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A day of peace and reflection
Red, white and blue couldn't have shined any brighter.
Dozens turned out on a sunny Belen afternoon to a memorial ceremony at the 9/11 park on Main Street that reminded young and old of the sacrifices that others make each day to keep this country safe.
A decade ago, we were a nation stunned after we saw images of planes hitting the Twin Towers, a picture that was almost unreal.
Today, residents want to make sure those images don't fade.
"My goal on 9/11 is to not let people forget," said Archie Koenemund, a first-responder to the World Trade Center in 2001.
Koenemund, a Bosque Farms resident, is a former deputy chief fire inspector for the New York Fire Department and said he remembers attending some of the memorials for the nearly 3,000 people who died on that day.
"They had memorials because there were no bodies," Koenemund said.
Koenemund was at the heart of a country united in 2001.
That unity hasn't weakened after 10 years, and people from across the state and the nation collectively came together on Sunday for a day of peace and remembrance.
An American flag swaying over Sunday's proceedings and an eagle sculpture at the 9/11 park were reminders of patriotism and strength ― symbols that Americans don't give up.
Some think the 2001 tragedy can be used as motivation for making this country a better place to live.
"This is not about shared grief," said State Sen. Michael Sanchez. "It's about a shared belief that working together will help keep America as the greatest nation on Earth."
Sunday's memorial included the releasing of white doves and the unveiling of two panels listing the names of 9/11 victims on a 10,000 pound limestone slab at the park.
The ceremony also honored Sgt. Garrett Misener and Pvt. Charles High, who were both killed in action in 2010. Their names were imprinted on bricks that will be installed on the freedom wall along with the names of others who have lost their lives in combat.
The park, located at Church and Main streets in Belen, has an 8-foot replica of the Twin Towers, a steel-sculptured eagle, a piece of steel beam from the World Trade Center and a shovel used by the first organized rescue recovery group that entered the Pentagon after the attack.
For Chris VanWinkle of the New Mexico Army National Guard, the ceremony was surreal.
VanWinkle has been part of the 515th Army National Guard for about eight years and said he appreciates the community coming out for the ceremony.
He said 9/11 ceremonies will help keep the important day in history alive.
"It means a lot," VanWinkle said. "It makes me feel proud to be an American to see all the people out here."
Others were too young to remember that day that changed America forever. Still, children cheerfully waved flags as if the ceremony meant just as much to them as it did to their parents.
Sanchez said it's up to adults to ensure that current and future generations understand the importance of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
"It's up to us," he said.
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Updated: 12/10/2012 5:27 PM KSTP.com By: Ellen McNamara
Many of us will try to tackle projects around the house this time of the year, but every year, thousands of people are injured.
We have advice from Angie's List on when to call a pro and when to do the job yourself...
It was a painful lesson to learn.
Homeowner Matt Taylor incorrectly used a nail gun and had to be rushed to the hospital after a nail punctured his hand.
"I looked down and realized the nail was in the hand and I couldn't get it out myself, Taylor said.
However, this accident is one of thousands that happen every year.
It's very easy to get in over your head if you don't know what you're doing," Angie Hicks, founder of Angie's List said.
Hicks says a professional should work on electrical, plumbing, and roof projects.
"When it comes to electrical, you could burn your house down, plumbing can lead to flooding, and we hear way too many stories about people falling off ladders when they try to get on the roof," Hicks said.
Hicks says if you decide you can do the job, make sure you have the proper tools and training. A lesson Taylor definitely learned.
"I still use my nail gun, but now I'm more cautious with it," Taylor said.
Angie's List says things like painting, tightening hardware, hanging pictures, and installing drapes are all usually projects that homeowners can tackle on their own without help.


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Date: Wednesday, February 26, 2014
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The world-famous Ivrea Carnival is the most interesting and famous show of folklore in the Canavese, and its origins must be sought in ancient popular traditions. This great festival in which history and medieval legend mix to give life to a big show, in which the absolute are the Mugnaia (miller's girl), soul of the Carnival, the General with his General Staff, the Deputy Grand Chancellor, the Podestà, the procession with the flags of the Ivrea districts with the Abbà ( the little priors of the districts) and the Pipes and Drums.
To fill with colors and perfumes the city there is the famous and spectacular Battle of the Oranges, moment of great involvement and strong emotions.The traditional orange throwing has its roots in the middle of the XIXth century. Earlier and more precisely in the middle ages, beans were used in this battle. We are told that twice a year the feudal lord gave a pot of beans to the poor families who, out of disrespect, threw them into the streets. The same pulses were also used at carnival as fun ammunition to be thrown at the backs of unsuspecting adversaries. Around the thirties and sixties of last century, girls started to throw some oranges from their balconies onto the parade carriages together with confetti, lupins and flowers.
The targets of these were the boys by whom the girls wanted to be noticed. From the carriages the boys started to answer in kind and little by little, the gesture of homage became first a duel and then a real fight between the throwers on the balconies and those in the streets. Only after the Second World War did the battle become the present contest following fixed rules. Today the contest is still enacted in the main squares of the town where teams in carriages (symbolizing the tyrant's guards) battle against the orange thrower teams on foot (the rebellious commoners) which consist of hundreds of throwers. Undoubtedly this is the most spectacular event of the festivities representing the fight for liberty, the symbol of the Ivrea Carnival. The orange battle is an incredible cultural and goliardic heritage putting the festival on a national and international level. The orange throwing is also the event with the greatest collective participation: anybody can take part by enlisting in one of the nine teams on foot or becoming a member of a carriage crew.
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Roanoke Rapids 2, Northwood 0
The Lady Chargers (12-8-1) kept the match tied until the 50th minute on the road against the Lady Yellow Jackets (16-3-1) in the third round of the NCHSAA 2A State Tournament Wednesday night. Roanoke Rapids, the champion of the Northern Carolina Conference, advances to the state quarterfinals.
Northwood defeated Bunn and Topsail to reach the round of 16.
New Bern 1, Pinecrest 0
New Bern (13-6-1) scored in the 18th minute and that was enough to advance through the third round of the NCHSAA 4A State Tournament as Pinecrest (16-3-3) hosted the match at Union Pines. New Bern has back-to-back upsets against No. 1 seeds to reach the quarterfinals.
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MCC's Medical Assisting Technology program gives students the knowledge and skills to help ensure job placement into the ever growing medical field. Medical Assisting is a multi-skilled allied health profession whose practitioners work primarily in ambulatory settings such as medical offices and clinics. Medical Assistants function as members of the health-care delivery team and perform many administrative and clinical procedures. The business administrative duties include scheduling and receiving patients; obtaining patients' data; maintaining medical records; handling telephone calls, correspondence, reports, and manuscripts; assuming responsibility for office care; and handling insurance matters, office accounts, fees, and collections. The clinical duties vary according to state law and may include preparing patients for examination, obtaining vital signs, taking medical histories, assisting with examinations and treatments, performing routine office laboratory procedures and electrocardiograms, preparing and administering medications and immunizations, sterilizing instruments and equipment for office procedures, and instructing patients in preparation for X-ray and laboratory examinations. Both administrative and clinical duties involve purchasing and maintaining supplies and equipment.
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Astros boost radio ratings for KBME (790 AM)
Posted by David Barron on Tuesday, July 14 at 12:13pm
What can I say? Owing to vacation, a vehicular mishap during the Memorial Day flood, Astros stories, other news updates and general ennui, I've gotten way behind on radio ratings updates. Sorry about that. Let's catch up with the Nielsen Audio ratings for Houston radio for the period April 23-May 20 and for May 21-June […] [Read More]
Texas markets trail the field for NCAA Tournament ratings
Posted by David Barron on Friday, March 22 at 2:35pm
To borrow a line from the play "Greater Tuna," the NCAA Tournament on CBS and Turner Sports is drawing gangbuster Nielsen ratings … Texas not included. Thursday's coverage on CBS, TBS, TNT and truTV averaged a 5.8 rating in the 56 major markets, up from 5.6 in 2012. That's the best opening-day rating in 22 […] [Read More]
UPDATED: Texans-Bears rating surpasses previous Sunday night game on Channel 2
Posted by David Barron on Monday, November 12 at 10:22am
The Texans' win Sunday night over the Bears produced a slight ratings uptick from the team's last "Sunday Night Football" appearance, a loss to the Packers. Sunday's game had a 32.9 Nielsen rating and 48 share, an average audience of 728,949 of Houston's 2.2 million TV households, on KPRC (Channel 2). The Packers-Texans game rated […] [Read More]
Most-watched TV shows in Houston for 2011
Posted by David Barron on Monday, January 16 at 10:57am
Here are the 40 most-watched shows on Houstonians' TVs for 2011. You will note the number of sports events represented, and particularly the number of Texans games. [Read More]
CBS confirms Rome signing; wrapping up bowl ratings
Posted by David Barron on Wednesday, January 11 at 11:06am
As expected, Jim Rome has jumped to CBS, where he will be reunited, oddly enough, with Mark Shapiro, the sometimes likable, sometimes evil programming wizard who helped launch his career at ESPN and who will merit our everlasting thanks for launching SportsCentury on ESPN and our lasting enmity for being with Six Flags when the […] [Read More]
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Kubiak finally makes it to Sunday night; Fans in South Texas miss last play of Falcons-Texans
Posted by David Barron on Monday, December 5 at 1:59pm
In Week 13, Texans coach Gary Kubiak finally made it into NBC's Football Night in America highlights package after the Texans' win over Atlanta — barely. NBC for the first time used Kubiak's postgame comments following its highlights of the game, but he had to share the 30-second slot with Falcons coach Mike Smith. By […] [Read More]
Texans get another good audience for win over Tennessee
Posted by David Barron on Monday, October 24 at 5:09pm
Owing to the one-sided nature of the proceedings, the Texans-Titans game managed only a 20.6 Nielsen rating and 42 share Sunday on KHOU (Channel 11). I use the word "only" with a grain of salt, since there have been years that the Texans would have happily taken anything north of 20. This year, though, only […] [Read More]
Monday's ratings update
Posted by David Barron on Monday, October 17 at 2:22pm
In the wake of their second straight loss, the Texans' Nielsen ratings in Houston dipped back under 20.0 despite playing in the late-afternoon window. The game on KHOU (Channel 11) had a preliminary Nielsen rating of 19.5 with a 36 share. The Texans probably lost a considerable number of viewers to the Cowboys-Patriots game, which […] [Read More]
Monday's Four DVRs extra: Weekend ratings; a buzz around the Texans
Posted by David Barron on Monday, September 12 at 2:34pm
Well, it appears the college realignment express is gearing up for another week of uncertainty, focusing this time on Oklahoma and Oklahoma State possibly considering a move out west. For most of the viewing audience, though, the NFL was front and center this weekend. The Texans-Colts game averaged a 24.4 Nielsen rating with a 45 […] [Read More]


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The trailer for BELIEVE -- a short documentary which chronicles a first-of-its-kind public art mural project which took place in Rochester, NY in July 2011. The project involved local artists and a group of four artists from Cape Town, SA who shared their talents. Several murals were painted in hopes of inspiring the Rochester community. This privately funded project was sponsored by the Synthesis Collaborative, a Rochester-based nonprofit, and has been provided for online viewing by Ian Wilson, co-founder of The Synthesis Collaborative and producer of the documentary.
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In Outlook 2010 Essential Training, author Karen Fredricks provides in-depth instruction on the key features of Outlook 2010. The course shows how to master fundamental Outlook features including sending and receiving email, creating an address book, and scheduling activities and tasks. It also covers basic administrative tasks including backing up the data file, setting up email accounts, and organizing data both manually and automatically.
Over a period of time, your Outlook database will become the home to a lot of data. Some of the data is important, and you will want to save it for posterity, or to save your rear end so that the boss needs to take a look it at later. But some of your data, like those e-mails offering you great interest rates, you'll will want to get rid of once and for all. Now, there are total of five ways that you can delete an item from Outlook. It's doesn't matter which method you use; they all work basically the same. So, in this case if I want to get rid of an e-mail message, I could simply click Delete from my Ribbon bar.
I could right-click the item and choose Delete. I could open the item and click Delete from within the item. I could hit the Delete key on my keyboard, or I could simply drag the item over to the Deleted Items folder. Now, you notice that I didn't get any prompt, and that's because once things appear in the Deleted Items folder, I can always get them back just by simply dragging them back to the appropriate spot. Now, I can delete any of my Outlook items using the same methodology.
If you want to look at all your items at one time, you might want to click on the Folder List from the bottom of the Navigation bar. So, now if I wanted to get rid of a Contact, for example, I can click on Contact and again, use any one of those same five methods: Delete, Right-Click and choosing Delete, opening the item and clicking Delete, hitting Delete from my keyboard or just simply dragging the item to the Deleted Items folder. That same method will work whether I want to delete a note or even if I want to delete a folder.
In this case, I'm going to delete a folder of my Inbox. So, I have a Business folder. In this case, I could either click Delete, or simply right-click on that folder and choose Delete Folder. Now, because a folder could contain numerous items, this time I will get a warning that says that I am going to be deleting a whole folder. Yes, I am going to proceed and get rid of that folder. I can do the same thing if I have multiple Calendars; for example, if I want to get rid of this Holiday Calender, again I can simply click on it and choose to Delete my Calendar, and I send it to the Deleted Items folder.
Now, once things end up in the Deleted Items folder, I can delete them permanently. One method that you might want to do is to get rid of several items at one time. You can do that by clicking on one item code, holding down your Shift key and then clicking on the last item that wish to delete. At that point, I can either right-click and Delete them or click Delete on my Ribbon bar. Again, I'll get a prompt that I am going to permanently delete those items and I respond, Yes.
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Clash DS: SSB Homebrew
To fill the void for Super Smash Brothers homebrew on the NDS, a group of individuals have come together to produce Clash DS. The team still has open spots for coders and sprite makers. If you are interested in getting on board, please follow the source link below.
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Tennis Concludes USAFA Invitational
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. – In the final day of competition at the USAFA Invitational, West Virginia University tennis earned two third-place finishes in doubles, and earned several victories in singles play.
In doubles, sophomore Hailey Barrett and junior Ikttesh Chahal combined for a 8-4 victory over Air Force's Tiffany Tran and Jocelle Rudico. The Mountaineers' top-tandem from a year ago finished flight "alpha" in third, with a record of 3-1.
New Mexico's duo of Dominique Dulski and Emily Olivier finished flight "alpha" 5-0 to win the doubles crown over USAFA's Natasha Rizvi and Marcelli Magday.
In flight "bravo", sophomore Vivian Tsui and freshman Oana Manole downed Chrissie Hoolahan and Courtney Schulte of UNC, 8-4, to claim a third place finish.
Wyoming's Christa Gecheva and Alma Espinosa won flight "bravo", defeating New Mexico's Meredith Hopson and Rachana Bhat, 8-3.
In flight "alpha" singles, Barrett won her second singles match of the season, defeating Air Force's Hueffner, 6-2, 6-1.
After taking the first set 6-4, Chahal stumbled against Colorado State's Adriana Wojakowska, dropping the second set, 7-6 (11), and the third set, 10-2.
Tsui concluded play in flight "bravo" with her second singles match victory on the season, battling back from a first set loss to down Christa Gecheva of Wyoming, 1-6, 6-2, 10-5.
WVU tallied one victory in flight "charlie" on day three, with Freshman Kaja Mrgole earning a 7-6 (5), 6-2 victory over USAFA's Magday. Manole fell to Hilary Walters-West of Northern Colorado in straight sets, 6-3, 6-2.
Wyoming's Veronica Popovici won flight "alpha", beating UNM's Lizette Blankers in straight sets, 6-3, 6-1. In flight "bravo", Dulski of New Mexico claimed the top-spot, defeating teammate Olivier, 6-3, 1-6, 6-2. Buffalo's Anamaria Candanoza beat Silviya Zhelyazkova of Wyoming, 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, to win flight "charlie".
The Mountaineers continue their fall season next week at the University of Akron. Day one of competition is on Friday, Oct. 4, and play will conclude on Sunday, Oct. 6.
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Monthly Archive for June, 2013
Voting Rights Act takes seat to UT coed murders in 1965
Given the historic nature of the June 25 U.S. Supreme Court ruling regarding the Voting Rights Act of 1965, I thought I'd look to see how we covered the signing of the bill into law. Hindsight is always 20/20, and occasionally events prove to be more historically significant than were thought of at the time. […] [Read More]
Young car thief's excuse: He didn't want to be expelled
We all know people that are late for everything, and some are already showing these tendencies at a young age. Like this 11-year-old San Antonian, whose adventure was described in the Nov. 25, 1958, edition of the Express: He'd been late before, and his sister told him he'd be expelled if he was late again. […] [Read More]
KENS-TV's downtown studios — next door to the Express-News
This post comes in the opposite order than I would have liked, but when an editor comes asking for a photo, I had to make a sacrifice. A story about the June 30 retirement of Harte-Hanks CEO Larry Franklin in the June 12 Business section prompted a request for a photo of the KENS studios when […] [Read More]
Sullivan Carriage House — on its original site
A few months ago, I helped staffer Jessica Elizarraras with research for her story about restaurants housed in buildings that had once served other purposes. While doing that research, I discovered that the Sullivan Carriage House, now housing a restaurant at the San Antonio Botanical Garden, had once stood on property at 4th St. and […] [Read More]


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Well done, Mary and Bermuda - you guys really know your lyrics! At first I was thinking it was too easy and got about the first 9 or 10 without drama ... after that, then the wheels fell off lol
Andy, I think you have just made the transition from valued member to troll :) Larry, yes, he has the backbeat backwards haha
Seriously, Andy, you've hit the nail on the head. The slick production is all, like opening a Xmas present with fabulous ornate packaging - so exciting! - then you open the box only to find a few (heavily) used condoms inside.
Ken, it's a fair point - the reliance on swearing can somewhat close the door to deeper lyrics - opportunity costs. I like both the Ce Lo and the Joe Jackson tracks you mentioned. Ce Lo's track is more from the amygdala - like he'd lifted the dialogue straight out of an argument whereas Joe's was filtered through the prefrontal cortex :) Both are valid enough, as long as neither becomes a formula. For the record, I far preferred %^#$ you to Forget You.
GD, does modern pop lack soul more than old formulaic hits? Perhaps the extra soul in those old hits was accidental - they simply didn't have the technology at the time?
I think the intent was similar, although the bean counters' influence has increased. They've really refined the formula - gradually stripping away the artistic nuances bit by bit until not much more than the beat, the sex talk and the hook remains.
I suspect that one day it will be rebellious for teens to get into organic music. I'm not sure it's possible to be more formulaic and mechanical than the Rebecca Black track:
funky drum machine - check
hip autotune - check
catchy hook - check
hip rapping - check
hip electro-sounds - check
teen lyrics and vibe - check
cute girl - check
dancing - check.
Kids, we have a hit on our hands!
The production guys Rebecca's parents hired are just the modern day equivalent of Stock Aitken and Waterman ... even the the name aptly conjures up the idea of a team of accountants.
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by Amelia Holliday—Staff Reporter
HAZARD — With layoffs now not only coming from private sector coal companies but from county agencies, many Perry Countians consider it counterintuitive for organizations depending on government funding to even consider any kind of big spending in the near future. However, at the monthly board meeting for the Kentucky River Area Development District (KRADD) last week that was exactly what appeared was being planned for the group.
KRADD Executive Director Mike Miller addressed the board before the meeting was adjourned on Wednesday, bringing to vote a decision to begin looking at the Dawhare building on High Street in Hazard as a prospect for the organization to purchase and move into.
Miller said the building KRADD currently occupies, which is on Perry County Park Road next to the Perry County 4-H Extension Office, is not only overcrowded but unstable as it is sinking.
"There's about an inch to two inch gap between the floor and the wall in some places," Peggy Roll, human services director at KRADD, said before the vote was taken.
Miller said the organization has been looking into either renovating or relocating for around two years, however, did not make any moves in regards to the decision until the owners of the Dawhare building expressed interest in selling. And while an asking price of $750,000 may seem high in such tough economic times, Miller said for a building of around 38,000 square feet it was quite a steal.
"Here's my thinking on it. At what their asking price is, that's roughly $18-$19 a square foot. Nineteen dollars a square foot isn't a whole lot of money when you look at it square-footage-wise," he said after the meeting.
Miller added that though there may be negatives to the building found after the inspection, a major positive would be the investment opportunity the space could allow for.
"The beautiful part about the Dawhare building is that there would be some 15,000-18,000 square feet left after we did what we needed to do. Eventually, that space could be rented to other people," he said.
The board approved the motion to have an inspector conduct an inspection of the Dawhare building, with one dissenting vote coming from Perry County Judge-Executive Denny Ray Noble.
"They can get grants to renovate the building they're in. All they'd need to do is do a longer lease with the county, which we would do. I just think it's a bad idea, that's why I voted against it," Noble said.
The building KRADD currently occupies is owned by Perry County. Noble said there are no grants available for buying new buildings for groups like KRADD, though some funds are available for renovations to existing buildings.
"That's the reason why I said why don't you use the building you've got," he added. "If they go out of the building, if they do, the board seems like they're going to do that from what I saw … but they're not looking at who's going to pay for it."
Miller said KRADD is prepared financially to upgrade their building in some way, and said he realizes times are tough for grants and funding options.
"We've got some money that we can use. The ADD has money that they've saved over the years," Miller said.
Miller added that even with the vote nothing has been set in stone. This is just the very first step for KRADD in the direction of upgrading its office space in some form or fashion.
"What we're trying to do is put together some options for the board to consider. What we do is completely up to the board," Miller said. "I'm just trying to give them more than one option with different ways the options could play out."


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Debt: The First 5,000 YearsPaperback Melville House Publishing
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Now in paperback: David Graeber's `fresh . . . fascinating . . . thought-provoking . . . and exceedingly timely` (`Financial Times`) history of debt Here anthropologist David Graeber presents a stunning reversal of conventional wisdom: he shows that before there was money, there was debt. For more than 5,000 years, since the beginnings of the first agrarian empires, humans have used elaborate credit systems to buy and sell goods--that is, long before the invention of coins or cash. It is in this era, Graeber argues, that we also first encounter a society divided into debtors and creditors. Graeber shows that arguments about debt and debt forgiveness have been at the center of political debates from Italy to China, as well as sparking innumerable insurrections. He also brilliantly demonstrates that the language of the ancient works of law and religion (words like `guilt,` `sin,` and `redemption`) derive in large part from ancient debates about debt, and shape even our most basic ideas of right and wrong. We are still fighting these battles today without knowing it.
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David Graeber teaches anthropology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has written for Harper's, The Nation, Mute, and The New Left Review. In 2006, he delivered the Malinowski Memorial Lecture at the London School of Economics, an annual talk that honors "outstanding anthropologists who have fundamentally shaped the study of culture." One of the original organizers of Occupy Wall Street, Graeber has been called an "anti-leader of the movement" by Bloomberg Businessweek. The Atlantic wrote that he "has come to represent the Occupy Wall Street message...expressing the group's theory, and its founding principles, in a way that truly elucidated some of the things people have questioned about it."
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Winner of the Bateson Book Prize awarded by the Society for Cultural Anthropology `One of the year's most influential books. Graeber situates the emergence of credit within the rise of class society, the destruction of societies based on 'webs of mutual commitment' and the constantly implied threat of physical violence that lies behind all social relations based on money.` --Paul Mason, `The Guardian` `The book is more readable and entertaining than I can indicate... It is a meditation on debt, tribute, gifts, religion and the false history of money. Graeber is a scholarly researcher, an activist and a public intellectual. His field is the whole history of social and economic transactions.` `--`Peter Carey,` The Observer` `An alternate history of the rise of money and markets, a sprawling, erudite, provocative work.` --Drake Bennett, `Bloomberg Businessweek ` `[A]n engaging book. Part anthropological history and part provocative political argument, it's a useful corrective to what passes for contemporary conversation about debt and the economy.` --Jesse Singal, `Boston Globe` `Fresh... fascinating... Graeber's book is not just thought-provoking, but also exceedingly timely.` `--`Gillian Tett, `Financial Times`(London) `Terrific... In the best anthropological tradition, he helps us reset our everyday ideas by exploring history and other civilizations, then boomeranging back to render our own world strange, and more open to change.` `--`Raj Patel, ``The Globe and Mail`` `Graeber's book has forced me to completely reevaluate my position on human economics, its history, and its branches of thought. A Marxism without Graeber's anthropology is beginning to feel meaningless to me.` --Charles Mudede, `The Stranger` `The world of borrowing needs a little demystification, and David Graeber's `Debt `is a good start.` --`The L Magazine` `Controversial and thought-provoking, an excellent book.`


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The Best Homemade Brownie Mix
Once in awhile I get this chocolate craving. And on those days the only thing that curbs my craving is a brownie. A rich, fudgy, chocolate brownie.
Usually those are the days I reach for a box brownie mix, because it's so quick to just whip up, bake, and dig in. However, lately I've found that I like my homemade brownies better than a box mix. Enter: homemade brownie mix. Keep it in your pantry and make a batch of brownies whenever you want – no box needed!
I really hope I make sense while I write this. I'm kind of drugged up at the moment.
Have you ever taken Dramamine? The kind that's not non-drowsy? The kind that makes your head feel like it's on tracers? Well, it turns out that I have vertigo. It's not horrible vertigo, which is why I've had it on and off for a year without knowing what it was. Now I know, and I have a fancy OTC drug that's supposed to help it, a drug that's like that regular dramamine. I just took my first dose about an hour ago and I feel a little…spacey.
Is there irony in the fact that the treatment for vertigo pretty much feels like vertigo itself?
Anyway, the story I was going to tell left my brain along with sense and reason, so now I'm going to talk about brownie mix. Should I related it to unicorn glitter or would that be too much?
You guys all know how much I love me some brownies. I have over 25 recipes for them! It all started when I created a recipe that was better than from a box. I gave that recipe frosting, mixed it with nuts and caramel, and topped it with peanut butter.
Then, I created a one bowl brownie recipe. I loved it because it only used cocoa, which made it one less step. I've been making that recipe for awhile now and every time I pull out the cocoa powder I groan.
Raise you hand if you hate scooping cocoa powder as much as I do? I mean, I like mixing it into my brownies but 9 times out of 10 I end up snorting it up my nose.
So I decided it was time to come up with a recipe for a brownie mix, one that I could keep in the cabinet and just scoop out when I needed it. It took me a few tries to get it perfect, but here it is: The Best Homemade Brownie Mix!
All you have to do is whisk all the ingredients and store the mixture in a canister or ziploc bag until you're ready to use it. Then you add egg, water, butter or oil, and vanilla. The brownies themselves come together in just a few minutes. It's like pulling a box from the cabinet…without all the preservatives and box things so many people like to avoid.
There are a couple things I really love about this brownie mix:
1. You can use melted butter, vegetable oil, or liquid coconut oil to make them. They turn out the same every time – perfectly fudgy and rich as you can see in the photos. I tested with all three, and I'm sure canola oil or olive oil, or your favorite oil in general, would work too.
{Please. Don't sub margarine. Or low-fat butter spread. Well, you can, but I can guarantee your results won't be the same.}
2. You can make a small batch, a medium batch, or a large batch all with just a few adjustments. I left recipes for all thee in the box below.
A small batch is made with 1 cup of mix and baked in a bread pan. Perfect for when you know you're going to eat a whole pan of brownies. Think of it as portion control.
The medium batch is baked in a 9×9 pan, using 2 cups of mix. I usually prefer 9×9 pan recipes because there are only 3 people in my family.
The large batch is baked in a 9×13 pan, using 3 cups of mix. I didn't test this one, but it follows that it will work.
Genius, isn't it?
Make your own brownie mix at home and have brownies whenever you want! This would also be the perfect gift for that someone who needs a little help with homemade.
Did all that make sense? I hope so.
The Best Brownie Mix
Yield: Brownie mix makes enough for 2 9x9" pans of brownies
This is the best brownie mix! Tastes better than a box mix and you can keep it in your cabinet for whenever a brownie craving hits! Make the brownies in a 9x9 pan or a loaf pan for a smaller serving, or gift a jar of mix to a friend!
For the Mix:
- 2 cups granulated sugar
- 1 cup cocoa
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
For the prepared Brownies:
- See directions for amounts, depending on pan size:
- Unsalted butter (melted), vegetable oil, OR liquid coconut oil
- Eggs
- Water
- Vanilla Extract
To Make the Mix:
- Whisk together all mix ingredients in a large bowl. Place in an airtight container or gallon size ziploc bag. Store until ready to make brownies.
- Note: you can also gift this brownie mix in a large jar. Just attach directions as written below!
To Make a 9x9" Pan of Brownies:
- Mix 2 cups of Brownie Mix with 1/2 cup melted butter (or you can use vegetable oil, or liquid coconut oil), 2 eggs, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, and 1 tablespoon water. (If desired, add 1/2 cup of chopped nuts or mini chocolate chips!)
- Spread in a 9x9" pan that's been lined with foil and sprayed with cooking spray. Bake at 350°F for about 20-24 minutes, until a toothpick comes out 1" from the edge of the pan with only a few crumbs. Cool before slicing into squares.
To Make a Loaf Pan of Brownies:
- Mix 1 cup of Brownie Mix with 1/4 cup melted butter (or you can use vegetable oil, or liquid coconut oil), 1 egg, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract, and 1 1/2 teaspoons water. (If desired, add 1/4 cup of chopped nuts or mini chocolate chips!)
- Spread in a loaf pan (4x8 or 9x5) that's been lined with foil and sprayed with cooking spray. Bake at 350°F for about 12-15 minutes, until a toothpick comes out 1" from the edge of the pan with only a few crumbs. Cool before slicing into squares.
You could also use a mini muffin or regular sized cupcake tin to make single serving brownies! Just be sure to grease them well with butter, shortening, or cooking spray with flour for easy removal (or use muffin liners). Baking time will be affected.
To make a 9x13" pan of brownies, mix 3 cups of brownie mix with 3/4 cup melted butter (or you can use vegetable oil, or liquid coconut oil), 3 eggs, 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract, and 1 1/2 tablespoons water. (If desired, add 3/4 cup of chopped nuts or mini chocolate chips!) Spread in a 9x13" pan that's been lined with foil and sprayed with cooking spray. Bake at 350°F for about 22-30 minutes, until a toothpick comes out 1" from the edge of the pan with only a few crumbs. Cool before slicing into squares. **Note this is untested, but should work!**
You can use this brownie mix to make so many recipes! Like…
Reese's Brownies with Oreo Crust
Cookies 'n Cream Brownie Bites
Nutter Butter Truffle Brownies
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122 Responses to "The Best Homemade Brownie Mix"
Sorry to hear about the Vertigo Dorothy – my Aunt has it and it never looks all that fun!
Unicorn glitter is fun though 😉
And, this brownie mix? MEGA FUN. I hate you and love you for making brownies SO easy to make whenever I have a chocolate craving. Which is always. Pinned!
I made a 5 1/2 pond bag of homemade brownie mix I think I gained like 20 pounds
Thanks for sharing this with us. What a great mix to have on hand when a brownie craving hits!
You know, snorting cocoa sounds like it would be nice, but it's just not.
This is so great! I'm making a container of this today. I'm gonna love having it on hand!
Gorgeous! Brownies….brownie mix….brownie batter….it's all gorgeous to me!
Thanks for sharing deliciousness today!
Have a wonderful day.
What a great idea!! And if it's the best, definitely need to make a whole bunch of these to have whenever the brownie craving strikes….which is a lot Also these are so perfect for gifts!! Pinned
What a great idea to make homemade brownie mix! This would make for an amazing gift for someone, too! And those brownies look AMAZING! So rich and fudgy. Love this!
I love the idea of making you own brownie mix. Such a great idea and perfect for the moments when you need some brownie batter now!
Thanks so much for this, so happy to have a trusty brownie mix recipe on hand
This is perfect for my girls to mix up and bake over the summer break! Thanks
Homemade brownie mix = the best idea ever!!! Thank you for doing all of the work for us in testing this recipe! And those brownies, they look so rich and fudgy!
That mix looks epic! It looks like I just want to bury my face in this mix before I even bake it!
This looks perfect! I always feel like I'm cheating if I use a box brownie mix, so using this will make me feel much better
Thanks you thank you thank you – what a great idea to have this on hand at all times. My house needs this
Confession: I love brownies but have never made them from scratch. Yours look so tasty! I need to try them out.
I love that you made this mix! As you said, scooping cocoa powder is such a messy job and it goes everywhere! And I love that you have 25+ brownie recipes, a girl after my own heart Pinned!
This would make suuuch a perfect gift!! I love all of your brownie recipes, power to the chocolate lovers!
Dorothy! Such a wonderful idea! I try not to use box cake/brownie mix! So nice to have homemade mix! This would make such a great give too! Thanks for sharing! Pinned
So excited to try this!!!!
Hopefully you don't have to take those med all the time. Vertigo is scary.
I vote that you should have related this brownie mix to unicorn glitter. Definitely appropriate! It's like you live in my head because I needed a way to get brownies on my hips faster! lol Can't wait to try this mix out!!
I have had 2 vertigo "spin outs" and it was horrible and every since then I have felt "off" or "floaty" I started to see a specialist and it seems to be that this is coming from my neck from bending it down a lot (blogging) and headaches/migraines. There is hope. I have had this going on with me for about 10 months now. We will get better….I am so glad you shared that you are having this issue. Some days I feel crazy and that no one knows what I am feeling or talking about. I will pray for you!
I think it would be a fantastic idea to have a large ziplock bag full of this brownie mix on hand when the time is requiring brownies!
I have chocolate cravings all of the time. I would love to have this just sitting in my pantry!!
I despise mecclizine/dramamine!! I have had meniere's for 15 years, and it sucks. I would like some unicorn glitter though. 😉 I love this mix Dorothy, in fact why didn't I think of it? I hope you feel better soon!
Oh my goodness Dorothy! Vertigo does not sound like fun at all. Carrie (from the blog Poet in the Pantry) was describing her vertigo experiences at BlogHer Food in Miami, and I just wanted to give her a huge hug. I'd do the same to you, if we weren't so darn far away! But in the meantime, a big plate of fudgy brownies should at least make you feel a little better, right? Especially when they're from a homemade mix!!
I hope your vertigo gets better soon, Dorothy! My mom had it off and on, and I had it once – yuck! Thanks for the recipe for the mix! Most of the store box mixes have hydrogenated oil; the others are really expensive. We have neighbor kids coming over tomorrow – this will be a great treat after lunch!
I wish I only got chocolate cravings once in awhile. I crave it everyday! Love that this uses cocoa powder. I hate messing with chopping/melting chocolate for brownies.
Sorry to hear about that Dorothy and hope you feel better soon. This brownie mix sounds perfect! Love that I can whip up a batch of brownies in no time whenever I need it. Can't wait to try this – pinning
best idea ever. I can't go back to the boxed mix but I also miss the ease of whipping up a quick batch of brownies. btw, my cousin had vertigo and she found that the only thing that truly fixed it was bikram yoga. not sure if it will work for you, but it might be worth a shot!
I like the idea of having the ready brownies mix! And then just adding some different things you make delicious brownies anytime!
This sounds so great! Can't wait to try, I love brownies!
I love boxed brownie mix, but I'm am definitely going to try your homemade brownies. I like them fudgy too. I love this idea of making your own brownie mix. This would be perfect for me to give out at Christmas time. Totally pinning!!
A brownie mix for a brownie fix when the craving strikes????? THIS IS THE MOST PERFECT thing ever!!!! Goodbye box-mixes!!!! I can't believe how quick making brownies is going to be from this point on! TOTALLY pinning this! <3
i just made this but haven't eaten any. My question is: I made the 9×9 recipe. Now I have 1 and 1/2 cups of mix left. All of your recipes call for 1-3 cups of mix, no 1/2's. what to do?????
One helpful note_ Be careful mixing the dry ingredients together, as with the cocoa in it, it does "spray" if mixing too vigorously!!!
You are a genius!! I just printed the recipe and I can't wait to try it. Like you, I looove me some brownies!
Thank you for the recipe! I will surely try this once I get some baking supplies!
I have had vertigo on and off for the past 4 years. I hate the prescription medications, like you say they make you feel nearly as bad as the vertigo. I seem to end up curled up on the couch, too tired to do anything, after I've taken it, and I can't think straight. I admire you for being able to write a sentence, I'm sure I never could! Anyway, because I hate the medication so much, I looked into natural alternatives. I found that taking a gingko tablet a day, when things start spinning, seems to help. It doesn't completely make the symptoms disappear, but it helps enough so I can still function normally and walk in straight lines. And I have found that my attacks don't come as frequently now. I don't know if it would help you, but it's definitely worth looking for an alternative that does! I think chocolate must help too… chocolate is proven to be good for you, right?
I love this, Dorothy!! I'll be able to get my brownie fix faster by keeping a jar of this in my pantry! great idea!
This would make the perfect gift – period!! When I get a chocolate craving I instantly NEED a piece of dark chocolate – but a brownie also would hit the spot!!
I've never made my own Homemade Brownie Mix but can't wait to give this a try – thanks!
LOVE THIS! So smart!!! Pinning!
Thanks for the recipe! I'll have to adapt it to gluten free by that should be easy peasy with some gf flour. Also, I feel you on the vertigo. I have it and it majorly runs in my family. It's not fun and when a spell happens, I'm out for at least a week in bed. I haven't found a way to get better amidst a dizzy spell, but I feel like i can prevent them somewhat. Sleeping on my left side has helped tremendously! But you just never know when they'll hit!
Hi, you might of said this already but do you know how long the mix will last in a container? They look delicious, can't wait to try them. Thank you for making it look so easy!
I LOVE IT! I am saving this recipe to try soon. I hope you'll stop by and share it and/or any of your other delicoius recipe at my recipe link party, The Yuck Stops Here starting Tuesday evening at 8pm ET. You can find it on my blog, Hot Momma's Kitchen Chaos at http://mommasangelbaby (dot) com. I hope to see you there! And thanks again for this yummy recipe! HUGS
My grandmother had a recipe for brownie mix that you could store in your pantry, but it also could be used to make chocolate syrup, hot fudge as well as brownies. All you had to do was adjust the fresh/wet ingredients and you turned out a different result! I remember she used to have it stored in paper grocery bags and it was like heaven when she pulled that out. Sadly the recipe is long gone with her passing. Would you care to take up the challenge of making hot fudge out of your brownie mix? Pretty please???
I can't wait to try this at home, I'm sure my son will love it. Mahalo!
I am SO psyched to have found this, was thinking of doing a food gift as a takeaway for an upcoming celebration – this will work perfectly!!!
I have to admit, just like all of the others, this sounds SO good! The pictures………ooooohh! It looks sinfully good! Unfortunately, there was not one comment that said I've tried it and……. Has anyone put this together and had the same to say? I do hope you're getting ahead of your issues with vertigo. Thank you for spending the time & coming up with this recipe 😉
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I was craving brownies tonight and thought I had a mix, but didn't. So glad I found this. Easy to make and keep. I too have Vertigo. It's frustrating. I had a doctor tell me he thought my neck could be the culprit, but then another say no. Ugh. I hope you're symptoms ease very soon.
Oh, girl I am so sorry to hear about the vertigo…hopefully the dr's can get it figured out and you won't need the drugs! I love how easy this mix is to have on hand for those brownie cravings. Brownies this good would help cure anything, right?
Thank you so much for the brownie mix recipe. Will be making a batch this week. I am sorry to hear about your vertigo. I had an attack several years ago. It was diagnosed as Benign Paroxsmal Positional vertigo. As you believe, it can be related to your ears. There are onlith organs in the ears that have crystals (not sure what they are actually made of) and the crystals can become dislodged and basically "rattle around" in your ear. There is a treatment, which consists on turning the head in certain positions, while the patient is lying down. It is called Canalith Repositioning Procedure. You might talk to your physician about this and see what he/she has to say. If you go on the internet, specifically Mayo Clinic, there is information about BPPV there. Hope this might help.
Do you think whole wheat pastry flour would work with this recipe?
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I Love the brownie mix so do my family. The 9×13 directions were great!!!!!!
I have now made three batches of these brownies and I absolutely agree, it is wonderful!! My first batch was an 8×8 glass dish, and the cook time was much longer. I think almost 35 min. Today, I made a 9x13x1 pan in my trusty pan that I always used for brownies, and they came out delicious. My cook time was only about 22 min at 350′ and I am in Texas, for reference. The top is a slight crust and the middle is rich, just perfect, fudgy brownie. Also, I have subbed coconut oil with delicious results. I also used Nativa Naturals raw cacao powder because I already had it in the pantry. Thank you for the wonderful recipe.
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Ok so i just now made these. And something went terribly wrong. Do when you buy cocoa it comes in an 8oz container. First I poured it into the measuring cup to measure one cup. I thought it was odd that the container said 8oz but when you measure about half that it comes to b one cup. I poured the whole container in assuming the package measurement had to better than mine. That is probably where I went wrong. My brownies are crumbly and bitter. Can my mistake be fixed? Do I have to throw out all these ingredients?
Katie you posted this nearly three months ago so I don't know if you'll see this but I saw that your question wasn't answered. I just checked and for DRY ingredients like the cocoa, a cup equals 4 ounces. It's actually slightly different for different dry ingredients. Here's a link to the chart I found:
I wonder if the cocoa you used is already sweetened. I have a raw cocoa in my cupboard.. do I need to add more sugar?
Dad and I ran out of brownie mix but found ourselves hankering for a chocolate morsel like nobody's business. I'm so glad I found you recipe on Pinterest. I added some caramels to the batter and it's finishing in the oven right now – our house smells heavenly! I can't wait to try them – thanks again for sharing!
love this!! What kind of cocoa do you use??
I made the 9×13 version, baking for about 27 minutes, and they came out great! These are very dangerous to be home alone with…
Hi Dorothy!
I am about to prepare a batch of this mix as a gift for a friend.
I am writing out the instructions first, and as I was printing out the instructions for the small batch (1 cup, baked in a bread pan) I noticed that you don't mention the quatities for the added wet ingredients for any of the three batch sizes (bread pan, 9×9, 9×13).
Would you mind sharing what your wet quantities were for each batch size? That would be awesome, thanks!
I just whipped up a batch of the mix. Looking forward to making some brownie bites later this evening! Thank you for the inspiration!
Brownies are in the oven now–but I dowsed the comments and didn't see anybody with the problem I had. I made the big batch–9×13″ pan–and carefully measured out the right amount of mix and put in exactly the amount of oil, eggs, and water called for–and the mix was WAY too dry, like really stiff bread dough! Had to add another quarter cup of water to get it to brownie batter consistency. I kind of had wondered because box mixes usually call for about a fourth cup of water. I'll let you know how they come out. Theories?
We LOVE this brownie mix. My husband knows a batch of it is waiting on him in the freezer. His hint to me…."Are you making brownies in there?" He loves the chewier texture of these better than a cake-like texture. I've had so many compliments on this recipe. I haven't changed any of it. As far as I'm concerned, I don't need any other brownie recipe.
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VERTIGO! Ughhhhh!!
UNTIL 'one's been there, done that'…. They would not even begin to imagine!!
I've SUFFERED (that IS the perfect word to describe it)…. For 6+ LONG years! I KEEP Meclizine & PHENERGAN in my purse… AT ALL TIMES!
The Lord has truly been my HELP & HEALER…..as I have not had an "episode" in nearly 8 months! PTL!!
I will certainly be praying for you!!
And in the meantime…. While making me up some of this ABSOLUTELY DELICIOUS LOOKING BROWNIE MIX….
Trying to figure out a way….. Of HOW CHOCOLATE ….
Can take the place…. Of the "Mec & Phen" 😉
I KNOW this will be a TOUCHDOWN…. For our short Super Bowl get together …. This Sunday….after church!
(I really do HATE football…..OHHHHHH but the EATING/SNACKING IS….
Just made these brownies! Delish! Thank You
Just a little story…my husband needed something to bring to a potluck and found himself at home with our baby while I was at the urgent care facility. I sent him this recipe, and said that he needed to make the mix, use three cups in a 9×13 pan, and then follow the directions.
He felt like he could handle that. When I got home, the brownies were in the oven! I asked what he had done with the rest of the mix…and of course he had no idea what I was talking about. Yep, he used the whole mix and then made it up according to your 9×13 instructions. Then I looked in the oven…he had used a 7×11 pan. So, we baked the brownies a lot longer than intended, and when it came time to cut them, they were well beyond moist. 😉 But there was no time to make changes, so he brought them as-is. Amazingly, they tasted great! Like a cross between brownies and fudge! Just thought you might like to know that even when you fail to follow the directions, they're still pretty delicious!
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Oh!! What have you done to meeee??!! I made a small (thankfully) batch of your brownies using your brownie mix. So gooey and squidy. It would be fair to say: they are all gone!!
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Elliot, who also wrote Carmen: A Hip Hopera, and later went on to write such urban classics as Like Mike 1 &2, and this summers smash hit, Just Wright with Queen Latifah and Common, understood going into the game that the road to success wasn't going to just offer him a front door welcome. Armed with a pen and a pad, Elliot opted to follow an old theory set forth by a Beatles song; he "came in through the bathroom window," by taking an unconventional route to meet his destiny in an ascending stairwell.


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- A former Peace Corps volunteer.
- A biochemistry and Spanish degree holder.
- Finding my way in the global community.
- Proud of Willamette's commitment to volunteerism.
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Dedicated to Service
Willamette's emphasis on study abroad and service led Ana Moreno '05 to join the Peace Corps after graduation.
Willamette consistently ranks among the top 20 in the nation among small undergraduate schools producing Peace Corps volunteers — a fact that is not surprising to Ana Moreno '05, who served two years in Paraguay.
"Willamette has a strong culture of promoting volunteer work and travel and study abroad," Moreno says. "It makes sense that Willamette alumni seek out the Peace Corps as an affordable way to continue doing volunteer work and traveling to other parts of the world after they graduate."
When Moreno started her Peace Corps assignment, she expected challenges as she taught local residents the importance of nutrition and sanitation.
She didn't expect that before she could accomplish anything, she would have to gain people's trust.
She worked in a town located about 20 miles from the closest paved road, where the 500 residents had never seen a Peace Corps volunteer and were wary of American outsiders.
"I was the only person in town who owned a camera, so I started bringing people prints of the photos I'd snapped around town," Moreno says. "For most, these pictures were a cherished possession.
"I also recognized people's birthdays with homemade cakes — a treat most people there can't afford. I can't count how many of my friendships started with my camera and the birthday cakes."
Moreno's experiences added to a path she began exploring during her time at Willamette: her role in the global community.
"In the farthest corner of rural Paraguay, in dirt-floor kitchens, I met some of the wisest and most generous people I have ever encountered."
Marco Fiallo '11 is using his internship experiences to run a social entrepreneurship. Read More
Willamette helped Boeing's former CEO discover his love for numbers and engineering. Read More
Claire Bonilla '95 was a volunteer at WU — today she serves global communities through Microsoft. Read More
Noah Horton '02 used his talent in computer programming to create a company, Involver. Read More
BJ Wright '03 tackles tough questions in the science lab and the boardroom. Read More
Jason Kenitzer '00 translated his Willamette education into a job creating graphics for Oakley. Read More
Julie Kennedy '99 helped found a successful Brooklyn charter school for inner-city students. Read More
Randall Cass '08 takes his agriculture research to Chile through a prestigious Fulbright grant. Read More
Patrick Carman '88 turned his children's bedtime stories into a popular fantasy book series. Read More
Sarah Hamilton '07 takes her theatre production skills to a larger stage through venue management. Read More
Ryan Calkins '99 co-founded a microfinance organization to provide financial services to the poor. Read More
Will Nevius '09 continued his civic engagement after graduation by heading to the nation's capitol. Read More
Kate D'Ambrosio '06 turned her passions for forestry and public policy into a career with the U.S. Forest Service. Read More
Mentoring from professors helped Colin Gardiner '09 find his current career. Read More
A full schedule at Willamette helped Elise Helvie '09 get into a competitive graduate program. Read More
Monica Rother '05 is still in graduate school, but the National Science Foundation has already funded her work. Read More
Emilio Solano '09 draws on his own background as he volunteers in a Los Angeles classroom. Read More
Liani Reeves '98, JD'01 has found success in her law career and through public service. Read More


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New York International Fringe Festival
5 Best Eating And Drinking Events This Weekend
August isn't over yet, but this weekend is your last chance to participate in Summer Streets. In addition to riding, running, or walking down Park Avenue, check out our other picks for the best eating, drinking, and merrymaking this weekend.
NYC's 10 Best Summer Festivals In 2014
After a seemingly endless winter, summer is finally here, bringing with it blue skies, temperatures in the triple digits, flip-flops, and lots of music, performing arts, and literary festivals. Our picks for the ten best festivals of the summer follow.
The 5 Best Upcoming Theater Events In New York
This summer, why not plan a trip to the theater? Whether you're looking for comedy, drama or romance, New York City has many great opportunities for summer entertainment – both indoor and outdoor.
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Funeral services were held today for 22-year-old Marina Keegan. She was killed in a car crash near her Wayland, Massachusetts home on May 26.


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- Willamette
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- News Archive
- 2010
- March
- Oregon Tech Drops Willamette in Eight Innings, 8-6
Softball | Thursday, March 25, 2010
Oregon Tech Drops Willamette in Eight Innings, 8-6
SALEM, ORE. -- The Willamette University softball team dropped a close game to visiting Oregon Institute of Technology, 8-6 in eight innings, on Thursday, March 25. The Bearcats, ranked #18 in the nation in NCAA Division III, dropped their record to 15-5. Oregon Tech, which competes in the NAIA, moved to 16-14 on the season.
Willamette trailed 6-3 heading into the bottom of the seventh. With the rain pounding and the wind whipping, the Bearcats found a way to tie the game with three runs on two hits and one error.
Jessica Barry (So., OF, Cupertino, CA/Univ. of Nevada-Las Vegas) led off the inning with a single. Mica Romero (So., SS, Woodland, CA/Woodland Christian HS) walked to put runners at first and second. Barry scored on a wild pitch to bring the Bearcats within two runs, 6-4.
Following a Bri Compton (Jr., P, Kalispell, MT/Wenatchee C.C.) walk, Talissa Huntsman (So., P/DP, Richland, WA/Richland HS) hit a fly ball that was caught by center fielder Brittany Cherry on a diving play in left center. Emily Bray (Fr., 1B, Martinez, CA/Alhambra HS) singled with one out to load the bases.
Senior Nicole Wallace (2B, Roseville, CA/Roseville HS) hit a grounder to the shortstop. Wallace was thrown out at first, but two runners scored on the play to tie the game 6-6 and send it into extra innings.
The two teams agreed to play the extra innings with the international tie-breaker rule, which means a runner starts on second base at the beginning of each half-inning. OIT kept its offense rolling in the top of the inning by scoring two runs. The Owls recorded the runs without a hit, using a walk, a fielder's choice and two sacrifice flies to bring home tie-breaking runner Cherry and designated player Bree Larson.
The Bearcats had the bases loaded with one out, but did not score in the bottom of the eighth. Relief pitcher Becca Anderson got Romero to hit a fly ball to Cherry in center field. Cherry made the catch and then threw out pinch-runner Yvonne Drabin (Fr., OF, Freemont, CA/Moreau Catholic HS) at the plate as Drabin attempted to score from third.
Barry was the leading hitter for WU with three hits, two runs and one RBI. Romero scored two runs and had one hit. Wallace finished the game with two RBIs and two walks.
The top of the order for OIT finished the game a combined 6 of 17 (.353) with six RBIs. Jess Plummer led the Owls by going 3 for 4 at the plate with a solo home run. Ashleigh Larson drove in three runs.
Anderson picked up the win in relief for the Owls. She pitched three innings and gave up three runs and three hits.
Talissa Huntsman (So., P, Richland, WA/Richland HS) took the loss in relief for WU. Compton pitched most of the game, striking out seven but allowing ten hits and six runs, five of them earned.
The Bearcats will resume conference play against Lewis & Clark College on Saturday, March 27. The two teams will play a doubleheader in Portland, Ore., starting at 12 p.m. (PDT). Willamette has won the last eight games against the Pioneers.
BOX SCOREOregon Institute of Technology 8
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Echchaibi is associate professor of
journalism and media studies and associate director of the Center for
Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado-Boulder. His
research is situated at the crossroad of important contemporary issues
such as identity, religion, and the role of media in shaping and
reflecting modern religious subjectivities among Muslims in the Middle
East and in diaspora. His work on diasporic media and the leveling of
religious authority through the proliferation of Islamic media has
appeared in various international publications such as Javnost,
International Communication Gazette, Journal of Intercultural Studies,
Nations and Nationalism, Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, and
Media Development.
Dr. Echchaibi is currently working on his book, Formations of the Muslim Modern: Islam, Media and Alternative Modernity, which explores how Muslims engage, through their own media production, modernity as a source of both contention and identification. Using a multilayered analysis of six case studies of Muslim media in Cairo, Los Angeles, Dubai, San Francisco, London, and Austin, the book examines how transnational satellite television and digital media have become prime discursive and performative stages where young individuals and institutions debate and contest what it means to be "modern" in the Muslim context.
Dr. Echchaibi's book Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Culture and Renewal was published by Lexington Books in 2011. His co-edited book International Blogging : Identity, Politics and Networked Publics was published in 2009 by Peter Lang Publishing. His columns have appeared in The Guardian, Salon, The Huffington Post, Geo, and Religion Dispatches. Prior to joining CU, Dr. Echchaibi taught at Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland, where he helped set up the international communication department, the University of Louisville and Indiana University-Bloomington. A native of Morocco, he earned his BA from Mohammed V University in Rabat and his MA and PhD from Indiana University-Bloomington.


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The Downtown Sounds concerts bring some perfectly danceable music to Bay Street but there is just too much daylight and not enough alcohol to support widespread boogying. Maybe Latin Expression's tropical groove will melt our famous northwestern reserve. The next DTS is on Wednesday, August 4, starting at 6pm with openers Umami.
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COAST Registration InstructionsStudents are assigned an academic advisor based upon the desired program of study. The advisor for a program of study is typically an instructor in that area. (Undecided, transient, and other special admission category students are advised by the Advisement Center.) Approximately one week prior to the scheduled registration period, contact your advisor to discuss your academic plan.
During the scheduled registration period, you may register via COASTIn the Secure Area, go to Registration and click on Check Your Registration Status to determine your registration period. The following groups are excluded from COAST registration:
- Learning Support
- New Students
- Academically Ineligible (Dismissal/Suspension)
To register using COAST:
- Click Student Services and Financial Aid.
- Click Registration.
- Please read the registration disclaimer that appears and choose Do Accept.
- Click Add/Drop Classes.
- Choose the appropriate registration term and click Submit Term.
- Enter the Alternate PIN provided to you by your academic advisor and click Submit PIN.
- Enter the CRNs provided to you by your academic advisor and click Submit Changes.
- If an incorrect CRN is entered, choose Web Drop in the Action block and click Submit Changes to dop the course.
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Meet the Provost
Dr. Andy Feinstein is the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at San José State University. As the chief academic officer of the university, he oversees 154 degree programs (undergraduate, master's and one doctorate), and supports over 30,000 students, 1,700 faculty, and more than 200 staff and administrators in seven academic colleges, the College of International and Extended Education (generating $29 million in self-support funds), the Martin Luther King Library (one of the nation's first university-city library partnerships), as well as the Moss Landing Marine Laboratory in Monterey Bay and the SJSU Research Foundation. As Provost, he facilitates university strategic planning, leads Academic Affairs strategic planning, implements budget and resource allocation plans, guides and oversees innovations in academic technology, promotes faculty and student success, and supports curricular and program distinction.
Before becoming the Provost in April 2014, Dr. Feinstein was hired as the Deputy Provost in July 2013 and served as Interim Provost from January through April 2014. He also served as the Interim Dean of the College of International and Extended Studies.
Before coming to SJSU, Dr. Feinstein was dean and James A. Collins Distinguished Chair of The Collins College of Hospitality Management at Cal Poly Pomona. The Collins College is the first and largest hospitality program in California and ranked as one of the best in the nation. At Cal Poly Pomona, Dr. Feinstein implemented a strategic plan resulting in the elevation of the program to a college, the development of a successful self-supported master's of science program, and the raising of more than $14.5 million in gifts. He also served as the first CSU Director of Hospitality Management Education and established the Hospitality Management Education Initiative, a partnership of 14 CSU campuses and a board of top industry leaders.
Dr. Feinstein also served as senior advisor to the president at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and associate dean for strategic initiatives at UNLV's Harrah Hotel College. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in hotel administration from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He received his doctoral degree from The Pennsylvania State University, where he held an academic computing fellowship.
Dr. Feinstein has published more than 30 refereed journal articles and presented at dozens of meetings and conferences. His areas of focus have included instructional systems, simulation modeling, and technology. He is the co-author of two textbooks, one of which has been adopted at more than 250 colleges and universities worldwide.


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Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance or DMARC is a method of email authentication, that is a way to mitigate email abuse. It expands on two existing mechanisms, the well-known Sender Policy Framework (SPF) and DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM), coordinating their results on the alignment of the domain in the
From: header field, which is often visible to end users. It allows specification of policies (the procedures for handling incoming mail based on the combined results) and provides for reporting of actions performed under those policies.
DKIM is specified in RFC 7489.
A group of leading organizations came together in the spring of 2011 to collaborate on a method for combating fraudulent email at Internet-scale. The mission was two-fold:
- Enable senders to publish easily discoverable policies on unauthenticated email; and
- Enable receivers to provide authentication reporting to senders so that they can improve and monitor their authentication infrastructure
Their common goal was to develop an operational specification, with the desire that it would be able to achieve formal standards status. The concept behind DMARC was based on practical experience during loose collaborations between some of the founding senders and receivers who agreed on how to interpret mail coming from domains supporting DKIM and SPF. The resulting DMARC specification was published on January 30, 2012 and subsequently publicly circulated as an Internet Draft on March 31, 2013. As of April 2, 2014 it was switched to the Independent Submissions track. (Please see Status of DMARC for more details.)[1]
After one year, in 2013, DMARC was estimated to protect 60% of the world's mailboxes.[2]
DMARC aims at standardizing how email receivers perform email authentication, so that senders will experience consistent authentication results for their messages at any email receiver implementing DMARC. In March 2013 the specification was moved to the IETF, intended for the independent stream. The specification creators hope this will encourage senders to more broadly authenticate their outbound email which can make email a more reliable way to communicate.
In April 2014, Yahoo changed its DMARC policy to
p=reject, thereby causing misbehavior in several mailing lists.[3]
A DMARC policy allows a sender's domain to indicate that their emails are protected by SPF and/or DKIM, and tells a receiver what to do if neither of those authentication methods passes - such as junk or reject the message. DMARC removes guesswork from the receiver's handling of these failed messages, limiting or eliminating the user's exposure to potentially fraudulent & harmful messages. DMARC also provides a way for the email receiver to report back to the sender's domain about messages that pass and/or fail DMARC evaluation.
DMARC is designed to fit into an organization's existing inbound email authentication process. The way it works is to help email receivers determine if the purported message aligns with what the receiver knows about the sender. If not, DMARC includes guidance on how to handle the "non-aligned" messages. DMARC doesn't directly address whether or not an email is spam or otherwise fraudulent. Instead, DMARC requires that a message not only pass DKIM or SPF validation, but that it also pass alignment. For SPF, the message must PASS the SPF check, and the domain in the From: header must match the domain used to validate SPF (must exactly match for strict alignment, or must be a sub-domain for relaxed alignment). For DKIM, the message must be validly signed and the d= domain of the valid signature must align with the domain in the From: header (must exactly match for strict alignment, or must be a sub-domain for relaxed alignment). Under DMARC a message can fail even if it passes SPF or DKIM, but fails alignment.[4]
DMARC policies are published in the public Domain Name System (DNS) as text (TXT) resource records (RR) and announce what an email receiver should do with non-aligned mail it receives.
To ensure the sender trusts this process and knows the impact of publishing a policy different than
p=none (monitor mode), the receiver sends daily aggregate reports indicating to the sender how many emails have been received and if these emails passed SPF and/or DKIM and were aligned.
DMARC may have a positive impact on deliverability for legitimate senders, at least Google recommends the use of DMARC for Bulk senders[5]
Human policy[edit]
DMARC policies are published by Domain Owners and applied by Mail Receivers to the messages that don't pass the alignment test. The domain being queried is the author domain, that is the domain to the right of
@ in the
From: header field. The policy can be one of
none the so-called monitor mode,
quarantine to treat the message with suspicion according to the receiver capabilities, or
reject to reject the message outright. Reject policy is fine for domains that don't have individual human users, or for companies with firm staff policies that all mail goes through the company mail server, and employees don't join mailing lists and the like using company addresses, or the company provides a separate less strictly managed domain for its staff mail. Strict policies will never be appropriate for public webmail systems where the users will use their mail addresses any way one can use a mail address.[6]
In fact, human use of a mail address may involve email forwarding from a dismissed address, and mailing lists, which are frequent causes of legitimate breakage of DMARC alignment. Various workarounds have been proposed to cope with domains that publish strict policies unwittingly. For example, a mailing list manager should reject posts from authors who use problematic email domains. The latter behavior is the most respectful the communication protocols as well as the domain owner's will. However, it might cause inconveniences in the face of sudden policy changes. According to John Levine, a well known mail expert, the least intrusive way to temporarily mitigate the damage would be to rewrite the
From: address in a predictable, comprehensible manner, such as the following:[7]
change From: John Doe <firstname.lastname@example.com> to From: John Doe <email@example.com>
.INVALID top level domain is reserved by RFC 2606 for such kind of usage. In order to apply that change, before re-mailing a message, a mail agent must look up the TXT RR at
_dmarc.example.com, if any, and check if it specifies a strict policy. If the change is applied, any recipient who wish to reply to the author can easily find out how to correct the address; in the same way, search engines that crawl mail archives can learn to discard the invalidating suffix.
For a more intrusive workaround, the
From: field can be rewritten boldly, thereby taking ownership of the message. The original author's address can then be added to the
Reply-To: field.[8]
Making either change brings the message out of compliance with RFC 5322 section 3.6.2, "The "From:" field specifies the author(s) of the message, that is, the mailbox(es) of the person(s) or system(s) responsible for the writing of the message." Mailbox refers to the author's email address.
Registrar support[edit]
Setting up DMARC on a domain requires to create sub-domains starting with an underscore. However, some registrars, such as 1&1, do not allow the creation of sub-domains starting with an underscore.[citation needed] Additionally, some registrars, such as Network Solutions, do not support underscores in cname records, which prevents the workaround by employing CNAME redirection.[9][10]
The contributors of the DMARC specification include:[11][12]
- Receivers: AOL, Comcast, Google (Gmail), Netease (163.com, 126.com, 188.com, yeah.net), Microsoft (Outlook.com, Hotmail),[13] Yahoo, Mail.Ru, XS4ALL, Yandex
- Senders: American Greetings, Bank of America, Facebook, Fidelity Investments, LinkedIn,[14] PayPal, JPMorganChase, Twitter[15]
- Intermediaries & Vendors: Agari, Cloudmark, Netcraft, Return Path, Trusted Domain Project, Symantec[16]
See also[edit]
- Author Domain Signing Practices
- Demarcation point
- E-mail authentication
- Certified email
- Mail servers with DMARC
- ^ http://dmarc.org/about.html
- ^ "In First Year, DMARC Protects 60 Percent of Global Consumer Mailboxes". dmarc.org. 6 February 2013. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ Lucian Constantin (8 April 2014). "Yahoo email anti-spoofing policy breaks mailing lists". PC World. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
- ^ Kucherawy, Murray. The Current DMARC Internet Draft. IETF.org. Jul 15, 2013
- ^ "Bulk Senders Guidelines - Gmail Help". support.google.com. Retrieved 2015-04-24.
- ^ John Levine (8 April 2014). "DMARC: perspectives from a listadmin of large open-source lists". IETF Discussion List. IETF. Retrieved 11 April 2014.
- ^ John Levine (31 May 2014). "Mitigating DMARC damage to third party mail". wiki. ASRG. Retrieved 1 June 2014.
- ^ Al Iverson (9 April 2014). "Spam Resource: Run an email discussion list? Here's how to deal with DMARC". spamresource.com. Retrieved 18 April 2014.
- ^ "Twitter".
- ^ DMARC specification Acknowledgements
- ^ DMARC Contributors (PDF)
- ^ Vitaldevara, Krish (10 December 2012). "Outlook.com increases security with support for DMARC and EV certificates". Outlook Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved 12 December 2012.
- ^ Martin, Franck (20 September 2012). "DMARC: a new tool to detect genuine emails". LinkedIn Engineering Blog. Linkedin. Retrieved 17 August 2013.
- ^ Josh Aberant (21 February 2013). "Introducing DMARC for Twitter.com emails". twitter.com. Retrieved 10 April 2014.
- ^ Ian McShane (27 March 2014). "Introducing DMARC Validation in Email Security.cloud". symantec.com. Retrieved 10 April 2014.


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Buzz Bellmont: The Critic's Critic
Unplugged critiques of the arts, life, love and the pursuit of truth
Monthly Archive for February, 2013
Stark Naked's GOD OF CARNAGE is Laugh Until You Cry Funny as Couples Tear Each Other Apart
Take four of the best actors in town, Drake Simpson, Kim Tobin, John Gremillion, and Kay Allmand , and add to the mix Justin Doran, one of the finest directors in the country. Stir and shake over heat until they all start popping like kernels of popcorn. Eat, laugh, drink, enjoy! If you are ready […] [Read More]
Bayou City Theatric's LITLLE SHOP OF HORRORS Is Full of Superior Talent
I attended the final dress of Bayou City Theatrics' Little Shop of Horrors, by composer Alan Menken and writer Howard Ashman, last night at Freneticore and thoroughly enjoyed the show. Of course, there were many details that were not yet in place (masking was not present stage left, props were absent at times, the plant […] [Read More]
A Valentine For My Recently Departed Mother
My mother, Peggy Neuhaus Bellmont, passed away in her sleep in Houston, Texas, on Saturday, January 19, 2013. She was 89 years old and had a great, long life. The memorial celebration was held on Friday, February 8, at 2:00 p.m. in the Chapel at St. John the Divine Episcopal Church. Many people who attended […] [Read More]
Stages' LANGUAGE ARCHIVE is Beautifully Written, Brilliantly Performed Masterpiece
I know a brilliant play usually within the first few minutes. Julia Cho's The Language Archive which opened last Friday at Stages Repertory Theatre is one of those plays that struck me like a bolt of lightning. The context here is this: A brilliant linguist, George, who runs a center called The Language Archive with […] [Read More]
Country Playhouse's TRUE WEST is Humorous, Excitingly Intense Experience
Sam Shepard's True West is receiving a stellar production at the Country Playhouse in its Black Box. True West is about the sibling rivalry between two estranged brothers who have reconnected. Austin, the younger brother, is a Hollywood screenwriter working on a screenplay while house sitting for his mother, who is vacationing in Alaska. His […] [Read More]
CATCH ME IF YOU CAN National Tour Dazzlingly Swings and Deliciously Cooks Up One Con After Another
Catch Me If You Can, written by Marc Shaiman, music (Hairspray) and Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman, lyrics, featuring a book by Terrence McNally, safely and impressively landed in the Hobby Center last night. The show is based on the 2002 film of the same name which starred Leonardo DiCaprio and follows the story of […] [Read More]
Ensemble's KNOCK ME A KISS Will Knock You Into Next Year With Brilliant Acting, Directing, Writing
Charles Smith's poignant, powerful, and amusing tale of love, marriage, and sex, Knock Me A Kiss, opened last night at the Ensemble Theatre and received an instantaneous standing ovation from the entire audience. The play takes place in W.E.B. Du Bois' family home in Harlem in 1928. In the first decade of the new century, […] [Read More]


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project life | week 1 & 2
first off, i'm loving this. BIG. time.
second, i'm realizing that after putting together two weeks worth of entries i'm slowly finding my groove as to how i want to put the book together and how i want it to look. when i worked on week 1 i was all about trying to incorporate the journaling cards and embellies i had put together. matching them with pics and making sure that they all "coordinated" and worked visually in the slots.
for me that = too. much. work.
by the time i started on week 2 i was focusing on the pictures. BIG pictures. plus, i made two simple 6×12 layouts for the middle divider. that was super cool. i loved picking one story to incorporate and expand upon. definitely what i'm pretty sure i'll be doing for the following weeks.
third… color scheme. i'm all about the pinks, blues, orange & yellows with this. i'm pretty sure that staying true to those colors is going to make this alot easier when i add the little extras, like washi. ooo. love the washi (well… who doesn't right?!)
another note, this really took a long time to put together which surprised me. i thought it would be pretty fast and i'm hoping that also will change as i get more comfortable with the process.
are you doing it? what's your fav and not so fav thing that you've discovered?
happy monday!
week 1 | kR Simply stated journaling cards (here) + miss tine journaling cards (here)
love that pic of me & the littles in the divider :)
date night with the man
lots of scraps from old kits
week 2 | i incorporated alot more digi aspects to the pics
love the dividers. love the skinny layout helping tell the story.
the front & back of the divider is focused on the same topic, volunteering for the littles classrooms. kinda cool to pull it all together with the journaling on the back.
did a 4×6 digi writeup of the major events that happened and put it in a slot. quick and gets the basics down.
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