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Anna Deavere Smith delivers the 44th Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities
Read how newspapers of the day covered the Battle of Bull Run.
The Encyclopedic Discography of Victor Recordings -- an NEH-supported preservation resource -- contains a wealth of detailed information about the first decades of the U.S. record industry.
The Endowment's special initiative, Bridging Cultures, encourages study and informed conversation about commonalities across cultures and subcultures, both within in United States and abroad.
An NEH-funded archaeology project is unearthing evidence -- spanning three centuries -- that numerous oppressed groups took refuge in the swamp, including runaway slaves and displaced Native Americans.
Oysters -- once deemed only suitable for the poor man's pot -- grew so popular in the years after the Civil War that they created a sort of comestible "gold rush" in the Chesapeake Bay.
EDSITEment, NEH's award-winning educational website, provides college-bound students and lifelong learners with a comprehensive recommended summer reading list that links users to relevant lesson plans and websites for further enrichment.
When retailer Edgar Kaufmann approached Frank Lloyd Wright in the 1930s to design a family retreat in the Allegheny Mountains, the result was a landmark of American architecture -- built directly over a waterfall. Read more on EDSITEment, NEH's award-winning website for students, teachers, and lifelong learners.
The great age of Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature lasted from the sixth through the tenth centuries CE. But its influence can still be found in modern fantasy tales, such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy and the Harry Potter series. Read more about Anglo-Saxon poetry on EDSITEment, NEH's award-winning website for students, teachers, and lifelong learners.
Teaching the Middle East: A Resource for Educators, a new online resource created by scholars at the University of Chicago and funded by the NEH, provides teachers with an invaluable educational tool.
England's Lord Macaulay said it best: The King James Bible is "a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."
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How long can you stare yourself in the eyes?
Many years ago when my daughter was very young I held her as we rode the
No nerve endings. No gore. Whatever happened to the old man happened a long time ago. The right side of his face had an empty orbital cavity like that of a skeleton.
The sight shocked my daughter who cried for half an hour afterward. In the Navy I saw men die; I've seen the aftermath of violence. But nothing prepared me for the Grim Reaper-like sight hidden beneath that old man's eye patch.
I had a heady dream the other night. One of those waking dreams where it feels convincingly real, but you suspect it's not. In this dream, I stumbled to the bathroom and looked in the mirror. Reflected in the mirror, my eyes were gone leaving empty eye sockets. (Perhaps I shouldn't have bragged in last week's column about sleeping easy.)
First the first time I'm beginning to understand what Nietzsche meant when he said, "If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
I had a friend back in high school who put a large-caliber pistol to his head and blew his brains out.
Mercifully, I never saw his body. But I've had plenty of nightmares about that night. I see him sitting in his car, the gun still gripped in his hand. Blood everywhere. Flecks of skull and gray matter stuck to the ceiling and windshield. A portion of his head missing.
It's as if I were sitting in the backseat when he pulled the trigger. But as my spirit glides through the astral plane to see his face, I always wake covered in sweat and breathing heavy. I believe if I were to ever see the crime scene photographs they would match perfectly with what I've already seen with my mind's eye. But I've never seen my friend's eyes after the barrel smoke cleared.
When we used to drive around country roads, drink cheap beer and talk about girls, he always seemed to be staring at objects only he could see. His father preceded him in taking his own life. During his short time in this world, my friend carried a burden most of us — including me — will thankfully never know.
I like to think he hurled himself into the void with his eyes wide open.
Girls used to tell me I had bedroom eyes. I don't hear that much anymore. A woman did tell me recently that I always seemed to have a dark cloud passing through my blue eyes.
I turn 40 this year. For the first time in my life I feel like death is inevitable instead of a possibility. The years are catching up to me. A decade of riotous living followed by years of neglect have racked my mind, body and soul. I've made strides in the past year in the body department. I don't go to the gym as much as I should, but I go more than I ever have.
Speaking of places I don't go as much as I should — the preacher talked last Sunday about how Christ forgave the blind man's sins before restoring his sight. I've been down that path too many times to take steps in that direction now. But with my own mortality staring me in the face every time I look in the mirror, I can't help but wonder whether I'll go into oblivion with my eyes open.
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"Economics is the study of mankind in the ordinary business of life."
Alfred Marshall (1842 - 1924)
In both the B.A. and the BBA programs, students receive attention from highly trained faculty experienced in the application of economics to social, business, and government issues. Economics students develop analytical capabilities, quantitative skills, and computer acumen that provide excellent preparation for business and government policy-making and the analysis of contemporary affairs.
Internships in economics are encouraged so that students can apply their classroom training to 'real-world' problems and practices in a variety of organizations. The department also has an active student-run club, the Adam Smith Society, which sponsors speakers and social activities for students, faculty, and alumni. Outstanding students are eligible for selection to Omicron Delta Epsilon, the international economics honor society.
Faculty offices are located on the 3rd floor of Sellinger Hall on Loyola's Baltimore campus. Economics Department Chair Fred Derrick can be found in Sellinger Hall 309.
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One of the great things about doing the television series 'Young Drunk Punk' (set in Calgary in the '80s) is that I get to share the music that was so formative for me. The music that propelled me into the world. Into comedy and to Toronto. More importantly, it's really satisfying to have people hear things from this underrated era.
Now, the master of horror who -- along with the early Japanese video games -- informed a generation's appreciation of electronic, moody soundtracks has released a full record of music.
Instead of expecting socially relevant music or artistic works from mainstream artists, it is high time for us to give our support to cultural workers or artists whose songs and other productions are the voice of the voiceless.
Not since John met Yoko has an artistic collaboration been greeted with as much disapproval as the collaboration between Paul McCartney and Kanye West.
Rosen came to be known as much as an author and scholar as a pianist, but he always thought of himself as a pianist first.
During the holidays, my face hurts. It hurts from wearing a fake permasmile around family and friends so much that it takes about a week...
As we mark the singer's 80th birthday, let's remember not only the Elvis of our dreams, but also the Elvis of history, whose recordings and performances changed popular music forever. Even today, Elvis the icon is everywhere -- bigger in death, it sometimes seems, that he was in life
I was intrigued by 'Empire,' thanks to Fox cramming ads for it down our throats. I wasn't sure if it was going to be brilliant or trash TV -- I just knew either way I was in. So pressing play on the pilot, I was dubious at best. But good lawd! That wariness was quickly erased with each passing scene, because yes, 'Empire' is that good.
As it happens with the great groups who produce music of the highest quality, some true gems slip through the cracks. Here are five of those.
I've realized balance is probably something that DJs need more than people with normal jobs, sunlit ones where you can just eat a Chop't salad at your desk and hit Soul Cycle after your last meeting of the day. A DJ's cubicle is everyone's party, and that's not a workspace where balance is easy to achieve.
Eleven years before the release of Nirvana's juggernaut Nevermind during the apex of glam metal, Sub Pop Records was a fledgling Xerox-and-X-Acto-knife-produced fanzine that championed local music scenes across the country.
A bounty of exemplary singer/songwriters have embraced their native New York as their core inspiration and a powerful component to their personal brands. Let's look at five top pop artists among the many greats who personify the grit, elegance and power of their beloved city.
Anyone who knows me knows that I am a huge Madonna fan. I have been since I was a wee lad dancing around my bedroom lip-syncing to "Borderline". In honor of her 13th album release, here are 13 underrated Madonna songs.
Here are 10 things to keep in mind while setting your goals, ambitions, and dreams for the year, provided by the Billboard Top 10 Hot 100 Songs of 2014.
On a positive tip, Michael Keaton made a comeback, U2 released one of their best albums in decades (don't hate), and Chris Pratt became a movie star. On a downside, we lost way too many talented people this year from Robin Williams to Joan Rivers to Philip Seymour Hoffman.
I consider the symphony as cool as Radiohead, Boards of Canada or Ele (my new favourite artist). Recently, I spoke with the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra and they shared with me the top 10 reasons why the symphony is cool.


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Women's Volleyball Back on Track with 3-0 Sweep at St. Andrews
October 4, 2011
LAURINBURG, N.C. - Paced by nine kills from Kelly Lancellot and Kim Amerell, Pfeiffer University scored a 3-0 (25-14, 31-29, 25-16) sweep at St. Andrews University on Tuesday night. The win snaps a brief two-game skid for the Lady Falcons as they improve to 7-7 overall, 4-3 in league play. St. Andrews, dropping their eighth-straight contest, dip to 2-14, 0-8.
Behind Lancellot and Amerell, freshman Jessica Homrich followed with a half-dozen kills. Cate Glendenning dished out 26 assists while also leading the way with 14 digs. Pfeiffer hit .242 in the match win against their eastern division opponent.
St. Andrews was led by Celia Duggan's nine kills and Megan Nelson's 13 assists. Allie Garland popped up a match-high 32 digs in the loss.
Pfeiffer returns to league play heading to Queens on Friday night. Friday marks an opportunity for the Lady Falcons to gain ground as the Royals currently stand atop of the Eastern Division standings heading into the 6:30 p.m. matchup.


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Joe Nick Patoski is a former senior editor for Texas Monthly and a one-time reporter for the Austin American-Statesman. He has authored and co-authored biographies of Selena and Stevie Ray Vaughan, collaborated with photographer Laurence Parent on books about the Texas mountains, the Texas coast, and Big Bend National Park, all published by University of Texas Press, in addition to writing Generations on the Land: A Conservation Legacy (Texas A&M Press) and Texas High School Football: More Than the Game (Texas Historical Commission). His 2008 book, Willie Nelson: An Epic Life, published by Little, Brown, was recognized by the Friends of the TCU Library with the Texas Book Award for the best book about Texas written in 2007/2008. His most recent book for Little, Brown is The Dallas Cowboys: The Outrageous History of the Biggest, Loudest, Most Hated, Best Loved Football Team in America. Patoski's byline has appeared in the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, TimeOut New York, Garden & Gun, and No Despression magazine, for whom he is a contributing editor.


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As of Sept. 1, a list of areas and places with unsafe drinking water, according to the Office of Public Health:
Orleans Parish:
Venetian Isles
Jefferson Parish:
Grand Isle
Plaquemines Parish:
Dalcour Waterworks District
Pointe a la Hache Water Service
Port Sulphur Water Service
St. Bernard Parish:
Domino Sugar
St. James Parish:
Noranda Alumina, LLC
St. James Boat Club
St. John Parish:
Frenier Landing Restaurant
St. John Water District No. 2
Cajun Pride Water System
St. John Water District No. 1
Beacon Lounge
Halfway House Bar
Gators Den Cajun Cafe
Crab Trap Boil Seafood, LLC
St. Tammany Parish:
Pearl River Townhouse
Tesi Cherrywood
St. Tammany Parish Lake Hills Village
Chata Mobile Home Park
Marina Del Ray Water System
H2O Services Bleu Lake Hills
Indian Hills Trailer Park
Tesi Rigolets Estates
Tesi Beau Pre Water Supl
Tchefuncte Harbor Townhomes
Beau Village subdivision
Lake Ramsey
St. Tammany Pineland Park
Tesi Rigolets Harbor
Alton Water Supply
St. Tammany Parish Madisonville Woods
Chapman Apartments
Oak Villa Trailer Park
Port Louis Townhouses
St. Tammany Parish St. Gertrude
Lewisburg Estates
Forest Glen subdivision
Cross Gates Utilities Cross Gate subdivision
Lakeshore Estates
H20 Services Whippoorwhill Grove
Azelea Lane Trailer Park
Eden Isles Water Supply
Madisonville Water Supply
Pheny Ridge Trailer Park
Southeast La. Hospital Park
Shady Pines Trailer Park
The Meadows
Tchefuncte Club Estates
Eagle Lake Mobile Park
Village Guthrie subdivision
Ponderosa Estates
Ozone Pine subdivision
Homeland Heights
Ponderosa Ranches subdivision
Pine Crest Trailer Park
Ravenwood subdivision
Central Park subdivision
Crossgates Ben Thomas Road Water District
Tammany Mobile Home Park
Northminister Montessori
Bayou Industrial Park
The Learning Junction
Hosanna Lutheran Church
Northshore 1 Commercial Condo Association
Lake Castle School
Hillcrest Apartments
St. Tammany School Board Ed. Center
All-Star Toyota
B&B Grocery & Deli
Brian Harris Autoplex
Lacombe-Mandeville Headstart
Check-in, Check-out
Trinity Marine Group
One Stop Market & Liquor
A to Z Daycare Center
Assuntas Restaurant
Alice Restaurant
Sixth Ward Cafeteria
US Fish & Wildlife Headquarters
Camp Salmen
Le Cafe De Bon Temps
T Rivers
Roberts Family Market
Keith Young's Restaurant
Planet Kids Academy #2
Slidell Seafood
Bashab Express
Folger Coffee Co-Lacombe Distribution Center
Cleco Service Center
Central Progressive Bank
Kidz Klubhouse
Hyundia of Slidell
Goodbee Quickstop
Ford Lincoln Mercury of Slidell
Lakeshore Chrysler
61700 Highway 434 Building
H20 Services Guste Island Water Supply
Dream Courts Mobile Home Park
Bobs Apartments
Madisonville on the Lake
Beverly Heights Manor
H20 Services I-59 Mobile Home Park
River Oaks
Salvation Manor St. Joe
Pelican Park
Fontainbleu State Park
Bush Shell 2
Relax Inn
La Provence Restaurant
Relax Inn
Kinderhaus Montessori
House of Seafood
State Police Troop L
Abita Springs Golf Club
Hillcrest Lake Villas
Slidell Little Theater
Land-o-pines campground
Conquering Word Christian Academy
Value Travel Inn, Inc
New Orleans East KOA
Sixth Ward Jr. High
Tangipahoa Parish:
Tchefuncte Family Campground
Whites Seafood
Magnificat Center Holy Springs
Colonial Inn Motel
Glenwood Baptist Youth Camp
Southeast Baptist Assembly
Cranky Curve, LLC
Blue Crystal MHP
Town of Roseland
Viola Mobile Home Park
Yogi Bears Jellystone Park
Intersection Connection
Joe's Mobile Home Park
Hammond Mobile Home Park
Baywood Estates subdivision
French Settlement-Bankston
Woodside MHP
Terrebonne Parish:
Schriever WTP Service Park
Houma Water TP Service Area
Washington Parish:
A&G Enon Quick Shop LLC
Lil Angels Daycare
Coconutz Daiquiris
Jimmy's Fish Market
The Louisiana Castle
Warnerton Quick Stop
Lil Anders Bar
S and P Truck Stop
Windmill Nursery
Highway 10 Chevron
Stewart Seafood & Steak
Enon Elementary School
Papa Js Highway Mart
29 Palms Trailer Park
Happy Acres Mobile Home Park
Ron Son Bear
North Folsom Hills
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The Phoenicians gave us the alphabet, purple fabrics, and Carthage – so why not those thingamajobbers that hang in front of the windows, too? Examples:
Sliding window with Phoenician blinds
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We ought to go home this morning and let down our Phoenician blinds and fall on our faces in shame and humiliation before God.
On Friday, for example, I decided that it was high time to clean all the phoenician blinds in the house – in the rain!!
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And in this case, not my PC operating system, the quartzy glass "Window" variety that keeps the
bugs, rain, wind, intruders & aliens out & is the leading reason why Shades, Curtains & Phoenician Blinds are so popular these Days.
There's also a business in Glendale, Arizona called "Phoenician Blinds & Draperies" (http://phoenix.citysearch.com/profile/1706033/). Since Glendale is essentially a large suburb of Phoenix, we're most likely dealing with a pun rather than an unselfconscious eggcorn.
Phoenician blinds definitely needs to be brought to the top for more delectation. Going a bit farther afield you might find the following alien malaprop dressing someone's windows.
A unnatural white light softly streamed through yellowed and dusty venusian blinds from the streetlight that illuminates the back courtyard of my building.
My venusian blinds are somehow broken too, and I can't lower them. My neighbour across the road is facing right in my window and has been STANDING up the entire time. I don't know if he does this every day or if its a special christian day or something (he's a gone again christian)
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I was able to identify certain Film Noir characteristics such as Venusian blinds, these are used to block out the realism of reality from outside
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It's just as illegal anywhere in the US to display your jumblies in front of a huge window where someone could see it from the street.
But apparently they don't own any venusian blinds in this town.
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What about "Vanishing Blinds"? A lot of the hits are from India, so many that it might be standard. One example:
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"Vanishing" for "Venetian" rings the semantic bell. They do sort of vanish when turned parallel to sight lines.
If you say vÁnetian rather than venÉtian, you're there. The semantics work, as kem says, which is more than can be said for Venusian! Though I think Venusian blinds is a sublime find.
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
Venusian blinds sound otherworldly, but I'm pretty sure it's not an eggcorn. Google offers Venusian as the second choice alternative spelling for Venesian, so it's more along the lines of cupertino of the month.


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MISENHEIMER, N.C. Pfeiffer Universitys A team leads after day one of the 2011 Old North State Invitational firing a round of 307 to lead three other squads by 14 strokes heading into Tuesdays final round. The Falcons Tyson Louth, competing on Pfeiffers B team, leads all individuals with a first round 73 at the 7,102-yard, par 72 Old North State Club. Conditions on Monday were very windy with gusts up to 30mph.
Behind Louth, Pfeiffers Chadd Marburger finished one stroke back carding a 74. Louth scored 37 on the front, 36 on the back while Marburger went 36-38.
Casey Komline, competing as an individual from Appalachian State finished third after the first 18 with a 75. Will Ferrell of Mars Hill and Curtis Brotherton of High Point concluded T-4 with a pair of 76s. Out of 55 golfers, High Points D.J. Dougherty (T-6) played the only under par nine of the day dropping a 35 on the front side.
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SARS is caused by a virus referred to as "SARS-CoV" from the coronavirus genus; SARS-CoV means severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus. Many coronaviruses infect animals and humans, and the common cold is caused by some coronaviruses and several other viruses. However, the SARS-CoV virus had never been identified before 2002. This was not entirely surprising because there are many types of coronaviruses, and they are known to mutate easily.
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Waiting for the Barbarians
In class, April 17th the whole group began the second discussion of J.M. CoetzeeтАЩs Waiting for the Barbarians. However, before we began direct discussion on that, everyone had an opportunity to express their impressions of the article about some of the military personnel assigned to an Iraqi prison. After a few comments about the requests of Sadam Hussein that seemed peculiar to the students, Yun noted the class that the class must remember that this is a тАЬgame of powerтА? and that we must be conscious of тАЬwho has the powerтА? in these situations. The class discussion then transitioned to the photographs of what the soldiers had done to the Iraqi prisoners. The behavior of posing for a camera that is capturing oneтАЩs indecent activity is something that was quickly pointed out as seeming nonsensical to most of the class. Why would you smile and stand for a picture if it was going to be evidence of what you did?
The environment was the key to this discussion. What the soldiers were told to do and how they were instructed to conduct themselves was something that many of us had not paid as close of attention to. It seems that they were left with fairly loose guidelines on proper behavior and the environment of the dilapidated prison was probably not one for which they had been specifically instructed on how to maintain order. There instructions were guard the prisoners and in certain instances attempt to gain information but how to do this was not laid out as clearly. The photographer herself admitted to feeling quite out of place in the environment and felt less patriotic since she was not able to cope as well with the orders and conditions she was given to deal with. Yun then redirected the class again reminding everyone that if an environment can make a person feel out of place as the soldier had, then what does that say about the environment? Before breaking into our smaller groups Yun added that, the way we feel about things has to do with the environment of those things.
With that comment left open ended, we broke into groups to discuss specifically how the main character starts off as someone who just looks at the things going on around him and shifts to someone who feels he must take part and rebel against the3rd bureau. What actually makes that transformation possible and what does it have to do with his relationship with this girl? In addition to discussing those ideas pertaining to the book, we were asked to relate them to the poem.
In at least partial opposition to the class, my own group saw the main characters transformation as beginning sometime before the novel begins. We believed that he was already partially conscious of his true feelings on what was going on around him, but he chose to suppress those emotions and ideas. The class majority believes moreso that the transition is sparked and occurs a bit further into the story. After seeing so many of the barbarian prisoners brought before him in near death conditions, he eventually realizes that he cannot support such brutality that takes place on the premise of speculation. Specifically his relationship with the barbarian girl forces him to acknowledge the human aspect of this fight that is taking place and that the people that he is supposed to fight against for their oppositional nature are in fact quite similar to him.
As he began to care for the girl, his eyes became more open to the fact that she is not just cold and vacant, but she has been beaten shut in a culture and society that is not hers. Even though at first he saw her as being blind to the truth of what is going on, he later realizes that he is the one who is blind and it is because he can only see the situation from one direction. But still, at this point his transformation is still very much in progress. It is when he takes her back to her people that he sees her ability to interact with them and understand them as he is the one who is an outsider. The reversal of roles allows him to see her as even more human in the way she is able to move back into her society and play a part there. When he returns home, he realizes more so yet what it is like to be the outsider when his own people begin to label him as the тАШotherтАЩ and a criminal for helping the girl. He is no longer a strong part of that circle of people. Until that point, he has maintained a mental block disallowing him from seeing the reality of the situation and seeing the barbarians as people. Through his cultural upbringing, he had developed an idea of the тАШothersтАЩ as being either not human, or in a way that makes them less human than himself. The тАШothernessтАЩ of the barbarians, he realizes, was created by the people around him and represented a fictitious creation of the government used to control their own people.
The poem represents this story as well as the main characterтАЩs transformation in an interesting way. It ends with the concluding line of, тАЬThey were, these people, a kind of solution.тА? The government in the story was able to group and control the people of the town by uniting them in direct opposition of the people outside the town. They needed to label the barbarians as a threat in order to do this, but it was the barbariansтАЩ simple existence that was largely a mystery to the people of the town that made this possible. The government was able to attribute a number of crimes, real and fabricated, to the barbarians and thus the people believed that the barbarians were force to be fought. Having an oppositional force gave the government reason to use all of its instruments of control not just on the barbarians, but the people of the city as well.
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With its compact and lightweight body, the Canon EOS 100D / Rebel SL1 / Kiss X7 is the smallest DSLR in the firm's line-up. While it adopts a similar performing sensor to the EOS 700D, the body is around 25% of the size of that model by volume and presents its own set of challenges when selecting lenses for it. In this review, we've taken a look at the optical quality of 130 different lenses fitted to the camera but this time we're also making some limited recommendations about the handling and video capabilities.
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Hickory, NC The North Carolina Collegiate Sports Information Association has released the 2009 All-State College Division Baseball Team. Pfeiffer starting pitcher Nick Fogleman was honored as a selection this year. Catawba (36-18), who won the 2009 Food Lion South Atlantic Conference Baseball Tournament, and UNC Pembroke, who finished 37-17 this year, led the way with three representatives each.
Catawba junior Craige Lyerly (Salisbury, N.C.) spearheaded the infield selection after batting .444 and leading NCAA Division II in total hits with 106. Lyerly, the 2009 SAC Co-Player Of The Year and an American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Third-Team All-American, finished the year with a school-record, 35-game hitting streak. Chowan freshman Justin Bagbey (Virgilina, Va.) ranked first in the nation in slugging percentage (.985) while setting school records in home runs (17) and runs batted in (64). Bagbey also batted .478 and ranked in the top ten in NCAA Division II in slugging percentage, on-base percentage and home runs. UNC Pembroke sophomore Seth Kivett (Bear Creek, N.C.) was a first-team All-Peach Belt selection after finishing with a .343 batting average while hitting a school-record 16 home runs. Kivett also scored 57 times and drove in 52 runs. Mount Olive senior Rich Racobaldo (Marlton, N.J.) was the 2009 Carolinas Conference Co-Player Of The Year and a Daktronics NCAA Division II All-Southeast Region First-Team honoree after batting .417 and hitting 15 home runs. Racobaldo, the 2008 NCAA Division II South Atlantic Region Tournament MVP, added 60 runs scored and 64 runs batted in this year while ranking nationally in 10 offensive categories. Racobaldo was also named to the all-tournament team at the 2008 NCAA Division II National Championship for the first-place Trojans in 2009.
Catawba senior Ryan Query (Kannapolis, N.C.) got the nod at catcher after earning Third-Team All-American honors (ABCA) this year. Query, who was named to the 2009 First-Team All-SAC and Daktronics NCAA Division II All-Southeast Region squads, batted .384 with 61 runs scored and a team-leading 20 home runs, 21 doubles and 75 runs batted in. Query is the lone holdover from last years all-state squad.
The three outfielders were led by Wingate senior Mark Letchworth (Greenville, N.C.), who was named the 2009 SAC Co-Player Of The Year and earned Daktronics and ABCA NCAA Division II All-Southeast First-Team honors. Letchworth, also a Third-Team All-American (ABCA) in 2009, batted .392 to go along with 59 runs scored, 18 home runs, 66 runs batted in and a league-leading 20 doubles. UNC Pembroke senior Kevin Dietrich (Charlotte, N.C.) earned First-Team All-Peach Belt Conference accolades in 2009 after establishing school records in home runs (16) and hits (92). Dietrich also batted .418 with 59 runs scored and 68 RBI. Lenoir-Rhyne junior Max Loveland (Bradenton, Fla.) batted .401 with seven home runs, 49 runs scored, 46 runs batted in and 23 stolen bases, all team-highs. Loveland, one of the best all-around players in the region, also went 2-0 on the mound and tied the school record for saves in a season with seven. Loveland was named to the South Atlantic Conference and NCAA Division II Daktronics All-Southeast Region Second Teams.
Catawba sophomore Nathan Furr (Albemarle, N.C.) was chosen as the relief pitcher after finishing with a 4-0 mark and a conference-leading eight saves. Furr also won his lone start in the league tournament and earned the save in the 2009 Food Lion SAC Baseball Tournament Championship second game to help the Indians take the title.
Guilford sophomore Kyle Wooden (Monroe, N.C.) batted a national-leading and a school-record .514 in 2009 as he was selected as the all-state designated hitter. Wooden, who earned D3Baseball.com Second-Team All-American honors this year as well, established a school-record in hits with 71 and his .588 on-base percentage ranked third in the nation.
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The Paw Paw TunnelThe Paw Paw Tunnel
The Paw Paw Tunnel, at times referred to as one of the "Wonders of the World," is one of the major features of the C&O Canal. Having walked the tunnel many times in my childhood, I enjoy taking my children today. Many state that as they near the last curve, gazing at the gaping mouth of the tunnel, they feel a sense of awe and inspiration.
Construction began in 1836, endangering the builders' lives and costing tons of money--500% more than what they first thought. It was estimated that construction of the nearly one kilometer-long tunnel (3118') would take two years. Instead, it ended up being fourteen years between the onset of construction and the opening of the tunnel to traffic.
The Paw Paw Tunnel is the largest hand-made structure of the C&O Canal. It is 24-foot high and is lined with approximately six million bricks!
During the early years, the completed tunnel was only wide enough for one boat to go through at a time. When a boat arrived at a tunnel entrance, a boy would be sent to place a lantern at the other end to signal to oncoming boats that the tunnel was already occupied. Usually this worked, however, from time to time boats would meet in the middle and one would have to back up. There is a story of one occasion when the captains of the two boats that met in the middle were particularly stubborn. For days, neither would agree to turn around. Finally the section superintendent of that part of the canal could stand it no longer. He bought all the cornstalks he could and built a roaring fire at the upwind end of the tunnel. Both boats exited quickly.
Paw Paw, the town and the tunnel, took their name from a fruit (the only temperate member of the apple custard family) that grows along nearby ridges. This unique fruit tastes much like a banana and cantaloupe together.
The Paw Paw Tunnel is a fantastic place to visit. Be sure to read up on the tunnel so you can pass enlightening tales onto your children.
The tunnel is safe, dry, and intact and is open for your sightseeing adventures.
For more information about the Paw Paw Tunnel call the Hancock Visitors Center at 301-678-5463.
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- Jander, G. and N. Clay (2011) New synthesis – plant defense signaling: new opportunities for studying chemical diversity. J. Chem. Ecol. 37:429. PMID: 21544524.
- Millet, Y.A., Danna, C.H., Clay, N.K., Songnuan, W., Simon, M.D., Werck-Reichhart, D., and F.M. Ausubel (2010) Innate immune responses activated in Arabidopsis roots by microbe-associated molecular patterns. Plant Cell 22: 973-990. PMID: 20348432.


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On April 19th and 20th, 2013, the Mann Center hosted the inaugural Southeastern Regional Academic Integrity Conference at Samford. During the conference, which included representatives from 26 institutions in 7 states, attendees shared insights about challenges and best practices at their own institutions. The ICAI Southeast Consortium was also launched at the conference; this consortium, which will be led by the Mann Center, will serve as a resource for Southeastern colleges and universities and will convene conversations around this important topic.
Mann Center program manager Azalea Hulbert facilitated a session titled "Better World Theatre: Teaching Ethics through the Arts." Samford students Kristin Aebli, Cat Forman, Claire Gaxiola, and Christina Witt participated in the session as actors and discussion leaders (view presentation). Other presenters included Teddi Fishman, the International Center for Academic Integrity (view presentation); James Orr and Jeremy Hall, Mississippi State University; Kevin Kozee, the University of South Carolina; Iva Bimi Ballard, Mississippi State University; Michael Goodwin, Kennesaw State University (view presentation); and Gary Pavela, past president of ICAI and the keynote speaker.
The Mann Center also convened a conversation on academic integrity at Samford on Monday, April 22nd, as keynote speaker Gary Pavela joined a select group of Samford faculty and staff to address practical concerns in academic integrity.
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Caring for nature is an investment in our common good
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A row of kale stands tall among other winter vegetables in a garden at Greenbank Farm in December 2012. Greenbank runs an organic-agriculture school.
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A heron perches atop a rock with a view of Mount Rainier on the southwestern side of Whidbey Island in October 2012. The Whidbey Camano Land Trust acquired a section of tideland, beach and forest in the area to preserve it for wildlife habitat.
We billions share this tiny orb for everything -- food, drink, air, housing, health, livelihood, beauty, recreation, learning, and more. On the earth, we are born, live, die, and then become part of the earth again to nourish future life. The earth's natural resources satisfy our many tangible needs and inspire expression of intangible ones -- the arts, spirituality, and possibilities. We breathe. We laugh. We walk. We sleep. Certain of the earth's constancy, we devote our time and efforts to other things. And, a lot of the time, we just take nature for granted.
Do you remember Earthrise, that captivating photograph taken by orbiting astronauts in 1968? They saw our beautiful blue jewel of a planet suspended in the dark of space. Watching it rise above the lunar horizon with tendrils of clouds swirling around it, they saw our earth through new eyes. Not solid beneath them, but fragile, vulnerable and dazzling all at once. They knew that on this precious, small, blue sphere, everything is close and connected to everything else.
From Whidbey Island, I get that truth. This one small land mass with its many eclectic dimensions has influence across the region, nation, even around the world -- as a result of its agriculture, economics, tourism, and even some legal precedents.
Charmed by Whidbey's beauty, clean air, and welcoming nature, my husband and I left sprawling Salt Lake City in 2005 to build a home and a new life here. We've become part of this creative, vibrant community. We've seen amazing accomplishments in business and community action. We know how widely Whidbey's positive energy ripples. Think about these few examples.
In the waters by Coupeville, an ambitious aquaculture business began in 1975 to raise mussels. Today, Penn Cove Shellfish has become a recognized brand with its mussels, clams, and oysters featured on menus of tony restaurants in major cities of many countries. Less glamorous but vital is the significant annual harvest of cabbage seed grown on several small farms in central Whidbey Island and distributed internationally, much in Asia. Rockwell beans, a heritage cassoulet-style dry bean traditional to the Coupeville area, are grown on local organic farms. Whidbey farmers raise heritage sheep and fowl as well as grass-fed, free-ranging livestock for local and regional sales.
In one microclimate near Coupeville, conditions are ideal for conifer seed orchards to produce abundant seed used to replant logged forest areas in Western Washington. Nearby, delicate Golden Paintbrush flowers, once endangered, are increasing as rare coastal prairies are restored. A few miles south, an organic farm school has operated for five years now at the historic Greenbank Farm, once a major loganberry producer and saved from development by vigorous community action. The school, based on the open source curriculum developed at UC Santa Cruz, is not affiliated with any university. Instead, students from across the country learn to farm, including dealing with the vagaries of farming as a business.
Island County Beachwatchers, part of the Washington State University Extension Service, pioneered a one-day university on Whidbey Island 15 years ago. Annually since then, hundreds attend from across Puget Sound to learn about water, land, wildlife, and how to be better participants in this amazing ecosystem. This successful learning format is now used by other Beachwatcher groups in Puget Sound.
Volunteering on Whidbey is an art form. Since 1994, Hearts and Hammers, a Whidbey Island original, annually has brought together hundreds of volunteers on the first Saturday in May to repair and rehabilitate homes of people physically or financially unable to do the work. Today, Hearts and Hammers programs in at least six other states follow the basic Whidbey model.
Friends of Friends combines playfulness and effective community effort to raise and disburse funds to people unable to pay for uncovered medical expenses. Whidbey Island Nourishes (WIN) began in 2007 as a few women realized that, in the midst of South Whidbey wealth, children were hungry. For many, school provided their only regular meals. Volunteers packed basic, nutritious foods in backpacks for students to take home on the weekend. No stigma. No hunger. The program grows as need grows, a real win-win. No matter the issue, there's a "can-do" spirit of caring that's part of Whidbey's energy.
There's more, lots more -- arts, healing arts, language-learning, future-thinking, even the internationally known Whidbey Institute at Chinook. Over much of the island, I see concern leading to community action that solves complex problems. It's inspiring. It's about each of us making a difference.
Where did it begin? I think with a love of the land.
Here, many appreciate that we people are part of nature, not the masters of it, and we work with nature for long-term, common good. Whidbey culture has been shaped by courageous and creative grass-roots efforts to protect the land and its resources to benefit all -- today AND in the future.
For decades, people here have saved many important properties. Determined citizens protected wetlands, bird refuges, working farmlands, old-growth trees, historic farms, beautiful beaches, and forests from ill-advised development. Many properties protected forever benefit the public for recreation, clean water, views, wildlife habitat, and more. Some have national significance and draw visitors to the area. Crockett Lake (an Audubon Important Bird Area), Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve (a unit of the National Park Service), Greenbank Farm, Double Bluff Beach, Saratoga Woods Preserve, and Trillium Community Forest are among protected treasures. Court decisions from some of the legal battles over land protection have set precedents, informing cases in many states for 30 years.
Caring for the land to provide public benefit led to forming the Whidbey Camano Land Trust in 1984. Many of Whidbey's natural treasures and farms are now permanently protected by the continuing, effective work of this community-supported, local land trust.
I know that other places are like Whidbey with wide influence. But this remarkable island fosters a "sense of hope," described by Lyanda Lynn Haupt in "Crow Planet," as "that virtue by which we take responsibility for the future." People on Whidbey Island widely practice the "triple bottom line" -- people, profit AND planet.
Here many embrace Wendell Berry's wisdom, "The earth is what we have in common." We know we're all in this life together; we think about those far from our lives and neighborhoods.
Before culture, economics, science and social science, we human beings shared the connection to the land and water that fed, housed, and clothed us. We still ALL depend on the earth's abundance for life. Today, we know better than ever that what happens to one part of the earth affects it all.
So, this Earth Day let us take seriously the counsel of newly-elected Pope Francis. "Let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment." In the Whidbey spirit, let's do it in a way that builds community with hope.
Elizabeth Guss works with the Whidbey Camano Land Trust, helping build community through the work of protecting and caring for the land.
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7 Startup Hubs From Around the World to Watch in 2014
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Silicon Valley isn't the only place to launch a successful startup. Between transforming rundown warehouses and providing much-needed startup capital, cities all over the world are helping encourage local entrepreneurship. Here, in no particular order, are seven cities that are quickly becoming go-to startup hubs.
Beijing's Zhongguancun district has made a study of the style, personality, management and financing systems of Silicon Valley, says Zhang Rui, CEO of Spring Rain Software Co., a Beijing-based health-advice app maker. With China's enhanced emphasis on entrepreneurs, a growing number of investors are turning their attention to the world's most populous country. Aid from local officials offering startups subsidies--normally sparse in China--has also helped. The downside to launching in Beijing? The still-young entrepreneur scene can't claim the dynamism of U.S. hubs.
Like various U.S. cities from New York City to Detroit, London is transforming its rundown warehouses into office spaces for new businesses. The city's growing interest in technology is partly the result of government efforts to minimize reliance on financial services. In the last four years, the number of tech companies in East London has reportedly nearly quadrupled to about 1,400.
If nothing else, Barcelona.IO, a nonprofit community of startups that hosts pitch days and startup fairs, is an example of Barcelona's embrace of startup culture. In July, the organization hosted a sold out event at the Antiga Fabrica Estrella Damm brewery where angel investors and business leaders met and mingled. Still, investment in the city is limited, in spite of serving as home base to budding companies such as eyeOS, an open-source cloud desktop that launched in 2005, and Mobbeel, a maker of biometric alternatives to passwords.
Amsterdam may be leagues away from Silicon Valley, but its close proximity to other European countries, liberal tax laws and the city's overall vibe of tolerance and adaptability make it a natural startup environment. Recently, the city opened its arms to data centers and cloud computing companies like Digital Ocean . Don Ritzen, co-founder and CEO of RockstartAccelerator , a business accelerator based in the city, credits Amsterdam's success to its storied past. "It starts with our history. Being a small country with a wacky language forces many Dutch entrepreneurs to be fluent in English and look beyond our borders to create business of meaningful size," he recently told Wired .
Some notable Stockholm-based companies include Skype, Spotify and SoundCloud, plus 700 other high-tech companies located in the nearby neighborhood of Krista, also known as "Wireless Valley." Venture capital firm Creandum reported in 2011 that Nordic companies represented 9 percent of all global billion dollar technology exits between 2005 and 2009, and 33 percent of exits in the European market. Caroline Walerud, co-founder of 3D scanning startup Volumental, notes that despite Sweden's startup vigor, her countrymen tend to be risk averse.
According to the Startup Genome project's latest tally, Israel's Tel Aviv ranked at the No. 2 startup ecosystem in the world in 2012. Dubbed "Silicon Wadi," which means "valley" in Hebrew, Tel Aviv claims to have more startups per capita than any other city in the world, in spite of its low acceptance of technology trends, notes the report. To view the startup boom, check out this map, which attempts to pinpoint all of the startups in Israel.
Though education in this city lags, its startup growth is strong. Moscow opened a huge business park last spring that's reportedly been built to house more than 1,000 homegrown Russian startups. The park was also created to house the research and development arms for some of the world's largest technology companies including Intel, Cisco and Samsung. Facebook also looked into building an R&D facility there when Mark Zuckerberg visited in 2012. The goal of the park and the R&D push is to create a VC friendly environment that positions Moscow as a key place for foreign companies to invest.


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