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It is the only holiday dedicated to an emotion. While other days of celebration honor the lives of great men, events and prophets, even a rodent (groundhog) Saint Valentine's Day commemorates an emotion - love. And, if that is not enough to set it apart, it is the only holiday that, for its symbol, has an internal organ - the heart.
Where appropriate, I believe other holidays should follow suit and also recognize the organ involved.
Just as the heart is the symbol of Valentine's Day on cards and calendars, shouldn't Saint Patrick's Day honor the bladder, and Mother's Day the womb? Or might that be Labor Day? And Father's Day? Let's not go there.
If any given celebration was going to be based purely on an emotion, what better emotion than love? Is there anything more appropriate to revel, more satisfying to observe and experience, and more healing and corrective than love? It soothes the wretched, heals the hurt and is great fun when you dress up like a stern teacher and a naughty student (or so I've been told).
One day a year to honor love is not near enough. It is ridiculous that Columbus Day is part of a three-day weekend and we confine a day of love to 24 hours. It should be a weeklong festival. Granted, celebrating Columbus is less tiring than love and requires no shower, but who remembers their first Columbus Day?
Unfortunately, Saint Valentine's Day is thought of as merely a celebration of romantic fondness. This leaves out some of the sweetest and most pure examples of devotion: a parent's love of a child, a child's love of a parent, a human's love of a pet (platonically).
I was not always a fan of the holiday. My earliest (grammar school) Valentine's Day experiences were not altogether pleasant. My mother would have purchased a package of cards for me to fill out and deliver to my classmates. During the week before, in preparation, our class would create little mailboxes attached to our desks in anticipation of the influx of postal delivery.
With a limited amount of cards provided, I remember anguishing over to whom I would give one. The kiss of death would be giving a card to someone who did not give one back. This was not only a waste of a Valentine, but a personal affront and humiliation.
Those primordial Valentine's Days were a precursor of life's realities. The pretty, popular kids would have mailboxes full of missives, while some others were nearly empty. Always the paranoid neurotic, I would waste valuable cards by sending them to myself so my box would abound with self-directed love - which in my teens, I was told by a nun, could make you go blind.
Thankfully, those days are long over. I no longer need to worry if my love gestures will be reciprocated. My current Valentine/bride will certainly be my last. For over 20 years, we've been in 'love.'
Even now when I consider that word, love, I still don't have a definitive definition. Webster calls it "a warm personal attraction to another person."
I believe the meaning of love is as broad as those who experience it. One meaning I came up with is that, whether for a moment or a lifetime, love is when you care more for another's happiness than your own.
Love can also be a very satisfying spectator sport. No other emotion can vicariously be felt so easily. Whether it is tentative teens holding hands, the comfort and companionship of an aged couple or a dog lover cuddling her poodle, love is fun to watch.
I'm told that Valentine's Day was the brainchild of the confection industry as a means to sell their products. If that was the case, it was a self-serving motivation that produced a positive result. But whatever the original motivation, most of us feel that a gift is in order. The traditional gifts for woman are jewelry, flowers or underwear. Unfortunately, my bride shuns all three, so I must be creative.
Anything practical or utilitarian is out. Gifts of that nature are reserved for Christmas and birthdays. I'd like to give her something that could take her to new heights of bliss and pleasure, something she can enjoy whether I'm with her or not; maybe a new pair of skis. But I haven't ruled out the stern teacher outfit ...
Jeffrey Bergeron, under the alias of Biff America, can be seen on TV-8-Summit and read in several newspapers and magazines. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Digital presentation - Three World War II veterans learn that life back home can also be hell. When a girl is kidnapped by a serial killer in the Nebraska Sandhills, Sheriff Henry Fisher asks his pilot brother, Jack, to fly to the scene where the kidnapper has been discovered hiding in a barn. Jack complies, never guessing what will happen in his small aircraft and the devastating effect it will have on the lives around him.
With a mostly volunteer posse on the scene, a situation that could have been a rescue and arrest instead turns into a shootout. When the one man everyone wanted to die hangs on to life, vigilantism takes over. The two Fisher brothers and their sometimes friend Bob discover that a secret this dangerous can be a powerful force, especially when it's coupled with issues of infidelity among the three. Bob can't curb his appetites—a problem in a small town where everyone knows everyone else's business—and Henry's wife is a bitter, wild woman already bringing down trouble on her own head. Meanwhile, the brother of the young murder victim becomes embroiled in circumstances beyond his or anyone else's control, despite Jack's kindness to him.
Directed by Colorado native David R. Higgins, The Aviation Cocktail was shot in Colorado and Nebraska with a local cast and crew. It was produced by The Pilot's Lounge, an independent Denver production company.
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A bit of bad news, but a lot of good news when it comes to Twitter.
As you know, widgets are only as good as the developer that updates it and one of our widgets "Latest Twitter Sidebar Widget" is no longer functioning and the developer will not be updating the plug-in due to Twitter's new API. I will be removing it from the list of available plug-ins.
Onto the good news!! We were using that widget because at the time when I installed it, WordPress did not offer a way to show your feed from the dashboard. Jetpack, in one of its later releases, did just that and you will find in the Jetpack menu the following option for Extra Sidebar Widgets
With this widget you can add:
The RSS Links Widget lets you easily add post and comment RSS feeds to a sidebar on your theme.
The Twitter Widget shows your latest tweets within a sidebar on your theme.
The Facebook Like Box Widget shows your Facebook Like Box within a sidebar on your theme.
The Image Widget lets you easily add images to a sidebar on your theme.
Each of these widgets has a number of customization options. To use the widgets, go to Appearance → Widgets. Drag them into one of your sidebars and configure away.
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first of all, great app! For my usage the best available right now, though again with some small problems which I hope you guys could help me with.
I do NOT have a PS3, and, I know this program is not designed for other equipment, but I still continue. I have a uPnP enables LCD tv which can recieve streaming media.
I have tried programs like fuppes/twonky/mediatomb/tversity, but all not very compatible, biggest problem was filetype (tv not showing a 'playable' movieicon next to files).
This program just delivers all movies to TV and he really WANTS to play them! And, in fact, it does with some (and very nice). But, the transcoding is not meant for tv.
Is there a way I can transcode to another format? I KNOW that the .vob files of DVD, sent directly to TV, play great! (without transcoding). In the log, other files are getting transcoded with Mencoder to asf / wmv3 / 0x062
I know that the .vob files are container mpeg / mpeg2video / 0x000 -> this plays great on my tv.
Can I set transcoding settings or are they hardcoded for PS3 in the program?
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Just a few minutes' drive from Breckenridge Main Street, a quick right turn will take you to the Allaire Timbers Inn, a quaint log building tucked in a stand of trees. Walk inside to be greeted by the soaring ceiling and stone fireplace of the common room, which manages to feel spacious and cozy at the same time. Large windows let in natural light, and offer a spectacular view of the Tenmile Range descending into the distance."Never-ending views," describes innkeeper Jen Franklin, gesturing at the windows, and the direction that every room faces. "You can feel like you're in the woods, but not really be too far out of town."
A stay at the inn puts guests in one of eight regular rooms or two suites, and includes daily breakfast. The eight regular rooms each offer mountain views, a private balcony, a king- sized bed and other amenities. The suites are larger and include a gas fireplace and indoor hot tub. The common area offers daily breakfasts and a place for guests to gather. Upstairs is a game area with big-screen television, movies and board games. Nature art decorates the walls, and is also available for purchase."It helps beautify the area, and of course if a guest wants to take something home, they can do that," Franklin said.
While the inn has been around for more than 20 years, new owner Franklin arrived in May. Hailing from Orlando, Fla., Franklin is enthusiastic about her new location."I really wanted to move to a small mountain town, and this is a great spot," Franklin said. "It's got enough ongoing concern with the culture and the art to really hold interest."Franklin has also enjoyed success not only with the inn, but with the Breckenridge business community."It's been a nice, wonderful welcome by the town of Breckenridge," she said. "The business people are fabulous - very, very nice and welcoming."The inn has a symbiotic relationship with several local businesses in town, offering their products and services to guests in the lodge. This includes items sold in the common area and in-room massages as part of special packages.Several changes have occurred since Franklin took over last spring, the most notable of which is the fact that the inn, previously closed during shoulder seasons, is now open year-round. "It's interesting to me that there's these offseasons, and I'd like to fill those gaps," Franklin said. "I really think that we should be full day in and day out, whether or not [guests] want to come skiing or hiking or just simply get away and have a nice couple relaxing days, and not do anything. This is just such a perfect setting for all activities, or just nothing at all."Franklin plans to offer themed weeks and weekends at the inn, each one revolving around a different idea - a girls' getaway, family week, a week for hiking enthusiasts, etc. "I think people really appreciate being with like-minded travelers," Franklin said.
To celebrate its changes and improvements, the inn will be hosting its ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday from 4-7 p.m. More than 10 local businesses will be present with demonstrations and items for sale. Visitors will be able to walk throughout the lodge and into the rooms, which will each feature a different vendor. The Lost Cajun will be providing food. "If somebody is looking for an experience that's out of the ordinary, give us a try. There are a lot of people who have an impression of a bed and breakfast as being kind of small or cluttered or chintz fabric and lace, and we're not that," Franklin said. "You can have a grand lodge with generous spaces, have a great experience and then transform your travel from a hotel experience to bed and breakfast. Think outside the box."


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Sage Francis wrote: 4 people who consistently make me laugh and want to kiss a beautiful girl on the mouth
Sage Francis wrote: no no,I am definitely talking post-Beatles.
But I definitely wouldn't want to listen to the Beatles without John Lennon. Even the lovey dovey stuff. Admittedly, I do sleep on Paul McCartney and I'm having trouble getting past the idea that he was a sucker. I could be completely wrong but I get that feeling.


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(WOMENSENEWS)--November is upon us. The bloggers are blogging earnestly, the spinners are spinning madly, decision day is looming.
Amid all the high-stakes focus and fulmination over this vote serving as a Bush administration performance review, something else important is happening, something historic.
The 134 women running for House seats in the general election is just shy of the record 141 who ran in 2004. Twelve women have won their party's nomination for the Senate, beating a record set in 1992 and tied in 2002. Ten women are running for governor, matching a record set in 1994. Rutgers University's Center for American Women in Politics counts a record 2,431 women running for state legislative seats.
That is clearly good news for those who believe that a louder, stronger female voice is good for women and good for government.
Sometimes, though, good news is delivered in smaller packages.
I recently saw that CosmoGirl! magazine--where you might go to find "10 ways to get him to notice you"--has launched a project (call it a promotion if you're cynical) to put one of their readers in the White House by 2024.
It includes internships in places such as the United Nations Association and the office of New York Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney.
It caught my attention for two reasons. One, a magazine that makes its living understanding young women believes that politics sells magazines. Two, they believe their young female audience would see running for president as a logical thing to do.
And that is important. Even with the record and near record numbers of women running in mid-term races, we still have a long way to go.
15 Percent of Congress
Women make up half the U.S. population and more than half the voters, but represent just 15 percent of Congress. The world parliamentary average is over 16 percent. For a country that bills itself as the world's model of democracy and equality, that's shabby. Many developing countries boast far better numbers.
Former Rep. Pat Schroeder once called the White House the "the ultimate tree house with a 'No Girls Allowed' sign on it." There are currently a record 13 women running countries as presidents or prime ministers. In the United States, we are still running polls to test the idea of a female president.
Not all of the under-representation can be blamed on not being allowed in the tree house.
Women now hold about half of all professional and managerial positions in business. You can argue about how fast they've risen to the very top, but there is no argument about the numbers pouring through the door. Why aren't we seeing that same rush to politics?
It appears that there are co-dependent answers: Many capable, experienced women don't feel they are qualified for a political race, and they don't get the support and encouragement to think otherwise.
A 2005 Brown University-Union College Citizen Political Ambition Study gave us the first broad national study of why people run for office. The study and a subsequent book, "It Takes a Candidate: Why Women Don't Run for Office," were written by Richard L. Fox and Jennifer Lawless, who recently lost a tough congressional primary race in Rhode Island.
Women Wonder: Am I Qualified?
They found that even among those who excelled in other areas, women were twice as likely as men to say they were not qualified to run for office. Women in the study were significantly less likely to think they would win their first race. They also found that women received less encouragement to run; 37 percent of women versus 43 percent of men received a suggestion to run from someone in the political arena or their personal lives.
We also can't discount the fact that politics is an exceedingly tough--often enthusiastically mean--business. That is particularly true when you are on the outside trying to break in; even more so when you are young, female and underfunded.
A number of studies have shown that voters in the '70s and '80s believed women had more humane stands on issues of public policy. It was called "the compassionate advantage." Male candidates, not wanting to appear to be beating up on a woman, tended not to go negative on personal issues.
As we see in the current campaign season, the rules of the game have changed. Personal attacks on women are not only fair game, the Web offers more subtle ways to deliver them. Female candidates can and will be attacked on everything from their experience to their toughness to their wardrobe. In this age of studious public correctness, the attacks can be coded.
Ken Mehlman, chairperson of the Republican National Committee, said recently on ABC television that Hillary Clinton "seems to have a lot of anger." (Read: emotional and prone to mood swings.)
Bashing Pelosi
While Senator Clinton mulls her future, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, appears to be the convenient target of opportunity. As McClatchey Newspapers' Margaret Talev recently wrote, she can stand in as "the face of a tax-raising, homosexual-embracing, abortion-promoting, war-fearing, criminal-coddling, government-expanding liberal party." She can be packaged for liberal-phobic voters as, in the words of a recent New York Post op-ed headline, "Nancy the Nutcase," as in silly, emotional and impractical. Not at all like a man.
Seasoned female politicians--those with the well-tempered steeliness of a Pelosi--understand that it's all part of the game. They happily return fire. Younger female candidates, lighter on experience and ammunition, may not. At least until they see more women in the game, and winning.
To keep the female pipeline flowing and winning we have to continually make the case--one female candidate at a time if necessary--that women belong in political races and offices. If they need to be invited, cajoled and convinced, so be it.
Jennifer Lawless, after losing a hard-fought primary to incumbent James Langevin, said on her Web site: "I didn't have connections in the Rhode Island 'good old boys network.' I didn't have rich friends with money to burn. And, to hear tell, I didn't have a chance . . . We didn't pick an easy fight. But sometimes those fights are worth having." She's said to be leaning heavily toward another run for office.
To those talented and able women who have a hard time seeing themselves up to the fight, the message is: Look at what you have accomplished in other arenas. If you are a leader in business or in community organizations, you can be a leader in politics. The rules are a little different. The fight can be a little rougher.
But as the number of women who made it to November shows, it's a fight you can win.
Peggy Drexler, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of psychology at Weill Medical College of Cornell University and a former gender scholar at Stanford University. She is the author of "Raising Boys Without Men" (Rodale, 2005) and can be reached at http://www.peggydrexler.com.
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Salish highlights its connection to nature to great effect. Perhaps the most unique—and fun—offering on its spa menu is the Herb and Honey Scrub Bar (50 min./$125), which uses honey from the lodge's own organic herb farm and apiary. Since May of 2011, the on-site bee farm has been producing honey that's as locavore-friendly as it gets. In fact, honey's roots run deep in this nearly 100-year-old lodge's history—the restaurant has been serving its signature "Honey from the Sky" dish for decades.
It started shortly after the lodge, built in 1916, became a favorite rest stop for those journeying through the nearby mountain pass. Travelers stopped in to fill up on the lodge's rib-sticking country breakfasts and witness waitresses performing a crowd-pleasing trick: drizzling honey onto customers' biscuits from above their heads. In recent years, "Honey from the Sky" was renamed "Honey from Heaven," and the lodge's management began looking for more local ways to procure the key ingredient. An apiary, just across a wooden bridge on a hill near the lodge, was the logical answer. "We realized we had the space [for the scrub bar]," Salish general manager Rod Lapasin says. "It just made sense."
Today, the local beekeeper extracts the apiary's honey as it's produced, bottles it and hands it over to the lodge. Spa technicians at Salish take these jars of pure honey and hand mix it with other ingredients using a mortar and pestle to create irresistible treatment preparations. Since Salish has stepped in, honey production at the apiary has swelled from 600 pounds in its first year to 2,000 pounds in 2012, according to Lapasin. In fact, Lapasin hopes to soon have enough surplus honey to take the Salish brand into retail gift shops beyond the lodge's own.
For the moment, though, the bees keep both the lodge restaurant and the spa amply supplied with the sweet stuff. And it's an environmental boon as well, helping to contribute to the bee population that keeps the Northwest's natural cycles humming. "It's good for everyone," Lapasin says. "The more places that do this kind of thing, the better off we all are."
The spa's honey-based scrubs have become among its most popular treatments. "People really love the fact that it comes from right here," Lapasin says. Management does, too—they delight in noting the different "vintages" as bees change their diets through the season, from sweet flowers to more "intense" pine flavors that aren't so great for eating. Luckily, the spa is there to soak up the less-tasty sap for body treatments. (And no, Lapasin has never been stung; the beekeeping contractor handles the insects.)
To customize their scrub, guests choose from among chamomile, rosemary, lavender, basil, lemon verbena, sage and mint—all harvested from the herb garden where the bees frolic—which a technician then mixes with honey as well as some salt or sugar for exfoliation. (Each guest gets a sample of her unique scrub to take home with her, plus a recipe in case she wants to reproduce it on her own.) Those feeling less creative can just opt for the delicious Honey and Oatmeal Body Scrub (50 min./$115), or a refreshing Rosemary Mint Scrub (50-80 min./$115-$125), also locally sourced.
Other Salish treatments boasting a distinctively regional flavor include Green Tea and Northwest Seaweed Salt Glow (50 min./$115); Northwest Coffee Exfoliation (50 min./$125); Wildflower Hill Lavender Massage (50 min./$125); and Heated River Rock Massage (50-80 min./$125-$220). And, after having been sidelined due to a construction project last year, this March an old favorite will make a comeback: a couples' Outdoor Moonlight Massage and Hidden Terrace Dinner (time/price TBA), which takes place right atop the falls.
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FAIRFIELD TWP. - It takes a while to get there, but it's well worth the drive.
Reading the names of people buried in Centenary Cemetery in Fairfield Township is like reading a history of nearby Bartlett and Cutler.
Goddard. Yocum. Dunbar. Brandeberry.
The cemetery and Centenary Church sit nestled in between tracts of farmland owned by the McVicar family.
"It wasn't as good a farm as the one they had at Dunbar," said Myrtie McVicar, 88, a Barlow resident, local historian, retired teacher, former journalist and Navy wife. "This is all different to me."
"This used to be farms with tractors running," she said, referring to land on either side leading up to the church, built in 1866.
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The cemetery is on Norris Drive, near Ohio 555, north of Cutler.
The Fairfield Township Board of Trustees oversees the cemetery.
Centenery Church was started because Laymen citizens left the original Fairfield Township church at Falls Run and Little Hocking Creek. From that original church, the logs were used as floor beams in the construction of the new church.
Source: "Washington County, Ohio to 1980."
A Dr. Harsha laid out the village of Harshaville, but it later was renamed Cutler. Harsha's wife had a sister, whose husband, Rezin Corothers, worked on trains. They bought a farm one mile north of Harshaville/Cutler. The family allowed the Methodist church to be built on their farm, and the cemetery was added. It is still being used.
Ronald H. Place Jr., 69, of 285 Barrett South Road, Vincent, said the grave of his grandfather, Ray R. Goddard, might be the oldest he could find in the cemetery.
Goddard was a storekeeper and was postmaster from 1914 until his retirement in 1959.
"There are so many of the older ones," Place said. "I don't know if you can read them."
Another gravestone belongs to Winchester McAtee (Feb. 22, 1847 to Oct. 6, 1942), who was a member of Company K, 6th Regiment of the West Virginia Calvary.
"When this fellow and two others buried in a Bartlett cemetery went to sign up in Parkersburg, they ended up in Virginia," Place said.
The western counties of Virginia split from Virginia in 1861 when the southern states started to secede. The western counties later became West Virginia on June 20, 1863.
According to www.familysearch.org, the 66th regiment of the West Virginia Calvary was formed from the 3rd West Virginia Mounted Infantry on Jan. 26, 1863.
Another McVicar cousin was Mary Gossett, who drove a horse and buggy until her death in 1945. Her husband didn't drive either.
Myrtie McVicar said she has been searching for information on Roy G. Brandeberry, who might have drowned at age 5. He is buried in Centenery Cemetery.
Still another McVicar relative owned a tea room at Fourth and Washington streets in Marietta. Nellie Staley Carothers died in 1943 and is buried in Centenery. She and another woman owned the tea room for several years.
McVicar said many local boys worked for Carothers, including Marietta College students. Some would take their cars out to Tunnel Hill outside of town on Ohio 550, pop it in neutral and let it go, speeding down the incline.


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CORPUS CHRISTI – Terence Jones scored a career-high 33 points to lead the Texas A&M – Corpus Christi men's basketball team to a 74-68 win over Texas State Wednesday night at the American Bank Center. The Islanders closed the game on a 24-10 run to improve to 3-4 in Southland Conference play (4-15 overall).
Jones' 33 were the most by an Islanders player since Kevin Palmer netted 35 against UT Arlington on March 12, 2009. The junior went 9-of-18 from the field and 13-of-14 from the free-throw line to lead the Islanders to the win, breaking a two-game losing streak against the Bobcats.
Chris Hawkins-Mast added 17 points and a career-best 11 rebounds for his first career double-double, while Myron Dempsey added 12 points and eight boards. The Islanders shot a season-best 72.7 percent (24-of-33) from the line in the win. Texas State was led by 18 points from Eddie Rios and Matt Staff, while Vonn Jones had a game-high six assists and three steals. The Bobcats won the battle of the boards, 41-39.
The Islanders started out cold for the third straight game, and the Bobcats jumped out to an early 10-0 lead before Hawkins-Mast put the home squad on the board with a pair of free throws. The Bobcats pushed the lead to 15-4 before the Islanders went on a 15-2 run, in which Texas State went 0-for-8 from the field, to take a 19-17 lead at the 11:17 mark. From there the two teams went back-and-forth, with the squads knotted at 24-all with 7:59 to go before the break.
The Bobcats slowed the Islanders from the field at that point, but the Islanders got four points at the free throw line to counter four Texas State points to make it 28-all with 5:38 left. After a Jones jumper tied the game at 30, Texas State scored the next four points to gain a 34-30 advantage with 1:11 to go in the half. Brooks Ybarra's two free throws pushed it to 36-30 with less than a minute to go, before the Islanders struck back with a Jordan Pope-Didier layup in the closing seconds to leave the score 36-32 Bobcats at the break.
After the half, the teams went back-and-forth for a 42-40 Bobcats lead, but the visitors went on a quick 5-0 run to pull ahead by seven. Jones responded, scoring the next six points for the Islanders, but a pair of Texas State fast-break layups countered and the Bobcats remained ahead 51-46. Texas State added to the lead with a 7-2 run, and the Bobcats were up by double digits, 58-48, with 10:13 to go.
That's when the Islanders erupted for a 9-0 run, forcing a Bobcats timeout. Jake Kocher capped off the rally with a three from the right wing, his first points of the night. Rios broke the run with a bucket, but Jones responded with a pair of free throws to make it 60-59. With just under seven minutes remaining, Texas State got a crucial call, as Dempsey was called for a goaltend on a play with a foul, and Matt Staff finished the three-point play to make it 63-59.
Jones again had a huge response for the Islanders, drilling a three from the corner to trim the deficit to 63-62. At that point, the back-and-forth reached frantic proportions, with each team delivering blows on each end of the court. The Bobcats held a 68-67 lead with two minutes left, when Hawkins-Mast delivered the decisive shot – a runner in the lane to put the Islanders up 69-68.
Johnathan Jordan came up big after a steal, hitting a pair of free throws with 1:28 on the clock to push the home team's lead to 71-68. The Islanders got another big stop on defense, and Jones stepped to the line, sinking both, to push the lead to five. Kocher wrapped the scoring with a shot at the line, and the Islanders emerged with their second straight victory.
Up next for the Islanders will be the 2012 Homecoming game, slated for Saturday, Jan. 28, at 7 p.m. Stephen F. Austin will visit the Coastal Bend for a matchup at the American Bank Center. For tickets, visit GoIslanders.com or call 825-BALL.


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A hexagonal Gothic Revival period lantern in darkened nickel over iron, glazed with frosted seeded glass.
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STANFORD -- What little suspense there was regarding Stanford's immediate future at quarterback ended Tuesday when redshirt freshman Kevin Hogan was named to start against 13th-ranked Oregon State on Saturday.
Hogan directed five touchdown drives after relieving season-long starter Josh Nunes late in the first quarter at Colorado last Saturday. But why make the change for such a critical Pac-12 game to a guy who essentially got his first extended playing time against the defensively challenged Buffaloes?
"Because he's ready," Stanford coach David Shaw said.
Shaw said Hogan's performance against Colorado, in which he completed 18 of 23 passes for 184 yards and two touchdowns and ran seven times for 48 yards, was reflective of what he's seen in practice of late. He believes Hogan's dual-threat capability as a passer and a runner will give No. 16 Stanford the extra dimension it needs for its tough finishing schedule -- the final home game of the year against the 7-1 Beavers, followed by road games against Oregon and UCLA.
"Culminating with the last two weeks of practice, Kevin has shown us a lot, and on game day -- as we all saw -- he really took the bit and played extremely well," Shaw said. "Not perfectly, mind you. He's a redshirt freshman, and he still has a lot to learn, but athletically, he gives us something special."
The coach said Nunes, who started Stanford's first nine games and guided the Cardinal to a 7-2 record despite mixed personal results, took the news as well as could be expected. While acknowledging that Hogan has absorbed no more than roughly 80 percent of Stanford's playbook, Shaw said the pluses outweighed the minuses in terms of making the offense more efficient and unpredictable.
"He's shown us he can handle enough of our game plan that we won't have to change what we do," he said. "We're just going to try to play to his strengths."
Hogan, a 6-foot-4, 224-pounder out of McLean, Va., was low-key about his promotion, maintaining he hadn't told anyone but his parents.
"You always prepare every week to play, regardless of whether you do or not," he said. "I'm not sure when my breakthrough was, but I just feel a lot more comfortable out on the field, and my teammates really helped me out by doing their job, which helped me do my job."
"It was a combination of the nature of the game and the desire for us to take some of the load off of him," the coach said. "He has been carrying the ball a lot. I don't know where he ranks across the country, but he's No. 1 in the conference for touches, and we don't run a lot of sweeps with him. It's mostly between the tackles."
Taylor needs 318 yards to break Stanford's career rushing record of 4,033 yards set by Darrin Nelson between 1977 and 1981.
"We've put a lot of money and time into it, and we've had some experts advising us," he said. "So hopefully, it holds up. Regardless of how soft it might be, it's leaps and bounds better than it was a year ago, so you're not going to find me complaining. The effort we put into it really has paid off."


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Growing Wind Industry Yields New Plants in Four States
July 25, 2007
The burgeoning wind power industry has spurred the construction of new manufacturing plants in Arkansas, Kentucky, Oklahoma, and South Dakota. DMI Industries, a wind tower manufacturer, announced in May its plans to acquire a facility near Tulsa, Oklahoma, that will give the company the ability to produce larger towers for offshore wind plants and to ship them overseas. DMI intends to modify the existing plant for its purposes by early 2008. The facility features 500,000 square feet of production space and will ultimately employ up to 450 people. In late June, Knight & Carver held the grand opening for its new 26,000-square-foot wind blade production and repair facility in Howard, South Dakota, bringing at least 35 jobs to the state. On July 18th, LM Glasfiber announced that they will also build a new wind blade facility, to be located in Little Rock, Arkansas. The plant will begin operations early next year and will employ more than 1,000 people within five years. See the press releases from DMI Industries, Knight & Carver, and LM Glasfiber.
The small wind turbine market is creating jobs as well, as Kentucky Governor Ernie Fletcher announced in mid-July that Wind Energy Corporation will develop, build, and sell its helical wind turbines at a refurbished 133,200-square-foot facility in Morgantown. The project is expected to create 260 full-time jobs within five years and represents an investment of more than $6.1 million. Wind Energy will expand its headquarters operation in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, by adding 35 full-time technical and executive positions. See the governor's press release.
The small wind turbine industry is one of the few renewable industries that is still dominated by the United States, according to a new study by the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). The 2007 AWEA Global Small Wind Market Study finds that 6,807 small wind turbines were sold in the United States in 2006, compared with an estimated 9,502 wind turbines sold in the rest of the world. U.S. manufacturers supplied 98% of the U.S. market and exported roughly half their product, which would equal about a third of the non-U.S. market. To help those manufacturers succeed, DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory is now offering to perform independent testing on commercially available small wind turbines. Up to eight competitively selected manufacturers will provide their wind turbines to NREL for up to a year of testing, after which the results will be publicly available on the NREL Web site. Responses to the solicitation are due by August 22nd. See the AWEA report (PDF 449 KB) and the NREL solicitation. Download Adobe Reader.


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C H N T R A L M I e "
Sepcember 5, 1986
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Central MichigaD Oni vers ity Board of Trustees
Mt . Ple a sant, Michigan
Septembe r 5 , 1986
Merobers present; Mr . Raymond A. LaBounty. Chair;
Dr . Bernadine N. Denning; Mr. Mitchell D. Keheti.n; Dr . Gordon N.
Lambie; Ms. Rachael E. Moreno; Nr. William C. Odykirk;
Mrs . Nargaret Ann Riecker; ~rs . Alice Tomboul!an; Nr. Arthur E.
Ellis, President.
Members absent: None.
Also attending: Mr. Russell L. Herron, Secretary to the Board of
Tr us t ees; Mr . James L. Hill , Vice President tor Student Affairs;
Dr . Janice M. Reynolds, Acting Provost; Mr . Je r ry R. Tubbs ,
Treasurer of the Board of Trustees and Vice President tor
Business and Finance .
The meeting was called to order by Chair LaBounty at 10:47 a.m.
It was moved by Mr . William Odykirk, seconded by Urs. Uargaret
Ann Riecker, and carried , that the minutes ot the July 25, 1986
meeting be approved as submitted.
It was moved by Mr . Wl il iam Odyklrk, seconded by Dr . Bernadine
Denning , and ca rr ied, that the fo l lowing resolution for Ba rbara
Judge , AdmiDis trative Aide I, School ot Bus iness Ad.iDis t rat i o D,
be adopted .
WHEREAS , Barbara Judge has been a valuable member ot the
Cent ral Michigan University community for twenty-six
years; and
WHEREAS, Ms . Judge's service to the School or Business
Administration dates from tbe rirst year of that
school ' s existence, thus making her the first and only
Oft ice Manager in the school's history; and
• • Retirement Resolution continued
WH EREAS, She has been a s uppo rt er, good friend , coworker
and pr oblem solver for three deans , numerous off i ce
employees, dozens of depa rtme nt chai rpersons , hundreds
of faculty members and thousands of students in the
School of Business Administration; and
WHEREAS, She is remembe red with love and respect by
those she has served and assisted , many of whom she
remembers by name; Now be it therefore
RESOLVED, That the Board of Trustees cong rat ulates
Barbara Judge for her many years of loyal service to
Central Michigan University and on the occasion of her
retirement, offe r s her best wishes fo r a fruitful and
r eward ing future .
It was moved by Mrs . Margaret Ann Riecke r, seconded by
Dr . Bernadine Denning, and ca rri ed , that the f ollowing r esolutiO •
granting eme ritus rank to Louise Cova, Executive Administrat i ve
Aide, Office of t he Pr ovost , be adopted .
WHEREAS , Louise Cova has been a talented, loyal a nd
valued member of the Ce ntral Nichigan Un i versi ty
community for more than twenty-three yea rs as a
clerical , supervisory-technical and adminl st rative_
professional employee; and
WH EREAS , She has served during the administrations of
three pr ovos ts, provldi ng a familiar and stable
presence in the Off ice of the Provost since 1970; and
WH EREAS , She has helped to maintain the accessibility
and human quality of that o ffice th r ough her competence
, her helpfulness , and her always- r eady wit; and
WHEREAS , She has earned the r espec t and the
frie nd ship of countless members of the fac ulty,
staff , Board of Trustees and student body at Cent ral
Michigan University; Now be it therefore
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Eme r itus RaDk conti nued
RESOLVED, That the Boa rd of Trustees, on behalf of
the University community , expresses appreciation and
gratitude to Louise Cova fo r her contributions to
Central Mi ch igan University and extends Emeritus
It was moved by Mr . Mitchell Kehe tian, seconded by Or . Bernadine
Dennning , and carried , that the following resolution granting
emeritus rank to Aub r ey Gi l by, J r. , Coor di nator/Mecba nical
Services, Ph ysical Pl an t , be ado pted .
WHEREAS , Aubrey Gilby, J r. has devoted 16 years of
fu l l-time service to Central Michigan University as
Coordinat or of Mechanical Services; and
WHEREAS, He has provided invaluable leader ship and
outstanding dedication in the preservation of
mechanical systems of Unive r sity buildings and
pro perties; and
WHEREAS , His knowledge o f mechanical systems con_
struction codes has proved i nva luable to the
University community; and
WHEREAS , He has become known fo r his integrit y ,
unselfish service, commitmen t and dedication to
Central Michigan Unive r s ity ; Now be it therefore
RESOLVED , That the Board of Trustees, on behalf of
the Univ e r sity community, e xpresses appreciation and
gratitude to Aubrey Gilby, Jr . for his contributions
to Cent ral Mich igan Universi ty and extends Emeritus
I!RNST • IIII NNgy AUDIT OP PINANCIAL STATRIIKNTS: (Pi nance Com)
It was moved by Nr. William Odyki rk, seconded by Mr s . Margaret
Ann Riecker, and ca rr ied , that the following resolution be
BE IT RESOLVE D, That the Accountant's Report of Ernst.
Whinney dated August 4, 1986 fo r t he year 1985-86 is
received . The Administration is authorized to use
this r eport as necessary .
• • MICHIGAN MOLECULAR INSTITUTH OPERATING BUDGET : ( Fi naDce Com)
I~ was moved by Mr . William Odykirk, seconded by Mrs . Ma r ga r e t
Ann Riecke r , and ca r ried, that the following resolution be
adop~ed .
BE IT REROLVED, That the Board of Trustees approves the
1986-87 ope rating budget of Michigan Molecular Ins t i tute
as presented . The President is authorized to
advise the Michigan llolecular Institute Board of
Direc~ors of this ac~ion and advise them to expend
funds within the reve nues r eceived .
Wr . William Odykirk, Chair of the Pinancp Commi~~ee, asked that
the following statement be entered into ~he minutes: I~ 1s
understood that ex penditu re fo r debt service wi l l req uire fur the r
action by the CMU Boar d of Trustees as well as t he 111011 e J;ecutive
committee .
TRAPPIC ORDI NANCE/CAMPUS MAP : ( Pinance Comai ttee )
It was moved by Mr . William Odykirk, seconded by Dr . Be r nadine
Denning, and carried, that the following resolu~ion be adopted .
BE IT RESOLVED, That the following amendnent is made to
the Ordinance titled "An Ordinance to Gove r n a nd
Control Parking , Trafric and Pedes tr ians at Cent r a l
Michigan Universi ty , Mt . Pleasant . Michigan":
Section 8 . 26 of said Ordinan~e, as amended, is
reta i ned a nd shall continue to a pply to viola t ions
occu rr i ng prior to 12:01 o ' ~lo~k ~ . m . on the date
this amendment becomes effective , except to the
ex tent alter ed by trRfti~ orders under t his
Ordinance . Effective 12:01 o'clock a . ~ . on the da te
this amendmen t becOllltHl .. trective , said Section 8 . 26
shal l r ead and be effective to viola t ions occurr i ng
on or after 12:01 o'clock a.m. on said date as
8 . 26 Attached he r eto und mude a part he reof 1s a
map entitled "Campus Map Central IUchigan
Unive r sity, 1986-87 . " setting fo r th and
locating parking lots on the campus of
Ce nt ral Michigan Un ive r s ity, Mt . Pl easant,
Michigan. and sett i ng fo rth t he pe r so ns who
Traffie Ordi nanc e/CAmpus Map continued
may use s uc h l o t s and the time a nd man ne r of
s uch permitte d use . Vio la t i on of the
provisio ns contained on the ma p a nd on the
r e ve r s e s id e o f t he map se l ting fo r th
pe r sons who may use such l o t s a nd the t i me
and manne r of s uch permitted use 1s a
vi o lati on of th is Or din a nce .
Th i S amendment s hall take e f fec t Septembe r 6 , 1986 , at
12 :01 a .m.
COMPANY : ( Pina nce Committee)
I t was moved by Mr . lil li am Od yklrk, second ed by Ms . Rachae l
Mo r eno , a nd ca rr ied , tha t the fo llowi ng reso lution be a do pted .
BE IT RESOLVED , That the Pre sident Is autho ri zed to
grant a n e a sement to Co ns umers Power Company fo r the
cons truc t ion and ma inte nance of unde r gr o und e l ec tric
powe r fa c il i t ies f o r Univ e r sity Park, under the
fo l l owing prope r ty owned by the Unive r Sity in t he
City o f Mt . Plea san t , Coun t y o f I s abella, and St a t e
o f Nich iga n :
A parcel o f land In the Southeast 1/4 of Sec ti on
27 , Towns hip 14 No rth , Range 4 l e st, descri bed as
comme nci ng at the East 1/ 4 co rne r of said Section
27 ; th e nce So uth 88 - 50' II" Wes t 50 feet to the
Wes t e rly right- of-way of ~issl o n Road a nd the point
o f beginn i ng; t hence South 00· 50 ' 00" East
1, 544 . 25 fee t a long said Weste r ly r ight-ot-wa y :
the nce Sou th 89· 10 ' O O~ lest 15 feet al ong said
r i ght-o t-way; t he nce South 00 · 50 ' OOM East 41 0 .00
t e e t along said Westerly r ight-at-way to the
Northeas t e rly ri ght _of_way of the Conrail Ra i lroad;
thence North 6 4 - 00 ' 43- . est 1, 529 . 28 f eet along
said r igh t - o f - wa y to a c ur ve; the nc e No r t hwesterly
1 , 297 . 15 fe e t al ong a c urve t o the r ight wi th a
r adius of 1, 389 . 72 feet and a c hord bearing No r th
37 · 16 ' 18" " est 1,250 . 57 feet; thenc e North 10-
31 ' 56 M l es t 174 . 58 fee t along said r ig h t -at-way to
the cente r line ot We s t Campus Dr i ve; th e nce South
72- 52 ' 02 " East 179 . 68 feet a l o ng said c ente rli ne
University Park contin ued
to a cur ve; thence Southeasterly 566 . 67 teet along
a curve to the l eft with a radius ot 1,145. 92 feet
and a chord bea ring South 87- 02 ' 02~ East 560 . 91
teet; thence North 78° 47' 58~ East 809 . 96 feet
along said cen terline to a curve; the nce
Northeasterly 333 . 33 feet along a cu rve to the
right with a radius of 1,909.68 feet and a c hord
bearing North 83° 47 ' 58 ~ East 332 . 91 teet; thence
North 88° 47 ' 58" East 293 . 33 teet along said
centerline to the Westerly right-o t_way of Miss i on
Road and the point of beginning.
COPY MACIII NBS PURCIIASE: (Fi nance Coftai t tee)
It was moved by Mr . Willi am Odyktrk, seconded by Ms. Rachael
Mo reno , and ca rr ied , that the following r esolution be adopted .
WH EREAS , The duplicating machines cu rre ntly in use in
academic de partme nts pose potential health and safety
concerns ; and
WH EREAS , The Academic Affairs Division has need to
replace these duplica ting machines in the academic
departments; Now be it the r efore
RESOLVED, That the President is autho rized to s pend
an amount no t to e xceed $180,000 for the purc hase of
new individual copy machines fo r the Academic Affairs
Division .
RBPORTS OF INVKSTMENT ACTIVITY: (Finance Committee)
Mr. Wil li am Odykirk , Chair of the Finance Commi ttee , reported
that the committee had received r e ports of Investment Activity
for June a nd J uly 1986.
MARIAN CROFT ALTHOFF MEMORIAL SCHOLARSIIIP: (Student Affairs ea.)
It was moved by Dr . Gordon Lambie, seconded by Dr. Bernadine
Denning, and carried , that the f ollowing resolution be adop t ed.
• •
Marian CrOft Altbof f Memorial Scholarship continued
B8 IT RESOLVED, That the Mar ian Croft Althoff Memorial
Scho larship 1s established and that the followinl
s tateme nt is approved for printing in the Unive rsity
Bulle t in:
Marian Cr o ft Altholr Memorial Scbo~ar8hip
Established in 1986 by James P. AlthOff in memory
of his wife Marian Croft Althoff, who was a 1951
graduate. Earnings from the endowment will
provide an annual scholarship to a CMU student
in the College of Arts and Sciences , majoring in
AMIE JO AND KELLIS SUE DENNIS MgMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP : (Student
XllaIrs COiiI ttee )
It was moved by Dr. Gordon Lambie, seconded by Ms. Ra chael
Moreno, and carri ed , that the following resolution be adopted.
BE IT RESOLVED , That the Amie Jo and Kellie Sue Dennis
Memorial Scholarship is established and that the
fol l owing statement is approved tor printing in the
Uni versity Bulletin:
~ie J o a nd ~e lli e Sue Dennis Ma-orlal Scbolarsbip
A one-year scholarship awarded to a graduating
sen ior from Beal City High School enr olling at
Central Mi c higan University. The scholarship is
from the earnings of an endowment provided by
family and friends of Amnie Jo and Keille Sue
Dennis in 1986, shortly after their untimely
deaths at age s 17 and 15 . Arnie Jo and Kellie Sue
were active and energetic Beal City lIigh School
students. The rec ipient will be selec ted by a
committee from Beal City High School .
Dr . Susan Repp, Assis tant Vice Pres ident tor Student Affairs.
• • ACADEMIC APFAIRS COMKITTHH <'ae ulty-Trustees Liaison Com):
Mrs. Alice Tombaul1an, Chai r of the Academic Affairs Committee,
reported that the committee discussed the mil budget as it
pertains to academic areas, the North Cent ral Association
accreditation repo r t, and recruitment of senior officers . She
also reported that the committee expressed its intent that all
sen ior oftieer sca r ehes would be open and nattonally advertised .
In addition, the Faculty-Trustees Liaison Committee discussed the
purchase of copy machines and a schedule of future reports to the
BYLAWS AMENDMENT : (Assess.e ot and Development Co.mlttee)
I t was moved by M8. Racbael More no. seconded by Mrs. Ma r garet Ann
Rlecker, and carrIed, that the following resolution be adopted .
BE IT RESOLVED, That the Central Michigan Un iversity
Boa rd of Trustees adopts the following amendment to
Art icle VII, Section 2 , of its Bylaws:
Section 2. Appearances. Individuals and o rgani zed
groups of individuals who desire to appear before
the Board to present any matter conce rning the
governance at Cent ral Michigan University shall
have the right to appear before the Board of
Trustees at a meeting of the Boa rd of Tr ustees in
the following manner:
A. Such an individual or group of individualS
sha l l have a right to be placed on the agenda
if they file a writte n request tor appearance
prior to the time the agenda for the meeting
has been made pUblic. In this event . the
requesting party must file a writte n request
for the appearance stating concisely the
purpose of such appearance and naming
ex plic itly the person or persons who are to
appear as spokesper sons . The written request
shall be delivered to the Board's secretary
p r ior to the time the agenda is made publ i c .
The chair may limit the time available to
speaker s in o r der that there shall be
sufficient time to conduct other business ot
the University.
Bylaws Ame ndme n t continued
B. Such an individual or group of individuals shall
have a right to be heard upon any items that
are on the age nda for a given meeting if the
requesting party ftles a written request to be
able to speak to the Board and delivers that
request LO the Board ' s secretary at least two
(2) days in advance ot the meeting at which the
matter is to be heard in order that the Chair
may he advised of the request and in order that
a time may be arranged for the appearance at
the Board meeting. The Chair may limit the
time available to speakers in o rder that there
shall be sufficient time to conduct other
business of the Unive rsit y .
C. At the conclusion ot each meeting of the Board
any member ot the public may speak to the Boa rd
concerning any matter relat i ng to the
governance of Central Michigan Unive r sity . The
Board shall make tive minutes available tor
such presentations . Pa r ties requesting to
speak to the Board must sign an application
form at the Board meeting setting forth their
name and address and indicating their desire to
speak and the topic upon whi ch they intend to
speak. These request form s shall be available
at the Board meeting . The Chai r may limit the
ti~e available to speakers in order to permit
all who desire to speak an opportunity to do
so .
D. The Board may permit any individual or group at
individuals to present a ny matter to the Board
at any time, without prior notice, upon motion
and second by membe r s ot the Board and app roval
by a major ity of the Board members present.
E. Board members shall not be required to make a
'Hitt.en o r verbal r esponse to any presentation
made to the Board pursuan t to this Article.
This amendment to the Bylaws does no t replace the Open Forum.
• • (Assessaent a nd De ve l o pme nt
It was moved by Ms. Rachael Moreno, seconded by Mrs. Margaret Ann
Riecker , and carried, that the following resolution be adopted .
BE IT RESOLVED, That the Board
implements ~Needs Assessment:
Action~; and be it further
of Trustees adopts and
A Guide and Pla n of
RESOLVED , That the Ad Hoc Committee and the Boa rd
have agreed that the Search Procedures as presently
wr itten wUl be followed. Purther , that the Ad Hoc
Committee and the Board have reached ag r eement in the
follO'f/ing areas:
1 . Understanding regarding composition of t he
scr eening committee .
We ag r eed that no academic department would have
more than ooe rep r esentative on the screening
committee . Each school entitled to representation
would have at least t wo members on the
scr eening committee . The Board of Tr ustees would
use t wo of its four positions fo r Boa rd membe r s
and two of the positions to achieve balance on
the committee through the appointment of nonBoar
d members . •
2 . Unde r s tanding regarding initial scr ee ning ot
p r esiden tia l candidates .
The Board of Trustees wi shes t o r esume its powe r
to do t he initial screening ( which it had relinquished
during the last sea r ch) . ' e ag r eed that
the c r edentials of those candidates r eject ed
during the initial scr eening would be ava ilable
fo r study by the members of the scr eening commit tee,
and that the r e would be provi sion for
r econsider ation by the scr eening committee of
those ca ndidates r ejected in the initial
screening .
Unde rstanding r egar ding Board voting procedure
for the president .
At the last
vote o f six
selection .
presidential selection , a pos i tive
(6) Board members was necessary for
Since it is ditt i cult to secur e the
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assent of si~ (6) membe r s , the facul ty r e presen tatives
suggested scrapping that requirement . The
Board members stat ed that the rule was no l onger
i n effect , and t hat normal voting procedures
would pr evai l during the next presidential selection
4 . Unde r standing regarding Board appointment at a
president who has t he r ecommendation of tbe
screening committee .
Faculty and students would be r eluc tant to serve
on a commit t ee t o screen presid ential c andidates
( par ticula rly if the committee functions for two
years) withou t c redible assurance that the Board
will se l ect a president f r om among those candidates
recommended by the scr eening commit t ee .
The members ot the Assessment and Development
Committee assured the faculty r e presentatives
that a successful presiden tial search required
approval of a c andidate by both the Board and the
screeni ng committee , and that the Board was
determined that the next search would not be a
failure .
5. Unde r standing r ega rding o pen discussion of
presidentia l qualifications and role of the
University .
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Member s o f the Assessment a nd Devel o pmen t Committee
and membe r s ot the Ad Hoc Committee ag r eed
that the Board and scr eening committee must
engage in o pen , f r a nk discussion of the ke y
issues of qualifications o f the presiden t and
miSSion of the Unive r sity . We agreed that
substantial agreement on these issues by the
Boar d and the s c r eening committee i s essential
fo r a successtul presidential search .
Unde r standing that the proposed two-ye3r
timetable for selection of a president 1s not
" set in conc r e t e . "
Whe n the fa c ulty r e presentatives suggested that
the two-year timetable in ~Plan en to r selection
ot a president was t oo long, the Boa rd membe r s
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It was moved by Ms. Rachael Moreno, seconded by Mr s . Margaret Ann
Rlecker, and car ried, that the rol10wlng resolution be adopted .
WH EREAS , The University 1s desirous of surveying the
opinions of elemen ts of the university community; Now
be it therefo r e
RESOLVED, That the President 1s authorized to enter
into a contract with the lnstitute fo r Social
Resea rch of the Unive r sity of Michigan for an amount
not to exceed $85,000 .
PERSONNEL RECOMMENDATIONS: • It was moved by Mrs. Margaret Ann Kiecker , seconded by Mrs. Alice
Tombaulian, and carried, that pe r sonnel recommendations as submitted
on pages 1-12 of the agenda be approved. Abstained:
Ms . Moreno .
It was moved by Mr. William Odyki rk, seconded by Or. Bernadine
Denning, and ca rried, that gifts r eceived during June 1986 in the
amount of $635,748 . 26 be accepted with appreciation.
I t was moved by Mr s . Alice Tomboulian , seconded by Mr . William
Odykirk, and carried, that grants awarded during July 1986 in the
amou nt of $249,960 be accepted .
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The next Board ot Trustees meeting will be Fr iday , October 3,
1986 and there will be an Open Forum at 1:30 p .m. in the
President's Conterence Room, Bovee University Center.
The meeting adjourned at 11:36 a . m.
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Police have a suspect in custody in a Springfield Township triple stabbing earlier this month.
Shawn Mathews, 23, is now facing three counts of felonious assault, Springfield Township police say.
Mathews is facing charges related to a Feb 12 incident, in which officers say they stopped a vehicle as it drove south on Hamilton Avenue, and they found three men who'd been stabbed inside.
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Winter Storm Pax Snarls Traffic As Experts Study Long-Term Effect
Harsh weather including a number of snow and ice storms has made this an especially difficult winter so far. Now the winter storm named Pax, which pelted the South with snow and ice and left thousands of cancelled airline flights and disrupted commutes in its wake, is headed through the Northeast where it is expected to dump as much as 18 inches of snow.
Poor conditions on the road have been blamed for several traffic fatalities, but even minor weather-related accidents can be costly. In the past month the travel group AAA's New York regional office has fielded about 80,000 calls for roadside assistance – up 25% from the same period a year earlier.
Since in the last 24 hours, New York AAA said it was called on to retrieve 200 vehicles that had driven off the road and gotten stuck. In the same period a year ago it performed 54 such extrications.
Still, as hard as the snowy weather has been on people's daily schedules and, in many cases, their wallets, it is not expected to have much of a long-term economic effect. This is mainly because winter storms like this generally do little damage to business or government infrastructure, said Doug Handler, chief U.S. economist for researcher IHS Global Insight.
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Cal-bound swimmer Missy Franklin, who won four gold medals at the London Olympics last summer, took home the James E. Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athlete on Tuesday night.
Still a month shy of her 18th birthday, Franklin is a senior at Regis Jesuit HS in Denver. She will enroll at Cal in the fall.
Franklin, the most decorated athlete at the London Games, joins past Sullivan winners including Michael Phelps, Mark Spitz, Peyton Manning, Tim Tebow, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Frank Shorter and Shawn Johnson.
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A Navy veteran considered an expert on blimps will speak Tuesday about the Houma naval air station's role in World War II.
Richard Van Treuren will address the Military Roundtable Discussion Group during a free public gathering at Houma's main library. Coffee and conversation will start at 5 p.m.; Van Treuren will begin his lecture at 6 p.m.
On display will be records, news articles, photographs and artifacts from the war years. On the morning of May 22, a reunion group will take a tour of the Houma airport, site of the former Navy blimp base, ending with a lunch at a local restaurant.
The Regional Military Museum in Houma wants to be the leading information center for the blimp base's history. Anyone with photos, artifacts or stories of the period is asked to visit the museum at 1154 Barrow St.
Mr. Van Treuren lectured to a "mini reunion" in 2004 in Houma. He is editor of "The Noon Balloon," the official publication of the Naval Airship Association.
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The signing of Kaluka Maiava comes straight out of the Reggie McKenzie-Dennis Allen handbook when it comes to personnel.
For better or worse, Maiava, at a shade under 6-foot tall, would have never got a sniff from the Al Davis Raiders based on his physical profile.
McKenzie and Allen want football players first and foremost. Guys who are big on preparation and short on drama. Maiava qualifies.
"I'm a hard-nosed guy, man. I come to work every day and I lead by example," Maiava said on a brief conference call before departing the Raiders facility. "I'm not the rah-rah guy giving the speeches and stuff. I lead by example and I come to work every day and I'll play hard. I'll go to war with anybody and I'm sure my teammates will appreciate that. I'm a tough guy and I pride myself on being one of the tougher players, and I'm here to work."
Born in Honolulu, Maiava grew up watching the Raiders and 49ers on television. The Raiders were the first team to contact him for a visit. ESPN reported Maiava signed a three-year, $6 million contract.
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The cartoon version America's relationship to Europe – and a cartoon version is of course the only version of foreign relations on offer in the corporate media – goes something like this:
The cartoon version America's relationship to Europe – and a cartoon version is of course the only version of foreign relations on offer in the corporate media – goes something like this:
Old World and New World are now more estranged from one another than at any time in living memory, due to the Bush Administration's aggressive policies and disdain for international institutions and diplomatic niceties.In America, those on the Right think this cartoon is a good thing:
Europe is weak, crumbling, Godless, on the wrong side of history, on the brink of being devoured by the Islamic caliphate, etc., etc.; who cares what those panty-waist pinkos think?Those on the left regard the cartoon as a calamity:
See how Bush has thrown away 60 years of amity and cooperation with our strongest allies, the great civilized democracies, leaving America isolated and feared in the world.
Of course, the truth of the matter is that the cartoon is wrong. There is not now nor has there been at any time during Bush's tenure any significant estrangement between the ruling elites in Europe and the United States. UCLA historian Perry Anderson gives a very detailed analysis of the reality of the situation in a recent edition of the London Review of Books (via a steer from the Angry Arab).
Much of the piece is given over to an examination of how post-Cold War Europe really works (and it has very little to do with the ignorant frothings of Mark Steyn and his knuckle-dragging comrades on the Troglodyte Right). But lower down in the piece, Anderson delves into the specifics of the U.S.-Europe relation today, and finds very little distance but a great deal of continuity – a continuity that helps explain what Anderson rightly calls the "surrender of Europe" to the United States. This is expressed most sharply in the actions (as opposed to rhetoric) of European governments in regard to Bush's Terror War, where they have countenanced the war of aggression in Iraq and played a major role in the vile rendition program of Bush's gulag.
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Much of the piece is given over to an examination of how post-Cold War Europe really works (and it has very little to do with the ignorant frothings of Mark Steyn and his knuckle-dragging comrades on the Troglodyte Right). But lower down in the piece, Anderson delves into the specifics of the U.S.-Europe relation today, and finds very little distance but a great deal of continuity – a continuity that helps explain what Anderson rightly calls the "surrender of Europe" to the United States. This is expressed most sharply in the actions (as opposed to rhetoric) of European governments in regard to Bush's Terror War, where they have countenanced the war of aggression in Iraq and played a major role in the vile rendition program of Bush's gulag.
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Why has there been that sense of a general crisis in transatlantic relations? … In the EU, media and public opinion are at one in holding the conduct of the Republican administration outside Nato to be essentially responsible...In this vision, there is a sharp contrast between the Clinton and Bush presidencies, and it is the break in the continuity of American foreign policy – the jettisoning of consensual leadership for an arrogant unilateralism – that has alienated Europeans...But in the orchestrations of America's Weltpolitik, style is easily mistaken for substance. The brusque manners of the Bush administration, its impatience with the euphemisms of the 'international community' and blunt rejection of Kyoto and the [International Criminal Court], offended European sensibilities from the start. Clinton's emollient gestures were more tactful, if in practice their upshot – neither Kyoto nor the ICC ever risked passage into law while he was in office – was often much the same. More fundamentally, as political operations, a straight line led from the war in the Balkans to the war in Mesopotamia. In both, a casus belli – imminent genocide, imminent nuclear weapons – was trumped up; the Security Council ignored; international law set aside; and an assault unleashed. (more - click on continue reading...)
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United over Yugoslavia, Europe split over Iraq, where the strategic risks were higher. But the extent of European opposition to the march on Baghdad was always something of an illusion. On the streets, in Italy, Spain, Germany, Britain, huge numbers of people demonstrated against the invasion....But once it had occurred, there was little protest against the occupation, let alone support for the resistance to it. Most European governments – Britain, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal in the West; all in the East – backed the invasion, and sent troops to bulk up the US forces holding the country down. Out of the 12 member states of the EU in 2003, just three – France, Germany and Belgium – came out against the prospect of war before the event. None condemned the attack when it was launched...
Chirac and Schröder had a domestic interest in countering the invasion. Each judged his electorate well, and gained substantially – Schröder securing re-election – from his stance. On the other hand, American will was not to be trifled with. So each compensated in deeds for what he proclaimed in words, opposing the war in public, while colluding with it sub rosa. Behind closed doors in Washington, France's ambassador Jean-David Levitte – currently Sarkozy's diplomatic adviser – gave the White House a green light for the war, provided it was on the basis of the first generic UN Resolution 1441, as Cheney wanted, without returning to the Security Council for the second explicit authorisation to attack that Blair wanted, which would force France to veto it. In ciphers from Baghdad, German intelligence agents provided the Pentagon with targets and co-ordinates for the first US missiles to hit the city, in the downpour of Shock and Awe. Once the ground war began, France provided airspace for USAF missions to Iraq (which Chirac had denied Reagan's bombing of Libya), and Germany a key transport hub for the campaign. Both countries voted for the UN resolution ratifying the US occupation of Iraq, and lost no time recognising the client regime patched together by Washington.
…Sweden, where once a prime minister could take a sharper distance from the war in Vietnam than De Gaulle himself, has a new minister for foreign affairs to match his colleague in Paris: Carl Bildt, a founder member of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, along with Richard Perle, William Kristol, Newt Gingrich and others…
In the wider Middle East, the scene is the same. Europe is joined at the hip with the US, wherever the legacies of imperial control or settler zeal are at stake. Britain and France, original suppliers of heavy water and uranium for the large Israeli nuclear arsenal, which they pretend does not exist, demand along with America that Iran abandon programmes it is allowed even by the Non-Proliferation Treaty, under menace of sanctions and war. In Lebanon, the EU and the US prop up a cabinet that would not last a day if a census were called, while German, French and Italian troops provide border guards for Israel. As for Palestine, the EU showed no more hesitation than the US in plunging the population into misery, cutting off all aid when voters elected the wrong government, on the pretext that it must first recognise the Israeli state, as if Israel had ever recognised a Palestinian state, and renounce terrorism (read: any armed resistance to a military occupation that has lasted forty years without Europe lifting a finger against it). Funds now flow again, to protect a remnant valet in the West Bank.
The war on terror knows no frontiers and the crimes committed in its name have stalked freely across the continent, in the full cognisance of its rulers. Originally, the subcontracting of torture – 'rendition', or the handing over of a victim to the attentions of the secret police in client states – was, like so much else, an invention of the Clinton administration, which introduced the practice in the mid-1990s. Asked about it a decade later, the CIA official in charge of the programme, Michael Scheuer, simply said: 'I check my moral qualms at the door.' As one would expect, it was Britain that collaborated with the first renditions, in the company of Croatia and Albania.
Under the Bush administration, the programme expanded. Three weeks after 9/11, Nato declared that Article V of its charter, mandating collective defence in the event of an attack on one of its members, was activated. By then American plans for the descent on Afghanistan were well advanced, but they did not include European participation in Operation Enduring Freedom; the US high command had found the need for consultation in a joint campaign cumbersome in the Balkan War, and did not want to repeat the experience. Instead, at a meeting in Brussels on 4 October 2001, the allies were called on for other services. The specification of these remains secret, but as the second report to the Council of Europe – released in June this year – by the courageous Swiss investigator Dick Marty, has shown, a stepped-up programme of renditions must have been high on the list. Once Afghanistan was taken, Baghram airbase outside Kabul became both interrogation centre for the CIA and loading-bay for prisoners to Guantánamo. The traffic was soon two-way, and its pivot was Europe. In one direction, captives were transported from Afghan or Pakistani dungeons to Europe, either to be held there in secret CIA jails, or shipped onwards to Cuba. In the other direction, captives were flown from secret locations in Europe for requisite treatment in Afghanistan.
Though Nato initiated this system, the abductions it involved were not confined to members of the North Atlantic Council. Europe was eager to help America, whether or not fine print obliged it to do so. North, south, east and west: no part of the continent failed to join in. New Labour's contribution occasions no surprise: with up to 650,000 civilians dead from the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq, it would have been unreasonable for the Straws, Becketts, Milibands to lose any sleep over the torture of the living. More striking is the role of the neutrals. Under Ahern, Ireland furnished Shannon to the CIA for so many westbound flights that locals dubbed it Guantánamo Express. Social-democratic Sweden, under its portly boss Göran Persson, now a corporate lobbyist, handed over two Egyptians seeking asylum to the CIA, who took them straight to torturers in Cairo. Under Berlusconi, Italy helped a large CIA team to kidnap another Egyptian in Milan, who was flown from the US airbase in Aviano, via Ramstein in Germany, for the same treatment in Cairo. Under Prodi, a government of Catholics and ex-Communists has sought to frustrate the judicial investigation of this kidnapping, while presiding over the expansion of Aviano. Switzerland proffered the overflight that took the victim to Ramstein, and protected the head of the CIA gang that seized him from arrest by the Italian judicial authorities – he now basks in Florida.
Further east, Poland did not transmit captives to their fate in the Middle East, but incarcerated them for treatment on the spot, in torture chambers constructed for 'high-value detainees' by the CIA at the Stare Kiejkuty intelligence base, Europe's own Baghram – facilities unknown in the time of Jaruzelski's martial law. In Romania, a military base north of Constanza performed the same services, under the superintendence of the country's current president, the staunchly pro-Western Traian Basescu. In Bosnia, six Algerians were illegally seized at American behest, and flown from Tuzla – beatings in the aircraft en route – to the US base at Incirlik in Turkey, and thence to Guantánamo, where they still crouch in their cages. In Macedonia, scene of Blair's moving encounters with refugees from Kosovo, there was a combination of the two procedures, as a German of Lebanese descent was kidnapped at the border; held, interrogated and beaten by the CIA in Skopje; then drugged and shipped to Kabul for more extended treatment.
….Almost six years in, we seem no closer to pulling ourselves out of this quagmire.' Indeed. Not a single European government has conceded any guilt, while all continue imperturbably to hold forth on human rights. We are in the world of Ibsen – Consul Bernick, Judge Brack and their like – updated for postmoderns. Pillars of society, pimping for torture.
What has been delivered in these practices are not just the hooded or chained bodies, but the deliverers themselves: Europe surrendered to the United States. This rendition is the most taboo of all to mention.
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Great commentary.
It may be interesting to note that the writer of a recent article from GlobalResearch.ca explained that many Arab scholars see the U.S. and Europe as frequent players in a good-cop, bad-cop routine to further their plans for a New Middle East under the ultimate control of Western elites. The author also pointed out that many people living in the Middle East recognize that U.S. politicians also play similar theatrics with neoliberal good-cops opposing the neoconservative bad-cops. It is amazing how clear the view that comes into focus is when observers manage to escape the fog of Western media, esp. American MSM.
As an aside, it is somewhat ironic that European elites worked hard to corrupt American politics beginning in earnest with Morgan's ties to the European banking community. After WWII the situation reversed and American elites were in the driver's seat, but still very closely aligned with Europe's aristocracy.
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DEVILS LAKE, N.D. (AP) — More than 20 anglers on North Dakota's Devils Lake found out recently what happens when they get caught with too many walleyes.
The Forum reports that game wardens for the North Dakota Game and Fish Department seized 136 walleyes on the lake Aug. 23 and Aug. 24 in a targeted enforcement effort.
The wardens issued 29 citations, writing 24 of those tickets to anglers who kept more than their daily limit.
Anglers can keep five walleyes daily on Devils Lake, with a possession limit of 10.
Robert Timian, chief game warden for the Game and Fish Department, says officials had heard complaints that some anglers were double-dipping. That's a practice that involves catching a limit, taking them to shore and then returning to catch and keep more fish.
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Tuscaloosa City Schools will hold open houses at all the system's elementary schools at 6 tonight. Open houses are scheduled at the system's high schools and Oak Hill School at 6 p.m. Thursday.
Tuscaloosa Magnet Middle School will hold its open house at 6 p.m. Sept. 17 and the Magnet Elementary School's open house will be at 6 p.m. Sept. 19.
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Venice council approves SMH site on Laurel Road
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VENICE - The Venice City Council unanimously approved Sarasota Memorial Hospital's request to proceed with a site plan on its 65-acre Laurel Road property. Now, a hearing for the hospital will be set before the city's Planning Commission.
The Planning Commission originally OK'd Sarasota Memorial's site plan for the property in August 2012. Jeff Boone, the attorney for Venice Regional Bayfront Health, filed an appeal two weeks later, according to city Planning and Zoning Department records.
The litigation has been resolved.
Venice Regional's Boone told council members his client had "no objection to the remand under certain conditions."
First, that Venice Regional will have party standing in all further proceedings with the Laurel Road property; second, that Boone will receive a copy of all correspondence to and from Sarasota Memorial about the property; and finally, that the Laurel Road property will be rezoned for a medical campus.
Boone and Sarasota Memorial's lawyer Charles D. Bailey verbally agreed to the terms, although the stipulations were not included in the motion passed by the City Council.
During the meeting, City Council member Jeanette Gates asked Bailey how soon his client envisioned building the proposed medical campus.
"Is this in the works?" Gates asked. "Is it in the budget of Sarasota Memorial Hospital to do something with this property, or are we out there wasting time?"
"There is no definite timeline now," Bailey answered.
Although the Sarasota County Public Hospital Board bought the Laurel Road site for $25 million in 2005, Bailey said other expansion projects had taken precedent while Sarasota Memorial had been in legal gridlock with the property.
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