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Local employees say they're being cleaned out
Man dies after being struck by SUV while crossing street in electric wheelchair
Target employees protest over Thanksgiving shifts
Jacksonville Sheriff's Office robbery unit investigating bank in Mandarin
Police use taser on man trying to keep neighbor's house fire from spreading to his own
Jacksonville City Council presses for decision between SMG, Global Spectrum on sports-entertainment contract
Remote Gullah-Geechee community fighting to keep culture
First Coast vets speak out on impact of contaminated water at Camp Lejeune
Appeal of decision to not expand runways at Craig Airport dismissed
Police: Man arrested on $1 million warrant after 'routine' traffic stop
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Some veterans on the First Coast are not wearing the scars of battle, but some bear the lingering effects of contaminated water they drank as young Marines training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.
The base had a problem with ground water contamination over a span of three decades starting in the 1950s.
In 1977, six teenagers from Terry Parker High School joined the Marines looking for adventure, but time has taken a toll as three are now dead who trained at Camp Lejeune, two having serious health problems with one leading a healthy life.
Bob Kahaly is one of three classmates still alive and lives in Ponte Vedra Beach and spent more than a year at Camp Lejeune after graduating from high school.
"Diagnosed in 2001, stage four Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. I had close to 50 chemo treatments," said Kahaly from his home, where he currently headquarters a non-profit organization called the Poisoned Patriots Fund of America.
The government estimates as many as one million Marines and dependents could have been exposed to contaminated drinking water poisoned with trichlorethylene, tetrachloroethylene, benzene and vinyl chloride.
The sources of the contamination were leaking underground aviation fuel tanks that poured more than a million gallons in the ground water.
"My doctors said at the very beginning 'this is a very rare cancer, where did you get this?'" said Kahaly when he first experienced health problems.
Now he suspects he knows the answer: the water he drank and bathed in as a young Marine, who had just graduated from Terry Parker High School in Jacksonville.
Frank Oshman from Jacksonville was a classmate of Kahaly's who also joined the Marines as a teenager just out of high school.
He too is experiencing health problems.
"I have experienced some weirdness, sometimes will nod or stutter or whatever. They (doctors) say things will progress as time goes by," said Oshman from the docks of a local transportation company, where he utilizes skills he learned as a Marine.
"I put a few of the dots together that some experiences I was having could be directly related to chemical poisons, some side effects, some neurological effects," said Oshman.
Sandra Lamb is a Jacksonville mother who has questions following her son Edward's death. He was part of Terry Parker class who joined the Marines and served in Camp Lejeune. Cancer claimed his life at the age of 49.
"He could not walk always aid my chest hurts, neck started swelling," said his mother from her Arlington home.
She is not sure or not whether the contaminated water played a role in her son's death, but she suspects it probably did.
"It is devastating, heart breaking. I almost wish I did not know," said Lamb who keeps in touch with her son's Terry Parker classmates who joined the Marines.
Oshman and Kahaly are active in the organization they helped form to assist fellow Marines and families wanting answers about health issues related to the water at Camp Lejeune.
What Kahaly said what troubles him the most is the three classmates from Terry Parker who never enjoyed the prime years of the life.
"All five of us had some rare health issues and got sick in our early 40s, mid 40s. We lost three of our friends on or close to the age of 50. They should not have died at this young of age," said Kahaly.
This past summer, President Obama signed into law health care for Marines and dependents who could prove they had spent at least a month on the base and suffer certain health problems.
A mom who lost son and suspects the contaminated water played a role says it would be nice for someone to come forward with an apology.
"It would not change anything, an apology is always nice," said Lamb.
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7 Fool Proof, No Excuse Ways to Move More Every Single Day
Thousands of years ago, humans were always on the go: gathering berries, hunting prey, running from predators. Our metabolisms are still essentially the same as these humans and yet we are lucky if we can get in more than just the walk from our car to our desk and back again. With the rise of desk jobs comes the rise of ultra-sedentary lifestyles, even increased diabetes risk for women who sit too long.
This is not your fault! Plus…You are busy! You work hard! You get home at the end of the day exhausted, and your only remaining energy gets allocated to helping your kids, then maybe watching a quick TV show before your own well-deserved bedtime. And while this movement is no longer built into our survival like our early ancestors, we still need activity for our body to thrive.
Here are 7 Fool-Proof Ways to Move More in Your Day.
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Photographer goes old school
We are awash in photos, the prevailing currency of our Instagram culture, yet Anton Orlov wonders how many of the pictures will be around in another 100 years — around in the sense that you can touch them, hold them, feel some connection to the person who made them.
If you were in an antique store in the year 2121 and came across a century-old digital camera, would you even be able to find a device that could read the memory card, given how fast technology is changing? Is digital photography really forever? Is it handmade? Is it art?
Orlov, 35, has his doubts, which is why the University City resident is on a mission to keep traditional photography alive in all its pre-computer glory. As such, he's part of an expanding international movement to learn and master techniques that date to the Civil War.
But he may be the only one with a school bus.
It's a yellow 1978 model made by Gillig. It cost $6,000 on eBay. Orlov spent four months turning it into what he calls The Photo Palace, complete with a place to sleep and a shower and a working darkroom. He's already taken it on one cross-country tour and has another planned for this summer.
He'll make stops in different states along the way, doing workshops at colleges, introducing people to the vintage world of daguerreotypes and the less-vintage world of Polaroid, selling some of his own photos to help finance the excursion.
He'll have a chance to visit second hand stores, too, hunting for cameras and other equipment to add to his rolling museum. Something like the Bellieni Jumelle, a late 1800s French camera he bought for $100 a few months back at a shop in Lomita, near Los Angeles.
He cleaned it up then popped open the back and inside found eight small glass slides. He was surprised to see that the slides had images on them, and even more surprised to see that the images apparently were from World War I, circa 1917. A one-legged soldier. A bombed-out building. Two men on horseback next to a downed airplane.
When he posted the shots on his blog, the story got picked up by media outlets around the globe and set off a minor stir among history buffs. "The thought that those images may not have been viewed since WWI sent shivers down the spine," one wrote. People in France eventually identified the probable location of the photos because of a church steeple in the background of one picture.
"What photographer in his right mind develops the negatives and then puts them back inside the camera?" Orlov wondered. (His theory: the photographer was worried about the slides breaking and thought the camera would be a safe place for storage.)
This was Orlov's second rare discovery in recent years. When he went to Northern California in 2011 to buy the school bus, he also came home with a box of slides and an early projector called the Magic Lantern, which was widely used to entertain audiences before movies had been invented. Those slides, too, were shot during World War I, mostly in Russia.
"It's interesting," Orlov said, "that these images keep finding me."
Chasing a dream
He was 17 when his family came to California from Russia in 1994 in search of a better future, and for a while Orlov thought that future would be in biochemistry. That's what he was studying in college.
Then a friend took him to a hippie-fueled communal getaway known as a Rainbow gathering. These are utopian shunnings of all things commercial and mainstream, a place where people share food and play music and get happy, sometimes with the help of substances that also bring the police. When things go well, dreams are launched.


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Firefighters battle blaze in Ocala National Forest
Published: Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 9:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Sunday, April 7, 2013 at 9:30 p.m.
A brushfire consumed more than 150 acres on the east side of Halfmoon Lake in Marion County on Sunday evening before it was brought under control and contained.
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Still, officials warned that smoke could continue to be a problem through Monday as fire crews start control burns in the area to clear brush, which could be potential fuel if the main fire sparks up again, said Jessica Greene, Marion County Fire Rescue spokeswoman.
Multiple units from Marion County Fire Rescue and the U.S. Forest Service battled the wildfire in the Ocala National Forest near 7999 SE Forest Road 5.
No homes were in danger from the fire, which was reported just before 7 p.m. People in the nearby Lake in the Forest RV resort voluntarily evacuated for a short time but had begun to return by 9:30 p.m.
Marion County sent 13 units to help fight the fire and U.S. Forest Service units were also on the scene. No immediate cause for the fire was given.
"We will be burning out the prairie,'' said Dwight Snow, assistant fire management officer for the U.S. Forest Service.
"There will be smoke issues,'' he added.
Drivers along State Road 40 in the area of the fire are asked to use caution while driving through the area, Greene said.
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It was 40 years ago tonight (July 10th, 1973) that the original lineup of Paul McCartney's solo band Wings played their 58th and final show in Newcastle, England. The show was recorded by McCartney and briefly considered to be released as Wings' first live album and followup to their recent chart-topper, Red Rose Speedway. An acetate of the show at Newcastle City Hall was pressed by Apple Records and has since made the rounds on the bootleg and collectors circles.
The concert, which featured McCartney on bass and keyboards, also included wife Linda on keyboards, Denny Laine on rhythm guitar, bass and keyboards -- and the soon departed Denny Seiwell on drums and Henry McCullough on lead guitar. Both McCullough and Seiwell would regroup with Wings on McCartney's Scottish farm later in July to rehearse the material for the Band On The Run album, but both left abruptly before sessions began in Lagos, Nigeria.


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Bollywood actor Boman Irani, against whom a complaint has been lodged in connection with the Rs 425-crore QNet scam, today claimed he and his son have done nothing wrong.
QNet, a multi-level marketing company, had allegedly duped people and a complaint has been filed against the 54-year-old actor and his son in connection with the scam.
Complainant Gurupreet Singh Anand, who had filed an FIR against the QNet in August last year, approached the probing agency, Mumbai Police's Economic Offences Wing, with a two-page complaint giving the details of alleged links of Danesh with the scheme.
In the written complaint, he alleged that Danesh promoted and propagated the scheme along with his father Boman, though according to police the actor is not the member in the scheme.
"I was informed yesterday that there was an information sent to the members of the media that a certain gentleman has lodged a complaint against my son Danesh Irani and I, for involvement with a company - QNet. This is a multilevel marketing company that is at the moment is under scrutiny by the Economic Offenses Wing (EOW)," Boman said in a statement.
"My involvement with the company is merely based on the fact that I have attended a function of Qnet and had been photographed there.
"Even though the individual has made this complaint, no authority including the EOW has intimated us for any inquiry," Boman said in a statement, adding that he and his family are law abiding citizens.


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Review: Sci-fi flashback in 'Oblivion'
'Oblivion' is a familiar planet-in-ruins film, but twists and turns keep the story satisfying
"Oblivion" Rating: PG-13 | When: Opens Friday | Where: Wide release | Running time: 2 hours, 5 minutes | ★★★
An alien civilization bent on draining the planet's resources. A post-apocalyptic Earth of the future. A pair of humans left behind to patrol the planet's ruins. A quiet, unsettling feeling that everything isn't what it appears to be.
If this sounds like science fiction movies you've seen before, it's because Joseph Kosinski's "Oblivion" borrows from much of it, in both story and style, classic and contemporary: "2001: A Space Odyssey," "The Matrix," the updated "Battlestar Galactica" TV series, "Prometheus," and many more titles that I'm sure hard-core sci-fi fans could cite all the way through the end credits. But if you choose to view it as homage, and don't look too hard for substantive meaning amid the messaging, Kosinksi ("Tron: Legacy") does manage to rework these familiar slices into a twisty-turny piece of sci-fi escapism that mostly stands on its own.
Holding up a great deal of the weight is Tom Cruise, as yet another character named Jack. This time he's a pilot and mechanic nearing the end of his mission on what's left of Earth after humankind defeated an invading alien army with all-out nuclear war. Jack is stationed with his mission partner and lover, Victoria (Andrea Riseborough), and they're both looking forward to returning to the off-planet colony that Earthlings must now call home. But first they must maintain the army of fierce, mindless drones programmed to destroy any lingering enemy forces that threaten one of the massive pieces of machinery being used to drain the planet's water supply and convert it into energy for the human colony.
Impeccably groomed and donning clean, crisp garb — she in a light gray tailored dress a la Calvin Klein, and he in a perfectly smudged white pilot's suit — and ensconced high above the wreckage in their sleek, swanky tower home, Jack and Victoria have an ethereal presence about them. Perhaps it's because their memories have been wiped clean, a job requirement they've mostly accepted, except for the fact that Jack keeps having flashes of a life, and a woman (Olga Kurylenko), from before the war, now 60 years gone.
Jack zips around the sector in a transformable jet/helicopter/motorcycle so cool that I'm even hoping for an action figure, bringing damaged drones back to life. But he can't shake the feeling that there's something significant behind this nagging memory. When the validation Jack seeks literally falls out of the sky, the rules he's been playing by are all off the table.
Perhaps the most impressive construction of this science fiction film, based on Kosinksi's own comic book, is Cruise himself. The actor seems manufactured to inhabit roles such as this: an all-American flyboy with expert skills and enough of a rebel streak to second-guess authority. It's impossible not to buy him in the role — it fits like your favorite old pair of jeans — even as you wonder when, if ever, he'll show some age. The same goes for his love interests.
Unfortunately, it's Jack's romantic life with the woman in his mysterious flashbacks that yanks us out of a good sci-fi yarn and plops us into the land of superfluous Hollywood schlock. Andrea Riseborough's brittle and beautiful-as-porcelain Victoria brings more than enough emotional string-pulling and intrigue for Jack to wrestle with. Kosinski should've just left it there.
Spoilers await at every turn in "Oblivion," but it feels safe to say that one of the key revelations is hinted at so strongly in the beginning that it can barely be called a secret. There are, however, quite a few unforeseeable plot twists that should keep your mind guessing and titillated throughout the film.


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the poles are more difficult due to the amount of distortion there there's a lot of back/forth involved in making sure the coastlines look right in other projections. the best thing (that i know of) is to use the NASA G. projector for this http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/gprojector/ (though link is giging me a 403 error - ?)


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Do Pre-Drawn Garage Plans Include an Electrical Layout?
It is common for potential garage owners to ask questions about the detached garage plans they are considering before purchasing them. Frequently, future garage owners and builders ask if pre-drawn garage plans, like those found at The Garage Plan Shop, include an electrical layout in the blueprints. In most cases, but not all, the construction drawings will include a simple electrical plan. It can often be found on the floor plan page(s) in the blueprints or on a separate sheet contained within the construction drawings. In most instances, blueprints that do include a simple electrical plan will display suggested locations for fixtures, outlets and switches. However, a detailed wiring schematic showing exactly where to run the wiring will not be included in the simple electrical layout. Because the electrical work in the new garage must meet local building and electrical codes, it is the electrician's job to determine how and where to run the wiring in order to meet electrical codes and pass building inspections for the area where the garage is being built. Also, it is the electrician's job to install the fixtures, outlets, switches and the electrical box in the proper locations as designated by the electrical codes in place for the municipality, city, county or township where the detached garage is being constructed.
For more information about what is included in a set of pre-drawn garage plans, please review The Garage Plan Shop's FAQs.


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BELFAST, Maine (AP) - The mother of a baby who was mauled to death by a family dog has pleaded guilty to endangering the welfare of a child.
Thirty-one-year-old Katrina Mitchell of Frankfort changed her plea to the misdemeanor charge on Tuesday. She had been scheduled to go on trial in January.
Police say she was drunk and had passed out the day of the attack. Her 7-month-old daughter Annabelle Mitchell was fatally mauled by the family's Rottweiler in the living room while the mother slept on a sofa.
The Bangor Daily News reports that the plea deal calls for a sentence of one year in jail with all but three months suspended. A prosecutor also has recommended psychological counseling and that Mitchell not be allowed to possess or use alcohol or illegal drugs.
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Oxybenzone is a common skin care ingredient sometimes referred to as Eusolex 4360, Escalol 567 or benzophenone-3. In its raw form, the ingredient resembles tiny, colorless crystals that look like sugar or table salt. An organic compound, one molecule of oxybenzone contains 14 carbon atoms, 12 hydrogen atoms and 3 oxygen atoms.
The structure of an oxybenzone molecule makes it easily react with hydrogen to form new compounds. As a result, oxybenzone molecules readily absorb ultraviolet type A rays (UVA) that are contained in sunlight. By absorbing this intense energy, oxybenzone can protect substances from sustaining damage due to sunlight. For this reason, small amounts of oxybenzone are sometimes added to skin care products packaged in clear containers. In these products, the oxybenzone helps the products remain potent even when stored in direct or partial sunlight.
Just as oxybenzone has the ability to protect skin care formulations from damage caused by the sun, it also can shield the skin tissue from such damage. Oxybenzone first made its appearance in sunscreens more than 20 years ago, and for years, was the preferred sunscreen ingredient for skin care products because of its ability to absorb UVA rays at different wavelengths. The advent of oxybenzone led to sunscreens being more effective at preventing sunburns.
The sun-protective abilities of oxybenzone have been reconfirmed in study after study, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the substance for use as an active ingredient in sunscreens sold in the United States. Sunscreen manufacturers alter the strengths of their products by varying the amounts of oxybenzone that they contain and use the Sun Protective Factor or SPF to signify these strengths. Oxybenzone sunscreens with higher SPF numbers contain greater concentrations of the ingredients than those with lower SPF numbers./P>
In addition to protecting the skin from the short-term ill effects of the sun, such as redness and sunburn, oxybenzone has the ability to protect the skin against the sun's long-term effects when used consistently during sun exposure. Regular use of a sunscreen that contains oxybenzone can help protect the skin from the sun-related cellular damage that leads to the premature formation of fine lines and wrinkles. In addition, the ingredient has been shown to decrease the likelihood of developing skin cancers that are related to sun exposure, including the most fatal form of the disease, melanoma.
Despite how commonly it is used throughout the world, oxybenzone is a highly controversial skin care ingredient. The controversy surrounding the ingredient stems largely from the discovery that it is absorbed into the bloodstream. In July 2008, a study published in the journal "Environmental Health Perspectives" reported that trace amounts of the ingredient appeared in the urine samples of 95 percent of study participants, meaning that for the majority of people, some amount of oxybenzone is likely absorbed into the body when the sunscreen is applied to the skin.
While researchers generally agree upon the idea that oxybenzone is absorbed into the blood, their opinions on what the health consequences of this could be, if any. In 1997, a study published in "The Lancet" had already established that only 1 to 2 percent of the total amount of oxybenzone in a product is actually absorbed into the body. The researchers who performed this study and many who have reviewed it or conducted independent research of their own have concluded that this small amount of oxybenzone is unlikely to cause any side effects in users. Other researchers and organizations like the Environmental Working Group caution that the ingredient could be toxic or pose other serious risks.
Research into the long-term effects of oxybenzone and its general safety continue. As a protective measure, the European Union requires all products that contain oxybenzone in concentrations that meet or exceed .05 percent have a warning on their packaging that reads, "Contains oxybenzone." The FDA has not discussed taking similar steps in the United States and maintains that oxybenzone has a proven track record of safe use.
When considering whether or not to use products that contain oxybenzone, consumers should keep in mind that while the potential health effects of the ingredient are hypothetical, the harmful effects of UVA rays are proven. Protecting the skin from the sun is crucial to maintaining its youthful appearance and guarding against skin cancers. Until research proves otherwise, using oxybenzone sunscreen before sun exposure should be seen as offering far more benefits than proven risks; however, other sunscreen ingredients like zinc oxide and titanium dioxide are available as alternatives to oxybenzone.


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Douglas G. Biow
Professor — PhD,
Professor of French and Italian, Director of the Center for European Studies
- E-mail: email@example.com
- Phone: 512-471-7267
- Office: HRH 2.110B
- Campus Mail Code: B7600
Douglas Biow is the Superior Oil Company-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Director of the Center for European Studies, Director of the France-UT Institute, and Co-Director of the EU Center of Excellence. He is the author of a number of articles and five books: Mirabile Dictu: Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Michigan, 1996); Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries: Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy (Chicago, 2002), the recipient of a Robert W. Hamilton Book Award; The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy (Cornell, 2006), named a Choice Outstanding Title; In Your Face: Professional Improprieities and the Art of Being Conspicuous (Stanford, 2010); and, most recently, On the Importance of Being an Individual: Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). He has been the recipient of a number of scholarly awards, including NEH, Delmas, and Guggenheim Fellowships.
UGS 303 • Italian Cinema
65320-65330 • Fall 2009
Meets TTH 930-1100 PAR 301
UGS 303 Italian Cinema
Prof. Douglas Biow, Instructor
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Tel: (512) 471-7267 (office)
Office: HRH 2.110B
Office hours: TTh 12:30-1:30
Christine Deden, TA
Email: email@example.com
Office: HRH 4.102A
Office hours: MW 3-4
Lectures: TTh 9:30-11:00 in PAR 301
Discussion sections: F 1-2 in RLM 7.116
F 2-3 in ECJ 1.214
F 3-4 in BUR 128
Film screenings: Selected Monday and Wednesday evenings at 6pm in MEZ B0.306
Course Description
This course will consist of a broad and varied sampling of classic Italian films from WWII to the present. We will consider the works that typify major directors and major trends through five decades of filmmaking. I will trace a certain stylistic and thematic development from neorealism to postmodernism, pointing out both the continuity of the tradition and exceptions to it, in an attempt to define the art of Italian film. In the process, we will become more aware how we, as viewers, respond to films in socially and culturally determined ways. Classes will include visual analysis of films. Students will be required to see films at the regularly scheduled viewings (Mondays and Wednesdays, with one Friday thrown in) unless they can demonstrate that they have a class conflict.
Bondanella. Italian Cinema (available at University Coop)
Other material on Blackboard
Assignments and Grading
There will be 5 papers. No exams. BUT: Quizzes every week. Quizzes will be held at the beginning of class and may not be made up. Come on time!
The 5 papers will be 2 pages in length. Each paper should have a separate title page with your name and email address on it. Neither the title nor your name should appear at the top of the first page of the paper proper. The papers should be double-spaced, with 1" margins and 12 pt Times type.
60% - Essays
15% - Quizzes
25% - Class Participation and Friday writing/discussion activities
More than 3 absences will automatically lower your final grade. (NOTE: Absences for both lectures and Friday discussion groups count!) For each additional absence your final grade will be lowered by 1/3 (a B becomes a B-, etc.).
The University of Texas at Austin provides upon request appropriate academic accommodations for qualified students with disabilities. For more information, contact the Office off the Dean of Students at 471-6259, 471-4641.
Class Work
You are required to attend class and actively participate in discussions about the reading material. The material assigned for each class corresponds to the date. Make sure you view the films at the assigned screenings and do the reading before class (TAKE NOTES on the films; you are expected to have something to say about them). You will occasionally have short in-class "thought pieces" to write, just to get you formulating ideas for discussion and to make sure you are reading the material with some thought.
Your writing matters. It is not enough to have interesting thoughts. You must express those thoughts in an intelligible, structured, and eloquent prose.
Your writing must be your own work. If you plagiarize egregiously on a paper, you will flunk the entire work for that semester. Simple rule of thumb: "If you use words or ideas that are not your own you must cite your sources. Otherwise you will be guilty of plagiarism." If you have any questions as to what constitutes plagiarism, consult the definition in Hacker, A Pocket Manual of Style (I think we all know what it means, however).
If you are concerned about what it means to write a college paper, you can find sound advice in Trimble, Writing with Style (you can easily purchase a second-hand copy of this book). Rhetoric & Composition recommends SF Express by Ruszkiewicz (again, you can easily find a second-hand copy). I will also be putting on Blackboard copies of some sound suggestions written by a colleague of mine in the English Department, Professor Wayne A. Rebhorn, who is a first-rate scholar, teacher, writer, and editor. I hope you will find all his suggestions to be helpful. If you follow them, you are bound to do a good job on your papers.
Schedule for Film Screenings
Aug. 31 Monday, SCREENING, Open City
Sept. 4 Friday, SCREENING, Paisan
Sept. 16 Wednesday, SCREENING, Bicycle Thief
Sept. 23 Wednesday, SCREENING, La Strada
Sept. 28 Monday, SCREENING, La dolce vita
Oct. 7 Wednesday, SCREENING, Bellissima
Oct. 14 Wednesday, SCREENING, Red Desert
Oct. 21 Wednesday, SCREENING, Mamma Roma
Oct. 26 Monday SCREENING, The Conformist
Nov. 4 Wednesday, SCREENING, We All Loved Each Other So Much
Nov. 9 Monday, SCREENING, Icicle Thief
Nov. 11 Wednesday, SCREENING, Stolen Children
Nov. 18 Wednesday, SCREENING, Nuovo Cinema Paradiso VHS version
Nov. 23 Monday, SCREENING, Life is Beautiful NOTE: WE MEET IN MEZ 1.306
Nov. 30 Monday, SCREENING, Caro Diario
Schedule for Lectures
Aug. 27 Introduction to course. History of Italian Cinema until WWII
Sept. 1 Discussion: Open City (Rossellini) (Read Bondanella, 1-30; Giannetti on Blackboard)
Sept. 3 Review of Italian Political History, Rossellini. (Read Bondanella, 31-52, 161-66)
Sept. 8 Discussion: Paisan (Rossellini)
Sept. 10 Discussion: Paisan
Sept. 15 Classical Neorealism (Read Bondanella, 52-66; Zavattini and Bazin on Blackboard)
Sept. 17 Discussion: Bicycle Thief (De Sica)
Sept. 22 Federico Fellini: Beyond Neorealism (Read Bondanella, 113-41; 228-52; Fellini on Blackboard) FIRST PAPER DUE
Sept. 24 Discussion: La Strada (Fellini)
Sept. 29 Discussion: La dolce vita (Fellini)
Oct. 1 Discussion of Gilligan & Woodruff talks.
Oct. 6 Luchino Visconti and Marxist Aesthetics (Read Bondanella, 66-73, 96-100, 196-210)
Oct. 8 Discussion: Bellissima (Visconti)
Oct. 9 VISIT TO THE BLANTON, Guest lecturer: Katie Anania (Art History): Modernism in the Visual Arts. Please arrive at the Blanton Museum by 12:55, 1:55, and 2:55, depending on your section. It usually takes a few minutes just to store stuff, and I'd like us to be in a position to dedicate as much time as possible to viewing a choice selection of European Modernist art.
Oct. 13 Antonioni
Oct. 15 Discussion: Red Desert (Antonioni) (Read the Antonioni on Blackboard.)
UNIT THREE: MISERABILISM, RESISTANCE, and FASCISM REVISITED
Oct. 20. Pasolini and the Poetics of Juxtaposition SECOND PAPER DUE
Oct. 22 Discussion: Mamma Roma (Pasolini)
Oct. 27 Discussion: The Conformist (Bertolucci)
Oct. 29 A break: Commedia all'Italiana (clips)
Nov. 3 Modernism/Post-Modernism—definitions/shared assumptions (and errors)
(Collins on Blackboard: PLEASE READ!) THIRD PAPER DUE
Nov. 5 Discussion: We All Loved Each Other So Much (Scola)
Nov. 10 Discussion: Icicle Thief (Nichetti)
Nov. 12 Discussion: Stolen Children (Amelio)
Nov. 17 NO CLASS: Make-up class on Nov. 24th, afternoon lecture by Professor Millicent Marcus, Yale University
Nov. 19 Discussion: Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (Tornatore) FOURTH PAPER DUE
Nov. 24 Guest Lecture, Discussion of Benigni
Nov. 24 Millicent Marcus: Lecture on Life is Beautiful (Benigni) 5 pm in Garrison 0.102
Nov. 26 NO CLASS: Happy Thanksgiving!
Dec. 1 Discussion: Caro Diario (Moretti)
Dec. 3 Concluding Thoughts
On the Importance of Being an Individual in Renaissance Italy
Men, Their Professions, and Their Beards
(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015)
Product Descrription:
"An elegant, erudite, and polemical book that most assuredly makes an important contribution to the literature on Renaissance individuality and male identity."—James R. Farr, Purdue University
"Douglas Biow offers a spirited and refreshing account of the ways Renaissance men carved out space for individuality over against the norms of their professions and communities."—John Jeffries Martin, Duke University
In recent decades, scholars have vigorously revised Jacob Burckhardt's notion that the free, untrammeled, and essentially modern Western individual emerged in Renaissance Italy. Douglas Biow does not deny the strong cultural and historical constraints that placed limits on identity formation in the early modern period. Still, as he contends in this witty, reflective, and generously illustrated book, the category of the individual was important and highly complex for a variety of men in this particular time and place, for both those who belonged to the elite and those who aspired to be part of it.
Biow explores the individual in light of early modern Italy's new patronage systems, educational programs, and work opportunities in the context of an increased investment in professionalization, the changing status of artisans and artists, and shifting attitudes about the ideology of work, fashion, and etiquette. He turns his attention to figures familiar (Benvenuto Cellini, Baldassare Castiglione, Niccolò Machiavelli, Jacopo Tintoretto, Giorgio Vasari) and somewhat less so (the surgeon-physician Leonardo Fioravanti, the metallurgist Vannoccio Biringuccio). One could excel as an individual, he demonstrates, by possessing an indefinable nescio quid, by acquiring, theorizing, and putting into practice a distinct body of professional knowledge, or by displaying the exclusively male adornment of impressively designed facial hair. Focusing on these and other matters, he reveals how we significantly impoverish our understanding of the past if we dismiss the notion of the individual from our narratives of the Italian and the broader European Renaissance.
In Your Face
Professional Improprieties and the Art of Being Conspicuous in Sixteenth-Century Italy
(Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010)
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In Your Face concentrates on the Renaissance concern with "self-fashioning" by examining how a group of Renaissance artists and writers encoded their own improprieties in their works of art. In the elitist court society of sixteenth-century Italy, where moderation, limitation, and discretion were generally held to be essential virtues, these men consistently sought to stand out and to underplay their conspicuousness at once. The heroes (or anti-heroes) of this book—Michelangelo Buonarroti, Benvenuto Cellini, Pietro Aretino, and Anton Francesco Doni—violated norms of decorum by promoting themselves aggressively and by using writing or artworks to memorialize their assertiveness and intractable delight in parading themselves as transgressive and insubordinate on a grand scale. Focusing on these sorts of writers and visual artists, Biow constructs a version of the Italian Renaissance that is neither the elegant one of Castiglione's and Vasari's courts—so recently favored in scholarly accounts—nor the dark, conspiratorial one of Niccolò Machiavelli's and Francesco Guicciardini's princely states.
"Once again, Douglas Biow gives us a clear, clever, engaging rethinking of a crucial aspect of Italian Renaissance culture and life. This truly unique work is highly intelligent, exciting, and thought-provoking."
—Guido Ruggiero, University of Miami
"Douglas Biow's In Your Face is a fascinating study of the nature of literary and artistic eccentricity in late Renaissance Italy. He reminds us that, in an era in which writers such as Castiglione polished the image of the perfect courtier, many of the most interesting figures were deliberately and provocatively uncouth. This is a terrific, thought-provoking book." —Paula Findlen, Stanford University
The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy
(Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2006)
Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title
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Concerned about sanitation during a severe bout of plague in Milan, Leonardo da Vinci designed an ideal, clean city. Leonardo was far from alone among his contemporaries in thinking about personal and public hygiene, as Douglas Biow shows in The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy. A concern for cleanliness, he argues, was everywhere in the Renaissance.
Anxieties about cleanliness were expressed in literature from humanist panegyrics to bawdy carnival songs, as well as in the visual arts. Biow surveys them all to explain why the topic so permeated Renaissance culture. At one level, cleanliness, he documents, was a matter of real concern in the Renaissance. At another, he finds, issues such as human dignity, self-respect, self-discipline, social distinction, and originality were rethought as a matter of artistic concern.
The Culture of Cleanliness in Renaissance Italy moves from the clean to the unclean, from the lofty to the base. Biow first examines the socially elevated, who defined and distinguished themselves as clean, pure, and polite. He then turns to soap, an increasingly common commodity in this period, and the figure of the washerwoman. Finally he focuses on latrines, which were universally scorned yet functioned artistically as figures of baseness, creativity, and fun in the works of Dante and Boccaccio. Paralleling this social stratification is a hierarchy of literary and visual artifacts, from the discourse of high humanism to filthy curses and scatological songs. Deftly bringing together high and low-as well as literary and visual-cultures, this book provides a fresh perspective on the Italian Renaissance and its artistic legacy.
"Douglas Biow is emerging as one of the most original scholars of Renaissance Italy. Transgressive, witty, insightful, The Culture of Cleanliness will appeal to readers immensely. Who thinks of Dante as someone who writes about shit? Who has noticed how important clean clothes are in Renaissance paintings? Who connects Renaissance literary genres-high, medium, and low-with hierarchies of cleanliness? Probing these boundaries with energy and insight, Biow offers up new perspectives on the culture of both humanists and washerwomen. His writing is excellent, and the conceptualization of his material brilliant."- John Jeffries Martin, Trinity University
"In a suggestive way this fascinating book reverses Dante's Divine Comedy--starting with Paradise and its immaculately clean dreams of the divine and the perfect, it drops through the circles of the renaissance world ending literally in the cesspool and latrines of Hell, perverse but also intriguing nightmares of the foul for the period. In doing so it develops a stimulating and challengingly different perspective on the time from the perspective of the clean and the unclean at every level from high culture to quotidian practice. At once witty, erudite and clever, it imaginatively and ironically knocks the crap out of many of the classical visions of the period, by literally returning crap (and its culturally entwined levels of the unclean) to its central place in renaissance life as lived and as imagined. Bakhtin, Elias and Burckhardt here are creatively melded with Dante, Boccaccio, Castiglione, Della Casa and a host of lesser known writers to examine a relatively ignored area of renaissance life and to suggestively rethink the renaissance itself. This is history that is definitely fun to think and rethink."—Guido Ruggiero, University of Miami
Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries
Humanism and Professions in Renaissance Italy
(Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002)
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In this book, Douglas Biow traces the role that humanists played in the development of professions and professionalism in Renaissance Italy, and vice versa. For instance, humanists were initially quite hostile to medicine, viewing it as poorly adapted to their program of study. They much preferred the secretarial profession, which they made their own throughout the Renaissance and eventually defined in treatises in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Examining a wide range of treatises, poems, and other works that humanists wrote both as and about doctors, ambassadors, and secretaries, Biow shows how interactions with these professions forced humanists to make their studies relevant to their own times, uniting theory and practice in a way that strengthened humanism. His detailed analyses of writings by familiar and lesser-known figures, from Petrarch, Machiavelli, and Tasso to Maggi, Fracastoro, and Barbaro, will especially interest students of Renaissance Italy, but also anyone concerned with the rise of professionalism during the early modern period.
"Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries is a formidable accomplishment. Biow traces the interactions of humanist culture with distinct areas of professional expertise and practice. His readings of key historical figures and works are compelling, even brilliant at times. Persuasively written, this work will attract a wide range of readers interested in the intertwined histories of the humanistic Renaissance and early modernity." - Albert Russell Ascoli, University of California, Berkeley
Mirabile Dictu
Mirabile Dictu Representations of the Marvelous in Medieval and Renaissance Epic
(Ann Arbor: University of Michiagn Press, 1996)
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Mirabile Dictu covers in six separate chapters the works of Virgil, Dante, Boccaccio, Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser. Its broad aim is to provide a select cross-section of works in the Middle Ages and Renaissance in order systematically to examine and compare for the first time the marvelous in the light of epic genre, of literary and critical theory (both past and present), and of historically and culturally determined representational practices.
Douglas Biow organizes this volume around the literary topos of the bleeding branch through which a metamorphosed person speaks. In each chapter the author takes this "marvellous event" as his starting point for a broad-ranging comparison of the several poets who employed the image; he also investigates the ways in which a period's notion of "history" underpins its representations of the marvelous. This method offers a controlled yet flexible framework within which to develop readings that engage a multiplicity of theories and approaches.
Mirabile Dictu offers not only an insightful survey of the literary connections among this group of important poets, but also a useful point of departure for scholars and students intrigued by the reuse of epic conventions, by the peculiar role of "marvellous" events in dramatic poetry, and by the later history of classical literature.
"[An] engaging comparative study of literature and culture. . . . Biow's analyses are informed and thoughtful, offering insightful close readings of primary texts in connection with various theoretical and cultural lines of critical inquiry. Written in a lively, engaging, and jargon-free style, this study is both accessible and challenging, offering a refreshing lucidity in its attention to detail and method. Scholars, teachers, and students of classical, medieval, and early modern literature and culture will doubtless find much of interest in this study, a welcome addition to comparative medieval and Renaissance studies."
--Sixteenth Century Journal
". . . highly recommended as an engaging and original account of the ways in which that ambiguous concept of the marvelous informs epic poetry of the late-medieval and early-modern eras."
--Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies
"Delightful and instructive readings all along the way . . . ."
Current Research
I am currently working on a short book about Vasari's Lives, examining it as a history of ideas.
I am also currently developing two other book-length projects. One is monograph on the history of the individual in European thought from antiquity to the end of the modern period. The other is an edited volume devoted to sociable spaces, beyond the court, in Renaissance Italy.
Academic Honors, Fellowships, and Awards
- 2013-14: Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin
- 2008-9: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Research in Venice and the Veneto (winter)
- 2008: Fellow of the Humanities Institute, University of Texas at Austin (spring)
- 2007: Recipient of a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title (The Culture of Cleanliness)
- 2007: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Research in Venice and the Veneto (summer)
- 2006-7: John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship Foundation
- 2006-7: Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin
- 2006: Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation for Research in Venice and the Veneto (summer)
- 2005: Dean's Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin (fall semester)
- 2003: Recipient of a Robert W. Hamilton Book Award (Doctors, Ambassadors, Secretaries)
- 2003: Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin (spring semester)
- 1996-97: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- 1996-97: National Humanities Center Fellowship (declined)
- 1996-97: Faculty Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin
- 1996: Summer Research Assignment, University of Texas at Austin
- 1992: Summer Research Award, Syracuse University
- 1988-89: Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program
- 1986-88: The Jacob K. Javits Fellowship, United States Department of Education
- 2014-18: Principal Investigator, Title VI Award for National Resource Center, Department of Education (awarded $1,972,000 over 4 years) for the Center for European Studies
- 2014-15: Principal Investigator and Co-Director, EU Center of Excellence, awarded from the EU Delegation (90,000 Euros over 1 year) for the Center for European Studies
- 2014-15: Co-Principal Investigator (with Mary Neuburger), $50,000, Office of the Provost, UT-Austin, Course Transformation Grant.
- 2012-14: Principal Investigator, French Embassy Award, $37,650: Energy Policies in the US and France ($12,500, conference), Magnum Collection Exhibit ($10,600, symposium), WWI Exhibition ($14,550, lectures and workshops).
- 2011-14: Principal Investigator and Co-Director, EU Center of Excellence, awarded from the EU Delegation (300,000 Euros over 3 years) for the Center for European Studies
- 2010-14: Principal Investigator, Title VI Award for National Resource Center, Department of Education (awarded $1,622,380 over 4 years) for the Center for European Studies


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Well.. i thought i'd show you guys what i've been working on as of late... not mapping related, but still something you might like.
I'm in the process of making an android game.. at this point i'd like it to be an old-school style "faux 3d dungeon crawler", much like might and magic 3, or dungeon master 2.. or countless others.
At the moment, i'm working on making a 2d bone animation software work with the language i'm using...
The software is called Spine, by esoteric software.. you can see it here
I am programming in Haxe NME, a cross platform system that allows me to build natively in c++, ios, android, flash and a number of other systems.
I've been parsing the exported json, and hooking up the skeleton drawing.. here's an example of what i've come up with... these are some examples included with the software (i didn't draw em)
The dragon is a decently complex skeleton, while the 2 goblins are actually the same skeleton with different skins.. quite a versatile system
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Bulk Acoustic Wave (BAW) resonators can be used as narrow band filters in radio-frequency applications. The chief advantage compared with traditional ceramic electromagnetic resonators is that BAW resonators, thanks to the acoustic wavelength being much smaller than the electromagnetic wavelength, can be made much smaller.
In addition to the desired bulk acoustic mode, the resonator structure may have many spurious modes with very narrow spacing. The design goal is usually to maximize the quality of the main component and to reduce the effect of spurious modes.
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Wayward Girls School of Burlesque should exist. She said, "The only way to get adults to look at dance is to take your clothes off." Not everyone is going to agree with that, but the Wayward Girls do draw a crowd. The troupe will be performing Friday night at the Blue Parrot as part of a St. Patrick's Day Bash. The night will also include music from rock bands HARRAH and Trielement. The Wayward Girls School of Burlesque arose from the ranks of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School, a burlesque-style figure-drawing class held monthly at local bars and theaters. Dr. Sketchy's takes traditional nude or semi-nude figure drawing and turns it on its head with pop-culture camp, costumes and party games. Its monthly "class" is at 7 p.m. Sunday at Uncork and Create, 1031 Quarrier St. (Admission is $8. Email email@example.com for more information.) Maple, one of the troupe's administrators, said she and Pepper Fandango, both models for Dr. Sketchy's, started the Wayward Girls in December 2011 after Dr. Sketchy's hosted Brooklyn-based burlesque group, Dangerous Curves. The touring troupe wanted an opening act for the show, but no one in Charleston was doing that kind of entertainment. Still, it didn't seem such a far leap from what Fandango and Maple did with Dr. Sketchy's, and Maple, at least, had a background as a dancer. "So we said, 'Sure. We'll give it a try,'" Maple said. A few months later, the duo appeared at the Sound Factory as the opening act for Pretty Things Peep Show. "Ugh," Maple frowned. "That was our worst show ever. We danced to canned music and had a couple of wardrobe malfunctions..." They revealed a little more skin than intended, but the pair didn't quit, and after a show at last summer's Shocka-Con horror and science fiction convention, they decided to expand. She added, "We just reached out to some of the self-starting art models we'd worked with at Dr. Sketchy's and just kept going." Wayward Girls School of Burlesque has since expanded to include seven performers, though the group isn't strictly the teasing sort of dance most often associated with burlesque shows. Pepper Fandango and Cat Schrodinger dance and also play music. Fandango is often accompanied by her rockabilly/punk band. There's comedy, and most of the performers have either developed a particular gimmick or they're working on one. Elle Xohmbeah said, "I do a lot of gender play. I like to think of it as stripping away masculine elements to reveal the feminine inside. "I'm kind of big on the mustaches." Ruby Rouge, "The Red Baroness," wants to make hula-hoops a more prominent part of her show, while Lavender Menace has elements of roller derby in her act. Maple added, "But we have the classic burlesque tease. Lilli Legosi is kind of our classic dance tease specialist." A lot goes into every performance. Hours and hours of rehearsal, plus the troupe relies on a group of friends and helpers, referred to as Kittens, to manage productions, sell tickets, make props/sets and do a wide variety of odd jobs. "You can't call them roadies," Maple said. "A roadie won't build you a set of Tokyo." Chase Henderson, founder of the Charleston Dr. Sketchy's, is kind of an official hanger-on. "He's our official photographer," Maple said. "Or just a weird uncle," he replied. After this weekend's show, Maple said the group might be taking a bit of a hiatus -- at least in Charleston. Maple said that some of the girls and their supporters are from outside Charleston, and the troupe wanted to visit a few of those towns. "But, sure, we'd love to work with FestivALL," she said. "We should call them." Reach Bill Lynch at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-348-5195.


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Indianapolis, IN (Sports Network) - Paul George led six Indiana players in
double-figures and recorded for his first career triple-double with 23 points,
12 rebounds and 12 assists, as the Pacers pushed past the Charlotte Bobcats,
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George, who heads into the midseason break for his first All-Star Game,
responded well following a 1-of-10 shooting effort for just five points
in Monday's loss versus Brooklyn.
Tyler Hansbrough, starting in place of an injured David West, added a double-
double with 19 points and 10 boards for the Pacers, who bounced back from
back-to-back overtime losses at home following a season-high five-game winning
streak. Roy Hibbert contributed 10 points and eight rebounds and George Hill
donated 11 in the victory.
West suffered a scratched eye in the Pacers' 89-84 loss to the Brooklyn Nets
on Monday.
Byron Mulleins paced Charlotte with 19 points and Bismack Biyombo scored five
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I quit my depression meds with baby #1 but found I wasn't taking good enough care of myself when the depression got bad. My doctor and I agreed that it was more important that I be able to eat, exercise and sleep well. I stayed on meds for both my next pregnancies. Babies have been fine and healthy (#3 is due in a couple more weeks but so far no problems).
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Almost 2500 years ago, Plato grounded Western philosophy in the study of "the good, the true, and the beautiful." While ethics, epistemology, and aesthetics have remained fundamental to the field for millennia, philosophy today encompasses subjects the ancient Greeks scarcely dreamed of.
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Greensboro, N.C.--- In this weekend's 2 The Rescue, Triad SPCA featured Duke, he's a 2-year-old American Staffordshire Terrier or American Bull Terrier who is loving and enjoys to play. They aren't sure if Duke is a full breed but they do know he is pure of heart.
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For 70 years or so, a Colorado blue spruce tree has provided shade and shelter from the elements to the remains of Rifle residents who have passed away and lie in the mausoleum at Rose Hill Cemetery.
While that situation won't change any time in the near future, city parks workers are watching the tree - Colorado's state tree - after noticing some "gradual progress with the roots moving some of the masonry around near the mausoleum," according to Parks Manager Tom Whitmore.
"Our concern has been ongoing over the years," he wrote in an email. "The tree is in a rather small 'planter,' in my opinion."
The problem is underground, Whitmore said. The tree's roots have begun pushing against a nearby retaining wall, leading to concerns about the walls of the mausoleum, he explained.
"We've been monitoring the tree and the situation and wondering what to do, if anything," Whitmore said. "We're thinking the roots are going to start to move the masonry on the mausoleum."
The city has not heard any concerns or complaints from relatives of those buried in the mausoleum, Whitmore said, "But we as staff are pretty worried. We don't want to see anything disturb things. And there's liability issues, too."
Whitmore said his crews have not intentionally removed any live, healthy trees from city parks, only diseased or damaged trees.
"This one is pretty healthy, too," Whitmore added. "It's about two feet in diameter, maybe 70 to 75 feet tall, just a happy and healthy tree."
The Rifle Reading Club, which formed on June 17, 1903, planted the first trees in Rose Hill Cemetery, according to a story in the June 19, 2003, Citizen Telegram. The club was intended to be a social club and civic organization for the ladies of Rifle.
The club was also responsible for helping get irrigation water to the cemetery, and for many years did the spring clean up, preparing the grounds for Memorial Day.
The club disbanded on its 100th birthday.
Now, Whitmore said the city's first concern is public safety. He noted tree specialists from the Colorado State Forestry Service and Rifle Ranger District office of the White River National Forest inspected the tree from a "hazard tree" point of view.
"They didn't see any reason or express any concern that this tree was any more likely to come down than any other," Whitmore said. "They felt like it had been there a long time, and intended to stay indefinitely."
Most roots on Colorado blue spruce trees stay within a two-foot radius of the tree, Whitmore said, but it's likely these roots go pretty deep due to the tree's age.
Whitmore said his department gets a number of calls from people concerned about dead trees at Rifle Mountain Park. They wonder if the trees are more likely to fall, he said.
"From our experience, the live, healthy looking, mature trees, are more likely to break off or blow over during a wind event than the dead ones," Whitmore continued. "They are much heavier and have a much greater wind load than a dead tree with no needles."
City parks staff are inspecting and monitoring the tree on a monthly basis.
The tree was likely planted as a memorial when the mausoleum was built, Whitmore said. But city records do not indicate the exact date or include any names.
"It's really hard to talk about maybe having to remove a tree like this," Whitmore said. "We work so hard to keep all our trees alive and this one is doing so well."


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To celebrate International Women's Day 2012, we're celebrating the most significant moments in female history and honouring the women behind them.
From the passionate, tenacious women who have put their lives on the line for female equality and emancipation to the extraordinary achievements of female pioneers who have battled their way through male-dominated worlds to reach their goals.
Take a look at our timeline of female achievements since the launch of International Women's Day in 1911.
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Marie Curie was the first woman to hold the position of the Professor of General Physics in the Faculty of Sciences and the first person to ever receive two Nobel Prizes. Her first Nobel Prize was awarded in 1903 for Physics and the second in 1911, the year her work into radioactivity became widely recognised.
Hilda Hewlett was the first British aviatrix to earn a pilot's licence, as well as the first ever woman to qualify as a pilot. Hewlett was also the first aviation entrepreneur and ran the first flying school in the UK, as well as a successful aircraft manufacturing business.
Talented astronomer Annie Jump Cannon single-handedly created the universal system of stellar classification still in use to this day. Annie compiled the largest accumulation of astronomical information ever assembled and her phrase, 'Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me!' helped several generations of astronomers learn the spectral classification of stars.
The Parliamentary Qualification of Women Act was passed in 1918, enabling women to stand as a Member of Parliament. This was a significant move in a male dominated environment. In 1918, Countess Constance Markievicz was the first woman elected to the House of Commons. However she did not take her seat, in protest against Britain's policy in Ireland. The first woman to be elected and take her seat was Viscountess Nancy Astor in 1919.
Emmeline Pankhurst was a British political activist and leader of the iconic suffragette movement which fought for women's right to vote. In 1929, her endless campaigning paid off when women over 21 were granted the right to vote. This was also the year that women became 'persons' in their own right, by order of the Privy Council. Emmeline Pankhurst founded the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) in 1898, which advocated suffrage for women. Their campaigns were famous for their staged hunger strikes and passionate protests. Her eldest daughter Christabel Pankhurst spent 15 years working beside her mother for the women's suffrage.
The Married Women's Association was set up by a lady called Edith Summerskill to promote equality in marriage. Edith fought for equal rights between husband and wife, including legal rights to the marital home, guardianship rights for both parents and for the National Insurance Act to include women on the same terms as men. An active feminist, Summerskill paid particular attention to the high rate of maternal mortality and urged that the interests of the expectant mother must always be prioritised by the maternity services.
In 1950, after years of devoting herself to helping the poor in Calcutta, Mother Teresa got permission from the Holy See to start her own order, The Missionaries of Charity, which dedicated its time to helping the poorest of the poor around the world and undertaking huge relief work in the wake of natural disasters. The charity was recognised as an International Religious Family by a decree of Pope Paul VI in 1965. Mother Teresa also received a Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. Because of Mother Teresa, the charity now helps millions of people worldwide.
Ann Davison was the first woman to single-handedly sail across the Atlantic Ocean in her 23ft boat named Felicity Ann.
A young African American woman named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a segregated 'white and black' bus, sparking the beginning of the significant black Civil Rights Movement in the US. Supported by Martin Luther King, they organised protests against the bus segregation and after a year of boycotting buses, integration was accepted. Rosa was later known as the 'mother of the Civil Rights Movement'.
Russian Valentina Tereshkova went where no woman had been before - into space. Selected out of more than four hundred applicants in a male dominated environment, during the 70.8 hour flight, Tereshkova orbited the Earth 48 times. Upon completion of her mission, Tereshkova was honored with the title Hero of the Soviet Union. She never flew again, but she did become a spokesperson for the Soviet Union.
The Abortion Law Reform was passed in 1967 after tireless campaigning by the National Abortion Campaign (NAC), which defended the Abortion Act against a series of Private Members' Bills, which threatened to restrict women's abortion rights.
In 1968, over 850 women working at the Ford car factory in Daggenham, protested over equal pay, almost stopping the production of all Ford UK plants as a result. Their empowering strike directly led to the passing of the Equal Pay Act later in 1984.
Free contraception on the NHS was introduced in 1974, following the endless campaigning by the women's movement. The first birth control pioneer was Helena Wright, who in 1930, founded the National Birth Control Council which was later called the Family Planning Association (FDA) we know today.
Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Following her record breaker, Tabei continued to climb many mountains across the world and is the first woman to have achieved the summits of the highest peaks on all seven continents. Tabei's brave quest paved the way for many more female mountaineers to conquer Everest.
The Sex Discrimination Act was passed, making it illegal to discriminate against women in work, education and training. This was another act passionately pushed by the women's movement.
Conservative MP, Margaret Thatcher became the first British female prime minister after winning the general election in 1979. Thatcher held her role as PM for 11 years.
After having her manuscript rejected by 12 publishers, JK Rowling went on to be the first female billionaire novelist after her Harry Potter books became a global success. Rowling wrote her first Potter books as a single mother on welfare and is now the highest paid author in the world.
Young yachtswoman Ellen MacArthur broke world records after she became the fastest person to sail single-handed, non-stop circumnavigation around the world at just 28 years old. Ellen was also the youngest person to ever receive a damehood from the Queen.
Moira Cameron broke a 522 year male tradition after becoming the first female Beefeater at the Tower of London. Cameron joined the Army at 16 and spend the required 22 years serving in the Forces to become eligible for the prestigious position.
Talented poet and playwright, Carol Ann Duffy, was selected as the first female Poet Laurette, Britain's most prestigious poetry title, ending 400 years of male domination.


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David Lama Solos New Winter Route in the Alps
Austrian climbing polymath David Lama has soloed a new winter route in the Zillertal Alps. Despite the fact that Lama told Planet Mountain the route is "actually nothing particularly special," the climb was an impressive outing for any alpinist. Lama's new route, which he named Nordverschneidung, is a spicy concoction of WI 4 ice, M4/5 mixed terrain and 5.10 loose alpine rock that travels about 1,300 feet up the North Face of Hohe Kirche in the Valsertal region of the Zillertal Alps, Austria.
Even more impressive is that Lama soloed the line, mostly without a rope. Navigating through 90 degree ice and "easy" mixed climbing, it was only after roughly 650 feet that Lama busted out the rope. The crux, according to Lama's Planet Mountain report, was four "demanding" pitches of rock.
"The rock wasn't great, it was hard to protect and climbing with crampons on the bare rock made things dicy," Lama told Planet Mountain.
After the crux, Lama soloed the final 300 feet to the summit, had some tea, and then descended to his skis via the mountain's West Face. Lama finally reached his car after a brisk six and a half hours of alpine climbing in temperatures as low as 14 degrees.
"As I said, it's nothing really special," Lama told Planet Mountain. "But it's something I always wanted to do and it's certainly the easiest, most logical line up through the North Face."
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Born June 9, 1961 in Manhattan, Sorkin was reared in Scarsdale, NY by a school teacher mom and lawyer dad. He went to Scarsdale High School, where he got interested in acting and became vice president of the drama club. Because it offered a degree in musical theater, Sorkin attended Syracuse University, where he played Young Scrooge in "A Christmas Carol" and was the top pyramid acrobat for a performance of "Carnival." After graduation, he struggled to find work as an actor in New York, sporadically doing children's theater while tending bar and sleeping on friends' floors. But fortune smiled when a friend asked him to housesit for a few days: Sorkin found a typewriter among the domestic acc... Continue Bio >>
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SKILL LEVEL: Easy + (Level 3)
SIZE: One Size
About 8 1/2 x 57 in. (21.5 x 145 cm).
For the outgoing person who likes to add some color to their wardrobe, this scarf is a trusted winter accessory. The colors used are inspired by the attributes associated with the astrological sign: aqua for optimism, purple for independence, wild berry for determination, and eggplant for tolerance. Click here to see the knit version.
18 sts = about 4 in. (10 cm) in pattern. When you match the gauge in a pattern, your project will be the size
specified in the pattern and the materials specified in the pattern will be
sufficient. The needle or hook size called for in the pattern is based on what
the designer used, but it is not unusual for gauge to vary from person to person.
If it takes you fewer stitches and rows to make your swatch, try using a smaller
size hook or needles; if more stitches and rows, try a larger size hook or needles.
Making a Gauge Swatch
18 sts = about 4 in. (10 cm) in pattern.
Sc2tog (sc 2 sts together) (Insert hook in next st and draw up a loop) twice, yarn over and draw through all 3 loops on hook – 1 st decreased.
1. Scarf is worked in wedge shaped sections changing color following the Color Sequence. The wedges are shaped by scs, hdcs and dcs. 2. The Scarf is not difficult to make, but it is very important that you read the instructions for each row carefully and that you keep track of which row you are on! 3. The color is changed on every other row. To change color, work last st of old color to last yarn over. Yarn over with new color and draw through all loops on hook to complete st. Fasten off old color.
COLOR SEQUENCE Work *2 rows with A, 2 rows with B, 2 rows with C, 2 rows with D; rep from * for Color Sequence.
SCARF With A, ch 34. Row 1: Sc in 2nd ch from hook, sc in next 10 ch, hdc in next 11 ch, dc in last 11 ch - 33 sts. Row 2: Ch 3 (counts as first dc in this row and in all following rows), turn, dc in next 10 dc, hdc in next 11 hdc, sc in last 11 sc. Leaving long beg and ending yarn tails, change to B. Row 3: With B, ch 1, turn, sc in first 11 sts, hdc in next 11 sts, dc in last 11 sts. Row 4: With B, ch 3, turn, dc in next 10 sts, hdc in next 11 sts, sc in last 11 sts. Leaving 8 in. (20.5 cm) long beg and ending yarn tails, change to C. Rows 5-24: Rep Rows 3 and 4 ten times, continuing to change color following Color Sequence. At end of Row 24, fasten off. Note: On the next row, Row 25, take care to join in the first double crochet (dc) of Row 24, NOT in the last single crochet (sc). Row 25: Join A with a sl st in top of first dc of last row. With A, rep Row 3. Row 26: With A, rep Row 4. Rows 27-48: Rep Rows 3 and 4 eleven times continuing to change color following Color Sequence. Rows 49-120: Rep Rows 25-48 three times continuing to change color following Color Sequence. Rows 121-168: Rep Rows 25-48 twice, continuing to change color following Color Sequence. Fasten off.
FINISHING Weave in ends.
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The elementary education curriculum at Shippensburg is a four-year program, requiring at least 120 credit hours leading to the degree of Bachelor of Science in Education, Elementary Education. Successful completion of this course of study qualifies the graduate for a variety of professional employment possibilities. The basic program qualifies the student to apply for an elementary teacher certificate, making the graduate eligible for employment at any level, i.e., kindergarten through sixth grade (K-6). All certified elementary education teachers, due to their preparation in reading, are qualified to teach developmental reading at any grade level K-12. Those students choosing the early childhood minor and certification receive certification which prepares students to be teachers for preschool through third grade. A certification to teach environmental education courses (K-12) is given to those students completing the environmental education concentration. Some certification concentrations may require more than 120 credit hours.
Students in the elementary education program experience a standards-based curriculum that provides them with the knowledge, skills and dispositions to become reflective educators. Underlying all of their course work is a common theme that centers upon applying research, best practice, the integration of technology and ongoing assessment to make informed decisions about the ways to best meet the individualized needs of their students. Effective communication skills, the ability to collaborate with others, active learning, a respect for diversity and professionalism are the hallmarks of their classwork and field experiences.
1. General education requirements, including courses in the humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences;
2. Professional elementary education courses which include basic courses such as Mathematics in the Elementary School, Elements of Instruction, Language and Reading in the Elementary School, Child Development, etc.;
3. An elected minor or area of concentration for in-depth study; and
4. Clinical field experiences which include observation and participation in teaching in a variety of elementary school settings.
The elementary education major requires a minimum of 123 credit hours. Each student is required to elect a concentration or minor in an academic field which requires at least 15 credit hours.
A minor is selected from university-recognized minors which have direct applicability to elementary education. They include: anthropology, art, coaching, communication/journalism, criminal justice, early childhood education, economics, English (literature or writing emphasis), ethnic studies, geography/earth science, history, international studies, modern languages (French, German, Spanish), music literature, philosophy, political science, psychology, public administration, reading, speech, theater, and women's studies.
A concentration is an in-depth area of study jointly identified by the issuing department and the teacher education department. Selection can be made from the following: biology, chemistry, and mathematics.
In addition to the regular coursework, our students have substantial field experience. They are required to complete at least 60 hours of clinical field experience, 30 of which are course related and 30 are self-initiated. The self-initiated experience includes actual classroom contact at Grace B. Luhrs University Elementary School and other public schools as well as less formal situations in which our students have leadership responsibility for children and use educational strategies and techniques, such as church classes, tutoring, children's camp or playground, and coaching. Field experiences must include urban, suburban, and rural settings.
For two semesters in the junior and senior years, our elementary education students undergo intense clinical field experience. The professional semester is a prerequisite and preparation for student teaching. It includes a block of in-depth courses along with a clinical field experience.
Student teaching occurs for one semester during the senior year. It involves a 16-week assignment at elementary grade levels in schools in southcentral Pennsylvania.
Grace B. Luhrs University Elementary School is an alternative elementary school operated on the SU campus through cooperation between the university and the Shippensburg Area School District. It includes kindergarten through fifth grade and is taught by Shippensburg University College of Education faculty and Shippensburg Area School District teachers. The curriculum is designed to reflect sound developmental and educational practices to meet the unique needs of the children and families served. Demonstration lessons are regularly taught which focus on the application and implementation of current research-based educational techniques. Our students have frequent opportunities to observe and to participate in the teaching process at Grace B. Luhrs University Elementary School.