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The award recipients will be honored in a ceremony during halftime at the Texas Tech vs. Iowa State football game on Oct. 29. Click to enlarge
Texas Tech recently awarded 15 employees and one department with distinguished staff awards in a ceremony at the Hall of Nations of the International Cultural Center.
The six categories of honor include: the Matador Award, the Masked Rider Award, the Guns Up Award, the President's Award of Excellence, the Chancellor's Award of Excellence and the Chancellor's Colonel Rowan Award for Execution.
The winners and qualifications for awards are as follows:
The Matador Award is given to a new employee with one to three years of continuous service. These individuals are praised for their innovative, significant and progressed ideas and contributions.
- Heather Bradley, administrative business assistant, International Affairs
- Josh Robinson, unit supervisor, Mass Communications
- Susan Rowe, educations program manager, Museum of Texas Tech
- Linda Whitebread, business supervisor, Mechanical Engineering
- Darren Wibberding, residence life coordinator, University Student Housing
The Masked Rider Award is given to staff members with four or more years of continuous service who have also been in a supervisory position for a minimum of one year. These honorees showcase extra efforts through their accomplishments, timeliness, follow-through and willingness to help fellow employees.
- Don Davis, associate director, Recreational Sports
- Craig Kuehnert, unit manager, University Student Housing
- Stephen Lambert, manager of IT, University Parking Services
- Donna Srader, undergraduate research coordinator, Honors College
- Melissa Wofford, college design specialist, Mass Communications
The Guns Up Award is given to a group who demonstrates exceptional ability to foster collaboration, communication and cooperation among colleagues.
- Academic Testing Services
- Michael Carter, unit manager
- Steve Martin, assistant director
- Kaylyn Dowdy, unit coordinator
- Jana Driver-Caffey, lead specialist
- Jennifer Fidler, lead specialist
- Jeralyn Schwartz, lead specialist
The President's Award of Excellence is given to individuals who promote their department and Texas Tech's mission and goals through actions and job performance. They also encourage professional development, fairness and equity in resolving employee and work-related issues.
- Scott Hiemstra, machine shop supervisor, Chemistry
- Shannon Cepica, managing director, IT Help Central
The Chancellor's Award of Excellence is given to an individual having five years or more of service. This person has enhanced the quality of the workplace in ways that significantly increase productivity and efficiency.
- Joe Arredondo, gallery director, School of Art
The Chancellor's Colonel Rowan Award for Execution is give to those employees who best demonstrate the ability to execute and follow up with important projects, and accomplish an objective quickly and efficiently with minimal oversight.
- Treasa Austin, advisor, Health, Exercise & Sport Science
- Brad Thornhill, unit manager, Water Resources Center
Each award includes a cash prize, lapel pen and engraved plaque with an engraved pen/box set.
The award recipients will be honored in a ceremony during halftime at the Texas Tech vs. Iowa State football game.


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SCOTTSDALE, Arizona — The Colorado Rockies have selected John Axford's contract, adding a veteran reliever with late-inning experience to their bullpen.
Axford, who agreed to a minor league deal last month, gets a $2.6 million, one-year contract with a chance to earn more in performance bonuses. The 31-year-old right-hander was 2-4 with a 3.95 ERA in 62 games with Cleveland and Pittsburgh last year.
In six major league seasons, Axford is 24-23 with a 3.40 ERA and 116 saves, including 10 for the Indians last year.
To make room on the 40-man roster, the Rockies placed right-hander Tyler Chatwood on the 60-day disabled list Sunday. Chatwood is recovering from Tommy John surgery last July.
Axford can earn $50,000 each for 35, 40, 45 and 50 games pitched; $100,000 each for 55, 60 and 65 games pitched; and $100,000 each for 30, 35, 40, 45, 50 and 55 games finished.
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Festival was a let-down
For many years I have been coming up from Florida to the joyful Galax Leaf & String Festival.
This year the music was very much reduced, making it less attractive for visitors.
Also, it was strange to have unknown groups on the stage while top ones like Whitetop Mountain Band and Slate Mountain Ramblers had to play in the street. It must have been insulting to them.
I sure hope it will be better next year. I love Galax and old-time music!
Jack Shaver
Hollywood, Fla.
In politics, the two sides in a debate take the same information and make it look as good or as bad as possible in an effort to convince others that only their view is right.
When considering the growing debt held by the Carroll County Public Service Authority, there's certainly room for debate.
The upsides include possible economic development, growth and jobs. The only downside appear to be the cost.
Trash service worth price
This letter is in response to the June 24 Hotline comment, "Defending Our Junk."
I grew up in Grayson County, and have returned here after being away for 45 years. I love the area and my home, but the Hotline comments frequently make me question the wisdom of my
decision to retire here.
"Moving back to where I came from" isn't an option for me or most newcomers to our area. If we left, this is what would happen:
The purpose of local government and public hearings is to give all tax-paying citizens a chance to voice their opinions and concerns.
Recently, Grayson County held a public hearing to receive comments on a controversial proposed trash collection fee.
More than 40 people packed the board room, and 21 of them stepped to the podium to express their problems with the fee.
While some ideas were far-fetched — such as raising the tax levy even more and removing the fee all together — others were valid.
Sheriff supports church's efforts
The Blue Ridge Fellowship has been distributing posters throughout the area to advise everyone that beginning June 13, they would provide a place to cruise and park for the young people of this area (ages 13-20 only).
This program, designated as Cruisin', will provide free food, fun and music from 7 to 10 p.m. in a safe, supervised environment at its location at 5357 Glendale Road, Woodlawn.
Our legal system is based on the idea that a person convicted of a crime can be rehabilitated after accepting their punishment and paying their debt, but as a society we are sometimes reluctant to allow that punishment to end when the sentence expires.
Some Hillsville Fire Department volunteers are threatening to walk away from the agency now that a suspended member has been reinstated. Roger Hawthorne is back on call after pleading guilty to an embezzlement charge unrelated to the fire department.
When a young woman designed a dress bearing a rebel flag and wore it to the high school prom in Galax last month, it's doubtful that she expected the dance to last this long.
But here we are, a month later, still waltzing in circles to a familiar refrain about the meaning and symbolism of the Confederate flag.
Is it flown by those who wish to honor their ancestors for service and sacrifice to an ideal and standing up to federal authority?
Is it a symbol of racial intolerance, flown by hate groups to intimidate and remind blacks of the days of slavery?
These past two weeks — bookended by the dedication of a veterans' monument in Galax on Memorial Day and the 65th anniversary of the D-Day invasion of World War II on June 6 — have reminded us all of the debt we owe the men and women of our armed forces, especially those who served in the second world war.
More than six decades later, a great deal of the world is free due to the actions of World War II veterans.


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Ambrose Bierce
Alone in Bad Company
A lively portrait of one of the most distinctive voices in American literature chronicles the life and career of the acerbic Ambrose Bierce, from his youth, through his experiences during the Civil War, to his 1913 disappearance in revolution-torn Mexico.
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When 71-year-old Ambrose Bierce disappeared into revolution-torn Mexico in 1913, he probably had more enemies than any man alive. This was only fair; he had labored long and hard to make himself hateful, and in the end he succeeded all too well. The targets of his printed abuse ranged from the mightiest and most rapacious robber baron to the meekest and least offensive would-be poet, although Bierce reserved his sharpest barbs for "that immortal ass, the average man."
Bierce himself was anything but average. As the only American writer of any stature to fight in and survive the Civil War, his groundbreaking short stories of that war, including his most famous work, "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," have had a lasting influence on every subsequent American author dealing with war, from Stephen Crane and John Dos Passos to Ernest Hemingway and Norman Mailer.
Profoundly disillusioned by his wartime experiences, Bierce spent the next fifty years struggling to disillusion his fellow Americans of their own cherished ideals - be they romantic, religious, or political. Frequently criticized for the intensity of his personal invective, Bierce once advised his detractors to "continue selling shoes, selling pancakes, or selling themselves. As for me I sell abuse." In this perceptive, insightful biography, Roy Morris, Jr., accounts for both the influential art that Ambrose Bierce made from such a harsh and unforgiving vision - and the high price he had to pay for it in loneliness, rancor, and spiritual isolation.
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I just finished writing a 3 part series on social media, and though this post isn't really part of that series, it can be viewed as a continuation of the whole basic social media "how to" discussion.
So, your blog. You write and publish a blog to demonstrate authority on a certain topic (or topics) and generate leads. To put it to best use and really make it effective, though, it should not be a standalone tool, isolated from your marketing and social media strategy. Instead it should be supporting that strategy.
Here are the most basic ways to integrate your blog with your marketing and social media strategy:
Marketing-centric editorial schedule
Create a monthly editorial schedule that includes posts based on upcoming events or news: new products or services you will be launching, promotions you will be offering, excerpts from an eBook you are working on, webinars or workshops you will be giving or attending, etc. You can also create regular feature columns, interviews, and guest posts; themes; and seasonal topics that will help promote your short and long-term marketing goals. Just make sure you are sharing relevant, interesting, and useful information—your posts cannot be all "me, me, me".
For example, I write and edit annual reports. Because non-profits typically begin producing their annual report in December and January, I just wrote a 4 part series on annual reports for my company blog. It included: what sections you should include, how to write certain content-heavy sections, creating an eye-catching layout and design, and cost-effective ways to publish and distribute it. So with this series I am sharing useful information while promoting my expertise as an annual report writer and editor.
Share and engage on social media
We use social media to share information, generate leads, become a thought leader—or at least a go-to source of information—and engage with our audience. There are four ways your blog can support your social media efforts:
Automatically share new blog posts. Distribute your newly published blog posts, which of course are full of great information, on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Digg, etc. Add a short intro to grab the attention of your followers and ask for comments. I use a social media dashboard (Hootsuite) for this.
Make it easy for people to subscribe to and share your blog. Insert an RSS feed on your blog so readers will automatically receive new blog posts. Add Facebook and Twitter buttons (and buttons for any other distribution channel you like and use) so people can share your words of wisdom on their social media networks. Ask people to subscribe to and share your blog right on your blog's home page—and tell them why they should. What sort of information will you be sharing with them that they just will not want to miss?
Engage via your blog. Because social media has a strong community-building element to it, ask people for comments at the end of your blog posts. Do they agree or disagree, and why? What have their experiences been with x? And so on. Just be sure to reply!
Engage with other bloggers. Follow other bloggers in your industry or in the industry of your target markets. Introduce yourself, comment on their blog, and, after you get to know each other a bit, ask them to guest post. They will promote their guest blog to their readers, which will most likely bring new readers to your blog.
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Top Challengers to 'The Artist' Get Big Boosts at National Board of Review Awards (Analysis)
79-year-old Robert Benton, the revered screenwriter who has accumulated five screenplay Oscar nominations (two of which resulted in wins), then came along to present the best adapted screenplay prize to the three writers who scripted The Descendants: Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash. Benton called it "a magnificent film, brilliantly written … word-perfect, filled with wit and compassion." He said he was particularly "filled with envy" over the writing of a scene between George Clooney and Nick Krause but regards the entire project as "one of the best films I have seen in a very long time." Payne said that those comments from that man made the evening for him, while his eccentric co-writers joked that they had been finalists for the parts in the film that eventually went to Clooney and Shailene Woodley.
Next up was the presentation of a special filmmaking achievement award to the Harry Potter franchise, which was made, appropriately enough, by Daniel Radcliffe, who played the title character in its eight films (and recently wrapped up a long run on Broadway), to David Heyman, the producer who discovered him for the part and guided all of the films from page to screen. Radcliffe asserted, "Not a frame of any of the fllms was made without attention to detail and caring." Heyman began his acceptance speech -- in which he would later note that Radcliffe served as something of a producer of the franchise himself (to which the actor reacted with a look of surprise and disagreement) -- by saying, "Harry Potter is not known for its brevity, but I'll try to be brief!"
STORY: DGA Nominations Shake Up Oscar Race With Fincher Nom, Spielberg Snub
Amy Ryan, the NBR's best supporting actress of 2008 for her work in Gone Baby Gone, assumed the task of presenting that same honor to this year's recipient, Woodley. Ryan, a class act, said very generously of the 20-year-old: "It's hard to imagine anyone else playing this part. It's a rare portrayal of an adolescent that is not condescending to adolescents." She humorously remarked upon a scene in which Woodley's character calls her younger sister a name, "There is something about the way she says 'twat' that is worthy of this honor in and of itself!" During Ryan's remarks, Woodley, who confessed to me during the cocktail hour that she was very nervous about having to speak in front of a room so full of amazing people, turned to her left and whispered to Clooney, "I can't do this!" But do it she did, and very graciously, thanking Payne for his faith in her; complimenting Clooney on being a great role model, always prepared, generous and fun on the set; and expressing her gratitude to her date -- her younger brother -- for being by her side throughout the hoopla of the past few months.
The always funny Seth Rogen then took the stage and provoked howls of laughter by opening with the non-sequitur, "So, there's a lot of shit on the table! I don't know if there's room for another The Art of Rango." He then shared a few funny remarks and presented the best original screenplay award to his longtime friend Will Reiser, who penned 50/50, which Rogen co-produced with Evan Goldberg and in which Rogen plays a key supporting role. Reiser said that he spent the first quarter-century of his life not knowing what to write about; then, he continued, "At 25 I was diagnosed with cancer … and I didn't know how to talk about it … so instead I was encouraged by Seth and Evan to write about it. He thanked them for supporting him in spite of "my neuroses -- and I am one neurotic motherfucker," and then he brought tears to many in the room by thanking his mother, who was in attendance.
It didn't seem possible that Rogen could be topped for laughs, but Rosie O'Donnell, of all people, absolutely brought the house down by going on a rapid-fire rant en route to presenting the first of the NBR's two Freedom of Expression awards to the doc Crime After Crime, which focuses on a woman who was jailed after murdering her abusive husband. She said she much preferred the NBR to the National Society of Film Critics (because that other awards-dispensing group just awarded its best picture honor to Melancholia, which she proceeded to absolutely eviscerate), ribbed the NBR ("There are no gift bags, so grab some shit and stick it under your seat) and even went after herself ("This tablecloth that I'm wearing cost $5,000) and the low ratings of her show on the OWN network ("Oprah still thinks I'm big … she hasn't watched a lot of TV in recent years"). When Crime After Crime director Yoav Potash finally took the stage, he correctly acknowledged that there was no good way to follow O'Donnell, but did pitch Rogen on starring in a feature adaptation of the film.
Then, two-time Oscar winner Sally Field came out and presented the best ensemble award to the cast of The Help -- or at least to the six members of it who were in attendance: Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Octavia Spencer, Jessica Chastain, Ahna O'Reilly and Cicely Tyson. (I moderated a Q&A with all but Stone and Tyson earlier in the day.) Davis, as has become custom this awards season, spoke expositorily and movingly on behalf of the group. She remarked, "I wonder if people understand the obstacles that were in our path" for the project, which was adapted from a best-selling novel, but, she reminded, also dealt with the cinematically hard-to-sell subject of race; featured a cast almost entirely composed of women; and did not incorporate any sex. "This is truly an American movie," she said, noting the diversity in race and age of the women in the film, "and I want to encourage that."
The best foreign-language film prize was presented by Oscar winner Jonathan Demme to Asghar Farhadi, the Iranian writer/director of Iran's 2011 Oscar submission A Separation, whom he only shortly before the event, but whose film he has been a fan of for some time now. After Demme implored people to "See this movie!," Farhadi shared a funny anecdote about a recent visit to New York, during which he shared a smoke with the doorman outside of the hotel where he was staying, who, upon learning that Farhadi was Iranian, encouraged him to see A Separation.
Next up was the second award for best breakthrough performance, this one presented by Oscar winner Dame Helen Mirren to her much younger countrywoman and The Tempest (2010) co-star Felicity Jones, the beautiful and charming star of the largely overlooked indie Like Crazy. In introducing Jones, Mirren said, "Forget 'breakthrough' -- I would say blast-off!" Jones, graciously and appropriately enough, said that she shares her award with her co-star Anton Yelchin, who, for whatever reason, hasn't gotten a shred of the attention that Jones has.
The Spotlight Award, which the NBR apparently created to honor the year's most profilic actor, was presented to Michael Fassbender -- the star in 2011 of Jane Eyre, X: Men: First Class, A Dangerous Method and Shame -- by two of his sexy co-stars, the British BFFs Carey Mulligan (Shame) and Keira Knightley (Method). Mulligan noted that the most-used adjective to describe Fassbender's work over the past year has been "'fearless' -- especially so in our films," and Knightley cracked, "Michael, if I had to be spanked by anybody, I'm glad it was you!" Fassbender, for his part, looked every bit the A-list star that he is rapidly becoming but remained as humble as ever, saying that he always feels like an interloper at events like the NBR's.
Then Scorsese's best director award came around. Hugo's young stars Asa Butterfield and Chloe Moretz (both 14) stepped up to the microphone, accompanied by Kingsley, and began reading off a long list of the filmmaker's most famous films before delivering the punchline, "That is a list of Martin Scorsese films that our parents wouldn't let us see!" Scorsese began his acceptance speech by noting, for those who might not be aware, that the character played in the film by Kingsley, Georges Melies, was a real person, and "100 years ago he pretty much did everything we're doing now." He also noted that Hugo was his first 3D film and first family film, and then, In his inimitable New York way, delivered a long and funny series of anecdotes and asides about it, such as: "The kids were a pleasure to work with -- for the most part." "A few times I'd look at a monitor on set and it would be out-of-focus, and I would say, 'What's going on?' And [cinematographer] Bob Richardson, who would be up on some crane somewhere, would shout, 'Marty, put your 3D glasses on!' 'In the opening scene you see the Eiffel Tower and you know it's Paris -- I hope.' 'I learned to work with dogs.' etc.
The Tony Award-winning playwright George C. Wolfe then presented the second Freedom of Expression award to Pariah director Dee Rees, who made very brief remarks but emphasized that she hopes that her film will change how people who see it see the world (and I believe it will).
Frances McDormand, who won both the NBR's and Academy's best actress awards 15 years ago, was greeted warmly when she came out to present the best actress award to her friend Tilda Swinton (whom she affectionately referred to as "Ma-tilda"), the star of the dark indie We Need to Talk About Kevin. McDormand said, "In our house we call this time of year [the awards season] 'the convention' … I hate this shit," but noted that she was doing it anyway out of love for Swinton. She went on, "NBR, I don't know who you are, but it was lovely of you to give this to her." Swinton, who was sporting a stylish outfit and hairdo, as always, then strode to the microphone and deadpanned, "I knew it was a bad idea asking her [to present]!" On a more serious note, she thanked "the boys" in her life for being "so sweet and angelic that I didn't even know what the film was about," and she joked, "Let's all look forward to the Broadway musical The Book of Kevin!"
The second-to-last category of the night was best actor, providing an opportunity for Payne to retake the stage to honor his leading man in The Descendants, Clooney, whom he described as "an actor, a movie star … and an all-around mensch." He then acknowledged that he had passed on Clooney for the part that Thomas Haden Church wound up playing in Sideways (2004) but submitted that the actor -- whom he described as "our only old-fashioned movie star, in the grandest way" -- would have been perfect for a number of other films and proceeded to list a whole bunch of classics including Roman Holiday (1953), Chinatown (1974) and even 8 1/2 (1963 -- "dubbed"), but emphasized that he was glad we had him for this era, and suggested, "I really think the best is yet to come." Clooney, who jetted in from the West Coast with his girlfriend Stacey Keibler (he collected a prize at the Palm Springs International Film Festival this week), spoke about the importance of "kindness" in our society and how touched he was by the kindness that he witnessed and received at the NBR ceremony. He closed by deadpanning, "I thank you, Alexander, for your kindness … and fuck you for not hiring me for that other film you mentioned."
At long last, it was time for the last and biggest prize of the night -- best picture -- which was presented to one legendary filmmaker (Scorsese -- along with Headington and King -- for Hugo) by another (Francis Ford Coppola, one of the few people who has ever worked on a level comparable to his own, whose arrival elicited a standing ovation from fellow talents no less than Payne and Benton). Coppola described his decades-long friendship with "Marty"; recalled taking his family to see Hugo "in the biggest theater we could find" over the Thanksgiving weekend; and said that Scorsese's film about the formative years of the medium made him think back across its entire history, including the silent era: "It's interesting to think what could have happened if there had been another 10 years of work at that level."
That was the closest that anyone came to discussing The Artist, the other film about films that Hugo, The Descendants and The Help all hope to topple next month.
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- Tom and Jerry Theatrical Cartoon Series
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- Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- Cartoon Characters: Tom, Jerry, Radio Announcer.
- Voice Actors: Paul Frees.
- Directed By William Hanna, Joseph Barbera.
- Produced By Fred Quimby.
- Animated By Ray Patterson, Ed Barge, Kenneth Muse, Irv Spence.
- Music: Edward Plumb.
- Originally Released on January 10, 1953.
- Originally Released Theatrically.
- Running Time: 6:33 minutes.
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Los Angeles, CA – K-1, the world's premier kickboxing organization, today announced an agreement with the European leader in combat sports production, Superkombat WGP, and that both companies will work together in the development of K-1's live event production.
Superkombat WGP is the industry leader in fight production throughout Europe. The company currently produces live combat sports events in 75 countries across four continents. Eduard Irimia and his team will work closely with K-1 in the format and production of its 2012 series of live events in the United States of America, Greece and Japan. Superkombat WGP will also assist K-1 in securing the biggest and best new kickboxing talent coming out of Europe.
"I am honored that Superkombat WGP will be working closely with K-1 to present the absolute best technology in live television production today. I am excited that K-1 has finally returned. Superkombat WGP will help K-1 in every possible way to once again become a giant in combat sports." said Eduard Irimia.
K-1's next event is the U.S Prix Championships live from the LA Sports Arena in Los Angeles, California on Saturday, Sept. 8. The all-star line-up of heavyweight fights include: Mighty Mo vs. Rick Roufus, Seth Petruzelli vs. Xavier Vigney, Dewey Cooper vs. Randy Blake, and Jarrell Miller vs. Jack May. Also, the K-1 MAX (Middleweight) fights include: Chaz Mulkey vs. Kit Cope, Michael Mananquil vs. Scotty Leffler, Bryce Krause vs. Justin Greskiewicz and Ben Yelle vs. Joey Pagliuso. Superfights include: Lerdsilla Chumpairtour vs. Gabriel Varga, Andy Howson vs. Romie Adanza, Justin Buchholz vs. Zhipeng Zhou and Markhaile Wedderburn vs. Jeremiah Metcalf.
Tickets for the K-1 Rising U.S. World Grand Prix Championships on Saturday, September 8 live from the LA Sports Arena will go on sale this Friday, July 27 at 10:00 A.M PT.
Tickets are available for purchase through www.ticketmaster.com, or by calling Ticketmaster at 1-866-448-7849. Tickets are also available at the LA Sports Arena Box Office located at 3939 S. Figueroa Street in Los Angeles or by calling (213) 748-6131.
K-1 is the largest kickboxing promotion in history. Since 1993, K-1 has presented professional live martial arts events in 38 countries featuring the best and most accomplished athletes in the sport.
World Grand Prix Champions of K-1 include Alistair Overeem, Mark Hunt, Ernesto Hoost, Peter Aerts, Remy Bonjasky and Semmy Schilt. K-1 has held broadcast deals with ESPN and HDNet in the United States, Fuji TV in Japan, and numerous other networks across the globe. K-1 returned to the world stage on May 26, 2012 in Madrid, Spain drawing a packed stadium and hundreds of thousands of views on the K-1 Live Stream.


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(KMOV) – The Warren County R-III School District is crediting an anonymous text line for helping decrease fighting by 90 percent at one of its schools.
The CyberBully hotline, created by St. Louis-based company SchoolReach, was introduced in the district in 2012. The hotline gives students the ability to anonymously text bullying behavior to school administrators.
Black Hawk Middle School Associated Principal Shawn Kelsch discovered the hotline and worked to implement it in order to reduce school violence. Warrenton High School also utilizes the text line.
According to district officials, fighting has decreased by 90 percent at Black Hawk Middle School since implementing the hotline.
The school was recently awarded for Excellence in New Communications from the Society for New Communications Research.


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Daniel Arichea, who teaches in the Ph.D. program of Philippine Christian University in Manila, as well as in the Southeast Asia Graduate School of Theology, has returned as bishop-in-residence at the Duke Divinity School for the fall semester.
Tonya D. Armstrong delivered "Psychospiritual Dimensions of Dying and Bereavement in Children and Adolescents," a lecture for the June 12 "Conversation" Series of the Pastoral Services Department, Duke University Medical Center. At Eagles Summit Christian Fellowship, she spoke June 27 on "Dealing with Anxiety, Depression, and Rage in Children of Separation and Divorce." At John Umstead Hospital, she presented the lecture "Spirituality and Mental Health: Assessment and Treatment Perspectives."
Mark Chaves published "What Do Congregations Do? The Significance of Christian Congregations to American Civic Life" in Word & World.
Paul Chilcote published two books: Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus: Advent and Christmas with Charles Wesley with Morehouse Publishing and Hymns and Sacred Poems, a facsimile reprint of the first edition of the 1739 collection, with The Charles Wesley Society. His essay "Charles Wesley and the Language of Faith" appears in Charles Wesley: Life, Legacy & Literature, edited by Kenneth G. C. Newport and Ted A. Campbell, published by Epworth Press.
In addition to numerous lectures and papers delivered in conjunction with the 300th anniversary of the birth of Charles Wesley, Chilcote preached for Charles Wesley tercentennial events at Lake Junaluska and in England. With Steve Manskar, he co-led the July 31-August 10 Charles Wesley Tercentennial Pilgrimage to England. The pilgrimage was co-sponsored by the Divinity School and the General Board of Discipleship of the UMC.
James L. Crenshaw published "Beginnings, Endings, and Life's Necessities in Biblical Wisdom" in Wisdom Literature in Mesopotamia and Israel, ed. Richard J. Clifford (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2007) and "Qoheleth in Historical Context," Biblica 88 (2007). He attended the Colloquium for Biblical Research at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Va., from August 16-19.
Ellen Davis lectured at the University of Durham (UK) and at four seminaries and universities in Indonesia during April and May. She traveled July 19 to Southern Sudan, where she taught for two weeks at Renk Theological College (Episcopal Church of Sudan). She was accompanied by Dr. Peter Morris D'07, a public health doctor, and current divinity student Andrew Rowell, who taught courses in Greek and New Testament theology.
Mary McClintock Fulkerson published the book Places of Redemption: Theology for a Worldly Church with Oxford University Press. Her article "A Place to Appear: Ecclesiology as if Bodies Mattered" was published in the July issue of Theology Today. At the Conference on Southern Religion at Montreat Presbyterian Retreat Center, McClintock Fulkerson spoke on "Appalachian Women Ministers as Non-Feminist Pioneers."
Richard B. Hays published "Benedict and the Biblical Jesus" in the August-September issue of First Things; "Paul's Hermeneutics and the Question of Truth" in Pro Ecclesia; and "Auferstehung in der neueren amerikanischen Bibelwissenschaft" with J. R. Daniel Kirk in Zeitschrift für Neues Testament.
He presented "Turning the World Upside Down: Israel's Scripture in Luke-Acts" and "On 'The Faithfulness of Jesus Christ,'" April 12-13 at the University of Minnesota for the department of Classics and Near Eastern Studies and the MacLaurin Institute in Minneapolis.
Hays gave the plenary address, "Is the Letter to the Hebrews a Supersessionist Text?" April 13 for the Upper Midwest Regional Meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, in Minneapolis. He delivered "Reading the Bible with Eyes of Faith" and "Performing the Scriptures" for the Ministry Summit at Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas, April 19-20, and two lectures for "The Contours of John's Symbolic World" May 21-22 at Rochester College Sermon Seminar, Rochester, Mich.
At First Presbyterian Church in Nashville, Tenn., he gave three lectures April 22-23: "Glorifying God in Our Body;" "Table Matters: The Conversion of the Corinthians;"
and "'I Tell You a Mystery': The Resurrection of the Body;" as well as the sermon "Standing by the Fire."
St. Mary's Seminary and University in Baltimore, Md., gave Hays the Doctor of Divinity, honoris causa, May 10.
L. Gregory Jones took part in conversations on pastoral ministry June 1 at the Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. He lectured on "Equipping Leaders" at the Kansas East Annual Conference June 6-8 in Baldwin City, Kan., and delivered the keynote address for the District Superintendents' Day and The South Central Jurisdiction Bishops' Week June 20-22 in Fayetteville, Ark. Jones lectured for the Chautauqua Institution's department of religion August 6-7 in Chautauqua, N.Y.
Jones taught on Jesus' passion July 20 for Duke Divinity School's Youth Academy. He preached at Roaring Gap, N.C., August 5 and for a Sustaining Pastoral Excellence event August 9 in Indianapolis.
His "Faith Matters" columns in The Christian Century included "Call-in Confessions" in the June 12 issue, and "Learning Curve" in the August 7 edition.
Richard A. Lischer was the only American contributor to the special edition of a journal in honor of the new bishop of Norway, Olav Skjevesland. He published "Lord, Teach Us to Pray: The Seminary as a School for Prayer" in the Norwegian journal Halvarsskrift for Praktisk Teologi.
Randy L. Maddox was conference preacher for the June 7-9 Annual Conference of the Dakotas Area United Methodist Church. He spoke on "Transformation by Unexpected and Expected Love," with a special focus on the tercentenary celebration of the birth of Charles Wesley.
In June, Maddox and Professor Richard Heitzenrater led the annual "Summer Wesley Seminar" at Duke Divinity School, which brought 12 scholars to campus for a month of research and collaboration. He helped plan the Charles Wesley at 300 conference held June 22-24 at the Divinity School, where he presented the lecture "The Wondrous Love of God: Charles Wesley's Passion."
Maddox, who has served as North American secretary over the past year, helped organize the Twelfth Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, which met August 12-21 at Christ Church, Oxford. He presented the paper "Anticipating the New Creation: Foundational Convictions and Historical Limitations of John Wesley's Ecotheology."
While at Oxford, Maddox videotaped an hour-long lecture, "Methodist Doctrine: Eschatology," for the Equipping Global Ministry: Wesleyan Studies Project.
Richard Payne presented "The Ethics of Pain Management" for the Second Caribbean Pain Symposium in St. Lucia, May 5-6; "EOL Attitudes of African Americans and Hispanics" for the Vitas Ethics Committee in Miami, May 7; "A Lion in the House" for the Duke Palliative Care Conference at Duke Medical Center, May 24; "Disparities in End of Life Care for African Americans" for the 2007 Old North State Annual Meeting in Charlotte, June 15; "Pain Management in the 21st Century" for the International Conference on Pain & Chemical Dependency in New York City, June 22-24; "Hope & Meaning in Terminal Illness: Role of Spiritual Care" for the Annual Summer Series on Aging at the University of Kentucky in Lexington, June 26; and "Hope & Meaning in Terminal Illness: Role of Spiritual Care" for the Duke Hospice Educational Presentation in Durham, July 27.
At the August 4-10, 2007, National Medical Association Faculty Conference in Honolulu, Payne lectured on "APPEAL Certificate Course;" "The Chronic Pain Problem, Impact, Risk & Professional Responsibility;" "Assessment & Management of Breakthrough Pain;" and "Home & Meaning in Terminal Illness and Its Impact on Pain & Suffering."
Anathea Portier-Young delivered four lectures in an eight-part lecture series on "The Matriarchs: How Our Mothers Live in Our Religious Traditions" July 30-Aug 3 at the Greater Carolinas Association of Rabbis and Wild Acres Interfaith Institute in Little Switzerland, N.C. Her lectures were "Archetypal Mothers: Eve and Deborah;" "Better Than Seven Sons: Hannah and the Mother of Seven in 2 and 4 Maccabees;" "Mother of Jesus and 'Mother of All Believers': Biblical Portraits of Mary;" and "Matriarchs of the Church: Mary and St. Anne in Christian Tradition."
She took part in a week-long consultation August 12-17 on "Teaching Biblical Exegesis in Theological Schools" at Columbia Theology Seminary. This is the second of two such consultations, sponsored by Wabash, composed of 12 biblical scholars representing seminaries and divinity schools from around the country.
Laceye C. Warner helped create Women Called to Ministry, a curriculum sponsored by the United Methodist General Commission on the Status and Role of Women, as part of the design team and as a contributor.
She spoke on "Spreading Scriptural Holiness: Theology and Practices of Early Methodism for the Contemporary Church" at the Twelfth Oxford Institute August 12-21 at Christ Church, Oxford. During the Divinity School's conference Charles Wesley at 300, Warner presented "'First the Church and then the Methodists': Charles Wesley and Evangelism" June 23 and preached in Duke Chapel June 24 on "Who Do We Show Jesus to Be?"
Warner helped lead the "Lexington Seminar" June 14-19 at Northeast Harbor, Maine, and preached there June 16.
She has been appointed interim director of the doctor of theology program. She replaces Amy Laura Hall, who led the Th.D. program in its first year. Hall will be coordinating the Divinity School's involvement in Duke University's Global Health Initiative.
Sam Wells delivered the baccalaureate address at High Point University, N.C., and delivered a lecture titled "Rethinking Heaven and Hell" at Chichester Cathedral, England, both in May. He preached at Lake Junaluska in July and published "Improvisation in the Theatre as a Model for Christian Ethics" in Faithful Performances: Enacting Christian Tradition (edited by Trevor A. Hart and Steven R. Guthrie) published by Ashgate and "It's the Economy, Stupid" in the Journal for Preachers (Pentecost 2007).


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Imagine being tasked with consolidating and simplifying 11 agency data centers into one, while improving the quality of computing services to 120 agencies, boards, and commissions serving more than 45,000 statewide employees. Mark Reyer, data-center administrator for the State of Oregon, doesn't have to imagine it—he lives it. Over a few years, the State of Oregon took the state from a complex distribution of independent state agencies with their own networks, data centers, and backup systems to a single data center that now represents more than 80 percent of the state's computing power.
The State of Oregon is not alone. To global organizations, delivering real-time information to their ever-expanding employees, customers, and partners anywhere while improving application performance service-level agreements (SLAs) and lowering costs is a common data-center challenge.
By partnering with Cisco®, Oregon has already achieved impressive results: A standardized network platform; improved productivity of workers at all levels; a 30-percent reduction in energy consumption; and additional cost reductions in IT, procurement, and maintenance.
With the Cisco Application Delivery Network (ADN) solution, you can do the same. Cisco ADN can help your organization improve business agility and lower application-delivery costs by:
● Reducing response time of business applications by up to 95 percent:
Improved business agility |
● Improving server capacity by up to 71 percent:
Reduced server expenditures |
● Facilitating global 24-hour application availability:
Improved business continuity |
● Maximizing end-to-end application security:
Streamlined corporate risk management |
The Cisco ADN solution delivers these results by focusing on two IT objectives: Standardizing and optimizing your application-delivery-network infrastructure.
Cisco Application Delivery Network Solution At-a-Glance
The Cisco ADN solution standardizes application-delivery infrastructure by offering a comprehensive end-to-end, system-level architectural approach, allowing organizations to realize broad optimization benefits across their entire network infrastructure (Table 1), for any application type, to any user anywhere.
Table 1. Broadest Benefits Offered by Cisco Application Delivery Network
Application Delivery Benefits |
Cisco ADN Solution |
Application Type |
User Type and Location |
Application acceleration |
Cisco Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) |
● Any TCP-based application
● Video
Branch and mobile employees (intranet) |
Application acceleration Server capacity improvement |
Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) |
● Any web-based application
● Extensible Markup Language (XML)
● Service-oriented architecture (SOA)
3rd party users (extranet and internet) |
Global 24x7x365 application availability |
● Cisco ACE
● Cisco Global Site Selector (GSS)
Any |
Maximized end-to-end application security |
● Cisco Catalyst 6500 and ACE
● Cisco Integrated Services Router
● Cisco WASS
Any |
The following sections address these benefits, testified by both organizations and business-application providers that have partnered with Cisco to standardize and optimize application-delivery architecture.
Reducing Reponse Time of Business Applications by up to 95 Percent
As the number 1 market leader in enterprise networking technology, Cisco has formed R&D and support partnerships with SAP, Microsoft, Oracle, and other third-party software providers to standardize optimization of a broad range of applications. The combination of joint interoperability testing, formal licensing agreements, and escalation support in place among Cisco, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and others allows networking and application groups within IT organizations to confidently accelerate applications while minimizing the risk of difficult troubleshooting and collaboration. For example, the application-response-time improvement results shown in Figure 1 are jointly validated by Cisco and Oracle.
Improving Server Capacity by up to 71 Percent
Using Cisco ACE to offload CPU-intensive task, including encryption, network, and XML processing from servers, organizations can reduce the need to buy more powerful servers (Figure 2). This approach also allows application developers to focus on business-logic software innovation, without having to worry about limited CPU resources.
Ensuring Global Application Availability
Cisco ADN offers complete products and services across all places in the network to help ensure uptime and help organizations rapidly adapt to failure modes (Table 2 and Figure 3).
Table 2. Global Application Availability
Global Application Availability |
Cisco ADN Solution |
Local Server Load Balancing (SLB) |
Cisco ACE |
Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) |
Cisco Global Site Selector (GSS) |
Interoperability Guarantee Program |
Data Center Assurance Program (DCAP)—Industry's only interoperability guarantee program across data center, campus and WAN |
Global 24x7x365 support with 2-hour onsite |
Cisco being the only networking supplier awarded with the prestigious J. D. Power and Associates Certification |
Maximizing End-to-End Application Security
Cisco ADN helps ensure that applications and related resources are protected from attacks and data theft at all locations across the network, hosts, and applications (Table 3 and Figure 4):
Table 3. Cisco ADN End-to-End Security
Maximized Application Security |
Cisco ADN Solution |
Protection of accelerated data from the branch |
Cisco ISR and Cisco WAAS |
Protection of accelerated data from the campus |
Cisco Catalyst 6500 and WAAS |
Protection of accelerated data from the data center |
Cisco Catalyst 6500 and ACE |
Protection of SOA XML application and Web Services |
Cisco ACE XML Gateway |
Gain Strategic Advantages With Cisco ADN
With its track record of No.1 market leadership in all networking solution areas including Routing/Switching, Unified Communications, Security, Mobilility and Data Center Networking, Cisco ADN offers organizations long term viable partnership moving together towards Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA).
Cisco ADN is architected to enable entire data center virtualization. As a result, Cisco ADN solution allows organizations to migrate towards service orientation so as to make their infrastructures and applications high performing, cost effective and flexible. Cisco ADN service orientation fundamentally involves the use of standardized, loosely coupled building blocks that you can flexibly organize and reuse to support the changing requirements of your business. Adopting this unique architecture can help your organization achieve the following additional benefits when using Cisco ADN:
● Accelerate application deployment time from months to hours: "Replacing or upgrading applications is an important issue for many firms, ranking as the fifth-highest priority among IT decision makers for 2006." Source: Forrester Research, June 2007
● Reduce application-delivery CapEx and OpEx (rack space and power consumption): "Power and cooling is a pandemic in the world of the data center. By next year, about half the world's data centers will be functionally obsolete due to insufficient power and cooling capacity." Gartner Inc., June 2007
● Reduce branch IT operating expenses by up to 70 percent: Companies spend 6 billion dollars per year on branch servers, storage, backup and management." Source: IDC, Gartner, Cisco Analysis
● Ease application-delivery operations through network transparency
Accelerate Application Deployment Time
By standardizing and virtualizing application delivery network and sercurity services, organizations can use a common and repeatable process to roll out new applications. By provisioning application availability, acceleration and security services using virtualized templates on a single physical device, organizations can simplify and streamline application deployment and service provisioning:
● Typical deployment time savings: 2 to 4 weeks through virtualized services templates
● Typical deployment time savings: 6 to 8 trouble tickets and 2 to 4 days through role-based administration
Reduce Application Delivery CapEx and OpEx
Cisco ACE virtualized application delivery services enables organizations to migrate from a complex, redundant set of systems supported by many point products, to a standardized, optimized system. This end-to-end architectural approach reduces the number of components that are not designed to interoperate with each other, hence reducing application delivery CapEx and power consumption.
Reduce Branch IT Operating Expenses by up to 70%
Gartner research and Cisco customer analysis both indicate that over the full deployment lifecycle of a network, the upfront cost of buying equipment is typically the smaller part (20%) of the total cost of ownership, compared with the ongoing operational costs (80%). To maximize application delivery optimization benefits while minimizing its total cost of ownership, the 80% OpEx issue must be addressed head-on. More than 2,000 organizations show that embedding WAN acceleration directly in the router can reduce OpEx by 70% through less rack space, power and cooling, improved mean time between failures, ease of management, and consolidated support contracts. Norcraft Companies, a leader in the kitchen and bath cabinetry industry, has deployed WAN acceleration to support their nationwide branch server consolidation initiative. "We not only saw 68-84% acceleration benefits for Microsoft SQL and print traffic, but also minimized our OpEx by centrally installing and managing WAN optimization with routers without sending our limited IT staff onsite," says Darin Wipf, Director of IT at Norcraft Companies."
Ease Application Delivery Operations Through Network Transparency
As the only vendor offering true network transparency to protect large organizations' existing investments in networking, security and application assets, Cisco is committed to simplifying operations and management across many technology areas and enabling better collaboration among IT departments rather than having them to work in silos:
Table 4. Cisco ADN Eases Application Delivery Operations
Benefits of Transparent Architecture |
Cisco |
Ask Point Product Vendor |
Ease of Network Operation |
Yes |
– |
Ease of End-to-End Application Performance Management |
Yes |
– |
Ease of Integration with Unified Communication (VoIP) |
Yes |
– |
Ease of Security Operation |
Yes |
– |
The Cisco vision is to allow organizations to take full advantage of and standardize the network platform to minimize branch IT and application-delivery costs. By partnering with Cisco, your organization can focus on creating strategic advantage rather than on solving the problems that arise when information technology systems do not work together well.


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Bump Wonderful Life, the latest cut from Play-N-Skillz featuring Bun B on the assist. It was released on Thursday, May 26th, 2011.
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5 Classic Game, Great FunDavetheone | 31/01/2008 | See all Davetheone's reviews (3)I played this game as a youngster and I had NO IDEA what was going on and I was completly lost. It became the un-winable game in my eyes.Then I decided to play it again after 10 years and it was just incredible. A simplistic point and click slideshow with some of the most trickiest puzzles I have ever seen. The art is dated but still nice.You can definatly get hours of play out of this game. Highly recomended.
5 Some games you go to bed and dream about...gary4857 | 28/05/2011 | See all gary4857's reviews (3)Myst was one of the first computer games I ever played, and it is still the game I rate all others by. Looking back almost 20 years from its release... yes, it's dated: but the storyline is so strong and the concept so powerful that I strongly urge you to try it. The dated elements are the graphics which - groundbreaking in its day, seem quaint now (it really is worth investing in the more recent, and graphically improved RealMyst if you can track it down). But the powerful and haunting soundtrack and the strong storyline more than compensate. Myst is a simple point and click adventure - a puzzle game, if you will - and the object of the game is simply to find out what is going on around you. It takes time, and patience, but rest assured that each of the puzzles is logical and solvable by logic and exploration alone (no turn round three times and right-click twice here) so there should be no need for a walkthrough. Fans of shoot-em-ups will be disappointed, but Myst is not that kind of game. You find yourself alone on an uninhabited island, and the only contact you make with the creators of this mysterious world are through triggering off holographic messages hidden in... ah, well. That would be telling! There are many games out there which will challenge and frustrate you, and Myst will certainly do that, but Myst is totally immersive. There are some games you remember after you have played them, but playing - and completing - Myst is immensely satisfying. There are some games you go to bed dreaming about, and Myst is one you will never forget. Highly recommended.
1 kvaVindee | 18/01/2011 | See all Vindee's reviews (1)This master copy has serious issues,will only last a few seconds before black screen, patching it makes no difference!! Go for original it is worth it.


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Yesterday i was playing with annie mid vs teemo. I did my tibers stun combo and after i casted all my spells he was running away very low hp. My pet chased him and i think the aoe fire dot (or pet normal attack) killed him. I had 2 stacks on my meja before this fight and didnt get 2 extra stacks for this kill. I double checked my score (2-0) after that kill (bought meja before first kill) and the chat log and everything confirmed i killed him. Very wierd.
there mudt be sth wrong with tibbers, today i killed the golem with my tibbers hitting him, but i didnt get the buff... there was no one around, for that noone could steal it....
I could imagine that you don't get any buffs when your pet kills something. Neither item and creep buffs. This could be intentional from the programmers, or something they just haven't thought about yet.
Heimerdinger's turrets considered as a pet and if you kill golem with turrets you can get the buff.
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keekz on 2/4/2013 12:45:00 PM more reviews by keekz
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair Hair: Brunette Eyes: Blue
I have very fair skin, with a cool undertone and brown eyes. This set of colours together is just wonderful on and has the greatest colour payoff, and not just for department store! This set beats a lot of my other brands like MAC and others from Sephora. I paid about $12 Canadian for it from Shoppers and i'm very glad i did.
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RunawayGirl on 1/8/2013 4:34:00 PM more reviews by RunawayGirl
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Tan, Warm Hair: Black, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Brown
Everyday when I log on, I always see this on the side bar.. taunting me each time as if it was a sign for me to go buy it. I've read the reviews, time and time again, and I'd always bring myself not to try because I'm not a brown/neutral eyeshadow wearer. I love me some dramatic dark eyeshadow but realize i can't wear super dark eyeshadow everyday and it gets boring and I needed something to wear that is casual. This trio may look like a night time wear but to me this is a day time wear and it's absolutely stunning. The dark gold glitter deep brown is my favorite and dramatic enough to be casual for me. My least favorite would have to be the lightest color because the color doesn't suit me, looks ashy/chalky on my skin and is too dark to be a highlighter. The packaging is simple and easy to open (thank heaven for my nails.) The colors are super blendable, smooth and not super pigmented but pigmented enough. So my only gripe is that the lightest color should've been a highlighting shade for the brow bone, tear duct, cupids bow etc.
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aishahh on 12/24/2012 12:19:00 AM more reviews by aishahh
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Very Dry, Fair-Medium Hair: Brunette Eyes: Brown
Dirt Cheap, pigmented, smooth.
The lightest matte color is great for an all over wash, and the very dark brown is nice for the crease and lining when used wet.
Not a big fan of the upper left shade though, it has chunks of gold glitter in it :$
Canadian Belles, head to your nearest Superstore/Rexall/Loblwas/etc. and pick this up!
Also try Annabelle's BB Cream. It's really nice :)
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*TOP REVIEWER* susjs on 12/11/2012 1:18:00 PM more reviews by susjs
Age: 36-43 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral Hair: Brunette, Straight, Fine Eyes: Brown
I'm a little surprised at the rave reviews for this trio, which IMHO is completely nothing special, and I'm a neutral-lover. First, the trio pictured is not Haute Chcolate. The 3 shades in the HC trio are all cool-toned browns, 2 mattes and one with perceptible glitter. The lightest shade is a pretty matte, pale mocha/taupe, too dark to be a highlight shade on my NC/NW 20-ish skin tone but workable as an allover lid shade. Annabelle makes a good single shadow close to this colour. The medium shade is a dark, matte chalky taupe-brown, and the darkest one is a sparkly, dark chocolate colour, again not the smoothest formulation. I have several shadow formulations, both drugstore and high end that blend far better. On my colouring--dark brown eyes, brunette, light, neutral-warm skin tone--they're not particularly flattering, plus I'd still need to add a highlight shade or something to lighten this up and keep it from looking muddy. They might work better on someone else, for me they're unremarkable in every way. I think it's worth sharing this in case someone with my colouring is wishing they could get their hands on these. Far better are the Annabelle eyeliners, which I love--particularly the Smoothliner in Bronze and Smudgeliner in Purple Storm.
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*TOP REVIEWER* trisheee on 9/27/2012 11:41:00 AM more reviews by trisheee
Age: 44-55 Skin: Dry, Medium, Cool Hair: Brown, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Brown
Got to jump on the bandwagon! I received this in a swap and couldn't be happier! It deserves all the raves it's gotten. Smooth, silky, highly pigmented and the colors are so gorgeous! If you live where this is available, and you like the colors, don't hesitate to pick this up. It's one of the best eyesahdow formulations I've ever tried. And the staying power is awesome. Fabulous little trio!
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*TOP REVIEWER* hebrides on 9/2/2012 8:53:00 PM more reviews by hebrides
Age: 56 & Over Skin: Dry, Fair, Cool Hair: Brown, Straight, Medium Eyes: Blue
I noticed this was the highest rated eyeshadow. I had read the reviews a few weeks ago and almost bought it but thought it looked too much like several other brown, cream and taupe palettes I had. But, today I felt in the mood for something new to make me feel better after buying that disappointing L'oreal coral eyeshadow.
Well, I am in love with this! It goes on like a dream, it has highly pigmented brown and taupe shades that make contouring a breeze. Now I look fabulous again. Thanks, reviewers.
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blumoon on 6/9/2012 6:58:00 PM more reviews by blumoon
Age: 25-29 Skin: Dry, Fair-Medium Hair: Black, Straight, Medium Eyes: Brown
I rarely use this as eyeshadow, but on my eyebrows as well as for contouring. I blend the two non-sparkly browns to fill in my brows or contour the sides of my nose. I bought this years ago and there's still lots of product left today so it's well worth the price.
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*TOP REVIEWER* ktu64 on 5/27/2012 12:38:00 AM more reviews by ktu64
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Tan, Warm Hair: Black, Straight, Coarse Eyes: Brown
Great find! I picked this up when I was wandering around the local Rexall, after I'd swatched a sample and was fairly impressed. A couple of years later, I'm still using this trio and it is just phenomenal!
Super understated browns, but together they make the most flattering look, not like someone just rubbed brown chalk on your eyelids, but they really make my eyes pop. The medium shade is my favourite for swiping on in a hurry, and the darkest shade is absolutely beautiful for the crease and lining. For the record, I am asian, tan with dark hair and dark eyes, but I think this trio would work for just about anyone. It also applies so smoothly, and lasts a decent amount of time. Incredible colour payoff, and really affordable too (I think I got mine for $2.99 on sale)
The one gripe I had was with the packaging, as I am pretty abusive when I'm travelling with my makeup - the plastic cover fell off. Pretty easily taped back on though, except now the packaging isn't as pretty (the packaging of these trios closely resemble the smashbox e/s trios, just with hinge lids instead of screw lids... which is good, because I prefer hinge tops), but I can deal with that! I'd give this 10/5 anyday, and buy again for sure! Canadian ladies, you have no excuse!
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burpqueen on 4/19/2012 8:11:00 PM more reviews by burpqueen
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Olive, Neutral Hair: Brunette, Straight, Medium Eyes: Brown
I use this every day, depending on my mood I can make a dramatic look or just a less dramatic look. All the colors are great for my skin tone and all in all I love this trio. It lasts all day for me even after being at school and work for the whole day! :D
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reemaleema on 3/18/2012 1:05:00 AM more reviews by reemaleema
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium Hair: Black Eyes: Other
I love that these colours can be worn everyday as a neutral look OR as a gorgeous smoky eye.
It is the perfect palette for the beginner make up user or the seasoned make up artist.
The colour payoff is amazing especially for such a cheap price!
I have an olive skin tone in the summer and am a bit more fair year round and regardless of what tone my skin is, this trio works amazing on my face.
I can see how this would compliment someone with very fair skin and blue eyes would just POP with these colours.
Amazing palette, the colour payoff is amazing and therefore I never need a huge amount of eyeshadow.
For that reason, although I definitely would if need be, I don't see myself having to buy more any time soon.
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I have been working at Autonomy
You work with really smart people on projects that have direct and visible impact on really well known companies and governments.
It is growing so fast that its not as easy to move around the company like you used to be able to do. Career advancement is slower too.
Improve the communication between telecommuters and their managers. Open new offices where demand is growing. Relax some cost controls particularly for consumables.
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ProsThe offices at Autonomy are nice. All of the offices across the company are very nice. Most of the people that you interacted with on a day-to-day basis were very talented, dedicated, intelligent and worked very hard.
ConsThe company operates under a fear-and-intimidation style of upper management. They want to make it certain, from the first day on the job, that you know you are dissposable. The most disfunctional company culture I've ever seen.
Advice to ManagementAdviceI honeslty don't think Upper Management would ever take advice from its employees. But, fear-and-intimidation management styles only get short-term results. I would put more effort into enabling talented employees to do their job and less effort into thinking up ways to squeeze more productivity out of them through threatining their job.
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Consa lot of strategic decisions are taken centrally - not necessarily bad but can be a bit bruising if you've been used to doing your own thing in the past
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In this video originally featured in March of 2012, Dr. David Finch, a biologist at New York University, discusses his thoughts on both Creationism and the effects of "new atheists" like Richard Dawkins.
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In this video originally featured in March of 2012, Dr. David Finch, a biologist at New York University, discusses his thoughts on both Creationism and the effects of "new atheists" like Richard Dawkins.
All of you who do science, all of you who teach or research or you're involved in engineering or medicine or education, or biology or chemistry or physics—you are doing a noble thing. You are thinking God's thoughts after him. … You are obeying God's command given way back in Genesis to exercise dominion, to learn about, to be curious and discover and steward the earth.
In this series, Ryan Pettey offers several clips from his powerful documentary "From the Dust". This feature-length film is divided up into various sections, each of which wrestles with the difficult problems that arise when reconciling Scripture with the theory of evolution. A light of hope dawns on the science-faith conversation, however, as scientists and theologians engage in honest dialogue about tough issues such as the interpretation of Genesis, the nature of the Fall, and the idea of random design. Their profound insights are sure to enlighten all minds, raise deeper questions, and provoke new thought.
What's the evidence for the idea that God exists or doesn't exist? I think anyone who's looked at that would conclude that the strong atheist position of saying, "I know there is not God" is not an easy one to sustain.
In this video Conversation, Denis Alexander asserts that contemporary Christians are not taking the early chapters of Genesis seriously enough.
In this video conversation, N.T. Wright discusses how the Enlightenment worldview -- which clearly separates God from the world -- has impacted our view of Scripture, and why cleaning the "spectacles" through which we view the world can help us see both Scripture and the world more clearly.
Yesterday, biology professors Randy Moore and Sehoya Cotner raised the concern that workshops focused on evolution-related training do not reach creationism-based biology teachers. Today, we'd like to focus on BioLogos' efforts to address that divide through our Biology by the Sea workshops.
As he endeavored to learn more, David was intrigued by Francis Collins book The Language of God because Francis did not present evolution as a rival theory to Christian faith, but as something that described God's method of creation.
Barkley suggests that material creation is not the end of our understanding (as Naturalists think), but a beginning that unveils the majestic and power of a Creator who loves us.
In today's video, Dr. David Finch, a biologist at New York University, discusses his thoughts on both Creationism and the effects of "new atheists" like Richard Dawkins.
In today's video, theologian Alister McGrath discusses how we can make sense of the world in light of a fallen creation. One way, he notes, is to look for evidence from as many sources as possible, as science does.
In today's video, Rev. Dr. Michael Lloyd points out that it's often the annoying things-- the things we want to deny and shut out-- that can actually improve and enlarge our worldview.
Pete Shaw, the senior pastor of Crosswalk Community Church in Napa California, offers a brief history of the interactions between science and faith in the first segment of his sermon.
In his sermon, Dave Swaim discusses the early chapters of Genesis that seemingly contradict scientific evidence, and he suggests that Christians have simply asked the "wrong questions" about this ancient text, which has led to warfare between the two. In light of this, Swaim wraps up his sermon with the three concluding points that he feels sums up the Biblical truth of creation: there is an all-powerful God, he has a perfect plan, and he has given us his love through Jesus Christ.
In this video, physicist Ard Louis describes that our value and purpose do not come from whether or not we were created by an evolutionary mechanism. Evolution may tell us something about how we were created, but it is not the source of our worth.
In this video, Aaron Daly offers his thoughts on theistic evolution, creation, and how Christians should handle disagreements over these issues. Most of all, Aaron highlights the need for love in our discussions with one another, especially when we disagree.
Ian Hutchinson draws a sharp line between science and scientism. Scientism holds that all truth emerges from scientific study and explanation. Hutchinson, however, disagrees as he points to science's inability to establish truth about, for example, the events that have occurred in humanity's history on earth. He specifically engages Richard Dawkins assertions (from the book The God Delusion) that God is a scientific hypothesis that has been essentially disproved by science and that evolution explains religion as nothing more than a natural phenomenon.
In this paper, MIT professor Ian Hutchinson addresses the question of how to engage arguments put forward by the New Atheists. In doing so, he offers a critique of scientism, the assumption that scientific knowledge is all the real knowledge there is.
Philosopher Robert Bishop explores the Biblical doctrine of creation, which he describes as "perhaps one of the most helpful pieces of theology for thinking about science", and describes why the doctrine needs to be recovered from narrower, contemporary interpretations of creation.
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News about Congo, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.
Chronology of Coverage
Feb. 22, 2015
Private photo collection of Sg Madot Dagbinza of 42nd Commando Battalion of Armed Forces of the Democratic Republic of Congo, who was killed in 2014, reveals what life was like for woman in ranks of forces fighting against Rwanda-backed rebel group M23. MORE
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United Nations announces that its troops have launched both airstrikes and ground offensive with Congolese troops targeting leftovers of Burundian rebel group National Liberation Forces; offensive is also meant to pave way for another offensive against Democratic Forces for Liberation of Rwanda. MORE
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At least 129 people are dead after boat sinks on Lake Tanganyika in remote southeastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo; true toll of disaster remains unclear, though 232 people are known to have survived. MORE
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Democratic Republic of Congo lawmakers say dozens of people were killed near Beni in North Kivu Province; attack is blamed on rebels of Allied Democratic Forces and National Army for the Liberation of Uganda. MORE
Nov. 16, 2014
Struggle over oil exploration in Africa's national parks, including Virunga National Park in Democratic Republic of Congo, is a classic quandary, pitting economic development against environmental preservation; Virunga's champions say that if they lose the battle there, it will open the floodgates to drilling in protected spaces across the continent. MORE
Highlights From the Archives
Mass Rapes in Congo Reveals U.N. Weakness
Despite years of experience and billions of dollars, the peacekeeping force still seems to be failing at its task of protecting civilians.
October 4, 2010 worldNewsCongo's Death Rate Unchanged Since War Ended
Almost all the deaths come from hunger and disease, signs that the country is still grappling with the aftermath of a war that gutted its infrastructure.
January 23, 2008 worldNewsChaos in Congo: Many Armies Ravage Rich Land In the 'First World War' of Africa
Congo and the nine nations around it sit on what may be the richest patch of this planet: there are diamonds, oil, uranium, gold, plentiful water, fertile land and exquisite wildlife. It is now also one of the biggest battlefields in Africa's history, the object of a conflict that has been dubbed ''Africa's first world war.''
February 6, 2000 worldSpecial ReportRebel Army Captured Zaire In T-Shirts and Tennis Shoes
When the Zairian rebel leader Laurent Kabila announced last October that he would topple President Mobutu Sese Seko, almost no one took him seriously. But in a scant seven months, his rebel army conquered a country as large as the United States east of the Mississippi.
May 19, 1997 worldNews'Why Not Us Women?'
Sgt. Madot Dagbinza of the Congolese Army was killed in an ambush in 2014. She left behind this remarkable photo album.
February 22, 2015, Sunday
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1965: Troops Clash After Bombing
Highlights from the International Herald Tribune archives: Ugandan and Congolese troops clash in 1965.
February 17, 2015, Tuesday
African Cup Is as Unpredictable as Ever
Few would have expected the Democratic Republic of Congo or Equatorial Guinea, the host, to be in the semifinals alongside the traditional powers of Ghana and Ivory Coast.
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The Senate of the Democratic Republic of Congo voted Friday to eliminate a measure in an electoral law that critics say would have prolonged the president's time in power.
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Antigovernment protests in the Democratic Republic of Congo have left at least a dozen people dead, officials said Thursday, as the Senate postponed a vote on a proposed law that the opposition fears will prolong the president's time in power.
January 23, 2015, Friday
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Congo: Rebels Under Attack
United Nations and Congolese troops launched airstrikes and a ground offensive against remnants of a Burundian rebel group based in an eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations military spokesman said.
January 6, 2015, Tuesday
Congo: Dozens Die as Boat Sinks
At least 129 people have died after a boat sank on Lake Tanganyika in a remote southeastern corner of the Democratic Republic of Congo, provincial authorities said Sunday.
December 15, 2014, Monday
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1964: Selassie Calls for Congo Parley
From the International Herald Tribune archives: 1964: Haile Selassie Calls for African Summit Conference on the Congo.
November 28, 2014, Friday
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Democratic Republic of Congo: Rebels Kill Dozens
The attack took place near Beni in North Kivu Province, where a mainly Ugandan rebel group has been blamed for killing more than 200 civilians since October.
November 25, 2014, Tuesday
1964: U.S. Consul Describes Massacre
From the International Herald Tribune archives: A diplomat describes the Stanleyville massacre in 1964.
November 24, 2014, Monday
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Gorillas in the Crossfire
A national park ranger in the Democratic Republic of Congo struggles to protect gorillas from a brutal civil war.
Pass It On
This short video shows how a Congolese man turns scraps into a soccer ball for village children, so they can play the sport they love.
Ben Affleck Urges Action in Congo
The actor discussed the situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the State Department with Secretary of State John Kerry and former Senator Russ Feingold, the special envoy for the region.
Momentum Shifts in Congo's Battle Against Rebels
Until last summer, rebels had the upper hand in their battle against the Congolese government. But the government, backed by the United Nations, has brought new leadership and vigor to the fight.
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Presented in cooperation with Stiftung Plakat Ost, Berlin.
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Create one-of-a-kind glass and copper art at Minnetrista!
Muncie, IN—Explore copper enameling on an entirely new level by making unique art at Minnetrista Glass Workshop: Copper Enameling 2.0 on August 15!
Have past experience with glass and copper art or feel up to a fun challenge? Then this workshop is for you! Build on the basic techniques of copper enameling by designing your own art keepsake using sgraffito, stencil work, and advanced copper enameling techniques. Take home your beautiful glass memento at the end of the workshop—to display in your home, wear as a colorful accessory, or add a touch of elegance to a necklace or keychain.
Fashion an original glass on copper creation through a process that is both art and science! Spark your creative talents while meeting new people and discovering a new art form at Glass Workshop: Copper Enameling 2.0 on Thursday, August 15, from 6 to 9 p.m. Cost is $40 and the registration deadline is August 9.
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Gateways are created from generators fused to tracks that encircle Khirovus, under the first layer of the planet. The gateways located in underworld are stationary, while the gateways nearest the surface run on tracks. When the above gateway stops, it lines up just above its counterpart gateway. The Underworld gateway sends a surge of magnetized yellow energy, which once it connects with the receptors on the surface gateway, creates a 'tunnel' from one to the other. This tunnel is not physical, since it is just a link of energy connecting the gateways. The gateway is designed to transmit particles from one end of the link to the other, by transmitting the data code of the creature entering to the other end of the tunnel. Essentially it is melting the traveler down into basic encoding so that the link can transfer said traveler quickly (faster than the speed of light) to the other end, and then reconstruct them. Because it is so fast the traveler rarely feels change. If you were to stick an arm through a docked gateway, it would appear through the other gateway as if you were sticking your hand through a door, even though there are tons of rock layers between you and the other gateway.
Land bridges of Squi Chark
These are artificial bridges made by years of piling dirt into the sea (which is relatively shallow around this region) by ancient minotaur. They are said to have an empathy for the ocean so great that the thought boats were the 'Steeds of Demons'. The minotaur however desired to see the continent that was just barely visible from the shores of southern Ahleri, thinking it to be the afterlife. Why there are two instead of a single land-bridge is something archeologists have never been able to reveal. It is thought that it is due to the minotaurs fascination with the number, but no one can know for certain.
To this day the land bridges remain, though they are only used by the very poor who cannot afford a boat to Squi Chark.