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- Spring 2014 Bowman Breakfast to Focus on Local and Global Impact of Kent Businesses
- Kent State to Premiere "This is Media" Documentary
- Kent State Presents Spanish and Latin American Film Series
- Kent State School of Theatre and Dance Goes to Law School in Legally Blonde
- World-Renowned Writer, Speaker and Activist Parker J. Palmer to Deliver Lecture on Democracy at Kent State
- Kent State's College of Business Administration to Hold Graduate Programs Information Night
- Mothers, Mentors and Muses Fifth Annual Scholarship Fundraiser Reception
- Kent State's College of Architecture and Environmental Design Presents Speaker Series
- Kent State to Host National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
- Kent State Planetarium Presents The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
- Kent State School of Art Metalsmithing Showcase Examines "Digital Hand"
- Kent State to Participate in Nationwide Screening of American Economy Film
Spring 2014 Bowman Breakfast to Focus on Local and Global Impact of Kent Businesses
The spring 2014 Bowman Breakfast will take place at Kent State University in the Kent Student Center Ballroom on Tuesday, March 18. Doors open at 7 a.m., breakfast begins at 7:30 a.m., and the program will follow at 8 a.m.
Five speakers will discuss the topic "Kent Businesses … A Local and Global Impact." The featured speakers are Matthew C. French, vice president and general manager of AMETEK; Albert Green, Ph.D., CEO of Kent Displays Inc.; Robin Kilbride, president and CEO of Smithers-Oasis; David Ruller, city manager for the city of Kent; and Nicholas R. Sucic, vice president and controller for the Davey Tree Expert Company.
The cost to attend is $10 per person, payable by cash or check at the door only. Invoicing is not available for this event. Reservations can be completed online or by contacting Mary Mandalari at 330-672-8664 or email@example.com no later than Wednesday, March 12. No shows will be billed. If you find you cannot attend, please contact Mandalari to cancel your reservation by March 12.
Kent State is committed to making its programs and activities accessible to those individuals with disabilities. If you or a member of your family will need an interpreter or any other accessibility accommodation to participate in this event, contact the university's accessibility liaison, Jacqueline Gee, by phone at 330-672-8667, by video phone at 330-931-4441 or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Bowman Breakfast, a tradition since 1963, is sponsored by Kent State and the Kent Area Chamber of Commerce.
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Kent State to Premiere "This is Media" Documentary
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, NAMLE and PivotTV partner to raise digital media literacy
Kent State University is one of only 15 universities across the country to receive a grant from the National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) to screen Eyes Wide Open: This is Media, a documentary that explores individual roles in the changing media landscape. Kent State's School of Journalism and Mass Communication will host the premiere at 6 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 20, in the FirstEnergy Auditorium in Room 340 of Franklin Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
Produced by Pivot TV, the documentary is a call to awareness about the critical balance between being connected, being responsible and being private.
"This is a must-see and an eye-opening video for everyone, especially millennials engaged with social or traditional media," says Federico Subervi, Ph.D., professor in Kent State's School of Journalism and Mass Communication and National Association for Media Literacy Education member.
After the screening, Subervi will moderate a panel discussion featuring Chris Quinn, vice president of content for the Northeast Ohio Media Group; Thor Wasbotten, director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication; Karl Idsvoog and Jan Leach, both associate professors in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication; and Kathryn Coduto, Kent State senior electronic media major, who is a former general manager of Kent State's award-winning TV2.
National Association for Media Literacy Education is organizing a series of screenings and discussions at select universities around the country to engage educators and students in discussions related to the documentary. Pivot TV is a division of Participant Media, which produces films and social awareness campaigns; their releases have included Academy Award-honored films like An Inconvenient Truth, Syriana and The Help.
For more information about Kent State's School of Journalism and Mass Communication, visit www.kent.edu/jmc.
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Kent State Presents Spanish and Latin American Film Series
Kent State University's Institute for Applied Linguistics, in collaboration with the Department of Modern and Classical Language Studies and the Department of History, will host a Spanish Film Series from Feb. 28 – March 15. This series will feature five films in the Schwartz Center Auditorium, and is free and open to the public.
"It's an opportunity to experience another language and another culture without leaving Kent," says Françoise Massardier-Kenney, director of the Institute for Applied Linguistics.
The movies are all subtitled in English, and volunteers will give a short presentation before each film viewing and lead a discussion after. The Spanish Film Series was made possible with the support of the U.S.A. Spain Foundation, Embassy of Spain.
Silencio Roto
(Broken Silence)
Friday, Feb. 28
7:30 p.m.
During the winter of 1944, 21-year-old Lucía returns to the village where she grew up. She meets the handsome Manuel, a young blacksmith who supports the guerrillas hiding in the mountains as they continue to fight against the Franco regime. When Manuel is forced to go underground, Lucía discovers not only the harsh living conditions of the guerrillas but also the silence, terror and fear that hang over the village. Only her love for Manuel allows her to keep hope alive. "An accomplished, rangy and affecting piece from a helmer whose best work has its roots in the rural landscapes of his native Navarre" -- Variety Magazine.
Pan Negre
(Black Bread)
Saturday, March 1
7:30 p.m.
In the harsh years after the Spanish Civil War, Andreu, a child who belongs to the defeated, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the Catalán forest. The authorities want his father to be held responsible for the deaths, but Andreu tries to help his father by finding the identity of the true killers. The film won nine Goya awards (the Spanish version of the Oscars), a rare occurrence.
La Buena Nueva
Friday, March 14
7:30 p.m.
A young priest arrives on his first assignment to a small parish serving a working-class village in the north of Spain in 1936. He is a witness to the military uprising that precipitates the Spanish Civil War and, moved by his faith, he stands up to defend his people. Based on a true story, the film portrays the young priest's commitment to stand by his parishioners and follows him as he appears before the leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and denounces the crimes being committed on behalf of the Gospel. This film was winner of the Nantes Spanish Film Festival.
Tres dies amb la família
(Three Days With the Family)
Saturday, March 15
2 p.m.
This film won the Goya prize for Best First Film Director. A young woman returns to her family in Spain but encounters severe dysfunction and fracture, in this ensemble drama. Nausicaa Bonin stars as co-ed Lea, whose paternal grandfather dies, prompting her to return from Bordeaux, France, to her childhood home in Catalonia for the funeral. Lea's parents are separated, but pretend they are not for the sake of appearances. Meanwhile, although Lea's two brothers, Pere (Ramon Fontsere) and Toni (Francesc Orella) come to the funeral, her sister Virginia (Amalia Sancho) fails to appear. She has just written an autobiographical novel that unearths many of the family's skeletons, to the dismay of some of her relatives.
Saturday, March 15
7:30 p.m.
In 1988, under international pressure to legitimize his government, Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet allowed a referendum on whether he would be voted in for another eight years in office. This movie dramatises the "No" campaign devised by young advertising executive René Saavedra, played by Gael García Bernal, who decided to refrain from angry political images and instead emphasized an upbeat, almost apolitical vision of happiness. "The best movie ever made about Chilean plebiscites, No thoroughly deserved its Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film" –The New Yorker. This film was a New York Times critics pick.
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Kent State School of Theatre and Dance Goes to Law School in Legally Blonde
Audiences will love this romantic musical comedy; Legally Blonde is definition of fun
Kent State University's School of Theatre and Dance continues its 2013-2014 season with Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin's high-energy production of Legally Blonde, running Feb. 21 - March 2 in E. Turner Stump Theatre at the Center for the Performing Arts, 1325 Theatre Drive.
For tickets, call 330-672-ARTS (2787), purchase online at www.theatre.kent.edu or in person at the Performing Arts Box Office located in the Roe Green Center lobby of the Center for the Performing Arts. The Performing Arts Box Office is open Monday – Friday, noon to 5 p.m. Tickets are $16 for adults, $14 for Kent State alumni, faculty and staff, $12 for seniors (60+), and $8 for non-Kent State students age 18 and under. Tickets are free for full-time, Kent Campus undergraduates. Groups of 10 or more can purchase tickets for $10 per person. The box office accepts Visa, MasterCard, Discover, checks and cash.
Legally Blonde follows California sorority-girl Elle Woods who seems to have the perfect life, until her boyfriend Warner breaks up with her to attend Harvard Law School. Determined to win him back, Elle secures her own admission to Harvard Law School only to find Warner with a new girlfriend and herself the subject of ridicule. With the help of new friends Emmett and Paulette, Elle sets out to defend fitness guru Brooke Wyndham from murder charges and prove herself to the world. Based on the feature film and novel of the same name, Legally Blonde premiered on Broadway in 2007 and received multiple Tony and Drama Desk nominations.
Legally Blonde is directed by Amy Fritsche, assistant professor of acting and musical theatre at Kent State. Tim Welsh serves as the assistant director. The production features costume design by Susan Williams, scenic design by Ben Williams, lighting design by Margaret Peebles and production stage management by Lindsay Mandela.
"I'm lucky to have a great team and a really strong cast who are wonderful to collaborate with," says Fritsche. "The production has come together really quickly, and everyone attends rehearsals prepared and with strong, creative ideas."
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World-Renowned Writer, Speaker and Activist Parker J. Palmer to Deliver Lecture on Democracy at Kent State
Parker J. Palmer, world-renowned author, activist and founder of the Center for Courage & Renewal, will speak as part of the Kent State University Guest of Honor University Artist/Lecture Series on Tuesday, Feb. 18, at 7:30 p.m. in the African Community Theater located in Ritchie Hall.
Palmer is the author of nine books, including best-selling and award-winning titles Let Your Life Speak, The Courage to Teach, A Hidden Wholeness, and Healing the Heart of Democracy.
His lecture will focus on his latest book, Healing the Heart of Democracy: The Courage to Create a Politics Worthy of the Human Spirit, which explores the "five habits of the heart" he names as essential to dealing with the political tensions that exist in modern American life.
Apart from being featured as part of the Guest of Honor University/Artist Lecture Series, Palmer's lecture will serve as a precursor to the 2014 Symposium on Democracy scheduled for April.
Palmer holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley, as well as 11 honorary doctorates, two Distinguished Achievement Awards from the National Educational Press Association, and an Award of Excellence from the Associated Church Press.
In 2011, Parker was named an Utne Reader Visionary for being one of "25 people who are changing your world." In 2010, he received the William Rainey Harper Award whose previous recipients include Margaret Mead, Elie Wiesel and Paolo Freire. In 1998, Palmer was named one of the 30 "most influential senior leaders" in higher education by the Leadership Project, a national survey of 10,000 educators.
A reception and book signing will follow the lecture. Copies of Palmer's latest book may be purchased on site.
This event, sponsored by the Office of the Provost, and coordinated by the Honors College, is free and open to the public. For questions about the event or for special accommodations for accessibility, contact the Honors College at 330-672-2312 or email@example.com.
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Kent State's College of Business Administration to Hold Graduate Programs Information Night
Kent State University's College of Business Administration will hold a graduate program information night on Feb. 27 at 6 p.m. in Room 306 at the Kent Student Center. The event is free and open to the public. Anyone interested in learning more about a graduate business degree will find the event helpful.
The information night includes opportunities for graduating seniors to meet faculty, alumni and current students who will answer questions and discuss the graduate programs the college has to offer. Information regarding the application process, deadlines, academic requirements and scholarships also will be presented.
Kent State's internationally accredited, ranked and affordable graduate business programs feature flexible scheduling, innovative curriculums and experienced faculty.
Kent State's Master of Business Administration programs were recently recognized in the Princeton Review's The Best 295 Business Schools: 2014 Edition, and was also ranked 12th best globally by CEO Magazine's 2014 survey.
The College of Business Administration offers four dual-degree programs, which allow students to pursue two master's degrees simultaneously. The dual-degrees include MBA/Master in Library and Information Science, MBA/Master of Architecture, MBA/M.S. in Nursing, MBA/M.A. in Translation.
The College of Business Administration offers seven graduate programs, including MBA full-time and MBA part-time, Healthcare EMBA, Executive MBA, M.S. in Accounting, M.A. in Economics and Ph.D. in Business Administration.
Graduate program administrators and faculty from the College of Business Administration who will be presenting include:
- Louise Ditchey, administrative director
- Felecia Urbanek, graduate coordinator
- Laurie Walker, director, EMBA program
- Linda Zucca, Ph.D., chair, Department of Accounting
- Richard Kent, chair, Department of Economics
- Pratim Datta, associate professor, Management and Information Systems
For more information or to register, visit www.kent.edu/business/grad.
For questions call 330-672-2282 or send an email to email@example.com.
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Mothers, Mentors and Muses Fifth Annual Scholarship Fundraiser Reception
On Tuesday, March 11, the Women's Center at Kent State University will host the fifth annual Mothers, Mentors and Muses Scholarship Fundraiser reception. The event will take place at the Kent Student Center Ballroom from 5-7:30 p.m.
The event honors women as a mother – someone who has helped "birth" new ideas and thoughts in others and also has served as an overall nurturing individual; a mentor – an individual who has been both a role model and a trusted counselor to others; or a muse – an individual who has inspired both creativity and academic enthusiasm in others.
Click here to see the Class of 2014 Honorees.
The Women's Center, which was established in 1996, has been focused on advancing women in their academic careers. Money raised at the event will fund $500 scholarship awards for two Kent State female students. This scholarship has benefitted 18 students since its introduction in 2003.
Early bird registration ends Friday, Feb. 28. To register, visit https://commerce.cashnet.com/cashneta/selfserve/BrowseCatalog.aspx.
For more information about the Women's Center at Kent State, visit www.kent.edu/womenscenter.
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Kent State's College of Architecture and Environmental Design Presents Speaker Series
Kent State University's College of Architecture and Environmental Design will host three speakers during its "Celebrate CAED" speaker series. Elwin C. Robison, Ph.D., professor in the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, will lead the first lecture on Feb. 19 at 7 p.m. in the Schwartz Center Auditorium (Room 177).
Robison will speak on the topic "Design, Construction and Conservation of the 1867 Salt Lake Tabernacle." Robison's lecture will detail the conservation efforts surrounding the Mormon Tabernacle as part of his recent book with W. Randall Dixon, Gathering As One: The Architecture of the Mormon Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. The presentation is being offered as part of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Continuing Education System (AIA/CES) for AIA CES-1 LU/HSW through AIA Akron. This is equal to one contact hour for other organizations requiring continuing education.
"Whereas this is not exactly a lecture series, it is a chance for the College of Architecture and Environmental Design to open our experts up to a broader audience that includes colleagues, students, faculty throughout Kent State, professionals and the interested public," says Bill Willoughby, associate dean of the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, who will introduce each speaker.
The series continues on March 5 and April 23.
David Jurca, associate director of Kent State's Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative (CUDC), will present "COLDscapes 2013: Competition, Exhibit and Book" on March 5. Jurca's lecture will introduce "The Center for Outdoor Living Design" (COLD) that the CUDC launched this year with a competition, book and exhibition.
On April 23, Diane Davis-Sikora, Registered Architect (RA) and associate professor at the College of Architecture and Environmental Design, will present "Structures of Air," a lecture and film screening of her film selected for the 2013 Rotterdam Architecture Film Festival (AFFR).
All lectures are free and open to the public. For more information, contact Willoughby at email@example.com.
For more information about Kent State's College of Architecture and Environmental Design, visit www.kent.edu/CAED.
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Kent State to Host National Eating Disorder Awareness Week
To help bring public attention and support to the Kent community, Kent State University is collaborating with the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) to sponsor the National Eating Disorders Awareness Week (NEDAwareness Week) Feb. 23 - March 1.
NEDAwareness Week, which is co-sponsored by the Kent State Body Acceptance Movement, will consist of different activities each day of the week for members of the Kent State community who may be seeking support, advice or information about eating disorders.
"Students can benefit just by being educated," says Megan Carrasco, president of the Kent State Body Acceptance Movement. "Eating disorders are a mental illness, not a lifestyle choice. It requires help, and sometimes the issue only becomes more real when you experience it firsthand."
On Monday, Feb. 24, Cleveland's Terminal Tower will be lit with National Eating Disorders Awareness 's signature green and blue colors to spotlight the fight against eating disorders.
At Kent State, activities will begin on Feb. 24 with a question and answer panel that will discuss the destructive nature of eating disorders from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in Room 316 at the Kent Student Center. On Tuesday, Feb. 25, there will be information tables throughout the second floor of the Kent Student Center from 11 a.m. to noon. On Wednesday, Feb. 26, an event called Love Your Body Yoga will be held at 8 p.m. in the Student Recreation and Wellness Center. Preregistration is required. Scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 27, is a presentation titled "Healthy at Every Size" at 4 p.m. in Room 318 of the Kent Student Center. To wrap up the week, a reflection compilation will take place on the second floor of the Kent Student Center at 11 a.m.
"We will have tables in the Kent Student Center on Monday, Tuesday and Friday to help spread awareness about resources on campus, the misconceptions of eating disorders and to do a Post-Secret event," says Carrasco. "Not all of us may have an eating disorder or issue with our bodies, but we usually know someone who does."
For more information about NEDAwarness Week and the Kent State Body Acceptance Movement, visit www.facebook.com/ksubam.
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Kent State Planetarium Presents The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
The Kent State University Planetarium in the Department of Physics presents The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence on Feb. 20, 21 and 22, at 8 p.m. The hourlong shows will be presented in Room 108 at Smith Hall, and is free and open to the public, but it is not recommended for children under age 6.
The presentation will showcase humanity's search for intelligent life on other worlds.
"After a tour of the lovely Ohio night sky, we will explore celestial objects that may harbor life millions to trillion miles away," says Brett Ellman, associate professor and planetarium director. "We will then describe ongoing attempts to communicate with whomever may be listening and the huge, difficult, worldwide effort to find the needle of an intelligent message within the haystack of cosmic radio noise."
Seating capacity is limited; therefore, reservations are recommended and can be done by calling 330-672-2246. Individuals who need special accommodations are requested to call in advance of their desired presentation night to make arrangements.
For more information, visit http://planetarium.kent.edu.
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Kent State School of Art Metalsmithing Showcase Examines "Digital Hand"
The School of Art Gallery at Kent State University will present "The Digital Hand," an exhibit spotlighting the work of metalsmiths who incorporate digital technique in their design and production. Curated by Kathleen Browne, head of the jewelry/metals programs at the School of Art, the show will run through Feb. 28. The School of Art Gallery is located on the second floor of the Art Building at 400 Janik Dr. in Kent. The gallery is free and open to the public.
"The exhibition is a survey of the work of 18 metalsmiths who have integrated digital technologies into their art practice," says Browne. "These artists' engagement in digital technologies covers a broad spectrum, from using computer programs solely as a design tool to fabricating works of art using laser cutting and 3D printing."
The artists whose work appears in "The Digital Hand" are Pam Argentieri, Kristin Beeler, Allyson Bone, Doug Bucci, Melissa Cameron, David Choi, Joshua DeMonte, Arthur Hash, Matthew Hollern, Nicole Jacquard, Amy Klainer, Plural Studios (Courtney Starrett and Michael Gayk), Phil Renato, Rebecca Strzelec, Kim Tatalick, Jess Todd and Linda Threadgill.
For more information, contact Anderson Turner, director of galleries, at firstname.lastname@example.com or 330-672-1369.
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Kent State to Participate in Nationwide Screening of American Economy Film
Kent State University Libraries, the Department of Political Science and the Political Science Club will sponsor a showing on Feb. 20 of the film Inequality for All with a webcast to follow, hosted by Robert Reich, former U.S. secretary of labor and the documentary's producer.
The film will begin simultaneously at 5 p.m. ET at dozens of universities and colleges across the country. At 6:30 p.m. ET, Reich will open up a discussion with students in a simulcast live from San Francisco State University. The screening and simulcast will be offered free of charge to students and faculty in Room 177 at the Schwartz Center.
Thom Yantek, Kent State associate political science professor, says the film will educate viewers on the widening income gap between social classes and the harsh impact on the American economy.
"Inequality in the United States is a major problem," says Yantek. "A lot of people don't know that the United States has the greatest degree of inequality among the modern industrialized democracies."
He says the film will be beneficial to Kent State students because inequality is projected to be a major issue in the upcoming congressional elections. Yantek also says civic engagement has been a major theme at Kent State for several years, and the film's content will tune students into that topic.
"I hope the information in the film will be an eye opener to our students, and energize this issue into their day-to-day thinking," says Yantek. "It could be our students' generation that will help reverse the inequality trend."
Christopher Clevenger, senior political science major and president of the Political Science Club, says he is looking forward to participating in open conversation about the current economic situation during the webcast.
"This film will empower students to ask the questions they should be asking, while also offering access to knowledgeable professionals who can help them to better understand how our economy works and how it affects them directly," says Clevenger.
For more information about the nationwide event, visit www.naspa.org/rpi/posts/special-film-screening-inequality-for-all.
For more information or to purchase the film, visit http://inequalityforall.com.
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Good morning. I'm Renee Montagne. Back in 2008, eyes rolled at the news a license plate in the United Arab Emirates went for $14 million at auction. It wasn't gold-plated, but the plate had a very flashy number - one. This week, a charity auction in the Emirates sold a cell phone contract for an astonishing price. Its unique number, seven sevens, push the price up to over $2 million. Of course it did include 12 free hours of calls a month.
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"A shrewdly designed, generously expansive, timely contribution to our understanding of how 'black' expression continues to define and defy the contours of global (post)modernity. The essays argue persuasively for a transnational ethos binding disparate African and diasporic enactments, and together provide a robust conversation about the nature, history, future, and even possibility of 'blackness' as a distinctive mode of cultural practice."
--Kimberly Benston, author of Performing Blackness
"Black Cultural Traffic is nothing less than our generation's manifesto on black performance and popular culture. With a distinguished roster of contributors and topics ranging across academic disciplines and the arts (including commentary on film, music, literature, theater, television, and visual cultures), this volume is not only required reading for scholars serious about the various dimensions of black performance, it is also a timely and necessary teaching tool. It captures the excitement and intellectual innovation of a field that has come of age. Kudos!"
--Dwight A. McBride, author of Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch
"The explosion of interest in black popular culture studies in the past fifteen years has left a significant need for a reader that reflects this new scholarly energy. Black Cultural Traffic answers that need."
--Mark Anthony Neal, author of Songs in the Key of Black Life
"A revolutionary anthology that will be widely read and taught. It crisscrosses continents and cultures and examines confluences and influences of black popular culture -- music, dance, theatre, television, fashion and film. It also adds a new dimension to current discussions of racial, ethnic, and national identity."
--Horace Porter, author of The Making of a Black Scholar
When Is African Theater "Black"?
At the psychic center of black popular culture is Africa: at once the source, the motherland, the wellspring of humankind, the site of slavery's original trauma, and the locus of anticipated healing. The continent's silhouette emblazoned on clothing, its name soulfully invoked in song lyrics, Africa looms large. Yet Africa's current realities are more dimly seen. Kobena Mercer has argued that the image of Africa animating black popular culture may bear little resemblance to Africa as it is. The gulf between the imagined and lived realities of Africa is not so much my focus here as it is my point of departure. I enter this discussion as a scholar of African theater and performance, West African popular theater in particular. As I try to address the themes of this book, I find myself asking whether African theater belongs in a volume on black popular culture at all. Is it popular? And, perhaps more provocatively, is it black? Yes, most theater in sub-Saharan Africa is created by and for black Africans. Whether these artists identify and affiliate with a transnational notion of blackness is another matter entirely.
Theater in Africa takes manyforms: from Soyinka's poetic literary masterpieces written in English to improvised, nonscripted shows in indigenous languages; from traveling melodramas to community-based skits promoting literacy; from internationally successful South African productions like Woza Albert! to Ngugi wa Thiong'o's grassroots Kamiriithu theater in Kenya. Much African theater uses proscenium-style staging with a bicameral separation between audience and spectators. This spatial configuration has roots in colonial schools that used European theater and its realist trappings to inculcate students with the ways of "civilization." But African cultures had rich performance traditions long before the arrival of Europeans. Theater as it is known in the West represents just one segment of a large spectrum of performance modes. As much as one can generalize about such an enormous and diverse continent, one can say that indigenous African performance genres (meaning those with roots that predate colonialism) tend to use fluid spatial dynamics. For instance, masquerade performers at festivals or annual rites may move through a town with audiences constantly converging and dispersing as they go. Story-tellers may perform in an impromptu theater-in-the-round with spectators encroaching on the performance space as the dramatic tension builds.
Spatial dynamics have both a literal and figurative significance when one views African theater through the lens of black popular culture. African performance deploys a tremendous range of styles and genres. But it is primarily in theater as it is defined by the West-that is, scripted, literary dramas in European languages that utilize proscenium-style staging-that the transnational signifier of "black" takes on substance and weight. Blackness is a term of contrast that gains meaning through its antithesis, whiteness. South Africa is a country whose obsession with race and institutionalized racism during the apartheid regime ensured that the terms black, white, and coloured permeated every aspect of life, from the profound to the most mundane. Though apartheid officially ended in the mid-1990s, its heritage cannot be readily legislated away. Of South Africa's past and present, one can quite reasonably ask, "What is the relationship between the black performer and the black community?" Such questions have long been part of the critical analysis of township musicals as they moved into white-dominated urban venues and, eventually, overseas to Broadway houses. With the end of official apartheid, theater practitioners have had to engage in an even more thoroughgoing analysis of what black theater is about, what communities it will serve, and how these will be defined. Will the dismantling of a racist social structure in South Africa necessitate the suppression of an explicit discourse on race, a discourse in which terms like the black community are meaningful? Gross inequities in the distribution of wealth in new South Africa continue to be so clearly racialized that one can argue it is highly problematic not to speak of race.
Yet in parts of Africa where whites have never represented a statistically large proportion of the population, either in the colonial or postcolonial eras, notions of black and white may not be of sufficient significance to be the subject, subtext, or organizing feature of theatrical production. For instance, the practitioners of the concert party theater in Ghana are indeed black, yet they do not describe their art as "black." Kobena Mercer speaks of the "burden of representation" for black artists, the expectation that one must speak on behalf of the black community. The Ghanaian concert party is multilingual and multiethnic, interweaving different aspects of Akan culture-such as Asante and Fante-while at the same time incorporating allusions to neighboring languages and ethnicities such as Ewe, Ga, and Hausa. Yet rarely does this theater assume the transnational identity of blackness, nor does it speak for, to, or on behalf of subjects explicitly identified as black. Who is the black community from the point of view of concert party spectators and performers?
A time-based art form dependent upon embodied enactment, theater in the form of touring performances travels beyond Africa only rarely. Published play scripts, theater reviews, or production videos may circulate in the global marketplace along with other elements of black popular culture such as CDs or Afropop music tours, yet African theater outside the continent is, by any measure, obscure. In America, for instance, far more people would recognize the name of Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the South African choral group featured on Paul Simon's Graceland album, than that of Wole Soyinka, the Nobel Prize-winning playwright from Nigeria. Few indeed have heard of the Kumapim Royals, one of Ghana's most popular touring theater and music groups. The closest African theater has come to global popularity was the film adaptation of the South African musical Sarafina starring Whoopi Goldberg, a film so embarrassingly and ineptly executed that few African theater practitioners or scholars would wish to be associated with it.
While African theater is largely unknown in the United States, quite the opposite is true in Africa. In the absence of widespread local video or cinema production prior to the 1990s, theater long served as a primary medium for telling stories that expressed themes of local relevance. African theater has engaged in the boisterous process that has preoccupied much of African culture in the twentieth century: combining "tradition" with more recent imports and innovations while retaining cultural integrity. A vibrant and adaptive form, African popular theater continues to attract intensely engaged audiences, from farmers to lawyers, taxi drivers to teachers, entrepreneurial business owners to wage-laborers. This theater is popular both because it draws large audiences and because it is perceived to be an expression by and for the people.
Because popular theater is so widespread throughout Africa and also because of its complex negotiation of colonial and postcolonial social conditions, it has been the subject of a growing body of scholarly literature. David Kerr's encyclopedic African Popular Theatre (1995) is an excellent, if cursory, introduction to the subject. The number of monographs on West African popular theater alone attest to the richness of this cultural form. Among the most notable studies are Come to Laugh (1981) by Kwabena Bame, L'Invention du Théâtre by Alain Ricard (1986), The Yoruba Popular Travelling Theatre of Nigeria (1984) by Biodun Jeyifo, Yorùbá Popular Theatre edited by Karin Barber and Báyo Ògúndíjo (1994), and West African Popular Theatre by Karin Barber, John Collins, and Alain Ricard (1997). The most recent additions to this field are Karin Barber's The Generation of Plays (2000) and my own Ghana's Concert Party Theatre (2001), with an accompanying videotape, Stage-Shakers! Ghana's Concert Party Theatre by Kwame Braun (2001). The annual African Theatre, published by Indiana University Press, attests to the continued vibrancy and diversity of African theater.
What emerges from these studies is a clearer picture of transnational patterns of African theater. For instance, popular theater in Nigeria, Togo, and Ghana often dramatizes the conflict between ill-gotten riches and those earned honestly, the plight of orphans, and the power of supernatural forces. One also sees the common themes of class divisions, inheritance disputes, and modern reinventions of tradition. West African popular theater rarely portrays or alludes to blackness as a concept of racial or cultural affiliation, whereas ethnicity, seniority, and gender relations are dominant concerns across national boundaries.
One apparent exception to this is the Ghanaian concert party, a popular theater form that was partly inspired by American blackface minstrelsy. I first encountered the Ghanaian concert party in the Northwestern University library in 1992. It was there I found Efua Sutherland's small booklet The Original Bob, a biography of the famous concert party actor Bob Johnson (1970). On the cover was a picture of Johnson in top hat and tails, wearing a plaid tie, his beaming smile broadly painted in white, his hands extended outward at his sides: a perfect evocation of Al Jolson singing "Mammy." This picture of Johnson, so suggestive of the controversial and racially charged American minstrel genre, raised questions about how blackface traveled all the way to West Africa. Why did Africans wear blackface? Did this makeup, clearly influenced by American and British minstrelsy, signify ideas about race circulating during British colonial rule?
Perhaps colonial Ghanaian performers were offering what Homi K. Bhabha calls a "revaluation of the assumption of colonial identity through the repetition of discriminatory identity effects." Blackface performance practices might have been subversive strategies through which Africans disrupted racist colonial domination by turning "the gaze of the discriminated back upon the eye of power." Yet as someone who strongly believes that postcolonial theory needs to be rooted in historical specificity, I question just how such an interpretation of the concert party's subversiveness could be supported with historical evidence. Would it require intentionality on the part of the performers? Or would audience reception be more important? Subversiveness may not be consciously articulated at all, for concert parties are comedies, and humor, as Freud has shown us, registers in regions of the human psyche often beyond the reach of rationality, inaccessible to the historian searching for evidence firm enough to move an argument beyond speculation and surmise.
Empirical methods demanding transparent sources must be suspended when considering performance practices forged, as blackface was, under conditions of exploitation and domination. However, despite what Paul Gilroy sees as the ultimate failure of empirical models in this context, I believe that a thorough immersion in evidentiary sources is especially crucial where conditions of domination prevail. Postcolonial theory asserts that colonial mimicry and stereotypes were ambivalent. But to speak of mimicry and colonial ambivalence ultimately does not tell us very much. What is much more revealing is to analyze in detail how specific valences were created, reproduced, and transformed through particular representations over time. What did blackface come to "mean" as it moved geographically from Boston to Hollywood, from London to Africa, and temporally from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries? Looking at the particular valences of ambivalent signs takes us much further into understanding the cultural maelstrom where colonialism and performance converge, the busy intersections of black cultural traffic.
During the course of my field research in Ghana from 1993 to 1995, I asked many people where blackface, or "tranting" as they call it, came from and what it meant. I never met anyone, either among performers or spectators, who explicitly said blackface carried any notable ideological weight in terms of race. When I asked the leaders of the veteran company Jaguar Jokers why they painted their faces with black, they said, "Because it is attractive. In fact, it creates laughter too. When you wear the trant, it creates laughter." Kwame Mbia Hammond said actors do it "just to crack jokes to the audience. If you don't make up your face and disguise yourself to the audience, you don't get laughs." Blackface is part of a whole aesthetic of artifice in which actors use self-consciously presentational techniques to foreground the artifice of performance. Conventions such as female impersonation, nonnaturalistic staging, cartoonish characterizations, and a broad acting style create comic distance between the actors and their characters.
When I visited Ghana in 1993, the Concert Parties Union was preparing a proposal to perform at Ghana's 1994 Pan-African Historical Theatre Festival (Panafest). This semiannual event attracts participants from throughout the African diaspora, for it commemorates the devastation of the African slave trade and reunites African peoples whom slavery dispersed throughout the world. The Ghana Concert Parties Union members discussed their participation in Panafest not as an occasion to reflect upon diasporic issues, but as an opportunity to advance the Union's reputation. Knowing that many Americans would come to Panafest, they decided to feature the American-derived aspects of their art form by doing an old-style show in which blackface featured prominently. The show was to be performed on a stage constructed within the Cape Coast Castle, the symbolic center of Panafest and site of the historic "Gate of No Return" through which Africans embarked on the Middle Passage. Union members seemed entirely innocent about how offensive blackface comedy performed in a former slave castle was likely to be for African Americans, especially those motivated to make a pilgrimage all the way to the motherland. Fortunately, this particular Panafest show never materialized, perhaps due to sluggish bureaucracy or a diplomatically astute festival organizer's intervention.
When I returned to Ghana in 1994, I asked performers more questions about blackface, but my inquiries led to blind alleys. Everyone said blacking up was done just to make people laugh-it meant nothing. Tranting was but one of the many techniques concert party actors use to transform themselves "for show." So I decided to give actors more information about why I was interested in this particular feature of their theater. On one occasion I gathered together six older actors for a reunion during which I showed them pictures of nineteenth-century American minstrelsy and early vaudeville. These performers, ranging in age from sixty-three to seventy-seven, were among the first and second generations of concert party practitioners. These actors began their careers in an era when blackface was used in concert parties much more frequently than it is today. They also began acting at a time when African contact with British culture and the ideologies of colonialism was most intense. If blackface carried racial meanings in Ghana, I suspected this generation was most likely to be aware of it.
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After a long night at a roadside tavern, somewhere between Interstate 95 and Quadrant 44, a disheveled group of failed "somethings" would meet and discuss their version of a "Fantastic Planet." Although they were not the brightest stars in the galaxy, nor the dregs of your usual dive bar musicians, these six multi-instrumentalists were passionate in their belief of what the future could bring.
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I used the kerosene camper stoves while camping an on some of the small boats I "camped" on. Keeping the burners cleaned so they would preheat was a pain. Hated the smell and oily mess of fueling them.. any small spill is near impossible to wipe up as the smell last months and when away from town... it is impossible to buy in many areas.
My first "cruiser" a C26 had the pressurized Alcohol stove... major pain to pre-heat and if the alcohol was more than a few months old it would turn into a water alcohol mixture on its own... even in a "well sealed" container but we all know that no such thing exist. Unpressurized units never seem to heat the water for coffee... while I don't mine coffee that has cooled off I MUST has the initial coffee to be HOT. And forget about boiling anything of size or even the simple task of steaming shrimp... it becomes difficult with alcohol systems. You end up eating cans of Vienna sausages... what ever there made of... Alcohol is just too slow and if you take the time to look at flame qualities you will find it is very cool and inefficient in heat transfer... several web sites had comparison when Alcohol systems were thought to be an alternative but in a recent search they no longer seem to be even a point of discussion. Good fuel is also difficult to locate and keep.
Unless you enjoy being a third world caveman and like the difficulties of these systems as a test of your seamanship or man/womanhood most "normal" people would not consider them as a first choice at cooking other than emergency or subsistence level cooking... never gourmet.
While it is obvious that a poorly maintained LP system can be dangerous.. it is by far the best system for real cooking on board a boat... with the exception of the BBQ grill attached to the rail. BBQ is my first choice for fun cooking but the LP system is for real everyday cooking with the least problems and by far the fastest times. Fuel is not always easy but in any community were boating, camping or a few trailers exist.. a source also exist and even the small tanks last some time... and most of us carry 2 or more.
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The Ohio Department of Health (ODH) has been working on the rules to enforce the smoking ban voters overwhelmingly approved in November, which went into effect Dec. 7. However, many institutions across the state have ignored the smoking ban because of unclear rules and the lack of penalties. That could all change in the near future.
On Wednesday, the department submitted its recommendations for rules and enforcement to the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review, said ODH spokesman Kristopher Weiss. If the committee approves the rules at its April 16 meeting, they could go into effect as soon as 40 days from March 31.
The rules lay out the penalties for a violation: A warning letter for a first violation; $100 for a second violation, $500 for a third, $1,000 for a fourth and $2,500 for every violation after that. If an institution is willing to consistently pay the $2,500 fine for each violation, there is no further action the state can take, Weiss said.
Weiss said a violation can be reported anonymously to the state's toll-free enforcement hotline (866) 559-6446. However, a complaint itself will not be enough to warrant a violation. Under the proposed rules, once a complaint is filed it will be forwarded to the local department of health, which will then launch an investigation.
The additional manpower needed for enforcement will come from fees. Under the proposed rules, 90 percent would go back to the local health departments with 10 percent going to the state to run the hotline.
So far, the hotline has received more than 15,000 reports of alleged violations and another 30,000 calls with questions about the smoking ban, Weiss said.
Another change to the rules would exempt private clubs, such as the Eagles Club or the Veterans of Foreign Wars, from the ban under the following conditions: only members all older than 18 are present and the location is in a freestanding building.
For example: Weiss said if a non-veteran, non-VFM member was hired to work at the location or the building was open to the public for an event such as a fish fry the smoking ban would be in effect. However, if all workers were VFM members and the club was open only to members at the time, the VFM would be exempt from the ban.
Mary Winans, the club manager for the VFW in Willard, 19 Woodland Ave., said the ban has hurt business at the canteen.
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Ewing added that even if the owners could chose between the ban and not having the ban "not smoking is better. Realistically, you can't make everyone happy."
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English Karate Council Governing Body Championships 2015
17th May 2015
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'English Karate Council' - The New Governing Body for Karate recognised by its members.
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In its revised forecast for the year ended 31 March 2014, ANA Holdings says net income will hit Y18 billion ($175.9 million), more than the Y15 billion forecasted last October.
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Disney has stood by the "customer is always right" motto for decades. However, this has created a type of customer that believes it is always right under any and all circumstances. Not good. We all know that if you make a big enough fuss, Disney would go out of its way to make you happy. Also not good. We have come to expect to be catered to and have to be held in a higher regard. That speaks volumes about the way Disney handles situations, but man, it has turned its fans into spoiled brats.
AP's have a bad name, so do hardcore Disney fans. All because some people can't get over that entitlement mode of thinking. In actuality, an AP makes you less entitled to anything. The guest that visits once a year or every decade is the one who should be pampered. Not us locals who visit whenever we want and cry foul when Disney does something to please the single day visitor. Anyone else feel the same or different?


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Apple cider (also called sweet cider or soft cider) is the name used in the United States and parts of Canada for an unfiltered, unsweetened, non-alcoholic beverage made from apples. It may be opaque due to fine apple particles in suspension and may be tangier than conventional filtered apple juice, depending on the apples used.[1]
This untreated cider is a seasonally produced drink[2] of limited shelf-life that is typically available only in fall, although it is sometimes frozen for use throughout the year. It is traditionally served on the Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas and various New Year's Eve holidays, sometimes heated and mulled. It is the official state beverage of New Hampshire[3].
Although the term cider is used for the fermented alcoholic drink in most of the world, the term hard cider is used for the alcoholic drink in the United States and much of Canada.
In the United States, the difference between apple juice and cider is not well established.[4] Some states do specify a difference. For example, according to the Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources, "Apple juice and apple cider are both fruit beverages made from apples, but there is a difference between the two. Fresh cider is raw apple juice that has not undergone a filtration process to remove coarse particles of pulp or sediment. Apple juice is juice that has been filtered to remove solids and pasteurized so that it will stay fresh longer. Vacuum sealing and additional filtering extend the shelf life of the juice."[5] In Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency also regulates "unpasteurized apple cider".[6]
Modern methods allow a formerly hand-made beverage to be commercially produced. About 2 kilograms (4.4 lb) of apples is needed to make a 1 litre (2.1 US pt) of cider. Apples are washed, cut, and ground into a mash that has the consistency of applesauce. Layers of this mash are wrapped in cloth and placed upon wooden or plastic racks. A hydraulic press then squeezes the layers together, and the juice flows into refrigerated tanks. The juice is bottled and sold as apple cider.
Early forms of production involved a man or horse powered crusher consisting of a stone or wood trough with a heavy circulating wheel to crush the fruit, and a large manual screw press to generate the pressure needed to express the juice from the pulp. Straw was commonly used to contain the pulp during pressing, although later, coarse cloth came into use. As technology advanced, rotary drum "breakers" came into use, and small scale manual basket style presses, such as the farm press pictured. Today nearly all small pressing operations use electric-hydraulic equipment with press cloths and racks both of polypropylene in what is commonly called a "rack and cloth press", and electric hammermill shredders. These modern systems are capable of producing 1 litre (0.26 US gal) of juice from as little as 5 kilograms (11 lb) of fresh apples.
Due to E. coli O157:H7 outbreaks from unpasteurized apple cider and other outbreaks from contaminated fruit juices, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) proposed new regulations in 1998,[7] and Canada followed suit in 2000.[8]
The bulk of cider production and sale fell under the umbrella of proposed 1998 U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations applying to all fresh fruit and vegetable juices.[9]
In 2001, the regulations were finalized, with the FDA issuing a rule requiring that virtually all juice producers follow Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) controls, using either heat pasteurization, ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI), or other proven methods.[10] As a result, all apple cider sold in the United States, other than sales directly to consumers by producers (such as juice bars, farmers' markets, and roadside farmstands), must be produced using HACCP principles to achieve a "5 log" reduction in pathogens.[11] While the use of UVGI treatment and other technologies meet legal requirements, heat pasteurization is the most commonly used method.[12]
Apple cider is typically made from blends of several different apples to give a balanced taste. There is some competition among local cider mills in apple country for the highest quality blends. Frequently blends of heritage, or heirloom, varieties are used.
Today, unpasteurized cider is generally sold only on-site at orchards or small rural mills in apple growing areas. In the absence of pasteurization, naturally occurring yeasts in the cider are not killed and they can cause fermentation with time. Even with refrigeration, cider will begin to become slightly carbonated within a week or so and eventually become so-called hard cider as the fermentation process turns sugar into alcohol. Some producers use this fermentation to produce hard cider, and some carry it to the further acetification process to produce apple cider vinegar.
"Hot apple cider" or "mulled cider" (similar to "Wassail") is a popular fall (autumn) and winter beverage,[13] consisting of apple cider, heated to a temperature just below boiling, with cinnamon, orange peel, nutmeg, cloves, or other spices added.
"Sparkling cider" is a carbonated nonalcoholic beverage made from unfiltered or filtered apple cider. It is sometimes served at celebrations as a non-alcoholic alternative to champagne.
"Cider doughnuts" are sometimes sold at cider mills, containing cider in the batter. Visiting apple orchards in the fall for cider, doughnuts, and you-pick apples is a large segment in agritourism.[14][15][16]
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STOMACH (GASTRIC) MOTILITY DISORDERS (ABNORMALITIES IN STOMACH EMPTYING) BASICS OVERVIEW Stomach (gastric) motility disorders result from conditions that directly or indirectly disrupt normal stomach emptying, which in turn may cause abnormal retention of food and fluid in the stomach (known as "gastric retention"), stomach distention, and subsequent signs, such as lack of appetite (anorexia), nausea, and vomiting SIGNALMENT/DESCRIPTION of ANIMAL Species Dogs and cats Mean Age and Range Signs occur at any age, though it is uncommon to observe primary stomach (gastric) motility disorders in young animals SIGNS/OBSERVED CHANGES in the ANIMAL Clinical signs often are secondary to the primary cause of the stomach (gastric) motility disorder The major clinical sign is chronic vomiting of food following a meal (known as "postprandial vomiting"); the stomach normally should be empty after an average size meal in approximately 6 to 8 hours in dogs and 4 to 6 hours in cats (note: normal emptying times are influenced by meal volume, caloric density and fiber content); vomiting of undigested food greater than 10 to 12 hours following the meal suggests a stomach (gastric) motility disorder or blockage of the stomach or upper small intestine, preventing movement of the stomach contents out of the stomach (known as "outflow obstruction") Vomiting can occur anytime following eating Distension of the stomach, nausea, lack of appetite (anorexia), belching, eating of nonfood items (known as "pica"), and weight loss Other signs and physical examination findings relate to the underlying cause of the disorder The veterinarian may detect decreased stomach sounds on listening to the abdomen with a stethoscope (known as " abdominal auscultation") CAUSES Primary stomach (gastric) motility disorders are often of unknown cause (known as " idiopathic gastric motility disorders"); they may arise from defects in normal electrical activity of muscle (known as "myoelectric activity") Most motility disorders occur secondary to other primary conditions Metabolic disorders include low blood potassium levels (known as "hypokalemia"); excess levels of urea and other nitrogenous waste products in the blood (known as "uremia"); nervous system disorder caused by accumulation of ammonia in the system due to inability of the liver to rid the body of ammonia (known as "hepatic encephalopathy"); and inadequate levels of thyroid hormone (known as "hypothyroidism") Nervous inhibition, as the result of stress, fear, pain or trauma Drugs, such as the anticholinergics (used as preanesthetics or to treat diarrhea, such as atropine); beta-blockers (used to treat heart and lung disease, such as isoproterenol), and narcotics Primary stomach disease, such as blockage of the stomach or upper small intestine, preventing movement of the stomach contents out of the stomach (outflow obstruction); inflammation of the stomach (gastritis); stomach ulcers; parvovirus infection "Bloat" or gastric dilatation-volvulus syndrome (GDV)—a disease in dogs in which the stomach dilates with gas and/or fluid (known as "gastric dilatation"), and subsequently rotates around its short axis (known as "volvulus")—is suspected to result from a primary motility disorder of abnormal muscle electrical and mechanical activity; dogs may continue to have signs of decreased stomach motility (known as "gastric hypomotility") following surgical correction (known as a "gastropexy," surgical attachment of the stomach to the abdominal wall) Backward or reverse flow of stomach contents into the esophagus (known as "gastroesophageal reflux") and backward or reverse flow of intestinal contents into the stomach (known as " enterogastric reflux") may result from decreased stomach motility (gastric hypomotility) Syndromes involving abnormal function of the autonomic nervous system (known as "dysautonomia syndromes") have decreased stomach motility (gastric hypomotility) as part of a generalized disease process RISK FACTORS Any potential stomach disease may result in secondary decreased motility (hypomotility) TREATMENT HEALTH CARE Most patients are treated as outpatients With severe vomiting or dehydration and electrolyte imbalance, hospitalization and specific therapy are necessary; electrolytes are chemical compounds, such as sodium, potassium, chloride, necessary for normal body function Dehydration with fluid and electrolyte imbalance requires appropriate fluid replacement ACTIVITY Restrictions are based on the underlying disease DIET Dietary manipulation is important in the management of primary stomach (gastric) motility disorders Diets should be formulated that are of liquid or semi-liquid consistency and low in fat and fiber content Small-volume meals, with frequent feeding, should be given Often dietary manipulation alone is successful in managing patients with delayed stomach (gastric) emptying from a motility disorder SURGERY Dogs with chronic bloat (GDV) syndrome and retention of stomach contents (gastric retention) should have a surgical procedure (gastropexy) performed Following any stomach surgery, it may take as long as 14 days for motility to return to normal Patients with blockage of the stomach or upper small intestine, preventing movement of the stomach contents out of the stomach ("outflow obstruction"), require surgical correction MEDICATIONS Medications presented in this section are intended to provide general information about possible treatment. The treatment for a particular condition may evolve as medical advances are made; therefore, the medications should not be considered as all inclusive. Gastric Prokinetic Agents (drugs that improve the propulsion of contents through the stomach and into the intestines) ty and coordinates stomach and upper small intestinal (duodenal) motility; also may prevent vomiting (known as an " antiemetic effect") improves gastric emptying, and promotes increased motility of both the small and large intestine cisapride; limited clinical experience in using this drug in the dog and cat s promotes stomach emptying -blockers, such as ranitidine and nizatidine, have significant prokinetic effects on stomach motility similar to cisapride; neither cimetidine nor famotidine affects gastric emptying FOLLOW-UP CARE PATIENT MONITORING se to therapy varies, according to the underlying cause of the stomach (gastric) motility disorder obstruction EXPECTED COURSE AND PROGNOSIS on the ability to resolve the underlying disorder or on response to therapy -surgery or parvovirus-infection cases 10 to 14 days to regain normal stomach function system (known as "generalized dysautonomia") have grave prognoses KEY POINTS disrupt normal stomach emptying, which in turn may cause abnormal retention of food and fluid in the stomach (known as "gastric retention"), stomach distention, and subsequent signs, such as lack of appetite (anorexia), nausea, and vomiting motility disorder obstruction
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The Board of Governors for Higher Education has just three full meetings left before it ceases to exist, at least in its current form.
The state is dissolving both the Board of Governors and the Board of Regents for Elementary and Secondary Education. Instead, a single board will oversee the state's public schools and colleges and universities starting on January 1st, 2013. (No word yet, by the way, on when Governor Lincoln Chafee will announce his appointees for the new board)
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- Presidential Contracts. URI's David Dooley has said he is planning to remain at the helm of the state's flagship university but wants to resolve faculty contracts before finalizing his own. CCRI president Ray Di Pasquale does double duty as the head of both the community college system and the state's Office of Higher Education. It's not clear whether he will continue this dual role after the upcoming consolidation with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
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