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A.B., Radcliffe; J.D., Harvard. Professor Schiffer is General Counsel at the National Capital Planning Commission. She was formerly a partner at Baach Robinson & Lewis PLLC in Washington, D.C.. From 1993-2001, Professor Schiffer was the Assistant Attorney General for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division at the U.S. Department of Justice, with responsibility for litigation on behalf of all federal agencies related to pollution, natural resources, wildlife, certain Indian issues, and land condemnation. She has argued cases before a number of Courts of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court. She also worked on international environmental issues and legislation related to the environment. She has for over 15 years been an adjunct professor of environmental law at Georgetown University Law Center. Professor Schiffer's previous work includes: Senior Vice President for Public Policy at the National Audubon Society; General Counsel at National Public Radio; and staff attorney at the Women's Rights Project of the Center of Law and Social Policy. She was a court law clerk on the District of Columbia Circuit. Professor Schiffer has authored many articles on environmental law topics. She is the recipient of the Charles Fahy Distinguished Adjunct Professor Award, and of the Edmund J. Randolph Award for outstanding service at the Department of Justice. She serves on the Boards of the D.C. Appleseed, the International Senior Lawyers Project, and the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life. She has served on the Boards of a number of non-profit organizations, including the District of Columbia Bar and American Rivers.


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All Sorts of Weird Stuff offers news and information about George R.R. Martin, in particular about his A Song of Ice and Fire series.
"When I was young, I read all sorts of stuff. One week it would be Lovecraft, the next Vance. It was all imaginative literature, or as my dad called it 'Weird Stuff.' It was all 'Weird Stuff.'"
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One of the designers on Green Ronin's A Song of Ice and Fire roleplaying game has posted a new diary describing the basic ability scale as well as some of the various available skills and abilities.
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Roy Nelson, Ph.D.
Latin American business issues, Doing business in Brazil, Doing business in Mexico, International business/government relations, Foreign direct investment, Global political economy
Contemporary Business in Latin America, Field Seminar in Brazil, Global Business Leadership, Global Political Economy, Intrapreneurial Project, Regional Business Environment: Latin America, Regional Business Environment: North America
Roy C. Nelson, Ph.D., is an associate professor of Global Studies at Thunderbird School of Global Management.
His knowledge of Latin American business practices and his field research in nearly a dozen Latin American countries have made him a foremost expert on Latin American business strategy. He served as academic director of Thunderbird's former Executive MBA program in São Paulo, Brazil, 2000-2004.
Dr. Nelson has published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles in top academic journals, as well as Latin American case studies in the Thunderbird case series that are staples in business schools across the country. In addition to his expertise on Latin America, Dr. Nelson is recognized as an authority in international business/government relations, foreign direct investment and global political economy.
Dr. Nelson's most recent book is "Harnessing Globalization: The Promotion of Nontraditional Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America" (Penn State University Press, 2009), based on his extensive field research in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Costa Rica, Singapore, and Ireland. An earlier book, "Industrialization and Political Affinity: Industrial Policy in Brazil" (Routledge Press), is based on his field research in Brazil.
Dr. Nelson's industry experience includes working at Pharmacia & Upjohn Corporation in São Paulo, Brazil. He has also worked as a consultant for various clients, including the World Bank and the Chilean Economic Development Agency (CORFO). His work on behalf of CORFO has served as an introduction to his Thunderbird students to the agency and an opportunity to work directly with senior executives. Dr. Nelson has also been a visiting professor at the University of Memphis and at Vanderbilt University.
At Thunderbird, he teaches courses on Global Political Economy, Regional Business Environment: Latin America, Regional Business Environment: North America, Foundations for Global Business Leadership in the 21st Century, and the Executive MBA course, "Contemporary Business in Latin America." He also teaches intensive versions of some of his courses on location every year in Santiago, Chile; Monterrey, Mexico; Lima, Peru; Geneva, Switzerland; and South Korea. He is the leader of the Executive MBA Field Seminar in Chile and Peru each September, as well as another Field Seminar in Chile, Argentina, and/or Peru in May.
Cited in a Business Week survey of former Thunderbird students as "among the professors they enjoyed/respected the most," Dr. Nelson is a multiple recipient of the "Outstanding Professor" award at Thunderbird. He has given presentations to executives at many corporations, including Johnson & Johnson, Honeywell International, Acer, LG, and Hewlett-Packard.
Dr. Nelson, who speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish, received his Ph.D. and MA from Cornell University. He also received an MA from Yale University, while earning his BA (with Honors) at Stanford University.


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Daniel Goering was awarded a 2015-16 Fulbright U.S. Student Award, which he will use to conduct a mixed methods interdisciplinary study at a benefits firm in Tokyo, Japan. Daniel, of Agency, IA, is currently a PhD candidate in Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management at the University of Iowa's Tippie College of Business.
Audrey Williams, of West Des Moines, IA, has received a 2015-16 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to analyze Turkish development cooperation with Somalia, Kenya and Sudan. Audrey is a 2013 graduate of the University of Iowa with a B.A. in political science and French. She is currently working as a Program Associate for Partnership for a Secure America in Washington D.C.
This month, the University of Iowa will host experts and researchers from around the world as part of the 2015 Provost's Global Forum, "The Arab Spring in a Global Context." Scholars from a variety of academic disciplines will examine a range of issues including social change and justice, racial/ethnic and gender relations, law, public policy, media, and economic development in the context of the Arab Spring. This four-day, multi-event conference will take place Tuesday, April 28, through Friday, May 1.
A unique law course has created an opportunity for Iowa students to build relationships with their counterparts on the other side of the world. The Selected Topics in Comparative Law Seminar — offered by the University of Iowa College of Law this spring — invited Iowa students to compare U.S. and Russian Law in collaboration with students taking a parallel course in Russia.
The European Studies Group will continue its spring 2015 lecture series on Friday, April 24 at 12:30 p.m. in 2520B University Capitol Centre with a lecture by Jennifer Sessions entitled, "Monumental Struggles for Decolonization: Colonial Statutes, Iconoclasm, and Preservation during the Algerian War."
Twelve Brazil Scientific Mobility Program (BSMP) scholars were honored at the College of Engineering's Student Recognition Luncheon on April 17, 2015 with certificates of achievement.
Beatrice Smigasiewicz has received a 2015-16 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to write a book of essays titled Recovered Futures, which will investigate the representation of post-Soviet Polish identity in the cultural capital of Krakow. Smigasiewicz graduated with an M.F.A. in literary translation from the University of Iowa in May 2014 and will earn a second M.F.A. in nonfiction writing from the UI this May. As a Polish-American who lived in the country until the age of eleven, Beatrice seeks to understand modern-day Poland through interviews, museum research, and study of Polish literature and architecture.
Roughly 500 people filled the IMU second-floor Ballroom to celebrate the life of Andrew Mogni's at a vigil on Sunday evening. The stories told by family, friends, and UI officials painted a picture of Mogni that brought both laughter and tears to those who attended.
Members of organizations seeking to purchase new luxury automobiles in order to export them to China for resale are approaching University of Iowa students. Luxury cars that typically sell at around $50,000 to $80,000 in the United States can be sold for as much as two or three times those prices in China.
Jeffrey Ding, a University of Iowa junior from Iowa City, Iowa, has been getting a lot of good news lately. Ding, a Presidential Scholar and member of the UI Honors Program, was attending a panel discussion about graduate study in the United Kingdom on Friday, April 10, in the Blank Honors Center when the Q & A session abruptly turned from the potential of the Rhodes Scholarship to the reality of the Truman Scholarship.
In the run-up to the International Dance Day on April 29, UNESCO's official Dance Day Around the World webpage highlighted an Iowa City event Tuesday. InterDance, created nine years ago by Nora Garda, celebrates the world of dance in the state of Iowa. It features two days of free performances and workshops throughout central Iowa City on Friday and Saturday. The events include tango at Trumpet Blossom Café, 310 E. Prentiss St., performances by dance companies on the Pentacrest, and workshops featuring Afro-Caribbean-Indian dance at Gateway Dance Theater, 700 S. Dubuque St.
Acacia Roberts has been awarded a Fulbright U.S. Student Award for 2015-16. Roberts, of Iowa City, IA, graduated from the University of Iowa in December 2014 with a B.A. in linguistics and French. She will be putting her degrees and her Arabic language skills to use as an English Teaching Assistant in Morocco this August.
Professor Sandra Hackman Barkan will present a public lecture entitled, "The Elephant and African Literatures" on Monday April 27, 2015 at 4:00 p.m. in 2780 University Capitol Centre (UCC). Barkan will also receive the Rex D. Honey African Studies Lectureship Award presented by the African Studies Program. This event is free and open to the public.
On "castle rock" in the Bay of Biscay, as I bit into a sort of hand-held omelet, I wondered: who invented this ingenious snack? I mean, who in history was the one to discover that you could even eat an egg, not to mention fry it with potatoes and onions into a graspable food item. The true genius of it struck me because Josu, my hiking companion, had prepared this himself and though I had eaten this same thing in nearly every restaurant in my neighborhood, there was something notable about this one.
The Latin American Studies Program (LASP) will conclude its two-part spring speaker series with a talk entitled, "Latinos, INC. in Social Media: Univisión and the Dynamics of Mass Connected Hispanic Media" by Sean Gelles of Univisión TV network.
Student-athletes can and do study abroad. Find out what you need to know to get started! UI Study Abroad will host an information session for UI student-athletes on Sunday, April 19, at 7:30 p.m. at the Gerdin Athletic Learning Center.
Douglas Baker, a senior majoring in piano and Japanese at the University of Iowa, has received a 2015-16 Fulbright U.S. Student Award to further pursue his research abroad in a project titled, "The Japanese Style in Taijiro Goh's Piano Music." In this project, Douglas will gain access to unpublished compositions in archives held in Japan, where he plans to explore the methods Taijiro Goh used in order to express a Japanese style in his compositions. Goh was notably recognized as the composer of Japan's first violin concerto in 1935.
The Johnson County Board of Supervisors on Thursday unanimously approved the creation of a community ID program, the first of its kind in the Midwest and one that supporters say will help bring hundreds of local residents out of the shadows. "I just think that this is an incredible, historic day in Johnson County," Jesse Case, Community ID Group member and president of the Iowa City Federation of Labor, said to the supervisors after the vote. "I've never seen a city with elected officials so willing to come together and work with people for an issue like this."
This year marks the tenth year of exchanges between the University of Iowa and China Daily, China's largest English-language newspaper. In honor of this long-standing collaboration, International Programs and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication will hold a tenth anniversary celebration on Friday, April 24 from 3:00-4:30 p.m. in the Adler Journalism Building rotunda.
On March 10, 2015, the African Studies Program, a constituent program of University of Iowa International Programs, hosted a reception for musicians of The Nile Project. The Nile Project is a collective of musicians from the eleven countries through which the Nile River flows in Eastern and North Eastern Africa.
The 13th Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival will take place April 10-11, 2015 in 105 Adler Building. The festival, presented by undergraduates in the UI Cinema Department, features documentaries from both Iowans and national and international filmmakers. The students aim to showcase different documenting styles and methods, questioning what it means to make a documentary.
A glance at a timeline of events in the Arab world since the December 2010 anti-government demonstrations in Tunisia that triggered what we now know as the Arab Spring reveals a swift and previously unthinkable resetting of the geo-political map of the Middle East. What followed those heady early days has been a toppling of dictatorships, emboldened public action, a sharpening of divisions within national and religious groups, humanitarian crises of alarming proportions, and challenges to major world powers unlike anything in recent memory. Internationally-renowned scholars on the Middle East and Arab world will join host Joan Kjaer when WorldCanvass explores "The Arab Spring in a Global Context." This is the first event of the 2015 Provost's Global Forum, and the public is invited to attend the free program at 5 p.m., April 28, at FilmScene in Iowa City.
I have never been one to shy away from a challenge, but helping students devise the "right strategy" for applying for a Fulbright U.S. Student Program award has been a daunting task. As the Fulbright Program Adviser (FPA) at the University of Iowa, a Big Ten institution with more than 30,000 students, it's my job to assist students in their quest for this unparalleled, life-transforming opportunity.
UI student Andrew Mogni passed away on Sunday morning, April 5, 2015, at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago. Andrew sustained serious injuries after a fall in Rome on January 14.
One of the most significant aspects of studying abroad is seeing everything you possibly can, while learning and growing every step of the way. After getting settled into my new life at the University of Newcastle in New South Wales, Australia, I was quickly ready to get out there and begin seeing all the things I had spent months pinning on Pinterest. After all, my parents were beginning to wonder what exactly I was getting out of spending day after day at the beach.


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Resource Fair set for March 5
March 03, 2011
Lake Geneva — The Family Resource Coalition of Walworth County Inc. will host its fourth annual Walworth County Active Family Resource Fair from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. March 5, at the Lake Geneva Middle School, 600 N. Bloomfield Road, Lake Geneva.
This event is also sponsored by the United Way of Walworth County. Admission is free.
There will be more than 50 booths including: Head Start, APFV, Zainey & Zoe Boutique, Walworth County libraries, Park & Recreation Departments, Usborne Books, Department of Public Health, YMCA, Parent Connections, Elkhorn Martial Arts, Walworth County UW-Extension, SHARE, Angel Food Ministries, Discovery Toys, Big Brothers Big Sisters, SMILES, Arbonne, Lake Geneva Summer Enrichment, Community Action, Walworth County 4-H, Alternative Health Associates, Family Resource Center of East Troy, Side by Side, FLAC, Pregnancy Helpline, Lakeland Animal Shelter, Girl Scouts, LG Cares, Covenant Harbor, and more.
McGruff the Crime Dog will be there to meet the children.
The fair also features free face painting, free goodie bags for the first 300 children, and free hourly drawings.
The cafeteria will have hot dogs, sub sandwiches and light refreshments available for sale.
Events scheduled at the fair are:
- 10:30 a.m. Zumba with Andrea Harris.
- 11:30 a.m. Toe to Toe Ballet School.
- 12:30 p.m. Walworth County 4-H "Food Fear Factor."
- 1:30 p.m. Southern Lakes Clogging.
Sign-language and Spanish interpreters are available at the fair. For fair information, e-mail FRC email@example.com or visit www.familyresourcecoalition.org or www.facebook.com/frcwalworth.
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Pickens Mayor Joel Gill killed in crash
Gill had been candidate for ag commissioner, congress
Pickens Mayor Joel Gill was killed Thursday in a car crash, the Holmes County coroner said.
The crash happened about 5:30 p.m. on Highway 17, Coroner Dexter Howard said. Gill's car may have hit a tree, Howard said, but the details of the crash weren't immediately known.
Gill, 61, was flown to the University of Mississippi Medical Center, where he died, Howard said.
Gill, a Democrat, was a candidate in 2011 for commissioner of agriculture and commerce and ran in the 2010 race for Mississippi's 3rd congressional district.
His wife Ann Gill said he was a kind man who "would help anyone" in need. She said funeral arrangements haven't been made.
Copyright 2012 by WAPT.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


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Killer Cop: Matthew Jacob Marin, Houston Police Department, Houston, Texas
Victims: 2
52. 10/9/09 – Jose Oseguera, h/m, killed when shot by Houston PD officer M.J. Marin, a 2-yr. veteran. When officers responded to an assault call, they saw Oseguera stabbing his girlfriend on an apartment balcony. As they climbed the stairs to the balcony, a neighbor tried to intervene in the stabbing, but was himself stabbed. Marin fired twice at Oseguera, who then turned toward the officers. Marin fired again, hitting Oseguera in the head, killing him. The neighbor also died at the scene. Oseguera is the 21st person known to have been shot to death this year by a Harris County police officer. (media reports)
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SIKESTON - The Missouri Department of Transportation Southeast District will hold an informational workshop for anyone interested in applying for transportation enhancement grant funds. The workshop will be from 9 a.m. to noon Friday at the Southeast District office in Sikeston.
Transportation enhancement funds are funds federally required for projects such as constructing sidewalks, bike lanes and converting abandoned railroad rights of way to trails. Communities may also use this program to revitalize local regional economies by restoring historic buildings, renovating streetscapes, or providing transportation museums and visitor centers.
The 2005 application process differs from past years in that 5 percent of statewide funds will be distributed for projects on a local level. The remaining 25 percent will be allocated to the statewide competitive process, focusing mainly on the $1.59 million for local distribution in 2005.
MoDOT strongly encourages all interested parties to attend the workshop, which will cover information about the revising application process. Those interested in attending should contact Jo Ann Secoy at (573) 472-5885 or by e-mail at firstname.lastname@example.com to register and request other necessary information.
SIKESTON - Mandy Newton has joined 731 Realty, 11 N. Ingram, as a real estate agent.
A resident of Sikeston since 1999, Newton is originally from Jonesboro, Ark. She is a graduate of Poplar Bluff High School and received her degree in medical technology from Arkansas Sate University.
Newton and her husband, Darin, are the parents of a 3-year-old daughter, Kylyn. She is a member of the Tanner Street Church of God and actively involved in the American Cancer Society's Relay for Life.
"I am very eager to assist the community of Sikeston with their real estate needs," Newton said.
GULF SHORES, Ala. - Former Sikeston, Mo., resident and author Robert Vaughan will speak on "Humor in the Vietnam War" at the Texas Tech University Fifth Triennial Vietnam Symposium March 16-19.
Also Vaughan is slated to be the spokesperson for "Operation Homecoming USA's "Welcome Home" celebration for Vietnam veterans this summer.
Currently Vaughan is promoting his new book "Brandywine's War: Back in Country."
SIKESTON - Kathy Duncan, real estate broker and owner of Southern Home Realty, has opened a branch office at 102 S. Interstate Drive in Sikeston.
Duncan began her real estate career in Sikeston in 1982 working for ERA Bailey and Bailey Real Estate. In 1993, she started Southern Home Realty, headquartered at 1390 Scott St. in New Madrid.
With 23 years experience in the real estate business, Duncan serves both the New Madrid County and Sikeston area.
Duncan can be reached at 573-471-5900 or 573-748-2700.
JACKSON, Tenn. - Ray Clark, formerly of Essex, Mo., is the new manager of the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Jackson. Clark, who has more than 24 years of retail experience, began his duties on Jan. 28.
Clark began his career with Wal-Mart in 1980 in the company's management training program in Poplar Bluff. Upon completion of the program, he was promoted to assistant manager in Oxford, Miss. He held the same position in La Grange, Ga.; Roanoke, Ala.; Tuskegee, Ala.; and Opelika, Ala. He was then promoted to store manager in Tallahassee, Ala., and held the same position in Jacksonville, Ala., and Memphis. Prior to being named store manager in Jackson, Clark was the store manager in West Helena, Ark.
Clark is a native of Essex and a graduate of Richland High School and Southeast Missouri State University. He and his wife, Joyce, have two sons and a daughter. His parents, Theoplis and Onie Clark, and three brother, Ike, Keal and Glenn Clark, still reside in Essex.


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Dinesh Babu has directed the film and Jonnada Ramana Murthy is producing the film under the banner of Usha Charan creations. Raghu Babu, Suryateja, Harshavardhan, and others are in the cast. Dialogues are by Gangotri Viswanath, music is by ES Murthy, while Jonnada Usha is the presenter of the flick.


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Aztecs to Play Host to SDSU Fall Classic II
Nov. 4, 2010
SDSU Fall Classic II Brackets in PDF Format
The San Diego State women's tennis team will play host to its final fall tournament of 2010, the SDSU Fall Classic II. The three-day event begins Friday at Aztec Tennis Center.
Making their way to Montezuma Mesa are Auburn, Kansas, Loyola Marymount, San Diego, UC Irvine and Washington.
The tournament will feature two doubles brackets and four singles draws. The action starts at 9 a.m. PT with doubles.
San Diego State enters the tourney with a pair of singles players that hold national rankings. Senior Julia Trunk is No. 51 in the preseason poll, while sophomore Alicia Aguilar is No. 65. The doubles tandem of Sierra Ellison and Roxanne Ellison, meanwhile, opens doubles action fresh off a finals appearance at the USTA/ITA Southwest Regional Championships a few weeks back.
Results from each day will be available on the women's tennis page on GoAztecs.com.


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Rick Perry's cost for leaving Las Vegas
Well almost everybody who's been there knows you leave a little money in Las Vegas, but they say you can come back and visit it anytime.
Texas taxpayers left a little green there in October, as it turns out. Gov. Rick Perry's went to Vegas on Oct. 24 to attend a bachelor party dinner for his son – oh yes, and to also meet with Brian Sandoval, a Republican candidate for Nevada's governor. The cost for his security detail for the overnight trip – overtime, hotel, airfare, rental cars – was $12,321, according to documents just released by the Department of Public Safety.
We wrote about the trip in November after learning about the bachelor party aspect. Perry used political campaign contributions and some funding from the Republican Governors Association to cover his portion of the trip.


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A town hall meeting is scheduled this weekend for residents of Lansing's Genesee neighborhood.
It's to address concerns people may have, following the brutal attack and murder of community activist Ruth Hallman.
She was the president of the Genesee Neighborhood Association, and fought to keep crime and drugs out of the neighborhood.
Police are still investigating her death.
The town hall meeting will be held Sunday at 2 o'clock at the Black Child and Family Institute on West Genesee Street.
Mayor Virge Bernero and Lansing police chief Mark Alley are expected to be there. Only residents of the Genesee neighborhood are allowed to attend.
Bernero's office says the meeting will give residents a chance to express their concerns and fears about the neighborhood.


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December 5, 2007By: Mary Winston Nicklin
New Luxury Travel Destinations
A recent article in the Washington Post describes the "destination fatigue-- been there, done that, paid a big bill"-- that affects a growing number of high-end travelers. When you've vacationed in Patagonia, the BVI, and the Greek Islands, and cruised the Nile and Yangtze rivers, what's next? The answer is remote, off-the-map destinations that once only appealed to backpackers. The newest hotspots are places like Bhutan, where Amanresorts has opened a string of luxury lodges that allow travelers to discover this incredible Himalayan kingdom without having to rough it. We'd count China's Yunnan province on the list, as well as luxury safaris in Africa, and hotels in northern India. What's your next luxury travel destination?
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July 24, 2013 07:25This morning, Wednesday July 24, 2013, at 5:50 a.m., North Precinct officers responded to the report of a rollover crash in the 15800 block of Northeast Marine Drive.
Officers and medical personnel arrived and contacted the two drivers. Preliminary information indicates that the vehicle traveling eastbound on Marine Drive crossed over the center line and sideswiped a westbound vehicle, which swerved right and rolled down the embankment towards the Columbia River. The vehicle landed on a bike path not the water.
The driver of the rolled-over car was transported to a Portland hospital for treatment. Her injuries are not expected to be life-threatening.
The driver of the eastbound vehicle remained at the scene and has cooperated with investigators. Neither alcohol or distracted driving appear to be factors in this crash.
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FDNY legend James Ellson has lost his long battle with cancer.
His wake will take place from 2:00pm-5:00pm and 7:00pm-9:00pm on Tuesday, May 14, 2013 and Wednesday, May 15, 2013 at Fredericks Funeral Home in Flushing.
His funeral Mass is scheduled for Thursday, May 16, 2013 at 10:15am at St. Kevin's Catholic Church in Flushing.
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Commerce Secretary Gutierrez Announces Selection of 2007-2008 Commerce Science and Technology Fellows
For Immediate Release: June 14, 2007
Richard Mills
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WASHINGTON, DC —Commerce Secretary Carlos M. Gutierrez today announced that 16 individuals have been selected to participate in the Commerce Science and Technology Fellowship (ComSci) Program. Open to career, senior federal employees from any government agency, ComSci is a 10-month policy study and leadership program established in 1964 and later enacted by Congress. The ComSci Program takes its participants behind the scenes of science and technology policy-making and management in the halls of the Nation's Capitol, and at the highest levels of industry and academia, and then into the field.
"With the critical and ever-expanding role that science and technology play in our nation's competitiveness, federal agencies have a responsibility to provide their scientists and technical managers with a broad understanding of the national and international context and implications of science and technology policy," said Gutierrez. "I am proud of these individuals who have been selected to participate in this prestigious program."
The 2007-2008 ComSci fellows are:
ComSci is managed and administered by the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology.
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On July 28, a new southern Baptist church was planted in Elizabethtown. On Sept. 1, the congregation voted and was given the name, Sovereign Grace Baptist Church. The church is led by pastors Sonny Hernandez and Jeff Scroggs. Both pastors have earned their Master of Divinity degree and both are doctor of ministry students.
The congregation meets at 10 a.m. for Sunday school, 11 a.m. for Sunday worship and at 6 p.m. for Sunday evening prayer at Howard Johnson Inn, 1058 N. Mulberry St., Elizabethtown.
A one-day retreat focused on Thomas Merton is from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 16 at Mount Saint Joseph Conference and Retreat Center, Maple Mount (located 12 miles west of Owensboro on Hwy. 56). The theme will be "Thomas Merton Never Was a Senior Citizen." The program will include prayer and a meditation on growing old by Sister Mary Matthias Ward, OSU, and a series of talks by the Rev. Anthony Shonis spotlighting Merton at various ages and stages of his life.
Baptism is an act that should be seen and cheered, said the Rev. Gary Summers. It's the kind of thing that should be done in the open, in the street, even.
"The thing about baptism is it's a celebration," Summers said. "There should be cheering, there should be praising and hallelujahs with a baptism."
The Sunday Church school classes at First Presbyterian Church in Elizabethtown celebrated the culmination of the 2012-13 Heifer Project on Sept. 15.
Donations were accepted from class members, teachers, the FPC congregation and the Lydia Circle. A check for $690 was sent to Heifer Project International to purchase two water buffalo, a flock of chickens, a flock of ducks, a group of rabbits and tree seedlings. Families in need from around the world will be the recipients of these gifts.
Hardin County youth are invited to share an evening of faith and inspiration this weekend.
Impact, a Christian concert and worship event, is at 4 p.m. Saturday at City Park North Amphitheater in Radcliff. The event was created by Carol Gillenwater Baker, worship minister and coordinator of ConnectingU2Christ Student Ministries at New River Worship Center. This year, the event's second, youth ministers at other area churches have joined in coordinating the event and spreading the word about its mission.
The 2013 National Quartet Convention is Sept. 8-14 in Louisville for its final meeting in the city.
The convention takes place at the Kentucky Fair & Expo Center and features Christian recording artists and noted speakers.
The highlight at this year's gathering is Thursday's Harmony Showcase in Freedom Hall featuring multi-award winning recording artists The Gaither Vocal Band, multi-award winning legendary group The Gatlin Brothers, and award-winning trio The Booth Brothers. The Harmony Showcase begins at 11:30 a.m.
A pre-memorial service for Brother Fred Halbrooks, 92, is at 2 p.m. Sept. 8, at First Cedar Creek Baptist Church in Elizabethtown with a reception to follow in the The First Cedar Creek Baptist Church Educational Building.
Brother Halbrooks, a native of Alabama, a graduate of Howard University (now Samford University) in Birmingham, Ala., and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville.
Calvary Assembly of God Pastor Jeff and Gina Schexneider and the congregation of Calvary Assembly of God in Elizabethtown recently welcomed their new Student Ministries pastors, Colton and Emily Vance.
Pastor Colton and Emily are both graduates of Trinity Bible College in Ellendale, N.D. Mr. Vance was born and raised in North Dakota and his wife is from Ruston, La. They both come to Calvary with a strong music background and have stepped into leading the congregation in praise and worship.
Unity Baptist Church in Stephensburg will celebrate Bob Hart day at 11 a.m., May 19, by recognizing him as an honorary deacon with a special service and fellowship meal in his honor.
Hart is being recognized for his faithful service as a member and deacon since 1998. Brother Bob also has been a member of Ovesen Heights Baptist Church in Hodgenville and New Hope Baptist Church in Elizabethtown.
Hart is a native of Hardin County and is a World War II veteran. He has worked for most of his life in Hardin and LaRue counties.
Members of Living Faith Baptist Fellowship in Elizabethtown recently visited Tammy Simpson's second-grade class at Owsley County Elementary School. They brought a bag of books for summer reading for each of the 22 students in the class, as well as other items for the children's summer enjoyment.
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With an album highlighted by exclusive tracks from Def Jam stars Ludacris (who also makes his latest co-starring appearance in the film series) and 2 Chainz, Def Jam Recordings will release FAST & FURIOUS 6: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK, an exciting new collection of hip-hop and EDM tracks set to arrive in stores on May 21st, preorder available on iTunes May 14th. The album opens with 2 Chainz and Wiz Khalifa's "We Own It (Fast & Furious)" and closes with Ludacris' "Rest
Of My Life" (featuring Usher and David Guetta).
May 24th, three days after the soundtrack's release, marks the nationwide opening of FAST & FURIOUS 6. In the action-thriller, Vin Diesel, Paul Walker and Dwayne Johnson lead the returning cast of all-stars as the global blockbuster franchise built on speed races to its next continent. Reuniting for their most high-stakes adventure yet, fan favorites Jordana Brewster, Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Sung Kang, Gal Gadot, and Elsa Pataky are joined by badass series newcomers Luke Evans and Gina Carano. Def Jam's own Chris 'Ludacris' Bridges reprises his role as the former Miami street-racer-turned-crew-member Tej Parker.
To support the opening of FAST & FURIOUS 6 and the release of FAST & FURIOUS 6: ORIGINAL MOTION PICTURE SOUNDTRACK, Ludacris will make release week appearances on NBC Universal's The Today Show (May 6th) and The Ellen DeGeneres Show (May 21st), E! network's Chelsea Lately (May 22nd), and ABC's Jimmy Kimmel Live! (May 22nd). (Please consult local listings.)
Building on the worldwide blockbuster success of Fast Five and taking the action, stunts and narrative to even greater heights, FAST & FURIOUS 6 sees director Justin Lin back behind the camera for the fourth time. He is supported by longtime producers Neal H. Moritz and Vin Diesel, who welcome producer Clayton Townsend back to the series.
The soundtrack for FAST & FURIOUS 6 keeps up with the pace of the movie, with a hip-hop and EDM mix headlined by T.I., Sua, MC Jin, deadmau5, Benny Banks, Peaches, the Crystal Method, and much more. (Please see final track listing below.) The soundtrack's executive album producers are Moritz and Lin.
(Def Jam Recordings)
1. We Own It (Fast & Furious) – 2 Chainz and Wiz Khalifa
2. Ball – T.I. featuring Lil Wayne
3. Con Locura – Sua featuring Jiggy Drama
4. HK Superstar – MC Jin featuring Daniel Wu
5. Failbait – deadmau5 featuring Cypress Hill
6. Bada Bing – Benny Banks
7. Burst! (Bart B More Remix) – Peaches
8. Mister Chicken – Deluxe
9. Roll It Up – The Crystal Method
10. Here We Go/Quasar (Hybrid Remix) – Hard Rock Sofa & Swanky Tunes
11. Bandoleros – Don Omar featuring Tego Calderón
12. Rest Of My Life – Ludacris featuring Usher and David Guetta


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SchemaCrawler is a free database schema discovery and comprehension tool. SchemaCrawler has a good mix of useful features for data governance. You can search for database schema objects using regular expressions, and output the schema and data in a readable text format. The output serves for database documentation, and is designed to be diff-ed against other database schemas. SchemaCrawler also generates schema diagrams. You can execute scripts in any standard scripting language against your database. You can find potential schema design issues with lint.
SchemaCrawler supports almost any database that has a JDBC driver, but for convenience is bundled with drivers for some commonly used RDBMS systems. SchemaCrawler works with any operating system that supports Java SE 8, Compact Profile 2 or better.
SchemaCrawler Command-line
SchemaCrawler has grep functionality that allows you to search for table and column names using regular expressions. SchemaCrawler is capable of creating entity-relationship diagrams in DOT format, which GraphViz can convert into schema diagrams. SchemaCrawler has powerful scripting ability, using JavaScript, Groovy, Ruby or Python. A live connection is provided to the script context to allow you to select from or even modify your database. Examples are provided for all of these with the download.
SchemaCrawler is integrated with, and allows you to write templates to generate SQL scripts or any other text output, using templating engines, such as Apache Velocity or <FreeMarker> . However, you will need to download Apache Velocity or <FreeMarker> separately, since these are not part of the SchemaCrawler download.
Complete SchemaCrawler command-line help is available with the -h or -help command-line options.
SchemaCrawler API
SchemaCrawler is also a Java API that makes working with database metadata as easy as working with plain old Java objects. Java programmers need to access database metadata
- in order to dynamically generate SQL statements
- when programmatically determining the capabilities of a given RDBMS
- when finding the names and types of tables and columns in the database
Programmers can obtain database metadata using JDBC, but with the raw JDBC API database metadata is returned as result sets, not Java objects. Also, programmers are still responsible for managing resources, mapping into object structures, and handling exceptions. This makes using the JDBC API very cumbersome when it comes to metadata. Furthermore, the JDBC API is not very consistent. For example, to find the type of a table, you would look at the TABLE_TYPE , which has a string value, but for procedures, PROCEDURE_TYPE is an integer. An another example, is the getCatalogs() call, which returns a result set with exactly one column, in contrast to getStringFunctions() which returns a string containing the list of function names, separated by commas.
SchemaCrawler attempts to solve some of these problems by providing an API that is consistent and usable. Database metadata is provided in the form of plain old Java objects (POJOs). Some examples of the consistency and usability of the SchemaCrawler API are that:
- Table is an object that has a collection of Column objects, without requiring you to make additional calls
- Booleans are Java booleans, not an integer, a string, or null versus not-null, and enumerated values are Java enums, not integers
- Lists are always Java lists - java.util.List
- You don't worry about database resources or exception handling
- You can use standard Java programming idioms - for example, you can access the Table object from a Column object using getParent()
SchemaCrawler goes beyond what is available using JDBC, and can provide information on database triggers, sequences and synonyms as well.
SchemaCrawler is free and open-source API, available under a number of licenses. SchemaCrawler is written in Java, making it operating system agnostic. Since it leverages JDBC, it is also database independent. It deliberately doesn't have any RDBMS-specific code. SchemaCrawler allows you to compare structures between two different database servers, or even two different database systems, from different vendors.
The sample code below demonstrates just how easy it is to use SchemaCrawler:
final SchemaCrawlerOptions options = new SchemaCrawlerOptions(); // Set what details are required in the schema - this affects the // time taken to crawl the schema options.setSchemaInfoLevel(SchemaInfoLevel.standard()); final Catalog catalog = SchemaCrawlerUtility.getCatalog(connection, options); for (final Schema schema: catalog.getSchemas()) { System.out.println(schema); for (final Table table: catalog.getTables(schema)) { System.out.print("o--> " + table); for (final Column column: table.getColumns()) { System.out.println(" o--> " + column); } } }
For more details, please refer to the javadocs.
SchemaCrawler provides metadata for the following database objects:
- Column data types
- Tables and views
- Columns
- Primary keys
- Indexes
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- Triggers
- Foreign keys
- Routines, including functions and stored procedures
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Entertainment for the 2012 Neshoba County Fair, July 31-Aug. 3, has been announced.
Southern rock band, Blackberry Smoke, will perform at the grandstand July 31.
Country star Trace Adkins headlines the show
Aug. 1.
Country artists Jerrod Niemann and Jake Owen will also perform that week.
The Harper, Morgan and Smith PRCA Rodeo will also return to the fair Friday and Saturday, July 27-28.
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Definición de pedagogue en inglés:
sustantivoformal or humorous
- Three states in our division have chosen to recognize respected teachers and pedagogues.
- Since as a pedagogue and teacher I always stress the need for proper preparation, I have decided to share with you some insights I hope you will find useful.
- My dictionary defines a pedagogue as a pedantic or dogmatic teacher and there is a lot of that about Waters.
Late Middle English: via Latin from Greek paidagōgos, denoting a slave who accompanied a child to school (from pais, paid- 'boy' + agōgos 'guide').
page from late 16th century:
The page of a book goes back to Latin pagina 'page', from pangere 'to fasten'. The connection between fastening and the page of a book is probably because pagina was originally used of a scroll, made up of strips of papyrus glued together, and then transferred to the page of a book when books replaced scrolls. Before the 16th century older forms, such as pagne, were in use. The other page (Middle English) is first found in the sense 'youth, male of uncouth manners' and comes via Old French from Greek paidíon 'boy, lad'. Page boys at a wedding date from the late 19th century. Paidíon is also the source of the word-element paed- or ped found in words such as paediatrics 'the medical care of children' [M19], paedophile 'child-lover' [M20], and pedagogue (Late Middle English) formed from the Greek words for 'child' and 'leader', which was the word in ancient Greece for the slave who took a child to school, but became a term for a teacher in Latin. The Italian pedante 'teacher', which entered the language in the late 16th century as pedant may be from pedagogue. See also encyclopedia, pageant
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I need the collective brain…
Our front door is leaking…from the top. That is, we have a drip (or rivulet the past few days) of water that forms at the top center of the door and runs down into the house. It seems to form at the top of the wood frame inside the door and then drop onto the door itself and eventually either down the front of the door or the back of the door (inside).
We've consulted one handyman, and his diagnosis is that it's because we don't have an overhang above our front door (not a full awning, just a small overhang). As such the wood above our door has gotten wet for a long time (i.e., years) and is beginning to rot…and with as much rain as we've gotten the past few days, it's acting like a sponge. My concern with this diagnosis is that…well, it's not like we took the overhang off. There never was one. Why would any builder build a home without an overhang if this is the result? Wouldn't everyone in our sub be having the same problem?
So…for the collective brain:
1) Does your front door have an overhang?
2) Have you ever heard of this problem?
3) What do you think the cause is?
Not that we've managed water issues well in our own place, but….here's what I've learned from watching This Old House for years. [Just 'cause I know what to do doesn't mean I can do it.]
(1) Ask the neighbors, randomly. Some of them might have had the same issue. Builders tend to do things in stages and the same person does the same job in 20 houses. One short-cutter and everyone's got a leaky door. Someone whose had the same problem might have the "quick answer" for you. Most folks don't mind that sort of "do you have this problem" question.
(2) Do you have a drip-strip above the door on the roof? If so, water should not be getting to the door jamb. If it is, first be sure drip-strip hasn't come loose. Age/time/wind can lift them and if the screws/nails holding them down leak….well, water will find the ground via the easiest route.
(3) Check the weather seal around the outer-most part of the door. Opening/closing the door brings wear/tear to that weather stripping. Cold weather esp'ly works it hard. It might simply need to be replaced.
(4) Check the window ABOVE the door — yeah, that high one. It might have a leak that's penetrated the wallboard over time. Window seals can come loose over time because of temp. changes.
(5) If none of the above (obvious, homeowner-can-do things are the problem) then it's time to ask This Old House (grin) to visit (send them an email — you might get picked) or call in a roofer to check the shingles/base just above the door.
I think that it may be the drip strip that we are missing. I checked a couple of neighbors houses and one has one and another kind of has one and we did not.
1. Yup, we have an overhang. The door is covered by the porch roof.
2. I have heard of similar problems. In fact, we had an issues like this with our gutters. Water runs off of the roof and, rather than flowing right into the gutters, some of it dribbles down onto the wood. Because of the aforementioned trees, the wood stays wet for a while and tends to rot. The chimney also got really, really rotten. We ended up having to add some flashing to deflect water away from it. Keep in mind, I am in Florida, the wood rot capital of the world. Everything rots, no matter what we do.
3. I have no idea what the actual cause may be. Sometimes, independent of anything you do, stuff just rots. I feel like people around here just like to make up causes for the wood rot so they can charge us for something in addition to the repair. For example, the dude says the gutters rotted the fascia board. Now he wants to sell us gutter accessories or a new gutter. I think the thing was just going to rot and nothing we do will change the useful service life of those boards. Beware the illusory correlation!!


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Expected Republican nominee John McCain continued his outreach effort to Hispanic voters Tuesday with an address at the annual League of United Latin American Citizens conference in Washington D.C.
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It's hard to say for sure looking back now exactly how the concept of American slavery was presented to me back in my school days in Huntsville. In my head, it seemed pretty matter of fact: People owned other people and treated them the way they would an inanimate piece of property, and that was a bad thing. I do remember one teacher in middle school treating the Civil War as the South's rebellion against the Union's infringement of states' rights while minimizing the slavery thing, and I have members of my extended family who refer to that conflict as The War of Northern Aggression — they may be joking, but I don't know. At no point, though, did I ever think slavery wasn't terrible, even as a white kid with a white family from rural parts of the state where only white people live.
Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Garret Dillahunt
Director: Steve McQueen
Rated: R
Running time: 134 minutes
But just as "The Passion of the Christ" exists as a way of demonstrating as starkly as possible the story of Jesus' torture and execution, I took "12 Years a Slave" as a brutal cultural examination of an era that is now so far removed from my life experience as to feel abstract and whitewashed. That it is about a free black man being kidnapped and sold into bondage makes that all the more effective.
Solomon Northup (the brilliant Chiwetel Ejiofor), who was a real person and wrote the book on which the movie was based, lived in New York with his wife and two children, played the fiddle really well and was good at all sorts of more typically useful things like engineering. In the film, his family goes away for few weeks, and in that time he's invited to Washington, which was slavery-OK, to perform at a circus for some good cash. His new friends get him drunk, and it's all downhill from there.
He's shown the price of resistance immediately, first with a savage beating given for not accepting his new made-up life story and name, and then when Michael K. Williams is stabbed in the gut for trying to stop one of the slavers from raping a fellow owned thing.
Solomon's journey from there is epic and disorienting as director Steve McQueen assaults the senses with staggeringly loud noises to build a raw, uneasy feeling in the viewer to promote anger, rather than solemnity or sadness, as Solomon is shipped to Louisiana. The first stop is the plantation of a minister who treats the slaves rather well, though he is still a guy who claims literal ownership over people and profits off their labor. And when an abusive overseer tries to murder him, this nice guy sells him to a really horrible man named Epps (Michael Fassbender) in the name of protecting him.
Going in, you know the title of the movie, and thus the length of time Solomon is in bondage. And at the beginning, we are given a time stamp that gives us a starting point. But from there we're given no indication of the passage of time. Days come and go, horrible things happen, Solomon continues to pick cotton and be whipped for not meeting a quota. Significant amounts of time are going by, but it's not all that clear how much, either to us or Solomon. Once his ordeal is over and he's reunited with his family, Solomon refers to his time as a slave as "several years," emphasizing that point, which only added to the struggle.
As a cultural examination, the purpose of "12 Years a Slave" is more than just to show how tough those circumstances were on the slaves. As stated outright by Garret Dillahunt's character — a former overseer who drank too much because of the awful things he did every day — and demonstrated by Epps, slavery was ruinous to all parties involved. You can see Solomon fully buy in to his situation over the course of the story, which is painfully degrading in itself, on top of all the other degrading things, and by the end Epps is a complete mess in addition to being evil.
It was on Ejiofor and Fassbender to see those transformations, and they have the eyes to pull it off. Fassbender's change is more subtle, but where early he has a bit of a sparkle in his eye — he's enjoying what he puts the slaves through — by the end his behavior is the same but fueled by the drink, turning what could be probably considered performance art into actually sincere and hate-fueled cruelty. Solomon, on the other hand, eventually just develops a bit of a blank stare, and a long close-up near the end, of him staring without any expression into the distance and then directly into the camera, is out and out disturbing, in context. By then McQueen is allowing you to be mournful, with sad score given prominence in the third act.
"12 Years a Slave" is not to be taken lightly, but it's also an absolute must-see. It works in some real context to a now-abstract era, and also as an unrelentingly brilliant film experience. See it in a theater.
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Deal, who met with coalition members earlier this week, also was accused of making what some consider "racially insensitive remarks" at the end of the hour-long meeting.
"He said and I quote: 'Find some good black people to run for office,' " said Marcus Coleman, president of the National Action Network's Atlanta chapter. "I have a message for the governor: You don't dictate who is good or who is bad when it comes to choosing our leaders."
In response, Robinson said the governor wasn't being racially insensitive. "He said just to make sure they have some good African American candidates who can represent the people of DeKalb on the school board."
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"We believe at least six months, preferably a year, be granted, let the process work," Elgart said.
Deal said, however, that speedy action was required to save the district.
"This is not a show-me proposition, this is a get to work, do the important things that we need to do to fully restore accreditation so that the deserving young people in this school system will not in any way be affected by the consequences of adult actions," Deal said.
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