Georgia Review, has been anthologized in the 25th fiction anniversary edition of The Georgia Review, called "A Home in Other People: Selected Stories and Art, 1984-2007," and is included in "Stories Only Wanting to be Heard" (February 2012) from the University of Georgia Press.
Her poems and short stories have also been published in Tri-Quarterly, Chelsea, Redbook, The Mississippi Review and The Michigan Quarterly Review. Her work has been listed in both "The Best American Short Stories" and the Pushcart Prize anthologies. Her story "Big Pink and Little Minkie" was anthologized in "Chicago Works," a collection of short stories by Chicago authors, and her poem "Why I Hate Martin Frobisher" was reprinted in a special edition of Tri-Quarterly, Issue 128. She has received five art council grants from the states of Illinois and Florida. She is presently at work on a novel, "The City Wife."
Dr. Moore has taught literature and writing for 29 years. In 2011 she was honored with KCAI's Excellence in Teaching Award.
Michele Fricke, professor and program head of art history, teaches ancient and renaissance art and the history of textiles and ceramics. A practicing artist, Fricke creates fiber work that has been shown in exhibitions across the country and which is represented in many private collections. She has been published in Ceramics Monthly and Fiberarts and is a regular contributor to the Surface Design Journal. She also serves on the editorial board of that journal as well as the board of the Midwest Art History Society. Recent publications include the catalog for the "New Fiber" Exhibition, sponsored by the Fiber Art Network, and a review of the 2009 Surface Design Conference exhibitions for the German textile journal, Textilforum. She edited the books "Royal Nepal Through the Lens of Richard Gordon Matzene" and "Luba Agha: Pakistani Artist," as well as the exhibition catalog, "Modern Indian works on Paper," all written by Dr. Marcella Sirhandi of Oklahoma State University. Her current research involves an investigation of historical architecture, interpreted in knitted form.
Fricke received KCAI's "Excellence in Teaching Award" in 1993. She was the exhibition chair for the Surface Design Association's national conferences held in Kansas City in 2000 and 2003. She curated the exhibition "Material Evidence" for the Reed Whipple Cultural Center in Las Vegas and "Couplets: a Collaboration of Fiber Artists and Poets," shown at the Writer's Place in Kansas City. She has spoken at numerous venues including the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, the National Association of Colleges of Art and Design, a lecture series on the history of ceramics at the Red Star Studio in Kansas City and recently at Baylor University on "Fiber Art: The New Dynamism."
Before coming to KCAI in 1988, she taught at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill.; St. Mary's College in Notre Dame, Ind.; and the University of Nevada in Las Vegas. At the last two schools, she also served as the director of exhibitions. Fricke earned a B.S. degree in education, an M.A. degreei n art history and an M.F.A. degree in fiber from Northern Illinois University.
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Dr. Milton Katz teaches American studies; art, literature, and film of the Holocaust; and peace and conflict resolution.
He is the author of "Ban the Bomb: A History of SANE, the Committee for Sane Nuclear Policy," 1957-1985 (Greenwood Press, 1986); and more than two dozen articles, book chapters and reviews on peace and social justice issues in contemporary American history, most recently, "A History of the Kansas City Art Institute: A Century of Excellence and Beyond," 2005; "A Desperate Conversation: Art of the Holocaust," in "Teaching the Shoah in the Twenty - First Century," 2004; "Esther Brown: In Pursuit of Human Rights and Social Justice," in "John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History," 2006; and "Breaking Through: John B. McLendon, Basketball Legend and Civil Rights Pioneer" (University of Arkansas Press, 2007).
He consults, presents conflict management workshops and is a visiting professor at the Institute for Creative Conflict Management at Syracuse University. He worked with the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education in its "Witnesses to the Holocaust" project, is a member of its speakers bureau and served as its Vice President of Education. He has presented lectures on art of the Holocaust in educational and religious institutions and Holocaust museums throughout the U.S and Europe.
Dr. Katz has been the recipient of several grants and research awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Missouri Humanities Council, the Mellon Foundation, the Alliance of Independent Colleges of Art, the Kansas City Regional Council for Higher Education, a Fulbright-Hays Grant to study and research art of the Holocaust in Poland and the Czech Republic in the summer of 1996. In 1998, he received the KCAI Special Projects Award, in 2001, the college's Excellence in Teaching Award, and in 2007 the KCAI Distinguished Achievement Award.
A member of the KCAI faculty since 1974, and chair of the department from 1989 to 2000, Dr. Katz earned a bachelor's degree from Rockford College in Illinois and holds master's and Ph.D. degrees from St. Louis University.
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Rush Rankin, who joined the KCAI faculty in 1975, teaches creative writing, fiction, poetry and aesthetic philosophy.
Rankin earned a bachelor's degree from Duke University; an M.A.C.T. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; and an M.F.A. degree from the University of Iowa.
His book of poems, "The Failure of Grief," was published in 2000. Another book, a poetic essay on the philosophy of postmodernism, "The Postmodern Comedy," was published in 1993 by Aldus Press of Massachusetts.
He has published fiction, essays and poetry in magazines in the United States, France and England. His poetry essays and fiction have appeared in Antioch Review, Epoch, Pleiades, New Letters, Poetry Northwest, Paris Review, Stand and Another Chicago Magazine. His poems have been anthologized over the years in The Carnegie Mellon Anthology, Seneca Review Anthology, A to Z, Voices from the Interior and Spud Songs. His poetry was presented in a performance in 1988, titled "GLEE" after one of his poems, at the Theater for the New City, New York. As a tribute to his teaching, he was selected to the National Faculty of the Union of Independent Colleges of Art in 1980.
Rankin's story "Smart Men," which was published by TriQuarterly in 1982, was listed by "Best American Short Stories," 1983, as one of the "distinguished" stories of the year. His essay on the poet Louise Gluck, published in New Letters Review, was selected for inclusion in the anthology "Contemporary Literary Criticism," 1987-88. A work of aesthetic philosophy, called "In Theory," was published in January 2006 by Xenos Books with the collaboration of Chelsea Editions. Word Press also published Rankin's next collection of poems, called "Pascal's Other Wager," which appeared in December 2006. His book, "Bene-Dictions," selected by Rosanna Warren, won the Vassar Miller Prize and was published by UNT Press in 2003. Rankin's poetry has also been published in magazines in France and England, and in 2005 a translated chapter from "In Theory" appeared in Italy.Contact: 816-802-3375 or email: email@example.com
Hal Wert, professor of history, teaches the history of World War II, the Cold War and Modern Japanese Literature. He is the author of a number of scholarly articles of which the most recent is "Years of Frustration: Herbert Hoover and W.W.II," in "Uncommon Americans: the Lives and Legacies of Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover" (Greenwood Press, fall 2003). In January 2005 Stackpole Books published "Hoover the Fishing President: Portrait of the Private Man and His Life Outdoors." Forthcoming books include "Hoover, Roosevelt and the Specter of Starvation: American Aid for Europe 1939-41" and "Aiming at the Heart of America: The Relief Posters of World War II." In addition, Dr. Wert has written many book reviews published in the Journal of Military History and the Military Review. In 2006 he was a finalist for the William Rockhill Nelson Award for Literary Excellence, and his book on Hoover was chosen by The Kansas City Star as one of the 100 notable books of the year. He has appeared on C-Span's Book TV series "Public Lives," and in May 2007 he was interviewed on the C-Span Book TV Bus.
Professor Wert has had several travel and research grants from the Hoover, Roosevelt, and Truman Presidential Libraries; three Fulbright/Hays Group Project Awards to Eastern Europe; a Hoover Institution Summer Fellowship at Stanford University; an International Research Exchange Grant (IREX); a Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars grant as well as a Rockefeller Archives Center Research Grant. In 1999 Professor Wert was awarded the Kansas City Art Institute Excellence in Teaching Award and has been named four times to "Who's Who Among America's Teachers," 1994, 1998, 2000 and 2005. In December 2000 he was the recipient of the Missouri Governor's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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Reed Anderson, Ph.D., who holds a doctorate in American art from the University of Kansas, has taught a variety of classes since coming to KCAI in 2004, including "The Artist's Role in Society," "History of Prints and Printmaking," "History of Graphic Design," "Symbolist Art" and a seminar on outsider art.One of Dr. Anderson's areas of specialization is the history of prints and printmaking, which inspired the exhibition and catalog American Etchers Abroad, 1880-1939 (2004). Sponsored by the Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, the exhibition traveled to The Brandywine River Museum in Chadds Ford, Pa. last summer. Dr. Anderson has also curated two exhibitions devoted to Kansas City artist Arthur Kraft: "The Art and Words of Arthur Kraft" for the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Mo. (2002) and "Rediscovering Arthur Kraft" for the Carter Art Center at Penn Valley Community College, Kansas City, Mo. (2003). Dr. Anderson earned a Bachelor of Arts degree and a Master of Arts degree in art history from the University of Washington, Seattle. His dissertation for the Ph.D. degree is entitled "An Epic of the American Farm: James Chapin and the Marvin Paintings." Phone: 816-802-3341email: email@example.com
Steve Cromwell teaches history of photography, history of film, contemporary European art, Latino art of the 20th century, 19th century painting, aesthetics and art criticism, women in contemporary art, modern sculpture and American art since 1945.Formerly an exhibiting artist, Cromwell's mixed media photographic work has been shown in many solo, invitational, group and juried exhibitions throughout the United States. Solo exhibitions include: Sheldon Memorial Gallery of Art, University of Nebraska in Lincoln; Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City; and University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene. His photographs have been shown in the "New Photographic" competition exhibition. His works are in the collections of Mulvane Art Center, Mutual Benefit Life; University of Kansas Spooner-Thayner Museum of Art; University of Oklahoma Museum of Art; Denver Museum of Art; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; and the Cincinnati Museum of Art.Cromwell has been a visiting artist and lecturer for a number of special programs and colleges as well as a juror of art competitions and organizer of several exhibitions. He has served as photo editor of The Cottonwood Review literary magazine at the University of Kansas, and as editor of Words, a literary magazine at Kendall College. In 1978 he was program chair of the Society of Photographic Education's national conference.A member of the KCAI faculty since 1972, Cromwell holds bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Kansas.Contact: 816-802-3385 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Jan joined the liberal arts faculty at KCAI in 2006, previously working as a lecturer at KCAI and as an adjunct assistant professor at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan. Jan has taught a wide range of classes at KCAI, including "Asian Art Survey," "Japanese Art Survey," "Japanese Prints," "Spiritual Landscapes in Art," "Baroque Art," "Impressionism and Post-Impressionism," "Abstract Expressionism," "Art of Venice" and "Art of Zen."She received a B.A. in the history of art and English literature, an M.A. in the history of art and a Ph.D., all from the University of Kansas. Her major area for the Ph.D. was 17th Century Dutch and Flemish paintings and prints, and her minor areas were Venetian Cinquecento painting and Japanese painting of the Edo period. Her dissertation was "Images of the Soldier in 17th Century Dutch Art."Jan has won numerous awards and fellowships, including the Friends of the Mauritshuis Fellowship associated with the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague that allowed her to conduct research in the Netherlands. In 1997, she contributed writings for "Dutch Art: An Encyclopedia," edited by Sheila D. Muller and published by Garland Publishing. More recently, she was a keynote speaker presenting her current area of research on the Christian art of Japan.Jan is a member of the College Art Association, the Historians of Netherlandish Art and the Association for Asian Studies.Contact: 816-802-3372 or firstname.lastname@example.com
Anne Boyer is the author of a book of poetry, "The Romance of Happy Workers" (Coffee House 2008), and the forthcoming novel "JOAN." Her interests include small press and micro-publishing, and she has published many smaller works and chapbooks of poetry and prose, including "Anne Boyer's Good Apocalypse" (Effing Press, Austin, 2006), "Selected Dreams with a Note on Phrenology" (Dusie Collectiv, Switzerland, 2007) and a book of conceptual work, "Art is War" (Mitzvah, Lawrence, 2008). Other forthcoming works include the cyber-opera "The 2000s" and a narrative based on Google Earth called "My Time on Earth."
Cyrus Console Soican holds a B.S. degree in organismal biology from the University of Kansas, an M.F.A. degree in writing from the Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts at Bard College and a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing from the University of Kansas, where his poetry won the William Herbert Carruth Prize, the Victor Contoski Prize and the Ana Damjanov Prize. He is the author of "Brief Under Water" (Burning Deck, 2008), for which he received a Fund for Poetry award, and "The Odicy" (Omnidawn, forthcoming 2011). Recent poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Critical Quarterly, Lana Turner: A Journal of Poetry and Opinion, Seattle Review and No: a journal of the arts, where he served as contributing editor 2002-2009.
Shelly Cline, who teaches in the KCAI liberal arts department, is a Ph.D. Candidate in the department of history at the University of Kansas. Her dissertation focuses on the SS Aufseherinnen in theconcentration camp system and the role of ordinary women in the Holocaust. Her research has been supported by grants from the University of Kansas and the Universität Hamburg. Cline was an instructor in KU's Humanities and Western Civilization program and their Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies department, teaching courses in Western Civilization, modern Europe, antisemitism and gender in the Holocaust. She has received awards for teaching and for the instruction of writing. Cline joined the KCAI faculty in 2012.
Erin Dahl finished her master's degree in the history of art at the University of Kansas in 2009. Prior to receiving her B.F.A. degree in fiber and art history from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2007, she spent a fruitful summer studying painting and art history at Maryland Institute College of Art. Her studio background in printmaking, painting and fiber adds a further dimension of understanding to her academic interests, which include political art, feminism and material and cultural studies. In addition to reading, Dahl enjoys foreign films and all things involving food: cooking, baking and, most important, eating.
Deborah Dickson has a dozen years of teaching experience and has taught at the Kansas City Art Institute since 1999. She earned her Bachelor of Science in biology and, in 1997, a Master of Arts in art history at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Her thesis, "Modifications and Dynamics in Sacred Senufo Storehouse Shrines," was based on a study abroad program in the Ivory Coast of West Africa.
In the last decade, she has published more than 100 art museum and gallery exhibition reviews in the local publications The Pitch and Review. Her curatorial experience includes curating "Off The Wall," an art exhibition at Arts Incubator benefiting a local nonprofit (2008), "So Near and Yet So Foreign: Sculptures by Cuban artist Rafael Perez" at Fahrenheit Gallery (2000) and co-curated "Simulation: Group Show in Multimedia by Local Artists" at Stocksdale Gallery at William Jewell College (2001). As a co-juror, she selected work for the 2nd Annual Grand Nude Show for the Hobbs Building Art Gallery (2001). As the tour guide for the Hall family collection of African art, she has given multiple talks to many museum groups and private collectors from around the country. She was a member of the selection committee for the Business Arts Awards sponsored by the Metropolitan Arts Council of Kansas City (2004) and was chosen to participate on a four-person panel on "Writing About Art" at the Writer's Place (2001).
Dickson has visited museums and galleries around the world, having traveled to 16 countries on four continents including Europe and the United Kingdom, West Africa, South America, Jamaica and Cuba. Her courses at KCAI include "Western Art I," "Western Art II," "Introduction to Art and Performance of African, Oceanic and New World Cultures," "Introduction to African Art," "Art and Performance of the African Diaspora," "Introduction to the Art of the Americas" and "Clay in Africa and the Americas."
Anton Jacobs, a lecturer in the School of Liberal Arts, received his B.A. degree from the University of Missouri; M.Div. degree from Eden Theological Seminary; M.A. degree from the University of Louisville; and Ph.D. degree from the University of Notre Dame. He has worked as a car hop, truck driver, freelance writer, teacher, newspaper editor, college administrator and pastor and has taught in various colleges and universities in addition to KCAI.
He has published articles in social theory, sociology of religion, the political imagination in literature and urban history; written a neighborhood newspaper column for several years on the interface between religious faith and culture; and co-translated (with Anthony Blasi and Mathew Kanjirathinkal) Georg Simmel's "Sociology: Inquiries into the Construction of Social Forms" (Brill). His book "Religion and the Critical Mind" (Lexington Books) is scheduled for publication in October 2010.
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Eleanor Lim-Midyett, Ph.D., has taught at the Kansas City Art Institute since 1994. She received a B.A. degree in English literature from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in East Asian languages and literature from Yale University in New Haven, Conn. She presented a paper entitled ""Paradise Within Paradise Lost: Tragic Affirmations of Human Passion in Bai Xianyong's Niezi" at the Conference on "The Erotic in Chinese Culture" at the Annual Meeting of the South Atlantic Modern Languages Association. She was a senior contributor to "Eastern Standard Time: A Guide to Asian Influence on American Culture." She was also a writer for AMagazine: Inside Asian America. She has taught a wide range of classes in the School of Liberal Arts at KCAI, including "Modern Chinese History," "Modern Chinese Fiction in Translation," "Topics in Global and Comparative Studies: The Asian American Experience," "Topics in Gender Studies: Constructing the Woman Warrior," as well as Western Thought I and II.
Alison Miller holds M.A. degrees in asian art history and museum studies from the University of Kansas. She is currently a doctoral candidate at KU, specializing in modern and contemporary Japanese art with additional research specializations in contemporary transnational art and Buddhist art. She also holds B.A. degrees in art history and anthropology from Northern Illinois University, and she spent a year at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies in Yokohama, Japan.
Miller's teaching focuses on Japanese art with additional courses addressing gender in Japanese art, text and image, museum studies, Buddhist art and the arts of Asia. Her dissertation examines images of the Japanese Empress Teimei (1884-1952) and how print and photographic images of the Empress impacted the construction of ideas about modern middle and upper class femininity in the early decades of the twentieth century. She has worked, studied and conducted research in Japan – most recently on a year-long Fulbright fellowship. Miller has presented her research in English and Japanese at conferences and research forums in the United States and Japan, and she has published on both Japanese art and museum studies. In addition to her work at KCAI, she has over five years of professional museum experience and four years of teaching at the University of Kansas. In her free time she enjoys hiking, gardening, cooking, skiing and traveling.
Paula Rose, a lecturer in the School of Liberal Arts, has a master's degree in art history from the University of Kansas and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in painting and art history from KCAI. Her areas of specialization include modern and contemporary art, popular culture and feminist art and theory. She has been teaching at KCAI since 2008. She also teaches online through the Metropolitan Community Colleges in Kansas City and does visual merchandising for JC Penney. She enjoys the colorful jazz, cuisine and history of Kansas City.
Jordan Stempleman is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop where he was a Leggett Schupes Fellow in Poetry. He is the author of six books of poetry: "Their Fields" (Moria, 2005), "What's the Matter" (Otoliths, 2007), "Facings "(Otoliths, 2007), "The Travels" (Otoliths, 2008) "String Parade" (BlazeVOX, 2008) and "Doubled Over" (BlazeVOX, 2009). He is also associate editor of The Continental Review, a video-only forum for contemporary poetry and poetics.
An alumna and former coordinator of the Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme, Tracie Whiting Kipper formerly served as an economic analyst with the Consulate General of Japan in Kansas City. She has taught Japanese through the Communiversity program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. She has lived in Japan, offers Japanese-English translation services and provides her students with insights into Japanese customs and culture as well as instruction in Japanese language.
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The administration of Gov. Bill Haslam has told IT workers statewide to submit applications if they want to keep the jobs they currently fill.
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5 Stocks Pushing The Health Care Sector Lower
Editor's Note: TheStreet ratings do not represent the views of TheStreet's staff or its contributors. Ratings are established by computer based on metrics for performance (which includes growth, stock performance, efficiency and valuation) and risk (volatility and solvency). Companies with poor cash flow or high debt levels tend to earn lower ratings in our modelOne out of the three major indices are trading lower today with the Dow Jones Industrial Average (^DJI) trading up 35 points (0.3%) at 14,006 as of Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, 12:05 PM ET. The NYSE advances/declines ratio sits at 1,786 issues advancing vs. 1,060 declining with 154 unchanged.The Health Care sector currently sits up 0.2% versus the S&P 500, which is up 0.1%.TheStreet Ratings group would like to highlight 5 stocks pushing the sector lower today:5. Alexion Pharmaceuticals (ALXN) is one of the companies pushing the Health Care sector lower today. As of noon trading, Alexion Pharmaceuticals is down $1.10 (-1.2%) to $91.20 on average volume Thus far, 910,435 shares of Alexion Pharmaceuticals exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.3 million shares. The stock has ranged in price between $91.09-$92.43 after having opened the day at $92.34 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $92.30. Alexion Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of biologic therapeutic products in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Japan, and the Asia Pacific. Alexion Pharmaceuticals has a market cap of $18.2 billion and is part of the drugs industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 82.9, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are down 0.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 15 analysts that rate Alexion Pharmaceuticals a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 5 rate it a hold.TheStreet Ratings rates Alexion Pharmaceuticals as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, expanding profit margins, good cash flow from operations and impressive record of earnings per share growth. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat disappointing return on equity. Get the full Alexion Pharmaceuticals Ratings Report now.It's Official: Action Alerts PLUS beats the S&P 500 with Dividends Reinvested! Cramer and Link were up 16.72% in 2012. Were you? See what they are trading for 14-days FREE
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Students applying to these programs are also required to submit the Queen's Multifaculty Exchange Programs Application Form (see link to on-line form below) and supporting documents in order to be considered for these exchange programs. Once received, the exchange program applications will be forwarded to the appropriate faculty exchange coordinator for review and nomination. All successful candidates will be forwarded to the International Programs Office for final review and nomination to the appropriate consortial exchange program.
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What to watch in August 2013?
If you frequent any MMA sites you likely know about the UFC's inclusion of the 135 pound bantamweight division and the rise of all-female promotion, Invicta FC. However, it seems a lot of people know only a few names in WMMA. Ronda Rousey, Miesha Tate, Cris Cyborg are names that often come up. Maybe some know pioneers, like Marloes Coenen or Megumi Fujii. However, other than a handful of names the vast majority of WMMA is not followed or unknown.
This write up is my attempt to separate the relevant and the not so relevant in WMMA. Because, in my honest MMA watching opinion, there are 5 weight classes of relevancy in WMMA that should be more known and I feel not watching WMMA is akin to a tennis fan that only watches the men. The depth is definitely still developing, but talent is there.
There are a few people in the MMA community that do a big part in contributing to the WMMA scene (MMArising.com/Robert Sergent, WombatSports, WMMAToday etc), but it's information overload. Even when a popular site like MMAjunkie puts out a monthly WMMA report, I feel, it doesn't help the casual, just starting out, WMMA watcher to know what to watch or who to watch.
My plan is to put one of these out every month or so…
There are all fights I definitely would be keeping tabs on
First Edition: August
Aug. 3 – UFC 163
135lbs Bantamweight
Amanda Nunes (7-3) vs. Sheila Gaff (10-5-1)
Both fighters are coming off a loss against superior grapplers. The 25 year old, Nunes, makes her UFC debut against 23 year old, Gaff, who lost her debut against Sara McMann. Gaff was obliterating her European competition at 125lbs, knocking out Invicta fighters, Aisling Daly and Jennifer Maia, before moving up to fight at 135. While Nunes actually has success at 145lbs scoring knockouts over Invicta fighters, Ediane Gomes and Julia Budd. This should be an interesting striking battle as it is rare to have two WMMA fighters that have knockout power fight. Also, the winner becomes one of few women to earn a victory in the UFC.
Here's an Amanda Nunes highlight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ys3ELmbf4FM
Aug.9 Pacific Xtreme Combat 38
115lbs Strawweight
Kailin Curran (1-0) vs. Emi Tomimatsu
Curran, 22, returns to Filipino and Guamanian promotion "PXC" for her 2ndprofessional fight. In her first bout, she took on Invicta vet, Kaiyana Rain, winning a very entertaining decision. Curran has a long range striking style throwing lots of straight punches, nice combinations with pin point point ground and pound. Tomimatsu has lost her last two fights, and this is me speculating, but I think she was brought in to lose and because of her looks.
Kailin Curran
Emi Tomimatsu
and some gifs from Kailin's fight with Kaiyana Rain
Aug.10 – Nitrix Champion Fight 15
115lbs Strawweight
Kinberly Novaes (6-2) vs. Jessica Suelen
Novaes is one of the best up and coming fighters at 115 pounds. Creative combos, mixing in punches, elbows, knees… the full Muay Thai repertoire. She hit a speed bump in her latest fight against Herica Tiburcio, who was able to expose Novaes' still developing ground game. She is an exciting volume striker and if she was competing in Invicta would get the hype of a Rose Namajunas or Tecia Torres.
Kinberly Novaes
Aug. 28 – UFC Fight Night 27 (on Fox Sports 1)
135lbs Bantamweight
Sara McMann (7-0) vs. Sarah Kaufman (16-2)
Two of bantamweights finest competitors. McMann crushed Sheila Gaff in her debut, and Kaufman is coming off a close split decision over Leslie Smith in Invicta. This is a strange fight. If Kaufman wins she kills off McMann's undefeated momentum, and takes off the luster of a potential "undefeated vs. undefeated/Olympian vs. Olympian" match with Ronda. At the same time Kaufman was steamrolled by Ronda and is not marketable at all. This is a huge test in McMann's development.
Aug. 31 – DEEP JEWELS 1
105lbs Atomweight
Celine Haga (5-11) vs. Sadae Numata (4-1-1)
The Norway based, Haga, has seen a career resurgence over the last year seeing her pick up 4 straight wins including one over one-time Invicta atomweight title challenger and Jewels atomweight champ,Naho Sugiyama, at 115lbs. Haga was 1-11 before that streak and has found new life at 105lbs. She fights Numata, a 41 year old, that burst onto the JWMMA scene in 2012. Fun fact: Celine Haga is dating Shooto, Pride, Dream etc etc veteran, a true veteran, Joachim "Hellboy" Hansen.
125 - Rhiannon Thompson/Kenani Mangakahia - FWC 15 - Aug. 3
Thompson is an Australian standout with her most notable victory being an out-of-nowhere headkick knockout of fan favorite, Bec Hyatt. Thompson looks to improve to 4-0.
125 - Justine Kish/Christine Stanley - RFA 9 - Aug. 16
Kish is Muay Thai Champion, last competing in MMA in 2010 with a win over Bellator fighter Munah Holland. She has been training with some Blackhouse fighters, such as Jessica Penne and Lyoto Machida.
140 - Pannie Kianzad/Milana Dudieva - Pro FC 50 - Aug. 25
Kianzad is a 3-0 Featherweight fighter, and in the extremely shallow 145 division she has made her way on to a few top 10 rankings. Dudieva was last seen losing out to eventual UFC fighter, Jessica Andrade.
135 - Agniezka Niedzwiedz/LJ Adams - Immortal Fight Promotions 1 - Aug. 31
Only 18 years old, Niedzwiedz, has racked up a 3-0 record in her native Poland all by way of TKO. She is still very unpolished in her striking, but she's only 18.
This is my first time doing something like this, so please let me know what can be improved on or if people even give half a titty about WMMA other than Ronda and pics of Gina Carano


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The Detroit Red Wings are looking for a split of the season series against the Los Angeles Kings in Detroit. The Red Wings and Kings met 10 days ago which saw the Red Wings get out to a 7-1 lead before defeating the Kings 7-4 on February 28th. The Kings are hanging on to the eighth spot in the Western Conference as they are tied with the Minnesota Wild at 77 points and the Nashville Predators are one point behind and the Anaheim Ducks are two points behind.
The Kings are 7-1-3 in their last 11 road games and have beaten the Red Wings once already this season at the Joe Louis Arena. Anze Kopitar has had a great season against the Red Wings with three goals and three assists in three games this season. Jonathan Quick is expected to get the start against the Red Wings and is 4-6 with a 3.07 goals against average and .907 save percentage in his career against the Red Wings.
On the Detroit side of the puck, the Red Wings have made their way to the top of the Central Division with a six point lead over the Chicago Blackhawks. The Red Wings have struggled at home as of late, going 7-9-2 in their last eighteen games at home. Jimmy Howard will be in net for the Red Wings, going 1-1 with a 4.50 goals against average and .862 save percentage this season against the Kings.
The puck drops at 7:30 pm Eastern and for more information on this game, please visit our Red Wings site, Winging It In Motown, and our Kings site, Jewels From The Crown.