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Calculating the annual sales growth of a company gives you an idea of how fast the firm is expanding. For example, assume a company has an annual sales growth of 8 percent, and then the amount of sales in the later year increased 8 percent over the previous year's sales volume. Projecting this growth rate onto future years allows you to estimate future sales volume. Assuming the growth rate remains relatively constant, this technique may be applied to any number of years in the future.
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Divide the current annual sales volume by the sales volume of any past year. Although using the preceding year simplifies the calculation, incorporating multiple years gives a better picture of the company's overall growth. For example, if you had $120 million in sales in year 2010, you might divide the $80 sales volume from 2006 to derive an overall growth factor of 1.50.
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Take the N root of the growth factor, where N is the number of years between sales figures. If you calculated the growth factor between two consecutive years, this step is unnecessary. In the example, you would take the 4th root of 1.50, which gives you an average annual growth factor of 1.1067.
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Raise this figure to the power of however many years into the future you would like to project. If you only wish to calculate the next year's sales volume, this step is unnecessary. In the example, to estimate the sales volume 3 years in the future, you would raise 1.1067 to the power of 3, which gives you 1.3554.
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Multiply this figure by the current sales volume to calculate the future sales volume. In the example, multiplying 1.3554 times $120 million predicts a 2013 sales volume of $162.65 million.
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Sometimes music just has a way of taking control of you. Just ask "Fast and Furious" star Vin Diesel. Better yet, you can witness him in a 7-minute video dancing and singing Beyonce's "Drunk In Love," and Katy Perry's "Dark Horse." According to Us Weekly on Jan. 28, Vin Diesel posted the video on his Facebook page early Tuesday, which now has gone viral.
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Diesel wasn't doing anything that fans of either singer haven't done as far as dancing to their music, but the fact that it was caught on video (not sure why he filmed it) has only propelled the popularity of both singles even more.
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The Houston Dash made another big splash on Friday, January 24, 2014 with the announcement of their signing of Japanese international Aya Sameshima.
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Patti Cake is facing two new life challenges: a new room and a new big bed. When she goes to bed the first night, it seems "greatly dark" and lonely with one else in bed, not even her dog Tootsie. The next morning her babysitter takes her to a store where she decides to get an "on-sale " doll that she names On-Sale. During the day she and her doll have many experiences together with Tootsie and her cat. That night Patti Cake of course discovers that the night is not so "greatly dark" any more with her very full bed. This comforting picture book with cozy pastel illustrations is perfect for preschoolers facing the inevitable changes that accompany growing up.
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Day 12
August 8, 2014
Today we met with Twa-le Abrahamson-Swan, the Director of Air Quality. She told us about the Midnite Mine Superfund Site, and the struggles the tribe has gone through to get the Newmont Mining Company to pay for cleaning up the mess they left behind. The Midnite Mine, along with the Sherwood Mine and the Dawn Mill Processing Plant, were all part of a uranium mining operation that ran from 1955 until 1981. After uranium prices dropped sharply, the company abandoned their facilities, even leaving raw ore stockpiles behind. After over 30 years, the Newmont Mining Company has been forced by the EPA to develop and pay for a clean up plan that will deal with the ore and slag piles, fill in the holes, and divert rain water away from the site, and also treat the uranium and heavy metal polluted waters before releasing them into the Spokane River.
Then, we had an opportunity to meet with George Hill, a sculptor and painter who attended the Institute of American Indian Art. He carved several sculptures which are on display at the school, and has gone to art shows throughout the country.
Our trip has almost come to a close. Tomorrow, we will have a goodbye salmon feast with our Spokane hosts, and then we will be returning home! It has been an amazing adventure, and we have all learned a tremendous amount about science, the environment, policy and law, and the cultures of the tribes we have visited.
Day 11
August 8, 2014
We returned to the high school again to learn more about the cultural preservation and forest management aspects of the department of natural resources. We met with Jimbo Seyler, the tribe's Historic Preservation Officer. He showed us pictures of some of the structures the Spokane used to build, like pit houses and fish weirs. We had an opportunity to visit a modern pit house which has been constructed on the grounds of the school for use during their Culture Week celebrations.
Then we visited three different timber stands which have been managed in different ways, and learned a little bit about the process the tribe goes through whenever a timber stand comes up for logging. The first stand we visited had gone through a traditional selective logging. Loggers removed some of the larger, more valuable trees, along with any tree which will not survive the 20-25 years until the unit comes up in rotation again. In the second stand, the loggers thinned out everything except Tamarack Pines, and left a 10-15 foot space between each tree, trying to allow the valuable Tamaracks to grow bigger. That stand also went through a prescribed underburn in order to prevent new trees from establishing themselves. The third stand had to be clear cut because of a break out of root rot, and was replanted with a variety of different trees in order to promote healthy habitat for animals, and biodiversity to prevent the spreading of pests and diseases.
The Spokane use an integrated land management plan for all projects, which means that all sections of the Department of Natural Resources must tour a site and make a report to tribal council on the impacts of the project on their particular area, and give recommendations on how to proceed. Someone from the forestry, wildlife, fisheries, water quality, air quality, fire, and culture division will tour each site, giving feedback on how the project will affect what they are charged with protecting. This process, while time consuming, helps them manage the land better from all the various aspects which are important to them.
After touring the timber stands, we returned to McCoy Creek and toured the old dairy which used to stand there. The dairy and surrounding farm land have been turned into a wildlife refuge. Corn, oats, barley, and native crops have been planted to provide food for large game like deer, elk, and moose to eat in the winter.
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August 8, 2014
We started the day at the High School, and were introduced to a number of people from the Department of Natural Resources. We learned a little bit about the history of the tribe, and how they shifted from fishing to big game hunting after the cut off the salmon in the 1930s. Several people from the wildlife and forestry departments talked to us about how they are managing their deer, elk, and moose populations, and the habitat for those big game animals.
We talked with Ryan Crosley, the manager of water resources, who explained a little bit about what they are doing to manage aquatic habitat for fish. Then we joined him on a project to transplant fish from Tshimikan Creek into McCoy Creek, an isolated creek which has undergone major restoration after almost a century of being diverted for irrigation.
All the students wore rubber waders or boots, and one of them carried the fish shocker; a device attached to a back pack which sends an electrical current down a metal wand and stuns the fish. Then, students with nets followed behind and scooped the fish up, transferring them to buckets and ultimately, an insulated tank on the back of a pickup truck. Then, we drove over to McCoy Creek, and released the fish, where they will hopefully help repopulate the creek.
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August 8, 2014
On Day 9, we packed up the vans and headed to our final destination; the Spokane Reservation. After a few brief stops for fresh fruits and veggies, lunch, and a few minor van troubles, we made it to Wellpinit High School, and were introduced to Warren Seyler, who works in the Department of Natural Resources. He gave us a tour of their beautifully renovated High School.
Then, we went to the Pow-Wow grounds to set up camp, make some dinner, and head to bed early in preparation for a big day!
Day 8
August 8, 2014
We started Day 8 by visiting the Tamastslikt Cultural Institute, located right next to the Wildhorse Resort. The Cultural Institute is a museum and artifact repository for preserving and teaching about the culture of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla. The museum has excellent exhibits on the past, present, and future of the tribes.
After touring the museum, we met up with Wenix Red Elk, who gave a presentation on the CTUIR's First Food Initiative, which works to protect the water, fish, game, roots, and berries that made up the traditional diet of the tribe.
After the presentation, we went back to the Red Elk residence and had a big barbeque, with hamburgers, hot dogs, frybread, and roasted corn. Yum!
Day 7
August 7, 2014
Most of this day was spent packing up camp and driving from the Deschutes National Forest to the Umatilla Reservation. We arrived at the home of Wenix Red Elk and her mother, Loveda Elk. Mrs. Elk is a very skilled glass artist, and did a studio session with us to teach us how to make fused glass plates.
She started by teaching us about glass, and how glass behaves as both a solid, and as a liquid when it is fired. Then, she helped each of us design and fire our own fused glass plates. Many of them were still in the kiln when we left on Tuesday, but we are all excited to see how our plates turned out as soon as they are mailed to Heritage!
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Day 5
August 7, 2014
We spent day 5 with the forest service again, talking about a variety of subjects. First we went to a site where they had done a prescribed burn, and talked to a firefighter about the ways in which the forest service is returning fire to the environment in order to keep it healthy, and prevent large wildfires. Then we went back to the river to a day use site, and spoke to two recreation managers about how they balance the need to get people out into the wilderness with the need to keep it safe and protected. Then, after a short hike, we came to another set of beautiful falls.
Day 4
July 31, 2014
Today was our first day in the Deschutes National Forest. We spent the day working with the Forest Service on a stream site which has undergone major restoration. The area was ravaged by a major forest fire in the 70s, and the subsequent salvage logging removed nearly all the vegetation in the area. The next 25 years saw major erosion of the stream banks, until a stream restoration project returned it to a healthier state. We pulled knapweed, which is an invasive species, and lodgepole pine saplings, which have dominated over the other tree species.
To cap off the day, we took a short hike to the top of Tumalo Falls, and saw a gorgeous view of the top of the falls, and the surrounding area.
Tomorrow, we have another busy day planned with the Forest Service!
Day 3
July 30, 2014
Today was a less active day. We started out at The Museum at Warm Springs, which has excellent exhibits on the culture, history, and art of the three tribes of the Warm Springs reservation. We had the opportunity to hear an elder, Arlita Rhoan, speak to us about childhood on the reservation in the 1940s, and her work teaching Ichishkiin to the younger generations.
Then we returned to the Department of Natural Resources for more information on how they are handling the wild horse population. In 2011, Congress commissioned an investigation of how the defunding of USDA inspections for horse slaughtering facilities had affected horse populations. We saw the powerpoint presentation which the Warm Springs delegate gave on the effects the growing wild horse population is having on their rangelands, streams, and native species. While there are programs in place on Warm Springs and other reservations to sterilize horses so they don't breed, horse populations have risen above the sustainable carrying capacity, and without slaughter facilities, they are in a bind as to what to do. There is a possibility of the restriction on federal funds for horse slaughter facilities will not be renewed, and will expire in September, but if this doesn't happen, the Warm Springs are looking into the possibility of opening their own slaughterhouse on the reservation in order to circumvent the ban.
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KENT, Wash. (AP) — Thirty-year-old Alfonso Senior was given a 26-year prison sentence Thursday in Kent for fatally shooting a man in Federal Way.
A King County Superior Court jury convicted him in October of second-degree murder in the October 2010 shooting death of 24-year-old Darrell Webster.
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Because I drive a hybrid car, I'm not as directly affected by oil price spikes as most. Coffee is another story. When I read in the New York Times last week that yields are plummeting in major coffee-growing regions and saw references to "peak coffee," I started to panic.
Eugene N. Anderson, who wrote Caffeine and Culture, writes in the New York Times' "Room for Debate" column that the current shortage will prompt people to plant more good, shade-grown coffee. "Coffee is one of those classic commodities, like beef, that goes through cycles: when expensive, people grow more, but the crop takes a few years to mature, by which time the plantings have produced a glut, so people cut production, and the cycle starts over again," Anderson explains. Unlike oil production, he points out, coffee planting can be increased worldwide.
Still, there's cause for worry. Peter Baker, a coffee specialist with CABI, a British research group that focuses on agriculture and the environment, says heavy rains and drought across Central and South America are not a good sign. "Coffee production is under threat from global warming, and the outlook for Arabica in particular is not good," he says. The Specialty Coffee Association of America warned this year, "It is not too far-fetched to begin questioning the very existence of specialty coffee."
"Climatic variability is the main factor responsible for changes in coffee yields all over the world," the Colombian Coffee Growers Federation stated. Average temperatures in Colombia's coffee regions have risen 1 to 2 degrees in 30 years, and rainfall has increased by 25 percent, says Cenicafé, the national coffee research center.
I'm not taking any chances; I'm stocking up on Mother's Fair Trade Peace Blend coffee. (I've always been something of a hoarder when it comes to the supplies for my daily brew, anyway.) I hope it doesn't come down to it, but I may have to look into some coffee alternatives. I can't go there yet, though. I need a coffee break.
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Provence is one of the most alluring regions in the South of France.
It's a land of mountains, beaches and charming villages.
It's a land of incredible scents floating in the air. Among them - the lavender - the flower of eternity.
In summertime you can catch the lavender in bloom and fully experience the true scent and fascinating display of colour of the lavender fields.
This album is dedicated to all those who have explored this peaceful valley and those who dream about it.
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A Vancouver man who allegedly killed his girlfriend with a knife in May 2011 will not face the death penalty, Clark County's prosecutor said Thursday.
Tony Golik said he made the decision after reviewing a mitigation packet prepared by the defense that outlined why Dennis L. Wolter should not face capital punishment. Wolter allegedly stabbed his girlfriend, Kori Fredericksen, to death before dumping her body down an embankment along Southeast Evergreen Highway on May 26, 2011.
Wolter, 44, is charged with aggravated first-degree murder because prosecutors allege he violated a domestic violence no-contact order that barred him from any contact with Fredericksen.
Golik said he met with the victim's family members, police and other top prosecutors in his office before reaching a decision.
"After slow and careful consideration of this very serious and sad case, I reached a very difficult decision," he said.
One of Wolter's defense attorneys, Bob Yoseph, said he and attorney Therese Lavallee presented Golik with information that Wolter has an undisclosed mental illness.
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for a mentally ill or developmentally disabled person to face the death penalty.
"The defense presented concrete evidence of a mental disease and defect that excluded Dennis from the pool of death-eligible candidates," Yoseph said. "We think the prosecuting attorney made the right call in this case."
Wolter's trial is currently set for Oct. 15.
Golik said he anticipates the case will go to trial, as opposed to being settled by a plea bargain.
"We will seek nothing less than life in prison without the possibility of parole," he said.
That penalty is the only other option for the charge of aggravated murder in Washington.
Wolter was arrested after a police officer stopped him for speeding and found him covered in blood. Police searching the area of the traffic stop found the 41-year-old Fredericksen's body; she had been stabbed repeatedly.
Wolter is being held in the Clark County Jail without bail.
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This is the final post, and we all knew this was coming…
Nigger. The word is foul. It is at the very tip top of a tall pyramid of racial slurs used for black people – the people for whom more flagrant racial slurs exist than any other race.
Figure 1: The Big Damn Pyramid of Black Lexical Hate
Notwithstanding the atrociousness of the word itself, 'Nigger' has had a very interesting history. It naturally started out as a dismissive term used by whites to describe blacks, and it didn't even necessarily have racist connotations. It remained in this form until the 19th century, when the term slowly transformed from racial to racist. The racist connotation of 'nigger' came to a head during the Civil Rights movement, by whose time the word had gone well beyond descriptive and dismissive, becoming instead an angry and proactive way to harshly degrade blacks (in parallel with the term 'boy' applied to grown fucking men).
Then came the hip hop generation, and the shit got complicated. Namely, black people started using the word everywhere from the corner store to the recording studio in what has widely been regarded as an effort to 'take back' the word and remove its harmful power. However good the intentions were in doing this, a single clear negative consequence arose…
Well-meaning whites started thinking it was OK to say it, too.
Figure 2: Viacom Viacom fucking goddamn Viacom
Oddly enough, when black people started using the word, non-blacks (whites in particular) wanted to convince themselves that the word ceased to be as a racial slur, and that it was OK for everyone to use it. Ignoring the patent weirdness of so-called non-racist white people being so eager to call black people 'niggers', every black person in America has certainly heard a non-black person make the following statement with complete and utter sincerity:
"I don't get it. I mean, if black people can say it then why can't I?"
This person is usually named 'Chad' and looks like this fucking guy:
Figure 3: Chad Biffington Toddwell IV
Before I address Chad, I need to explain something. Black people, like all people, have what's called a boiling point. A boiling point is a person's psychological threshold which, when crossed, causes that person to lose control of his or her normally functioning self. Each time a person is angered, fucked with, betrayed, or otherwise ill-treated, that person gets closer to his boiling point. Interestingly, race tends to be the determining factor in the behavior that results when a person actually reaches his boiling point. For example:
Figure 4: Losing their Shit (l to r): Whites, Asians, Arabs, Hispanics, Blacks
When Chad asks a black person "why can't I say 'nigger'", 95% of black people reach their boiling point IMMEDIATELY. Contrary to popular belief, though, a black person who reaches his boiling point will usually not shoot you, shank you, or date your daughter…he will simply shut down intellectually. A blank, idiotic look creeps over his face, after which he will try to give you a response, but the words simply don't come. He shakes his head and walks away exasperated, leaving Chad with the mistaken impression that he has a good point.
Figure 5: The goat-like stare of a black man (the author) at his boiling point
Fortunately, I've heard the Chad Question so many times that I've developed a scripted response to it:
Chad: "I don't get it. I mean, if black people can say it then why can't I?"
Me: "Do you have a girlfriend?"
Chad: "Uh, yea…"
Me: "Do you fuck her?"
Chad: "…..yeah…."
Me: "Cool. Mind if I fuck her?"
Chad: "DUDE! NOT COOL!"
Me: "I don't get it. I mean, if you can fuck her then why can't I?"
Unfortunately, this response isn't given nearly often enough, so now we're at the point where white people are so comfortable with the word 'nigger' that it can be heard, uncensored, on television programs that won't even allow vaginas (not women) to be referred to as 'pussies'. Abso-fucking-lutely amazing.
Barack Obama winning the presidency combined with newfound white comfort with the 'N' word will create the perfect storm of conditions for The Man to declare racism legally dead. After that, the only way we'll be able to get them to examine their own inherent racsim will be to show them pictures of my friends like this one and demand they recognize how angry/uncomfortable they became:
Figure 6: Beige babies, anyone?
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Reverse Racism
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America was founded on divisions of race. It can be argued that the story of the country became largely white vs. red after the French and Indian War. After the Revolution and over time as frontiers turned into settled country, those established parts of the country – particularly in the south – were focused on white vs. black. Then the 'immigrants' came in. Whitey was constantly defending himself from the onslaught of various minorities (in the words of the immortal Dave Chappelle – "niggers, jews, a-rabs, homosexuals, mexicans, and all them different kinds of chinks…") attempting to stake a claim in the American dream.
Figure 1: Let's face it. This is all they were really scared of.
While white people have enjoyed and even relished in the role of Oppressor for the past few centuries, two phenomena are beginning to take its place. One is the ever recognizable white guilt, which spawns everything from white women who are willing only to date black men, to the pre-2008 Clintons, to Wiggers. There is, however, a growing community of white people who are fed up with white guilt but stop well short of being white supremacists (who have never subscribed to white guilt). The most interesting thing about this group is that a growing number of non-whites, particularly asians, are joining their ranks.
This is the community of people who attempt to negate the cascading effects of hundreds of years of slavery and institutionalized racism by trying to convince black people (and everyone else) that they also face 'discrimination' and have a similar history of oppression. This is why it's so popular these days for white people to claim Irish ancestry – the Irish are perhaps the only group of white people in America that were ever systematically stigmatized by the dominant society. I refer to these people as Mark 2′s, which is what I'd assume U.S. Marines would call idiots running around yelling "ME TOO!" when other people discuss racism.
The typical Mark 2 will usually cite some trite instance where black (or white) people made them uncomfortable and compare that to the lingering effects of several centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, gentrification, modern day institutionalized racism, and semi-conscious stigmatization that black people have to deal with EVERY SINGLE MOTHERFUCKING DAY OF THEIR LIVES. For the visual learner:
Figure 2: Inside the mind of the Mark 2
Yes, white people will point out the time when they walked onto a nearly all-black basketball court and got funny looks from people, and actually think that's comparable to, say, black unemployment being fueled by deliberate strangulation of public transportation (which poor people need to get to interviews and to work) funding in poor black neighborhoods. Asian people will reflect on a time when a white dude made slanty eyes and yelled "ME SO SOLLY!" and thinks that's just as damaging as the Superpredator stereotype. Fucking awesome.
The next Indian (red dot, not feather) asshole to approach me and say "shut the fuck up – black people aren't the only people that get discriminated against in this country" is going to watch in horror as I make a peace pipe (feather, not red dot) out of his trachea. I wonder what a rape victim thinks when some chick who got her ass pinched by a lecherous boss walks up to her and says "You know, you're not the only one that's had a guy force himself on you."
I need a fucking therapist.
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Molly Elizabeth Pittman and Troy Mac Phillips, both of Amarillo, were married Saturday, May 26, at Ceta Canyon. The Rev. Brian Seay officiated.
The bride is the daughter of Becky Pittman of Amarillo and the late Kenneth Pittman. Grandparents of the bride are Norene Pittman, who attended the wedding, the late Casey Pittman and the late Roy and Emma Collins.
Parents of the groom are Carol and Robert Phillips of Amarillo. Grandparents of the groom are Georgia Phillips and Mr. and Mrs. McLeod, all of whom attended the wedding, the late Henry Phillips and the late Vora Dell McCracken.
Bridal attendants were Ashley Rea and Angela Wales.
Groom's attendants were Stephen Price and Scott Jenkins.
The wedding reception was held at Ceta Canyon. House party members were Tessa Phillips, Blaine Pittman, Trent Phillips, Todd Phillips, Marlo Collins, Lisa Flowers, Allison Albrecht, Ashli Simpson and Nicole Gardner.
The bride is a graduate of Amarillo High School. She is pursuing a degree in elementary education at West Texas A&M University in Canyon. She plans to graduate in December.
The groom graduated from Amarillo High School. He received a degree in biology and biochemistry from WT. He is a research assistant at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center.
The couple plan a honeymoon to Lake City, Colo. They will reside in Canyon.
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Diane comments and submits: love the welcome rock.
Lifeshighway comments and acknowledges effort: They have the same gardening skills as I do!
Diane having the last word and pretty much writing my entry for me: HAaaaa the rock should say 'welcome to my pathetic garden of 3 sh*tty tomatoes'
- Squirrel with cherished nut: 1 point
- 2 cherubs with tiny birdbath (maybe for dragonflies): 1 point
- Frog with umbrella (which seems pointless given the condition of the crops): 1 point
- Teeny turtle: 1 point
- Violin playing frog: (drowning out the tomato screams): 1 point
- Welcome rock (hmph, I still have nothing better to say): 1 point
- 3 tomatoes plants not in the best of health: 0 points
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Caustic Pot House Stacks, "A" Power Stack, "A" Pump Station, and "A" Evaporator Building, 1920. Arthur Henry Knighton-Hammond (1875–1970). Oil on canvas. Courtesy of Henry H. and Grace A. Dow Foundation, photograph by Will Brown.
The centerpiece of "Progress and Its Problems," this painting celebrates industry, but it also suggests the environmental dangers of progress.
October 17, 2012 | Gigi Naglak
At the Chemical Heritage Foundation we celebrate chemistry's rich history and positive impact on humanity. But in the museum we have a section called "Progress and Its Problems," which considers some of the stumbling blocks chemists have faced over time. Some new products had unexpected, negative effects on human health while others damaged the environment. The artifacts contained in this section of the museum help tell that difficult story of new discoveries with unintended consequences. At CHF our mission is to tell the story of chemistry, and that story is a nuanced one, full of the best and worst of human history, good and bad, success and failure . . . and everything in between.
"The Case of Plastics" endeavors to explore that same balanced narrative. In fact, this case is part of a larger project called Conflicts in Chemistry, the first in what we hope will be a series of cases that explore controversial issues throughout chemistry's history. It's only by thoroughly understanding the positive and negative sides of chemistry—and all the grey areas—that we can hope to allow our understanding of history to inform the way we react to the present. After all, though chemistry has caused problems in the world, the solutions to many of those problems will also be found through chemistry.
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If you received an email or see a 'Not Eligible' flag through WyoWeb, under the Student Financials Tab, Financial Aid Requirements, you may appeal for reinstatement. Please call 307-766-3790 to schedule an appointment with Laurie Jaskolski no later than the end of the Drop/Add period for each semester of appeal.
Items to consider:
- Financial aid SAP is not the same as academic progress through the Registrar.
- Being declared 'Not Eligible' for federal financial aid does not mean a student has been academically dismissed from the University of Wyoming.
- Many scholarship recipients are required to maintain a higher credit hour level or grade point average than outlined in this policy. Guidelines on the minimum acceptable credits/grade point average for scholarship recipients are outlined by donors or in acceptance notices signed by the recipient.
Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) Policy
Process Overview and Responsibilities
The University Of Wyoming Office of Student Financial Aid is responsible for ensuring that all students receiving federal financial aid meet minimum standards. The University of Wyoming standard of Satisfactory Academic Progress (SAP) measures all students' academic performance.
Satisfactory Academic Progress is reviewed at the end of each payment period (fall, spring, summer) and the following three areas are measured:
- Qualitative – Institutional cumulative grade point average earned
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A student must successfully complete 67% of the cumulative hours attempted.
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When pursuing multiple degrees or changing majors the maximum time frame may be adjusted based on a student generated appeal that includes a degree audit.
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Students who have not met the minimum standard requirements for the previous semester will be placed on a Warning status. Students on Warning status are eligible for financial aid for one additional payment period. Students who do not meet Minimum Standard Requirements at the end of their Warning semester will be Not Eligible for the next semester.
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The story is about how Maria changed the life of a motherless Von Trapp family during the Nazi occupation in Austria and their flight to freedom.
The musical was adapted into a film in 1965 and started Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, and not only won the Best Picture Oscar, but also became the highest-grossing film at that time, replacing "Gone With the Wind," according to the Internet Movie Data Base.
Since then, it has entertained generations with its songs "Do-Re-Mi," "Edelweiss" and "My Favorite Things."
For two Park City residents, Heather Menzies Urich and Ally Ioannides, the role of the third child Louisa, has a special meaning.
Menzies Urich played Louisa in the film and Ioannides is playing Louisa in the Hale Centre Theatre's production of "The Sound of Music" this summer.
A few years ago, the Ioannides' met Menzies Urich, the wife of the late actor Robert Urich, through a mutual acquaintance and became friends.
Furthermore, Menzies Urich has a daughter, also named Allie, and the two girls performed together in the Egyptian Theatre's production of "Annie" a couple of years ago.
The Park Record had the opportunity to interview Menzies Urich and Ioannides last week to talk about their thoughts about the "iconic musical.
Menzies Urich remembers
The Sound of Music" is something that will never fade from Heather Menzies Urich's life.
In 1965, when she was 16, Menzies Urich, who lives in Park City, landed the role of Louisa in the film version of Rogers and Hammerstein's "The "Sound of Music," directed by Robert Wise.
"We had no clue that it would be as iconic as it has become over the years," said Menzies Urich during an interview. "I'm blessed to have been a part of it."
Menzies Urich had been singing and dancing and taking acting classes in Los Angeles, Calif., since she was 10 or 11 years old and felt she was prepared when she went into the audition.
"There were a lot of kids who auditioned, because they did a nationwide search and even looked at actors from England," she said. "One of the cast members lived in New York and Angela Cartwright, who landed the role of Brigitta Von Trapp was born in England, but was living in L.A. at the time."
Others who auditioned but didn't make the cut included Jonny Provost, known for his role as Timmy in the "Lassie" movies and Kurt Russell.
"It was fun for me because I grew up watching these kids on TV and they were all there," Menzies Urich said. " 'Lassie' was my favorite show, and there I was in this room with Jonny."
When the cast was announced, it was clear Wise knew what he was looking for.
"I think he had a clear picture of these characters and wanted them to be real and not just Broadway versions of the family," Menzies Urich said. "He kept looking until he found the individuals."
Louisa, Menzies Urich said, is such a joyful character and mischievous.
"She was a fun character to perform," she said. "People keep telling me how lucky I was to get the role, but there really isn't any such thing as luck. It's all preparation and timing and that's how I got into it."
Menzies Urich confessed she didn't know too much about the Von Trapp family going into the production.
"I didn't necessarily feel any type of pressure (about my character) at the time," she said. "I hadn't seen the Broadway show and hadn't really heard of it, but as the filming went on, I gradually got to learn quite a bit about the family."
In fact, she felt so close to the family that while filming the movie's climax when the family was fleeing from the Nazis, she felt real terror.
"We were really scared at the end, genuinely scared," Menzies Urich said. "But there were other scenes during the filming, like when we start to see the transition of the Captain, that really felt the emotions."
One of Menzies Urich's most memorable scenes in the film is when the kids sing "Do Re Mi" with Julie Andrews.
"The whole sequence was magical and it was like the very first MTV video because all of a sudden we're wearing different outfits and running all over the place and the music was coming out of the trees," she said. "It was amazing, although it took weeks to film. The people in Salzburg had no idea what we were doing. They were watching us as we were running down the street dancing."
Another scene that will always be close to Menzies Urich's heart is the party scene where they sing "So Long, Farewell."
"I remember my father would come to pick me up from the set and he came a little earlier that day and was standing right next to the camera," she said. "He was smiling and beaming at me, and you can kind of see in my eye during the film that I was aware of his presence.
"He is no longer with me, so when I see the film, I remember that and it's a great memory," she said.
Another gift of being in "The Sound of Music" for Menzies Urich was meeting the real Von Trapp singers, who have since become great friends.
"They call us the 'Non Trapps,'" she said with a laugh. "They are a gorgeous, beautiful family."
In December, 1999, the 'Non Trapps' from the film and the original Broadway cast had the opportunity to sing with the real singers during an event in New York presented by the Austrian Board of Tourism.
"The board set up this celebration because we were instrumental in bringing tourists to Salzburg," Menzies Urich said. "We were all there and, because it was close to Christmas, we got up and sang 'Silent Night' together. There was not a dry eye in the house."
These days Menzies Urich is still promoting "The Sound of Music."
"I just returned from a month-long promo tour of a book that has been published that was compiled by the 'Non Trapps,'" she said. "It's called the Sound of Music family scrapbook and is a compilation of stuff that was in our bins at home that our mothers had."
The book includes behind-the-scene photos, ticket replicas and even a copy of the casting call sheet.
"It's called a 'treasure book' and there are some interactive pages that have envelops with goodies the reader can pull out and examine," Menzies Urich said. "All the things in the book belonged to us, and it's available www.amazon.com .
There are also autographed copies of the book available at www.somfamilyscrapbook.com
"The book is very popular and it sold out so we had to restock it," she said.
In addition, Menzies Urich is overseeing the Robert Urich Foundation for Cancer Research. (www.urichfoundation.org .)
Robert Urich, who appeared in the 1970's TV series "S.W.A.T." and "Vegas" died of synovia sarcoma, a rare form of cancer, Menzies Urich said.
"The foundation has been around for a couple of years," she explained. "We also had the Urich Foundation for Cancer Research at the University of Michigan, something he started specifically for sarcoma. It's under the U of Michigan's umbrella, and I wanted to have a little more control and wanted to make it available for all types of cancers."
Menzies Urich wanted the foundation to offer opportunities her husband didn't when he was diagnosed.
"Right now if someone develops a rare form of cancer and live in Nebraska, they have to go to a facility that does specific research on that cancer and that means the family basically has to move there and get an apartment, which insurance won't pay for," she said. "So, my pie-in-the-sky goal is to have living facilities next to comprehensive cancer centers where people can go and stay while they or their family members are being treated."
Recently, the foundation held a fundraiser in Los Angeles with the Sarcoma Foundation of America.
"We had Rufus Wainwright sing and he has been very supportive of what we do because he lost his mother, folk singer Katie McGarrible, to sarcoma two years ago," Menzies Urich said.
Another performer was Anthony Federov, the fourth-place finalist in the fourth season of "American Idol," who lost his brother to sarcoma.
"If I can make a little difference in my lifetime as far as that's concerned, that would make me very happy," Menzies Urich said.
Ioannides looks forward
Park City resident Ally Ioannides, an eighth grader at the Madeleine School Choir in Salt Lake, is excited to land the role of Louisa in the Hale Centre Theatre's production of "The Sound of Music."
The musical runs from June 6 through Aug. 4.
Although Ioannides, 14, has been involved with productions at the Egyptian Theatre and Pioneer Theatre Company, this is her first show with the Hale Centre.
"Hale is an amazing theatre and they are very professional," Ioannides said during an interview. "The director, Chris Clark, is great and the musical director, Ann Puzey, is excellent and I love working with the choreographer Marilyn May Montgomery. They are on the same level of professionalism and they are very nice there."
When Ioannides auditioned earlier this year, she wanted to be Lousia.
"Just looking at the cast list, Louisa was the role I was most fit for," she said. "I'm around Lousia's age and she's just a happy person.
"There is a line in the show that says, 'Louisa just wants to play' and that's easy for me, because I love to play," Ioannides said. "When it comes down to it, Louisa just wants to have a good time and I think she's a really good character for me to relate to.
Ever since I was young, I used to make up my own games."
To prepare for the role, the actress decided to not watch the film for a few months.
"I don't want to play Louisa like she is in the movie, and also when you're in a well-known show, the director will sometimes tell the cast not to watch the movie or video, because he wants the production to be fresh and original, too," Ioannides said. "I was able to come up with my own ideas."
"The Sound of Music" is one of the Ioannides' family's favorite musicals.
"I first saw the movie when I was really young and I've seen it a few times," she said. "I love the movie, and I think everyone loves it, because when I talk with people they always tell me they know it."
Ioannides likes the production because of its uplifting message about how music can change people's lives.
"It's a joyful show and has a positive message and has a positive outcome," she said. "I feel that when I'm performing in the musical. I feel so happy and I know the rest of cast does, too.
"There are scenes we do with Maria (played alternately by Cecily Ellis-Bills and Megan Heaps) and we have to be loud and laugh a lot and I think that comes naturally to the kids who are in the cast. I think that's the spirit of the show."
Ioannides' favorite scene is when the cast sings "Do-Re-Mi."
"I also like 'My Favorite Things' and Louisa likes those scenes, too, because she's dong what she does best, which is to have fun," she said. "I love to sing. It brings so much joy to me and I can understand those kids feeling of having no music in the house and then all of a sudden having music and being opened up emotionally."
The musical's storyline means a lot to Ioannides.
"The kids really needed mother, because before Maria comes into their home, their lives were pretty grim and structured, but when she gets there they learn to sing and they really learn to live," she said.
Ioannides likes how the change begins to affect the Captain, played in repertoire by Matthew Dobson and Mark Knowles.
"I think the first time we notice the father is welcoming music in the household is when we sing 'The Sound of Music' for him," she said. "It's right after he's told Maria to leave, but then he starts to sing with us. There is a wonderful connection and it brings us together."
As for the darker elements of the story pertaining to the Nazis, Ioannides said she tries to put herself in Louisa's shoes.
"As a kid, I don't think Louisa understands what's going on until the family is hiding and then it becomes real for her," she said. "It actually becomes real for me, too, because I get scared in that scene."
The Hale Centre Theatre, 3333 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley, will present "The Sound of Music" from Wednesday, June 6, through Saturday, Aug. 4. Curtain is Monday through Saturday is 7:30 p.m. and Saturday, 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. Tickets start at $24 for adults and $15 for children ages five through 11. Tickets can be purchased by visiting www.halecentretheatre.org or by calling (801) 984-9000.


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Ms. Frost, just stepping out of her town car about to head thru the glass doors for a very important meeting. She fancy. She breezy, confident, and lethal. Nary a hair out of place, possibly getting a chest cold, but her feet definitely don't hurt in those 4.5 inch heels. She got some of that Wada-short leg syndrome. I'm working on that, guys, I really am. But other than that I'm really happy with this 80s/90s fashionista HBIC Charlize-y, Claire Underwood-y Emma. Oh and did I mention she was for Kris Anka? I shoulda mentioned that CAUSE SHE WAS .


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As Shiyra looked around Jolee's hut, she couldn't help but notice that he had the oddest sense of decoration she had ever seen. Odd statues were sitting on a small table and much to her suprise she could see a small medal hanging from a wall. She walked over to it and took a quick look at it and she had trouble believing her eyes.
The Cross of Glory? Thats the highest award that can be given out! I can't help but wonder how the old man got it.
Unknown to Shiyra, Jolee had been watching her as she had examined the award. He walked up behind her without making a sound.
"See something interesting?" He asked. He took a quick look behind him to see Mission and Zaalbar chatting with Juhani who was holding Ariana and was gently rocking her to sleep.
"Well...yes." Shiyra said as she continued looking at the medal. "I hope I don't offend you but I was just wondering how you got that. The Cross of Glory is the highest honor that can be bestowed on a person."
Jolee sighed and looked at the medal, as if he was thinking of something that he would much rather not talk about. Shiyra was about to tell him that he didn't have to talk about it but then he raised his hand.
"Don't worry, your going to hear the story and it's better to get it out of the way now."
Jolee smiled sadly as he looked over the medal and an old fashioned photo that was on another small table. "I think you've heard about the jedi civil war. The war that brought the Jedi into the war between Revan's Sith Empire and the Galactic Republic. We managed to win but at a terrible cost. By the end of the war only a hundred or so jedi remained."
Jolee picked up the medal and bowed his head. "That's where I got the medal from. I was part of the group that fought to bring Darth Malak down. In fact, I was on the Starforge when Revan managed to defeat Malak. After the battle we were all awarded the Cross of Glory for our actions.""
A single tear dropped from Jolee's right eye as he looked up at the picture. Shiyra followed his gaze and saw a few familiar faces in the picture. Mission, Juhani, Zaalbar and a few unfamiliar faces. As she looked closer she recognized a woman wearing jedi robes who was holding a double bladed lightsaber.
"You traveled with Bastila Shan?"
Jolee nodded. "Yeah...For a short time after, we all stayed together and that was the happiest time of my life. I had spent a long time in the shadowlands and I was happy to travel with everyone. But then...everyone was forced to go there seperate ways. Bastila was recalled to the Jedi temple on coruscant, Juhani decided to travel the galaxy, Canderous just left one day and I never saw him again. The others just left like Canderous did."
Shiyra put her hand on the old man's shoulder as he continued looking at the picture.
"Around five years later, I tried to get back into contact with the other jedi, I had decided that I could teach others what I had learned. They told me I was to meet them on Katarr. It's a good thing that I didn't make the last shuttle. Something managed to wipe out all life on Katarr. I assumed that Juhani and Bastila had died on Katarr so I decided to just travel. Just go where the solar winds took me."
"So how did you end up on Manaan? It doesn't seem like the best place to hide. As I recall, there is only one city there."
"To be honest, I needed to fix my ship up. I was low on fuel and my hyperdrive was nearly shot. I ran into Juhani in a bar in Ahto city and to make a long story short, we managed to tick off a group of mercenaries and we ended up having to steal a ship, but thats another story for another time."
"We decided to hide out on Kashyyk and we've been here ever since. I have to say though, I was alone for many years before the jedi civil war and I don't want to be alone, not ever again. I'm glad that I managed to find Juhani."
"I don't blame you." Shiyra said quietly. I wandered the galaxy by myself for nearly five years and I have to say it felt horrible. I felt much better when I managed to find others who wished to travel with me."
Shiyra turned to look at Ariana who was now sleeping soundly in Juhani's arms. Shiyra turned back to look at Jolee and was about to offer more words of comfort when she suddenly felt a disturbance in the force...something that chilled her to the bone. Jolee looked up from the photo and nodded. "I can feel it too. it sounds like your friend up on the surface is busy."
Shiyra didn't respond. She could feel it: Mical was somehow becoming stronger...she could feel his cold satisfaction as she felt his strength increase.
She looked over at Juhani who was looking down at Ariana who was starting to shift uneasily in her sleep.
Shiyra grabbed for her lightsaber to make sure that it was on her belt. "I think we need to leave. Now."
Upper Levels of Kashyyk
Mical had managed to regain the use of one of his legs. Every step that he took was agony. He could feel the force flowing through him, healing him, giving him the energy he needed to get to his ship.
After a few minutes of walking, he finally saw his ship sitting on the walkway. He smiled darkly as he reached his hand out and pulled the hatch open. He sat down in the pilot's seat and entered a code that opened a small hidden hatch.
It looks as if I will finally be forced to use this,
he thought as he pulled a small black pyramid out from the compartment.
Mical held the object in his hand and began to focus on the pyramid, letting the darkside energy that had been stored in the artifact heal him even as he began to shake and shudder as the pain from the healing began to affect him.
Mical shouted out in pain as he began to feel his broken leg's bones began to knit at an accelerated pace. Cuts and bruises began to quickly disappear. He could feel the amount of pain increasing as more and more of his body healed. He struggled to focus his energy into closing the pyramid.
Can't...let this continue!
He thought as the pyramid began to close. He sighed in relief as the pyramid finally closed.
It was so good of the jedi on coruscant to leave this in the temple
. Mical thought darkly as he placed the pyramid back in the compartment.
Just a few minutes and I will begin the hunt once again,
he thought with dark satisfaction.
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Infiniminer is commonly associated with Minecraft for giving Notch an idea on where to go with Minecraft, sometimes as a forerunner. It was developed by Zachtronics Industries, and released in steps of incremental updates during April�May 2009. It quickly garnered a following on message boards around the internet, and inspired Notch to start working on Minecraft several weeks after it was discontinued. Like Minecraft, Infiniminer is a block-based digging/building game. It was originally intended to be played as a team-based competitive game, where the goal is to locate and excavate precious metals, and bring your findings to the surface to earn points for your team. However, as the game gained popularity, players decided it was much more fun to build things than to compete for points. Zachtronics discontinued development of the game less than a month after its first release. The source code was un-obfuscated, which resulted in many hackers creating hacked clients, and others who were unhappy with balancing to fork, causing it to fatally lose coherence.
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Test of New Dengue Vaccine Shows Promise
A clinical trial of a new vaccine against dengue fever shows progress toward fighting the most common mosquito-borne disease. The drug is less successful than hoped, but seems to be effective at preventing three of the four related viruses that cause dengue.
Dengue fever increasing
Dengue fever is endemic across the tropics, with more than 2.5 billion people in 128 countries at risk. Symptoms can range from aches and fever to circulatory failure, coma and death. Some 21,000 people die of dengue each year, and the number of cases is increasing, including outbreaks in the southeastern United States.
There is no vaccine available to prevent dengue fever. Part of the difficulty in developing one is that there are four different but related types of the disease. Those who recover from infection by one type gain lifetime immunity, but only against that type. Scott Halstead, of the Dengue Vaccine Initiative, explains that they are still at risk of infection with one of the other types.
"Dengue normally produces a short acute febrile disease, sort of a flu-like disease which ends in a rash, and when you're convalescent, you have life-long immunity to the type you've been infected with, say Type 1. But you are susceptible then to either type 2 or 3 or 4, and what we've learned is that two different infections – with say, Type 1 and Type 2 – can result in a very severe catastrophic disease called dengue hemorrhagic fever, and this occurs all over the tropical world, mostly in Asia and the American tropics," Halstead explained.
New vaccine
That is why researchers are focused on developing a so-called tetravalent vaccine, modeled on the successful yellow fever vaccine, combining weakened versions of all four types of dengue virus into a single drug.
Halstead, who was not involved in the new clinical trial, says the pharmaceutical company, Sanofi Pasteur, took a molecular approach to creating its vaccine.
"They actually spliced the gene for each of the four dengue viruses into a yellow fever backbone. So this is a combined vaccine called a chimera, combining the yellow fever replicative machinery and the dengue surface proteins," he said. "But it is a vaccine mixture of dengue 1, 2, 3 and 4."
In the first trial to determine whether a vaccine could actually prevent the disease, Sanofi's drug was tested in 4,000 school children in Thailand. The children got three doses of either the vaccine or a placebo. Spacing the shots six months apart was meant to mimic the natural immune response people develop over time. Two years later, the vaccine seemed to have protected the children against three of the four strains, but not the most common type of the virus, which accounts for about 40 percent of severe dengue cases worldwide.
But the results show that the vaccine is safe, and technologically possible.
Although Halstead and many other dengue experts expressed disappointment that Sanofi's vaccine was not more effective, they regard it as an important step forward.
"The problem is, can we use a vaccine that only protects against three? In my commentary that I wrote for The Lancet, I speculated that maybe, if you could really give enough of a three-component vaccine to stop transmission, you'd actually leave just one virus, and one virus all by itself won't cause dengue hemorrhagic fever. So a lot of the really serious problems caused by dengue viruses might be controlled with a three-component vaccine," said Halstead.
Sanofi is already testing its new vaccine in large Phase 3 trials involving more than 30,000 people in 10 countries, with results expected in 2014. A report about the Phase 2 trial, and Dr. Halstead's commentary, appear in the medical journal, The Lancet.


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UIC Touts 10 Spring Academic All-Horizon League Honorees
Softball leads the Flames with three recipients
UIC Student-Athletes Go Through Commencement Services
35 student-athletes received a bachelor's degree in the spring and summer sessions
Sixty-Three UIC Student-Athletes Named to HL 2013-14 Honor Roll
Student-athletes were honored in both the fall and spring semesters
UIC Holds Inaugural `Night to Ignite'
Student-athlete awards ceremony took place Thursday night at the UIC Forum
Night of Champions Banquet Honors Student-Athletes
Women's Tennis wins Academic Team of the Year for the seventh time in 12 years
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Outdoor 2014: Jumped 5.22m for second place at the Ted Haydon Invitational... Earned fifth place overall at the Horizon League Championships jumping 5.39m.
Indoor 2014: Earned first place in the long jump at the Windy City Rumble with a mark of 5.44m... Jumped her way to second place in long jump at the Margaret Bradley Invitational with a mark of 5.22m... Ran the 200m dash with a time of 27.65 at the Chicagoland Championships... Earned fifth overall in long jump at the Chicagoland Championships with a leap of 5.38m.
Outdoor 2013: Competed in the 100m Dash at the Twilight Invite at Benedictine University earning a mark of 13:33...Placed eleventh overall at the Horizon League Championship for Long Jump with a mark of 5.15m.
Outdoor 2012: Placed fourth at the Chicagoland Championships in the long jump with a mark of 5.42m ... took home fourth-place honors in the long jump at the Horizon League Championships with an outdoor-best mark of 5.50m.
Indoor 2012: Tied for first in the long jump at the Dick Pond open with a mark of 5.28m ... took eighth in the 200 at the Carthage Tadd Metzger Invite with a time of 28.20 and won the long jump with a leap of 5.69m ... placed second in the long jump at the Milwaukee Panther Tune-Up with a mark of 5.44m and ran a career-best 200 time of 27.77 to place fifth overall ... placed third at the Horizon League Championships in the long jump with a leap of 5.66m.
Outdoor 2011: Placed third in the long jump at the Chicagoland Classic (4/08/11) and the DePaul Invitational (4/16/11).
Indoor 2011: Placed fourth in the long jump at the UWM Panther Tune-Up (2/18/11) ... came in fifth in the long jump at the Dick Pond Open (1/14/11) and in the triple jump at the UWM Panther Tune-Up (2/18/11) ... took eighth in the long jump at the North Central Invitational (1/21/11) ... finished ninth in the triple jump at the Dick Pond Open (1/14/11).
PREP AND PERSONAL: Four-time letterwinner in track and two-time letterwinner in cheerleading at Niles North (Ill.) ... placed 10th in the 2009 IHSA State Track Meet in long jump ... four-time All-Conference and two-time sectional champion in the long jump ... member of school record 4X200 and 4X400 relay teams ... named MVP her senior season ... competed in cheerleading her sophomore season where she earned MVP honors ... born June 11, 1991 in Uzbekistan ... daughter of Yelena and Victor Denisenko... has one sister, Alexandra ... currently enrolled as a Movement Sciences major.


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Just like a top pro athlete, Paul Wall has his eyes firmly locked on the title. In his case, it's the crown he wears as the self-proclaimed People's Champ, and he's clearly in a frame of mind to defend his gold on his latest studio effort, Heart of a Champion. Right from the opener, "Take [cont.]
It's pretty clear that Paul's posse cut from Heart of A Champion will have the innanet going nuts. LISTEN: Paul Wall – Live It (feat. feat. Raekwon + Jay Electronica + Yelawolf)
First single from Paul's Heart Of A Champion, due July 13th
Paul Wall talks about his favorite show the The Boondocks, the documentary about blood diamonds with himself and Raekwon and the upcoming album Heart Of The Champion. Check it out above.
Paul Wall teams with DJ Skee for this new mixtape release. Guest support from Yelawolf, Play-N-Skillz, Pitbull, Yo Gotti, Dorrough, Slim Thug, Gobots, and more. Paul Wall – "Sole Music" Mixtape
Bun B tore shit down in New York City last night, bringing out a host of special guests, including Big Daddy Kane, Slim Thug, Paul Wall, Lupe Fiasco, Wale, and more.
Couple more new tracks from Vinnie Paz off his upcoming first solo album Season Of The Assissan. The first track features Paul Wall and Block McCloud while the second track is a solor track form Vinnie Paz. The new album from Vinnie Paz hits stores June 22nd via Babygrande / Enemy Soil Records. LISTEN: Vinnie [cont.]
Back for its 7th year, the "2010 VH1 Hip Hop Honors" will celebrate the achievements of hip hop with a little southern twist. This year, the showwill celebrate the music, the influence and the artists from The South. Previously announced, Jermaine Dupri, J Prince of Rap-A-Lot Records, Luther "Luke" Campbell and The 2 Live Crew, [cont.]
Fresh off a month-long tour with former partner-in-rhyme, Chamillionaire, Houston rapper, Paul Wall, is all set to drop his 4th major label album, Heart of a Champion, on June 29th through SwishaHouse/Asylum Records. Almost half of the tracks featured on the album are produced by long-time friend and Expensive Taste band-mate, Travis Barker. The album [cont.]
Here we go with the first single from Paul Wall off his upcoming album The Heart of The Champion. This track leaked back in 09, but bad quality. This is the radio, clean version. Paul Wall – "I'm On Patron" (MP3)
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The Salukis will travel to the University of Tulsa to compete in the ITA All-American.
Sept. 28, 2012
CARBONDALE, Ill.-- The Southern Illinois men's tennis team will bring three of its players to Tulsa this weekend for the ITA All-American, the biggest collegiate tennis tournament of the year.
Senior Badr Cherradi, junior Rafael Cuadrillero and freshman Jonny Rigby will join a field of over 300 college players at the Michael D. Case Tennis Center, all competing for the first national title of the year and a chance to be invited to play at the USTA/ITA National Indoor Intercollegiate Championships Nov. 8-11 in Flushing, N.Y.
The Salukis will participate in the pre-qualifying rounds beginning Saturday for a chance to enter the qualifying round that will be played Oct. 1-3. Players must win three-straight sets to advance to the next round.
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Today's bible study is Colossians 3:15: Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
This is such a hugely important concept that is seems nearly impossible to put into so few words. There are several factors at work here, and if we consider each of them separately, it may be easier to assimilate and put into practice.
First, we taught to let the peace of Christ rule in our hearts. Well, this is sometimes very difficult to do. We are not always feeling connected to Christ and we are not always (or even often) feeling peace. We are worried about health, the economy, jobs, money, children, housing and taxes. We worry about terrorism, politics, the weather, school, spouses and families. Some of us are in the midst of rises that affect our lives deeply. Others of us are involved in legal battles, intensive therapy and alcohol or drug dependency. Some of us even fear for our lives when we take our children to school or go grocery shopping. What a worried people we are. How can we have peace in our hearts when there is so much to worry about?
And we have not even considered anger, lassitude, or the business that consumes most of our days. When do we find time to even look for peace in our hearts? Well, the answer is both very simple and very difficult. Maybe we need to make time, be it a minute, an hour or more, to be at peace in our hearts and to sense the peace of Christ. Jesus did not have an easy life and was tormented in ways that we cannot even begin to imagine. Yet, there was peace in His heart. We can, in spite of our worries and cares, have that peace as well. Jesus will give us peace in our hearts whenever we seek it and whenever we allow it to come in.
It was once suggested to me that everyone take a half hour each day to contemplate and meditate on their spiritual relationship with Jesus. Maybe we need to do this. Perhaps before rising, in the shower, during lunch, riding the subway or at bedtime, we can turn our hearts to God and seek the peace of Christ. It is undoubtedly the most effective and wonderfully addictive tranquilizer and anti-depressant there is!
Next we come to the concept of being members of one body. This is a rather strange concept for some of us, since we are very used to considering ourselves as being unique individuals within our own single bodies. I am me. I have a size and shape. I have a name. I have certain strengths and weaknesses. I have people who love me and people who do not even know me. I have many talents and many faults. But am I also greater than just me? Yes, we all are. As Christian brothers and sisters, part of the one body of Christ, we are all sons and daughters of the same God, our father in heaven. We are redeemed by the same suffering, loved with the same eternal grace and promised eternal life in the same home with the Father. That is why agape, the true Christian love, is so very important. Because, if we are all to become a part of the whole, it is far better that we love each other as Christian sons and daughters of the father God.
Finally, we are admonished to be thankful for this. Oh, yes, we truly should be thankful. Without the peace of Christ and the love of God and the oneness of members of His holy body, our lives would be barren indeed. Let us give thanks for the peace of Christ within our hearts and for the opportunity to me members of one body of Christ. Let us forever trust in the Lord, Jesus Christ, and keep our hearts ever open to His divine presence.
References: The People's New Testament Commentary by M. Eugene Boring and Fred B. Craddock and The MacArthur Bible Commentary by John MacArthur.
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