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Shadowstep is an ability that you get when choosing the Subtlety tree. It teleports you behind a target, increases your speed and gives you a damage bonus on your next Ambush or Garrote.
- Shadowstep replaces Cloak of Shadows as the final skill in the Subtlety tree. This skill greatly increases the functionality of any rogue that choose the Subtlety Talent tree
- The ability to cover up to 25 yards and increased movement speed gives a defining edge against opponents who like to kite the rogue from afar. Now you can just Shadowstep behind a Mage trying to land a nasty Pyroblast on you, and stun them.
- Yet another interrupt in the rogue's arsenal. A well timed Shadowstep will give an unhappy mage the message: Target needs to be in front of you.
- Extremely useful for chasing down runners and mounts. Vanish (if it isn't on cooldown), then Shadowstep + Cheapshot (You can also Gouge or use Crippling Poison on your OH) for a ranged stun or cripple. You can also Shadowstep while stealthed and Sap (Dirty Tricks makes this much more smooth) a mounted opponent, then do what you will with them.
- Careful when utilizing this talent near cliffs, especially in Outland. An unlucky rogue might accidentally send himself plummeting. Just cast Distract or wait for their back to be more sensible to Shadowstep behind.
- If you are chasing an enemy you can Shadow Step then Shiv Crippling Poison them so they can't escape. Shiv does NOT consume the Shadowstep damage buff.
- You can Shadowstep through walls and over gaps.
- If you run and jump off one side of a gap, you can "grapple hook" over to the other side by Shadowstepping an enemy on the other side. This could also be used if you accidentally fall off an edge and your target is still alive to pull yourself back up.
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- As of patch 4.0.1, you now get Shadowstep immediately when you choose the Subtlety tree(at level 10 or after a respec, the damage bonus (raised to 30%) only works with Ambush or Garrote, and the threat reduction has been removed.
- As of patch 2.3, Shadowstep can be used in combat. This gives the rogue the ability to dump aggro with Shadowstep, and worry much less about grabbing aggro with a big Ambush due to the 50% threat reduction.
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1877 50C Morgan Half Dollar, Judd-1514, Pollock-1678, Low R.7, PR67 Cameo NGC....
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1877 Morgan Half Dollar in Silver, Judd-15141877 50C Morgan Half Dollar, Judd-1514, Pollock-1678, Low R.7, PR67 Cameo NGC.
PR67 Cameo, Finest at NGC
PR67 Cameo, Finest at NGC
Design. The obverse is similar to the Morgan dollar, but the head of Liberty is surrounded by a beaded circle, with 13 stars and E PLURIBUS UNUM around the edge. The date 1877 is below. On the reverse a so-called "defiant eagle" is perched on a scroll inscribed IN GOD WE TRUST. An olive branch points left, and three arrowheads point right. Struck in silver with a reeded edge.
Commentary. Despite the popular terminology, the defiant eagle, while it may have its wings spread, is rather dyspeptic in appearance. The pose seems staid and monumental rather than lifelike, and the unnaturally heavy wings appear to be Oriental fans. This bird would never have flown. George T. Morgan seems to have had a peculiarly difficult time engraving our national bird, and none of his attempts are more than qualified successes.
Numismatic art critic Cornelius Vermeule comments concerning the reverse of the Morgan dollar in his recently released second edition of Numismatic Art in America:
"It can also be noted from the snatches of correspondence quoted above that George T. Morgan was unsatisfied with the tradition of Peter, the then-stuffed eagle at the Philadelphia Mint. The 'studies in nature' that he would seem to have procured for the eagle, however, must have had little effect on his oeuvre, for the bird on the reverse of the 1878 silver dollar is much more removed from reality than the creatures on some of the patterns for trade dollars in 1873. Some details, to be sure, like the broad tail, betray ornithological research, but in total substance the eagle with wings spread is as heraldic as his early 19th-century counterparts with the shields on their stomachs. Clearly, Morgan's dollar was a refreshing step away from the standard Gobrecht-styled seated Liberty with 'sandwich-board' eagle, but the decisive moment of revolution in American numismatic art had not yet arrived."
Physical Description. The coin is virtually flawless; the only interruptions in the surfaces are a few tiny lint marks that were struck into the piece at the time of minting. The centers are brilliant and surrounded by a ring of golden-brown toning at the margins. The fields are deeply mirrored, and the devices present stark cameo contrast on both obverse and reverse. In PR67 Cameo, this piece is the single finest certified at NGC. The finest at PCGS is a PR64 example (11/08).
Census. Per USPatterns.com, only seven examples are known. See that reference for a detailed census, from which this provenance is also expanded.
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An interesting study in light, Jethro - I thought at first that it was taken in GB, but the spelling is wrong on the signage (then I checked the mapping). I had no idea of such lovely architecture in the Carolinas. I have often wished to visit there. You must have an interesting accent by now (O:
Thank you Suzi it was an interesting afternoon indeed.
We have some amazing churches downtown and other bits and bobs worth photographing.
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How to block Facebook game requests on iPhone and iPad
If you don't play Candy Crush Saga, or any other Facebook game for that matter, but you keep getting requests for lives and items from your Facebook friends, you're probably past frustrated. I've even seen some friends delete people or unfollow them simply to stop the never ending stream of game requests. Unfortunately, sometimes people don't realize they're spamming their friends. Luckily, there's an easier way to stop game requests than deleting or unfollowing your friends.
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- Launch the Facebook app on your iPhone or iPad.
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- Tap on Notifications.
- Tap on Mobile Push under the How You Get Notifications section.
- Uncheck Application Requests and Application Invites.
You can repeat this process for email, text, message, and on Facebook too so you stop app and game requests everywhere. Keep in mind that this blocks requests from all apps, not just games. It doesn't mean you won't receive notifications for apps you've added yourself, but just ones other people send you that you haven't added on your own first.
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This should stop that particular game from feeding into your news feed. Occasionally I've even seen a block options for game notifications but when I actually see that option has been very sporadic. Hiding a game seems to suppress all notifications for it though. Keep in mind that if there is a game that you have installed on your iPhone or iPad and you have linked your Facebook account, you'll have to unlink it or you'll just be routed to that app to check the notification.
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I did what the article said and I'm still getting the invites. I'm not very happy.
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Close out of the app completely.
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I didn't this when this article first came out and I'm still getting requests, I went back into the settings and checked and both Application Requests & Invited were already unchecked. WHAT THE HECK? I'm really starting to hate Facebook.
Thank you
I did this 7 months, ago, and I'm still receiving invitations. Oddly, those invitations weren't in my notifications when I viewed Facebook through mobile Safari. They're showing up in my app, though.
I think I'll recheck the boxes on this device and then uncheck them, again. Couldn't hurt.
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Marcus Corp. plans to develop a multi-screen theater and entertainment center in Milwaukee's Park East area, part of a project that would include several large office buildings and provide a major boost to the barren downtown strip.
The company, which operates southeastern Wisconsin's dominant cinema chain, would develop the theater north of E. Knapp St., between N. Water St. and the Milwaukee River. That 2.6-acre site also would feature a 14-story office tower, plus a six-story building that would consolidate Associated Banc-Corp's local operations.
Along with serving downtown residents, the theater presumably would draw patrons from nearby neighborhoods, including Milwaukee's east side. Marcus Corp. in 2006 closed its three-screen Prospect Mall Cinema at 2239 N. Prospect Ave.
Company President Gregory Marcus declined to comment on the Park East plan, other than to say a final decision has not been made.
"We are committed to developing a downtown theater," Marcus said. "We evaluate lots of locations."
This is Marcus Corp.'s second shot at developing a downtown theater complex. The company in 2005 said it would operate a 10-screen theater at PabstCity, an entertainment, retail, housing and office development proposed for the former Pabst brewery.
Those plans died after the Common Council rejected proposed city financial assistance for PabstCity. The former brewery has since been sold to real estate investor Joseph Zilber, who is creating a new development plan that doesn't include a theater.
The Park East buildings would be developed by Brookfield-based MLG Development Inc., with Marcus Corp. taking a possible ownership stake in the project. San Antonio, Texas-based lender USAA Real Estate Co. has agreed to provide additional financing for the development.
MLG Development hopes to begin construction by spring 2009, said Bruce Westling, president of MLG Commercial Inc., the real estate brokerage arm of MLG Development.
Most of the project details were disclosed in documents filed with the Milwaukee County Board's Committee on Economic and Community Development.
The committee on Monday voted to extend a purchase option that MLG Development holds on a 0.37-acre parcel owned by the county. That parcel would be combined with a riverfront parking lot and a vacated block of N. Edison St. to create the development site.
Committee members discussed the proposed development in a closed session. However, the publicly available materials given to the committee provided project details.
Those materials include a letter from Westling, which said Marcus Corp. has committed to the project with "a state-of-the-art entertainment venue positioned to serve the growing downtown residential base."
The 60,000-square-foot theater and entertainment center would have a ground floor entrance off Water St., with most of the venue on the second floor and mezzanine level.
The materials didn't provide any additional description. Some of Marcus Corp.'s newer cinemas include sit-down restaurants, expanded game arcades and other amenities.
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Marcus Corp.'s theater would be combined with office buildings.
A six-story office building, with 145,000 square feet, would house Associated Banc-Corp's area offices. That building, overlooking the river just north of Knapp St., would include a bank branch on the street level.
Green Bay-based Associated now houses most of its Milwaukee operations in a 41,000-square-foot building at 401 E. Kilbourn Ave. It has other downtown operations at 330 E. Kilbourn Ave. and 815 N. Water St., with around 200 employees split among the three locations.
Milwaukee is a growth market for Associated, and bank executives are weighing alternatives on whether to consolidate and relocate the downtown operations, said Nick Papachristou, executive vice president and chief marketing officer.
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Among the firm's office prospects is "a large law firm for relocation and expansion of their headquarters," Westling's letter says. He declined to identify the firm.
The prospects do not include Waukesha-based software developer RedPrairie Corp. The firm had planned to move its headquarters to the site, but company executives reconsidered that decision after CEO John Jazwiec resigned in October, Westling's letter said.
Finally, the development would include a six-level, 932-stall parking structure and 8,000 square feet of additional retail space.
Park East growth slow
The project would boost development on the 16-acre Park East strip north of Juneau Ave., left empty when a freeway stub was demolished in 2003.
So far, just one parcel has been sold by Milwaukee County. Chicago-based RSC & Associates LLC in December paid $2.725 million for 2 acres, bordered by N. Milwaukee, N. Jefferson and E. Lyon streets and E. Ogden Ave. RSC is building a 122-room Hyatt Place boutique hotel and a 102-room Hyatt Summerfield Suites extended-stay hotel, along with 105 apartments and 6,900 square feet of retail space.
MLG Development and other firms have some of the remaining parcels under option, but have not yet completed their purchases. Those delays prompted some committee members to say Monday that they're getting impatient.
"People in Milwaukee County believe progress is only being made if there are shovels in the ground," Supervisor Peggy West said.
The official Park East area covers 64 acres that include privately owned development sites. Other Park East projects include the newly completed 38-unit Flatiron condominium building, 1541 N. Jefferson St., and The North End, a riverfront site where Mandel Group Inc. is building 83 apartments and 15,000 square feet of retail space along N. Water St., south of E. Pleasant St.


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OK so in order to not sound like shouting random crap, I've dug into this.
Basicaly I already gave you a workaround for floating point textures, but floating point textures themselves are not patented. Funny, eh? What you mean is the algorith for the shadow mapping.
We are talking about US Patent 7450123.
This patent describes a few things.
1. use of layers.
2. the algorith for calculating how much light shines on a pixel by use of the z-buffer
3. placement in the rendering pipeline.
Now the workaround:
1. Use of layers.
There are two layers:
-the texture layer (oh yeah fscking rly?)
-the depth layer
Why not mix those layers into one layer (preprocessing)?
For example after each pixel color value comes the depth value.
2. the algorith
The algorithm puts the depth layer between the texture layer and the light source. The Z-buffer-values and Z'-buffer-values for each pixel in the texture layer is calculated to determine how much light shines on each pixel color value in the texture layer. After that the color values are 'corrected'.
So why not calculate the angle of the light source that shines on a certain 'deep' pixel and the further the angle to the light source, the darker the pixel will become?
This will eliminate the problem with doing anything with the z-buffer because the further away the light source, the less steep the angle will be. Ofcourse then afterwards another step can be taken to calculate the intensity of the brightness of the entire rendered depth texture as if it was a normal texture. So the further away the light is, the less bright the rendered depth texture will be. Avoiding this algorith entirely while maintaining correctness.
3. placement in the rendering pipeline.
The third thing described in this patent is the placement of this algorith in the pipeline. Now that we have chopped up the algorith into multiple passes, you can literaly place it almost anywhere you like, even avoiding the subpipeline of the algorith itself as described by the patent.
C'mon how hard was that?
I don't mean any algorithm for shadow mapping. The patent for float colorbuffers is actually US Patent #6,650,327, it is owned by SGI, and their statement in the ARB_texture_float specification is pretty clear (they sued ATI in the past because of it).
As a graphics developer (that's what I was paid for), I use float textures all the time for various effects, and I would not like to design a rendering engine without them. I guess VDrift developers would agree with me here. When I request floats, I don't want scaled ints, because my algorithms would not work with them, clear?
As a driver developer, I would not mind having float textures and colorbuffers in Mesa and the driver I maintain, but most Linux distributions will not enable it by default since it's potentially infringing.
6650237 covers ramming floatingpoints operations through graphics cards.
327, however, does not cover non-drivers, like game engines, unless they perform float geomatric calculations and acces the framebuffer themselves while doing it.
Why not have the driver convert floats to scaled ints? It requeres some work, but this could be seen as optimisation work as floating point operations are much slower than integers.
Because you would lose precision. float has 24 bits of precision, but the range is huge. 16-bit int has a sucky range, that's 5 fucking numbers, where would you put the fixed decimal point? There would be terrible losses on both sides of the point, and that's the best int my r500 can do.
Graphics algorithms are often tuned for the underlying data type to get the most from the least. If you change it, you will break it, and next day you get tons of bug reports.
It's more like 14 years from the grant date for a design patent and 20 years for a utility or plant one.
There may be an offset to the drop-dead date given to Pharma based patents that Congress gives per statute where they offset the time spent in government testing so that they effectively have protection during the testing phases and then have the 14-20 years from the moment it's approved forward.
Patents are not renewable at the end of the term or under any of the other expiry situations that are present with them. As alluded to in the previous paragraph, they can be extended in some selected special cases. There is a maintenance feel that is owed during the duration of the life of the patent on a regular basis (about every 3 years...)- if you don't pay up, the patent expires. It's presumed that if you're not paying the maintenance fee, you're no longer interested in maintaining the monopoly it grants you for whatever reasons.
For most things, the story is 20 years from the date that it is granted. You can't use patented or patent pending on things that don't have a patent application pending or granted on a given thing. You have no protections in the normal sense of things if you don't have the patent granted- "patent pending" is truthfully of limited use, other than warning people that they may get cut off (if you can't prove proof of prior art preceding the patent application, you can be deemed to be infringing the moment the patent is granted...).
Now, this doesn't get into obviousness, patentability of software, prior art, etc. Each of these can invalidate a patent out of the gate. The big problem is how expensive it is litigating anything in the patent space- on either side of that courtroom. A patent is only worth the amount of money you can litigate it over. Trying to bust patents is only going to go as far as you've got deep pockets to fund that endeavor.
Does it need to change? YES. Not in terms, but in more what IS and ISN'T acceptable and lower the bar to entry to invalidate obviously incorrectly granted patents.
I understand what you're getting at and I agree if it involves a magic cancer cure, the GUI, etc... but this patent solely patents using floating points in devices that do 3D computations and have framebuffers. That is like patenting integers! Absolutely rediculous! This does not took more than literaly 3 seconds of 'research' whatsoever.


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The plot of La cambiale di matrimonio (The Bill of Marriage), which Rossini composed when he was just eighteen years old, revolves around the farcical attempts of Tobia Mill, a rich English merchant, to combine business with pleasure by forcing his daughter, the lovely Fanny ('merchandise') to marry Slook, his rich colonial correspondent from America, by means of a bill of exchange.
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- Performer: Massimiliano Tanzini (Harpsichord)
- Conductor: Christopher Franklin
- Ensemble: Württenberg Philharmonic Orchestra
- Notes: Kursaal, Bad Wildbad, Germany (2006-07-08&2006-07-14&2006-)
- Running Time: 68 min. 5 sec.
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Baker Market Update: July 6, 2015
It looks like the Bureau of Labor Statistics is taking a page out of the Treasury Department's playbook. If the Treasury can arbitrarily change whose face is on the ten-dollar bill, the BLS has apparently decided it can make the first Friday of July fall on a Thursday. What's happened to this nation's time-honored traditions!? Well, the BLS gets a pass on this one since Independence Day is this Saturday and markets are closed tomorrow, so their first-Friday-of-the-month jobs report hit the newsstands this morning. Taking a hit right off the bat was last month's report.
The originally reported 280k new jobs created in May actually turned out to only be 254k. This morning's report tells us that 223k new jobs were created in June, but the market was expecting more. So how is it that the Unemployment Rate fell by .2% to a new, low 5.3%? Well, because the Labor Force Participation Rate fell by even more. The new rate of 62.6% was 62.9% a month ago. That's one way to get the Unemployment Rate down.


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Last Christmas, I was considering getting an account on Sony's Playstation Network.
I've loved video games since I was 6 years old, and a great many of modern gaming's best features are only available through the major companies' online stores: online multiplayer, Netflix, even games made by independent studios that could not exist without the low distribution costs online stores offer. Every other gamer I know has been playing online for half a decade.
I can't be sure why — I'd like to say time got away from me, but I'm sure getting a PSN account only takes a matter of minutes — but I never got around to setting it up. Four months later, I considered myself lucky I didn't.
In April 2011, the PSN was hacked, compromising the security of untold amounts of email addresses, passwords and, possibly, credit card information. It was one of a series of hacking attacks Sony faced during the spring and summer from different anonymous groups.
One of those groups was Lulz (a variation on the Web chat term LOL, or laughing out loud) Security, or LulzSec for short. LulzSec did not claim responsibility for the PSN attacks, but it did claim responsibility for stealing the personal information of 37,500 users on Sony's main website.
Spreading word of its exploits through Twitter, LulzSec made news by hacking targets as varied as they were audacious: Nintendo, Fox.com, PBS, Brazilian government websites, FBI-affiliated websites, the CIA and the U.S. Senate home page. They publicly released the email addresses and passwords of more than 62,000 random, ordinary Web users who quickly found their pages on Facebook and other social networks defaced.
For its thousandth tweet, LulzSec released a manifesto which, initially, made them seem to be acting on some basis of morality. At least the group was letting everyone know when it had breached companies' or individuals' security, it said. At least the group was effectively sounding an alarm, unlike hackers who steal and scam without being discovered until it's far too late. LulzSec's goal, it seemed, was to shame companies into improving their online security.
Then LulzSec manifesto went somewhere far more disturbing. The manifesto is frequently profane, so I'll take the liberty of abridging and slightly rearranging it:
"Yes, yes, there's always the argument that releasing everything in full is just as evil, what with accounts being stolen and abused, but welcome to 2011. ... Most of you reading this love the idea of wrecking someone else's online experience anonymously. ... You find it funny to watch havoc unfold, and we find it funny to cause it. ... We release personal data so that equally evil people can entertain us with what they do with it. ... Nobody is truly causing the Internet to slip one way or the other, it's an inevitable outcome for us humans. ... This is the Internet, where we screw each other over for a jolt of satisfaction."
In short, LulzSec argues the anonymity the Internet offers its most savvy users inevitably breeds dangerous people like them. It's actually a very old argument, and LulzSec only demonstrates how well it stands the test of time.
Plato made the case in his own manifesto, "The Republic", using the Greek legend of the Ring of Gyges as a metaphor. This ring, an inspiration behind J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, turns its wearer invisible.
Plato argued this ring would corrupt any person, no matter how pure, because he or she could then steal, kill and otherwise ruin lives without ever being caught, without ever being held accountable. It was actually a devil's advocate argument suggesting morality is only a social construct, and Plato then counter-argued that a person can maintain morality even without fear of consequences for wrongdoing.
But the issue here isn't what people can do — it's what they have done. The Ring of Gyges is now widely available starting at about $19.95 a month. One only needs to spend a few minutes on any forum that lets users post anonymously to understand how widely the corruption has spread, even outside hacking circles.
In a January 2008 edition of New Yorker, top U.S. spy Michael McConnell argued the only sure way the U.S. can stop cyber-terrorism is to have access to U.S. citizens' Google search histories, private emails and file transfers without warrants. The claim was widely decried, with Wired magazine, for instance, debunking McConnell's claim computer crime costs America $100 billion a year. Many saw McConnell's idea as invasive, un-American and evocative of George Orwell's "1984."
I think he might be on to something.
It gives me pause, certainly, whenever someone in the U.S. government starts talking about doing anything without a warrant, but I don't think McConnell was wrong to suggest something should be done about the anonymity so often abused on the Internet. The real world — the physical world — would quickly degenerate into chaos if all criminals had the power to actually turn invisible. If the Internet continues to run that way, I don't think it will ever be safe, especially for consumers with credit cards.
In the news industry, I hear a lot about how more and more people are turning to the Web for their news, and how paper after paper is folding because none of them can find a way to make profits online. For example, of three dozen papers with online pay models, only 1 percent of readers choose to pay for digital news, according to The Pew Research Center.
It's really a problem all content creators face on the Internet for three reasons. First, Internet content is easily stolen, from copied and pasted headlines to pirated video games. Second, when consumers do engage in Internet transactions, there's a great risk that a hacker is routing their money somewhere else. Third, in both these cases, the people responsible have enough anonymity to evade consequences.
To wrap up: Yes, this is America. Yes, we do have a right to privacy. We have rights at home, on the phone, and in other places to hold conversations and expect, reasonably, that no one is listening.
I just think the Internet might not be one of those places, not if we want it to be safe.
Steven Nalley is the city beat reporter at Starkville Daily News. Contact him at email@example.com.


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(Eds: APNewsNow. Will be updated.) By TIM BOOTH AP Sports Writer Jesus Montero is ready for the challenge of being an everyday catcher for the Seattle Mariners. That would be quite a job for a veteran catcher to take on, let alone a 23-year-old about to enter his second full season in the majors. As it stands now, Montero is the only sure thing the Mariners have behind the plate heading into spring training, which starts in just over two weeks. He's the only catcher on Seattle's 40-man roster. While there is help on the way in the future in the form of last year's first-round pick Mike Zunino, the 2013 season is going to fall mostly on Montero's shoulders. Is it a risk for Seattle to rely so heavily on Montero? Maybe, especially since he only caught 56 games last season for Seattle.
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Baton Rouge, LA – On Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 3:00 pm, Our Lady of the Lake College held the inauguration of Tina S. Holland, PhD, the fourth President of Our Lady of the Lake College.
The inauguration ceremony, which took place at St. Joseph Cathedral in Baton Rouge, was attended by a broad representation of students, friends and members of the College as well as civic and healthcare leaders including the Honorable Jay Dardenne, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Louisiana, Melvin "Kip" Holden, J.D., Mayor-President of Baton Rouge and Joseph C. Rallo, PhD, Commissioner of Higher Education of the Louisiana Board of Regents. Civic, religious and educational leaders as well as members of the College and an alumna spoke during the program to express best wishes to the president.
Institutions of higher education use Presidential inaugurations as an opportunity to formally welcome new leadership and to mark a new vision for the future of the institution. During the inauguration ceremony, Dr. Holland shared aspects her vision for the College: to grow educational programs to meet both the needs of students and the community, and to further develop the physical campus, and "in so doing we hope to establish a true sense of place for our campus—a place where we build students professionally, personally and spiritually—to be leaders and servants."
Earlier in the day an Inaugural Mass was also held at St. Joseph Cathedral. The Mass was officiated by the Most Reverend Robert W. Muench, Bishop of the Diocese of Baton Rouge.
With the installation of Dr. Holland, Our Lady of the Lake College begins a new chapter in its nearly 100 year history. Established in 1923 by the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, the School of Nursing began as a school of nursing in conjunction with the establishment of Our Lady of the Lake Sanitarium in the Capitol Lake area of downtown Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Revising the curriculum over the years to incorporate advances in medical science, nursing practice and nursing education the school transitioned to a degree-granting institution of higher education in 1989. By July of 1995 the College was officially renamed Our Lady of the Lake College, earning full accreditation to offer associate degrees.
After serving as an Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs for the LSU System and Chancellor at Louisiana State University at Alexandria, James W. Firnberg EdD served as the College's first President from 1993 to 1999. Under his leadership the institution transitioned into an institution accredited to offer baccalaureate degrees. Michael Smith, PhD served as President from 1999-2006, and was followed by Sandra S. Harper, PhD from 2006-2013.
Currently the College offers a full range of applied arts and science and clinical degrees, now offering associate, baccalaureate, master's and doctoral degrees. The 25 areas of study include arts and sciences, biology, clinical laboratory sciences, health sciences, liberal studies, nursing, nurse anesthesia, physical therapist assisting, physician assistant studies, radiologic technology and respiratory therapy.
In addition to an emphasis on academic excellence, Our Lady of the Lake College has continued a promise to serve others begun by the Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady, earning national recognition for its commitment to do service in the community.
For a complete bio for Dr. Holland go to www.ololcollege.edu/office-of-the-president/president-biography
To learn more about Our Lady of the Lake College, please visit www.ololcollege.edu.
For additional information, please call Elaine Crowe, OLOL College Communications, at 225-768-1700.
From the Office of Health & Safety
October, 2014
What is Ebola
Ebola is a rare disease caused by infection with one of the Ebola virus strains. There are no known cases in Louisiana. Early symptoms include fever greater than 101.5, severe headache, muscle pain, weakness, diarrhea, vomiting, stomach pain, and unexplained bleeding or bruising. According to the CDC symptoms appear within two to 21 days of exposure to the virus.
Persons at risk and virus transmission
Those at risk are anyone who has traveled to West Africa in the past three weeks and believes they were in contact with body fluids of someone ill with Ebola. Healthcare providers caring for Ebola patients and the family and friends in close contact with Ebola patients are at the highest risk of getting sick because they may come in contact with the blood or body fluids of sick patients. Body fluids include blood, sweat, urine, feces, saliva and possibly nasal secretions if close to the infected person. The virus cannot be transmitted through the air, through water or through food. It can only be transmitted through fluids of an infected person or from exposure to contaminated objects – such as needles.
How to monitor for symptoms and when to seek health care
Any person with recent international travel to affected areas should monitor their health status for three weeks after arrival from West Africa. Taking your temperature once or twice daily might be helpful. If you have traveled to West Africa and develop sudden fever, chills, muscle aches, severe diarrhea, vomiting, rash or other symptoms consistent with Ebola, you should seek immediate medical attention.
Before visiting a health-care provider, alert the clinic or emergency room in advance about your possible exposure to Ebola virus so that arrangements can be made to prevent spreading it to others. When traveling to a health-care provider, limit contact with other people and avoid all other travel.
Ways to prevent illness
Ebola virus is transmitted by close contact of the body fluids of a person who has symptoms of Ebola. Treat any body fluid as though it is infectious. Blood or body fluids can spread Ebola if they get into your eyes, nose or mouth. Therefore, hand washing is the most important infection-control measure, along with avoiding hand contact to one's face. Wear disposable impermeable gloves when cleaning visibly contaminated surfaces. Maintain good healthy practices like getting plenty of sleep, maintaining good nutrition, drinking plenty of water and increasing your physical activity to help your immune system best resist infections.
International surveillance
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) continue to monitor and respond to the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa and according to the CDC, Ebola currently poses no significant threat in the United States.
The federal government has not issued travel bans to these areas. If anyone does arrive in the US from the affected areas they will receive information about how they should monitor their health during the next few weeks.
Additionally, OLOL College has no international students from Guinea, Liberia or Sierra Leone. There are no College-sponsored trips where students or faculty are coming to campus from the affected West African countries.
Ebola preparedness in Louisiana
First and foremost, there are no known cases of Ebola in Louisiana. However, if there ever was a case in our state, Louisiana is prepared. For the last several weeks, the Department of Health & Hospitals has been working to ready Louisiana's public health and medical infrastructure, including procedures for emergency medical workers, hospital physicians and regional emergency response coordinators.
Our Lady of the Lake's infection prevention protocols were specifically updated regarding the Ebola virus in early August. Their teams and physicians are up to date on the most current surveillance and national alerts from the CDC and are using the CDC checklist to ensure appropriate strategies are in place for isolating Ebola patients should the need arise.
Protecting Healthcare Workers
Refer to http://www.cdc.gov/vhf/ebola/hcp/index.html includes information on the Sequence for Putting On and Removing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Tools for Protecting Healthcare Personnel
Facts and resources
More information is available from the CDC and World Health Organization
Service-learning, a teaching method that integrates instruction with meaningful community service, has become an integral part of an OLOL College education. Through this program, OLOL College students have given over 68,000 service-learning hours working for others. The College is pleased to report that based on the valuation designated by experts, OLOL College students have provided over $1 million of in-kind service to the community.
The estimated value of volunteer time is established each year by the Independent Sector, a coalition of charities, foundations, corporations, and individuals that publishes research important to the nonprofit sector. The estimate helps acknowledge the millions of individuals who dedicate their time, talents, and energy to make a difference in the community.
From June 2009 to June 2014, Our Lady of the Lake College students gave 68,084 service-learning hours working in collaboration with the College's many community partners. The average of the Independent Sector's in-kind value during that time frame is $19.10 per hour, bringing the total in-kind value of the College's student service to $1,303,400.50. OLOL College service-learning students work with over 90 community partners who serve in sixteen parishes across southeast Louisiana.
The Service-Learning program at the College has been developed by and coordinated through the Office of Service-Learning, directed by Rhoda Reddix, Ph.D. "It is exciting to see that our student's service now tops over a million in-kind dollars. But I can tell you this . . . the service itself is invaluable to everyone involved: the community partners, the people in the community who are helped, and the students themselves. Service-learning both supports engaged learning and reinforces the College's Franciscan mission," she explained.
An important part of the service-learning process is for students to write down their thoughts afterwards. A reflection from a nursing student after a service-learning experience at St. Martha's Activity Center was, "I cannot begin to explain how this experience further proved that nursing is exactly what I want to do."