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"Supernatural" once again had a big presence at San Diego Comic-Con this year, and we were in the press room to get the scoop on what's coming up next. On Wednesday, July 30, we posted our video roundtable interview with executive producer Jeremy Carver.
Check out the video interview above or here. Keep reading for some highlights from what Carver had to say about season 10.
They brought in the Men of Letters as "one of the final pieces of the Winchester family tree." It opened up many possibilities, and they will continue to explore that.
Will there be new monsters? There will be "a lot of spins on some monsters we've seen before," Carver said. "To me, it's not so much a question of introducing new monsters as it is finding a fresh new way to get into the world of even monsters that we've seen." That said, there will be a few new monsters.
According to the executive producer, "season 9 was very much about each of our characters…presented with, 'Who do I want to be?'" As for season 10, "the overall mythology doesn't totally hit you in the face in episode 1 in terms of this is going to be a quest for this or this. It's really sort of very careful building blocks sort of centering around the idea of – we're basically forcing our main characters to eventually come to a 'you are who you are' or 'I am who I am.' …I think people are going to be forced to make much more stark choices this year, based on who I am, and it's not going to be only themselves pushing them to make those decisions. It's going to be very personal this year."
Who's going to be back? Unfortunately, Cain won't be in the first run of episodes (Timothy Omundson has his own new show, "Galavant"), but they would love to bring him back. We will see Sheriff Mills (Kim Rhodes) again, teamed up with Sheriff Donna Hanscum (Brianna Buckmaster), from last season's "The Purge," for a "really fun plus emotional episode." As for Felicia Day's Charlie in Oz, "we're actively working for a way to bring [her] back," Carver shared.
And what about closure for Kevin? "Kevin's in a really weird spot right now. I just love that character and I was sad as anyone to kill him off, so any chance we can find to bring him back, we will," the EP promised.
"Supernatural" season 10 premieres Oct. 7 at 9 p.m. on the CW.
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Nicki Minaj released her new single "Pills N Potions" today to an eager audience.
"It will introduce, I think, a sound and feel for my new album The Pink Print," Minaj said to reporters at the 2014 Billboard Music Festival.
The song, produced by Dr. Luke, is much slower and heartfelt than previous releases.
"Pills 'n potions, we're overdosing," sings Minaj. "I'm angry but I still love you. Pills 'n potions, we're overdosing. Can't stand it but I still love you."
Minaj uploaded the new song to Sound Cloud and linked it to her Instagram account early this morning.
"It is just a very truthful story," said Minaj.
The more down to earth song is complimented by a new style as well.
She commented about her new image and style of music to MTV.
"I went so far to the other side that there's only one place to go from there," Minaj told MTV in an interview last week. "You can either continue doing costumes or you can just say, 'Hey, guess what? This will shock them even more. Doing absolutely nothing will shock them even more.'"
Minaj has been cutting back on the colorful wigs and nails, instead going for a more natural look.
This is Minaj's third studio album. The whole thing is set to be released later this year.
Fans can go see Minaj in theaters right now. Minaj's first acting role in The Other Woman was well received.
Minaj plays Lydia, a coworker and friend to Cameron Diaz's character, Carley Whitten.
The Other Woman opened April 25, and made over $20 million in the first weekend alone. $9.1 million of that was made just on Friday night according to IMDb.com.
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One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
by Dr. Seuss
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish Writing Style
Fun With Rhyme Time
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish is classified as a book for beginner readers. As a book that's meant to introduce kids to words, and to get them started on a path to reading for the rest of their lives—no pressure—the book keeps the style light and fun.
The writing style is repetitive, full of rhymes that are a blast to read aloud, and delivered in such an easy, conversational style that the rhymes are easy to remember and repeat on your own time.
Rhyming? Repetition? Sounds kind of annoying, right? Maybe even forced? Not so:
Did you ever ride a Wump?
We have a Wump
with just one hump. (70-75)
Meet the Wumps. And what feels like every word in the English language that ends in –ump. First of all, the repetition of the word "bump" literally bumps us down the page. It's easy to imagine bouncing along as you ride the Wump (a creature that resembles a camel).
Of course we don't meet the Wump until three "bumps" have gone by, but when we do, we're not surprised to find he has a hump. What's a wump without a hump? A waste of good rhyming potential—that's what.
Eat Your Syllables
Plus, most of the words in the whole book are monosyllabic (which is, alas, not even close to being a monosyllabic word itself). These one-syllable words make it easy and fun for beginning readers to get through the book without becoming frustrated, and it adds a nice staccato rhythm that'll have your toes tapping.
It's the literary equivalent of slipping broccoli into the macaroni and cheese—if you don't know it's edifying, you might enjoy it.
Dear Reader
The book's tone is all about having a conversation with the reader. Forget keeping a snooty distance and acting all teacherly. Seuss's narrator goes ahead and addresses the reader like an old friend:
Why do I like to
hop, hop, hop?
I do not know.
Go ask your Pop. (235-238)
The little critter on display in this section, the Yop, hops right in and talks to the reader. It introduces itself and informs the reader that it likes to hop all day long. And if you have questions? Well, that's for you to ask your Pop. You know what? This Yop seems like an okay dude.
One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish speaks to children—or to the children inside of all of us—with the ease of a kindergarten teacher or mother of twelve. It leads the reader on a delightful journey that's fun and rhythmic to read aloud, and hopes that it will teach you a thing or two about reading along the way.
This Seuss classic is a perfect choice for teaching beginning readers because of how infectiously fun and exciting the story is, and how ideal it is to learn how to read aloud. The easy rhythm of the verses, as well as the way that they help to move a story forward—instead of just teaching repetitive vowels—makes the book a fun and satisfying read-aloud classic.


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Slipping and sliding on the snow and ice in winter and early spring is the largest reason why runners surrender themselves to soul-depleting treadmills and indoor running tracks. But running outside fights winter blues, burns more calories and generally improves your endurance and energy levels.
The best way, I have found, to make it safe is with winter traction devices like the Hillsound FreeSteps6 ($39.99) and the Kahtoola NANOspikes ($49.95). Not a single slip or fall on the ice from this runner.
Hillsound. Kahtoola. Is one better than the other?
Hillsound FreeSteps6
The Hillsound FreeSteps6 is great for trail running on hard-packed snow and general winter walking on icy surfaces and are relatively light at 10.6 ounces (for a small size).
For trailrunning, I found that I like them better than the Kahtoola MICROspikes because the twenty-one spikes are 1.2 centimeters in length, making them a lower profile. I also didn't experience any issues with snow balling up on my heel.
My only complaint with the FreeSteps6 is the light surface rust that developed on the cleats and chains after only a couple wears.
Hillsound's website says that the chains and spikes are made of 304 stainless steel, which is a lesser-grade stainless steel than that used on the Trail Crampon Ultras (420J stainless steel). I have used the Trail Crampon Ultras to death this winter and have had no issue with surface rust.
Kahtoola NANOspikes
Instead of toothed cleats, the Kahtoola NANOspikes have ten hard tungsten carbide studs that allow the spike to move away from the foot for better shock absorption and stability on icy paths and snow-packed trails.
These studs are incredibly low-profile. The base height is 0.125 inches and spike length is 0.210 inches or 0.3175 centimeters. They weigh in at eight ounces for a size medium. That is really light.
I have been running in a sample pair that Kahtoola gave me at Outdoor Retailer. Even though it is a size medium (I normally wear a small), it still gave me an excellent feel for how a correctly-sized pair would work on icy paths.
The Winner
You would think that the twenty-one 1.2 centimeter spikes of the Hillsound FreeSteps6 would deliver better performance and traction than the mere ten 0.3175 centimeter spikes of the Kahtoola NANOspikes. We are talking about half the spike count here.
Dare I say it?
I dare. It's not the number of spikes that enhance performance but the size. And this is the only example of when small, short and few deliver better performance than big, long and many.
Ba-dum tish!
The brilliantly-designed Kahtoola NANOspikes are my choice for running on sidewalks and asphalt with patchy ice. They will hit market late summer/early fall 2014, just in time for the 2014-2015 winter running season.
For trailrunning, and despite the light surface rust, I recommend the Hillsound FreeSteps6. But you'll need to dry them with a towel after each use to stave off rust. If you're too lazy to do this, then just spring the $69.99 for the Trail Crampon Ultra's or the $64.95 for the Kahtoola MICROspikes.
In the end, choose the traction device that best represents the type of running you do and the cash available in your wallet.


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Attempting to look at global issues facing the plastics industry, a group of about 50 leaders from various resin producers formed the World Plastics Council at K 2013 in Düsseldorf, Germany.
PlasticsEurope in Belgium and the Washington-based American Chemistry Council's Plastics Division initiated the meeting to discuss forming the group. In an interview with Plastics News, Steve Russell, ACC vice president of plastics, said the organization will be driven by its members, the companies.
"The trade associations will be there to help provide support, continuity, but this will be led by the companies," he said. "They will indentify the priorities, not the associations."
He said leaders from companies from all over the world came together for the meeting, including China, South Korea, Japan, India, Thailand, the Middle East, the Americas and Europe.
The idea of forming a worldwide council like this has been around for a little while, Russell said, but things started to fall into place ahead of K 2013, held Oct. 16-23. It was at the show that the leaders got together and decided to officially form the organization. They plan to meet as an entire body once a year in person, and an executive group will probably meet and communicate more often, Russell said.
The direct issues the group aims to tackle haven't been full flushed out, but among the common themes discussed in the lead-in to the event were marine debris, post-use issues for plastics and general sustainability.
"Many of our member companies, over the years, have pointed out that the issues we are addressing increasingly are global in nature," Russell said. "And while the existing trade associations are doing a good job in their regions, there's really an opportunity to learn from each other and create better solutions that are globally informed."
Patrick Thomas, CEO of Bayer MaterialScience AG in Leverkusen, Gemany, and president of PlasticsEurope, was nominated to initially chair the organization.
Russell said the work the organization will tackle is in no way a replacement for work done by national or regional trade organizations.
"We think there are enough issues and need [in the industry], that no one association in any particular region could handle [them] on their own," he said. "We think we'll be more effective if we find ways to address the issues globally."
The group is still open to new members.
"Anyone who shares the vision of being able to do better by learning from each other and accelerate our activities and be more effective is more than welcome to join in," Russell said. "And we hope they will."


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Betty L. Henry left this Earth and all who loved her at the tender age of 76 on Thursday, Dec. 27, 2007.
She was born in Kokomo, Ind., on June 25, 1931. She was raised in Medina and resided in Elyria in her later years. She worked most of her life as a private duty nurse.
She is survived by her daughter, Denise Jeffries of Elyria; sons, Scott Henry of Phoenix, Eric and Gary Henry, both of Indianapolis, Bryan Henry of Detroit and Bruce Henry of Elyria; brother, Sterling Medley of Medina; sisters, Madeline Medley and Deborah Wynn, both of Cleveland; grandchildren and great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Louis and Annie Belle Edwards-Medley; sister, Flossie Mae King; and son, Patrick Henry.
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HARRISONBURG — A Rockingham County grand jury indicted a Harrisonburg man accused of killing a man on Christmas Eve.
On Dec. 24, police say, Delano Fitz, 28, shot and killed Traman Turner after Turner arrived at his ex-girlfriend's Harrisonburg home to pick up his three children.
On Monday, a grand jury indicted Fitz on four felony counts: first-degree murder, possession of a weapon as a convicted felon, use of a firearm in the commission of a felony, and possession of a firearm as a convicted felon.
Following the indictment in Rockingham County Circuit Court, Fitz appeared in court.
Judge Bruce Albertson scheduled Fitz to appear in court on Wednesday to set a trial date.
Investigators say Fitz shot Turner, 27, at least four times in the parking lot of his ex's Commerce Drive townhome. At least three shots hit Turner in his back. Medical examiners are still trying to determine whether the fourth shot also struck him in the back, or entered his chest.
During a preliminary hearing last week in Rockingham County General District Court, testimony suggested that Delano Fitz saw it as a sign of disrespect for Turner to pick up the children while he was at the home. Fitz was the boyfriend of Turner's ex-girlfriend.
An argument ensued in the parking lot outside the townhome before shots rang out.
The woman at the center of the dispute, Edasha Williams, initially said Tuner was the aggressor but later changed her story, saying Fitz was the one who started the altercation.
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There have been many new marriages and relationships sparking and developing around me. In the joy and excitement of newness, there is also concern for what the future holds. Many couples that have been together for 10 or more years will advise you that taking it day by day is the best way. Some will advise you to plan for the future as you are taking it day by day. And even more will insist that you do all the above and make sure that you are taking care of "me" as you continue to work towards being a better "we".
This last advice works for new and old couples, but it is vital for those of us that are single because without a happy "me" there can be no healthy "we". Relationships take work, but as you are embarking on them your personal stuff has the tendency to surface. The stuff that make us who we are. The stuff that has been protecting us from harm for many years. That stuff that we have learned to live with. The stuff that at times blocks our blessings because it is besieged with fear and anger. Books will advise you to check it at the door and walk towards relationship bliss. The problem is some of that stuff feels very good and like a warm blanket on a cold day, we do not want to part with it.
So what does "me" do?
"Me" looks at the stuff and when I interact with someone I care about and some of the stuff makes me anxious, I forgive my stuff and "me" and start creating new stuff that works with "we".
This means that we are human. This means I love "me" enough to not be afraid of what I see when I am "we". This means that I can also understand my partner's stuff and not take it personally. It means I can at times begin to drop my stuff gradually until new and better stuff wraps around me so that "me" can become a healthier and happier "we".
Do not be afraid of commitment, relationships, and marriage. You will always have stuff. Just know that as you grow in trust, love, understanding, and courage, your stuff will begin to evolve and change too. But, on the other hand, if your stuff is telling you to run for the hills please listen. This advice is not an invitation to invite crazy into your life. Stuff can protect you from crazy but it can also make you run right for it if you are not careful.
At the end of the day, you will eventually find a "we" where your stuff can evolve in peace. And where "me" and "we" can co-exist with out insanity.


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Miles Davis: One Phone Call/Street Scenes
One Phone Call / Street Scenes
Miles Davis (trumpet, voices)
You're Under Arrest (Columbia CK 40023)
Miles Davis (trumpet, voices), Sting (French policeman's voice),
Marek Olko (Polish voice), Bob Berg (sax), Rober Irving III (synthesizers), John Scofield (guitar), Darryl Jones (bass), Al Foster (drums), Steve Thornton (percussion), James Prinderville (handcuffs).
Composed by Miles Davis.
Recorded: New York, 1985
Rating: 82/100 (learn more)
Ken Burns's PBS documentary Jazz (2000) implied that Miles Davis sold his soul to commercialism when he began to play fusion and jazz-rock in the late 1960s and early '70s. The fact that In a Silent Way and A Tribute to Jack Johnson sold squat meant nothing to those who put forth this argument. It is true that Bitches Brew sold a lot of records. But Miles was helping to create this new market, not exploit it. Then in one of the most arrogant and foolish acts in jazz history, the documentary's producers ignored the entire fusion movement. Mark me as bitter to this day over that unforgivable slight.
Now, if the pundits had said Miles Davis made You're Under Arrest with the purpose of appealing to the commercial sector, that would be true. Miles covered pop hits from Michael Jackson and Cindy Lauper. In 1985, you couldn't choose two more popular mainstream artists. The album is good because it is Miles Davis. But it marked a distinct change in his musical direction, which would last the rest of his life. From here on, Davis tried to reach the youth market that trailed him by one or two generations.
"One Phone Call/Street Scenes" is the bastard son of "Right Off" from A Tribute to Jack Johnson. Guitarist Scofield spends a good deal of his time playing the actual famous guitar chord riffs John McLaughlin had developed during the Jack Johnson jams. Scofield plays them a little lighter and with less of a growl. Before Davis plays trumpet, we hear him as a police officer using his raspy voice to arrest some juvenile delinquents. Davis eventually punctuates the busy crime scene with some short bursts. A repetitive but enjoyable funk beat takes over. Davis goes outside the box for a minute, as does Scofield. These sections are also reminiscent of Jack Johnson. When Sting appears as a French policeman, it further evinces Davis's new circle of friends and latest musical desires. Not that this was a bad thing. While "One Phone Call/Street Scenes" is an interesting exercise for its nostalgic references and indication of a new direction for Davis's music, it does not live up to the earlier material from which it was born (legitimately or not).
Reviewer: Walter Kolosky
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What is this sporting event?
The Guinness International Champions Cup is the biggest international club soccer tournament held in the United States. The tournament hosts eight elite club teams from Europe and is held annually during the summertime. This year's International Champions Cup is the second edition in which Real Madrid from Spain is the defending champion.
Who is playing in this tournament?
Eight of the top European teams are playing in the Guinness International Champions Cup this summer in the US. The teams to play in this year's edition include defending champions Real Madrid from Spain; Manchester United, Liverpool FC and Manchester City from England; AC Milan, AS Roma and Inter Milan from Italy; and Olympiacos from Greece. These teams will battle it out for pride in front of US soccer spectators.
Where are the venues for the tournament?
The venues include Citi Field in New York, NY, Sports Authority Field in Denver, CO, California Memorial Stadium in Berkeley, CA, Heinz Field in Pittsburgh, PA, Soldier Field in Chicago, IL, FedExField in Washington D.C., Cotton Bowl in Dallas, TX, Yankee Stadium in New York, NY, Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia, PA, TCF Bank Field in Minneapolis, MN, Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor, MI, Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, NC, and Sun Life Stadium in Miami, FL. The last venue, Sun Life Stadium, will be holding the final of this international soccer club tournament.
How do I get tickets?
The best way to get tickets is to go the Guinness International Champions Cup page on AXS.com. Once there, click on the Select Tickets option along the right side.
Which are the best match-ups?
In this tournament, all of the match-ups are considered to be top of the line match-ups since all of the teams are top dogs from Europe. However, one of the most anticipated matches is the Real Madrid, the defending champion of this tournament and currently the UEFA Champions League champion, versus AS Roma, who is the elite Italian team in this tournament. Roma came in second place last year in Italy, but it is the strongest Italian team in this tournament and is predicted to give Real Madrid quite a game. Also, Manchester City versus Liverpool FC will be a good match since these two teams are rivals in the English Premier league.
Why should I attend?
One must attend because this is some of the most elite soccer in one tournament. What better way to spend a summer than to watch top soccer clubs battle it out for one title? Even if you don't like soccer right now, the Guinness International Champions Cup will change that after seeing the best play against the best.
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A 'Made in the USA' renaissance
A record 550 people attending the 27th annual World Trade Day learned about the resurgence of manufacturing in the United States. The Providence Journal reported on the keynote presentation by Justin Rose of Boston Consulting Group, who detailed how productivity gains have given the United States an edge over foreign producers.
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We design a distributed multi-channel P2P Video-on-Demand (VoD) system using ``plug-and-play" helpers. Helpers are heterogenous ``micro-servers" with limited storage, bandwidth and number of users they can serve simultaneously. Our proposed system has the following salient features: (1) it jointly optimizes over helper-user connection topology, video storage distribution and transmission bandwidth allocation; (2) it minimizes server load, and is adaptable to varying supply and demand patterns across multiple video channels irrespective of video popularity; and (3) it is fully distributed and requires little or no maintenance overhead. The combinatorial nature of the problem and the system demand for distributed algorithms makes the problem uniquely challenging. By utilizing Lagrangian decomposition and Markov chain approximation based arguments, we address this challenge by designing two distributed algorithms running in tandem: a primal-dual storage and bandwidth allocation algorithm and a ``soft-worst-neighbor-choking" topology-building algorithm. Our scheme provably converges to a near-optimal solution, and is easy to implement in practice. Packet-level simulation results show that the proposed scheme achieves minimum sever load under highly heterogeneous combinations of supply and demand patterns, and is robust to system dynamics of user/helper churn, user/helper asynchrony, and random delays in the network.
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Dear list, I'm trying to extend xuriella by writing some custom xpath functions (using plexippus' extension mechanism). This works fine for functions returning strings, booleans or numbers, but I now need to write a function that returns a node set so that the following will work: <xsl:for-each select='my:fun("sample string", 3)'> <xsl:value-of select='pos()'/> <xsl:value-of select='.'/> </xsl:for-each> My first (naive) implementation looked like this: (xpath-sys:define-xpath-function/eager my fun (string &optional (count 1)) (loop for i from 0 to count collect string into value-list finally (return (xpath-sys:make-node-set (xpath-sys:make-pipe (car value-list) (cdr value-list)))))) Testing seem to work: CL-USER> (xpath:with-namespaces (("my" "http://my.ns")) (xpath:evaluate "my:myfun('blah')" nil)) #<XPATH:NODE-SET 3, ... {CB289B1}> A nodeset, as expected. But using this function in a stylesheet throw the following error:(Continue reading)


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Washington is now shocked, shocked that illegal aliens were able to use fake Social Security numbers to get jobs at a nuclear power plant.
Not-so-newsflash: They've also been caught on nuclear sub bases and at airports (most recently, while maintaining passenger and cargo aircraft) and at food plants that manufacture MREs for soldiers. And in construction jobs at air force bases. And refitting Navy aircraft carriers. For starters.
Of course, if we were doing this and this, it wouldn't keep happening.
It's comforting to see that lawmakers are finally realizing the dire national security consequences of turning a blind eye to illegal aliens working in sensitive areas.
Maybe the pols can start getting worked up now about illegal aliens serving in the military. With the White House and Pentagon's blessing.
For crying out loud.
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Adding a second on 80 minutes, Elliot went close to a hat-trick when he hit a post but man-of-the-match Tim Hunt went on to complete the win when he fired through a crowded penalty box.
Stuart Winter, Darren Bell and Martin Kendall were the pick of Bagby's players.
Union Rovers dropped to second in the table after going down 3-0 to Kirkbymoorside reserves, who must now be considered favourites to retain their league title.
Man-of-the-match Jason Brown struck twice after Tony Barnett had opened the scoring from the penalty spot.
Defender Lee Dunning was Rovers' top performer but the Moorsiders are now five points adrift of leaders Thornton with five games in hand.
Kirkdale United led twice through Andrew Cavanagh and Martin Grayson before going down 5-2 at home to Sinnington, who had David Wilkinson (2), man-of-the-match Wayne Moon (2) and Stuart Wilkinson on the scoresheet. Keeper Tony Dodds starred in goal for Kirkdale.
Despite being 2-0 down and having Stuart Dowson sent off, Rosedale recovered to beat Heslerton by the odd goal thanks to efforts from man-of-the-match Andy Kennedy from midfield, Martin Foxton and Kyle Clacherty.
Chris Bell was also red carded for Heslerton, for whom right-winger Mikey Clark starred, when the scores were level at 2-2.
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Will Spowart got Norton's consolation and was his side's star man.
In division two, Union Rovers seconds stayed top after overcoming Aislaby United 3-2 with Phil Smith, Richard Abbey and Kingsley Daffern on target.
Dave Cottle and Oliver Grayson netted for Aislaby, who had Sam Chapman in fine form.
Union centre-back Chris Cook was man of the match.
Sam Appleton scored four times and was sent off but still picked up the man-of-the-match honours in Gillamoor reserves' 5-1 victory over Rillington Athletic reserves.
Gillamoor's other goal was provided by Josh Tateson with Lee Oxendale replying from the spot for Rillington, whose Richard Legard shone.
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Pickering Knights triumphed 4-1 against Amotherby & Swinton thirds with Rowan South, Tom Ward, Ashley Walker and Greg Fawcett netting.
An own goal by man-of-the-match George Trousdale was responsible for Amotherby's reply, with Danny Foxton their top performer.
Paul Cook and Declan Copelan secured a 2-1 win for Slingsby at Huntington, who responded through Peter Webster.
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I just dug up my old indiana jones game (fate of atlantis) and thought i would hit it up once more, anyway i have followed your advice using scummvm and works great, except when indy tries to talk nothing comes out and i only have text speech to work with, this is ok.......but i want to hear them speak!!!!Anyway when they try to speak the A Warning comes up in ScummVM that says
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Head Coach Anthony GrantOpening statement: "I feel like we're extremely blessed to have the opportunity to be in this position with everything our guys have overcome this year. I'm so proud of our guys, the way they fought. Today we played a very good Georgia team, a very physical, a very tough team, and we had to fight. We knew it wasn't going to be easy and it wasn't pretty, but I'm just so proud of our guys. We overcame trouble, we overcame the poor shooting - we found a way. We had so many great efforts today from so many different people. I'm just proud of the win."
On overcoming the struggles of the past two games:"I was interested to see how our guys would bounce back. But as soon as we got to the practice floor a few days ago you could tell they were ready to go and they were focused on moving forward. The thing we've talked about all year is controlling what we can control, we couldn't go back and change what happened, so we had to control today and take advantage of the opportunity that was in front of us. I'm proud of the maturity our guys showed. It was a great win for us."
On the play of Davis, Hines and Hillman:"I thought we got great effort out of all of our seniors. I'm so proud of those guys and so happy for them to get the win. Chris Hines in the first half and second half, before he fouled out, Chris had to be a yeoman in the low post, and he gave a yeoman's effort and did a great job. With Charvez it was good to see him step up and provide scoring for our team, but also on the defensive end, coming up with the loose balls and making the hustle plays. I thought he played with passion and fire today, it was good to see him and all three of those guys as seniors to finish their career with an undefeated record at home and a chance at an SEC Championship."
On the home-court advantage of Coleman Coliseum:"Our fans have been tremendous. We wouldn't be where we are at right now without the support and the enthusiasm that is in this building. I can tell you even today there were times when the energy was provided by the fans. And that's been the case all season for us, our fans have been tremendous. The environment that's been created in here is tremendous, our students, our supporters, everybody – it's just tremendous and I can't tell you how much it means in terms of what we're trying to build and the program we want to establish here. It starts with the support we get from everyone and I couldn't be prouder, couldn't be happier."
#1 JaMychal Green, ForwardOn the game plan for Georgia:"We just double teamed Trey Thompkins. He's a great player, and we just tried to stop them from making three pointers in transition: I think we did a great job of that."
On how big three pointers were for Alabama:"They were huge. We need them at the tournament. Charvez stepped up at the right time and knocked down some big shots. "
On playing more aggressively:"Yeah coach told us to come out and hit first. They actually kind of hit us first, but we kept fighting and that's what got us the win."
On how big this win was:"It was a huge win. To finish out the season undefeated at home is always a good feeling."
#44 Chris Hines, ForwardOn what the game plan was:"Basically coach emphasized that we must go inside against them. When we got in the zone we needed quick ball movement and player movement at all times. We wanted to attack the zone and always make their defense move and rotate."
On how helpful the outside shots were:"Once Charvez gets hot from the outside, he can stroke them all day. So it really opened up the floor for us offensively, and we could really force them to get outside the zone and play man-to-man. "
On how significant this win was being a senior:"It was great. On top of that, it was the last home game and we have been undefeated at home, so to go out like that was a blast. I wouldn't have it any other way."
#24 Charvez Davis, GuardOn what made him hit his three pointers today:"I don't know. I guess it was just my mindset. I give a lot of credit to my coaches and the players. They kept confidence in me. I have to tip my hat to Coach Brannen and Coach Kane because they made me a video to let me see what I was doing wrong, and I wasn't really following through on the missed shots. I just really focused on that and really tried to follow through with every shot. Tonight it worked. I'm just really proud of myself and the seniors."
On what the game plan was:"We wanted to focus on ourselves and really defend, rebound and slow them down in transition. I think we did a really good job of slowing them down. Once again, I'm just proud of the team. "
On how significant it is to end with this game at home:"It feels great. I wanted to end it like this on a good note, so I'm proud of myself for that. I have to give my team credit because they were looking out for me and kept believing in me, so I take my hat off to them."
Georgia Head Coach Mark FoxOn the job Charvez Davis did from three-point range:"They shot the ball well today. He shot the ball well. We knew going in that he was the one guy on the team that is a proven shooter, and he really shot the ball well today."
On if Alabama did anything defensively that surprised them:"No, they played probably how we thought they would play defensively."
On why they were so successful defensively and if turnovers had much to do with it:"We just didn't play with much authority today on offense, but you have to credit their defense too."
#33 Trey Thompkins, ForwardOn JaMychal Green:"JaMychal Green is a good player. He can score, and we didn't defend him well today."
On Alabama's defense:"They changed up everything they did. Sometimes they would trap, and sometimes they wouldn't. Sometimes they played zone and sometimes they played straight up man. They did a really good job scouting us, and we just got careless with the ball a few times."
#1 Travis Leslie, GuardOn struggling on offense:"We had a lot of mental mistakes. We had a lot of turnovers. Our shots weren't falling. It just wasn't going our way, and they played harder than we did."
On the team's mindset:"Right now we just know we have to go out and win in the postseason. It's a whole other season. The regular season is over. Now it's win or go home."


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text: Thank you !-) Using your script (with "any") it actually works :-) The only question I have then is how to map the uppercase oslash (Oobliqe I think) to uppercase 'S' (this is the official mapping of norw. dvorak): 94 0x00f8 (oslash) 0x00d8 (Ooblique) With your proposal it looks like lowercase aring key gives uppercase S (uppercase Aring gives uppercase Aring). By running xmodmap -e 'keysym aring = s S aring Aring' and "xmodmap -e 'keycode any = s S aring Aring'" (Aring is uppercase aring), both lower and uppercase maps to uppercase S, but I want it to map to the same case. I have no more ideas of how to do this. (I don't follow your explanation of how X mapper works fully, as I haven't programmed it before). Another point is that if it is possible, vnc should manage the internationally keys automatically (like it does when not remapping). It also works when mapping locally (with works with linux, but in windoze unfortunalely requires both patching of keymapping-files and admin-access). I also assume other keymappings , as French, German etc. have the same problem (for dvorak-users). BTW, are you developing on vnc or just patching it? Thanks for your help on this issue. Marius K On fre, 2002-03-22 at 20:47, Grant McDorman wrote: > (writing from home since I'm off work today) > > (part 1, mapping events, and part 2, w/o mapping events) > > The mapping events are entirely expected and reasonable. Note that it starts > with keycode 89 - the first free Xvnc keycode. > > (part 3, xmodmap -pk) > > Looks fine. The keys pressed in part 1 are added just as the mapping events > described. > > (part 4, xmodmap -e "keysym aring = s") > > The result is correct. However, given the way Xvnc works, this simply > *removes* the aring keymapping. Better would be: > xmodmap -e "keysym aring = s S aring" > > (part 5, press aring after the above xmodmap) > > Exactly the way I expected. Xvnc doesn't find a keymap entry somewhere > containing aring, so it creates a new one. > > (part 6, mapping oslash) > > Xvnc uses the first entry it finds containing the keysym. > > Try: > xmodmap -e 'keycode 89 = s S aring" > This will, unfortunately, destroy whatever's at entry 89, but Xvnc is > guaranteed to use it. > > Don't use this as the final version, though; you run the risk of it breaking > if a new release of Xvnc has a static entry for keycode 89. > > Alternatively, use this script fragment: > if ! xmodmap -e 'keysym aring = s S aring' ; then > xmodmap -e 'keycode 127 = s S aring' > fi > > This will redefine any existing entry; if that fails (presumably because there > is no existing entry) a new entry will be created. Of course, you must use a > unique number for each key (e.g. 127 for aring, 128 for oslash, etc.) > > In more recent versions of xmodmap, you can use 'any' instead of '127' above, > and xmodmap will use the first empty entry; that is: > xmodmap -e 'keycode any = s S aring' > > Unless you use the script fragment, the mapping trick must be done before the > key has been pressed; if there are duplicate entries it probably won't work, > as the first entry is likely to be the generated entry and not the "trick" > entry. The script fragment should handle any case. > > A special case to watch for is when you have another key you want to act as > aring (or oslash or ...). Make sure that the entry for that second key is > *after* the entry for the _real_ aring (oring...) key. Specifically, > 127 0x0073 (s) 0x0053 (S) 0x00e5 (aring) > 128 0x00e5 (aring) 0x00c5 (Aring) 0x00?? (somekey) > will work but the reverse: > 127 0x00e5 (aring) 0x00c5 (Aring) 0x00?? (somekey) > 128 0x0073 (s) 0x0053 (S) 0x00e5 (aring) > will not, since the server will find entry #127 first. > > On March 22, 2002 12:21 pm, you wrote: > > (this might have been sent before, but I send it again as I didn't > > receive my post) > > > > I have attatched my findings, like you requested and more. > > > > On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 17:30, Grant McDorman wrote: > > > According to Marius Kotsbak: > > > Send me the result of this and we'll take it from there. > > > > > > -- > Grant McDorman <grmcdorman "at" netscape.net> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, mail majordomo "at" uk.research.att.com with the line: 'unsubscribe vnc-list' in the message BODY See also: http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/intouch.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------


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TUCSON, Ariz. - The Mike Stoops Radio and TV shows will kickoff next week in advance of Arizona's season opener at Toledo on Friday, Sept. 3.
New to the weekly agenda for Stoops is the taping of his radio show at a brand new location. The show will be produced live on Tuesday from Sir Veza's, located at Speedway and Swan. The new location will offer a fun and entertaining environment for fans to watch the broadcast of the show live and in person.
The weekly Mike Stoops TV show will be taped on Monday's during the season at 1:30 p.m. at Chapman Mercedes of Tucson, located on East 22nd Street and Swan.
The TV show will be available to watch taped through a variety of UA television affiliates. Local distribution will be provided through KWBA, KGUN and AZTV, with regional distribution courtesy FOX Sports Arizona and FOX College Sports.
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HOLLYWOOD — If you're the type of horror fan who's always searching for the next evolution in the genre, there's a good chance you've fallen in love with the buzz-building "Grindhouse" footage making waves on the Internet. If you're the other kind of horror fan — the one who longs for the old days of grainy footage, gore and gratuitous sex — there's also a good chance that "Grindhouse" has been rocking your world lately. And if you haven't seen the clips of Rose McGowan with a machine-gun leg, the Crazy Babysitter Twins painting each other's toenails or cult favorite Danny Trejo as tongue-in-cheek hero Machete, then somebody needs to introduce you to the wonders of a Web browser, post-haste.
A long time ago, in a distant era called the Mid-Nineties, precocious young Hollywood filmmakers Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino combined forces to create "From Dusk Till Dawn," an ultra-violent flick that reinvented the horror genre by bringing in elements of comedy, exploitation and gangster flicks. Now, a decade later, they've each filmed about an hour of new footage — and judging by the "Sin City"-like buzz that's building around this April release, either of these short movies might be better than most full-length ones (see "Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino Teaming Up For Exploitation Flick" ). A wide cast has already assembled for the affair: In addition to McGowan and Trejo, Rosario Dawson, Kurt Russell, Josh Brolin — and Black Eyed Peas' Fergie — have hopped onboard.
Sydney Tamiia Poitier — daughter of film legend Sidney Poitier — appears in "Death Proof," Tarantino's slasher movie about a homicidal stuntman. "I play Jungle Julia. … She's a drive-time DJ in Austin, Texas," Poitier said, referring to a character that Tarantino junkies might find somewhat similar to Steven Wright's "Reservoir Dogs" disc jockey. "She's kind of a local celebrity; she's an aficionado of music … what Quentin Tarantino is to movies, Jungle Julia is to music. So, she plays all her own collection and she is just a really cool chick, and she rolls with her little posse of girls and they go out and have a good time."
One of Julia's loyal listeners is an aspiring actress played by Mary Elizabeth Winstead ("Final Destination 3"). "I play Lee, who's this up-and-coming starlet starring in my first big movie. Rosario Dawson plays my makeup artist, and Zoe Bell is a stunt woman, and Tracie Thoms is also a stunt woman, and we're hanging out together, having a good time," Winstead said of the setup. "There's a lot of really funny dialogue and funny scenes, and then Kurt Russell ends up stalking us. He's a very deranged madman, but we turn the tables on him."
In case that quasi-"Kill Bill" plotline doesn't sound like enough to watch, "Grindhouse" also includes "Planet Terror," a new movie from "Sin City" director Rodriguez. "I play Dakota McGraw-Locke, an anesthesiologist who is on the run," actress Marley Shelton said of her role in the second feature. "I'm planning to make a huge life change, but then our little town in Texas gets overrun by zombies and everything goes in a whole different direction!"
In the middle of all this madness are a number of movie trailers for films that you'll most likely never see, teasing you with such alluring titles as "They Call Him Machete" and "Cowgirls in Sweden." You see, the unusual film format — and the "Grindhouse" name under which it all appears — references a beloved genre of '70s flicks that had a "screw it, let's just have fun" attitude that heavily influenced both Tarantino and Rodriguez.
As a whole, "Grindhouse" promises plenty of carnage, the hallmark dark humor of both directors and even some musical performances. "I actually get to sing in the movie, which I have never gotten to do before," Winstead beamed. "So I had a lot of fun the day I got to belt out a song [and] get really into it. The song is called 'Baby It's You,' it's this '60s soul-funk song," the 22-year-old actress added. "And while I'm singing it, Kurt Russell is, in a very creepy way, sneaking up on Rosario Dawson and touching her feet."
As anyone who remembers Mia Wallace's plush carpet in "Pulp Fiction" or the Bride's coma recuperation technique in "Kill Bill" knows, the sequence continues a tradition of Tarantino's fetishistic affection for his leading ladies' feet. "[The scene] is this really strange but really cool moment," Winstead added. "It's black-and-white and it's really creepy, just the fact that I'm singing so innocently while that really strange thing is happening at the same time. [Filming it] felt like a really classic movie moment."
From Michael Madsen's "Stuck in the Middle With You" dance to "You Never Can Tell" inspiring John Travolta to do the Batusi, old music has always been a key element of a Tarantino flick, and the DJ's playlist in "Death Proof" will once again allow the director to display his record collection. "I'm not allowed to say what the songs are, he keeps that pretty under wraps," Poitier shrugged, "but I can say it's an amazing soundtrack. … There's a lot of '70s music in there, but not all."
Meanwhile, Shelton says, a modern-day hitmaker will take on her biggest acting role yet in Rodriguez's flick: Fergie. Insisting that she couldn't reveal Fergie's top-secret character, Shelton was then asked whether the Dutchess will unleash a song of her own. This caused Shelton to run over and ask her director for permission to discuss it — after Rodriguez shook his head, she returned with a smile and said, "Sorry, no dice."
Read into that whatever you would like, but if Fergie didn't perform a song, it doesn't seem like there'd be much to ask Rodriguez about.
One thing these leading ladies are eager to discuss, however, is the unusual techniques that their directors use to get such strong performances out of actors. "[Tarantino] really is an actor's director," Poitier said. "We had two weeks of rehearsal before we even started shooting, which is almost unheard of nowadays … he got all these girls together, the seven of us, and I think part of his ploy was just to get us all to bond and have that connection before we even started shooting; that was really key to our scenes."
The directors also afforded their stars the rare luxury of shooting scenes in near-sequential order, which most actors prefer since it helps them develop their characters naturally. "Only in Robert Rodriguez's world can I shoot the last scene of the movie, on the last day, as my last shot for the film. … So, I had a full moment of closure, for my character and my experience," Shelton said.
"My favorite day of shooting was probably the first day," Poitier countered. "It was three of us — me, Jordan Ladd and Vanessa Ferlito — in a tiny little Honda Civic, crammed on one of those giant rigs going up and down the biggest street in Austin. … We did that all day long, and people were yelling out things. They were going to cut the sound, because we got a lot of cat calls and crazy things."
If the footage that's surfaced so far is any indication, the noise is only just beginning.
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Pulled from New Orleans Saints notes that ran overnight.
Pulled from New Orleans Saints notes that ran overnight.
On the subject of fake injuries has cropped up this season, beginning with the New York Giants' ham-handed attempt to slow the Washington Redskins by having two defenders fall to the ground simultaneously with phantom ailments. More recently, the crowd and coaches at West Virginia made it clear they felt LSU was faking injuries to crimp the Mountaineers' no-huddle offense.
The NFL commissioner's office has warned teams against the practice since this season began. In the midst of the controversy last week, Dolphins running back Reggie Bush said that, in his days as a Saint, the team had a play on which players were supposed to feign injury.
Generally speaking, the fake injury crops up when a team is dealing with a fast-paced offense that does not give the defense time to catch its breath or substitute.
Payton denied Wednesday that such a ruse was in the Saints playbook.
"No, someone mentioned something to me last week, and we don't fake injuries," he said. "And I don't think you can find a situation where a team has been in a hurry-up and all of a sudden guys have just fallen down. I mean, if you went back it would be pretty easy to do. That's probably more frustration on a player's part there."


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For those of you local readers, here's a quick bit of news that should be of interest.
Downtown Napa's Bounty Hunter is offering all Napa County residents the opportunity to purchase general manager Will Wright's special $10 lunch with a guarantee that it served within ten minutes of ordering from the sidewalk or indoor tables.
The promotion, which is dubbed the "Pony Express", allows you to choose from a pulled pork sandwich, a Reuben and Shredded BBQ Chicken, among other items as well as an array of sides that range from grilled seasonal vegetables to potato salad and coleslaw. Every plate also includes Guss' Half Sour Pickles from New York, and Bounty Hunter's selection of three homemade barbecue sauces.
Additionally, each 'Pony Express' lunch arrives with your choice of a non-alcoholic drink, including iced tea, lemonade, ginger ale and root beer. The 'Pony Express' offer is available Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and you'll just need to flash your driver's license to prove your residency to take advantage.
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In both Practicum and Internship experiences in school counseling, students complete field experiences that are designed to help them integrate the knowledge and skills which they have learned in their core and foundation classes. Students will begin to crystallize their professional identity, polish their counseling skills, obtain invaluable information related to the varied roles of a professional school counselor, and provide highly skilled service to the school(s) where they will work. In these experiences, students are expected to act in an ethical manner, complete all assignments expected for the course, attend supervision classes on the main campus, and work to learn and grow as much as possible. Both of these supervised experiences have been developed to prepare professional school counselors to work within a school setting, and they are designed to meet or exceed educational and licensure requirements in the state of Ohio and CACREP.
The school counseling Practicum and Internship are courses that focus on the application of knowledge and skills applicable to school counseling. Practicum experiences, as defined by CACREP, are supervised clinical experiences in which the student develops basic counseling skills and integrates professional knowledge. The Internship experience, as defined by CACREP, is a post practicum, supervised capstone clinical experience in which the student refines and enhances basic counseling or student development knowledge, skills, and integrates and authenticates professional knowledge and skills appropriate to the student's program.
Click on the links below for additional School Field Experience information. More specific information can be found in the Field Experience Handbook.
- Student Eligibility for School Practicum and Internship
- Site Supervisor Criteria
- Site Selection: Ethical and Legal Implications
- Site Selection: Helpful Tips
- Supervision Requirements
- Accumulation of Internship Hours
- Examples of School Counselor Activities
Student Eligibility for School Practicum and Internship
- Course Pre-requisites:
- Practicum: COU 508, 510, 511, 518, 519, 522 and 537
- Internship: COU 594 Practicum in School Counseling
- Individuals who have a Masters degree in Counseling and are pursuing the School Counseling Licensure Endorsement (SCLE) may enroll for field experience with approval of the MAC program.
- Sites/plans must be preapproved by the Clinical Director one semester prior to registration.
- The Petition for Practicum or Internship Form must be completed by the student, signed by the proposed site supervisor, and submitted by the posted deadlines. Students must submit a new petition for each term of in the practicum/internship sequence. Additionally, for students with more than one site, a separate Petition form must be submitted for each site.
- Provide additional documentation as outlined in the Field Experience Checklist.
* Upon approval of the petition, students are notified and provided instructions on how to proceed and register for their course. Students cannot register for COU 594, COU 596, or COU 597 without prior authorization.
Site Supervisor Criteria
- A minimum of a Masters degree in counseling or a related profession with equivalent qualifications, including current license/certification in the state of Ohio
- A minimum of two years of school counseling experience
- Knowledge of the Program's expectations, requirements, and evaluation procedures
Site Selection: Ethical and Legal Implications
- Teachers who wish to select their home school as a possible Practicum or Internship site need to set up an appointment with the Clinical Director to avoid dual relationship issues.
- Students who are employed by outside agencies and assigned to schools may not use their employment hours to fulfill requirements for Practicum and Internship. After a discussion with the Clinical Director, a supplemental contract will be established to clearly designate when and what hours may be applied to their Practicum or Internship hours.
- Any other special circumstances should be discussed with the Graduate Counseling Program Director.
Site Selection: Helpful Tips
- Locate a practicum and internship site that reflects career goals
- Choose a site where employment after graduation would be favorable. If a permanent position becomes available, then you will be well positioned for consideration.
- Interview as well as be interviewed by school personnel to make sure that the site and the site supervisor can provide the type of experience determined by CACREP and the Graduate Studies in Counseling Program. Samples of interview questions are provided on our website.
- During the site interview identify the specific experiences in which you wish to participate. The more specific you can be the better you and the site personnel can determine whether the site will be a good match.
- Approach a prospective site as though it were a prospective employer and conduct behavior as if seeking employment and being interviewed for a job. School personnel have the ultimate authority to approve or disapprove placement with their organization.
- Ensure in advance that this site supervisor will be able to provide the type of supervision you will need to receive. Supervisors should be prepared and willing to listen to tapes, co-lead a group, provide live supervision, provide additional training etc. This will be important in determining whether this site will be appropriate to student needs.
Please Note: While you are asked to make an initial contact with a possible on-site supervisor to discuss the suitability of the site, all potential sites are subject to approval by the Heidelberg Graduate Counseling department.
Supervision Requirements
Weekly class meetings are required in both Practicum and Internship. These meetings include: case conceptualization, discussion of site related issues, lectures, dissemination of professional information (professional organizations, licensure tests, etc.), and role playing in the Counseling Laboratory. In addition, the Practicum and Internship experiences include:
- For Practicum, 100 contact hours are required. A minimum of 40 of these clock hours need to be direct counseling service with students, parents, or consultation with teachers relative to a student concern. Direct service is defined as time spent working with students. Direct hours are hours completed within a school setting under the direct supervision of an approved site supervisor.
- For Internship, 600 total contact hours are required to occur in a school counseling setting. A minimum of 240 of these clock hours need to be direct counseling service with students, parents, or consultation with teachers relative to a student concern. Direct service is defined as face-to-face time spent working with students. Direct hours are hours completed within a school setting under the direct supervision of an approved site supervisor.
- A minimum of one hour per week of individual supervision with the on-site supervisor.
- A minimum of one and one-half hours per week of group supervision on campus in a classroom setting that may be applied towards indirect hours of Practicum and/or Internship hours.
- Opportunities for students to become more familiar with myriad roles and activities for which school counselors are responsible; present formal case studies, discuss case conceptualization issues, understand school culture, and various school-based meetings. Students will have the opportunity to interact with other school professionals, understand the organization and development of a school guidance program in their specific area of interest, and fully understand the ethical implications of professional school counseling.
- Formal evaluations of student's performance during the Practicum and Internship will be performed by the site supervisor and the program faculty member throughout the field experiences; students will be apprised of these evaluations.
Accumulation of Field Experience Hours
While it may be possible to accumulate more than 300 hours in Internship I, only 300 hours will be applied to Internship I and II, respectively. Hours accumulated beyond the 300 hour minimum required will not carry over into Internship II, but additional hours should be viewed as invaluable added experience. Once students have completed all of their hours for the term, they are still required to complete the course by attending class and participating in activities outlined in the syllabus.
Examples of School Counselor Activities
Curriculum Structured Groups/classroom Presentations
- Test interpretation, orientation, and proctoring
- Co-facilitate group
- Assist in developing a developmental, comprehensive school counseling program
- Assist with peer tutoring/assistance programs
- Assist with scholarships and financial aid
- Provide in-service training for teachers on topics of interest
- Plan a peer mediation program
- Attend financial aid workshop
- Provide scholarship, college information to students
- Provide career information
** The academic, career, and personal/social domains will be integrated within the curricular units.
Individual Planning - Advisement/Assessment/Placement/Follow-up
- Course advising for classes and career planning
- Computer career information - work with students on the Ohio Career Information System (OCIS)
- Test interpretation
- Individual Counseling
- Discuss college information with students
- Assist with students on home instruction
- Assist with IEPs and 504 plans
- Meet with students to discuss credits
- Send notes to students
- Counsel students regarding vocational programs and career interests
- Registration of new students and course advisement
Responsive Services - Individual/Group/Consultation/Referral
- Assist with at-risk students and referral processes
- Assist with peer tutoring/assistance programs
- Provide consultation with teachers, parents, etc.
- Consult on PSOP with interested parties
- Assist with kindergarten screening and placement decisions
- Review student grades and class placement/counsel with students
System Support - Management/Public Relations/Community Outreach
- Meet with area agencies
- Compile a listing of area agencies and available services
- Research and present information on effective parenting techniques
- Review school mission statement
- Develop a comprehensive, developmental school counseling program
- Attend area counselor meetings
- Attend in-service on confidentiality with non-certified staff
- Assist with weekly/monthly guidance statistics
- Assist with crisis intervention plans
- Meet with members of the board of education to discuss counseling activities
- Attend a Board of Education Meeting
- Meet with college representatives
- Attend workshops/conferences dealing with school counseling issues
- Plan a peer mediation program
- Attend IEP meetings
- Participate in the Professional Development Committee
- Prepare transcripts for college applications
- Write letters of recommendation
- Meet with representatives of the military
- Prepare school profile for college applications
- Assist in counseling department public relations


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I asked Jason Mellard, author of the new book Progressive Country: How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture to assemble a playlist that would represent the scope of his book. He did that and more, giving great insight into the book and a lot of fantastic music!
Progressive Country is a book that begins and ends with the sounds of 1970s roots music. In between, it also attempts to capture the rapid change Texas underwent as it tried to digest the social revolutions of the Sixties and the economic revolution of the Sun Belt boom. The songs help tell the story.
Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, "Armadillo Stomp"
The Austin venue the Armadillo World Headquarters first sparked my interest in the subject. Here is where, as the city's mythology would have it, the hippies and rednecks made their peace amidst the strains of progressive country music. This track opens a live album recorded by Commander Cody and the Lost Planet Airmen, released in 1974 as Live from Deep in the Heart of Texas. Though originally from Michigan, Commander Cody helped to jump-start Austin's western swing revival championed by affiliated acts such as Asleep at the Wheel.
Shiva's Headband, "Armadillo Homesick Blues"
The Armadillo would not have existed, though, had it not been for seed money from Shiva's Headband. This unheralded group bridged the transition from Austin's psychedelic rock past to its progressive country future through Spencer Perskin's fiddle. That fiddle isn't exactly highlighted here, but what this song from Take Me to the Mountains does do is mark the moment when young Anglo-Texans who had been in exile in the Bay Area in the late 60s decided to come home and make a go of music-making in the Texas capital.
Willie Nelson, "Medley"
Shiva's contributions might be news to folks outside Austin, but Willie Nelson's association with the place is an indelible piece of Americana music lore. This is the opening track to Nelson's Yesterday's Wine of 1971, a concept album that shows Willie was well on his way to weird before he left Nashville. As Michael Streissguth's recent book Outlaw shows, the Austin-Nashville contrast made in the 1970s, claiming that the former was hip and the latter square, fails to appreciate that a new generation was on the rise in Tennessee even as Willie was on his way out the door to Texas.
Michael Murphey, "Cosmic Cowboy, pt. 1"
I spend a good deal of time in the book hashing out the "cosmic cowboy" style associated with Austin's country-rockers. I want to be clear that just about no one went around claiming to be a cosmic cowboy, just as very few artists ever identified the music they made as progressive country. These categories served the purposes of journalists, the industry, and, later, historians like myself as a shorthand for a historical moment and sensibility. Indeed, Murphey recoiled at the thought that this title song from his 1973 album might have started a movement. Nevertheless, I argue that the term describes the moment quite well—longhair and longnecks, boots and cowboy hats, and stimulants formerly outside the bounds of proper country etiquette.
The Flatlanders, "Bhagavan Decreed"
For my money, there are few songs as "progressive country" as the Flatlanders' "Bhagavan Decreed." Lubbockites Joe Ely, Butch Hancock, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore blended traditional twang with countercultural sentiment in a way that would make the Flying Burrito Brothers green with envy. The final lines always get me, too, as a great evocation of Seventies' utopianism butting up against the decade's malaise, stirred in with its just-having-a-good-time vibe: "You say one day soon we will all stand as brothers/Till then I guess we'll just stand around."
Jerry Jeff Walker and the Lost Gonzo Band, "Up Against the Wall (Redneck Mother)"
I'm not the first to seize on Walker and the Gonzos' Viva Terlingua (1973) as the perfect expression of the Austin sound. Barry Shank managed to give it some love in his punk history Dissonant Identities even as he dismissed much of the rest of progressive country. More recently, Travis Stimeling in Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks wrote extensively about how the album's purposefully spontaneous recording in the Hill Country hamlet of Luckenbach was meant to capture the raw and immediate nature of Walker's live performance. All of the album's tracks speak to the Texas Seventies in their own way, but this one in particular, by Ray Wylie Hubbard, helps get at the affinities and tensions between the counterculture and traditional Texans. It is a bit of a parody of a parody, too, an "Okie from Muskogee" with tongue even more firmly embedded in cheek.
Guy Clark, "Desperadoes Waiting for a Train"
Issues of nostalgia and the passing of generations, the same sense of loss captured in McMurtry's Last Picture Show, reverberate through the music in the book. This Guy Clark song first appeared in Walker's 1973 version. Clark himself recorded it on his debut album Old No. 1 (1975).
Freda and the Firedogs, "Stand by Your Man"
This was a scene largely dominated by male artists. Women played prominent roles in Willie Nelson's band, Asleep at the Wheel, and Greezy Wheels. They stepped out front as vocalists on the blues scene. As agents, managers, and staff, they held together the venues where bands played. However, progressive country in Austin seemed poised to produce few women stars. Marcia Ball, however, was the exception to the rule with her band Freda and the Firedogs. This album, produced by Jerry Wexler when Atlantic was experimenting with new country sounds, was not released until 2002. Ball's rendition of "Stand by Your Man" paid tribute to a classic country tune, but in its own way was as much of a parody as anything Walker or Kinky Friedman ever performed. Local lore has it that Freda and the Firedogs drew a strong audience among the city's women's movement who took ironic delight in this particular number.
Tortilla Factory, "Malagueña"
This is not just a book about country music in Austin. It is a book about the changing nature of Texas culture, politics, and identity in the midst of a complicated decade. Country by no means defined how Texas sounded in those years, and I try to bring rock and blues and jazz and música tejana into earshot to give a sense of that wider story. In particular, the style that Manuel Peña has written so compellingly about, la Onda Chicana, is worth putting in the queue. Here's a funkified South Texas take on a Latin standard with Tortilla Factory's "Malagueña" of 1973.
Freddie King, "Woke Up This Morning"
Blues took the Armadillo stage nearly as often as country did. Among the venue's nicknames was "the house that Freddie King built," as the bluesman King was one of the first national acts to play there with some regularity. He recorded his Larger than Life album at the Armadillo during his time with Leon Russell's Shelter Records.
David Allan Coe, "Longhaired Redneck"
The meeting of the hippies and the rednecks was not always quite so easy or salutary as the city's mythology would have you believe. David Allen Coe gets this, and "Longhaired Redneck" captures a certain tension in the Texas scene.
Doug Sahm, "Can't Hide a Redneck underneath that Hippy Hair" Sahm's song from Texas Rock for Country Rollers pairs nicely with Coe's.
Waylon Jennings, "Don't You Think this Outlaw Bit (Has Done Got out of Hand)"
The latter part of the book also deals with the "outlaw" movement. The Texans' declaration of independence from Nashville also led to an embrace of the scene's swaggering macho elements. Jennings understood that his desire to work outside the Nashville studio system did not mean that he had to be a literal outlaw, but apparently law enforcement were not always in on the joke.