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You are hereImpeachment
Against Truth, Reconciliation, and Commissions
By David Swanson
House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers has introduced a bill, H.R. 104, that would create a commission to spend a year and a half looking at the various crimes of Bush and Cheney. While this might allow congressional Democrats to run election campaigns against Bush and Cheney yet again, even though those two will have been out of office for two years, it's not clear that it would do much else that would be positive.
Impeachment Made Easy: The Illinois Model
John Nichols points out that the U.S. House has the same powers as the government of Illinois, just not any willingness to use them.
Conyers Seeks Probe of Bush Crimes
By Jason Leopold, www.consortiumnews.com
In one of the first acts of the 111th Congress, House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers proposed legislation to create a blue-ribbon panel of outside experts to probe the "broad range" of policies pursued by the Bush administration "under claims of unreviewable war powers," including torture of detainees and warrantless wiretaps.
Conyers's proposal for a National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties also signals that Congress will devote significant time this year to investigating the Bush administration's most controversial actions with an eye to rolling back its expansion of executive power.
Many civil liberties and human rights groups feared that the Democratic-controlled Congress and Barack Obama's administration would duck any sustained inquiry into wrongdoing by George W. Bush and his subordinates, to avoid angering Republicans.
An Era of Heartless, Revolting Dishonesty
An era of heartless, revolting dishonesty
By Pat Murphy | Idaho Mountain Express
Bernard Madoff, the New Yorker who fleeced investors of $50 billion with heartless precision, and Vice President Dick Cheney, a principal architect of America's ruin as an envied world leader and engineer of calculated abuse of power, share the same amoral lack of ethics except for one distinguishing fact.
Madoff forlornly admits his revolting dishonesty and theft of investments from philanthropists, friends, foundations and celebrities. However, right up to the last days of his dark reign, Cheney not only refuses to admit his deceit, but boasts that kidnapping and torture of terror suspects, wiretapping Americans, ignoring Congress, lying to the public, launching a war on fraudulent grounds, alienating overseas allies, pandering to loony religious agendas and legislating for the wealthy were collectively beneficial to Americans.
Loyalists of George W. Bush and Cheney will protest. However, a reasonable case can be made that the Bush-Cheney years were golden for corrupt public conduct.
Will `Tough Guy' Dick Cheney Cop Out as Usual and Take a Pardon?
By Dave Lindorff
Vice President Dick Cheney has cultivated the image of a serious tough guy, with his grim, scowling vissage, his dismissive "So?" comments when things go badly, his unrepentant defense of torture, including waterboarding, and his brash statements confirming that he approved the interrogation measures that clearly violated US criminal statutes and the Geneva Conventions.
But it appears we willl in a few days get to discover whether Cheney really is a tough guy, or whether he is in truth just the same corpulent, self-centered hypocrite and gutless coward that he was back in the 1960s when, despite being a vocal backer of the Vietnam War, he ducked the draft not once but five times by arranging for student and marriage deferments, which he later defended by saying he had "other priorities" than serving his country.
Impeachment Protest Vigil Continues 12.18.08
Impeachment Protest Vigil Continues 12.18.08 | Portland Indy Media Center
December 18 2008 as the temperature drops to the low 30's the weekly protest/ vigil (Thursday at high noon) continue outside of the Portland office of House District 3 Representative Earl Blumenauer.
The protest vigil is "to encourage & remind him (Earl) that his constituent's want accountability and an honest and forthright presidency. By Earl Blumenauer refusing (and continuing to ignore the lawlessness) to hold the Bush administration accountable for their human rights violations and for their disrespect on holding-up (protecting) the US Constitution as our honored "law of our land" ...we (protesters) are outside his office (weekly) showing the world we (as individual's and citizens for justice) are displeased and outraged that Earl Blumenauer will tolerate and allow these violations. The group holding this protest will be here till Jan 20 (2008)when the Liar in Chief steps down from his stolen position.
Cheney's Delusions
Cheney's Delusions | LATimes.com
We probably shouldn't have been surprised at Vice President Dick Cheney's blustering, obstinate insistence on ABC News on Monday that he's been right all along about virtually everything. But that doesn't mean we have to agree.
In the interview, Cheney not only acknowledged that he was involved in approving the harsh interrogation methods used by the CIA on suspected terrorists, but said he still thinks that waterboarding was an appropriate way to extract information. He said -- contradicting even President Bush -- that he believes the notorious American prison at Guantanamo Bay should remain open for the foreseeable future, and he reiterated that the U.S. invasion of Iraq was justified by, believe it or not, Saddam Hussein's weapons programs.
Frost/Nixon and Bush
Frost/Nixon and Bush
By Roland Hansen
It is wintertime in the northern hemisphere. It is also the time of year right now to hear the popular song Frosty the Snowman. It is also the season in which it is not uncommon to see a whole lot of frost in the colder regions. To top it all off, there is now a popular movie being shown in a theater near you about Frost - David Frost, that is.
You've most likely heard of the Broadway play based on a real-life political event that has been made into a Hollywood movie. It's about a reporter by the name of David Frost and the events surrounding his famous interviews with a lying, deceiving, disgraceful President. No, the President in this story is not George W. Bush. The President portrayed in this theatrical production is none other than Richard Milhous Nixon.
Link w/ Transcript Excerpts of Cheney on Fox News December 21, 2008
Transcript of Cheney on Fox News Today here.
WALLACE: During the vice presidential debate in October, Joe Biden was asked about your interpretation of the powers of your office as vice president, and here's what he said.
BIDEN: Vice President Cheney's been the most dangerous vice president we've had probably in American history.
Could We Coverup Watergate Today? And Twice On Sundays?
Could We Coverup Watergate Today? And Twice On Sundays?
By Paul Rosenberg | Open Left
The death of Mark Felt (AKA "Deep Throat") has Former Washington Post Executive Editor Leonard Downie, Jr., wondering "Could We Uncover Watergate Today?"
Over at Dkos, LithiumCola notes that Downie had been "executive editor of the Post from 1991 (after Ben Bradlee stepped down) to earlier this year, when he retired. Downie therefore held Bradlee's post for most of the Bush Administration. A point which makes his column in Sunday's edition of the Post particularly mystifying, or maddening, at any rate revealing."
LithiumCola goes on to note:
The recently retired executive editor of the Washington Post is musing about what "would" happen if a "story such as Watergate" were to emerge once again.
A wild hypothetical, to be sure.
Senator Durbin Tells Gov. Blagojevich Charges Are So Serious He Must Step Down; Durbin Mum on Bush-Cheney
Lance Ciepiela noted:
Senator Dick Durbin writes to Governor Blagojevich (attachment) asking him to step down because the charges are so serious, regardless of his guilt or innocence, but Durbin has NOT sent any such letters to Cheney or Bush even though their 39 articles of impeachment pending in the House Judiciary Committee are much more serious.
White House Lied About Iraqi Yellowcake Buy, But That's Not the Biggest Scandal
By Dave Lindorff
A new congressional report is belatedly confirming what many have long known: that the White House and in particular then White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales, lied to Congress in 2004 when he told them the Bush administration was not repeatedly warned by the CIA not to make the claim that Saddam had tried to buy uranium ore from Niger.
What is astonishing about this report, which documents that the CIA at least four times tried to prevent Bush and other top officials from presenting that lie to Congress and the American public in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, is not that it documents what has long been known, but that Congress and the corporate media are still pretending that the claim itself was an acceptable justification for launching a war.
Prosecuting Bush and Cheney for Torture: No One Can Be Above the Law
By Dave Lindorff
A month before he takes office, it has become the conventional wisdom in our conventional media that Barack "No Drama" Obama will not seek or even allow any prosecution of Bush administration officials for crimes committed over the past eight years—not even for authorizing and promoting the illegal use of torture on captives of America's wars on Iraq, Afghanistan and "terror."
Speaking of Shoes
Speaking of Shoes by John Perry
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Alexandria (VA) Democratic Committee Backed Impeachment
Please add the Alexandria Democratic Committee (Virginia) to list of local Democratic Party Committes that passed Impeachment Resolutions. Passesd at full Committee meeting December 3, 2007. Text of the resolution is below.
WHEREAS the American people require and expect their highest officials to follow all laws of the land, in particular the oath taken by them upon assuming the powers of office "to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States;" and
Impeachment for Christmas and Prosecution for New Year's
An ornament urging Bush's impeachment has been removed from the White House Christmas tree, but there's no reason you can't have impeachment for your holiday celebration and prosecution in the new year. Watch this video!
For $10.23 at Amazon.com you can have "The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush" by Congressman Dennis Kucinich with additional material by David Swanson and Elizabeth de la Vega. This book includes the full articles, extensive documentation, a chart listing all of the statutory crimes that can be prosecuted, and an introduction explaining how we can take the only step that will deter future presidential crimes: placing Cheney and Bush behind bars. Plus statements by Ray McGovern, John Kim, Brad Friedman, and Vincent Bugliosi. And it fits perfectly in a stocking!
Citizens Demand Impeachment
Congressman Nadler is opposing pardons but not moving forward on impeachment, as many of his constituents continue to believe he must to preserve the rule of law and the institution of representative democracy. Here's an announcement from Chuck Zlatkin:
WHAT: PROTEST: Members of a myriad of pro-impeachment organizations will gather to call to task Jerrold Nadler, Representative of the 8th CD in New York and Chair of the House Judiciary's Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, by leafleting his appearance
Christmas Colors for the White House: Red, White and Impeach
(Photo courtesy of Deborah Lawrence)
When Deborah Lawrence got the invitation from the White House, the Seattle-based artist decided to make a lefty political statement.
But she never expected it would hang on the official Christmas tree.
Laura Bush asked members of Congress to pick local painters to decorate ornaments for this year's 20-foot Fraser fir in the Blue Room. The globes (to be unveiled by the first lady tomorrow) are supposed to showcase something special about each congressional district. Washington state's Rep. Jim McDermott contacted a local arts organization, which asked Lawrence, a collage artist, to create the local entry.
A Call for Accountability: Let's End the Culture of Impunity
By John Anderson
This email is being sent to you because I believe that the Peace and Justice organization to which you belong may well be going to the UfPJ National Assembly, Dec 12-14. If not, then you may ignore this email and I apologize for the distraction.
This Assembly is likely to be pivotal in determining whether or not UfPJ can be an effective agent for Peace and Justice. Our member organization, Silicon Valley Impeachment Coalition, believes that in order to be effective, UfPJ must wholeheartedly embrace the concept and practice of Accountability. Many of its member organizations, such as The Center for Constitutional Rights, Progressive Democrats of America, and After Downing St, have already done so. The best way for UfPJ to begin to follow suit is to place a strong paragraph on Accountability in its Unity Statement. We propose inserting the following paragraph in the Unity Statement as the first bullet point after the heading To Move Toward this World:
Impeaching Bush Would Make Impeachment of Obama Less Likely
A useful reminder:
Impeach if You Care About Obama, You Have Been Warned
By Ralph Lopez
Democrats Need to Advocate for Impeachment Proceedings in the House, Before Bush/Cheney Leave Office
Democrats need to advocate for impeachment proceedings in the House, before Bush/Cheney leave office
By Karen Rubin
Countless editorials and op-ed pieces have described the flurry of activity in the Bush Administration to cement into law and entangle the incoming Obama Administration with regulations that continues the pattern of pro-Corporation, anti-environment, anti-civil rights rule-making that the electorate effectively rejected in 2006 and 2008.
That is why even in these waning days of the Bush/Cheney Administration, to save the Republic, the House must act to impeach Bush & Cheney now, even in these final days, even in what is called the lame duck presidency.
In the first place, even as a lame duck, Bush is still abusing his powers by signing regulations that will entangle the next Administration, effectively canceling out the will of the people as expressed in this tidal wave election.
Jonathan Turley: "The Dems Will Repair Bush's Legacy...It's an Indictment of All of Us"
Jonathan Turley: "The Dems Will Repair Bush's Legacy...It's an Indictment of All of Us"
"Waterboarding is torture." Starts at about 1:10
For Economy's Sake, Pelosi Needs to Push for Impeachment Now
For economy's sake, Pelosi needs to push for impeachment now
BY Rochelle Riley | Freep.com
Rep. Nancy Pelosi's ineffectiveness became clear the day she became Speaker of the House and immediately announced that there would be no impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.
Guided by politics, she said leading investigations into just how much the Bush administration did – and did wrong – would be divisive. What she didn't express was her worry that too many Democrats faced elimination from the House if they took on the difficult task of proving who knew what, when.
One Last Thing Before You Go
One last thing before you go
By Harry Lonsdale | www.FightingBob.com
About the time that President George W. Bush started serving his second term, a number of books were published calling for his impeachment. Some grassroots citizens groups also emerged at that time with a similar goal. In 2005, Congressman John Conyers held an unauthorized hearing in the basement of the Capitol to look into the matter.
The Headline on January 19, 2009?
The headline on January 19, 2009? | Tony Robinson
Will that be the headline on January 19th, 2009? Before he leaves office, will President Bush use his pardoning power to save the members of his administration from legal action?
Article II, Section 2 of the U.S. Constitution gives the president "Power to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment." A pardon removes both punishment and guilt.


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The word geothermal may conjure up images of hot springs and geysers, but the truth is that geothermal energy -heat from the earth-has the potential to be one of the cleanest, most efficient sources of renewable energy available on a worldwide basis. Because it comes from hot water and steam that already trapped beneath the earth's surface, geothermal energy can be extracted without burning coal, gas, or oil, and its production releases barely any carbon dioxide.
Source: Mariam Webster Dictionary Online
Geothermal plants are extremely efficient because the energy is available continuously, 24 hours a day 365 days a year. Geothermal power, essentially water and steam, can be used to heat homes and businesses as well as to generate electricity. And while wind and solar energy have a capacity factor of about 20-30 percent, geothermal capacity is more than 70 percent.
There are three types of geothermal power plants operating today:
- Dry steam plants, which pipe hot steam directly from geothermal reservoirs to spin turbines that generate electricity.
- Flash steam plants pull deep, very hot water up through a well into low-pressure tanks, turning some of it to steam to drive turbines. When the steam cools it condenses back into water and is returned to the ground.
- Binary cycle plants pass moderately hot geothermal water through a heat exchanger where the heat is transferred to another liquid, such as isobutene, with a lower boiling point than water. When this fluid is heated and turned to steam, it then drives the turbines.
Most geothermal plants in the US exist in western states, especially Alaska and Hawaii, as well as in Yellowstone National Park, where there are reservoirs of steam or hot water closer to the earth's surface. Geothermal energy can be tapped almost anywhere with geothermal heat pumps.
The city of Santa Rosa, California pipes the city's wastewater to The Geysers power plants nearby to be used as reinjection fluid, prolonging the life of the reservoir because it then recycles the treated wastewater. In the EU, geothermal plants are found in Iceland, Greece, Italy, Turkey, Germany, and Austria, and also as far away as the Wairakei field in New Zealand.
Reykjavik, Iceland heats 95 percent of its buildings using geothermal energy and is considered one of the cleanest cities in the worlds. Iceland has been expanding its geothermal power production to meet growing industrial and commercial energy demand. Geothermal energy currently supplies more than 10,000 MW to 24 countries and produces enough electricity to meet the needs of 60 million people.
One of the initial drawbacks to geothermal projects is their high start-up cost; a power plant requires approximately $0.05 per kWh, and wells can cost as much as $1 to $4 million each to drill. However costs are slowing dropping, and in 2006, a panel led by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology suggested that with federal support, geothermal power could play a major role in American's energy future.
The Geothermal Technologies Program expects to receive additional funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. Large-scale commercial production of geothermal power will take at least a decade of development and will require improvements on existing technology.
Related Reading:
US Opening 190 Million Acres to Geothermal
Do Geothermal Revolutions Power Your Home?

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The Chicano Collection, presented by actor and comedian Cheech Marin, proved to be a highlight special exhibition at this year's LA Art Show in January at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
An avid art collector, Cheech is recognized for his renowned private collection of Chicano art and for his projects to advance Chicano art in American culture.
The Chicano Collection contains archival-quality print editions of selected works from 1969 to 2001. These artworks portray urban life and the Chicano experience. The art of twenty-six outstanding artists, including Chaz Bojorquez, Patssi Valdez, Frank Romero, Adan Hernandez, and Eloy Torrez, displayed in the special exhibition.
For this impressive collection, Modern Multiples printmaker Richard Duardo created the large-scale fine art pigment prints (giclées). An acclaimed master printer, Duardo has also worked on printing projects for Shepard Fairey and John Van Hamersveld, among many others.
By creating these special editions of the original works from Cheech's private collection, The Chicano Collection increases the accessibility of the artwork for numerous large audiences and supports Cheech's goal to "bring the term 'Chicano' to the forefront of the art world." As Cheech explains, "using the most advanced technology available today, we created these important artistic expressions of the American experience as 'time capsules' to embed into top U.S. art collections and to expose them to the widest audience possible."
With the LA Art Show reporting more than 50,000 in attendance for the 5-day event, which included 140 galleries and a strong international presence, this remarkable collection definitely did bring Chicano art to a massive audience.


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Trudy Perez-Poveda who is the spokeswoman for our local Family of God Pro-life group asked me to share the following with the community here in Jacksonville.
This Fall, from September 22 – October 31, Jacksonville is uniting with hundreds of other cities around the world for the largest and longest coordinated pro-life mobilization in history: the 40 Days for Life campaign. Recognizing that "with God all things are possible", people of faith are praying that this effort will help bring an end to the tragedy of abortion.
40 Days for Life is a focused pro-life campaign that has already mobilized over 350, 000 people worldwide, saved more than 2,800 lives from abortion, led to the conversion of 38 abortion workers, and seen five abortion facilities close. 40 Days for Life is made up of three components:
Prayer and Fasting: believers are invited to join together for 40 days of fervent prayer and fasting for an end to abortion
Peaceful Vigil: stand for life during a 40-day peaceful public witness outside A Jacksonville Women's Health Center, 4131 University Blvd. S., 32216
Community Outreach: help take a positive, upbeat pro-life message to every corner of our city through media efforts, advocacy, and public visibility
For more information contact Trudy Perez-Poveda at firstname.lastname@example.com, Pastor Ed Martin at 904-214-4908 or visit http://40daysforlife.com/jacksonville
You can reach me with upcoming events, comments, and questions at firstname.lastname@example.com and follow me on Twitter for updates at captequinox
The Examiner Religion and Spirituality Channel is also on Twitter at Examinereligion.


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College Hockey:Frozen Four preview: North Dakota's eyes squarely on semifinal matchup
With a Hobey Baker Award finalist, the WCHA's best goaltender and depth in the lineup that goes unmatched, North Dakota easily has what it takes to be Frozen Four champions by late Saturday night.
But the Fighting Sioux coaching staff and its players aren't thinking about Saturday's title game. Instead, the focus is Thursday's semifinal matchup with Michigan.
"I don't think we have a preference [who the Sioux would play in the title game]," said North Dakota coach Dave Hakstol. "You control the things you can control, and who you play is definitely something you don't control.
"Michigan is a great hockey team and we're just concentrated on preparing ourselves to play our game and the way we've played to be successful at this point in the year."
The Sioux won the WCHA Final Five in mid-March and advanced to the Frozen Four with a 6-0 shutout of Rensselaer and a 6-1 win against Denver in the Midwest Regional.
For UND, it's one game at a time.
"We really try not to think about who we're going to play," said Sioux captain Chay Genoway. "We'll do our preparation on who we're playing, and that's Michigan."
Genoway missed eight games from Jan. 29 to March 4 with a leg injury. He returned for last game of the regular season, and in the seven games since his return, Genoway has 12 points.
Danny Kristo also missed a lot of action, 10 games from Feb. 11 to March 12, because of frostbite. He scored a goal within the first five minutes of his first game back in the Final Five semis against Colorado College. Kristo has six points in the four games since he returned.
"We've had our challenges like anyone else," Hakstol said. "Injuries have been a challenge for us."
In the games Genoway and Kristo missed, UND didn't lose once, and credit for that goes to the depth in the Sioux lineup.
"We really pride ourselves on our depth," Genoway said. "We feel we can roll four lines and play six [defensemen] and two goalies that can play on any given night. We're confident we can send a lot of lines and [defensive] pairings that can play in any situation."
It's not just depth, but also UND's willingness to play a physical, smashmouth brand of hockey, and that includes the team's top scorers.
Matt Frattin, the Hobey Baker Hat Trick finalist with 36 goals and 24 assists for 60 points, uses his 6-foot, 200-pound frame to drop opponents. Ben Blood and Brad Malone are another two top enforcers for UND.
The Sioux have five players with 40 or more points, including Frattin, Corban Knight (14-30–44), Jason Gregoire (25-18–43), Evan Trupp (17-24–41) and Malone (16-24–40).
Aaron Dell won the starting spot in goal early in the season after playing just five games last season. His .924 save percentage and 1.81 goals-against average earned him a spot on the All-WCHA first team.
The next stop is the Xcel Energy Center, which, as evident by the amount of Sioux fans in the building for the Final Five, is like a second home for UND.
"It's going be an electric atmosphere in there and it will a great atmosphere for both teams to play in," Hakstol said.
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Many Human Resource (HR) managers have moved away from questions like "What's your weakness?" and prefer behavior-based questions, which ask you to:
- describe how you handled specific situations at your former jobs
If you are about to interview for your next leadership position, be prepared for questions like these (from an article in Reader's Digest):
- Tell me about a time when your integrity was challenged. What was the situation, and what did you do?
- Tell me about a time you had to work with someone you did not personally like.
- If you could come to work with only three tools to get your job done, what would they be?
- What personal and professional development have you been engaged in outside the workplace over the past year?
- Describe your Outlook calendar on a typical day


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Deck the halls and save the planet this holiday season by making the switch to LED Christmas lights! By trading in your traditional strings of Christmas lights, which fade, burn out, eat energy like a baby goat, and have to be replaced every couple years, with LED Christmas lights, you'll not only be saving the planet, you'll be saving yourself time, money, and plenty of frustrations! When you make the switch to LED holiday lighting, you'll be buying Christmas lights that use a fraction of the wattage of their traditional counterparts, retain their bright, vibrant colors year after year, will last years longer, and can be strung together with dozens of other strands in a single run, which means no more unsightly extension cords ruining your beautiful Christmas displays!
Whether you're a professional in charge of designing and installing holiday light displays for businesses, homes, and towns, or just an enthusiastic homeowner who wants to create an LED holiday lighting display that's beautiful and energy efficient, making the switch from traditional strands of Christmas lights to LED Christmas lights is a smart move that will pay off in the end. Go Green LED Bulbs carries all the LED Christmas light you need to make your holidays merry and bright, both indoors and out! Whether you need G12 bulbs, icicle LED lights, M5, or C6 lights, we've got all your needs covered. All you need to bring is the electrical outlet and the inspiration!


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Lynette Vought has been an artist and educator for 25 years. After earning a Bachelor's degree from Central Michigan University with majors in music and psychology, she taught private piano and voice in her home studio. In 1982, she was apprenticed to sculptor Frank James Morgan in San Diego, CA. In 1990, Ms. Vought spent a year at the art school at Idaho Sate University, followed by two years of art and humanities classes at Ferris State University. Since then, she earned an MA in Humanities from Central Michigan University and is currently pursuing an MFA in Fine Art Painting at Kendall College of Art and Design. She has been teaching drawing classes for the Visual Design and Web Media program since 1999. She also teaches Popular Culture for the Humanities Department at Ferris State University. In addition to her academic activities, she has a career as a fine art painter. Her work is in several collections around the United States, including the State of Michigan and Florida's Art in Public Buildings program.


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These funds begin at $25,000. A full scholarship to pay for in-state tuition for a student is $250,000 and can be merit, need-based or a combination thereof. Contributions of any amount can be added to an established fund. This naming opportunity may be established with $5,000 annually for five years.
A.J. ('92) and Beth Fischer Scholarship Endowment in Finance
Adolph Coors Foundation Scholarship
Albert & Celia Mitchell – Ernst & Young Scholarship in Accounting
Alexander B. Berry Jr. / Linwood G. Parrish Memorial Scholarship
Alton R. Wheelock Memorial Scholarship by Betty C. Wheelock
Bilbrey, Busing, Reid, Tansky & Teer Endowed Beta Gamma Sigma Scholarship by Charles Bilbrey; Mike Busing; Robert Reid; Judy Tanksy; Hal and Faye Teer
Boehm Family Scholarship Endowment Fund by Steve ('78) and Mary White ('78) Boehm
Bruce Allen Benke Scholarship Endowment by Dr. Ralph and Patricia Benke
Busey Family Scholarship by Samuel H. and Carol Busey
Carol A. Benassi ('82) Endowed Scholarship (Incoming Freshman)
Charles P. Bilbrey Endowed Scholarship by Charles P and Jo Ann Bilbrey
Charles Skeens ('79,'80) Endowment for Scholarship by Charles ('79,'80) and Lescia L. Skeens
Charlotte Evans Floyd ('48) Scholarship
Cheryl Mallory Dennier ('69) Scholarship Endowment in Management
Craig C. Bram ('80) & Kimberly Gooch ('80) Bram Endowed Scholarship
Don Musselman Scholarship Endowment for CIS/MS
Donald Kohlenstein Hospitality & Tourism Management Endowed Scholarship by Friends of Kohlenstein
Elizabeth & Melvin Eldridge Scholarship by Carol Eldridge Coburn ('62) and William B. Eubank
Ferguson Family Scholarship Endowment by Janet M. Ferguson
Fern & George Terry Memorial Scholarship Endowment for Study Abroad by Robert Martin ('88)
Foucar-Sanzenbacher Scholarship by Reginald & Diane Fourcar-Szocki
Gilbert T. Bland/Burger King HTM
Glenn Smith Scholarship Endowment for CIS/MS
Gregory W. ('75,'78) and Linda Weiss ('77) Cross Endowed Family Scholarship
Heath-Mullin Family Scholarship by William J. and Holly Heath ('79) Mullin
Howard M. & Jane S. Wilhelm Scholarship
Institute of Certified Professional Managers Scholarship
J. Barkley Rosser Sr. Memorial Economic Scholarship by J. Barkley Rosser, Jr.
Jack C. Smith Scholarship Fund by Jack and Judy Smith Foundation, Inc.
Jacqueline V. McGhee Memorial Scholarship by Fredric I. McGhee
Jay B. Keyser ('79) Endowment for Scholarship by Jay B. Keyser and William A. Hazel
Jeff A. Strzelczyk Scholarship
Jesse E. Daniels HTM Scholarship by J. Willard Marriott Foundation
Jessica Lee Memorial Scholarship for HM
John "Jack" McNelis Scholarship
John Howard Connor Endowed Scholarship by John H. ('85) and Paula Connor
Joseph T. Kosnik Memorial Scholarship by Joan S. Kosnik ('79)
Kay Family Endowed Scholarship by David S. ('89) and Margaret A. Fisher Kay
Madison Business Scholarship Endowment by Jason M. Minton ('93); James D. Bonnell ('02); Michael J. Marcantonio ('03);
Michael Lentine ('03); David M. Krause ('03); James M. McDonald ('02); Jonathan D. McWhinney ('02).
Masterson Business Scholarship by Richard J. Masterson ('82)
McDonald Bradley Scholarship for Leadership by Kenneth R. Bartee ('83) and Sharon Schaaf
McPherson Scholarship by Amy C. McPherson ('83)
Mervyn W. Wingfield Scholarship by Mervyn W. Wingfiled
Michael Matthew Brown Memorial Scholarship by Arthur J. and Caroline Brown
Murray & Sandra Lane Accounting Scholarship Endowment by Christopher English and Meda S. ('71) Lane
Nancy Revercomb Brubaker ('56) Endowed Scholarship for Foreign Exchange Students by Daniel and Nancy ('56) Brubaker
Norm Kuhl Memorial Scholarship by Adolph Coors Brewery - Shenandoah
PBGH Accounting Scholarship
Philip H. Maxwell Endowed Scholarship
Philip Wade Hall Memorial Scholarship
Rick & Orinda Christoph Management Scholarship
Robert D. Reid Endowed Scholarship by College of Business Executive Advisory Council
Robert E. & Diane Holmes Scholarship
Robert J. Daly ('82) Scholarship Endowment for Hospitality & Tourism Management
Sara C. Yakovac Memorial Scholarship by Major General Joseph L. and Valerie Yakovac
Shelly Wheeler Financial Engineering Scholarship by Shelly Wheeler Howton ('92)
Stephen Krepich ('89) and Lisa Eaton Krepich ('91) Endowed Scholarship
Steven ('84) & Alice Postel ('83) Brown Scholarship
T. Michael Clayton ('82) Scholarship
Veris Consulting, LLC Accounting Scholarship Endowment in memory of Eunice Koehne '99
William F. Wright Family Scholarship
Yount, Hyde & Barbour Accounting Scholarship
Zane D. Showker Business Scholarship by Fred N. Showker; Joseph F. Showker; Zanette Showker-Hahn


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The Oklahoma Sooners men's basketball team makes its Big 12 conference tournament debut against Baylor on Thu. Mar. 13, 2014. The game is scheduled to be televised on ch 41.1 KMYT in Tulsa.
Oklahoma doesn't have any stars and is unlikely to have any players playing in the NBA. Baylor has lots of future stars and several with NBA potential. Oklahoma is the better team and has already beaten Baylor twice. Baylor is playing much better than in the beginning of the year but is unlikely to upset the even keeled Sooners.
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According to a July 9 post from Bleacher Report, no UFC or WWE stars will be featured in ESPN The Magazine's The Body Issue for 2014. ESPN Body Issue 2014, which hits newsstands this week, showcases athletes from almost every professional sport except for MMA and pro wrestling. Several soccer players and superstars from boxing and baseball will be featured, but none from the UFC or WWE.
BMX rider Nigel Sylvester, Olympic bobsledder Aja Evans, MLB slugger Prince Fielder, Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald, WNBA star Angel McCoughtry and boxing legend Bernard Hopkins are among the athletes in the ESPN Body Issue 2014. Elsewhere, NBA star Serge Ibaka makes a cameo, as does Jimmy Spithill. Unfortunately, the ESPN Body Issue 2014 will not feature any athletes in the realm of mixed martial arts.
In past years, sports fans had the chance to see UFC bantamweight champ Ronda Rousey and perennial contender Miesha Tate strut their stuff in the magazine. Rousey's cameo in last year's The Body Issue absolutely catapulted her career, and drew attention to the UFC's female division. Additionally, former Strikeforce star Gina Carano was previously featured in ESPN's The Body Issue. This year, it would have been nice to see ESPN secure the services of one of the UFC's current champions for a feature in The Body Issue.
Since Rousey, Tate and Carano have already been showcased, perhaps ESPN could have tried to get one of the UFC's male stars to pose. Sports fans would have loved to see UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman, or possibly UFC light heavyweight champ Jon Jones, barely it all for the world to see. After all, it's done in a tactful way. Weidman and Jones have incredible physiques and it would have been great to see them showcased.
The purpose of ESPN's The Body Issue is to celebrate the athletic form, not exploit it. They always showcase the athletes in an artistic, classy manner, and there's nothing sexual about it. Besides the lack of UFC talent on display in this year's magazine, ESPN also failed to feature any WWE athletes. ESPN's The Body Issue may have seen record sales if they would have been able to get John Cena or CM Punk to pose. Unfortunately, it wasn't meant to be. Of course, there's always next year.
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Four or so years later, Yates is still not done with his project, but he's been given an extra $55,000 for his yet-unfinished work. The bulk of the money $40,000 came as a gift from Hewlett Packard and the other $15,000 came from the commission, according to Linda Craighead, executive director of the Palo Alto Art Center, who staffs the commission. Total amount Yates received to date: $65,000.
Craighead said Yates said the work would be completed by September. I hope so. Originally we were told it would be done in a year. Yates now lives in Los Angeles, and is into his digital mix stage, Craighead said. When he's completed Part I (determining the color), then Part II of the project will be to wrap City Hall in a film-like material (similar to the buses covered with film) so that all our houses will be visible on the building's walls.
Yates had been working out of a small make-shift garage-like structure plopped on top of the circular garden in front of City Hall, which is an eyesore in itself. When he's finished, the garage will come down, thank goodness.
This whole project has taken an inordinate amount of time. And I had no idea Yates was getting all this additional money for it. I am also guessing the color of Palo Alto will be "mud," since if you mix a lot of colors together you get a muddy brown. But knowing this city, the color may fortuitously turn out to be "green."
The commission originally awarded $10,000 commissions to three artists to artistically dress up the plaza in front of city hall. One went to Yates and the other two of these were "temporary" projects. One of the two was a carriage-type construction by artist Marta Thoma, who already had received two other commissions from the city for "Go Mama" on California Avenue (the 6-foot sculpture of a doll with a girl's face on her belly) and for "Rrrrun." a 5-foot-tall leg-turned-car sculpture sitting on a mound at Bowden Park on Alma Street across from the California Avenue train station. Both have received mixed reviews, like in "hate it" or "love it."
I cannot figure out why the commission would give $10,000 to an artist for a temporary display, nor can I figure why one artist would get three commissions from the city, nor do I really understand why Yates, who originally agreed to do the project for $10,000, has now received $65,000.
I happen to think art is very important, and the city should spend money on public art. I also think the art should not be funky.
City Manager Frank Benest recently suggested cutting $25,000 from the commission's budget next year. I originally thought that was a bad idea. Now I am not so sure.
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- Sep 19-20, Strange Loop, St. Louis
- Sep 22-26, JavaOne San Francisco 2013, USA
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College Hockey:D-III National Semifinal: Oswego vs. St. Norbert
Oswego Lakers (26-2-0 overall, 15-1-0 in SUNYAC)
The last time the Oswego Lakers won the national championship in 2007, they had to travel way out to Superior, Wis. The following year, the national tournament was moved to nearby Lake Placid. Oswego didn't make it. Lake Placid hosted it again. Oswego didn't make it. Lake Placid got it one more time while it was announced it would move out to Minnesota the year after.
Oswego finally made it with an emphasis, thrashing Bowdoin, 9-2, in the quarterfinals.
"Thank God they're hosting again," Oswego head coach Ed Gosek said. "It's awesome for our fans. Feels great."
Teams between regions don't get to see each other much, but St. Norbert is probably the one western team Oswego is most familiar with lately. They met in the 2007 national semifinal game, which Oswego won 4-3 in overtime. Then, the following year, St. Norbert came to the Oswego Pathfinder Classic, though they did not face each other.
The year after that, Oswego returned the favor, traveling to Green Bay for the St. Norbert Thanksgiving Tournament where the Lakers defeated the Green Knights, 4-3.
(In fact, 4-3 seems to be the magical score. Oswego won both games in the 2007 championship weekend by 4-3 scores, both in overtime, and Oswego won both games they ever played against St. Norbert by 4-3 scores.)
"They are as usual very good defensively," Gosek said. "And when I say defensively, I mean the whole team philosophy, not just good individual defensive skills. Opposite of Bowdoin. They take their chances and opportunities only when you offer it to them. They don't give up odd man rushes. They have firepower up front."
Speaking of firepower, that's something Oswego has many times over. Every coach who faces Oswego says the same thing — Oswego has the best group of finishers in the game.
"They're the second best team offensively I've seen this year and the other one is going to be millionaires in 10 years — the under-18 national team," Bowdoin coach Terry Meagher said.
"They came as advertised. That is a very skilled and talented group. Their finishing ability is special. In the game right now that's what everyone is striving for at any level. I've seen a lot of good teams but I've never seen as dynamic and as gifted and as opportunistic as that one. It was a pretty special show. I expect them to make a lot of noise in Lake Placid."
Six players have double digit goals with the lowest sitting at 13 (one less than the highest goal scorer for St. Norbert) and Neil Musselwhite has six shorthanded goals. The forth line lately, as well as a defenseman who only scored one goal prior to the playoffs, are lighting the lamp up. This is a team that does not have to outplay their opposition. They just need enough opportunities to outscore their opponent because they hardly miss.
The key question on everyone's mind is will the Olympic size ice surface be an advantage to the speedy Lakers?
"I don't know if it matters when it comes to this point to change what you do because of the ice surface," Gosek said. "You stick to what you do. What got you here. You still have to win the 1-on-1 battles, defend, and distribute the puck properly. Maybe it will give you that little bit of extra time to make a move with the extra space compared to a smaller rink, and then we can be in a position to use our speed."
One thing speed does do is wear a team down. During the postseason run, Oswego has exploded in the second or third period. Against Morrisville, they fired in four third period goals to break a 4-4 tie. The next week, Oswego got three second period goals to pull away from Plattsburgh to an eventual 6-3 win. Then, versus Bowdoin, the Lakers burned the lamp out in the second with five goals.
The scoring by periods this season displays this progression: 38 goals in the first period, 54 in the second, and 59 in the third. While defensively, Oswego keeps it consistent, 19, 18, and 18, respectively.
"I thought in the first period it was pretty even play," Bowdoin captain Colin MacCormack said. "But then in the second period … It was pretty impressive to watch."
"Everybody looks good," Gosek said of his team's health. "At this time of year, everybody has their bumps and bruises, but no injuries that will keep anyone out."
The question is, can any defense keep the puck out of their net against Oswego.
St. Norbert Green Knights (23-3-3 overall, 14-2-2 in the NCHA)
With a 4-3 opening round win over Adrian and a 3-1 victory over Gustavus Adolphus in a quarterfinal last Saturday, St. Norbert College has again advanced to the Final Four.
Hosted in Lake Placid, N.Y. for the second straight year — and site of the Green Knights 2008 national championship — it will mark their sixth Final Four appearance in school history, with all coming since 2003. The Green Knights will face Oswego State in Fridays first semifinal. Game time is 4:00 p.m. EDT.
Well its awesome, said St. Norbert head coach Tim Coghlin, who is in his 17th season behind the Green Knights bench and holds an overall record of 346-103-39. Im really really proud of our guys. I think weve done so much together this year and I think weve grown so much as a group so its exciting to be able to end it with the final weekend of hockey in Lake Placid.
What a rewarding experience for our seniors, our staff, our fans and all of the administration on campus.
St. Norberts first foray into the Final Four in 2003 ended with a loss to Norwich in the semifinals, but the Green Knights returned in 2004 to score a semifinal win over Plattsburgh state before becoming yet another Middlebury victim in the championship game.
After bowing out in the 2005 quarterfinals, they made appearances the next three seasons, and lost to Middlebury in the 2006 title game and Oswego in a 2007 semifinal before finally breaking through in 2008 with wins over Norwich and Plattsburgh to earn the national championship.
It might seem the return to Lake Placid is something that might work in the Green Knights favor this weekend as it will be a somewhat familiar experience, but Coghlin doesnt necessarily think that will be the case.
Does it help to know a little bit about Lake Placid? Probably. But we dont know any more about it than any of the other teams do. These are three of the same four teams that were here in 2008, so in the end I dont think our experiences will be any sort of significant advantage.
And as to how national championship experience pertains to Oswego itself:
Its interesting because all the seniors on Oswegos roster played in one of these and won a national championship when they were freshmen. Then a lot of our guys won a championship when they were sophomores or freshmen. Both teams have the advantage of having guys who have been in that spot.
The Final Four often has a bit of mystery to it, especially in the case of East-West match ups as unfamiliar opponents can often create unexpected results. In this case, however, St. Norbert and Oswego are no strangers to each other as they have met twice in the past three seasons.
The Lakers are 2-0 in those contests as they dropped St. Norbert 4-3 in overtime in the 2007 semifinals before traveling to St. Norbert a year ago and once again downing the Green Knights 4-3. St. Norbert also participated in the Oswego Pathfinder Bank holiday tournament in 2008, but the two teams failed to meet.
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Real Estate News: Tax Liens Trigger More Foreclosures
Here is a look at real-estate news from the weekend and today in WSJ:
Tax Liens Trigger More Foreclosures: Although mortgage default is behind most home foreclosures in the U.S., the number of foreclosures tied to delinquent tax payments is climbing.
Insurance Deductibles Soar: Percentage-based deductibles long have been used for earthquake coverage in California and property coverage in hurricane-prone coastal areas. But they are spreading well beyond that, one of the reasons your homeowner's insurance now probably covers less while costing more.
House of the Day: The owner of this 11,000-square-foot, lakefront home in northwest Idaho incorporated nature both inside and out of the property with an homage to American Indian art.
Europe House of the Day: This four-bedroom hilltop villa with a separate one-bedroom cottage has been created by the South African artist Jeanette Finn.
Asia House of the Day: Tucked away in a suburb of New Taipei City, Taiwan, is this three-story townhouse with a basement-level master bedroom that has direct access to the pool and plenty of light.
Condos, Co-op Boards Face Bigger Risks: A state appellate court decision handed down last week makes it easier for individual board members to be personally sued for damages when co-op or condo boards are taken to court by spurned apartment applicants or unhappy residents.
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Mosnier, L O; Zampolli, A; Kerschen, E J; Schuepbach, R A; Banerjee, Y; Fernández, J A; Yang, X V; Riewald, M; Weiler, H; Ruggeri, Z M; Griffin, J H (2009). Hyperantithrombotic, noncytoprotective Glu149Ala-activated protein C mutant. Blood, 113(23):5970-5978.
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Activated protein C (APC) reduces mortality in severe sepsis patients. APC exerts anticoagulant activities via inactivation of factors Va and VIIIa and cytoprotective activities via endothelial protein C receptor and protease-activated receptor-1. APC mutants with selectively altered and opposite activity profiles, that is, greatly reduced anticoagulant activity or greatly reduced cytoprotective activities, are compared here. Glu149Ala-APC exhibited enhanced in vitro anticoagulant and in vivo antithrombotic activity, but greatly diminished in vitro cytoprotective effects and in vivo reduction of endotoxin-induced murine mortality. Thus, residue Glu149 and the C-terminal region of APC's light chain are identified as functionally important for expression of multiple APC activities. In contrast to Glu149Ala-APC, 5A-APC (Lys191-193Ala + Arg229/230Ala) with protease domain mutations lacked in vivo antithrombotic activity, although it was potent in reducing endotoxin-induced mortality, as previously shown. These data imply that APC molecular species with potent antithrombotic activity, but without robust cytoprotective activity, are not sufficient to reduce mortality in endotoxemia, emphasizing the need for APC's cytoprotective actions, but not anticoagulant actions, to reduce endotoxin-induced mortality. Protein engineering can provide APC mutants that permit definitive mechanism of action studies for APC's multiple activities, and may also provide safer and more effective second-generation APC mutants with reduced bleeding risk.
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Cooked or misquoted studies are often cited that "show" that religious believers are happier and healthier and less insane than atheists.
"So what?"
"So atheism is bad for you, is what."
Or so the argument attempts to go.
(Every study anyone has seen like that, please cite it in the comments [I already know about the study salad at Conservapedia, and any sharp bloggers out there who are psych majors could do us a solid by writing a good critique of that]. Likewise, if any blogs or websites have also tackled this myth [even if doing so after I posted this], please cite those articles in comments as well. Plus articles in magazines that discuss it, if you know any. I'd like to gather up a collection.)
Yes, one can reply that the truth is still the truth, and if you care about the truth, you should just deal with it if it sucks, rather than try desperately to live a lie just to be happy. There's a whole line of debate one can follow down that route, but it generally ends with: bad epistemologies are always a net bad for you (and society), but you can only believe comfortable lies if you commit to a bad epistemology, the side effects of which will never be good for you or society overall–because bad epistemologies cannot protect you from harmful false beliefs (and even entail an increasing resort to harmful false beliefs in order to protect the harmless ones from being exposed).
So just suck it up and get over it. In practice, it's all not as bad as you think (and it's certainly better than all this eternal hell business, much less a god who by his total inaction manifestly doesn't give a shit about anything). And all else being equal, you'll find plenty to love about life anyway.
But in fact we needn't take that grim tack anyway. Because the facts don't support the premise in the first place. Atheism doesn't make you less happy, healthy, or sane.
One common flaw that invalidates almost all of these studies (if not in fact literally all of them) is that they tend to compare the religiously devout with nonbelievers as a whole, who are statistically mostly people who don't identify with any nonbelieving community or care much about atheism or humanism or any secularist cause or philosophy, but who just don't have a specific belief in anything. But that's a false comparison. The only meaningful comparison would be between the devoutly religious and devoted humanists, including organized atheists, or anyone intellectually committed to godless philosophies.
But no studies do that (so far as I know: please cite any that do in comments). They therefore don't show the relative benefit of religious belief vs. atheist philosophy.
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Today's before and after scene is one I am very familiar with. I either walk or drive past Annapolis Royal's corner of St George Street and Drury Lane many times per day. This is one of the main intersections in town. This is also the location of two of the town's main attractions, King's Theatre and the Farmer's Market. In fact, when the Farmer's Market is open on Saturday mornings from the late Spring to early Autumn, this is decidedly the busiest spot in town.
The archival picture was taken in 1929. This is an interesting image as it shows this section of town soon after its reconstruction. In 1920, a large fire burned the row of buildings which stood along the right hand side of the street. The mercahnts and residents who inhabited this part of town soon rebuilt.
King's Theatre is the large building along the right hand side of the picture. Note that there is a different roof on the theatre today. This is interesting as there are records showing that there was a dance floor on the second floor of the theatre. These records have always been somewhat confusing as the current construction of the Theatre does not have space for a second floor dance floor. This image shows that the roof of the Theatre was once quite different. The presence of a dance floor may explain the elaborate tin ceilings in the area currently used as the second floor offices at the Theatre.
The other main change to this part of town is the addition of the Farmer's Market which can almost be seen on the left hand side of the modern picture. This open air market is a gathering place for both locals and tourists.
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Crossing the Atlantic
The telephone rang early this morning. It was Jonathan Malthus, on the line from Napa where he is spending a few days unveiling his latest wine project: World's End. Jonathan lives in Bordeaux. He made his name in Saint-Emilion in the mid-nineties when he bought Château Teyssier and busily set about building its reputation as a reliable, easy-drinking red Bordeaux.
A few years later he purchased a small parcel of vineyards, next to Château Angélus, that had been planted in the 1950s with Cabernet Franc and Merlot. From this he made Le Dôme which became one of the wines at the forefront of the Garage movement. As I wrote last summer, I have always been a little wary of Garage wines, but I like Teyssier, and am intrigued that he has decided to spread his wings across the Atlantic with World's End.
The wines are made from fruit bought from Andy Beckstoffer with wooden vats and sorting tables bought over from Bordeaux. Jonathan doesn't actually own a winery in the Napa yet as his negotiations were interrupted by the economic freeze of 2008. He told me he is still looking and one suspects he'll find one sooner rather than later, he is after all an entrepreneur at heart having set up his own petrochemical project management company at 21 before selling out at 36. I haven't tasted the wines yet but hope to do so when I next drop by Saint Emilion.
It's the second new transatlantic venture I have heard about this year. In January, Louis-Michel Liger Belair, proprietor of Domaine du Comte Liger-Belair in Burgundy, brought to London two samples of a new partnership he has created in Chile. Although still in its early days, the working title for the project is Aristos, the Cabernet Sauvignon was very promising. The concept of marrying Old World tradition with New World expertise is a theme I have explored in a recent column: On form they work very well indeed.


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CORVALLIS, OR (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- If your family dog got hurt, how much are you willing to spend to fix Fido? Consider that Americans will spend 47 billion dollars on their pets this year, and the answer is obvious. Now, some new science is proving that surgery doesnt have to be the first option.
Jerry Rice and his medic-alert dog Carrie are more than best friends.
"I'm diabetic, so she can alert on high or low spikes either way, Rice told Ivanhoe.
Veterinarian Dr. Wendy Baltzer, from Oregon State University, lives to make those connections last.
At the Oregon State University, they teach that rehabilitation is just as important as surgery, and have found that sometimes surgery can be avoided with rehab.
Anything you can do for humans, is pretty much possible for dogs and cats as well, Dr. Baltzer said.
Kingston damaged his spinal chord during a one-story fall, but daily runs on an underwater treadmill inhibit pain and return normal function to his hind leg.
"If you dont do these things, and do these exercises, then your body may never be able to ever fully recover" Dr. Baltzer said.
Rehabbing partially torn ACL ligaments is also a top job at Oregon State University. Americans spend more than a billion bucks on such surgeries each year for their dogs. While surgery starts at one thousand dollars, rehab often costs a few hundred, but it may take longer to see results.
"Basically you need to learn to walk again, you need to build muscle strength again." Dr.Baltzer said.
Rehab builds muscles around the torn joint to stabilize it. OSU uses a laser with doggie goggles to boost the cells ability to repair themselves. That results in faster-forming scar tissue, and stronger healing in tendons and bones.
Kingston, is amazingly slated to fully recovery.
He was paralyzed from the waist down
and now today hes walking. Dr. Baltzer said.
Dr. Baltzers work shows pre-surgery laser therapy can promote faster post-surgery healing, however, therapeutic lasers are still being tested for effectiveness. 2010 is the 50th anniversary of the laser, which was first demonstrated in 1960.
The Optical Society contributed to the information contained in the TV portion of this report.
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Vets are fixing Fido without surgery! Considering that Americans will spend $47 billion on their pets, rehab is becoming a money-saving and life-saving therapy for thousands of dogs.
Four out of every 1000 babies born today will suffer brain damage. Now doctors are using a special blanket to help these babies reduce their chances of developing a lifetime of disabilities.
It strikes 800,000 people every year and is the leading cause of long-term disability in the US. Now, researchers are helping wake up damaged brains and help stroke survivors move again.
Every nine minutes a pedestrian or cyclist is injured or killed on the road. Now a new device will help warn drivers and keep cyclists safe.
The spill is stopped, but how much oil is left behind? We go under the sea in a sub to get a close-up look at whats there
Hurricanes hitting the coast put lives at risk inland. New technology can warn people when tornadoes will strike hundreds of miles away from the storm.
We dig deep into one of the most active earthquake zones in the world to find out when the next big one will strike.
New roofing technology will keep you covered and put more money in your pocket!
From computers to cell phones
researchers are working on ways to make them better and more energy efficient.
A new high-tech video game goes inside the human body, teaching kids science and having fun at the same time.
The teacher is in and on the computer. Kids can now improve their language and social skills with an animated tutor.
In these tricks the math is quicker than the eye. We introduce you to a mathematician who has a few tricks up his sleeve.


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The UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies trains scholars and educates members of the broader community about Buddhist religion and culture in all of their diversity. Among U.S. universities, only UCLA aspires to cover all of the major traditions in this world religion.
The distinguished professor of Buddhist Studies is the founding director of the Center for Korean Studies and the Center for Buddhist Studies (which he currently directs).read more »
Tibetan Buddhist scholar Janet Gyatso argued that the 79-panel illustration of the Tibetan medical classic, The Four Treatises, provides ample evidence that an important sphere of Tibetan life was not primarily Buddhist.read more »
Read about the deliberations behind the Dartmouth Award conferred on The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, co-edited by Robert E. Buswell Jr. (UCLA) and Daniel S. Lopez Jr. (University of Michigan).read more »
Three of the four UCLA faculty members elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences are affiliated with the UCLA International Institute: Ivan T. Berend and Michael Mann, with the Center for European and Eurasian Studies; and Gregory Schopen, with the Center for Buddhist Studies.read more »
The Dartmouth Medal of the American Library Association has been awarded to the reference work co-authored by UCLA Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies Robert E. Buswell, Jr.read more »
Newly translated letters of a renowned Buddhist lama shed light on the unusual reign of a female monarch in 18th-century eastern Tibet.
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Two distinguished professors of Buddhist Studies — Robert Buswell Jr. (UCLA) and Donald S. Lopez Jr. (University of Michigan) — have produced a massive dictionary of Buddhist terms from all Buddhist lineages.read more »
Robert Buswell and Donald S. Lopez, Jr., distinguished professors of Buddhist studies at UCLA and the University of Michigan, respectively, are interviewed about their newly published "Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism," a reference work that defines major terms across the spectrum of Buddhist lineages.read more »
Buddhist scholars Robert E. Buswell, Jr., and Donald S. Lopez, Jr. — authors and and co-editors of the "Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism" — put paid to a number of false beliefs about Buddhism in a short article in Tricycle magazine.read more »
Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies Robert Buswell calls for renaming the Korean Buddhist canon to distinguish it from the Indian Tripitaka, given that its contents range far beyond that of the Indian canon.read more »
A recent Los Angeles Times article describes a collection of Buddhist relics housed at the Lu Mountain Temple in Rosemead, CA.read more »
"Introduction to Buddhism" is a popular UCLA course that regularly fills up whenever it is offered. read more »
Brushing dust off a thick, bound 14th century volume, Professor Robert Buswell stood in his office, surrounded by a chronicled literary history of ancient Buddhist culture. read more »
The Jogye Order's "The Collected Works of Korean Buddhism" series has appeared on a list of "The Best Buddhist Books of 2012" published by The Buddhadharma magazine.
Robert Buswell (Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities, Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, and Director of the Center for Buddhist Studies) served as chair of the English Editorial Board for the series as well as a translator and editor.
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The field of Korean Buddhism, which has a nearly 1,700-year history, has opened up to Western scholars and students with the release of the first comprehensive collection of Korean Buddhist works to be published in any European language. read more »
Three part video series featuring Professor Robert Buswell, director of the UCLA Center for Buddhist Studies.read more »
Dr. Lobsang Rapgay helped organize a symposium exploring Buddhism and neuroscience, in many ways fulfilling the journey that the UCLA expert in Tibetan Buddhism, meditation, and medicine began half a century ago.read more »
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Buddhism and Neuroscience: a Discussion on Attention, Mental Flexibility and CompassionHis Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama was unable to attend this May 2, 2011, symposium as planned, due to ill health. In his stead, Geshe Thupten Jinpa, a principal English translator for His Holiness and Ph.D. in Religious Studies (Cambridge University) and Robert Thurman, Je Tsongkhapa Professor of Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at Columbia University, joined the discussion with four UCLA neuroscientists. Listen to Podcast »
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Gender, Translation, and Jewish Modernity
Jewish modernity entailed not only a range of geographical, political, and linguistic shifts but also the transformation of traditional sex-gender cultural systems. Taking some case studies as our launching point, we will explore the adoption of new modes of organizing gender, the move from one language to another, and the implications of such moves for writers, translators, and readers.
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Dec. 21, 2010
DeKALB, Ill. - Less than 30 hours after returning from the Northern Illinois football team's 40-17 victory over Fresno State in the uDrove Humanitarian Bowl on Sunday morning, Huskie quarterback DeMarcus Grady was hard at work at practice on Monday. Basketball practice, that is.
Grady, a 6-1, 203-pound junior for the NIU football team who was an honorable mention all-state basketball player in Michigan during his prep days at East Grand Rapids, will join the Northern Illinois basketball team for the remainder of the 2010-11 season, head coach Ricardo Patton announced on Tuesday.
Patton said one of the biggest assets Grady brings to the Huskie basketball team is a winning attitude, formed during Northern Illinois' 11-3 football season that saw NIU win nine games in a row en route to the Mid-American Conference West Division title.
"DeMarcus brings a great attitude and a lot of experience to the program," Patton said. "He knows what it takes for a team to become a winner. He has been on a team that went from 2-10 to 7-6 and this year 11-3.
He has to work himself into basketball shape; we'll know more about what he can bring on the court as we get into the conference season."
Grady, often seen in the stands at NIU's home basketball games over the past three years, believes he will successfully make the transition into "basketball shape."
"I did it [played both sports] in high school," Grady said. "The endurance is different, but I know what it takes to get ready. I've been working out a little bit already for the last couple of weeks. I think I'll be in pretty good basketball shape in a week or so."
Grady will travel with the Huskies to Southern Illinois on Tuesday and will be with the team for Wednesday's game versus the Salukis. He was a second team all-area and first team all-conference choice in basketball as a senior and helped East Grand Rapids to the state finals in 2006. He said that basketball has never been far out of his mind even as he won the Northern Illinois' starting quarterback job heading into the 2010 season.
Doeren said Grady will return to the Huskie football team to prepare for his senior campaign following the basketball season.
"I am extremely excited for DeMarcus to have an opportunity to follow his dream of playing basketball and football," Doeren said. "He has done everything that has been asked of him during his time at NIU academically, athletically and socially. Once the basketball season ends, he will return to football, and I look forward to coaching him on his return."
Grady started the 2010 football season opener versus Iowa State and appeared in four games at quarterback as a junior. He scored three rushing touchdowns on the year, including on runs of 61 and 30 yards versus Eastern Michigan. He has played in 19 games at quarterback for the Huskies over the last three seasons and accounted for 12 touchdowns and 1,174 yards of total offense.
The Huskie men's basketball team plays road games at Southern Illinois (Dec. 22) and Missouri (Dec. 27) before Utah Valley State visits the NIU Convocation Center for a 1 p.m. contest on Friday, Dec. 31.


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About the Harry Potter Lexicon
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Statement of Editorial Policy
The Lexicon strives to publish only strictly canon information in its encyclopedia sections. The Lexicon is very specific in its list of canon sources.
If the Lexicon makes a mistake, we will admit the mistake immediately, take steps to retract the information, and offer an explanation and apology if necessary.
The Lexicon will not seek, encourage, or accept "leaked" information from anyone attempting to compromise the confidentiality of their position. If we have any reason to believe information was accidentally or dishonestly released, we will not publish it.
The Lexicon seeks to be accurate and current. The issue of spoilers is irrelevant to known accurate information.
The Lexicon holds J.K. Rowling and her fans in the highest regard. Her respect is of the utmost importance to us, as is the trust of our readers. We will do everything in our power to earn and keep that respect.
of the Harry Potter Lexicon
"I'll want a pay rise, Dumbledore!"
- Horace Slughorn (HBP4)
"Twice nothing is still nothing!"
- Cyrano Jones, "The Trouble With Tribbles"
The Harry Potter Lexicon was written and edited by the following people:
Steve Vander Ark (SVA) is the creator, editor in chief, and webmaster. His email address is [email protected]. He started the Lexicon back in 2000 as a tiny little website with a few lists on it. He's the one who created the graphics and most of the writing on the 700+ pages of the current Lexicon is his. Steve is also a freelance writer, a theatre director, a library media specialist, and a public speaker.
Nick Moline (NM) is the technical consultant for the Lexicon. Nick has been the know-how behind setting up the podcast, the storefront, the e-books, and other recent developments with the site. He and Steve are currently working to bring the venerable Lexicon website up to modern standards. Nick's email is [email protected].
Lisa Bunker (LB) is also a senior writer for the Lexicon. Lisa is a librarian, just like Steve, so they both speak reference-talk, which is a bit scary. Lisa edits the character pages specifically, but also acts as a web design consultant for the Lexicon. Lisa is also the editor of Accio Quote, the most complete and amazing archive of Rowling interviews and related material on the web. Lisa's blog is "Madam Pince's Potter Pages."
Kip Carter is the Commander in Chief of the Lexicon Forum. His amazing ability to work with both people and computers has allowed the Forum to grow into one of the best Harry Potter communities on the web.
Denise Proctor is Kip's assistant. She's as talented as Kip and as nice as anyone you could possibly hope to meet - unless you're a troll on the forum, in which case she's one of the most dangerous people you could possibly hope to meet. Denise and Kip are nothing short of incredible. The Lexicon is just so lucky to have people like this on staff.
Former staff members:
Penny Linsenmayer handled email and project management.
Michele Worley (MLW) was a senior writer. She deserves a lot of the credit for the Lexicon being updated as quickly as it was after OP came out. Michele edited the magic pages and the Reader's Guides, among other things.
Belinda Hobbs (BH) served as the editor for the jkrowling.com guide section of the Lexicon. Belinda's enthusiasm and creativity made it the best guide to Jo's site to be found anywhere. Bel also managed the Floo Network page and helped in numerous ways all over the Lexicon.
John Kearns (JK) came aboard just before the release of Half-Blood Prince to help manage the influx of new information that a new book brings. John is now the webmaster of the excellent Harry Potter Companion website.
Clint Hagen joined the staff in 2005 to and coded the Remembrall, the Portkey, the Timelines, and the Knight Bus Tours.
Paula Hall joined
the staff at the end of 2005, taking over a backlog of essays from
Penny and Steve. Since then she edited and published many new essays in our collection.
Contacting the Lexicon
Contact email: [email protected]
History of The Harry Potter Lexicon
The Harry Potter Lexicon began before I (Steve) even finished reading the first book. You see, I've always kept notes and drawn diagrams and made lists about things I enjoy. I have blueprints that I drew of the Death Star, painstakingly drawn in 1977. I have a huge chart of all the episodes of Hogan's Heroes, listing everything from writers and directors to the gadgets that were used and when. I wrote notebook after notebook of detailed descriptions of Star Trek characters and technology. When I encounter a well-designed and imagined world in movies, television, or books, I find it almost impossible not to catalog it.
Like I said, when I read the first Harry Potter book, the Lexicon began. I started cataloging it in my head, noticing details, scribbling down the page numbers where I could find the names of various books, and so on. I started scribbling maps of the castle. But I fought it. Cataloging something as thoroughly as I tend to do is HARD WORK. It takes a lot of time. It tends to take over my free time ... and it's also pretty much a thankless task, since no matter how carefully and expertly I do the work, no one ever sees and appreciates it.
This time it was different, though. This time there was the Internet. This time I could share all this work with a few other people. And the Harry Potter universe was just so exciting and fun and detailed and wonderful. But still I resisted. And then I read book two (and I remembered having some pretty strong doubts about book two, which looked as if it might have a flying car in it, which just didn't fit the world that I was imagining). I wavered now. Just reading through the description of the Weasley house made me want to start writing. Book three didn't help a bit. I knew that I was getting hooked. I started my first notebook with notes from Chamber of Secrets. I really can't remember why I started with the second book and not the first, but I did. And before you know it, I was moving on the book three. I filled page after page.
These notebooks are written in the order of the story, one chapter at a time. I automatically categorize everything as I go, so when I write down a magic spell or effect, I write "sp" in the margin. Everything gets a little scribble of some kind in the margin. I worked through three, and then went back for book one.
It was about then that two key events happened. I joined Harry Potter for Grown Ups and Goblet of Fire came out.
The Lexicon came into official existence a week later, in July of 2000.
At first it was just a series of lists. Lists of books, lists of Wizard Cards, lists of Death Eaters, and so on. I was trying to think up a good name for the site and settled on Lexicon because Encyclopedia was taken (by the now defunt Encyclopedia Potterica). Lexicon refers to a list of words, and at first, that's what this was. I can remember sitting on my back porch and running the name Harry Potter Lexicon over in my head and thinking that it sounded okay. I still think it sounds okay, although the Lexicon itself has grown way past being just a list of words.
In November, 2000 the Lexicon appeared for the first time on Yahoo, and within a week was chosen as a featured site in USA Today.
Of course, once I started it was impossible to stop. I'm a librarian, and I could imagine what the perfect reference source would look like. Once I could picture it and knew I could do it, I just had to make it happen. So I turned the list of spells into the Spell Encyclopedia and added the Bestiary and the Atlas. That was in the spring of 2001. Since then the Lexicon has grown until it encompasses nearly all factual information from canon sources, organized and crosslinked. The Lexicon Forum is a recent addition which provides an opportunity for Harry Potter fans of all ages to discuss their favorite books. Kip Carter has done a masterful job of managing the forum, and that hasn't been an easy job lately. Things should be back to normal soon, though, and I know I'm not the only one eager to have the forum back to its old lively self.
Another exciting development for the Lexicon is the creation of The Floo Network. In June, several of the best Harry Potter websites in the world joined forces. Through a shared toolbar, each site linked itself to the others to provide for fans the world's most complete and amazing set of tools for exploring the Harry Potter universe. The Floo Network is still evolving and getting better.
The next major milestone for the Lexicon was the release of Order of the Phoenix in June 2003. On that exciting weekend, the Lexicon was featured in a variety of places in the media--radio, television, magazines, and newspapers--and I was even interviewed on the Today Show. In mid-August, I brought Michele Worley on board as the first ever assistant editor, and since then the huge job of incorporating the new information from Order of the Phoenix has been moving ahead very quickly. We're not all caught up yet, but we're getting there.
The Lexicon has been mentioned on the websites of both Scholastic and Bloomsbury. Warner Bros. has given its permission for the Lexicon to use the graphics drawn by Mary GrandPré for the books. The Lexicon is currently one of the most-often referenced Harry Potter website on Google behind Warner Bros. and Scholastic. It's considered by fans to be the most complete and authoritative reference to the Harry Potter universe in existence and is visited by many thousands of fans daily from all over the planet. That's really cool. I love the Internet.
At the end of June, 2004, Jo Rowling paid the Lexicon a high honor indeed. She gave the Lexicon her Fan Site Award. The traffic on the Lexicon grew by quite a bit and several new staff members were added to help out. Penny Linsenmayer came on board to handle email and oversee projects. Josh Santilli became the new editor, working closely with Steve to work through all the pages and find the typos, errors, omissions and to create new material. Lisa Bunker, who already was working on Madam Scoops' (now Accio Quote), took over as editor of the character pages.
The Lexicon continues to grow, although now that all seven books are out the flow of new information has slowed to a trickle.