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Community Service & Civic Engagement
Weekly & Monthly Programs
(Program schedule by day and site)
Programs are weekly unless otherwise noted.
Please click on programs that interest you for more information.
Art Days at Cleveland Elementary
424 N. 9th St., Allentown, PA (Old Allentown)
Arcadia Hospice
Varied locations throughout the Lehigh Valley
Caring Place Youth Development
931 Hamilton Street, Allentown, PA (Downtown)
Casa Guadalupe
143 Linden St, Allentown, PA (1st Ward)
Community Bike Works
235 N. Madison St., Allentown, PA (West Park Area)
534 W. Chew St., Allentown, PA (Old Allentown)
Golden Stallion Jefferson Visits (monthly)
On Campus
Jefferson Arts
750 St. John St., Allentown, PA (South Allentown)
Jefferson Elementary Food Pantry (bi-weekly)
Jefferson: 750 St. John St., Allentown, PA (South Allentown)
Shape It Up!
Allentown Health Bureau, 245 N. 6th St, Allentown, PA (Old Allentown)
The following clubs are recognized independent organizations that work in collaboration with the Office of Community Service & Civic Engagement.
Adopt-a-Grandparent Engages students and elders in inter-generational dialogue through interactive social events and continued conversation.
Best Buddies
Enhances the lives of people with developmental disabilities through one-on-one friendships with college students.
Colleges Against Cancer
Seeks to increase community cancer awareness while fundraising and participating in advocacy work including the organization of an on campus Relay for Life
Dress Upon a Star
Strives to provide memorable formal dance experiences for students in the Allentown School District
Habitat for Humanity
Seeks to eliminate homelessness and substandard housing through affordable homeownership
These events & programs are sponsored through the Office of Community Service & Civic Engagement. They are annual events which mobilize large groups of student volunteers.
Pinebrook-Diakon Holiday Party
A campus-wide tradition for over 10 years , the Holiday Party is an annual celebration of foster children and their foster and adoptive families.
Get Out the Vote Election Day Activities
Election Cycle Dependent
Big for a Day
This event is held twice a semester.
Blood Drives
Miller Keystone Blood Center
Jefferson Field Day
Jefferson Elementary School comes to Muhlenberg to participate in games and activities.
Intensive Engagement Opportunities
The following are community engagement opportunities facilitated by the Office of Community Engagement and intentionally designed to engage students with reflection of what service means to them, its impacts and its challenges.
Air Products Community Internship
Alternative Spring Break Experiences
Social Justice & Collaborative Leadership Retreat (Work 4 Justice)
Work-Study Program
The Office of Community Service & Civic Engagement oversees a significant number of work-study students each year. In any given semester we might have between 20 and 30 students employed through our office working in a variety of capacities. Work-study students all have to select 1-2 community-based organizations with which they want to work on a weekly basis. Students also select various projects/programs run through our office on which they would like to work and participate as part of planning committees and leadership teams for these programs. Work-study students also assist with office duties as assigned.
America Reads
Another pathway in the Work Study program through the Office of Community Engagement is involvement in America Reads. America Reads is a federal initiative that calls on college students to serve as reading tutors for children in their community. The program's primary goal is to ensure that by third grade, every child is able to read independently on grade level. Since its inception in 1997, America Reads volunteers have been tackling literacy difficulties across the nation.
In efforts to join the literacy movement, Muhlenberg College has partnered with Roosevelt Elementary School to create a formal America Reads program. Muhlenberg College students volunteer as reading tutors and work one-on-one with Roosevelt Elementary School students to strengthen literacy. Volunteers provide academic support during class-time, and promote future education and career options through their interactions and conversations with elementary school students. Muhlenberg tutors must commit to volunteering on site for 3-5 hours every week for an entire school year and are placed in classrooms based on students' schedules, teachers' classroom schedules and transportation availability.
In addition to participating in the literacy movement, it is hoped that the program will provide Muhlenberg students with the opportunity to be intimately involved with Allentown Communities.
If you are interested in joining our student staff please contact Eveily Freeman (firstname.lastname@example.com) x3369. Hiring takes place at the start of each academic year. Applicants must be eligible to receive work study funds to be considered for the position.
- CorkBoard is designed to highlight volunteer events to help you get involved in a variety of service and engagement opportunities.


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Miscarried- my biggest fear became reality :(
I just want to update that after I had that bleeding, I miscarried on Sunday night. It was horrible and I am so heartbroken- its's been almost a week and I have sudden outbursts :( please tell me this will get better. I wanted this more than life itself. Doctor have us the ok to try again after I get one normal period, but in the meantime, it hurts so bad :(
I miscarried last Friday... started on Christmas day. :( I completely understand what you're going through. It's a bit easier for me for some reason (not that it's all peachy keen... because it's not) because I think I knew... I didn't feel pregnant, I didn't have any symptoms other than cravings and lack of period.
I cried, DH cried, our kids cried. But now it's just like "Okay... life needs to go on..."
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Klaus Schulze
Picture Music (Rerelease)
CD / 3 tracks / 79.59 minsFirst up for review from the second batch of SPV Schulze re-issues is the seminal 'Picture Music'. It has been quite rightly numbered as Schulze's third album, ( it's release delayed by legal wrangling at the time). Originally recorded after 'Cyborg' in 1973, but not seeing a release until early 1975. In the meantime 'Blackdance' had been recorded and released, so you see the sequential problem here. I used the term 'seminal' to describe 'Picture Music' in a very deliberate way, as this was the first ever album of pure synth music from Mr. Schulze pointing the way ahead for his music right up to the present day. From the darkness into the light, 'Picture Music' presents the listener with the most cohesive, sparkling little album of Schulze's early career during the first half of the seventies, an album with direction and structure, something which was just not as prevalent in either of his previous recordings, 'Irrlicht', 'Cyborg' or indeed 'Blackdance', all having a more experimental edge to them.
The first thing that hits you with these re-issued album's is how well presented the whole package is, in a double gate leg card folder with the original artwork reproduced as per the original vinyl version,( though it has to be said that there are about six different versions of the cover art out there from previous re-releases). Again high quality transfers feature as an integral part of the card case design. The enclosed 16 page booklet provides photos from the era, a section of interview with the great man himself in 2004, and also a two page write up about the album. By way of a musical bonus on this re-issue we are presented with a rather sizable chunk of 33 minutes of music, (all re-issues will be released with additional material, from the same era whenever possible).
The album opens up with 'Totem', (23.53mins). An ethereal distant, light organ pattern is quickly overtaken by a central sequence of resonant percussive sounding synthwork, Played very much like some kind of electronic tabla, underpinned by the gentle organ motif the track progresses. Never before or since have l come across an extended piece like 'Totem' where a single sound can so easily carry the whole composition. I hear an influence of the American west coast minimalist movement creeping into the Schulze act here, certainly not run of the mill Berlin School, but non the less this is a purposeful slice of electronica that l still find decidedly easy to listen to whenever, wherever. The whole soundscape created works perfectly, the sounds gel brilliantly. The only thing that tells us that this music wasn't made just last week is the use of the rather dated sounding Farfisa organ, (but in these days of retro revival can we really be that sure???).
A change of time signature at the halfway mark heralds………..well, more of the same. The serene synth voicings giving the track a very human, earthly feel. Schulze displaying a real sensibility for the music.
'Mental Door', (23.02mins) coasts in and again we're faced with a track that would act as a template for what was to come from Schulze for the remainder of the seventies. A gentle build from white/pink noise FX into a soundbed of synth and organ before Klaus starts improvising a thick bassline using a sound so fat that he can work his way up the keyboard and get into a screaming solo section still using the same sound. Like most of the album simple but very very effective.
Ah, the tiny patter of drums arrive, building like the solo to a thunderous thrashing of the kit to a point at which it sounds like Klaus is testing it to destruction!!! Synth and organ work tails off the piece in a similar fashion to that employed in the closing refrains of 'Totem' and so ended the original album.
The bonus track now added to this release is a monumental 33 mins worth of music entitled,'C'est Pas La Meme Chose',(my French isn't that hot, but l think it translates as, 'it is not the same thing'). Basically this is a slightly different/ longer version of 'Totem' which was not used due to the constraints of recording time permissible on vinyl LP's. The phase of the recording is also kept in its original recorded state with the resonant percussive sequencing on one channel, the leads and pad sounds on the other,( not recommended for headphone listening l might add). Providing your hifi amplifier has a mono switch the phase can be turned back giving mixed channel playback, (all abit of a silly exercise really for the sake of afew musical purists out there).
So to surmise - if 'Picture Music' were a beverage, it would be a vintage cognac, carefully stored, brought out on a special occasion to be enjoyed by the connoisseur who can really appreciate such a fine old bit of plonk! The fact that an extended piece of music has been added to the album does nothing to detract from inspiration of the original recording. True, 'Timewind' was just around the corner which may have stolen the thunder from 'Picture Music's' arrival, but we're looking back at 1973 not 1975!! Minimalism from the states, (which is as near a sound as you're gonna' find on 'Totem') had produced nothing to compare with this, counterparts Tangerine Dream were in contractual no man's land, this REALLY was a seminal LP, a daring one off. A classic, youbetcha!!! (B22)
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The pieces of the massive Drexel Town Square development in Oak Creek are coming together, and several major players in the Milwaukee commercial real estate development industry will participate in the project, according to numerous sources.
"It's all coming together. Residential and retail. The people that we're working with bring a high level of esteem to the project," said one source.
Drexel Town Square is a mixed use development planned for the 85-acre former Delphi plant site southwest of Howell and Drexel avenues in Oak Creek. The Delphi plant closed in 2008 and was demolished in 2010.
"This project is an absolute game-changer for Oak Creek," another source said.
Wispark LLC, the real estate development division of Milwaukee-based Wisconsin Energy Corp., is the master developer for the project, which will include retail space along Howell Avenue, a town center style Main Street area in the middle of the site with street level retail and apartments above, and numerous loft style apartment buildings on the western portion of the site.
"Right now the pieces are all rounded and they aren't snapping together yet," said Wispark president Jerry Franke. "At this point there's nothing we can announce. Nobody's signed on any dotted line. There are no partnership agreements yet."
However, some participants in the project have been announced publicly and several other major players will join the project, according to sources who say the project is coming together quickly. An announcement about several components of the Drexel Town Square project is expected shortly after Jan. 1, according to sources.
The City of Oak Creek is a major partner in the project and will build a new library and City Hall, with a combined 80,000 square feet of space, in the Main Street area of Drexel Town Square. Brookfield-based Chamberlin Group LLC, led by Steve Chamberlin, former president of Milwaukee-based contractor C.G. Schmidt Inc., is the owner's representative for the city's portion of Drexel Town Square. Sheboygan-based Bray Architects was hired by the city to design the new City Hall and library buildings.
Milwaukee-based real estate development firm Zilber Ltd., one of the region's most prominent commercial and residential real estate development and investment firms, is also expected to participate in the Drexel Town Square project in a yet to be defined role, according to sources. Zilber vice president Mike Mervis declined to comment for this report.
Milwaukee-based Barrett Visionary Development, which recently completed The Moderne, a 30-story residential tower in downtown Milwaukee, will develop the loft style apartments planned for the western portion of Drexel Town Square, according to sources. Principal Rick Barrett declined to comment for this report. One source said Barrett will develop 600 apartments in the project, but another source said the number of apartments will be slightly less than that. Another source said the apartments will be designed by Milwaukee-based Rinka Chung Architecture. The firm's owner, Matt Rinka, also declined to comment.
Milwaukee-based WiRED Properties will develop the mixed-use Main Street area portion of the project, which is similar to other developments the firm has done including a pair of projects on Oakland Avenue in Shorewood. WiRED Properties owner Blair Williams declined to comment.
The project is close to obtaining commitments from some key retail tenants, one source said. Dan Rosenfeld, principal of Mid-America Real Estate, is handling the retail brokerage for the project, primarily focused on the big box and mid box retail portion of the project along Howell Avenue. Rosenfeld declined to comment.
"We've had a lot of inquiries (from retailers)," Franke said. "I'd call them soft inquires because we can't show them a site plan yet. We have not formalized a site plan. We're very close on that."
The project could include several restaurants. Developers and Oak Creek officials have pitched the project to several prominent Milwaukee area restaurateurs, sources said.
Oak Creek city officials are hoping that the Drexel Town Square project will create a new downtown for the community, which has never had one. The Main Street area in the project will include a town square area that could serve as a community gathering space with events and activities such as ice skating or a farmers market.
Several sources said that Drexel Town Square is shaping up to be an impressive project. One source said the project will be similar to the Sendik's Towne Center development southwest of Capitol Drive and Brookfield Road in Brookfield.
The project will be assisted by the recent addition of a new freeway interchange at I-94 and Drexel Avenue, which will improve regional access to the Drexel Town Square site.
"When you look at where that location is, and you look at the market around it, it's pretty underserved," one source said.
However, the project will have to compete with other key retail areas on the south side of the metro area including the South 27th Street corridor and Southridge Mall in Greendale, said John Kuhn, senior vice president and a retail real estate broker with Milwaukee-based Siegel-Gallagher.
"For a lot of retailers it might be too close (to the other retail areas)," Kuhn said. "I think having the residential (component) will help (Drexel Town Square). Having the Drexel interchange open is going to be helpful. But it might just be a little bit green yet."
The redevelopment of the former Delphi site was one of ten projects selected last year by a survey of commercial realtors who were asked what development projects in southeastern Wisconsin should be the highest priority for public and private investment in order to maximize the return for the community. The projects selected in that survey were discussed by a panel of some of the region's top real estate professionals at the 2011 BizTimes Milwaukee Commercial Real Estate and Development Conference. Click here to see a video of the discussion at the conference about the Delphi site redevelopment.


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The Mobile Intel® 915GM Express chipset also supports Intel® High Definition Audio (Intel® HD Audio)1 which is an enhanced audio specification for high quality audio enabling a great home theater experience. Additionally Mobile Intel® 915GM Express chipset supports up to 2 GB of DDR2 system memory which enables up to 60% increase in peak memory bandwidth and power benefits over DDR memory and PCI Express* bus architecture, a highly scalable general purpose I/O for industry peripherals such as ExpressCard*.
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Two Cheers For Politics
September 25, 2006
Brian C. Anderson
In this dazzling book, French political philosopher Pierre Manent tries to provide an "impartial overview of the political orderor disorderof today's world." Few living thinkers could hope to pull off such an ambitious undertaking, but Manent is surely one. In earlier works, including An Intellectual History of Liberalism, Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy, and The City of Man, this former student of Raymond Aron excavated the deep intellectual sources of modernity in the writings of Hobbes, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Tocqueville, Smith, and other great minds, with whom he effortlessly converses. In A World beyond Politics?which is based on lectures delivered several years ago at Paris's prestigious Institute of Political StudiesManent shifts his emphasis from intellectual archeology to spiritual topography: What does it mean to be a citizen of a present-day liberal democracy?
Not that Manent abandons the long view. To understand the modern liberal world, he argues, you need to see how it emergedin the ideas of the philosophers first, then in practicealong the "theological-political vector" of Western history. To escape priestly political authority and religious warfare, liberal societies sought to disconnect religion (and even strongly held opinions of the good) from politics. Politics would no longer focus on ideal ends; these would now be considered private concerns in civil society. Instead, politics would seek to secure the best conditions to meet needs and protect rights. Men could thus busy themselves making some cash, cultivating their property, and pursuing happiness as they saw it instead of butchering one another over clashing conceptions of the good. Liberal modernity would arise on "low but solid ground," as the philosopher Leo Strauss famously observed.
The bourgeois order, born with the Enlightenment and the national political revolutions of the 17th and 18th centuries, has offered "the most stable, therefore the most satisfying putting into practice of political liberty that humanity has ever known," Manent rightly points out. But it has faced fierce critics. Because it separates power from opinion, especially religious opinion, the liberal regime frustrates a natural instinct to see our highest ideals reflected in political life. It is, in this sense, permanently dissatisfying. It invites utopian efforts to do it in and replace it with a pure "politics of meaning." The two deadliest threats to liberal democracyCommunism and National Socialismwere monstrous, hyper-political projects of this kind, Manent says. The Islamist terrorists who struck on 9/11 represent another.
A subtler threat to liberal democracy seeks to leave politics behind entirely, to embody a universal civilization of pure rights or commerce. Manent sees this post-political trend at work in the European Union, at least in its current form. Aristotle described citizenship as an act of putting forth words and deeds in a common space. But Europeans don't know what they share, in that common space: They forge new shared institutions but leave the old national ones still in place, creating a bizarre "juxtaposition of old and new institutions" that guarantees maximum confusion and political alienation. Even the EU's territorial boundariesessential to all forms of politicsremain blurry. Should the EU include Turkey? Russia? Where does one draw the line? Who's the boss?
Manent believes that the EU project is, in its own way, as utopian as the 20th-century totalitarianisms. To be real, democracy "needs a body, a population marked out by borders and other characteristics, namely a defined realm." The nation-state, discredited in Europe by the brutality of megalomaniacal nationalismgave democracy a body. Europe's dream of tossing the nation on history's dust heap is understandable, given the history of the 20th century. But what "political form" takes its place? Unless the EU becomes a kind of United States of Europe, with clear territorial limits and a will to act politicallyso far utterly missing except when it is thwarting the United Statesits woolly, confused nature ensures collapse. The EU's anti-political drift is most evident in its hallucinatory belief that war is obsolete and that all conflict can give way to rational negotiation and consensus. The lessons of historyincluding Europe's own recent history in the Balkanstell otherwise.
A conservative, Manent is keenly aware of modern democracy's discontents. A defining feature of our societies, he observes, is to make man "the sovereign author, in fact and by right, of the human world." Back in the old days, you got up in the morning, looked around, and saw bonds everywhere: your mother-in-law lived, if not under your roof, then right next door; the church told you what to do; you had duties, duties, duties. This moral density defined men and women, shaped their lives. It could also be a burden, of course. The "logic" of democracy, as Manent calls it, loosened these thick attachmentsand hasn't stopped loosening them. "Democracy aims to have its citizens go from a life that one suffers, receives, and inherits to a life that one wills. Democracy makes all relations and all bonds voluntary."
Sounds liberatingand in many ways it is liberating. But there's been a cost, too, increasingly evident in recent decades. "The empire of consent spreads, the process of individualization intensifies, and thus the authority of the communities of different orders in which human beings hitherto found the meaning of their lifethe nation, the family, the churchdeclines more and more each day," Manent maintains. The family becomes optional, a mere voluntary association. Church becomes the place where one "tentatively looks for meaning, no longer where one receives it." Patriotism becomes a laughable relic. Pushed to excess, this process culminates in a Sartrean existentialism, where nothingnot even my own voluntary agreements, like, say, my marriagemeans anything unless, right now, this instant, it means something to me. All that is solid melts into air, as the saying goes.
Accompanying the empire of consent, somewhat paradoxically, is the modern liberal demand that all my choices receive "respect." But this renders freedom empty, purposeless. "If all choices must be approved by everyone, life would become truly boring and even sinister, for that would mean that our own personal choices are without importance or meaning," says Manent. "The choice I make can have no value for me unless you react to that choice, with approval or disapproval, even indignation or comprehension."
Still, this nihilism is only a tendency of modern life, not a fate. The old order was not as oppressive to liberty as sometimes thought: Marriage in Christian Europe, for instance, always rested on the principle of consent. Similarly, thick attachments remain an active possibility in our free societies. "In the new democratic order, free personal searching is now a right but it can lead to deep and lasting adherences, whether it be the formation of a couple or participation in a religious or other type of community." Ordered liberty isn't out of date. We all still argue, too, about right and wrong ways to live.
The prudential "art" of democracy, Manent advises, striking a very Tocquevillian note, is to correct for the relativizing tendencies of democratic modernityand to do so without succumbing to the potentially abusive temptation to prop up any one experience or worldview as civically absolute. A healthy democratic politics is vital in this regard. Such a politics, he writes, "prevents any experience from saturating the social arena and the individual consciousness; it requires any experience to coexist and communicate with the other experiences. In this way, politics is the guardian of the wealth and complexity of human life." There is in Manent a classical sense of politics as architectonic, and of human nature as in some sense political. Religion (Manent is a believing Catholic), a decent, informed love of the nation, and a renewed commitment to classical education can also help moderate the individualizing trends of liberal modernity, getting our heads out of our navels.
The reader will find much more of interest in this heady book: meditations on egalitarianism, modern art, the French novel, sexual identity, science and faith, the French and American revolutions, the morality of international relationson and on, all delivered in Manent's glistening prose, ably translated by Marc LePain. American conservatives shouldn't ignore A World beyond Politics? despite their aversion to all things French these days. It's an ideal introduction to political philosophy in the new millennium.
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In the Know: Any plans to continue path along Immokalee Road?
Q: On the north side of Immokalee Road, from Interstate 75 to Gulf Coast High School, there is a wonderful bike path that flows along the canal and keeps adults and kids far away from traffic. Right after Gulf Coast, it stops and your choice is to try and cross the six lanes of traffic, ride into traffic for a half mile or walk your bike down a tricky dirt path. At Collier Boulevard, the bike path is back, only to suddenly end in front of Heritage Bay a mile and a half farther. Are there any plans to finish the path and possibly continue? This is a great asset to the community and gives a safe place to ride.
— Jim Allen, Naples
A: "Yes, there are plans to continue the multi-use pathway on the north side of Immokalee Road along the established right of way for the Cocohatchee Canal," said Connie Deane, community liaison for the Collier County Growth Management Division.
That's the good news.
The not so good news is that continuation of the pathway project doesn't have a completion date any time soon. It doesn't even have a start date.
"At this point, there is no set date for the developments to begin construction, but as the economy continues to improve, we look forward to the addition of new pathway in this area," Deane said.
That's the black and white of the issue. The gray area delaying the project is kind of a pay-for-play deal. The county's future growth must pay for the amenities associated with its growth.
"As part of the transportation planning process the county has long prescribed to have growth pay for growth," Deane said. "As new developments seek approval from the county, they are required to include new infrastructure such as new pathways and sidewalks. There are currently at least three planned unit developments approved by the county for this section of Immokalee Road that will require the developments to add to the existing pathway."
An estimated 0.7-mile proposed section remains to be completed through developer commitments, the county reports. Planned unit developments required to add to the pathway are Mirasol, Addie's Corner and Tree Farm, according to Growth Management. All three future developments are proposed near the northwest corner of Immokalee Road and Collier Boulevard.
Tree Farm is a nearly 60-acre undeveloped mixed-use project on the northwest corner of Immokalee Road and the proposed future extension of Collier Boulevard, running along what is now known as Broken Back Road. Addie's Corner is a proposed mixed-use planned unit development off Immokalee Road on more than 23 acres just to the west of Tree Farm. Mirasol, a nearly 1,700-acre planned residential golf community that has had more than a decade-long legal fight over its environmental permit, would wrap around both other PUDs.
Growth Management staff estimates the pathway already completed stretches roughly 3.8 miles along the north side of the Cocohatchee Canal, on the north side of Immokalee Road from Northbrooke Drive, just east of I-75, to just past Heritage Bay Boulevard, the entrance to the Heritage Bay gated golf community, about 1.5 miles east of Collier Boulevard.
The multi-use path is mostly asphalt, but small portions of concrete are used in some connections at entrance crossings. The proposed 10-to-12-foot pathway will match the existing path, filling in the gaps, according to Growth Management.
This Immokalee Road segment is a tiny piece of the pathways component of the Collier-Lee Bi-County Regional Transportation Network jointly adopted in March 2011 by both counties' metropolitan planning organizations. An MPO map shows that the pathways segment in question eventually will continue east to Everglades Boulevard in eastern Golden Gate Estates, where it turns north and winds throughout Lee County. In Collier, the path hooks up with a southbound pathway at Collier Boulevard, and eventually is expected to link with a north-south pathway at Livingston Road, the map shows.
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|Holz, Childress Earn NCCSIA Honors
|Written by Ben Winterrowd
|Monday, 25 November 2013 17:14
Appalachian State University women's soccer continues to be recognized for strong play this season. Junior forward Julia Holz (Marietta, Ga./Walton) and sophomore forward Samantha Childress
(Kernersville, N.C./East Forsyth) continue to rack up postseason accolades because of strong 2013 campaigns.
"It is truly an honor to have Sam and Julia recognized for the NCCSIA teams," said head coach Sarah Strickland. "To be included among the finest in North Carolina is an amazing thing and we could not be prouder. They are both dynamic players, but above all else they are humble people with outstanding character."
Holz was named to the 2013 North Carolina Collegiate Sports Information Association (NCCSIA) University Division all-state women's soccer first team, while Childress was named to the NCCSIA second team.
Holz finished the season tied with Childress for the team lead in points with 20, which ties both for seventh all-time in program history. The Marietta, Ga. native scored seven goals and tallied six assists. Holz scored game-winning goals in a 2-1 victory over Southern Utah and a 5-0 win over Chattanooga. The junior now stands at 20 career goals which places her in a tie for fourth all-time in program history. Holz is also fourth all-time for assists in a season with six and 10th all-time with eight.
Childress blasted 10 goals in 2013 to lead the team and and puts her second all-time for goals in a season in program history and seventh all-time in career goals with 15. The Kernersville, N.C. native scored three game-winning goals this season against UNC Asheville in a 2-0 win, which saw Childress score both goals in the match. Childress also netted game-winners in a 3-1 victory at Georgia Southern and a 2-1 triumph in overtime at Davidson. The golden goal at Davidson marked the first time in program history that App State won on the road against the Wildcats and the goals scored were the first against the SoCon foe since 2007.
2013 NCCSIA University Division All-State Women's Soccer Team
F - Nicole Dennion, Elon University
F - Katrina Guillou, UNCW
F - Julia Holz, Appalachian State University
M - Stephanie Bronson, UNCW
M - Taylor Parker, High Point University
M - Chesney White, UNCG
M - Amanda Jones, Charlotte
D - Caitlin Hite, East Carolina University
D - Olivia Mackey, Elon University
D - Kimmie Krauss, Elon University
GK - Jamie Simmons, UNCG
F - Samantha Childress, Appalachian State University
F - Kelly Pannell, Western Carolina University
F - Kelli Joline, High Point University
M - Becca Hemby, High Point University
M - Maddie Kiebel, Charlotte
M - Kimberly Sullivan, Western Carolina University
M - Lexi Miller, East Carolina University
D - Georgia Brown, UNCG
D - Rebecca Burrows, UNCG
D - Monica Trickett, Charlotte
GK - Alex Kubrick, Charlotte
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A Clinical Trial of Anakinra for Steroid-Resistant Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease
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The purpose of this study is to determine if Anakinra (an interleukin-1 receptor antagonist) can improve hearing thresholds in those patients with Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease (AIED) that did not respond to oral steroid therapy for a sudden decline in hearing. The patients to be enrolled will have recently completed a course of oral steroids and demonstrated no change in their audiometric thresholds following corticosteroid therapy.
Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease
Drug: Anakinra
Phase 1
Phase 2
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|A Phase I/II Open-label Study of the Effects of Anakinra in Corticosteroid-resistant Subjects With Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease
- To Assess the Potential Efficacy of Anakinra in Improving Hearing Thresholds in Corticosteroid-resistant Patients With Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease [ Time Frame: 180 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]The primary endpoint is to determine whether those treated with anakinra for 84 days demonstrate an improved hearing threshold compared with their pre-anakinra-treatment threshold. Audiometric thresholds will be compared to those treated with a prolonged corticosteroid taper and those that elect for no further treatment. The durability of the response will be measured over a total of 180 days.
- To Assess the Safety and Tolerability of a Three Month (84 Day) Course of Anakinra in Corticosteroid Resistant Patients With Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease. [ Time Frame: 84 days ] [ Designated as safety issue: Yes ]
|Study Start Date:
|June 2011
|Study Completion Date:
|September 2014
|Primary Completion Date:
|September 2014 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Single Arm-Open Label
Single Arm-Open Label use of Anakinra
Drug: Anakinra
100mg of anakinra administered by a subcutaneous injection for 84 consecutive days.
Other Name: Kineret
Detailed Description:
Patients with immune mediated hearing loss (also known as autoimmune hearing loss) are typically treated with corticosteroids. Of those treated, approximately 60% respond, however, that response may be lost over time. Other therapies use to date have proven largely ineffectual in improving hearing. This study proposes a phase I open label clinical trial of Anakinra for corticosteroid-resistant patients to determine if this therapy is efficacious in hearing restoration.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|13 Years to 75 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Bilateral sensorineural hearing loss with an active decline in hearing in one ear
- No audiometric improvement with 28-30 days of oral prednisone or other corticosteroid, including an initial dose of 60mg per day for 14 days
- Enrollment within 14 days of completion of corticosteroid therapy
- Age 13 years and older
- No evidence of neutropenia (low white blood cell count)
- No evidence of retrocochlear pathology (ie. acoustic neuroma/vestibular schwannoma)
- May have concurrent, systemic autoimmune disease
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age over 75, or less than 13
- Neutropenia
- Renal insufficiency
- Pregnant females
- Unilateral hearing loss
- Patients with any immunodeficiency syndrome
- Patients receiving methotrexate or any TNF (tumor necrosis factor) antagonist therapy
- Patients with chronic infections
- Patients treated for a malignancy within the past 3 years
- Patients with a latex allergy
- Patients with an inner ear anomaly
- Patients with retrocochlear pathology
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01267994
|United States, New York
|North Shore-LIJ Hearing and Speech Center
|New Hyde Park, New York, United States, 11040
|Principal Investigator:
|Andrea Vambutas, MD
|North Shore-LIJ Health System
Additional Information:
|Responsible Party:
|Andrea Vambutas, Professor of Otolaryngology & Molecular Medicine, North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01267994 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|December 28, 2010
|Results First Received:
|September 16, 2014
|Last Updated:
|March 23, 2015
|Health Authority:
|United States: Food and Drug Administration
United States: Institutional Review Board
Keywords provided by North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System:
Autoimmune Inner Ear Disease
Immune Mediated Hearing Loss
Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Meniere's Disease
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Ear Diseases
Hearing Loss
Hearing Loss, Sensorineural
Labyrinth Diseases
Hearing Disorders
Nervous System Diseases
Neurologic Manifestations
Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases
Sensation Disorders
Signs and Symptoms
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The Role Of FGF23, Klotho, And Sclerostin In Kidney Stone Formers
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Kidney stones are very common in industrialized countries and the lifetime risk is about 10 to 15% in this population. Kidney stones are composed of inorganic and organic components. Calcium containing stones are the most common stone type accounting for more than 80% of kidney stones. Many factors predispose or contribute to the development of kidney stones, including genetic variants or mutations, diet, environmental factors, and behavior. To date, little is known on fibroblast growth factor (FGF23) levels in patients with calcium nephrolithiasis. FGF23 is crucial for phosphate homeostasis including physiological and pathophysiological conditions such as X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets and it seems that FGF23 is probably the most important regulator of serum phosphate and calcitriol (1,25(OH)2D3) levels in addition to parathyroid hormone (PTH) produced by the parathyroid gland. Novel factors such as Klotho and Sclerostin, which are involved in the bone-kidney-parathyroid endocrine axis, have been identified recently. Klotho is a putative aging suppressor gene and its deficiency results in osteopenia, hyperphosphaturia, and calcification. Klotho is mainly expressed in the kidney but also in the parathyroid gland and acts as a FGF23 specific co-receptor mediating FGF23 participation in the bone-kidney-parathyroid endocrine axis as described above. Sclerostin is a protein secreted by osteocytes that inhibits bone formation by osteoblasts. However, the potential role of FGF23, Klotho, and Sclerostin in nephrolithiasis is still poorly under-stood or even unexplored. The aim of this study is to test if levels of FGF23, Klotho, and Sclerostin are differentially regulated in kidney stone formers.
Kidney Stones
Other: no intervention
Phase 4
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|Study Design:
|Observational Model: Cohort
Time Perspective: Prospective
|Official Title:
|A Cross-Sectional Study To Investigate The Role Of FGF23, Klotho, And Sclerostin In Kidney Stone Formers
Whole Blood
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|Study Start Date:
|January 2012
|Estimated Study Completion Date:
|January 2014
Other: no intervention
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years to 70 Years
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
|Sampling Method:
|Non-Probability Sample
All stoneformer patients at the first outpatient stone clinic consultation
Inclusion criteria:
- stoneformer patients with signed informed consent
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01526304
|Contact: Marian Struker, Study Coordinator
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|Contact: Nilufar Mohebbi, MD
|University Hospital Zurich, Nephrology
|Zurich, ZH, Switzerland, 8091
|Principal Investigator:
|Nilufar Mohebbi, MD
|University Hospital Zurich, Division of Nephrology
No publications provided
|Responsible Party:
|University of Zurich
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|NCT01526304 History of Changes
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|Study First Received:
|January 31, 2012
|Last Updated:
|February 2, 2012
|Health Authority:
|Switzerland: Swissmedic
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Kidney Calculi
Kidney Diseases
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Urinary Calculi
Urologic Diseases
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I just wanted to write a quick post before you dash off to be with your loved ones. I hope you all have an amazing and safe Thanksgiving!!!
Every day is a blessing, and in each moment there are many things that we can be grateful for. The world opens up to us when we live in a space of gratitude. In essence, gratitude has a snowball effect. When we are appreciative and express it, the universe glows a bit more brightly and showers us with even more blessings.
There is always something to be grateful for, even when life seems hard. When times are tough, whether we are having a bad day or are stuck in what feels like an endless rut, it may be difficult to take the time to feel grateful. Yet that is when gratitude can be most important. If can look at our lives during periods of challenge and discover something to be thankful for, then we can transform our realities in an instant. There are blessings to be found everywhere , but when we are focusing on what is negative, our abundance can be easy to miss. Instead choosing to find things we can appreciate that already exist in our lives changes what we see in our world. We start to notice one blessing and then another.
When we constantly choose to be grateful, we see that every breath is a miracle, and each smile becomes a gift. We begin to understand that difficulties are also invaluable lessons. The sun is always shining for us when we are full of thanks, even if it's hidden behind clouds on a raining day.
Living in a state of appreciation allows us to spread our abundance, because that is the energy we emanate from our beings. Since the world reflects back to us what we embody, the additional bounty that inevitably flows our way gives us even more to be grateful for. The universe wants to shower us with blessings. The more we appreciate life, the more life appreciates us and bestows us with greater goodness. ~Madisyn Taylor
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USGS: Two earthquakes hit off coast of California
Two earthquakes struck off the California coast Friday morning.
The first temblor was reported at 4:36 a.m. CT. It was listed as 6.3 on the Richter scale. The second hit 14 minutes later and registered at 4.7, according to the United States Geological Survey.
For over an hour after the first quake, the USGS website listed two earthquakes, a 6.4 and another 6.1 quake, 17 seconds apart.
But the site has now revised its reports to just the two 14 minutes, and 68 miles, apart. All of the reports had the epicenters listed within 140 miles of Avalon, Calif.
No tsunami warnings were issued. CNN reported no immediate reports of any damage or injuries.


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A helicopter crashed in Vauxhall, near the Thames, in London, at around 8 a.m. today. 2 people were killed and at least 9 were injured in the accident.
The aircraft hit a construction crane located on a building, and collapsed to the ground, in flames. As you can see in the footage shown above, the massive crash prompted fires in the area.
Washington Post writes that the helicopter took off from Red Hill Heliport, and was heading to the suburb of Elstree.
The pilot was flying lower to the ground than usual, and had radioed in to ask for permission to land, due to unfavorable weather conditions.
Witnesses have described the scene as an "inferno." There is no word yet on who the two victims are, but I will keep you informed as more details are released to the press.


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Waste service overhaul as Gloucester recycling rates hit just 36 per cent
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RECYCLING rates of just 36 per cent have prompted a major overhaul of waste collection in Gloucester.
New, innovative ideas for a collection service fit for the future include replacing the council's fleet of bin lorries with ones that can hold more recyclable items.
Residents would also not have to sort their recyclables – the work instead being done by the waste teams.
A bid to reach a 50 per cent recycling rate has prompted a year-long review into the service by the city council.
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Split-back lorries used in Bristol are being eyed up as the perfect model when the contracts for the current vehicles comes up for renewal.
Councillor Gordon Williams (C, Abbey), who has been involved in a special waste think tank, unveiled the ambitious plans at a meeting on Wednesday.
He said: "The group feel the current service is efficient, but we have been presented with a golden opportunity when the current fleet of vehicles comes up for renewal."
Sajid Patel, cabinet member for the environment, will propose changes to the service within six months.
He is also being encouraged to use special computer modelling to reimagine the way collections are carried out. The system can design new, more efficient routes based on the city's street layouts.
Mr Taylor added: "There is a real desire to increase the recycling rate. If we don't, the council could face fines by the European Union for missing its recycling targets.
Kingsway mum-of-one Sarah Churchill, from Northwood Drive, said that the council's low recycling rate may not be wholly representative of the true picture.
She said: "A lot of people these days don't even bother recycling through the council. My leftover food goes to the goats and sheep behind my horses and many people send their jars to friends who make jams.
"These days there are all sorts of websites that allow people to give away items they don't want rather than just throwing them out."
She also pointed to Waterwells Academy Primary School, on the Kingsway estate, which recently appealed for collections of unwanted cardboard and paper which they will use for arts and crafts activities. "That's much better than putting it in a recycling bin," she said.
HUNDREDS of city residents experience problems with their recycling collections each week because their streets are too narrow or they live in a flat.
Newly-built, narrow roads in Kingsway are particularly troublesome for refuse lorries that struggle to get down the streets.
Hundreds of other residents, in areas such as Barton, have received letters from the council asking them to move their cars on collection days because some lorries had collided with wing mirrors in their efforts to get down the streets.
A rethink of what lorries will be used in the future is on the cards – but a solution will not be easy to find.
Councillor Fred Wood, cabinet member for performance and resources, warned: "Accessibility is a real issue and the solution isn't going to be as easy or palatable as we perhaps hope."
Council leader Paul James admitted that it was a 'complex' issue, while councillor Gordon Taylor (C, Abbey) said: "Clearly these problems will not be solved overnight but they need to be incorporated into future planning policy."


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A modern dictionary of Catholic terms, both common and obscure. Find accurate definitions of words and phrases.
In general, pertaining to community life, as distinct from living alone. The term is applied to all the communal aspects of monastic or religious life, as conventual Mass or conventual rules.
All items in this dictionary are from Fr. John Hardon's Modern Catholic Dictionary, © Eternal Life. Used with permission.
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EPA's Regional Activities in the Middle East
By working across a region, EPA can share its experiences with a vast number of people, making work more efficient. Regional forums also allow for the countries to share their experiences with each other, as well as with EPA. Below are some examples of how EPA works regionally in the Middle East and North Africa.
Current Regional Activities in the Middle East Include:
- Public Participation
- Regional Networks
- Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV)
- Other Resources
Public Participation in Environmental Decision-making
Public Participation Guide: Engage the public. Preserve the planet.
The international public participation toolkit, which is located on EPA's website, provides tools for public participation and public outreach in environmental decision-making. It is designed with government agencies in mind to help them plan, design, and implement an effective public participation program. There are several case studies cited from the Middle East. The Guide has been translated into Arabic, French, Spanish, and Chinese.
Regional Networks
Regional environmental enforcement networks promote the rule of law, good environmental governance and sustainable development within a specific region by strengthening capacity to implement and enforce environmental requirements. EPA has helped to build, support and launch regional networks in the Middle East. These include:
- Network for Environmental Compliance in the Maghreb (NECEMA) Exit – launched February 2006
- Arab Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production Exit– launched May 2009
- Arab Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (ANECE) Exit – launched June 2009
The networks provide a means for participating countries to cooperate in the implementation of environmental law and encourage exchange in the field of environmental compliance and enforcement.
Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV)
EPA has worked with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Global Partnership for Clean Fuels and Vehicles (PCFV) to launch the development of a Middle East and North Africa Roadmap for Clean Fuels and Vehicles, with the goal of moving the region to lead-free and lower-sulfur fuel and introducing more fuel efficient and cleaner vehicles.
In support of this goal, UNEP held a Clean Fuels and Vehicles Middle East regional workshop Exit in September 2010 in Cairo, Egypt.
For additional information on EPA's work in the Middle East, contact:
Shereen Kandil
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This scholarship is for graduating high school seniors who are current members of A+FCU, or who have an immediate family member who is a current member. To qualify for this scholarship, applicants must plan to attend a Texas college or university. Ten scholarships will be awarded to students pursuing an education major, and ten scholarships will be awarded to students pursuing majors in other fields.
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New York is a place where many bands start. Rock, electro, jazz, hip-hop musicians, here's your home. Every great band has to be here at least once. And there were some legen… wait for it… dary concerts in the city.
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So far, I have seen The Kooks in Central Park, Bloc Party at Roseland Ballroom, The Bloody Beetroots and M83 at the Webster Hall (the place for electro/rock sound), Death Cab For Cutie at the wonderful Radio City Music Hall. Everything was awesome! I missed Justice and SebastiAn as it was sold out before I knew it. Tickets were sold over $100 each on black market.
I also had the chance to see Emilie Simon premiering new material from her upcoming album. I am raring to listen to it!
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CLEVELAND -- The prosecution rested Friday in the trial of a woman accused of killing her fiance by poisoning him with antifreeze.
Holly McFeeture, of Cleveland's Old Brooklyn neighborhood, is accused of spiking her fiance's Arizona raspberry iced tea with antifreeze.
Today McFeeture's ex-boyfriend took the stand.
The defense will begin its case on Monday before Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge Brian J. Cummings.
Between July 26, 2006, and July 30, 2006, McFeeture, 35, allegedly poisoned her boyfriend/fiance Matthew Podolak, 31, with antifreeze at their home in the Old Brooklyn neighborhood of Cleveland.
They lived with their two children, ages two years old and five months old, and an 8-year-old child from McFeeture's previous relationship.
A grand jury indicted Holly McFeeture in July 2012 on one count of aggravated murder and another of contaminating a substance for human consumption or use.
A pathologist with the Cuyahoga County Medical Examiner's Office, who performed the autopsy on Matthew Podolak in 2006, determined that Podolak died from chronic intoxication of ethylene glycol, the active ingredient in antifreeze.
Podolak's death was not ruled a homicide until 2010, after Cleveland police received a tip that ruled out suicide and accidental death.
In July 2006, Podolak began experiencing lower back pain and went to the doctor where he was treated for kidney stones.
On July 30, 2006, Podolak was taken to the hospital in pain. His condition deteriorated. He was in extreme pain, disoriented, and vomiting. Podolak died the next day.
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One popular place for keeping cool is at the waterfront splash pad near Grand Haven's Municipal Marina.
New York resident Andrew Lenhart, who is visiting family in Grand Haven, said the splash pad is great for the kids.
"I have a daughter and son who are really enjoying it," he said.
Lenhart's family was one of many who were frolicking in the water jets in an attempt to keep cool the past few days.
"This is the first time (we've used it)," he said. "We come usually once or twice a year to visit family in the area, and it's the first time we've seen the splash pad."
The splash pad was first turned on in September 2011.
Local heating and cooling experts say they are waiting for an increase in business — especially after a milder winter when many people weren't using their furnaces for heat.
Tom Lowe, assistant manager for Glockzin Heating & Cooling in Robinson Township, said he likes it when temperatures get warm.
"As far as our business goes, it goes with the weather," he said. "I expect calls to go through the roof."
While calls are expected to increase for service and installation, Lowe said there are ways people can maintain their current cooling equipment so they aren't left out in the heat.
"The No. 1 tip I can tell people is to clean your air filter," he said. "The cleaner it is, the better it is going to work. That's the first thing the homeowners can do to assure they have air conditioning through these heat spells."
Lowe said it was also important for people to keep in touch with those who might be vulnerable due to the heat, such as the elderly.
"Make sure you take the time to check in with your neighbor," he said.
Grand Haven Water Facilities Manager Joe VanderStel said the dry, warm weather means water use is on the rise.
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VanderStel said the local water plant is running about 14 million gallons per day. At some points during the day, he's seeing rates of 18-19 million gallons go through.
The Northwest Ottawa Water System plant has a capacity of pumping out 23.25 million gallons of water a day.
"There hasn't been any rain for some time," VanderStel said. "People are trying to keep their lawns green."
Local fire officials are looking to make sure people are safe when it comes to hot, dry conditions.
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Brownfields Training, Research, and Technical Assistance Grant Fact Sheet
Pacific Studies Center/Center for Public Environmental Oversight
EPA's Brownfields Program empowers states, communities, and other stakeholders to work together to prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse brownfields. A brownfield site is real property, the expansion, redevelopment, or reuse of which may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. EPA funds eligible applicants through assistance agreements to provide training, research, and technical assistance to facilitate brownfields revitalization.
The Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO) is a project of the nonprofit Pacific Studies Center. CPEO facilitates public participation in the oversight of environmental activities at contaminated sites, including brownfields. It educates public stakeholders on the process and technologies for cleanup and environmental protection. CPEO's brownfields assistance projects provide technical assistance and training to environmental justice and other communities where brownfields activities are planned or underway. Lessons learned are communicated to the full range of brownfields stakeholders. This work is based upon the premise that communities where brownfields are located can play a constructive role in brownfields revitalization if they organize. CPEO conducts site visits, convenes workshops and forums, publishes articles, and maintains a web-based technology tree.
Pacific Studies Center/Center for Public Environmental Oversight
Project Focus:
Providing Technical Assistance to Communities on Brownfields Issues, Including School Siting, Vapor Intrusion, Sustainable Development, and Community Benefits
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CPEO will create a new program that will emphasize community-to-community sharing of experience in four overlapping subject areas: 1) siting of schools and other youth facilities on previously contaminated properties; 2) long-term management of vapor intrusion; 3) sustainable development of brownfields; and 4) negotiation of community benefits agreements for brownfields redevelopment projects. These four subject areas have been identified by communities as priority areas during previous CPEO activities. CPEO will work directly with communities affected by brownfields, and with state and local governments, professional associations, and others to develop a stakeholders' guide to energy efficiency in brownfields redevelopment. CPEO's focus on community empowerment will emphasize work in de-industrialized communities and communities with a large proportion of minority or low-income residents. CPEO will sponsor peer-to-peer site visits, prepare reports of community successes, and disseminate educational materials.
For further information, including specific grant contacts, additional grant information, brownfields news and events, and publications and links, visit the EPA Brownfields web site or call 202-566-2777.
Visit the Center for Public Environmental Oversight web site for further information about its brownfields technical assistance activities. For more information about this project, call 650-961-8918.
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PSR Students Selected to Receive FTE Fellowship
ATLANTA, June 30, 2011 – Darnell Fennell and Andrew Holcom, entering Master of Divinity students at Pacific School of Religion have been recognized by The Fund for Theological Education (FTE) as young leaders who demonstrate exceptional gifts for ministry.
As recipients of a 2011 FTE Congregational Fellowship, Fennell and Holcom will
each receive a $1,000 to $5,000 award from FTE, matching support from their
nominating congregations for seminary tuition and living expenses. Fellowship recipients also attended the 2011 FTE Leaders in Ministry Conference, Renewing the Church in Service to the Common Good, held June 15 to 19 at Dillard University in New Orleans.
A national committee of educators and church leaders selected the FTE
Congregational Fellows from a pool of applicants from across the U.S. and Canada. Students must be nominated by a congregation, be preparing for congregational ministry and have leadership gifts for pastoral ministry.
FTE awards the fellowships, which are funded by Lilly Endowment Inc. and the
Henry Luce Foundation, to foster quality leadership and diversity in pastoral ministry.
"These young leaders see ministry as a path to helping others and serving the
common good," said Kim Hearn, FTE Director of Ministry Fellowships. "In these difficult imes, the church and the world need their extraordinary gifts of compassion, intelligence and commitment to community."
FTE supports the next generation of leaders among pastors and scholars,
annually awarding $1.5 million in fellowships and support to gifted young people from diverse denominations and backgrounds. Since 1954, FTE has awarded more than 6,100 fellowships; its alumni serve congregations, campuses and communities around the world. For more information, visit www.fteleaders.org.
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Admission of Undergraduate Students Directly from High School
Applicants must submit a formal application for admission, together with a $40 application fee ($50 for international students), and have their secondary school provide an official transcript of their academic record, including credits and grades, rank in class, and certification of graduation. Applicants must also submit scores from the American College Test (ACT) or the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), or the equivalent. The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) is required of international students whose first language is not English. For undergraduate international students the minimum score for full admission is 550 on the paper‑based TOEFL or 79 on the Internet-based TOEFL. There are several alternatives to the TOEFL students can submit to prove their English proficiency. Students with scores below this can qualify for conditional admission. Applicants may be required to submit additional information or data to support their applications. For additional information, undergraduate and graduate international applicants should consult the Web site at www.uni.edu/intladm.
- Admission of undergraduate students directly from high school will be based on the Regent Admission Index (RAI) equation described below. In addition, applicants must meet the minimum high school course requirements.
(2 x ACT composite score)
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+ (20 x high school GPA)
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- Applicants who are graduates of nonapproved high schools will be considered for admission in a manner similar to applicants from approved high schools, but additional emphasis will be given to scores obtained on standardized examinations.
- Applicants who are not high school graduates, but whose classes have graduated, may be considered for admission. They will be required to submit all academic data to the extent that it exists and achieve scores on standardized examinations, such as the GED, which will demonstrate that they are adequately prepared for academic study.
- Students with superior academic records may be admitted, on an individual basis, for part-time university study while enrolled in high school or during the summers prior to high school graduation.
- In rare situations, exceptional students may be admitted as full-time or part-time students before completing high school. Early admission is provided to serve persons whose academic achievement and personal and intellectual maturity clearly suggest readiness for collegiate-level study. The university will specify requirements and conditions for early admission.
Applicants from Iowa high schools who achieve at least a 245 RAI score and who meet the minimum number of high school courses required will qualify for automatic admission. Applicants who achieve less than a 245 RAI score may also be admitted; however, the university will review these applications on an individual basis. After such review, applicants may:
A. Be admitted unconditionally;
B. Be admitted conditionally; or
C. Be denied admission.
Applications from approved high schools in other states may be held to higher academic standards, but must meet at least the same requirements as graduates of Iowa high schools.
For purposes of calculating the RAI, SAT scores will be converted to ACT composite equivalents, 99% is the top value for high school rank, 4.00 is the top value for GPA, and the number of high school core courses completed is expressed in terms of years or fractions of years (e.g., one semester equals 0.5 year).
The Regent universities recognize that the traditional measures of academic performance do not adequately describe some students' potential for success. Therefore, the Regent universities strongly encourage all interested students to apply for admission. Applicants who feel their academic record is not an accurate reflection of their potential for success are encouraged to provide supplemental information explaining their circumstances in addition to the application, academic transcripts, and test scores.


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Our goal is to meet the needs and desires of Wellington students, so our services change and evolve over time. The following provides an overview of our current services.
Massey Gym is Wellington campuses very own gym. Located at Gate C, it's accessible to all students. The gym provides a range of health and fitness services, as well as cardio and strength training equipment.
There is a friendly and professional team who want to help you reach your goals. The gym memberships are very affordable, and there are even better Massey student discounts if you ask at reception. Each membership comes with a programme designed for you, based on your goals and current fitness levels.
The gym is located in Building T32.
Open hours: Monday to Friday 6:00am-9:00pm, Saturday and Sunday 9:00am-5:00pm, closed public holidays. Also check out the Facebook group, to get an idea of our community.
Each semester the staff at Massey Gym organise an indoor social sports league. Netball and soccer run during semester, with teams playing other students, staff and the occasional other university.
Most teams play for fun, others play for the coveted sports leagues shield.
For more information and contact details.
The Team at Massey Gym also coordinates a selection of group fitness classes. The classes change from semester to semester based on current interest levels and instructor availability.
Classes are set at an introductory level, so everyone can come and have a go without needing experience. The classes are affordable, the instructors friendly, and it's always more enjoyable when you bring a friend.
On the Tasman Street side of Wellington campus, there is an indoor basketball court. Its available for casual use by students 9:00am-5:00pm. Bookings can be made at the gym for outside of these hours, and rates start at $35.00 an hour for one off visits, and cheaper for regular bookings.
From time to time, the recreation centre is booked out during the day for research, teaching, or external bookings. During this time, those bookings take priority.
Massey Wellington Student Association (mawsa) coordinates the clubs on campus.
For more information: www.mawsa.org.nz
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