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Downtown Roanoke features shopping, restaurants and markets.
Project leaders for The Bridges development along Jefferson Street hope to successfully connect the center of Roanoke with Carilion Clinic's campus, the Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and the Roanoke River.
Jason Vickers-Smith is a partner in WVS Companies, developer of The Bridges and Rocketts Landing in Richmond.
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Regarding the Roanoke project, Vickers-Smith says, "We hope that it will take as little as five years, but ten years is probably a more realistic time frame. It is about seven hundred thousand square feet of product."
The much larger Rocketts Landing development brought life back to the old port part of the James River. It incorporates a community that was transformed from industrial property into neighborhood living with a total of sixty acres and three million square feet to use.
He explains, "One of the things that we do is try to make authentic projects."
The goal even in the earliest stages of the WVS Roanoke project is to re-purpose old industrial buildings and incorporate new construction along with architecture that is similar to surrounding neighborhoods.
Rocketts Landing has three hundred condos and a handful of town homes. There are three restaurants including Conch Republic that features outdoor dining with Richmond about a mile away in the distance.
Vickers-Smith has a vision for Roanoke that includes incorporating views of Mill Mountain Star into construction.
He says, "It has a real heritage. There are industrial buildings that are left that can be re-purposed to make it authentic."
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Hospital Execs Forecast Higher IT Spending
Another trend identified in the survey is the increasing investment hospitals are making in their IT infrastructures. Nearly 43% of respondents say their organization will make its biggest capital investment in healthcare information technology and telecommunications in 2013, up 21% from two years ago.
"Many health systems have invested in EHRs that are critical to patient care, but they're only one of dozens of needed IT assets. They weren't created to support and track the seamless transitions of care from one setting to another or facilitate intra-team communications—functions [that are] central to accountable, patient-centric care," Alkire says.
With the shift to value-based reimbursements, healthcare providers are investing in the IT necessary to improve population health management, Alkire says.
"Providers are increasingly looking at IT that facilitates predictive capabilities and the intelligence to support action to better care for the populations they serve. A comprehensive population health suite of technologies helps providers manage patient care more efficiently, with a better understanding of total cost and outcomes… This allows providers to better support emerging care delivery and risk management models such as ACOs that are reimbursed based on quality and cost overall."
Despite the growing investments in HIT, however, 32% of survey respondents report that they are still unable to share data across the continuum of care.
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In the last public playtest packet, saving throws for spells had the following formula: The DC was set to 8 + prof bonus + magical stat bonus.
The target would then throw a saving throw, adding their stat bonus and hope to get above that DC.
Instead of having the defender roll the saving throw, we would like the attacker to roll the attack against the "defense" of the monster. (Mainly to make play by post run smoother)
Would this mean that the attacker just rolls d20+prof + magic stat bonus, and they try to get a number which is higher than 8+ monster def stat bonus, or is there a different formula which better maintains the math? (This math sounds wrong to me, so I assume there is a better formula)


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ALDF: First person charged with violating Ag Gag Law
The Animal Legal Defense Fund reports the first person has been charged with violating the Ag Gag Law in Utah.
The ALDF has filed a lawsuit in the state to overturn the horrible law.
In this video, people are being harassed for standing in a public right-of-way. So a crime can be underway and the people documenting the crime can be harassed? What's wrong with this picture?
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Baseball to Host Event-Filled Parent's Weekend
Oct. 15, 2008
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - Head coach Daron Schoenrock and the University of Memphis baseball program will host an event-filled Parent's Weekend Thurs., Oct. 16 through Sat., Oct. 18. The weekend's festivities include the annual draft-eligible player Pro Scout Day, Alumni/Bullpen Club Golf Tournament and the Rookies vs. Vets Scrimmage.
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"Scout Day has become an annual event that we try to cater to the professional scouts that cover our area and make it easy for them to come get a first look and evaluate of all of our draft-eligible players," said Schoenrock. "You never know, when a baseball year starts, who in your junior or senior class will get drafted as skills develop, but we are excited about our draft-eligible guys and we'll probably have in the neighborhood of 15-20 pro scouts for the workouts for our players."
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Veterans - Marc Ashley, Jr. RHP (1-3, 9.51 ERA in 2008)
The Tiger returners will battle the newcomers in a 10-inning controlled scrimmage. In Schoenrock's coaching career, the Veterans hold an 18-2-1 mark over the Rookies. The Rookies only two wins came in the 2004 game--when the Tiger newcomers bested the Veterans 15-9--and in last year's tilt that saw the Rookie team cross four runs in the ninth to claim a 6-5 win. Redshirt freshman Adam McClain will lead a group of talented young Tigers that includes local talents Heith Hatfield, Drew Martinez, Ben Paullus, Trey Turner, Jacob Wilson and Michael Wills. Juco transfers Shawn Ablett, Ryan Fraser and Josh Ross will also figure in as key contributors as the Rookie squad looks to post its second consecutive victory over the Veterans. First-year assistants K.K. Chalmers and Derrick Dunbar will manage the Rookie team. Led by assistant coaches Mike Federico and Jerry Zulli, the Vets showcase a wealth of returning experience. The home team boasts seven position players that made starts in 2008, four starting pitchers (Marc Ashley, Brach Davis, Ryan Holland and Brennon Martin) and the program's all-time saves leader in Matt Yokley. Returning starters include Trey Wiedman, who led the team in hitting a year ago with a .302 average, Brett Bowen Tyler Huelsing and Chad Zurcher.
"The Rookies-Vets Game is an annual event that is fun for our coaching staff to observe," Schoenrock stated. "We like to watch the veteran players compete against the new Tiger players in a controlled scrimmage. You expect the veteran players and their experience to pull it out in the end. This is just a fun day for the kids, but for 10 innings it's very competitive."


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I love watching your stuff, partly because the lumber down there looks like it's from another planet. Lovely!
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How much for that re saw blade? LOL! You do have some nice tools to apply your trade.
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Beautiful work, Andy! I like how you ran the grain through the drawer fronts. That wood grain is gorgeous!
I think this is the first video I see of your working with power tools too.
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Thanks guys. Tom, a blade for that Hitachi re-saw is a ridiculous $400.00 down here. every now and then somebody puts a nail through it…not so good!
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Andy, that is looking fantastic! I have never seen "drawer slips" before. Love the idea and the wood looks great.
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Investors fear Nokia collapse
The slide in the value of the Nokia stock continued on the New York Stock Exchange on Wednesday; share price down further in early Helsinki trading on Friday
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The mobile phone manufacturer Nokia's share price continued to slide in New York on Wednesday after the company had warned on Tuesday that its second-quarter sales and margins would be much lower than expected.
Never before in the current millennium has Nokia's future looked as uncertain as today, analysts feel.
The demand for Nokia handsets is eroding so rapidly that the company is unable to estimate its profit development for the coming autumn.
On Wednesday, the company's share price
dropped by almost 5 per cent on the New York Stock Exchange, but in Helsinki the share price declined by less than 1 per cent from its Tuesday close, when it had shed more than 17% of its value in heavy trading.
Thursday saw the Helsinki bourse closed for Ascension Day, but early trading on Friday has shown no steadying of the ship, as Nokia had fallen a further 5% by noon to slip under the EUR 4.50 marker.
Tim Boddy
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, estimates that the rapid fall in Nokia's market share is bound to endanger the company's economies of scale, particularly when it comes to the delivery of its products.
This can make it difficult to strengthen the company's market position with new phones based on Microsoft's Windows software.
According to Boddy, Nokia's Windows phones will not be available in several price categories any sooner than by the middle of next year. If this estimate holds true, Nokia's current stumble could become more critical.
Because of the anticipated phase-out
, investors do not believe that a reform of the Symbian platform could prevent the decline in the demand for Nokia phones from continuing.
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Jeffrey predicted earlier that Nokia's earnings per share would be reduced to EUR 0.54 this year.
On Wednesday, he downgraded his forecast by 15 per cent to EUR 0.46.
In 2010, Nokia's EPS stood at EUR 0.61.
One reason for the continued plunge in Nokia's share price in New York on Wednesday was probably the fact that some investors are short selling, hoping to profit from a decline in the price of shares between the sale and the repurchase.
"As the company's situation is very unclear, speculators can make hay", says
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In his report, Tim Boddy compares
Nokia's situation with the collapse of the US mobile phone manufacturer Motorola's phone business in early 2007.
Motorola built its success on the RAZR cellphones, the demand for which declined rapidly at the end of 2006.
Motorola's mobile phone business has still not recovered from the collapse.
Nokia announced in its profit warning
on Tuesday that its "second quarter 2011 Devices & Services non-IFRS operating margin could be around breakeven".
This triggered panic among investors and led to the double-digit falls in the already battered Nokia stock that were seen on Tuesday afternoon.
The decline was almost as steep as that witnessed in February on the announcement of Nokia's strategic partnership with Microsoft.
Nokia CEO
Stephen Elop
asserted on Tuesday that the company does not plan any new cost-cutting measures.
The company's target is to reduce its fixed costs by EUR 1.0 billion by 2013.
The aim is to axe 7,000 jobs worldwide.
By issuing an exceptionally gloomy profit warning, Nokia brought home to investors that the company's problems, which have been accumulating over many years, really are large.
The profit warning also implies that giving up Symbian was the right decision, as it no longer attracts consumers, who are increasingly turning to the Android platform, even over Apple's' IOS4.
Whether the Nokia phones using the Microsoft platform will arrive soon enough or be attractive enough to turn things around is another matter altogether, and is also related to the uptake of applications for the phones. Right now Android phones are tempting countless software developers to produce new apps, which also increase the attractivness of the phones to the end-consumers.
When it comes to Finland's economy as a whole
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The major part of the company's mobile phones are manufactured abroad, where also most of the company's employees live.
The European Commission predicts that Finland's GDP will increase briskly in the current year, namely by 3.7 per cent.
Among the eurozone countries, only Estonia is forecast to enjoy stronger growth.
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Nokia shares plummet after company issues profit warning (1.6.2011)
Nokia result exceeds gloomy analysts´ forecasts, but outlook remains cloudy while smartphone sales lag behind the competition (21.4.2011)
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At least in Finland, Nokia continues to have a strong foothold in the smartphone market (1.3.2011)
Nokia´s new strategy prompts suspicions among investors and consumers alike (15.2.2011)
Nokia Stock exchange release 31.5.2011
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Supervisor Kenneth Stokes spoke Friday and asked residents to take a stand against violence.
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Motorists who use the West Point Dam Road for their daily commutes, will have to find another route Friday, September 27, 2013.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Mobile District announced today that vehicular and pedestrian traffic across the dam road will be closed that day to ensure public safety as contractors complete roadway maintenance.
The USACE says the closure may add to travel time, as many motorists use the dam to cross the Chattahoochee River. Signs located at each end of the road are in place to notify the public of its accessibility.
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I'm curious about that number too. You'd think that gay men who are out and open about it don't need to marry women….so where'd they get the number from? Could it be gay men who are now open? And admit to having married chicks before they were out? Weird.
How many gay men marry straight women?
In the current issue of the Economist they have a story about homosexuality in China, and in it there was this interesting assertion:
The desire for male descendants has had many baleful consequences in China, and in recent years one that used to be hidden has come to light. Millions upon millions of women are trapped in loveless and often miserable marriages to homosexual men. [...] It is estimated that 15-20% of gay men in America marry heterosexual women. But Liu Dalin, a pioneering sexologist now retired from the University of Shanghai, has put the share in China at 90%.
I'm not sure where they get the American number, but up to 20% of U.S. gays marry straight women? Sheesh.
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That number doesn't surprise me at all. My guess is that it's even higher than that, especially among older men, who felt they had no choice but to stay in the closet and live what would 'appear" to be a "normal" life.
This truly inspired me to think and write about my own experience with a guy who lives the life of a heterosexual.
His gay purgatory is of his own making. (my opinion)
It is a source of perplexing thought for me.
Sadly, I think there are a lot of men/women that are leading a heterosexual lifestyle due to various fears even though they were born to be the the complete opposite.
I recently found out that my husband of 17 years has been having sexual relations with men. He denies being gay or bisexual but I am very confused and hurt. My friends now say they have always thought he was gay but they did not know how to tell me. We have three children and to protect them, I am staying in the marriage. If we did not have children that would be a different case, not because I don't love him, but because infidelity in any form is not the basis of love and marriage in my opinion.
I agree that that 80 to 90 per cent of men are gay, married or not. Men who marry and refuse to accept what they are gay, are selfish bastards. They want kids proof they are normal to their families but they're full of crap. If someone accepts they're gay and don't hurt or decieve anyone one in the prosess then that's fine, as long as they're up front about it.
Having been married to a man who was unable to deal with his issues, fears, and feelings about his molestation and rape as a child by his father I believe you may be more right than you know. Of course, My husband lied, deceived and hurt me as a Christian since I made it perfectly clear prior to marriage I was looking for a man who was Christian. I got neither and the cruel comments he made are an indication of his real self.
I have absolutely zero respect for gays thanks to this cruel, warped and hateful man. After 16 years, 8 months we were divorced with two daughters who loved their dad but lost all respect for him due to his choices.
The numbers don't surprise me at all. As a gay man myself I have met many many men who were at one point or another married or engaged to women. Some that I met told me that they did it because they felt no other choice due to family friends and society. Others because they denied who they were and others still because they were closeted gay bashers who hated themselves and needed to put up appearances. Others whom I found were STILL married and trying to get me in bed! I Sadly alot of men deny who they are and try to lead the straight life which usually blows up in their faces later on leaving a distraught ex wife thinking "where did I go wrong" and children confused as to their parents relationship. I could never see myself pretending to me someone I'm not nor could I see myself putting others through that pain.
so true, now a day in the society we all live in, there's certain social image many try to blend in, well, for most of the gay people anyway. That in turn can hurt oneself and the other party too. so I would just being myself and live my own life regardless. peace.
this is disturbing on many levels.
my ex and his mother knew they were gay and infected with aids but lied to me married me robbed me blind only to admit the marragae happened to avoid arrest for the robbery. Should the gay liars be sued for everything they have and get arrested for criminal charges?
Its comes as a no surpirse to me. In fact it is the common situation in a country like India or china with millions of people who are actually gay but still are married and live a fake life. As a gay Indian who met and talked to plenty of others, at least till now this is the norm that is prevailing due to societal pressures. It has to go a long way to change the way society looks at gay people and the gays, themselves.
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This is all bullshit , a gay man who marries a woman knowing fully well that he is gay is a coward who ruins the lives of his wife and destroys his children mental well being for the rest of their lives . They are also lower then the average cheater in that they often pull other male family members on the wifes side into their filthy ways . Imagine having a brother or brothers who she loves dearly and finding out that she has been used by them all. I cannot describe the pain . To find that you husband cheats is one thing to find out that he has sex with your family male family members is another .The reason behind it all …he needs to hide what he is from others no matter the cost of their lives , just so his live is protected form the aminial
I'm a gay male married to a straight woman. We both love each other. I married feeling as though I could change. I've had one short relationship with a man (once) during our marriage and have been monogomous since. I manage my sexuality by being out to my wife and share our inner most feelings. We satisfy our selves in creative ways. Thankfully, we are working together by being open and honest with each other. I won't state that we are bucking a trend but are maintaining a unique relationship that is working.
Richard, your example makes me optimistic. I'm in a relationship with this 24 year old guy, we've been deeply in love but when it became serious and we both felt like we wanna get married, he came out to me. I'm the only one on this earth whom he's come out to. He cried and said that I should leave him because he has no future, and will just find himself a hobby. He's never been with a guy and he said he will never lead a gay life, not even in his subconscious. But despite all that, he's always knows he was gay. I still wanna be with him, especially that I know he won't be with a man, ever, so I'm not depriving him from anything, on the contrary. I will give him love and family. I'm totally convinced that homosexuality isn't a choice (if it was, I'd choose to be lesbian, actually I can be lesbian if I want to but it's too problematic) but at the same time.. I don't believe he's gay. I mean, he knows better, but as a child, his mom used to tell him that we should burn homosexuals alive and watch them. As a child or young teenager, his father took him to the gym to build up muscles and when he couldn't lift heavy weights, he yelled at him, amongst many other incidents. They might have instilled the idea in his head. But even if he IS gay, he's giving me love that no straight man has ever given me, and I love him deeply. I'm thinking to stay with him and eventually get married, but also convince him to come out to close people, just for acceptance and for his psychological well being.
My question is, how are you and your wife satisfying each other sexually? Other than true love, are there any other techniques that you're following? Anything than usual heterosexual couples don't do? What can I do to satisfy a gay man? Would really appreciate your help.
Reply aimed towards Gina,
My sexuality being different than my straight wife causes us to be creative when satisfying our sexual needs. As you know, one can be as creative as your soul allows. My excitement differs from hers, my feelings towards men are for the most part the same. I don't know the intimaces straight couples experience, so in our relationship there are fantasies and lots of talk. We've been together long enough to know each other's wants and desires.
I'm gay, and behave differently than 'mainstream' homosexual community and I love my wife, is that so bad?
I've known at least two gay men married to straight women who know about their sexuality. Like the user above, I guess.
I was still a 'gayling' (i.e. new to coming to terms with my sexuality after fighting it for 18 years), it was a period when like a parched man I was thirstily reconnecting with vengeance to the gay community I had avoided for so long. Still, I grew up knowing that I would never marry if I stayed in the closet, simply because I knew that I could never lie to another human being just to 'fit in'. So I initially viewed these people with hostility. Like another user said above, as 'cowards'.
It was only later when I started learning more about gay history when I realized that I was very very lucky. If I had been born 10 or 20 years earlier, I probably would be in their shoes right now. And I begin to see why.
I now pity gay men trapped in sham marriages, there will be too much pain if they confess now. And in most cases, it's just not worth destroying the life of your wife and children. It's a sort of courage in a way. I can't imagine the hell they go through seeing their dreams come true on equality and yet not being able to take part.
I admire gay men who have happy marriages like the user above, more because I do not equate love with sexual desire. I have unconventional views when it comes to sexuality and am pretty intrigued by polyamory (and yes, I believe in bisexuals, LOL).
I still loathe closeted gay men who marry straight women and are extremely homophobic though. What I call the 'Ted Haggard syndrome'.
Re: this subject, I'm very interested in hearing from out gay men. (Those of you who have commented already, thank you for your honesty.) I'm less interested in hearing how you think, and more interested in learning how you treat gay men who marry heterosexual women. How do you treat these men who are in "sham marriages" when you think or come to know that they are gay? How do you treat now-out gay men who were once married to a woman and living in a closet? And, whether or not you are personally sympathetic, can you shed any light on how the out/open gay community at large acts toward such men? Is there any significant population of out/open gays who chastise such men? Are there any slang terms that have become adopted for these men? Their sham marriages? The wife and kids they've cheated?
Thanks in advance for your honest assessment.
David Wynn
Executive Director
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I'm engaged to a gay man. We've known each other 30 years and were together 3 of those years 27 years ago. He's open and honest with me. He loves me with his heart but "craves" sex (his words) with a man. He states he's always loved me but thought it best 27 years ago to part for my sake. I married, and was married for 20 years until he passed away a couple of years ago. My partner and I slowly got back together. Today, we take things slowly but he told me never to worry because we're not going to lose each other again. We love each other from our heart to do that; we were both miserable w/o each other. We plan to marry when he retires in 5 years. Now, we travel back & forth across country to each other's house once a month. When I go there I'm there for 3 weeks; when he comes here he's here anywhere from 3days to 5days depending on how many he can get off.
He said his sexual preferance is differen than his heart. He wants his heart to run his life instead of his sexuality. All his gay friends said they can tell he loves me b/c even when I'm not there he's always talking about me. From what I hear even the 27 years we were apart I was part of the conversation a lot. When we got back together, people I have never met said so you're the "famous" Jane. So, love is the most important part of both of our lives at this point. The sexuality is a different part that will always be there but I know that his love won't faulter. We have an open (one sided) relationship. We know each other has the option to be with someone else but we don't want to know that it really happened.
This is my & my partner's take on gay men married to straight women. IF, I say if, BOTH partners love each other & want it to work it can. It won't be easy at times but the love is worth it. Me as a straight woman knows that the love of my gay partner has ALWAYS been better and stronger than any love of a straight man. If we don;t get married, or something happens where we are no longer together again, I know the love of my life, my soul mate; I would never find another love as strong as ours.
Jane, I'm glad you ended up with your soul mate in the end. I'm in a relationship with a closeted gay guy, I'm the only one he's come out to. We love each other dearly. He stated that he won't lead a gay life whether or not I'm with him. So I don't feel I'm wronging him. He, however, is afraid he won't be able to satisfy all my needs. I'm, too, worried I won't be able to satisfy all his needs. Please advise if you're both having sex. And if you are, is it any different than sex with a straight man? Are there specific things that I can do to satisfy him more?
Gina, my partner satifies me more than I do him. I feel guilty b/c of it but, he's not cheating on me. When you are in a gay/straight relationship you have to figure out what is going to work for you which is usually unconvintual. We do not leave out the gay world so he can still let himself feel he's not missing anything. We are both in our late 50′s so we know better what is important than we did in our 20′s. I guess that's why we had to split up for 27 years before we got back together. If you've always loved someone all your life and you're in the time of your life where your kids are grown, you're getting ready to retire, and you want to have someone to grow old with that you know will look after your best interest, you may sacafice some things to be with the person your heart loves. Each couple of this type of relationship has to figure out what will work for them and what won't. Some may have an open marriage where they both can see someone outside the relationship. Some may say ok, if you need to do this just don't let me know & get tested every 6 months & don't bring anything home. And, some like us, just want to grow old together & love each other & not deal with all the heart ache b/c believe me, if you're going to be in this type of relationship it WILL take all your strenght to keep things under control & worry about only what you can control. His sexual preference isn't something you can control. It's how you both handle it that makes the situation good or bad.
Good luck.
lol. really? you think being with a gay man as a hetero woman will keep him happy? Sorry but my experience with gay men in that light , really, they are dogs, women make men selective as all species of female do. The brutal truth is when a man has an opportunity to fuck something else. Especially if he is gay, he will. fact of life, and why aids was such a huge epedemic in the 80′s. true fact, dont sugar coat it. stop acting like a gay man can be faithful to anything
When a child I believed every men could be had; and they were all married. With children, a house in the country, apartment in the city. On the road doing antique shows. Designing costumes for the theatre. I learned social ettiquette from these men, in exchange for my youth, i believe I behaved myself with mostly flying colors.. It was a fair exchange and it worked. Yes, I did get bitter over one romance, but it was the lovliest and could have gone much further. His wife was English, cool and practical and even asked him if he wanted a divorce. Didn't happen. Went on to a man I could trust implicitly for a number of years, until he passed suddenly in 2000 shortly after our committment ceremony on January 1st.
Well im an openly gay male and always has been,i have a friend i fallin in love with and i was his first guy and he loved me and till this day i know he love me but he couldnt accept that he was gay because of society and decided to date a girl and get ingaged, hust so he can fight that hes in love with a guy.Its a huge deal and alot of men do it, they rush and get married so they can hide who they are by being married and haveing kids,But at the end it all fails and any woman that would rush in a situation like that and questions the situation and never reacts to it then they are bound to be hurt,cause men like to run from what they feel isnt right.
I am engaged to a bisexual man, mostly gay. He was the woman in his previous relationships. We've known each other for 4 years but have only been sexually active together for 3 months. I've satisfied his gay side sexually and to my surprise, I enjoyed it. He says I'm the best lover he's ever had–man or woman. I've had a feeling he's been seeing another (probably man) but he refutes it. He swears his eternal love, devotion, and faithfulness to me forever and ever. He is so sweet, great in bed, treats me like a princess (calls me that too!). So why am I unsure? Why do I question his faithfulness? Why am I scared he will always crave a man even if he's satisfied with me? I know you can't answer for another but I need some guidance as to the bisexual/gay man's mind.


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Corned Beef Hash
Serves 4
1 pound russet potatoes, diced
1 pound cooked corn beef, cubed
1 cup onion, chopped
1 red bell pepper, chopped
2 tablespoons butter
1/4 cup heavy cream
4 eggs
2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
Method of Preparation:
1. Cook potatoes in boiling salted water to cover until just tender, about 3 minutes, then drain. Pulse corned beef in a food processor until coarsely chopped.
2. Sauté onion and bell pepper in butter in a 12-inch nonstick skillet over moderately high heat,stirring, until lightly browned, about 5 minutes. Add potatoes and sauté over moderately high heat, stirring occasionally, until browned, about 5 minutes. Stir in corned beef and salt and pepper to taste, then cook,stirring occasionally, until browned. Add cream and cook, stirring, 1 minute.
3. If desired, make 4 holes in hash and break 1 egg into each. Cook over moderately low heat, covered, 5minutes, or until eggs are cooked to desired doneness, and season with salt and pepper. Sprinkle hash with parsley.
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Dear Representative:
On behalf of the millions of members represented by the undersigned groups, we urge you to oppose H.R. 3961, the "Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act," and its appalling and dishonest attempt to mask the tremendous costs health care reform will impose upon American families and businesses. Considering the enormity and complexity of our health care system, the American people deserve honesty and transparency in a reform debate. This kind of legislative scheming fails to live up to the high standards to which this Congress claims to aspire.
Introduced by Representative John Dingell (D-MI), H.R. 3961 would raise reimbursements for physicians through Medicare to the tune of more than $200 billion over 10 years. While this so-called "doc fix" has merit under the right circumstances as a means of preventing further erosion of physician participation in the Medicare program, this legislation contains no spending reductions elsewhere to offset its considerable cost. Quite simply, this bill serves as a deceptive measure to reduce the perceived cost of various plans for comprehensive health care overhaul.
One such piece of legislation was unveiled by Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and was announced as having received a 10-year cost estimate from the Congressional Budget Office of $894 billion. It achieved a score significantly lower than earlier proposals at least in part by reducing physician reimbursements through Medicare. By engineering a $200+ billion reversal of part of the massive health care bill in separate legislation, it is clear that some leaders in Congress have no intent of allowing those reductions to take effect.
If Congress seeks a "doc fix," it should draft it into comprehensive health care reform legislation and allow it to be debated in proper context. Splitting higher reimbursements into a separate piece of legislation can only be an underhanded bait-and-switch attempt to deceive an American public that deserves better.
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Wee flowers in the pond.
Tis the season's end
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|€ 100,00
Registration fee for Accompanying Persons includes: • Entrance to the exhibition area • Half-day excursion • Local transportation (ACTV scheduled services) • 22% Italian VAT (tax)
The registration fee for Allied Professionals includes: • Attendance to scientific sessions (limited to Allied Professionals sessions) • Entrance to the exhibition area • Attendance certificate • Badge and congress kit • Local transportation (ACTV scheduled services) • 22% Italian VAT (tax)
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As October is considered peak tourist season in Venice, it is recommended to book in great advance and possibly within April 30, 2015.
The Organizing Secretariat will make all efforts to confi rm your reservation in the hotel category of your choice; if not possible, an alternative proposal will be submitted for your approval. Venetian hotels have very few single rooms, therefore double room for single occupancy (DSO) will be assigned once the single rooms are no longer available. The majority of the hotels pre-booked for VeniceArrhythmias are located in Venice, once they are fully booked, alternative hotels located in Venice Lido might be assigned.
Confirmation documents will be sent starting from June 30, 2015.
Please note that hotels are listed per categories/rate ranges and rooms will be assigned according to availability on a "first-come-first-served" basis.
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Payments accepted are: credit cards, cheques written on Italian Banks and Bank Transfer in Euro.
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Students will cut symmetrical shapes out of paper, and will then use them to describe the relative positions of objects.
Class: Kindergarten
Duration: One class period, about 45 minutes
- scissors
- construction paper
- templates (optional) of ½ butterflies, hearts, circles, squares, triangles, and any other shapes you'd like students to experiment with
- gluestick
- crayons (optional)
Key Vocabulary: half, whole, symmetry, line, above, below, next to, in front of, behind
Objectives: Students will cut and place objects with one line of symmetry, and will use positional language to describe their location.
Standards Met: K.G.1. Describe objects in the environment using names of shapes, and describe the relative positions of these objects using terms such as above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to.
Lesson Introduction: Write the following terms on the board and go over their definitions with students: Above, below, beside, in front of, behind, and next to. Ask students to tell you the locations of items in the classroom using those terms. Where is the clock? Where is my desk? Where is the blackboard? If time allows, have them ask these kinds of questions to their classmates, and have their peers answer using the given terms.
Step-by Step Procedure:
- Model the tracing and cutting of shapes. On the board, show students how to fold a piece of construction paper, place a template along the fold, and trace around it. Then they should cut along the lines. Do this several times so that you have many examples to share with the class, and continue this until you feel that most students are comfortable with the process.
- Give students 15-20 minutes to do this with various templates while you walk around the room and help students who are struggling. Some may be having trouble with scissors, others with the templates and their folded paper. Adjust the timing of the lesson as needed, and have students who are finishing quickly help others.
- When you see that all students have at least 4-5 shapes, take a few minutes for clean up, and then bring their attention back to you at the board.
- Have students describe for you where to put your shapes, while you record on the board what they tell you using the vocabulary. For example, "Put the butterfly above the clock." Tape the butterfly above the clock and write on the board exactly what they've told you to do. "Put the heart next to Javarion's desk." And so on, until you have used most if not all of the shapes you cut out.
- Put away your model, and walk students through the directions they created in #4. Tell them that they are now going to create their own design with their shapes. They should glue them to a sheet of white paper in whatever arrangement they want. Tell them that you'll be pulling them in small groups so that they can tell you about their pictures.
- Have students create their own design with their shapes. For about 10 minutes, walk around helping students. You can also use that time to reinforce the positional language. "Oh, I see you put the butterfly next to the heart!" Some students may finish the gluing early, in which case they can help others or color a picture to go with their shape arrangement.
- One by one or two by two, pull students aside and have them dictate to you where their shapes are located on the page. "The butterfly is above the triangle." "The square is next to the circle." Record this information on their page.
Homework/Assessment: Send a baggie of shapes home with your students, and have them practice steps 6 and 7 at home, with a parent or older sibling recording the positional information as the student dictates.
Evaluation: Take anecdotal notes as you meet with individuals or small groups of students.


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United Visual Artists Ltd (UVA) were commissioned by Covent Garden to create a responsive installation as part of their Delight Christmas campaign this year. "Constellation" is a light-based sculptural intervention which has been designed especially for the Covent Garden Market Halls.
TarmLED GmbH & Co. KG supplied a total of 578 2m long, double-sided, LED-strips, and 37 DPDUs (Data Power Distribution Units), to power the installation. TarmLED's engineers developed double-sided, video-compatible LED-strips based on the TarmLED Strip 25-modules. The LED strips were incorporated into polycarbonate tubes coated with a semitransparent reflective film, in accordance with UVA's design. Together with customized TarmLED DPDUs, the tubes are allowed to hang elegantly in the space, as the DPDUs allow for cable runs of a maximum 20m from the fixture, using a single CAT5e cable carrying data and power to each fixture. The 25mm pixel spacing of the TarmLED strips and UVAs regular grid layout of the tubes provide a 3D display of geometric patterns and effects. The system is entirely driven by UVA's d3 production system.
1,156 2m strips of TarmLED Strip 25
37 TarmLED DPDUs customised for UVA
37 Enttec Datagate
40 Chromaflood 200
24 SGM Palco 3
11.8km CAT5e cable
1.2km polycarbonate tube
135m" semi-translucent mirror silver film
1.4km steel wire
92.480 LEDs
138,720 channels of DMX
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Affordable Beach Getaway - 2 Blocks to Beach & Town in Santa Barbara
- bedrooms 1
- baths 1
- sleeps 4
- pool yes
- hot tub no
- pets considered no
- type House
rates (USD)
/ night
$ 995 - $ 1,295 / week
vacation rental description
Welcome to our bright & sunny 1 bedroom & 1 bathroom Affordable Beach Getaway. We are located 2 blocks from the Beach, Stearns Wharf, Public Pool, Harbor, world-class dining, and downtown shops, including our own local Farmers market. Leave your car and parking worries behind.
See our independent Reviews to help you decide!
Within blocks are a European deli and market, bakery and sandwich shop, three wineries and a grocery store leaving little need to leave the neighborhood. In addition there are bike rentals, Segway rentals, peddle surrey rentals, a skate park, the Chase Palm Park with a merry-go-round and the site of a craft fair each Sunday that lines the beach boardwalk. The Santa Barbara Zoo and the Bird Sanctuary are an easy mile and half walk. If you are traveling to Santa Barbara by train the Secret Getaway is two blocks from the train station and there is a car rental agency two blocks away in case you want to explore the Santa Ynez Valley wine country. If you are tired of walking, all of these attractions can be reached by a local 25 cents-a-ride shuttle bus that runs up State Street and along the ocean front from the harbor to the zoo.
Our Affordable Getaway is about 700 square feet and offers a fully equipped kitchen, bedroom with king bed, clean full bathroom with limestone throughout,a large living room with full size pull out couch, Waterford fireplace, 42' high definition TV and DVD, and sliding glass doors leading to a large private balcony complete with chaise lounges, table and chairs, gas grill and potted plants. We also offer complimentary wireless broadband interne. private washer and dryer and very rare for the beach private reserved parking.
We are located in the best area of Santa Barbara, the Historic West Beach area, a high end residential neighborhood, not on a commercial thoroughfare or adjacent to the railroad tracks or highway.
In addition, we equip you with a binder filled with recommendations for activites and restaraunts.
We have everything you need for a fun filled time and are unmatched in location, quality and price!
Our pictures, location and price tell it all!
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house rental amenities
Property Type
- house
- floor area 800 sq. ft.
- guests provide their own meals
Location Type
- Located 2 blocks to the beach.
- beachfront
- romantic
- family
- historic
- budget
- tourist attractions
- spa
- adventure
- Complimentary wireless broadband internet
towels provided
- Beach Towels also provided
fitness room / equipment
- The Santa Barbara Athletic club is a 5 minute walk and offers temporary memberships.
wireless internet
- Local and long distance calling are available via Skype.
- iron & board
- hair dryer
- washing machine
- clothes dryer
- Wateford gas fireplace
- Private Reserved Parking
- heating
- linens provided
- gas fireplace
living room
- with full size pull out couch and Waterford fireplace
- internet
- kitchen
- cooking utensils
- dishwasher
- refrigerator
- freezer
- stove
- microwave
- ice maker
- dishes & utensils
- coffee maker
- toaster
- oven
- dining
- dining area
Pool / Spa
communal pool
- The Las Banos Public pool is located 2 blocks at the beach and offers an olypmic size and kiddy pool.
- communal pool
- Bathrooms
- 1 bathroom
- bathroom 1:
- Bedrooms
- 1 bedroom, sleeps 4, beds for 4
- bedroom 1:
- King size beds (1) with full size pull out couch in the living room
- television
- satellite / cable
- dvd player
- lawn / garden
- outdoor grill
- deck / patio
- long-term renters welcome
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- wheelchair inaccessible
- pets not allowed
- Notes
- Private washer and dryer, full size pull out couch, Waterford fireplace, Complimentary wireless internet
activities and attractions in Santa Barbara Central Coast
- health/beauty spa
- zoo
- museums
- live theater
- restaurants
- theme parks
- cinemas
- botanical garden
- marina
- playground
- winery tours
Leisure Activities
- horseshoes
- sight seeing
- antiquing
- shelling
- boating
- wildlife viewing
- miniature golf
- shopping
- beachcombing
- bird watching
- gambling casinos
- outlet shopping
- scenic drives
- walking
- whale watching
- horseback riding
Sports & Adventure Activities
- deepsea fishing
- equestrian events
- mountain climbing
- mountaineering
- paragliding
- pier fishing
- scuba diving or snorkeling
- snorkeling
- sound/bay fishing
- rock climbing
- hot air ballooning
- wind-surfing
- racquetball
- golf
- snorkeling/diving
- surfing
- swimming
- cycling
- kayaking
- basketball court
- sailing
- tennis
- fishing
- parasailing
- hiking
- mountain biking
- jet skiing
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The Reduced Shakespeare Company just debuted its latest world premiere here in Cincinnati. The brand new show seeks to answer one of life's great mysteries: What makes people laugh?
The Complete History of Comedy (Abridged) leaves no joke untold as the trio of comedians deconstruct the entire history of comedy through improv, wordplay, puppets, music and more.
The show is at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park until December 29 and is recommended for adult and teenage audiences.
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The Freshmen Academies help students navigate their first thirty credits at Queensborough Community College by forming a bridge between academics and student affairs and offering individual guidance and advising for every student.
Bridging Academics and Student Affairs to Advance Student Success: Freshmen Academies at Queensborough Community College
The first semester of college is crucial for students at any institution, but it's especially important at Queensborough Community College (QCC), where many students are the first in their families to attend college and may be unprepared for the transition from high school. For these students, the first semester is crucial for both retention and long-term success. Faced with high dropout rates, the QCC developed the Freshmen Academies, a new advising and enrollment strategy that bridges academics and student affairs in an effort order to reach students early and provide them with more individualized support to navigate their first year of college.
Since 2009, all first-time, full-time students at QCC enroll in one of six Freshmen Academies based on their chosen field of study. Each academy has one Freshmen Coordinator who serves as an academic adviser and advocate for students in that academy. Academies are also represented by at least one Faculty Coordinator, who acts a liaison to other faculty members and works to make sure students receive high-impact teaching practices in their first year. In addition, Freshmen and Faculty Coordinators collaborate with student affairs staff on cocurricular and extracurricular events that reinforce classroom learning and build community. What the academies ultimately aim to do, says David Rothman, a faculty coordinator, is "take a public institution that is quite large and make it feel more intimate for each student."
Reaching Out Early
QCC currently features six academies, clustered around related majors and programs: Business, Education, Visual and Performing Arts, STEM, Health-Related Science, and Liberal Arts. The academies, says Susan Curtis, director of new student enrollment, "personalize and streamline the whole post-admission process." Students are assigned to a particular academy based on their interests; those who enter undecided are enrolled in the Liberal Arts academy. As soon as students are enrolled, they are immediately contacted by a Freshmen Coordinator, who will serve as those students' principal adviser throughout their first year, says Michele Cuomo, associate dean for academic affairs at QCC. "Before they even get to campus, they're greeted by a Freshmen Coordinator," she says "and they know they can go to the academy office and talk to the coordinator if they so need."
The Freshmen Coordinators, along with the office of new student enrollment, oversee the entire post-admission process, says Curtis, from placement tests to financial aid, submission of medical records, confirmation of major, and academic advisement and registration. "They're able to give students a one-stop resource," Curtis says. But while the Freshmen Coordinators have broad, general knowledge about all areas of student affairs, they're also well versed in the specifics of the academy they serve. The combination of broad responsibilities and smaller pool of advisees mean Freshmen Coordinators get to know their students particularly well, says Anna Schneider, a Freshmen Coordinator who has worked in the Business and Visual and Performing Arts academies. "[Our students] are not just a face or a number— we get to know them pretty well," she says. "They're with us for maybe a year going through the academy for the first thirty credits, and it makes it easier for them to ask us questions."
Building relationships with every student in the academy can a challenge, though, Schneider says, and the varying sizes of the academies means some Freshmen Coordinators have very heavy caseloads. The key challenge for the success of the academies moving forward, according to Rothman, "is for the college to back up its ambitious plans with more funding to ensure that the already over-worked freshman coordinators can, in fact, make those meaningful one-on-one connections, which are at the heart of the academy concept."
In addition to serving as academic advisers and a general information resource, Freshmen Coordinators may also be liaisons between their students and faculty members. First-year students who are struggling academically or having other issues in class may not know how to approach faculty members, Schneider says, but they feel comfortable speaking with their Freshmen Coordinators. Conversely, faculty may consult with Freshmen Coordinators and ask them to intervene with students, who may be more receptive to advice from a familiar adviser. The college has also piloted an early alert system that allows faculty to flag students who are not attending or are in academic trouble, generating an e-mail that is immediately sent to the freshmen coordinator for that student's academy. QCC has seen a reduction in the number of unofficial withdrawals since implementing the early alert system, and an expansion will likely follow, Cuomo says.
Scott Beltzer is a Freshman Coordinator for the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Academy. Freshmen Coordinators are both generalists in the various student affairs processes procedures and specialists in the course offerings and requirements for their particular academies.
Guiding Students to High-Impact Educational Practices
In setting up the Freshmen Academies, QCC made no changes to its curriculum—course requirements for general education and for each major and program are the same. What's different, Cuomo says, is the kind of advising students receive about their courses, and the learning practices that are occurring there. The Freshmen Coordinators are able to guide their students toward courses that will be of particular benefit to them, including course sections that are tailored to certain academies and courses that feature high-impact practices (HIPs) that will be particularly beneficial for first-year students.
QCC has been using HIPs in its courses for some time, says Cuomo, but the Freshmen Academies represent a new effort to organize and implement those practices across the institution in a systematic way. QCC uses many of the same HIPs that are central to AAC&U's LEAP initiative—learning communities, shared intellectual experiences, collaborative assignments and projects, and service and community-based learning. "We've promised that all students will receive at least two HIPs in their first 30 credits, and we're planning that students receive more than that," Cuomo says.
In addition to those practices on which AAC&U has published research, QCC includes cornerstone courses and e-portfolios as HIPs as well. Cornerstone courses are section of required, foundational courses for particular programs—composition or math classes, for example—with content and activities customized for the students in particular academies. "Students become engaged because, say, they want to be a nurse, and they're reading material that relates to healthcare, death and dying— they're engaged because it relates to their major, and they're beginning to make connections to their goals in a freshman composition course," Cuomo says. The college has also expanded its use of student e-portfolios, particularly in the business and nursing academies. Rather than using e-portfolios for institutional assessment, as many institutions do, students at QCC use portfolios for self-reflection, and for presenting evidence of their academic achievements to potential employers.
With all of these practices, Faculty Coordinators are central to the implementation. Each Freshmen Academy is served by at least one Faculty Coordinator who serves as a liaison to other faculty members and leads a Faculty Cohort. The cohorts, says Rothman, one of the Faculty Coordinators, assess how well the academies are implementing HIPs and whether students are learning more as a result. "We're looking at what we're defining as high impact … we're looking at how we structure these HIPS, and how high impact are they—when we do a learning community, are we just doing a shared assignment, or are we looking at really integrating our courses?" Examining samples of student work from multiple points in the semester, the cohort groups also use the rubrics developed as part of AAC&U's VALUE initiative to conduct their assessments. QCC uses the integrated learning rubric, which is well suited for assessing cross-disciplinary outcomes developed in service-learning programs and learning communities, Rothman says.
Another important role for the Faculty Coordinators is serving as liaisons to the large population of adjunct faculty teaching at QCC. Many adjuncts teach at QCC only part time and have only a vague notion about what the Freshmen Academies are and how they function, Rothman says, so it's important for Faculty Coordinators to reach out to both fulltime faculty and adjuncts and keep the academies and HIPs at the forefront of teaching. QCC has also been using the knowledge gleaned from the cohort groups to discuss how students taking basic skills courses (required for students who don't pass entrance exams in reading or writing) can benefit from HIPs, Cuomo says. "These offerings are available to them, but we want to ensure we're more proactive in making sure students receive them and are part of the college community."
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Another important aspect of the faculty cohort work, Rothman says, is "asking 'what HIPs make sense in this particular discipline?' For business, E-portfolio makes a lot of sense, service learning goes across the board—each academy picks their high impacts which they highly recommend professors work with, and that's something that would be hard to establish if it were mandated from the top down across the college."
This academy-specific assessment, along with the distinctive work of each Freshmen Coordinator, has contributed to the development of unique identities for each of the academies. "Each academy has really developed its own character, and each coordinator works to meet the needs of their unique population of students," Schneider says. The collaboration between faculty and student affairs on co- and extracurricular events has also contributed to these emerging identities, as academy staff working to host events that will best serve their students. Having faculty buy-in has resulted in increased student participation in after class activities such as educational films or skills workshops, too, Curtis says—a difficult feat on a commuter campus where many students have work or familial obligations.
That shift in attendance may be representative of a greater sense of ownership and engagement on the part of students. "Students feel at home both in the college and in the subdivision that is their current program," says Rothman. "I think the biggest change that I've seen is students feeling a deeper connection to the college, and deeper allegiance perhaps, because it's not just the college anymore—it's Nancy in Nursing, Alex in Liberal Arts."
It's an important shift for all students, but particularly for those taking basic skills courses—a significant portion of the QCC population. Students who don't pass reading and writing entrance exams are required to pass non-credit basic skills courses before they can take most credit courses. Students may take basic skills courses that are paired with for-credit courses as part of a learning community, and the basic skills department is working toward offering remedial courses that are targeted for students' particular academies. This will not only allow basic skills students to begin earning credits earlier, but will also "provide a place for the remedial students to get a better sense of where they're headed—there's a place for them," says Rothman, who also serves as a liaison between the Liberal Arts academy and the basic skills department.
"[They] feel that there's really something coming next, that they're not just stuck in a noncredit writing class," Rothman says. "Those students know 'someone's waiting for me, there's a future for me in that academy, I just have to pass these courses.'" Taking even one course within their program, or just meeting with a Freshmen Coordinator, gives students a sense of direction at the college. "Students know 'these are the things I have to do to get where I want to go,'" Rothman says. "And that really is the greatest gift of the Freshmen Academies."
Queensborough Community College is a member of AAC&U's LEAP Campus Action Network and the Roadmap Project. Read more about the Freshmen Academies at the college's website. For more information about high-impact practices, see High-Impact Educational Practices: What They Are, Who Has Access to Them, and Why They Matter. To learn about and access the VALUE rubrics, including the integrative learning rubric, visit http://www.aacu.org/VALUE/rubrics/index_p.cfm. See the full list of AAC&U's civic learning resources at http://www.aacu.org/resources/civicengagement/index.cfm


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A man in a wheelchair was struck and killed by a car while crossing a north Minneapolis intersection Thursday night.
The Hennepin County medical examiner says Manuel M. Steeber, 37, died as a result of multiple blunt force injuries.
According to Minneapolis police, Steeber was trying to cross Olson Memorial Highway at James Avenue N. around 9:40 p.m. when he was hit by the car. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the car stopped and was questioned by investigators Thursday night.
Friday afternoon, police said they are "looking into the possibility" Steeber was struck by a second driver who left the scene of the accident.
Accident reconstruction is underway, but it could take weeks to complete. Two homicide investigators have been assigned to the case.
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"Protecting the integrity of our clients' data is one of our top priorities, and we want to assure everyone that no personal data was comprised," Alflac media representatives said in a statement. "We have identified the source of the spam, and are working to rectify the situation."
Other companies admit that the spam problem can take off quickly even when solid protections are in place.
Security leaders with Steelcase, a publicly-traded office furniture manufacture, said that despite using technologies from Postini and WebSense, among others, to defend its 13,000 employees and IT systems from unwanted e-mail and other attacks, a single incident can quickly land your company's name on spammer blacklists.
Roughly a year ago, a visitor to the company connected an infected device to its network, which led to Steelcase unknowingly becoming a conduit for spam and become included by security researchers on the lists of suspicious IP addresses they advise people to block.
"In effect we ended up looking like a spam source because of one person, and we ended up on several blacklists, which caused problems for people trying to reach us because they subscribed to those lists," said Stuart Berman, security architect at Steelcase. "It really doesn't take much to put you in a painful position."
Spam also remains a serious headache on the incoming side, according to the security specialist. While Steelcase said that the technologies it has employed to filter e-mail, in particular Postini's outsourced message scanning service, have proven very effective, the sheer volume of unwanted e-mail that attempts to land on its servers is staggering.
Berman said that Postini, blocked more than 127 million spam messages before they could land in Steelcase employee's inboxes in 2006, compared to only 30 million legitimate e-mails that were allowed in. Based on those figures, roughly 80 to 90 percent of all e-mails sent to the firm are identified as spam, he said.
"We took action to look at all internal mail avenues and who is allowed to send mail out, and we can control that far more effectively today," said Berman. "We needed to do that because we want to keep our identity clean. It's important to protect your company's overall reputation in the outside world, and no one wants to be known as a spammer."
Some researchers maintain that it isn't just software vulnerabilities that are leaving the door open for spammers at large enterprises, but also a lack of understanding of the problem.
While most large enterprises have made significant investments in anti-spam technologies, some fail to follow very basic recommendations for battling spam, such as blocking unauthorized e-mail from being sent out of their systems at their network gateways, said Matt Sergeant, senior anti-spam technologist at software maker MessageLabs.
Another problem is that the advanced malware programs being used to hijack PCs and set up spambots are frequently circumventing anti-virus systems and other security products, he said.
"Anybody who thought that they had the spam problem under control in the past is probably kicking themselves today, and many corporations are struggling to protect their networks," Sergeant said. "The spammers are on top of the technology in terms of how to get malware onto desktops in such a way that anti-virus doesn't catch it, and companies need to do a better job of making sure their anti-spam policies are being enforced."


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The elimination of the mandatory ACT Writing Test in Illinois high schools may not affect student admission to SIU, but students interested in other universities may need to take the exam twice.
After the Illinois State Board of Education decided in 2011 to not offer the writing component of the 2012 ACT in Illinois high schools because of state budget constraints, area guidance counselors are preparing 11th graders for what this change will mean to them.
Students will now have to take the exam a second time in order to complete the writing portion and acquire a writing score, which is required by some institutions for admission.
While the change may have little impact on SIU because it does not require a writing score from applicants, the writing portion's cancellation will take away a method high schools use to critique students.
Toby Misner, guidance director at Marion High School, said he recommends all university-bound students take the exam a second time independently.
He said the change limits data the school uses to evaluate students, and thus affects how well the school can prepare them for college.
"It helps guide student class choices," he said. "It gives them a good idea of what school is good for them."
Similar to Marion High School, the test change may also affect Murphysboro High School.
Leah Varvel, a guidance counselor at Murphysboro High School, said students were previously given an exam called the PLATO Exam, which gauges students' writing ability, and the ACT with a writing portion but now the school will have only one exam to compare class writing performance to previous years.
"It's one more data point we won't be able to look at," she said.
Katharine Suski, director of SIU admissions, said the university won't experience any drastic changes because a writing score was never needed for admission.
"It really doesn't affect us at all here," she said.
Michael Molino, chair of the English department, said he has researched ways the English department could use the writing scores to compare students' success in English courses.
"I was hoping ACT scores plus other factors could, in the future, be used in making these decisions," he said
Molino said the ACT writing score does not factor into a student's placement in English courses, but he studied years of student grade data from English 101 along with ACT writing scores but found no correlation between the two and student success.
Although Molino said ACT scores can be predictive of success in other areas of academia, writing doesn't seem to be one of them.
The university's use of a student's high school writing assessment may not be useful even if it were required, Molino said, because of issues in "knowledge transfer" from class to class.
"It's surprising how frequently students were taught everything dutifully but then they just simply don't take it and put it into place the next time they take the class," he said. "And that's always difficult to know the difference because writing isn't just about skills."
Molino said English instructors can encourage students to use resources such as the Writing Center, instructor's office hours or new online materials through some textbooks, but the focus of all help is student improvement, not writing skill judgement.
"The goal is to try and take students wherever they are and move them forward as best we can," he said.
While students who are entering SIU may move forward in writing-based curriculum regardless of whether they have taken the ACT Writing Test, Misner said high school students who choose to take the test again with a writing component may gain practice in test-taking and could improve their overall ACT score the second time.
To help decide if a student is prepared for university writing, Marion High School may use alternative ways to assess writing such as writing samples, teacher recommendations and honors programs, Misner said. Improving students' writing has recently become a focus of the school, he said.
"The past few years, a lot of our English courses have become even more writing centered," he said.
Misner said the school chose to focus on writing in English courses because test scores had been low.


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The NSA isn't the only federal agency collecting your metadata. It turns out the good ole U.S. Postal Service has long been engaged in its share of low-tech domestic surveillance. As the New York Times reports today, a Buffalo, NY bookstore owner by the name of Leslie James Pickering was recently startled to discover his snail mail was being monitored by the F.B.I. with the help of the U.S.P.S. It happened by mistake, shockingly enough for the Postal Service. In his stack of mail, Pickering noticed a handwritten card directing postal workers to pay particular attention to letters and packages sent to his home, and to show them to their supervisor for copying before delivery. It also said "Confidential" highlighted in green. Oops.
Pickering was, to say the least, taken aback. "It was a bit of a shock to see it," he told The Times. Turns out, ten years ago he was an activist of sorts, a spokesman for the Earth Liberation Front, which was labeled as a radical environmental group by the F.B.I.
While high-tech spying on the scale that Edward Snowden recently revealed is new, low-tech spying on the part of the Postal Service has been around for a while. For a long time it was a surveillance system called Mail Covers, The Times reports, but that has been replaced by a much more ambitious program ominously called the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, "in which Postal Service computers photograph the exterior of every piece of paper mail that is processed in the United States — about 160 billion pieces last year." This program was created after the anthrax attacks of 2001, which killed 5 people. It was used in the recent ricin letter investigation. Supposedly, postal workers only record the outside of letters and packages before delivering them. They can't open your mail without a warrant. What is causing concern is just how sweeping the reach of this program has become.
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"In the past, mail covers were used when you had a reason to suspect someone of a crime," said Mark D. Rasch, the former director of the Justice Department's computer crime unit, who worked on several fraud cases using mail covers. "Now it seems to be 'Let's record everyone's mail so in the future we might go back and see who you were communicating with.' Essentially you've added mail covers on millions of Americans."
Bruce Schneier, a computer security expert and an author, said whether it was a postal worker taking down information or a computer taking images, the program was still an invasion of privacy.
"Basically they are doing the same thing as the other programs, collecting the information on the outside of your mail, the metadata, if you will, of names, addresses, return addresses and postmark locations, which gives the government a pretty good map of your contacts, even if they aren't reading the contents," he said.
Crimes from drug smuggling, to tracking ricin letters to Medicare fraud have apparently been solved with the help of this program.
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In a criminal complaint filed June 7 in Federal District Court in Eastern Texas, the F.B.I. said a postal investigator tracing the ricin letters was able to narrow the search to Shannon Guess Richardson, an actress in New Boston, Tex., by examining information from the front and back images of 60 pieces of mail scanned immediately before and after the tainted letters sent to Mr. Obama and Mr. Bloomberg showing return addresses near her home. Ms. Richardson had originally accused her husband of mailing the letters, but investigators determined that he was at work during the time they were mailed.
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The Hypocrites Present K. Based on Franz Kafka's Classic, The Trial
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A wonderfully entertaining show in the absurdist tradition! The acting was first rate, the stagecraft was inventive. For us, highlights included the inclusion of the front row audience in some of the banter. Show time passed very quickly, with never a thought about when it would end!
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All 4 of us were terribly disappointed.
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Very good acting. The production was entertaining, but also managed to somehow convey the eeriness and craziness of the entire situation and even the tone of the book. I was pleasantly surprised. Enjoy.
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if there was an "F Minus" available in the spectrum of grades, this play would certainly earn that. the raw side of the absurd had married a bland and forced humor which ultimately render the pénible. the closed door (or rather, slammed door)...continued
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K. is highly recommended by the Chicago Sun-Times, received four stars from TimeOut Chicago and was named a critic's choice by the Chicago Reader.
K. won writer/director Greg Allen a Best Director award at the New York International Fringe Festival as well as the After Dark Award for Outstanding New Production.
"Smartly amusing…genuinely potent revival of K." —Chicago Tribune
"A sharp, chameleonic ensemble swirls around the impressive (Brennan) Buhl." —TimeOut Chicago
"…smart, funny, and provocative." —Chicago Reader
"…great triumph…funny, insightful, and sharp…" —Centerstage
"…one heck of an entertaining evening." —From the Ledge
"With K., his brainy, vivid, playfully faithful new stage adaptation of Kafka's novel now being mounted by the Hypocrites (the company that triumphed in David Cromer's "Our Town"), writer-director Greg Allen, founding director of the Neo-Futurists, has ingeniously captured the spirit of the book while adding just the right postmodern edginess to the original. And his remarkably deft cast of eight is with him on every page of Joseph's disorienting journey into what might be reality, with all its injustice, but just as easily could be the twisted, guilt-infused imaginings of his own psyche." —Chicago Sun-Times
Greg Allen, Founding Director of The Neo-Futurists, brings _K., _his award-winning adaptation of Kafka's The Trial to The Hypocrites. This two-act nightmare-comedy tells the famous story of how Joseph K. awakes one morning to find himself mysteriously arrested – seemingly without having done anything wrong. Caught in a sort of actor's nightmare, K. must then navigate through officers, lawyers, artists, priests, lovers, and whippers to determine his fate. Highlighting the dark humor in Kafka's parable, Allen employs masks, music, puppetry, and his trademark meta-theatrics to tell this surprisingly contemporary tale.
*Greg Allen *is the founder of The Neo-Futurists and creator of over two dozen productions including the legendary _Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind which has been running weekly in Chicago since the Reagan administration. His works include _The Last Two Minutes of The Complete Works of Henrik Ibsen, _Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious _(a comedy to end all comedy), H20_, and A Child's History of Bombing_. His collaboration with Theater Oobleck, The Complete Lost Works of Samuel Beckett As Found In An Envelope (partially burned) In A Dustbin In Paris Labeled "Never to be performed. Never. Ever. EVER! Or I'll Sue! I'LL SUE FROM THE GRAVE!!!" has enjoyed ten international productions including a three month UK tour and and two off-Broadway revivals in 2006. His environmental collaborations - Boxing Joseph Cornell; Lear's Shadow_; and _Crime and Punishment: A (mis)Guided Environmental Tour with Literary Pretensions — have seen long successful runs at his home Neo-Futurarium.
Allen teaches residencies in Neo-Futurism at universities and theater programs across the country as well as in Chicago where he teaches playwriting at the University of Chicago. He is a proud graduate of Oberlin College.