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By L. Jay Lemons, President
AS ANOTHER ACADEMIC YEAR CLOSES, and we prepare for Commencement, the sense of anticipation, excitement and hope that ordinarily pervades the campus this time of year is tempered by two related concerns—the uncertain employment outlook facing our graduates and the difficulties facing institutions of higher education. The obvious link between the two is the economy.
Let me focus first on our graduating students. Despite the challenges they will undoubtedly face, I am confident they will be well prepared for the next step in their journey. The value of a Susquehanna education is that we not only emphasize the intellectual and critical-thinking skills typically found at a liberal arts institution, but we also teach students practical skills that prepare them for today's marketplace. So I expect that our students will be well positioned to pursue jobs in their related field, even in a difficult economy. And for those who decide to pursue graduate degrees, I am equally confident that the academic preparation and scholarly experiences they received here will put them ahead of their peers from other fine institutions.
After all, when it comes to postgraduate placement, history is on our side. Within six months of leaving here, 96 percent of our alumni find themselves in jobs or in graduate school. By anyone's measure, that is an impressive record.
Turning to the concerns of the institution, I remain hopeful but also realistic. Like every other college and university, we have been affected by the recession. The value of Susquehanna's endowment has declined about 40 percent, and operating costs are increasing at the same time.
Although the Changing Lives, Building Futures campaign has exceeded 85 percent of its $70 million campaign goal—a milestone that I thank each and every donor for helping us achieve—annual funds across the country have been hit hard and ours is no exception. Cash results are down from last year, as is alumni participation. We are very grateful for the many people who understand that their gifts matter even more today and have found a way to reach further in their stewardship of Susquehanna.
The effect of this turbulent economy on Susquehanna's budget, both short and long term, is significant. Yet Susquehanna retains considerably more fiscal strength than some other institutions. This will allow us not only to sustain but also to strengthen the academic program in the years ahead.
Because we are committed to providing students a first-rate education, we are moving ahead with important projects already underway. Seven new faculty members will be hired to fully implement senior capstone experiences and to support the implementation of the new Central Curriculum, which places an even greater emphasis on critical learning goals for our students.
We are excited about a unique piece of our new central curriculum. It is a cross-cultural program that we are calling GO, which is short for Global Opportunities. This distinctive program, described more fully within these pages, will require every student entering this fall to have an undergraduate cross-cultural experience away from campus, either in the United States or abroad. A cross-cultural experience is designed to take students out of their everyday environment. In recent months we have received national attention for this program, in part because we are choosing to expand study-away opportunities while many other schools are retreating for financial reasons.
Our new science building is on schedule for completion in the fall of 2010. This LEED-certified facility demonstrates our commitment to sustainability and provides flexible work and learning spaces to promote cross-disciplinary collaboration.
We are implementing measures to ensure that these and other institutional objectives continue to be met well into the future. First and foremost, we are taking a number of steps to control expenses. Several discretionary capital projects have been deferred, and all hiring requests will be evaluated against strategic goals. We are also examining all budgets with an eye toward capturing as much as $1 million in savings while at the same time protecting employment, benefits and strategic, safety and health initiatives. More specifically, administrative offices have been asked to reduce their operating budgets by at least 10 percent. To protect the heart of the academic and student experience, a 5 percent reduction was requested from the academic and student life divisions.
In many ways, the earth continues to move under our feet. As we look ahead, it is impossible to say how long this global recession will last and how deep it will be. This uncertainty creates great anxiety and fear. A few weeks ago, a Susquehanna graduate from the class of 1977 visited campus to talk about his experiences as a successful business entrepreneur. He shared with our students the fears and anxiety he experienced following graduate school. It was the early 1980s, another period fraught with extraordinary economic challenges. "The only thing I knew then was that I was prepared to succeed in navigating whatever would happen because of Susquehanna University," he told the current crop of students. "And I continue to know that today."
The value of a Susquehanna education will continue to increase in the years ahead, and the contributions of our alumni as citizen leaders will be ever greater. Working prudently and thoughtfully together and keeping a fundamental focus on our students, we will find our way through this fiscal storm with a newly forged strength.


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A Friend is that fellow
that touches you with so much love
that all you can do is just follow
and look up to like the stars above
A Friend is that person
that knows your every worth
and bestows every blessing
even though you've been uncouth
A Friend, oh, how pleasant is he!
your heart leaps for joy at the sight of him
you wish and wish, to always be
wherever the rays of his friendship beam
A Friend is a person who takes to you
not for money, nor for gain,
nor to take you as a fool
he shares in your every pang and pain
A Friend is like diamonds, so precious
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Local Cops Bust New York Thieves in $400K Counterfeit Retail Receipt Scheme
Once, on an order to send more clothes for illegal returns, Millsaps stole $60,000 of clothing and other items during a two- to three-week period.
The U.S. Attorney's Office says Millsaps typically stole at least $5,000 within three days. She also stole receipt tape and proprietal store information from retailers, such as Ann Taylor.
See also: St. Louis Man Busted with $1 Million Worth of Counterfeit Merchandise
Leo Lewis, 33, recruited Estes and helped mail stolen goods to Davis, according to the attorney's office. In Davis' St. Louis hotel rooms, police found receipts from wire transfers to Millsaps and Lewis.
On Monday, the court sentenced the group to a collective 245 months, or more than 20 years in prison. Davis, of Springfield Gardens, New York, and Millsaps, of Brooklyn, were each sentenced to 87 months. Lewis, of Brooklyn, was sentenced to 41 months. Simpson, of Brooklyn, received 18 months, and Estes, of Brooklyn, was sentenced to a year and a day.
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Janusz Kaminski is a two-time OSCAR® winner who is best known for his many collaborations with Steven Spielberg, including Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, Munich, War Horse and Lincoln. Kaminski's credits also include such memorable films as The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jerry Maguire and How Do You Know.
When Kaminski chooses a project to shoot outside of his collaboration with Spielberg, he is selective. Recently, he brought his keen eye and gift for visual storytelling to The Judge, a feature film for director David Dobkin. The film opened the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
When a sample film clip on screen drew a collective, audible gasp in the screening room, director of photography Russ Alsobrook, ASC knew he would be shooting the comedy Tammy on KODAK Film. The cinematographer and the film's principals had been at Burbank-based lab/post house FotoKem during preproduction doing digital versus film origination comparisons.
"It's like we've forgotten how great film looks when you see it in comparison," Alsobrook remarks. "We looked at each other, and it was a done deal. There was no question we were going to shoot fi lm. It has a rich, creamy look to it that you just can't get any other way."
Super 16mm was always the optimal format for Ping Pong Summer, according to writer/director Michael Tully's Sundance-premiering feature about a family vacation in the summer of 1985. He and director of photography Wyatt Garfield wanted to make sure they weren't making fun of the '80s, but rather wanted it to feel like an actual movie from their childhoods.
"We were going for a sincere take on the bizarre, indulgent aspects of the 1980s," says Garfield. "We wanted to embrace the colors of that decade, but we knew that if we shot it digitally all those colors would come through too saturated, and it would quickly become a contemporary, synthetic homage. We relied on film to contain and soften all the saturated colors and keep the palette nostalgic."
In Edge of Tomorrow, Tom Cruise's character endures an experience reminiscent of Groundhog Day. He relives his dying day over and over, hoping to eventually gain the skill and smarts to break the loop and conquer his enemies. But the similarities end there. In Edge of Tomorrow, the world is a high-tech yet recognizable future where human soldiers equipped with robotic suits must fight off invading aliens.
Oscar®-winning cinematographer Dion Beebe, ASC, ACS (Chicago, Collateral, Memoirs of a Geisha, Land of the Lost, Green Lantern, Nine, Gangster Squad) had previously worked with director Doug Liman (Swingers, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Jumpers, The Bourne Identity) on a few commercials, but never on a project of this scale. They worked toward a visual strategy through careful preproduction testing.
On an expansive rural ranch, director Andrew Renzi stood before the majestic Montana landscape to capture a serene study of the cycle of life for the documentary Fishtail. Rancher Tylee Abbott runs a full head of cattle here. Abbott is also a Western American art dealer. It's in his blood — he is kin to painter William Tylee Ranney, whose brush strokes immortalized old trappers, wide prairies and landscapes.
"I have a lot of love and appreciation for that way of life," says Renzi, who in his youth worked on Abbott's ranch during summers. "Tylee and I came together with this idea of doing a contemporary re-appropriation of traditional Western American art into the film medium. I wanted to make a documentary that was observational and sort of ethereal through exploring subject matter, like the birthing of cows, to give us a sense of life cycle rather than have it be strictly procedural about what people do on a ranch. It is something we hope that people can soak in and surrender to its pace."
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Record-setting 9m iPhone 5s and 5c sales in opening weekend
Apple sold nine million new iPhones in its opening weekend, the company has announced this morning, setting a new record for the iOS smartphone. The exact sales split between the flagship iPhone 5s and the plastic-bodied iPhone 5c has not been detailed, but Apple confirms the initial supplies of the iPhone 5s have been exhausted, including the coveted gold model. Meanwhile, iOS 7 updates have also set a record.


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It is the dream of many business to see some growth some time after inception. It is also the dream of most businesses that when the growth starts, it will be sustained so that it does not regress. The management and maintenance of this growth can be tricky especially if the company is not ready or does not know how to handle it.
Get a team that can handle the growth
Growth can only be handled in one way in order for it to be sustained: being nurtured by a team of experts that is adept with growth and knows how to deal and take care of it. The first step that you ought to take when you see your company starting to grow is to get a team that is going to handle the growth. This includes managers for new departments and employees who are competent enough to handle the status that the company is going to attain after the growth process.
Place money where it is needed
One thing about growth is that is calls for expansion. This is so that the business can reach new clients who are going to help accelerate and sustain the growth. In order to do this, a company must put money into its expansion. This money might be used to acquire new office space or new employees. All in all, the financial managers must be able to see where money is needed most and channel it in that direction.
Ensure that employees are in line with the new status
One of the challenges that businesses which are growing face is employees being left behind as the company grows. Some employees might not know the way they ought to conduct themselves or carry out their duties in light of new developments. In managing the growth of a business, a manager or CEO should advice the human relations department to ensure that employees go hand in hand with the growth.
This may mean advising them on how to tighten ethics and how to behave and carry themselves after the growth of the company is done. The human relations department should also advise the staff and let them know how they ought to treat clients after the growth of the company so as to be in compliance with the status attained after the growth.
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It's a beautiful, drizzly day in San Diego and I'm feeling a bit more introspective, so I figured I sit down and share a little bit of what has been on my mind. When I don't do this, I think the rumor mill kicks into overdrive. Too many of my faithful (though much appreciated) followers have very overactive imaginations!
First of all, I'm fine. The worst of it these days is the amount of time I have been spending alone. When I returned home from Seattle I only had 12 hours with Papi before he had to return to New Mexico. He's overseeing Thoroughbred racing out there. He works 6 days a week. I stayed behind to run the company from home & catch up on some business missed while I was shooting Judas Kiss. It's been more than 2 months since we've spent any quality time together. Maintaining a long distance relationship puts a lot of strain on two lovers. It's been tough.
Some time ago we entered into a dispute with our landlord where we share a home together in San Diego. The dispute stemmed from a verbal agreement we had arranged with him to begin paying rent on the 10th of each month, in place of the first. Three months after the arrangement, the old goat asked us to move because we were late on rent 3 months in a row. He's so out there all the time I'm not surprised he didn't remember. In a written declaration Paul and I accounted for every last dollar that we put into upgrades on the property. It amounted nearly $4,000 and the landlord refused to pay it – so we've entered into a legal dispute. While Paul is away I've been looking for a new home & preparing to move the life we've built together. This is a task I must admit I am not anticipating. While Paul and I never believed we were going to stay in this place forever, we weren't prepared to abandon all the money and energy we had invested in it right away, either.
Paul and I have discussed very openly about moving out to New Mexico for the duration of the racing season. The cost of living is more manageable and they get four seasons since it's the high desert. I have to be honest, a real fall and a real winter sounds quite appealing. I know, you think I'm crazy for admitting this out loud to you right now. Another great reason for moving is the opportunity for me. I'll get a chance to be around the horses and I've been offered some work breezing/exercising racehorses. This to me is a dream job! When I was a young boy I wanted to be a jockey. No, I don't want to be one now (I'm actually too big, believe it or not!). But, working around them is the next best thing. Don't worry, I have great health insurance. I know how crazy those animals are. So the plan is to go to New Mexico for the end of the season, then on to El Paso for 4 months of racing there, and then back to New Mexico where the season starts back up again. I know. El Paso? I don't care where I am as long as I'm around the horses. A dream job is still a dream job – even if it's in Ugly Ass West Texas. No offense if you live in West Texas. I can pretty much run my company from anywhere. I'll still be HERE when I'm there.
So, if you're a member of my website you know I haven't been filming too much at all in the last year. I've avoided opening dialog about why this is for so long because I didn't want to seal anything in writing. My feelings about working in front of the camera have changed a lot. What was once effortless and natural for me has become somewhat of a chore. So I've resigned to taking some time off over the last year or so. It hasn't been until recently that I have felt that itch again. Also, something should be said for the relationship I have been in. Out of respect for my lover, Paul, I've also kept things on the quieter side regarding my work as an adult star. I'll say it again, I'm not retiring! Just slowing down. Quality over quantity, always! Besides, I know for a fact that you'd rather see me on my A game or not see me at all, right?
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I've been lightly casting for some new adult projects in the works. You can apply to come be a part of this and other projects here: Fill out a Model Application. I am focusing very closely on this next project because I want everything to be as close to perfect as possible. I'm also evolving the kind of models I want to work with & around. I want to go more college-age with it. Fewer skinny, bony ass twinks – more studly, jocky young men. Personally, it's what I like more, and if I'm going to shoot some new work I want to be just as turned on as the rest of you are!
I'm still trudging along on my book. I've recently opened dialog with some friends of mine about developing a one man show for a small stage in Los Angeles. I know, we've been here before. Some things work, most things don't. Previously when we set out to develop The Masseur our main obstacle was finding the other actor that was comfortable working with me on stage. Theatre doesn't pay much anyway and I got the sense that the risk of working with a gay porn star was not worth it to any of the actors fit for the role. The other actor had to be many things (masculine, very well built, and convincing as a married, closeted gay man) – these things, quite honestly, were not easy to find in many actors comfortable playing that type of role. Eventually we abandoned our efforts because it was looking more and more bleak. At one point, we even entertained the idea of having Paul play the other character opposite of me. Paul, though I love him dearly, wasn't right for the role, either.
I actually did a video blog entry after finishing filming Judas Kiss, but when it ran 16+ minutes long YouTube rejected the clip. It wasn't until recently that I learned that YouTube doesn't allow videos more than 10 minutes (fact check? That's just something a friend told me). Upon watching it again I was thinking I'd just redo it. However, I'm a strong believer in the "power of the moment" and what is revealed regarding feelings or thoughts at the time. I'm frustrated at the quality of this video. I think from now on I am going to film with my Canon Vixia, upload to my editing bay, and do it the long way. It's much more labor intensive, but the quality is leaps and bounds above what you see here. Blah, I need a tan. I know:
Lots of other new things coming! I'm doing a video collaboration with web personality and blogger Randy Rainbow, as well as an ALL NEW Brent Corrigan solo to be added to the VIP section.
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(Huffington Post)- Her hips certainly do not lie.
Mikel Ruffinelli, 39, a 420-pound woman with an eight-foot circumference, set the new world record for World's Largest Hips, according to the World Record Academy.
The mother of four, of Los Angeles, Calif., stands at just five-foot-four, has a proportionally small 40-inch waist, and is completely content with her shape, the Daily Mail reported.
"I see no reason to diet because I don't have health problems," Mikel said. "Men don't fancy skinny girls, they like an hourglass figure."
Ruffinelli's husband, Reggie Brooks, and she have been married for 10 years. "She had a sweet disposition about her that really attracted me to her," Brooks told Barcroft TV. "I like to tell people all the time, 'I have a license to work with heavy equipment,'"
Still, Ruffinelli's 100-inch wide hips makes everyday tasks difficult. According to the World Record Academy, the plus-size model must drive a truck and use a reinforced chair at home to accomodate her frame. She also struggles with fitting through door entrances and sleeps in a 7-foot-wide bed, Closer reported.
Ruffinelli first began gaining weight when she was 22, after having her first child.
"I put it down to my pregnancies," she said. "I don't see why else the weight would go to my hips, although, I do eat lots." "Lots" includes nearly 3,000 calories a day.
"In the past, I was self-conscious about my hips," Ruffinelli said. "As I got older, I learned to love my body and now I'm not afraid to show it off."
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If people tell you that the house music at Pink Elephant is out of this world, they mean it—a NASA engineer installed the club's high-tech sound system. The space has been known to attract big-name DJs like Paul Oakenfold and Roger Sanchez and famous revelers like Keith Richards, Bridget Moynahan and Bruce Willis.


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More species are moving closer to extinction each year, with one fifth of the world's vertebrates under threat, but this would be even worse without conservation activities, according to a large-scale study published in the journal Science and launched today at the global biodiversity conference in Nagoya, Japan.
The black-footed ferret, Mustela nigripes, in the United States was extinct in the wild but has been reintroduced. © Wendy Shattil and Bob Rozinski
An international team of 3,000 scientists, including David Gower and Mark Wilkinson at the Natural History Museum, studied 25,000 of the world's endangered vertebrates.
The researchers looked at species categorised as Vulnerable, Endangered and Critically Endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List, the widely accepted standard for assessing species' global risk of extinction.
They investigated how a species' status changed over time and found that more than 50 species of birds, mammals and amphibians moved one category closer to extinction each year.
This rate of deterioration would have been 20% more in the absence of conservation activities. But these actions are outweighed by the scale of threats causing biodiversity loss, such as agricultural expansion, logging, over-exploitation, and invasive alien species.
Out of 928 cases where the status of a species changed enough to move it to a new Red List category, 68 (7%) improved in status. 64 of these were due to conservation efforts.
The Przewalski's horse, Equus ferus, was extinct in the wild and then reintroduced back to its Mongolian habitat © David Blank
Conservation prevented the equivalent of 39 species of birds (between 1998 and 2008) and 29 mammals (between 1996 and 2008) from moving one category closer to extinction.
In fact 3 species that were in the category Extinct in the Wild have since been reintroduced back to nature: the California condor, the black-footed ferret in the United States, and the Przewalski's horse in Mongolia.
'This is clear evidence for why we absolutely must emerge from Nagoya with a strategic plan of action to direct our efforts for biodiversity in the coming decade,' says Julia Marton-Lefèvre, Director General of IUCN.
Officials from 193 countries are attending the last week of the 10th Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (COP10) to discuss how to better protect nature.
The study revealed that conservation efforts have been particularly successful at combating invasive alien species on islands.
For example captive breeding, reintroduction and control of introduced animals like cats and rats have helped species such as the Seychelles magpie-robin make a comeback from less than 15 birds in 1965 to 180 in 2006.
On Mauritius, the status of 6 bird species has improved, including the Mauritius kestrel whose population has increased from just 4 birds in 1974 to nearly 1,000.
Mallorcan midwife toad. 41% of amphibian species are threatened and in the IUCN Red List. © Dr Richard A Griffiths
The research figures underestimate the impact of conservation activities, the team says. For example, as the black stilt bird remained in the Critically Endangered category it would not have been highlighted in the study. But this species would have gone extinct without predator control and its reintroduction.
Also, 9% of mammals, birds and amphibians classified as Threatened or Near Threatened have stable or increasing populations largely due to conservation efforts, but more time is needed for this to translate into an improved category status.
Museum amphibian expert David Gower comments, 'This study demonstrates that conservation can have a life saving impact on endangered species but also makes quite clear how much more needs to be done.'
Amphibians are in an especially bad situation. 41% of amphibian species are threatened. Their high risk is increasingly blamed on the deadly infectious chytrid fungus disease, and conservation attention given to amphibians is low. Of the 68 cases in the study that had their status improved, only 4 were amphibians.
The team's calculations found that between 1980 and 2004 the equivalent of 662 amphibian species moved one Red List category closer to extinction.
However, international efforts are starting to take effect. For example a captive breeding programme is due to reintroduce the Kihansi spray toad back into the wild in Tanzania, after its waterfall habitat was drastically changed in 2000.
The study highlights Southeast Asia as the area of the world that has had the most dramatic recent losses. These were largely driven by the planting of export crops like oil palm and commercial hardwood timber, agriculture conversion to rice paddies, and unsustainable hunting.
16% of the species studied have become extinct including 2 birds, the kamao from Hawaii and alaotra grebe from Madagascar, and at least 9 amphibians between 1980 and 2000 but possibly 95 more.
During the reporting period between 1996 and 2008, no mammals were listed as extinct. However, the Yangtze River dolphin became functionally extinct in 2006 when researchers were unable to find any living dolphins. The team says that if this is confirmed, it would be the first large vertebrate species extinction since the Caribbean monk seal in the 1950s.
The reasons for the dolphin's extinction are cited as incidental capture in fisheries, interaction with river traffic, pollution, and environmental degradation.
Fisheries have had a worse effect on marine birds than marine mammals, with the population of 10 bird species deteriorating and none improving. Slow-breeding albatrosses and petrels have suffered declines as a consequence of increasing incidental by-catch from growth of commercial fisheries, particularly long-line and trawling. Some legislative tools have recently been put in place and may yet bring results.
The team also looked at some invertebrates and plants and found that the level of threat was 32% for freshwater crayfish, 33% for reef-building corals and a huge 63% for cycads, the most ancient group of seed plants alive today.
Museum amphibian expert Mark Wilkinson comments on species still to be discovered. 'For many components of the world's biodiversity we are still in a phase of discovery, describing previously unknown species and obtaining information on their distribution and abundance.
'Without such basic taxonomic and ecological work, which is the core business of Museum science, there can be no understanding of the conservation status of these most poorly known (and unknown) species.'
This study shows that despite the failure of global targets to reduce biodiversity loss by 2010, conservation efforts have not been in vain.
However, the team warns that the erosion of biodiversity has reached such dangerous levels that we cannot afford to fail again. They say ambitious targets are needed for 2020, and to meet them will require urgent and concerted action on a greatly expanded scale.


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Iran Khodro Seeks Self-Sufficiency After Peugeot Exit, Fars Says
July 31 (Bloomberg) -- Iran Khodro Co., the country's largest carmaker, can produce most of the parts for the Peugeot 206 model, Fars reported, citing a top company official.
The company is "self-sufficient in producing 90 percent of the parts" for that car, said Hossein Najjari, Iran Khodro's deputy for production affairs, according to the state-run Fars news agency. "Efforts are made to use local suppliers for parts that were previously imported."
PSA Peugeot Citroen suspended sales of car assembly kits to Iran in February, the report said. Locally assembled versions of the Peugeot 405 and 206 models are prevalent in Iran, it said.
U.S., European Union and United Nations sanctions against Iran over its nuclear activities have limited energy, trade and financial interaction with the Persian Gulf nation. Iran rejects U.S. accusations that its nuclear program is a cover for developing atomic weapons and says it's needed for power generation.
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Gossip Girl Season 6 Spoilers: Could Kristen Bell Make a Cameo?
Hey Upper East Siders, might Kristen Bell, voice of Gossip Girl's titular mystery blogger, be making her first-ever onscreen appearance in the series' final sixth season? Pop Sugar recently sat down with the sloth-loving blonde, who addressed whether or not she'll ever walk among Gossip Girl's rich and beautiful.
I certainly would if they asked me. It really depends on how the characters unfold and if they want to villainize someone or give someone the champion stick of being Gossip Girl in the end other than me. Die hard fans know it's me, but I think normal people who watch the show care a lot more about the characters they see every week. There's a lot of variables.
A lot of variables indeed! Could she reveal herself as being The Gossip Girl — or could she appear as an entirely new character? Kristen is right, however, about the fact that her cameo would only be for the die-hard fans — which is why we're so excited!
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In his review of Peter Beinart's book The Crisis of Zionism, Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal offers up what he calls a "harsh" critique. That would be one way to describe it. Devastating would be another.
Stephens eviscerates Beinart's book by highlighting some of its errors, including false claims about the Sasson study (which measured how American Jews feel about U.S. support for Israel); asserting that Israel's blockade shattered Gaza's economy, with 90 percent of Gaza's industrial complex closed in 2008 – even though the source of this claim is a study conducted by the IMF in 2003; relying on incomplete quotes by former Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami; and insisting that the Egyptian leaders who have emerged in Hosni Mubarak's wake have not called for Israel's destruction. (Essam El-Eryah, who heads the Foreign Affairs Committee in the Egyptian Parliament, has said the Arab Spring will "mark the end of the Zionist entity.")
"There's more of this," according to Stephens. "Much more. In fact, the errors in Beinart's book pile up at such a rate that they become almost impossible to track." Stephens then broadens his critique:
Still, the deeper problem isn't that there's so much in Beinart's book that is untrue, but rather so much that is half-true: the accurate quote used in a misleading way; the treatment of highly partisan sources as objective and unobjectionable; the settlement of ferocious debates among historians in a single, dismissive sentence; the one-sided giving—and withholding—of the benefit of the doubt; the "to be sure" and "of course" clauses that do more to erase balance than introduce it. It's a cheap kind of slipperiness that's hard to detect but leaves its stain on nearly every page.
And this:
Beinart is singularly intent on scolding Israel, like an angry ex who has lost all grip on the proportions of the original dispute. To him, no Israeli misdeed is too small that it can't serve as an alibi for Palestinian malfeasance. And no Palestinian crime is so great that it can justify even a moment's pause in Israel's quest to do right by its neighbor.
The book demonstrates "mental slovenliness" and is written with a "spirit of icy contempt and patent insincerity."
None of this is surprising; Beinart's antipathy toward Israel has been in full public view for a while now, and he has made sloppy and stupid arguments before. But to see bad arguments so systematically demolished, and bad faith so systematically exposed, is rare. It's also a genuine public service. That sound you hear is Peter Beinart trying to escape from under the pile of ruin he finds himself.


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On July 1, 2015, new and existing industrial facilities throughout California with stormwater discharges will need a register for coverage under the new California Industrial General Permit (IGP). After 18 years, the...more
Much of land use law involves questions over the breadth of local government powers.
Today, we're looking at a spat between two units of local government: a municipality and a school board. The decision in Gurba v....more
Every summer, warm weather prompts millions to flock to bodies of water. While sunbathers likely give little thought to the source of water in which they frolic, design professionals and builders of public and private...more
Tweaking it right up to the very end, the State Water Resources Control Board finally adopted the new Industrial General Storm Water Permit on April 1, 2014. It has been a long road since the current permit was to have...more
In March, EPA published a new Final Rule that revised a 2009 Final Rule addressing stormwater discharges from its Construction and Development (C&D) point source category. The March revision withdrew the numeric turbidity...more
Stormwater pollution has become an increasingly important problem. Part of the difficulty in solving it is that it's not obvious who should be responsible. Should cash-strapped municipalities be on the hook or should it be...more
On April 1, 2014, the California State Water Resources Control Board ("State Board") unanimously adopted a new Industrial Storm Water permit (2014 Permit). You can find the new Industrial Storm Water permit and supporting...more
Continuing on the stormwater theme I began in my last post, the next topic I intend to cover is EPA's so-called "residual" authority under the Clean Water Act. The statute specifically requires stormwater permits for...more
On April 1, 2014, after 12 years of drafts, public comments and deliberations, the California State Water Resources Control Board ("State Board") adopted a new General Industrial Storm Water Permit ("General Permit"), which...more
The Washington Department of Ecology is in the process of renewing the current Industrial Stormwater General Permit (ISGP), which is set to expire on January 1, 2015. Current permit holders will need to reapply for continued...more
The California State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) recently notified the public that it will consider for adoption the final draft of the general NPDES permit that regulates storm water discharges associated...more
It has been more than 40 years since Congress created the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) in the 1972 Clean Water Act. Yet, confusion remains about which activities and discharges actually require...more
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Lake Croissant
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A man jumped off the dock into the crystal blue, glacially carved waters of Lake Crescent and when asked how the water was, he replied: "Like butter."
Like butter on a croissant, Lake Crescent in the Olympic National Park, just 17 miles from Port Angeles, on the Olympic Peninsula, is one of my most favorite spots on earth. Perhaps because of its brilliant blue waters and extraordinary clarity (caused by a lack of nitrogen in the water, which stunts the algae growth), perhaps because we make the ritual pilgrimage each time we visit my in-laws in Sequim, Washington. When we round the bend to the lake, my husband says in his best Inspector Clouseau accent "Lake Croissant!" Continue reading »
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Avid Archers
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Katniss from The Hunger Games, Hawkeye from The Avengers and London's 2012 Olympic Archery Competition have all given the ancient sport of archery a jolt. Kids and adults across the country are smitten with the idea of using a bow to shoot an arrow.
A recent New York Times Fashion & Style article explores the trajectory of the sport given the cultural craze. From Staten Island to San Francisco, sales of kid-size recurve bows have more than quadrupled this year!
Whether you have a Robin Hood fan, a small Cossack (a kid into ancient weaponry) or you just love fun, free, urban family activities, you've got to check out the Golden Gate Park Archery Range in San Francisco when you're visiting the city. It's a beautiful and well-maintained piece of park real estate, near the beach. It's easy to park and accessible by public transportation. It's always open for folks with their own archery equipment. If you're looking to try it out as an activity, you can swing by the nearby Archery Pro Shop, where you can sign up for lessons, rent or buy bows or investigate other equipment. You can also buy bows and arrows on-line. Continue reading »
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This morning as I read my New York Times, I noticed a full page ad for a Harry Potter contest to coincide with the release of the latest film in the series. My sons are such big fans and it seemed like a fun exercise to have them enter.
Getting sucked into a series of books can be a marvelous experience. You become so invested, almost intimate with the characters. Much to my surprise, I am completely taken by Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and have been burning the midnight oil as I gallop through the three books. I keep putting the reins on my reading because I don't want it to end.
This summer, on a trip to the Pacific Northwest's Olympic Peninsula, I insisted we take a 50-mile detour to visit Forks, Washington, home of the Twilight saga. Twilight is a series of four vampire, teen romance novels by Stephenie Meyer. It follows a teenage girl, named Bella, who moves to Forks, Washington and falls in love with a 104-year-old vampire named Edward Cullen.
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Brewed Awakenings
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The Seattle area coffee is legendary. The birthplace of Starbucks has created a revolution in America, and I for one am indebted to the place. I used to cherish my NY Greek coffee-shop, take-out cup of Joe, but now I am somewhat of a coffee snob.
Brewed Awakenings, Roundup a Latte, Grounds for Perfection, Espresso Yourself and Mocha Motion are just a few of the catchy/kitschy names for coffee shops on Washington's Olympic Peninsula. I love coffee, but more, I love the ritual of coffee and am a sucker for the drive-through. It's still novel to me and is a treat every time. Continue reading »
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A battle-weary LT. Col
Evans Carlson, USMC, back onboard
"Carlson's Raiders" at Makin Atoll
by Edward C. Whitman
After the Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway brought a halt to the Japanese advance into the central and southern Pacific in mid-1942, the Allies were keen to seize the initiative and strike back. Since securing the eastern approaches to Australia remained a key imperative, the threat to Port Moresby from a southerly, overland thrust across Papua, with covering support from Japanese bases in the eastern Solomons, suggested a counter-move in that direction. The Allied high command was particularly concerned about the tenacious Japanese seaplane base at Tulagi and positively alarmed by an enemy initiative to build a new airstrip on Guadalcanal in late June. These developments provided the impetus for the first American offensive of the Pacific war, the amphibious assault on Guadalcanal and Tulagi by U.S. Marines on 7 August 1942.
Guadalcanal was not fully secured until February 1943, and a key theme of the Solomons campaign was the seesaw struggle between the two sides to prevent the Japanese from reinforcing their island garrisons. Thus, to distract the Japanese resupply effort, Admiral Nimitz ordered a diversionary raid on Makin Atoll in the Gilbert Islands over 1000 miles to the northeast. The Gilbert Islands had been a British colony since 1915, but the Japanese occupied them early in the war, established an auxiliary seaplane base on Makin's largest island, Butaritari, and installed a small garrison to defend it - 43 Japanese soldiers under the command of Sergeant Major Kanemitsu.
Selected to make the attack in mid-August 1942 were Companies A and B of the Marine Corps' 2nd Raider Battalion - "Carlson's Raiders" - under then-Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carlson, USMC. Carlson and his men were to be transported from Pearl Harbor to Makin onboard two large submarines, USS Nautilus (SS-168) and USS Argonaut (SS-166), and their objective was to destroy enemy installations, gather information, and divert Japanese attention from the Solomons.
Argonaut and Nautilus and were both unusual boats. [Ed. Note: See accompanying sidebar.] Laid down originally as V-4 and V-6, respectively, the two submarines were second-generation members of the V class, conceived originally in the years after World War I as "fleet submarines" with sufficient speed and endurance to enable them to operate with the battle fleet. In the mid-1920s, the fleet submarine idea metamorphosed into the long-endurance submarine "cruiser," and the V-class design changed accordingly. V-4 and V-6 were thus very large ships for that time, with displacement in excess of 2,700 tons surfaced - 4,000 tons submerged - and an overall length of approximately 375 feet. Built originally as a minelayer, V-4 was commissioned in April 1928, but later re-named USS Argonaut and redesignated, successively, SM-1 and SS-166. V-6 was commissioned in July 1930 but renamed USS Nautilus a year later. Both were armed with two 6-inch deck guns and had been converted in the months preceding the raid to troop-carrying submarines by removing all torpedoes except those in the tubes and installing tiers of wooden bunks.
The Makin raid was intended to draw Japanese forces away from the American attack on Guadalcanal in August 1942.
Carlson's Raiders landed near the Japanese seaplane base on Butaritari, the largest island of Makin Atoll.
Similarly, Carlson was an unusual officer. He lied about his age to enlist in the Army in the First World War and won a commission, but he arrived in Europe too late to see combat. Finding civilian life uncongenial, he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1922, earned a second commission, fought guerillas in Nicaragua, and spent several tours in China. During the last of these, in 1937, he was an eye-witness to the Japanese takeover of Shanghai, and - detailed as an observer - he accompanied the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army in their battles with the invader. During this time, he developed his own distinctive ideas about guerilla warfare, small-unit operations, and the importance of ethical indoctrination for cohesion in combat. Eventually moved to resign his commission because of his impolitic - but strongly-expressed - view that the United States should aid China in resisting the Japanese, he spent two years speaking and writing on the subject, until six months before Pearl Harbor when he was permitted to rejoin the Corps as a major. Ten months later - amid some controversy within headquarters - he created the 2nd Raider Battalion, adopting as his unit's motto the Chinese phrase, "Gung Ho" - meaning roughly, "work together."
Nautilus and Argonaut departed Pearl Harbor in great secrecy on 8 August 1942 and proceeded separately to the Makin Atoll. In command of Nautilus was LCDR John Brockman, and commanding Argonaut was LCDR Jack Pierce, with the task force commander, CDR John Haines, riding the former. Between them, the two boats carried 211 Marines - 13 officers and 198 men - with 90 on Nautilus and 121 on Argonaut, all in addition to the ships' crews. With so many men and their equipment crammed into so little space, living conditions for the eight-day transit were barely tolerable. Crowding was so severe that the troops could do little more than stay in their bunks except for brief exercise periods on deck. Ventilation was inadequate, the heat and smell were stifling, and seasickness took a heavy toll. Even so, with so many mouths to feed, the galleys had to work around the clock to keep up.
Nautilus arrived off Makin early on 16 August, and spent most of the daylight hours in periscope reconnaissance. After rendezvousing with Argonaut at dusk, Haines ordered preparations to disembark the Marines in their rubber boats at 0300 the next morning. The initial plan called for landing at two points on the seaward side of narrow Butaritari Island, about five miles northeast of Ukiangong Point and just opposite the principal settlement, which faced the lagoon.
Despite repeated practice in Hawaii, the disembarkation quickly deteriorated into confusion. The effects of the swell on both the submarines and the rubber boats, the noise of the surf, and the need to transfer some of the Nautilus' troops into the Argonaut's boats all conspired against Carlson's original scheme for two separate landings, and he ordered all of his forces to head for the same spot. In the event, despite the swamping of many of their outboard motors, 18 of the 19 boats made it to shore near the intended location by 0500 on 17 August. The remaining unit, which had not received word of the change in plans, landed a mile to the southwest.
In the week before Carlson's raid, Sergeant Major Kanemitsu had not been idle. In response to a general alert from the Japanese high command, he had been preparing defensive positions - machine gun nests and sniper posts - and drilling his small garrison. Thus, he was not entirely surprised when fighting broke out soon after Carlson's men came ashore quietly on the morning of the 17th. (One account notes that it was the accidental discharge of one of the Marines' rifles that gave the alert.) Moving rapidly, Carlson's advance guard succeeded in reaching the opposite shore, seizing a building, and advancing along the island to the southwest, where an enemy radio station was located on a pier in the lagoon. Japanese resistance soon stiffened, however, with soldiers arriving on both bicycles and trucks and snipers engaging the Americans from the tops of many of the coconut palm trees.
At this point, Carlson called for gunfire support from the submarines lying offshore, and although Argonaut never received the message, Nautilus put her big 6-inch guns to good use bombarding Japanese positions toward Ukiangong Point. When the Marines ashore spotted a small transport and a patrol boat heading southward in the lagoon, Nautilus shifted fire to them, and even though shooting practically blind with only minimal spotting, managed to sink both.
At mid-morning, with Kanemitsu's men hotly
contesting the Marine advance, an enemy reconnaissance aircraft appeared,
forcing both submarines to submerge. Then, around noon, the Japanese organized
several aerial attacks, the second of which bombed
In the late afternoon, Carlson began a deliberate withdrawal back to the original landing site and launched his boats at 1900 for a return to the sea. Since morning, however, the surf had kicked up considerably, and with their outboard motors repeatedly swamped, relatively few of the boats could make it out through the breakers. Many capsized, equipment was lost, and most of the Marines were cast back onto the beach. All told, fewer than 100 - in seven boats - made it back to the submarines that night. This left half the force, including four stretcher cases, on the hostile shore.
The next morning, after only a brief skirmish with a Japanese patrol during the night, Carlson's Executive Officer, Major James Roosevelt, USMCR, son of the President, led four more boats out through the surf to the submarines waiting offshore. Nautilus manned up a boat with five Marine volunteers and attempted to send it to the beach with a line for pulling the remaining boats out to sea. Unfortunately, a Japanese aircraft forced both submarines under and strafed the boat, and it - and the volunteers - were never seen again. Further debarkation efforts were put off until nightfall on the 18th, but it emerged in the interim that except for the dead - surprisingly - the Japanese had disappeared. The remaining Marines spent the rest of the day searching Kanemitsu's headquarters, collecting intelligence, and wreaking more destruction on the Japanese installations.Then, after dark, four rubber boats were lashed to a native outrigger in the lagoon and sailed out to meet the submarines before midnight. Convinced that all the surviving Marines were on board, the two boats departed for the long return to Pearl Harbor. The thirty men who did not make it back were all assumed to have been killed in action. One of these, Sergeant Clyde Thomason, was the first enlisted Marine to be awarded the Medal of Honor in World War II.
To an American public hungry for good news, the Makin raid was proclaimed a brilliant exploit by the Navy and Marine Corps, and many of the participants were highly decorated, among them Carlson, Roosevelt, and CDR John Haines, who received the Navy Cross. In retrospect, there is little evidence that the attack succeeded in Japanese how tenuously they held the Gilbert Islands, it led directly to subsequent reinforcements that exacted a terrible price from the Marines at Tarawa somewhat over a year later. As part of that same campaign, however, the U.S. Army's 165th Regimental Combat Team wrested Makin from the Japanese on 23 November 1943. Today, Makin Atoll is part of the island nation of Kiribati.
There are a number of other postscripts. Nautilus and Argonaut returned safely to Pearl Harbor, arriving on 25 and 26 August, respectively. Ultimately, Nautilus ended the war with 14 successful war patrols, including several in which she landed troops and supplies for operations similar to the Makin raid. Argonaut was less fortunate. Later in the year, her base of operations was transferred to Brisbane, Australia, and in late December, still under the command of Jack Pierce, she was diverted for a patrol near Bougainville in the northern Solomons. On 10 January 1943, Pierce attacked a heavily-escorted convoy of five freighters. The encounter was seen from a U.S. Army aircraft that happened to be overhead, and it ended tragically with Argonaut, apparently mortally wounded by depth charges, breaking the surface steeply and falling back again. She was lost with all hands.
Despite Carlson's careful withdrawal, nine Marines were, in fact, left alive on Butaritari and captured by the Japanese. They were treated humanely at first and transferred to Kwajalein, with the intention of sending them on to Japan. However, after a murderous change of heart by the Japanese commander of the Marshall Islands, Vice Admiral Kose Abe, they were ceremoniously beheaded on 16 October, despite the objections of several of his officers. After the war, Admiral Abe was convicted of war crimes and hanged at Guam.
After an extensive search in 1998 and 1999 and an ensuing forensic investigation, the remains of 19 Marines killed on Butaritari Island were recovered, identified, and returned to the United States for burial just last year - nearly six decades after their being declared Missing in Action. An additional search effort will now attempt to find the remains of the nine Marines who were executed on Kwajalein, despite the fact that the island has been drastically transformed both by and since the war.
Carlson's Raiders fought again on Guadalcanal, where they operated behind enemy lines for 31 days in November and December 1942, apparently the longest such patrol in the Second World War. Carlson himself left the raiders in 1943 to become the Operations Officer of the 4th Marine Division and participated in the assaults on Tarawa, Kwajalein, and Saipan. He was severely wounded on Saipan dragging his radio operator from the line of fire, retired from the Marine Corps after the war, and died of heart trouble in May 1947. His successes on Makin and Guadalcanal and his seminal ideas on unconventional warfare have left a living legacy in the tradecraft and traditions of our Special Forces today. And the pioneering role of Nautilus and Argonaut in projecting power "...From the Sea" at Makin Atoll during 1942 was a clear forerunner of many of the expeditionary missions for which the U.S. Submarine Force is prepared even now.
Dr. Whitman is the Senior Editor of UNDERSEA WARFARE Magazine.
of the Argonaut and Nautilus
Argonaut and Nautilus were members of the loosely-defined "V" class, which eventually included nine submarines commissioned in the decade following 1924. Because the V-boats were originally conceived shortly after World War I as "fleet submarines" capable of operating with the Navy's battleships, their speed and endurance requirements demanded twice the displacement of earlier U.S. submarine designs. The first three - displacing approximately 2,100 tons and capable of 21 knots on the surface, were authorized in Fiscal Year (FY) 1919 and launched in 1924 and 1925. However, V-4 (later Argonaut) and V-6 (later Nautilus) were only authorized in FY 1925 and FY 1926, respectively, and by then, the growing power of Japan in the Pacific had become a serious strategic problem for the Navy. This factor - and the implications of the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty - created the requirement for long-range submarine "cruisers," or "strategic scouts," as well as long-range minelayers, for which long- endurance, not high speed, was most important. Thus, the next three V-class boats grew in displacement to over 2,700 tons (surfaced) and could only make 15-17 knots, or 8 knots submerged. (For comparison, consider that the later USS Gato (SS-212)-class, work-horse of the Pacific campaign, displaced only 1,525 tons.) Originally, the submarine cruisers were to include a small hangar for a scout aircraft, but that idea was dropped.
USS Argonaut (SS-166) was
designed originally as a minelayer and launched at the Portsmouth (New
Hampshire) Navy Yard in November 1927. On an overall length of 381 feet
and displacing 2,710 tons surfaced and 4,080 submerged, she carried four
21" torpedo tubes forward and two 40" mine-laying tubes aft,
with an elaborate mechanical handling system for moving the mines from
stowage to the launching tracks. Considerable engine room volume was
sacrificed to gain additional mine payload, which resulted in limiting
the main propulsion diesels to a total of 2,800 horsepower, yielding
only 15 knots on the surface. An over-large, under-powered boat, Argonaut
was never entirely successful, but early in the war, she was re-engined
at the Mare Island Navy Yard to increase her main propulsion horsepower
to 3,600 and additionally received two external, aft-firing torpedo
tubes. Then, on the way back to the theater, her mine-laying gear was
stripped out at Pearl Harbor to make room for Carlson's Marines.


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Chanel Mini Glossimer Trios ($50.00) I haven't seen these before, but it looks like they have come out previously. Oh, well, still new to me! Now, this might just get me to go out and buy some Chanel and fast!
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Zakerana Howlader, 2011, Bangladesh Wildl. Bull., 5: 1. Type species: Rana limnocharis syhadrensis Annandale, 1919, by original designation.
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Sri Lanka and the Indian subcontinent west, north, and east to Pakistan, Nepal, and Bangladesh.
Howlader, 2011, Bangladesh Wildl. Bull., 5: 1-7, noted that previous authors found two groups of nominal Fejervarya, not always more closely related to each other than to Sphaerotheca. By recognizing this genus Howlader sought to resolve this problem. See further discussion under the Fejervarya account. Borthakur, Kalita, Hussain, and Sengupta, 2007, Zoos' Print J., 22: 2639-2643, compared the species of Assam, northwest India (as Fejervarya nepalensis, Fejervarya pierrei, Fejervarya syhadrensis, and Fejervarya teraiensis). Sri Lanka: Bopage, Wewelwala, Krvavac, Jovanovic, Safarek, and Pushpamal, 2011, Salamandra, 47: 173-177, reported a population as Fejervarya limnocharis in lowland forest in the Kanneliya Forest of southwestern Sri Lanka, although this is likely referrable to another taxon.
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Jeff Jones - Singer, Songwriter | Acoustic Guitar and Slide Guitar | International Recording Artist
"...His sound, a fusion of rock, blues, and R&B, is a direct reflection of Jones himself. Warm, easygoing, and genuine, he embodies the feeling of the music he makes. With the meatiness of George Thorogood, the grittiness of Chris Robinson, and sultriness of Ben Harper, Jones' sound has real dimension. Live, Jones is a natural. His engaging stage presence alone is proof that he's at ease and confident with who he is as a musician."
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Grey's Anatomy Season 9 Spoilers: More on the Meredith/Cristina Special Episode
As we reported earlier, there will be a special Meredith Grey (Ellen Pompeo)/Cristina (Sandra Oh) episode of Grey's Anatomy in Season 9. Now, Ellen Pompeo is dishing on Meredith's storyline, and how this episode will differ from all the rest.
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So far, we know that the episode will focus only on the (formerly) dark and twisty sisters. As Ellen points out, there is usually at least one Meredith-centric episode per season of Grey's.
"This season, they decided to do Meredith and Cristina to break it up a little bit and just focus on two people," Ellen tells TVLine. "They're individual storylines, but in our own storylines, it's sort of ALL us."
So what's in store for Meredith?
"[Mer] has a super-critical patient," Ellen says. "The underlying subtext of my medical case, as usual, is dealing with issues of like my sister's death. Emotionally, things that I haven't dealt with, I sort of play out through taking care of this patient."
In a way, it's sad to think that Meredith will still be avoiding the emotional aftermath of Lexie's death so far into the season. But, given the recent spoiler that Meredith will become a quasi-Nazi with her new interns in the first few episodes, it sounds like she'll be settling into the anger stage of grief for quite a while, with a bit of denial thrown in for good measure.
As for Cristina's half of the episode, all we know is that her storyline will run parallel to Meredith's — just remember that Cristina will be working her new job at the Mayo Clinic, so the BFFs might not interact very much.
We can't wait!
Grey's Anatomy Season 9 will premiere on Thursday, September 27 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on ABC.
Source: TVLine
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Since 2010, Forest student Gage Stermensky has been on the NAACP's Health Standing Committee. Through his involvement on the committee, the opportunity presented itself for Stermensky to author and submit a grant proposal to the NAACP's national office.
The grant titled "Springfield NAACP H.E.L.P." is targeted at reducing heart disease, diabetes, and obesity in Greene County's African American community. The goal of the grant was to organize three training days for the targeted audience of 100 local youth and 300 of their family members and significant others.
"Through this program, we hope to make a difference and help save lives by teaching health awareness behaviors related to purchasing and preparing healthy meals, increasing physical activity, and increasing community awareness of risk factors," said Stermensky.
Partnerships of the grant project include the Springfield NAACP, the American Heart Association, and the Southwest Missouri Minority Health Alliance.
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Each one of those partnerships will bring different things to the table. The Southwest Missouri Minority Health Alliance will recruit participation into the H.E.L.P. luncheons and educational days at the Bartley-DeCatur Neighborhood Center. The American Heart Association agreed to provide educational pamphlets, handouts, and other resources on "Controlling Your Risk Factors" and "Power to End Stroke." The Springfield NAACP will provide social media and website services to disseminate information about the program.
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With drive time less than 30 minutes from downtown Corpus Christi, this wonderful bakery and café offers authentic German food and baked goods for reasonable prices.
CORPUS CHRISTI - Mother's Day is fast approaching, and mom is becoming tired of the same old restaurants. Spice up this special occasion, and take mom to JB 's German Bakery and Café located on Padre Island.
No matter if she is an early riser or wants to sleep in on her special day, JB 's will be opened on Mother's Day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. Mom can choose breakfast, lunch or dinner. To celebrate Mother's Day, JB 's German Bakery and Cafe is creating heart shaped crème cakes and strawberry cakes with fresh strawberries. Customers may call two days ahead to order these special cakes.
With drive time less than 30 minutes from downtown Corpus Christi, this wonderful bakery and café offers authentic German food and baked goods for reasonable prices.
JB 's German Bakery and Café opened May 2011 and is locally owned and operated by Juergen Kazenmayer and his wife, Brigitte. The couple was so determined to bring the taste of German cooking to South Texas that they imported a two-ton wood-burning oven from Germany. Juergen has 30 years experience as a master baker, and Brigitte operated their bakery in Ostrach, Germany.
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Start the morning off with a ham and cheese croissant with a fruit cup or a German omelet of potato, onion, ham and cheese with toast.
Lunch and dinner entrees are served from 11 a.m. until close with daily specials. On Tuesday order the turkey and Swiss sandwich with German potato soup or a fruit cup. Thursday offers Fleischkuchle (German meat balls) with a side choice: sauerkraut, roasted red potato or German potato salad. Try the Sunday special of Schweinebraten (roasted pork slice) with a side choice.
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The State of the College
Grinnell College President Raynard S. Kington presented a Scholars' Convocation on the State of the College.
Grinnell College President Raynard S. Kington presented a Scholars' Convocation on the State of the College.
Grinnell leadership respects the traditions of the past and is responsive to the needs of current and future students.
Our leadership does not work in a vacuum. Grinnell has a well-earned reputation for open, transparent, respectful discussions about campus issues. Town hall meetings bring together students faculty and the administration to discuss campus wide topics of interest, and strategic plans reflect input from the campus and alumni community.
President Raynard Kington is pleased to announce that Kate Walker will be the next vice president of finance and treasurer of Grinnell College. Walker is currently the assistant vice president of finance for Macalester College, and she will begin work at Grinnell on October 21, 2013.
Walker will succeed Grinnell Vice President and Treasurer Karen Voss, who has for some time been planning her retirement. Voss will assist with the orientation and transition process.
The role of the College's trustees is, and always has been, to assure the "great and lasting good" of Grinnell College. Through their commitment to institutional stewardship, bold financial investments, and prudent management, the trustees have allowed Grinnell to develop its special character as an institution that combines academic quality with a service mission. The College's rich history and strong endowment are a testament to its trustees' decisions, financial acumen, dedication, and faithful service.
When Grinnell College framed its charter in the Iowa Territory of the United States in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for the different professions and for the honorable discharge of the duties of life." The College pursues that mission by providing an education in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas. As a teaching and learning community, the College holds that knowledge is a good to be pursued both for its own sake and for the intellectual, moral, and physical well-being of individuals and of society at large.
The Investment Committee shall be responsible for maintaining a policy of prudent investment in stocks, bonds, real assets, non-marketable securities such as private placements and limited partnerships, and other similar financial instruments, interests and/or securities, subject to the approval of the Board of Trustees.
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I played Everquest in my spare time back in 2001. Still a college student back then, my focus was on school and less on gaming. After I graduated, WoW launched and gave me something new to play (I'm sorry!).
Long story short, I've quit that mess of a game and I am back for some EQ madness. :)
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Susan Smith Blakely, 25-year veteran of law practice and author of Best Friends at the Bar: What Women Need to Know about a Career in the Law (Wolters Kluwer/Aspen Publishers 2009), announced the publication of her new book yesterday, Best Friends at the Bar: The New Balance for Today's Woman Lawyer.
In praise of Blakely's second book on the challenges women face in legal practice, Judith Areen, Professor of Law at the Georgetown University Law Center, says Blakely "understands work-life struggles" in this male-dominated profession and "refuses to accept the inevitability of very low retention rates for women lawyers."
If you're a woman in legal practice, no one needs to tell you that women mentors in the profession's higher ranks are few and far between, and the women sponsors willing to put their professional skin in your career's game are fewer still.
Blakely's new book is the mentor, if not the sponsor you need. It continues the discussion of the low retention rates for women in the law and is full of practical information to assist young women lawyers find the help they need to achieve the balance they want in chapters like:
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City Heat, CCHS's mixed choir won Grand Champion, Best Vocals and Best Choreography in a field of nine competitors at East Noble. This is their second Grand Champion in three competitions.
Hannah Schaefer won her third Grand Champion in the Solo Competition. Her perfect record is understandable as she "wows" the judges with her performance of "Glitter and be Gay" from CANDIDE by Leonard Bernstein.
The high school show choirs travel to Bishop Luers Saturday, March 8 and Shelbyville Saturday, March 15. Both choirs will await their invitation to ISSMA State March 22 at Plainfield High School.


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Holiday World & Splashin' Safari officials in Santa Claus are expecting a record number of applications as they attempt to fill more than 2,000 seasonal positions. Five job fairs will be held beginning February 7 to fill various jobs including admission, lifeguards and rides. The majority of the positions are available to applicants 16 years and older.
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Job seekers may arrive at the park any time during the Job Fairs, which will feature representatives from the park�s various departments, including Admissions, Food & Beverage, Lifeguards, Rides, Games, Sweepers, Merchandise, and more. Applicants may speak with multiple department representatives and then apply to work for one or more departments. Job interviews will be conducted at that time.
The Job Fairs will be held:
Saturday, February 7, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm CST (slow time)
Sunday, February 8, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm CST
Thursday, February 12, 1:00 - 5:00 pm CST
Saturday, February 14, 9:00 am - 12:00 noon CST
A fifth Job Fair will be held in conjunction with the �Making the Cast� musical auditions planned for Friday, February 6, at Owensboro, Kentucky�s Towne Square Mall from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm CST.
First-year employees will earn a base rate of $6.55 to $7.70 an hour. Benefits include: $200-$250 Summer Attendance Reward, automatic 70-cent pay raise in July, personal Season Pass plus one-day tickets, park food and merchandise discounts, free soft drinks, employee parties, weekly incentive programs, and more.
This season, the park will again offer an Employee Transportation Program for seasonal employees who would not otherwise have a ride to work. Available at a nominal fee, bus rides will be offered in Warrick, Vanderburgh and Perry Counties in Indiana, plus Kentucky�s Hancock and Daviess Counties.
Applicants should attend one of the five Job Fairs, keeping in mind positions are often filled on a first-come basis. Parking is available in the main guest parking lot. Job applicants should bring the following: Social Security number, dates of non-availability (days needed off for returning to school, band camp, family vacations, etc.), information about past job experience, plus names and phone numbers of references. A downloadable job application is available online: www.holidayworld.com/jobs.
The majority of the positions are available to applicants 16 years and older by May 2009. Additional jobs require a minimum age of 14 years by May. Applicants must be at least 14 years old on the date of the Job Fair to apply. Retirees and other adults seeking seasonal employment are also encouraged to apply.
Holiday World opens for the season on May 2 with the premiere of Pilgrims Plunge, the world�s tallest water ride; Splashin' Safari opens May 15. For more information about park job opportunities, visit www.holidayworld.com/jobs; please email firstname.lastname@example.com or call 812-937-5252 with any questions.
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Executive Director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement to Visit LIM College
Daisy Khan will talk to students as part of the GlobalSpeak series
On March 27, Daisy Khan, Executive Director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), will speak to students as part of LIM College's GlobalSpeak series. GlobalSpeak events are held at 6:30 p.m. in FashionOpolis in the LIM College Townhouse (12 East 53rd St.).
GlobalSpeak brings people who are actively involved in all types of global issues to the LIM College campus. Events may include guest speakers, panel discussions, and/or film screenings and occur regularly throughout the semester. In addition to Khan, GlobalSpeak events for Spring 2012 include global branding expert Simon Graj (Feb. 28), and Walter J. Dillingham of the Wilimgton Trust (April 3) who will discuss philanthropy and the global economy.
About Daisy Khan
Daisy Khan is Executive Director of the American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), a non-profit organization dedicated to developing an American Muslim identity while building bridges between the Muslim community and general public through dialogues in faith, identity, culture, and arts. Ms. Khan mentors young Muslims on challenges of assimilation, gender, religion and modernity, and intergenerational differences.
In the aftermath of 9/11, Ms. Khan created interfaith programs to emphasize commonalities among the Abrahamic faith traditions, such as a groundbreaking theater titled Same Difference and the interfaith Cordoba Bread Fest. On the 10th anniversary of 9/11, Ms. Khan brought together 300 people of all religions for a night of remembrance. The event, entitled In Good Faith: Stories of Hope and Resilience, highlighted hundreds of bridge-building projects undertaken since 9/11, while also paying tribute to the families of 9/11 victims of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths.
To prioritize the improvement of Muslim-West relations and the advancement of Muslim women globally, Ms. Khan has launched two cutting edge intrafaith programs to spur movement by change agents among the two disempowered majorities of the Muslim world: youth and women. The MLT: Muslim Leaders of Tomorrow and WISE: Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality programs were launched at an international scale in Doha (MLT) and in Malaysia (WISE). Both programs seek to convene, empower, and build networks in their target groups, and to facilitate the emergence of a leadership that speaks with a credible, humane, and equitable voice in the global Muslim community.
Ms. Khan has recently received major national coverage in the media on the recent rise of Islamophobia. In March 2011 Ms. Khan organized a rally called Today I Am a Muslim, Too with a broad coalition of more than 100 interfaith groups to show solidarity with Muslim Americans in the wake of Congressman Peter Kings' congressional hearings. The rally was noted in White House communications and was widely cited as an important retort to King's claims that Muslims are not proactively fighting extremism.
She is also actively lecturing and debating these topics on a global scale. Her appearance on a panel with Christiane Amanpour in 2010 helped shift the narrative on how the media covers Islam in America. In response to the Danish cartoon crisis, she debated with Christopher Hitchens on National Public Radio and moderated a discussion in Denmark between young Muslims and Flemming Rose, the original publisher of the controversial cartoons. In May 2007 Ms. Khan became the first Muslim woman to speak at Thanksgiving Square in Dallas, Texas on the National Day of Prayer.
Ms. Khan frequently comments on important issues in the media, and has appeared on ABC, PBS, BBC World, CNN, Fox News, National Geographic, Al Jazeerah, and the Hallmark Channel. She has also been quoted in several print publications, such as TIME Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Saudi Gazette, The National and Khaleej Times. In July 2007, Ms. Khan appeared on the cover of Newsweek; in the same issue, she co-wrote an article on the symmetry between core Islamic values and the Constitution of the United States.
The recipient of various awards, her most notable ones include The Interfaith Center's Award for Promoting Peace and Interfaith Understanding; Auburn Theological Seminary's Lives of Commitment Award; Hunt Alternatives Prime Movers Award; Women's E-News 21 Leaders for the 21st Century; Jericho High School's Alumni Hall of Fame Award; and the Arab American Support Center's Women Who Inspire Other Women award. In June 2011, she received the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee's 2011 Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award.
Born in Kashmir, India, Ms. Khan spent the first 25 years of her career as an interior architect at various Fortune 500 companies. In 2005, she decided to fully dedicate herself to elevating the discourse on Islam, improving the lives of Muslims and non Muslims globally through ASMA and its sister organization the Cordoba Initiative.