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Now that the presidential elections are over and the dust has settled, there is no better time to take up the issue of broad immigration reform, and no better place to begin than with the DREAM Act.
A bipartisan group of legislators first introduced the bill in Congress more than a decade ago, and we are still awaiting its passage. Like many Americans, they recognized that the would-be beneficiaries, undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as young children and grew up as Americans, are in a position to contribute mightily to our nation socially and economically and should be granted a path to citizenship. I agree.
When immigration rights activist Isabel Castillo accepted an honorary doctorate from USF last year, she was the picture of promise: young, articulate, and educated. At 26, she was also the youngest-ever recipient of the award in university history.
The honorary degree, she says, brought a spike in media attention and interest in her work fighting for the DREAM Act. But in the way that counts the most, nothing much has changed.
"Unfortunately, because I'm undocumented, I still can't work legally," said Castillo, who was born in Mexico and continues to work off the books as a waitress in Harrisonburg, Va., where she has lived since she was 6. "So things are kind of the same in that way."
But so are the courage, determination, and grit for which USF honored her last year. The DREAMer who got arrested and risked deportation for staging a sit-in at Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid's office is as committed as ever to fighting for the DREAM Act.
As an activist, Castillo is visible, vocal, and fearless. She has debated immigration policy with Virginia's governor and shares her story widely. She also works with other activists and lawyers to provide assistance to immigrants facing deportation.
Castillo says the DREAM Act is her best hope for a pathway to citizenship and a chance to fully contribute to the country she's called home since childhood.
Castillo doesn't have that chance despite her stellar academic record. She earned a 4.0 GPA in high school and graduated from college magna cum laude with a degree in social work—while working long hours waiting tables. But without a Social Security number, she couldn't get a job, and her degree was useless.
In June, President Barack Obama created a program that grants eligible DREAMers a two-year work permit and reprieve from deportation. Castillo is "cautiously optimistic" about the program, but she and other immigration reform advocates hope that Congress will ultimately pass a long-term solution like the DREAM Act.
"Our nation's history is replete with civil rights legislation that was initially defeated but ultimately became law," said USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J. "With an advocate such as Isabel Castillo, the University of San Francisco is confident that justice, fairness, and compassion will eventually prevail."
These youths call themselves "DREAMers," and providing them a path to citizenship is in their best interest, and ours as well. They make up a highly educated and potentially high-income earning group that can contribute billions of dollars to the U.S. economy across diverse industries. A study by the UCLA North American Integration and Development Center estimates they would earn between $1.4 and $3.6 trillion over the course of their working lives.
A larger supply of skilled students would also increase U.S. global competitiveness in science, technology, medicine, education, and many other fields. The Congressional Budget Office concluded in 2010 that the productivity of DREAMers would help reduce the U.S. deficit by $1.4 to $2.2 billion between 2011-20.
Catholic leaders across the country also support the legislation. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called on all Catholics to support the bill through prayer and education, because allowing everyone to reach their God-given potential is fundamental to promoting the common good.
Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, chairman of the U.S. Bishops' Committee on Migration, describes the DREAM Act as "a practical, fair, and compassionate solution for thousands of young persons" who should be rewarded for their hard work and motivation. "Those who would benefit," he offered, "are talented, intelligent, and dedicated young persons… They can become some of the future leaders of our country, provided we are wise enough to provide them the opportunity to pursue their dreams."
In 2011, USF President Stephen A. Privett, S.J., awarded an honorary doctoral degree to Isabel Castillo, a young DREAMer who couldn't get a job despite graduating from college magna cum laude, and from high school with a 4.0 GPA. (See sidebar). This is a terrible waste of talent, the kind that could give our country a competitive edge.
Many want DREAMers removed from American public schools, but that is a mistake. I'm reminded of the important words of the Supreme Court in its 1982 case, Plyler v. Doe, which struck down legislation that denied public school access to undocumented youth:
"[M]any of the undocumented children disabled by this classification will remain in this country indefinitely, and …some will become lawful residents or citizens of the United States. It is difficult to understand precisely what the State hopes to achieve by promoting the creation and perpetuation of a subclass of illiterates within our boundaries, surely adding to the problems and costs of unemployment, welfare, and crime. It is thus clear that whatever savings might be achieved by denying these children an education, they are wholly insubstantial in light of the costs involved to these children, the State, and the Nation."
DREAMers are in the U.S. because their parents also have a dream: to make an honest living for an honest day's work, to put food on the table, to be part of a safe community, to instill strong family values, and to send their children to school in hopes of a better tomorrow. This deserves our respect. This is what we all want.
In one positive move, President Barack Obama issued an executive order in June that granted eligible DREAMers a two-year reprieve from deportation and temporary work permits. While this is a step in the right direction, it is a temporary fix. We need a long-term solution.
That solution, the DREAM Act, seemingly faces a substantial political challenge. It occupies a tenuous middle ground: some accuse it of being too limited in scope, while others charge that it is too far-reaching, essentially amounting to an "amnesty." But one post-election analysis after another concludes that Latino voters contributed greatly to President Obama's re-election and that Republicans would be smart to tone down their anti-immigrant rhetoric in the future. If that's the case, then the DREAM Act presents the perfect opening.
With the election over, the time has come to cast the bickering aside. The DREAM Act has enjoyed broad bipartisan support in the past, and there are ample moral and economic imperatives for all members of Congress to finally do the right thing. The vast majority of Americans not only understand the value that immigrants bring to our shores but also believe that our energy is better spent pursuing reasonable approaches.
We will be better as a civil society for passing the DREAM Act.
Bill Ong Hing is a professor in the School of Law and the founder of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. He serves as chair of the San Francisco Immigrant Rights Commission.
What is the DREAM Act?
The DREAM Act (Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors) could provide a path to lawful, permanent residency and eventual U.S. citizenship for undocumented youth who satisfy the following requirements: They must be 31 or younger, have lived in the U.S. for at least five years (continuously) prior to the bill's enactment, have arrived in the U.S. as minors, be graduates of a U.S. high school, serve two years in the military or complete at least two years at a four-year college, and have "good moral character."
The Migration Policy Institute estimates the law could affect 1.76 million DREAMers.


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The FDA is warning that a procedure in which an electronically powered device is used to grind up and remove uterine growths, saying that the procedure carries a risk of inadvertently spreading an undetected cancer to other parts of the body. More from The Associated Press:
Known as laparoscopic power morcellation, the technique is used to treat painful fibroids, either by removing the growths themselves or the entire uterus.
The procedure was developed as a less invasive alternative to traditional surgery.
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Loris Baz says he didn't want to 'make a stupid mistake' in trying to overtake Tom Sykes towards the end of the second World Superbike race at Misano, but was otherwise pleased with his run to the top eight.
The Frenchman came into the weekend on a high having been offered a full-time ride with Kawasaki to the end of the season and duly celebrated by proving a top ten contender during free practice and qualifying.
Going on to secure 11th on the grid, though Baz's hopes of points in race one were ruined by a technical problem, he made good gains in the second race to be dicing with his pole sitting team-mate Sykes and Michel Fabrizio in the closing stages.
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Looking at the websites of these organics companies anyone would be led to believe that the color is derived of nuts and berries and made in grandmas kitchen. As a consumer you are not permitted in the professional areas that explain the ingredients in detail. You must be a registered cosmetologist to enter the site. So I checked it out for you.
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Building Flockwork: Making music with Laurent Apffel
This is part of a series of articles looking behind the scenes at our iPad puzzle game Flockwork. If you've downloaded the game or watched the trailer you'll be familiar with the great music and sound effects in the game.
All the music and sound effects were created by Laurent Apffel. Laurent is French and was born and raised in Paris, though he's spent years on both coasts of the U.S and currently lives in Santiago, Chile.
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Laurent is a composer/producer for all things visual and interactive with over 10 years of experience. His main passion is film scoring, Laurent has had the opportunity to work in Hollywood, CA where he contributed to various film and tv projects. Find out more about Laurent at http://www.LenzMusic.com - and to see his work in action, download Flockwork or Flockwork Free!
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Two weeks ago we launched a 'sheep counter' in our iPad puzzle game Flockwork, as we counted down to a big milestone. We're pleased to announce you've helped save 5 million sheep, through Summer, Fall, Winter and Spring Campaigns!
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For the Top 6 F, 4D, and 1G they would be fine for the rest of their lives if the all of the leagues shut down indefinitely.
The next 3F, 2D, and 2G would also be ok if the NHL shut down for a year or 2 as most of them would make around the league average of 2.4 million for an average career of 4 years. If you shave off a year (or even 2) due to a lockout, they are still looking at 4 million plus for their career and that is without going overseas.
The players that this affects most is the 4th liners, 7-8D, #3+G and all of the fringe players as some of these guys could have a tougher time playing overseas and may only have 1-2 years of NHL playing years and they are around the league minimum which is still more than what a lot of "normal" people make in their lifetime. Relatively speaking, this is where a little leverage is lost. Of course, it also affects some of the younger stars 1-to-2 years into their career. While the majority of players are in this tier, they are also the players with the least voice due to experience, talent, and leadership within their respective teams.


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BLOOM, The Olympic Design-Build Game
Friday, August 24, 2012
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If you were fortunate enough to visit the London Olympics this summer and happened to walk through Victoria Park or the main quad at University College London (UCL) on your way to the games, then you experienced BLOOM, a big, bright, architectural garden created by complete strangers who gathered over the course of the two weeks to piece together 60,000 plastic game pieces, all dyed official Olympic hot pink. Designed by Alisa Andrasek and Jose Sanchez, two architecture professors from UCL's Bartlett School of Architecture, BLOOM was selected by the Greater London Authority for a series of events and installations mounted in two locations during the games with a third location in Trafalgar Square to follow for the upcoming Paralympics.
Andrasek and Sanchez had been developing the idea for an open-ended, crowdsourced game that would encourage interaction between people in a large public space when the opportunity to be involved with the Olympics arose. The timing was perfect. Here was a moment in the city's history when locals and tourists alike would be in the same location to celebrate athletics, and Andrasek and Sanchez hoped to capitalize on that spirit of camaraderie. The game starts with the pink game pieces, called cells. Each 16 inch-long cell is made of 100% PET plastic and has three points of entry, or notches used to connect the pieces together. Once Andrasek and Sanchez created a design for the cells, they were injection molded at Atomplast, a Chilean plastics fabricator that Andrasek and Sanchez had worked with previously. The cells are flexible, durable and can be bent and twisted into different configurations without warping or breaking. There were also several structural steel components on hand for using with the cells to build benches, tables, forts and other larger formations. Read More
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Friday, August 10, 2012
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So far the Czech Republic's Olympic athletes have won a smattering of medals at the Summer games, but this year all the country's athletes, medal winners or not, will be rewarded for their efforts with a crystal trophy courtesy of Lasvit, the official crystal partner of the Czech Olympic team and the country's leading manufacturer of custom light and glass installations. The crystal trophies will also be doled out to VIPs visiting the Czech House, which is playing host to a series of events meant to promote Czech culture during the games. Inside, Lasvit is presenting the finer side of Czech culture with their Hydrogene Crystal Bar, an illuminated bar in the VIP section, as well as Infinity, a sculptural glass lighting installation suspended in the public mezzanine.
Like most of Lasvit's high-end custom jobs, Infinity was designed by Jitka Kamencova Skuhrava, whose long list of projects for the company include several hotels and event spaces in Abu Dhabi, dozens more in China as well as two teal-colored cascades for Tiffany & Co. Her preference for natural forms shows up again and again, in the swirling glass shapes that weave through the air like frenzied schools of fish or the leaf-like forms that twist into a loose interpretation of the figure eight symbol. Read More
Playable Pavilion Aims to Make Beatboxing an Olympic Sport
Friday, March 30, 2012
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Coca-Cola has big plans for an Olympic Park pavilion for London's 2012 sporting extravaganza. London-based architects Pernilla & Asif have created the "Coca-Cola Beatbox," a spiraling structure clad in red and white panels that appear to be suspended in frozen animation. It's not only an intriguing structure but an interactive musical instrument. The experimental architecture works with cutting edge sound technology, encouraging people to interact and "play the pavilion."
Inspired by sounds of the Olympic games—the plunge of an archer's arrow into a target, athlete's quickened heartbeats, squeaking sneakers—the Beatbox will be imbedded with sound-bites created by Grammy Award-winning producer Mark Ronson that allow visitors to remix their own mashed-up productions.
Quick Clicks> Vertical Farming, Hadid in Paris, Stirling Shortlist, Bored to Death
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Miriam Dreiblatt.
Farming Right Side Up. Spiegel Online reported on vertical farming research in South Korea as an innovative means of remedying food shortages on an increasingly urban planet. For the time being, agricultural scientist Choi Kyu Hong conducts his own version of Dickson Despommier's Manhattan urban gardening project in an unexceptional 3-story industrial building, but Hong and his team have outfitted the farm with solar panels, LED lighting, and recycled water infrastructure hoping to attract enough attention to bring vertical farming to the global market and city skyscrapers.
Hadid Stands Still. After touring New York, Tokyo, and Hong Kong, the Chanel Mobile Art Pavilion designed by Zaha Hadid claims its permanent home in the front plaza of the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris, France. A Daily Dose of Architecture noted that the pavilion now features the Zaha Hadid Une Architecture exhibition, creating a thematically coherent viewing experience inside and out.
Stirling Search. Bustler posted the Royal Institute of British Architects' (RIBA) shortlist for this year's £20,000 ($32.5K) RIBA Stirling Prize. The list includes previous prize winners Zaha Hadid and David Chipperfield, as well as O'Donnell + Tuomey, Allford Hall Monaghan Morris, Bennetts Associates Architects and Hopkins Architects Partnership for the 2012 London Olympic Park.
Bored to Death. After tunneling through the subterranean rock of Midtown Manhattan for the new Grand Central Terminal train station, the 200-ton serpentine drill will be left to decompose 14 stories underneath Park Avenue. The New York Times revealed that the Spanish contractor in charge of the 4-year excavation ensured the MTA that this internment is both practically and economically preferable to dismantling the drill.
Going to the Chapel. Curbed posted the two winners of a pop-up chapel competition celebrating gay marriage in New York. ICRAVE's entry calls for a pavilion of colorful ribbons while Z-A Studios design forms recycled cardboard into a curving tulip. Both designs will built in Central Park this weekend where they will host 24 weddings.
"Alps In Asia" named hub for 2018 Winter Olympics
Monday, July 25, 2011
Veronica Alif.
If you haven't heard by now, Pyeongchang, the mountainous South Korean town located in Gangwon Province, 112 miles outside of Seoul, has won the bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics. Helping secure the win was the $1.4 billion dollar, 1,240-acre Alpensia Resort, which was completed in 2009. It will become home to the Olympic Village, several competitions and the opening and closing ceremonies. Nicknamed "Alps in Asia", the alpine-style village was designed as an all-season, year-round destination with the help of Cuningham Group Architecture, whose LA office oversaw the design and master planning.
QUICK CLICKS> Bike Lite, Convenient Cities, London Smog, Choco-design
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Ariel Rosenstock.
Safer at night. Two design students at Carnegie Mellon University created a functional and graceful lighting system for bikers that enhances side visibility at night. The LED lights that line the wheel rims, are powered by pedaling and change colors depending on speed. Bloggers at Greater Greater Washington have posted a video of the lights in action.
Convenient Cities. What makes a city "convenient"? According to a study published by The Street, factors include walkability, public transportation, and amenity proximity. Their city ranking, using data from Walk Score, Zillow and APTA, put Boston, New York, Denver, Portland, and Chicago at the top.
Olympic Pollution. A documentary by filmmaker Faisal Abdu'Allah, Double Pendulum, examines the harmful effects of pollution on East London residents and athletes, The Guardian says. Abdu'Allah cautions that poor air quality in East London may threaten athletes' performances in the London 2012 Olympic Games.
Designer Chocolates. PSFK reports that researchers in a joint program between the University of Exeter, the University of Brunel, and Delam, a software developer, have created a printer that turns 3D CAD designs into ready-made chocolates. An upcoming retail site will allow the public to upload original designs.
Quick Clicks> Gondolas, Landmarks, Main Streets, Paris
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Alyssa Nordhauser.
Shifting Skyline. London's famed skyline may be getting an addition, and it's not a new building. The Architect's Journal tells us that Mayor Boris Johnson recently approved a plan by architects Wilkinson Eyre and Expedition Engineering for a proposed cable car system designed to link two key 2012 Olympic venues, the O2 Stadium and the Excel Exhibition Hall.
NYC's Youngest Landmark. The New York Times City Room blog reports that NYC has four new landmarks: the Engineer's Club, the Neighborhood Playhouse, Greyston Gatehouse and the Japan Society, which having been completed in 1971, makes it the youngest of the city's historic landmarked structures.
Red Hook North. Meanwhile NYT Magazine reports that Red Hook developer Greg O'Connell hopes to do for tiny Mt. Morris, NY what he did for a slice of once-decrepit Brooklyn waterfront. Will the former NYPD detective's progressive form of gentrification and downtown revitalization work in an ailing upstate town?
Onion domes in Paris. Inhabitat shares the news that the Russians are coming to Paris, in the form of a new domed church and cultural center. Situated near the Eiffel Tower, this new structure is the result of bi-national collaboration from the architects at Arch-Group and Sade Sa.
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Block by Block. Brooklyn-based illustrator James Gulliver Hancock is attempting to draw All the Buildings in New York in quite beautiful pen and ink sketches like the one above. Watch a video of the artist explaining his inspirations, style, and how a chained up wheelchair is architecture after the jump. (via Gothamist.)
An Olympic Conundrum for Chicago
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Matt Chaban.
We've been following Chicago's Olympic bid rather closely of late, and not only because we're on the way to inaugurating a Midwest edition of the paper. First, there was SOM's intriguing proposal to create "sustainable," "low-impact" Olympics that would have few legacy costs by using temporary facilities, an approach the IOC apparently favored. Then there was the impact of that plan, which still called for the demolition of some buildings—as well as hundreds of trees in Washington Park—most notably at the Walter Gropius-designed Michael Reese hospital campus. Outcry from preservationists led the city to delay demolition, which made time for the preservationists to develop alternative plans. Olympic opponents may be catching another break now, as, ironically enough, the very things the IOC purportedly liked about Chicago's bid-lite may also be its undoing. Read More
Last Gasp for Gropius?
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Alan G. Brake.
The demolition of the Michael Reese hospital campus in Chicago, partially designed by Walter Gropius, has been put on hold until after October 2, when the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will announce the host city for the 2016 Games. Preservation groups are pushing for adaptive reuse of some of the buildings, but the city is determined to clear the site for either an Olympic Village or for private development. The delay, then, probably does not signal a victory for preservationists. It is more likely a calculated move on the part of the city and Chicago 2016 to quiet opposition until after the IOC makes its decision.
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Can I get bird flu from my neighbor's poultry and farm animals?
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Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell on Fox News Sunday declined to say if there were enough votes to block Harry Reid from jamming ObamaCare through using reconciliation. He did, however, seem quite pleased to use the prospect of reconciliation to taunt the Democrats:
"You know, we've witnessed the 'Cornhusker kickback,' the 'Louisiana purchase,' 'the Gatorade,' the special deal for Florida. Now they are suggesting they might use a device which has never been used the for this kind of major systemic reform. We know it would be — the only thing bipartisan about it would be the opposition to it, because a number of Democrats have said, 'Don't do this. This is not the way to go.' I think they're having a hard time getting the message here. The American people do not want this bill to pass. And it strikes me as rather arrogant to say, 'Well, we're going to give it to you anyway, and we'll use whatever device is available to achieve that end.'"
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As on the reconciliation vote count, McConnell wouldn't say whether Republicans could pick up 10 seats this year. But one suspects the chances will improve if Obama and Reid really intend to try to jam through ObamaCare. McConnell certainly thinks so.


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The word may mean "pub" in Czech, but this chic Upper East Side, Central Europe–inspired spot is far from the dingy Prague drinking holes of years past. On the ground floor of the Bohemian National Hall, a Czech cultural center, the interior is dominated by artsy, backlit wall engravings, while in the kitchen Chef Oldrich Sehajdak, who has been at the forefront in revolutionizing Czech cuisine at Prague's acclaimed restaurant La Degustation, has created a menu of updated European and Czech fare. Pork belly paired with scallops and duck with butternut squash are a couple of the standout dishes here. The Pilsner Urquell, shipped in air-conditioned containers from the brewery in Plzen, is especially delicious here. Remember to say "Na zdravi," cheers in Czech, before your first sip.
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Love these box scratcher boards! Been riding them since 2008 and have sizes from 145 to 154. Great jib board, good flex with the reverse camber (banana tech) and floats in powder. This year I've been riding my 151 and 154 and I'm 5'10, 180lbs. I still have lots of fun on my older box scratcher that's a 145. These boards aren't as responsive as my Travis Rice board, but that's to be expected with the different tech. If you want a jib board that can also perform as an all mountain board, get the scratcher!
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So i got the 2013 boxscratcher about a year ago and rode it for a month or two. I see that the differences between the 2013 and 2014 are very minimal so I hope my review can be helpful for whoever reads. First off, I got the 149 wide and am about 5'7" and 145 lbs. Going from a rockered board to a hybrid camber board was a bit of a challenge. I noticed myself falling more on rails and having more trouble with maneuvering the board because of its weight and the hybrid camber(supposedly). If you do buy this board, I would highly recommend sizing down as it is a jib board and because it tends to be heavier than most boards I have ridden. The one thing I can recommend about this board is its durability. It took several big hits to rails during the two months I rid it and hardly had any scratches. Oh, and it slides very well on boxes which wasn't the case for my previous board.
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I am 5'6" at 140 lbs. I rode a 151 which felt like the perfect size for my height and weight. I am an advance boarder that spends more time in the side country than I do in the park. Products I have enjoyed in the past are the Rome Agent and O-Matic Sweet. The condition that I rode the Box Scratcher did not seem ideal to ride this board. The snow was heavy, and the park kickers were not maintained properly resulting in overworking to produce positive results. The base of the Box Scratcher was very slow in heavy snow. I would loose speed quickly when approaching jumps and when entering flats. The board had the right amount of flex and edgehold which was the only positive I received from riding the board. The flex was soft at 151 but not too soft, just the right amount to feel jibby but still stable. I had no problems linking turns and utilizing the edges. I would add a faster base to the board. I have an understanding that this is a street board that's meant to grind rails and take on urban features, so a more durable base would make more sense than putting on a fast fragile base. If conditions were optimal, I feel I would have enjoyed this board much more than I did.


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Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Matt Branon is no stranger to North Augusta High Schools baseball team. As the teams new head coach hell need to trade out the garnet for black and the S on his hats for a N, though.
Branon, the pitching coach for South Aiken the past five years for head coach Bob Polewski, has been a part of many successful seasons with the Thoroughbreds. He was part of the Class AAA Lower-State championship team in 2010, made it to the Class AAAA Lower-State semifinals in 2011 and 2012, and made it to the Lower-State championship in 2013 before losing to eventual state champion Lexington.
Principal John Murphy said more importantly than what he brings to the baseball field, that Branon is going to be a fantastic addition to the schools faculty. He will teach social studies, like new head football coach and athletic director Brian Thomas. Branon will be a part of the schools freshman academy.
Hes a good teacher, and thats very important to us at the school, Murphy said. Hes had a high level of success at South Aiken and will be a good fit for North Augusta. What impressed me about Matt was that he was not only an excellent coach, but he loved the sport.
Murphy, who played American Legion baseball for Polewski, said that he had the utmost respect for the South Aiken coach. He said he would not do anything to harm their baseball program, but hired what he considers the best person that met the schools qualifications.
I have always believed that in any successful organization that you have to have great people, he said. You have to have great people leading the school, great staff members, great bus drivers, great clerical personnel, great students and so forth. Over this year we have lost some great people, but I think we are bringing in some great folks as well.
Branon will not coach football for the school and will get started with the Jackets this week as the baseball coach. Murphy said that Branon will not teach until the fall, but that he will meet players this week and help formulate a plan for summer baseball. Murphy called that an anxious time for many parents, and that its also very important for the program for Branon to get started.
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Faculty Accomplishments - January-February 2014
Scholarly Talk, Presentation or Conference
Sefa Aina (Asian American Resource Center, Dean of Students Office) was the keynote speaker at the CSU East Bay Student Services Operation for Success (Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institute) open house on 14 January; a panel moderator on "Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander: Developing Advocacy Tools" at the National Advancing Justice Conference on 15 January in Los Angeles; and a panel moderator for "Boys and Young Men of Color" at the 22nd annual Empowerment Congress Summit on "Communities Empowered for Change" in Los Angeles on 18 January.
On 11 January, Allan Barr (Asian Languages and Literatures) gave a presentation in Chinese on the topic "From Literary Research to Literary Translation" at the 818 Salon in Leshan, Sichuan, China.
With Pam Bromley (College Writing, Politics) and the other Claremont Colleges writing directors, Dara Rossman Regaignon (College Writing, English) hosted the seventh annual meeting of the Small Liberal Arts College Writing Program Administrators Consortium at Pomona on 10-11 January. The topic was "Supporting Diverse Learners."
Adriana di Bartolo (Queer Resource Center) was a panel participant on "LGBTQ Professionals in Student Affairs" at the Western Regional Careers in Student Affairs Day at CSU Long Beach on 3 November. On 17 January, she presented "Transformative Student Affairs Practices to Enhance a Culture of Care on Campus" at the NASPA Mental Health Conference and the NASPA Alcohol, Other Drug Abuse and Violence Prevention Conference in San Diego.
Erica Flapan (Mathematics) gave the invited presentation "Topological Symmetries of Molecules" at the Workshop on Topological Structures in Computational Biology at the Institute for Mathematics and its Applications, University of Minnesota, on 10 December.
Gizem Karaali (Mathematics) led a faculty mini-course with Eric Marland (Appalachian State University) on Humanistic Mathematics at the 2014 Joint Mathematics Meetings held in Baltimore, 15-18 January. At the same conference, Karaali and JoAnne Growney organized a mathematical poetry reading on 17 January.
Jade Star Lackey (Geology) gave two presentations at the National Geological Society of America meeting in October in Denver: "Deconvoluting magma mixing and source characteristics of a long lived (~9 m.y.) Sierra Nevada magmatic complex: O, Hf and trace elements of zircon from the John Muir Suite" and "A Mojave perspective on volcanic-plutonic systems in California's Middle Jurassic arc." He was a co-author on five additional presentations at the conference, including two presented by Anne Fulton '15 and Rachel Havranek '14. He was also a co-author on three presentations at the American Geophysical Union meeting in December in San Francisco.
Thomas Leabhart (Theatre and Dance) lectured on "E.G. Craig and Etienne Decroux: The Wooden Actor in Theory and Practice" for Theatre Pas de Dieux in Paris on 4 January.
Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) gave an invited lecture at UC San Diego on "From Trafficking to Terror: Constructing a Global Problem" on 13 January.
Daren Mooko (Dean of Students Office) was a panel moderator for "College Student Activism: Organizing Through Community Engagement," which included panelist Tracy Zhao '13, at the National Advancing Justice Conference on 15 January in Los Angeles.
Cameron Munter (International Relations, Politics) lectured several times in London in January: "2014: Prospects for Change in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India" at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Arundel House (10 December); "Pakistan Perspectives and Countering Violent Extremism" at the Quilliam Foundation (10 December); the "Weak State, Strong Society: How the West Should Engage with Pakistan" seminar at University College London, War Studies (11 December; and "The Future of Diplomacy" seminar at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Whitehall (12 December). On 13 January, Munter chaired the inaugural seminar to create the Working Group on U.S-Pakistani Relations at the Atlantic Council of the United States in Washington DC. He was a guest lecturer on "Foreign Assistance: Lessons Learned" on 15 January at a New York University/Washington seminar on International Development hosted by journalist James Traub.
At a weeklong residency at the Free University's Theater and Dance Department in Berlin, Germany, in November, John Pennington (Theater and Dance) gave a lecture on the history and legacy of California dance artists in the 20th century, taught classes in the graduate program, and gave a public performance of his reconstructed German Expressionist solos by Harald Kreutzberg.
Leonard Pronko (Theatre and Dance) spoke to the Curtain Raisers of the Claremont Colleges on 30 January about his kabuki presentations at Pomona College over 30 years, their origins, his studies, and the performances.
Monique Saigal-Escudero (Romance Languages and Literatures) spoke on "Hidden Child and Clandestine Activities of French Women During WWII" for the Las Tias organization in Rancho Cucamonga on 9 January.
Shahriar Shahriari (Mathematics) was the colloquium speaker at the School of Mathematics of the Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences in Tehran, Iran, on 26 December. The title of his talk was "The MMS conjecture for vector spaces."
Samuel Yamashita (History) was invited to deliver "The Making of 'Splendid Little Citizens,'" a paper on the education of the children evacuated from Japanese cities during the Asia/Pacific War, at a conference on "Children, Education and Youth in Imperial Japan, 1925-1945," at Kyoto University in Japan, 11-12 January.
Allan Barr's (Asian Languages and Literatures) translation of Yu Hua's volume of short stories, Boy in the Twilight: Stories of the Hidden China, has just been published (Pantheon, 2014). His translation of an op-ed column by Yu Hua, "China Confronts the Online Rumor Mill," was published in The International New York Times on 8 January.
An article by Nicki Lisa Cole (Sociology), "Apple's Top Crimes of 2013," was the lead article on CounterPunch on 1 January. She published the chapter "Ethical Consumption in the Global Age: Coffee's Promise of a Better World" in Consumer Culture, Modernity and Identity (Sage Publications, 2014), edited by Nita Mathur.
Virginie Duzer (Romance Languages and Literatures) published "Le surréalisme en équations" in La Poésie scientifique, de la gloire au déclin [pdf] [pdf] (2014), ed. by Muriel Louâpre, Hugues Marchal et Michel Pierssens, in the "Épistémocritique" series, pp. 399-411.
Stephan Garcia (Mathematics) published "The Graphic Nature of the Symmetric Group" (with J.L. Brumbaugh PO '13, Madeleine Bulkow SC '14, Luis Garcia German PO '14, Matt Michal CGU '15 and Andrew P. Turner HMC '14) in Experimental Mathematics 22:4, pp.421-442.
Eric Grosfils (Geology) published "Elastic models of magma reservoir mechanics: a key tool for investigating planetary volcanism" in the edited volume Volcanism and Tectonism Across the Inner Solar System, a Geological Society of London special publication (401). Co-authors include colleagues from the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Texas and Oregon State University, and Debra Hurwitz '07, Sylvan Long '07 and Shelley Chestler '12.
Gizem Karaali (Mathematics) published an extended book review of three books -- Mathematics in Popular Culture: Essays on Appearances in Film, Fiction, Games, Television and Other Media (McFarland, 2012); Loving+Hating Mathematics: Challenging the Myths of Mathematical Life (Princeton University Press, 2011); and Mathematicians: An Outer View of The Inner World (Princeton University Press, 2009) -- in the AWM (Association for Women in Mathematics) Newsletter 43:6, pp. 22-25.
Her article, "An Evaluative Calculus Project: Applying Bloom's Taxonomy to the Calculus Classroom" (PRIMUS 21:8), has been selected for a special promotion collection as the most downloaded PRIMUS article in the past year, and has been and will be promoted at the AMS-MAA Joint Meetings in Baltimore, MathFest and other conferences, and be available for free download for a limited period of time from the PRIMUS website.
Nina Karnovsky (Biology) is a co-author with Julia Gleichman'09 and K. David Hyrenbach of the paper "Diving behavior of Wedge-tailed Shearwaters Rearing Chicks on Lehua Islet." in Elepaio 74:1, pp. 1-4.
Jade Star Lackey (Geology) is a co-author on the publication "Orogenic to post-orogenic (1.2-1.15 Ga) magmatism in the Adirondack lowlands and Frontenac Terrane, Grenville Province" in Geosphere 9, pp. 1637-1663. Andrew Stocker CMC '09 was a co-author.
Pardis Mahdavi (Anthropology) published a paper titled "Iran's Green Movement in Context" in Cultural Revolution in Iran (IB Tauris Press, 2013), edited by Annabelle Sreberny and Massoumeh Torfeh.
Anthony Shay (Theatre and Dance) has had three articles published on the Oxford Handbook website that will appear in forthcoming books: "Reviving the Reluctant Art of Iranian Dance in Iran and the American Diaspora" (Oxford Handbook of Musical Revival); "Lado, the State Ensemble of Croatian Folk Dances and Songs: Icon of Croatian Identity" and "The Spectacularization of Soviet/Russian Folk Dance: Igor Moiseyev and the Invented Tradition of Staged Folk Dance" (The Oxford Handbook of Dance and Ethnicity, ed. Anthony Shay).
Performance or Exhibition
Graydon Beeks (Music) and his Pomona colleagues Alfred Cramer, Carolyn Beck, Roger Lebow and Jason Yoshida, performing as the Cornucopia Baroque Ensemble, presented a program of Baroque chamber music at Mt. San Antonio Gardens on 14 January.
Honor or Award
Water Polo Coach Alex Rodriguez (Physical Education) has been named Head Coach for the Men's Junior National Team for the USA Men's National Pipeline.
Daren Mooko (Dean of Students Office) was elected to the Board of Directors of the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles.
Martin Crawford (Outdoor Education Center) reports the OEC offered a 72-hour, eight-day Wilderness First Responder course to 21 Pomona students, two Pitzer students, and three off-campus participants. The 21 Pomona students are now part of the College's Emergency Support Team designed to respond to emergencies on campus.
Adriana di Bartolo (Queer Resource Center) was part of the T* Camp professional logistics team, which organizes an intercampus retreat to explore gender identity and expression and to engage in dialogue with peers. T* Camp took place in early January in the Pilgrim Pines Camp in the San Bernardino Mountains.
Thomas Leabhart (Theatre and Dance) taught a two-week Corporeal Mime workshop for Theatre Pas de Dieux, directed by Won Kim '95, in Paris, France, from 6-17 January.
Leonard Pronko (Theatre and Dance) reports "an adventure, not an accomplishment" as he spent 20 November to 15 January in Tokyo, seeing Kabuki and other activities. From 4-21 December, he visited villages and towns Thailand and Laos, looking at textiles and seeing the creation of new textiles, traversing rickety bridges and slippery riverbanks.
On 21 December, Brenda Rushforth (Human Resources) passed the California Certification, which is designed for HR professionals who currently hold PHR® and SPHR® credentials and are experts in regulations and legal mandates specific to the state of California.
On 9 January, Monique Saigal-Escudero (Romance Languages and Literatures) was interviewed in Pasadena about her book Héroines françaises 1940-41 by French journalist Noemi Rosner-Taylor (French Magazine).


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Just a couple months after Disney confirmed that Angelina Jolie's 4-year-old daughter Vivienne would be playing a young Princess Aurora in mom's upcoming Sleeping Beauty flick Maleficent, it's now being reported that two of her other children were also cast in the film.
Pax and Zahara were probably like, "What? No love for NON-Brad Pitt offspring?"
The studio behind the mega budget flick confirmed to Hollyscoop that Pax and Zahara have small non-speaking roles.
"They have smaller parts," says a source, "Shiloh was supposed to be in it, too, but she was bored and not in the mood during the day her part was supposed to happen, so she ended up not being in the film."
Uhh, #FamousOffspringProblems?
So what about 11-year-old Maddox and 4-year-old Knox? They must not have been bitten by the acting bug. Maddox strikes me more as a director-type. Knox? He's got the bone structure for the business, don't know why he doesn't want in on the action.
Apparently after Vivienne was given a part over the summer, "the other kids [were] nagging Ange and Brad to land them roles."
This actually isn't the first time a Jolie-Pitt kid has been in a movie. Shiloh had a cameo in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button as Brad and Cate Blanchet's daughter when she was just 10-months-old.


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Christopher Shepherd, 42, of David, husband of Dorothy Scott Shepherd, died Friday, Feb. 1, 2013, at his residence.
He was born Sept. 26, 1970, in Prestonsburg, to the late James Ray Shepherd and Hazel Marie Shepherd Collins. He was the step-son of the late Sam Collins.
Christopher was preceded in death by a son, Milton Russell Vanderpool, and two brothers, Randy Lee Shepherd and Jackie Shepherd.
He is survived by his sons, Christopher Tyler Shepherd and Samuel Ray Shepherd; daughter, Sabrina Rennee Shepherd; sisters, Ramona Marie Shepherd and Joy Lynn Howard; and brother, Paul Douglas Shepherd.
Funeral services were held Tuesday, Feb. 5, at Brushy Fork United Baptist Chuch, at Gunlock, with Ollie Watts officiating. Burial followed the service at Brushy Bill Cemetery, at Gunlock.
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We celebrate our national day, St David's Day on the 1st March.
Take a look around this dedicated section of our website to find out more about St David, our patron saint. Explore our brand new interactive map to see how Wales connects with the rest of the world in 2015, get inspired to try some traditional Welsh recipes and so much more!
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Unlike liberal Chris Matthews at MSNBC, who feels a thrill up his leg every time Obama speaks, Dr. Alveda King does not. Alveda King is the niece of Martin Luther King, Jr. and director of African American Outreach at Priests for Life. King says Obama's use of her uncle's Bible at his swearing in "was not symbolic. It was ironic."
"Obama's support of abortion, same-sex marriage, and free contraception under his unpopular Obamacare reform is difficult to reconcile with my uncle's legacy as a man of God," King explained. "I had hoped and prayed that when the president handled the Bible, it would accidentally open to where it says 'Choose life' or 'God hates the shedding of innocent blood.' I was hoping it would just shake him up a little bit."