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GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The MIAA Tournament begins Wednesday, Feb. 20, with the women's semifinals, followed the next night with the men's semifinals.
Both share the same forecast – Hope vs. Calvin in the finals.
Calvin is the top seed and Hope No. 2 in both tournaments, which conclude with championships Saturday. Can No. 3 Trine and No. 4 Adrian (for the men) and No. 4 Trine and No. 3 Olivet (for the women) pull off an upset?
The MIAA web site has the schedules and more information for the men and women.
Here are three storylines for the men:
• No. 1 Calvin (22-3, 13-1) defeated Adrian (18-7, 7-7) by nine total points in two meetings. The Knights knocked off then-undefeated Adrian 56-50 to open the conference season and both settled in as the two stingiest defenses in the MIAA. The next meeting, on Jan. 26, was 50-47 at Adrian. Calvin never shot better than 39 percent in either win. The Knights either must improve their shooting in the 7:30 p.m. Thursday game, or continue to play strong defense – Adrian never shot better than 36 percent.
• No. 2 Hope (17-8, 12-2) faces Trine (14-11, 7-7), a team that comes into the 7:30 p.m. Thursday game losers of four in a row. Hope has beaten Trine twice (76-61 home on Jan. 23 and 81-72 away Feb. 16). Ben Gardner has stepped up nicely following a foot injury to leading scorer Colton Overway. The freshman is averaging 12.5 in the six games since he became a starter. His continued improvement, along with consistency from inside presence Nate VanArendonk will go a long way in determining success.
• Thursday's winners meet 7:30 p.m. Saturday for the title, and it's no stretch to make a third Hope-Calvin match-up a probability. Hope has won eight in a row and the Flying Dutchmen have greatly matured and improved since a December stretch when they actually lost four of five. They also beat Calvin last meeting Feb. 9, 73-70. That loss snapped a 14-game winning streak for Calvin, which won its final two in the regular season. Calvin is one win from its biggest win total since a 23-7 season in 2005-06.
Three storylines for the women:
• No. 1 Calvin (22-2, 15-1) is averaging nearly 79 points a game heading into tonight's 7:30 game against No. 4 Trine (14-11, 8-8), which has won three in a row and five of seven. The Knights boast the potential Division III player of the year in senior Carissa Verkaik, and look to regain their pose after losing the regular-season finale to rival Hope 65-50.
• No. 2 Hope (24-1, 15-1) is on a roll, even by its high standards. The Flying Dutch only have a Jan. 12 loss to Calvin as its blemish. They have won their past five games by an average of 35 points, not good news for Olivet (15-10, 10-6) heading into tonight's 7:30 p.m. game. Olivet has lost three in a row.
• If Hope and Calvin meet in Saturday's 3 p.m. finals, it won't come down to a coin flip – as it did to determine the top seed between the two. Hope has its scoring leader in Courtney Kust (11.1), 3-point bomber in Brittany Berry (50 and shooting 49 percent) and floor leader in Liz Ellis (52 steals, 2.0 assists). Calvin's Verkaik does everything (19.8 points, 57.8 percent shooting, 8.8 rebounds), but the Knights as a team shoot a conference-best 46.9 percent. Hope, in its win over Calvin on Saturday, held the Knights to 30 percent shooting, and limited Verkaik to six of 14 from the floor.
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BUCKHANNON - West Virginia Wesleyan's women's golf team has made some major strides in recent seasons, and last year's squad posted an impressive third-place finish in the WVIAC.
With this year serving as the last year of the storied 89-year old league, Bobcat head coach Mike Rogers would love to make a run at the top spot as a grand finale. A veteran of the local golf community, Rogers feels his squad is strong enough to make a strong showing this fall.
"I think our chances of bringing home a conference championship are as good or better than last season," Rogers said. "It will take our best effort but this is the final season of the WVIAC as we know it and winning that championship would be a great experience."
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Leading the way among the returnees are two of the players who have been a major part of the program's resurgence. This is Brittany Borkovich and Haley Bishop.
Borkovich was a major cog in the team rolling to a 42-26 mark last season. She missed parts of the campaign due to shoulder surgery, but battled enough o earn Second-Team All-Conference honors.
Joining the Borkovich and Bishop as major threats, are transfers Jennifer Smith and Kayla Linger. Smith, a native of St. Peterborough, Ontario, brings a wealth of talent and experience to the table.
She has already earned three all-conference plaques at Ohio Valley University and is transferring in for her final year of eligibility.
Also transferring from Ohio Valley is local product Kayla Linger. The former multi-sport star for Buckhannon-Upshur, Linger played golf in the fall for OVU and softball in the spring. This pair helps provide Rogers with a very potent lineup every time they tee off.
"Brittany, Kayla, and Jennifer all have the ability to win the individual title at any event we play," Rogers said. "Which is something that we have not had in the past."
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006
A Failure of Opportunity
I wrote this after I lost my job. My intent was to flesh it out, expand it to about 2000 words, and see if it was something that could be sold. It never felt quite good enough and I never had the opportunity to edit it and add enough meat to make it worth the attempt; but it also encapsulated my feelings about our current problems with Iran.
So, without the proper editing and a little lighter than it should be, I offer it up here with some small apology and hopes that it makes up for the American Idol post that I'll be writing tomorrow…
It has become popular to suggest that war represents a failure of imagination on behalf of a country's leadership. Somehow every political situation should have a non-violent, non-military diplomatic solution that achieves optimal results while avoiding blood shed. This is tripe--a utopian delusion unsupported by an adult's view of the world.
War quite regularly represents a failure of opportunity; it is often the recognition of the immediacy of a crisis coupled with no feasible compromise position. Was there, magically, a non-military solution to Hitler's attempted conquests or Japan's dream of a co-prosperity sphere? The difficulty is in knowing whether the opportunities for peaceful resolution have run dry.
Today the West is facing that question in its pursuit of a peaceful, diplomatic solution to the problem of Iran--an ideal solution that may not exist.
Iran is openly and aggressively seeking to become a nuclear power while hiding behind the scant and irregular camouflage of a peaceful uses excuse. The intentional provocation is not something that can be ignored by anyone who seriously fears nuclear proliferation. In a specific sense, a nuclear Iran would mean destabilization in a region where we have significant humanitarian, economic, and political interests; in a much greater sense it would open the gates to other counties' nuclear ambitions by making it clear that the Western powers won't act to stop proliferation.
One of the quiet purposes of the war in Iraq was to create opportunity and influence where they didn't previously exist--to give the United States and her allies leverage in finding non-violent ways to enforce our national security concerns. Middle Eastern dictatorships and theocracies were given a demonstration of the US military's destructive power, our leadership's willingness to topple enemy governments, and our national will to stick through significant loss of American lives. It was (and continues to be) an expensive effort that ha yielded mixed results.
Certainly some hostile nations have been more pliant in finding ways to support our war on terror (militant Islam), and, arguably, Libya's new move to openness and the changes in Lebanon probably wouldn't have happened if regional leaders did not have renewed faith in America's strength of will. But it's questionable as to whether this newfound influence is long lasting or whether changes go deeper than a sort of superficial support in our hunt for terrorists.
Ignoring Iran would do nothing to ensure that our influence remains strong, mooting one of the arguments for involvement in Iraq. A nuclear armed Iran would work directly to undermine our mission in Iraq, would hamper our influence in the region, would give cover to anti-Israeli actions, would threaten to interfere with oil production, and would represent a serious foreign policy failure for every Western nation (most especially the United States).
The failure of imagination is not in being incapable of finding a peaceful solution; the failure is in not seeing the potential hazards of failing to enforce the West's national security needs. The simple fact is this: the West cannot accept an Iran that has the capacity to produce and potentially sell nuclear weapons. At the same time Iran is showing no willingness to abandon their ambitions and UN sanctions would be an unreliable (and probably ineffective) solution. Middle ground for diplomatic maneuvering is a pretty small bit of real estate.
There may yet be hope. There may yet be a way to find a non-military solution to a problem that by all appearances has no happy answers. The immediacy of Iran's nuclear program and unwillingness to halt enrichment, though, has to lead serious minds to one conclusion: we are facing a failure of opportunity to find a peaceful resolution. This failure may lead us directly into an unwanted confrontation with Iran, but it won't be because our leaders lack sufficient imagination to solve the problem; it will be because this is a deadly serious issue in which there is almost no room for compromise.
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Date: Sep 09, 2006
Airline: Emirates
Flight No: EK 607
Dep: 1415
Route: Karachi to Dubai
Aircraft: Boeing 777-300
Registration: E6-E?? with FIFA World Cup Germany 2006 titles.
Seat: 38A
Duration: 2hrs 05 mins
I left the house at a reasonable hour in the morning for my afternoon departure to Dubai. I was supposed to leave two days earlier, but I got seriously sick and had to cancel my reservation, which was the first time I have ever had to cancel a flight due to sickness. This resulted in my flight out of New York to be rescheduled to Sept 11. My family bid me farewell and I proceeded to the departure areas. I soon cleared formalities and went to a remote area inside the departure lounge from where I clicked the earlier departure of 1215, the tails of the old and new airlines of Pakistan, Pakistan International and Air Blue. While busy photographing them a PIA Boeing 747-300 in the Lahore, Garden of Mughals landed in the distance and I quickly photographed it taxing to the terminal. I passed security later and headed to the boarding gate. I noticed the PK 743 had parked right next to the Emirates gate and I was happy to a get another pic of it at close range. While boarding, that same aircraft would move to the other satellite and I would photograph her later. I quite like the new PIA tails and would like to see them on the 777s as well (They ar of course now some three years later). We boarded the aircraft and I recall telling the girl at the gate about the load, saying the ground agent at the town office had said it was wide open. She shook her head in disbelief and said we were going full load unlike the flight in which was practically empty. This was very evident when the passengers just kept coming. Before all seats could get full, I went to the other side and photographed the Jinnah Airport terminal building.
The Earlier EK flight operating with a Boeing 777-300ER
Every single seat on the jet was starting to fill up and I waited to see who the occupants of the two seats at the side of me where going to be. A couple with two small kids used the two near me and the two across the aisle. The screaming kid settled near me and I was so glad it was going to be a short flight. The child reached for every imaginable thing around and yanked the video console out and put it to his ear and talked into it. The father cautioned him not to do it, trying to get him to settle in the seat, while he slid from his hands. We started to taxi and I tried to forget the scene unfolding at the side of me, and got my forward camera ready. We were soon racing down the length of the runway and took a longer time to get airborne compared to our flight into Karachi. I recorded the take off including some outside the window. I then proceeded to photograph our climb out, getting some views of the city as we flew over. We turned left out of 25R heading down towards the Arabian sea and after a while we would turn right and fly almost north west to the Makran Coast before we would turn left again and then fly west to Dubai , the Pakistani coastline now on the right of the aircraft. We climbed to FL360 very quickly and while still in the climb, with the seat belt signs on, the cabin crew began to get up to prepare for the meal service. The full load today meant they needed a head start for the +300 plus in economy in a short time of just 1 hour and 40 minutes or less. I looked at my little friend and he had fallen fast asleep, the climb out having some effect on him, where we hit some light turbulence . Severe turbulence usually has this effect on me, all that rocking gently putting me to sleep, as I experienced on a Malaysia Airlines jet out of Dubai to Newark .The meal service began and the crew did an amazing job.
The guy in the photo below was the lead Purser on my flight from New York.
Earlier in the flight while settling in my seat, I noticed a flight attendant from my flight to Karachi, in fact the one I had photographed up front prior to deplaning. As she approached I informed her that I was the crazy paparazzi who had photographed her on the flight to Karachi, and she was very excited with the coincidence of meeting me again . She asked if I had the photo but I had packed that album into my checked baggage…I went to use the washroom and on my way back to the seat she had hurriedly filled a bag with some Emirates playing cards, a stuffed toy, Emirate packed savoury crackers and said it was a real pleasure to have me on board with Emirates again . I clearly remembered her from the photograph, and she was in the cabin working very professionally and ensuring her passengers were being taken care of even before we had taken off . There was some other cabin crew on that flight that seemed eager to get off before the flight had even pushed back!! . I always like a flight attendant like her dedicated and caring and sometime later in the flight I asked for her name and a passenger comment form. There was no form available however she handed some excellent First Class stationery and I wrote a few good things about her service and asked her to hand it to the Purser of this flight.
The descent into Dubai began and we had crossed inland from the Arabain Sea into the Emirates flying over the East coast, before we began descending mid way through. We were going to make a straight in approach from the East and we passed over some houses , then long winding roads in the sands below. while we descended lower. We had absolutely clear weather and once again the brown hue added to the scenery outside and the blinding heat added to my anxiety of being in the hot weather again . Once again I recorded the approach into Dubai, but this time I did not use the video but the view outside my window. I believe the view is a lot better outside though it is exciting to see the runway approaching to welcome youon the seat back videos. We passed a Boeing 777 holding at the edge of the runway and some seconds later touched down into Dubai. We had a long taxi to the gate going down the length of the runway and then heading back up. The Boeing 777 that we had earlier passed was now climbing into the afternoon sky. We got into the gate and I noticed a Virgin Nigeria A340 alongside two Emirates tails . The familiar Dubai control shone in the afternoon sun and we were back at the Emirates home base. I got a photo of the tail of our jet and hurried to clear all other formalities before I kept my friends in Dubai waiting like I did with my family in Karachi.
Date: Sep 11, 2006
Airline: Emirates
Flight No: EK 203
Dep: 0200
Route: Dubai to New York
Aircraft: Airbus A340-500
Registration: E6-E??
Seat: 40A
Duration: 14 hours 10 minutes
It was the eve of the fifth anniversary of the Sept 11th events of 2001 in New York, and I was boarding a flight to New York that was scheduled to arrive at 0820 in the morning at JFK some thirty minutes or so before the first jet hit the First Tower. Security was the same as before in regards to the checking bags etc, and was not escalated due to the anniversary of that tragic event. Before long we were all at the gate to board our flight to New York. The load was really full today, because the flight from the day before Sept 10th in the morning had been cancelled and those passengers were put on this night flight. I had a pretty bad experience coming into Dubai from New York with the person in the seat behind me, that I had pretty much made up my mind that I would take the last seat despite the limited recline, and the curvature of the aircraft at the end with these Airbus planes. I had this issue with the A330-200 of Etihad. After getting my boarding pass, I decided to check the Duty Free stores but got nothing so I headed to the gate, which also happen to be Gate 11 which seemed a bit bizzare. Soon the announcement was made and we were on board the Airbus A340-500.
I cannot recall which runway we departed from but unlike my flight this year (2009) where we headed towards Bahrain, Kuwait along the Persian Gulf where we entered into Iraqi airspace and practically flew over Baghdad, this trip was taking us over Iran to Shiraz, part of Iraq, into Turkey over the Black Sea, the Eastern bloc, Romania, Poland over the Baltic Sea to the tip of the Norwegian countries, then over Reykjavik, close to Greenland and then down over Eastern Canada, US and finally New York. Dinner was served almost immediately after take off and this time I decided to put the IFE to better use than I had on the inbound flight. My neighbour who was in 40B had already called it a night being one of those that was supposed to be on the earlier flight but then was told they would be taking the flight at night. I am not sure if he was a transit passenger and was made to pull out the whole day at the terminal or not, but he was clearly tired.
I could not sleep at all and I recall seeing that only 6 hours had passed and another 7 or more had yet to go. The Emirates FAs that sleep in the bunks above the Economy area, change into sky blue track like outfits and it's quite amusing to see the person that served you earlier in crisp EK uniforms turn up suddenly this way like smurfs in the dark cabin with the lights out that you begin to imagine if your eyes are playing tricks on you. Amusingly there was a passenger on board who had a similar outfit and was waiting near the lavatory to use it, with some others before her. I almost asked her how long their break is for, assuming she was one of them, until I saw a famous brand name logo on her outfit!! Water and orange juice runs were made during the course of the flight and some mid-flight snacks were served, and the rest of the flight continued in the dark night. I was so tempted to remove my hand luggage from the top and proudly display my Risesoon Airbus A340-500 1:200 scale (which I had bought from the EK store in Dubai) close to me , while flying on the real Airbus A340-500. But I decided not to!!
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We had now crossed the Atlantic and were over Eastern Canada when the cabin began to stir back to life. It was amazing how some people can actually sleep on these long hauls, freshen up in the washroom and have breakfast like it was the next day after sleeping in your own bed at home. The trays were cleared and now we were closing in on New York. I had spent sometime after breakfast to chat with the crew members, and had told them I had taken pics of their colleagues on the inbound flight. The Purser on the flight was at the back and when I told her about it as well and how I would be documenting this as a trip report, she quickly handed me a can of mixed nuts, that are served in First Class, thanked me for doing that and scurried off before I captured her on film. I think she had met my kind before, so others do exist!!
We were still very high over the city and the New York skyline could be seen just under the wing, before the jet turned briefly to the left heading out towards Long Island and after passing it, we turned right and began the approach for 4R at JFK. It was now almost 0810 (8:20am) local time and the thought of the events of Sept 11, exactly five years before on this day, flashed through my mind. The jet was now over the Ocean and was making that long right turn to line up with 4R. It was a gorgeous clear day with just a few scattered clouds. We passed over the usual buildings that lie on that stretch of Long Island and before long we touched down on 4R, while getting a glimpse of the line up on 4L that was making up the morning rush hour. It was now 0820 (8:20am) and we soon parking at the terminal.
I was desperate to try and get to La Guardia to change my connection from a 4pm departure to one earlier in the morning, firstly I was too tired to wait another eight hours at JFK, and secondly it being Sept 11th, I was too concerned should any events take place, I could get stranded in New York. So I was actually rushing to get out of the plane this time and not be the last to leave. Once in the arrivals hall I proceeded to find the line with the least amount of passengers, but the Airport Personnel in there chose to send me to one of the longest lines. While in the line an announcement blared through the Terminal alerting passengers that a minute's silence (or was it two minutes) was to be observed shortly. The buzzer prior to the commencement of the silence was heard and the Terminal paused in every single activity that it was previously involved in. However two passengers of my flight (I chose not to disclose their nationalities) continued to chat, oblivious to what was happening around. They were still going on in a pretty audible tone, that people in the line signaled them to hush and be quiet. They probably did not understand English, but it is so disrespectful when you behave that way, especially at a solemn moment like this, as I am you can clearly see everything has come to a standstill and some people have their heads bowed in silence. Anyway, after the silence the Terminal sprung back into action and I was allowed entry into the US by a very friendly Customs Officer.
Date: Sep 11, 2006
Airline: Air Canada
Flight No: AC 709
Dep: 1120
Route: New York (LGA) to Toronto
Aircraft: Airbus A320
Registration: C-FZUJ
Seat: 18A
Duration: 1hr 35 mins
I managed to get to La Guardia in the next hour and was soon at the Air Canada counter requesting an earlier departure to Toronto. The agent checked and happily informed me I was now on the departure before noon. I could not have been happier. The flight was uneventful and like my arrival into La Guardia some weeks earlier which took me over Manhattan, this time too I was going to be treated to some views of the magnificient Manhattan skyline. We landed on 6R is Toronto and the only thing on my mind was to get home and sleep.
I cleared Immigration and headed down to the baggage claim area of Terminal 1. The bags from the flight soon appeared on the moving conveyor belts and then I thought I was seeing things when I noticed my large suitcase half open, though I know I had locked it in New York when I had opened it to put my Airbus A340-500 1:200 model from my hand carry into the suitcase as I thought with my 8 hour stop in the US, I would have to carry it with me everywhere. And then another smaller bag had this huge tear which was squarish in shape with the torn end hanging halway through away from the bag. I lifted my suitcase and it almost came open when I pulled it off the belt, and I quickly snapped it together as soon I put it to the ground, and before the other smaller bag could pass me, I quickly lifted that but some of the contents spilled out onto the ground, but fortunately not on the converyor belt that I had to run after it to pick them up. I was shocked and terribly upset that my bags had arrived this way. I quickly dragged my suitcase behind me while holding the other smaller bag close to my chest with my left hand, like it was a sick child and went to the Air Canada agent demanding an explanation for this unfortunate arrival of my belongings. She was very sympathetic and said I had probably become a victim of a random baggage check by the US Airport Security due to hightened security on Sept 11. I knew there was nothing I could do about it and left the terminal quite upset, yet relieved to find none of my actual belongings had gone missing or stolen. When I got home I found a leaflet in my suitcase and handbag that I was chosen for a random baggage check, just as the Air Canada agent had told me. I guess it was because I had arrived on a Middle Eastern carrier on the day itself from the Middle East, had requested to change my booking at La Guardia and was a single male of an ethnic background, the real reasons will never be known to me. Fortunately I have never had this experience again, and do not look forward to incidents such as this in the future.


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State police: Men break into home, take $5,000
Robbers kick in side door of Franklin County home, troopers say
UPDATED 11:25 AM EDT Apr 22, 2013
State police said they are investigating an armed robbery in Mount Alto, Franklin County.
Two men broke into a home in the 7300 block of Slabtown Road about 8:30 a.m. Monday by kicking in a side door, troopers said.
A 24-year-old woman was home at the time. One of the men held a gun to her head, told her not to look up and wanted to know where the money was, state police said.
The robbers got away with about $5,000 and the woman was not injured, troopers said.
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During each of nine recent trips to Afghanistan, Kathy Kelly, as an invited guest of the Afghan Peace
Volunteers, has lived alongside ordinary Afghan people in a working class neighborhood in Kabul.
She and her companions in Voices for Creative Nonviolence believe that "where you stand
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throughout the 2003 "Shock and Awe" bombing. They have also lived alongside people during
warfare in Gaza, Lebanon, Bosnia and Nicaragua.
She was sentenced to one year in federal prison for planting corn on nuclear missile silo sites (1988-
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Benning's military training school. As a war tax refuser, she has refused
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A tornado watch is in effect for St. John the Baptist Parish until 7 a.m. today.
"All residents are urged to be vigilant," said Buddy Boe, parish spokesman, in a release.
Hurricane and tropical force winds will continue throughout today. Forecasters are predicting gusts of up to 100 mph in the parish, Boe said.
St. John officials have said they expect flooding in low-lying areas of the parish as Gustav approaches the coast. Residents are asked to leave those areas before this morning, the release said.
A nightly curfew is in effect from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. in St. John.


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Oh my God!!! What a week: Oscar luncheon, New York fashion week, Anna Nicole, Vera Wang and Tim Gunn. Not to mention the Grammys this past Sunday. Where do I start, and what do I talk about? To be totally honest I only want to talk about Anna Nicole and fashion week ... I could give a sh** about an Oscar luncheon and what Hollywood puppets wore to their exclusive muppet feast ... I want to talk about what celebrity did to that poor girl, I want to talk about drug addiction and recovery and how no one helped her but in fact encouraged her self-destruction for their own amusement.
I want to talk about the possibility of a Jim Thompson-type murder mystery and how a topless dancer became a Playboy playmate, turned Guess jeans model, became bride to an 89-year-old oil man, lived a dream that turned into a nightmare, lost her only son, gave birth to a brand-new life, then predictably yet grossly and shockingly lay down and died for all of us to see; leaving a clamoring pile of pathetic men scrambling desperately for her money and using her newborn baby as the tool to do so. How this cast (Howard K. Stern, Larry Birkhead and "PRINCE" Frederick Von Anhaldt) seem more like Stepford husbands or the type of scum floating at the top of a hallowed stew dreamt up by David Lynch than real-life humans. But my involvement (to be clear) with Moviefone and this blog is to cover fashion and red-carpet events ... so I'll have to mix that in a little.p>On Monday, Feb. 5, I flew into New York with my new collection, ready to take sales appointments and set up my showroom to take appointments from then until Feb. 23. And it all went swimmingly. I saw the buyers for Kirna Zabet in Soho, Susan of Burlingame in San Francisco, Bergdorf Goodman, and a couple more whose names escape me right now ... all in the first two days, and all who placed orders ... it was very exciting. The next 100 appointments over the next 2.5 weeks should be great!
In the meantime, I was also there to meet with key industry people to try and find a company to partner up with in order to expand my business; among them the president of Marc Jacobs, the manufacturer for Ralph Lauren denim and Tim Gunn ... the newly appointed mentor and captain to steer the ship of the Claiborne company. All this went well also, especially my meeting with Tim, as it was really my first interaction with him outside the TV game show where we met, and one set in a truly professional environment: my sales showroom. It felt great to sit with him and show him my new collection. Also on my agenda during fashion week was to finish an interview/story for New York magazine, so I had a photographer along with me covering this "A day in the life of" for that purpose.
So Wednesday I went to the Vera Wang show, which blew me away. It seems Vera has reached a point in her life (post the death of her father) where what is important to her is a true expression of her inner self ... and right now that translates into Japanese-inspired, slightly morose, authentically dark and empirically designed pieces of genius that move people rather than clothe them. I didn't want the show to end, and I don't recall seeing one piece that felt like a misstep.
After the show I was hanging out with the photographer from New York magazine, taking pictures with fans, signing autographs and going on about how great the fashion was that I just witnessed when the photographer leaned over, looked me in the eye and directed me to glance down at her blackberry. And that is where I read it for the first time: "Anna Nicole is dead. Do you want to respond and cover?" Now this is her job ... to shoot such breaking news ... but it really made me sad. There was a ton of sadness in her eyes, and a ton more exchanged silently between us, but she was being asked to treat the news like a McDonald's employee taking an order and asked to hold the pickles on a cheeseburger. It all made me feel "funny". Very uncomfortable, and mostly lucky. Now I'm not going to keep going on about this tragic event, but I do want to go on record as saying ... I hope the truth is exposed. Whatever that means ... if she was killed, I obviously hope that comes to light, but if her death was accidental and the result of a life spent burning at both ends, then the truth about how this is an indication of what celebrity can do to a person, and the responsibility EVERYONE has in having a hand in what happened. This beautiful woman lived and put her life out for all of us, and what she got in return was just to be used, never thanked and then finally destroyed.
We left the Mercedes tents, hopped in a cab, and never talked again about Anna Nicole. Instead she asked me what I was doing aside from Cosa Nostra and my fashion business. I told her about this Moviefone blog and how I was researching Oscar gowns and planned on talking about my favorite ever. I told her that I was a huge fan of Edith Head, costume designer for movies like 'All about Eve,''The Sting' and 'Roman Holiday' ... and most importantly the creator of my favorite Oscar gown ever: a violet blue chiffon dress that matched Elizabeth Taylor's eyes (1970). She said she didn't really care or know much about fashion, that her life recently had been spent in Africa covering heavy topics, and that her husband was a photographer too and he had been covering the war (yes, we are still in a war). I couldn't help but feel a little silly, because the next thing I was occupied with was the Oscar luncheon!! WHO CARES!!!!! Especially when I look at the participants, and once again am totally unimpressed by what they are wearing. I liked what Tracey Edmonds wore, and liked Adrianna Barraza's baby-doll dress (it looked like one I'm offering this season, just with a little less attention paid to detail than mine).
And the men ... AGAIN!! ... The men were dressed like aging New Jersey mafia types (have you seen the movie 'Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai'?). Funny to imagine Alan Arkin and Peter O'Toole sitting together in a closed-down Italian restaurant; chairs up on the tables, napkins tucked under their chins twirling spaghetti on forks in spoons discussing how to handle the new (cocky loose cannon) kid Will Smith, whom the mob has sort of adopted (uncharacteristically) from the neighborhood. Even though he's not Italian, but seems to really love hanging around. Well, here's hoping for a non-mob mentality for the Oscars!


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ROBERTSDALE -- The heated topic of a new 1-cent sales tax increase was front and center at a joint meeting today of the Baldwin County Commission and Board of Education.
The school board hasn't officially asked the commission again for the tax increase to help it address a continuing financial crisis. A previous request in August was pulled back due to public opposition.
But the issue prompted continued emotional debate between the two boards today. School officials also unveiled a poll commissioned by the Alabama Education Association that concludes there is support among Baldwin County residents for a tax increase.
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Anyone know a fix for this??
I just bought a Philips SGP9101/27 component cable set for the Wii/PS2/PS3/XBox360. I have them connected to both my Wii and PS2. The PS2 works fine, but the Wii's sound is VERY low (I can barely hear it, and yes, the TV's volume is turned up). I called Philips and they said there is an option in the Wii to select which audio output it uses. I cannot find this option...the only Audio option I see is to switch between Mono, Stereo and Surround. Is there such an option to let the Wii know to use the Component audio (which I didn't think really mattered since all Component upgrades is the video).
Here is a link to the cable set I bought:
Home: http://www.p4c.philips.com/cgi-bin/d...ABLE_GAMING_SU
PDF: http://www.p4c.philips.com/files/s/s...27_pss_aen.pdf
Anyone know a fix for this??
make sure the wii is set to stereo unless you have a surround reciever that is set on aurrown.
if you are using surround sound with stereo, or mono, and your system/reciever is set to something differen then you may not be getting the full signal out.
Wii Games: Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess, Heatseeker, Excite Truck, Wii Play, NHL 2k9, Super Mario Galaxy, Super Strikers Charged, Shaun White Snowboarding, The Bigs, Guitar Hero: World Tour, Ghost Squad, Call of Duty: World at War, Wii Sports Resort, Punch-out!
VC: Wave Race 64
Homebrew Channel
Keep in mind that most of these universal cables are meant to be hooked up to one console at a time (even though only one will be powered on at a time). You may be experiencing a volume drop simply because you have both consoles hooked up to the cable at the same time. Try unplugging it from the ps2 when you use the Wii and see if that makes any difference.


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Award-winning quilter Andi Perejda introduces the rich tradition of hand quilting. Learn how to choose fabrics, threads and motifs for beautiful results!
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All hand stitched in the ditch and thankfully finished in time to be a birthday present for my wonderful Mum.
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I am sure your Mum will love it! Great colors, too!
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Thank you Andi, your class has given me so much pleasure, I love hand quilting. I can't thank you enough.
01/21/2014 Flag
So beautiful, I love the colours.
01/27/2014 Flag
Thank you :)
01/28/2014 Flag
WOW! All hand quilted. You go Karen! Lovely quilt :D
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Thank you Jean :)
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So pretty!
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Thank you Carla :)
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A new galaxy
Samsung Electronics is ratcheting up its rivalry with Apple with its new Galaxy S 4 smart phone, which has a larger, sharper screen than its predecessor, the best-selling S III. Samsung trumpeted the much-anticipated phone's arrival late last week at an event accompanied by a live orchestra while an audience of thousands watched the theatrics unfold on a stage at Radio City Music Hall.
The Galaxy S 4, which crams a 5-inch screen into a body slightly smaller than the S III's, will go on sale in the U.S. sometime between the end of April and the end of June.
In the U.S., it will be sold by all four national carriers -- Verizon Wireless, AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile USA -- as well as by smaller ones US Cellular and Cricket. All told, Samsung plans to offer the Galaxy 4 S through 327 carriers in 155 countries, giving it a wider reach than Apple's iPhone 5.
Samsung didn't say what the phone will cost, but it can be expected to start at $200 with a two-year contract in the U.S. That's comparable to the iPhone 5.
JK Shin, the executive in charge of Samsung's mobile communications division, promised the money would be well spent for a "life companion."
One way Samsung and other makers of Android phone have been one-upping Apple is by increasing the screen size. Every successive generation of the Galaxy line has been bigger than the one before. The S III sported a screen that measures 4.8 inches on the diagonal, already substantially larger than the iPhone 5's 4-inch screen. The S 4's screen is 56 percent larger than the iPhone's.
Apple marketing chief, Phil Schiller, declined to discuss whether Apple is considering enlarging the screen on the next model of the iPhone.
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Albuquerque firefighters and New Mexico Gas Company officials capped a blowing gas leak at 4055 Montgomery Blvd. NE on Wednesday afternoon.
Two nearby businesses were evacuated and eight businesses were under a shelter-in-place order during the leak.
The four-inch main gas line started leaking after 11 a.m. and was repaired by New Mexico Gas Company officials before 2 p.m.
Crews closed all lanes of Montgomery Boulevard from Morningside Drive to Jefferson Street to fix the leak, but all lanes reopened shortly after the leak was capped.
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The Marple Newtown school board has approved an almost-$8 million bond issue that school officials said would refinance two previous bond issues at a lower interest rate and provide additional money for capital improvements.
Dolphin & Bradbury Inc., a Philadelphia investment firm, arranged a $7.94 million bond issue at an average interest rate of 4.97 percent for the district. The firm also underwrote the district's 1986 and 1989 bond issues,
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Laureano Pereyra, a junior, scored his first two career goals to give Roselle Park a 2-1 victory over Arts in the first round of the North Jersey, Section 2, Group 1 tournament in Roselle Park.
Steeven Solorzano and Mathias Amaro each picked up an assist and Jhonny Naranjo made nine saves for Roselle Park (5-14). Kevin Sanchez scored for Arts (6-9-1).


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Staff Reports
As the 2012 election season nears its conclusion, volunteers of both major political parties are reporting stolen or vandalized campaign signs.
Gim Hollister and Gary Kendrick, volunteers for the Democratic Central Committee, filed reports with the Douglas County Sheriff's Office this week about signs they posted supporting President Obama that were stolen.
Two 4-foot-by-8-foot signs were removed from private property at the intersection of Foothill Road and Kingsbury Grade.
Hollister said nylon straps securing the sign to posts were cut, and the first sign was removed.
He and Kendrick replaced the sign, attaching it with baling wire, and vandals took the posts and the sign.
Kendrick said the thefts are occurring in the middle of the night.
He said in 2008, an Obama sign was defaced with racial epithets and some two-thirds of the 40 signs they posted were stolen or vandalized.
"This is an embarrassment to the people of Douglas County. We denounce that, no matter who is doing it," Kendrick said. "Who knows what motivates people to do this?"
Republican party volunteers reported a vandal plastered Obama stickers all over a Romney sign on the A-frame at highways 395 and 88.
Douglas County Sheriff's Sgt. Pat Brooks said vandalism is a criminal act punishable of up to a year in jail depending on the cost of the damage.
The offense could be a felony if the loss is $5,000 or more.
Anyone who witnesses vandalism is asked to call Dispatch at 782-5126, and report the incident.


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Originally used on the TV series Beavis and Butthead, presumably because you can't say dickhole on TV.
A mild insult.
A mild insult.
Get away from me, you dillhole!
dari Vance Senin, 05 Januari 2004
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Can you define these popular missing words?
often used on "That 70's show" a phrase some person uses to describe another as a: dickhole only this is not as vulger as the word "dickhole"
Donna:" Eric you stupid Dillhole"
dari MR.RVD Selasa, 01 Mei 2007
a hole in which a dildo is placed, used as an insult.
get off my head you dill hole!
dari Mark Sutton Sabtu, 24 Januari 2004
Its the hole that your stink pickles come out of. Its called the dill hole because dill makes things pucker, like your dill hole.
Foreman, you're such a dill hole!
dari skarchman Jumat, 29 April 2005
An individual lacking common sense or maturity.
"Stop kicking me you dillhole!"--Ryan
dari Ryan Dixon Senin, 27 September 2004
an unintelligent person, to be used when they do something stupid
Beavis you dill hole, u scared away my chick
dari cr95 Kamis, 17 Agustus 2006
someone that is always in the way with retarded comments or actions slowing down any type of progress.(sometimes for their own enjoyment)
george w. bush he is a giant dillhole to the planet earth. need i say more?
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Quick-Strip Paper Piecing taught by Peggy Martin
Achieve perfect points every time! Peggy Martin shows you easy and fast techniques to create paper-pieced blocks and then combine them in new ways.
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What a great Pinwheel Polka quilt! Your fabrics look shimmery - are they polished cotton or silk? Or is it just the way the light bounced off the quilt in the photograph? The fabrics make a pretty effect - and 35 blocks - lots of work and you did a great job!
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Japan's Prime Minister Resigns
Slumping approval ratings, a gaffe-prone Cabinet, and missing pension data help oust Shinzo Abe, but the impact on business looks benign
When Shinzo Abe took over from Junichiro Koizumi a year ago, there were bright hopes that the soft-spoken 52-year-old—Japan's youngest Prime Minister in 65 years—would continue Koizumi's legacy of reform.
But on Sept. 12, after a year of Cabinet scandals, government incompetence, and crumbling voter support, Abe fell on his sword. "I've decided to create a new situation by resigning," Abe said in a live TV broadcast. "It is my responsibility that my old and new Cabinet could not secure the public's trust."
The sudden announcement, while earlier than some expected, wasn't all that surprising. Just three days earlier, Abe had told reporters he would quit if his government didn't win backing for anti-terrorism legislation. The bill would let the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Forces continue supplying fuel and providing other logistical support for the U.S.-led military operations in Afghanistan. That support now looks unlikely after the opposition Democratic Party of Japan said it wouldn't back the proposal.
Markets Shrug
But many experts had already been predicting Abe's ouster: After his ruling Liberal Democratic Party's disastrous showing in a July 29 Upper House election (BusinessWeek.com, 7/30/07), Abe was regarded as a lame duck who was only holding on until his party could reach a consensus about his replacement. No consensus on a successor has emerged yet, but the three front-runners—LDP Secretary General Taro Aso, former Finance Minister Sadakazu Tanigaki, and former Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuo Fukuda—are all party bigwigs who would protect the status quo. "It's hard to see how this could be bad news—it probably does not make much difference to policymaking," says Richard Jerram, chief economist at Macquarie Securities (MQBKY) in Tokyo.
And some analysts predict the end of speculation about Abe's exit might even help stocks. "I'm sorry to say this, but his resignation will have a positive impact on the economy, at least in the stock market," says Tosihiro Nagahama, an economist at Dai-ichi Life Research Institute.
That explains why the markets were unfazed by the day's events. As the news broke, the Nikkei 225 stock market index initially recouped losses before ending 0.5% lower at 15,797.60, and the yen weakened slightly against the dollar. Barring a major market sell-off, there's unlikely to be any lasting impact on the Bank of Japan's interest-rate policy, which currently has a key benchmark rate at 0.5%. "I don't expect that Abe's resignation has an impact on the BOJ," says Hisashi Yamada, an economist at the Japan Research Institute in Tokyo. As for a rate rise, "I don't think it will take place this month," Yamada added.
Out-of-Touch Administration
In reality, no single event caused Abe's downfall. Even before the embarrassing Upper House defeat, Abe's reign in office had been marred by the slipups of his Cabinet: several ministers' gaffes and resignations, one suicide, and accusations of financial irregularities related to political funds. Among the memorable departures were those of three agriculture ministers in just over three months and Defense Minister Fumio Kyuma in July. Kyuma, who hails from Nagasaki, drew criticism for saying the World War II nuclear bombing of Japan "couldn't be helped." In all, five ministers were sacked, quit, or died. Former Health, Labor & Welfare Minister Hakuo Yanagisawa didn't quit at the time, but sparked outcry when he called women "baby-giving machines" in January.
The misfiling of records linked to 50 million pension claims didn't help matters. To many voters, who wanted a leader to tackle rising inequality, pensions, and taxes, the bungling symbolized just how out of touch Abe's administration was. After a Cabinet reshuffle, the Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's largest daily newspaper, found in a Sept. 11 poll that only 29% of respondents supported the Abe Cabinet, compared with 70% when he took office.
Perhaps one of Abe's biggest misfortunes was that he came to power so soon after the charismatic Koizumi. Abe's political pedigree—he's the grandson of former Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi—was no match for the force of Koizumi's personality and instinct for getting voters to back his ideas. Unlike premiers of the past who took orders from party leaders, Koizumi was a maverick who pursued his own pet projects and then rallied public opinion, forcing conservatives to fall in line. As Koizumi's protégé, Abe tried a similar tack. But his declaration that constitutional reform would be a key tenet of his policies got nowhere with voters.
Next for Ruling Party?
Whether Abe's successor can revive the LDP's flagging fortunes is an open question. Though the LDP now lacks a majority in the Upper House of the Diet, it still controls the more influential Lower House, and that gives the party dibs on filling the Prime Minister's post. The next leader will have to rebuild the ruling party's popularity in the countryside, once a traditional stronghold but now a weak point. Some analysts worry the LDP could backslide on much-needed health, pension, and tax reforms.
LDP Secretary General Aso is arguably the party's top choice. But his appointment would not be without risk. Like Abe, Aso hails from a powerful political family: His grandfather was former Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida. But Aso, 66, has had his own slips of the tongue. Recently, he mocked people with Alzheimer's disease in a speech, saying "even people with Alzheimer's could understand" that Japanese rice is more expensive in China than in Japan.


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(Financial Aid requires 12 hours for full-time status)
|Maximum recommended number of hours
Graduate Students
|Full time
|7 or more
|Half time
|Less than half time
|3 or fewer
Students who wish to register for more than the maximum number of hours must have at least a 3.0 GPA. Students who wish to take more than 20 credit hours in a regular semester (Fall or Spring) must also have the permission of their academic advisor and the dean of the appropriate school.
A completed Application for Permission to take a Directed Studies Course form, signed by the instructor and School Dean, must be submitted to the Registrar's Office. Course numbers for graduate program directed studies are listed in the Academic Catalog.
Students may elect to audit courses at Westminster according to the guidelines listed below. Courses that are entered on students' permanent records as audited (AU) earn no credit and fulfill no requirements.
Students may register for a regular audit (one-half of credit tuition) according to the following guidelines:
Students who graduated from Westminster and who are not currently pursuing a degree may register for an Alumni Audit ($125 per class, plus a $50 technology fee for Fall or Spring semesters) according to the following guidelines:
Academic advising and mentoring is crucial to Westminster College's student-centered mission. It is a developmental process during which advisors (faculty, staff, and peer) work with individual students to create curricular choices designed to match the student's life and career goals. In partnership with students, advisors will:
Faculty advisors work with students to map out degree requirements and plan course sequencing to graduation. These advising sessions generally:
Candidates for graduation should apply to the Registrar's Office two regular semesters prior to their planned completion date. Students can apply for December, May, or August graduation dates. Application deadlines are posted in the Academic Calendar.
To apply for graduation, students must obtain degree audits for all academic programs, including the honors program. Graduation applications are available in the Registrar's Office. Students are expected to meet with their academic advisors to review and sign all required paperwork. Paperwork that is unsigned or incomplete will be returned to the student. Candidates are notified of remaining degree requirements and their status within four weeks after applying for graduation.
To be eligible for a bachelor's degree, students must satisfy the following conditions:
Note: Only letter grades of C- or better may be presented to satisfy major, minor, or LE requirements (with the exception of Nursing, which requires a grade of C or better; and Education, which requires a grade of C+ or better in all education classes).
The final responsibility for being informed about, and adhering to, graduation requirements rests with the individual student.
A minimum of one hundred twenty-four (124) credit hours of college work is required for graduation. Thirty (30) hours of this number must be earned in upper division courses (courses numbered 300 and above). Although some lower division transfer coursework from two-year institutions may be accepted as meeting upper division major requirements, these hours will not be counted toward the 30 upper division hours required for graduation. Students with 123.51 or more hours have completed the quantity standard for graduation.
Students must present a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.0 in all work completed at the college. Students must present a minimum cumulative grade point average of 2.3 in their major unless otherwise specified in the major program. Students should check their major programs for grade point average requirements.
Honors noted in the Commencement program are based upon the grade point average at the end of the spring semester. Honors designations noted in the program are subject to change based on the calculation of final grade point averages for students attending May and Summer terms.
Grade point averages are not rounded in order to achieve honors.
Honors are awarded to undergraduate students only upon graduation and are determined as follows:
|Summa Cum Laude
|3.850 cumulative grade point average or higher
|Magna Cum Laude
|3.750 cumulative grade point average (up to but not including 3.850)
|Cum Laude
|3.500 cumulative grade point average (up to but not including 3.750)
Undergraduate students can achieve honors in two ways:
Completing 60 hours of coursework at Westminster with letter grades and achieving a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.500 or higher (as noted above).
Transferring in with a transfer cumulative grade point average of 3.500 or above and completing 35 hours of coursework with a cumulative GPA of 3.500 or above at Westminster. Note: The Registrar will re-calculate grade point averages from all institutions and will include any recently taken coursework to determine your final transfer grade point average.
Honors are awarded to undergraduate students who complete 60 hours of coursework at Westminster with letter grades and who meet the following criteria:
|Summa Cum Laude
|Top 10 percent of eligible students*
|Magna Cum Laude
|Second 10 percent of eligible students*
|Cum Laude
|Third 10 percent of eligible students*
*Eligible students are undergraduate students who complete 60 hours of coursework at Westminster with letter grades.
The grade point averages necessary to meet honors criteria are based on the previous year's graduating class GPA. The GPAs required to receive honors for graduation is determined after the entire class has been graduated in August and are published at the beginning of the Fall semester.
Note: Students who started school at Westminster prior to Fall 2010, but later elect a newer catalog because of new academic policies or new academic programs not previously offered, will be allowed to use the honors policy in effect when they started school.
Westminster College does not rank its students.
The Dean's List is an academic honor list computed after Fall and Spring semesters. To qualify for the list, students must complete at least 12 graded credit hours and achieve a 3.5 GPA or higher for the term. Courses graded credit/no credit are not counted toward the 12 hours.
The commencement ceremony is held in late May or early June. All students who complete requirements for graduation and are entitled to receive degrees are expected to be present at the commencement exercises. Students who, due to extenuating circumstances, are unable to attend must request that they be excused. Requests must be made in writing to the Registrar's Office.
December and April graduates will receive their diplomas following the ceremony. Students attending May term will receive diplomas mid-June. August graduates completing their degree requirements during the summer term may attend the preceding spring ceremony but will not receive diplomas until mid-August.
During Fall and Spring semesters, final exams take place during the final week of the semester for 14 week courses. A schedule listing the dates and times of exams can be found on the Registrar's Office website at westminstercollege.edu/registrar/. Students are responsible for knowing the correct day and time a final exam will be offered. Students with conflicting exams are also responsible for talking to their instructors to create an alternate schedule. Graduate programs offered in the 7 week block format do not adhere to the exam schedule.
Students can use WebAdvisor to search and register for classes, view and print class schedules, print unofficial transcripts, print degree audits, change their address, and pay tuition. At the end of the semester, all final grades are posted in WebAdvisor. WebAdvisor requires a login name and password, which can be obtained through the Information Services department.
Canvas is Westminster's online learning management system. It includes online tools such as syllabi, discussion boards, electronic reserves and more. Students and faculty are automatically loaded into their Canvas courses at the start of a semester; however, as students add and drop, this may not be reflected in Canvas. The Canvas database is not connected to the official main college data base directly. Students dropped from
Each student is provided with a Microsoft Outlook e-mail account when they are accepted as a student. This campus e-mail system provides the e-mail address of all the students, staff, and faculty at Westminster. Students are required to check their campus e-mail frequently because important information is sent to students via e-mail, such as registration deadlines, campus events and activities, or general school announcements. Instructors also use Microsoft Outlook to contact students with specific class information. For instructions on how to check student e-mail or, linking college email to an off-campus email address, please contact the Help Desk in the garden level of the Giovale Library or call the IS Support Phone at 801.832.2023.
Student ID cards are available in the Health, Wellness and Athletics Center. The card gives access to the fitness center and acts as a library card (giving access to all academic libraries in Utah), a meal card, an activity card, and official college identification. A semester sticker on the back of the card indicates that the card has been validated through the term indicated. Identification cards must be validated each semester. Replacement cost is $10.
Please visit the campus patrol web page for information on parking passes:
Westminster offers annual bus passes, good for all UTA buses except ski and paratransit buses, for free. Visit the Health and Wellness Center (HWAC) for more details about this year's current costs as well as how to obtain a new "swipe card" to serve as a pass. In some cases, you may be asked to show your college I.D. card to use the pass.


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Imagine you are suspending a cube from one vertex (corner) and
allowing it to hang freely. Now imagine you are lowering it into
water until it is exactly half submerged. What shape does the
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without slipping, inside a circle of radius 2r. What is the locus
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The coke machine in college takes 50 pence pieces. It also takes a certain foreign coin of traditional design. Coins inserted into the machine slide down a chute into the machine and a drink is duly released. How many more revolutions does the foreign coin make over the 50 pence piece going down the chute? N.B. A 50 pence piece is a 7 sided polygon ABCDEFG with rounded edges, obtained by
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text: This document is available in two formats: this web page (for browsing content) and PDF (comparable to original document formatting). To view the PDF you will need Acrobat Reader, which may be downloaded from the Adobe site. For an official signed copy, please contact the Antitrust Documents Group. Stanton D. AndersonSenior Counsel to the President and CEO Stanton D. Anderson is senior counsel to the president and CEO of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the world's largest business federation representing 3 million companies and organizations of every size, sector, and region. In this capacity, Anderson works to advance the Chamber's efforts on legal reform and defense of business interests in the courts. He chairs the Chamber's involvement in the coalition to protect the lawyer-client privilege. He also chairs the Chamber's new effort on Global Regulatory Divergence. In his prior capacity as executive vice president and chief legal officer, Anderson oversaw the National Chamber Litigation Center, the public policy legal arm of the Chamber; the Institute for Legal Reform, a Chamber affiliate dedicated to restoring fairness, efficiency, and consistency to the U.S. civil justice system; and the Chamber's Office of General Counsel. In this Chamber role, Anderson chaired the Class Action Business Coalition that worked successfully to get Congress to pass the Class Action Reform Act of 2005. In addition to his duties at the Chamber, Anderson is of counsel to the DC law firm McDermott Will & Emery. Anderson has been involved in national political affairs since 1972. He served in the White House during the Nixon administration and as deputy assistant secretary of State. In addition, he has managed a number of Republican conventions. He also served as counsel to the Reagan-Bush campaign in 1980 and was senior director of the presidential transition of Ronald Reagan. Anderson has received a number of presidential appointments, including a position on the President's Advisory Committee on Trade Negotiations and the Presidential Commission on Personnel Interchange. He also chaired the U.S. delegation to the United Nations Conference on New and Renewable Energy Resources in 1981. Anderson has long been associated with the U.S. Chamber, having served as outside counsel for a number of years. In addition, he is a founding board member of the Chamber's Center for International Private Enterprise, an organization that fosters democracy and market economies around the world. Anderson serves on the board of Global U.S.A. and a number of private nonprofit organizations. He is legal counsel to Jobs for America's Graduates, Inc., and serves on the board of advisors of Westmont College. Anderson earned a bachelor's degree from Westmont College in 1962 and a Juris Doctor from Willamette University in 1969. Senior Counsel to the President and CEO U.S. Chamber of Commerce PartnerMcDermott Will & Emery Member of the Board of Directors: Center for International Private Enterprise Global U.S.A. 1615 H Street, NW Washington, DC 20062 202-463-5481 www.uschamber.com Updated June 25, 2015


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Something tells us the 1953 Jamestown (N.Y.) Falcons would get a kick out of these Staten Island Yankees.
The Falcons tore through the New York-Penn League with a sizzling 88-37 record before the circuit shortened its season to 76 games in 1967. The Falcons won the eight-team race by a whopping 19 games.
With Wednesday night's 9-2 victory over the visiting State College Spikes, the current Baby Bombers improved to 20-4 — the best start in the franchise's 13-year history on Staten Island. Casey Stevenson and Zach Wilson both belted two-run homers after a one-hour rain delay in the second inning.
"We're playing team baseball ... it's not about individual stuff," said outfielder Shane Brown, who had two singles and leads the league with a sizzling .463 batting average. "We just have a good group of guys and coaches. We're winning a lot of games in the late innings and we believe we can win."
Staten Island ranks second in the 14-team circuit in both hitting and pitching. The Yankees are 11-2 at home and 9-2 on the road in a remarkably consistent season thus far. They're neither terribly powerful (12 homers in 24 games) nor fast (18 stolen bases in 30 attempts), but they began last night batting .276 and rapidly gaining ground on the league-leading Auburn Doubledays (.280).
Centerfielder Mason Williams led Wednesday night's 16-hit assault with a 4-for-5 showing with three runs, while Stevenson went 3 for 4 with three runs and Wilson had three RBI.
Four pitchers combined on a five-hitter with one earned run as California lefty Vidal Nuno worked five innings of four-hit ball following the rain delay to improve to 4-0.
The Baby Bombers have a seven-game McNamara Division cushion over second-place Hudson Valley and lead third-place Brooklyn by 8½ games. They are on pace to shatter the franchise record of 52-24 set by Andy Stankiewicz's 2005 championship team.
And while such speculation would likely cost dearly in current manager Tom Slater's kangaroo court in a loose and winning clubhouse, the team could be taking aim at the Oneonta Yankees and their all-time NY-P record of 59-18 in 1986.
Brown, a 23rd-round draft pick out of Central Florida in 2010, has been a big part of the success story. It's his second season in the league and his improvement has been profound after batting .234 with 25 RBI in 60 games last summer.
Brown slapped a single to centerfield in the second inning and legged out an infield single in the fourth. He's 25 for 52 with two home runs in 16 games.
"I'm just keeping it simple and sticking with my approach," said Brown. "I'm trying to work hard every day and have had so many great people in the organization helping me out.
"That's my dream, like everybody else — keep moving up."
NOTES: The teams continued their series with Thursday's rare 11 a.m. contest. A large crowd was expected for Cap Day ... The three-game set concludes Friday night with postgame fireworks ... MLB's All-Star Game featured 16 New York-Penn league products, including Boston's Adrian Gonzalez (Utica 2000); Yankees' Robinson Cano (Staten Island 2001, 2002) and Curtis Granderson (Oneonta 2002); Texas' Josh Hamilton (Hudson Valley 1999, 2006); and Toronto's Jose Bautista (Williamsport 2001).