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Project CARS Will Support Sony's Project Morpheus
March 26, 2014 - Developer Slightly Mad Studios wants to show people what it feels like sitting in the cockpit of a high-performance automotive.
EA Teams Up With Top Drivers to Form 'Team Need for Speed' International Racing Collective
April 6, 2010 - From the hit videogame to the street, Need for Speed is the nerve center of gaming car culture. Electronic Arts Inc. today announced an entertainment program that brings together the top street, drift, GT racing, time attack cars and drivers. Dubbed 'Team Need for Speed', these individuals embody the spirit of the Need for Speed franchise - the adrenaline and rebelliousness of driving the world's coolest cars. Together, this collective of racing influencers will carry the Need for Speed brand into a variety of events, films, competitions and more.
Need for Speed Shift Expands the True Driver's Experience with Exotic Racing Series Pack
March 9, 2010 - Over 50 exciting new events have also been created specifically for these cars including time challenges, endurance and sprint races. The challenging and spectacular new Riviera track boasts four unique layouts, each with daring corners, multiple blazing straight-aways and a few hairpins that will push these cars to the limit.
Need For Speed Shift Revs Up With All-New Team Racing Mode and Legendary Cars
November 20, 2009 - REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced an all-new Team Racing pack for the critically-acclaimed Need for Speed SHIFT. The content pack takes online racing to the next level with an action-packed new race mode and five renowned racing cars - all for free (Need for Speed SHIFT and Xbox LIVE or PlayStation Network account required). The Team Racing pack is the first downloadable content for Need for Speed SHIFT and will be available worldwide on December 1st on the Xbox 360 video game and entertainment system. The pack will be released for the PlayStation 3 computer entertainment system on December 3rd in Europe and on December 10th in North America.
Game of the Month September 2009
September 30, 2009 - This month we saw some major franchises return to the scene including Need for Speed and Halo. Before you run to a local retailer and throw hundred dollar bills in their face until you can't hold any more game boxes check out our pics for the best titles of the past month.
Need for Speed Shift Demo Inbound
September 29, 2009 - A belated Need for Speed Shift demo is coming to consoles this week, giving PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 owners a chance to sample EA's bold new direction for the series.
Complete Need for Speed Missions on Twitter for a Chance to Win a New BMW M3
September 22, 2009 - REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced that it is giving away a brand new 2010 BMW M3 via Twitter. Need for Speed is posting five daily Twitter missions challenging followers to complete various challenges to win the BMW M3 as well as other great prizes including copies of Need for Speed SHIFT, an Xbox 360 and wireless racing wheel, concert tickets, and more.
Twitter Tuesday: Need for Speed Shift
September 21, 2009 - Today we have a special treat on Twitter Tuesday. EA has kindly donated five copies of the soon-to-be-released Need for Speed Shift along with five t-shirts. As fans of IGN's weekly Twitter contest know, sometime between 8am and 8 PM Pacific Time today, we'll ask a question on the IGNcom Twitter. The first five to answer this special Need for Speed question will win a copy of the game. The next five will win Shift t-shirts.
Need for Speed Shift AU Review
September 17, 2009 - It's easy to forget sometimes that there's more to racing that simply beating everyone else to the top the podium, dousing yourself in champagne from an oversized bottle of Dom Perignon . Racing is about lateral thinking. It's about aggression. Precision. It's also about mastering the corners and lines, learning the nuances of other racers and constantly refining your skills. In short, racing is a lot more cerebral than you might expect – and Need for Speed Shift is, without question, the most complete view of the rounded nature of racing available on a console today.
Need for Speed Shift Review
September 10, 2009 - EA's Need for Speed franchise has had its up and downs. Unfortunately, the past few years has been one of those "down" bits, with the last couple games doing nothing to advance the series in any way that you would call good. So, something had to be done, and EA decided to hand off the reins to Slightly Mad Studios, the folks behind the PC racing series GTR, to create Need for Speed Shift. So did the changing of the guard pay off?
Need for Speed Shift Races to Stores September 15 with Adrenaline-Pumping Global Soundtrack
September 10, 2009 - REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today announced the track list that will propel players to the finish line in Need for Speed™ SHIFT when it hits retail stores in North America on September 15 (in stores across Europe on September 17, 2009). The SHIFT soundtrack features some of today's most influential hip hop and rock artists including Kanye West, The Prodigy, Kasabian, and MSTRKRFT. Each song was hand selected to provide a pounding score that matches the intensity and bone-crushing power of this year's Need for Speed.
Need for Speed Shift UK Review
September 10, 2009 - Eau Rouge, Pouhon and Blanchimont; the holy trinity of corners that form the backbone of Belgium's Spa Francorchomps, long recognised as one of the greatest tracks in modern-day use, and have bloodied many a nose in the past. Eau Rouge is a fast uphill switchback, long since tamed by single-seater cars and their pounds of downforce but still a thrill in its own right. Pouhon's retained its challenge, teasing drivers in with a fast entry and then slapping them in the face with its unforgiving exit, and Blanchimont, while looking like nothing but a kink from afar, has a concrete barrier waiting at its conclusion for anyone who underestimates it.
Need for Speed: Shift: Bringing Laguna Seca to Life
August 13, 2009 - EA is doing something a little different for this year's Need for Speed iteration. Rather than handling it in-house, slanting it towards the arcadey side of racing and tacking on an exaggerated story, it has handed over the reins to Slightly Mad Studios, the folks behind the GTR series on the PC, and have charged the developer with moving it fair bit more towards the realistic side of the genre. From what we've seen so far of Need for Speed Shift, the change is paying off very, very well.
IGN AU's Most Wanted Games of 2009
July 27, 2009 - Welcome to part one of IGN AU's Top 25 Most Wanted Games of 2009 feature. In it, we take a closer look at the hottest games due for release during the rest of this calendar year. But we didn't stop there – oh no. We've broken our most anticipated games down into a definitive list from 25 to 1, with thoughts from the three members of IGN Australia – Cam, Patch and Naz – discussing why each game made the list. Again, this list is strictly for games we're pretty certain will be released this year, so don't freak out if you don't see some of the games you're most looking forward to. We're talking about games like Max Payne 3, Dead Rising 2 and Mafia II. If we were sceptical about a game's chances of coming out this year we took it out of contention. Sorry Gran Turismo 5 - we know you're down for Q4 but we'll believe it when we see it.
Need for Speed Shift Updated Impressions
July 20, 2009 - EA has been constantly changing the focus and overall design of its Need for Speed series for years now, with some efforts obviously better than others. When the franchise had seemed to begin to lose its way in recent years, EA handed over the reins to Slightly Mad Studios, a studio formed by the core guys behind the great GTR racing series on the PC. The result is that what we've seen so far of Need for Speed Shift is the most realistic, engrossing and, most importantly, fun NFS title in quite some time.
IGN's PlayStation 3 Best of E3 2009
June 11, 2009 - As the conference unfolded at the Los Angeles Convention Center June 2-4, we kept a running tally of our favorite games on a big white board in our IGN E3 Command Center. When a new title blew us away, we wrote it down. When something surprised us, we wrote it down. When a behind-closed-doors demo made us want to get our wallets out and buy the game right then and there, we wrote it down.
E3 2009: Need for Speed Shift Update
June 3, 2009 - I've played Need for Speed Shift a couple times already, though in previous demos I was only able to drive a handful of cars on a couple different tracks. That was great and the core driving is the most important part of the game, obviously, but we didn't know anything about the career mode. Until this year's E3, that is.
BMW M3 GT2 Races onto the Front Cover of Need for Speed Shift from EA
May 29, 2009 - Cover car announced for new Need for Speed.
EA Spotlights Blockbuster Titles at E3
May 27, 2009 - REDWOOD CITY, Calif. – May 27, 2009 – Electronic Arts Inc. (NASDAQ: ERTS) today revealed the games it will present at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) at the Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC) June 2 - 4. The year's lineup features blockbuster franchises, new intellectual property as well as ten titles for the Wii.
The Big E3 List: 2009 Edition
May 1, 2009 - The 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo has ditched its lower-key approach from previous years and is supposed to put the "big" back into the "big show" once again. Scheduled to run from June 2-4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, E3 2009 showcases several of the year's hottest games from the industry's most powerful publishers and developers.


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Love Gov Video Series: Presentation at Draper University
Recorded: Tuesday, November 3, 2015
David J. Theroux, Founder and President of the Independent Institute, presents the idea and concept behind Love Gov: From First Date to Mandate, the award-winning, satirical video series that portrays the federal government as an overbearing boyfriend Scott Gov Govinsky who foists his good intentions on a hapless, idealistic college student, Alexis Smith.
To watch the web series, follow this link
Experts: David J. TherouxType: Other EventIssues: Banking and Finance, Bureaucracy and Government, Business, Civil Liberties/ Human Rights, Collectivism, Corporate Welfare, Culture/ Society, Economic Policy, Education, Energy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Free Market Economics, Freedom, Government Power, Government Secrecy, Government Waste/Pork, Health Care, Housing, Labor and Employment, Political Ideology and Philosophy, Privacy, Property Rights, Public Health/ Consumer Protection, Regulation and Deregulation, Taxes, Trade, Welfare
Robert Higgs on The Peter Schiff Radio Show on Economic Intervention
Recorded: Thursday, December 15, 2011
Fill-in host Tom Woods on the Peter Schiff Radio Show interviews Senior Fellow Robert Higgs. They discuss the history of government economic interventions during the Great Depression and World War II and how those lessons apply today. Check out some of Robert Higgs books mentioned on the program.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, History (U.S), Labor and Employment, Regulation and Deregulation, Taxes
Robert Higgs on the Consequences of Leviathan-sized Government
Recorded: Thursday, July 1, 2010
Senior Fellow Robert Higgs is interviewed here by Scott Horton on Antiwar.com Radio, warning those who long for total governmental and economic collapse to be careful what they wish for. Higgs also explains why federal spending cannot continue at the current record levels without a failure of the bond market. He further compares the military and economic over-extension of the Soviet Union prior to its collapse to the United States as a warning against rampant spending by the government.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic History and Development (International), Economic History and Development (U.S.), Fiscal Policy/Debt, Terrorism and National Crises
Robert Higgs Interviewed: Governments Intrusions Threaten Economy
Recorded: Thursday, June 3, 2010
Independent Institute Senior Fellow Robert Higgs is interviewed on Governments Intrusions Threaten Economy. Interviewed by Steve Stanek of the Heartland Institute, Dr. Higgs explains that the governments growing intrusions into the economybank bailouts, economic stimulus, interest rate manipulations and credit expansion by the Federal Reserve, increased business regulationscould eventually lead to soaring price inflation and interest rates and another, far worse economic downturn. The solution is to move deliberately to end such policies and the accumulation of federal bureaucratic programs, controls and taxes on Americans.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic Policy, Government Waste/Pork
Robert Higgs on Booms, Busts and Bad Predictions
Recorded: Wednesday, March 24, 2010
Robert Higgs is interviewed here by Scott Horton of Antiwar Radio. They discuss the economic baloney of mainstream economists, the failure of most to understand the potential for mass inflation given the money supply currently sitting around in bank reserves, the reality of the business cycle and the politicians and medias failure to grasp it, and why none of us should make sweeping predictions about how the future will unfold, even if we do understand economics, since human action and the flexibility of markets are impossible to quantify.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic Policy, Fiscal Policy/Debt, Politics
Mike Church Interviews Robert Higgs
Recorded: Thursday, March 18, 2010
Experts: Robert HiggsType: RadioIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic History and Development (U.S.), Economic Policy, Free Market Economics
Robert Higgs on Economic Prospects for 2010
Recorded: Friday, December 18, 2009
Originally aired on 12/18/09 on FoxNews.com Freedom Watch. Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, discusses economic landmarks of 2009, including the increasing demand for Federal Reserve transparency, and also looks forward at the possible outcomes of government economic intervention in 2010.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: TelevisionIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic Policy
Robert Higgs on Federal Reserve Transparency
Recorded: Tuesday, December 1, 2009
Originally aired on 12/1/09 on FoxNews.coms Freedom Watch. Robert Higgs, Senior Fellow at the Independent Institute, discusses increased scrutiny of the Federal Reserve and Chairman Ben Bernanke's nomination for reappointment with Judge Napolitano.
Experts: Robert HiggsType: TelevisionIssues: Banking and Finance, Economic Policy, Government Secrecy

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Elisabeth Hasselbeck revealed the name of her new baby boy on The View this morning. It's Taylor Thomas Hasselbeck! Born Friday morning in Arizona, the baby weighed in at 7lbs and 15 ounces.
Her husband, Tim Hasselbeck told ABC News, "Elisabeth and I are happy to announce the arrival of our son and we're thrilled he arrived safely. Both mom and son are happy and healthy."
Tim is the backup quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals. The couple moved there with their daughter Grace in late October. She is expected back on the show in January.
When Rosie O'Donnell was still on the show, I remember her being surprised that Elisabeth did not want to know the sex of the baby. When I was pregnant, I didn't want to know either. I figured that I would just push harder during labor.
If you're currently expecting or already are a mom, did/would you want to know your baby's sex?
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Self and Society in Everyday Life (10 credits, B CORE 104A/107A, VLPA & I&S)
Description: Everyday life in the modern world is complicated. Even though we may not realize it, many of the things that we do all the time and take for granted: the way we eat, work, get information, and organize our day to day lives have histories and geographies that connect us to other people and places in all sorts of intricate ways. This course will explore these connections and invite you to think hard about the inevitably social character of everyday life in the modern world. Ultimately, this class aims to show how interconnected we really are, and to closely consider what that might mean for our lives and our futures, both as individuals and as a society. You will be asked to unpack the social worlds that are already folded into their own everyday lives. You will also be introduced to key academic skills and socio-cultural concepts in the process of critically analyzing how social structures are produced in and through ordinary, everyday activities with which you are already intimately familiar.
Place and Displacement in the Americas: Human Rights, Culture and Ethnicity (10 credits, B CORE 104B/107B, VLPA & I&S and W)
Description: This course explores four main topics: human rights, social class & race, cultural productions, and physical & social environments. Our analysis will span South, Central, and North America and use a combination of film, fiction & poetry, social science, journalism, and testimony. Some of our questions will include: What are human rights, social justice and environmental justice? How does the violation of human rights lead to the relocation of peoples and recreation of their communities? How does the meaning of place vary among social, ethnic and economic groups, and how do problems like homelessness, pollution, displacement, and discrimination affect the way places are imagined and experienced? Case studies include: Urban homelessness, Native American reservation life, Central American refugees, and Mexican/Chicano communities, among others.
Los Angeles: Land of Dreams, Land of Nightmares (10 credits, BCORE 104C/107C, VLPA & I&S)
Tuesday/Thursday 8:45AM - 1:00PM
BCORE 104C and B CORE 107C
Instructors: Michael Goldberg & Amparo Padilla
Description: Los Angeles is thought to be the land of sunshine, opportunity, and eternal optimism. It is a place where celebrity was born and where Hollywood entertains by offering escapism for every taste. Historically, the elite families of Los Angeles heavily advertised a "White City" with the perfect climate for endless economic growth to white Midwesterners. They didn't mention the existing non-white communities, including Chicanos, African American, Chinese Americans, and Japanese Americans, nor did they mention that the region was semi-arid with limited water supplies. Meanwhile, Hollywood "moguls" consisting largely of immigrant Jews from the East Coast established movie studios that produced films intended to deny the racial, class and ethnic complexities in order to escape anti-semitism and gain acceptance. In the end, maintaining the myth cracked and now we know the city to include communities and individuals from across Latin America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe, including many undocumented people, representing every social class from the chronically poor to the extravagantly rich, with a range of sexual and gender identities.
In order to delve more deeply into the myths and realities of Los Angeles, we will be examining a range of sources, including Hollywood movies and independent films, short stories, advertising posters, maps, historical studies, and music ranging from pop to rap.
Thinking Beyond Borders: Philosophical Explorations of Science Fiction (10 credits, BCORE 104D/107D, VLPA &I&S and W)
Monday/Wednesday 1:15PM - 5:30PM
B CORE 104D and B CORE 107D
Instructors: David Nixon & Kristy Leissle
Description: This course explores philosophical and ethical questions of humanity through science fiction film and text. We are interested in the thresholds between emotions and logic, bodies and minds, and utopias and dystopias. We emphasize the social construction of gender, ability, and race, and explore how science fiction texts and films can reinforce or disrupt these essentialist, binary constructs—revealing our own social structures even as the genre helps us imagine more just ways of living. Students in this course author an original science fiction short story as the final project, building upon multiple writing assignments and workshops over the quarter.
Island and City: Discovering San Juan's and Seattle's History through Butterflies, Newspapers, Museums and Place (10 credits, BCORE 104E/110A, VLPA & NW)
Tuesday 8:45AM - 10:45AM and Friday 8:45AM - 1:00PM
Field trips TBA (primarily Fridays and Saturdays, including one overnight at San Juan Island from Friday, Oct.23, to Saturday, Oct. 24)
B CORE 104E and B CORE 110A
Instructors: Amy Lambert & Kristin Gustafson
Description: What happens when a butterfly species disappears for 90 years? Or a community's newspaper record can no longer be found? Students in this course look at absences and archives. We explore what gaps in the record mean and what is at stake when these occur. We look at the absences that are central to research produced by the two instructors. We visit to off-campus sites to explore how people across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences creatively describe gaps in archives. We meet once a week for a two-hour, on-campus class meeting. This orients us to UWB and first-year learning experiences. We also engage on Fridays through extended off-campus activities and immersion in discovery. We will explore public art, dig into library microfilm, interview people, count invertebrates, and discover together. We spend the fourth Friday and Saturday of October on a two-day visit to Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, where we will conduct field research on butterflies and interview producers of a community newspaper. This experiential learning enables us to see what is present in the record, as we simultaneously explore what is not present; it provides space for students to reflect on this dynamic. Island and City Histories is a portfolio-based class that features students' creative communication to describe gaps in the record.
There is a cost of $80 associated with the San Juan field trip. Scholarships will be available to students needing to offset their costs.
Gender Under Construction: Intersections, Roadblocks, Detours (10 credits, B CORE 107J/B WRIT 134O, I&S and C)
Monday/Wednesday 11:00 AM - 3:15PM
B CORE 107J and BWRIT 134O
Instructors: Karen Rosenberg & Lauren Lichty
Description: In this course we will consider gender as a social construct and lens through which we all experience our lives. Through active inquiry and careful study we will develop a set of theoretical tools to examine how gender operates in our own lives and the spaces we inhabit. We will consider gender at the intersection of other categories of difference, including race, class, sexuality, and nationality. We will use our theoretical tools to inform fieldwork and media analysis that we will conduct both in and outside of class. Working collaboratively, we will pay particular attention to uncovering assumptions about gender roles and norms that we may have accepted as "natural."
Metro Rhetorics: Representations of Cities and Suburbs (10 credits, B CORE 107G/B WRIT 134M, I&S and C*)
*This course can also be taken as a 5-credit option without the composition (B WRIT 134M) See 5-credit Discovery Core Options for more information.
Monday/Wednesday 8:45AM - 1:00PM
B CORE 107G and B WRIT 134M
Instructors: Ian Porter & Kristine Kellejian
Description: When you decided to attend university at UW Bothell, you chose a university campus situated among a sprawling metropolitan area, that is, a large geographic area composed of cities and suburbs. Metropolitan areas are made of more than buildings, streets, neighborhoods, and highways; they also emerge from the ways people imagine, remember, and depict their spaces, places, people, and boundaries. In this class, you will help to situate yourself in the context of this metropolis by using the artful practice of rhetoric. We will examine representations of the metropolis by looking at how humans construct urban and suburban spaces and places in acts of speaking, writing, making, and doing. This is useful in a practical way, because transitioning to college (often requiring you to travel long distances and live away from your family for the first time) can be disorienting and leave you feeling out of place. This class will help you re-orient yourself to this new space and place. But, it is also useful intellectually to begin thinking critically about how metropolitan spaces and places are made from language, culture, identity, memory, and history as much as from industrial materials like concrete and lumber. By analyzing historical and cultural texts, conducting fieldwork in the Seattle metropolitan area, and composing multimedia projects, you will situate your own first-year student experiences in the broader Seattle metropolitan environment.
Race and Racism in Higher Education (10 credits, B CORE 107I/B WRIT 134N, I&S and C)
*This course can also be taken as a 5-credit option without the composition (B WRIT 134N). See 5-credit Discovery Core Options for more information.
Tuesday/Thursday 8:45AM - 1:00PM
B CORE 107I and B WRIT 134N
Instructors: Wayne Au & Mira Shimabukuro
Description: Issues of access to, and successful retention within, higher education are particularly salient for students of color, many of whom have been historically and culturally marginalized within systems of education in the United States. In addition to the expectations typical of a DCI course with regards to college resources, this course will look at the interplay of race (a biological fallacy) and racism (a socio-political fact) in the experiences of college-going students. In particular this course will explore issues such as college-entrance tests, affirmative action, stereotype threat, model minorities, and the relationship between language and student identity.
Taking It Global: Skill Development for Business, Communications, and Humanities (5 credits, B CORE 104F, VLPA and W)
Tuesday/Thursday 8:45AM - 11:00 AM
Instructor: Tasha Butler
Description: This course develops skills employers currently look for: problem-solving and time management with proven experience in collaborating across diverse cultures and in virtual teams. We introduce students to academic expectations, to the Student Success Center, library tools, WACC, and QSC. The course prepares students to do well in their writing classes since assignments are scaffolded to build writing and digital media skills. We will be collaborating with peers in India and Brazil via Skype and Facebook on small group projects that teach research and collaboration. Students will practice finding alternative solutions when awkward cultural moments or technical difficulties arise, nurturing mental flexibility and effective problem-solving.
Words, Voice, Movement: Reimagining Performance (5 credits, B CORE 104G, VLPA and W)
Tuesday/Thursday 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Instructor: Deborah Jacoby
Description: In this course we will work individually and collectively to create original performances in a supportive and interactive classroom community. This introduction to performance and writing will allow you to develop your artistic voice, and use movement to convey ideas. Through active participation in in-class writing and movement exercises, you will develop skills for devising performance projects and creating original compositions. This work will give you significant practice expressing yourself in writing and speaking in front of others--skills that are relevant in other classes and workplace contexts. My hope is that you will leave this course with a greater capacity for self-expression and connection to others.
Seeing is Believing (5 credits, B CORE 104H, VLPA)
Monday/Wednesday 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Instructor: Howard Hsu
Description: Seeing is Believing, introduces students to both the science of light and the photographic recording of light for personal expression. During the course, students will be introduced to the following topics and concepts: photography as a means of communication and an art form, the physical properties of light and its effect in the natural world, philosophical and early theories on light, and historical and contemporary photographers. The course will include in-class labs, demonstrations of physical properties of light and photographic principles, a research paper exploring a scientific phenomenon of light, and culminate with a personal photographic essay/series for the final project.
Arts in Healthcare (5 credits, B CORE 104I, VLPA)
Tuesday/Thursday 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Instructor: Andrea Kovalesky
Description: In this course we survey the use of various art modalities such as expressive writing, 2- and 3D visual arts, music, dance, landscaping, and interior design currently being used in a wide range of healthcare settings (hospitals, skilled nursing facilities for elders, incarcerated youth settings, community centers). We use the book, Perceiving the arts: An introduction to the humanities (Sporre, 2011, 10th ed.), as well as reading selected scholarly and popular articles for which reading guidelines are provided, and perusing related websites. Students also complete a weekly entry in a semi-structured journal entitled "Chill and Spill".
The Art of Myth: Sacred Stories Brought to Life (5 credits, B CORE 104J, VLPA and W)
Tuesday/Thursday 3:30PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Gavin Doyle
Description: An exploration of folk tales, myths, & sacred stories selected from a diverse range of cultures, this class asks students to study differences, commonalities, and meaning. Further, students are asked to re-imagine stories and communicate their interpretations to an audience of peers through creative writing, spoken word, and stage movement. Students will write directed journals (reflecting on truths and stories important to themselves as individuals & as members of larger groups). Readings, assigned essays, & class discussions will pair with exercises. Student artifacts from the course will be transformed into final group performances and/or readings where students will re-create their own personal stories in the form of mythic tales.
Undocumented, Unafraid, Unapologetic: Youth Resistance and Social Change (5 credits, B CORE 107E, I&S)
Tuesday/Thursday 1:15pm - 3:15 PM
Instructor: Loren Redwood
Description: This course examines youth activism though a study of the growing movement of undocumented youths and a particular focus on immigration reform regarding access to education; specifically through the fight for government support of the Defense, Relief, and Education of Alien Minors Act, they are known as the DREAMers. These youth have taken a leading role in the debate over immigration reform building on a long history of immigrant resistance and social change. In this course students examine the emergence and growth of the movement and investigate the ways in which they were able to organize and collaborate with others. This course is also designed to connect students to the campus community through involvement in on-campus social action.
Metro Rhetorics: Representations of Cities and Suburbs (5 credits, B CORE 107F, I&S*)
*This class can also be taken as a 10-credit class with Composition. Refer to 10-credit Discovery Core options for more information.
Monday/Wednesday 8:45AM - 10:45AM
Instructors: Ian Porter & Kristine Kellejian
Description: When you decided to attend university at UW Bothell, you chose a university campus situated among a sprawling metropolitan area, that is, a large geographic area composed of cities and suburbs. Metropolitan areas are made of more than buildings, streets, neighborhoods, and highways; they also emerge from the ways people imagine, remember, and depict their spaces, places, people, and boundaries. In this class, you will help to situate yourself in the context of this metropolis by using the artful practice of rhetoric. We will examine representations of the metropolis by looking at how humans construct urban and suburban spaces and places in acts of speaking, writing, making, and doing. This is useful in a practical way, because transitioning to college (often requiring you to travel long distance and live away from your family for the first time) can be disorienting and leave you feeling out of place. This class will help you re-orient yourself to this new space and place. But, it is also useful intellectually to begin thinking critically about how metropolitan spaces and places are made from language, culture, identity, memory, and history as much as from industrial materials like concrete and lumber. By analyzing historical and cultural texts, conducting fieldwork in the Seattle metropolitan area, and composing multimedia projects, you will situate your own first-year student experiences in the broader Seattle metropolitan environment.
Race and Racism in Higher Education (5 credits, B CORE 107H, I&S*)
Tuesday/Thursday 11:00AM - 1:00PM
Instructors: Wayne Au & Mira Shimabukuro
Farm 2 Fork (Fa2Fo): Local to Global Perspectives (5 credits, B CORE 110B, NW and W)
Friday 11:00AM - 3:15PM
Instructors: Maureen "Mo" West & Annie Bruck
Description: Our day-to-day decisions surrounding food have important personal and local to global community consequences. Misinformation and conflicting messages about the quality, safety and health benefits of our food supply are common, making it difficult to know what to eat, as well as where to buy and how best to prepare various foods. In this course we will integrate topics that include understanding select historical and cultural paradigms of food cultivation and consumption; identifying major nutrition problems and guidelines; generating sustainable solutions from individual, local, and global perspectives; and participating in a community food service project.
Dice, Cards, and Pieces: The Hidden History of Science of Games (5 credits, B CORE 110C, NW)
Tuesday/Thursday 3:30PM - 5:30PM
Instructor: Brandon Finley
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Oct 24, 2013 - Oct 27, 2013 at Community Center Theater
The Firebird with Rite of Spring and George Balanchine's Rubies
Community Center Theater • October 24, 25, 26 – 7:30pm; October 27 – 2:00pm
Three great masterworks share a program inspired by the creative brilliance of Russian tradition. The mythic tale of the mysterious Firebird springs to life as she comes to the aid of Prince Ivan in his quest to free a captive princess and establish a Royal Empire. Celebrating the Rite of Spring's explosive 100th anniversary, Ron Cunningham's retelling of this primitive ritual is a riveting, theatrical experience not to be missed. A red hot jazz inspired score provides the perfect backdrop for Balanchine's witty and sophisticated Rubies.
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Justin Reiter called it quits in 2010, walking away from a professional snowboarding career at age 30. He worked in golf and resort marketing. But he wasn't happy. Not as happy as when he was carving between gates. So he kept up the semi-professional athlete training, riding the Leadville 100 on a single speed and skiing the grueling Grand Traverse.
"After a year," he said, "I had my coach and my main sponsor visit me within a three-week period. After some long talks and bike rides, we figured I had some unfinished business that needed tending to. With their support, I returned with one goal: to find my love for snowboarding."
He spent a summer living in the back of his truck, training every day in Park City, Utah, driven to make the U.S. Snowboarding team's first Olympic parallel giant slalom snowboarding squad.
With the U.S. strong in the new snowboard slopestyle discipline and fielding four men and four women, slots were tight. Reiter found out last month he made it. The sport pits two riders racing head to head in two-contest rounds. The loser of the first race starts the second race behind the winner, with the gate dropping based on the time difference.
Reiter loves the format.
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Short post- just a video really. Everyone's been giving me grief about "What do you look like now that you finished your cleanse?" and "You're supposed to take before pics when you start P90x!" — I don't even have a scale, and I don't really care right now. I'm just committed to doing the exercises, and eating healthy… and running on occasion too, 'cause I have that 185 mile relay race later in July. So… here's the video (since I don't have anyone around to take my pic for me):
Again, as I say in the video… there's many more reasons to do a cleanse than just to lose weight. Look into it. If I can help, feel free to ask any questions you have.
I'm excited that I'm beginning P90x from the thinnest I've been… should be interesting to see the restults I achieve by September 17- when I've completed the program. Wish me luck!


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The upgraded system is already in place at the facility's campus at the recently-opened Letterman Digital Arts Center in San Francisco. The install includes 40 of the four million-pixel Vicon MX40 motion capture cameras.
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The father of six-year-old Aarone Thompson reported the girl missing last November, but police soon said they believed the child was dead.
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Two weeks back I hit up the opening night of the HollyShorts Film Festival, a relative newcomer to the Hollywood Film Circuit. This festival, as you probably guessed, focuses on Short Films and started up at the lovely Grauman's Egyptian Theater in Hollywood. Short films are often overlooked by many movie goers, but there are several notables that opened and are worth a watch, so I figured I'd give you the heads up on these little guys.
Verboten (14min)
This short by Martin Keegan is a thriller that follows a woman who starts getting the creeps from her boyfriend's silent son. Far from having the perfect life, Todd takes a strong interest in his abusive father's girlfriend.
Unfortunately during this film, some genius got the idea it was a comedy and literally laughed out loud every time the "bad guy" was on the screen in response to his appearance and threatening looks. This was assuredly not intended to be a comedy. Props for it being the only film to feature nudity (yay!) though the story isn't all that enthralling and it falls a bit flat on the tension. The twist at the end, intentionally or not, homages Psycho but brought laughs rather than scares.
Watch It, Find It, Skip It: Skip It.
Red Princess Blues Animated: The Book of Violence (7min)
In this prequel to Alex Ferrari's upcoming feature film, we're introduced a 12 year old girl who quickly discovers that she's far more skilled in the killing arts than one would expect. Her abilities nurtured by a mysterious man known as "Nino," she stumbles upon a world of assassins and violence.
This animated film was pretty cool. The animation was very static though without a lot of movement going on; whether this was a budgetary reason or a stylistic reason, I didn't especially love it. The actual artwork was nice and the story was interesting enough. Because there isn't much going on, don't feel the urge to track it down, but if pops up in your face…
Watch It, Find It, Skip It: Watch It.
Nosebleed (9min)
Featuring David Arquette as a man attempting to stop a nosebleed, this strange film follows a distraught and lonely widower employing a variety of ill advised attempts to bring his bleeding to an end.
From photographer Jeff Vespa, this short is weird. Arquette attempts to stop the nosebleed with a bullet, bounces around a bed, steps in a muddy field indoors, and otherwise moves around the stark black and white set while dripping blood from his nostrils. I can't say I totally understood what was being said, though Vespa said the film was exactly what he intended. Well shot with good black-white balance, this short is not for everyone and stretches a minute or two long.
Watch It, Find It, Skip It: Watch It (barely).
Hole in the Paper Sky (33min)
Howard Ferp is a genius and a master chess player, though neither of these help him interact socially with those around him. After taking a new work-study position, his normally distant heart is slowly warmed by an exceedingly smart and talented laboratory dog. Alongside his new supervisor Karen, Howard explores his own humanity via his canine friend.
This is the longest of the films and a real tear jerker. I'm not known for being emotional or caring, but this film tugs on the heart strings and definitely moistened a few eyes. While I'm not entirely certain the ending was right or made the most amount of sense, the film is well shot and acted. Jessica Biel co-stars as Karen, a kind of dorky, sniffling lab assistant – clearly playing against type. Biel also produced the short which hits mostly right notes – with the evident exception of a CGI shot at the end that is very poorly done. All in all, an emotional ride which was perhaps the most professional of the shorts, with a finely crafted narrative.
Watch It, Find It, Skip It: Watch It.
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An escaped inmate quests to find his wife's grave to give her a proper burial, bringing his quiet and reflective daughter along for the ride. As expected, things of this nature rarely go as smoothly as possible in regards to father-daughter relations and escaped inmate-police relations.
Written and directed by No Country for Old Men star Josh Brolin, this flick keeps the same sensibilities as Brolin's most well known work. The color palette is bleak, the shots somewhat washed out, and the characters troubled. Brolin proves himself to be capable of picking the right camera angles and working on a very low budget, while writing the spartan and serious characters you'd expect. He directs his daughter Eden Brolin in the co-staring role, who proves herself a capable actress. With Brolin's bright future shining clearly, it may be worth your time to track this one down.
Watch It, Find It, Skip It: Find It.
The Outlaw Emmett Deemus (8min)
Aging Emmett Deemus wants to be an outlaw. With the aide of a 1957 BMW motorcycle and a sidecar, he sets out to live that dream by fighting the man, protecting the innocent, and battling the ruffians of the road. This comedy finds our "Don Quixote on a motorcycle" matching wits with a pigheaded Sheriff, protecting a fair maiden, and engaging in fisticuffs with some bad dudes.
Directed by Stephan Fleet and written by the hilarious and recognizable Larry Hankin, this was by far my favorite short of the night. The comedy works perfectly and the look of the video is good, despite an alarmingly low budget. The character of Emmett Deemus is both charming and utterly hilarious. Yeah, that's right, I used "hilarious" twice to describe this. This is totally one worth hunting down and I would be first in line for an Emmett Deemus feature. I need more! Hunt this down and watch it!
Watch It, Find It, Skip It: Find It.
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Phil and Lem are taking the elevator when a Veridian lawyer, Nadine Webson, comes in and starts making out with Phil. Once they're done, she leaves at the next floor and Lem explains that the only time they can get together due to their busy schedules is when they're at work, and she has an office and a door that locks.
Linda tells Ted that she's just about finished with her first children's book and has sold it to a publishing company. Ted comments that the main character, a lemur, looks just like Phil. Linda doesn't believe it, until Phil comes by and she realizes it looks just like him.
Ted picks up Rose from after-care and at home they talk over dinner about what happened. He thinks most of it is boring until she talks about how one of the kid's fathers works in HR and knows that a father with a last name like a pancake is being fired. The next day, Ted tells Veronica and she realizes who Rose is talking about. She points out that if her employees get fired and the extraction team physically removes them, then she looks weak. She wants to use Rose's inside information to help out her employee and Ted reluctantly agrees to let her talk to Rose... once.
In the lab, Lem runs the numbers on his check and discovers that Veridian is withholding extra money. Linda comes in and shows them the picture of her lemur, and wants Phil to sign a release form. Phil realizes that it's him and is flattered. However, he and Lem warn that anything created within the company belongs to the company. Linda admits that she had to work on her storybook at the office because she's working late hours, and wonders what she should do.
Veronica and Ted talk to Rose, who says that one employee, Paul Spielman, is going to be fired. Veronica has no idea who he is, but Ted explains that Spielman is working on a stealth-mission program for the government. She vows to save him.
As Linda tries to sneak out with her work, Veronica notices but tells Linda she's too busy to deal with it. She's also busy dealing with Lem, and has to explain that the company is billing Nadine's hours to him because he's spending time with her at work. Lem is offended that Veridian is putting a price of $300 on his new relationship. He complains to Nadine, who finds the entire thing a turn-on and they end up back on the couch. Lem tries to keep an eye on the time.
At the stealth missile presentation, Ted and Veronica make sure to give Spielman all the credit he deserves. Veronica's boss, Chet, quickly cancels the extraction team's removal of Spielman from the building. Afterward, Ted is happy they saved the employee but insists that they don't use Veronica as a spy again.
Phil goes to see Linda at her home, and she admits she's having trouble finishing her story. He offers to help and Linda explains that her lemur wants to leave her tree and have adventures in the outside world, and her friends rally around him. She doesn't know how to end it, and Phil suggests that the lemur doesn't have to leave because he has the support of his friends. Linda goes with that, and vows to get out of Veridian now that she has a paying job as an author.
That night, Veronica drops in at Ted's house with pizza for Rose. Ted isn't happy that she's come by, but Veronica soon realizes that Rose already told her father about the next person who will be fired, Jeffrey Bouchard. According to his child, he's going to Seattle. Veronica and Ted realize that their competitor is in Seattle and figure Bouchard is going to take the stealth missile plans with him.
The next day, Ted and Veronica watch as Bouchard makes a run for it with the extraction team hot on his trail.
Lem goes to Nadine's office for another tryst and quickly tries to get his clothes off to cut down on his expense. When Nadine comes out in a complicated piece of lingerie, he asks her to bill her hours to someone else. She refuses to commit fraud and Lem breaks it off with her.
At the office, Linda tells Phil that the corporation bought her story and it's already up on the Internet. They check it out and discover that it's being used to sell beer to children in Japan. Meanwhile, Ted drops Rose off at after-care, and she tells him she plans to do some more spying.
Linda tries to get Veronica to have Veridian claim that her book is theirs, because the publisher's corporation is using it to sell beer. Veronica has already gotten Phil to tell her what Linda was up to. She warns that the book will be tied in up litigation between the two companies and Linda won't be able to quit her job. Linda admits she doesn't have a choice and Veronica points out the irony of Linda asking the all-powerful corporation for help.
Linda ends up reading her Veridian-owned story to the kids in after-care. When Rose picks up Ted, she tells him that she misunderstood and Bouchard is going to "see cattle," not to Seattle. Ted runs off to make sure Bouchard get his job back. Veronica apologizes, sort of, by saying it's Ted's fault and Ted offers to make up for it anyway he can. Bouchard takes the taser and asks for a few minutes alone with him.
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So just like half the threads on here...I am having issues with corrupted game saves. My game crashed during the load screen immediately after saving Ben in the clocktower in episode 4, and the next time I tried to start my game, I got 'WalkingDead101.exe has stopped responding', tried again and I got in but my game resolution was reset and none of my saves were recognized. I see about 45 save files in my Documents folder, but they're of no use to me. Tried copying files and changing timestamps, reverting to restore points, messing with prefs.prop - nothing I have tried has had any sort of success.
I have invested 17 hours so far in my game and have no interest either playing through again or generating random decisions. At this point it's either a) this somehow gets fixed, I continue on my merry way enjoying the game and I continue to be a loyal customer, or b) I forget about the time I wasted and hold on to my money in the future.
I'm asking you, devs of Telltale, to either give us an ETA on a fix for this, or give us some kind of basic tool to generate a save file with the decisions we want. I feel like I'm not asking for anything more here than basic customer support for a product that is clearly not fully functional. I want what I paid for, nothing more, and I can say with certainty that based on the customer support I've seen so far (with all issues regarding this game) that I will not be purchasing any more Telltale games if nothing is done about this.


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Thanks to Kikkan Randall, we have this question to ponder: Can something be called historic if it has become routine?
In Randall's case, the answer is yes.
The 29-year-old Anchorage skier teamed up Friday with Jessie Diggins of Afton, Minn., to win a World Cup team sprint race in Quebec City, Quebec.
The result was historic because the United States has never before won a team sprint, an event that's been on the World Cup scene for about 10 years.
But in another way the result was routine, because Randall had made it her routine to rewrite the U.S. history book for cross-country skiing.
In front of a North American crowd that included friends and family, Randall and Diggins alternated laps around a 1.6-kilometer sprint course built on Quebec City streets. Diggins, 21, survived a wild ride on her third and final lap, nearly crashing while coming from behind to take the lead before tagging off to Randall, who held off Germany and Norway for the victory.
The medal is Randall's fourth since the World Cup tour began three weeks ago. The others came in Europe, where most of the World Cup races are held. Skiers will head to Canmore, Alberta, for races next weekend before returning to Europe for the remainder of the season.
"It's a great reward to be able to win in front of friends and family," Randall said in a U.S. Ski Team press release. "We wanted to go out and do our job and put on a good show, and the atmosphere here was fantastic today. It's so cool for us to see the American flag and hear our names called out. I'm glad we put in a good performance."
Randall and Diggins won in 21 minutes, 49.5 seconds, with Germany second in 21:50.4 and Norway third in 21:50.6. Holly Brooks of Anchorage combined with Ida Sargent to place ninth in the 10-team finals in 22:25.5.
"It was overwhelmingly awesome to be here and win with a crowd so close to home and to be sprinting with the girl who has been my mentor and who I've looked up to my entire life," Diggins said in a statement release by the U.S. Ski Team. "I'm happy I stayed on my feet."
The win marked the second time this year that Randall and Diggins have reached the World Cup podium in a team sprint -- they placed second last season in a Jan. 15 race in Milan, Italy, a result that at the time was the best in U.S. history for the event.
Randall has made it her routine to make history like that. A three-time Olympian who skis with Brooks at the Alaska Pacific University Nordic Ski Center, Randall in previous seasons became the first American woman (and first American, period, since Bill Koch more than 30 years ago) to win medals of various colors -- gold, silver, bronze -- at World Cup races.
(It should be noted that former APU skier Alison Owen-Spencer, a pioneer of U.S. women's skiing, won a 5-K in 1978 that is sometimes considered the world's inaugural World Cup race, although the International Ski Federation calls the race a test event.)
Last season, Randall became the first American woman to win an overall World Cup title, claiming the crystal globe for sprint racing.
Three weeks ago in Sweden, she became the first American woman to win a medal in a distance race, claiming third in a 10-K freestyle. The next day, she was a member of the first U.S. women's relay team to win a medal, taking bronze along with Brooks, Diggins and Liz Stephen.
Randall added to her haul two weeks ago in Finland, placing second in the 5-K freestyle at the World Cup mini-tour in Kuusamo.
She is scheduled to race again Saturday in an individual sprint in Quebec City, where she will be one of the favorites.
"I'm excited that I felt strong today," she said. "With this course and with the conditions, anything can happen (Saturday), but I hope to put out a good performance like I did today."
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My A La Carte Hindu Wedding
Faced with the task of creating a traditional Hindu ceremony in a Western context, I chose two rituals most meaningful to me.
I never had visions of a dream wedding, like some women do. There was no fairytale dress in my mind's eye, and no candy confection fantasies of a wedding cake. Nor did I have a wedding planning book, outlining how the day was supposed to unfold. The few ideas I did have centered on the Hindu wedding rituals specific to my Pahari background. (The Paharis belong to the recently established Uttaranchal state in India, originating from the mountainous areas such as Almora, Ranikhet, and Nainital.)
And in the end, I was, in some sense, able to have my perfect wedding.
I'd met my husband at a club, and we dated for five years before we decided to tie the proverbial knot. Our discussions around marriage had focused more on where we would live (at my husband's request, I decided to give living with my in-laws a go), how we would raise our children (apparently I will end up being the stricter parent), and how we did not want a large, splashy Indian wedding, something that's become stereotypically common.
We didn't put too much importance on the day itself, realizing it's mainly a symbolic event and a festive occasion for family and friends. The actual marriage entails two people making a life together.
My absolute dream wedding would have taken place in India. I grew up there, and I couldn't even comprehend getting married in Toronto, where we live now. How would most of my family--who are in India--attend? Where would I go shopping? Where would I find a good mehendi artist?
The wedding ended up happening in Toronto for various logistical reasons. My husband and I insisted on a small, but meaningful ceremony.
Hindus from different parts of India have their own regional interpretations of a wedding ceremony, making them fairly distinct from each other. Usually, when Hindus from two different backgrounds marry, they incorporate all the regional variations. In our case, I took care of the wedding ceremony, while my husband planned the reception.
My husband's family is Punjabi, and aren't aware of all the religious rituals during the wedding. "We just follow what the pundit (priest) tells us," one of my husband's aunts told me. They focus more on the revelry –dancing, singing, applying turmeric paste on the groom as a beautification rite, and tying the ceremonial pagri (headgear).
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During the past year members of the Historic Cooksville Trust and Cooksville Community Center have helped find a new owner for the general store.
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Larry Reed, Cooksville historian, said he is pleased that a new owner has been found and feels the general store will be a popular stop for tourists.
"It's exciting. After a year, it's great that a proprietor has been found for the store," Reed said. "It will be a great boon for our little, historic village. I believe it's the oldest general store in Wisconsin. In the past, the general store is what drew people to Cooksville, and I'm sure it will do so again."
Ebbert and her husband remodeled the store during the summer, installing new front windows, removing old shelves, adding new coolers and installing a heating and cooling system.
"We did keep the 1940s deli case. That is a part of the store. There really wasn't much in here. It was kind of empty, so I guess we're starting our own little history with this store," Ebbert said. "We've had past proprietors drop off stuff that used to be in the store. We will eventually have a historic wall with some of those items."
The store opened Labor Day weekend and hosted a grand opening on Sept. 28 and Sept. 29. The store features whole-wheat flour, lentils, jams, jellies, soup mixes, homemade breads, hand-rolled butter, spices, salsa dips and homemade pies. Ebbert receives most of her products from local Amish farms.
"I just want to offer holistic foods, natural and organic. I hope it catches on," Ebbert said. "The hand-rolled butter is really good. The cashew crunch is really good… The homemade pies have a lard crust -- nothing comes from a can. We have sticky buns that you can take home and let rise in the oven."
"The community has been very supportive, and the outlying areas have been, as well," Ebbert said. "We didn't want to run it like a convenience store. We wanted to run it like a place where you could come get your baked goods, baking supplies and cooking supplies, as well as a treat here and there."
Ebbert also operates the Simple Life Country Store in Fort Atkinson, which also sells whole-food products.
"That store is probably six times the size of the general store, so it's much bigger. Space is a challenge for me here," Ebbert said. "(The Simple Life Country Store) is much bigger, but this one has a totally different look. It's quaint. We tried to take it back to the early 1900s, but that's darn near impossible. It could never look like the old stores in Chicago with the historical back bars with the wood casings. I don't think this one ever had it."
Ebbert said one of her customers at the Simple Life Country Store told her about the Cooksville General Store.
"He came in and said, 'Hey, I have a place for you,'" Ebbert said. "I came down and looked at it, and I thought the community was really nice, so here we are."
Ebbert said operating both businesses has kept her busy, but she doesn't mind the extra work.
"It's been a challenge, but it's been fun," Ebbert said. "I try to be at both stores as much as I possibly can. The customers always like to see the owner."
Ebbert said some community and family members have helped her operate the general store.
"My husband hasn't learned to operate the cash register yet, but he's good at carpentry, so I keep him around," she said with a laugh.
Ebbert said she has some customers who shop at both stores.
"We have bakers in Madison, so it's easier for them to come down here and get their 50-pound bags of flour and whatever else they need," Ebbert said. "If I don't have it, then they can get it at the other store. Items also can be brought down here if someone lets me know ahead of time."
Ebbert plans to add more items to the general store in the future and hopes to make it a tourist attraction again.
"We did have quite a few bicyclists that came through. Next spring, we'll have homemade ice cream cones," Ebbert said. "We'll grow as we go along and see what the community wants."
Reed said Ebbert has done a good job of operating the store.
"There's been rave revenues of Sue Ebbert owning the store," Reed said. "She's brought in a lot of organic and natural foods. It's amazing what she has done with the interior. It looks old-fashioned and quaint."
Reed said the second floor of the building always has been occupied by the Masonic Lodge, and the first floor always has served as a general store.
"It's been an old-fashioned store that carried a little bit of everything, including nails, food and farming equipment," Reed said.
According to Reed, the store has had many owners throughout its history.
"There was a proprietor who owned the store for about a decade," Reed said. "Then there were times when the store was owned by a new proprietor every few years. So in the past 160 years, there's been quite a few owners."
Besides the general store, there are several historic buildings in the Cooksville area.
"The village has about 30 historic buildings. Besides the general store, there's historic school buildings, churches and homes," Reed said. "Outside of Cooksville proper, there's about 10 historic sites. I would say there's at least 50 historic buildings and architecture sites near Cooksville."
Reed said Cooksville is an unincorporated community governed by the town of Porter.
"There's only about 65 of us in the tiny village, so I don't think we could afford to govern ourselves," Reed said. "We enjoy living in the community and giving tours of the buildings in our historic village. We're small, but we're very well organized."
The Cooksville General Store is open from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Sunday. For more information, call (262) 707-4503.


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Walsham le Willows Blue Boar
previously known as Boar
Real Ale
The Street, IP33 3AA
01359 258533
grid reference TM 000 711
opened 1817
bar / diner
opening hours:
- 12-2:30; 5-12 (Mon-Fri); 12-11:30 (Sat-Sun)
regular real ales
Adnams Bitter [H], Earl Soham, Guest beers [H] & [G]
listed building grade II
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Local licensing authority for Walsham le Willows is Mid Suffolk
CAMRA West Suffolk & Borders branch.
last updated 21/03/2016
A true free house with a fine selection of ales on handpump and gravity. A good supporter of local breweries. There is a May bank Holiday beer festival in a marquee in the garden. Regular live bands. Disabled toilet.
The building dates from the 15th century, with many subsequent alterations. The pub can apparently be traced back as far as 1360.
Beer served through handpulls
Beer served direct from the barrel by gravity
Lunchtime meals (not just snacks)
Evening meals
Restaurant or separate dining area
Traditional pub games available
Real coal or log fire
Dogs are welcome
Children are welcome
Pub is accessible to disabled customers
Bus stop nearby (see public transport tab for details)
Regular live music
Car park
Beer garden or other outside drinking area
(Most pub, location & historic details collated by Nigel, Tony or Keith - original sources are credited)
(1891 census information from Dudley Diaper)
(some old PO directory information courtesy of londonpublichouse.com)
(** historic newspaper information from Stuart Ansell)
(*** historic newspaper information from Bob Mitchell)
The blue boar was a heraldic sign for the Earl of Oxford a leading supporter of the Lancastrians who defeated and killed King Richard III at Bosworth in 1495 - Henry Tudor then became Henry VII - Richard's emblem was a white boar forcing some pub signs to be hastily repainted.


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Meeting Date: March 12, 2007
From: Ron Stock, City Manager
Subject: Set Dates for Commission Workshops
Staff Recommendation:
Staff recommends approval of April 2, 2007 and May 7, 2007 as future workshops.
R. W. Beck has reported they will complete their financial analysis by late March. Therefore, staff requests a workshop April 2nd for the purpose of receiving the Committee's report on bonding alternatives.
Staff advises the Capital Improvement Plan will be completed and ready for Commission review and action by the end of April. We recommend a workshop May 7th to review the Capital Improvement Plan and to discuss removing, replacing, modifying, or adding new projects to this list.
1. Approve April 2, 2007 and May 7, 2007 as workshop dates; or
2. Such alternative action as the Commission may deem appropriate
Fiscal Impact:
Department: ______________________
Prepared by: ______________________
Attachments: Yes____ No ______
Advertised: ____Not Required ______
Dates: __________________________
Attorney Review : Yes___ No ____
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WASHINGTON (August 21, 2012) -- The Office of University Communications is pleased to announce that Howard's 2010-2011 Annual Report and Winter 2012 Howard Magazine , "Quest for Global Solutions" received the 2012 APEX Awards for Publications Excellence. For the last three years, the Howard Magazine has received APEX Awards for Magazine and Journal Design and Layout. This is the first time that the annual report has received the award and the first time that the magazine has received the award for the entire issue. There were approximately 3,500 entries in the overall competition.
"In every edition of Howard Magazine, our main objective is to feature alumni, faculty, students and staff who perpetuate the legacy of excellence at Howard University," said Raven Padgett, editor of Howard Magazine and publications manager for the University. "In this particular edition, we featured outstanding faculty members who are seeking global solutions to society's pressing issues. Winning this award, while sharing their research with our internal and external audiences, is such an honor. And as we move forward, we hope that the magazine continues to reinforce the extraordinary research and scholarship that so many members of the Howard community are engaged in."
The APEX Awards for Publication Excellence is an annual competition for publishers, editors, writers and designers who create print, web, electronic and social media. The awards are sponsored by the editors of Writing That Works: The Business Communications Report.
The Winter 2012 Howard Magazine focused on the innovative and global research that faculty members are currently engaged in, including helping to develop secure wireless communication systems for U.S. railways and designing drugs to fight HIV/AIDS. The annual report's winning entry shares the University's progress over the past two years and highlights the efforts to enhance and advance Howard's legacy of excellence.
Founded in 1867, Howard University is a private, research university that is comprised of 13 schools and colleges. Students pursue studies in more than 120 areas leading to undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees. Since 1998, the University has produced two Rhodes Scholars, two Truman Scholars, a Marshall Scholar, 30 Fulbright Scholars and 11 Pickering Fellows. Howard also produces more on campus African-American Ph.D. recipients than any other university in the United States. For more information on Howard University, call 202-238-2330, or visit the University's Web site at www.howard.edu.


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If you're a VAR in the retail and restaurant space that passed up on video surveillance because it was too expensive and/or your customers were married to antiquated analog cameras, pay attention. There's a class of high-definition IP cameras that can provide higher resolution/better picture quality than analog cameras, can be deployed in a way that one camera replaces four to six (or even more) old cameras, and gives merchants access to powerful analytics not only to prevent loss but also to help with marketing. I'm talking about 360-degree hemispheric/fisheye cameras.
Not familiar? Put most basically, these cameras for the most part look like smoke detectors, with a single fisheye lens in the center. Mounted to the ceiling in the center of a room, one camera can view and record a 360-degree area. With the aid of software, the sphere of video can be digitally de-warped on the fly to look like individual feeds from multiple cameras. Hence, one camera does the work of many analog cameras.
According to a Vivotek white paper, one camera mounted to a 10-foot-high ceiling is capable of covering a 65 ft. by 65 ft. room. That's 4,200 square feet of coverage with a single camera. Imagine not just the cost savings of deploying cameras and cabling but also the lower administrative costs of a single camera. This class of camera is so unique and powerful, we wanted to compare the various models available in the market today while educating you on the capabilities.
For this review, we partnered with integrator American Integrated Security Group (AISG) to leverage the company's video surveillance experience. To determine which cameras to test, we gathered intel on all the vendors that manufacture 360-degree cameras, ran it against a panel of experienced security integrators, and confirmed the major players by working with ScanSource's physical security gurus.
One of the cameras we wanted to test came from Mobotix. To test its Q24 camera, we used Wavestore VMS as our software platform due to the software's ability to de-warp 360-degree camera video. Following are the results of our tests.
Edge Storage
Many IP video cameras have followed the lead of cell phone and digital photography cameras by adding memory card slots. Indeed, all of the cameras we reviewed have a memory card slot. Additionally, many IP video cameras also have mini computers on board with integrated DVR and video management capabilities. The Mobotix model tested has such capabilities. The combination of these technologies means video footage can be recorded directly to the onboard storage and accessed and viewed when connected to the camera by typing the camera's IP address into a Web browser. No need for external storage, DVR, or video management software (and the costs associated with each!). Another benefit of using the edge storage is that bandwidth requirements on the network become nonexistent because there's no video data traveling to a DVR or storage.
While this technology might sound great, edge storage will either be a non-factor for you and your customers or a huge selling point. A small retailer on a budget could buy the camera, slap in a memory card, and be up and running. While effective and cheap, this is considered a very bare bones security setup. If you have a retailer with higher needs, you'll quickly graduate to a system made up of the separate components with additional cost.
Additionally, I should mention an intermediate option when it comes to video storage. If storing video on a 64GB SD card won't cut it, and you don't want to go the full-blown separate DVR/VMS route, some of the cameras can be configured to record to network shares or network attached storage devices. The Mobotix camera is capable of such a configuration.
Generally speaking, IP cameras today can be powered using PoE (Power over Ethernet) or using good old fashioned DC/AC wiring. According to Andrew Wong, project engineer for AISG, using PoE cameras will reduce the cost and time for a project. "PoE will eliminate the need to hire an electrician to run conduit and create a power source for your devices," he explains. "Additionally, PoE devices can easily be installed and relocated with a single Ethernet wire pull." He adds that PoE deployments should include a UPS (uninterruptible power supply) connected to the PoE switch to ensure, in the event of an outage or surge, all devices are protected and kept running. The Mobotix Q24 supports PoE, but not traditional electrical wiring.
Setup And Configuration
To the experienced Andrew Wong, setup of the cameras was easy. When pressed, Wong explained that all of the cameras are comparable in terms of setup. "Configuration wise, they are all Web-based, so you just have to know the default IP address and type it into a Web browser," he explains. "The manufacturers' PDF documents will tell you the default IP address, username, and password to access the cameras for setup." He adds that some cameras require the installation of drivers and codecs as well. Finally, Wong says all the cameras are fairly easy to mount. "Some have brackets that you have to mount; then the camera mounts to the bracket," he says, "while others are mounted straight to the surface."
Operating Temperature
A very important aspect of video surveillance is performing site surveys. These allow you to identify the exact needs of your customer and avoid embarrassing mistakes. One mistake you could make is installing a camera in a location that's either too hot (remember, warm air rises) or too cold. The Mobotix camera can handle temperatures as low as -22 degrees. When it comes to heat, the best performer of all cameras tested is the Mobotix camera, capable of operating at 140 degrees.
ONVIF Compliance
Some of the cameras tested are ONVIF compliant. According to Wong, "ONVIF [Open Network Video Interface Forum] is an open industry forum promoting and developing global standards for interfaces of IP-based physical security products," he says. "Companies can design and test based on published standards, ensuring compatibility of devices and ultimately saving time and money. What used to take hours and sometimes two or three different software applications can now be accomplished with the simple push of a button, allowing the installer to auto-discover all of the cameras on the IP network." In short, ONVIF is a tremendous benefit to you and your customers.
This could be seen in the testing. The Wavestore VMS software AISG used has built-in ONVIF discovery, so the ONVIF cameras were able to be configured quickly. The Mobotix Q24 is not ONVIF compliant. At a recent national partner conference, Mobotix CEO Dr. Magnus Ekerot explained that the company created and uses its own MxPEG compression algorithm in place of using the common H.264. Despite not being ONVIF certified, the Mobotix camera was still able to be set up and configured quickly, so ONVIF non-compliance definitely shouldn't be considered a deal-breaker.
Bandwidth And Image Quality
There's a science to bandwidth allocation and utilization when it comes to video over a network. The details go beyond the scope of this article (and my expertise if I'm being honest). However, a basic truth is that you'd like to provide the highest quality video your customers need at the lowest bandwidth cost.
When it came to image quality, we ran tests under a controlled "normal" lighting situation and a low light situation. Sample frames from the Q24, in both normal lighting and low lighting, can be seen below.
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The next part of our test was evaluating how much bandwidth these cameras used to achieve the image quality we just discussed. In normal light situations, the Q24 needed just 300KB/second to achieve its results (the lowest tested came in at around 250KB/second). The other cameras tested fell around the 500KB/second mark.
The low light tests had similar results. The Mobotix Q24 in a very respectable 350KB/second.
As mentioned at the outset, you should strive to provide your customers with the highest quality video they need at the lowest bandwidth cost. Your customers might not need a 5MP camera or one that can perform well in low light. They might not have a network capable of handling certain bandwidth-hungry cameras. All of this is for you to determine on a customer-by-customer basis.
So which camera is the best? That depends on your needs and budget. We didn't talk prices a lot in this article, but those can be found in the accompanying chart. Consider the bandwidth requirements of your customers, the image quality needed, and all the other factors we covered in this article. No matter which camera you choose, 360-degree cameras are a powerful technology worth including on your line card.