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J. Larry Newton School
The Newton School library is beginning another box top drive. Christmas collection sheets will be going home this week. This is a huge fundraiser for the library. Each box top is worth 10 cents, and they really do add up.
Mally McCuiston's multi-handicapped classroom is getting ready for another bowling trip to Gulf Bowl in Foley. This will be the second time the class has participated in the outing put together by Baldwin County Adaptive Physical Education teacher Bill Specht. The group of four students and three adults went on the first trip in October and enjoyed a morning of bowling and then lunch together at the Captain's Choice restaurant.
Last week students in Julie Tassin's second-grade class read aloud a story "All About Turkeys" by Jim Arnosky during social studies. The students learned facts about wild turkeys and then each student enjoyed creating a flipbook with facts and illustrations to take home and share with their families during Thanksgiving.
The sixth-grade students at J.L. Newton School are excited about the holiday season of giving. The students have adopted four "angels" from the Angel Tree Program through Ecumenical Ministries. Each of the angels will receive presents from their Christmas wish lists. Also this week, the students are wrapping up their study of World War 1, and beginning research on "The Jazz Age."
Jan Hilyer's sixth-grade science class is enjoying a culminating activity erupting our shield, cinder cone, and composite volcanoes with different types of pyroclastic eruptions and flows. In social studies, WWI is ending but with resentment within Germany who was forced into armistice. Students are learning that this resentment will arise again in WWII.
Fairhope Intermediate School
By ANNA BAILEY, CAROLINE DAVIS and PEYTON WEAVER
Mrs. French's sixth-grade class is working with proportions with a math workbook. They made a turkey project. Madeline Ellison won the "pastalicious" award. In social studies they are learning about the Jazz Age. All the sixth-grade classes will participate in a Roaring¤'20s dance as a culminating activity for this study.
Mrs. Smith's fifth-grade class is studying pronouns and compound words with past, present, and future tenses. In science they are making animal habitats. They will get water animals in a few weeks for the habitats. They are reading Mahalia Jackson. It is about a girl who triumphed over the injustices of slavery through gospel music. Mrs. Waselkov's class is making ecosystems. They made habitats for the AMSTI animals. They read "Special Effects." The steps for making a movie landscape is: first a drawing, second a small model, third a more detailed model, fourth real model and fifth take apart set and move to real set. They are studying state capitals in the Northeast. They are doing play together with only five people.
Mrs. Gilheart's fourth-grade class is studying motion and design in science. They did an activity with push and pull. They did a family turkey project with feathers and food items. They are studying Civil War in Alabama History.
Mrs. Crane's class is studying about steamboats and slavery in Alabama History. In language they are studying past, present, and future tenses. They were given packets with words in them and they had to look them up in the dictionary to make sentences. In math they are working on ordered pairs and line graphs. Last week they worked on long division. The AMSTI unit is on Motion and Design. The students make and then test toy cars out of Legos.
Ms. Foster's class is enjoying their new computers. Ms. Foster is an eMints teacher, so she has a computer for every two students. The students are using the added technology for research, reading and language skills. In Alabama History they are studying the Reconstruction period. Mrs. Mitchell's fourth-graders are learning about the Spanish American War, line graphs in math and past tense in language.
In Mrs. Dumas' fourth-grade Gifted and Talented class, students researched Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. They discovered the painting is also known as La Giaconda and that it was painted on a wooden panel in oil. The Mona Lisa was rumored to be Leonardo's favorite painting; he took it with him on all his travels. Once back in the classroom the students created Modern Mona Lisas. They were given a black and white line drawing of the painting, which they used to update either the background or the lady herself. Some of the many, varied and unusual Monas were: Punk Mona, Mona Franklin (Ben Franklin and Mona Lisa), Meditation Mona, Military Mona and Sumo Mona.
Yearbook preorders are still being accepted. We need to sell about 150 more books, so please order one today. The price is $30 and well worth it for all the treasured memories held within.
Fairhope Middle School
By CHARLEEN FIRLUS
Christmas is coming, and the football team is hosting our annual Christmas dance. Mr. Martin will be the DJ, pizza and drinks will be plentiful, and a $50 cash prize will be given away. There will also be Christmas items on sale, so make sure you don't miss the last dance of 2010 and your last chance to hang out with your friends before the holidays. The dance is Friday from 6 until 9 p.m. in the cafetorium.
Wear your favorite jeans, Christmas shirts and boots today for $1 per item. Remember that Christmas holidays are from Dec. 20 until Jan. 4.
Our PTC is having a fundraiser. The "Walk the Plank" walk-a-thon will be held on Dec. 17 at 9 a.m. Students will walk the Jill Hall Fun Run trail. The entry fee including a T-shirt is $17. Students who also want to participate in an ice cream social can pay $10 for the entry fee and T-shirt, but must also raise $25. So get out there and ask your friends and family for their loose change and dollar bills until you have your $25 (or more!) donation.
Congratulations to Zane Drummond. He won first place in our annual spelling bee. Second place went to Adam Schrubbe. The other spelling bee participants for 2011 were Ashley Franklin, Meredith Harris, Reese Joiner, and Cullen Waters, all in the seventh grade. Also competing were Abby Beach, Zac Hill, Grey Jackson, Josh McIlwain, Rip Merritt, Tanner Williams, Jackson Newman, Jack Odom and James Shelton, all in the eighth grade. Great job, everyone! And many thanks to Mrs. Wendy Shelton for the refreshments!
We are also proud of our band students who auditioned for All-County Honor Band. These students are Stephen Adams, John Aiken, Drew Authement, Tim Avera, Tyler Banser, Kaylee Bishop, Riley Boles, Amber Lynn Boothe, Grant Edwards, Sam Formichella, Michael Galanti, William Geiger, McLean Gonzalez, Michael Hodge, Isabelle Moseley, Cecile Nicholson, Iain Patrick, Garett Pharez, Jake Rezner, Britney Spies, Matthew Springer, Graham Williams, Matthew Bishop, Taylor Hale, Palmer Jordan, Lincoln Egbert, BJ Bishop, Draigon Bourbon, Hunter Curry, Jennifer Doolittle, Hayden Hatfield, Blake Lagenbach, Colton Ruther, Stone Tickle, Robbie Yeager, Keegan Allen, Courtney Andrews, Hannah Bell, Darby Callicut, Carrie Davis, Emily Davis, Arria Douglas, Emily Forsman, Madison Friduss, Jasmine Gomez, Grayson Gorday, Luke Hembree, Charity Hunt, Tori Lander, Matthew Lawrence, Emily Northrop, Christopher Radney, Mary Claire Reichley, Megan Sager, Adam Schrubbe, Afan Swan, Megan Theis, Daisy Wallace, Austin West, Genna Yonge, Julie Clark, Audrey Peterson, Natalie Seay, John Aceves Torres, Maria Parsons, Emily Mckinney and Meghan Boyer.
The book fair will continue until Friday. It's just in time for Christmas.
Who has the Christmas spirit of giving? Mrs. Gambino's enrichment class is collecting canned goods for the needy. Students, please donate cans by putting them in the box in your homeroom. Whichever grade level collects the most cans will get an extended break Dec. 17!
Semester exams are coming up. Social studies, PE, and enrichment exams will be given on Tuesday; English and science on Wednesday; math and literature Dec. 16; and make-up exams Dec. 17.
On Monday,Mr. Lee, seventh-grade social studies teacher, held a food festival. Students brought different foods, most of them desserts, representing different states.
Are you interested in learning more about the IB diploma? The Fairhope High School IB department is hosting an Open House on Jan. 14 from 8:30 to 10:30. Sign up in the guidance office by the Friday deadline. Only 40 students from this school can attend, and your parent must go with you.
Fairhope Elementary School
Mrs. Sanders' first-grade class is learning about "Christmas Around the World." They will make gingerbread man glyphs and applesauce ornaments this week, also.
Mrs. Rivenbark's first-grade class is studying Christmas traditions. The children are writing about their own family traditions and are planning a puppet show for their parents.
Mrs. Claus visited Mrs. Sawyer's first-grade class! On Dec. 1, Mrs. Claus stopped by to visit and read to Mrs. Sawyer's class. She brought cookies from Santa's elves, she shared good news from Santa, brought some of Santa's favorite things (and even his magical key!), as well as listened to what the kids wanted for Christmas so she could pass the word on to Santa.
Do you hear what I hear? The sounds of Christmas are flowing from Mrs. Whatley's music room. Everyone is excited when they see the music room displaying twinkle lights, nutcrackers and Christmas carol visuals. Music classes are preparing for our annual Christmas assembly on Dec.17 and the third-grade chorus is practicing weekly for their performance at the FEEF event — Cookies with Santa on Saturday. They recently performed "Hot Chocolate" before the viewing of "Polar Express" sponsored by the Downtown Merchants of Fairhope.
Thanks so much for your unbelievable support of our Annual Iron Bowl Food Drive. The numbers went like this: first grade, 692 items; second grade, 590 items; third grade, 611 items. Way to go first grade! Top class at first grade — Mrs. Buckley with 88 items. Top class at second grade — Mrs. Phelps with 98 items. Top class at third grade — Mr. McDuff with 77 items.
Last week FEEF presented third-grade teacher Mrs. Nicole Arnold with a grant for $4,640. These funds will be used to purchase a set of the iPod Touch for her classroom.
The Rotary's Christmas Break Program will be offered Dec 20-Dec 22 and Dec 27-30 from 9 a.m. until 6 p.m. Early bird drop-off is available starting at 7:30 a.m. The cost for the full seven-day program will be $50 for non-members and $10 for members. No prorated fees and no new memberships until Jan. 5. Children must bring their own snack and lunch daily. Field trip fees are not included in program fee. For additional information or to enroll, call Rotary Youth Club at 251-928-9148, or the RYC Operations Director at 802-1018. The deadline for enrollment is Monday.
Our second grade AR assembly will be held Dec. 15 at 7:45 a.m. Our third grade AR Assembly will be held Dec. 16 at 7:45 a.m. Both assemblies will take place in our school's gym.
Daphne Middle School
By Morgan Cannon, Rachel Jernigan, Emma Mills, Sydney Murphy and Jordan Rodgers
Get into the Christmas spirit and donate a toy for Toys for Tots. Our school has raised $736 benefiting local charities such as Toys for Tots.
Softball tryouts are going on through Friday from 3:30 to 6 p.m. at the Trojan Softball Field.
The swim team will have its banquet today at DHS cafeteria starting at 6 p.m.
The choir will host a dinner theater Friday night from 6:30 to 8:30 at Trojan Hall. A spaghetti dinner with salad and bread sticks will be served as the talented DMS choir sings. The cost is $10.
Girl's soccer tryouts started Wednesday. Basketball girls who are interested in soccer will try out Saturday. Boy's soccer tryouts will be announced later.
Students are showing their DMS pride by wearing their pride rings.
Daphne East Elementary School
By Anna Bedsole, Cole Creasy, Rhett Prince, Chris Cory, Davis Nicholas and Annagail Holton
Daphne East's students are excited about shopping at the Penguin Patch. The Penguin Patch is the PTA's way of providing opportunities for the students to purchase Christmas gifts for their families.
The kindergarten classes are learning about Christmas around the world. They've been studying about different Christmas traditions and creating ornaments to represent these countries. The students have also been creating gingerbread men, handprint reindeer, and Christmas stockings that are all on display.
In first grade, the students have also studying about Christmas in other countries. The students are very excited about their upcoming field trip. They will be traveling to the post office next week to mail their letters to Santa Claus. In Ms. Flynn's class, the students have been busy making Christmas tree reef ornaments and Christmas cards. On display in Ms. Weinacker's class is a Christmas tree with pictures of the students.
The second-graders are learning all about magnets, spiders, and food chains. They created food webs with their information and performed science experiments with their magnets.
Third-grade students are studying about the water cycle, two- and three-digit numbers, volcanoes, and whales. In Ms. Southern's class, the students have been designing Christmas trees, making light bulb ornaments, and writing stories about the upcoming holiday. They are also excited about their upcoming field trip to the Mobile Museum of Art.
In fourth grade, the students are learning about landforms, transportation in early Alabama, and fractions. They have been making model landforms and Christmas decorations.
The fifth-graders are studying about irregular verbs in English and tree diagrams in math. The students in Ms. Thomas's class are creating charts showing foods used in the Plymouth colony. They also created ecosystem projects and Christmas decorations like hand and footprint reindeer.
In sixth grade, the students are studying direct and indirect objects in English and adding fractions in math. The students are also researching Christmas traditions in other countries. Next week, the students will report about these traditions and bring in a food item that represents their country.
Daphne Elementary School
By MCKENZIE HUNN, JACKSON MEADOWS, MALLORI SANDERS and SHELBY STEWART
Thank you to Mrs. Dowdy and the Golden Tones for an awesome Christmas performance at Monday night's PTA meeting. Thank you also to the kindergarten classes from Mrs. McGinty, Mrs. D. Smith and Ms. V Smith and third-grade classes from Mrs. Bowen, Ms. Bryant, Mrs. Dickson and Mrs. Moorer, who also performed special holiday songs for all to enjoy!
PTA wants to remind everyone that the Santa Shop is in full swing. Students have the opportunity to visit the Santa Shop to do their own shopping for family and friends through Friday.
Mrs. Cole's kindergarten class made a giant gingerbread house. The children had fun making candy to decorate it. The children also ate gingerbread men. The children took one bite and then the class graphed which part of the gingerbread man they bit first. Most of the children bit the head off first!
Ms. Jackson's class is getting very excited for Christmas. The students have learned about the Nutcracker Ballet and will be going to Mobile to watch it on Friday.
Mrs. Hawes' class is looking forward to their trip to see the Nutcracker Ballet on Friday.
Mrs. Ferry's class is excited for Christmas. The children love this time of year because they get to squeeze in some fun holiday activities. Along with this wonderful time of year, they will also be learning about America's past in social studies. The students will discuss the first Americans, explorers that traveled the world, and so much more.
Mrs. Riel's class has been very busy reviewing all the reading skills they've learned so far this year as well as continuing to learn new skills each week. They are learning about ending blends in spelling and phonics. In math they are learning about plane and solid shapes. They painted a Christmas picture to see how symmetry works. In social studies they are learning about our local Christmas traditions and will soon learn about traditions around the world.
Mrs. Utsey's class has been working hard on two-digit addition with regrouping. They are already getting excited about Christmas. The students are learning about the symbols of Christmas and where some of our traditions come from. They are reading their last story in the reading book and will be taking the unit test next week. Congratulations to Stefin Cooper for being chosen as the Shining Star of the Week!
Mr. Bellmyer's third-graders are learning about polygons and the water cycle in science. They are getting ready for Christmas.
Ms. Bryant's class has spent a lot of time getting ready for their PTA performance Monday night. This week they are learning about arrays and completing 8s and 9s in multiplication. They are also beginning their special Christmas activities.
Mrs. Dickson's class spent time getting ready for a great PTA performance. This week they are learning about other countries through their theme "Christmas Around the World."
Mrs. Moorer's class also got ready for their PTA Christmas performance. They will begin learning about weather. Also, they are also doing lots of Christmas activities.
Mrs. Peturis' class will begin their unit of study on Christmas traditions around the world. The students will visit Mexico, Germany, Italy, and of course the United States.
In the library, the Elf on the Shelf is here! The students (and teachers) are so excited and have decided to name him Max. All the students are doing their best to impress him in the library. Everyone is also very excited about the Dr. Seuss Christmas Tree.
The Golden Tones, the DES third-grade choir, had a beautiful performance on Saturday at the Christmas Bazaar. The entire school is practicing for the Sing-Along, which will be Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. in the school auditorium.
Mrs. Nolfe's third-grade Project Jubilee classes visited the Eastern Shore Art Center in Fairhope this week where they participated in a hands-on art activity focusing on the works/inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci and local artist Bruce Larsen. The students and Mrs. Nolfe would like to thank Mr. Bob, their bus driver, and all the parents who went on the field trip with them. Also, a huge thank you to Mrs. Nancy Raia at the Eastern Shore Art Center for a fantastic art activity and the staff at Papa's Place for making the lunch an awesome experience. Next week the students will be exploring Italian Christmas traditions such as La Befana and the nativity scene, decorating their own delicious cookies and making a special Christmas ornament.
W.J. Carroll Intermediate School
By PAIGE JACKSON and WALT CASSADY
Mrs. Ann Whatley's music room is busy with the sounds of Christmas from caroling, playing bells and the magnificent Handel's "Messiah." As you listen to your favorite holiday tunes and watch your favorite seasonal movies, take a moment to remember that without music in our schools, our children would have limited understanding of these wonderful and inspiring songs and stories.
Our school will hold a Silent Auction on Tuesday during our PTO meeting. The meeting begins at 6 p.m. It will be Accelerated Reader's biggest fundraiser of the year. Every homeroom teacher has created a themed basket. Every student is trying hard to donate money toward purchasing items for the basket theme or actually bringing items in.
Congratulations to the following students who will represent their classrooms in the school geography bee this Monday at 1 p.m.: Ashley Penrod, Lily Mozer, Hunter Session, Walt Cassady, Brendan Kennedy, Noah Pettis, Mary Katherine Stewart, Kirsten Bembry, Mason Cody, Antonio Hamilton, Keelyn Graham, John Laneville, Annabel Parke, Nathan White and Clay Schofield.
The SEEDS organization continues to sell Mamma Mia T-shirts in the school office. They are $10 and $12. They are long-sleeved and promote Daphne, our schools and SEEDS. They make great Christmas gifts!
Our PTO is selling hooded sweatshirts, they are $25. Students may wear these sweatshirts any day of the week. If you would like to purchase one or more, please send $25 cash or check (checks made payable to WJC PTO), size, and style male or female for each sweatshirt ordered.
Upcoming dates to remember: today is our Spelling Bee at 9:30 a.m., Friday is our next Skate Day, Monday is our Geography Bee and PTO meeting, Tuesday is our choir trip from 10 until 2:30, and on Dec. 17 is Christmas Caring for Cancer for Relay for Life when students may wear Christmas-themed shirts or colors for a donation. The second quarter ends on Dec. 17.
Spanish Fort High School
By SARA BETH DEAS and NATALIE CARLISLE
Spanish Fort had a very exciting weekend, as we brought home two state championships! The Spanish Fort Toros defeated the Briarwood Lions at the 5A state championship game on Thursday night at Jordan-Hare Stadium at Auburn University; the final score was 14-0. Also, the SFHS boys' swim team won the 5A title at the state swim meet at the University of Alabama.
Key Club members need to check the bulletin board for new service hour opportunities. Also, Key Club members are asked to attend the campus cleanup this Saturday,from 8-10 a.m.
The deadline to order senior class T-shirts has been extended to this Friday. Shirts are $15, and extra order forms are available in Mrs. Daniels's room.
The last day to order a yearbook is Tuesday. Order forms are available on the bulletin board across from Mrs. Malpas's room. Students should turn in their order forms to the yearbook members during break. All checks must have a physical address and two phone numbers in order to be valid.
Congratulations to Sara Beth Deas for being awarded the SFHS Principal's Leadership Award. Good luck to Sara Beth as she competes for scholarships in the next phase of the program.
Last week, SFHS's International Studies classes attended the Baldwin Model United Nations at Fairhope Civic Center. Each student belonged to a country group, and students debated pressing world issues from their assigned country's perspective with other students from all over the county. SFHS was very well represented, as several students won awards for the speech and diplomacy skills. One country group, Bosnia and Herzegovina, even won Best Delegation. Special thanks to Sara Beth Deas, Michaela Merold, Caroline Roberts and Corey Dennis for serving on the Organizational Team and helping this event run smoothly.
Spanish Fort Elementary School
Spanish Fort Elementary is really getting into the Christmas spirit. Santa was here last week for pictures. We are still collecting Toys for Tots so it is not too late to send in your donation. All classes are eagerly awaiting their Christmas parties next Thursday and we are going to have a bake sale Wednesday.
Kindergarten classes will be visiting Wales West, learning about Christmas traditions and customs, letter and sound /Rr/ and how people and animals change as they grow. They will also be taking a ride on the Polar Express next week. They will culminate their pre-Christmas week by singing at Westminster.
In second grade, we are learning how to identify theme and plot in a story. Our story this week is Rosa and Blanca, which examines the theme of generosity. We are also studying the many ways to read and spell the long /i/ sound. In AMSTI math, we are learning about even and odd numbers by discussing partners and teams.
The third-graders are continuing to learn their multiplication facts by playing array games and Around the World. They are learning many interesting facts about volcanoes and comparing and contrasting different volcanoes that have erupted. Their reading story this week is "Volcanoes: Nature's Incredible Fireworks." Third grade will enjoy learning about "Christmas Around the World" next week and will have class Christmas parties Dec. 16.
This week fourth grade is continuing with our study of space. We are focusing on stars and the constellations that are formed in the night sky.
The fifth-graders are busy studying the 13 colonies and making booklets representing each area and important facts concerning each colony. They've enjoyed studying about energy in science and learning about ways to conserve our fossil fuels. Students' paper bag book reports were phenomenal! Christmas crafts, parties, and creative writing are on next week's agenda. They are filled with lots of spirit and energy themselves as the holiday approaches.
Mrs. Nolfe's third-grade Project Jubilee classes visited the Eastern Shore Art Center in Fairhope this week where they participated in a hands-on art activity focusing on the works/inventions of Leonardo Da Vinci and local artist Bruce Larsen. The students and Mrs. Nolfe would like to thank their bus driver, and all the parents who went on the field trip with them. Also, a huge thank you to Mrs. Nancy Raia at the Eastern Shore Art Center for a fantastic art activity and the staff at Papa's Place for making the lunch an awesome experience. Next week the students will be exploring Italian Christmas traditions such as La Befana and the nativity scene, decorating their own delicious cookies and making a special Christmas ornament. Fourth and fifth grade Project Jubilee enjoyed their architecture tour of Mobile. This week they are building domes, studying trusses, continuing their Greek and Latin vocabulary and exploration of Fibonacci numbers in architecture.
Rockwell Elementary School
By MADDIE SHERRELL and CHELSEA DAHLGREN
Christmas is in the air. Mrs. Hanak's class can tell with their five senses. We smell the apple/cinnamon ornaments that we have made. We see the decorations that we are making in our class. The sounds of bells are heard on our reindeers. The taste of gingerbread cookies we will eat for our Christmas party. The touching of glitter, sequins, feathers, pom poms and pipe cleaners as we are making many Christmas treasures for our tree at home.
Mrs. Hanak's kindergarten class is gearing up for the holiday season. Our Elf on the Shelf entered our classroom Nov. 29. The students named her Snowflake. She is making her list every day of those who are naughty or nice to report to Santa Claus each night. Faithfully, she flies in every morning before we arrived ready for a new day of reporting the events of the day.
As we approach the ending of our second quarter, our class is reviewing and testing for our report card skills. We have learned so much in such a short time. Our class is filled with readers and writers.
In Mrs. Cox's first-grade class, students have been busy learning about animals. They have just finished a unit on bears and did a great job researching about polar bears, black bears, and grizzly bears. Also, they have just started a unit on Christmas customs around the world. Students will learn about customs and share in crafts and food from France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, England, Russian and Mexico. This will be a great opportunity for students to learn about other countries and also share about their own Christmas traditions.


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> I have updated my Firefox to the new one and ALL of my extensions, add-
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The Future Professoriate Program for the Department of History at Syracuse University invites graduate students at all levels to submit paper proposals for its Fifth Annual Syracuse Graduate History Conference, to be held March 29th, 2013. Our organization's goal is to help graduate students grow as professionals within the academic community. Graduate students are welcome to propose either individual or panel presentations.
This year's theme is "Violence and Resistance." These have become increasingly central to scholarship and have been a palpable presence both on the news and in our classrooms. We define violence and resistance broadly. Submitted papers may focus upon the subject and the connotations thereof in various forms. Topics may include but are not limited to:
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MSU football coach Todd Hoffer could be reinstated at Minnesota State-Mankato
April 10, 2014 - Staff Blog
By RYAN HOLMGREN
Sports Editor
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports that Minot State football coach Todd Hoffner has won his arbitration case against Minnesota State-Mankato.
According to the report, on Wednesday an arbitrator ruled that MSU-Mankato was "wrong to dismiss Hoffner after child pornography charges were dropped stemming from nude video images of his young kids on his cellphone."
Hoffner was placed on investigative leave for nearly all of the 2012-13 football season. On Nov. 30, 2012, the child pornography charges were dismissed. The university revised Hoffner's title to assistant director of facilities development and relegated him to an office on the far side of campus. On May 6, 2013, MSU-Mankato fired the current Beavers coach.
Hoffner filed his grievance against the university through the Bureau of Mediation Services.
Following Wednesday's ruling, Hoffner now could be reinstated at Mankato to complete his four-year contract. Mankato is responsible to pay the difference in salary should Hoffner elect to remain at Minot State, and pay back an "improper" 20-day suspension in Jan. 2013.
Melodee Hoffner, Todd's wife, told the Star Tribune that her husband's return to Mankato "is under discussion right now."
Neither school officials, Hoffner nor his attorney, Christopher Madel, were immediately available for comment.
Hoffner was hired on Jan. 30 to replace Paul Rudolph, who resigned to take the offensive coordinator position at the University of North Dakota.
Notes: Since then, Hoffner has hired Bryon Thomas as the defensive coordinator and Chris Brunkhorst to coach the defensive line and strength and conditioning. ... On Thursday, Brian Boerboom was announced as the program's new offensive coordinator. ... Boerboom spent the last eight seasons coaching the offensive line at Southeast Missouri State, a Football Championship Subdivision school. ... Hoffner's parents, Arlene, 80, and Leo, 82, live about 90 minutes from Minot in Esmond, N.D.
Ryan Holmgren covers Minot State athletics. Follow him on Twitter @ryanholmgren.
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The Nelly Butler Hauntings:
A Documentary History
Edited by Marcus LiBrizzi and Dennis Boyd
The history of the most famous haunting in Early America, this is the tale of the Nelly Butler apparition, who appeared to more than one hundred individuals on the coast of Maine in 1799-1800. While the ghost is considered the most convincing apparition ever recorded, no other haunting created such a storm of controversy, sparking accusations of fraud, witchcraft, and demonism. For the apparition known as Nelly Butler orchestrated a marriage, a death, and a sensation unmatched to the present day. The hauntings remain one of the great mysteries of history.
Text contains accounts from eye-witnesses, letters by Abraham Cummings, a map as well as other supporting materials, and a critical introduction by Marcus LiBrizzi.
Library of Early Maine Literature, 2010
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Home Birth and Hospital Birth StatisticsKateTietje
Through the last couple of days, there has been a lot of controversy on the last two posts, Home Birth: What if Something Goes Wrong? and Home Birth: Interview with a Certified Professional Midwife. A lot of "statistics" have been thrown around, and a lot of negativity has ensued.
I've done some research now to present, via medical journals, some of the real statistics concerning both home and hospital birth. This piece isn't meant to convince anyone either way, just to present an accurate and unbiased picture of the benefits and risks in both locations. As always, talk to a qualified health professional before making such an important decision.
Please note that all the hyperlinks will take you to the sources of the data. They are primarily from medical journals.
Neonatal Mortality Rates (please note this is all births from 24 weeks' gestation on; most babies are preemies who did not survive)
U.S. — 4.54 per 1000 births (in 2005)
U.K. — 3.2 per 1000 births (in 2008)
Midwifery care in a hospital setting is much more common in the U.K. than the U.S., though CNMs in a hospital setting is associated with a lower neonatal death rate than OBs in a hospital setting in both countries.
Rate of complications from epidurals — 2.4% (mostly minor issues, like headaches and soreness)
Each intervention in a hospital setting increases the rate of surgical delivery (c-section).
Oxytocin (pitocin) used in the third stage of labor reduces the risk of hemorrhage from 10% to 6%. (I'm curious if this couldn't be recommended routinely only in high-risk cases?)
22% of all women were induced in 2006; this has doubled since 1990.
In 2007, the c-section rate was 32%. It has risen for all ethnic groups each year for quite awhile.
C-section rates have risen faster for first-time moms than second- or greater moms. In one study, this change was not associated with increased perinatal mortality rates.
In 2008, 12.3% of babies were born prematurely. This is down from a high of 12.8% in 2006.
"Late" preterm (34 – 36 weeks) rose sharply from 1990 – 2006; the number of babies born due to induction or c-section in this group did as well.
Most midwife training programs — including CPMs — are three years long. Very few midwives choose not to attend a qualified school training program. Nearly all complete some type of apprenticeship. Clinical experience is required for certification.
Clinical experience for CPMs lasts a minimum of 1 year; more typically, 3 – 5 years, and requires no less than 1350 hours. During this time, the student must attend no fewer than 40 births; 20 as an "active participant" and 20 as the "primary midwife" under the supervision of a certified midwife. (This does not include all the births that they must observe prior to participating.) At least 10 of the "primary midwife" births must be in an out-of-hospital setting.
In one program, OB/GYNs spend a total of 19 months directly in OB-related clinical experiences out of a 4-year residency. The rest of their time is spent in GYN-related clinical experiences, emergency medicine ("regular" and neonatal), and some general hospital clinical settings. (After completing 4 years of pre-med and 4 years of med school.)
Please note this is preliminary research at best. Always do your own research before making any decisions. There is no way to account for every possible situation in any type of birth setting; emergencies can occur regardless of prenatal care or birth attendant. There is also no way to address possible emergencies and conditions in such a limited sampling of statistics. This post is intended for informational purposes only.
Tomorrow I will be discussing birth advocacy and ways we can make birth safer for all!
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To the Editor:
Ann Marie Buerkle boggles my mind.
Did you know that she is sponsoring a bill (H.R. 6218) to use government money for researching and developing a strategic plan for her special interest, autoimmune disease - but she wants to end government spending to provide cancer screening for women?
Did you know that she doesn't believe the thousands of scientists throughout the world who agree that humans are contributing to climate change, yet she wants the conclusions of scientists at the National Institute of Health researching autoimmune disease (who just happen to be funded by government money)?
Did you know she touts her belief in small government, but she supports the government regulating what goes on in your bedroom and telling your doctor how to practice medicine?
Did you know that she thinks it is funny that women protest against her? Any teenage girl and any woman knows that just being female doesn't mean you support women. Clearly, she is one of those who doesn't.
Did you know she pretends to represent those of us in Central New York, but she has to call in the millionaires and billionaires from outside our community and even our state to try to boost her poll numbers?
Let's face it: She doesn't represent our interests and her logic boggles the mind!
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A mind-boggling contortion of logic
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Two men dead, suspect arrested in Fort Smith machete stabbingUPDATED 5:44 AM CDT Jun 27, 2013
Police arrested 20-year-old Gregory Kinsey after a stabbing Wednesday night left two men dead at a home at 16th and D Street in Fort Smith.Video Transcript
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The great thing about picnicking at home or in your own backyard (balcony, roof deck, what have you) is that the sky's pretty much the limit. You can make all your favorites, open a bottle of rosé or two or three or…(it is a holiday), spread a blanket on the floor, cop a squat and enjoy your independence from needing to be anywhere but in your own backyard. Here are some ideas:
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The Santa Clarita Christian boys soccer team couldn't overcome goals in the first and second halves by Milken Community High School of Los Angeles and lost 2-1 on Thursday afternoon at Canyon Country Park.
The teams played a fairly even first 18 minutes before the Wildcats' Brandon Yeshoua stole the ball in the midfield and raced into the attacking zone.
Yeshoua found teammate Glen Lipschitz on the left side of the 18-yard box where the senior put the ball in the back of the net for a 1-0 Milken lead.
Rather than relax after the early goal, the Wildcats became more aggressive.
Milken began to get the better of the possession offensively, and began to swarm the Cardinals' forwards on defense.
"I was very pleased. (Staying aggressive) was the goal," said Milken head coach Ryan Hosler. "We were able to get one (goal in the first half). We would have liked to get more."
The Cardinals (4-3-2, 0-2) tried to equalize on the foot of striker Daniel Stratton — who was playing despite suffering a hip flexor earlier in the week.
The Wildcats (1-0 in the Heritage League), though, tightened their defense by keeping extra defenders back to cover Stratton whenever he touched the ball.
"(Their coach) was definitely trying to push me to my right. I can shoot with either foot, but my left is my specialty," Stratton said. "I keep faking it with my right until I can get a shot with my left."
For most of the match, though, Milken successfully kept the ball off Stratton's left foot, with Wildcats' defender Josh Simmons continually in position to clear the ball down field.
"His left foot is lethal," Hosler said of Stratton. "We wanted to push him to his weak side."
Milken struck for the second goal of the game 20 minutes into the second half when Ari Spitzer took a pass in the box, beat two SCCS defenders and put the ball away near post for a 2-0 lead.
The Cardinals continued to press for their first goal of the game before Stratton came through in the 31st minute of the second half.
His strike from 18-yards out sailed into the top-left corner of the goal to pull the Cardinals within one goal.
And while the Cardinals weren't able to score the equalizer before time ran out, SCCS head coach Steven Cooper was OK with the performance.
"We didn't play well," he said. "We scored a goal at the end, which shows they didn't stop ... If we played terrible and we won, I'd be more upset."


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In a month known for college basketball madness, a high school game in New York may have set the bar impossibly high.
New Rochelle had come back to bring its sectional championship game against perennial power Mount Vernon to within two points.
Khalil Edney, the quarterback of the New Rochelle football team, had a chance to throw it in bounds with less than three seconds on the clock.
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Westfield Superintendent of Schools Margaret Dolan invites residents to attend an information session on Wednesday, Oct. 30, from 7-8 p.m., in the Roosevelt Intermediate School cafeteria meeting room at 301 Clark St. in Westfield.
The meeting is being held to provide details and to answer questions regarding the district's bond referendum, which will be on the Nov. 5 ballot.
The referendum is required by the state to give Westfield voters the opportunity to accept new state aid for the Westfield roof projects scheduled for the summer of 2014. If approved, the referendum will supersede the one passed in December 2012 and will result in a $2.7 million reduction in Westfield taxes over the life of the bond.
In addition to the Oct. 30 meeting, information on the replacement bond is available at westfieldnjk12.org/novbond.


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With all the excess available to young celebs these days, 14-year-old Hannah Montana star Miley Cyrus's life is shocking – shockingly normal, that is.
"The biggest phenomenon in all this is that the kid's been able to keep her head on her shoulders," says her dad and Hannah costar, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, 45.
What's the secret? Well, there's homework (Miley's public school lets her study on set and come in for exams on Fridays) and chores, such as loading the dishwasher every night.
And every Sunday Miley must attend church with the rest of the family, which includes Braison, 13, Noah, 7, and mom Leticia's kids from a previous relationship, Brandi, 20, and Trace, 18.
Then there are Mom's magazine-wielding lectures about the missteps of young Hollywood. "It is so scary as a mom to see all these kids who are so whacked now," says Leticia, who's called Tish.
If Mom is the family's disciplinarian, Dad is the confidant. "We're really close," says Miley. "I feel like I can tell my dad anything. When we come home, we forget that we even work together and just hang out."
For more on life at home with the Cyrus family, including what Billy Ray thinks about Miley's boyfriend and why Miley isn't allowed to have a credit card, check out the new issue of PEOPLE, on newsstands Friday. Plus: check out TEEN PEOPLE's Summer music gallery, featuring Miley Cyrus.
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Asset Prices Under Habit Formation and Reference-Dependent Preferences
Motohiro Yogo
Princeton University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research
May 7, 2007
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2008
This article explains the high level and the countercyclical variation of the equity premium in a consumption-based asset pricing model with low large-scale risk aversion. Investors have gain-loss utility over consumption relative to slowly time-varying habit. Stocks deliver low returns in recessions when consumption falls below habit; investors therefore require a high premium for holding stocks. The model's conditional moment restrictions are tested on consumption and asset returns data. The empirical estimate of large-scale risk aversion is low, whereas the estimate of loss aversion agrees with prior experimental evidence.
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Keywords: Asset pricing, Consumption, Equity premium, Habit formation, Loss aversion
JEL Classification: E21, G12
Date posted: April 16, 2006 ; Last revised: June 17, 2009
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Nishith Prakash, Ph.D. (Economics)
Nishith Prakash is an assistant professor of economics on a joint position with the Department of Economics and the Human Rights Institute at the University of Connecticut, Storrs.
Born and raised in Bihar, India, he earned B.A. (honors) in economics from Shivaji College, an M.A. in economics from Delhi School of Economics, Delhi University (India), and a Ph.D. in economics from University of Houston, TX and was a post-doctoral research associate at Cornell University, NY from July 2010 till December 2011. He previously held visiting Assistant Professor Positions at Ohio University, Dartmouth College and Visiting Fellow at Yale University and Columbia University.
He is a Research Fellow at Centre for Research and Analysis of Migration (CReAM), The Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), HiCN Households in Conflict Network (HiCN), and Member of Insights on Immigration and Development (INSIDE-SPAIN). He is currently serving in the Editorial Board of the journal Economies.
Prof. Prakash's primary research interests include development, labor, and public policy and economics of education. One line of his work focuses on understanding the effects of affirmative action policies in India on labor market outcomes, child labor and poverty. His other work has examined topics such as the returns to English-language skills, effects of crime on economic growth, effect of politician quality on economic outcomes in India, and evaluation of welfare and behavioral impacts of Index Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) in Kenya. Through his academic pursuit, he has focused on the relationship between government policies and economic development and harnessed rigorous empirical evidence to study the impact of policies and institutions in enabling inclusive growth. He has experience in conducting surveys in developing countries and working with large scale observational and administrative data sets. His teaching interests includes Development Economics, Applied Econometrics and Economics of Gender and Inequality.
Professor Prakash's research has been covered in The Economist, World Bank Development Impact Blog, World Economic Forum, The Statesman, The Atlantic, The Hindu, The Times of India, and other national and international newspaper.
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"Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning."


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Though meticulously costumed and filmed, this Easter week special makes Christianity's founding apostles seem merely ponderous. In the 30 years following the Crucifixion, Paul (Anthony Hopkins) and Peter (Robert Foxworth) spread the Gospel vigorously, but here their efforts look like so much histrionics. The two-hour conclusion airs Tuesday at 9.
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TINSELTOWN: "RiffTrax Live: Night of the Living Dead" today, 8 p.m. "The Shining" on Sunday, 2 p.m., and Wednesday, 2 and 7 p.m.
TINSELTOWN: "The Counselor." "Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa."
MOVIES AT MEADVILLE: "The Counselor." "Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa."
Tinseltown: "Don Jon." "Grown Ups 2." "Prisoners." "Runner Runner."
MOVIES AT MEADVILLE: "Machete Kills." "Runner Runner."
"The Counselor": A lawyer finds himself in over his head when he gets involved in drug trafficking. Stars Brad Pitt, Goran Visnjic, Michael Fassbender. (1:57. R for graphic violence, some grisly images, strong sexual content and language.)
"Jackass Presents Bad Grandpa": Eighty-six-year-old Irving Zisman (Johnny Knoxville) is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his 8-year-old grandson, Billy (Jackson Nicoll). (1:32. R for strong crude and sexual content throughout, language, some graphic nudity and brief drug use.)
"Captain Phillips": The true story of Captain Richard Phillips (Tom Hanks) and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in 200 years. Runs a little long, but an absolutely thrilling film. (2:14. PG-13 for sustained intense sequences of menace, some violence with bloody images and for substance use.) ***1/2
"Carrie": A re-imagining of the classic horror tale about Carrie White (Chloe Grace Moretz), a shy girl outcast by her peers and sheltered by her deeply religious mother (Julianne Moore), who unleashes telekinetic terror on her small town after being pushed too far at her senior prom. Not an amazing remake. Moretz is way too badass to be convincingly vulnerable. (1:39. R for bloody violence, disturbing images, language and some sexual content.) **1/2
"Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2": Flint Lockwood (voiced by Bill Hader) now works at The Live Corp Company for his idol Chester V (voiced by Will Forte). But he's forced to leave when he learns that his most infamous machine is still operational and is churning out menacing food-animal hybrids. The sequel doesn't live up to the beloved story, and the villain is bland. (1:35. PG for mild rude humor.) **
"Don Jon": A New Jersey guy (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) dedicated to his family, friends and church, develops unrealistic expectations from watching porn and works to find happiness and intimacy with his potential true love. Surprisingly fresh and fun, with terrific performances. (1:30. R for strong graphic sexual material and dialogue throughout, nudity, language and some drug use.) ***1/2
"Enough Said": A divorced woman (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) decides to pursue the man (James Gandolfini) she's interested in, only to learn he's her new friend's ex-husband. Smart and snappy comedy that's definitely worth a look. (1:33. PG-13 for crude and sexual content, comic violence, language and partial nudity.) ***
"Escape Plan": When a structural-security authority (Sylvester Stallone) finds himself set up and incarcerated in the world's most secret and secure prison, he has to use his skills to escape with help from the inside. Passable action flick with two old action heroes. (1:56. R for violence and language throughout.) **1/2
"The Fifth Estate": A dramatic thriller based on real events that reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century's most fiercely debated organization. Stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Daniel Bruhl. A thrilling film with great performances. (2:08. R for language and some violence.) ***
"GRAVITY": A medical engineer (Sandra Bullock) and an astronaut (George Clooney) work together to survive after an accident leaves them adrift in space. Directed by Alfonso Cuaron. Incredible performances and visually stunning -- especially in 3-D. (1:30. PG-13 for intense perilous sequences, disturbing images, brief strong language.) ****
"Grown Ups 2": After moving his family back to his hometown to be with his friends and their kids, Lenny (Adam Sandler) finds out that sometimes crazy follows you. Humorless and useless. (1:41. PG-13 for crude and suggestive content, language and some male rear nudity.) *1/2
"Insidious: CHAPTER 2": The haunted Lambert family seeks to uncover the mysterious childhood secret that has left them dangerously connected to the spirit world. Only slightly entertaining, but the script isn't really clever and evil spirits don't seem very original. (1:45. PG-13 for intense sequences of terror and violence, and thematic elements.) **
"Machete Kills": The U.S. government recruits Machete (Danny Trejo) to battle his way through Mexico in order to take down an arms dealer who looks to launch a weapon into space. Over-the-top and violent, but still a fun flick. (1:47. R for strong bloody violence throughout, language and some sexual content.) **1/2
"Prisoners": When Keller Dover's (Hugh Jackman) daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family? It's a film that will keep you guessing, and the performances are captivating. The only drawback: It's a really, really long movie. (2:33. R for disturbing violent content including torture and language throughout.) ***1/2
"RUNNER RUNNER": When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur. With Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake. Despite a promising start, there's not enough to keep viewers interested. (1:31. R for language, some sexual content.) **
"We're the Millers": A veteran pot dealer (Jason Sudeikis) creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico. A surprisingly hilarious summertime comedy with standout performances by Sudeikis and Will Poulter. (1:50. R for crude sexual content, pervasive language, drug material and brief graphic nudity.) ***
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FREEPORT — The third annual MYF Vendor Fair at Freeport Mennonite Church, 3416 E. Brick School Road, will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 16.
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Miami Northwestern Sr. High receives first A grade
On the brink of being shut down, school defies odds
Ashley Montgomery | 12/25/2013, 9 a.m.
It's now report card time for County schools as the Florida Department of Education [FDOE] issued school grades for the 2012-13 school year. No F's were given out to Miami-Dade and Broward County high schools, according to numbers released last Wednesday. Miami-Dade Schools Superintendent Alberto Carvalho, Principal Wallace Aristide and others celebrated Miami Northwestern Senior High [MNWSH] receiving an "A" rating. Just five years ago, MNWSH was in jeopardy of being shut down by the State due to its low academics. Cheers and smiles lit up the faces of students and staff, during the press conference as Aristide spoke of how far they've all come. He couldn't thank his amazing staff enough during his speech. Aristide says that his strategy was simple: to change the shift in culture, change the conversation among staff and students, discuss how they could become more successful and observe data more closely to understand how he could turn things around. Audrey Edmonson, Miami-Dade County District 3 commissioner; Dorothy Bendross-Mindingall, member of Miami-Dade County school board and Florida International University President, Mark Rosenburg were also in attendance last Wednesday.


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The 49ers exceeded all reasonable expectations in Jim Harbaugh's first year as head coach.
That will not happen this season.
That's because the expectation for the franchise is to win Super Bowl XLVII.
In the coming months, you will see predictions of a 49ers championship from a lot of pundits, publications and sites.
So let me be among the first to get the formality out of the way and declare the 49ers as my pick to hoist the Lombardi Trophy on Feb. 3, 2013, in New Orleans.
The 49ers return every key player on one of the league's most dominant defenses. And two new starters -- as well as the additions of several other top backups -- should provide much-needed upgrades on offense.
When a reporter mentioned this week to Harbaugh that the 49ers seem deep at "just about every position," Harbaugh responded, "Yeah, I would agree with that."
The 49ers are deep and talented. They will not finish the regular season with a 13-3 record because of a difficult schedule. Heck, I'll probably even pick them to lose the season-opener at Green Bay. But they should be a better all-around team than a year ago.
The front office kept the defense intact with the re-signings of Carlos Rogers and Ahmad Brooks. And they've added multiple big-play threats to assist an inconsistent offense.
But this prediction is less about the newcomers pushing the 49ers over the top than the players already on board getting better. After all, the 49ers came within an overtime loss of advancing to the Super Bowl last season. And they did it while mostly learning their new systems from scratch upon reporting to training camp.
A year ago, the 49ers did not have an offseason program with the coaching staff due to the lockout. When the players and coaches finally got together in late-July, the work began at a hectic pace.
"It was like a sprint from Day 1 last year," 49ers quarterback Alex Smith said. "Let me tell you, things have not changed. From the first day of football school, if you talk to anybody about the first day of football school, it was like, 'Holy smokes!'
"I think it blew everybody's mind. It was 100 mph. We were not slowing down. This coaching staff, coach Harbaugh, only knows one speed. It's not relax time. If anything, it's full-throttle even more."
Even compared to offseasons when there was no lockout and fewer league-mandated restrictions, the work getting accomplished on the 49ers' practice field is far greater than what anyone has previously experienced.
"It's tenfold from what we've done in the past," said left tackle Joe Staley, who enters his sixth season. "It's all under (NFL) guidelines, but we're also getting a ton of work done. We're splitting fields and getting more reps in. I think everybody's buying in. You don't hear any complaining. Coach Harbaugh makes sure we're doing a lot of efficient work. It's going to set us up well for training camp."
And it should also set up the 49ers to become a popular pick to win the Super Bowl, and Staley knows that.
"If anything that makes us hungrier because we know how fleeting that is," Staley said. "I've been here a couple years when we were the chic pick. . . . We were the popular, sleeper pick before and we had a horrible year. . . . Also, knowing how close we were to getting to the Super Bowl last year and losing in overtime, that just made us realize how close of an opportunity and how great of a football team we have here."


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Learning Objectives: describe how schools and local public health agencies can communicate with parents, teachers and students using a school based web site.
Abstract: PROBLEM/OBJECTIVE To bridge the communication gap among schools, local communities and local public health agencies by providing contact information for these groups on a web site. This web site is a direct link to students, parents, and teachers with information on tobacco control and other youth risk behavior issues, activities, and policies. State and local public health and education agencies, provide tobacco control and other health information for these web sites that promote best practices, local resources, and health related events.
METHODS This school template-based web site provides: 1. Health information for students, teachers, and parents 2. School information such as activity calendar, lunch menus, news, homework, and 3. Links to resources. Registered schools add their own information using online templates to create a web site or link with an existing site. The site encourages partnerships and collaboration among schools and local health agencies. It provides tools for implementing school health programs and links to additional resources.
RESULTS One hundred Minnesota schools have signed up for the program. MDH is providing materials and information on tobacco control, nutrition, and physical activity. Links are being provided to schools and local public health agencies to access information through other web sites.
DISCUSSION Use of this web site is a tool to: 1. Link public health and learning instutions at the local level 2. Increase communication and strengthen partnerships among school, public health and community organizations, and 3. Provide quality tobacco control and other health information for parents, students and schools to enforce positive health messages and promote healthy choices.
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About Our Department
Our History | Our Mission | Research Mission
Our History
Today's Department of Criminal Justice emerged from Indiana University's long-standing commitment to integrating law and the social sciences with the study of justice. Our Department has a very rich history that, from the start, reflected our continuing mission of engaging multiple disciplines to understand the nature of crime and society's responses to violence and injustice.
The Department's institutional foundation rests on the efforts of two pioneers in the fields of law and criminal justice: Professor of Law Jerome Hall and sociologist Edwin H. Sutherland. Hall advocated the importance of using scientific methods to understand the practice of law. He is famously known for his groundbreaking empirical analyses of law, arguably best captured in his text Theft, Law, and Society. Sutherland, who required his students to minor in criminal law, was widely regarded as America's foremost criminologist in his day. He continues to be a towering figure. His books Principles of Criminology, The Professional Thief, and White-Collar Crime continue to shape many areas of criminal justice. At the instigation of these two insightful scholars, the Board of Trustees, on June 15, 1935, established the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology.
The Institute sought to coordinate, extend, and supplement the facilities and services of the University's departments and schools that were related to the administration of criminal law. It also provided the institutional foundation for the relationship between law and the sciences at Indiana University. During the 1930s and 1940s, the Institute's student enrollments grew rapidly and its research projects broadened. The Institute's prominence in the study of law and crime increased, both in terms of research and teaching activities. Shortly following World War II, the Institute's rapid growth led the University to transform the Institute into a department; the Institute became formally known as the Department of Police Administration. Unlike other universities that provided training for law enforcement, Indiana recognized the need to offer a broad background to those who would enter law enforcement but, equally importantly, the need to offer a background in law enforcement to students in related fields, such as political science, psychology, and sociology. From its inception, the Department offered a four-year B.A. degree in the College of Arts and Sciences. This development meant that our Department was the first to recognize the importance of college-level training in police work in the context of the liberal arts.
During the 1970s and 1980s, the Department continued to expand its focus. During that time, the department made several important appointments, such as that of noted critical criminologist Hal Pepinksy who became known as an incredibly gifted teacher who taught, among other things, courses on "alternative systems of social control." The Department also attracted and relied heavily on top scholars who were trained in different disciplines; these scholars included Ellen Dwyer (history), Lee Luskin (Political Science), Philip Parnell (Anthropology) and Cathy Widom (Psychology). These new faculty members permitted the Department to develop and add innovative courses to complement what previously had been known as core courses in forensic and policing science. Their courses continued the tradition of looking at multiple facets of crime and justice, as reflected in such courses as the history of crime, social control, psychology of crime, community policing, alternative dispute negotiations, court administration, and courses adopting a cross-cultural perspective. The group's commitment to interdisciplinary research helped attract faculty from a broad range of academic disciplines as well as those trained in criminal justice itself. In an effort to reflect the faculty's diversity of interests and research goals, the Department changed its name twice during this period. For a brief period, the department was known as the Department of Forensic Studies. That focus reflected, for example, the work of Robert Borkenstein, widely known for inventing and popularizing the Breathalizer. In 1985, the Department acquired its present and more encompassing name of Criminal Justice. This new name reflected the Department's effort to broaden its intellectual reach even further than it already had sought at its inception.
Soon after, the Department recruited Coramae Richey Mann to help establish a doctoral program. Mann was, and remains, a major intellectual figure in the study of race, gender and inequality who vehemently argued that the criminal justice system was racist. Her strong personality was instrumental in creating an environment that attracted to IU several prominent researchers who study the intersections of race and crime. She helped ensure that the Department would be a leading center of research relating to race, diversity, and inequality.
In 1997, the Department's faculty solidified its commitment to research and teaching by formally launching its Ph.D. program in what has become known as the field of criminal justice. Given its institutional history, it is not surprising to find the program's strong commitment to interdisciplinary approaches to understanding crime and justice. The Department eventually would hire sociologists, psychologists, lawyers, demographers, criminologists, anthropologists, philosophers, and developmentalists. The department did so while hiring several professors who were trained formally in "criminal justice". These additions ensured that students, both graduate and undergraduate, would benefit from the work of faculty who conduct research and teach in what has become recognized as the field of criminal justice as well as in other fields that examine issues relating to crime and justice.
The Department of Criminal Justice still fully embraces its liberal arts mission. Faculty seek to bridge the gaps between law and the social sciences through the study of the administration of criminal and civil justice systems, the nature of crime and deviance, the relationship between law and its social context, and the recognition of the importance of cross-cultural inquiry for the field. Equally importantly, faculty members are known for moving their inquiry beyond the study of law and formal justice systems and toward the study of many forms of violence in personal relationships, institutions, and broader society. Just as we have become unique in our focus on international and cross-cultural inquiry, we now have become unique in our recognition that issues of crime and justice involve profound issues of mental health and mental health systems. We are a diverse group, but each one of us remains committed to reshaping, challenging and furthering our understanding of crime and justice.
Our Mission
Our mission is to conduct and disseminate first-rate research on crime and justice, to provide outstanding teaching, and to serve our campus, community, and profession with the utmost distinction. We strive to be a vibrant interdisciplinary department that promotes synergy among research, teaching, and service to students and our respective fields of study. We firmly believe that such synergy produces dynamism in the educational environment we offer and drives the identification of issues that form the basis of our excellence in scholarly productivity. The following goals shape our efforts:
- Foster a collegial environment that celebrates our passion for learning
- Recruit, retain, and develop a diverse and exceptionally talented student body
- Provide high quality courses and other means of instruction that meet students' needs
- Enable and promote new knowledge through disciplinary and interdisciplinary research
- Reach the highest standards of scholarship reflective of our University's world-class status
- Embrace the opportunity to contribute each of our strengths to the evolving character of the discipline of criminal justice
- Nurture the commitment to making a difference in the world and to serving society
- Deepen our sensitivity to visible and invisible injustices
- Recognize our responsibilities to one another and facilitate our professional development
Our goals contribute to our vision of capitalizing on our faculty and students' wide range of disciplinary training, teaching experiences, scholarship, and personal strengths to build and maintain a first-rate, interdisciplinary educational program marked by a firm commitment to the liberal arts.
Research Mission
The primary research mission of the Indiana University Department of Criminal Justice is to produce world class scholarship in the fields of criminology and criminal justice. As an interdisciplinary department, faculty and graduate students address fundamental issues of crime and justice from diverse disciplinary perspectives using a range of quantitative and qualitative methods and in accordance with the highest standards of major research universities. Research in the department spans the subfields of criminology and criminal justice and expands each of them in vital new ways. Faculty and graduate students seek to publish our scholarship in leading disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals and in the foremost university and commercial presses and to obtain research support from major public and private agencies and foundations. Our goal is to lead in the development of criminological and criminal justice research and theory.
Criminal Justice faculty and graduate students examine the nature and causes of crime and the systems and practices of criminal justice in path-breaking ways. Our efforts to expand the boundaries of these fields are evident in the breadth of our research interests, which include: the fundamental nature of crime; developmental criminology; crime, law, and psychology; crime and youth development; social, economic, and environmental justice; the role of private law and civil law agencies in the administration of justice; international and cross-cultural dimensions of crime and justice; policing; public health and crime; white collar crime; patterns of criminal sentencing; and the relationship between crime and gender, race, and ethnicity.
Faculty and graduate student research, both quantitative and qualitative, has been supported by funds from a number of major agencies and foundations. The most notable among these are: the National Institute of Justice, the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Fulbright Hays Faculty Fellowship Program, the World Health Organization, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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MUSKEGON, MI – Part of the former Sappi Fine Paper plant
in Muskegon caught fire earlier this morning.
The Muskegon Fire Department responded to calls of heavy smoke in the area around 10:45 a.m. Wednesday. They arrived to find a fire burning in the roof area on the north end of the former paper plant at 2400 Lakeshore Dr. in the area where Melching Inc. demolition crews are working.
A plume of black smoke could be seen coming from the plant, but the fire was not visible from Lakeshore Drive.
Owner Doug Melching bought the plant from South Africa-based Sappi last year and is demolishing the buildings to recycle its materials. He hopes to redevelop it as an industrial park with deepwater port access.
Melching said his employees were using cutting torches about four or five stories off the ground in the roof area where paper machine No. 5 was located. Sparks from the torches ignited a fire in some exposed wood that the demolition crews could not contain.
Melching said spot fires are common when using torches around flammable materials, but the torch operator is able to extinguish the fires alone the vast majority of the time. Wednesday's fire was too high and in an area difficult to reach, so Melching's crew asked for assistance from the city fire department.
Firefighters reported the blaze was contained around 11:15 a.m., a half hour after arriving on the scene. Units began clearing the scene a half hour later, although some remained at the site longer to finish extinguishing hot spots.
No injuries were reported.
Melching said the fire didn't damage anything of value. That area of the plant, which is the newest area of manufacturing space, is being knocked down and recycled.
Paper machine No. 5 was sold and shipped to a paper manufacturer in Mexico, leaving just a shell of the building in that area.
Ryan Jeltema is managing producer for The Muskegon Chronicle and MLive.com. You can contact him at email@example.com


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In a New York Times piece serving as an appetizer for his new insider account of DC, reporter Mark Leibovich includes the following nugget of information, about White House attempts in the summer of 2010 to smear prospective Government Oversight and Reform Chairman Rep. Darryl Issa:
I had no idea of Issa's history until I got a call one summer afternoon from the White House, peddling oppo. Bill Burton, then the deputy press secretary at the White House, urged me (in the most sheepish and above-it-all tones) to spend some time "getting to know Darrell Issa." As an hors d'oeuvre, Burton mentioned the auto thefts.
(If you're wondering who in the President's entourage at the time might have been pushing this approach along with Burton, here's a possible clue.)
As a matter of curiosity, it's interesting to see who, exactly, did the White House's bidding on the Issa. The results are instructive. In June 2010, it seems that Media Matters for America took the administration's line hook, line & sinker and ran with it (not surprising, given the Daily Caller's February 2012 report of the close coordination between The White House and the lefty outfit).
After the election, however, others joined the fray, referencing the allegations, including:
New Yorker: Elizabeth Kolbert's comment "Uncomfortable Climate" (11/22/10)
Washington Post: Philip Rucker's piece "In power seat, Issa recasts self as Washington's whistleblower" (12/19/10)
New Yorker: Ryan Lizza's piece "Don't Look Back" (with a subhead mentioning that Issa "has had some troubles of his own")
The lefty press was in full cry by January of 2011, some openly citing Media Matters research, which (presumably) had come directly from The White House.
Did Kolbert, Rucker or Lizza become acquainted with Issa's background after being encouraged to do so by The White House? We don't know. But it would be helpful if we did.
"Transparency" is supposedly a big buzzword in Washington these days. Wouldn't it be refreshing if, rather than simply presenting story ideas offered by partisans as their own, reporters actually credited those who provided them (even in general terms, e.g., "from The White House" or "from Republican congressional staff" or the like)? Of course, it won't happen -- no one in the press wants regular Americans to understand how much "information" has been spoon fed to those who are supposedly "investigating" and "reporting" on it. But it would be honest. And it might even restore some much-needed credibility to an institution that badly needs it.