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Soft-spoken Basketball Wives L.A. star Malaysia Pargo really does come off as sweet as honey when you talk to her in person. During our recent chat at the season two reunion, she was every bit the calm, cool lady we've seen on the show this season, just trying to keep things copacetic among her co-stars. Surprisingly enough, despite the fact that she's had words with some of the ladies on the show this season, she swears she only wishes them all well and has never tried to be fake or "funny" with any of them, not even Brooke during that odd phone conversation they had.
Read what Malaysia had to say about her current status with all the ladies, and just how hard it was to bring her real-life BFF, Bambi, into such a volatile situation. (Spoiler alert: she says it was one of the hardest things ever.)
There have been a lot of crazy casting rumors before this season even ended that some of you were leaving the show, how annoying is it to deal with stuff that can't be verified or controlled?
Yeah, it's annoying but rumors are gonna be rumors, and life wouldn't be life without rumors. It's fine. You can never get used to rumors, but what can you do?
This season you were really trying to be the mediator, but sometimes it didn't really work out the way you planned.
I'm just naturally like that, I want everyone to get along and have a good time. I just thought most of our issues were weird and something that you could brush under the rug. I feel like if something's not really serious or life threatening, if it's something you can get over then yes, I will be the peacemaker. If it's stuff you can't get over, I'll just give my opinion and leave it alone.
In New Orleans at your final dinner, you get so frustrated that you just call everyone a—holes, which is funny because you were the peacemaker who was totally done with everyone by that point.
Yeah, there were many times where I had totally had it but in life you have to work hard to accomplish things and I'm not a person who gives up. All of the girls have a good heart but some personalities clash. I'm getting that now. And that was a lesson I learned from this season. Just because you all have stuff in common doesn't mean you'll all get along. But yes, I did get irritated. It was four months of oh, come on, why am I in the middle of things?
What happened after that dinner? Did everyone just leave feeling like, okay we agree to disagree?
Everything we got out at that table, we left at that table and we moved on. So some of us stayed in contact with each other, some of us haven't. I've stayed in touch, of course, with Bambi, with Draya, and with Jackie. The way that it left in New Orleans is the way that it is today.
What was it like bringing Bambi, who is your real-life friend, onto this show?
That was like, on of the hardest things that you'll ever have to do. At the end of the day Bambi is like a sister to me, she knows my ins and out, and I know what makes her tick, how to smooth things over, when to hold her back, I know it all. But what we don't know is television. The relationships with other girls, the chemistry. My relationship with Laura is totally different than my relationship with Bambi. Trying to make sure they don't get into it so that I could have both friendships was very hard. That goes for anyone, trying to make sure that relationships don't clash was one of the hardest things. But at the end of the day, my loyalty to her will always shine through.
Did your relationship with Laura get worse because of the Twitter beefs she had offscreen all season with Bambi? You guys were all really active on Twitter this year.
Interacting with my fans, I call them my Twitter family, is fun, you have your moments, there are sprinkles of people who don't like me, and I kindly give them a seat, but the ones that support me, I see the and I make sure I speak to them because I know who they are. If they tweet me every day, I'll respond to them a little faster because they're not on me about anything. They like who I am, and it makes me feel good. Twitter hasn't strained anything between Laura and I, I just think that on the whole our relationship was strained because we really didn't connect too much this season. It's not that we hate each other, we just aren't in a strong suit right now.
On the one hand, Bambi really took to Jackie, and on the other, she really did not take to the Govans, were you surprised to see who she gravitated toward?
No, at the end of the day, she's been around and was with me all last year, last season. She was on the phone with me after my fight with Laura. She was with me when I received the text from Gloria saying she was going to whoop my ass on sight. She knew all of that so yes, maybe she still hung on to that "you guys did my friend wrong" thing, she has that in her, but I asked her before she came on to keep an open mind, to meet Laura and she did for a while. But as a friend, you're always going to keep your keen eye open and I don't think she was feeling it with the Govan sisters.
How do you feel at this point about Brooke?
I still think Brooke is a cool girl. I don't really know her that well but the person I did get to know was okay, she's a good girl…I don't really know how to say it but I wish her well. I don't have no beef with her.
Watching back the scene of you two on that phone call, I think that's what got her upset with you the most at a certain point, do you think you came off as shady or fake with her on that call?
Well, she knows as well as anyone else that there were parts that weren't seen, and I think what she felt in that scene in her heart, she should keep it that way. Yes, I sat on Bambi's lap, but it was not to be joking, yes, I asked her if her boyfriend was coming to the party, but that was out of respect for her. I had it in mind that I wanted her and Bambi to be friends, that was the only thing. Me trying to be funny with her was the furthest thing from my mind. I'm a grown woman, I don't have time for that.
In New Orleans when Jackie gave her speech about her family, you and Draya both got very emotional while she was speaking. Did that speech change the way you saw Jackie?
It did. This whole season was dedicated to learning Jackie all over again, I pretty much put the person from last year behind me and agreed to take a new start because I feel everyone deserves a second chance. I went to Seattle seeking new information about Jackie, because she offered it up. I really did put more effort into getting to know her. Yes, she did things to irritate me too, but I always confronted them and I didn't let it hang in the air, I faced it all with her and we moved forward, and here we are today. Her speech really changed a whole lot and I felt her. I'd be the same way, I'd be ride or die for my husband too.
What do you think of Laura scheming throughout the season?
Yeah, I don't really like that too much, I think it's very weird and it's scary. How do you be friends with someone that wants to scheme and hurt you? In friendships you have your ups and downs and disagreements, and the moment you disagree with what I'm saying, you're going to try and hurt me? That's really scary.
You were there last season, do you understand her feelings somewhat, was her revenge this season justified at all?
I went through the same thing, and I don't want to say it wasn't justified, because I'm not in her body. I didn't get what she got. I'm not her, so I don't know how she felt. But I wouldn't do it. Karma goes both ways and I'd rather let the universe handle it.
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Sacramento County 'Three-Striker' Freed Under Prop. 36 Learning To Live With Freedom
Michael Romano, director of the Three Strikes Project, spoke with the Sacramento Bee's Andy Furillo about the release of three strike inmates post-Proposition 36 and the ultimate goal of ensuring a "realistic and robust" transition and re-entry plan for every inmate upon leaving prison.
Eugene Dey knew what he had to do.
He had just gotten out of the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad as one of the first Sacramento County "three-strikers" released from his life sentence under last year's voter-approved Proposition 36.
Dey said he knew what the data said, what the studies showed: Two years of in-prison drug treatment, followed by a year of sober living in a program on the outside, and he would have an excellent chance to make it all the way back.
Michael Romano, director of the Three-Strikes Project at Stanford Law School, which pushed Proposition 36 to approval, encouraged the state's judges to take a deliberative approach to resentencings.
"We want to make sure that everybody who is released under Proposition 36 has a realistic and robust transition or re-entry plan in place," Romano said.


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teehee, you put this so much better than I just did
teehee, you put this so much better than I just did
As an employer yourself, would you be willing to sign-off on that if that meant you might eventually lose him as a result? Actually, don't answer that. Even if you agree to that, because you're a reasonable manager, a better question would be, do you think your HR department and legal in-house counsel (assuming your company is big enough to have those) would agree to something like that with an existing employee (when unlike you, they don't have a relationship with the employee in question, they probably don't even know him all that well, except for the fact that he's probably a valuable employee and that it may cost the company money down the road if they were to agree to such an exclusion)??
I'll be frank - but these are my opinions only.
Yes I would employ them with those caveats in place (and yes signoff can be sought from the other depts involved) - but I do see that as the employee saying "I'll work for you, but only until something else comes along" and to be honest that is a negative. If an employee is borderline at the hiring stage, this would not count in their favour for being hired.
We want people to be committed to us and for us to be their career, for as long as they choose to remain with us. The perception this gives is that they can/will leave at any time, and while they are with us they won't put in the effort to make it work anyway because they'll also be focusing on their home projects. Some people can make this work, keep the two separate and still give 100% in the day job. Many can't.
probably a valuable employee
This is the key bit. On hiring them it is very "probably". Taking on someone new is a risk for the employer as much as it is a big step for the employee, especially for small business.
The honesty of being clear that they want to do side projects is appreciated (and important!), but to be frank it is a negative. Sorry.
You may also be right that many employers probably wouldn't...I can only speak from my experience.
They aren't intended to own your soul. I believe (again IANAL) they are intended to start from a position of legal clarity regarding the ownership of software produced by the employee that *may* make its way into company software products.
Obviously the company has to be clear that it does actually own what it thinks it owns (including its software). The clause prevents cases where the employee may write a nifty library at home, and use it at work as well, before subsequently deciding to sell it to someone else and denying the employer any legal right to use it - or even the choice of whether to use the '3rd party' code.
I agree there should be processes and people in place to avoid this happening in the first place (not least of which is a code signoff process) - but the 'default' position, as reflected by the contract, is for legal clarity. A reasonable employer should be able to exclude you from it, on the proviso that there are clear ownership rules around what employees write in their own time (plus no-compete rules).
I would like to reiterate; these clauses are - at least as far as my organisation is concerned - NOT about "we own your soul". Any reasonable employer should be able to come to a mutually agreeable agreement with you if you TALK to them. If they won't....well they probably aren't people you want to work for anyway...
There are legal advice services for employees too. Sometimes they are even available through the employer (provided by a 3rd party so unbiased). We do this through RBS mentor services. (I don't have a link sorry and cba to google for you
hehe, if you feel like that then you will find employers won't care about you...
but fwiw you're wrong. A great many employers care hugely for the welfare, wellbeing, personal development, skills development and happiness of their employess. But you won't find one to work for while you have that attitude.
Oh no, not another "ask a lawyer" question.
As a general rule, this is mostly unenforceable and/or is trivially worked around.
That may be, but life is a lot simpler for everyone if we can all work by mutual prior agreement.
*all* contracts start in the favour of the people who wrote them. It's a game to make it mutually fair as much as it is to do a decent tax return or haggle for goods at the market. You may not like that it's a game (I don't!), but it is one.
Yes - explain why you don't like this, and what you intend to do in your spare time that you wish to retain ownership of.
These clauses usually come from a desire that employees don't misappropriate company IP and use it to write something competing. Or for a competitor (where the 'who owns what' question becomes murkier).
Any reasonable employer will write you an exclusion, but likely with a no-compete clause, which is fair enough.
IANAL, but I write the above as an employer, running a tech team of 21.
Well actually I do a bit, with everyone on Windows 7 games can start to be dx11 only, which means more pretty.
Mostly I just care about people getting off ie6, and that's happening anyway so who cares what OS people use under the browser.
Some policies are lame yes, and some in charge of them are stupid, but for the most part these 'enemies' are just trying to protect the bigger picture.
Probably the biggest part of this is security. All the things quoted in TFA are a nightmare to ensure are secure, and to support!
For what its worth, as an employer I'm equally put off by candidates who list a massive long list of things they are "expert" in. Nobody can be expert in all those things.
Especially "equivalent" technologies like PHP / Java / VB.net / ASP (yes I know they are different - but nobody can actually be expert in all of them!)
Edit: transferrable skills are important, and understanding the underlying principles is important and leads to it being much easier to learn other platforms/languages. Nevertheless they all have their own idiosyncracies and 'right' ways of doing things.
Southampton was #2 for CS in the late 90s when I was there. I understand its still good - but perhaps more so for Computer Engineering / Microelectronics than CS.
both the OP and the GP.
The course itself means little (in any discipline I'm sure, let alone one as broad as CS). You have to demonstrate that you care and love the subject, and therefore understand it far more intimately than any course can teach.
Actually its not quite as straightforward as that....to have staff in India counts as having a commercial presence in India. That renders you liable to Corporation tax in India, as well as in the UK.
Ofc there are ways people get around that by having *contractors* in India through umbrella agencies, or by straight outsourcing, but its not quite as simple as "get the Indians in".
I don't necessarily have the best view of the overall market, but as an employer my view is different here...
I feel more people are taking CS, since it's become more mainstream. Having a CS degree, however, doesn't make you a good developer or a good techie. Employers want good people, nee great people!
There are many people who have a degree (even a masters!) and just aren't that good.
What I would say, is that the degree should teach principles; an underlying approach and a way to think. However, peoples' ability to absorb that part is - IMO - not necessarily reflected in their final grade.
For me, demonstration of practical experience (whether done commercially, at home for fun or part of a course) is far more valuable in ascertaining someone's skill set.
As an employer, of a tech team of nearly 20 who's actually hiring now as well I would very much like to agree with AmiMojo.
The single biggest contributor to whether we will hire someone or not is whether we are convinced that they are actually really good.
Qualifications and degrees to NOT say that. Having a shiny last job does not say that.
What says it is two things;
- code we can see that is good, whether from our aptitude test or code that you wrote and can show us (legally, without breaking NDAs)
- an obvious love for the subject, enough to do it in your spare time at home (not work, just tech things)
Personally I don't care whether a candidate has a degree or not. I care that they know what they are talking about, have good problem-solving skills, can communicate to some degree, and that they have a can-do attitude.
I don't know what unemployment is like in my region (Hampshire), but I do know there's lots of candidates...just most aren't particularly good.
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Tod Kerstetter teaches clarinet, music theory and woodwind techniques on the faculty of KSU, and serves as Music Department Webmaster. He also serves as the Kansas chair for the International Clarinet Association and the Kansas chair for NACWPI. He is a graduate of Furman University (B.M.), Indiana University (M.M.), and The University of Georgia (D.M.A.). His teachers have included Earl Bates, James Campbell, Robert Chesebro, Larry Combs, Henry Gulick, Theodore Jahn, and Richard Waller. Kerstetter has performed professionally with the American Wind Symphony, the Charleston Symphony, the Huntsville (AL) Symphony, the Nashville Symphony, and the Savannah Symphony. He has performed internationally in Australia, Austria, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Slovenia, and Sweden. With clarinetist Robert Chesebro, Kerstetter recently co-authored a clarinet pedagogy textbook titled The Everyday Virtuoso, which is available from Woodwindiana, Inc. of Bloomington, Indiana.
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A priest with strong local ties is accused of the unthinkable, sexually abusing a minor.
Father Seculoff was the priest for many and the symbol of religion for those who attended
Bishop Kevin Rhoades wrote in a letter to parishioners that reads in part, "The preliminary investigation has revealed sufficient evidence that sexual abuse of a minor did occur. The diocesan review board reviewed this evidence and advised me in the assessment of the allegation as credible"
Gloria Yagodinski, is a long time member of
"He was such a good priest," said Yagodinski.
Jennifer Meir Beita knows first hand what it's like being abused by a church member, as she was a victim as a child. Beita now advocates for the issue by working for The Survivors Network of those abused by priests.
"Their life was changed in that moment and everything that they should have had and experienced was stolen and it will effect them to the day that they die," said Beita.
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Durham District Attorney - District 14 - 2014 Primary RSS | The Herald-Sun 2015-08-04T22:42:20Z urn:uuid:170eae90-5953-45c8-8a2c-48289a7186c0 Echols soundly defeats challengers for D.A. urn:uuid:7646805e-941f-46bb-80f3-a28414e433b4 2014-05-06T23:00:54Z
 Roger Echols overwhelmingly defeated his two Democratic challengers Tuesday in the race for Durham County district attorney, virtually assuring his victory in the Nov. 4 general election.

 Unofficial election returns showed Echols with 14,564 votes (61.4 percent), compared to attorney Brian Aus with 6,988 (29.5 percent) and Mitchell Garrell with 2,134 (9 percent).
 Keith Upchurch Echols attracts most money in race for DA urn:uuid:e513e7b8-fa8e-48d4-95e5-f0504fa2fd6a 2014-05-01T17:07:53Z
 Rogers Echols led his two opponents in total campaign contributions in the race for Durham County District Attorney during the first part of this year, according to reports filed with the N.C. Board of Elections.

 Campaign receipts from Jan. 1 to April 19 totaled $26,691, of which $15,891 came from Echols. His largest contributor was Interim Durham County District Attorney Leon Stanback, with $700.
 Keith Upchurch 3 Democrats running for district attorney urn:uuid:de406186-d65f-434d-a1b2-c19532788078 2014-04-28T18:13:12Z
 Three Democrats are on the ballot for Durham County District Attorney.

 They are seeking a four-year term to replace interim District Attorney Leon Stanback, who was named to complete the term of Tracey Cline when she was removed from office. Stanback is not running.
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 In the contests for Durham County sheriff and for district attorney, three Democrats are vying for the party's nomination in each race.  Normally, we refrain from endorsements in primaries, preferring to weigh both major parties' nominations in the context of the general election.
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 Durham district attorney candidates Brian Aus and Mitchell Garrell made their pitches to the Religious Coalition for a Nonviolent Durham at its monthly meeting Thursday at Shepherds House United Methodist Church. Candidate Roger Echols spoke at the last meeting.
 Aus, a defense lawyer, and Garrell, a former Durham prosecutor, both touted their decades-long ties to Durham.
 Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan Police alliance endorses Andrews, Aus urn:uuid:afeec456-f19f-4963-93e6-bf120e1da7f7 2014-04-21T18:53:58Z
 Incumbent Durham County Sheriff Mike Andrews and would-be District Attorney Brian Aus are among the candidates endorsed by the North Carolina Sheriff Police Alliance.

 The organization's 12-member board held a political screening Friday and recommended Andrews and Aus, as well as:
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 - Incumbent Doretta Walker for her judicial seat.
 - Challenger Steven Storch for the judicial seat currently held by Pat Evans.
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 The Durham Committee on the Affairs of Black People on Saturday released its slate of endorsements for the upcoming primary election.
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 The Durham People's Alliance wants some new faces in the school board, but favored incumbents in other contested races in the upcoming May primary election.
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 The Friends of Durham, a moderate to conservative political action committee, has made its endorsements in the school board races, sheriff's race and the race for district attorney.
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Gold Cup Final Preview USMNT vs. Panama | The Scouting Report
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Democratic U.S. Rep. Mel Watt Monday criticized the Obama Administration's failure to change a student loan policy that he said disproportionately hurts minority students. He spoke at a news conference at Johnson C. Smith University, where he was joined by school President Ron Carter.
At issue is the 2011 change to the Parent PLUS Loan program. The changes expanded the criteria for measuring an applicant's family credit history.
At the news conference, Carter said only 27 percent of applicants at historically black colleges were approved for a PLUS loan last year. In the 2013-2014 academic year, the figure has fallen to 7 percent.
Enrollments also have fallen. Last fall JCSU enrolled 1,801 students, the most in the university's 146-year history. This fall's enrollment is 1,387.
"The policy actually works to decrease the number of poor students attending college," Carter said. "That is reprehensible, both for them and the nation at large."


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'Dateable girls shut up' speaker arrested in vomit-stained car
By Joshua Fechter : June 27, 2014 : Updated: June 27, 2014 4:00pm
Justin Lookadoo, a 44-year old motivational speaker who sparked controversy for dating advice, was arrested for public intoxication in Indiana. (Photo from Lookadoo.com)
Lookadoo previously sparked controversy by saying "dateable girls know when to shut up." (Photo from Lookadoo.com)
Lookadoo was found sleeping in his car by the side of the road after missing a scheduled engagement at an Indiana middle school. Police said Lookadoo smelled of alcohol. They noticed the car's interior was covered in vomit. (Photo from Lookadoo.com)
Police arrested Lookadoo and charged him with public intoxication. He was later freed on a $200 bail. (Photo from Lookadoo.com)
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An Indiana faith-based motivational speaker who last year told Texas high schoolers that "dateable girls know how to shut up," was arrested in Indiana after police found him passed out in a vomit-filled car.
Police found Justin Lookadoo, 44, Tuesday in his car on the side of Interstate 1614 after he was a no-show for a speaking engagement at a local middle school, WFIE in Evansville, Indiana, reported.
Lookadoo, police said, claimed he was tired and pulled off for a nap, but law enforcement officers saw that Lookadoo had vomited inside his car and reeked of alcohol. He later failed field sobriety tests. Reports also indicate his blood-alcohol content was .07.
Lookadoo became infamous on the Web when he gave questionable dating advice last November to students at Richardson High School in Richardson, the Dallas Observer reported.
His website, rudateable.com, lists "rules" for teens to be "dateable."
For girls, he offers, "Dateable girls know how to shut up. They don't monopolize the conversation. They don't tell everyone about themselves. They save some for later. They listen more than they gab."
He had different advice for boys: "Dateable guys know they aren't as sensitive as girls, and that's okay. They know they are stronger, more dangerous, and more adventurous, and that's okay. Dateable guys are real men who aren't afraid to be guys."
Lookadoo, who cites Christianity as the basis for his advice platform, was released on a $200 bond Tuesday after being charged with public intoxication.
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The subject of discipline is one parents need to tackle early on. The Quad City Moms Bloggers met up to discuss how they decided their parenting style and the factors that went into their decision.
In this group, some of the moms say they spank their children, while others say they have chosen not to. But they all agree that the decision came through discussion with their partner, considering their individual preferences and the way their own parents raised them.
The moms who do spank say it's not something parents feel comfortable admitting openly."
"It's like a lot of things in this world," said Heather. "It becomes taboo because people take it to the extreme."
"I think people are afraid of child welfare," agreed Jen. "You hear the horror stories about that, and you're afraid of stigmas. There is a stigma."
That becomes especially true when spanking enters the headlines the way it did earlier this year, with a new study claiming spanking could lead to mental illness later in life. The moms say it's important to read and get information, but to use the research as a discussion point and not as a mandate.
"You do what you think is best, and you hope and pray that ends up being best for your child," said Camye.
"We keep trying one thing after the other trying to find something that works for our daughter," said Ellie.
Heather says sometimes there needs to be a little trial and error when it comes to discipline. "What works for my daughter, doesn't work for my son," she said. "That's okay, because they are separate children. Mia is a rewards girl. She does well being rewarded for good behavior."
The moms also agree that discipline does not have to be negative.
"There was one point when we were in the negativity zone," Heather continued. "Everything was no, no, no. Why would they respond to that?"
"At any age with the right words, you can discipline your child," she said.
Read more here:
Study linking spanking and mental illness: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/spanking-kids-leads-adult-mental-illnesses/story?id=16695697
Related Quad City Moms Blog Posts
How to speak your child's love language: http://www.quadcitymomsblog.com/2012/02/06/storytime-for-mom/
Discussing discipline: http://www.quadcitymomsblog.com/2012/02/09/this-moms-life-meet-marie/


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Boike currently serves as the director of the Podiatric Medical and Surgical Residency Training Programs and section head of Podiatric Medicine and Surgery in the Foot and Ankle Center of the Orthopaedic and Rheumatology Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. His primary practice locations are at the Cleveland Clinic's main campus and the Strongsville Family Health Center.
"Dr. Boike is a nationally known podiatrist and educator who understands the future of podiatric medicine, and who is committed to steering the Kent State University College of Podiatric Medicine to the top of all podiatric schools in the country," said Todd Diacon, Kent State's senior vice president for academic affairs and provost. "We are fortunate to have someone with Dr. Boike's skill, experience and reputation for excellence joining Kent State University."
Boike succeeds interim dean Bryan Caldwell, who has served in that position since October 2013. Caldwell, who has been with the podiatry school since 1994, will return to his position as assistant dean of the College of Podiatric Medicine.
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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
BALAD, Iraq, Dec. 9, 2006 As he prepares to enter his final week in office, Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld was greeted warmly here by the men and women in uniform he has led for the past six years.
Rumsfeld paid a surprise visit to servicemembers based in Iraq to thank them for their service. He met with troops on Al Asad Air Base in Anbar province and then with troops here.
In both places, the troops treated him like a rock star. The 74-year-old secretary flew aboard an Air Force C-17 from Washington. He worked through the night aboard the plane, but was still fresh enough to put in a full day speaking to and meeting the troops.
And they responded.
When he arrived to speak at Al Asad, he received a sustained ovation – punctuated by Marine OO-RAHs and Army HOOAHs. There were even a number of Air Force personnel who insisted on yelling "Airpower."
After the speech in Al Asad, hundreds of servicemembers lined up for pictures with Rumsfeld. Many offered support for the secretary who steps down Dec. 18. "It isn't a military problem out here," said one Marine gunnery sergeant speaking on background. "It's a political problem. No one in this country can challenge us militarily; we'd wipe the floor with them. The Iraqis have to 'cowboy up.'"
Many soldiers and airmen at Balad said that if they have the patience and they haven't lost faith, then the American people shouldn't either. "This is my second year-long tour," said a convoy commander at Anaconda Logistics Area. "Why am I more patient than someone sitting at home in 'Fort Livingroom?'"
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In his first public message since his stroke, Sen. Mark Kirk discusses his rehabilitation process and how he's anxious "to get back to work to vote to spend less, borrow less and tax less to fix our economy."
Just 15 weeks after the stroke, Kirk's recovery seems to be progressing well. The video shows him walking with help from a three-footed cane and rehabilitation aide, but with some apparent paralysis on the left side of his face and his arm. Anyone who has a family member or friend who has suffered a stroke knows that recovery is a long and challenging process. But Kirk has the advantage of being fairly young and in otherwise good health, and he reportedly hopes to return to work after the August recess.
And the sooner he returns, the better for conservatives. While many of the rising conservative leaders in Congress are very strong on economic issues, Kirk has also been a critical voice on foreign policy and an unwavering defender of Israel. So much so that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu praised the senator's work at the beginning of his speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee earlier this year.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery to Kirk, and let's hope it's not long before he's able to climb those 45 steps from the parking lot to the Senate front door.


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In yesterday's post I talked about giving up our Babylon-like assumptions about how campus ministries might work, and focusing on what we might call the Israel model: a smaller community, dedicated to the highest ideals of faithfulness to God's calling and mission.
But this means quite a bit of adjustment about how we might go about doing campus ministry.
We might ask first, what kind of leadership does this model require? Does it need an ordained elder with seminary student loans to pay off and a minimum salary? Full-time or part-time? Should they be associated with a local church? What's the scope of their responsibility? Will they be accountable to the same kinds of measures that a congregational pastor is, or does their ministry take on a different shape or flavor?
And what about other forms of leadership: Where do United Methodist or other Christian faculty fit into the picture? How about area churches, clergy, and lay leaders? What kind of Board of Directors is required, how should it be configured, and how will it operate?
Many of these questions will have to be decided on a campus-by-campus basis. I would imagine more diversity of campus ministry directors will emerge, and soon. Unfortunately, many of our campus ministries, churches, and annual conferences are not proactively engaging challenges and creatively seeding alternatives.
A similarly daunting question is what kind of facility (if any) is needed? My own campus ministry experience was building-less, so we used a large UMC (1-2 miles away) and the Wesley parsonage (2 blocks off campus) mostly. We used the university chapel for our Thursday night communion services and reserved space in a conference or class room if needed. But we were a pretty low-key outfit on a small population size university.
On the medium-sized state university campus where I serve now, we have a sizable facility that includes chapel, study, classroom, gathering, rec room, and kitchen space, plus offices and restrooms. We also have 2 student apartments. So that requires a different ministryview to utilize it effectively. It also requires a huge deal of maintenance and overhead expenses that a building-less Wesley doesn't. But it also gives the ability to do certain things a vagabond Wesley cannot.
Another alternative might be what my friend Rob Rynders is doing at Arizona State's Valley Wesley. They've got a partnership with NEWCHAPTER, which builds residence facilities for college communities like campus ministries. So the new ASU Wesley Hall, when complete, will house 89 students beginning this August. Obviously, it's a big investment, but there will be long-term income from students living there. More than that, I believe that a faith-based dormitory will provide the opportunity for immersive spiritual formation and missional deployment.
Valley Wesley isn't the only campus ministry doing this, and I think that this is one model for a vibrant campus ministry life that can run deep and wide. I would imagine it would also be scalable to different sizes of campus ministry. It also has the added benefit of generating income that could sustain facilities, staff, and programs. Finally, the potential for spiritual formation, vocational discernment, ethical leadership, and cruciform service is dramatic.
The type of facility, leadership, & resourcing sets the stage for a Wesley Foundation's ministry.
I know there are other innovative & fruitful models for doing campus ministry out there. But just telling our church youth, as they walk out the door to college, to find a campus ministry doesn't work any more (if it did at all). What does it take to connect to North American young adults today? We'll take a look at this tomorrow…
…but for today, I wonder:
What do you think campus ministries will look like in the next 5 – 25 years?
What forces are at work that will shape Wesley Foundations and campuses?
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Penn State Women's Lacrosse Falls to No. 2 Georgetown, 18-9
STATE COLLEGE, Pa., April 24, 2002 -- The second-ranked Georgetown Hoyas used an 11-goal second half to defeat the Penn State women's lacrosse team 18-9 Wednesday night at Jeffrey Field. The Lions fall to 6-8 on the season while Georgetown improves to 13-1.
Penn State sophomore Katie Jeschke (Ellicott City, Md.) scored the first goal of the contest just 25 seconds in when her shot deflected off another player and into the goal. But the Hoyas answered just 16 seconds later when senior Erin Elbe scored the first of her five goals. Georgetown went on to score five unanswered tallies before a mark by Lion senior B.J. Lucey (Springfield, Pa.) made the score 6-2. Another Hoya goal increased the Penn State deficit to five but goals by sophomore Stephanie Curnoles (Baltimore, Md.) and junior Colleen O'Hara (Ardmore, Pa.) made the score 7-4 in favor of Georgetown going into halftime.
The second half began with the Hoyas tallying a goal just a minute and a half in, but it was quickly answered by sophomore Jamie Donahue (Oreland, Pa.). After a Georgetown goal, a mark by senior Brooke Bailey (Wallingford, Pa.) pulled Penn State to within three, making the score 9-6 with 25:51 to play. This margin was too close for the Hoyas, who went on to score six goals in the next 12 minutes to increase their lead to 15-6. A Lion goal by senior Molly Ford (Trenton, N.J.) with 13:41 remaining pulled Penn State to 15-7, but three more Hoya goals pushed the game to 18-7 with under eight minutes to play. Two goals by freshman Kristen Burke (Severna Park, Md.) were too little too late, as the Lions fell, 18-9.
Freshman goalkeeper Lee Tortorelli (Havertown, Pa.) recorded 14 saves in the contest.
Penn State takes to the road for two games. Friday, April 26 the Lions visit Columbus, Ohio to face the Buckeyes of Ohio State at 7:00 p.m. and then on Sunday, April 28 Penn State will face Ohio beginning at noon. That contest can be heard live on the internet on Penn State's official athletic website, www.GoPSUsports.com.
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Television - Andrew Billen thinks Jeremy Vine should cut out the jokes and focus on questions
Television - Andrew Billen thinks Jeremy Vine should cut out the jokes and focus on questions
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''What the hell is he talking about?" was my initial reaction to the way Radio 2's Jeremy Vine introduced the first edition of his Politics Show on Sunday (noon, BBC1). In a week of transport chaos, JV told us that a commuter delayed for two years on an InterCity train had arrived at Newcastle Station and demanded the resignation of Stephen Byers. And then, as the titles rolled, I realised: My God, Jeremy had made a joke. Whereas news shows once started with the arresting headlines, The Politics Show, successor to On the Record, was starting with the "And finally . . ." The bong was dead; long live the bad-a-bing.
Trying to be funny, as is sometimes pointed out, is a crime only in this country, but we should nevertheless be grateful that earlier plans for JV to deliver a full-scale, David Letterman-style monologue were abandoned. The joke and JV's open-necked shirt, however, both point to the BBC's desire to make politics welcoming to those uninterested in Westminster, particularly the elusive young. The fact that you need to know your politics to remember who Steve Byers was, and that JV, with or without a tie, is about as hip as Jimmy Young himself does not seem to have occurred. Yet despite the joke, its silly, double-bluff title and its overlit yet gloomy set (its "windows" look out on to anonymous tower blocks), there is nothing much wrong with the new programme, or, rather, nothing that cannot quickly be fixed.
The trailers claim that it is "about the whole picture, from Downing Street to your street", a dig at its predecessor, On the Record, which pretended with gothic insanity to come from within the mechanism of Big Ben itself. Sure enough, the first item sent a reporter down to Monmouth, where she found the local MP besieged by constituents and activists opposed to war. JV oversold this when he promised that they had "uncovered evidence that once loyal supporters of Tony Blair are willing to oppose him on Iraq" - we all know that - but the report was a decent enough stick with which to club the Labour chairman, John Reid, when he appeared for his studio grilling.
The question here was not if On the Record's John Humphrys would have skewered him more effectively but whether the new ten-minute format allowed Reid to get away with what the old 30-minute interview would have forced him to confront. Instructively, it was only in the final five minutes of Jonathan Dimbleby's vigorous 25-minute quizzing of Tariq Aziz in Baghdad (Jonathan Dimbleby, 1pm, ITV1, Sunday) that the Iraqi deputy prime minister began to show his true colours and lose his rag. In contrast, Reid emerged as happy as a duck in drizzle.
Next it was asylum, and we were off to smell more grass roots, this time in Wolverhampton, where, lark of larks, the reporter found some Asians agreeing with the shade of Enoch Powell. After that , we were treated to a philosophy professor from University College London, who, sitting on Churchill's bed in the Cabinet War Rooms, told us that liberal democracies did not go to war with each other - a "fancy that!" to wow your mates down the pub.
After 20 minutes of regional opt-out, JV returned for a cursory chat with an Italian-accented European correspondent, followed by a political cartoon. This badly animated computer squib needs to go as urgently as the JV joke. Otherwise, in its first outing, The Politics Show did what it set out to: forge links between Westminster and what is known technically as the "real world". Vine, who bonded with viewers when he took the Newsnight van around the county during the election, is an asset and more authoritative now that he's dropped the Paxman impressions.
As for the other changes to the BBC's political programmes, much depends on whether you can stomach Andrew Neil, who is on thrice a week at lunchtimes on BBC2 and weekly on The Week (after Question Time, BBC1, Thursdays). The latter programme has settled down nicely into a political version of Newsnight Review with regular panellists Michael Portillo and Diane Abbott (misnamed, with inadvertent racism, Oona King, in the electronic listings). Last week, Timothy Garton Ash joined them to deliver a little lecture on the coming war. He began by asking how we would feel if Switzerland rather than the US was about to attack Iraq, which sounded terribly clever until you tried answering the question: we'd feel exactly the same, wouldn't we?
Whether Sian Kevill's alarmist review of BBC political coverage has brought improvement or merely change is another matter, but so far there is no evidence that it is worse. The programme I'm keeping an eye on is the new BBC Ten O'Clock News, which now stars Huw Edwards, who breaks the news in the voice family doctors once used to tell little old ladies that their husbands had passed away. His opening bongs are so soft that they sound like Disprins being dropped into tumblers of water. Along with the now obligatory request that we participate by sending him e-mails on "our thoughts", the programme - "the bulletin of record of BBC TV News", according to its website - has also gained a sportscaster, an artificial midway break and a news wall. It's looking dumber by the day.
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David Brooks asserted yesterday in "Obama's Christian Realism" that Barack Obama's Oslo speech was "the most profound of his presidency, and maybe his life."
Since Obama's presidency is only 11 months old, and the Obama oeuvre is not large, this is actually faint praise. We all remember the great "Let Me Be Clear" speech at AIPAC, the emphatic "I Can No More Disown" Reverend Wright speech, the humble "Citizens of the World" address in Berlin, the stately "Greek Column" oration in Denver, the compelling "Unclench Your Fist" Inaugural, and the "Just Till July 2011" clarion call at West Point. There are really only about 10 lifetime speeches to be evaluated in terms of comparative profundity.
Brooks concludes that Obama's Oslo speech is making his "doctrine" clear: a theological commitment to combat evil while avoiding righteousness. He quotes Obama's 2007 remark on theologian Reinhold Niebuhr's impact: "I take away the compelling idea that there's serious evil in the world and hardship and pain. And we should be humble and modest in our belief we can eliminate those things. But we shouldn't use that as an excuse for cynicism and inaction."
Brooks originally reported that remark in a 2007 column entitled "Obama, Gospel and Verse," in which he questioned whether Obama had "thought through a practical foreign policy doctrine of his own – a way to apply his Niebuhrian instincts." Back then, Brooks was not certain he had:
When you ask about ways to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, he talks grandly about marshaling a global alliance. But when you ask specifically if an Iranian bomb would be deterrable, he's says yes: "I think Iran is like North Korea. They see nuclear arms in defensive terms, as a way to prevent regime change."
In other words, he has a tendency to go big and offer himself up as Bromide Obama, filled with grand but usually evasive eloquence about bringing people together and showing respect. Then, in a blink, he can go small and concrete, and sound more like a community organizer than George F. Kennan.
It's nice that in his Oslo speech, Obama confirmed that evil "does exist in the world" and that he "cannot be guided by [Martin Luther King Jr.'s and Gandhi's] examples alone." It is good that he insists that Iran and North Korea not "game the system" and that sanctions must "exact a real price."
But the real question about Obama's "doctrine" is whether — after Iran declines to unclench its fist and sanctions fail (they have yet to succeed with Cuba or North Korea, and Saddam Hussein turned a profit from the "crippling" ones on him) — his Niebuhrian instincts call for any other option. Iran is likely to react to diplomacy in one fashion if it thinks the answer is yes, and another if it thinks the answer is no.
So far, Iran is acting as if it has read Brooks's 2007 column and knows the answer. It appears untroubled by the most profound speech of Obama's life.


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Fire Dept. seeks public help in solving arson casesWritten by Kristen Criswell | | firstname.lastname@example.com
For the Toledo Fire Department's investigation unit, public assistance is crucial to solving and prosecuting an arson case.
"It's very dependent upon the public," said Phil Cervantes, deputy chief. "It's truly amazing how much [the fire investigators] rely on people in the neighborhoods to come forward and say something, give us anything — an address, a name, something along those lines."
Often arson fires are easy to identify, Cervantes said. Sometimes it's a vacant home where utilities have been shut off, so there's no reason for the fire to be burning, or accelerants are found at a fire scene.
While some arson fires can be easy to identify, proving arson is more difficult. It's the public's assistance that helps identify and prosecute suspects.
Neighbors tend to work with fire investigators to gather information, but when it comes time to go to court, individuals are afraid of retaliation and will not testify.
"We may have a good idea of who did it, why they did it and how they did it, but when you put it all together and discuss it with a prosecutor they want an eyeball witness," said Andre Tiggs, fire investigator. "[Without a witness], the prosecution won't go forward at all."
Fire investigators don't want to put anyone in danger in their own neighborhood, but the only way for arsons to stop, or slow down, is for individuals to come forward, said Glen Frames, fire investigator.
The Toledo Fire Department's investigation unit has three investigators.
The investigators are all trained firefighters and also have police powers. This allows investigators to follow an investigation from inception through prosecution.
If crews come across a suspicious blaze while out fighting fires, they call the on-call fire investigator to investigate the scene.
When first arriving, investigators will talk to the crews at the site before performing a 360-degree inspection of the building, Tiggs said.
"We talk to a lot of guys, especially those who are first in. They will describe flames, smoke or even smell," he said.
After talking with crews, the investigator then conducts a burn-pattern analysis, takes pictures and collects char samples. The investigator notes things found in the heaviest fire areas and whether those things should be present, Tiggs said.
When there are homeowners, investigators interview them and then look into the occupant's financials, Tiggs said.
The unit doesn't investigate every fire and the fires the investigators look into are prioritized by solvability, Cervantes said. Despite the focus on solvable cases, investigations are constantly revolving.
"They may go out and it's a no-brainer that it's arson, but we don't have any witnesses, don't have the smoking gun sitting there, so they'll put it on the back burner," Cervantes said. "A couple months later someone comes up and says I have a name for you and all of a sudden it's back up to the top. Our cases are pretty dependent upon what we can prove and what we can't prove."
To date, the fire investigators have actively worked on 316 investigations, said Dale Pelz, fire investigator. The national average for arson conviction is less than 10 percent of all cases, in Toledo that rate tends to be a little higher, Pelz. In 2010, the fire investigation unit has made 31 arson arrests with 13 of those being juveniles, he said.
In Toledo, the higher arson-rate areas tend to be areas of lower income; the Central City, the East Side and the South End.
"The more depleted neighborhoods tend to see an upswing in all kinds of crime and arson lends itself to that," Cervantes said.
When the fire investigation unit notices trends in arson, it attempts to pool its resources with the police department and other agencies to flood the area with patrols. After a large trend of arson fires during the summer the fire department works with the Toledo Police Department (TPD), the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) on a regular basis.
While the media brought attention to the "serial arsonists" during the summer, the fire investigation unit had already been detecting trends within those areas the winter before.
"Arson became the buzzword in the summertime because all of a sudden the media picked up on it. It became a serial arsonist running around. There's probably a bunch of them running around right now, but it became 'glamorous' in the summer when there were four or five fires a day," Cervantes said.
The media attention increased the number of tips the fire department received, but also created copycat fires, Cervantes said.
To combat the large numbers of fires that were occurring during the summer, the Fire Department blitzed the neighborhoods with TPD gang and vice patrols as well as FBI and ATF officers, he said.
"[Increasing patrols] tends to decrease a lot of activity. In those neighborhoods these people know when you see a shiny unmarked car it's the police," Cervantes said. "All of a sudden the South End started to die down a little bit because of an increased activity by law enforcement and the same thing with the East Side."
As the law enforcement presence is less in the neighborhood now, the fire investigation unit is starting to see an increased number of fires in the same areas again, Cervantes said.
"I think it's picked up a little bit, we went from zero to a level a little above normal, certainly not where it was in the summer," he said.
Only one arrest was made in connection to the summer fires, Henry lee Jackson.
Jackson was convicted of arson and will spend 10 months in jail.
Help us help you fight arson
Driving back from the hospital around noon, your driver gets your attention, pointing,"Hey, look over there."
Looking up from your paperwork, you see a thin column of black smoke rising barely a half mile away. The smoke intensifies.
"Maybe we ought to … "
Your driver turns toward it, accelerating, winding through the suburban neighborhood. The fire radio remains silent. Turning the corner, you see a fire at a residential one-story attached garage is spreading fiercely to the second story of the house and up into its attic. The entire side of the house next door is completely covered in fire from radiant heat; rivulets of siding melts forming plastic stalactites.
Calling in a regular alarm, you see a large crowd of people in the street. Hopping out, the crowd demands you "do something" and asks you, "why ain't you putting it out?" But life squads don't have water. Water is on the way. Anybody know about the occupants? The exposure house (the structure fire spread to, not originated from) family is out and safe. Nobody knows about the occupant from the main fire building.
You run to the door and kick it in; smoke bellows out. Crouching, screaming for someone to answer you. You listen … nothing but crackling and distant sirens. Someone runs up behind you and yells that the occupant is out and behind two houses over. His ankles are swollen and his feet are cut up from the glass he landed in. He was asleep in his bedroom, heard his smoke detector and ran to the door. The hallway was completely filled with smoke, so he hung from a second story window and dropped himself out.
How in the name of St. Florian (patron saint of firefighters) could two houses be so far involved, in the middle of a well populated suburban neighborhood at the dead of noon? The investigation begins. Occasionally, arson is the obvious cause. Unbelievably, gas cans are often found at the door. Accelerants, besides an obvious odor, show distinctive patterns if the fire does not continue to burn. These "pour patterns" are often visible after the fire is extinguished.
When this evidence is noted, the Chief calls out the Fire Investigation Unit. Overhaul becomes limited to only what is necessary to prevent a rekindle, preserving evidence. Once investigators arrive, they assess what is potentially a crime scene. This includes interviews with the crews on the initial fire attack and witnesses. The investigator collects data such as photographs and in addition, carpet samples and scrapings are taken from surfaces to be tested for the presence of accelerants. While this may prove arson, it does not provide us with a suspect.
In this economic downturn, there is an overabundance of vacant homes in the city. This can attract the unhoused simply seeking shelter, drug dealers or mischievous children who sometimes, accidentally or purposefully, catch the building on fire. A forgotten aspect of arsons is the neighbors who are frustrated with demolition waiting lists and take matters into their own hands. Fires in vacant homes certainly pose dangers to firefighters, but they also pose dangers to occupied adjacent structures. Heat and flames can travel, threatening innocent and unsuspecting people. This can be the real tragedy.
We can often determine cause and arson. Prosecution requires a concerned citizenry to come forward. Help us help you.
Michael Nicely has been a firefighter for 18 years. Tom Bartley has been a firefighter for 10 years.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. - University of New Mexico forward Lindsey Arndt and Colorado State guard Vanessa Espinoza were named Mountain West Conference Women's Basketball Co-Players of the Week, marking the first career award for each.
A 6-1 junior from Albuquerque, N.M. (Sandia HS), Arndt helped the Lobos to a 2-0 record last week, including a 49-46 upset over MWC-leader Utah. After being held scoreless at Utah Jan. 25, Arndt erupted for her fourth double-double of the year with 12 points and 12 rebounds vs. the Utes at The Pit. She added two assists and two blocks, and hit both free throw attempts vs. the Utes. In a 60-59 victory vs. BYU, Arndt scored 16 points, while adding eight boards and two blocks. She also converted all four free throw attempts vs. the Cougars. For the week, Arndt averaged 14 points, 10 rebounds, 2.0 blocks and 1.0 assists per game, while shooting 61.1 percent form the field (11-18).
A 5-3 sophomore from Highlands Ranch, Colo. (Douglas County HS), Espinoza helped the Rams to a pair of MWC wins last week. In a 79-65 upset over UNLV, she totaled a career-high 22 points, six assists, five steals, three rebounds and a block, while playing 39 minutes. In a 65-56 victory over San Diego State, Espinoza scored 16 points and added three rebounds, two assists and two steals. For the week, she averaged 19 points, 4.0 assists, 3.5 steals and 3.0 rebounds per game, while shooting 52.2 percent from the field (12-23), 50 percent from beyond the arc (5-10) and 81.8 percent from the free throw line (9-11).
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BiographyKate McDowell is the assistant dean for student affairs and an associate professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where her courses include youth services librarianship, history of readers, and storytelling. She has published articles in Children and Libraries, Book History, Libraries and the Cultural Record, and Library Quarterly. Her article "Surveying the Field: The Research Model of Women in Librarianship, 1882-1898" won the biennial 2010 Donald G. Davis Article Award of the American Library Association's Library History Round Table.
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This project allies with IMLS's support of the Campaign for Grade-Level Reading with an exploration of the use of tablet computers, apps, and e-books in public libraries as a tool against summer reading loss. It will engage with experts in scholarship and practice to define the public library's role in selecting and providing existing digital media for younger children, especially those primary-grades children in low-income communities who are most in need of intervention, whose access to...
Selected Publications, Papers, and PresentationsMcDowell, Kate. 2009. "Surveying the Field: The Research Model of Women in Librarianship, 1882-1898." The Library Quarterly 79 (3): 279–300.
McDowell, Kathleen. 2009. "Toward a History of Children as Readers, 1890-1930." Book History (Pennsylvania State University Press) 12: 240–265.
McDowell, Kate. 2009. "Which Truth, What Fiction?: Librarians' Book Recommendations for Children, 1876-1890." In Education and the Culture of Print in Modern America, ed. Adam Nelson and John Rudolph. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin-Madison Press, 15-35.
McDowell, Kate. "Children's Voices in Librarians' Words, 1890-1930." Libraries and the Cultural Record 46, no. 1 (2011): 73-101.
McDowell, Kate, and Caroline Nappo. 2012. "Evolution in Children's Science Books: Recommendations and Library Collections, 1863-1956." Library Trends 60 (4): 655–674.
McDowell, Kate. 2012. "Oh the Places We've Been! The Roots of Evaluation in Youth Services, 1882-1930." Children & Libraries 10 (2): 32-35, 41.
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The company worked with partners Proximetry and CSC to develop the so-called GateSync product, and is "at the point now where we're showing first production versions of equipment and softare" said Stuart Dunleavy, vice president of marketing and consumer propositions for Thales' IFE and connectivity sector.
Proximetry specialises in frequency management and data transfer algorithms. CSC is a $20 billion dollar computer software security and consulting firm, which is going to deploy the networks and server infrastructure on the ground.
"There is an algorithm which says how many aircraft [can be supported and at] what distance from the antenna. We're saying for 50 aircraft, you can have about a 4 gigabyte per hour committed throughput, less aircraft [would permit] more throughput," said Dunleavy.
The solution will allow airlines to quickly refresh content - be it movies, short-subject or time-sensitive programming - to both make it more appealing and increase advertising revenue.
Dunleavy explained: "What we're trying to drive is a change in the industry model where instead of doing just the bulk 30-day massive content load, we're moving to a model that is more iterative more time-sensitive, more recent, more frequent, and it's a lot more appealing to the passenger. So it's going to take a change in mindset but if we wanted to use a two- to three-hour aircraft turn, or an hour aircraft turn, and do content updates every day, the GateSync system will support those bursts of data. So a movie comes out on the 14th of the month, you make it available on the 15th, instead of waiting until the next month's cycle."
The introduction of GateSync also comes at a time when some studios are considering releasing movies all at once instead of adhering to various windows of release, as they do now.
GateSync is a standalone product "in the sense that it can be added to an aircraft independently" or purchased as part of larger order for Thales' IFE and connectivity solutions, which includes a new streaming video offering, said Dunleavy. "When you start adding other elements of the TopSeries AVANT [Android-based IFE] system and the Thales family of products, GateSync starts getting more and more valuable. A clear bundle would be wireless content distribution in the cabin with GateSync or AVANT, with GateSync."
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She has had 80 plus participants for this iteration, so take a visit over and check out everyone's picks.
I picked my first post of the month, Looking For a Window, which actually kicked off my busiest month of blogging ever. I feel that this post was my most honest so far, and may be the best I've written so far. If you haven't read that post yet, hit the link and take a read.


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What are the signs of groin problems?Groin symptoms include any type of pain or other abnormality in the groin area. Your groin area is the region where your pelvis ends and your legs begin. The groin is also called the inguinal area. It includes your upper inner thigh, as well as the area where your legs attach to your torso.
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Your groin consists of many structures, including bones, muscles, tendons, ligaments, nerves, and blood vessels. Your bones provide structure, your muscles provide motion, and your tendons anchor your muscles to bones. Ligaments connect your femur (thigh bone) to your pelvic bone at the hip joint. Nerves control sensation and movement. Blood vessels provide continuous blood circulation to and from your groin area and legs. Several key blood vessels pass through the groin.
The groin is also the anatomic crossroads for the lower intestinal tract (colon, rectum, and anus) as well as the genitourinary tract (bladder, urethra, reproductive organs, and genitals).
Any of the structures of the groin are subject to injury, infection, diseases, or other conditions that can produce groin symptoms, such as:
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A common cause of groin symptoms is a groin pull. A groin pull is a strain of the inner thigh muscles. A groin pull occurs from muscle overload, such as overstretching, or from a direct blow to the muscle. Groin pulls are a common injury in sports, such as football, baseball, hockey, soccer, swimming, skating, and track and field.
Groin symptoms can be related to diseases, disorders or conditions of the reproductive organs. In men, this may include symptoms in the scrotum or the testicles within the scrotum. Women may experience groin symptoms related to the genitals or internal reproductive organs. In addition, groin symptoms can be associated with conditions of the lower spine, kidney, bladder or colon.
Depending on the cause, groin symptoms can be acute (beginning suddenly and disappearing quickly) or chronic (developing slowly over time). Chronic groin symptoms that occur with additional symptoms may be a sign of a more serious condition, such as a sexually transmitted disease (STD), inguinal hernia, or testicular cancer.
Groin symptoms can be caused by a serious or life-threatening condition. Seek prompt medical care for groin symptoms that are persistent, recurrent, or causing you concern. Sudden groin symptoms in men with swelling of the scrotum, nausea, vomiting, and abdominal pain could be symptoms of testicular torsion, which is a medical emergency. Seek immediate medical care (call 911) if you experience these symptoms.
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Dow Jones is reporting that a bankruptcy judge is urging mediation to save Hostess from liquidation. Wall Street Journal will have more to come as it comes out of the courtroom.
A bankruptcy judge Monday asked whether he should preside over mediation between Hostess Brands Inc. and its striking union to avoid pulling the plug on the baker of Ho Hos, Twinkies and Wonder Bread.
At a hearing Monday on Hostess's request to begin the process of shutting down its business, Judge Robert Drain of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in White Plains, N.Y., asked attorneys representing Hostess and the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International union whether mediation could help the two resolve their issues and avoid the loss of more than 18,000 jobs.
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Monthly Archive for April, 2014
Deer Tick cancels Friday show at Limelight
Citing a medical emergency, the Rhode Island rock band Deer Tick canceled five upcoming shows, including one scheduled for Friday at Limelight. Lead singer John McCauley said on Twitter Wednesday that he may need surgery. A representative for the band said it is working on scheduling a possible makeup show. Deer Tick also released a […] [Read More]
FEA's Theresa Moher: 'Well, that's punk, man'
SAN ANTONIO – And now, the rest of the story. When it comes to their Girl in a Coma side project, FEA, drummer Phanie Diaz and bassist Jenn Alva suck up all the oxygen in the room. But the Chicana-punk band's new, much younger Austin-based lead singer, Theresa Moher, has something to say, too. During […] [Read More]
First impression: 'Evita'
The touring production of "Evita" currently playing at the Majestic Theatre is completely engaging from start to finish. Caroline Bowman delivers a compelling performance in the title role, and she's well-matched by Josh Young as Che and Sean MacLaughlin as Juan Peron. "Evita" can be seen through May 4 at the Majestic Theatre. Tickets are […] [Read More]
'Evita' cast Q&A
Don't cry for "Evita," San Antonio! The Tony Award-winning musical returns tonight to the Majestic Theatre for a 6-day run. Cast members Caroline Bowman (Eva) and Sean MacLaughlin (Juan Perón) share some tidbits about the show and their plans while in town — plus a lot of Spurs love! Welcome to San Antonio! What would […] [Read More]
Motorcycle wreck sidelines Wayne 'The Train' Hancock
His injuries will sideline him for at least a month, so Friday's Floore's show is off. [Read More]
Clint Black, Lewis Black, Smokey Robinson, Adam Carolla set S.A. shows
No, they're not on the same bill. But all four performances were announced today by the Majestic Theatre, which has been booking lots of shows lately. [Read More]
First impression: 'Godspell'
The crew at the Cameo Theatre has pulled together an energetic, largely joyful staging of "Godspell." The cast — led by Roy Bumgarner, who delivers a charismatic performance as Jesus — is appealing and vocally solid. The opening performance started 30 minutes late, a delay attributed to box office issues; props to producer Jonathan Pennington […] [Read More]
Review: 'Dance Kaleidoscope'
By Jasmina Wellinghoff/For the Express-News San Antonio Metropolitan Ballet's spring showcase, "Dance Kaleidoscope," is always packed with goodies and the 2014 version, presented April 26 at the Carver Community Cultural Center, was no exception. If anything, there was even more to see and enjoy than usual. Given that the group is celebrating its 30th anniversary […] [Read More]
On the boards: April 25
One note: Because of the Fiesta parades, the Aesthetic of Waste is taking a break this weekend; "The Most Important Night of Theatre You Will Ever Attend" returns to the Overtime Theater next weekend. That aside, there are plenty of other shows to choose from in the week ahead. [Read More]
Cage The Elephant surfs, climbs, impresses at White Rabbit
Cage The Elephant lead singer Matt Shultz lasted about a song and a half before he took a flying leap into the crowd at the White Rabbit. By the end of the night, he was climbing steel bars to the ceiling of the club. A typical night for a group establishing itself as one of […] [Read More]
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.--- University of New Mexico head women's swimming and diving coach Tracy Ljone announced that three recruits signed National Letters of Intent during the current signing period.
Kelli Light comes from Monument, Colo., where she swims for Lewis-Palmer High School and has been a sectional qualifier since spring of 2005. Light holds individual age group records with her USA team, the Air Force Academy Falfins. She also holds the high school record for the 100-yard backstroke and as a member of the 200-yard and 400-yard freestyle relays.
"We are very excited that Kelli has decided to join our Lobo family," said Ljone. "She has such a bright personality and I look forward to seeing her on deck every day."
Nicole Peirce a native of Thornhill, Ontario, Canada, swims butterfly, breaststroke, and individual medley for Bayview Glen Upper School. Peirce achieved Canadian Olympic Trial standard in the 100-meter fly and competed in the 2008 Canadian Olympic Trial meet.
"Nicole will make an immediate impact on our team," said Ljone. "She will be adding depth in our breaststroke and butterfly events."
Aubrey Bush comes from Eaglecrest, Colo., where she dives for Eaglecrest High School. UNM diving coach Abel Sanchez said, "One thing that amazes me about Aubrey is that she's picked it up so well so fast... I'm very excited to have her on the team. I think she's something special and will make an immediate impact on our team, in our conference and in the NCAA. She's young and has great promise ahead of her. I'm real excited about next year with all the talent returning and with our future Lobos. Next year should be a fun year".