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By Christian Pelusi
The USO prides itself on knowing the needs of our nation's troops and providing the care and support that meets those needs. At USO Indiana, the staff and volunteers wanted to give servicemen and women treats -- or in this case "treatments"-- they may never have thought they needed.
"We know that while 'in country,' the amount of physical contact [troops receive] is limited to mostly, 'a haircut and a handshake,'" said Susan Sears, who is an Indiana Statewide USO committee member and works for Indiana University Health as Clinical Informatics Coordinator. "We wanted to be able to pamper our troops."
So four times a year, USO Indiana and 50 volunteers offer massages, manicures, pedicures, facials, eyebrow and lip waxing for Camp Atterbury and if you think rough and tough troops are above treatments generally considered to be more feminine, think again.
"At first, some of the males are a bit nervous about participating in some of the treatments such as a pedicure, but about two minutes into the treatment, they are putty in the hands of the technician," Sears said. "All it takes is one person to break the ice and it is 'game on!'"
Sears estimated that over 1,200 troops have taken advantage of the eight Spa Days that have taken place with more to come, thanks to the generous support from businesses like Red Bull and the helpful hands of volunteers from Aveda Fredric's Institute in Indianapolis, Harrison College and independent massage therapists.
"The troops at Camp Atterbury are, for the most part either about to be deployed to or returning from harm's way," Sears said. "Those about to leave are given a last opportunity for some pampering and relaxation that may be hard to come by in their new location. Those returning from a deployment need that special attention and relaxation as they transition back to the states. The look on the troops' faces as the stress melts from their faces while they are attending a Spa Day event is the reason I and the Statewide Events' committee continue to put on the event."
Time and again, Sears is thrilled by the troops' enthusiasm for the event and she points to the addition of a waxing station a few events ago as an example.
"We thought that the females may like a touch-up before leaving or definitely on returning from a deployment. As it turned out, the males were the ones who were lining up for that service. Apparently, it is not 'manly' to be caught working on your unibrow with a pair of tweezers, but to have unruly eyebrows tamed by a skilled student is just fine … especially when surrounded by your buddies who have their iPhones out, snapping pictures."
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SOURCE: PETROV STAYING IN RUSSIA THIS SEASONA deal could be struck with KHL in 2010 offseason
2:45 pm – An impeccable source with Team Russia, at the World Junior Championships and close to Kirill Petrov shared the following this afternoon with Point Blank:
- Petrov will not be joining the Islanders organization during the 2009-2010 NHL season.
- For the Islanders to bring Petrov to their organization in the 2010 offseason, some sort of arrangement – likely including a large bag of cash – with Kazan Ak Bars and the Kontinental Hockey League will likely be necessary. Freeing up Bridgeport frequent scratch defenseman Anton Klementyev to play in the prestigious WJC is not enough to seal the deal. Petrov has two seasons after the current one remaining on his Kazan contract.
- Of course, the Islanders will need to sign Petrov – a brilliant 2008 third round pick by the Islanders, but a player with mid-first-round ability. Not necessarily an easy negotiation.
- Petrov may play on a line today against Slovakia with Nikita Filatov, who did not play well in Russia's 6-2 win over Austria.


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News & Noteworthy
Professor Earns Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership
October 29th, 2012Professor Lianne Briggs, Hospitality Management, earned her Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Leadership (Ph.D.) in July 2012 from Western Michigan University.
Certified Dietary Manager Exam
October 29th, 2012The Dietary & Food Service Management, AAS, will become the first approved program in Michigan preparing students to take the Certified Dietary Manager (CDM) exam. Hospitality Management submitted a lengthy application for accreditation review to the Association of Nutrition & Foodservice Professionals (ANFP) in August, 2012.
Faculty Member Attends Culinary Essentials Workshops
October 29th, 2012Karyn Bledsoe, Faculty, attended the Culinary Essentials Workshops I & II at Johnson & Wales University's Denver campus in July 2012. She studied various aspects of the kitchen and dining room such as garde mange, pastry arts, tableside cooking, and dining room service.
Developing Spa Management Courses
October 29th, 2012Professor Julie Doyle is on sabbatical fall of 2012 to develop courses for the Spa Management concentration under the Resort Management, BS. She will be attending the International Spa Association (ISPA) conference and visiting spas at various resorts and hotels such as the American Club in Kohler, WI.
Enrollment Continues to Grow
October 29th, 2012Hospitality Management continues to offer courses at the Kent County Technical Center (KCTC) in Grand Rapids, MI. Courses offered are both direct credit and concurrent enrollment which articulate with both Northwestern Michigan College's Great Lakes Culinary Institute and the Grand Rapids Community College's Secchia Institute for Culinary Education. Enrollment continues to grow, doubling this fall over the previous one!
Hotel Management Courses at GRCC and NMC
October 29th, 2012Starting this January, 2013, Hospitality Management will begin teaching courses for the Hotel Management, BS, at both Grand Rapids Community College (GRCC) and Northwestern Michigan College (NMC) in Traverse City. Students transfer into the Hotel Management, BS, with either 48 transferable credits or an associate degree in Culinary Arts or another field. Transfer guides and marketing materials are ready for distribution.
Hospitality Management Selected to Host Skills USA Culinary Arts Regional Competition
October 26th, 2012Hospitality Management has been selected to host the Skills USA Culinary Arts Regional Competition again this coming February. The event brings approximately 70 students and their supporters from seven area career technical centers. This allows Ferris State University the opportunity to showcase its programs. Winners will advance to a State Competition.
Hospitality Management Program Celebrates Fifty Years
October 26th, 2012Did you know that the Hospitality Management program has been around for fifty years? The AAS in Food Service Supervision made its first appearance in the 1961 catalog of Ferris Institute. The degree featured classes such as Catering, food Sanitation, Food Service Calculations & Cost Estimating as well as general education classes like Psych. 251 - Personality Improvement, Elementary Typing, and Health & Physical Education. The first class of four students graduated on June 9, 1963 from the Collegiate Technical Division. The first graduating class included Neil R. Anderson, Iron Mountain, James R. Dean, Kalamazoo, Roberta L. Grass, Grand Rapids, and Carol K. Triick, Conklin. One of those graduates, James Dean, went on to become the Director of Dining Services at Western Michigan University. The current Hospitality Management program boasts two associate degrees and two bachelors as well as numerous minors and certificates in areas such as Special Events & Meeting Planning, Club Management, and Spa Management. Classes are taught on the main campus as well as Traverse City, Grand Rapids, and Kent County Technical Center. Students work in required internships all over the country and overseas.
Dietary & Food Service Management Receives Accreditation
October 26th, 2012Ferris State University's A.A.S. in Dietary & Food Service Management recently received accreditation from the Association of Nutrition & Foodservice Professionals (ANFP). This distinguishes Ferris' DFSM program the only ANFP approved program in Michigan. The Dietary & Food Service Management degree is a collaborative project between College of Business and College of Health Professions.
Hospitality Management Enters Cooperative Agreement with Montcalm Community College
October 26th, 2012Hospitality Management recently entered into a cooperative agreement with Montcalm Community College (MCC) allowing their students to be concurrently enrolled at both Ferris and MCC. Students will be able to obtain an A.A.S. in Restaurant and Food Industry Management or A.A.S. in Dietary Food Service Management from Ferris with completion of only 8-9 courses on FSU's main campus. This allows students to pursue new opportunities that are not currently available at Montcalm Community College.
Real World Experience for IT students
October 11th, 2012Association for Information Technology Professionals By: Olivia Adams Information Technology students are expanding their networks and gaining professional, real world experience through the Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP). AITP welcomes any IT students along with CIS, CIT, and ISI majors. This organization is available to those who are interested in gaining more experience and creating networks. Ferris State senior and AITP president, Arielle Kohler, has found that her membership with this nationally recognized chapter has provided her with valuable experience and knowledge. "AITP is here to help any of these types of majors to gain professional experience as well as leadership and transferable skills that are needed for the workforce," said Kohler. "It also provides a social...
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The teenager police believe was responsible for vandalizing a playground in Far Rockaway, Queens was arrested Thursday. Allan Swafford, 17, was charged with unauthorized use of a vehicle, criminal mischief and burglary. Much of the new equipment in the new Far Rockaway park was broken. The damage will cost the city tens of thousands of dollars and the June opening might now be delayed. Read More: NY1
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Deliberations are set to begin Friday in the trial of a handyman accused of killing a Manhattan building cleaner and hiding her body in an air-conditioning duct. A lawyer for Joseph Pabon says officials rushed to judgement when they charged Pabon with smothering 46-year-old Eridania Rodriguez in 2009. But during his summation Thursday, the prosecutor in the case argued the evidence proves Pabon's guilt. Read More: NY1
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The owner of the problem-plagued Greenwich Village McDonald's met last night with police brass and political reps to hash out plans to improve safety and security, The Post has learned. Some of the ideas floated were the hiring of off-duty NYPD officers to act as guards, giving police remote Internet access to the eatery's surveillance cameras, and cordoning off seating after a certain hour to prevent customers from lingering, Deputy Inspector Brandon del Pozo of the Sixth Precinct told concerned residents at a community meeting. Read More: New York Post
Teen survives five-story elevator fall at Bronx apartment
A teen miraculously survived a five-story plunge inside a broken elevator at a Bronx apartment building last night, authorities and witnesses said. Kenneth Lacen, 17, had boarded the elevator on the fifth floor of the building on Woodycrest Avenue near Yankee Stadium at around 9 p.m. when it suddenly went into a terrifying free fall and crashed in the basement, authorities and witnesses told The Post. Read More: New York Post
Spike Lee settles for retweeting wrong address
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Edward Steichen, who died in 1973 at 93, was recognized in his lifetime as one of the great photographers of the 20th century. Yet with his penchant for changing directions and playing multiple roles, he bequeathed too many Steichens for easy classification.
Steichen excelled in all his photographic ventures — in ''pure'' art, fashion and advertising, portraiture, nature, combat, even as a powerful director of photography at the Museum of Modern Art in New York . His detractors suggested that he also became a brand name, famous for being famous.
Born in Luxembourg in 1879, Steichen was still a toddler when his parents migrated to the United States, eventually settling in Milwaukee. There, in his mid-teens, he became an apprentice lithographer and took up photography as a hobby. But his first love was painting, and it was this that prompted him to travel to Paris in 1900.
Painting is ever present in his early photography, especially the influence of the Impressionists. He achieved those effects by blurring his lenses with petroleum jelly or manipulating his negatives and prints in the darkroom.
In New York, Steichen founded the Photo-Secession group with Alfred Stieglitz, 15 years his senior, and contributed to a quarterly called Camera Work. And it was thanks to Steichen's Paris connections that Matisse, Rodin, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and other French painters were first introduced to America at Stieglitz's Gallery 291, on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.
Steichen's pictorialist period ended in 1917, when he joined the United States Army and created an aerial photography unit in northern France to gather intelligence about artillery positions and troop movements behind enemy lines. After the war, Steichen's lifelong interest in horticulture resulted in near-abstract images of flowers, plants and insects, but a more crucial watershed came in 1923, when Condé Nast hired him. For purists like Stieglitz, Steichen was selling out to commercialism. Yet he would soon make his name as the first modern — and Modernist — fashion photographer, interpreting fashion and celebrities in a style that would influence later generations.
Steichen had the instinct of a communicator who was supremely confident in his eye as an artist. And if he was criticized for using art to sell clothes and magazines, he saw no reason to apologize.
''I don't know any form of art that isn't or hasn't been commercial,'' Steichen said in old age. After all, he added with no small immodesty, Michelangelo also liked to be paid well for his work.
A survey of Steichen's work in fashion and portraiture ("Edward Steichen: In High Fashion: The Condé Nast Years, 1923-1937") is on exhibit at the International Center for Photography through May 2009.
Of Camera Work and Fine Art
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How a Pair of Twins Redrew an Iconic Photograph With Camera-Like Precision
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Steichen, the great Pictorialist photographer known for his misty image of the Flatiron building, also had a sharp commercial eye.
January 3, 2014, Friday
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Dispersing Steichens Across the Country
More than 140 vintage photographs by Edward Steichen are being donated to museums in New York, Los Angeles and Evanston, Ill.; the Queens Museum is undergoing a $68 million renovation.
February 15, 2013, Friday
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An Early Adopter in Photography Meets the Big Shots
The Viennese photographer Heinrich Kuehn saw the camera as an image-making tool to be manipulated like a paintbrush in the service of a desired effect.
May 25, 2012, Friday
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The Viennese photographer Heinrich Kuehn saw the camera as an image-making tool to be manipulated like a paintbrush in the service of a desired effect.
May 24, 2012, Thursday
Chief Photography Curator Retiring From MoMA
Peter Galassi will be stepping down in July.
May 2, 2011, Monday
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Photography: A Coming-of-Age Story
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's stunning "Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand" exhibition clearly delineates the strengths and weaknesses of these three photographers.
November 19, 2010, Friday
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Joanna Steichen, Photographer's Wife and Aide, Dies at 77
Ms. Steichen, wife of the photographer Edward Steichen, edited an important survey of his work.
August 7, 2010, Saturday
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ERIC HASERT/TREASURE COAST NEWSPAPERS Dressed in Indian regalia, James Gee, 11, of Palm City performs a dance for fellow students in the circular arena during Kids Day at the Florida Indian Hobbyists Association's 48th annual Powwow happening this weekend at the Savannas Recreation Area at 1400 East Midway Road in Fort Pierce. The event features more than 200 native and hobbyist Indians from across the country performing over the weekend in their Indian regalia along with 32 vendors of authentic Indian crafts and wares, teepee displays, music and food. The event, born in St. Lucie County, is the longest continuous running Powwow in the Southeast U.S. Gates open at 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. To 4 p.m. Sunday, with Grand Entry dancing starting up at 1 p.m. both days and 7 p.m on Saturday. Spectator admission: $5.00 per person, children under 12 free, free parking. "It perpetuates the native American heritage and culture, said Tena Pottorff, Vice President of FIHA. "A lot of it is dyeing out so us as hobbyists and natives like to instruct people on the native American way of life".
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By JOHN SERFUSTINISun Advocate Reporter
Seth Allred says his long-term goal is to take good care of the short-term. "You have to realize that one day in school is one day that children will never get back," he explains.
As principal of Sally Mauro Elementary School in Helper, he wants those days to add up to 100 percent satisfaction for parents and students.
Mr. Allred is quick to emphasize that he gets plenty of support from both teachers and Carbon School District administrators in achieving that goal.
What he appreciates at the district level is the ongoing research and implementation of progressive teaching niques. As an example, he cites the Professional Learning Committees created during the administration of Superintendent David Armstrong and continued under Patsy Bueno. These committees bring teachers together formally to share ideas for improvement. Some of these committees are "horizontal," in which teachers of a certain grade or subject get together. Others are vertical, where teachers at a junior high will meet with their counterparts at the high school.
This means that transitions from one grade to another, or one school to another, are much smoother than in the past.
The support from teachers is in their professionalism. Sally Mauro teachers have worked so well together over the years that they have created a "family feeling" in the school, he says. "They don't just work together. They play together, too," he notes.
That collaboration has been and will be important in confronting the two big challenges facing Sally Mauro: growth and teacher turnover. When he came to the school three years ago, there were about 350 students enrolled. This year there are 470. As elsewhere in the district, veteran teachers are retiring, which means that about half his teachers this year have six years or less experience in the profession.
Mr. Allred says he understands what a challenge it is to begin teaching, or to change positions in the profession. He began teaching at East Carbon High School after earning not one but two bachelor's degrees at Weber State University. The first diploma was for Wildlife Management and Law Enforcement. But he soon realized he did not want that as a career, and decided that since he enjoyed the relationships he had had with his professors, he wanted to try education. So he went back to school and picked up the teaching degree. He later earned is master's degree from Utah State University.
At East Carbon he taught science and coached wrestling, baseball and volleyball. He was vice principal when the school closed, so he transferred to Mont Harmon Junior High School, again working as science teacher and coach.
It was a big change to move into elementary education, he recalls. "It was a whole new world," he says, "because in secondary education it's all about subject. Elementary is about teaching methods."
As with other principals, he is waiting to see what new state and federal guidelines are going to look like. He explains that he has no problems with standardized education. "You need standards. It would be chaos without them, especially given our mobile society," he says. A Sally Mauro student could wind up in another town or another state, while newcomers are just as likely to show up at his school.


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The Locus Foundation has announced the finalists for the Locus Awards in Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. See the complete list. Winners will be announced during the Science Fiction Awards Weekend in Seattle WA, June 15-17, 2012.
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- Leviathan Wakes, James S. A. Corey (Orbit US; Orbit UK)
- 11/22/63, Stephen King (Scribner; Hodder & Stoughton as 11.22.63)
- Embassytown, China Miéville (Del Rey; Macmillan)
- Rule 34, Charles Stross (Ace; Orbit UK)
- The Children of the Sky, Vernor Vinge (Tor)
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- Snuff, Terry Pratchett (Harper; Doubleday UK)
- The Wise Man's Fear, Patrick Rothfuss (DAW; Gollancz)
- Deathless, Catherynne M. Valente (Tor)
- Among Others, Jo Walton (Tor)
First Novel
- Ready Player One, Ernest Cline (Crown; Century)
- God's War, Kameron Hurley (Night Shade)
- Soft Apocalypse, Will McIntosh (Night Shade)
- The Night Circus, Erin Morgenstern (Doubleday)
- Mechanique: A Tale of the Circus Tresaulti, Genevieve Valentine (Prime)
Young Adult Book
- Planesrunner, Ian McDonald (Pyr)
- Akata Witch, Nnedi Okorafor (Viking)
- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs (Quirk)
- The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, Catherynne M. Valente (Feiwel and Friends)
- Goliath, Scott Westerfeld (Simon Pulse; Simon & Schuster UK)
- The Affair of the Chalk Cliffs, James P. Blaylock (Subterranean)
- "The Man Who Bridged the Mist", Kij Johnson (Asimov's 10-11/11)
- "Kiss Me Twice", Mary Robinette Kowal (Asimov's 6/11)
- "The Ants of Flanders", Robert Reed (F&SF 7-8/11)
- Silently and Very Fast, Catherynne M. Valente (WSFA)
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The VERY FIRST Steiff Toy Ever Made!
From the Steiff Museum in Giengen, Germany, the very first soft stuffed toy made by the company in 1880. This is a tiny felt elephant that was originally designed as a pincushion.
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