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WORDEN -- On Oct. 28, 2012, surgeons amputated Koni Dole's right leg below the knee.
For most high school football players, that amputation would have shattered any dreams of ever competing on the field again.
For Dole, it was the only way he would have a chance to play football again.
Just days earlier, during the last quarter of the last game of the Huntley Project Red Devil's season, Dole suffered a compound fracture on the field.
He went through six surgeries to try to repair his leg, but he developed compartment syndrome in his leg, a painful condition in which swelling and pressure robs muscle and tissue of proper blood flow.
Surgeons presented Dole and his parents, Nancy and Fualelei Andy Dole, two options: Dole could keep his leg, which would be dysfunctional, or he could have it amputated and they could hope that he would be able to compete again with the aid of a prosthetic.
Dole didn't hesitate.
On Oct. 29 — the day after his leg was amputated — he was back in the weight room. And after months of dedicated training with coaches and teammates, learning to run with a prosthetic and fighting through constant pain, the Friday night lights in Worden were shining for Dole as he started the first game of the 2013 season.
"We came out slow, but it all turned out in the end, I guess," Dole said as he rested at home Saturday afternoon.
The game did turn out: The Red Devils beat Joliet 45-0.
And Dole, who started at fullback on offense and as a lineman on defense, scored two touchdowns in a little more than two quarters of playing time.
His brother, 14-year-old Kai, started the game, too, fulfilling a goal the brothers set after Dole's surgery.
"(It was an) untouchable feeling to be back out there with my team with all I've been through in the last 9, 10 months," Dole said. "It's been a long road."
It took him a fraction of the time it normally takes people to learn to walk and run on a prosthetic.
"Two months after surgery, I forced myself to wrestle, just so I could get out there and compete again," he said. "I ran track just so I could get on my leg and get running."
And barely a day has gone by where he hasn't spent hours weightlifting in the gym.
Guy Croy, the head coach at Huntley Project, has been a huge support since the surgery, Dole said. So has Adam Husk, Dole's strength and development coach.
"I had days were I would break down and coach Husk would be there to pat me on the back and tell me 'Good job,'" Dole said.
The community support has been overwhelming, too, Dole and his family said.
A fundraiser paid for the $30,000 athletic prosthetic that lets him compete. But that blessing comes with constant pain, as the bone in his right leg, which isn't fully healed, grinds into the top of the prosthetic.
"It kills me all the time," Dole said. "It started hurting (during the game), but it was nothing I couldn't push through. The feeling of me being out there was overwhelming … taking my mind off the pain."
Tanner Miller, Dole's best friend and teammate, said the crowd went crazy when Dole scored his first touchdown.
"It was awesome," Miller said. "It was one of the most exciting feelings I've ever experienced."
Dole's mother, Nancy, said she was nervous and excited during the game, but not surprised to see that her son's hard work has paid off.
"He's always worked hard like that," she said, adding that his surgery didn't change Dole's drive to succeed. "If anything, it got more intense. That's nothing new with Koni."
"I was happy for him, that he made his way back," Fualelei Dole said of his son. "I mean, he worked hard to get back to where he is. All that effort paid off last night, his first game back."
Dole's tenacity didn't just get him back on the field in Worden. He's also earned a preferred walk-on spot with the Montana State Bobcats, the team he's dreamed of playing for since he was in middle school.
The motivation, he said, comes from the support of his parents.
"Just the way I was raised, I guess," Dole said. "I've just always wanted to do the best and be the best — go somewhere, you know?"
And when his leg was amputated, "I just didn't let it hold me back."


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Denormalization, Processes
If you read the news, you'll know that tuneups are happening behind the scenes of BeerRiot. If you came to this blog after reading that story, you're wondering what, exactly, they are.
If I'm not feeling particularly communication-challenged, I'll be able to explain them to you. ;)
The first tuneup is one every webmaster has heard of: denormalization. I had been using a view to select data from three tables with one call. The performance drag of that query was serious enough, though, that I've decided to complicate things a bit and copy the extra bits of data I need from the other tables into the main one for the query.
The speed gain is great, and, somewhat strangely, the denormalization actually cleaned up a bunch of my code. ErlyDB lacks a "one-to-one" relation, so it was impossible for me to say "each record in this view is really just a record in this other table with some extra data." That made for a bit of hackery swinging from one type to another. Without that extra table, I think the code reads more clearly.
(Disclaimer: I'm far from being an relational database master, so it's likely that there is a much better way to express everything I'm doing. But, I'm happy to be making what seems to be forward progress.)
The other main change is more Erlang-centric. Until now, I had been tracking sessions using a customization of the Yaws recommended session server. This is basically a central process that stores opaque data associated with an id string. Whenever your app gets a request, it pulls the cookie value out and checks with this central process to find out if there is any opaque data associated with this key. It works (quite well, in fact), but it seems like a bit of a bottle neck.
So, I've decided that there's a more Erlangy way to do things. What BeerRiot is doing now is starting up a new process for each session, and saving that process id in a client cookie. Then, whenever a request comes in, if it has a cookie with a PID, we can try to contact that session's handling process directly. No central service required.
It turns out that there's loads of benefits to having this session hanging around beyond relieving the central service bottleneck. It can cache data, smartly (i.e. listen for updates, etc.). It's a natural place to run background processes (like propagating live changes to durable storage). I see other potential uses, but since I haven't tested them yet, I'll hold my tongue to avoid getting too many hopes up. ;)
For Facebook developers: This process-session system wasn't possible until just a few weeks ago, when Facebook started supporting cookies on the canvas page. Unfortunately, they only support them for canvas requests, and not for their "mock ajax." For mock ajax, I've decided to just encode the cookie values in post parameters. It works (and it's no more inconsistent than the rest of the Facebook Developer experience).
Update 2.Jan 18:52 EDT: If you spent any part of today poking at BeerRiot to see how the speed-ups turned out, you were probably rather dissatisfied. I just figured out that I didn't fully rollout the update. :P It's there now, and I think you'll be much more impressed.
Erlang2Facebook Updates
I've just committed a couple of minor updates to the erlang2facebook library that I'm sure some of you are interested in.
The first (SVN revisions 7 & 9) is an API update to follow the Facebook team's changes to profile_setFBML. Now, instead of just passing a single chunk of FBML, containing markup for the profile box, profile actions, and mobile profile, there are three distinct fields to shove those chunks in. Sorry about the non-consecutive SVN commits. :P
The second update (SVN revision 8 ) is intended to show how to use ErlTL better (thanks for the tips, Yariv!). I've created render.et, and moved all of the render_* functions from canvas_controller into it. This allows me to use the more HTML-like syntax (code efficiency), while also taking advantage of ErlTL's automatic use of Erlang's binaries (runtime efficiency).
Erlang2facebook has Users!
Fun news this morning. BeerRiot's Facebook App is no long the only Facebook App based on Erlang! The word is that these four are also using the erlang2facebook library:
Awesome! Care to step up and take credit for your accomplishments, Mark?
Beer for Wine Lovers
As I sit here enjoying a home-brewed wine (!) that my parents made last fall (great, guys, by the way!), I'm reminded of a thought I had a few days ago, reinforced at yesterday's NERAX North event. I was reading a piece in the New York Times about cask-conditioned ale, when I noticed that the piece was written by their wine reviewer.
As I was grumbling about a the Times sending their wine reviewer to do a beer review, it occured to me that the pairing was actually perfect: there is no beer that a wine-lover is more likely to enjoy than a properly-served cask-conditioned ale.
Think about it. What are the main differences between wine and your typical beer? Forget grapes vs. barley – those are inescapable. The three that come to my mind are: carbonation, serving temperature, and flavoring particles.
To start with, most wine is uncarbonated. Unless you're specifically talking about champagne or sparkling wine, the assumption is that wine is still. Some people prefer their beverages this way. No sparkling on the tongue or in the nose, no unfortunate gaseous releases to deal with later.
What they don't know is that most craft beer, especially true for cask-conditioned and "real ale", has much less carbonation than macro-brewed beer. Artisanal brewers realize that large amounts of carbonation only hide the flavor of beer. The mild carbonation is intended only to keep the beer dancing on the tongue, and they stop before it goes all house-bouncing-rave style. Someone expecting a typical beer may even complain that what they got was flat. I think a wine-lover could truly appreciate the stillness and lack of distraction from the beer's other flavors, though.
Most wine is also served only mildly chilled. Whites are often cool on the tongue, but reds are usually nearly room-temperature. Again, a certain amount of personal preference plays into the choice. Teeth are sensitive to temperature swings. There's less pressure to finish a beverage before it gets warm, if it starts out at room temperature.
But, here again is a place where cask-conditioned ale stands apart. Casks live in, and are served from cellars. As such, the beer in them is served at "cellar temperature", usually around 50ºF. At this temperature, the beer's flavors are much more available to the tongue. Beers served colder, sometimes even "ice cold", numb the tongue as they're drunk. The tongue is so frigid, it can't tell if it's drinking beer or iced tea.
But what about the flavor? Even if you serve with less carbonation and a higher termperature to allow the tongue to taste more, what if you don't like the taste of beer? Certainly, wine is made from grapes, and beer is made from barley, and they taste different. But, there is one flavor aspect that are extremely important to many wines: tannins.
Tannins come from woods, and that skins of fruit, leaves of plants, and hulls of grains (really just the "fruit" of grasses). Homebrewers are familiar with cautions not to heat grain too high lest they extract the tannins of the hulls. However, cask-beers do extract tannins from another source – the cask! Yes, the wood in the barrel, often the same wood used in wine barrels, contributes tannins to the beer contained within. Familiar flavors for the wine connoisseur, right there in cask-conditioned ale.
Wine, served still, at or just below room temperature, drawn from a wooden container. Beer, served only slightly sparkling, just below room temperature, drawn from a wooden container. Now you're just down to grapes vs. barley and hops. I think there may be hope for converting the wine-lovers yet. :)
(And if you really want to push the grapes vs. barley and hops argument, I'll offer two for comparison: mead (honey wine) and Brackett ale (honey and malt). Where's the difference now?)
RSS Feeds
In case you're using this blog's feed to get updates about new features on BeerRiot, here's a notice that BeerRiot now has its own feeds. :)
I'm pretty green to the RSS scene, though, so if I've committed some terrible crime against RSS, please let me know, and I'll get on fixing it. Or, if there's just some way that I could improve the experience, which all of you RSS-fiends know about, those suggestions are most welcome.
BeerRiot Forums
Yes, the update I promised earlier in the week is now live. BeerRiot's Forums are now open for discussion.
I know what some of you are thinking. "Forums?! Every site under the sun has forums. What did you waste weeks on forums for?" Clearly, if there was an ounce of sense in my head, I would have grabbed the nearest PhpBB implementation, tossed it up, and been done with it.
Well, I agree.
Except that I just couldn't bear having such a disconnected, tacked on hunk of lameness. Even assuming that people wouldn't mind the pain in the neck of having a second logon for a forum system, what I really wanted was a system that could really relate to the rest of the content on the site.
For example, I expect people to want to talk about a group (or several) of beers. Maybe someone will have a question about how two styles relate (porter and stout, hefeweizen and wheat, …), or they will have just returned from an event with an interesting selection. I think they should be able to easily set up a discussion about exactly the set of beers they want. So, since we were already doing this to some extent with tags, I have made it a key feature of discussion topics that they should be able to have tags associated with them.
I also expect people to want to get the word out about upcoming beer events. They'll want to tell people where, and when, but then also discuss how it went afterward. So, in the events forum, all topics are allowed to have dates and locations associated with them.
As such, I went on my merry way developing. An opportunity to sling more Erlang code – how could I resist? ;)
As if that weren't bad enough, there was the realization late in the project that the new forum system was so much better than the beer comment system that there was no way I could leave the elder in place. So, out came the old, and in went the new. And hey – I always wanted to let people comment directly on breweries, why not add that in too?
If you've been anywhere near the software industry (or, in fact, I suspect any industry), you recognize now the project spiral. "Just one more thing, then it will be ready." That's how it went for the first couple of weeks. Luckily I recognized the spiral at that point too, and cut off some of the broader plans to get this pushed out (don't worry – they're still on the agenda, just on a different deadline).
Believe it or not, I believe I was lucky enough to be able to pick joints at which to truncate plans, that after this big, bulky update I should be able to roll out some nice, smaller updates fairly quickly and smoothly. The next news item shouldn't be three weeks away. ;)
So that's that. In case you're wondering, no, I still don't regret choosing Erlang/ErlyWeb for this project. I didn't run up against anything in this development that this system was incapable of handling. As mentioned above, I likely would have been delving deep into the guts of any forum system I chose, so development time would have been just as long. Getting to do it in a language that doesn't annoy me [yet] was a real treat.
Despite reports to the contrary…
…I'm still alive and plugging away at BeerRiot code. I thought you all might just like to hear that despite the fact that I haven't made a post here in a while, or updated the news section on the site, development is far from dead. There are things in the works, and I hope they will be ready soon.
But, I'm running into the oldest code-project slow-down in the book.[1] New code is making me rethink old code. Especially since I was much more of an Erlang amateur at the start of this project, my old code often looks ugly now. So, since my new code is doing very similar things to some of the oldest code here, I'm reworking the old stuff – mainly to avoid duplication, of course, but also because I understand the domain better now.
Unfortunately for you, the user, I'm still having quite a fun time slinging Erlang around, so it's hard for me to just say, "Enough – post it!" But, I think I've defined the final goals, and the web of changes is starting to contract. The updates should happen soon (probably within a week), and then there will be lots of new toys to play with. :)
[1] Okay, so actually, there are older slowdowns in the book, but I ran into them too (that is, real life has demanded extra attention recently). But I think there's a lull in them for a while, so things should progess faster now.
Why YOU Should Drink Green
Wait! Before you skip this post thinking that I'm just another "tree hugger" ranting about saving the planet, I want to tell you that I'm going to divide this post into two parts. The first part will be reasons you should drink green that only affect your enjoyment of the beer. Only the second part will be about why drinking in this manner also saves the planet. I'll let you know before the switch.
Okay, well let's get on with it!
First of all, there are several things you should be doing to ensure that you're drinking green. In no particular order, here are my top several:
- Drink from a glass.
- Drink local beer.
- Drink seasonal beer.
- Drink ales.
- Drink barley.
- Enjoy cellar temperature.
- Love yeast.
Some of those are going to need explaining. So, here are the reasons for each of them, in how they relate your your beer enjoyment.
Drink from a glass. If you're drinking from a bottle, you're severly limiting your ability to taste the beer. A large portion of a human's taste sensation comes from smell. A glass allows your nose to get right down in the aroma.
Drink local beer. For all of its exploits, all around the world, beer is, at some level, a fragile, tempermental beverage. It needs to be stored in a dark place, at a proper temperature. Even then, it has a maximum shelf life of only a few months. Drinking locally means that you have the best chance of enjoying that beer before it has been subjected to terrible storage practices.
Drink seasonal beer. Same as above, beer has a maximal shelf life, and should be drunk as soon as it's ready. Find out what's in season and drink it in its prime.
Drink ales. The world of ales is vast. Pale, IPA, Brown, Strong, Stout, Porter, Wheat, Red – and that's not even making a dent. If you're looking for a particular flavor, there is an ale to match it.
Drink barley. If you're a typical American, you get your daily fill of corn without even thinking about it. Demand that your beer supply you with something else. Barley has a complex flavor all its own, and nutrients to match. Seek the different roasts, and never be bored.
Enjoy cellar temperature. Ice-cold serving does one thing: numbs your taste buds. You're drinking a fine beverage – why would you want to avoid its taste? Store and enjoy your beer at cellar temperature – you'll find more flavor that way.
Love yeast. Yeast is a very simple organism that plays a very large role in beer's flavor. Some beers (include real ale, unfiltered wheats, and bottle-fermented varieties) still have yeast (alive and/or dead) in the beer while you drink it. This adds yet another flavor for your tongue to ponder. Yeast is also a great source of vitamin B – so it's good for more than just your tongue.
Alright, this is the point where I go all tree-hugger on you. Hopefully I've caught enough of your interest with the points above that you'd like to know why these things are important for more than just taste. If so, read on.
Drink from a glass. If you're drinking from a glass, you most likely had your beer poured from a keg. That means no extra energy was wasted on making a bottle, cleaning a bottle, or transporting a bottle. Just make sure it's a reusable glass.
Drink local beer. If your beer is made locally, much less energy has been used in getting it to you.
Drink seasonal beer. It takes extra energy to provide conditions in which to brew unseasonal beer out of season. Embrace the cycle.
Drink ales. Lagers must ferment (and be stored) at much lower temperatures than ales. If you know someone that still makes lagers by burying casks in caves, covering them with ice harvested from a lake in the winter, then good for you, and drink up. However, most lagers are brewed by refrigerating large warehouses, and delivered in refrigerated trucks.
Drink barley. Americans are practically made of corn. Barley is an excellent source of nutrition, and encouraging its growth means that our farms have other profitable crops to fall back on when weather ruins corn crops. It's unhealthy for the planet to run farming monocultures.
Enjoy cellar temperature. Even if you're not drinking a lager, if your ale is served ice-cold, it's being refrigerated in a way that is completely unnecessary. Turn the thermostate up a few degrees, and save some watts.
Love yeast. Naturally-fermented beer requires no extra piping of CO2, no extra pump pressure to force beer through a filter, and no extra cooling. And, you get smaller bubbles (which make for thicker head) without bothering with a Guinness-style nitrogen "widget".
So there you have it. Drinking green – good for both you and the Earth. If you'd like to read more about the benefits of drinking beer responsibly, I recommend Christopher Mark O'Brien's Fermenting Revolution.
P.S. This post is part of Blog Action Day. Yes, I agree that actions speak louder than words, but I already act on the words I wrote above, so I figured adding the words couldn't hurt.
P.P.S. I know it's been a while since I posted here, and this post isn't likely to be on the topic many of you were hoping. But, I assure you that there is BeerRiot development going on. I'll be posting about it soon.
MySQL Death
Just a quick note this evening: BeerRiot was down from about 3:30am to 8am this morning. The MySQL server shut down. I restarted it as soon as I found it down.
Interesting: The MySQL server shut down, but the ErlyDB connection to it was still alive and waiting. As soon as the MySQL server came back up, ErlyDB automatically reconnected, and the site was live.
Sounds like as good of a reason as any to consider switching to Mnesia. I have to assume it's easier to monitor that than to watch/restart MySQL.

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Some parents 'salivating' at thought of extra funds
If voters here legalize liquor by the drink in the March 14 referendum, city schools will receive half of the state's 15-percent tax on it.
When parent-teacher organization members consider the funds, "We start salivating," said Jennifer Dyer Tuesday night at a meeting of Forging Ahead, the group that campaigns for liquor by the drink.
Dyer is treasurer of the Pigeon Forge Middle School PTO. Both her children attend Pigeon Forge schools.
"I get chill bumps," Dyer said. "We can tell teachers, 'You don't have to pay for stuff that you're paying for out of pocket, Germ-X, tissue. We can help you.'"
Additionally, the liquor-tax funding would improve students' educations, so "you can hire better employees," Dyer told about 40 people in the conference room of Comfort Inn & Suites, 3712 Parkway.
Many local students stay in Sevier County and work in the tourism industry after they graduate, Dyer said. "They're who you're hiring, and you need them to be the brightest and the best."
Children regularly participate in school fundraising activities, Dyer pointed out. "Show of hands," she said. "Who has bought wrapping paper, coupon books, magazines that go in the trash?" Many hands went up.
"Our kids bring home one fundraiser, and another, and another," an attendee said. "Why make the children work that hard when the need to be concentrating on school?"
"I love Pigeon Forge," said Dyer, who noted that Sevier County parents may send their children to any of the county's schools. "However, I love my kids more. My God-given responsibility is to take care of my children. So I choose to send my kids here. If that becomes an issue, if they're not receiving what other places can provide, I may have to rethink that. And that saddens me."
According to an email announcing Tuesday's meeting, staff members of Pigeon Forge schools were to have addressed the group about schools' needs. However, at the beginning of the meeting, Forging Ahead chairman Ken Maples announced that they had, in the end, declined.
"They got concerned," he said. "They were afraid that if they showed up, it may have been construed as an endorsement of liquor by the drink."
Maples continued, "We hope to invite them back."


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The cinema sphere is very structured in Riga.
Forum Cinemas – a huge multiplex cinema showing the latest Hollywood blockbusters offers a wide choice of movies (up to 15 movies shown simultaneously), comfort and enormous screens.
Daile – shows the same type of movies somewhat later at half the price.
Kinogalereja Ksuns – specialises in intellectual cinema.
Riga – offers a very diverse programme with an emphasis on European cinema. Many Western movies reach Latvia earlier than its neighbour countries.
A 14 auditorium multicomplex (3200 customers) with the largest screen in Europe.
Multi-hall movie-theatre Cinamon was opened in November 2008 in shopping-entertainment complex Alfa. The programme includes not only Hollywood movies but also movies produced by independent studios. There are eight halls of different size with total number of seats for 1360 movie-goers.
Two auditoriums, the new one - with better accoustics. The host of "Lielais Kristaps" Latvian movie festival.
A middle-sized cinema (181 seats), Dolby Digital sound, a popular cafeteria "A. Suns" (Andalouzian Dog) neadby.


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U.S. Estate Tax Update
Written on January 9, 2013 – 7:22 am | by Laura West
I thought that readers may be interested in an update on some U.S. estate tax developments that I have mentioned in previous blogs.
The first development is the fate of the U.S. estate tax subsequent to the "fiscal cliff" threat that faced U.S. legislators over the new year. As readers will know, the "fiscal cliff" was averted and a deal was reached. This deal provided estate planners with some good news as the dramatic changes to the U.S. estate tax that were contemplated were not put in to effect. The U.S. estate tax has been constantly changing in recent years, with taxation and exemption rates shifting. However, under the deal reached as part of the fiscal cliff negotiations, the estate tax exemption in place for 2012, $5 million, was retained but the top tax rate went up from 35% to 40%.
The second development, which readers may remember, concerned the U.S. estate tax challenge that was launched by a survivor of a same-sex marriage, who argued that the federal Defence of Marriage Act, which refused to recognize legal same-sex marriages for federal law purposes (including the federal estate tax) was unconstitutional. Recent news articles have reported that this constitutional challenge, which has been making its way through the courts, will be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court on March 27th of this year.
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Here you will find announcements and opportunities to get involved in the science community in Knoxville. Do you have an upcoming science event or are you part of an organization focused on science? Email us with your information and we'll get it listed on our website.
Volunteers Needed for Science Bowl Feb. 22
The 2014 Tennessee Science Bowl is a little more than a month away and volunteers are still needed for the Saturday, Feb. 22 event at the Blount County Campus of Pellissippi State Community College. Volunteers are needed to fill particular needs for between eight and 10 scorekeepers, five to six civility award judges, five to six rules judges and a couple of timekeepers. Schedules are flexible for either morning or all-day sessions on Saturday. Click onto volunteers and read about the volunteer roles that need to be filled.
Fifty-six teams of high school students from across Tennessee will participate in the Science Bowl. The efforts of volunteers have always been a major reason why the Tennessee Science Bowl — a major STEM education opportunity — has gained national acclaim as one of the top regional science bowls in the nation. Many states have patterned their science bowls after the Tennessee plan. Part of that is due to the large influx of volunteers who help with this Volunteer State event each year. Volunteers also get the chance to give back to their community.
For more information, email Martha Hammond or call (865) 576-2564.
Volunteers Needed for Smoky Mountain Regional Robotics Competition March 27 – 29
The Smoky Mountain Regional FIRST Robotics competition returns to the Knoxville Convention Center from March 27-29 for the third consecutive year. Fifty teams, including seven from Knoxville, will compete in this global technology and engineering competition for high school students.
With hundreds of students and teachers coming to the event, FIRST Robotics is always looking for volunteers to help everything run smoothly. If you'd like to volunteer, email Crystal Brooks at the Knoxville Chamber of Commerce or call (865) 246-2658 to sign up.
Click here for more information on the competition.
Baker Center Forum on Energy and Environmental Policy
The Baker Center Forum on Energy and Environmental Policy provides a forum for the UT community to share their research findings to a broad set of academics, researchers and students from outside their own discipline, but who have a common interest in environmental and energy issues. The forum consists of roughly six speakers each semester from fields such as ecology, economics, urban planning, atmospheric chemistry and sociology to present on occasional Thursdays at 3:30 pm in the Baker Center's Toyota Auditorium. Click here to visit the Baker Center website and see the Forum schedule for 2014.
Technical Society of Knoxville Meetings
The Technical Society of Knoxville is a group of individuals interested in technology and science, and their effects on society, and in particular, on the community. The Society was founded in 1921 by Charles E. Ferris, dean of the UT College of Engineering.
The hallmark of the Technical Society is its Monday Luncheon. Every Monday, the program features a speaker on a subject of technical, scientific, or general interest. Meetings take place at the Crowne Plaza on Summit Hill Drive in downtown Knoxville Mondays at 12 p.m. Learn more about the Technical Society of Knoxville.


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Cape Cod Community College's Higgins Art Gallery coordinators Doug Ritter and Nathalie Ferrier have announced a call for entries for solo and group works for a January exhibit titled "Theatre Design & Technology: Form Follows Function." The gallery, part of Cape Cod Community College's Department of Arts and Communication, is working in partnership with department theatre coordinator Vana Trudeau to showcase examples of outstanding theatrical costume, lighting, scenic and properties design and/or fabrication. The call for entries is open to all theatrical artists and designers in Southeastern Massachusetts, with particular interest in artists from Cape Cod and the Islands. The deadline for Submissions is Dec. 31.
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Tygart Lake State Park adds cruises
GRAFTON, W.Va. (AP) — Visitors to Tygart Lake State Park can now take sightseeing cruises on the 1,750-acre lake.
The park in Taylor County recently added sightseeing cruises to its water activities. Cruises with dinner also are available.
Two overnight cruise packages are being offered through Sept. 15. One is sightseeing only and the other offers sightseeing and dinner.
Park Superintendent Brennon O'Sullivan says the cruises aren't limited to overnight guests. Day visitors also can take the cruises.
Reservations also will be accepted from groups for private tours or dinner cruises.
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Since 2010, when President Barack Obama presided over the first Global Entrepreneurship Summit (GES) in Washington, D.C., it has expanded to a global event, subsequently hosted by the governments of Muslim majority nations, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia and Morocco. This past weekend, the focus shifted to Africa as the U.S. president travelled to Nairobi where he joined Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on stage for GES 2015.Read More >
As the research -- and buzz -- accumulates over the power of startup ecosystems, government officials at all levels are increasingly looking for ways to spur their growth. A new policy brief from the OECD outlines how policymakers can help fuel the growth of networks to help entrepreneurs -- particularly those among under-represented groups such as women and youth -- start and scale new firms. Read More >
With August recess looming, members of the Federal Communications Commission make a couple of appearances on Capitol Hilll this week. Read More >
With only a couple weeks left before Washington turns into a ghost town for August, there are a number of committee hearings on tap this week. Simplifying tax burdens for entrepreneurs and small business owners is at the top of the list.Read More >
Crowdfunding has captured the public's attention and support and to date more than 16 states across the United States now offer state-based crowdfunding. But as regulators work on rule modernization, we should be careful to balance the exuberance with clarity around different types of crowdfunding and precision around what we are trying to accomplish.Read More >
As the United States continues to stall on entrepreneurial immigration, several countries are joining the ranks of economies that have an immigration policy or program tailored for startup entrepreneurs attracted to the local ecosystem and market.Read More >
The biggest buzz on Capitol Hill this week is likely to be made by the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation hearing to explore the FIFA scandal and the "integrity of international soccer." Meanwhile, there are several hearings that might be a bit more meaningful to followers of the entrepreneurial economy.Read More >
Headliner data no longer impresses startup community leaders examining alternative policy levers for building city ecosystems for entrepreneurs. City decision makers want robust, granular analysis alongside opportunities for more collaboration with their peer cities. So how are startup cities assessing themselves?Read More >
With members of Congress returning to Washington after the Fourth of July festivities in their home states and districts, technology seems to be the theme of the week ahead. Read More >
Policymakers adopted messaging and narratives around the importance of enabling "access to financing" long before the more recent policy efforts to support new firm formation. However, although the world of early stage capital has been transformed of recent by the introduction of crowdfunding and the merging of traditional types of angel and venture investing, we still know very little about the impact of recent policy interventions and whether they have increased access to financing for promising new ventures. Read More >
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French Survivor Contestant, 25, Dies on First Day of Shooting
A French adaptation of Survivor, called Koh-Lanta, saw its new season canceled after the death of 25-year-old contestant Gérald Babin.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the young man had a heart attack Friday on what was the first day of filming in Cambodia.
"After the group jumped from a boat and participated in a tug-of-war, Babin complained of cramps in his arms and was given medical attention at the scene by the staff doctor, before being airlifted by helicopter to a nearby hospital," reports THR. "He suffered a series of cardiac arrests during the transfer before reaching the facility, the companies said."
The production company said all contestants had received extensive medical examinations and testing as part of the casting process. The future of the French series itself was left in question, but everyone involved with this season was flown back to France.
Our thoughts are with Gérald's family after this shocking tragedy.
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I am not a Penn State Fan actually I root for you ONLY when you play U of M....I am from Michigan and cannot stand U of M that is why I root for you.....I AM a NOTRE DAME fan and although Joe Pa HATED us with a vengence I need to say to all you Penn Staters that we did not feel the same......RIP joe Pa! Really God Bless you from the Irish......with that being said I need to say that I am deeply disturbed that a unviersity would fire a coach that has devoted his WHOLE life to your univeristy based only on "ALLEGATIONS" that he recieved 2nd hand information and that although he followed the LAW and went to the Campus police and his superiors, as what he was required to do he still was the scape goat. On top of that.....the guy was OLD and came from a different generation. I am not making excuses for him I am just saying HE did what he thought was protocal he honered his requirement, HE was not the one who failed it was the HIGHER ups the people who he reported too. THEY failed Not Joe Pa... People that were making decisons for Penn State sold him out in the end He was their perfect scape goat and now he is DEAD....what a refief to those he cannot testify about...The most pathetic thing that will happen is that the "child molester" and I believe Jerry Sundusky is more than guilty will get off just like Michael Jackson, OJ, and Casey Anthony and Penn state will have fired their, Long time, Iconic, most precious coach over "ALLEGATIONS' that someone else did something. I am sorry for your loss and although Joe Pa HATED the IRISH we still repected HIM....GOD SPEED JOE PA!!!!


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For certain majors and degree plans, Lee College is now offering a Statistics Pathway to provide students with a proficiency in developmental math and the completion of a credit math course.
The Statistics Pathway is designed to lead a student from a developmental math course to a transferable college statistics or contemporary math course in no more than two semesters. Students have the option of taking MATH 1332 (Contemporary Math) or MATH 1342 (Statistics) in the new pathway.
Contemporary Math uses multiple approaches such as physical, symbolic, graphical, and verbal to solve financial and social application problems. Statistics emphasizes the collection, organization, analysis and interpretation of numerical data in real-world situations.
"These mathematics skills are essential for a growing number of occupations and professions, and are those needed for making decisions under conditions of uncertainty, an inescapable condition of modern life. This is the math that will help students understand the world around them and it is the math they can use right now."
— Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Stanford, Calif.


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Ron Paul's next stop on the campaign trail: Home sweet home, Texas
As Congressman Paul continues to rally his passionate base, his three-day Texas tour includes three Town Hall Meetings. He will be at Texas A&M University in College Station on Tuesday, Will Rodgers Memorial Center in Fort Worth on Wednesday, and at the Main Plaza in San Antonio on Thursday. [Read More]


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You can even ask poor people in connection with Nutri Lean Green Coffee. As a matter of fact, what about that? We may see this working. Do you have the answers? They did this with effortless ingenuity. I know what really matters. With the decline of traditional Nutri Lean Green Coffee, this handed us responsibility for our own Nutri Lean Green Coffee.


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Monthly Archive for April, 2009
Marriage Equality Now
Just a little over five years ago, I conducted two same sex marriages that got wide regional attention. The Monday after the marriages, we walked down to the city clerk's office and asked for marriage licenses. Both couples were denied licenses. That's five years of waiting for what is now legal in Massachusetts, Iowa and […] [Read More]
Visiting Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Preserve
While I was visiting with my sister in Southern California, we went for a hike in the Santa Rosa Plateau Ecological Preserve. It is one of her favorite places to hike and take in what the area originally looked like. The vistas are beautiful. The first section we walked on was basalt. During the spring […] [Read More]


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In honor of Rock of Ages, we throw Tom Cruise movies into the ring for VS.
It is time once again for films to go toe to toe in VS. This time, Dan, Jeff, and Alex take on the impressive oeuvre of Tom Cruise. How do his films stack up, once against the other?
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Fatal Fury 2
Endings FAQ by Basel
Updated: 08/17/07 | Printable Version
------------- Fatal Fury 2: ------------- ------------------------------------------- A Word Before We Get Down To The Real Talk: ------------------------------------------- This faq is only for the endings and so. So if anybody have anything to add, please do so. Otherwise... do not bother. ======================================================= -The Mystery of the Teutonic Challenger- Fatal Fury 2: Prologue ---------------------- Geese Howard, master of Southtown. From the punks lurking in dark alleys to the back rooms of City Hall, his name and influence holds sway with all. However, Geese's quest for control and power has come to a complete halt. Since his battle with Jeff Bogard his empire has begun to crumble. And now... -While Geese is relaxing himself- Bodygaurd: Mr. Geese, sir. A telegram... -Geese then opened the telegram- To Geese Howard, my little cream puff, Your sliminess and greed has been a source of great enjoyment for me these past years, but, alas, your end has come. We are all surfing on a wave of new evil. Unfortunately for you, my friend, the wave is here, and you have no board. Auf Wiederehen, Meine Kleine Sucker, Wolfgang Krauser Krauser! The Dark Kaiser. The man of mystery who hangs over Geese like the cloud over the city's waste treatment plant on a hot summer day. Geese: Can't you get rid of this... wiener?! Bodyguard: Yes, you Black-Heartedness... To build up the strength and training of his lethal bodyguards, Billy Kane and Raiden, in the effort to crush Krauser, Geese opens "The King of Fighters Battle Royal". Yet Geese's plans go awry, and the Southtown tyrant becomes raw meat for the Lone Wolves, Terry, Andy and Joe. The battle between Geese and Krauser was never meant to be. Geese meets his end on the cold pavement of a Southtown Avenue. Time Flows On... Southtown. One Year Later ------------------------- Terry Bogard, beloved son of the streets of Southtown. Andy Bogard, tempering mind and spirit in far off lands. Joe Higashi, the Kick-Boxing Pro. Invitations have been delivered to all of these three. This year, "The Sultan of Slugs Battle Royal" awaits our heroes. Are they up to the challenge? In Pau-Pau Cafe, Southtown -------------------------- Terry: Richard! It's Bogus-Ville, Arizona!! Richard: You mean this? I got one, too. Terry: Whatta ya gonna do? Jumpin' Mexican Jelly Beans, Richard! Richard: Jumpin' what...? Anyway, I'm keeping my buns here. What are prepared to do? Terry: I bet Andy and Joe are thinking the same thing. Wherever they may be... -While Terry and Richard speak, invitations are being by Andy, Joe, and a handful of the world's strongest fighters.- Where, when, and against who? These questions still remain to be answered until moments before the match of the millenium... Put Up Your Dukes and Let's Fight! ====================================================== ----- Name: Terry Bogard (The "Oh Yeah" Kid) ----- ------ Stage: America (The Wild West) ------ ---------------- Pre-Fight Quote: ---------------- The moment we meet, it's game over for you, pal. ------------------- Little Information: ------------------- With his trademark Cap and windbreaker, Terry enters the battle to determine the mysterious identity of the Sultan's promoter, Wolfgang Krauser. Will his dizzying speed and lighting moves be enough to aacomplish his task? ------- Ending: ------- May 15th, 1993... Terry Bogard becomes the strongest in the world. Terry: Richard, I'm starving! Get me more! ====================================================== ----- Name: Andy Bogard (The Compact Koppo Specialist) ----- ------ Stage: Italy (Venezia) ------ ---------------- Pre-Fight Quote: ---------------- Terry's my brother, and I love him... but this time I'm gonna make him eat his cap. ------------------- Little Information: ------------------- Terry's kid brother. Smaller than Terry but large in ability. This master of Koppo, the ancient Oriental art of bone breaking os a force to be reckoned with. Fresh from a year of rigorous training of both mind and body. Andy is prepared for his lineal grudge match and the chance kick Krauser's posterior. ------- Ending: ------- May 15th, 1993... Andy Bogard becomes the strongest in the world. -Live manly my sons- ======================================================= ----- Name: Joe Higashi (The Kick Boxing King) ----- ------ Stage: Thailand (Chiang Mai) ------ ---------------- Pre-Fight Quote: ---------------- What, you don't know me? Well, after I bop your bean maybe you'll apply for one of those credit cards. ------------------- Little Information: ------------------- After pleaging his allegiance to the brothers Bogard. Joe returned to the jungles to train. After months of obcurity, Joe rose like a comet to the heights of world kick-boxing champ. A title he still holds with his mongoose like legs and Hurricane Upper. Joe is ready for all comers. ------- Ending: ------- May 15th, 1993... Joe Higash becomes the strongest in the world. Joe: It's the beginning of Joe's legend. ======================================================= ----- Name: Big Bear (The Grizzly-Crushing Wrestling Maniac) ----- ------ Stage: Australia (Alice Springs) ------ ---------------- Pre-Fight Quote: ---------------- Fighting humans is new to me. If I don't take it easy, I'll end up ripping off their jaws. Yeah, I know it's grisly to think about it. Heh, heh. ------------------- Little Information: ------------------- Known before as the bear-wrestling roustabout and bodyguard, Raiden. He has taken off the mask and returned as an independent wrestler. Known for his obscene power and deadly Lariat Drop. All contestants should keep their distance from him. ------- Ending: ------- May 15th, 1993... Big Bear becomes the strongest in the world. Big Bear: No one can challenge me? Terry, let's have a rematch. -Terry gives him the "not interested look"- ====================================================== ----- Name: Jubei Yamada (The Geriatric Judo Demon) ----- ------ Stage: Japan (Kumamoto) ------ ---------------- Pre-Fight Quote: ---------------- I'm not a dirty old man. I bathe every day. Ohh, take a look at... bye, sonny. ------------------- Little Information: ------------------- Unquestionably the world's strongest 70 year old. Jubei has joined the contest to rekindle the flame of his youth and find some groupies to help him. Still spry and lithe, between rounds he passes the time eating rice crackers and hitting on young female spectators. A lonely man in a rapidly changing world. ------- Ending: ------- May 15th, 1993... Jubei Yamada becomes the strongest in the world. Jubie: it's not always good to be popular. ===================================================== ----- Name: Cheng Sinzan (The Muscular Merchant of Lump Giving) ----- ------ Stage: Hong Kong (Abardeen) ------ ---------------- Pre-Fight Quote: ---------------- Money isn't everything. It's the only thing. No, seriously, money... I would say is the third most important thing in life. Trouble is I keep forgetting the first two. ------------------- Little Information: ------------------- For someone who hates exercise. This middle-age junk food addict certainly knows how to move! his gravity-defying feats and unique body help him to win matches and especially prize money. His ultimate dream: To bathe naked in a sea of gold coins. The thought sends chills down the spine. ------- Ending: ------- May 15th, 1993... Cheng Sinzan becomes the strongest in the world. Cheng: With the legend of the world's dest, my school will be popular. ===================================================== ----- Name: Kim Kaphwan (The Tai Kwando Champion) ----- ------ Stage: Korea (Seoul) ------ ---------------- Pre-Fight Quote: ---------------- Will there be free food after the fight? ------------------- Little Information: ------------------- With ridiclous speed and a punch of steel, Kim is out to show that Tai Kwando and Korean nation are not to be taken tightly. His precise and steady ways of inflicting pain are sure to take him a long way. ------- Ending: ------- May 15th, 1993... Kim Kaphwan becomes the strongest in the world. Kim: How's it, Krauser? It's not so bad living right. P.S. Kim, you silly buffoon. SO predictable. ^_^ ====================================================== ----- Name: Mai Shiranui (The Kock-Out Ninja) ----- ------ Stage: Japan (Aokigahara) ------ ---------------- Pre-Fight Quote: ---------------- I swear if that cracker eating old geezer makes one more comment about my costume, he's going to need a walker after I get through with him. ------------------- Little Information: ------------------- The daughter of Andy Bogard's martial arts teacher. Mai has been trained in the Ninja teaching for 17 years. With her flexible body and arms of iron, she is set to show which sex is the strongest. ------- Ending: ------- May 15th, 1993... Mai Shiranui becomes the strongest in the world. -Andy holding Mai on his back and feeling very tired- Mai: Oh, Andy, I'll make you my disciple. ====================================================== ================== The Fatal Fury 2 Trivia Corner ================== Mai Was A Man?! --------------- Originally the Ninja Master in the game's early planning stages, concept of the buxom Mai slowly developed into reality, sending the Ninja Master off to that big dogo in the sky. Mai went through a series of evolutious to finally reach the form she now takes in Fatal Fury 2. Mai remarks, "I think this belief that physical competition is stictly males is so Cold War Era, you know? Face it, most of the guys I meet these days are, well, to put it frankly, wimps. By the way, who designed my costume? Why don't YOU try fighting in this thing? Geez!" Is Jubei Crackers! ------------------ Jubei Yamada is far from the image of the aged, martial arts master. "Hey, I'm not like those jerks in dumb karate movies where little kid meets this wise, old guy. Not me, life is too short." Incidentally, Jubei seems to prefer two kinds of sembei, or Japanese rice crackers. One type is used for eating, the other for hurling at his enemies. The crackers used for throwing are glazed with a special sauce of hot mustard so hot it makes indians shriek. Jubei adds, "To my young female fans I send my thanks and my address. Feel free to write to me anytime, or if you're the nei..." Hey, wait a minute, there, Jubester, this isn't the personals column. ======================== From The Vaults of SNK ======================== ======================================================= ---------------- Unknown By Many: ---------------- ============ Fatal Fury 2 ============ Staff Producer -------- BIG BOSS E. Kawasaki Planner ------- Deru-Deri Tsukamichi-2 Chinta Character Design Object ------ Higashipon Mark3 Tony Oki Tsuzakingyo 2 Lionheart U.G Ryouji-Sei Super Soe Soe Heitarou Terarin Horigen.Pu-Ta Back Scroll ----------- Moriyan Somatreeno Oba Obata Shibatarian Uri Maidopom A-Chang Character Back Up ----------------- Manuke Teizo Muta 92 Kama Kama Takeshi Kimura Man Take.P Albinone Pinkey.Tbc440 Programmer ---------- Yamatan-2' Turbo Speaker. R Sound ----- Shimi2m Yoko Jojouha Kitapy Ylf.Communicate Paciorek Papaya Special Thanks -------------- Kazuya Hirata Prince Degucha! Kura Shinchan Data Tada Oh! Buch! Carry Kenchan Miyagam! Satochang !Watakun Finish Hiroshi Akiko Tsuruta Mie Kurita Megumi Moriyama ------------------- 1st.Operation Staff All SNK Staff ------------- SNK Produced By SNK ================ ======================================================= ---------------- Last Words: ---------------- There you have it. If anything is wrong, just send me an E-Mail. Hope there will be some respect for the hard work. This is one of the old games that you always want to play to remember the very very very good times. Damn right... the very good old times. Sniff sniff! --------------- Special Thanks: --------------- 1)To SNK. 2)To Gamefaqs. 3)To all my friends for the encouragement. 4)To Rey for telling me about the 1 credit endings. Check out his site at: www.vgmuseum.com ======================================================= Fatal Fury 2 is Copyright SNK Crop. This document Copyright 2003 Basel Al-Shehab If you need to contact me to add or ask me about anything, E-Mail me at email@example.com or email@example.com Credits for GameFAQs and SNK Crop.


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Earlier this summer, to celebrate her 40th birthday, Angela Mitchell traveled to Ireland with her family. "It got me thinking about how a landscape affects the people who live in a place," she says. "The west of Ireland is very rocky. It's amazingly difficult to deal with the rocks. It's similar to where I grew up [in the Missouri Ozarks]. Every spring we'd have to pick rocks out of the garden. The land would shift, and the rocks kept coming up. I started thinking about that, and how the people in my family settled that place. They were the kind of people who were drawn to that kind of challenge."
Mitchell grew up on the same farm near Mountain Grove, where her mother's family has lived for eight generations, since the 1830s. She first heard the old family stories from her grandmother. "Early in the morning, at 6 a.m., I'd go to the milk barn and talk with her while she was milking the cows," Mitchell remembers. "She had a great sense of humor and a great sense of tragedy. There was a great lightness and darkness in our family, and she knew when to reveal those things in a story, to make them funny and tragic."
On the surface Mitchell's life appears very different from that of her grandmother. She lives on a quiet suburban street in Ballwin and is working toward her MFA in creative writing at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. There are no barns, no cows. There is, however, a coffee bar in the Schnucks at the corner of Route 141 and Clayton Road in Town & Country where Mitchell composes her own stories on her laptop.
"They have squishy seats here," she explains. "That's very important, because a big part of writing is staying in your seat."
At home there are a million distractions: piles of laundry that need to be folded, swaths of pet hair that need to be Swiffered and various living creatures that need to be fed and attended to: one husband (Robert Phillips, a lawyer), two sons (Duncan, age ten, and Aidan, eight), one dog, two cats and eight parakeets. (Originally there were just two, but they kept reproducing. Now Mitchell confiscates the eggs.)
At first glance Mitchell's short stories appear mundane. They're populated by people who work boring jobs in insurance offices and used-car lots and worry about their weight and their relationships and how to train their dogs. But there's strange stuff going on just beneath the surface that gives the reader a prickling feeling that things aren't exactly right. Like her grandmother, Mitchell has an unerring sense of when to deploy odd details for maximum effect. Like that guy in the office? The one you're thinking of sleeping with? The one who has taken you to his house in the middle of nowhere? He keeps a bobcat for a pet.
(The bobcat is actually borrowed from an Ozark neighbor. "He went up a tree and got it," Mitchell marvels. "When I saw it, it was in a pen with a golden retriever. They were being punished together for killing a turkey. I thought, 'I am so fortunate to be from southern Missouri. I go to see my folks, and I see a bobcat.'")
Her characters aren't always likable. They're not hateful, either, but, as Stephanie G'Schwind, the editor of the Colorado Review, which published Mitchell's bobcat story, "Animal Lovers," puts it: "Dee [the main character] is the sort of person who hopes her dogs get hit by a car. But what I really love is that by the end of the story, you feel a real vulnerability and start to feel a little scared for her. It's an amazing thing Angela is able to create."
Mitchell started writing nine years ago. As a high school and college student, she had the desire but lacked the nerve. She read constantly and cultivated writerly habits such as carrying a notebook in her purse where she could jot down ideas, but she feared the criticism she knew was inevitable. Paradoxically, she also didn't want to hide all her manuscripts in the dresser, Emily Dickinson-style.
"Never believe it when someone tells you" — here Mitchell assumes a virtuous whine — "'I only write for myself.' Writing is not one-sided. It lacks satisfaction and meaning without an audience."
Then she gave birth, which put things into perspective. ("After the humiliation and struggle of childbirth, everything looks better.") She got into the habit of writing every day during her sons' naptime. After a few years of experimentation and fumbling, she produced a story. She sent it off to the Missouri Review. It was rejected, but it came back with an encouraging letter.
She joined the St. Louis Writers Workshop and then, in the fall of 2007, enrolled in the creative-writing MFA program at UMSL so she could learn more quickly and meet other writers. "If you're a stay-at-home mom," Mitchell explains, "nobody's going to engage you in a conversation about character development."
At first grad school confirmed all her worst fears about writing. "Her first stories didn't come together," remembers John Dalton, now the director of UMSL's MFA program, who just published his own second novel, The Inverted Forest. "I let her know in the workshop. It's never easy to take. But good students have a resilient ability to roll up their sleeves and say, 'Wait till you see what I do next!'"
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Test-retest reliability of the computerized DSM-IV version of the Munich-Composite International Diagnostic Interview (M-CIDI)
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The structure and content of the Munich-Composite International Diagnostic Interview (M-CIDI) for the assessment of DSM-IV symptoms, syndromes, and diagnoses is described along with findings from a test-retest reliability study. A sample of 60 community respondents were interviewed twice independently by trained interviewers with an average time interval of 38 days between investigations. Test-retest reliability was good for almost all specific DSM-IV core symptom questions and disorders examined, with kappa values ranging from fair for two diagnoses – bulimia (kappa 0.55) and generalized anxiety disorder (kappa 0.45) – to excellent (kappa above 0.72) for all other anxiety disorders and alcohol use disorders. Test-retest reliability for age of onset and time-related questions was fairly consistently high (intra-class correlation values of 0.79 or above), with one notable exception: the assessment of disorders with onset before puberty. We concluded that the M-CIDI is acceptable for respondents, efficient in terms of time needed for and ease of administration, and reliable in terms of consistency of findings over time periods of at least 1 month.
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David Ulansey's book breaks new scholastic ground by arguing that the Roman cult of Mithras did not originate in Persia, as previously thought. Instead, Ulansey suggests, the cult was triggered by the reaction of a group of Tarsian intellectuals to the discovery in 128 BCE, of the Precession of the Spheres. To these fatalistic Stoics the only possible explanation for this phenomenon was the existence of a divinity powerful enough to shift the heavens, and this was to become the revelation at the heart of the Mithraic mysteries. This information was then married to the astrology of the zodiac and to the symbolism of popular Tarsian myths surrounding Perseus to create the fabric of the religion. David Ulansey's study is an absorbing, carefully researched, and frequently beautiful description of an ancient cult which long fascinated scholars by virtue of the lack of written evidence concerning it and the paradoxical wealth of artefacts and iconography uncovered by archaeologists.
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The teachings of the ancient Roman 'mystery religion' of Mithraism--one of the most important competitors of early Christianity--were guarded with the utmost secrecy, reveled only to select initiates. While the Mithraists never wrote down their secret doctrines, they did leave a key to them in the arcane iconography which filled the walls of their underground temples. Until now, all attempts to decipher this iconography have proven fruitless. Most experts have been content with a vague hypothesis that these images somehow derived from ancient Iranian religion.