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BASALT - The boys basketball team just ran out of steam.
After struggling to keep pace against Cedaredge High School on the road Friday evening, head coach Rolf Schildman said his team's effort was impressive but not enough. The Longhorns fought back from a six-point deficit at the half - including being down by more than 10 - to push the game into overtime and eventually lose, 71-65.
"(Cedaredge) had the whole first half, and then we'd cut it back to four or five," Schildman said. "They had the lead for much of the first half.
"We came back and actually took the lead with a few minutes left. It came down to free throws, and we had some guys foul out."
Basalt's offense was led by a scoring flurry from 3-point shooter Bertilio Garcia, who hit eight 3s in the game, carrying the Longhorns offense with 31 total points.
"They were playing a zone, and we moved the ball around, and he had some good looks," Schildman said. "When the first couple went in, you could tell he was feeling it."
Despite Garcia's sharp-shooting, the Longhorns struggled to recover on Cedaredge (4-3) fast breaks.
"That was the story of the whole game, really," Schildman said. "We shot the ball pretty well, and when we got good looks, we hit them, but we had too many turnovers."
Javier Huerta chipped in with 10 points, and Spencer Glasener had eight.
The loss dropped Basalt to 2-4 on the season. The Longhorns host Coal Ridge at 4 p.m. Saturday.
"We got better tonight definitely," Schildman said. "We're right there knocking on the door on winning those road games."
Head coach Tiffany Robison admitted that the Cedaredge defensive press got to her team a little bit Friday evening on the road.
So did early foul trouble for a few of her starters.
Both hurdles contributed to Robison's squad losing 64-52 and dropping to 0-6 on the season.
"We started rough," Robison said. "It was a close start for both teams."
Despite the close start, foul trouble contributed to a 21-9 deficit for the Longhorns after the first quarter, which proved to be too much. Basalt was down 37-24 to the Bruins (4-3) at halftime.
"I thought we matched up with them really well," Robison said of her offense. "We just sometimes got a little bit ahead of ourselves and made some mistakes."
In the second half, the Robison said her offense became more patient, and it produced positive results. Her players found teammates wide open for easy jump shots with Lindsay Corzine leading the way with 22 points.
Corzine scored 13 points from the stripe, missing just three free throws.
Carina Capobianco followed with 12 points. However, the next highest point scorer for Basalt was Cira Mylott with six.
"That's the highest we scored this season so far," Robison said. "We definitely all get better every game, and we play positively and with a lot of heart. They get down, but they never give up. I always try and see the positives in the game even though it was a loss. They feel that they are getting better as well."
The 12-point loss was the Longhorns' fifth double-digit loss of the season. They host Coal Ridge today at 2:30 p.m.


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Calm in south breached as rocket lands in city. Color Red alert fails to sound, IDF said system turned off to avoid false alarms
Ilana Curiel Published: 12.31.09, 21:43 / Israel News
A rocket fired from northern Gaza landed in the southern city of Netivot Thursday night.
No injuries or damage were reported. The Color Red alert did not sound ahead of the launch.
At around 9:25 pm two rocket launchings emanating from the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza were detected, but apparently only one rocket landed, in an open area.
"The siren did not sound, and suddenly we heard two booms. It took us back two years – to the war," one resident told Ynet.
Netivot City Council member Ron Stern told Ynet that reports of a rocket launching were received through the municipality's pagers, but "the rest of the city's residents who do not own pagers were not warned."
IDF sources said that the Color Red alert system in Netivot did not sound because it was turned off.
The system, they added, had been turned off to avoid false alarms. The Color Red system is made active following military intelligence assessments
On Wednesday a mortar shell fired from the Strip exploded in an open area in the Eshkol Regional Council.There were no reports of damage or injuries.
Shortly before the shell was fired, the Shin Bet published data summing up the security situation in 2009, which stated that 566 rockets were fired on Israel in the past year, with most of them being launched in January, during Operation Cast Lead.
According to the Shin Bet this is a significant decline from the 2,048 rockets which were fired at Israel in 2008.
The most recent incident at the Gaza border occurred over the weekend, when three explosive devices were discovered in the spot where three Palestinian terrorists were killed by the IDF.
The last time rockets were fired at the western Negev was on December 16, when two rockets exploded in an open area near Sderot. The rockets were fired as eight soldiers and commanders received honors for their conduct during the Gaza war in Ashkelon
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The injury occurred on Friday during a sparring session.
"I am very disappointed that the fight cannot take place as planned," Klitschko said in a statement Monday. "I am in absolute top form and had a great training camp. Of course, I'm sorry for the fans, but also for my opponent Kubrat Pulev, who was certainly training as intensely as I do."
Dr. Robert Siorpaes diagnosed the injury and recommended that Klitschko stop training for a month.
"He had problems on Friday, and he first thought it's a minor thing, but he went to the hospital near the camp (in Austria), and there they detected this torn muscle," Klitschko's manager, Bernd Boente, told ESPN.com. "He was in top shape and he had perfect sparring partners. He did a long preparation and is sorry to have to postpone the fight."
Boente said the fight will be rescheduled for November and will probably still take place at the O2 World Arena, which was sold out with about 15,000 tickets.
"We hope to reschedule the bout in the same arena in mid-November, probably Nov. 15," Boente said. "But that is something we have to discuss with the arena and RTL (the German television network that has a contract to carry Klitschko's fights). We also have to talk to the IBF because this fight is a mandatory.
"Of course, we are all disappointed, but these things can happen during the preparation."
Klitschko, the 38-year-old Ukrainian, is 62-3 with 53 knockouts. His opponent, Pulev, a 33-year-old from Bulgaria, is 20-0 with 11 KOs.
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Message from the Editors
This special issue of Udaya was prompted by the symposium "Contemporary Art in Cambodia: A Historical Inquiry," which took place at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City on April 21, 2013.[*] While several of the symposium presentations were developed for publication in the present issue, we solicited a number of additional contributions as a means of addressing perceived gaps in the public conversation in New York.
In her closing comments at the MoMA symposium, Jane Debevoise decried the growing international fetishization of "the contemporary." We are acutely aware of how a special volume on the topic could contribute to the market frenzy. We hope however that, to the contrary, the volume will bring to the art and the artists a depth and complexity which defies facile branding. Each contribution is grounded in biographical accounts, historical records, the voices of artists and the realms of encounter produced by their work. The authors have striven to bring in-depth historical and ethnographic research rooted in Cambodia into broader critical frameworks. Nonetheless, if such theoretical apparatuses enable analyses only insofar as they are informed by attention to locality as well as historical and formal specificity, it must also be said that the term and the concept of "the local" struggle to express or delimit the dimensions of artistic formation, material production, and discursive circulation that compose "modern and contemporary Cambodian art." We can only note that always already constituting dispute over origins, the "local" is a construction embedded in political and racial ideologies, market agendas, and paradigms of cultural and psychological salvation across transnational formulations, no matter how necessary and useful it may appear today.
As such, many of the authors in this volume have sought to understand how Cambodian art in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries came to be represented and experienced as "modern," "contemporary," and "art" – and even as "Cambodian." The ever-collapsing distinction between representation and experience, turning on such factors as policy rhetoric, pedagogy, art criticism, and material practices, has engendered apparently paradoxical – in ways productive, and in other ways destructive – relationships between the two poles. Similarly, our contributors pay attention to the tandem between arts and aesthetics, exploring how particular regimes of visuality in present-day Cambodia intersect with contemporary evolution in language use, social and civic awareness, and historical memory, most notably of the Khmer Rouge period. Many of these issues lie at the heart of Ingrid Muan's 2001 dissertation, "Citing Angkor: The 'Cambodian Arts' in the Age of Restoration, 1918-2000," which laid the groundwork for subsequent research into the intersecting impacts of systems of pedagogy and the politico-historical dimensions of artistic subjectivity in twentieth-century Cambodia, and which serves as a pivotal reference for many contributors to the present volume. [**]
Adding to Muan's discussion of Cambodian modern art and educational systems, Gabrielle Abbe tracks the paths through which colonial administrator George Groslier established modern institutions to intentionally cultivate non-modern artistic subjectivities. In a study of a recent exhibition of Groslier's photographic project to document classical Cambodian dance postures on the verge, it appeared, of disappearance, Hélène Suppya Nut provides broader context for an ongoing discourse of cultural decline by detailing the colonial administrative policies that effectively undermined the perseverance of royal dance traditions. Pamela N. Corey's piece on the "first" Cambodian contemporary artist considers systems of value constructed across transnational fields of language and artistic production in which several artists are brought to sport the title "first." At the same time, gaps between representation (as language) and experience (as enactment) engender creative possibilities in the face of what Rey Chow has termed "cultural translation."[***] This is further demonstrated by Roger Nelson's consideration of how "performance" as a loan term has produced meaningful engagements across new media practices, theater, and dance.
"History" serves as a point of departure for other essays. Joanna Wolfarth critically examines the visual historiography and historicity of Sihanouk, as his portrait came to be embodied in the still, moving, and virtual image, the persistence of his presence revealing shifts in popular and civic consciousness. Historicity also drives the photographic and performative practices of artists Vandy Rattana and Svay Sareth, as shown in their conversation with Leeza Ahmady. Historical narratives inevitably map centers and peripheries; they are spatial orientations as much as they are temporally-based accounts. While recent consolidation of discursive and curatorial frameworks have tended to site Phnom Penh as the epicenter of modern and contemporary artistic development, the contributions by Véronique Decrop and the "founders" of Phare Ponleu Selpak in Battambang literally challenge the draw of the capital. Vuth Lyno recounts another spatial story, that of an engagement between artists and community, prompted by what was perceived as a need to assert local Cambodian voices against the expatriate-dominated commercial artistic landscape of Phnom Penh. Through this account and others, the specter of "authority" – whether governmental, market, curatorial or academic – operates in fluid ways with and against the establishment of institutions, collectives, and commercial spaces, prompting both interventions and collaborations.
The multilingual nature of Udaya has brought certain dimensions of the issues mentioned above to the fore in the editorial process, for many of the "Khmer" words or phrases currently used in the contemporary arts community are awkward neologisms created as direct translations of English or French terms. We read for example of a collective project led by two artists from the Cambodian diaspora entitled "Cakkhu Silpaḥ Samăy,"[****] literally "eye art historical period," an incomprehensible phrase in Khmer without prior knowledge of its origins in the English "Contemporary Visual Arts." The creation of the phrase reflects the goal of the project, to introduce new artistic practices into Cambodian communities; it also reflects a turbulent state of affairs with regards to language. The effective policy of Reyum, a precursor to the "Cakkhu Silpaḥ Samăy" project in supporting contemporary art production in the capital, was to discreetly mark the issue of linguistic – and perhaps conceptual – disjunction at work in their work by producing bilingual exhibition titles and materials in which Khmer and English texts had little pretension to directly mirror each other. Another dimension of these issues is evidenced in the usage of the term sahasamăy within the Cambodian arts community represented in this volume. The term is constructed from two Pali words, saha, a translation of the English prefix "co-" or "con-," and samăy, meaning "time period," "era." As a compound noun the word translates the English "contemporary." The term rubs the wrong way on two counts: though more easily accesible than "Cakkhu Silpaḥ," it is contrived and incomprehensible outside of select arts contexts; secondly, many in the arts community think it to derive from the Sanskrit for "one thousand" (sahasra), and so to designate art after the millenium… We wonder why the more colloquial term "silpaḥ paccupunn" is not used. Paccupunn is the Pali term for "contemporary" commonly used in Khmer. We have used "silpaḥ paccupunn" when translating from English or French ourselves into Khmer in the present volume. For "Visual Arts" we have opted for the relatively accessible neologism das(n)silpaḥ, combining das(n), a Pali word regularly used in Khmer in words associated with visuality (dūrdass(n), "television;" dassanavidyā, "philosophy," as in "insight"; etc.) and silpaḥ, a Sanskrit term for "art." This marks a distinction from usage of the term sūn rūp," combining Khmer sūn, "to shape," with Sanskrit/Pali rūp, "form, body, image," a phrase which has traditionally translated the French "Arts Plastiques" and which emphasizes sculptural dimensions of the broader English "Visual Arts." For "Applied Arts," and for want of a simpler option, we have reluctantly accepted the awkward literal translation silpaḥ anuvatt used by Phare interviewee Srey Bandol and adopted by the institution he represents. In their unwieldiness in the Khmer tongue the neologisms peppering this volume attest to struggles defining the field, as artists and institutions seek to adopt or subvert, at times by appropriating, hegemonic Western forms and powers. Insofar as one of Udaya's priorities has always been to cultivate simple yet elegant Khmer language usage, drawing from the resources of traditional usage whenever possible, this incursion of ill-fitting terminology has been a challenge to handle. The volume remains patchy, as we have, more or less, left our contributors to use the language they see fit.
This volume also introduces a related twist into Udaya's "Translation" rubric. Since its foundation in 2000 Udaya has striven to include a Khmer-language translation of a seminal foreign-language article in the field of Khmer Studies. Given the steady rise of Udaya's sister journal, Khmerenaissance, a quarterly Khmer-language journal founded in 2005 and comprising short essays on aspects of Cambodian cultural practice, we have decided, here, to inverse the knowledge transfer flow. This issue includes, thus, English-language translations of three Khmerennaissance essays which all evince concern for highly localized aesthetics. The types of materials and practices they document are crucial to "modern and contemporary Cambodian art" even as, and even because, they sit outside of the global networks in which the said "art" evolves. These are by Chea Narin on the fabrication of palm leaf screens in Trapeang Po village, Kandal province; by Chea Socheat on a type of rice granary characteristic of the Tonle Toch region; and by Ang Choulean on a rice threshing apparatus used in Kompong Trach district of Kampot province.
Pamela N. Corey, Guest co-editor, and Ashley Thompson
[*] The symposium was convened by Cornell University in collaboration with the Season of Cambodia Visual Arts Program, and major support from the Center of Khmer Studies. The co-organizers were Pamela N. Corey, Erin Gleeson, and Leeza Ahmady. Further details on the program and its content can be found in Pamela N. Corey, "Situating Contemporary Art in Cambodia," Cornell University Southeast Asia Program Bulletin (Spring 2014), 23-26. Video footage of selected presentations are available for viewing at Asia Art Archive, http://www.aaa.org.hk/Collection/CollectionOnline.
[**] Ingrid Muan, "Citing Angkor: the 'Cambodian Arts' in the Age of Restoration, 1918-2000," Ph.D. Diss., Columbia University, 2001. See also the special issue of Udaya, Journal of Khmer Studies 6 (2005) dedicated to Muan, featuring four of her unpublished conference presentations.
[***] See Rey Chow, Primitive Passions: Visuality, Sexuality, Ethnography, and Contemporary Chinese Cinema (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995).
[****] Linda Saphan and Sopheap Pich, the organizers of the Visual Arts Open, used the transliteration "Chakok Selapak Samai."


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Padres pitching stymies Mets, 4-2
NEW YORK Rather stunningly, Henry Blanco hit a resounding, two-run homer off former teammate Mat Latos with two outs in the second inning in the first game of today's doubleheader at Citi Field.
More stunningly, the New York Mets didn't reach base the rest of the game.
Having allowed just two hits, Latos retired 13 straight, then got perfect relief innings from Luke Gregerson, Mike Adams and closer Heath Bell for a 4-2 Padres win, beating left-handed ace Johan Santana in the process. The Padres sent another right-hander, Jon Garland, against another lefty in Jonathon Niese in the second game, which began at 4:10 p.m. PDT.
"Those are back-to-back starts against (Philadelphia ace Roy) Halladay and Santana, where you know they're going to be good, well-pitched jobs, and he did his job," Padres manager Bud Black said of Latos. "Once Henry hit the home run, I think his mind-set sort of changed and he began throwing aggressively. "Then he was in the zone with his good stuff."
The Padres' first feat was scoring a run on Santana, who'd blanked foes over a stretch of 18 2/3 innings before loading the bases with no outs in the in the fourth on Adrian Gonzalez's second of three singles and walks to Scott Hairston and Nick Hundley. Jerry Hairston Jr. followed with a sacrifice fly to center, but that one run was all San Diego got out of the golden opportunity.
Just as Latos had been, the Mets were victimized by a leadoff walk, this one to Tony Gwynn Jr. in the fifth. With one out, David Eckstein's double brought Gwynn around for the tying run, then Gonzalez pushed the Padres ahead with his single over second baseman Alex Cora.
Meantime, Latos (6-4) retired 13 consecutive Mets after the Blanco homer, six of them on strikeouts. Still, with his pitch count at 99 in the top of the seventh, he was pulled from the batting order with no out and Gwynn on first base. Pinch hitter Lance Zawadzki grounded into the Padres' third double play, but Eckstein drew a walk and scored on Santana's farewell pitch, an opposite-field double by Chase Headley over right fielder Jeff Francoeur's head.
The Padres weren't doing the Mets any favors by sitting Latos. Gregerson came on for the seventh and, for the second straight outing, struck out the side. Thus, Gregerson extended his streak to an even 100 consecutive batters faced without a walk.
"Sure, but I thought our bullpen was rested and there are times when I like to give a reliever a clean inning," Black said when asked if he considered using Latos for another inning. "I think Mat was running out of pitches. When it's real borderline and you have a fresh 'pen, and the way our relievers have been throwing, I think that's the way to go."
Latos ran into an old acquaintance in the second inning. In three of his rookie starts last year, Latos' catcher was Blanco, and they didn't exactly prove to be a magical combination. To the contrary, with Blanco behind the plate, Latos compiled only 11 innings and a 13.09 ERA while opponents batted .380 and hit for an OPS of .995.
For a while today, too, it was like they were playing pitch and catch again. Latos and Blanco parried on nine deliveries before Blanco launched the 10th over the left-field wall, also scoring David Wright, who had walked.
"It's still stuck with me right now," said Latos of the homer. "Hank's a great guy, and if anybody over there is going to do that against me, I'd rather it be him. But I threw him a couple of sliders he should've swung at. After the homer I told him that. He just looked at me and said, 'I love you, Matty.' "


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What do we want most to dwell near to? Not to many men surely, the depot, the post-office, the bar-room, the meeting-house, the school-house, the grocery, Beacon Hill, or the Five Points, where men most congregate, but to the perennial source of our life (Solitude.5)
This statement gives us a sense of what the main centers of town life were like in the 19th century, including the railroad depot, and such notable urban areas as Beacon Hill in Boston and Five Points in New York City. What would this list look like if it were written today? Starbucks would definitely be on there, that's for sure.
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[R]unaway slaves with plantation manners, who listened from time to time, like the fox in the fable, as if they heard the hounds a-baying on their track, and looked at me beseechingly (Visitors.16)
Thoreau describes the runaway slaves in Concord sympathetically. He truly feels for them. What's more, he put this sympathy into action, by protesting the law that dictated that any slaves caught in the North had to be returned to their owners in the South.
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As I drew a still fresher soil about the rows with my hoe, I disturbed the ashes of unchronicled nations who in primeval years lived under these heavens (Bean-Field.6)
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Kevin Costner, 55, became a father for the seventh time when his wife, Christine, 36, gave birth to the couple's first daughter, Grace, on June 2 in Los Angeles. The baby girl joins big brothers Cayden, 3, and Hayes, 16 months. Costner has four older children from previous relationships.
January Jones, 32, was involved in a car crash June 10 in Los Angeles but was uninjured and will not face any charges. Jones told police she was being trailed by photographers when she lost control of her Range Rover and struck three parked cars. Leaving her license in the vehicle, she walked to her nearby home, called 911 and returned to the scene of the accident. The actress, who plays Betty Draper on Mad Men, was not cited or arrested, but her car was impounded as an investigation was launched. Police said no drugs or alcohol were involved.
Catherine Zeta-Jones, 40, was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II on June 12 in London, the day before winning the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical. The Welsh-born wife of actor Michael Douglas was a tap-dancing champ and TV performer in England and went on to win the Oscar in 2003 for Chicago. She is a patron of the Children's Hospital for Wales and was cited for her service to the film industry and to charity.
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"Will you go with my friend? He's over there."
As if I didn't know! I had been doing nothing but giggling nervously with my friends over him since we arrived in the teenage disco. I had loved him for so long. Well three months anyway. Which is forever when you're eleven.
Nervous giggle: "Ok"
And that was it. We were a couple! During the opening strains of "You're Once, Twice, Three Times a Lady" when the DJ announced "Now we're slowing things down", the same friend made another approach. "Will you have a slow set with him?"
"Ok" I giggled nervously and we shuffled selfconsiously around for a couple more corny tracks.
We didn't see one another again until the end of the disco when he appeared at my shoulder. "I'll be round the back of the supermarket with my mates on Wednesday if you, eh want to come."
I was so in love! On Wednesday I collected my posse of a dozen strong and we swarmed round the back of the supermarket over excitedly chatting and eyeing up his collection of friends (all of whom were smaller than us). More love matches were made and we all returned home deliriously happy.
The next week he broke it off with me. One of his friends cycled up to me, gave me the news and cycled off.
I don't think we'd ever spoken to each other directly. Ah, young love eh?
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Lawrence Bender on 'Countdown to Zero'
The documentary "Countdown to Zero," recently released on DVD and Blu-ray, is a stark look at the issue of nuclear proliferation and the consequences of what would happen if a nuclear device was launched in today's political climate. Written and directed by Lucy Walker ("Waste Land"), the film features the opinions of former President Jimmy Carter, Mikhail Gorbachev, Pervez Musharraf and Tony Blair, and was produced by Lawrence Bender, who when not making socially-conscious documentaries like "Countdown" and 2006′s "An Inconvenient Truth," is producing action films with Quentin Tarantino.
Bender recently took some time off from shooting "Safe," an action film starring Jason Statham, to speak to us about "Countdown to Zero."
The Wall Street Journal: You're currently producing an action film with Jason Statham while promoting "Countdown," a serious documentary about nuclear proliferation. How do you balance what projects you choose to take on?
Lawrence Bender: It's pretty funny because I just came from a meeting with 30 stunt guys about staging a massive fight in hotel. How do I balance talking about fights and nuclear proliferation? Here's the thing: I love both. Making movies is my profession. I like doing it a lot. But it's been ingrained in me, from my parents and others, this idea of making a difference in the world. I had one of those light bulb "a ha" moments while screening "Good Will Hunting" in Camp David in 1998 — Madeleine Albright and the Clintons were there, and I just became really inspired by all of these amazing people. I left the screening asking myself what I could do. I started hosting fundraisers at my house for various charitable organizations and politicians, things of that nature.
When I saw Al Gore do his slide show on global warming, that's when I had my nutty idea that this could be a movie and that's when it became clear to me that I could use my profession to make a change, in a way that's unique to me. When you came out of that slide show, everyone wanted to know what they could do. As a filmmaker, I realized I could make a movie about it. That was such a high moment of my life — not just making the movie, but also working with Al and doing a socially conscious project.
With all the issues facing the world today, how do you decide which causes to take up on your documentaries.
After "An Inconvenient Truth" came out, a lot of people came to me with their causes, and there are a lot — water, poverty, and so many many more. What is said to myself was, 'What can I do with my limited time that makes the biggest impact and takes on the biggest issues?'. That's when Matt Brown called and it hit me. If I can move the dial a millimeter on this issue [of nuclear proliferation], these are the issues that are catastrophic and can destroy lives. And documentaries are so hard to make — they take a lot of time and are very intense, so you do what you can in terms of balance.
A number of high-ranking officials and world leaders sat down for you and Lucy. Was Pervez Musharraf the hardest to reach?
He was certainly one of the hardest to lock down, because he was in Pakistan. It's not that hard to get into Pakistan, but to get into Pakistan to talk to him was difficult. It's a crazy story — we were never doing undercover work; our lives weren't in danger. But in this case, I was leaving to talk to Quentin Tarantino about "Inglourious Basterds" when finally, through a friend, we heard we were able to get our visas cleared to go to Abu Dhabi. I asked him if he was cool if met him in 36 hours because I was going to Islamabad, he said fine, and at midnight, I was about to board this flight with Lucy and our cinematographer and our line producer when I get this phone call that we're not getting our visa approved. And the craziest part was that there are two hotels you can stay at in Islamabad, one being the Marriott, which is the most fortified and where most Westerners stay. But our Pakistani 'fixer' told us to switch hotels, and later on, the hotel was blown up. We ended up getting Musharraf, but it was in London.
The documentary was developed, financed and executive produced by Participant Media, which was founded by Jeff Skoll. What is your working relationship with him like?
Jeff is an extraordinary man — we hang out socially and work together professionally. But his secret weapon is actually Diane Weyermann, runs the doc division at Participant. She really oversees the entire process and was my real partner in all of this.
How long will Global Zero, the social action campaign tied to "Countdown to Zero", remain active?
This is something that's going to go on for quite some time. The movie is part of the campaign, and the campaign is not advocacy for the movie. The movement has had some amazing moments — we've screened the movie at CIA headquarters and met with Director Leon Panetta; we screened at the UN with Ban Ki-moon; we've also screened in places like Mumbai and Delhi and in Kazakhstan.
Are you still looking into doing a documentary with Louis Psihoyos, the director of "The Cove"?
We're talking abou it and I'm very interested in it. He's obviously very talented. But to be honest, I need to take a moment away from documentaries. It's such a long, hard process, I need some breathing room before I start up again.


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April 18, 2007
EPA Establishes Rules for the National Renewable Fuel Standard
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established the nation's first comprehensive Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program on April 10th. The RFS was mandated by the Energy Policy Act of 2005, and requires that by 2012, the equivalent of at least 7.5 billion gallons of renewable fuel be blended into motor vehicle fuel sold in the United States. The RFS program is based on a credit trading system that provides a flexible means for industry to comply with the annual standard by allowing renewable fuels to be used where they are most economical, and it also allows the use of various renewable fuels to meet the minimum requirements. By 2012, the program is estimated to cut petroleum use by up to 3.9 billion gallons and cut annual greenhouse gas emissions by up to 13.1 million metric tons, the equivalent of removing 2.3 million cars from the road.
The RFS program requires major refiners, blenders, and importers in the contiguous United States to use a minimum volume of renewable fuel each year between 2007 and 2012. The minimum level is determined as a percentage of the total volume of fuel a company produces or imports and will increase every year. For 2007, 4.02 percent of all the fuel sold or dispensed to U.S. motorists will have to come from renewable sources, equal to roughly 4.7 billion gallons of renewable fuels. That amount was already exceeded in 2006, when the ethanol fuel industry produced 4.86 billion gallons of ethanol, and new and expanded plants now under construction are expected to push the annual production of ethanol well above the RFS requirement. However, the RFS program will guarantee a minimum market for renewable fuels in the event of an industry downturn, and it was welcomed by the Renewable Fuels Association (RFA). See the DOE press release, the EPA rules, and the RFA press releases on the RFS and on the industry's ethanol production in 2006.
The EPA gave the ethanol fuel industry an additional boost last week, when it set emissions rules for the ethanol fuel plants equal to those for facilities producing ethanol for consumption. The final rule also will no longer require facilities that use carbohydrate feedstocks in producing ethanol to count fugitive emissions of regulated pollutants when determining if they meet or exceed their emissions limits. Fugitive emissions are emissions that do not come from process stacks or vents. This change may allow some plants to expand production. The rule will also allow new ethanol facilities to emit up to 250 tons of regulated pollutants per year in areas that are not known to be exceeding EPA's air quality standards and that are not in an Ozone Transport Region, a region where ground-level ozone is a pervasive problem. See the EPA press release, the EPA summary of the changes, and the full 118-page final rule (PDF 221 KB). Download Adobe Reader.


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Definition of clivia in English:
A southern African plant of the lily family, with dark green strap-like leaves and trumpet-shaped orange, red, or yellow flowers. Also called Kaffir lily.
- Genus Clivia, family Liliaceae (or Amaryllidaceae).
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- The base of the trees are planted with clivias, cannas, wild rhubarb, agapanthus, shrimp plants.
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With the recent discovery of the Higgs boson, particle physicists have completed the Standard Model, a towering accomplishment. But we know that the Standard Model can't be the whole story -- there must be other particles still waiting to be discovered. New particles can hide from us in two ways: they cost a lot of energy to produce, or they interact very rarely with ordinary matter. Physicists are pushing forward on both frontiers in order to construct a more complete picture of reality. Future experiments will discover new particles and interactions that will help explain dark matter, dark energy, and the underlying symmetries of the natural world.
Biography (courtesy of preposterousuniverse.com)-
Dr. Carroll has written a popular-level book on cosmology and the arrow of time: From Eternity to Here: The Quest for the Ultimate Theory of Time. He also wrote a graduate textbook, Spacetime and Geometry: An Introduction to General Relativity, and recorded lectures for the Teaching Company on Dark Matter and Dark Energy and the Mysteries of Time. He began blogging back in 2004, and keeps it up to this day.
His latest book, which came out in November 2012, is The Particle at the End of the Universe: How the Higgs Boson Leads us to the Edge of a New World. It's about the Large Hadron Collider, the search for the Higgs Boson, and the people who made it happen. Dr. Carroll is also at work on a special for PBS's NOVA on the same topic, scheduled to air in 2013.
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My husband and I have seen craft over the years in the Long Beach Island section of Ocean County. Some have been videotaped by others and featured on the news. But this most recent sighting occurred around mid-June, just a few weeks ago. It was twilight, and we were driving home along the main boulevard. He spotted it first- we could see it at the end of the street leading to the beach. We drove up the street and parked to observe. The craft was sort of rectangular, but more like an upside-down pie plate, except very thick. There were a series of white/pale yellow round lights all along the mid-section from nose to tail. I don't know if the lights were on the other side, but I assume they went around the craft. It was just before the summer season began- most of the houses (oceanfront and beach block) were empty and dark. This made the night sky even more brilliant because there were no street lights, lights from homes, cars, etc. There are no shops or businesses along the beach- there is no boardwalk. Just beach and homes. We observed it for quite a while- it made a silent horizontal path, from south to north, then declined nose down at an angle near the shoreline. I wanted to get out of the car- but I had recent surgery and was walking with a cane and felt unsteady on the sand. Had I been able to, I'd have flagged them down if I could! I would have gotten on board that craft SO fast! Eventually my husband wanted to drive home- it was just a mile away. I don't think he wanted to risk an encounter- had they seen us watching them. The craft was close- I'd say we were about 30 feet away. This isn't my first encounter. I was 15 when that happened- oddly- also near the beach, but a different city. A friend and I were "chased" by a craft that hovered at the height of the treetops on a clear night in the summer of 1964. It was shrouded by a cloud cover and the noise we heard was like nothing I had ever heard - to this day. Like a thousand bells/gears turning at once, each having their own individual sound. We got away- we think. (my husband still thinks they got me an implanted something that programs me to make his life hell...) But I don't have any marks, scars, or missing time from that event, so I'm pretty sure we got away. We talk about it every once in a while- just to be sure we remember it correctly.
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This Guy Has Been Playing Guitar For 23 Hours
Guitarist David Didonato is currently attempting to set a new world record. If he makes it past 24 hours and 18 minutes, he will officially have played the longest guitar solo ever.
Since David took the stage around 7 PM yesterday evening that means he's about to break the record very, very soon.
And when he's done, David is going to get the longest blow job ever from a groupie that doesn't realize he's asleep.
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Full-service training facility. We welcome visitors to our farm to see beautiful Arabian horses, take lessons, or just visit. Call or go to our website for more information and check us out on Facebook.
Established in 1957 - public hunting, plus memberships for pheasant, quail, wild turkey, doves and deer in season. Hunter Safety Course for ages 16 & under - held the second weekend in October.
68 full hookup sites, of which 32 are pull-thru. All are 20 & 30 amp. Hookup (50 amp available), pay phones, full laundry.
CITY:Rock Falls
Prophetstown State Recreation Area
Boat ramp, shower facilities, picnic grounds and RV dump station. Playground equipment.
Rock River Valley Skydivers, Inc.
Student training. Tandem & sport/fun jumping. Demonstration jumping for events. USPA group member drop zone. Two Cessna C182 jump planes, visitors welcomed. Located at the Whiteside County Airport.
CITY:Rock Falls
Boat ramps into Lake Sinnissippi area of Rock River. Picnic tables, scenic river view, adjacent to Hennepin Canal State Park.
CITY:Rock Falls
Green River State Wildlife Area
Green River is the best remaining example of the wetland-prairie mosaic that once covered the area's nearly 1 million acres of lowlands. This multiple-use site provides hunting, hiking, and birding opportunities.
Located west of Sterling & Rock Falls on Rt. 30 & 2.
This beautiful 18-hole course with large, smooth greens and rolling hills is open to the public, and offers a pro shop and restaurant.
Surrounded by a ridge covered with thousands of pine trees, Sandy Pine has some of the largest and top-ranked elk bulls in the Midwest. Take a tour through the pasture and snap some photos.
CITY:Deer Grove
Emerald Hill Golf Course is a pleasure for golfers of any skill level. The course will challenge you while providing a relaxing, picturesque backdrop. Test your accuracy with our fairways, water hazards and sand traps; we have everything you need to challenge you and improve your game. Our goal is to provide you with a quality experience that includes exceptional service and a comfortable atmosphere.
Located just 10 miles south of Rock Falls, Deer Valley is a challenging 18-hole championship golf course.
CITY:Deer Grove
Green River Oaks Camping Resort
Camping resort with two pools, basketball courts, fishing in lake and river, rental trailers, 225 sites with hookups.
Mautino State Fish and Wildlife Area
Encompasses 871 acres of mostly unreclaimed strip-mining land. The area is dotted with some 15 stocked lakes for fishing. Be aware that shore access is limited and that shorelines tend to drop off suddenly into deep water.
Rock River Valley Self Help Enterprises Happy Trails
Five acres of walking paths, water gardens, a green house, swings, and gardens were all designed and maintained by the developmentally disabled clients of the Rock River Valley Self Help Enterprises.
The Hennepin Feeder Canal Trail located just south of Rock Falls is where you will pick up this medium to difficult trail. Cyclists, hikers and anglers come to enjoy the stocked waters, the peaceful wooded banks and the abundance of bird life. As the trail heads south toward the rural countryside the path frees itself from the throngs of people allowing you to enjoy the serene environment all to yourself.
More than a campground, hit a ball, take a lesson, catch a fish or hayrack ride, swim, dance, hike row/paddle a boat, play basketball, horseshoes, video games and pool or kickback with a campfire. We have 130 acres to do it all.
The Hennepin Canal Parkway follows an old towpath that was actually never used, although the locks and aqueducts are in still in place. It was originally built to link the Illinois and Mississippi rivers. The 105-mile path is level and easy; however, water is scarce along the way (found only at locks 21, 22 and the Visitor Center), so be sure to bring plenty, especially during hot days. The landscape varies from forest to grasslands to marsh to farmland, and the trail is particularly pleasing during fall, when the leaves are changing colors. The Hennepin Canal Parkway has become a cyclist's paradise and an exceptional spot for fishing, birding, horseback riding and a wealth of outdoor recreation.
Timbered, 1150-acre state park with 77-acre lake stocked with a variety of fish. Class A, 92-site campground with shower building and all sites with electricity. Separate equestrian campground.
On 40 acres of pine trees, the camp welcomes trailers, RVs and more.
Featuring 240 acres, Nature Center, parking, boat launches and Rock River access, fishing, hiking, nature preserve, cross-country skiing, shelters, grills, playground equipment, and more. Ronald Reagan saved 77 lives here as a lifeguard during his boyhood years.
Offers boat access to the Rock River, with a 50-ft. renovated boat launch. During the summer season, offers boat gas, concessions, paddleboat/rowboat/canoe rentals as well as 2 large shelters for family reunions and parties,
Built in 1966, this semi-private, 18-hole golf course is situated on extremely hilly terrain, and features a putting green and chipping area. A fabulous choice for quality golf and excellent dining.
Big Bend State Fish and Wildlife Area
1,188 acres of natural beauty. Fishing on Rock River and hunting.


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The Return is near. Derrick Rose, Chicago Bulls superstar, could be returning to the court soon. Generally, the final stage in any rehabilitation program in the NBA is the full contact practice phase. Rose could be nearing that point, and if he does get cleared for full contact practice, a return to game action won't be far off.
According to Aggrey Sam of CSN Chicago, Rose could participate in full contact practice as early as this week. Coach Tom Thibodeau said that Rose was close.
"[Rose is] very close. That [full-contact practices] will be the next step," Thibodeau said with a wry smirk on his face. "It could [happen this week].
All along, the rumors have been that Rose would make a return to the court in February. The team and Rose never commented specifically on when they thought he would be back, but his rehab has remained on schedule, he has not hit any setbacks, and February marks the approximate time in which a player would come back from the type of injury Rose suffered.
When Rose makes his return, the rest of the Eastern Conference will need to be on alert. The Bulls could easily make a sudden run with Rose running the point again. The team is currently in fifth place in the Eastern Conference standings.
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New Reports Show Skyrocketing Costs of Birth, Reality of Maternity Care Liability Claims
Contact: Barbra Elenbaas
SILVER SPRING, MD – Maternal and newborn care represent the most common reason for admittance to hospitals in the United States, and 2 reports released this week from Childbirth Connection identify 2 persistent problems negatively affecting the current US maternity care system: medical liability and the rising cost of birth.
The Cost of Having a Baby in the United States addresses the rapidly-increasing price tag weighing down a maternity care system in which cesarean births occur at more than double the World Health Organization's recommended rate. Decreasing the rate of more expensive cesarean births from the current 33% of all births to the recommended 15% alone would cut national spending on maternity care by $5 billion. Significant variation in costs between states and regions for cesarean and vaginal births indicates that there may be more opportunities for savings. The report found that regardless of type of birth, the largest share of all costs associated with combined maternal-newborn health care go to hospital or other facility expenses, and that total maternal and newborn care costs are highly concentrated in the hospital stay for children.
The second report, Maternity Care and Liability: Pressing Problems, Substantive Solutions, takes the first comprehensive look at medical liability in maternity care in 25 years, and finds that widely held beliefs about the areas of dysfunction in care and about most promising solutions are not supported by new research. The report holds several surprising findings, including that costs of liability premiums are a comparatively small, declining portion of clinician practice expenses and defensive practices motivated by fear of liability occur at only a modest rate in maternity care. Traditional liability system reforms, aimed, for example, at reducing liability premiums, have failed to prioritize the needs of childbearing women and newborns. About three-quarters of paid maternity-related claims have consistently been found to result from substandard care, and mothers may experience negligence in care at several times the rate that newborns do, according to the report. The highest-rated prevention strategy, according to Maureen Corry, MPH, report co-author and Executive Director of Childbirth Connection, is rigorous quality improvement programs for care providers, which have been shown to lead to better care and maternal-newborn health and reduced liability claims, payouts, and premiums.
The necessary changes to the maternity care system in the United States implied by the reports would create a need for providers that certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) and certified midwives (CMs) are poised to fill. The tough issues raised in the reports could be addressed by an increase in high-quality care from healthcare providers with low rates of intervention – a hallmark of the midwifery model of evidence-based care. "We have a real opportunity to improve the wellbeing of mothers and babies in the United States while lowering cost burdens," said ACNM President Holly Powell Kennedy, "and we can do it by following the evidence." ACNM looks forward to engaging with policymakers on strategies to implement the recommendations in these two important reports.
For more information, contact Barbra Elenbaas, ACNM Communications Assistant, at (240) 485-1822 or via e-mail at [email protected].
About the American College of Nurse-Midwives
The American College of Nurse-Midwives (ACNM) is the professional association that represents certified nurse-midwives (CNMs) and certified midwives (CMs) in the United States. With roots dating to 1929, ACNM sets the standard for excellence in midwifery education and practice in the United States and strengthens the capacity of midwives in developing countries. Our members are primary care providers for women throughout the lifespan, with a special emphasis on pregnancy, childbirth, and gynecologic and reproductive health. ACNM reviews research, administers and promotes continuing education programs, and works with organizations, state and federal agencies, and members of Congress to advance the well-being of women and infants through the practice of midwifery.


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Events for August 2016
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I had problems last year with my left knee but now it was my right knee. I did a 14 mile run Wednesday in Atlanta and my IT Band went crazy. The 5.5 mile Ex2 trail race Sunday was more than it could take. After 3.5 miles of running the technical hills at Hemlock Overlook park was too much. I was reduced to a walk and finished at the back of the pack. One comforting thing as all the runners were passing me, almost everyone asked if I was okay or needed anything. One lady offered to carry me if I needed it.
I had been so busy working on the left IT, I never did much with the right side. The folks at Potomac River Running had sent me up with a form roll and The Stick last time. I broke them out after the race and got to work stretching the bad IT Band. Marcus sent me this great YouTube link showing how to work on it. Ex2Adventure Race #2 Results:
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Punchcut (http://www.punchcut.com) has an immediate need for a mid-to-
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- Perform heuristic audits
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Punchcut is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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Mississippi State fans from all over flocked to Starkville where its football team hosted "Fan Day" in the Palmeiro Center, the school's indoor practice facility.
Fans waited in long lines to get photos taken with coaches, players (such as Meridian's own Tyler Russell), Bully the bulldog mascot, and of course, the Golden Egg trophy. The event also marked the one-thousandth consecutive day the trophy has resided in Starkville. There it will remain until the two teams meet in the 2012 edition of the Egg Bowl on November 24th.
One of the coaches on hand to meet and greet with Bulldog faithful was new Wide Receivers coach Tim Brewster. Brewster, who's previous stops include the Universities of North Carolina, Texas, Minnesota and The San Diego Chargers, replaced Angelo Mirando, who resigned earlier this week in light of NCAA investigations of the recruitment of freshman defensive back Will Redmond.


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LIBERTY — Ideal Snacks is seeking millions more in sales and property tax breaks from Sullivan County's Industrial Development Agency for a warehouse project.
The Liberty company plans to build a 65,000-square-foot warehouse on the site of a former bowling alley near its plant on Mill Street, according to its October application to the IDA.
Ideal Snacks purchased the bowling alley for $715,235 and will spend $2.6 million building and equipping the warehouse, the application says.
The company already receives tax breaks through the IDA. This would be another 20-year PILOT agreement to piggyback on the original agreement.
Consultant Tom Shepstone of Shepstone Management Co. estimated in a cost benefit analysis that the agreement will save the company $2.3 million in property tax through 2032, and $221,268 in state and county sales tax associated with initial construction costs.
Ideal Snacks estimated that its sales tax abatement would total just $156,431. Shepstone's higher sales tax abatement estimate included an evaluation of a second, 41,000-square-foot warehouse.
The company plans to hire 50 additional workers.
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Policies 1
- Job Responsibility Statement
- Philosophy
- Federal Work Study
- Supervisors
- University Property
- Substance Abuse
- Weapons/Firearms
- Sexual Harassment
- Equal Opportunity Employment
Being Hired
General Definitions
This is the statement found on the Student Employment Authorization form that you will sign when you are hired for a job on campus.
"I understand that my student employment is a responsibility for which I am being paid. Therefore, I am expected to confirm my work schedule with my supervisor and report to my job at the times assigned unless I am ill or have an emergency. If I am unable to work, it is my responsibility to arrange time off in advance with my supervisor. I understand that I cannot begin working or training until I have provided proof of my eligibility to work in the U.S. as specified in the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.
"I understand that my eligibility for student employment at Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) is contingent on my being currently enrolled in PLNU classes. When I graduate or withdraw from PLNU I must immediately resign from all on-campus student employment. In order to obtain summer student employment, I must be attending class Spring semester and be pre-registered for Fall semester or enrolled in summer school classes if not taking a Fall class.
"I understand that I may not work at PLNU as a student for more than 40 hours per week. If I have more than one on-campus job, I am responsible for accurately recording my work hours to ensure that I do not exceed 40 hours per week. I understand that for every 4 consecutive hours worked, I will receive a 15-minute break. Also, California State law requires that employees working over six hours in a day must take a half hour break after each five hours of work. This break must be shown on the time card."
Philosophy of Student Employment
The Student Employment Office has been established to service you, the student, in furthering your career and educational goals. We believe that work provides you with educational experiences, opportunities for personal growth, career development and skills training. We also believe that work enhances the total educational program through the learning of responsibilities, attitudes, and processes associated with employment. We are dedicated to encouraging the establishment of a lifestyle of doing and thinking, of action and reflection and of service and learning. The Student Employment Office is a referral service to the students and San Diego community. We do not screen or interview employees or employers.
First, the term "Work Study" should not be confused to mean that you are paid to study, or that you may study while on a job. Nor is Federal Work Study (FWS) like a grant or loan where you receive the money in lump sums. It essentially is like a regular job where you work, then get paid for the hours that you worked in that pay period. Pay periods at PLNU are 2 weeks.
You should use the amount of FWS funds that you are awarded as a guideline for how much you should work to cover that amount of your school bill. PLNU and the Federal government use that dollar figure to designate how much of your earnings will be subsidized by the government. You do not have to earn all of an award amount and you may earn more than that amount at PLNU. The money earned through the FWS program will be paid in full by check to the student employee. All, part, or none of the money may be applied to your school bill - the decision is yours.
Work Study applies mainly to on campus jobs, but there are also off-campus Work Study opportunities available through the Cal-SOAP program. Cal-SOAP places FWS recipients in local schools in various positions, including the "America Reads Tutors" who work with elementary students on their reading skills, and "College Peer Advisors" who help high school students through the college application/admission/decision process. Please contact the Student Employment Office if you are interested in a Cal-SOAP position.
If you're not sure if you have Work Study or if you would like to find out if you qualify for Work Study please contact Student Financial Services at (619) 849-2296.
Your supervisor is a professional hired by the University to perform and direct a large assortment of different tasks and services. They have jobs to do and want student workers, after an appropriate training period, to work efficiently and independently so that department functions are carried out without constant looking-over-the-shoulder supervision.
Since you will be working closely with your supervisor, naturally you will want to get along with them. Most supervisors share this feeling. Don't think they're heartless when they fail to "mother you" through the rough spots. It's part of the supervisor's responsibility to help you solve work problems and encourage you to be a problem solver. You will be held to a task even when it is a tough one and the results are less than perfect. Whether or not you will be a help to your supervisor and your fellow workers will depend on the efficiency and initiative you are willing to put forth.
Lockers, desks, vehicles and all other University property must be maintained according to University rules and regulations. They must be kept clean and are to be used only for work-related purposes. The University reserves the right to inspect all University property to insure compliance with its rules and regulations without notice to the employee and/or in the employee's absence. You must receive prior authorization before removing any University property from the premises.
PLNU seeks to provide a safe, healthy and productive work environment for all its employees. In accordance with this goal, the University strives to maintain a workplace that is free from illegal use, possession or distribution of controlled substances, as defined in Schedules I through V of the Controlled Substance Act 21, U.S. Code 812, as amended. Unlawful manufacture, possession, dispensation, sale, offer to sell, purchase and/or use of drugs and alcohol on the PLNU campus or its offsite locations or as any part of its activities, is prohibited. As a condition of employment, all employees of PLNU are required to adhere to this policy. In compliance with Federal Regulations, all employees will annually receive a copy of the PLNU Employee Substance Abuse Policy.
In addition, the PLNU campus and any off-site work locations sponsored by PLNU are non-smoking areas.
Employees may not possess weapons or firearms on campus. Examples of weapons include hunting knives, martial arts weapons, and fireworks. A firearm is defined in section 12001 of the California Penal Code. California Penal Code Section 626.9(i) states that "Any person who brings or possesses a firearm upon the grounds of . . . any private university or college, unless it is with the written permission of the university or college president, his or her designee . . . shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for one, two or three years." For the purposes of this section, the Vice President for Financial Affairs shall be the President's designee. Any violation of the policy may result in administrative discipline and/or criminal prosecution.
The University is committed to providing its employees and students with an environment that is free from sexual harassment. Therefore, sexual harassment is strictly prohibited. Sexual harassment does not refer to occasional compliments of a socially acceptable nature. It refers to behavior that is not welcome, is personally offensive and creates an intimidating or offensive work or academic environment. Whether or not harassment occurred depends not on whether the act was intended to cause harm but the effect of the act on individual's employment or learning environment.
Sexual harassment can include a wide range of behaviors. For a list of such behaviors see the Staff Employee Handbook. A copy can be found in the Student Employment Office and the Office of Human Resources.
Any employee or student who feels subjected to sexual harassment, or becomes aware of an actual or potential harassment, should immediately report the incident either verbally or in writing to the Vice President for Student Development.
The University will immediately undertake effective, thorough and objective investigation of the harassment allegations. The complainant's right to confidentiality will be respected in both informal and formal procedures. If the University determines that its policies prohibiting sexual harassment have been violated, disciplinary action, up to and including termination, will be taken. There will be no reprisal or retaliation against the complainant. The University encourages its employees and students to report any incidents of sexual harassment immediately so that complaints can be quickly and fairly resolved.
The University is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to making employment decisions on the basis of merit. We want to have the most qualified person in every job. University policy prohibits unlawful discrimination based on race, color, sex, age, national origin, disability or ancestry, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state or local laws. This commitment applies to all persons involved in the operation of the University and prohibits unlawful discrimination by any employee of the University, including supervisors and co-workers.
To comply with applicable laws ensuring equal opportunities to qualified individuals with a disability, the University will make reasonable accommodations for the known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified individual with a disability unless undue hardship would result.
Any employee who requires an accommodation in order to perform the essential functions of the job should contact their supervisor, and the Associate Director of OSV, and request such an accommodation. The individual with the disability should work with the University to identify an appropriate accommodations that he or she can perform a job. If the accommodation is reasonable and will not impose an undue hardship, the University will make the accommodation.
If you believe you have been subject to any form of unlawful discrimination, provide a written complaint to your supervisor or to the Associate Director of OSV. Your complaint should be specific and include the names of individuals involved and the names of any witnesses. The University will immediately undertake an effective, thorough and objective investigation and attempt to resolve the situation. If the University determines that it's policies prohibiting discrimination have been violated, effective remedial action will be taken commensurate with the severity of the offense. Appropriate action will also be taken to deter any future discrimination or retaliation. Whatever action is taken will be made known to you. The University will not retaliate against you for filing a complaint and prohibits retaliation by supervisors or your co-workers.
Being Hired
We are pleased to consider qualified student applicants who are related to employees. However, relatives will not be employed where actual or potential problems may surface regarding supervision, security, safety, or morale, or where potential conflicts of interest may exist. "Relatives" are defined to include spouses, children, siblings, parents, in-laws, and step-relatives.
In keeping with this policy, if two employees (student or staff) marry or become related, causing actual or potential problems such as those described above, one must apply to transfer departments or actually leave the University. The University will attempt to reassign one of the employees to another position for which he or she is qualified, if such a position is available. If the married or related employees do not make an appropriate adjustment within thirty days of this new relationship, the University will make the decision for them. PLNU will take the needs of the University and the employment history and job performance of both employees into account.
Departments recruit student employees in several ways:
- Posting available jobs on the On-Campus Job Board.
- Hiring from the students within their major.
- Hiring from students who stopped by to inquire about available jobs.
At PLNU we are committed to employing the most qualified and, whenever possible, most financially needy students for student employee positions. Following are the priorities for hiring:
- Continuing Work-Study students.
- Continuing PLNU students. These are students who have attended the last regular semester of classes, as well as the current semester.
- Incoming freshman and transfer students.
Once you have accepted the position offered, you will need to see the Associate Director to fill out all appropriate paperwork before you start working or training. View a list of required acceptable documents.
You will be filling out 3 forms; a Student Employment Authorization Form (for each department), an I-9 for employment eligibility verification, and a W-4 for tax purposes.
Your supervisor will need to complete the bottom portion of the Student Employment Authorization Form (SEA).
Once the paperwork has been completed you may begin working or training.
Employment is at the will of either the employee or PLNU. This means that you may quit at any time with or without cause and PLNU may terminate your employment at any time with or without cause. There is no promise that employment will continue for a set period of time, nor is there any promise that your employment will be terminated only under particular circumstances. No agreements to the contrary may be made unless specific, in writing, and signed by you and the President of PLNU.
For further policies (i.e. working and long term issues), please view Part 2.
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The Importance of the Plus Size Fit and Flare Dress
Posted by IGIGI on July 3, 2014
Since Dior's "New Look" graced the pages of Vogue for the first time in 1947, the "Fit and Flare" silhouette has been an staple in women's wardrobes around the world! Designed as a way to "make women extravagantly, romantically, eyelash-battingly female" this silhouette has stood the test of time, and the plus size fit and flare dress is a season-less silhouette that is both functional and flattering!
While not as dramatic as a Dior "New Look" fit and flare dress, which would use as much as 50 yards of fabric to add ample volume to a skirt, the modern day fit and flare dress is a great and easy addition to any wardrobe. This piece can be worn a variety of ways and instantly makes a look feel ultra feminine and pulled together.
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