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NWU News
August 9, 2010
Nebraska Wesleyan University is among the best colleges and universities in the Midwest, according to The Princeton Review.
August 9, 2010
The Board of Directors of the William Randolph Hearst Foundation has awarded Nebraska Wesleyan University a grant of $100,000.
August 4, 2010
Students in a seminar on external ballistics sweated through a particularly warm morning on the shooting range at the Izaak Walton shooting facility.
August 4, 2010
Three Nebraska Wesleyan University student leaders traveled to Washington, D.C. this summer for a lesson in student government 101.
August 3, 2010
Carolyn Collier has spent her summer in remote Montana.
July 23, 2010
Nebraska Wesleyan University Fulbright Scholarship winner Alicia Dallman has three simple words to describe her opportunities in Cantabria, Spain: "I'm so lucky."
July 23, 2010
The murder mystery writer, Alex Kava, tours NWU's crime scene house in a video shot to advertise her new mystery novel, Damaged. Students and alumni helped set up a scene and acted in the video...
July 23, 2010
– and it's a good thing. Second year Master of Forensic Science students finished their year-long crime scene practicum June 12.
July 20, 2010
For 11 years, Maxine Fawcett-Yeske has taught Nebraska Wesleyan University students to appreciate music.
July 16, 2010
Student research investigates relationship between agricultural practices and decomposition. Kristen Collins is burying pigs in her father's farm fields.
July 15, 2010
The last time Alan Brincks and Faith Fossett were on Nebraska Wesleyan University's theatre stage, he was proposing to his fellow theatre guru.
July 13, 2010
When NWU student Collin Shepherd arrived in Estonia early this year, he set a lofty goal. "I wanted to meet the president of Estonia," said the junior communication major. "...
July 13, 2010
Nebraska Wesleyan University junior Laura Blasnitz is pretty sure she won't cure cancer. But she's hoping her summer research experience will eventually lead to a career where her...
July 2, 2010
Douglas Scott, PhD, and member of the Association of Firearm and Toolmark Examiners, will teach a seminar in external ballistics on July 17.
June 29, 2010
Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Lesley Dudden already has an impressive resume.
June 28, 2010
Approximately 3,000 athletes will travel to Lincoln in July to compete in the 2010 National Special Olympics Games.
June 24, 2010
Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Alexandra Hartmann says her heart lies in many places around the world.
June 24, 2010
World leaders and diplomats are gathering in Canada for the G8 and G20 summits to discuss several critical issues including nuclear non-proliferation, vulnerable and fragile states, and...
June 9, 2010
Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Erik Anderson hopes to become a licensed mental health practitioner someday.
June 8, 2010
Eight Nebraska Wesleyan University students left for Guatemala in late May expecting to spend 10 days building a house for an impoverished family.
June 3, 2010
They first planned a service trip to Thailand this summer but political unrest in that country forced members of Nebraska Wesleyan's Global Service Learning to find another project....
May 27, 2010
Justin Iverson knows when he's a minister someday, Sunday school and church service won't be the same as it was growing up in his South Dakota United Methodist congregation.
May 27, 2010
When Sandra Mathews-Benham travels to Kazakhstan someday, she'll be able to introduce herself, order a meal, and ask for directions.
May 21, 2010
A Nebraska Wesleyan University student is among 50 college students in the nation selected to receive a Phi Kappa Phi Study Abroad Grant.
May 18, 2010
Students in a Nebraska Wesleyan University Advantage Program class have donated money to purchase mosquito nets that will protect children in Africa.
May 18, 2010
Dr. Fred Ohles, president of Nebraska Wesleyan University, awarded degrees to nearly 430 undergraduate and graduate students during Nebraska Wesleyan University's 121st annual commencement...
May 14, 2010
Eight Nebraska Wesleyan University students are headed to Guatemala where they will work alongside families living in extreme poverty and build a new place for them to call home.
May 13, 2010
This week NWU biology students are practicing their diving skills in the campus swimming pool. Next week they'll put those skills to the test on the northwest coast of Roatan, Honduras where...
May 10, 2010
Congratulations to the following students who have been elected to the 2010-2011 Student Affairs Senate:
May 10, 2010
Seniors Terrin Wurdeman and Jessica States remember rolling up their sleeves and getting their hands dirty the very first weekend of their college careers.
May 7, 2010
Over the past year, the psychology department has increasingly been filled with students wearing lab coats and surgical masks. They're busy studying the behavioral traits of mice. They're...
May 7, 2010
Five students from Austria and Germany will study at Nebraska Wesleyan University next fall.
May 7, 2010
Eight Nebraska Wesleyan University students were honored during the 2009-2010 academic year with national prestigious scholarships.
May 1, 2010
Two long-time employees of the Physics Department are preparing to say goodbye after a combined 86 years of service to Nebraska Wesleyan University.
April 28, 2010
Abby Tranel learned of Nebraska Wesleyan University's study abroad program through her liberal arts seminar taken as a first year student.
April 27, 2010
April 21, 2010
NWU music professor Jean Henderson knew she wanted to write an emotional piece.
April 19, 2010
Congratulations to Meera Bhardwaj on being the fourth Nebraska Wesleyan University student or alum to win Fulbright award this year.
April 16, 2010
"The greatest way to learn is to teach," says Nebraska Wesleyan University senior Meera Bhardwaj.
April 13, 2010
The Nebraska Independent College Foundation and the O'Keefe Elevator Company hosted its annual art show on April 8 and recognized four Nebraska Wesleyan University art students.
April 9, 2010
Student, Professor Hope Their Research in Ireland Creates Opportunities for Lincoln's Refugees and Immigrants
Nebraska Wesleyan University student Jenna Palensky and her music professor Maxine Fawcett-Yeske spent their spring break in Ireland with 150 primary school children from over 20 countries....
April 9, 2010
Congratulations to English Department Alumni Nikki Spry (2009) and Kyle Karthauser (2008) on receiving Fulbright Scholarships for 2010.
April 8, 2010
As a philosophy major, Nebraska Wesleyan University graduate Nicole Spry knows its second nature for her to question and consume information.
April 6, 2010
Political science professor Kelly Eaton is passionate about experiential learning. So it's fitting that the new position she'll begin this summer will focus on transforming Nebraska...
March 31, 2010
A retired French professor and his wife will be recognized for their dedication and support of NWU theatre during the opening weekend of the production Hay Fever.
March 25, 2010
Nebraska Wesleyan University Senior Alex Bednar grew up eating Czech food and celebrating his Czech heritage. Starting next fall, he'll be immersed in the culture he's so interested in...
March 25, 2010
The president of PEN American Center, the internationally acclaimed literary and human rights association, will explore some of the central ethical questions of our time during his upcoming lecture...
March 16, 2010
A Nebraska Wesleyan University forensic science professor has returned home after a two-week mission in Haiti where she helped identify Americans who perished in the January 12 earthquake....
March 15, 2010
Matthew Carlson was on track to earn his bachelor's degree in business administration through Nebraska Wesleyan's Advantage Program. The degree would help advance his job as a computer...
March 11, 2010
National Geographic Magazine wildlife photographer and Nebraska-native Joel Sartore will turn his lens on his audience at a Nebraska Wesleyan University lecture where he will sound a warning bell...


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Wednesday September 5, 2012
Evans, Ga--There was a reason Evans coach Marty Jackson was smiling at the start of the season. He has some play makers with the knights, specifically in the backfield. Thursday against ARC, Ronnie Graham proved to be the feature back and what a show he put on.
Graham had touchdown runs of 41, 80 and 16 yards and accounted for 227 yards on the ground and is our Academy Sports and Outdoors player of the week. The first score was with some help of his full back while graham gives a lot of credit to the line play for the others. Graham set some big goals to start the year and is off on the right foot.
"Before that I told coach I'm going to try to aim for 1000 rushing yards for the whole season" said Ronnie Graham "So I said I'm going to get 100 yards per game and if I don't get 100 yards per game I'm going to come out on the field and like run a 1000 yards."
"He's very quick in the hole" said Marty Jackson "That's what gets you but he had a different gear Friday night, he really opened it up."
With Jay Grimes and Stephon Jacobs also capable of going big on the ground, Graham took advantage of his chance this past week.

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Federal officials say about 270 Maine residents successfully signed up for health insurance plans on the troubled health care exchange website in the first month of open enrollment.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released the highly-anticipated enrollment figures on Wednesday.
According to the report, more than 3,500 Maine residents have submitted applications on the exchange, or marketplace, a key part of President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act. Nearly 6,500 people would get coverage under those applications, including spouses and children.
Throughout the country, the administration says fewer than 27,000 Americans managed to enroll for health insurance last month in the 36 states relying on the problem-filled website.


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How to Carve a Pumpkin for Halloween
Cut a hole into the top of the pumpkin by using a long, thin knife; remove the top.
Insert the knife, at an angle, a few inches away from the stem. Make sure the hole will be large enough to place your hand in for removing the seeds and membrane. Alternatively, you could cut a hole from the bottom if the pumpkin doesn't have a stem or to suit your design. Removing the guts is also easier!


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Warriors roll: Warren boys down Fort Frye, 56-37
December 5, 2012
VINCENT — For one half of play, the basketball hoops of Warren High School were sealed tighter than the Fort Knox vault. Problem was, the Fort Frye Cadets gave Warren junior Reece Patton the key....
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Golf tourney set at LaTour to help Larose Civic Center
Published: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 4:40 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, March 28, 2013 at 4:40 p.m.
The Third-Annual Putt for the Park Golf Tournament benefiting the Larose Regional Park and Civic Center is set for April 12 at LaTour Golf Club in Mathews.
The shotgun start is set for 8 a.m. Tee box sponsors are available for $100 per hole and golfers can pay one price ($25) for a betting bracelet.
There are also $500 team entries and $600 corporate team entries.
For information, contact the Larose Civic Center at 693-7355.
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The_Human wrote: Look, theres a crowd of vegans that choose to be that way because there friends 'cool' older brother who has tattoos doesnt eat meat, or because they read somewhere that Sole is vegeterian.
Then, theres a crowd of vegans that have moral reasons, health reasons, or at the very least some type of explanation.
The point of this thread was to dismiss the first group and learn from the second.
The second group seems to understand that, the first group just........doesnt.
am01ne wrote: Krang wrote: But i read this study which basically said all throughout history we pretty much only ate meat for big celebrations
Hmmm... that must've been written by some sort of stupid person.
Krang wrote: But i read this study which basically said all throughout history we pretty much only ate meat for big celebrations
awww damn wrote: based on what you said, you assume that the people who responded to you negatively are b) vegans who don't know why they are vegans
robbndahood wrote: I don't eat meat because:
A) It's more efficient NOT to eat meat. An example would be to take 100 acres of land. If you were to graze cattle on that land, it would yield only 10% of the food compared to if you grew crops on it.
B) I wasn't a big fan of meat anyways. McDonalds, KFC, Burger King... I can do without all that shit. It ends up being healthier as well.
C) The conditions that livestock are kept in are obscene. I'm not big on eating animals that are fed their own shit. Period.
and of course...
D) To piss off Texans. And you.


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"The God force is separate and not separate, whole and not whole at the same time. Really, it is not "sliceable", not reducible. Even when it is sliced into individual energies, it does not diminish the total God force or the power of the individual. Each of you has the potential for the God force potency. However, (and this is a very important caveat), no individual can overcome the God force. There is a misinterpretation, then, that Satan is as powerful as God. Limited energy cannot live on its own. Every experience must exist and yet they (limiting forces) can never exist on their own. Limited energy, then, is the experience of the absence of the God force (as a teacher and as a belief). Therefore, there is no need to fear it. Those choosing such experiences have a need to understand how it feels to believe evil powers exist. Again, I say that those who pursue this route are taking it too personally. They believe the story they made up about themselves. It is similar to a person going into an ice cream store and only choosing one flavor from many. Preoccupied with tasting only one flavor for a very long time, they are probably quite sick and tired of it. Still, they don't want to believe there are any other flavors available."
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Eight-year-old Ashley Taylor's Mandeville, Louisiana, home was in the path of Hurricane Isaac, so her dad, Greg, sent her and the rest of the family to Alabama for safekeeping.
"After they left," Greg writes, "I went to feed the family fish and I found the enclosed scene (See picture) — where my daughter , Ashley, had given good instruction on how her stuffed animal friends should behave during the Hurricane. ( A future leader in the making! )"
On BuzzFeed, one commenter notes: "She did a better job than Brownie did before Hurricane Katrina."
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Hitler's Role in the Persuection of the Jews by the Nazi Regime: Electronic Version, by Heinz Peter LongerichTable of Contents
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3.1From the very beginning, Hitler, as head of the National Socialist government, pursued a consistently antisemitic policy. Above all, he aspired to remove German Jews from public positions and to segregate them as much as possible from the German population. The decisive role which Hitler played in the enforcement of the Nazi government's anti-Jewish policy is apparent in the organisation of the "boycott" of Jewish businesses on 1 April 1933. Although it was Goebbels, Propaganda Chief of the Party and newly appointed Minister of Propaganda, who organised the embargo on Jewish establishments, the decisive initiative was Hitler's. This was confirmed by Goebbels in his diary entry of 26 March 1933: according to this account Hitler called him to Berchtesgaden in order to inform him of his "resolution" according to which one could
only deal with the slanderous attacks from abroad if we lay hold of the originators or at least those who stand to profit from them- namely the Jews who live in Germany and who have remained unmolested.31
3.2Moreover, Hitler took over the full responsibility for the call for a boycott committee consisting of leading NSDAP officials when he made it clear in the Ministerial Conference of 28 March 1933 "that he, the Chancellor of the Reich himself had arranged for the proclamation issued by the National Socialist party".32 On 6 April 1933, Hitler once again explicitly acknowledged his antisemitic policy when on the occasion of a reception of leading medical officials he declared that
3.3Immediately after the boycott, still in April 1933, the Hitler regime passed three antisemitic laws: Jews were largely excluded from public office and the bar respectively34 and a quota for Jewish pupils and students was introduced.35 On the other hand, a series of utterances by Hitler from the first months of the "Third Reich" seem to give the impression, on first glance, that he might have been exercising a rather more moderate influence on the "Jewish policy" of the government and had turned against the more radical elements of the Party.
3.4Thus a pronouncement by Hitler which was issued on 10 March 1933 opposed the "individual actions" (Einzelaktionen) of party activists which might disturb the functioning of Jewish and other businesses.36 Further, a planned campaign against the Federal Court of Leipzig by the local Party organisation was stopped by a personal directive by Hitler.37 In the cabinet deliberation on the law concerning lawyers on 7 April, Hitler opposed further plans for exclusion and took the position that one should "at the moment ... only regulate that which is necessary"; legal discrimination against Jewish doctors - an official proposal of this kind had been submitted to the cabinet - was considered "not necessary for the moment".38
3.5Hitler's attitude of apparent restraint stemmed wholly from tactical considerations. Hitler wanted to avoid unnecessary quarrels with his conservative coalition partners; he didn't want to put new stress on the already difficult economic situation or to cement the "Third Reich's" isolation in foreign affairs.39 In his address to the recently appointed Reich Governors on 6 July 1933, Hitler explicitly articulated his foreign policy concerns: "To reopen the Jewish question means to agitate the whole world once again".40
3.6In fact, with the take-over of power in 1933, Hitler intended - over and above the assorted antisemitic laws - deliberately to create a special legal status for German Jews: to place them under "alien status" as had been projected in the NSDAP Party Programme of 1920, and gradually to diminish their position in German society. His earlier and considerably more far-reaching plans in the area of racial laws and the reasons why these plans had been deferred were clearly elucidated in the report of his speech41 to the Reich Governors` Conference, held on 28 September 1933:
As concerns the Jewish question, we were not able to give way. For him, the Chancellor, it would have been preferable if we could have aggravated the treatment of the Jews step by step - beginning with a citizenship law and from that point on becoming gradually more and more severe with them. The boycott instigated by the Jews however obliged us to resort immediately to harsh counter measures. Abroad they complain mainly about the legal treatment of the Jew as a second-class citizens. They argue that the most we can do is to refuse citizenship to Jews who present a danger to the State.
29. 'Der Kopf einer anderen Rasse sitzt auf unserem Volkskörper, Herz und Kopf in unsrem Volk sind nicht mehr ein und dasselbe.' Ibid. IV/1, No. 97, speech in Munich, 29.8.30, p. 371.
30. 'Wenn wir heute als Deutsche auftreten und uns der Vergiftung durch ein anderes Volk zu erwehren versuchen, dann versuchen wir, in die Hand des allmächtigen Schöpfers dasselbe WEsen wieder zurückzulegen, das er uns gegeben hat. Sein Wille und seine Vorsehung ließ uns zu werden, was wir sind...' Ibid. IV/1, No.14, speech in Munich, 25.10.30., p. 31.
31. 'gegen die Auslandshetze nur ankommen, wenn wir ihre Urheber oder doch wenigstens Nutznießer, nämlich die in Deutschland lebenden Juden, die bisher unbehelligt blieben, zu packen bekommen'. Fröhlich (ed.), Tagebücher, 26.3.33.
32. 'daß er, der Reichskanzler, selbst den Aufruf der nationalsozialistischen Partei veranlaßt habe'. Akten der Reichskanzlei/Regierung Hitler, part I, vol. 1, p. 271.
33. 'durch baldige Ausmerzung der Überzahl jüdischer Intellektueller aus dem Kultur- und Geistesleben Deutschlands dem natürlichen Anspruch Deutschlands auf arteigene geistige Führung gerecht werden müsse' Völkischer Beobachter, 7.4.33.
34. Gesetz zur Wiederherstellung des Berufsbeamtentums, RGBl I 175; Gesetz über die Zulassung zur Rechtsanwaltschaft, RGBL I 188.
35. Gesetz gegen die Überfüllung deutscher Schulen und Hochschulen, RGBl 1933 I, 225.
36. Völkischer Beobachter, 12.3.33.
37. Gruchmann, Justiz, p. 126.
38. 'im Augenblick [...] nur das Notwendige regeln', 'zur Zeit noch nicht notwendig'. Akten Reichskanzlei/Regierung Hitler I/1, p. 323.
39. Longerich, Politik, pp. 46ff.
40. Akten Reichskanzlei/Regierung Hitler I.1, pp. 629ff.
41. 'Was die Judenfrage anlange, so könnten wir auf diesem Gebiet nicht zurückweichen. Ihm, dem Reichskanzler, wäre es lieber gewesen, wenn man schrittweise zu einer Verschärfung in der Behandlung der Juden in Deutschland hätte kommen können, indem man zunächst ein Staatsbürgerrecht geschaffen und dann hiervon ausgehend die Juden allmählich schärfer angefaßt hätte. Der von den Juden angezettelte Boykott habe jedoch zu sofortigen, schärfsten Gegenmaßnahmen gezwungen. Im Ausland beschwere man sich vor allem über die rechtliche Behandlung der Juden als Staatsbürger zweiter Klasse. Nach der im Ausland hauptsächlich vertretenen Auffassung sei es höchstens angängig, die staatsgefährlichen Juden abzulehnen.' Akten Reichskanzlei/Regierung Hitler I/1, p. 865.
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Allen Jones, 62
Published: Saturday, December 8, 2012 at 4:30 a.m.
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HENDERSONVILLE— Allen Jones, 62 of Hendersonville died Dec. 6. Funeral Services will be held at noon Monday at Thos. Shepherd's Church Street Chapel with burial to follow at Shepherd Memorial Park. The family will receive friends from 11a.m. to noon at the funeral home. Thos Shepherd & Son Funeral Directors is in charge of arrangements.
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Nelson Mandela didn't always look like a visionary. In fact, for 27 years, he simply looked like a prisoner, locked up in South African jail cells for his antiapartheid activism. But what seemed like a long exercise in futility is now the stuff of legend: After his release in 1990 he became his country's president, and today he's celebrated not as an outlaw but as an icon of commitment and compassion.
Fortunately, visionary thinkers aren't always imprisoned, but they are often ridiculed, marginalized, or just plain dismissed for proposing big ideas that may sound outlandish to others. Get people to invest in local food systems? Good luck with that. Identify and dismantle the roots of violence? Sure you will. Create a global grassroots movement to halt climate change? Very funny.
Yet these are just a few of the lofty, laudable, and reachable goals of the 25 forward thinkers featured on the following pages. Instead of pushing these women and men to the edges, as our politics and media often do, we aim to celebrate their courage and encourage both admiration and emulation.
The 2010 Utne Reader Visionaries come from many backgrounds and disciplines. What they have in common is that rare ability to dream of a better future—so vividly and so passionately—that it inspires them and others to action. For, as Nelson Mandela proved beyond a doubt, the only thing that can stop forward progress is resignation.
Julian AssangeThe Sunshine KidLaunched in 2007, WikiLeaks publishes classified documents—like the Apache helicopter video film of the shooting of the Reuters newsmen—that would otherwise never see the light of day. A notorious Australian ex-hacker, Julian Assange is only one of a dozen, mostly anonymous, people who helped set up the site, but he's become the face of WikiLeaks and a tireless proponent of exposing the ruling class's dirty secrets. Read more >>
Alex GibneyThe Smartest Guy in the Room"If you're entertaining people, you can say almost anything you want," declares documentarian Alex Gibney, offering an aptly playful description of his hard-hitting, info-jammed, message-minded cinema. From Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) through this year's Casino Jack and the United States of Money and the new Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer, Gibney coats his bitter pills with the sugar of dark comedy, as the men too big to fail—the men in whom we ordinary schmoes invest our trust, if not our cash—inevitably slip on banana peels. Read more>>
Tani IkedaSex-Ed TrendsetterFor many of us, sex education consisted of half-truths whispered in the school cafeteria or movies in health class that suggested abstinence and heterosexuality were our only options. In 2009 Tani Ikeda, a new graduate of the University of Southern California (USC) film program, posed the question What would happen if young women took sexual health education into their own hands? Read more>>
Rebecca SolnitThe Silver CloudIn the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, media outlets too often portrayed survivors as helpless victims or barbaric looters, not only propagating public fear and panic but also painting a distorted portrait of disaster-stricken areas. When an earthquake devastated Haiti five years later, reporters followed the same narrative thread. Activist and author Rebecca Solnit is telling a different story, a story of strength and resilience. Read more>>
Kieran EganTeacher of the YearsThe curriculum for K-12 education looks like a vast encyclopedia of human knowledge, notes Kieran Egan, a professor of educational theory at British Columbia's Simon Fraser University. Unfortunately, the information students learn often fades away after only a few years—even if they manage to do well on tests. He posits that this is a result of an education system that values breadth over depth. In his new book Learning in Depth, Egan offers a solution, arguing for an ambitious but simple change in curriculum. Read more>>
Anil GuptaIntellectual PollinatorWhen it comes to developing the technical infrastructure of the 21st century, economists tend to look to upscale R&D labs, high-tech universities, and big-buck venture capitalists. Business professor Anil Gupta has a radically different vision, one he calls G2G, or "grassroots to global." Read more>>
Woody TaschFree-Range CapitalistWoody Tasch believes that local, sustainable food is a good investment: in our communities, our land, our health, and, if all goes well, our pocketbooks. Tasch is the founder of the Slow Money Alliance, which aims to get a million Americans to invest 1 percent of their assets in local food systems in the next decade. Read more>>
Nina DudnikA Scientist's ScientistEvery year, U.S. research facilities spend billions on equipment—and dump last year's models in the landfill. Many of the castoffs are perfectly usable, according to Nina Dudnik. "Equipment upgrades are not so much key functionalities as bells and whistles," she says. Meanwhile, university labs in developing nations are starved for basic equipment. As a student at Harvard University, Dudnik founded Seeding Labs to address the disparity. Read more>>
Natalia AllenConscientious FashionistaMore than 8,000 chemicals were used to make the clothes in your closet. Approximately 1,800 gallons of fresh water were used to manufacture the jeans you're wearing right now. All-too-commonplace numbers like these make it clear that the fashion industry needs an eco-makeover. Natalia Allen is up for the challenge. Read more>>
Judith ButlerWar EmpathizerIn 2004 Americans gaped in shame and anger at images of nude, hooded prisoners heaped on top of one another, menaced with dogs or forced to masturbate by members of the U.S. armed forces at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Major media outlets soon settled on an angle for the story: Those responsible for the abuse—keen to exploit Islamic taboos on public nudity and homosexuality—cruelly crafted methods of torture to disgrace conservative Muslims. In her recent book Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable? philosopher and gender theorist Judith Butler retells this story but boldly revises the conclusion. Read more>>
Annette RizzoJudge AdvocateAt the beginning of 2010, about 10 percent of all U.S. home owners with a mortgage were at least one month behind on payments, according to statistics compiled by the Mortgage Bankers Association, with the percentages far higher in some counties and among subprime mortgage holders. And the number of new foreclosures remains roughly double the rate of five years ago, according to the New York Federal Reserve. All of this serves as a backdrop to a successful foreclosure diversion program launched in 2008 and led by Annette Rizzo, a judge in Philadelphia's Court of Common Pleas. Read more>>
Perry ChenThe Virtual PatronCreative artists typically have just three methods for funding projects: They can attempt to infiltrate the marketplace through gatekeepers like galleries, publishers, or recording labels; they can appeal to nonprofits and foundations that superimpose their own agendas on artistic goals; or they can wait tables. With Kickstarter, Perry Chen envisions a fourth paradigm. The idea is simple: Artists pitch their idea with a video on the Kickstarter website. Read more>>
Michelle Ajamian and Brandon JaegerLocal Food LoversExcited about the burgeoning local foods movement, Michelle Ajamian and Brandon Jaeger took a close look at the food they ate. To figure out how to build a regional system for staple foods—including storage and transportation—Ajamian and Jaeger established the Appalachian Staple Foods Collaborative in 2008. This year they opened Shagbark Seed and Mill, a prototype processing facility, at the Appalachian Center for Economic Networks in Athens. Read more>>
Elinor OstromThe CommonerSharing is one of the first things we learn as small children, yet capitalism suggests that we set it aside as a naive notion: It's every man for himself.Elinor Ostrom is one of the first social scientists to specifically study the things we share—from oceans and forests to roads and money systems—and breathe fresh life into an old term: the commons. Read more>>
Sandra Steingraber
Her Body, Their Chemicals
A scientist, poet, and cancer survivor, Steingraber makes a passionate and lyrical case for eliminating carcinogens, which are ubiquitous in our environment. A movie based on her book Living Downstream was released in spring 2010. Read more>>
Ted Howard
Workers' Advocate
Instead of reheating failed job-creation strategies like tax breaks for corporations, Howard's Democracy Collaborative helps low-income workers build democratic, worker-owned companies that offer living-wage jobs in America's depressed cities—and a personal stake in America's future. Read more>>
Rebecca OnieHome Health Advocate
MacArthur "genius award" winner Onie runs Project HEALTH, which enlists college students, many pre-med, as volunteer social workers who connect low-income people to housing, heating assistance, and other nonmedical resources vital to health. Read more>>
Elizabeth ScharpfEssential Entrepreneur
A simple lack of menstrual pads keeps many women and girls in developing nations home from work and school. Scharpf's Sustainable Health Enterprises supports entrepreneurs in Rwanda and other countries in devising sustainable pads. Read more>>
Alexander PetroffSustainability Trainer
Petroff's Working Villages International provides support and know-how to economically and environmentally sustainable practices in developing countries. Four years into the project, the model village of Ruzizi, Congo, supplies the region with organic produce. Read more>>
Glen BarryEco–Rabble Rouser
An early political blogger, Barry has built a massive network for ecological change. His "global grassroots advocacy" adds muscle to local environmental fights all over the planet, and when mainstream green groups fall short, he speaks up. Read more>>
Paul EwaldVirally Minded
Biologist Ewald researches the link between infections and cancers, hypothesizing that, as in cervical and liver cancer, there's a causal link between viruses and other forms of the deadly disease. His radical hypothesis: Simply preventing the spread of viral infection could lead to a lasting cure. Read more>>
Tim WiseThe Confrontationalist
The promise of a post-racial society is premature, Wise argues in his book Colorblind. This activist, who cut his teeth on the campus-based antiapartheid movement, observes that because race is still a key factor in American disparities, economic and otherwise, it demands head-on confrontation. Read more>>
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U.S. Open capsules for players of local interest
Published: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 10:33 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, June 12, 2013 at 10:33 p.m.
Matt Bettencourt
When: Today-Sunday
Where: Merion GC (Ardmore, Penn.)
Purse: $8 million ($1.44 million winner's share)
2012 champion: Webb Simpson
TV: 9 a.m.-3 p.m., 5-7 p.m., Today-Friday, on ESPN; 3-5 p.m., Today-Friday, 1-7:30 p.m., Saturday-Sunday on NBC.
Top pairings: Tiger Woods-Rory McIlroy-Adam Scott; Matt Kuchar-Justin Rose-Brandt Snedeker; Phil Mickelson-Keegan Bradley-Steve Stricker; Graeme McDowell-Zach Johnson-Jim Furyk.
Duncan resident
Age: 38
World ranking: No. 695
Career PGA earnings/wins: $2.7 million/1
Current season: Made 3 of 4 PGA cuts with a best T24 at the Puerto Rico Open and stands 194th on the money list at $61,293. Made 2 of 6 Web.com cuts with a best T18 at Stadion Classic and is 136th in earnings with $10,236.
U.S. Open entry: Sectional qualifier
U.S. Open history: This marks his fourth start with a best finish of T10 in 2009 at Bethpage Black in New York. He missed last year's cut at Olympic Club (76-77) and T70 in 2010 at Pebble Beach.
Career U.S. Open scoring average: 73.70
Lucas Glover
Greenville native/Clemson
Age: 33
World ranking: No. 201
Career PGA earnings/wins: $15.6 million/3
Current season: Made 8 of 14 cuts with a pair of ties for fourth at The Honda and Zurich Classic his lone top-10s. He is 79th on the money list with $661,952.
U.S. Open entry: Automatic as 2009 champion
U.S. Open history: This is his eighth appearance with three previous made cuts. Glover had played the event three times in 2002 (Bethpage Black), 2006 (Winged Foot) and 2007 (Oakmont) without shooting par or better with final cards of 11 over, 12 over, and 11 over when he won the 2009 rain-soaked event at 4 under in his return to Bethpage. That victory earned Glover entry into the next five Opens where he T58 in 2010 at Pebble Beach, T42 at Congressional in 2011 and missed last year's cut at Olympic Club.
Career U.S. Open scoring average: 73.30
Bill Haas
Greenville resident
Age: 31
World ranking: No. 29
Career PGA earnings/wins: $15.7 million/4
Current season: One of the Tour's most consistent players has made 11 of 14 cuts with six top-10s and nine top-25s in standing No. 21 on the money list with $1.6 million. He began his last event having missed consecutive cuts for the first time since last year's U.S. Open and rebounded with a T4 at Memorial.
U.S. Open entry: Top-60 in world rankings
U.S. Open history: Making his fourth start with a career-best T23 in 2011 when he finished 1 over at Congressional. He made it through qualifying in 2004 before he had full-time status on either the PGA or Web.com Tours and finished T40 at Shinnecock Hills despite an 11-over 81 in the final round. Haas missed last year's cut at Olympic Club in San Francisco at 9 over with rounds of 76-73.
Career U.S. Open scoring average: 73.33
Dustin Johnson
Dutch Fork HS/Coastal Carolina
Age: 28
World ranking: No. 19
Career PGA earnings/wins: $18.8 million/7
Current season: Has made 8 of 13 cuts with a pair of withdrawals after beginning play due to wrist and back ailments. He won the season-opening Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Hawaii and has five top-25s and three top-10s, including last week's T10 at the FedEx St. Jude's Classic where he was defending champion. Johnson is second in average driving distance at 304.7 yards, but just 180th in hitting fairways at 49.8 percent. He stands 14th in earnings with $1.9 million.
U.S. Open entry: 2012 Tour Championship participant/Top-60 in world rankings
U.S. Open history: He's playing for the sixth consecutive season with a career-best finish of T8 in 2010 at Pebble Beach were he'd won the AT&T Pro-Am in both 2009 and 2010. That career-best finish was bittersweet as Johnson opened with 71-70-66 to take a three-shot lead into the final round before carding an abysmal 11-over 82 to all but hand the championship to winner Graeme McDowell. He T48 at his 2008 debut at Torrey Pines, T40 in 2009 at Bethpage Black, T23 with a 1 over in 2011 at Congressional and missed last year's cut (75-74) at Olympic Club.
Career U.S. Open scoring average: 72.56
Kyle Stanley
Age: 25
World ranking: No. 60
Career PGA earnings/wins: $5.4 million/1
Current season: Made 9 of 15 cuts with three top-10s that include a pair of ties for third at the Zurich Classic and his last outing two weeks back at the Memorial. After a horrendous start this year, he's made four of his last five cuts with three finishes of T6 or better. He stands 35th on the money list at $1.3 million. He was the last player in based on world ranking at No. 60.
U.S. Open entry: Top-60 in world rankings
U.S. Open history: This is his fourth start with his lone made cut a solo 53rd in 2009 at Bethpage Black. He missed the cut in just his second start in a pro event in 2008 at Torrey Pines (72-78) while still at Clemson and also missed it last year at Olympic Club (73-77).
Career U.S. Open scoring average: 74.13
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Which sex is the worst about washing up? Why is it so important? We've got the dirty truth on how and when to wash your hands.
Hand Sanitizer Cuts MRSA Risk
Dec. 5, 2008 -- Every dab of alcohol hand sanitizer used in British hospitals lowered multidrug-resistant staph (MRSA) infection rates by 1%, a U.K. study shows.
In-hospital infections -- particularly MRSA -- are a huge and growing problem. As part of the solution, the U.K. National Health Service in 2004 launched a national "clean your hands" campaign among health-care workers.
As part of the campaign, dispensers of alcohol hand sanitizer are placed next to each patient's bed. Posters encourage patients to ask every hospital worker they see whether they've washed their hands.
It's working, according to an evaluation of the campaign reported by Sheldon Stone of University College London Medical School at this week's meeting of the Federation of Infection Societies in Cardiff, Wales.
For every extra 1/5 teaspoonful of hand sanitizer used by a hospital, MRSA rates fell by 1%, Stone reported. The program led to a threefold increase in the amount of hand sanitizer and soap used in U.K. hospitals.
"The findings also serve as a reminder that we should be washing our hands in the home and workplace," Stone says in a news release. "Winter is the season when colds and flus abound, and people can protect themselves and stop germs from spreading by frequently washing their hands."
Although MRSA rates dropped during the "clean your hands" campaign, rates of another on-the-rise, difficult-to-eradicate bug -- Clostridium difficile or C. diff -- did not.


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SAN FRANCISCO -- Stuck between preserving order at public schools and students' free speech rights, a federal appeals court on Thursday struggled over whether a South Bay high school overstepped three years ago when it ordered some students to turn their American-flag adorned shirts inside out during a Cinco de Mayo celebration.
A three-judge 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel at times appeared sympathetic to three families who have sued the Morgan Hill Unified School District over the May 2010 incident at Live Oak High School, suggesting at the very least that a jury should decide whether school administrators' actions were justified.
Live Oak officials ordered the students to either cover up the U.S. flag shirts or go home, citing a history of threats that raised fears of violence on the day the school was highlighting the Mexican holiday. But 9th Circuit Judge Sidney Thomas said there could be First Amendment implications to allowing only one message on that day.
"If you have tolerance days, you have to endure the views of anti-tolerance," Thomas told the school district's lawyer.
However, the judges also noted the strong legal precedent for giving school leaders wide latitude to cope with threats of campus violence or disruption, even at the expense of free speech rights.
"Here, the school is saying on this day, in these circumstances, with racism floating around ... we're not going to risk having a blowup here. So one day only let's defuse this," Judge M. Margaret McKeown said to the parents' lawyer. "What's wrong with this? You have to wait until they duke it out in the courtyard?"
The legal flap stems from the parents' First Amendment lawsuit, which argues that no circumstances warrant a school forbidding a student from wearing a shirt with the American flag. In recent interviews with this newspaper, two of the families said the students were only showing their patriotism and did not intend to incite trouble with Latino students on Cinco de Mayo.
School officials, however, maintain that Live Oak administrators had a right to avoid trouble, and that they had indications that wearing the U.S. flag shirts that day jeopardized the students.
"We live in a time and age of school violence and this case is about school safety," Don Willenburg, the school district's lawyer, told the judges.
The arguments centered heavily on how the Live Oak situation fits with a major 1969 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a case called Tinker, which set the boundaries for when school discipline violates students' First Amendment rights. Morgan Hill Unified maintains that Live Oak's "reasonable" worry about violence complies with that Supreme Court precedent, but the students' lawyer disagreed.
"I contend the safety concerns are a pretext," Robert Muise, the parents' lawyer, told the judges. "Their main concern was a viewpoint restriction, not a safety issue."
The 9th Circuit is reviewing the parents' appeal of a federal judge's ruling that Live Oak's handling of the incident was a necessary safety precaution that trumped the students' free speech rights.
Howard Mintz covers legal affairs. Contact him at 408-286-0236 or follow him at Twitter.com/hmintz.
Read the legal arguments in the lawsuit over students' right to wear U.S. flag T-shirts at www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts.


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The New Hampshire home of five-time Olympic medalist Alpine skier Bode Miller and his wife is up on the website airbnb.com. Miller fans or skiing enthusiasts can crash at Bode's place, at a price.
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FILE - In this Jan. 2, 1978 file photo, University of Washington Huskies' Warren Moon (1) poses with coach Don James after the Rose Bowl in Pasadena. James, the longtime Washington football coach who led the Huskies to a share of the national championship in 1991, died Sunday, Oct. 20, 2013. He was 80. (AP Photo/File)


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Easy steps to transform a few paper plates into a ladybug clock and discover a hidden surprise! This peek-a-boo clock is a fun way for your preschooler to learn to tell time.
Watch Ni Hao, Kai-lan only on Nick Jr.
For the ladybug's head, cut out a crescent shape slightly above the central circle of a 9-inch paper plate. Cut another paper plate in half for the ladybug's wings.
Have your child paint the back of the two half plates in red. After they dry, paint big black dots over the red paint.
Paint the back of the crescent shape in black. After drying, have your child draw two white circles in the center as the ladybug's eyes. Let dry, and then draw two smaller black circles within the eyes to make pupils. Set aside the painted pieces.
Cut out Kai-lan's Ladybug Clock Template. Attach Kai-lan's clock image in the center (through the front) of a new plate. If desired, paint the front of the plate before you glue on the clock image. Use the pointy tail of an unopened brad to poke through the bottoms of the hour and minute hands and the center of the plate (with the clock image in place). Open the brad fastener at the back of the plate to secure it.
Connect the ladybug shapes to the clock plate with a brad. Before you do that, arrange the pieces together to have a vision of the final product. All the painted sides of the plates and the clock image should face you--the clock plate at the bottom, the two wings forming a circle but slightly overlapped at the top, and the head (crescent shape) as the upmost layer covering the top corners of the wings. Use the pointy tail of an unopened brad to poke through the top of all the shapes in this order, and open the brad at the back of the clock plate to secure it.
Make a simple decoration that's SUPER cute
Use words--and make a face--to explore feelings together this no-sew pillow
An imaginative stage for your kid's imaginative mind
Say "ni hao" with the el-egg-ant springtime craft from Kai-lan
We'll shed some light on how to put recyclable jars to good use!
Nothing says "Gong Hay Fat Choy" more than these hand-made money envelopes!
Wear your heart on your CD sleeve this Valentine's Day!
Let sweet holiday wishes bloom with these simple, customized cookie boxes.
It's easy to stay warm when Mr. Sun is overhead
Pick, print, tape -- PRESTO! Enchanting lanterns to put on display!
Face those winter winds with a cheery smile from Kai-lan!
Turn your preschooler into Kai-lan's koala pal, Tolee!
Your kids will roar with delight once you transform them into this friendly tiger!
For the cutest costume at a party, come as Tolee!
A creative paper craft that becomes child's play
Take the game outside or inside and toss to your heart's desire
Your kid's kicks are kickin' with these decorative shoelace covers
Cool off with a little help from Kai-lan
A handy case with a friendly face!
It's perfect for your kids' Pop!
Make a super special card for Mom!
Kai-lan and friends are preparing for spring. Watch their garden grow!
Go, tiger! Step it up with a craft from Kai-lan's best friend
All aboard the Kai-lan Express! Next stop, fun and creativity for you and your child.
Let Tolee's favorite friend give you a hand at bathtime.
Jump in the tub with Hoho!
Make sweethearts super happy with this crafty card
Make your little sweetheart "super happy" with a treats-filled heart box!
Turn a "roarrr!" into a "purrr" with this cuddly pillow
Give your heart and your love to someone special this Valentine's Day.
Wag your tail and shake a leg with this dancing game all the pups will love!
Transform a cereal box into a soccer field!
Make this simple paper puppet and play soccer with Dora!
Make this simple paper puppet and play fetch or fly Norville!
Turn paper into the perfect toy for your troll-loving tot!
It's paper dolls with a super silly twist!
Let's play "Guess Who?" with your favorite PAW Patrol pals
Turn a cereal box into a craft that will aMAZE your kids!
It's paper dolls with a modern twist!
Take this wheel for a spin when you begin to teach kids about words with the same endings!
Spin the wheel to reveal new words that end in 'at'!
Get kids excited about reading and spelling with this simple print and paste board game
Make Rubble's digger with our easy printable templates
The race is on between Dora and the Ice Witch!
Dive into crafting by creating a paper toy for your PAW Patrol fan!
Kids can help Skye fly high when you create this paper toy craft!
Racers get ready to take off with this simple spin-to-win printable board game!
Here's a do it yourself toy for your cop car lovin' PAW Patrol fan!
Here's a do-it-yourself toy for your fire-truck lovin' PAW Patrol fan!
Print to turn paper into your kids' favorite recycling pup!
Make a new memory game in minutes with our easy printable templates
Take a trip around Lalaloopsy land, meeting with friends for Crumbs tea party!
Make this simple paper puppet and play fetch with Dora's little puppy!
Make a snugly new friend for your Peter fan
Help Dora and her friends find their way to the party at Benny's barn!
Peter & pals are dashing through the snow-- carrying something sweet, you should know!
Everyone wins when you make your own spinning tops!
Make it family game night & go on a knightly mission to Story Castle!
It's a race to the finish! Take the Team on a ride to the top of Shape Mountain
Get kids' engines going with this cool Dump Truck toy made from an egg carton!


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"The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating...
...and you finish off as an orgasm."
"Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience."
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
"Stone walls confine a tinker; cold iron binds a witch; but a musician's music can never be fettered, for it lives first in her heart and mind."


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Local retailers open; some looking to close soon
Published: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 2:24 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 at 2:24 p.m.
Several large retailers in Henderson County are still open, but may not be for much longer.
As of 2:30 p.m., Ingles grocery stores in Laurel Park and Hendersonville have asked their corporate offices for permission to close soon due to worsening weather conditions. Lowes and Home Depot in Hendersonville are also open but looking to close early.
At WalMart in Hendersonville, employees are having trouble getting in to work, a store manager said, and they will have to watch staffing levels and see if the store can remain open.
Bi-Lo at Henderson Crossing Plaza in Hendersonville is open and as of 2:30 p.m. planned to stay open until 11 p.m.
Store officials say residents should call first to make sure stores are open before venturing out.
Fresh Market on Greenville Highway closed at noon, and plans for opening Thursday are tentative, based on snow accumulation and road conditions.
Harris Teeter on Spartanburg Highway is open and plans to close at 9 p.m.
The Food Lion in Mills River is closing at 5 p.m. and opening at 9 a.m. Thursday unless the roads are impassable.
Sav-Mor on Asheville Highway in Hendersonville is closing at 8 p.m., with plans to open by 8 a.m. Thursday.
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CORPUS CHRISTI – Texas A&M - Corpus Christi women's basketball player Myeisha Myles has been named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the Week, presented by Pepsi. Myles earned the award following her performance last week.
The Corpus Christi native had back-to-back double-digit scoring games against Colorado and Arkansas State. She added 10 points and nine rebounds in 31 minutes of play in the Islanders' 71-58 loss to Colorado.
Against Arkansas State, the senior tallied a career-high 24 points on 10-of-12 shooting. She also pulled down a season-high 10 rebounds for her first double-double of the year in 30 minutes of play in the Islanders' 84-71 loss. Myles is averaging 14.3 points, 7.7 rebounds and an average of 31.0 minutes per game.
Myles and the women's basketball will be in action this weekend at the Houston Baptist Tournament on Friday, Nov. 25, against Texas Southern at 5 p.m. CT and Saturday, Nov. 26, against Houston Baptist at 5:30 p.m. CT.
Keep up-to-date with GoIslanders.com each week to see who is named the GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi. Also, for the latest information, follow Islanders Athletics on Twitter (@Go_Islanders) and Facebook (Islanders Athletics).
2011-12 GoIslanders.com Student-Athlete of the week, presented by Pepsi Weekly Winners:
9-7-11: Jessica Korda, Volleyball
9-13-11: Brooke Alverson, Volleyball
9-20-11: Patrick Kimeli, Cross Country
9-27-11: Aurelien Tave, Men's Tennis
10-4-11: Isabella Arcidiacono, Volleyball
10-11-11: Nikki Dunn, Women's Golf
10-18-11: Ryann White, Women's Golf; Micah Nolan, Volleyball
10-25-11: Logen Bourque, Volleyball
11-1-11: Logen Bourque, Volleyball
11-8-11: Patrick Kimeli, Cross Country
11-15-11: Patrick Kimeli, Cross Country
11-23-11: Myeisha Myles, Women's Basketball


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Three Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute scientists left in late November 2011 for the remote and mountainous Kingdom of Bhutan nestled in the Himalayas between India and China. The Smithsonian team includes the National Zoo's chief veterinarian Suzan Murray, National Zoo veterinarian Jessica Siegal-Willott, and professional training programs manager Joe Kolowski from the Zoo's Center for Conservation Education and Sustainability. Their mission is to conduct a critically needed training course in wildlife health and immobilization.
Read about their trip.
|Descent into Paro, Bhutan. Photo courtesy of Joe Kolowski.
An incredibly diverse array of wildlife lives in Bhutan, much of it globally threatened or endangered. The country's dramatic topography, which swoops from snow-covered Himalayan peaks all the way down to lowland tropical rainforest, accounts for the variety of animals that call the land home. Nearly a third of the world's cat species, including endangered snow leopards and tigers, leopards, fishing cats, and clouded leopards. Other carnivores include Himalayan black bears, gray wolves, and dholes, highly endangered wild dogs. Bhutan is also home to endangered golden langurs, Asian elephants, takins (Bhutan's national animal), and a many other hooved animals including musk deer, blue sheep, gaur, sambar, and muntjac.
Despite its small size, Bhutan has received international praise its protection of is natural resources. To date, Bhutan has set aside an incredible 51 percent of its land area as either protected areas or biological corridors. However, as Bhutan's relatively small human population continues to grow and expand, people are living increasingly closer to forested and protected areas, bringing them into higher levels of contact with wildlife.
Human-wildlife conflict issues, which include wildlife eating or damaging crops or livestock and perceived threats to human life, are on the rise in Bhutan. These issues must be addressed if the country's ambitious conservation ethic and objectives are to succeed. The Bhutanese government plans to establish a series of wildlife rescue centers throughout the country, each manned by a team of biologists and veterinarians, trained and equipped to respond effectively to wildlife rescue and conflict situations. However, right now there is only one trained wildlife veterinarian trained to provide handle these issues in the entire country.
The seven-day intensive course, held from November 30 to December 6, 2011 in Bhutan, focuses on hands-on technical training for a combination of livestock veterinarians and forest officers in Bhutan.
The program aims to train Bhutanese scientists and managers in wildlife management tools, including safe immobilization of wild animals. Scientists hope this course will help reduce the number of animals, particularly those from endangered or endemic populations, that die as a result of limited wildlife veterinary skills, and to maximize the amount of useful data collected from animals that are either dead or handled by forest officers or biologists around the country. The course will address a range of topics, from basic animal handling and restraint to introductory animal chemical immobilization techniques, drug calculations, and safety, to guidelines for animal rescue response.
Throughout their travels in this remarkable country, the SCBI team will send reports and photos as regularly as possible, updating you on their daily activities, the progress of the training course, and the challenges and successes of this unique experience.
This collaboration with the Royal Government of Bhutan has been in the planning stages for more than a year, and was made possible by a generous grant from the Smithsonian Women's Committee with additional support from the Bhutan Foundation.
Read more about Bhutan and the context and details of this innovative new training program.


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|Length Overall
|72' 1''
22 m
|Dry Weight
54.5 tons
49.4 tonnes
18' 4''
5.5 m
|Tested Weight
4' 11''
1.5 m
|Weight Capacity
|Draft Up
|Person Capacity
|Draft Down
|Fuel Capacity
1,300 gal.
|Air Draft
|Water Capacity
200 gal.
|Length on Trailer
|Max Headroom
6' 8''
2.0 m
|Height on Trailer
|Bridge Clearance
24' 5''
7.4 m
|Trailer Weight
|Total Package Weight (Trailer,Boat & Engine)
|Prices, features, designs, and equipment are subject to change. Please see your local dealer or visit the builder's website for the latest information available on this boat model.
|Std. Power
|Not Available
|Tested Power
|Currently no test numbers
|Opt. Power
1360-hp MTU 10V2000
1421-hp CAT C32
1500-hp MTU 10V2000
1676-hp CAT C32
With her enclosed bridge, there's no need for a lower helm station. That leaves guests able to dine with the best view in the house.
The Enclosed Bridge/Sky Lounge...
Probably the most notable feature of the 720 Tri-Deck is the sky lounge. This concept of combining the main helm of the boat along with a lounge area on the flying bridge, then enclosing it all was first started by Lazzara Yachts years ago, then followed by Hargrave, and then pretty much everyone else. We like the concept because it creates a lot of additional interior space without a commensurate amount of cost. We also like steering from the flying bridge because of the incredible visibility. The sky lounge with bar is the place where guests like to congregate for the great views. It also gives the boat a fourth venue – a fourth place to hang out, something that is welcome on long cruises when some of the guests want to spin yarns, others want to read, and still others want to participate in the piloting of the vessel.
The sky lounge on the Marquis Yachts 720 has about everything you could want: A bridge, a navigator's seat, an L-shaped lounge with coffee table, a love seat, a full wet bar with counter and stools and two stairways to the deck below.
Further, it is nearly impossible to get the coveted raised pilot house in this size because that design wastes so much space. So, the enclosed third deck is a way to get the same benefits of a raised pilothouse, without any wasted space. The drawback is that you don't have the wind blowing in your hair as you drive along, and if that is what you want, you simple get the Marquis Yachts 720 Flybridge version.
Light wood tones, fabrics and vinyls meld nicely with the teak make the Marquis 720 sky lounge bright and inviting.
The Starboard Helm
With the helm over to starboard, you have a good view of that whole side of the yacht for easier docking to starboard. The helm is functional and gives you a command feel just by sitting behind the wheel. There's a lot of glass surrounding you, to be sure, and as expected the sun has its usual effects reminiscent of a greenhouse. But Marquis has juiced up the BTUs in the AC system quite a bit to take of the added load, and when underway, enough windows open to ventilate the space with fresh air.
The helm is surrounded by screens, gauges and controls. Note that the nav screens are low so as not to restrict forward visibility. The trouble is your companion will not be able to see the screens. This is an easy fix.
Waterfront dining with a view...
Not having a lower helm has lots of advantages, and a better use of space is one of them. Here, the forward end of the main deck is taken up with a circular settee and table surrounded by windows. What a great place to relax and watch the world go by while dining or just sky-larking.
A Large, Open Saloon...
By removing the helm from the main deck, more room is also left in the saloon, and the Marquis Yachts 720 has one of the larges saloons in its class. Too often a builder will try to fill as many amenities as possible into this space and forget that there's a human element using it. Here, the saloon is open and inviting and well suited for relaxing or entertaining. We like the fact that Marquis Yachts is using "stand alone" furniture rather than built ins. We think that purpose-built furniture, such as what you have in your living room at home, is much more comfortable and functional.
Note the glass treads on the stairs leading up to the bridge. We'd like to see them lit internally and at the top is a glass hatch. You'll only hit your head on it once before learning that lesson. Better yet, just take them out all together and uses the space for something else since you have another set of stairs just outside the doors to the aft deck.
Americans will like this galley layout because it is so large and open to the saloon so the chef can star part of the conversation. Europeans might like to put a bulkhead here to keep the galley slave and all of the accompanying mess and noise away from the guests. Note the clear plexy coffee table which makes the boat look bigger because you can see through it.
Functional Galley...
The galley is fully accommodated with full sized appliances. For example, the stand up refer/freezer is huge with French doors and large freezer below. We like this far more than the refer drawers under the counter. Note the clever space allotted for the trash compactor, facing the entrance. No need to go completely into the galley just to toss some trash away. The refrigerator is large enough to sustain a family till the next stopover, and the stove is vented right out the side of the boat. No fiddles anywhere though, so cooking while underway may have to wait.
This galley is huge for a 73-footer. Note that there are two sinks, four-burner stove top, large oven, plus lots of counter space.
And For Entertaining...
Across from the galley and dining area, but forward of the salon, is a well laid out wet bar. It comes with a wine cooler, sink, storage racks for dishes and glassware, and additional storage for just about anything else you'd need.
This is one of the nicest wet bars we have seen on any boat in this class. It is tasteful, functional, and space-efficient.
Accommodations Below
Suffice it to say that with all of these amenities, the Marquis Yachts 720 Tri-deck is a first class entertainment platform. Her sleeping accommodations are just as comfortable as her living areas. We like the walk in closet in the master stateroom, the his and her sinks in the head, double door entrance and the love seat.
Note that the three heads all have step in showers. We also like the crew quarters aft next to the engine room.
The VIP stateroom forward is pretty standard, except for the wide steps on both sides of the bed which make get in the bunk much easier than many. The fourth cabin is snug, but there are hanging lockers under the upper berth and this L-shaped layout is about the best why to handle these confined spaces. Kids will love it.
The main deck of the Marquis Yacht 720 is well done in our opinion because everything is large. The saloon area is as big as you'll find on many 90-footers, the galley is huge by any standard, and the settee/dining table will seat 6-7 people with the addition of a chair or two. Take the stairs out and you can fit a desk there for your computer. Possibly the nicest touch of all is the curved stainless steel doors leading from the saloon to the aft deck. These are classy an much more desirable than a flat doors like you see on low-price-point boats.
There is a lot more to the Marquis yachts 720 Tri-Deck than just the layout plans. We have not touched on the machinery, equipment, hull design or performance characteristics. Yet, the builder has done a very good job, in our opinion, of executing a plan that is workable and practical for the cruising yachtsman, particularly one in the northern hemisphere where conditions are not sunny and hot the whole season.
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PALO ALTO -- Everybody thinks they know Palo Alto.
As much as any city in the Bay Area, this one evokes an immediate reaction -- sometimes emotional, occasionally hostile and frequently from people whose firsthand knowledge of the place extends no farther than the daily traffic jam on University Avenue.
It is the early-adopting, Tesla-driving, high-thread count cradle of the tech universe, where billionaires roam free and every home would sell for millions of dollars -- if anybody ever left. Which they don't.
It is also "Shallow Alto," a state of mind not found on any map. It's a place inhabited by many pot-smoking party kids with too much disposable income and free time, which they use in pursuit of random sexual encounters with each other and members of the high school faculty.
At least that's how it goes in the movie "Palo Alto," which opens throughout the Bay Area on Friday and is sure to rile at least some locals in the real Palo Alto.
Much like the city itself, the picture is as much myth and metaphor as it is hard truth.
"There's the Palo Alto that everybody would like Palo Alto to be -- especially the parents," says Betsy Franco, mother of actor James Franco, who grew up in town, attended Paly and co-stars in the film. "Then there's the reality."
The film, an affectionate rendering of teen angst from writer-director Gia Coppola, represents a collision of perception and reality. It never identifies Palo Alto as its backdrop and the movie was actually shot in Southern California. Its only true local connection is the book upon which it's loosely based, "Palo Alto: Stories," by James Franco.
But there are undeniably moments in the movie when truth and fiction overlap. The main character's name is Teddy, which is what the Franco family called James when he was growing up. And in high school, when Franco was turning his life around from a bout of underage drinking, shoplifting and other forms of what his mother refers to as "mischief" and "risk taking" -- which nearly earned him a stretch in juvenile hall -- he took up figure drawing, just as some of the boys in the film do.
He also took up acting at Palo Alto Children's Theatre, which later produced an adaptation of his mother's novel, "Metamorphosis: Junior Year." The play ran at a time "when kids at the high schools were throwing themselves in front of trains," Betsy Franco says. "It became pretty apparent that there was an underbelly that nobody could ignore anymore."
In the film, Franco plays the girls soccer coach at a high school where the girls themselves size him up as a suitable sexual match and he seems to be doing the same with them.
The scenes in which Franco's character attempts to seduce a teenage girl bears an uncomfortable resemblance to an embarrassing recent episode when he attempted to arrange a hookup with a 17-year-old girl via Instagram.
That subplot may also provide a squirm-inducing reminder of Palo Alto High School principal Phil Winston's resignation last year after being investigated for making inappropriate sexual remarks to students and staff as many as 10 times.
At Paly, students participate in a mass migration across Embarcadero Road at lunchtime to the tony Town & Country Village, disdaining traditional cafeteria food for grazing choices as diverse as Kirk's Steakburgers and Calafia, run by former Google chef Charlie Ayers.
Emma Sherbatz, a 9th grader who was huddled with a half-dozen classmates outside Trader Joe's, appeared dismayed when she was informed of the movie's storyline -- particularly the fact that all the principal characters are white.
In 2010, whites became a minority in the Palo Alto Unified School District, where students speak 46 languages.
"There's definitely a lot of money in the area, but there are different types of people," Emma said. "There are obviously the people who party and the potheads."
"It's like we're kids from this rich neighborhood who are supposed to live up to certain expectations because Stanford's across the street," chimed in her friend Sarah, who, along with the other girls, preferred not to give her last name. "I mean, everyone does do A.P. (advanced placement) classes, but I don't think anyone is crazy enough to do all A.P.s. We do have other lives."
Another 9th grader named Jamie added, "That drive to do well and go to Ivy League schools is way more in us because of our parents."
It's as family-oriented as any Utah town.
"If you're not married with 2.5 children," says Michele Mandell, a hospitality industry consultant who coined the term "Shallow Alto" after 20 years there, "it's not really the place for you."
Palo Alto has overwhelming parental involvement in its schools and because the parents are often disproportionately successful, they have a tendency to be what school board trustee Barb Mitchell describes as "action-oriented people, who know how to get things done and feel entitled to get those things done."
Recently, that resulted in a donnybrook over parking at the private girls school, Castilleja. Before that, a furor erupted over some trees that were mistakenly cut down.
"When people from other places look at the things we're outraged at in Palo Alto," Mitchell says, "you can see why they get offended, make fun or are angry because their world is very different."
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Population: 64,403
Immigrants: 33 percent
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I had recovered my good mood and was chatting with the others about strange things about Barbie dolls, laughing and smiling in my usual animated manner. (Animated as in anime, indeed!) Someone from another table approached me and said that his friend had been wanting to meet me. On cue, the poor guy at the other table was roundly teased by his friends. I smiled and told the friend thank you. I blushed a bit - it was quite flattering, after all. I then flashed a friendly/polite smile and returned to conversing with the other people at my table.
I think that worked out quite well, as I didn't lead him on but at the same time didn't make him feel terrible. In retrospect, my response could have been a bit more helpful - telling his friend I'm taken would make sure his friends don't tease him too much about it - but so far, so good. =)
What are the best practices for situations like these?
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The plaintiff alleges that
(he/she) sustained personal injuries because of a public nuisance on
land under the control of the defendant. A public nuisance exists
the condition
complained of has a natural tendency to create danger and inflict
injury upon person or property;
the danger created is a
continuing one;
the use of the land is
unreasonable or unlawful; and
the condition or
conduct complained of interferes with a right common to the general
public. As to this element, the test is not whether the nuisance in
fact annoyed a number of persons. Rather, the plaintiff must prove
that the injury occurred while the plaintiff was exercising rights
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nuisance was a proximate cause of the injuries suffered by the
plaintiff. If the plaintiff fails to prove any one element, then a
public nuisance has not been established.
See Keeney v. Old
Saybrook, 237 Conn. 135, 162-63 (1996) (public nuisance
generally). "'Nuisances are public where they violate public
rights, and produce a common injury,' and where they constitute an
obstruction to public rights, 'that is, the rights enjoyed by
citizens as part of the public.' 39 Am. Jur. 286." Higgins v.
Connecticut Light & Power Co., 129 Conn. 606, 611 (1943)
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The subs display and stay forever, and the new subs show again, overlap the old ones. Finally I can't recognize any words.
It works very well when show in the picture.
My TV is Panasonic Viera TH-P46ST32C.


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May 20, 2009
World's Biggest Solar Power Tower now Producing Power in Spain
Abengoa Solar began commercial operation of a 20-megawatt solar power tower plant near Seville, Spain, in late April. Called the PS20, the plant uses a field of 1,255 flat mirrors, or heliostats, to concentrate sunlight on a receiver mounted on a central tower. Water pumped up the tower and through the receiver boils into steam, which is then directed through a turbine to produce electricity. The new facility is located adjacent to one with half its capacity, called PS10, which was the world's first commercial solar power tower plant. According to Abengoa Solar, the new facility is exceeding its predicted power output. See the Abengoa Solar press release.
Several companies are planning to build solar power tower plants in the United States, including BrightSource Energy, Inc., which is planning to build a 110-MW facility near Ivanpah, California. The Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has signed a contract to buy all the power from that facility when it is built, and last year, the utility signed contracts with BrightSource for up to 900 megawatts of solar power. Last week, the utility increased its commitment to BrightSource, replacing the previous power purchase agreements with new agreements for a total of 1,310 megawatts of solar thermal power. BrightSource intends to start operating its Ivanpah facility in 2012 and then build six more projects as quickly as possible. The Ivanpah project is currently under review by the California Energy Commission (CEC). See the PG&E press release, the BrightSource technology description, and the CEC Web page for the Ivanpah project.


text: I have given the discovery of other Earth-Like planets beyond our solar system a lot of thought. I don't think another world would evolve like us. Something fundamental would have to be different to create a different culture and history that would be odd to people of Earth. I've designed a spin-off of humans where evolution sent them in an entirely different direct by simply examining a civilization of women having physical superiority over the men of their world, since their history began. Has the discovery of other Earth-Like planets influenced you?


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I just weaned my 15-month-old. He'd "only" been nursing a minute on each side, but he was doing it 8 - 10 times per night. I was exhasuted!! So I said "no more nursing at night"... which meant I just cut 8 - 10 feedings all at one time! My son is doing just fine & "sleeping like a baby"... but I am SO ENGORGED! It's just awful. To crown all, my son now stares at his "nursies" like they are monsters (and they are now: so lumpy and swollen!) and will not nurse at ALL (even during the day)!! I did not mean to wean him completely, just at night. But the point is that suddenly we went from about 14 feedings per day... to ZERO! Does anyone have advice for handling the engorgement???????? I feel like I'm dying.
If you're still wanting him to drink your milk, could you pump one or two times a night until the discomfort goes away and give him the milk via sippy cup or bottle? I would also keep trying to nurse him during the day.
Watch out for mastitis, you may need antibiotics if you have any fever or redness. Do you have a pump that you could try to use a few times a day? If not, buy cabbage and put the leaves on inside your bra for a while. You can google that for more instructions.
Hoping someone might be able to help me think through this, more of education question, but has to do with parenting in that regard. How are some catholic schools able to offer child discounts, while some can't? What makes it possible for those schools that can offer them? Just trying to understand a bit more how much of a sacrifice it is for the school to do so before I might bring it up at our school. Sure I wouldn't be the first to ask. I just want to be fair minded with our current school which is fairly affluent, while the school a few miles down the road seems less so, but offers a significant child discount that would help us afford catholic school for all of our kids. I know the catholic schools run on relatively low tuition already, so again, want to stay fair minded when I consider it. Thanks for any insight and God bless!
Josie - my guess is that it has to do with the number of families at the school that are parishioners. For example, my parish subsidizes about 1/3 of the "official" cost of educating each child for active parishioners. Non-parishioners pay the full amount. Could the school that offers greater multi-child discounts have a larger number of full-tuition paying parents? Another factor could be the salaries of the teachers. Young teachers will likely make less than older teachers, so if one school has a lot of young teachers, that's could account for greater financial flexibility.
Josie, There is a school down the street that provides multiple child discounts and many scholarships. I think there are a number of factors that parishes consider. Our parish does not provide multiple child discounts because they do not have enough money coming in from tithing. Our pastor has outlined how much each family would need to contribute for discounts be an option but it doesn't seem to have an impact on what our parishoners tith. There is another school down the street. It is a diocese supported school, like ours, but it is run by the Franciscans. I'm thinking, though I don't know for sure, that the Franciscans are providing funds beyond what the dioceses provides and that is why they can off the discount and scholarships. Hope this was useful.
Ugh. I'm sorry my internet connection is the pits today and keeps rearrange my sentences. The first sentence refers to the school run by the Fransicans.
Josie, I think it becomes a decision on the part of the pastor/school board/principal as to what they can handle. Our pastor is very insistent that he wants to welcome families with multiple children, so he insists a discount be provided. In order to do that, the parish subsidizes the school, and parents are asked to participate in many ways to both keep costs down, and provide fundraising for costs for many "extras". My guess it that in a parish that has no discounts, either the parish financially has no way to subsidize the cost of education/per child, or else those in charge do not see it as a priority. I don't mean that to sound like an accusation--just a fact. Some truly don't see it as important to keep costs down for multiple children in a family. My suggestion to you would be to attend school board meetings--if possible, or even ask to meet with the pastor in question. Ours is very open about the costs of running the school and cost per child.
I meant to do this yesterday, but thank you for all the insightful responses to my question! I miss this group of women I need to remember to pop on more often! God bless, Josie


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Gregg Allman, Los Lobos, Los Lonely Boys, Maceo Parker, Lee Fields & the Expressions and John Nemeth & the Bo-Keys to headline nation's second-largest blues festival July 3 - 6 at Waterfront Park in Portland, Ore.
Portland, Ore. (March 3, 2014) -- Oregon Food Bank announces today the featured lineup at its 27th annual Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival presented by First Tech Federal Credit Union on July 3 - 6, 2014. Headlining artists Gregg Allman, Los Lobos, Los Lonely Boys, Maceo Parker, Lee Fields & the Expressions and John Nemeth & The Bo-Keys join more than 100 blues acts on four stages over the July 4th weekend event to benefit Oregon Food Bank's mission of fighting hunger and its root causes.
"We are very pleased that these legendary artists are performing at Portland's hallmark music event to support our ever-important cause of raising funds and awareness for hunger relief in Oregon and Clark County, Washington," said Laura Golino de Lovato, director of development, marketing and communications at Oregon Food Bank. "Sunday, July 6 will be admission by pass only. We'll be announcing additional blues acts in the coming months that will round out our four-day festival, as well as information on passes in late March."
Safeway Waterfront Blues Festival headliner acts are as follows, with additional performances (and more to come!) listed here: Thursday, July 3:Los Lobos"This is what happens when five guys create a magical sound, then stick together for 30 years to see how far it can take them." ~Rolling StoneLos Lonely Boys"Ten years after their 2004 breakthrough, the band is as lively as ever..." ~AllMusic
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John Nemeth & The Bo-Keys
Received five Blues Music Award nominations in 2013 Saturday, July 5:Maceo ParkerFrom playing with James Brown, George Clinton and Prince, and two decades of solo success, his name is synonymous with Funky Music.Lee Fields & The ExpressionsNorth Carolina native puts modern spin on Southern Soul Sunday, July 6 (pass required): Gregg Allman"One of the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time" ~Rolling Stone For complete artist bios, videos and music samples, visit www.waterfrontbluesfest.com.
About Waterfront Blues Festival Since 1988, Oregon Food Bank has produced the Waterfront Blues Festival to raise funds and awareness to fight hunger in Oregon and Clark County, Washington. This Portland hallmark event has become a treasured tradition for locals and visitors alike; it is the largest blues festival west of the Mississippi and the second-largest blues festival in the nation. Most important, the festival is Oregon Food Bank's largest annual fundraiser at a time when need for emergency food continues to grow. Major sponsors: Safeway, First Tech Federal Credit Union, Delta Music Experience, Deschutes Brewery, FedEx, iQ Credit Union, Kia, KINK.fm, Miller Lite, The OregonianSupporting sponsors: The Boeing Company, Schwindt & Co., Capital One, Larabar, Cascadian Farms, Dave's Killer Bread, Clackamas County Tourism, and Caring Ambassadors. More information: waterfrontbluesfest.com About Oregon Food BankWith sufficient public will and support of the entire community, we believe it is possible to eliminate hunger and its root causes. Oregon Food Bank collects and distributes food through a network of four Oregon Food Bank branches and 17 independent regional food banks serving Oregon and southwest Washington and helping nearly 1 in 5 households fend off hunger. Oregon Food Bank also leads statewide efforts to increase resources for hungry families and to eliminate the root causes of hunger through advocacy, nutrition education, garden education, and helping communities strengthen local food systems. More information: oregonfoodbank.org
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Track the time you spend on projects with this simple and easy-to-use application. Divide your work into projects, and split each into individual tasks. Stay honest, and not count those coffee breaks with the built-in idle time alerts. A menu bar icon reminds you at a glance whether the timer is running and allows you to easily stop and start the timer.
Required OS: 10.5
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Alternative: Timelog: more advanced, but not free ($25).
It would be nice to have three levels in the hierarchy (project/task/sub-task) instead of only two (project/task).
App seems to have a new developer with much "Codierfreudigkeit" (sorry for the germanism). The 1.3 update is a serious one and makes the app look more modern. You make take a look at it.
I have tried every time tracker on i use this and Time Tracker remains the most useful to me, regardless of price.
Very cool and streamlined.
I use this app all the time. It even has a function that helps you keep track of breaks. If you walk away from your computer, or if there's no activity for a while, it asks if you want to log that time you were away. Very solid application.
This is a wonderful free app that helps you keep track of time down to individual elements of each project you are doing. It helped me keep track of a commercial I did recently. Very easy to operate.


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Flat Rock to hold Ice Cream Social
Published: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 7:22 a.m.
Last Modified: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 at 7:22 a.m.
The Village of Flat Rock will hold its annual Ice Cream Social at noon June 1 on the grounds of the Flat Rock Village Hall and throughout the village. Vanilla, chocolate chip, strawberry, no sugar added butter pecan and sherbet will be served.
Mayor Bob Staton will kick off the festivities, which continue until 4 p.m. Beginning the afternoon's entertainment is Appalachian Fire Bluegrass Band, led by Dwayne "Doc" Durham. Also returning are the Bishop Brothers (Myron, Wayne and Lenior), who grew up in Brevard.
New to the Ice Cream Social this year will be Simple Folk, a four-piece Asheville/ Hendersonville band celebrating its 10th anniversary this summer. The West Henderson High School Jazz Band, directed by Alan Klaes, will close out the afternoon's entertainment. Tiffany Ervin will serve as mistress of ceremonies.
The performance of the Flat Rock Village Merchant's Music Series, sponsored by the Village of Flat Rock, will feature singer and songwriter Tom Fisch at 6 p.m. on the back porch of the Wrinkled Egg. Call 828-697-0208 for more information.
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