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Toros y Flamenco
"I have long been avowed enemy of bullfighting and flamenco. [...] No, it is not the intrinsic worth of bullfighting and flamenco that perturbs me but rather the way in which they reduce the rich history and culture of Spain to the level of exotic folklore."The Hollywood Atlas version of Iberian countries (mostly Spain with possible addition of elements from Portugal, Andorra, etc.). You know, that place where all the women dress in tiered skirts, and all the males in chaqué, where the landscape consists of mountains, red dry hills and beaches, and every night (because there's siesta all day anyway) passionate Tall, Dark and Handsome toreadors with roses in their teeth escape from stampeding bulls while playing guitars, and equally passionate Spicy Latina gypsies with roses in their hair, daggers in their garters and fans in their hands throw oranges at them while dancing flamenco. ¡Olé! If you don't know why this trope fails that much at Geography, you should know that the Running of the Bulls (celebrated on the week beginning the 7th of July on the day know as "San Fermín") is celebrated only in Pamplona. The "Feria de Abril" (April Fair) where women actually dress with tiered spotted skirts and men wear chaqués is celebrated only in Seville. The distance between those cities is over 600 milesnote . Yet in fiction, both seem to happen at the same time and place. Additionally, the Running is often portrayed as featuring hundreds of bulls on a murderous stampede. In Real Life, though, there's generally no more than fifteen bulls, released in groups of four to six, and they're often surrounded by a larger crowd of people, including a group running around them to keep them following the right path. Bonus points if the work even decides to portray the correct path they follow, or simply has them rampaging through any of the city's streets freely. Also, this Iberian country is always Spain. Portugal? What's a Portugal? Toros Y Flamenco is one of the most popular origin countries for a Latin Lover. See also Latin Land, which shares many elements with this trope, due to strong historical and cultural ties between Iberia and South American countries. Sometimes confused or amalgamated (by hack authors) with South of the Border into Spexico due to the same strong historical and cultural ties plus the similar climate. Sometimes coincides with It's Always Mardi Gras in New Orleans, when a visit to Pamplona (or any other town in Iberia if the author is particularly lazy) is destined to happen exactly on the week of the Running of the Bulls. In Real Life Spain this trope is known as Españolada.
— Jonathan Brown in the Foreword to Richard L. Kagan's Spain in America: The history of Hispanism in the United States (2002)
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- This commercial for EDS, with the running of the squirrels. Compare with the real thing. In Real Life, Pamplona is a moderately large sized city in the comparatively humid North of the country.
- Inverted by this Spanish beer ad that moves the running to the Big Applesauce and replaces the bulls with bison.
Anime & Manga
- Surprisingly averted by Antonio aka Spain in Axis Powers Hetalia; while there is official art with him in a matador costume, the traditional stereotypes about the country are barely touched (he is still depicted as a siesta lover, though) and his personality is less of a Latin Lover and more of a Nice Guy.
- However, in his drama CD released on December 8th 2010, the first verse mentions bullfighting and flamenco almost immediately.
- Like every other national and ethnic stereotype, this trope is alive and well in Mobile Fighter G Gundam. "Now representing Neo Spain, Matador Gundam!"
- The Spain arc of Ashita no Nadja has Nadja working her ass off to learn how to dance Flamenco, befriending an embittered matador, attracting the ire of the matador's bailaora New Old Flame as she returns into his life suddenly while having plans to use the guys's affection for her... and, in a subversion, it shows her meeting up with Keith and mistaking him for his twin brother Francis in the Alhambra of Granada, a place that doesn't really follow the stereotypes above.
- Spain team in Medabots; the medafighters are dressed as bullfighters and the Medabots are bulls!
- Played with in Hana no Ko Lunlun. Around four episodes of the series happen in Spain, but only one involves the toros y flamenco stereotype. (Another even takes place in a desertic area, which can be either Bardenas Reales, Monegros or Tabernas.) In a further subversion, Lunlun had to disguise herself as a bullfighter to save herself and her companions from a bull, instead of meeting/befriending/helping a matador.
- Also played with in Montana Jones when the gang goes to Granada. The main trio hears a deep noise. Montana says that it reminds him of a bison stampede. Alfred says that there aren't bison in Spain, so it must be a bull run. Melissa says that the bull run happens in Pamplona, not Granada. Then a bull herd runs on them... because the bad guys made it panic and run in their direction.
- Mostly averted in Kujira No Josephina (Josephina The Whale). Since the series is based in a children's book by a Spanish writer, it depicts the Madrid of the years after World War II in a more realistic light - as possible as it can be through the eyes of a pre-teenager and his Imaginary Friend, of course. In fact, one of the most important episodes towards the end (when Santi meets his soon-to-be girlfriend Celia, takies the definitive steps towards teenagehood and leaves Josefina behind) takes place in El Escorial, an historical residence of Spanish royalty that is located in a town near Madrid.
- In One Piece, the island of Dressrosa seems to follow this trope pretty closely, albeit in an affectionate way. Luffy even gets to ride a rampaging bull.
- Nasu: Andalusia no natsu ("Eggplant: Summer in Andalusia") has the main character giving a military salute to a gigantic Osborne bull and Andalusians singing about Andalusia being an "infertile land" - Andalusia may have a small desert in its eastern fringe, but the general region is the breadbasket of Spain (and a good chunk of Europe). Other than that, the film largely avoids the trope as a result of choosing a local road bycicle racer as protagonist.
- Astérix in Spain plays with the trope. There are "aurochs" (bulls), and Asterix acts like a matador when he fights with one, but most of the setting is traditional roman cities, no much different than the ones in other comics. There is a band of gypsies and Obelix dances flamenco, however. Partly justified because Asterix is set in 50 B.C. (so it's not like making 21st century cities look like 18th century ones).
- Doesn't excuse the fact there are gyps... ahem, "nomads" and flamenco hundreds of years before any of them arrived in Spain (but then again, this is Asterix we are talking about).
- Strabo and Roman sources like Juvenal or Pliny actually talk about the puellae gaditanae, women from Gades (today's Cádiz) or otherwise in the Baetica who were famous for their dances two centuries BC, even using metal castanets (crusmata baetica). I kid you not.
- Doesn't excuse the fact there are gyps... ahem, "nomads" and flamenco hundreds of years before any of them arrived in Spain (but then again, this is Asterix we are talking about).
- See also this Daredevil comic in which the hero participates in an illegal bullfight with lions (so... lionfight?..)
- Daredevil also fought a villain called the Matador very early in his career. This culminated in a battle DD won by butting the Matador with his horns.
- Matador's Start of Darkness is as priceless. He was once a corrupt matador that drugged bulls with sedatives hidden in banderillas because he was afraid of them. This ended when Bruce Banner witnessed it and turned into The Hulk ("The bull has no chance. This is not sport!"). After being exposed as a coward, Matador decided to exact revenge on mankind... by becoming a criminal in New York City. Uh?
- And this Superman one.
- And another one from Batgirl.
- And another one from Indiana Jones.
- Daredevil also fought a villain called the Matador very early in his career. This culminated in a battle DD won by butting the Matador with his horns.
Films — Live Action
- There is a sequence taking place in this kind of Spain near the beginning of Mission: Impossible II, where they managed to mix Pamplona's Running of the Bulls with Seville's Easter processions, Valencia's Falles, and about any other Spanish cliché.
- Also, Anthony Hopkins tells Tom Cruise that "the people are burning the saints to worship them"... which is completely false. The already mentioned Falles DO burn figures... but not of saints, and in Easter processions figures of saints are taken out... but NOT burned.
- Tom Cruise does it again in Knight and Day, with running of the bulls scenes shot in scenic Cádiz, in the other extreme of the country.
- It may have been shot in Cádiz, but the movie claimed it was Seville. Which neither honors San Fermin, nor has a running of the bulls.
- At least, part of it was actually shot in Seville, and several areas of the historic city centre had to be closed for the shooting. Needless to say, Sevillians weren't very happy with the result...
- It may have been shot in Cádiz, but the movie claimed it was Seville. Which neither honors San Fermin, nor has a running of the bulls.
- Parodied in the classic Spanish film ¡Bienvenido, Mr. Marshall!, in which the people of a small Castilian village decide to give themselves an Andalusian makeover in order to impress the Americans in charge of distributing Marshall Plan funds.
- The surreal 1959 movie Thunder in the Sun has 19th century French Basques killing Indians in California with Cesta Punta and dancing Flamenco each night. It gets worse.
- The 1956 adaptation of Around the World in 80 Days has a stop in a stereotypical Spanish town where Passepartout (played by Cantinflas) is forced to do precisely Toros y Flamenco.
- Featured as part of a Culture Equals Costume spoof of the United Nations' Security Council in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. The Spanish representative is seen conversing with a matador and a tonadillera, just like the Japanese is flanked by a sumo wrestler and a geisha and the British is seated next to a beefeater.
- The 2001 Masterpiece Theatre version of The Merchant of Venice, and, likely, the Trevor Nunn stage production it was based on, has the Prince of Aragon show off with a flamenco dance step with fitting music to boot. Given that Aragon is in Northern Spain and has zero flamenco tradition, this was about as accurate as portraying someone from Alaska as a ten gallon hat-wearing cowboy.
- (Mostly) averted in the Peter Sellers comedy The Bobo, where Barcelona is shown as a bustling modern city. Still, Sellers plays a (singing) matador, and there's an extended scene in a flamenco club (with a startlingly intense performance.)
- P. Merimee's Carmen, especially the opera by Georges Bizet, is one of the oldest examples of this trope.
- Tom Clancy and Dan Brown have also portrayed Spain as a third-world country in Balance of Power and Digital Fortress, respectively. Brown's case is even stranger because he supposedly spent some time living in Seville.
- Digital Fortress has someone falling down the stairs of the Giralda, the Seville cathedral's belfry. Said cathedral was originally a mosque, with the actual belfry being its minaret, and it was built to allow horses to climb to the top. So, there's not a single stair on there, as it's built on ramps.
- Op-Center: Balance of Power (which wasn't really written by Clancy but by a ghost writer like the rest of the series) should be considered one of the most blatant examples of Critical Research Failure, as the Ethnic Scrappy Spaniards are constantly characterized with the worst stereotypes about Mexiconote , and the whole "ethnic tension" that serves as motif of the book is said to rely on racial grounds with no linguistic or cultural differences whatsoever. The book goes as far as to claim that you can tell a Castilian apart of a Catalan because of his darker face.
- In the play A Shot in the Dark, the Spanish chauffeur Miguel Ostos is described as a bullfighting fan and a passionate and jealous lover. Unfortunately, he's not in the play's Dramatis Personae because it's a murder mystery and he's the victim.
- Turns up, complete with running of the bulls, in the Discworld novel Witches Abroad. Unfortunately the whole thing is misunderstood by the witches, and after the sight of a small blonde woman walking right through the crowd of bulls as though being trampled to death is something that happens to other people and taking the wreath off the lead bull, the townsfolk decide just to have a flower festival instead.
Live Action TV
- There is a hilariously wrong episode of MacGyver set in the Basque Country (Spanish dub of the beginning here).
- There is an episode of Full House where the oldest daughter tries to sell her father a trip to Spain, mariachi hat included.
- Caroline in the City has an episode (called Caroline and the Bullfighter, so you know where this is going) where the main characters travel to Pamplona and, well, let's just say that every single thing that follows is wrong.
- The episode Barcelona, May 1917 of The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Curious case as it was written, directed and starred mostly by British people, and in turn features a lot of British stereotypes about Spain instead of American ones: paella, Cordobese hats, a duel at a bullring, a small jealous husband with moustache and an omnipresent bullfight tune every 5 minutes. Oh, and once the cheating is revealed to be a forgery, the small jealous husband decides to share a drink with the guy that he was going to kill a second before. ¡Fiesta!
- An episode of Relic Hunter has Sydney and Nigel in a rush to meet a professor in a Spanish university because according to them, siesta time will begin in 20 minutes and then everything will stop working.
- The Running of the Bulls is parodied in the Brass Eye episode "Animals" with the "Running of the Wasp", complete with footage of a crowd of people ostensibly running away from a wasp.
Tabletop Games
- The James Bond 007 role-playing game module Goldfinger II - The Man With Midas Touch takes the heroes to Pamplona during the Running of the Bulls, where they are doused with pheremones that make them an irresistible target to the bulls and then dumped into the Running of the Bulls as part of a Death Trap.
- Invoked in "My Little Castagnette", in The Desert Song.
- The ballet The Three-Cornered Hat has a prologue set in a bullring for no better reason than to provide one half of this trope. Manuel de Falla's music amply fulfills the other half.
- Bizet's Carmen.
Video Games
- Vega's stage in Street Fighter II (and Vega himself, for that matter). The catch? That stage is set in Barcelona, one of the least Toros Y Flamenco-esque cities in Spain. Of course, one can easily find a tablao if desired... but it's as representative of the city in itself as ceili dancing.
- Still, Vega's Super SFII Turbo ending includes a peek into his Big Fancy House. It actually looks as if it was straight-up lifted from Granada's Alhambra◊.
- Mike Tyson's Punch Out has the unforgettable Don Flamenco. Besides his name, this fighter likes to comment about everyone's hair, thinks he's very beautiful, dances flamenco (some dance the game designers thought looks like flamenco, anyway) with a rose between his teeth and has a girlfriend named Carmen. And the entrance music is from Bizet's opera — specifically, "The Toreador Song". The Wii game retains these characteristics and even gives him dialogues in actual Spanish.
- Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup: The Spanish team members are dressed as bullfighters, their stadium is a bullring and they SCREAM!!!, don't talk.
- The level "Black Velvetopia" in Psychonauts which, in typical Tim Schafer absurdist style, combines Toros Y Flamenco with tacky black velvet paintings, neon &... high school gym class. Capped off with a Bullfight Boss battle, of course. Somewhat justified in that the level is not an actual place, but rather a representation of the mind of a Latin-American former wrestler with a combination of OCD, chronic depression and deep-seated insecurity issues relating to an incident in high school.
- The Spanish team in Backyard Soccer is called Los Toritos.
- While the Kingdom of Sapin from Ace Combat Zero: The Belkan War is presented as a modern and advanced nation, some of the usual Spanish stereotypes still creep into its portrayal. The main female character from Sapin is a modern day Ace Pilot with the callsign "Macarena" (groan), who works as a teacher of flamenco (groan) after she quits in the armed forces. And yes, she wears a rose in her hair while teaching said dance (groan) and is presented as a romantic, melancholic woman (groan).
- The Regional Riff of the Spanish civilization in Age of Empires II: The Conquerors is distinctively flamenco-ish, despite the fact that the game ends around 1600 at the latest, yet the first mention of flamenco dates only from 1774. Also, and as informative as it is, one can't help but think that the History section of the game dropped the ball when they devoted most of it to what is more exotic to non-Spanish players, Muslim Spain - which would fit more in the 'Saracen' civilization part - rather than the Christian kingdoms that the game's Spanish civilization is meant to represent. Castile and Aragon are only mentioned when the text deals with the conquest of Granada and no mention whatsoever is made of Asturias, Leon, Navarre or the Catalan counties (or Portugal, see Real Life).
- Rome: Total War has "bull warriors" as an Iberian elite troop. While the bull is a common motif in Ancient Iberian art, there is zero evidence that such unit or their fancy helmets with bull horns sustaining a solar disc ever existed.
- Kind of a Necessary Weasel in 0 A.D.. The Iberian civilization's gameplay music is far too modern, dominated by guitars and trumpets. Of course no actual Ancient Iberian melodies have survived, and the few musical scenes represented in Iberian art show instruments common in the Ancient Mediterranean like lires and flutes. The Iberian units and buildings also used to have Spanish names in the first versions of the game before the programmers switched to Basque, which is at least a non-Latin derived language (the actual relationship between Basque and the poorly understood Ancient Iberian language(s) is debated; on the other hand, the game's Iberians are a stand-in for all peoples in the ancient Iberian Peninsula, including the Iberians but also Celts, Celtiberians, proto-Basque/Aquitanians, Lusitanians, Tartessians and Balearics).
- At his debut in Tekken 6, Miguel, the Spanish representative in the King of Iron Fist Tournament, dressed in bullfighter-inspired attire. The resulting backlash over the blatant employment of a national stereotype (something Tekken usually doesn't rely on, unlike Street Fighter where it's part of the point) made Namco change his standard outfit in Tekken Tag Tournament 2, to something more akin to the street brawler he is.
Western Animation
- Walt Disney's Ferdinand The Bull short. (And the book it was based on.)
- In the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode "When Mice Were Men", the Rangers travel to Spain, to a place named "Tramplonia" to be precise, to visit an old friend of Monty named Don Quijole. He tells them about an evil bull who stole all the other bulls to ruin the Running of the Bulls festival. The Rescue Rangers construct a mecha-toreador to defeat the evil bull. By the way, that's where the picture in this article is from.
- In an episode of Jackie Chan Adventures, the bad guys tail Jackie to Pamplona, and end up getting caught up in the Running of the Bulls. Everyone has to run for it except the Shendu-possessed Valmont, who the animals avoid like water around a rock.
- An episode of the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon featured the Running of the Bulls... in Lisbon.
- Which of course, looked like your stereotypical Spanish town, apart from the mentions of them being in Portugal.
- One episode of Totally Spies! had the spies going to Spain. Not only was Madrid placed MUCH higher on the map, the city seemed to have come out of the 19th century... oh yeah, and there were bulls, of course.
- Sylvester And Tweety Mysteries had one episode where Granny and her pets go to Pamplona and Sylvester had to constantly run away from bulls. Bonus points for getting the festival's name right.
- The Mickey Mouse short Al Rojo Vivo takes place during the Running of the Bulls. It also includes another Spanish festival, La Tomatina (the one where they throw tomatoes at each other), which takes place in a different town and at another time of year.
Real Life
- On the issue of Portugal being considered part of Spain, it is interesting to note that prior to the union of Castile and Aragon in the late 15th century, "Spain" was a purely geographical term applied to the whole Iberian Peninsula, and Portugal (which had secured its independence in 1143) thus considered as Spanish as any other Iberian kingdom (John II of Portugal was in fact angered when Ferdinand and Isabella called themselves monarchs of Spain for this very same reason). It wasn't until the dynastic union under the Habsburgs and the later rebellion in 1640 that Portuguese Independence was restored and that being "Spanish" became a foreign notion to the Portuguese. Don't ask a Portuguese person if he or she is Spanish. It's very poor form.
- There are three things you can expect any Spanish euro store to have (even moreso if frequented by tourists): a stuffed bull, a sevillana dancer doll, and a Mexican hat. There is at least some justification to that, as those Mexican sombreros are descendants of the broad-brimmed hats worn in Andalusia, but they look nothing like their ancestors.note


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A brief summary on Georgia.
Official name: Republic of Georgia
Official language: Georgian
Land area: 26,911 sq mi/69,700 sq km
Population: 4,292,000
Dominant religion: Christianity
Capital: Tbilisi
Georgia is a country is southwestern Asia with a small amount of territory in Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the north, Azerbaijan to the southeast, Armenia to the south, Turkey to the southwest and the Black Sea to the west. The Caucasus Mountains run through much of the country, giving it a very rugged and mountainous terrain with a lot of forests.
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Whenever I start my skoda laura car in the morning the horn does not work but after driving for about 4 to 5 miles the horns start working properly, sometimes in the morning only one horn speaker works and after moving for 4 miles the other one also starts working properly, the car is just one year old. Also if I start the car after 3 or 4 day break the horn does nor work at all it starts working after moving for about 7 to 8 km and that too I have to stop the car ignition and then start it again, kindly help me in this matter
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Your a horny person? My wife couldn't live without her horn! Why not just replace them? Or check the hot connections mounting for good ground. Test wire for voltage when not working. May show volts but it takes a good connection to carry enough amps to operate horn. Draws a lot of juice.
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Dampness in the Spleen
Note: In traditional Chinese medicine the Spleen is referred to as the body's digestive system rather than the anatomical organ spleen. To get a better grasp about the concept of the Spleen review the introduction material "The Spleen in Chinese medicine" in the Physiology chapter.
There are two causes that lead to the generation of "dampness in the Spleen". The first cause is deficiency of Spleen energy.
The Spleen is responsible for the transformation and transportation of food essences but together with the Lungs and the Kidneys the Spleen also governs the body's water metabolism. It is in charge of the separation, transportation, and movement of fluids. If the energy of the Spleen is deficient it cannot sufficiently transport fluids. Eventually this will lead to water retention, called "internal dampness". "Internal dampness" most commonly manifests in the three organs in charge of the water metabolism - the digestive tract (the Spleen), the Lungs, and the Kidneys (according to Chinese medicine the Kidneys govern the Urinary Bladder but also govern the sexual organs).
The other cause for generation of "dampness in the Spleen" is living in a damp environment.
Dampness is heavy and turbid in nature. Thus symptoms of internal dampness manifest in feeling of heaviness in the body, cloudy head, cloudy urine. Since "dampness" is water retention one symptom of "dampness" is edema and swelling. Other symptoms include bloated abdomen, loose stools and lack of appetite (the major symptom of deficient Spleen). The pathology is confirmed by looking at the tongue. If the tongue has a thick and greasy coating than there is "internal dampness".
There are two types of internal dampness – cold-damp and damp-heat. Cold-damp symptoms include all the above symptoms of internal dampness together with oppression in the chest and epigastrium, and/or feeling of cold in the epigastrium. The nature of dampness is heaviness, thus dampness has the tendency to sink downward, manifesting in white vaginal discharge in women. As dampness is water retention the body has no need for more fluids thus there is no sensation of thirst. (1)
Damp-heat symptoms include all the above symptoms of internal dampness together with stuffiness or pain in the epigastrium and lower abdomen, loose stool with offensive odor (when there is heat there is odor), and scanty dark-yellow urination. As heat manifests in thirst but with dampness there is no thirst an interesting typical sign of damp-heat is thirst with no desire to drink. Some nausea and vomiting may be present. (1)
Besides having a heavy and turbid nature dampness is also obstructive. Thus dampness blocks the free flow of blood and energy, and invades the joints. Movement becomes difficult and numbness in the limbs is experienced. The pain is fixed in location. The condition worsens in damp environment or in cloudy and rainy days.
Just like bacteria and parasites thrive in an external damp environment so do they do in an internal damp body environment. Therefore chronic internal dampness may lead to bacteria and parasite overgrowth, and is the fittest environment for yeasts, viruses, cysts, tumors, and cancers. Internal dampness is also more difficult to clear because of its heavy nature, and it takes longer time to cure.
Internal dampness originates from a "deficient Spleen" therefore changing the diet is essential in treating this condition.
Foods that contribute to accumulation of dampness are all "cold" and mucus-forming foods, and they all should be avoided until the dampness is cleared. Such foods are all raw foods (which are cold in nature), eggs, milk, and dairy products (mucus-producing) and sweet foods (the sweet taste promotes the energy of the spleen but taken excessively it has the opposite effect). Fats, oil, butter, nuts, seeds, and all fried foods should also be avoided, meat should be consumed moderately, in small quantities, and very well cooked. The meals should be simple with not too many spices or ingredients. Overeating and late-night eating should be avoided. (1)
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(1) Maciocia, Giovanni (1989). The Foundations of Chinese Medicine. Nanjing: Harcourt Publishers Limited
(2) Pitchford, Paul (2002). Healing with Whole Foods. Berkeley: North Atlantic Books
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Chocolate and orange are perfect together in these fudgy morsels. To give them a moist brownie-like texture, I add mayonnaise. The cupcakes taste even better when served with a scoop of homemade ice cream.
- 1-1/2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1/4 cup baking cocoa
- 1 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 cup mayonnaise
- 1 teaspoon grated orange peel
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/2 cup orange juice
- 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate chips
- Confectioners' sugar
- 1. In a bowl, combine the flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda and salt. In another bowl, combine the mayonnaise, orange peel and vanilla; gradually add orange juice until blended. Stir into dry ingredients just until combined. Stir in chocolate chips (batter will be thick).
- 2. Fill paper-lined muffin cups two-thirds full. Bake at 350° for 18-23 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool for 10 minutes before removing from pan to a wire rack to cool completely. Dust with confectioners' sugar. Yield: 9 cupcakes.
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Perry Township residents concerned over seismic testing to find Marcellus shale
Perry Township supervisors and residents expressed concerns and asked questions Tuesday about proposed seismic testing considered paving the way for future Marcellus shale gas drilling.
"What is a resident supposed to do if there is damage to their property during the testing?" asked township Supervisor Janet Galla.
Rod White, land representative of McDonald Land Services, a company affiliated with Chevron Appalachia, LLC, suggested that residents take photos of their homes' interiors and exteriors before the seismic testing begins in about four months.
"What about the danger level of this testing?" Galla asked.
White said explosive charges will be used in some of the surveys, but he assured supervisors and the public that there is little danger associated with the seismic testing. He explained that seismic testing uses underground sound waves to map hydrocarbon areas that could be suitable for hydraulic fracturing, which is also known as fracking.
Marcellus shale gas companies drill holes thousands of feet into the ground and pump chemical-laden water into the holes to fracture Marcellus shale to release natural-gas supplies.
Residents on Tuesday asked if the seismic tests will affect well water or the township's water supply.
"I can assure you that the well water and the water supply will not be affected," White said.
Residents also expressed concerns about what effect the heavy equipment and trucks will have on township roads.
White said each truck weighs about 48,000 pounds.
Supervisors Chairman A.J. Boni said township roads are bonded for up to 80,000 pounds.
He said township supervisors plan to hold public meetings to inform the public about seismic testing.
"We will do the best job we can to inform the public of what is going to take place," Boni said.
White said he expects the seismic testing to end in Perry Township in late October.
"The purpose of the testing is to identify hydrocarbons so we can look for Marcellus shale," White said.
Boni said the seismic testing will be performed across Fayette County — not just in Perry Township.
Mikal Ann Zimmerman, a representative of policy, government and public affairs for Chevron, said the seismic surveys will provide Chevron with information necessary to prepare for the drilling process on land it leased from property owners.
"These surveys will show us what we need to see," Zimmerman said. "It won't be necessary for us to come back to do it again next year."
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Jimbo Chapman, a sales associate at Southern Fried Cotton, refolds shirts on a display at the new store on Main Street. / Heidi Heilbrunn/Staff
Deb Ayers Agnew sits at a round table at the rear of her Main Street store, leather handbags and briefcases crowding the shelves. She can barely contain her enthusiasm for what�s next for downtown retail.
Just up the street, the Hyatt Hotel is being renovated. Down the street, the One buildings are taking shape. All three will include new space for retail.
�I can�t imagine being anywhere else at this time in my life,� said Agnew.
Agnew is one of a few longtime downtown Greenville retailers who thrived for a time and then managed to hold on long enough to experience the promise of today. Retail has proved to be the elusive last link in a truly revived Main Street.
Retail is always the last to take hold, said Mayor Knox White. Long ago when the downtown plan was coming together, consultants told White revival follows a methodical path. Office space, residential, restaurants, then retail.
Ten years ago when Mast General opened, property owners and city leaders believed the time was ripe for retail. The North Carolina-based retailer brought lots of shoppers, but other so-called destination retailers didn�t follow. Now, city leaders are hoping Athropologie, which will locate in the first One building, will fill the void.
From the beginning, no one thought Main Street Greenville could become King Street Charleston with its mix of local and national retailers, restaurants, offices, hotels and upper-floor residences. In fact, planners warned city leaders that Greenville�s malls and shopping areas are too close and too robust, and Greenville lacks the tourism attracted to Charleston�s history and port.
For years, the only piece of Main Street that had any collection of retail was the northern two blocks where Agnew�s Ayers Leather is located. Now, retailers occupy about 40 percent of the 48 storefronts, the rest are restaurants and other types of businesses such as dentist offices and an investment company. Four are empty.
Smaller stores have opened and closed. The restaurant culture has filled the empty storefronts left over from Main Street�s malaise of the 1970s. Some blocks are almost entirely filled with restaurants. From Coffee to Broad streets, restaurants outnumber retail by 2-to-1.
Sales by downtown retailers, which includes the West End, where retail dominates, amounted to almost $83.7 million in 2011, compared with $86.4 million for restaurants, city records show. Since 2005, restaurant sales have increased by 40 percent, retail 30 percent.
�Retail is what makes Greenville interesting,� said Jim Simkins, who owns buildings on Main and East North streets.
Helen Sanders, a project manager for Hughes Development, which is building One, said so far no more leases have been signed for the retail space not occupied by Anthropologie, but interest has been high. It�s uncertain how many spaces will be available for retail, but probably six or seven, she said.
At the Hyatt, three spaces for retail will be rented and the owners are in no hurry to fill them, White said.
The downtown story
Look at any picture of Main Street before the 1980s and you�ll see a vibrant streetscape. Cars parked in straight lines down the two lanes edged a sidewalk of people outside the area�s major department stores, Meyers-Arnold, Belk-Simpson, Ivey�s. There was the Woolworth, where black students attempted to eat in the mid-1960s and Greenville leaders, black and white, ultimately did to dampen racial unrest.
Shoe stores, clothing, drug stores, all manner of commerce took place. The demise of downtown happened here just as it did in so many other communities across the nation. McAlister Square on Pleasantburg Drive drew the stores away. People moved to newly built neighborhoods and opted to shop in enclosed areas.
For a time, the department stores kept their downtown stores open, but before long that seemed like a luxury they could not afford. Investors bought buildings expecting the area would not be down forever.
Simkins said his father, James Simkins, who served on City Council and as mayor, invested in downtown real estate and held on through the tough times.
�My dad believed in the future of downtown,� Simkins said. �We love downtown retail and apparently other people around the country do, too.�
The younger Simkins kept his storefronts empty, waiting for retailers, rather than filling them with restaurants. Now after investing more than $2 million in renovation, all are leased. His next project will be to tear down his office on Coffee Street for a multi-story office/retail building.
Downtown property is not controlled by any one interest. Instead, the buildings are owned by individuals, many of them longtime owners who live or have lived on the upper floors.
�They are your neighbors,� said Jimmy Wright, who specializes in retail property for NAI Earle Furman Co.
Heyday to hurt
Agnew�s parents started Ayers Leather in 1950 in the Poinsett Hotel, then considered Carolina�s finest, a place for Sunday dinners and ballroom dancing. They moved to the current location at the corner of Main and East North streets in 1974 as the Poinsett Hotel weakened and downtown languished. They had a store at McAlister Square by then and later added one at Haywood Mall.
Rent downtown was cheap and they used the building as a warehouse for merchandise and a place to do monogramming and repairs.
Two events conspired to boost downtown. One was the McAlister Square fire that started in a World Bazaar a few weeks before Christmas in 1981. Six small stores were destroyed and most of the rest of the mall was affected by smoke and water. The other event was the decision by the owners of Haywood Mall to seek chain stores rather than local retailers when the mall was built in the 1980s.
�My dad said this will be the salvation of downtown, and he was right,� Agnew said. �It directly put a spotlight on this area and its downfall had already passed.�
Banking and law helped downtown limp along through the tough years, she said. She sees former mall devotees coming back to her shop.
�Old Greenville is a hard sell,� she said. �They�re lured to the suburbs and Charlotte and Atlanta. They�re coming back for the service.�
Simkins said retailers can�t trade on downtown�s good press and its inclusion on many national best-of lists. There have been more than a few who set up shop downtown yet failed because the service to the customer was inferior.
�You have to love people,� he said.
For a while, Agnew wondered whether a leather shop would appeal to the next generation. Then about five years ago, her son Payton asked if he could go to work with her. Now 25, he�s working in the store full-time, and Agnew sees younger people coming in for a wallet or a pocketbook. And it�s something of a tradition for a young business person to buy a first briefcase there.
Charleston, Clemson come looking
Danielle Wecksler, the general manager of Charleston Cooks, which is owned by the same company that owns High Cotton restaurant, said her company had been looking for a spot in Greenville for a retail store for two years. High Cotton opened in the West End five years ago. Their requirements were Main Street and a corner location.
They found it in the former Atlanta Bread Company restaurant space at the corner of Main and East North, across the street from Ayers. They were looking for foot traffic, of course, and also the right mix of customers.
�Downtown Greenville is straight out of a magazine,� she said. �People walking, families. There�s vibrancy. It feels good.�
At 3,000 square feet, the Greenville store is 600 square feet bigger than the Charleston store, which is across the street from High Cotton and beside Slightly North of Broad, another Maverick Southern Kitchens restaurant. Essential to their decision to locate in Greenville was a city government that made renovation easy.
A still-recovering economy made lower rent possible.
One complaint that most everyone who operates downtown � restaurant and retail alike � is the cost to rent or to buy. Average cost per square foot is $11.41, which is about the same as Augusta Road but less than Haywood and Woodruff Road, according to a recent report by NAI Earle Furman Commercial Real Estate.
Main Street�s newest business is Southern Fried Cotton, which sells T-shirts, most of them with college logos and designs. It�s owned by a printing company from Clemson. Like Charleston Cooks, Southern Fried Cotton partners looked for a space for a long time, four or five years. Located in the former Barkery Bistro location, it almost went to Greenridge or the West End.
�There is foot traffic every time you go over there,� said Chris Bandy, one of the owners. Mast General, ONE, the Hyatt all figured into the decision to go for it despite what he considers the sticker shock on the rent.
Wright said it is an interesting phenomenon that people perceive the downtown rent to be high, when in reality it is not when compared with malls and centers on the Eastside.
�People probably don�t know what the rents are,� he said.
They also could be remembering a day when property owners almost gave the space away.
Asked how Greenville compares with Charleston, Wecksler said every city has to find its own identity, its own mix of shops.
And Greenville has. She�s asked frequently why her store is not called Greenville Cooks.
What's next
White said Mast General locating in Greenville began with a cold call from him to owner John Cooper. White told him about a big building the city owned in the heart of downtown that had a creaky floor and tin ceiling. Cooper thanked him for calling. A year later, Cooper called back and asked if the building was still available.
White took him in the dark and cold empty space. Cooper�s cowboy boots clicked across the uneven floors as he said, �This is perfect.� Negotiations moved quickly. Mast bought the building for $500,000 in May 2002.
�It proved it was possible to have a destination store,� White said. �Now to the next level with Anthropologie and other good-quality stores.�
He�s looking for unique regional chains, the merchandise not found in a mall. White has said for years he wants a bookstore downtown. A major bookseller the city has courted likely won�t come so White has turned to another. Likely it will be a bookstore in addition to something else � books and wine, books and coffee.
Agnew doesn�t see a bookstore downtown. The book business is iffy on its own and there have been several iterations of bookstores on Main Street, including selling new and used merchandise.
She�d like to see some women�s shops that sell something for women older than 30 who do not wear a size 2.
White said urban planners always say women�s clothing and shoes are essentials for a vibrant shopping area.
One trend in other larger cities has been for big box retailers such as Wal-Mart and Target to locate a mini-store in downtown areas. Wal-Mart made a run at Greenville but in the end decided against building a store on Church Street between downtown and the adjacent Haynie-Sirrine neighborhood. Residents of other neighborhoods complained about traffic and the abandonment of the city�s overall plan for retail in that area.
White said the city discouraged Wal-Mart on that spot but he wouldn�t be surprised if another big box store looked at Greenville in areas other than Main Street.
�We still focus on one-of-a-kind retail,� he said.
No one�s saying who�s being courted right now, but a good guess would be Urban Outfitters. The Philadelphia woman�s clothier has one store in South Carolina, on Charleston�s King Street, and it owns Anthropologie. Many of the other stores located near Athropologie in other cities have stores in Greenville, such as Bath and Body Works, Talbots, Banana Republic.
White looks back on the furor over locating a bar named Jillian�s in the space now occupied by Mast General and says the city dodged the proverbial bullet. A developer had leased the building to Jillian�s in 1997 for an entertainment center that would include billiards and video games. The location was not zoned for such a business, but a majority of the council approved an exemption, then rescinded it.
In the end, the city ended up buying the building for almost twice what it was worth.
�If that was just a big bar, that�s what it would be,� he said. �It would chase off residential. There�d be no foothold of retail.�


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The electric power sector consists of facilities which generate electricity primarily for use by the public. Energy is used for the generation, distribution, and transmission of electric power.
Total electric power sector expenditures on energy decreased 3.1 percent to $471.5 million from 2011 to 2012. Petroleum expenditures decreased 38 percent, wood and waste expenditures decreased 19 percent, nuclear fuel expenditures decreased 14 percent, and coal expenditures decreased 3 percent. Natural gas expenditures increased 25 percent.
In 2012, the electric power sector spent $392.2 million for coal, $42.1 million for nuclear fuel, $30.2 million for natural gas, $5.7 million for petroleum, and $1.3 million for wood and waste. There were no direct fuel costs for hydroelectric, geothermal, wind, photovoltaic, or solar thermal energy.
Coal expenditures were over three–quarters (83.2 percent) of the money spent in the electric power sector on energy in 2012. Expenditures on nuclear fuel and natural gas were 8.9 percent and 6.4 percent, respectively, of the total. Petroleum expenditures were 1.2 percent while wood and waste expenditures were 0.3 percent of the total.
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iMessage - How to properly receive messages that were sent to your phone number?
I've got both my iPhone and my iPad configured with the same Apple ID, iMessage turned on (and also iCloud, but I don't think this should matter)
Anyway, if someone iMessages me to my email address, it would properly arrive on both my iPhone and iPad. However, if they message my cell number - it would only arrive at my iPhone (as an iMessage), but not on my iPad - what's the point?! (no one should know that he has to SMS my mail address for my devices to show the message as expected)
Are you familiar with this thing? Do you think it's by design? Is there some kind of fix?
It does seem like it might be possible to engineer the system so that an incoming message to a cell number is co-opted into an iMessage thread and essentially forwarded to your iMessage account.
So, when I receive a text or message to my cell, my iPhone forwards that message to my Apple ID, causing the conversation thread to appear on the non iPhone device.
I already have my "caller ID" set to one of my email addresses on both devices, so any replies I make come from an email anyway (I believe).
Not sure how technically possible this is, but the iMessage system would be a lot stronger if more of the threading was done behind the scenes. As it stands, conversations with people who don't initiate communication to an email address become fractured or at least restricted to appearing only on your iPhone.
I hope Apple can clean this up. Would be great. iMessage does seem like a fantastic start to the process of killing traditional text messages and their associated costs and making phone NUMBERS obsolete. It seems apple, like other companies are indeed interested in creating more personal IDs by which to communicate.
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When I select a contact to send a message to, my iPhone sends a request to Apple's servers saying "Hey, is this contact an iMessage user?" And then, based on the contact's phone number or email address, the server responds with a yes or a no. That's why, when you select a new contact for the first time, the "Send" button changes from green (SMS) to blue (iMessage) as you're typing the message.
Your iPhone decides before you send the message whether it's going to be delivered via SMS or iMessage. Apple doesn't have any ties into the SMS delivery system other than normal sending an receiving as every phone has supported for years.
That being said, yes: it makes sense that Apple, when they look up my phone number and determine that I use iMessage, should automatically reroute the iMessage to my email address instead of my phone number, so that I can receive it on both my devices. Why they don't I can't say.
What would be really impressive, as lirand suggested, is the ability for the iPhone to receie standard SMS messages and then forward them as iMessages to my other devices.
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Since they both should not collect your data, keeping you anonymous as in your EULA, that would be the theoretical reason.
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The iPad version's "Receive at" contains your Apple ID email by default and allows you to add additional email address if you'd like to give out a different one for friends to message you. On the iPhone this defaults to the phone's number as well as the Apple ID email address, and the number can't be edited.
The reasoning seems to be that your iPad has no knowledge that you also have an iPhone.
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May someone try this please? I only own an iPhone and a Mac, but it would be very useful to know!!
I WOULD LOVE to be able to receive texts sent to my iPhone via my phone # from my iPad, but I think there's a technical limitation because WiFi iPad's cannot connect to cellular networks. If all iPads had cellular connections built it, I feel as if it would be as easy as setting your phone number as another way to receive messages on your iPad.
Alas, I don't think this feature will ever happen though.
- User opens up iMessage and messages a contact with phone number 555-5551
- Once sent, message is routed through Apple's servers.
- If phone number can receive iMessages, it's sent through Apple's server as that.
- Alternatively, if the phone number is not registered with iMessage (e.g., you message your friend on an Android device), Apple's server reroutes the message through normal text message channels. (With the standard caveat that standard messaging rates apply).
I noticed this issue too though and chalk it up to a bug in iMessage (or on Apple's backend) at the moment. This was one of the things they highlighted when they announced iOS 5 back in June.
But yes, if your friend on an Android tablet sends you a message, then it will work like how normal SMS messages work (e.g., only goes to a specific phone that has that phone number.)
So, I really do chalk this up to being a bug. Might be worth it for me to drop a line to some folks at Apple support though and seek further clarification!
(how do you do that BTW?)
If someone messages your phone number and your iPhone receives it, it should just use data services to forward it to all other relevant email addresses that are configured on the device.
This way, Apple doesn't even need to "know" your phone number (as supersic said it is forbidden to).
I am puzzled by the current behavior.
Hopefully Apple will look in to this and maybe come up with a solution.
It doesn't work this way for me, or for any other person I know of...
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Best wins of the Bob Stoops era: No. 4, OU 65, Texas Tech 21 (2008)
When: Nov. 22, 2008
Where: Gaylord Family-Oklahoma Memorial Stadium, Norman
Oklahoman headline: TECH THAT!
Why it's on the list: This song will forever be a reminder of this night, when OU destroyed No. 2 Texas Tech and their national championship hopes — and Graham Harrell's Heisman hopes — and vaulted itself back into the title hunt. OU scored early and often, and the crowd, which Bob Stoops had challenged earlier in the week, well, jumped around. Loudly. The Sooners, who lost to Texas earlier in the season, were all of the sudden back in the discussion for not only the Big 12 title game, but the national championship game. By the end of the regular season, OU, Texas and Texas Tech were tied atop the Big 12 South standings but the Sooners, with this game a huge help, were ranked highest in the BCS standings and played in the Big 12 championship game. Sooners QB Sam Bradford won the Heisman Trophy, but OU went on to lose to Florida in the national title game.
Here is Berry Tramel's column from the game:
Fans jump for joy on special Saturday night
NORMAN — The Sooners started jumping early. Jumping, jumping, jumping, like the sidelines were spring loaded. Jumping like kids turned loose in a mattress factory.
Truth is, they'd been jumping for days.
"Last week," said defensive tackle Gerald McCoy. "It started last week. We came to practice on fire. That's when all the energy started."
Then Bob Stoops lit the match with a do-better talk to fans, who boiled the old stadium with a rowdiness unseen since that Nebraska epic eight years ago. Owen Field sizzled all night long, and that made the Sooners jump even more, and the pandemonium on the Oklahoma bench spilled over to the playing field.
Before you knew it, the fifth-ranked Sooners had annihilated No. 2 Texas Tech 65- 21 in what was supposed to be the game of the year but instead became endorsement for team of the year and player of the year.
And all that jumping might take the Sooners up where they think they belong. Above Texas and Texas Tech in the Big 12 South triangle.
Today's BCS rankings will offer a clue on which squadron will be sent to Kansas City for the Big 12 title game in the case of a three-way tie.
"I think we sent a message to whoever was watching," McCoy said. "Computers, aliens, whoever. If they seen this game, they know we're for real."
Tech knows it, for sure. The Red Raiders, ranked No. 2 and sporting a 10-0 record, were butchered on both sides of the ball.
Heisman Trophy favorite Graham Harrell's flying circus crashed to Earth. A beleaguered OU defense, led by McCoy and other ferocious pass rushers and ball-hawking cover men, showed itself still capable of championship performance.
Tech had 14 possessions and scored three times, including a touchdown with 11 seconds left in the game.
OU's offense — led not just by quarterback Sam Bradford's Heisman-worthy performance but by fast and physical tailback DeMarco Murray — scored on five straight possessions in the second quarter, and suddenly this game took on the look of those vintage Stoops teams of several years ago.
The teams that routed Texas 63-14 in 2000 and 65-13 in 2003. The team that whipped Tech 60-15 in a 2002 Big 12 South title showdown. A score of 65- 21 fits in nicely with those routs and suggests that Oklahoma deserves mention in the discussion of America's best.
"I don't know what other style points you're looking for," Stoops said.
He took the time to politick a little, since if next weekend OU beat Oklahoma State, Texas beats Texas A&M and Tech beats Baylor, that messy three-way tie is reality.
"Obviously, now we're in the mix with everybody," Stoops said. "With the way we played, you would think we're ahead."
Who can argue, after the most impressive Oklahoma victory in at least five years and a special night at Owen Field, where the jacked-up Sooners and 80something thousand of their closest friends jumped for joy?


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Stephen Ives "Bleak" @ Backwoods GalleryJuxtapoz // Tuesday, March 17, 2015
For his third solo exhibition at Backwoods Gallery, Stephen Ives dives into a raw purgative interpretation of death and fate on the personal as well as grand human scale. Drawing inspiration from the iconic equestrian figures of classical Europe, their heroic portrayal of Great Men and the symbiotic relationship with their mounts carrying them unwittingly onward, Ives attempts to create moments of truth expressing the corruption and purity of the human situation as well as the diminutive nature of our endeavours.
LUSH "Original Illustrations" @ Backwoods Gallery, MelbourneJuxtapoz // Friday, December 20, 2013
Our good friend LUSH is bringing his hilarious series of Instagram illustrations to Backwoods Gallery for a proper gallery showing. Aka, you can go buy one now. The show opens tonight, December 20th, and this could be a good time for you to get a Christmas gift for your very graffiti friendly family member.
Backwoods Gallery Presents "Carrion": a new exhibition by RoaStreet Art // Sunday, November 25, 2012
If not yet, soon, Roa will have painted every animal known to exist in just about every city in the world. Well, that may be a stretch, but Roa appears to be everywhere, painting everything, all the time. Down in Australia, the artist will be showing new work at Backwoods Gallery opening November 30, 2012. We suggest you go. Do it.
KAMI and SASU "Omni" MIni-DocumentaryJuxtapoz // Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Japanese art duo, Kami & Sasu, collectively known as HITOTZUKI, were painting murals in Melbourne, Australia coinciding with an exhibition at Backwoods Gallery and had this nice video shot of their experience. Part of the original Barnstormers group that went to Cameron, North Carolina, Kami & Sasu presented Omni in November of 2010. Video after the jump . . .


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ASEM Student Makes Long Journey for Commencement
At UAB's fall commencement ceremony, 52-year-old Tim French completed a 7,000-mile journey that started with one click. French traveled from around the world to UAB, walking across the stage to receive his master's degree on his first visit to campus.
French is the safety director for the U.S. Army's Second Infantry Division, a 10,000-person unit stationed in South Korea. For the past 18 months, he spent early mornings and late nights pursuing his degree in UAB's totally online Advanced Safety and Engineering master's program in the School of Engineering. U.S. News & World Report, in its first survey of Best Online Programs for Veterans, ranks UAB's engineering master's programs fifth in the nation.
Engineering's Janowski honored for lifetime achievement in teaching
Gregg M. Janowski, Ph.D., a professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, has won the 2013 Ellen Gregg Ingalls/UAB National Alumni Society Award for Lifetime Achievement in Teaching.
Janowski, affectionately known as Dr. J, has educated and motivated students for 23 years, teaching classes from introductory freshman engineering to doctoral courses. He has directed graduate research and mentored or co-mentored 11 Ph.D. students. Six are faculty at a university, including two at UAB.
UAB's Dr. Haibin Ning receives ASTM International Professor of the Year Award
Haibin Ning, Ph.D., research assistant professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), has received the 2013 Professor of the Year Award from ASTM International. The ASTM Professor of the Year Award recognizes and rewards the contributions of educators in developing students' understanding of standards.
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