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Twenty-three institutions from across all sectors of higher education comprise the Core Commitments Leadership Consortium, which was designed to bring together the most promising institutional practices related to educating students for personal and social responsibility as well as to deepen and extend these efforts.
Through a culture of cooperation, Allegheny offers a variety of programs and innovative centers that support its vision of undergraduate learning rooted in academic rigor, civic engagement, and the development of integrity. During their participation in the first phase of the Core Commitments project, Allegheny used small group dialogues to identify opportunities for expanding, enhancing, and integrating personal and social responsibility initiatives on campus and with community partners. Additionally, five Civic Engagement Student Fellows collaborated with the project team to engage their peers in examining the dynamics of personal and social integrity and responsible citizenship. To learn more: Civic Engagement at Allegheny.
Babson College provides a different kind of education—a dynamic living and learning experience where future leaders are immersed in business studies while engaging in entrepreneurial thought and action. Babson shapes the leaders our world needs most: those who can envision and navigate change, understand global perspectives, and motivate teams in a common purpose to create economic and social value. The students, faculty, and staff work together to address real-world problems and make a difference in the world. During their participation in the first phase of Core Commitments, Babson created a committee to better integrate and coordinate all of the College's efforts related to personal and social responsibility, to further student connection to nonprofit partners, to foster dialogue on respect for others and embracing diverse perspectives, and to develop materials to integrate personal and social responsibility into curricular and cocurricular activities. To learn more: Babson College Newsroom: Core Commitments
Bowling Green State University is committed to its vision of educating students to make thoughtful judgments about moral and ethical issues, engage in the community, and become responsible citizens. Their efforts revolve around a values initiative, the "BGeXperience," and an engagement initiative which focuses on community involvement and service learning. Established in 2002, the "BGeXperience" introduces all first year students to critical thinking about values through focused academic experiences. Participation in Core Commitments expanded the "BGeXperience," further intergrating these programs into curricula and co-curricular activities, cultivating cooperation between students and academic affairs, and creating new courses and learning opportunities.
California State University, Northridge (CSUN)
is a large, comprehensive, public, commuter university with close to 35,000 students.
In order to reach the greatest number of students, the CSUN Core Commitment team focused on infusing education for personal and social responsibility throughout the writing programs and Freshman Seminars which nearly all incoming first-year students encounter. At CSUN, first-year writing is generally distributed between the Asian American Studies, Chicano/a Studies, English, Humanities, and Pan-African Studies departments. CSUN aimed to bridge the gaps between isolated pockets by strengthening cross-divisional relationships; developing a common language for communicating the shared values; and building an infrastructure for organizing programs that span academic departments, administrative units, and student affairs. To learn more: http://www.csun.edu/.
In 2007, Concordia adopted a new core curriculum for the first time in thirty years. The theme of the new core, Becoming Responsibly Engaged in the World, illustrates the strong connection between Concordia's vision and AAC&U's five dimensions of personal and social responsibility. During their participation in the Core Commitments Leadership Consortium, Concordia aimed to bridge the gap between vision and practice by forming a broad-based task force to evaluate the implementation and assessment of the new core. Additionally, academic and student affairs collaborated by expanding the LeadNow program which promotes student leadership and service while fostering intercultural awareness. Finally, Concordia worked to strengthen its efforts to holistically teach and mentor students by addressing transitional issues, coordinating student service efforts, and initiating campus-wide discussions about student learning and student life.
Molded by the mission of "Educate for Service," Elizabethtown College emphasizes relationship-centered and experiential learning as well as international and cross-cultural understanding. The Strategic Vision of the college calls for renewed efforts to prepare students for lives of purpose as citizens, leaders, and professionals. Elizabethtown's participation in the Core Commitments initiative facilitated the implementation of the Strategic Vision, particularly the following four major accomplishments: (1) Capacity building for an integrated learning model and the development of institutional language for Purposeful Life Work; (2) A new course on global ethics; (3) A new model for the First Year Colloquium course was developed and piloted; (4) Proposed model for LifeMAP. To learn more: http://www.etown.edu/.
In 2005, the Miami University administration formed a committee to assess and improve the state of academic integrity on campus. After participating in a national survey, conducting focus groups, and reviewing scholarly literature, the committee recommended strengthening the ways in which the university communicates its expectations of academic integrity. As part of the Core Commitments initiative, Miami University developed an online learning module focusing on academic integrity and ethical use of intellectual property. Satisfactory participation in this module was required for all first-year students. This project, Be Miami: An Infrastructure for Cultivating a Responsible and Intellectual College Life, enhanced the university's ability to foster the practice of integrity in the personal and academic lives of students. To learn more: First in 2009 Academic Integrity Subcommittee: Final Report
Prior to their involvement in Core Commitments, Michigan State University (MSU) was identified by the new Carnegie Classification system as an "engaged university." Through the Core Commitments project, MSU launched a collaborative campus dialogue based on the historic Chautauqua Institution, which became the model for building a culture of responsibility within the residential programs and eventually the larger university community. These dialogues among faculty, students, staff, and guests explore personal, social, and institutional responsibility within issues such as environmental change, the political process, social justice, war and peace, and artistic freedom of expression. One of MSU's goals in this project was to develop team-taught courses that address the larger subject of responsibility through new service learning, field experience, internship, civic engagement, and study abroad or away programs. This work included a trans-residential college capstone course which will mix students from different programs to study the multi-dimensionality of professional and civic responsibility.
Middlesex Community College (MCC) is one of the largest community colleges in Massachusetts. As both an effective learning strategy and a community development instrument, MCC's service learning program, Contributing to a Larger Community, involves more than 600 students each year. Through MCC's Intensive Values course requirements and redefined learning outcome goals, students develop ethical and moral reasoning. Through participation in the Core Commitments program, MCC worked to establish a leadership team to foster a national dialogue to share and improve existing initiatives. Middlesex Community College piloted two integrated learning communities to study personal and social responsibility from a thematic perspective. To foster a campus climate that is supportive and respectful of diversity, MCC held frequent open dialogues across the college community and implemented a program that recognizes faculty, staff and students who demonstrate social and personal responsibility. To learn more: Middlesex: Core Commitment
Serving nearly 47,000 students on five campuses, Oakland Community College is the largest community college in Michigan. Since one-third of U.S. automotive manufacturing occurs within 70 miles of the county, the college is uniquely positioned to observe the effects of outsourcing, globalization, and economic uncertainty and realize its vision of an ethical, responsible citizenry. To accommodate the community's needs, OCC's Workforce Development unit has established several programs to provide job skills training to disadvantaged or displaced populations. During its participation in the Core Commitments Initiative, OCC expanded and nurtured a culture of personal and social responsibility through consensus-building among the faculty to define the nature and applicability of civic responsibility within the existing curriculum. To refine the assessment instruments for these goals, Oakland revised and improved their existing rubric for personal and social responsibility. These results, coupled with the input from other consortium members facilitated identification and improvement of Oakland's current initiatives.
The motto of Portland State University (PSU) is "Let Knowledge Serve the City." As this motto implies, personal and social responsibility are at the core of the institution's values. PSU is nationally recognized as a leader in general education reform, community-based learning, and civic engagement. Through participation in Core Commitments, the university targeted deficiencies at the junior level of the general education program and cultivated new relationships between faculty and student affairs professionals. Expansion of the Academic Innovation Mini-Grant (AIM), a faculty/staff learning community model for professional development, explicitly addressed the five dimensions of student personal and social responsibility. To learn more: Portland State University Center for Academic Excellence
As reflected in Rollins' quality enhancement plan (QEP) and mission, "educating for global citizenship and responsible leadership," Rollins College has been deeply committed to the Core Commitments goals. In addition to having a successful community engagement program and a "values and decision-making" required course for over twenty-five years, Rollins College wanted to expand the effectiveness and scope of its mission to educate for global citizenship and responsible leadership. During the Core Commitments initiative, Rollins 1) drafted a new Social Honor Code; 2) established a new Cultural Explorations graduation requirement; 3) launched the Purposeful Life program which encourages upperclassmen to define the important values and articulate their life goals, and 4) provided a full-time director to head the connect Greek life initiatives with a campus climate of personal responsibility.
Rooted in the Catholic intellectual tradition, Sacred Heart University is a co-educational, comprehensive liberal arts institution,which has worked steadily to educate men and women while instilling faith, compassion, social and ethical responsibility, and global awareness. This vision for undergraduate learning is imprinted in the university's mission statement and expressed in the newly designed core curriculum, Common Core: The Human Journey. Through Core Commitments, Sacred Heart University extended its vision for undergraduate learning by developing and implementing a university infrastructure and culture that connects the core curriculum and student life more broadly. Beginning with the University's living-learning community, the five dimensions of personal and social responsibility were integrated into the curriculum and co-curriculum across the university.
Saint Anselm College's campus-wide initiative, Learning Liberty, began in the fall of 2003 and reinvigorated the school's mission as a Catholic liberal arts college in the Benedictine tradition. It was conceived as a response to a political and moral concern for the education of engaged citizens and an intellectual and spiritual concern for developing the curiosity and understanding that constitute liberty of the mind. Participation in Core Commitments addressed these concerns via three approaches. First, the goals for Curriculum and Pedagogy included a week-long, interdisciplinary faculty seminar on curricular changes as well as presentations on education, liberty, and civic life. Second, goals for Campus Life and Engagement included promoting Benedictine stewardship of the environment, incorporating academic and service components into student-led communities, and inviting students to organize Civic Engagement Workshops led by campus and community leaders. Third, goals for Student Voice included establishing essay contests focusing on the intersection of politics and higher learning, creating a student-administered honor code, and establishing a Special Assembly Forum for students, faculty, and staff to discuss immediate and significant events.
Saint Mary's College of California is a Catholic liberal arts college and a Lasallian Christian Brothers institution founded in the tradition of the patron saint of teachers, Saint John Baptist De La Salle. As reflected in the mission statement, "a distinctive mark of a Lasallian school is its awareness of the consequences of economic and social injustice and its commitment to the poor," Saint Mary's aim is "to create a student-centered educational community whose members support one another with mutual understanding and respect." During their involvement in Core Commitments, Saint Mary's worked on three levels to improve campus-wide infrastructure: Community Leadership/Student Engagement, Curriculum Development, and New Institutional Strategies and Assessment. Community Leadership/Student Engagement engaged students in campus-wide dialogue on social and civic responsibility. Based on these dialogues and the goals they outline, these dialogues supported student-driven action plans. Curriculum Development expanded existing social justice/community involvement programs across the curriculum and offered incentives for faculty to add social justice content to their courses in disciplines where such content is underrepresented.
St. Lawrence University's commitment to the development of students' personal and social responsibilities is embodied through their strong programs in global and intercultural studies, residential education, civic engagement, and leadership. Through the Core Commitments initiative, however, St. Lawrence sought to foster greater attention to values and to civic responsibilities for active participation in social change. Through a new center for diversity and social justice, St. Lawrence planned to bridge the divide between academic and student affairs by integrating multicultural initiatives and education for citizenship, leadership, and democracy.
The university offered three community-wide deliberative dialogues consisting of a series of sessions over the course of one semester. These would help to assess how well St. Lawrence's mission espouses engagement with issues of personal and social responsibility, as well as fostering a plural democratic praxis. To learn more: Core Commitments at St. Lawrence University
Fundamental to life at the United States Air Force Academy are the Air Force core values of "integrity first," "service before self," and "excellence in all we do." These values are remarkably similar to the first three Core Commitments dimensions of personal and social responsibility. Through its participation in this initiative, USAFA completed a comprehensive revision of its institutional learning outcomes, including several that are well-aligned with the remaining Core Commitments dimensions of "Taking seriously the perspectives of others" and "Ethical reasoning and action." In order to promote the development of responsibility outcomes, USAFA formed interdisciplinary "outcome teams" for each outcome. Each team consists of faculty and staff from the core courses and programs (i.e., those in which all cadets participate) that have agreed to take primary responsibility for that outcome. The Academy has also created the "Center for Character & Leadership Development," which advances the understanding, practice, and integration of character and leadership programs, and serves as a visible manifestation of USAFA's commitment to character and leadership.
The mission of the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point is "to educate, train, and inspire the Corps of Cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of Duty, Honor, Country and prepared for a career of professional excellence and service to the Nation as an officer in the United States Army." During the Core Commitments initiative, USMA's cadet development model, the Cadet Leader Development System (CLDS), became an integral part of the USMA's efforts to further integrate personal and social responsibility with the academy's curriculum. Using the AAC&U 2008 Greater Expectations Summer Institute as an opportunity to allow members of the CLDS Committee offsite time to collaborate on their efforts, USMA synchronized the work of the domain teams, further integrated curricular experiences across the six domains, developed a comprehensive plan for the assessment of the CLDS domains, improved linkages for faculty development opportunities and rewards to CLDS, examined cadets' opportunities for self-reflection within the context of CLDS, and established community and campus partnerships that underscore curricular activities.
In 2007, the Ford Foundation awarded the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) a Difficult Dialogues grant. The award recognized that the quality enhancement plan (QEP) that UAB developed for its Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) reaccreditation is a comprehensive and effective program that integrates academic instruction with diversity, respect for others, responsible dialogue, and ethical behavior. UAB continued this work during the Core Commitments initiative as academic affairs and student affairs collaborated to implement a two-part freshman experience that introduces thinking, learning, dialoguing, and decision-making skills: the UAB Discussion Book initiative and the freshman learning communities. Additionally, cumulative instruction and progressively challenging experiences in personal and social responsibility were integrated into mid-level classes and new capstone courses across every department.
University of Central Florida (UCF), a metropolitan research university with more than 47,000 students, demonstrates significant activity in the five dimensions of personal and social responsibility. During the Core Commitments initiative, UCF's development goals involved creating innovative research initiatives to teach ethical principles and study ethical decision-making in Interactive Performance Lab (IPL)/Story Box scenarios; creating department/college-level ethics task force committees to complement the university ethics task force;, offering faculty development seminars to create course content; extending their existing academic integrity seminar as a strategy to enhance and encourage academic honesty among students; and expanding student participation in "ethics bowl" competitions in on-campus and regional venues to enhance and improve ethics education for personal and social responsibility. To learn more: Core Commitments at the University of Central Florida
Enrolling only 6,300 students, University of the Pacific is a doctoral university composed of nine Schools across three campuses in Northern California. Pacific's strategic plan Pacific Rising 2008-2015 reflects a fundamental commitment to promoting the goals of personal and social responsibility (PSR). Three of the six core values at Pacific are whole person education, responsible leadership, and community engagement. In the context of Pacific Rising and the Core Commitments initiative, Pacific is promoting PSR through its three required academic seminars in the general education program on the theme "What is a Good Society?"; through learning experiences that integrate development of emotional and social competencies into the curriculum, co-curriculum, and admissions; through an expanded role for peer advisors for first-year students; and through early exposures to institutional values of integrity and inclusiveness.
Wagner College emphasizes scholarship, achievement, leadership, and citizenship to accomplish its mission of preparing students for a meaningful life with successful careers. To facilitate experimental learning and civic engagement, they developed innovative programs such as the Wagner Plan and Civic Innovations. The AAC&U Core Commitments initiative provided an opportunity for Wagner focus on deepening students' personal and social responsibility through three approaches: Civic Innovations' Community-Connected Departments; Essential Co-Curricular Competencies; and the Emerging Leadership Conference. To measure their awareness of and commitment to personal and social responsibility, students in the Civic Innovations Initiative "Community Connected Department" courses completed two free writes with guided questions. Additionally, every Wagner student is now required to choose 2 of 7 identified core competencies that must be met by graduation through public presentation, writing, or project work. Each competency will have criteria and a rubric by which they can be peer reviewed.
Founded as a teacher preparation institution for women in 1886, Winthrop has since become a diverse, coeducational university committed to a liberal arts tradition that provides national caliber professional education and develops leadership and civic responsibility. Minorities constitute twenty-seven percent of Winthrop's student body, and among similar institutions, the university has one of the highest six-year graduation rates for African American males. As part of the Core Commitments Leadership Consortium, Winthrop infused the five dimensions of personal and social responsibility (PSR) throughout their signature Touchstone program by including them in the training for three of the four Touchstone courses. To build assessments of personal and social responsibility into all program assessment strategies, the university worked with faculty to modify existing programs. Wintrhop's long-term goal is to develop a center for ethical leadership which reflects the five dimensions of PSR. To learn more: Core Commitments at Winthrop University


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NAPA — North Coast wineries and grape growers are bullish on the future following a strong harvest in 2012 and an improving economy that has given Americans more time and money to spend on wine.
"The mood right now is much more positive than it has been in the past five years," Robert Smiley, director of wine at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, told 280 winery executives, growers and lenders Tuesday at the annual Wine Industry Financial Symposium.
Wineries are planting new vineyards and signing long-term contracts with growers to ensure they have access to grapes. But vineyard expansion in California is not expected to keep up with demand, which could eventually pose a threat to grape growers as imports capture an increasing share of the U.S. wine market, several speakers said.
In Napa County, most new vineyards are being planted with cabernet sauvignon grapes, said Tony Correia, founder of Correia-Xavier Inc., a vineyard appraisal firm with offices in Sonoma and Fresno. But in Sonoma County, "pinot noir is driving the bus," Correia said.
The value of the county's pinot crop has soared over the last 15 years, from less than $20 million in 1998 to a record $160 million last year, Correia said.
"Sonoma County pinot noir is another extraordinary growth story," Correia said.
Pinot vineyard acreage nearly tripled in Sonoma County during the same period, surpassing 12,000 acres last year. But the varietal remains in high demand, said Steve Fredricks, president of Turrentine Wine Brokerage.
"Pinot noir still hasn't reached its market saturation point yet," Fredricks said.
Demand for premium wines has allowed North Coast vintners to boost production and raise prices concurrently over the last decade.
"The volume has increased significantly, 40 percent, over the last 10 years, but even more important than that, the value of the wine being sold has increased by 60 percent," said Hugh Reimers, chief operating officer of Jackson Family Wines. "A lot of positive signs for the U.S. wine market."


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Runners laced up their sneakers Sunday for more than just a little exercise.
An annual Michiana race, has new meaning just six days after the Boston Marathon bombings.
Father Ted's 5 and 10k was held on Notre Dame's Campus and runners say they ran for Boston.
The event raises money for scholarships for Michiana students.
"It's a wonderful way for the community to come out and support Trio programs and support local students," says race director, Melissa Lindley.
But this year it did much more, it honored Boston after the tragic events there this past week.
"People want to do something, maybe they can't go there to help out themselves, they can't donate but they know they can at least show their support by showing up and running an event," says Lindley.
Judy Lee ran the Boston Marathon in 2005 and was shocked by the events at the race this year.
"First it was unbelievable and then I got very sad and then I got mad that this would happen to such healthy, strong people," says Lee.
She says the bombings don't scare runners, in fact they'll only make the marathon stronger.
"The runners have such fortitude and they're gonna get back," Lee.
Lindley agrees, "It does make it even stronger, it's made people want to do it more."
"Everyone became unified behind Boston and running," says Olivia Fernandez who ran in Father Ted's 5 and 10k.
It's not just the Boston Marathon that will get stronger, runners say they'll be showing up to every race.
"I think the running community is a really strong community," says Fernandez.
Lee says "We're resilient, we believe in this, this is our passion."
Runners will have another chance to show their support for Boston Monday, April 22nd.
Sunset Coast Striders is hosting a 2.62 mile walk and run in St. Joseph to honor Boston. It all starts at 6:30 p.m. at the Veranda at the Whitcomb.
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JU has won two straight on the road following an 83-80 win at ETSU on Thursday. Keith McDougald scored game high 23 points, including 15 in the second half. The junior guard also added four steals and three assists in the game. During A-Sun play he ranks 13th in the league with 14.9 ppg and third with 2.0 apg.
Junior Javon Dawson lived up to his A-Sun Newcomer of the Week Award adding 16 points and six rebounds off the bench. Dawson scored six of JU's final eight points in the last 80 seconds of play on Thursday to help seal the win. Junior forward Dylan Fritsch added 17 points off the bench while shooting 5-7 from three. As a group, the Dolphins bench accounted for 40 points and is averaging 32.5 points in the last two games.
USC Upstate is coming off a 63-57 win over North Florida on Thursday. Led by 2012 A-Sun Player of the Year Torrey Craig, the Spartans are 5-2 at home this season. Craig is averaging 17.1 points and 6.4 rebounds.
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NEWPORT (WATE) -- Cocke County authorities searched the French Broad River Monday for a missing 19-year-old woman whose car was found destroyed by a fire.
Megan Maxwell is 5' 6" and weighs around 115 pounds.
She was last seen wearing a blue sweat shirt and blue jeans with large holes in them.
Police say Maxwell was last heard from at 4:27 a.m. on Sunday, April 26.
Her red 2001 Mitsubishi Eclipse was found on East Highway 25/70 destroyed by fire and police say they suspect foul play.
Lisa Maxwell prays and waits for any word on her daughter, Megan. "Words can't describe it. I'm numb."
She was with Newport Rescue crews all day Monday as they searched a section of the French Broad River, about 150 yards from where Megan's car was found.
"Right now, we are just concentrating on her last known location and it's not really that big of an area so we are trying to put together that time frame," says Newport Police Chief Maurice Shults.
The chief says they're following up on several leads and trying to stay optimistic. "As time passes, we begin to lose hope that she is missing, and we think maybe it's worse than we first expected."
Since Megan was reported missing Sunday morning, family and friends have been calling her cell phone non-stop and leaving messages.
"I said Megan please call, everyone is worried about you, and with everything I've heard I just want you to call us so somebody will know you are ok," says friend Laura Goode.
Meanwhile, Megan's mother is asking anyone with information to come forward.
"It's important to get in touch with the police department, any lead right now is critical," said Maxwell.
Police say they plan to continue searching for Megan Tuesday morning. Her car will also be turned over to forensics.
If you have information about Megan's whereabouts or the car fire, call the Newport Police Department at (423)-623-5556 ext. 105 or the office of District Attorney General Jimmy Dunn at (423)-623-1285.
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It may be a trendy way to spend a night out with friends, but health experts say hookah smokers may be taking a bigger risk than people who smoke cigarettes.
It's something that many smokers don't think about when they go out to any one of the dozens of hookah bars around Chicago.
"Hookah has a flavor, fruit, so that's why I like it, gives me a little, it's like fun sometimes, four times a week I come here," said Mouhcine Chinnani who was relaxing at the Arabia Café, where he said he often spends up to half an hour smoking hookah.
Chianni said that he started smoking hookah about six years ago and doesn't consider it a dangerous hobby.
"I didn't see any studies that hookah is bad for your health or a danger," he said.
However, health experts say it is harmful.
"There's a common misconception that smoking hookah is safer than smoking cigarettes, when in fact, since 2009, there's actually been studies done showing that they're probably more dangerous," said Carol Southard, an RN and tobacco treatment specialist with Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
Southard said that's because the water pipes used to smoke hookah cool the smoke allowing smokers to inhale more deeply than those who smoke cigarettes. In addition, the American Cancer Society says a typical hookah session will involve 200 puffs, compared to about 20 for the average cigarette.
Edita Rink just recently was told she shouldn't inhale, but she continues to smoke hookah because she enjoys the social aspect of it.
"It's just flavor, basically, hang out with the friends, enjoy the time, it's nothing more. It's not like addictive like cigarettes, it's not like you're craving and want it all the time," Rink said.
But health experts say just like cigarettes, hookah does contain nicotine, which is the addictive quality of tobacco.
"That actually is a concern about hookah's that it could very well be a gateway to smoking regular cigarettes," said Southard.
And then, besides the carcinogens in the tobacco itself, there's the additional harmful chemicals being inhaled due to the charcoal used to burn the hookah. The American Cancer Society calls it the "devil in disguise."
Southard said that smokers need to remember one thing whenever they light up.
"There's no such thing as a safe amount of any tobacco product."
But despite the risks, many hookah smokers laugh off the dangers.
"You can die from anything, right," asked Rink, while laughing.
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SPOKANE, Wash. - The Lilac Bloomsday Association, in cooperation with The Inlander, is now accepting designs for the 2013 finisher T-shirt.
Deadline for submitting designs is Monday, September 24, 2012, and the Lilac Bloomsday Association will pay $1,000 for the design selected.
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NEW YORK (AP) -- America's best-known banker is getting a big pay cut. JPMorgan Chase said... More
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CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. (AP) -- A Marine who pleaded guilty Wednesday to urinating on the corpse of a... More
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The federal government grounded Boeing's newest and most technologically advanced jetliner... More
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Some Long Island residents have been in the dark for nearly two weeks and they have expressed their anger, frustration and lack of communication with utility company National Grid and the Long Island Power Authority (LIPA).
On Sunday, the utility company said its goal is to restore 99 percent of power in both Nassau and Suffolk counties by the end of the day in areas where it is safe to receive power. At the moment, thousands of customers are without electricity.
There are more than 50,000 customers who can't safely connect because wiring and other equipment are flooded. LIPA says equipment must be repaired or inspected before those customers can regain power.
The utility is authorizing hundreds of electricians to give back power to residents in the hope of restoring electricity back to homeowners quicker.
"We certainly understand their frustration, but my appeal to those customers is once the crews arrive, stand back and let them get their work done," said LIPA COO Michael Hervey.
LIPA says when they're done restoring the power it will look at improvements it needs to make in the future.
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There's a purple house in Denville, that has been causing quite a stir.
John Pinto has painted his uninhabitable home bright purple and pink. He says he painted it purple for Lupus awareness and painted huge pink ribbons for breast cancer awareness.
Sam Joseph from HGTV's Bought and Sold came to take a look at the purple house. "I love the color purple. It was one of my favorite movies. But it shouldn't be on a house," Joseph said.
Joseph also said that the purple house damages the property value of the other homes on this entire street. "The next door neighbors should really plant some large shrubs," he said.
Originally there was a scandal connected with the house. Pinto wanted to rezone his property into commercial real estate due to the extremely busy street it resides on, but the town wouldn't let him.
Is the extravagant color combination just his way of getting back at the town?
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First Dual Core Tegra2 Processor Device-LG Star Coming Soon0
LG Star is the first Smartphone to run on dual core Tegra2 processor. The device has not yet announced officially by LG. However, as according to various rumor suggest it will have features like Sporty 4-inch display, Android Froyo OS, Accelerometer, Proximity Sensor, Bluetooth, USB and HDMI port. It has a 1500mAh battery that powers the LG Star and has a microSD card to expand the memory. The 4-inch display will be large enough to play a HD video, however it is expected that it will have a TFT display rather than a Super AMOLED display.
Android's Froyo will power it and by the time, it is made available it will be running on Android Gingerbread OS. It will have a 8 Megapixel camera on the back and a front VGA camera; also, it will have a HDMI port on the top of the device.


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The beer pours a dark gold/amber color with a thin offwhite head that fades to lacing. The aroma is good. It has a sweet pale and light crystal malt scent along with a slight rye aroma thrown in. It's malty with a nice fruitiness to it. The taste is decent. It has a light, pale and crystal malt flavor that is overshadowed by a crisp rye presence. It goes down easy and is balanced nicely with a mild hoppiness. The mouthfeel is fine. It is a medium bodied beer with adequate carbonation. This is a pretty good brew. It has good aroma and an interesting flavor; a good drinker.
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Appearance: Pours a warm amber with a touch of haze. It's tan head starts well and holds at a small cap.
Smell: The aroma is a good balance of spicy rye and hops, atop a solid backbone of caramelly malt.
Taste: The flavor is dominated by the spicy rye and hops, with the slighty sweet, caramelly malt staying mostly in the background. Finishes dry and bitter, with a subtle nuttiness appearing on the tail end. Very tasty!
Mouthfeel: Medium in body, with smooth, dry finish.
Drinkability: This is a good brew I could drink several of. It's akin to a very good pale ale with some rye thrown in the grain bill.
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iPhone 5
As usual, Apple Inc.'s new product showcase came today without much pomp and circumstance, as the gadget bloggers and technophiles had more or less pinned down every major detail of the long-awaited iPhone 5's size, shape and potential capabilities months ago. While most analysts have predicted that this release is the expected revenue source to pad the company's fluctuating 12-figure market cap for years to come, it's remarkable to see that the latest "best of the best" is no longer revolutionary, with the most common descriptor of the device being limited to its width. Regardless, we're still pumped for the newest line of i-branded products to hit shelves, so check out the details of the new iPhone 5, iPod Touch and iPod Nano below.
Claim to fame: Thinnest smartphone in the world at 7.6 mm thick.
Screen: Four-inch retina display.
Network Connectivity: LTE and DC-HSDPA.
Wi-fi: Dual-band 802.11n for up to 150 Mbps.
Chip: A6 (twice as fast as iPhone 4S).
iSight Camera: 8 MP single shot/28 MP panorama stitching.
Facetime HD Camera: 720p HD video.
Connector: Lightning connector replaces 30-pin traditional (adapter sold separately).
Operating System: iOS 6 — 200 new features, including Apple-designed Maps and new Siri functionality.
Price: $199/299/399 for 16/32/64 GB, respectively.
Preorder: September 14.
In Store: September 21.
iPod Touch
Getting a refresh after years hidden by the limelight of its network-connected sibling, the iPod Touch now comes available in blue, yellow, pink, (PRODUCT) RED, white & silver, and black & slate. Featuring an all-new 4-inch Retina display and a 5MP iSight camera with 1080p HD recording; this is one gorgeous addition to the family at an attractive price. Bonus points for stealing the iPhone 5's shiny, new iOS 6 operating system Look for it October at $299/399 for 32/64 GB, respectively.
iPod Nano
Not only is the new iPod Nano the slimmest iPod ever made at 5mm thick, but the addition of built-in Bluetooth functionality for wireless headphones makes this little gem a whole lot more attractive to those who prefer to take their music player on the go. With 30 hours of battery life and a new home button; this is one purchase we're definitely going to make. Available in seven colors (plus Product Red) this October for $149 (16 GB).
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I need appl i phon 5
the new iPod range STINKS because they wont provide the max capacities (160GB) in the newest range. This is wny I hold on to my 6th gen classic like its an antique, and am scared they will stop them for good. Maybe they already did? Make a touch 128GB at least and I'm there ;)
The iP5 may not have a revolutionary design, but that's probably in part to the great design it presently has. If its already great why change it just make it better. And that's just what they did. I personally think, as with all apple products, it's a beautiful phone. I will definitely be getting one. ^_^
ip5 going to be worst selling product bcos we have samsung galaxy n atis


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You'd never believe the size of the fish I released. I wish I'd had a camera." How many times have you heard this excuse - or used it yourself - when swapping fish stories with friends? Anglers suffer from such a bad (and sometimes undeserved) reputation as incurable truth-stretchers that every tale of an exceptional catch will be dismissed as yet another exaggerated account of our achievements - unless we have pictures to prove our story.
Technological advances over the past 10 years have made cameras smaller, smarter and easier to operate. Point-and-shoot models are as simple to use as the name implies, leaving so little room for operator error that they've been nicknamed "idiot-proof." About all you have to do is remember to keep your fingers out of the way when snapping a photo. The camera automatically focuses, determines the correct exposure, decides whether to use flash and advances the film for the next shot.
Point-and-shoot cameras rely on either passive or active autofocus mechanisms. Passive autofocus "reads" stationary objects, such as anglers posing with fish; active autofocus lets the camera "track" moving objects such as flying birds or kids chasing a soccer ball. Despite being automatic, focusing can still present problems for point-and-shoot photographers.
How many shots have you seen of blurry people against sharply focused, far-off backgrounds? This problem often occurs when people are placed to one side of the photo because most cameras focus on the center of the frame. Models featuring focus lock let you keep off-center subjects sharp by placing them in the middle of the frame and depressing the shutter release halfway. Holding down the button halfway locks the focus, allowing you to move the camera left or right and compose the shot without having the camera refocus on the distant background. The Canon Sure Shot 105 Zoom features "3-point Smart Autofocus," which the manufacturer claims delivers sharp images automatically, even when subjects are far from center.
Automatic features help amateurs take good pictures, but at times manual control results in better photos - especially when using flash. Most point-and-shoots allow the photographer to override the autoflash function by turning the flash on or off. Let's say you'd like to photograph an angler's dark outline against a pumpkin-orange sunrise. If left in auto mode, the flash may illuminate the angler and ruin the desired effect. Turn the flash off in order to silhouette your subject against the glowing sky.
As strange as it may seem, it's always a good idea to use flash when photographing people under a bright, midday sun. Called fill-flash, this trick cures the "anonymous angler" syndrome: Hats cast shadows over people's faces, making them unrecognizable in photos, and even when hats are removed, shadowy eye sockets transform people into masked raccoons. Turn the flash on to brighten these dark areas and let everyone see exactly who is smiling behind that trophy fish.
Check a camera's focusing range before buying if you plan to take extreme close-ups (macrophotography) of fish, lures or other details. While some point-and-shoots focus sharply on objects just 14 inches from the lens, other models require a minimum focusing distance of over two feet.
Perhaps the greatest advantage to today's pocket cameras lies in their use of 35mm film. Does anybody remember the fuzzy photos we used to get from 110 film? A basic rule of photography is the bigger the negative, the better the quality of the print. That's why wedding photographers use 2 1/4-inch film, and studio photographers often use even larger formats. But for fishermen and other amateur photographers, the 35mm format provides a perfect combination of picture quality and convenience: Go-anywhere cameras fit in a shirt pocket or tackle box, and they take sharp photos to vividly preserve memories of that prized catch. Enlargements from 35mm negatives retain image quality quite well, allowing you to make a wall-hanger from a trophy that's been released.
Camera manufacturers use the word "weatherproof" to describe certain models, but their definitions of the term vary. Pentax says the IQZoom105WR's weather-resistant capability makes it "possible to shoot under rain and to wash in water," and Olympus says, "Water splashed against the enclosure from any direction will have no harmful effect" on its All-Weather Stylus Epic camera. According to representative Don Bergy, Nikon no longer makes weatherproof models because problems arose when consumers interpreted certain concepts differently than the manufacturer intended. "For example, the specifications from headquarters in Japan may say a camera can withstand 45 minutes in a drizzling rain. But a drizzle in Japan is quite different from a drizzle in Florida," explains Bergy.
Consider a fully waterproof camera if you expect to be frequently clicking away in the face of hazards such as boat spray, heavy rain or clumsy friends. The Canon Sure Shot A1 and the Minolta Weathermatic Dual 35 are both waterproof to depths of 16 feet, so you can dive with them, hold them underwater for photos of hooked fish at boatside or simply use them confidently on your boat, knowing they'll survive accidental dunkings. Aquapac produces another option for angling photographers: plastic cases that provide waterproof protection for pocket cameras. Bergy says some of his customers keep their cameras dry by carrying them in Tupperware-like containers or resealable plastic bags.
Water is the most obvious threat to any camera you take fishing, but it's not the only one. Exposure to sunlight can damage cameras and film, as can sunscreen, insect repellent, gasoline and other chemicals. Although built to take some abuse, point-and-shoot cameras should be protected from boat vibrations. Wrap yours in a dry towel or T-shirt while running from one spot to another.
You'd never believe the size of the fish I released. I wish I'd had a camera." How many times have you heard this excuse - or used it yourself - when swapping fish stories with friends? Anglers suffer from such a bad (and sometimes undeserved) reputation as incurable truth-stretchers that every tale of an exceptional catch will be dismissed as yet another exaggerated account of our achievements - unless we have pictures to prove our story.


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Directions for Use: Pour one cup of freshly boiled water over tea bag and steep, covered, for 10 minutes. Drink daily as needed.
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- Release Date: Nov 13, 2012
- ESRB: Everyone 10+
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Patellar Luxation
Description: Luxating patella or floating kneecap occurs when the kneecap (patella) moves around or displaces in and out of place, which can cause lameness. Smaller breeds are more prone to patellar luxation and it may be influenced by genetics. Typically, the dog will be running and playing normally, when suddenly his leg is lame. He may yelp or cry at the occurrence, holding the leg off the ground. Just as suddenly, he continues using his leg and running around normally. In this scenario, the kneecap popped out of place, causing the dog to raise its leg and limp, but as soon as the kneecap went back into place, he was able to put his foot back down and use it normally.
Kneecaps function properly with patella ridges that keep it in its proper place. However, some dog breeds have flat ridges, which means the kneecap can pop out of place more easily.
There are four grades to describe luxating patella, with Grade 1 being the mildest and Grade 4 being the most severe.
Grade 1 is when the kneecap pops out of place but also pops back in.
Grade 2 describes a kneecap that pops out but doesn't always pop back in and may require manual manipulation to pop it back into place.
Grade 3 is when the kneecap is out of position most of the time and can be manually placed back into position, but it doesn't always stay.
Grade 4, the most severe form of luxating patella, is when the kneecap is never properly in place, and will not stay even when manipulated.
While the movement of the kneecap often happens quickly and appears painless, the movement can cause a quick jolt of pain each time this happens. With repeated occurrences, the cartilage can wear down, leading to bone-on-bone contact and more pain for the dog.
Symptoms: A sudden yelp while running, limping, lameness, refusal to put weight on the leg. You may notice this happening occasionally, with limping and refusal to bear weight on the affected leg, followed by regular walking and running.
Treatment: If your dog has Grade 1 patellar luxation, it is important to be proactive. Be sure that your dog is at a healthy weight because extra weight can cause more stress on the joint. Continue to exercise your dog because maintaining good muscle tone will help to keep the kneecap in place. Other recommendations are oral joint supplements and feeding an anti-inflammatory diet, both of which you should discuss with your veterinarian.
Luxating patella, if left untreated or more severe, can cause the grooves in the bones to gradually wear down, leading to more frequent occurrences and pain, and possible arthritis. Severe patellar luxation is typically treated with surgery. The femur may undergo trochlear modification in which the groove is restructured to better contain the kneecap. The kneecap may be tied down to prevent deviation in the future in a procedure called lateral imbrication.
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Pasta with Asparagus Recipe
Many terrific recipes change hands at the monthly get-togethers of my ladies' bridge group. That's where I discovered this zippy, tempting dish. The garlic, asparagus, Parmesan cheese and red pepper flakes create an irresistible taste combination. Jean Fisher, Redlands, California
- 5 garlic cloves, minced
- 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes
- 2 to 3 dashes hot pepper sauce
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 pound fresh asparagus, cut into 1-1/2-inch pieces
- Salt to taste
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- 1/4 cup shredded Parmesan cheese
- 1/2 pound mostaccioli or elbow macaroni, cooked and drained
- In a large skillet, cook the garlic, red pepper flakes and hot pepper sauce in oil and butter for 1 minute. Add the asparagus, salt and pepper; saute until asparagus is crisp-tender, about 8-10 minutes. Stir in cheese. Pour over hot pasta and toss to coat. Serve immediately. Yield: 4-6 servings.
Originally published as Pasta with Asparagus in Taste of Home April/May 1994, p33
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Followed the recipe and loved it!
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One of my families favorite. I use a little less oil and more cheese and adjust the peppers to taste!!! YUMMY!!!!
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Excellent choice for a light quick dinner. I used whole wheat thin spaghetti.
Reviewed Jun. 11, 2012
What a great dish! Served this for guests & everyone loved it! Thank you!
Reviewed Apr. 10, 2012
This is an excellent dish - served hot or cold it's a big hit.
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