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• Self-build project has the potential to change the face of housing delivery in the UK
• 100,000 new homes are being built every year – falling short of the 232,000 demand
• Cross-parliamentary launch event aims to provide solutions to the housing crisis
Architects from the University of Sheffield will put forward their solution to the current housing crisis at a cross-parliamentary event later this month (13 May 2014).
Experts from the University of Sheffield's School of Architecture will be discussing the benefits of Collective Custom Build, an important self-build project which has the potential to change the face of housing delivery in the UK.
Collect Custom Build is a pioneering approach to increasing the diversity in the UK housing market based fundamentally on partnership. It represents an opportunity for stakeholders across the house-building industry to share the risk of development and work mutually to help people build homes that are more affordable and better designed to effectively meet the challenges of the future. It is a genuine new solution for affordable housing which people build for themselves and can save up to 25 per cent on typical new build housing costs.
Professor Fionn Stevenson, who led the Motivating Collective Custom Build project regarding the future development of affordable homes, said: "Around 100,000 new homes are built every year against an expected demand of official projections of more than 232,000. The crisis is both-long term and wide reaching, rather than merely short-term.
"Much of the housing we build in the UK is unaffordable, unsustainable, undesirable, unsociable or simply unavailable.
"Young and old alike deserve a chance to get the housing they want – Collective Custom Build offers a unique and inclusive approach to meeting this need. There are already numerous successful examples to draw on in the UK and Europe."
Professor Stevenson worked with Dr Cristina Cerulli and Sam Brown from the University of Sheffield in collaboration with Cany Ash, of London Architecture practice Ash Sakula and David Birkbeck of Design for Homes on the Home Improvements project led by the Home Research Group at the University which was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
The research will be presented at a parliamentary launch event on Tuesday 13 May 2014. The event will bring together experts in the field to discuss important questions such as: What are the key barriers to providing affordable homes? Who is leading the way with new approaches to developing affordable homes? And what are the next steps for increasing choice in housing?
The event is expected to be attended by over 100 people including key Members of Parliament, representatives of relevant Government Agencies, NGOs, community builders, housing developers, planners, designers, social entrepreneurs, and those with a passion for making change work. Three key experts, including Ted Stevens, Chair of the National Self Build Association and Kritien Ring, author of 'Self-made City', will discuss the developments in Germany and the UK.
For more information about Collective Custom Build visit www.collectivecustombuild.org
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With almost 25,000 of the brightest students from around 120 countries, learning alongside over 1,200 of the best academics from across the globe, the University of Sheffield is one of the world's leading universities.
A member of the UK's prestigious Russell Group of leading research-led institutions, Sheffield offers world-class teaching and research excellence across a wide range of disciplines.
Unified by the power of discovery and understanding, staff and students at the university are committed to finding new ways to transform the world we live in.
In 2011 it was named University of the Year in the Times Higher Education Awards and in the last decade has won four Queen's Anniversary Prizes in recognition of the outstanding contribution to the United Kingdom's intellectual, economic, cultural and social life.
Sheffield has five Nobel Prize winners among former staff and students and its alumni go on to hold positions of great responsibility and influence all over the world, making significant contributions in their chosen fields.
Global research partners and clients include Boeing, Rolls-Royce, Unilever, AstraZeneca, Glaxo SmithKline and Siemens, as well as many UK and overseas government agencies and charitable foundations.
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By GEORGE MEDOVOY SPECIAL TO THE JERUSALEM POST
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The picturesque getaway – only 26 miles away from Los Angeles – combines history and beauty.
PALMS FRAME a romantic view of the Avalon harbor on Catalina Island.
Photo: GEORGE MEDOVOY
My first glimpse of Catalina came as our Catalina Express vessel entered Avalon Bay and we passed the iconic Catalina Casino at the water's edge.
Avalon itself is an intimate place, one square mile in size with a population of about 3,700 people, surrounded on one side by the clear blue waters of the bay and on the other by rugged hillsides with spectacular ocean views.
Once off the boat, we circled the bay on foot to Crescent Avenue, the town's small, main artery, which is filled with shops and cafes by the water.
Since the early part of the 20th century, members of the Rhodes Jewish community of Los Angeles have made the crossing every summer to Catalina Island, which they see as an image of their ancestral home off the coast of Turkey.
Aron Hasson, a Los Angeles attorney who established the Jewish Museum of Rhodes at the Kahal Shalom Synagogue on Rhodes, remembers visiting Catalina every summer with his family when he was growing up. His four grandparents were born on Rhodes and immigrated to Los Angeles between 1912 and 1920.
Catalina Island held out a special kind of attraction for the Rhodes immigrants, he said, since "the island is situated 26 miles away from the Los Angeles mainland, and Rhodes is about 26 miles away from the Turkish mainland."
But beyond the comparison with Rhodes, it's easy to understand why anyone would be drawn here: the island is quite simply magical, giving you a feeling of having discovered some far-away land.
In reality, of course, you're only a little more than an hour away from Los Angeles, now but a hazy smudge on the horizon.
As my wife and I sailed into Avalon harbor from Long Beach, I thought about those early vacationers, whose distinctive Ladino sounds could be heard as they shared traditional Sephardic foods in Avalon.
During the Big Band era, they could gather on the top floor of the casino to hear music greats like Jimmy Dorsey, Woody Herman, and Harry James.
That bygone casino is still very much a living place, just a short walk from the new Descanso Beach cabanas. A "Discover the Casino Tour" is offered by the Santa Catalina Island Company and gives an introduction to the casino, which has a museum, an overhanging balcony, and a 25-foot lantern cupola above a tiled roof.
In the tour,"visitors can also see the editing room where Cecil B. DeMille himself watched "rushes" of movies shot on the island.
Movie-making here goes back to the silent film era with films like Treasure Island, shot in 1918. As a matter of fact, Hollywood liked Catalina so much as a South Seas setting that it planted palm trees at the Isthmus near Two Harbors on the northern part of the island. These trees are still seen today.
When sound came to film, the island continued to be a popular movie venue, and it was turned into Tahiti with productions like Mutiny on the Bounty with Charles Laughton and Clarke Gable in 1935. More recently, aerial scenes for Pearl Harbor were shot here, as were scenes from The Hunt for Red October and Rosemary's Baby.
You can still watch movies in the Casino's Avalon Theatre, which also has the original 4-manual, 16-rank pipe organ, built by the Page Pipe Organ Company of Lima, Ohio, and played every Friday and Saturday evening.
Today, Catalina is opening up a new chapter in its storied history, this one connected to wine, thanks to Alison Wrigley Rusack and her husband Geoff.
The Wrigley name is synonymous with Catalina Island. William Wrigley Jr. devoted so much loving attention to preserving and improving the island. Wrigley's name is also synonymous with the chewing gum empire he created as well as with the Chicago Cubs baseball team, which he would bring to the island for spring training.
Wrigley's wife, Ada, for whom the island's Mt. Ada is named, built a memorial to her husband surrounded by a botanical garden, now managed by the Catalina Conservancy.
Rusack said she would love to have known her great-grandfather "because he did so much and he had such personality."
Back in 1983, Rusack and her husband went horseback riding on the island and Geoff remarked that the hills would be a great place to plant grapes.
They "didn't know the slightest thing about running a vineyard and winery at that point," Rusack admitted, but they purchased an old winery in 1992. "We knew we'd regret it if we didn't try," she said.
They planted Zinfandel grapes along with Pinot Noir and Chardonnay in March of 2007 at El Rancho Escondido, an old horse ranch in Catalina's beautiful interior, where Rusack's grandfather, Phillip K.
Wrigley, raised Arabian horses.
The soil at the ranch is actually better suited to growing Burgundy varietals of Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, rather than the warmer-climate Zinfandel, Rusack said, "But it's made a wonderful Zinfandel," she added of the first harvest under the Rusack Santa Catalina Island Vineyards label, "and it has a totally different type of taste than other Zins… more earthy and less fruity" The Rusack Vineyards in California's Santa Ynez Valley is quite successful today, and according to Rusack, known primarily for "the incredible Rhone varietals that we're able to grow in the Ballard Canyon area."
So much about the new Catalina Island wines is unconventional, not the least of which is the way the grapes get to the Rusack winery in the Santa Ynez Valley: they're harvested at night and flown to Santa Ynez Airport on the mainland.
The Rusacks also have plans for restoring the old horse ranch and "keeping all the wonderful historical elements."
"It was built a long time ago and it hasn't really ever been completely restored," she said. Plans include having space for tasting rooms and wine storage, all the while keeping the "old, wonderful California feel," like the historic stage coaches her family owned.
The Rusacks work closely with the Catalina Island Company to take things "to a new level" and bring back a new golden era, like the newly-added zip line adventure and the biofuel hummer tours, the Descanso Beach Club, and the addition of new restaurants.
One of the best ways to sample the wonderful simplicity and romantic feel of the island is a leisurely walk down Crescent Avenue, which is what we did after checking into the Casa Mariquita Hotel on nearby Metropole Avenue.
What you notice as soon as you land on the island is the scarcity of gasoline-powered autos, and for good reason: the idea is to keep the number of cars down to a bare minimum.
In fact, if a local wants to bring a car here, there's a 15-year waiting list, and if you do have a gas-powered car, well, the cost of filling up was a little over $7 a gallon at the island's only gas station during our visit. So how do people get around on the island? Mainly by electric golf carts, which seem to be everywhere in Avalon.
While checking out Crescent Avenue, we stopped at CC Gallagher, which was displaying the Rusack Catalina wine. The shop has hot espresso in the morning along with pastries and a daytime menu including sandwiches, focaccia bread, vegetarian soups, and wines, while the evening menu offers sushi, sake and beer.
At the Avalon Grille, one finds American cuisine and regional dishes, along with wines, micro-brew beers and specialty cocktails, breakfast Saturday and Sunday, and all in a pleasant wicker setting.
One afternoon, we sampled happy hour at the Bluewater Avalon restaurant, with small plates of tasty grilled fish tacos and garlic fries, all served with some really pleasant ambiance.
The Avalon Scenic Drive, an hour bus tour given by the Catalina Island Company, afforded a wonderful view of the bay from the hills surrounding Avalon.
The company offers a wide range of other tours, too, including golfing, a sundown isthmus cruise, a flying fish voyage, and a tour to Two Harbors with dining, swimming and shopping.
"It is a magical place," Rusack said of Catalina Island. "It's hard to describe what it is… It just has this beautiful, old historical, natural feel to it where you can do exciting things like the zip line, you can do relaxing things and sit on the beach, or you can go and experience nature and learn about things or hike or bike.
"It's a wonderful combination of things, and we're working constantly with everybody – the conservancy and the island company – to make sure it stays that way."
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Went from 2 to 2.1.
That really sucks. Have you tried looking for your recipes.bsmx file and using the import option? Hopefully it just didn't load properly and needs to be imported manually. If that doesn't work, then try another system restore and then import.
I saw the notification about the update but didn't pull the trigger yet. This is a good reminder for everyone to backup your recipes! I think I will start printing out a physical copy and putting them in a binder as well. It's so easy for digital data to just go poof. I lost my entire library on Rhapsody that way (about 3 years worth of discovered music) I almost cried. I'm sure some of that music will never grace my ears again, and that makes me very sad.
Good luck, and keep us posted.


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Former South Florida Bulls coach Skip Holtz has reportedly accepted the head coaching job at Louisiana Tech, according to BleedTechBlue.com:
We understand Skip Holtz has indeed accepted verbally an offer from #LATech as its head football coach. Holtz was previously at #USF & #ECU.— BleedTechBlue.com (@BleedTechBlue) December 14, 2012
CBS Sports' Bruce Feldman and ESPN's Brett McMurphy later confirmed the hire.
Holtz's name came up in the coaching search earlier Thursday.
Louisiana Tech was on the search to replace Sonny Dykes, who left to become the head coach at the University of California. Dykes led the Bulldogs for three seasons, amassing a 22-15 overall record in that time. He led Louisiana Tech to a 9-3 overall record and a 4-2 mark in the WAC this season.
Holtz was available after being fired from the University of South Florida at the end of the 2012 season. In his three years as USF, Holtz led the Bulls to a 16-21 overall record. The team was 5-16 in the Big East Conference during that time.
In 2012, the Bulls finished with a 3-9 record and were eighth in the Big East.
Holtz coached for five seasons at East Carolina before moving on to South Florida.
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The Center hosts a variety of visitors throughout the academic year to stimulate discussion on regional, national, and international affairs.
See a complete list of our past public programs, as well as a list of our Named Lectures.
Jennifer Brooke Sargent, Visiting Associate Professor of Writing, Institute for Writing and Rhetoric; Faculty, National Judicial College; Former Associate Professor of Law, Vermont Law School; Former District Court Special Justice, NH Judicial Branch
Jennifer Sargent is currently a Visiting Associate Professor of Writing at Dartmouth College. Professor Sargent is also a faculty member at the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada. Professor Sargent served as a District Court Judge in New Hampshire for eight years. She resigned from the bench to serve as Chief Disciplinary Counsel for the New Hampshire Supreme Court Attorney Discipline Office. Professor Sargent graduated from Emory University in 1989 and Suffolk University Law School in 1992. After law school, she served as a judicial law clerk to the judges of the District and Superior Courts of Vermont. She then spent eight years as a criminal defense trial and appellate attorney in New Hampshire with the New Hampshire Public Defender and New Hampshire Appellate Defender. Professor Sargent taught as an Associate Professor of Law at Vermont Law School and a Visiting Associate Professor of Writing at Dartmouth during the years she was on the bench.
Zakiya Smith, Strategy Director, Lumina Foundation
Recently named one of Forbes' top 30 under 30 in education, Ms. Zakiya Smith is currently a Strategy Director at the Lumina Foundation, the nation's largest foundation dedicated solely to higher education. At Lumina, she leads the work of the foundation to develop new models of student financial support for higher education. Prior to her work in philanthropy, Ms. Smith served as a Senior Advisor for Education at the White House Domestic Policy Council, where she was tasked with developing President Obama's higher education policy. Ms. Smith also served in the Obama administration as a senior adviser at the U. S. Department of Education, where she developed programmatic, policy and budget solutions to respond to pressing challenges in college access, affordability, and completion. Ms. Smith has provided insights on higher education policy at dozens of conferences, briefings, and panels across the nation. She has been featured on C-SPAN and Fox Business News as well as profiled in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Forbes Magazine, and Diverse Issues in Higher Education. Ms. Smith holds a bachelor's degree in political science and secondary education from Vanderbilt University, and a master's degree in education policy and management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
5th Annual C. Everett Koop Distinguished Lecture
Corporate Threats to Children's Health –A Panel Discussion
4:30 pm
Co-sponsored with the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and the C. Everett Koop Institute
Joel Bakan, Professor of Law, University of British Columbia
Joel Bakan is a professor of law at the University of British Columbia, and an internationally renowned legal scholar and commentator. A former Rhodes Scholar and law clerk to Chief Justice Brian Dickson of the Supreme Court of Canada, Bakan has law degrees from Oxford, Dalhousie, and Harvard. His critically acclaimed international hit, The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power (Free Press, 2004), electrified readers around the world, and became a bestseller in several countries. The book inspired a feature documentary film, The Corporation, written by Bakan and co-created with Mark Achbar, which won numerous awards, including best foreign documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, and was a critical and box office success. Bakan's highly regarded scholarly work includes Just Words: Constitutional Rights and Social Wrongs (University of Toronto Press, 1997), as well as textbooks, edited collections, and numerous articles in leading legal and social science journals. His most recent book, Childhood Under Siege: How Big Business Targets Children, was published in 2011, and recognized by the American Library Association's "Booklist" as one of the top 10 business books of the year.
Bruce Lanphear, Professor, Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children's Hospital, and Simon Fraser University
Bruce Lanphear, MD, MPH, is a Clinician Scientist at the Child & Family Research Institute, BC Children's Hospital and Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. His primary goal is to help quantify and ultimately prevent disease and disability due to exposures to environmental contaminants and pollutants, such as lead, tobacco and pesticides. Over the past decade, Dr. Lanphear has become increasingly vexed by our inability to control the "pandemic of consumption" – the largely preventable, worldwide epidemic of chronic disease and disability due to industrial pollutants, environmental contaminants and excess consumption. He is leading an effort to build an online Atlas of Environmental Health to enhance public understanding of how environmental influences impact human health.
James Sargent, Scott M. and Lisa G Stuart Professor of Pediatric Oncology, Geisel School of Medicine
James Sargent is a pediatrician and behavioral epidemiologist whose current research involves evaluating media and marketing influences on adolescent cancer risk behaviors, including smoking, alcohol consumption, eating, and sexual activity. The research is an acknowledgement that unhealthy consumption of products produced and marketed by large corporate interests is the largest cause of preventable cancers and the biggest threat to population health overall. The solution lies not in adjusting unhealthy behaviors at the individual level or altering metabolic processes to make unhealthy products less harmful. Instead, society needs to exert control over corporate activities and constrain how products like cigarettes, alcohol, energy dense food, and guns are produced and promoted. Dr. Sargent is Co-director of the Cancer Control Research Program at the Norris Cotton Cancer Center and holds the Scott M. and Lisa G Stuart Professor of Pediatric Oncology. Dr. Sargent received his MD from the Tufts University School of Medicine in 1984 and completed his residency in pediatrics at Boston City Hospital. He has been at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth since 1989.
The Roger S. Aaron '64 Lecture:
Mechanical Brains and Responsible Choices: Challenges of Neuroscience to Responsibility
4:30 pm
Co-sponsored by the Dartmouth Lawyers Association and the Dartmouth Legal Studies Faculty Group
Michael S. Moore, Walgreen University Chair, Center for Advanced Study Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy, University of Illinois College of Law
Michael Moore currently holds the only University-level chair at the University of Illinois' three campuses, the Walgreen Chair. He is also the Center for Advanced Studies Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University. He has previously taught at Penn, Berkeley, San Diego, USC, ANU, Virginia, Stanford, Northwestern, and others. His research interests have had as one of their centers the issues related to moral responsibility. Five of his seven books (including the most recent, Causation and Responsibility, OUP 2009, paper 2010) have been devoted to these issues. From 2007 to 2010 he was a member of the MacArthur Foundation's Law and Neuroscience Research Project and Chair of its Intentions and Decisions research group; he also lectures from time to time to the Neuroscience Seminar of the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology. He is married to Heidi Hurd, has four children, and principally resides in Monticello, Illinois. Ms. Smith holds a bachelor's degree in political science and secondary education from Vanderbilt University, and a master's degree in education policy and management from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Co-hosted with the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Policy, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College, UNH's Carsey Institute, and sponsored by Bank of America
Christopher Whipple, Executive Producer of the documentary film The Presidential Gatekeepers
Confirmed panelists:
Kenneth Duberstein, Chief of Staff to President Ronald Reagan
Mack McLarty, Chief of Staff to President Bill Clinton
Andrew Card, Chief of Staff to President George W. Bush
Co-hosted by the Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Policy, The Nelson A. Rockefeller Center for Public Policy at Dartmouth College, UNH's Carsey Institute, and sponsored by Bank of America.
Perkins Bass Distinguished Lecturer
John T. Broderick, Jr., Executive Director, Warren B. Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership and Public Policy, UNH School of Law
John T. Broderick, Jr., was named the first Warren B. Rudman chairman at UNH Law and executive director of its Rudman Center for Justice, Leadership, and Public Policy, on July 1, 2014. Broderick became the fifth dean of the University of New Hampshire School of Law in 2011, and stepped down in 2014. Prior to the UNH School of Law appointment, Broderick served on the New Hampshire Supreme Court for 15 years. During his tenure as Chief Justice over the last six years, he was the administrative head of all the state's courts, in addition to his judicial duties, and became nationally known for reexamining the way the court system works and redesigning it to meet the challenges of the 21st century. A frequent speaker around the nation on the need to improve and modernize our judicial system, Broderick was appointed by President Bill Clinton to the Board of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), on which he served for 10 years. Prior to serving on the Supreme Court, Broderick was a litigation attorney in the Manchester, NH, law firm of Devine, Millimet, Stahl & Branch, and was a founding shareholder of Broderick & Dean, Professional Association (formerly Merrill & Broderick). He has also taught as an adjunct professor at the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth for more than 10 years. He is a graduate of the University of Virginia School of Law and, magna cum laude, of the College of the Holy Cross.
Mike Astrue, former Commissioner of the Social Security Administration
Michael Astrue has split his career between public service and the biotechnology industry. He led one of the most successful turnarounds in the history of the industry as CEO of Transkaryotic Therapies and served as Chairman of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council. He also worked for thirteen years in senior positions in four Administrations. Among other positions, he served in the Reagan and Bush White Houses as Associate Counsel to the President, and as General Counsel of HHS (1989-1992), where he personally litigated the first federal HIV discrimination and patient dumping enforcement cases. As Commissioner of Social Security (2007-2013) he reported directly to Presidents Bush and Obama. He overhauled the agency's antiquated IT systems and electronic services, reduced backlogs, created fast tracks for patients with severe rare disorders, and significantly improved the economic information provided to the public, particularly to women, as they make retirement choices. A graduate of Yale and Harvard Law School, he has received two honorary degrees and numerous awards, including the Public Health Award from the National Organization of Rare Disorders and Humanitarian of the Year from the Alzheimer's Association.
W. Chris King, Dean, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Dr. W. Chris King serves as the Chief Academic Officer of the U.S. Army's Command and General Staff. Dr. King earned his Ph.D. in environmental engineering at the University of Tennessee in 1988. Dr. King has authored two books, and 15 book chapters with his most recent manuscript being, Understanding International Environmental Security: A Strategic Military Perspective. He has published more than 30 journal articles and scientific reports, and lectured at more than 50 professional conferences, including the technical sessions of the Copenhagen climate summit in 2009. Dr. King won both the American Academy of Environmental Engineering Honor Award in 1992 for his work on the Kuwait health risk assessment and the Army Science Award for outstanding research for his work in geophysical remote sensing. In 2000, he completed his M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies at the Naval War College. Dr. King is a licensed professional engineer and is board certified by the American Academy of Environmental Engineers with a specialty in hazardous waste management. He is a founding member of the Global Military Advisory Council on Climate Change. He retired from active duty after 34 years of commissioned service at the rank of Brigadier General.
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FORT WAYNE — The 53rd annual Fort Wayne City Swim was held August 1-3 at the South Side Brown Natatorium.
The Columbia City Stingrays from the Burnsworth Memorial Pool summer swim program.
COLUMBIA CITY — Columbia City High School pride will be ringing through the streets of New York City this Thanksgiving.
CCHS's senior varsity cheerleaders were selected to perform in the 88th Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, along with more than 700 other cheer and dance teams from across the nation will be representing the parade's Varsity Spirit.
COLUMBIA CITY — Little Hands, Big Hearts, Great Starts, Inc. recently announced the organization has gained its 501 C3 designation, qualifying the group as a nonprofit. Little Hands is located in Columbia City, and is designed to teach children, prior to beginning kindergarten, how to have an impact on the community and themselves with daily hands-on acts of kindness.
COLUMBIA CITY — With four golfers posting scores under 50, the Columbia City Lady Eagle golf squad downed the visiting North Side Lady Redskins by more than 100 strokes, tagging the visitors with a 181-289 loss Thursday afternoon at the Eagle Glen Golf Course.
COLUMBIA CITY — Blue Bird Revival, a praise band, will perform at Troy Presbyterian Church Sunday for morning worship at 9:50 a.m.
The band is a unique group from Northeastern Indiana. Blue Bird Revival's music is best described as Americana, country, blue grass, and gospel.
The group consists of 10 members, with members playing multiple instruments and signing.
COLUMBIA CITY — Passages, Inc.'s Creative Learning Center was filled with silent auction attendees Thursday evening for the Old & New Art Exhibition and Sale. The event featured artwork created by Passages clients, with approximately 70 pieces on display, from paintings to ceramics to photography.
Editor's note: The following is the first of a two-part series on the Thorncreek Township Fire Department
COLUMBIA CITY — Thorncreek Township has a gem parked in its fire station.
A new 2014 KME fire pumper and rescue truck was recently delivered and put into operation at the fire department.
Area football teams are gearing up for scrimmages tonight at 7 p.m. Columbia City will be hosting Goshen, while Whitko and Churubusco will be on the road. The Wildcats are traveling to Garrett and Churubusco plays at Heritage. Pictured is Columbia City quarterback Trevor Bolt.
COLUMBIA CITY — Enhancing the literacy of individuals in Whitley County has been the focus of the county's Literacy Council since 1987.
However, after almost being nonexistent within the past year, the nonprofit has reorganized and is rebuilding its services.


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I will never stop using it.
I'm 18 years old - and I'm addicted to eating plastic.
Ten water bottles.
It's the way it crunched.
The texture of the remote control.
When it's done it kind of hurts.
She was abused.
She turned to plastic for comfort.
Not so empty.
This isn't meant to go in a body.
Hurt me.
I really would like to stop.
It has ruined her, and her clothes.
Clean yourself.
It slapped me in the face.
I thought it was just because I was pregnant.
I have to use it.
So I can be able to smell it – Forever.
It has burned my eyes and my face.
It burns.
I keep voicing my concerns.
I always feel kind of empty
It's like Christmas time
It's going to hurt you.
Does it scare you –
Like it scares me?
I don't want to eat plastic.
I don't want to feel guilty.
Go see a doctor.
I don't; think the outcome is going to change anything.
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Brian Williams bio in PDF format
2012-13 (Sophomore season)
missed the first 18 games of the season due to a wrist injury sustained during preseason drills.
saw his first action of the season in six minutes against Iowa State.
gave the Cowboys a huge boost against Baylor, scoring six-straight points against the Bears when OSU was trailing 19-14 in the first half and gave the Pokes their first lead of the game.
scored six points for the second-straight game, this time against Texas; also recorded a block and a steal vs the Longhorns.
played 16 minutes at Tech, with three points and three assists.
played 19 minutes vs Kansas and dished out three assists.
had his best game of the season at West Virginia, recording season highs in points (13) and rebounds (six).
played a season-high 23 minutes at TCU.
dished out a career-high four assists with no turnovers in 21 minutes against Kansas State.
2011-12 (Freshman season)
started the final 20 games of the season, including all 18 Big 12 Conference games and both games in the Big 12 Championship.
his 41 minutes off the bench against SMU are tied for the second-most by a Cowboy non-starter since 1970-71; it was exceeded only by Matt Clark's 48 vs Kansas in 1981.
turned the ball over just 27 times in 887 minutes of playing time, or 1.22 turnovers per 40 minutes; that's the second-lowest turnover ratio in school history.
recorded four 20-point games, including a career-high 23 vs sixth-ranked Baylor in Gallagher-Iba Arena, connecting on 9-of-15 shots from the floor.
scored 22 points a win over second-ranked Missouri; was 10-of-12 from the line vs the Tigers.
recorded a game-high 17 points in win over Texas A&M.
his six steals against Texas in Stillwater tied for the second-most by a freshman in school history.
also had a career-best three blocks vs the Longhorns.
was 84-of-143 (58.7 percent) on two-point shots.
reached double figures in 15 games, including 14 of the final 21 contests.
2010-11 (Redshirt season)
redshirted his true freshman season at Oklahoma State.
High School
played alongside fellow Cowboy Markel Brown on the East squad in the Louisiana High School Athletic Association All-Star game.
led his team to the state semifinals in 2010.
named honorable mention All-State for Class 4A his senior season despite missing several games due to injury.
also received first-team All-District 7-4A honors and all-metro accolades.
averaged 25 points, 12 rebounds, three steals and two blocks per game as a senior.
named Class 4A's Outstanding Player by the Louisiana Sports Writers Association at state in 2009.
was named the Class 4A Player of the Year according to the Louisiana Association of Basketball Coaches as a junior.
first-team All-State for Class 4A in 2009, and also named the Most Valuable Player for District 6-4A.
led Glen Oaks to a No. 1 ranking in Class 4A as a junior.
as a junior, averaged 25.9 points, 13.6 rebounds, four blocked shots and 2.1 assists per game.
named first-team All-District 6-4A as a sophomore.
was a consensus three-star recruit, ranked as the 26th-best shooting guard in the country by Scout.com and the No. 127 player overall according to Rivals.com.
chose OSU over LSU, Baylor and Oregon State.
Born Sept. 20, 1992, Brian is the son of Michael and Sharon Williams. He has two sisters, Lindsay and Leah. Brian enjoys spending time with friends and playing video games in his spare time. He is majoring in education at Oklahoma State.
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Daily Archives: December 28, 2011
More Steelers Players Revealed As AFC Pro Bowl Alternates
Ed Bouchette reports this afternoon that a few more Steelers players were named as 2012 Pro Bowl alternates on Tuesday. We already knew that outside linebacker James Harrison was named a first alternate for the AFC at outside linebacker and that free safety Ryan Clark and outside linebacker LaMarr Woodley were also named as second alternates.
Bouchette reports now that left guard Chris Kemoeatu, cornerback Ike Taylor and defensive end Brett Keisel were named a third alternates and inside linebacker Lawrence Timmons was named a fourth alternate four the AFC squad. The Kemoeatu selection is a Read more [...]
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Agree to Disagree – at Browns
Going into the regular season finale, Bob and Mike kick around the merits of playing Ben in Cleveland, their view of Ravens-Bengals, and whether it's important for Hines Ward to reach 1,000 receptions.
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Ben, Pouncey Could Play In Regular Season Finale
PITTSBURGH (KDKA) – The Pittsburgh Steelers will close out the regular season against the Cleveland Browns Sunday afternoon.
It looks like the Steelers could be getting some key players back into the lineup for this important game.
Head coach Mike Tomlin would not rule out Ben Roethlisberger this weekend against the Browns.
"Hopefully we get all of those guys back," Tomlin said in his weekly press conference Tuesday. "It's our intention right now if the guys are healthy enough to practice and prepare, of course we will play them."
Roethlisberger missed last week's win against the St. Louis Rams with an ankle injury sustained the last time the Steelers and Browns met.
In fact, the only people who appear unlikely to play are Mewelde Moore and Doug Legursky.
"Some guys probably on the outside looking in from a health standpoint…Mewelde Moore continues to work his way back from his MCL sprain," Tomlin said. "Doug Legursky is probably going to be a week away with his left shoulder. We'll make the necessary adjustments there.
"All the other guys that have existing injuries or missed the last performance due to injury are in play as we sit here today."
LaMarr Woodley and Maurkice Pouncey could also be available, but there is no definitive word either way.
Should Pouncey returm, it would mean Trai Essex would not have to make his first career start at the center position.
Essex filled in at the center spot against the Rams on an emergency basis after Legursky went down with a shoulder injury.
A first round bye for the Steelers is still within their reach, but they do not control their own destiny.
For it to happen, the Steelers need to win and the Baltimore Ravens need to lose to the Cincinnati Bengals.
In that scenario, the Steelers would take the AFC North title and earn the No. 2 seed in the playoffs. That's also assuming that the New England Patriots take care of business against the Buffalo Bills.
Should the Steelers win and the Ravens and Patriots lose, the Steelers would clinch the top spot in the AFC and have home field advantage for the playoffs.
Tomlin said that the team will need to be focused on the opponent in front of them and not be concerned with what is happening in other stadiums this weekend.
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Roethlisberger, Pouncey planning to practice
Ben Roethlisberger said he is going to try to practice today, and the Steelers quarterback is hopeful of playing Sunday in Cleveland.
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Steelers at Browns Week 17 Capsule
|20 of past 22
|Tomlin: 8-1
|Shurmur: 0-1
|W 27-0 vs. Rams
|L 20-14 at Ravens
|12/8/11: Browns 3 at Steelers 14. Pittsburgh QB Ben Roethlisberger passes for 280 yards & 2 TDs, including 79-yarder to WR Antonio Brown in 4th quarter, as Steelers improve to 10-3.
|1/2/11: Steelers 41, Browns 9. Pittsburgh RB Rashard Mendenhall rushes for 2 TDs & WR Mike Wallace catches 56-yard TD pass as Steelers score 27 unanswered points.
|CBS (4:15 PM ET): Kevin Harlan, Solomon Wilcots. SIRIUS: 135 (Pit.), 92 (Cle.). XM: 225 (Cle.).
|Roethlisberger: 301-473-3,856 (3C)-21-14-91.5 (3C) OR
C. Batch: 15-24-208-0-1-72.9
|McCoy: 265-463-2,733-14-11-74.6 OR
Wallace: 39-66-390-2-1-79.7
|Mendenhall: 220-890-4.0-9 (T2C)
|Hillis: 151-557-3.7-3
|Wallace: 71-1,182 (3C)-16.6-8 (T3C)
|Little (R): 61-709-11.6-2
|Harrison, Woodley: 9
|Sheard (R): 7.5
|Gay, Taylor: 2
|Adams: 3
|Kapinos: 45.0
|Maynard: 40.7
|Suisham: 98 (35/35 PAT; 21/28 FG)
|Dawson: 83 (20/20 PAT; 21/26 FG)
STEELERS: Club is 10-2 (.833) at Cleveland since 1999…QB BEN ROETHLISBERGER (3,856) needs 144 passing yards to reach 4,000 for 2nd time in career (4,328 in '09). Aims for 80th career regular season win (79-34, .699). Has 13-1 record vs. Cle. QB CHARLIE BATCH is 5-2 as starter with Steelers. Batch is 1-0 as starter vs. Browns (11/13/05)…Last week, RB RASHARD MENDENHALL (29) surpassed HOFer FRANCO HARRIS (28) for most rushing TDs in 1st 4 seasons of career in franchise history…WR MIKE WALLACE (1,182) needs 18 receiving yards to reach 1,200 for 2nd consecutive season. In past 3 vs. Browns, Wallace is averaging 25.2 yards per catch (10 rec., 252 yards). WR HINES WARD (995) needs 5 catches to become 8th player in NFL history with 1,000 receptions…WR ANTONIO BROWN (1,018) recorded 1,000+ receiving yards for 1st time in career…Defense allows NFL-low in yards per game (273.9) & passing yards per game (172.2)…LB LA MARR WOODLEY has 3.5 sacks in past 3 vs. Cle…S TROY POLAMALU has 6 career INTs vs. Browns, most vs. any opponent…BROWNS: QB COLT MC COY (2,733) needs 267 passing yards to become 1st Browns QB since '07 to reach 3,000 yards in season (DEREK ANDERSON, 3,787). In 6 starts with Browns (since 2010), QB SENECA WALLACE has completed 100 of 164 passes (61 pct.) for 1,066 yards with 6 TDs vs. 3 INTs & 84.6 passer rating…RB PEYTON HILLIS is averaging 105.5 rush yards per game in past 2 (211 total)…Rookie WR GREG LITTLE (2nd round, No. 59) has 61 catches & needs 6 more to surpass KEVIN JOHNSON (66 in 1999) for Browns' rookie reception record…TE EVAN MOORE has career-best 4 TD receptions in 2011, tied for team-high (JOSHUA CRIBBS)…Rookie DL JABAAL SHEARD is tied for 3rd among NFL rookies with 7.5 sacks…S MIKE ADAMS had INT in last game against Steelers…LB D'QWELL JACKSON leads team with 145 tackles.
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Charley Casserly Likes The Bengals Chances This Weekend
PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – Former NFL General Manager and current NFL Today football analyst Charlie Casserly, joined The Fan Morning Show Wednesday to discuss the NFL playoff picture.
Charlie believes the Bengals have a great shot to beat the Ravens this week. The last time these teams squared off in Baltimore, the Bengals played without standout wide receiver A.J. Green.
Green will play this week and Casserly believes he may make the difference.
Charlie and the guys look at the rest of the playoff picture and try to project the teams to make this year's NFL playoffs.
Filed under: Football, Heard on The Fan, Sports, Steelers, Watch + Listen Tagged: Aaron Rodgers, AFC North, AJ Green, Baltimore Ravens, Charley Casserly, Cincinnati Bengals, NFL, NFL Today, Payton Manning, Tim Tebow
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Brett Keisel Not Even Named a Pro Bowl Alternate? The Beard was Snubbed
Now this is just wrong. Keisel is having his best season. What he has had to play through this season is unreal. He is part of the number one defensive unit in the NFL and he is making plays every game.
Keisel has had to work through so much this year. He has had to play without Casey Hampton for 3 games on his inside. That does not even count that Hampton's back up Chris Hoke has missed the entire season. Keisel had to do more to stop the run then ever before with the lack of a middle presence in many games.
Keisel has been working with less then usual on his outside shoulder as well. He also has had to play without James Harrison for 5 games with an eye injury and suspension. During that time Lawrence Timmons replaced Harrison. That meant Larry Foote came off the bench for Timmons in the middle. Keisel had no help around him. He had to protect inside, outside and his back side due to injuries.
Keisel helped lead the Steelers the to the number one overall defense. ...
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Steelers Want Roethlisberger In Sunday For at Least 25-30 Snaps
Mike Tomlin said on Tuesday that quarterback Ben Roethlisberger has a "shot" to play Sunday in Cleveland, and now there's word that the team really doesn't want him to sit for two straight games getting set for the postseason.
Gerry Dulac of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette says that the Steelers want Roethlisberger to play about 25-30 snaps against the Browns.
Roethlsiberger playing is interesting, since it's up in the air if the Steelers will have to play in wild card weekend or not. The Steelers are hopeful they can win and then the Ravens will lose in Cincy.
If that happens, the Steelers will have a week off and won't play until Saturday, January 14th or Sunday, January 15th. If Roethlsiberger doesn't play at all Sunday, and they do get the bye, that's 26 or 27 days since he would have last played, and the team doesn't want him sitting that long.
Expect the team to be careful with him, but for him to play Sunday – even if it's just for a quarter or half.
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Ryan Clark Discusses Win Over Rams, Looks Ahead To Browns
PITTSBURGH (93-7 The FAN) — The Ryan Clark show with Andrew Fillipponi is once again live from Nakama.
Ryan would love to meet some NBA players, but he doesn't get the chance.
Once his career is over, Ryan thinks he would like to coach.
Ryan remembers back to the humble beginnings of his career. It's rare in this game to develop really close friendships, but Ryan's relationship with Troy Polamalu started with church and bible study. Much of Troy's workouts focus on honing reaction times. Troy is a rock star in Samoa.
There is a lot of movement and a lack of stability in the coaching profession.
Ryan is saddened by the sudden cold feet of a woman in need of advice who has decided not to discuss her love life on the air.
Ryan has enough faith in his own fashion sense to say if an outfit looks good. Ryan hates reality shows, but his wife loves them.
Ryan will go easy on New Years Eve since the Steelers have to play the next day.
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A day after Sean Payton helped Drew Brees break the NFL's single-season passing record the coach wouldn't divulge whether he'd enable his star quarterback to maintain that distinction. With 5,087 yards passing this season after Monday night's victory against Atlanta, Brees enters the final week of the season 190 yards ahead of New England's Tom Brady.
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St. Bernard Fire Chief Thomas Stone has been fighting fires for more than three decades. Now he's fighting something else -- Chinese drywall. "It's like going through Katrina all over again. It's a catastrophe," he says.
He, like other St. Bernard Parish people, are dealing with their homes and lives literally being eaten away because of toxic drywall. "Sinus problems lingered on where before they wouldn't last long. My wife had to seek treatment for a sinus problem. She never had that before in her life," he says.
So tonight, he and a couple hundred others attended a forum to learn about their options dealing with Chinese drywall. "We are at as much of a loss as other people were as how to address it," says Parish President Craig Taffaro.
But this isn't the chief's only concern. Now he's worried about fires if the electronic scales go out, the little flat screen TV goes out, what is happening to our smoke detectors that protect us from fires," he says. Chief Stone says with Chinese drywall eating away at electrical wires, he hopes everyone checks their smoke detectors everyday.
The LRA allocated five million dollars to help people with Chinese drywall. In St. Bernard Parish, there may soon be a waiver of property taxes for those who have toxic drywall. Also, officials are working on a possible expansion of a soft-second mortgage to allow for forgivable loans. There also may be temporary housing available. For protocol on how to file a case over Chinese drywall, go to www.laed.uscourts.gov.
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Trying to port some older COM code to use the new managed API in C3D2013. If I use code like so:
StandardPointGroupQuery query = pg.GetQuery(); query.IncludeNumbers = "2,3,5,7"; pg.SetQuery(query);
Then if the PointGroup was already set to include at least 1 other point group, all is good. However, if the Point Group was set to NOT use other point groups you get an exception thrown with the message "The specified Point Group does not exist or is invalid".
It took some looking, but I found that the GetQuery() returns a query with 1 point group named "" when there are none set, thereby causing the subsequent error. If you just construct a new StandardPointGroupQuery object, no pg is added so no error is thrown (which is why the sample code on Isaac's page works without error). This can be worked around, but it really shouldn't need to be.
And this is the workaround:
StandardPointGroupQuery query = (StandardPointGroupQuery)pgroup.GetQuery(); //added to fix bug in initial release of C3D2013 if (query.PointGroups.Count == 1 && query.PointGroups[0].Equals("")) query.PointGroups.Clear();
Just bringing this back to get some attention as it is really a PITA to have to use my cleanup method everytime I use GetQuery().
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I will take a look at it and check the status in 2014.
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Thanks, Partha. I should have noted that the same behavior exists in C3D2014.
Jeff -
Was it reported earlier ? Is there any Change Request ID given to you againt this issue ?
I've only reported here, Partha. No, no change request has been made as far as I know.
I thought I had made a comment about this on your post showing how to use SetQuery on the DevBlog (July 5, 2012) but I don't see any comments now. Strange thing is this thread was started 2 days prior to your blog post, maybe I thought you had seen this which prompted your post.
I will log a change request and follow it up to fix it soon.


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Each year comes the release of a visual effects reel showcasing some of the work done on HBO's acclaimed fantasy drama "Game of Thrones". The several minute montages show digital mattes, set extensions and elaborate creations that you may be surprised are actual effects. Visual effects house MackeVision have cut together a reel for the fourth season and you'll be surprised at just how elaborate and detailed some of these shots are.
In related news, author George R.R. Martin has a message for all those fans of the books who have expressed concern the 65-year-old might die prior to finishing his work. He tells Swiss newspaper Tagesanzeiger: "I find that question pretty offensive, people speculating about my death and my health. So f-ck you to those people."


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It's an announcement that won't surprise a whole lot of people, but Bethesda has just officially confirmed the sequel to the Xbox 360/PC hit Prey. Prey 2 will be coming out some time next year.
Actually, we've known for some time that Prey 2 was in development. 3D Realms, the producer of the original Prey, announced a sequel in 2008. However, the rights to the franchise were transferred to Bethesda, leaving some question as to the fate of Prey 2.
Despite being in limbo and then thrown into a new environment, the game is still very much on the table. Developer Human Head Studios remains at the back end, so players can expect consistency with its predecessor.
Above: The original Prey, released in 2006
The game creators described the sequel's storyline saying, "This time, abandoned and framed for the disappearance of his family and girlfriend, Tommy escapes an Earth that no longer wants him for a future that cannot survive without him."
Prey originally came out in 2006, and there have been a lot of advancements in game development since then. Developers say Prey 2 will use "the cutting edge id tech engine from id Software," so we can hopefully expect some pretty decent visuals.
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I think the train data is mislabeled. Often I hear a whale when label is 0.
For example file number 3, 5, 8 and a lot of more.
Or maybe the labellers could distinguish other whale species?
Correct, the training data contains many clips that include calls from non right whales (i.e. -- part of a humpback song). There will be many clips that are marked as non right whales that will sound similar (visual inspection of a spectrogram can be helpful, here). It's unlikely that listening to a clip will be adequate to distinguish.
Thanks. Is there an estimate of the performance of a human expert in this classification task? I think the idea would be to try to beat that.
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The more important questions is IMHO, what if in the data set, the experts have made errors, which withouth doubting their expertice, but we are humans and we do make mistakes
The competition is basically to replicate the label provided by a human expert (or a committee of experts in this case), errors and all, and this would not be the first such competition. Inter-rater reliability is of interest in a problem like this.
My comment is purely academic as well, just thinking out loud, not a critique of the current contest. Arguably the ideal result would be a model that performs well on the expert-scored ROC metric and, in addition, has easily interpretable features. In principle, such a model might reveal "bioacoustically reasonable" features of whale sounds that the experts hadn't previously recognized or taken into account in the labeling. Then the test would be to see if the experts are persuaded that the new features are indeed bioacoustically reasonable. Not at all an easy task to design a competition based on that scenario, however!
The question about human performance is relevant. Since the models are trained on these ratings, some errors in rating could have severe consequences for the prediction models. This is not really relevant for the competition itself, but it is for the researchers at Cornell. The best approach for training on 90% human rater accuracy might be different from that of 99% accuracy. I expect that on a lower rater accuracy more stochastic models have an edge over stricter models. Anyone else has ideas on this?
Also, I would be really interested in the rationale for marking "train10038.aiff" as NON right whale. Knowing this rationale might help us get better results. Could a competition admin comment?
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Nike rebranding latest dose of good news for OSU
In an airport a few years back I ran into some strangers decked out in bright orange "OSU" garb.
Being a lifelong Oregon Ducks fan, I couldn't resist some smack talk. Reality didn't hit me until five minutes into the conversation.
I was talking with Oklahoma State fans, not Oregon State Beavers. You'd think the Oklahoma drawl would have been a giveaway, but Oklahoma State's colors closely resemble Oregon State's. We all had a good laugh.
I thought of that yesterday when Business Journal staff writer Erik Siemers wrote about Nike's rebranding campaign for Oregon State. OSU has unveiled a new logo and new uniforms in its signature sports, including football and basketball.
It raises an interesting question: How does Oregon State achieve a national identity? Even OSU Associate Athletic Director Steve Fenk admits the school is often confused with Oklahoma State.
The new uniforms are pretty sleek. They're not as gaudy as those often worn by the Ducks, though, like at Oregon, Nike made sure OSU has several uniform choices.
Nike's branding campaign is just the latest dose of good news involving OSU, which has been on quite a roll lately. OSU's online offerings, called "Ecampus," recently ranked No. 4 on the list of Best Online Colleges and Universities compiled by SuperScholar Smart Choice.
The school is converting its Cascades campus in Bend into a four-year university and it recently announced some major philanthropic gifts for engineering and arts education.
And, last year, the school released a study showing that it has a $2.06 billion annual impact on Oregon's economy. The study also showed that median earnings from OSU grads were roughly 50 percent greater than the national median pay of the rest of the population.
Top that, Oklahoma State.
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And then, the deliberation. Twiggy say that Dionne has given the weakest photographs throughout the competition, though this one might be her best. Carissa says that she's a beautiful girl, but doesn't seem like a top model. Tyra brings up the fact that Dionne is the only girl who didn't name herself as having the most top model potential. Jaslene always produces great photos, says Nigel, but he worries that she gives the same look over and over. Tyra says that it seems like this competition is Jaslene's life. Though she wants the girls to have drive and determination and tunnel vision, she's worried what will happen to Jaslene if she doesn't win. Ms. J. clarifies that Tyra's concerned that if Jaslene doesn't make it eventually it might destroy her. Tyra says that then Jaslene might be stalking his ass. Ms. J. looks afraid, as well he should. There's nothing like a scared man in ever increasing sizes of ruffles around his neck, I'll tell you that much.
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The girls return. Four girls, three photos. Renee is called first, with high praise. Next is Jaslene. She is surprised, and says she thought she'd be in the bottom two because the judges want to see a different face and she hasn't brung it. Tyra says that she'd better brung-did-id it next week. Or, leave it at home with your catty bitchery. Either way. This of course leaves Dionne and Natasha. Dionne started off rough, and got better and better. But the judges feel like her ascent is too rocky, with lots of backsliding. The fact that she didn't name herself as having the most potential also concerns the judges (read: Tyra, who is the only person to really pay attention to that stupid shit). Because, after all, who will believe in Dionne if she doesn't believe in herself? ["I have to say, I wondered whether she knew she was even allowed to name herself, since they told her the job was to 'evaluate her competition.' I wondered if she thought they meant 'out of the other three girls.'" -- Miss Alli] Meanwhile, Natasha is the girl with the beautiful face and great personality who was awful at first. But she got better and better, until this week, when she sucked. And the "boo hoo I'm sick" story is the oldest top model excuse in the book. Tyra adds the fact that the other girls all were very negative about Natasha and, given the fact that the judges don't live in the house with them (but if they did, wouldn't it be interesting and also make all the judges quit?), they have to listen to what the other girls say sometimes. Is there something about Natasha that she's hiding? Is there something that's manipulative? Is she fake? Tyra asks those questions, and notes that there has to be a reason why the other three girls have ganged up against her. They're mean. Isn't that reason enough?