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Faculty | Program Description | Program Goals | Admission | Benefits | Non-Honors Program Students | LE Certificate | Honors Degree Requirements | Directed Studies
Faculty: Richard Badenhausen (Director), Karlyn Bond, Bill Bynum, Richard Collins, Russell Costa, Lesa Ellis, Peter Goldman, David Goldsmith (Assistant Director), Han Kim, Matt Kruback, Chris LeCluyse, Jeffrey McCarthy, Gary Marquardt, Nick More, Lance Newman, Jeff Nichols, Kristjane Nordmeyer, Giancarlo Panagia, Michael Popich, Natasha Saje, Heidi Van Ert, Michael Vought, John Watkins, Richard Wellman, Michael Zarkin
The Honors Program provides students who are academically and intellectually prepared with the opportunity to satisfy their college-wide Liberal Education course requirements in an alternative and unique manner. By completing a 7-course sequence of interdisciplinary, team-taught Honors courses, students earn an Honors certificate while satisfying those requirements. Moreover, by understanding their historical, scientific, and intellectual heritage, Honors students are prepared to be articulate and responsible members of society and defenders of their own ideas. Students may also continue their study in the program and receive an Honors degree. The program is a member of the National Collegiate Honors Council (NCHC) and the Western Regional Honors Council (WRHC).
Students expressing a desire to enroll in the Honors Program will be ranked according to the following criteria: ACT scores, high school GPA, and the quality of a written statement. Although a typical incoming Honors student has had a 3.80 GPA and a 30 composite ACT score, the range of scores is quite broad. Students who fall near or above these standards and who sincerely wish to be in the program are encouraged to secure an application from the Honors Program or Westminster's Admissions Staff. Questions concerning the application process should be directed to the Director of the Honors Program.
Since a number of high-achieving, upper-class Westminster College students may not have applied to the Honors Program as incoming freshmen but may still wish to participate in some of its classes, any undergraduate in good standing with a 3.5 GPA or higher is eligible to enroll in 300 and 400 level Honors seminars. The Honors Program is an active part of the larger college community and welcomes the energy, intellect, and diversity that students from different disciplines across the campus bring to Honors. Non-Honors Program students enrolling in Honors seminars should check with their program chairs, since these classes will sometimes fulfill certain requirements in a student's own major. Participation in 200-level Honors seminars is restricted to students in the Honors Program.
If an Honors student falls below this GPA, a probationary period of two semesters will be used to allow the student to return to the minimum GPA standards for continued participation.
Students who complete seven courses in the Honors LE sequence will be awarded a special certificate recognizing this achievement (contingent on Westminster graduation). No more than one of these courses may be taken credit/no credit.
A complete description of the equivalencies between LE Honors courses and the standard LE courses is listed below.
|Liberal Education Course Category Requirements
|Honors Course Equivalents
|Learning Community
|HON 201 Humanities I
|Writing and other Communication Skills
Composition and Research
|HON 201–202 Humanities I and II
|Information Literacy
|HON 201–202 Humanities I and II
|Basic Speech Course
(4 of 5 required for SPCH credit)
|Humanities – Courses with strong emphasis on critical, analytical, and integrative thinking in historical, literary, and philosophical contexts.
|HON 201–202 Humanities I and II
|HON 201–202 Humanities I and II
|HON 201–202 Humanities I and II
|Arts – Courses with a strong emphasis on creative and reflective capacities.
|Arts Survey
|HON 212 The Arts in Performance
|Creative Arts
|HON 212 The Arts in Performance
|Science/Mathematics – Courses with strong emphasis on critical, analytical, and integrative thinking in mathematical and scientific contexts.
|No Honors Course
|MATH 120 Quantitative Reasoning
MATH 141 College Algebra
MATH 142 Trigonometry
MATH 150 Elementary Statistics
MATH 201 Calculus I
|Physical Sciences
|HON 221 Hist and Phil of Science
|Life Sciences
|HON 222 Science, Power & Diversity
|Social Sciences – Courses with strong emphasis on global consciousness, social responsibility, and ethical awareness in a social science context.
|Social Sciences I
|HON 211 Political Economy of Conflict
|Social Science II
|HON 231 Human Culture & Behavior
|Living Arts – Courses with a strong emphasis on real-world, life-enhancing knowledge.
|Living Arts
|HON 201 Humanities I
|Diversity – Courses integrate two or more of the following as a major component throughout the course: class,
gender, race, ethnicity, geographic origin, ability, age, sexual orientation and/or religion.
|HON 222 Science, Power & Diversity
Note: While the Honors seminars satisfy Liberal Education requirements, Honors seminars do not satisfy major/minor requirements or prerequisites except in the following cases. Honors students who major or minor in Political Science after completing HON 211 will have satisfied the PLSC 101 requirement. Honors students who complete HON 201 and HON 202 will have satisfied the ENGL 220 requirement for the minor and/or will have satisfied the ENGL 220 prerequisite requirement for placement purposes into English classes beyond ENGL 220. Honors students who complete HON 201 and HON 202 will have satisfied the HIST 112/113 and HIST 212/213 requirement for the History major and minor and/or the prerequisite requirement for placement purposes into History classes beyond this level. Honors students who complete HON 212 will have satisfied the ART 110 requirement for the Art major and minor and/or the prerequisite requirement for placement purposes into Art classes beyond this level. Honors students who complete HON 201 and HON 202 and wish to major or minor in Philosophy must take one of the following: PHIL 102 (Critical Thinking, LE), PHIL 100/100D (Introduction to Philosophy, LE), or PHIL 206/206D (Introduction to Ethics, LE).
Students must maintain a minimum GPA of 3.00 in all Honors coursework, including those courses listed below for the Honors degree, and an overall minimum GPA of 3.25. In addition, the following requirements must be satisfied in order to be awarded the Honors Degree (in the major) at graduation:
|Requirement Description
|Credit Hours
|I. Foreign Language Requirement
Honors Degree students must complete 4 semesters of college-level instruction in a single foreign language or the equivalent. The requirement can be satisfied by coursework or proof of proficiency. For example, an incoming student who begins in Spanish III and successfully completes that course and Spanish IV will have satisfied the requirement. (May term study abroad trips may not be used to satisfy this requirement.)
Honors students who have 12 hours CLEP or proficiency exam credit in a single language, that Westminster does not offer may satisfy the remaining 4-hour requirement by taking 4 hours of coursework in a different foreign language.
Students taking coursework in a foreign language in which Westminster does not offer 4 semesters may complete the requirement with coursework in an additional foreign language.
|II. Lower Division Courses
|HON 201 Humanities I (4)
HON 202 Humanities II (4)
HON 211 Political Economy of Conflict (4)
HON 212 The Arts in Performance (4)
HON 221 History and Philosophy of Science (4)
HON 222 Science, Power, and Diversity (4)
HON 231 Human Culture and Behavior (4)
To receive an Honors degree, no more than one of these courses may be taken credit/no credit.
|III. Upper Division Courses
Completion of 6 hours of coursework in Honors 300 or 400 seminars. May not be taken credit/no credit.
Students are discouraged from satisfying all 6 hours of this requirement through May Term.
|IV. Senior Project/Thesis
Completion of a senior project in the student's major for a minimum of 3 credit hours. Students whose majors do not accommodate a senior project may enroll in HON 402. Students whose majors employ a practicum, internship, exhibition, or recital as the senior capstone experience must include a significant written component in which they reflect on that experience. The nature of such projects will be determined in conjunction with the Director of Honors and the student's major advisor. All students completing a thesis or senior project for the Honors Degree must fill out the thesis topic approval and completion forms, which are available in the Honors office, and present their completed work in a public setting such as a regional academic conference, Westminster's undergraduate research fair, or some equivalent venue.
Students who complete all the necessary coursework and satisfy the requirements for the Honors Degree, but fall below the minimum Honors Degree GPA requirements, will be awarded the Honors certificate.
Please contact the Director of the Honors Program for more detailed information concerning the requirements for the Honors Degree.
Students may sometimes wish to satisfy some of their Honors hours by enrolling in a directed study project under HON 401. This allows a student to design, in conjunction with a faculty member, an independent project that adopts an interdisciplinary approach to materials that are not covered in another Honors class. Directed study forms are available in the office of the registrar or the individual school offices. The course should be designed with the same care and thoroughness as standard Honors courses and the directed study form should, therefore, contain a comprehensive reading list of primary and secondary sources, a series of questions the student will address, a clear explanation of assignments, and the method of assessment.
Generally, students wishing to apply directed study hours toward their 6-hour Honors Degree requirement should not satisfy more than 3 hours of coursework this way during the standard semester or more than 2 hours of coursework if done in conjunction with a May term class or trip. Students should consult the Honors director for assistance in designing directed study projects.
|Humanities I and II
|This two-semester, intensive sequence is the "gateway" seminar to Honors. It explores the Classical tradition and its legacy through the development of Western culture and civilization by focusing on a particular theme each year like "friendship," "the expression of power," crossing borders," "planned communities," etc. The course emphasizes the use and critical analysis of primary sources like Homer's Odyssey, Plato's Republic, Dante's Inferno, Descartes' Meditations, Shelley's Frankenstein, Conrad's Heart of Darkness, and Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil, though the reading list changes annually.
|Political Economy of Conflict
|This course investigates a variety of perspectives in the study of the political economy of conflict from conservative, liberal, and radical perspectives. Concentration is on methodologies that illustrate the differences and similarities among the various approaches to the study of economics and politics.
|The Arts in Performance
|Covers the development and appreciation of the arts, primarily through exploring the relationship between the theory and practice of artistic performance.
|History and Philosophy of Science
|This course traces the contributions to modern science of non-Western cultures like China, Egypt, Mesopotamia, India, and the Islamic world in areas of astronomy and cosmology, mathematics, natural history and natural philosophy. It considers the development of scientific knowledge and technology from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia through the 19th century, and shows how the concepts and ideas developed by these cultures help establish the foundation for Western science.
|Science, Power, and Diversity
|This course explores the social construction of the science-power relationships that influence discovery and applications of technology, especially in terms of how scientific discovery is transmitted and received by media and society, respectively. It emphasizes seminal scientific issues of the twentieth century and the present, such as the language of science, the exclusion of women and minorities from scientific discourse, genetic predisposition to disease, gender issues in scientific research, and ethnicity bioethics in studies and treatment of HIV, among others. This course meets the LE Diversity requirement.
|Human Culture and Behavior
|This seminar explores a number of conceptual subject matters pertinent to the disciplines of psychology, sociology, and anthropology. Topics focus on human culture and behavior from social, behavioral, and cultural perspectives. For example, past seminars centered on human sexuality have investigated sexual practices, attitudes, behaviors, sexual orientations, and transsexuality. A range of theoretical and scientific perspectives are applied to provide a more complete picture of historical and contemporary human culture and behavior.
|Special Topics
|These seminar topics vary from year to year. They primarily focus on specific topics raised in the interdisciplinary Honors LE courses, e.g., The Concept of Scientific Change or War, Trauma, and Narrative, but which are explored in depth in these seminars. May be taken more than once for credit. Departmental special topics courses may be crosslisted with these seminars. Offered Fall, Spring and May Term.
|Directed Studies in Honors
|A tutorial-based course used only for student-initiated proposals for intensive individual study of topics not otherwise offered in the Honors Program and for student-initiated, interdisciplinary research projects. Prerequisite: consent of instructor(s), Honors director, and school dean.
|Senior Project/Thesis
|A self-directed project or thesis that covers a topic in the student's major discipline or of an interdisciplinary nature and therefore not covered under a single discipline-specific thesis course. Project completed with a supervisory committee of at least two faculty members: one as a lead sponsor/mentor and one or more as second readers(s). At least one of the sponsors or readers must be an Honors Program faculty member. Honors thesis hours do not count toward the six hours required for the Honors degree. Prerequisite: senior standing and consent of instructors and Honors director.


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on March 17, 2013 - 12:10 AM
Danny White must have been really nervous for awhile there. Two weeks ago, UB knocked off an Akron team that had the longest winning streak in the country. They won two games in the MAC Tournament, and were leading Kent State in the second half of the quarterfinals Thursday in Cleveland.
But the Bulls lost to Kent by two, and White wasted no time making his move. On Friday, UB's young athletic director fired Reggie Witherspoon as the men's basketball coach, ending Witherspoon's 14-year run as head man.
White said it was as difficult a thing as he's done in his career (of course, he's only 33). But when a coach with three years and roughly $750,000 left on his contract gets fired by a New York state university, it does give one pause. I suspect White had this move in mind from the moment he walked through the doors at UB last May.
The new AD was a baby by Division I standards, but White was also big-time. He played hoops at Notre Dame. His dad is the AD at Duke. He was an associate AD in the SEC at Mississippi before taking over in Buffalo. As a rising basketball guy, you know he wanted his own man in the job.
So White had to act while he had a chance, at the end of a 20-loss season. He couldn't risk waiting a year, because Witherspoon would probably win.
Next year, Javon McCrea will be a senior and contender for MAC Player of the Year. Point guard Jarod Oldham, who missed most of the season with an injury, will be a senior. Jarryn Skeete, who made the MAC All-Freshman Team after being forced into action at the point, returns. Will Regan, who came on late in the year, is back.
UB will be among the conference favorites next season. You want to talk about difficult? It would have been difficult for White to justify firing Witherspoon if UB won 20 games for the third time in four years.
It's a perfect setup for White and the next coach. The new guy will inherit a veteran team on the rise. White will likely provide more resources than ever before – starting with better pay for the assistants – and the Bulls will have a big bump in wins, making White look like a genius.
White said he wants to take the basketball program to the "next level." If the quest for greatness means pushing a good man out the door, so be it. But this is the same AD who gave his football coach, Jeff Quinn, a five-year extension for winning nine games in three years.
Evidently, White has a much higher standard for basketball, the sport he played and coached. OK, then he will be held to a high standard as well. He needs to find a coach who won't simply contend for MAC titles, but win them, and do it while maintaining high personal and academic standards and being a respected presence in the community.
There's no need to feel sorry for Witherspoon. He had a nice run at UB. He took a program that was ravaged by scandal and built it into a MAC contender in four years. During a 24-month period from 2004-06, UB won 50 games and came within an eyelash of the NCAA Tournament.
But Witherspoon never won the big one; he never got to the NCAA Tournament. He never quite capitalized on the momentum of that exhilarating early run, when he was the face of local basketball and games at Alumni Arena became an event for the students and hoop fans in the community.
You could see parallels to Lindy Ruff: A good guy who endures for more than a decade, wanting to win big in the community he loved. Each had earned respect within his sport. Witherspoon was an assistant on junior national teams, Ruff for the Canadian Olympic team.
Witherspoon is a Buffalo native, a man who dreamed of making basketball relevant in the city again. He actually worked in the Arena before Ruff and Darcy Regier arrived, as head of basketball operations with Pete Lonergan in the early days of the new building in the mid-1990s.
I've known Witherspoon for more than 20 years, since former Baker Victory coach Joe Corey told me about a bright young Sweet Home coach who had become the first black suburban high school head basketball coach in Western New York history.
From the first time I saw him run a high school practice, I knew Reggie was the real thing. He was a brilliant basketball intellect, and passionate about local hoop history. He taught me much of what I know about the sport in Buffalo.
Witherspoon had plenty of doubters when he took over UB in late 1999. He never shook the label of the small-time local guy who was hand-picked from Erie CC by a fellow Sweet Home graduate Bob Arkeilpane. His critics could never accept the idea that a local guy could succeed at that level.
But he's as good a teacher of the game as I ever saw. Witherspoon took walk-ons and marginal talents and turned them into viable MAC players. His recruiting was often an issue, though. He did a nice job with this year's team, but the Bulls had a thin roster that was of his own making.
It's great to build average players into good ones. Almost every player who came to UB got better, and usually left with a degree. But coaching only gets you so far. You need talent. You win titles with stars. Witherspoon seemed wary of the star system. His dream team would have had six players all averaging 12 points a game.
Of course, Witherspoon was forced to operate with fewer resources than his rivals in the MAC. He wasn't able to "buy" home games against lesser opponents. UB didn't travel by charter, like other top MAC teams. He didn't have as much to pay his assistants. Turner Battle turned down a more lucrative offer from a lesser mid-major program to be an assistant at UB.
Winning isn't easy at UB. Just ask the football coaches who have won less frequently than Witherspoon in the MAC. The plodding success of the football program has held the athletic department back financially and made it difficult to pour more resources into basketball.
Still, White decided to let Witherspoon go, which in total cost the school close to $1 million. It's an expensive gamble by White, who will likely have to bump up the salary of his next coach and his staff, as Canisius did to lure Jim Baron to Buffalo.
White is putting his reputation on the line. By extending Quinn's deal and firing Witherspoon, he's setting a higher standard for basketball. He has a hoop background and a more ambitious vision, and he's going to show us all how the game is meant to be played.
Let's hope he succeeds. Otherwise, people might look back at the Witherspoon years and realize just how good they had it.
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Football Gets 11 Named Phil Steele Preseason All-MAC
Ball State has 11 student-athletes represented on the Phil Steele Publications Preseason All-Mid-American Conference Team, which is the third most of the 13 MAC schools.
Jahwan Edwards and Jordan Williams were selected to the first team, while Ben Ingle and Brian Jones were named to the second team. Nick Miles, Jacob Richard, Jalen Schlachter and Kyle Schmidt are third-team honorees, while Eric Patterson, Zack Ryan and Scott Secor made the fourth team.
Edwards, a senior running back for the Cardinals, was a 2013 All-MAC Second Team selection after rushing for 1,110 yards as a junior. He ranked 19th in the nation last season with 14 rushing touchdowns, which tied his own mark of 14 in 2012 for the third-best single-season total in Ball State history. Edwards set the Ball State career rushing TD record (39) and the school's career total touchdown record (39) as a junior.
Williams, a 2013 All-MAC Third Team choice, is a junior wide receiver for Ball State. He played in 12 games last season and managed 72 catches for 1,050 yards and 10 touchdowns. Williams had a career high 12 catches for 124 yards vs. Akron in 2013.
Ingle, a junior linebacker, was a 2013 All-MAC Second Team honoree after leading the Cardinals in tackles a season ago. He tallied 116 tackles last season, plus added one sack and one interception. Jones, who will be a fifth-year senior safety for the Cardinals in 2014, managed 97 tackles, 5.5 tackles for loss and six pass breakups a year ago. Jones was second for the team in tackles last season.
Miles, a senior defensive end, started 25 straight games for the Cardinals and tallied 42 tackles, including 8.5 TFLs with five sacks in 2013. Schmidt, a sophomore punter, averaged 40.9 yards per punt as a redshirt freshman in 2013. Peterson will be in his final season as a defensive back after registering 63 tackles, 1.5 tackles for loss, one interception, one forced fumble and eight pass breakups as a junior. Ryan, a sophomore linebacker, tallied 92 tackles with two forced fumbles and one fumble recovery as a redshirt freshman last season. He was third for the Cardinals in tackles in 2013.
Richard and Schlachter, a pair of junior offensive linemen, helped anchor an offensive line that blocked for record setting seasons by Keith Wenning (quarterback), Willie Snead (wide receiver) and Edwards last season. The duo also helped Ball State rank 17th in the nation for fewest sacks allowed with an average of only 1.17 per game.
Ball State completed the 2013 season with a 10-3 overall record and a second straight bowl appearance when the Cardinals competed in the GoDaddy Bowl. Ball State will open the 2014 season with a home game vs. Colgate Sat., Aug. 30, at Scheumann Stadium.


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the first time i read the review i didn't really like it, mostly because i had skimmed it so i didn't see alot of things that were in it (i still haven't read the whole thing yet). but after read skimming it i saw some promising things. like the fact that keith is going to be a military survivor from the war and that foreshadows his leadership role (in my opinion).
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Tony Donno - Testing out Virtual Server
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You guys read my mind! I was going to ask if there would be a Virtual Server 2005 demo too since most people haven't used it.
Robert you asked Tony during the video about using Virutal Server for academic purposes. While I am not using Virtual Server for this exact implementation at Grand Valley State University I have advocated one scenario and physically run another.
The first scenario that I have managed to get approved and it will be implemented over the summer is running virtual PC in our Computer Science Teaching Lab. This lab is used for 2 different datacom courses and currently all of the systems are setup in pairs (one XP and one 2003 Server). Students currently have to work in pairs and part of the lab is installing and configuring a 2003 domain with a client. The problem is that if the lab before you does the install you may or may not get to do it depending on the mood the teacher is in. What I have advocated is running a managed environment in the lab that is extremely restrictive (the lab has has problems with viruses since all students know the admin passwords for the lab domain) then setup virtual hard disks on the servers which a student can download and use. Each student would then get their own N 2003 servers and M XP clients as well as the possibility of runnign other clients such as linux in order to setup a mixed environment. Anyhow I can go into this more if people want to contact me, but I will cut this short here.
The second environment that I acutally run is a 2003 Server environment. Our university (as many others) only supports an open source development environment and the sys admin does not want to have anything to do with Microsoft Windows (though he is slowing changing his mind since his box was hacked more then mine this year. He is at 4+, the 2003 server is still at 0). Anyhow the department would not support my efforts fully at the time being and so I only had one server to work with. Since I was setting up a Terminal Server developement environment I wanted to have the ability to rebuild the terminal server if needed to add or remove software depending on what projects were going on during the semester. So I began to look at virtual server. The current environment is setup as such
The TS system is setup in a secure way to let each user develop and debug both winforms application and asp.net application (thanks to AppPools). It has been a very nice setup and students are really enjoying the environment.
The one major problem is that NO ONE else at the university understands the servers and since I am moving across the country (to Redmond ) in about 24 days they are frantically begging me now to explaing things (which I tried to do in the past). We are planning a seminar in the next 2 weeks so that a few faculty members can see how things work, but my guess is that I will be getting alot of phone calls over the next year.
Anyhow just a tribute to the beauty I see in the virtualized environments . Sorry for the book...
We have reviewed the video and are currently testing VS to use for our Terminal Server Farm. We host over 850 users on 20 Terminal Server with over 150 applications. VS could deliver us a solution of conflicting applications loaded on the same box. My
thinking is that we create VS's for each company. They have their own VS and Boom! no more application conflicts within the OS.
Scaling this type of use of VS is going to be the interesting part. I will be evaluating each company and thier applications. That is the challenge.
Thanks for the New Technology! Great Video!
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A fact that became fiction, due to excess exaggeration. Usually describing stories told by others.
The story John told you about the party was so factional, he didn't get laid at all.
Por Martin Martyr 18 de marzo de 2009
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Its a mix of friction and facts, so its neither true or false
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Instead of eagerly preparing for his daughter's fourth birthday celebration, Dusten Brown grew worried Wednesday that he would be arrested and miss the milestone.
"My goal in the Baby Veronica case has been to encourage both Mr. Brown and the Capobianco family to reach a quick settlement and come to an agreement that protects Veronica's best interests. I said previously that I was willing to delay Mr. Brown's extradition to South Carolina as long as all parties were working together in good faith to pursue such a settlement. I also outlined parameters for what I believe to be acting in 'good faith': both Mr. Brown and the Capobianco family should be able to see Veronica; both parties should continue meeting to pursue a resolution outside of court; and both parties must obey the courts and the rule of law.
"Unfortunately, it has become clear that Dusten Brown is not acting in good faith. He has disobeyed an Oklahoma court order to allow the Capobianco's to visit their adopted daughter and continues to deny visitation. He is acting in open violation of both Oklahoma and South Carolina courts, which have granted custody of Veronica to the Capobianco's. Finally, he has cut off negotiations with the Capobianco's and shown no interest in pursuing any other course than yet another lengthy legal battle.
"As governor, I am committed to upholding the rule of law. As a mother, I believe it is in the best interests of Veronica to help end this controversy and find her a permanent home. For both of these reasons, I have signed the extradition order to send Mr. Brown to South Carolina."
Oklahoma's governor signed an extradition warrant that cleared the way for authorities there to arrest Brown and send him to Charleston, where he faces a felony charge of custodial interference for refusing to give up Veronica. The toddler, who was adopted by a James Island couple she lived with for 27 months, turns 4 on Sept. 15.
"(Her birthday is) the kind of thing he wishes he could just focus on and relish," Brown's Charleston attorney, Shannon Jones, said Wednesday after talking with him by telephone. "But instead he's getting arrested for interfering with the so-called parental rights of third parties.
"It is the sickest and saddest thing I've ever seen in my career."
Lori Alvino McGill, the Washington attorney for Veronica's birth mother who has spoken in favor of the adoptive parents, praised the governor's "decisive action" to help end the case.
"Veronica deserves the right to go home now, without yet more court orders or the intervention of law enforcement," said Alvino McGill, who declined to discuss Oklahoma court proceedings. "Brown's continued refusal to abide by the law is hurting everyone involved, especially Veronica."
Brown has been fighting Veronica's adoption by Matt and Melanie Capobianco of James Island.
Veronica's birth mother gave her up for adoption to the Capobiancos shortly after she was born, and Veronica lived with them until she was 2 years old. Before the adoption could be finalized, Brown, a member of the Cherokee tribe, used the heritage he shares with Veronica to get custody in late 2011 through the Indian Child Welfare Act.
Courts have ruled that Veronica's adoption by the Capobiancos is legal, but Brown has refused to recognize it.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley requested Brown's extradition from Oklahoma to South Carolina on Aug. 13.
Charleston County deputies were sent to Oklahoma last week. Maj. Jim Brady said the sheriff had no comment on the latest development, and it's not clear when Brown might be transported here.
Veronica remains in Oklahoma. The Capobiancos have been in Oklahoma trying to get her back. Brown's extradition does not affect her placement.
Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin pointed out that Brown's arguments against Veronica's adoption have been rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court as well as courts in South Carolina and Oklahoma. She said she delayed signing the extradition order hoping the two families would work out an agreement, but Brown has not cooperated.
"Unfortunately, it has become clear that Dusten Brown is not acting in good faith," she said in a press release Wednesday. "He has disobeyed an Oklahoma court order to allow the Capobiancos to visit their adopted daughter and continues to deny visitation. He is acting in open violation of both Oklahoma and South Carolina courts, which have granted custody of Veronica to the Capobiancos. Finally, he has cut off negotiations with the Capobiancos and shown no interest in pursuing any other course than yet another lengthy legal battle."
The Capobiancos are not able to talk about the governor's order because of legal constraints, family spokesman Jessica Munday said.
Brown will continue to fight for his daughter, according to his attorney. "Dusten is still fighting," Jones said. "We are all continuing to fight for a just outcome in this case."
The Cherokee Nation's secretary of state, Chuck Hoskin Jr., said late Wednesday that Fallin had injected herself into the judicial process without letting Brown thoroughly challenge the adoption in an attempt to coerce Brown into handing over Veronica.
Hoskin called the move "unacceptable" and said Oklahoma voters wouldn't forget it.
"We feel that the governor had failed in her duty to protect our most vulnerable citizens, which is exactly what Veronica Brown is," Hoskin said in a statement. "We all continue to pray that a court will determine what is in Veronica best interests, which has yet to happen."
The Capobiancos and Brown were together in an Oklahoma courtroom Wednesday, according to The Tulsa World. It was the sixth courtroom in three weeks to hear arguments over some element of the case, according to the local newspaper. The Capobiancos and Brown were present at a hearing at the Muskogee County Courthouse, the newspaper reported.
With a gag order in place and all records sealed, it's not clear what was being discussed at Wednesday's hearing.
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The number of men compared to females. The ratio should be taken in to consideration to avoid a sausage fest.
Person 1 "Did you go to Jacobs yesterday it was a sausage fest"
Person 2 " They obviously didn't take the ratio in to consideration"
Person 2 " They obviously didn't take the ratio in to consideration"
od uživatele Mavro 09. červenec 2012
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the balance between the level of attractiveness and the level of asshole-ness. In short, the hotter you are the more tolerable and common dick-like behavior is. However, there are exceptions. Specifically those who seem to have a distorted self image and think they are the shit when in reality they simply look like shit. Lower levels of attractiveness can be compensated with: good sense of humor, intelligence, or kindness. But the ratio must remain balanced.
John does not adhere to The Ratio, he's fat and ugly and yet he continues to act like a douchebag. He is upsetting the ratio and is thus disgustingly unattractive.
od uživatele tamale69 30. květen 2010
"The Ratio" is a fundamental rule of life, relating to the direct correlation between the attractivenes and assholiness of a male. With "The Ratio," degrees of attractiveness = degrees of assholiness. Men who are uglier must act nicer to attract a mate and men who are more attractive already attract them, so they act like assholes. Exceptions to "The Ratio" include men who perceive themselves to be more attractive than they actually are (these individuals usually fail to get a mate). Other exceptions include males with distorted self-images who consider themselves less attractive than they actually are, so they display kindness as well (these usually are very desirable as mates).
Man I really hate The Ratio.
od uživatele Tessaliciousness 30. květen 2010
Any statement which compares the number of men attending an event to the amount of women attending an event.
Peter North: Yo, what's the ratio gonna be like?
Ron Jeremy: I don't know. I think it's mostly going to be women.
Peter North: Sweet! I'm going to fuck all of them.
Ron Jeremy: No! I will fuck them all!
Peter North: There's only one way to settle this! Cockfight!!!
Ron Jeremy: I don't know. I think it's mostly going to be women.
Peter North: Sweet! I'm going to fuck all of them.
Peter North: There's only one way to settle this! Cockfight!!!
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Once I bought the lcd monitor ebay emailed me the invoice shortly thereafter.
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quote: Google Maps isn't on it yet along with Google Navigation
quote: phone makers still haven't made phones with as big of screens and as good of hardware as Android phones
quote: Just aren't what I'm looking for
quote: the next Surface RT would be on my radar
quote: Don't you know that Samsung ATIV S has the same advanced hardware that GS3 has?
quote: it seems fairly clear that the initial launch of W8 on phones and tablet has been, from Microsoft's perspective, a failure.
quote: (you know, all that stuff that makes windows great)
quote: One thing you can't say about MS is that they are trying to keep everyone sucked into the Windows ecosystem. They are doing way less of that than google or apple. MS has more software products that run on android than google does on winphone, and MS has more products on iOS than Apple does on Windows.
quote: And I know two people who drive Pontiac Aztec's... Numbers don't lie, most people don't want anything to do with W8.
quote: The loud backlash of complaints you hear is called a "vocal minority"
quote: And where is that statistic from? A poll on a tech savvy website telling you how many power users dislike Win8? All of the "average" people I've met that tried Windows 8 seem to like it. My mom happens to love her Surface RT, she's using it every second of the day.
quote: The loud backlash of complaints you hear is called a "vocal minority"
quote: The problem with that statement is that if you're a customer, you want the product to be good right now.
quote: I'm not taking the chance of getting shafted again.
quote: No one besides Apple supports their devices for more than a year, in rare cases two years.


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The Winnebago County Forest Preserve District is one of 19 agencies to receive this grant in 2013. The NRPA grant funds will be used to purchase ten canoes to be used by WCFPD staff in providing educational and recreational public programs.
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on February 9, 2013 - 11:15 PM
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NIAGARA FALLS – The weird popping and hissing sounds coming from their basement offered the first sign that something was wrong.
Then a foul chemical smell filled the first floor of Melanie and Zachary Herr's home, burning their eyes and nostrils.
Next, their dogs and cats started vomiting. In the basement, the cap blew off a sewer pipe.
"I'm getting out of here," Melanie told her husband that day in February 2011, "and I'm taking the kids."
The Herrs live on 93rd Street in Niagara Falls, about a quarter mile from the infamous Love Canal, the toxic dump that, in the late 1970s, became a national symbol of the dangers of hazardous wastes.
Nearly 25 years after the state and federal governments declared that the Love Canal neighborhood was a safe place for people to live, even though 21,800 tons of toxic waste remain buried there, new questions are being raised.
Is history repeating itself at the Love Canal?
Is the neighborhood really safe?
The Herrs and two other families have filed a $113 million state lawsuit, alleging that the chemical landfill at Love Canal is leaking and that people in the nearby neighborhood have become ill from those chemicals.
More than 300 additional families – current or former residents of the repopulated Love Canal neighborhood – are talking about joining the lawsuit, according to the attorneys who filed the legal action.
"We have reason to believe that Love Canal-era chemicals have migrated onto our yards and into our homes. We have suffered property damage and serious ongoing health problems," the three families wrote in an October 2011 letter to state and federal officials. "The matter is urgent."
Local, state and federal officials are adamant that the new neighborhood is safe. They say the poisonous chemicals from Love Canal have been securely sealed. The chemicals are not spreading, they say, and there is daily monitoring of the 70-acre landfill where the chemicals are buried.
"I wouldn't have any problem living across the street from Love Canal," said Niagara Falls Mayor Paul A. Dyster, who does not live in the Love Canal neighborhood.
The EPA in 2004 removed Love Canal from its national list of Superfund waste sites, declaring that "all cleanup work at the site has been completed" and calling the neighborhood "a thriving community."
"People love it here," said Michael J. Basile, a spokesman for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. "They know it's safe. ... It's monitored on a daily basis. ... If we ever did discover a problem, we'd see that it was fixed immediately."
Buying into Love Canal
The Herrs said they knew a bit about the history of Love Canal when they bought their home – within sight of the landfill – at the bargain price of $40,000 in February 2002.
They knew that hundreds of families were evacuated after then-President Jimmy Carter declared portions of the neighborhood an environmental disaster in 1979. Once the families moved out, hundreds of millions of dollars were spent to clean up the neighborhood and make sure the chemicals were safely buried.
The next step was to refurbish about 300 abandoned homes near the toxic landfill, while government agencies also encouraged other development in the neighborhood, including two playgrounds, a baseball-softball complex for youngsters, an 80-unit senior apartments complex and a senior citizens activities center.
The neighborhood was also given a new name: Black Creek Village.
Finally, the neighborhood was ready for resettling, and a well-publicized campaign began to sell the refurbished houses to new occupants.
The Herrs were among those who moved in.
They said a real estate agent repeatedly assured them that all the toxic waste was safely stored underground at the landfill and that government agencies had checked the neighborhood for chemical contamination and declared it completely safe.
"They said it was the safest place in the Falls," Zachary Herr recalled.
Getting a $40,000 home in "move-in condition" in a suburban-looking, low-crime neighborhood close to a playground seemed too good to pass up, the Herrs said.
But after nine years in the house and the basement sewer incident in February 2011, their optimism changed. The Herrs wonder if they made a mistake that put their children in danger.
Melanie Herr and the couple's two children moved to a relative's home for about a year after the sewer incident. They have since moved back.
For years, Melanie Herr, her son and daughter have experienced a variety of health problems, including asthma, severe headaches and skin rashes.
Another family that lived a few blocks away had worse trouble. Their baby boy was born with clubbed feet and other birth defects. That family, the Korsons, abandoned their home in Niagara Falls and moved to Pennsylvania last year.
"It's horrible being here. You constantly worry about your kids," said Zachary Herr, 36, a technician with a local biomedical company. "I feel like I'm stuck here. I can't in good faith sell this place to someone else."
Monitoring the site
At first glance, the 70-acre landfill of Love Canal looks like a sprawling, grass-covered park, with gently rolling hills and small trees. It's not unusual to see people walking their dogs in the neighborhood, just outside the landfill.
A closer look reveals several small buildings and hundreds of pipes, air-monitoring devices and monitoring wells all over the property, which is surrounded by a tall, chain-link fence.
Glenn Springs Holdings, a subsidiary of Occidental Chemical, monitors the landfill with computers, 24 hours a day. Glenn Springs pays another company, Conestoga-Rovers & Associates, or CRA, to run the landfill.
"The health and safety of the surrounding community and neighborhood is our No. 1 priority," said Eric Moses, a Glenn Springs spokesman.
On the site, wastewater is pumped into huge metal tanks and filtered twice through carbon before being channeled into the city sewers. The water is then processed again at the Niagara Falls Water Treatment Center and discharged into the Niagara River and, ultimately, it tumbles over Niagara Falls.
Each year, the landfill processes 3 million to 6 million gallons of "leachate" – water that becomes contaminated with chemicals as it leaches through the Love Canal property. The amount of leachate depends on the amount of rain and snow in a given year.
The filtration system can process more than 150 gallons of leachate each minute.
One employee is usually on duty at the landfill, watching computers that show what is being measured by monitoring wells throughout the landfill, according to Glenn Springs and Occidental officials.
As long as the monitoring wells show that leachate is draining toward the center of the landfill – rather than out toward the surrounding neighborhood – the company says it can be sure the landfill is functioning properly.
There never has been any indication that leachate is flowing away from the landfill toward the neighborhood, according to these officials, and the company said it has never found any holes or cracks in the thick cap of clay or the plastic liner that covers the toxic waste.
The state Department of Environmental Conservation works closely with Glenn Springs, company officials said. And if state inspectors ever have doubts or questions about the operation, they can come in, unannounced, and inspect the landfill.
The company hires laboratories to examine samples taken from the monitoring wells each year. At times, the state DEC has also hired laboratories to do independent examinations of the same samples, but that independent testing hasn't been done in the past two years, company officials said.
Dyster, now in his second term as Niagara Falls mayor, said he is satisfied that the landfill is being run properly.
"It's very closely monitored. There are a lot of eyes watching," Dyster said.
But something happened in early 2011 that made a lot of people question whether everything was running as smoothly as government officials said.
Toxins found in 2011
In January 2011, poisonous waste was discovered in a Colvin Boulevard sanitary sewer just outside the landfill.
The city had hired a local contractor to clean up sewers and storm drains in the residential neighborhood near the landfill. It was supposed to be a routine maintenance job. Workers dug a 50-foot trench near Colvin and 96th Street, near the city-run LaSalle senior citizens center.
But while inside the trench, the workers found sediment contaminated with toxic chemicals, including some so caustic that they disintegrated the shoelaces of one worker. The chemicals found at the site "can be directly linked" to the Love Canal waste site, the Herrs' suit asserts.
One of the toxic materials in the trench was an oily, poisonous substance called NAPL, or non-aqueous phase liquid. Another was trichlorobenzene, a chemical formerly used in solvents and pesticides.
Rather than calling immediately for a qualified environmental cleanup crew, workers used high-pressure hoses to try to clean up the material, according to the lawsuit.
Workers also tried to "flush" the material down sewers and storm drains. Those actions resulted in "dispersing the contaminants even further onto and into the property and homes" of nearby residents, the Herrs' lawsuit asserts.
After that, the trench was left open "for weeks," the lawsuit alleges.
It was during that time that the incident occurred in the Herrs' basement in February. Other homes in the neighborhood were also contaminated, the lawsuit alleges.
The fact that the oily substance was found in the sewer line indicates that dangerous substances are escaping from the Love Canal landfill, the Herrs and their attorneys contend.
State disputes the link
State and federal officials offer a different explanation.
Yes, there are chemicals on the Herrs' property and two others, but the levels found at these three homes are "typical" for urban neighborhoods, according to officials of the DEC. And the levels are within acceptable limits for properties near a remedial cleanup site, the state says.
The section of sewer line where workers found the toxic chemicals was just one of 17 sections recently repaired in the neighborhood. No contamination was found in any of the other 16 sections, the DEC said.
The NAPL contamination appears to have been isolated to that one section of sewer, which was more than 20 feet below the surface, the state agency said.
That material probably had been there for years, according to the DEC and the EPA.
In addition, after the toxic material was found in the trench, a new monitoring well was installed nearby. No additional toxic material has been found in that well, the DEC said.
The toxic material "appears to be some residual material from decades ago, and there was no evidence that the chemicals found in the sewer bedding on Colvin ... had migrated from the Love Canal site since the containment system was installed," the state agency said after an investigation.
The sewer incident caused no lasting danger to the public, according to state and federal officials.
But some people remained skeptical.
Suspicions remain
The Herrs and two other families sent a 20-page letter to the EPA in October 2011. Their letter referred to strange, unsettling things that allegedly occurred in the neighborhood after the sewer incident:
• Several neighbors had pets that developed unexplained lumps on their bodies, infections and cancers. One neighbor has had four dogs or cats die of cancer.
• White foam was sometimes seen on roads, sewers and drains, and neighbors reported seeing chemicals in puddles.
• High concentrations of toxic substances were found at the homes of the three lawsuit plaintiffs.
• Workers from the city and state were repeatedly seen digging, sampling the dirt, removing trees, cleaning sewers and flushing out hydrants at the senior citizens center adjacent to the landfill. Some neighbors complain that these incidents are never explained to them.
An EPA official responded in a letter to the families last year.
Those neighborhood incidents were thoroughly investigated, and it was determined that the Love Canal containment system is operating "properly and effectively," the EPA said.
Yet many people who spoke to the legal team that filed the Herrs' lawsuit believe they have experienced serious health problems as a result of living near Love Canal, according to Steven J. Phillips, one of the lead lawyers in the lawsuit. Phillips, though, would not provide numbers or specific information about the hazards.
But the health problems, Phillips said, include babies born with birth defects and adults with serious illnesses such as cancers or heart problems.
Much more information about health problems will be made public as the lawsuit proceeds, said Phillips, a New York City attorney who specializes in environmental safety.
"There are grave questions about how the remediation of Love Canal was designed and implemented ... and about the monitoring," Phillips said. And government monitoring of the site has been "lax, sloppy, incompetent and possibly criminal," Phillips said.
Environmental activist Stephen U. Lester, who has done extensive research at Love Canal over the past 35 years, agrees with Phillips. He is the science director of the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, a Virginia-based not-for-profit environmental activism group founded by Lester's wife, former Love Canal resident Lois Gibbs.
The government never should have allowed people to resettle in a neighborhood surrounding a landfill full of dangerous chemicals, Lester said.
Many people who moved into the neighborhood – such as the Herrs – were not made fully aware of the dangers, he said.
Phillips also calls attention to the group monitoring operations at the landfill. When The Buffalo News asked state and federal officials for safety reports on the landfill, the government agencies turned over reports compiled by Glenn Springs Holdings, the very company that runs the landfill.
"There's an ancient legal doctrine called 'putting the fox in charge of the hen house.' It's not a good situation," Phillips said. "There's nothing wrong with letting the fox file reports with the government, but you darn well ought to have some independent verification and scrutiny by the government."
State officials work closely with Glenn Springs, according to state DEC spokeswoman Emily DeSantis, and they are constantly staying on top of the situation and making sure the reports from Glenn Springs are accurate.
"DEC staff actively oversees the long-term operation and maintenance of the facility, through site visits and the review of operation monitoring reports," DeSantis said. "In addition, the [federal EPA] also conducts a review of the Love Canal remediation every five years."
Video: Watch EPA spokesman Mike Basile describe the toxics at Love Canal
Some people who live in the neighborhood say the lawsuit is nothing more than a money grab, engineered by lawyers who hope to make millions by exploiting Love Canal's past.
That drew an angry reaction from the Herrs.
"There is no amount of money that would make me want my kids to be sick," Zachary Herr said.
Those people "will feel different when something happens to them," his wife said.
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Don ZanFagna, an artist and teacher whose imagination led to fantastical designs and ruminations on how architecture and nature can better coexist, died last week after years of declining health, including dementia, according to his family. He was 84.
ZanFagna's "Pulse Dome" series of pictures and notebook sketches was presented as a major exhibition at the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art in September last year.
The artist was born in Providence and grew up in Saunderstown, not far from Newport, part of a sizable Italian-American community. The young ZanFagna oriented himself to the sea from an early age, his wife Joyce ZanFagna said. "He grew up on the water, he loved everything about the water."
The ZanFagnas met at the University of Michigan in 1951. He was an engineering student and the star quarterback of the football team. He also played baseball (which he liked best). She studied art.
While he was there, he met the iconic designer-theorist Buckminster Fuller, who was visiting campus to give a lecture. The famous futurist and the future futurist began an occasional correspondence.
Fuller would remain an influence on ZanFagna throughout his career. The younger thinker was especially taken by Fuller's idea of tensegrity (a contraction of tensional integrity), which is the engineering principle of tension and compression among polyhedrons that create self-supporting structures. (It was this concept and other related ideas that led Fuller to perfect the design of the geodesic dome.)
ZanFagna's athletic prowess nearly landed him a position with the San Francisco 49ers. The Brooklyn Dodgers invited him to join the team. The Boston Red Sox wooed him. The New York Yankees reached out to him.
Instead he pursued art, first as a member of the U.S. military, then as an academic.
ZanFagna also was a musician who played trombone well enough to sit in Al Green's band back in the day when they both were stationed at Webb Air Force Base in Texas. And he became a respected teacher and outspoken environmentalist.
His interests in mythology, human behavior, design and science converged in his art. He started the Pulse Dome series, and then the Cyborg series, both of which propose solutions to difficult environmental problems. He was interested in discovering ways to build sustainable living environments that leveraged nature without exploiting it, his wife said.
At the start of the 1970s, the ZanFagnas moved to the New York City area. ZanFagna taught art at Rutgers University and was visiting eco-architecture professor at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
He started a new company called CEASE (Center for Ecological Action to Save the Environment), which provided consulting services to numerous individual and institutional clients.
He was a speaker at the first Earth Day in 1970, a wildly popular mass demonstration that reached millions of Americans and played a role in the establishment of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the passage of the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species acts.
ZanFagna's work considers real social and environmental problems then throws in a big dose of fantasy, resulting in ideas that may have little practical application but surely get people thinking, Halsey director Mark Sloan has said.
"In a way, he is looking for a wholesale overhaul of the architectural enterprise itself," Sloan said.
His work is represented in private collections and has been exhibited in over 200 galleries and museums in the U.S. and Europe, including the White Gallery on Sullivan's Island, owned by his great-nephew and great-niece, Everett and Joanna White.
No services are planned at this time. In memoriam donations can be sent to The Don ZanFagna Foundation, 201 Central Avenue, Summerville, S.C. 29483, to enable the team to perpetuate the legacy of his ideas and work through museum and gallery exhibitions, books, seminars, environmental architectural projects and more.


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Wednesday, January 13 2010 @ 10:09 PM
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Folding@home is deprecating the Mac PPC architecture for future work unit types. Existing work types will continue to have work units, but newer cores (required for newer work unit types) will not be developed.
Thursday, April 03 2008 @ 01:26 PM
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Predictor@home has started to issue some test work units. However as of April 3rd, Mac work units are still failing. The Predictor folks are looking into the problem. It has been a long delay with their move to Michigan but slowly progress is being made. Their new URL is http://predictor.chem.lsa.umich.edu/ but that may just be temporary as they are looking for an available "shorter" URL.
Saturday, February 16 2008 @ 01:32 PM
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Predictor@home is back online at their new home, with the University of Michigan.
They are associated with The Brooks Research Group now, and can be found online at:
Friday, January 18 2008 @ 11:42 PM
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The Predictor@home web site has changed to a new message. Reproduced in full below:
Predictor @ Home is in the Process of moving to the University of Michigan.
Please Check back in mid February for our new address.
Monday, December 17 2007 @ 03:14 PM
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We are pleased to note that two Team MacNN members were recently featured on BOINC's front page.
Congratulations to zombie67 and UL1 for a job well done.
Thursday, February 08 2007 @ 11:48 PM
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The Predictor@home project finally has their new units ready. The workers (dTasser) need more attention though.
Current Worker Status by platform
Linux Worker: working for 32 bit and 64 bit
MacOSX Worker: doesn't run unless the user has gFortran libraries installed. The project is working on a self-contained compile. Do not accept Predictor work yet, unless you have gfortran installed.
Windows Worker: yet to be compiled.
Progress is being updated daily on the Predictor site. News on the Mac worker is being updated especially quickly, so check regularly for updates.
Saturday, August 05 2006 @ 09:48 PM
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Our old friends at Free-DC have slipped up in Folding@home. They just went down a step in the world, but all is well. We will take good care of their old rank.
If anyone wants to drop by their Fold forum for a polite wakeup call, I'm sure they would not mind too much.
Sunday, June 25 2006 @ 04:01 PM
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A few changes have been made to bring things up to date. On teamstats, the "SETI" nav icon now points to BOINC-SETI. Those wishing to see the SETI Classic stats can still find them in the 'seti1' section. Accordingly, our Milestones will use the plain 'SETI' disignation again.
Rosetta had been missing from the teamstats nav bar, this is fixed.
D2OL finally got their stats sorted out for Phase 2. They didn't make any changes to their stats web pages, at least none that broke our stats. So our D2OL stats picked up on the changeover and are working again. We don't seem to have anyone crunching on this project, but since it's already up, I'll leave the section live. Assorted other teams do use our stats on this project.
The team news site was down for over a week during MacNN backend server migrations. Our DB got moved to a new server, and it took some time to sort it out.
Sunday, May 14 2006 @ 06:19 PM
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Rosetta@Home has started crunching CASP 7 competition work units. With newer software and a couple of years of experience behind them, it is hoped they will fare well. CASP7 runs from May 10th to August 1st.
The purpose of Rosetta is to show the feasibility of distributed computing to predict computer folding. Some success has been had, but there is a lot more to learn. CASP 7 will measure the Rosetta team against other Protein prediction experts the world over. The had a decent showing in CASP 6, two years ago, so hopefully with the additional knowledge and experience may do even better. The CASP competions measure the accuracy of software or other manual methods in the area of protein prediction. Success in this area may lead to quicker breakthroughs in science and medicine by eliminating the time consuming manual processes.
Sunday, April 23 2006 @ 10:12 PM
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As of April 3, 2006, the D2OL project transitioned to their Phase II. This involved a freezing of the old stats, zeroing of the new stats, and assorted flakiness on the part of the project servers.
At the time Phase I went down, we apparently had only one member (jimhadd) crunching on this project. From what I read on their forum, the new stats are still a little flakey. Once they settle down, it will be possible to start them up again on our end.
That is, if a few people remain interested. Is Team MacNN still interested in D2OL?
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Ball State's Joel Godett gives a behind-the-scenes look with Cardinals' alum and current offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Joey Lynch.
Lynch earned four letters at quarterback for the Cardinals from 2003-06 and was promoted to offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach in December of 2013 prior to Ball State's appearance in the GoDaddy Bowl. An assistant at Ball State since 2009, Lynch had served as the tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator prior to his promotion.
Prior to returning to the Cardinals after his graduation in 2007, Lynch served as the offensive coordinator at Ashland in 2008 and at St. Joseph's (Ind.) in 2007.


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Choice Gymnastics Xcel Teams competed March 16-18 in Greenville at the state meet.
Bronze Level gymnast Savannah Casebier, a third-grader at Sangaree Elementary School, placed fourth out of 336 competitors. Silver Level gymnast Mercedes Rechlicz, a sixth-grader at Marington Middle School, placed first out of 238 competitors.
Savannah placed first on Vault, Beam, Floor and All-around and third on Bars in her age division.
Mercedes placed first on Beam and All-around, second on Bars and Floor and fourth on Vault in her age division.
Placing among the top six gymnasts for their level at the state meet qualifies these young ladies to represent South Carolina on the State Team at the regional meet in April. The Regional Meet will include teams from North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Other gymnasts also earned high honors at the state meet. In the Bronze Division Kendal Vorhis took home the gold medal on Bars, Floor and All-around and a silver medal on Beam. Katie Heimerdinger place second on Bars, Floor and All-around. Maile Merklein placed second on Floor. Marissa Kampwerth earned the bronze medal on Floor. The Bronze team placed eighth out of 30 teams in the state.
In the Silver Division Claire Willems earned the silver on Beam and bronze on Bars. Caroline Moore placed first on Beam and secnod on Floor. Tess Erickson brought home the gold on Beam, Floor and All-around. Danielle Abell placed third on Floor. The Silver team placed seventh out of 26 teams in the state.
In the Gold Division Amy Willems placed second on Beam and third on Bars, Floor and All-around. Claire Brookbank brought home silver medals on Bars and Floor. Rachelle Abell placed third on Vault. Abigail Todd is the State Champion on Vault. The Gold team placed sixth out of 19 teams in the state.
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Fr. Richard Frechette, C.P., D.O., a priest, physician and missionary who has been referred to as The Mother Teresa of Haiti, told more than 350 graduates, and their parents and friends at Saint Vincent College May 12 that as graduates of Saint Vincent and beneficiaries of the ancient Benedictine monastic tradition, their lives should be directed to the service of the most needy in the world. "The people of Haiti have shown time and time again that when you have lost everything but faith, hope and love, you still have everything," he said. "It is the deep inner faith that bends the floodwaters of tragedy into life-giving rivers of life," he said. "It is what can make any ordinary person great, even heroic. It is what can help us get up over and over again, stronger and more determined. It is resurrection, the hidden power of the soul, gift of the Risen Lord." "As graduates of Saint Vincent College, and beneficiaries of the ancient Benedictine tradition, let your brilliant, sharp and well-trained minds be now set at the service of these truths. Do not seek truth only with your mind but with your inner heart and your deep gut." Saint Vincent College in Latrobe (Westmoreland County) held its 166th annual commencement ceremony for graduates who received bachelor's or master's degrees in a traditional public ceremony marking the completion of their studies. Fr. Frechette, who has served thousands of impoverished children and orphans for more than three decades at a hospital he founded in Haiti, was the principal speaker and was recognized by Saint Vincent College president Brother Norman Hipps with an honorary doctor of humane letters degree.
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Many people like to go out for a late breakfast or early lunch on a weekend, and if you find a place that serves good, homestyle food in a comfortable atmosphere, you're likely to become a regular.
That may have been the reason that Buffalo Joe's, which has occupied a spot in a strip plaza on Main Street just past Harris Hill Road for more than a year, drew a steady flow of customers on a recent Sunday morning. With about nine four-person booths and tables and about 10 stools at the counter, it's not an enormous place, but the service is efficient enough that you won't be waiting long for a table.
John, Pat, John and I were in the mood for breakfast, but noticed such interesting dishes on the menu as the three panini, seared tenderloin tips with Gorgonzola cream sauce, a Louisiana shrimp po' boy, all for $8.95, and a South of the Border turkey with roasted red peppers, brie, apple and guacamole.
We also spotted the all-you-can-eat soup and salad offer, with garlic parm breadsticks, at the beyond reasonable price of $6.95.
On the breakfast side, we liked the "Oh yea, Nate!" made of two eggs, sausage patties and cheddar cheese on a biscuit, topped with sausage gravy and served with home fries for just $6.59. As much as we wanted to say, "Oh yea, Nate!" we didn't order this.
There are plenty of familiar choices on the menu, too. Salads, each $7.95, include the classic Caesar, a Cobb with chopped eggs, bacon, chicken and avocado, a spinach salad with bacon, a Buffalo chicken salad, a chicken souvlaki salad and a Virginia salad, made with an array of sliced meats, cheeses and fresh veggies. A Cajun grilled shrimp and spinach salad was just a buck more.
Angus burgers on Costanzo rolls come in three sizes, which we love – a third of a pound ($6.95), a half-pound ($7.95) and a three-quarter pound ($8.95).
Sandwiches are as simple as the tuna ($4.90) or grilled cheese ($4.45) right up to the beef on weck, Monte Cristo or patty melt for $6.95.
Two of us started with soup (cup $2.49, bowl $3.49). The soups of the day were broccoli and cheese and chicken noodle, and both were excellent. The broccoli was rich with cheese and smooth in texture; the chicken tasted like the best homemade soup ever, with nicely blended flavors. The chicken soup was full of shredded white meat and vegetables.
The food was served quickly, right off the grill, with every element prepared just as ordered.
The plainly named Number 5 breakfast ($5.79) offered eggs, breakfast meat and a single pancake, a nice combination. The eggs were cooked over medium, not always an easy state to attain, the bacon crispy, and the pancake soft and fluffy. It was also delicious.
The sweet, spicy scent of the cinnamon French toast ($4.99 alone, $5.99 with breakfast meat) was noticeable as the plate was placed on the table. Older or low-quality cinnamon can be more of a color than a flavor, but this was some good, fresh cinnamon. The nicely soaked, perfectly cooked French toast, with slightly crisp edges and sweet, soft interior, was exceptional.
Two of us went with omelets, which arrived plump and slightly browned on the outside. The ham and cheese omelet ($6.25) ordered with crispy grated hash browns, was packed with cubed ham and melty cheese. The Reuben omelet ($7.95), a special of the day that should go right onto the permanent menu, was fabulous. The bits of corned beef were tender and delicious without being overly salty; the layers of Swiss and sauerkraut contributed just enough flavor without being overbearing. Our only quibble was with the pale chunks of home fries on the plate. Get the hash browns instead.
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Grumpy person - usually older, can be attributed to any person who is being a grumpy pain in the bum.
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Tava Ell Var never really knew her mother, but she did know her tragic fate at the hands of a band of cruel shapeshifters-a history set down by Tava's father as a warning about life on the Shifting Plains. But after her father is murdered, Tava encounters a Shifterai warband fighting to rid the Plains of the terrorizing bandits
Shifterai leader Kodan Sin Siin is sympathetic to Tava's suffering, but he's determined to bring the wary young woman to the Plains. Because he knows her secret: She, like he and his men, is a shapeshifter. Once she joins them, he knows that she will see for herself the true fate that awaits her on the Plains, and most of all, lose her fear of his people. And, in time, he knows she will find her place is in their fight-and by his side.
"Brings you into brand new fantasylands that are filled with wonderful characters."–Night Owl Reviews
"Shifting Plains…luxuriates in a level of world-building few authors investigate."–Errant Dreams Reviews
To be absolutely honest…I actually wrote the story which became Shifting Plains a couple years before I even began the Sons of Destiny stories for Saber, Wolfer, and the other Corvis brothers. I wasn't completely happy with it, however, so I set it aside. When the opportunity came, I submitted The Sword first. Since then, I've had the chance to go back and rewrite the story of Tava and Kodan. It's a lot better now—and that's my promise to you, that I'll always do my best to put out good stories, not just okay ones. As for this new version, I think you'll like it.
Tava, the heroine, doesn't fit into her backwater village in many more ways than one. She isn't quiet, she isn't demure, and she definitely isn't Mornai: She's a shapeshifter, capable of changing her body at will. All she knows about her father's people, however, are the stories of violence done to her long-dead mother by savage shifters to the northwest. When her adopted Mornai father dies at the hands of bandits, Tava's world falls apart; the village leaders want to steal her inheritance and make her little more than a slave. Her only choice is to allow herself to be sold to a passing Shifterai warband, in the hope that she can run away and find somewhere safe to live.
Kodan, the hero, is appalled at how callously the village treats Tava. From the moment he meets her, the leader of the warband understands Tava's secret; he knows she belongs among her own kind. The stories of her mother's suffering are about as far from the truth about his people as can be. The trouble will be convincing her of that truth. It doesn't take long for him to realize he has his own reasons for wanting her to fall in love with her fellow shapeshifters. Preferably him.
As some of you may already know, the heroines of The Cat and The Storm, Amara and Rora, come from the Shifting Plains themselves. One of the things I wanted to do was show you their previous culture and lifestyle. Nightfall Isle may be an interesting corner of this particular world, but it's only a corner…and kind of a small one at that. Important, but still small.
There is so much more waiting to be discovered that, while I know quite a lot about this world, even I can only see "There Be Dragons" on certain parts of the map. Thus, I invite you to open Shifting Plains and explore a new corner of this fascinating, fantastical, magic-filled world. With luck, I'll have the chance to explore even more and share my findings with you in the future, both in this corner and in new areas, too.
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Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act Signed
On Thursday, October 21st, President Bush signed the Garrett Lee Smith Memorial Act named in honor of Senator Gordon Smith's son who committed suicide a little over one year ago. This bill will help enable states, Indian tribes, colleges and universities to develop suicide prevention and intervention programs. Though the bill has been passed and signed into law the money has not been authorized yet by Congress for the grants that will be awarded. It is still vital for advocates to keep informed and for us to continue working towards getting the money appropriated for these vital programs.
At NAMI's 25th Anniversary Celebration Convention held in Washington, DC in September, Senator Gordon Smith was awarded the NAMI Legislative Leadership Award.
"Senator and Mrs. Smith have turned personal tragedy into positive public action," said NAMI executive director Michael Fitzpatrick. "They represent profiles of courage and determination born in pain and reflect NAMI's own tradition of advocacy. Our members not only honor them - we embrace and support them as part of the NAMI family."
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