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Centenary Gives Back!
Centenary Gives Back! is a webpage created and maintained by Centenarys Office of Community and is dedicated to recognizing Centenary students, staff, faculty, and alumni who choose to give back to help serve their local communities through volunteer service.
Here you will find blurbs, stories, and pictures about members of the Centenary Community both near and far making a positive difference in the communities in which they live. Remember, volunteering isnt always about building houses and picking up trash (although those are good things too), you can include any positive activity you do to improve the community from serving on a local community board, tutoring local children, or contributing your skills and talents to your local church or synagogue.
If you or anyone you know who is connected to the Centenary Community has volunteered from June 2009 until now we want to recognize their contribution(s). Please email your volunteer stories to email.
When submitting information please include the following:
- Who? - Names of the volunteer(s)
- What? - Event or group you volunteer with
- When? - Dates and Times you volunteer
- Where? - Location of where you volunteer
- Why? - Give us a quote about why you choose to volunteer.
- Pictures! - If you have pictures of your volunteer experiences please send those in as well.
Thanks and Happy Volunteering!
Centenary Students
Click here to read about how Centenary Students gave back during the 2008-2009 school year.
Who will be the 1st student recognized this year?
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The Leading Ladies and Centenary Cheer engaged in a special service project this year. Dean David Womack was a very important person to The Leading Ladies and Centenary Cheer, so to commemorate him and all that he has done for them, they decided to make the "David's Dancers" t-shirts. Upon notice of their popularity, they decided to make these shirts available to the entire campus. They collaborated with the CLC to use their "wear love" logo for the front of the shirt and polled the Centenary community for more names for Dean Womack on the back. The profits made by selling the shirts will be given to the Womack family.
"If it were not for Dean Womack, The Leading Ladies and Centenary Cheer would not exist this year. We started out with 2 team members a year ago, and now we have 10 total and a cheer coach. He really has made a significant impact on the teams, not only through his actions, but through his attitude as well. As the dance captain, I try hard now to embody those traits about Dean Womack that the Centenary Community knew him best for. He was always happy, cared about you personally, and always knew there was a way to make things happen." -Chelsea Liles
The 2009-2010 Centenary Women's Basketball Team volunteered at the First Baptist Church Fall Carnival by assisting with children's activities. They had this to say about their experience:
"FBC had every game any kid would love to play. Its a great atmosphere to be a part of. It was a great event for WBB players to participate in and give back to a community that does so much for Centenary College."
The 2009-2010 Centenary Ladies Gymnastics Team started their season with a priority on service. They helped out at the MLK Health Center by tearing out old carpets, an experience they said formed awesome team relationships, and they felt good about all their hard work.
They also helped out with the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure by serving as Cure Leaders, cheering on the runners at the finish line, and dancing with other volunteers/runners to boost morale. They characterized the event as a phenomenal team bonding experience, and are working on spreading the word about the Ladies Think Pink meet on February 12, 2010.
In October, they volunteered their time at the First Baptist Church School Carnival. They helped out with the bake sale, arts and crafts, the cake walk, decorating cookies, and food and beverages, and they had fun interacting with the kids!
Greek Organizations
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Christian Leadership Center
Students and Staff members in Centenary's Christian Leadership Center have continued to give back to the community both near and far in 2009-2010.
Caney Mission participants included 32 students, staff, faculty and members of the Mormon church who spent the day at Caney Conference Center in Minden, cleaning, sweeping, painting, and organizing to help the camp get ready for the summer.
Those from the Centenary community participating included: Nick Mauldin, Andrea Edgley, Laura Martinez, Anna Connell, Macy Stockton, Ryan Wehle (friend of Anna's), Mary Guerrant, Marcus Reyes, Jennifer Pearson (Staff), Ross Smith (Faculty), Benny Vaughan and Laura Vaughan (Staff). Faculty member Ross Smith had 20 church members who also participated!
Centenary Faculty and Staff
Shelly Armstrong ('00 & '03), Assistant Professor and Chair of Centenarys Health and Exercise Science Department, volunteers many hours at the First United Methodist church in various ways. She serves on the churchs council, the photography ministry team, the women's ministry team, and serves at the Love Feast (feed the homeless Christmas dinner).
Jeff Hendricks ('75), Professor of English and Film Studies and Director of the Centenary Film Society, served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Robinson Film Center of Louisiana from July 2007 until July 2008. The RFC is a non-profit
organization committed to enriching the life cultural life of Northwest Louisiana by showing the best in international, independent, and classic Hollywood films.
Jeff also helps the RFC with its commitment to working with K-12 students in filmmaking and media literacy classes and supporting regional, emerging filmmakers as part of our cultural economy. Jeff served as Chairman of the RFC Board non-stop since 2002 and spent about 10-15 hours helping the Robinson Film Center each week.
The reason I believe so strongly in the work of the RFC is that it is an extension of what I do at Centenary. The RFC, however, allows me to share my knowledge about and passion for film as an important art form and cultural document not only with the Centenary community but also with the larger Shreveport-Bossier community. Jeff Hendricks
Lisa Nicoletti, Associate Professor of Art and Visual Culture and Chair of Art and Visual Culture Department, serves on the Exhibition Committee of Artspace, with the Shreveport Regional Arts Council's contemporary art gallery.
She helps to create exhibition concepts, find and select artists to improve arts programming in the region, and expose the public to art they wouldn't often get to see outside an urban center. Lisa has been serving in this capacity since 2005.
Centenary Faculty members Drs. Matt & Kelly Weeks and Drs. Robert Prickett & Meg Webber, along with Centenary Alumns Abby & Jimmy Hale, and alum Ian Webb and his wife Amanda Webb have taken on the challenge of organizing a community service group for their four year old children.
"The purpose is to begin teaching our children about giving back to their community. We plan to do a service project once every 2-3 months that the children can participate in." -Kelly Weeks
The first project was a lemonade stand with the proceeds going to benefit the new Robinson Animal Rescue on E.King's. This was done on October 30, 2008. The adults built a lemonade stand, the kids painted it, and the group sold lemonade and cookies for donations to the Rescue.
The children's names are Avery Weeks (child of Matt and Kelly Weeks), Madelyn Prickett (child of Robert Prickett and Meg Webber), Alice Hale (child of alums Abby and Jimmy Hale), and Adam Webb (child of alum Ian Webb and his wife Amanda Webb).
Dennis Taylor, Director of Career Services, and David Hennington ('82), Senior Director of Donor Relations for the college, serve as members of the Shreveport Area Lions Club.
David was drawn to this chapter of the Lions Club specifically because of their annual joint sponsorship and fundraiser "Rhapsody in View" with the Centenary College Choir. The Lions Club has had a long relationship with Centenary and is one of the oldest chapters in the Lions International organization. The Lions Club also owns and operates a camp for crippled children in Central Louisiana.
I am also interested in their charity which is vision. We provide eye-glasses to the needy, perform eye-screenings for small children, and support research dealing with eyes and vision. -David Hennington
Dennis also serves on one of the United Way's local impact councils.
"Deciding to become involved in service happened for a number of reasons. Motivated by a desire to help others and to try in some small way to bring social justice to my adopted community are just two reasons. Also, I hoped to use my skills in a productive way, apart from my career, to help others and to develop new skills. Volunteering is also a way to make new friends and gain experience in working in a non-profit environment. Whatever the reasons, I'm already finding that participating in service is changing me and I hope a small part of the world around me for the better." -Dennis Taylor
Centenary Alumni
Click here to read about how Centenary Alumni gave back during the 2008-2009 school year.
Susanna Miller, Centenary 2003 Alum, gives back once a month at Camp Caglewood (www.caglewood.org) by assisting with camping trips and excursions for those who are developmentally disabled. She helps out at both the North Georgia Mountains and Nantahala Outdoor Center in North Carolina.
"I love experiencing nature with individuals that don't often have the opportunity to spend weekends camping in the mountains. People with developmental disabilities should have the same opportunities that any of us do." -Susanna Miller ('03)


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Last Wednesday's purported chemical attack in the Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta has prompted U.S. naval forces to move closer to Syria. President Barack Obama met with his national security team Saturday to assess the intelligence and consider a U.S. military response, almost a year after warning the regime of Bashar Asad that chemical weapons use was a "red line" for the U.S.
The White House had concluded previously that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons in limited incidents, but last week's attack is suspected of being the deadliest single incident of a civil war that has killed more than 100,000 people since March 2011.
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Radi-N2 Neutron Field Study (Radi-N2) - 07.14.16
Radi-N2 Neutron Field Study (Radi-N2) is a follow on investigation designed to characterize the neutron radiation environment aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Eight neutron "bubble detectors" produced by the Canadian company Bubble Technology Industries are attached to fixed locations inside the ISS, including one carried by a crew member. The objective of this investigation is to better characterize the ISS neutron environment and define the risk posed to the crew members' health and provide the data necessary to develop advanced protective measures for future spaceflight. Science Results for Everyone
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Leena Tomi, Canadian Space Agency, Saint Hubert, Quebec, Canada
Martin B. Smith, Bubble Technology Industries Inc, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada
Vyacheslav A. Shurshakov, Institute of Biomedical Problems, Moscow, Russia
Bubble Technology Industries, Incorporated, Chalk River, Ontario, Canada
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Canadian Space Agency (CSA)
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Research Benefits
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ISS Expedition Duration
September 2012 - March 2016; March 2016 - September 2017
Expeditions Assigned
Previous Missions
Radi-N1 (Increment 20/21)
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Research Overview
- Study is a continuation of Radi-N1 done in Increment 20/21, and will repeat the measurements in the same/equivalent locations aboard the ISS: USLab, JEM (Nominal), COLUMBUS, Node2 (Reserve) The additional data increases the statistical accuracy of the neutron measurements and also allow comparison of neutron fields at different periods of the solar cycle.
- Results of Radi-N 1 and 2 study allows better understanding of radiation environment aboard the ISS. The utilization of newly developed Bubble Detector Spectrometer will help characterize the neutron spectrum on board, and measurements in different ISS locations will provide a means of assessing the neutron field symmetry in different modules of the Station. Measuring the average dose within different segments of ISS will help with development of radiation protection plan for future missions.
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Space Applications
Neutrons are nuclear "splinters" produced when cosmic rays strike the atoms of a spacecraft or even the human body. Earlier experiments with Matroshka-R, a "phantom" body, revealed that astronauts absorb larger doses of neutron radiation than expected, possibly from cosmic rays striking atoms in their bodies. Mapping across the ISS will help reveal neutron sources and exposure dangers.
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Because they carry no electrical charge, neutrons have greater potential to penetrate the body and damage tissue. Radi-N2 will help doctors understand better the connections between neutron radiation and DNA damage and mutation rates, cataracts that affect some astronauts, and other radiation health issues.
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Smith MB, Khulapko S, Andrews HR, Arkhangelsky VV, Ing H, Koslowsky MR, Lewis BJ, Machrafi R, Nikolaev IV, Shurshakov VA. Bubble-detection measurements of neutron radiation in the International Space Station: ISS-34 to ISS-37. Radiation Protection Dosimetry. 2016 March; 168(2): 154-166. DOI: 10.1093/rpd/ncv181. PMID: 25899609.
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El-Jaby S, Lewis BJ, Tomi L. A model for predicting the radiation exposure for mission planning aboard the international space station. Advances in Space Research. 2014 April; 53(7): 1125-1134. DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2013.10.006.
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Demetrios Petropoulos
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Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics Patient Care, Division of Pediatrics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
Education & Training
Degree-Granting Education
|University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece, MD, Medicine
Postgraduate Training
|Fellowship, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, Pediatrics Hematology Oncology, Division of Pediatrics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX
|Residency, Pediatrics, Pediatrics, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX
|Residency, Internal Medicine, Internal Medicine, 401 General Army Hospital, Athens, Greece
Academic Appointments
Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics Patient Care, Division of Pediatrics, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, 10/2002-8/2011
Selected Publications
Peer-Reviewed Original Research Articles
|Komanduri KV, St John LS, de Lima M, McMannis J, Rosinski S, McNiece I, Bryan SG, Kaur I, Martin S, Wieder ED, Worth L, Cooper LJ, Petropoulos D, Molldrem JJ, Champlin RE, Shpall EJ. Delayed immune reconstitution after cord blood transplantation is characterized by impaired thymopoiesis and late memory T cell skewing. Blood 110(13):4543-51, 12/2007. e-Pub 8/2007. PMCID: PMC2234787.
|Safdar A, Rodriguez GH, De Lima MJ, Petropoulos D, Chemaly RF, Worth LL, Shpall EJ, Rolston KV, Raad II, Chan KW, Champlin RE. Infections in 100 cord blood transplantations: spectrum of early and late posttransplant Infections in adult and pediatric patients 1996-2005. Medicine (Baltimore) 86(6):324-33, 11/2007. PMID: 18004177.
|Costelloe CM, Eftekhari F, Petropoulos D. Radiography of successful bone marrow transplantation for osteopetrosis. Skeletal Radiol 36 Suppl. 1:34-7, 6/2007. e-Pub 6/2006. PMID: 16799785.
|Petropoulos D, Giralt SA, Andersson BS, Chan KW, Rondon G, Popat UR, Hosing C, Alousi AM, Champlin RE, de Lima MJ. Central Nervous System (CNS) Involvement at Diagnosis does not Adversely Affect the Outcome of High-Dose Chemotherapy and Transplant for Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 14(2 (Suppl 1)):61-62 (Abst 165), 2/2008.
|Carstens KA, Ortiz JM, Koontz SE, Worth LL, Petropoulos D, Lee DA, de Lima MJ, Shpall E, Cooper LJ. Double Cord Blood Transplants in Pediatric Patients: Implications for Nurses – what is all the Hype about?. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 14(2):161 (Abst 454), 2/2008.
|Saliba RM, Couriel D, Komanduri K, Patah P, Westin J, Giralt S, Cooper L, Petropoulos D, Worth L, Safdar A, Champlin RE, Shpall EJ, de Lima M. Incidence and Risk Factors for Chronic Graft-Versus-Host Disease (cGVHD) after Cord Blood Transplantation(CBT). Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 14(2 (Suppl 1)):132-33 (Abst 362), 2/2008.
|Bertin HD, Koontz SE, Petropoulos D, Worth LL, Lee DA, Cooper LJ. Plasma B-type Natriuretic Peptide: Its Role in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Implications for Nurses. Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 14(2 (Suppl 1)):160 (Abst 452), 2/2008.
|Silva L, Patah P, Szewczyk N, Saliba RM, Gilman L, Gulbis A, Neumann J, Walker JA, Petropoulos D, El-Zimaity M, Anderlini P, Tarrand J, Ciurea SO, Shpall E, Popat U, Jones R, Giralt S, Champlin RE,de Lima M. A Prospective Evaluation of the Effect of Polyoma (BK)Virus Infection on the Incidence of Hemorrhagic Cystitis (HC) after Unrelated Donor Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (UD HSCT). Biol Blood Marrow Transplant 14(2 (Suppl 1)):102-3 (Abst 277), 2008.
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On International Dance Day, City Youth Celebrate the Joyous Art
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"Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free-" Rumi
The world celebrates International Dance Day today and dance is a word that in the dictionary has a meaning but no definition. Each individual has his own definition of dance or maybe dance is undefinable. Dance comprises rhythm, expression, body movement and a deep connection with the soul and heart. For some, dance is a stress buster, for others, it's a way to earn their livelihood but for a few.. dance is passion.
Dance has been an important part of all rituals, ceremonies and celebrations. As Friedrich Nietzsche once said, "We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once". Dance is the hidden language of the soul, a poem which has movement in every word.
With the confluence of various dance forms, varuous styles have become interpretative rather than following structured classicism. The coming together of Western and Indian cultures has created our own versions of contemporary ballet, jazz, aqua dancing and aqua aerobics.
Today the focus is on self-expression, no matter what the form. Different expressions and rhythms are experimented with freely and fearlessly.. A form can be redefined in many ways.
Krupali khakar (26) a dance choreographer, says, "Dance is a big part of my life. From waking up to getting dressed to eating to walking and in everything that I do, I feel I'm dancing. Any activity that includes body movements and expressions is dance for me." Being a classical contemporary ballet dancer herself, she has performed 40 shows in 27 cities in just a period of one month. Her team, ELAN, voiced its angst against female foeticide through dancing.
She says, "I respect each and every dance style. For me, my own culture is the bedrock. Leaning and sharing is a part of living. Though I've learnt a lot of Western dance forms but in the end, it all comes down to classical indian dancing for me. The mudras and expressions and rhythms connect my soul to compassion and adds a different meaning to my life."
For Nishant Valia (21) dance means freedom, "Dance is madness. It sets you free from all your inhibitions. It's like pouring out all your emotions without talking. It frees me from all my worries and gives a sense of joy that nothing else does. It's not the appreciation but yourself and your soul that you should dance for."
He says, "Dance brings a balance to life It's connects the past with the present and the future. It is eternal."
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Chapman University will soon own the 40-acre Garden Grove, Calif., property belonging to Crystal Cathedral Ministries.
The megachurch, which was founded by televangelist Robert Schuller, is about $50 million in debt and filed for bankruptcy in October 2010.
The university offered $50 million for the campus as part of a bankruptcy deal.
Crystal Cathedal's ministry board approved the offer this week. The school will be officially designated the buyer by Oct. 31.
Chapman plans to allow Crystal Cathedral to "continue serving its mission" by letting the ministry lease and eventually buy back some of its buildings.
Schuller wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday that he and his wife have "tremendous respect" for Chapman University.
"[We] will welcome the future students and faculty with all that our positive faith has to offer," he said. "In the meantime, we look forward to focusing on our new dream: buying the core campus back."
Hobby Lobby and the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange were among others who put in a bid on the property, which includes its landmark glass-walled sanctuary.
Schuller's daughter Sheila Schuller Coleman, now senior pastor, said the board "reluctantly" voted in favor of the deal to meet court deadlines.
A hearing is set for Nov. 14 to finalize the ministry's reorganization plan.
Crystal Cathedral Considers Real Estate Offers
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|Rancho Cotate Homecoming Parade shows greater student participation
Ursula the Sea Witch was probably the only one not having a good time at Rancho Cotate High School's Homecoming Parade Saturday morning. Jordan Norris wore a scowl on the seniors' float, but she was just playing her part. Ursula doesn't really get into happy celebrations like everyone else.
But Ariel, King Triton and the rest of the gang on the float danced and sang down Snyder Lane from Creekside past the high school. The "Little Mermaid" float was a hit with the crowd lining the streets. It was more spread out along the longer route, but attendance seemed up and participation in the parade was far greater than previous years.
"I think we just had a lot of people who wanted to come this year from different clubs and sports that weren't interested before," said Anthony Hickling, a Rancho junior on the homecoming planning committee. He said promotion and advertising before the event were key in the success of this year's event.
Lindsay Peters, a junior also on the committee said she loved the energy from the floats in the parade. Rhonie Vidler, a senior on the committee was impressed with the band.
The marching band was certainly a spectacle, marching in full uniform led by drum major Monica Peterson and director Tim Decker.
Rancho's sports teams were also represented. The football teams and girls' soccer team marched in uniform, as well as the cheerleading squad. Clubs like MECHA and the Chemistry Club also joined the parade this year.
Though most parade entries were walking, Grand Marshals Ron Lunsford and Mark Alton were chauffeured in classic cars to honor their retirement this year.
Floats were themed around Disney movies. Freshmen chose Cinderella, sophomores had Peter Pan and juniors went with Aladdin. All rode lavishly decorated floats and wore bright costumes.
The parade was going to culminate with a festival, but about a week before it was to take place the planners learned of the necessary insurance for such an event, and the budget didn't allow for it to happen. Hickling said next year the committee will plan for this in advance and there will be a festival, likely at the school, after the parade.
Rancho started holding a parade three years ago after a long hiatus. In the 70s, the homecoming parade was held on the football field and featured mostly the homecoming royalty. This year, royalty was pulled in a horse-drawn carriage but was not the focus of the event.


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Good News! You Have A New "Human Right!"
With regard to the idea of whether you have a right to healthcare, you have to realize what that implies. It's not an abstraction. I'm a physician. That means you have a right to come to my house and conscript me. It means you believe in slavery. It means that you're going to enslave not only me, but the janitor at my hospital, the person who cleans my office, the assistants who work in my office, the nurses. (There is) an implied use of force. If I'm a physician in your community and you say you have a right to healthcare, you have a right to beat down my door with the police, escort me away and force me to take care of you? That's ultimately what the right to free healthcare would be. – Rand Paul
Sure, this isn't a "right" in America yet, but give the Left a little more time.
It is regarded as a luxury that allows people to watch top sport and blockbuster movies from the comfort of their armchairs.
But owning a satellite dish is actually a human right, according to unelected European judges.
In an extraordinary ruling, lawmakers in Strasbourg have warned that banning dishes on listed buildings, social housing and even private homes could breach the right to freedom of expression by preventing people from practice religion.
…But European judges ruled that the Swedish government had failed in its obligation to protect the couple's right to receive information. It found that satellite dishes come under Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
In its guidance, Britain's equalities watchdog suggested that a disabled tenant who received transmissions of religious services held overseas would have their rights to freedom of religion breached if their landlord banned satellite dishes.
Wow, there are a lot of "rights" hinted at there.
If it you have a "right" to have a satellite dish in order to practice your religion, then doesn't it follow that if you can't afford it, then the government has an obligation to buy it for you if you can't afford it? What about other religious paraphernalia? What about religious trips? Certainly, if you're not being allowed to have a satellite dish infringes on your "right" to practice your religion, then couldn't you make a fair argument that you have a "right" to have the government ferry you to-and-from church? How about a "right" to have your trip to Mecca or Israel or some grove of holy trees somewhere?
Oh, and we haven't even gotten into the "right to receive information." That would seem to cover TV, radio, cell phones, computers, books — it goes on and on.
It's all well and good to blather on about what people have a "right" to have, but if other people have to be forced to spend their money or time to provide you with your "rights," we're not talking about "rights," we're talking about another name for oppression.
PS: A "right" to a lawyer could be considered an exception to this, but I'd argue that's really more of an obligation the Founders placed on the government than a "right" in the traditional sense.
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Master of Science in Social Work
Online Degree Tuition
At University of Louisville, the tuition for online degrees is the same for both in-state and out-of-state online students.
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Tuition and fees are subject to change at any time without prior notice. The summary on this page is intended to provide a quick reference for students. For more information and updates, visit the UofL Bursar's page.
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Posts for February, 2012
Appreciating Wislawa Szymborska
Nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska, the Polish poet, died earlier this week in Krakow at age 88.
"No one could possibly have chosen a worse time to arrive on the planet, or a harder place to arrive," Adam Gopnik wrote of Szymborska in a 2007 NPR essay. "Born in 1923, and spending most of her life in the Polish city of Krakow, she survived the Second World War as a railroad worker, and then spent the long years of the Russian occupation as one of the more discreet kinds of dissident."
"Szymborska's poems generally focus on everyday subjects or situations, and her tone stays firmly in the middle ground," wrote poet David Orr in his appreciation, also published by NPR. "She doesn't rant; she calmly assesses. She's a poet of dry-eyed, athletic precision: an acrobat, as she says, not a powerlifter." »Read Full Blog Post
102 (or more) worthy sci-fi books
At Wired.com's GeekDad blog, Erik Wecks has posted a list of "102 Essential Science Fiction Books for Your Kindle." You don't have to read on a Kindle to enjoy this entertaining, helpful and discussion-worthy list. It is a fine resource for people who read printed books, or on a Nook, or any other way.
Wecks' list is partly a reaction to National Public Radio's list of the top 100 science fiction and fantasy novels, selected by NPR listeners and posted last summer. "Such lists can be helpful for keeping up with the current zeitgeist of a genre (or in their case, genres)," Wecks wrote.."However, lists voted on by the public tend to severely underestimate the influence of older works which are not currently on everyone's mind."
To make a list of his own, Wecks turned to the "Basic Science Fiction Library" list maintained by the Center for the Study of Science Fiction at Kansas University. The center's list of more than 300 books is designed to help libraries choose for their collections, and spans the decades from the monster that started the genre, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's "Frankenstein" (1818) to contemporary works. »Read Full Blog Post(4)
Celebrate Charles Dickens' birthday at your computer
Readers around the English-speaking world are celebrating the 200th birthday today of Charles Dickens, author of "A Christmas Carol," "David Copperfield," "Great Expectations" and many other literary classics. His life story, as chronicled by many biographers, including, recently, Claire Tomalin, is about as fascinating as his books.
Care to take a break at your desk today to get Dickensian? Here's an engaging cartoon video from the BBC on the life of the author:
The Atlantic's Civil War special issue: stories by Mark Twain, Louisa May Alcott, Frederick Douglass and many more
The Atlantic, an important American publication since it was founded in 1857, has drawn on its impressive archives for a special commemorative issue, "The Civil War." Dozens of articles from that issue can now be read online. A few examples:
"Nat Turner's Insurrection," an 1861 article by Thomas Wentworth Higginson, the abolitionist, minister and pen pal of Emily Dickinson.
"The Freedman's Story," former slave William Parker's account of a showdown with a slaveholding posse that tried to recapture him and other escaped slaves. »Read Full Blog Post
Revisiting the late Jeffrey Zaslow, co-author of 'The Last Lecture'
To say that Jeffrey Zaslow had a feel for inspirational stories is like saying two of his collaborators, the late professor Randy Pausch and former Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, were courageous people.
Obvious, obvious, obvious, and deeply true.
Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal columnist and author of several bestsellers, died Friday in a car accident in Michigan. he was 53. »Read Full Blog Post
Defending audiobooks against snobbery
If you've ever been mocked by a snobbish friend because you listen to audiobooks, arm yourself for by reading Maggie Gram's essay "Listening to Books" at n+1.
"I used to avoid talking about audio books," Gram begins.
"I thought about starting this essay by insisting that I listen to audio books for work, so that I could not be mistaken for that other kind of person, that kind of person who listens audio books because it brings her some kind of unsophisticated pleasure.... I am a very serious person." »Read Full Blog Post
Exploring science fiction's 'Radium Age'
In an essay posted at Boing Boing, Joshua Glenn makes a case for exploring the science fiction written in the first third of the 20th century, the years following the best novels of H.G. Wells and prior to the ascendancy of sci-fi's 'Golden Age' in the 1930s.
With the significant exception of Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World" (1932), Brian Aldiss, Kingsley Amis and other who've written histories of the genre tend to see the years between 1900 and 1934 as a dark age of primitive space opera and fantasy, Glenn points out.
Noticing this black hole in the histories, Glenn dug into the period and found much to like: "Many ... European and American science fiction authors of that period -- including Olaf Stapledon, William Hope Hodgson, Karel Čapek, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, and Yevgeny Zamyatin, not to mention Jack London, Rudyard Kipling, and Arthur Conan Doyle -- gave us science fiction that was literate, analytical, socially conscious ... and also utopian." »Read Full Blog Post
Why is chocolate toxic for your dog? Deborah Blum explains
You know, because you've been told many times now, that you shouldn't let your dog eat chocolate because it will make her sick or even kill her. But you'd be hard-pressed to explain exactly why.
At her blog Speakeasy Science, UW-Madison professor Deborah Blum breaks it down for you, down to the molecular level. Blum, the author of "The Poisoner's Handbook: Murder and the Birth of Forensic Medicine in Jazz Age New York" and other books, knows more about poisons than any two archfiends stuck together, and cheerfully calls the topic an obsession.
The culprit in chocolate, Blum explains, is theobromine, "a plant alkaloid, slightly bitter in taste, surprisingly poisonous in some species." »Read Full Blog Post
Presidential mysteries & thrillers for Presidents Day
Carole E. Barrowman, writer, Alverno College professor and friend of the Recommended Reading blog, pointed me to a suitable list for today: "Hail to the Chief: Presidents Day Mysteries," a roster compiled by Janet Rudolph on her Mystery Fanfare blog of dozens of novels that involve the chief executive..
Rudolph kindly breaks it down to subsets by topic, such as assassination attempts, kidnappings, disappearances, election fixing, presidents as detectives, etc.
"This is not a definitive list by any means, and I welcome any additions," Rudolph writes.
Anthony Shadid's memoir, 'House of Stone,' now due out Feb. 28
Publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has moved up the publication date of the late Anthony Shadid's 'House of Stone: A Memoir of Home, Family, and a Lost Middle East' to Feb. 28.
Shadid, a renowned foreign correspondent, a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner and a University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate, died Feb. 16 of an apparent asthma attack while reporting in Syria. He was 43.
On the New York Times' Media Decoder blog, Julie Bosman reporting that the publisher decided to move the publication date for Shadid's book, already printed, from March 27 to Feb. 28. »Read Full Blog Post
Colbert vs. Patchett a win-win for book lovers
What happens when witty charm faces off against humorous bluster? In the case of writer Ann Patchett guesting on "The Colbert Report" Monday night, everyone wins, except maybe Jeff Bezos.
Patchett, author of "Bel Canto," "State of Wonder" and other novels, has become the patron saint of independent bookstores for her role in opening and co-owning Parnassus Books in Nashville, after both the Borders and an independent bookstore in her town had closed. (On her book tour for "State of Wonder," Patchett picked the brain of Boswell Book Company owner Daniel Goldin.)
Colbert gets the encounter off to a rollicking start, as quoted by book business trade publication Shelf Awareness: »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Author delights terminally ill fan with advance copy, plot secrets
Harry Turtledove is the master of alternative history fiction, but in the real world, he's made a fan with terminal cancer a very happy reader.
As reported by the GalleyCat blog, Nachu Bhatnagar, a young man with cancer, is a big fan of Turtledove's alternative World War II series, The War That Came Early. Bhatnagar wanted to know how the series would end, but the next book isn't due out until July, and it isn't certain Bhatnagar would be able to read it.
His friend, whose Reddit name is Kikavid, asked the Reddit community for help in obtaining an advance copy of the book for Bhatnagar. Not only did Kikavid get one he presented to Bhatnagar for his birthday, author Turtledove agreed to call the young man to fill him in on further developments in the series. »Read Full Blog Post(1)
Browsing Alan Turing's library list
Want to be a little bit more like Alan Turing, the computer science pioneer, Engima codebreaker and deviser of the "Turing test" for artificial intelligence? Read the books he took out of the school library.
Rachel Hassall, the archivist at Sherburne, the school Turing attended as a teen (1928-'30), recently gave blogger Alex Bellos the list of books that Turing (1912-'54) took out of the school library.
"As you might expect – heavy on the sciences," Bellos writes. »Read Full Blog Post
Take a writer to dinner for Leap Day, says Neil Gaiman
Leap Day is not just a day for women to propose to men.
"Please celebrate Leap Year Day in the traditional manner by taking a writer out for dinner," Neil Gaiman beseeches us on his website's journal.
The ever-entertaining writer ("American Gods," "Coraline") and sometimes Wisconsite continues:
"Many of us have our forks or chopsticks at the ready - some of us have had them ready for days. We will repay you by drifting off while the food is being served and then suddenly scribbling something down on a scrap of paper and asking whether or not you think "passionate" could validly be said to rhyme with "cash in it"...."


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Personal, Education and Vocation Goals
I've never been a fantastic planner; I tended to work better on the fly as long as I had a clear idea of my destination in mind. This relates to my goals for my life, it's not planned out every step of the way, but I know what I want for myself and my future.
Some educational goals I have set for myself include graduating with honors from Bethany College and going onto a graduate college to finish my degree in Art Therapy. I will achieve this by working hard to keep my grades up and enroll in the right classes. Also, searching out connections for possible future jobs will be key to my success in getting into graduate school and getting a decent position afterwards. Personal connections are where it is at. Along with the above goals, I just want to learn as much as I can. There is so much out there, I want to get a well-rounded education, which I will be able to do by taking a wide variety of classes.
My vocational goals are quite similar to my educational goals. I feel that God gave me specific talents so that I can play a role in something that only I can do. I have loved art all my life, so that my calling incorporates art is logical. Also, I want to help others. Previously, I have satisfied this on my mission trips; they have been so fulfilling. So my vocational will involve art and helping others. Right now, I feel that this will best be filled by pursuing a career as an art therapist. That way, I will be able to help others with something that is very dear to my heart. However, there may come times when I can do other things, such as volunteering of mission trips that will also help me fill my vocation.
Along with educational and vocational goals, I have personal goals that are very near my heart. First and foremost, I want to become the kind of women God wants me to be. This means I must be patient, kind, forgiving, compassionate and a good wife and mother, if that's in my future. To do this, I will just have to content myself with reading and knowing the Bible as well as being involved in church and the type of women that I want to model myself after. Hand in hand with this is my desire to have a good relationship with my husband to be a strong one.
Overall, these are my goals for my life, whether I consciously acknowledge them every day, they are what I am now working towards. To me, the hard work is totally worth it.


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on the ground in latin america
Here are just a few of CNRs projects happening on the ground in Latin America.
(Click on any hotspot on the map to view work done in that region of the country).
Jewel-bright plumage and a reputation for smarts have made parrots coveted pets for centuries. But with the international pet trade and habitat destruction, more than a third of New World parrots are at risk of extinction. Professor Steve Beissinger, a professor of environmental science, policy and management, has been conducting the first detailed study of these colorful birds with Venezuelas green-rumped parrotlet. Like house martins, parrotlets readily raise chicks in artificial nest boxes. Since 1985, Beissinger has followed over 2,000 nesting attempts and marked more than 8,000 individuals with colored bands. What hes discovered about their breeding, social system, and population dynamics will help establish sustainable harvesting of wild parrots for pets.
In southern Brazil, small farmers have ditched herbicides to control weeds. Instead, they sow combinations of naked oats, rye, hairy vetch, and fodder radish, then grow food crops directly atop the mulch. The result: fields that are nearly weed-free. Professor Miguel Altieri, a professor of environmental science, policy and management, and colleagues at the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina have found that rye and radish produce natural chemicals that deter weed sprouting. The food crops are placed below this toxic chemical layer or are transplanted as hardy seedlings. These findings could help other farmers seeking to wean themselves from the high cost or toxic effects of herbicides.
Tropical forests have been called the lungs of the earth, but are also major sources of greenhouse gases. Their soils are the largest natural producers of nitrous oxide, carbon dioxide, and methane. By studying tropical forests in Puerto Rico, Whendee Silver, a professor of environmental science, policy and management, has found that hurricanes affect how soils release greenhouse gases. While these massive storms lower carbon dioxide emissions, they raise outputs of methane and nitrous oxidegases that are 25 and 300 times more potent respectively at warming. This phenomenon bodes ill for the future, as hurricane frequency and intensity are projected to increase as the planet warms.
The potatoes on your plate may have been grown in Idaho, but their ancestors likely hail from Chiloé Island, off southern Chile. Indigenous peoples there cultivated hundreds of varieties of potatoes over the centuries. But most of the local varieties disappeared after government policies promoted higher yield varieties. Now residents cannot afford the fertilizers and fungicides these spuds require. To reconnect farmers with their agricultural heritage, Professor Miguel Altieri and the Centro de Educación y Tecnologia of Chiloé have established a community seed bank to preserve ancient potato varieties. The organization is also reintroducing traditional varieties of these tasty tubers to local farmers.
Microfinance institutions provide loans to the poorest of the poor, transforming beggars, farmers, and others into entrepreneurs. Yet as microfinance has caught on, default rates have begun to rise. Borrowers can take out loans from different banks, while potential lenders are unable to assess their indebtedness. Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet, professors of agricultural and resource economics, have found that credit bureaus can help solve this problem. They show that a credit bureau launched by a Guatemalan microfinance lender helped its branches gauge actual debt levels, and helped induce borrowers to repay loans. The downside: as group lending declined, less solvent clients, such as women, lost access to loans.
In the poor rural villages of Paraguay, formal sources of credit and insurance are few and far between. Lending and gift-giving within the community can be a viable substitute, but such informal finance methods seem to work better in some villages than in others. Ethan Ligon, an associate professor of agricultural and resource economics, and former student Laura Schechter, now at the University of Wisconsin, are investigating how such networks of trust function. Their surveys and experimental games are revealing how these systems help and hinder informal financial success.


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yes for games what choice us irish only when only 2 shops left that sell games in ireland smyths and gamesstop
I've heard a bunch of people say it is, and I get it. You buy Mario Galaxy for $20-$30. You nearly break you wrist spin jumping over everything, beat it, then you want the sequel. You head to Gamestop and trade in Mario Galaxy and find your game is only worth $7. Wait, only $7? But I paid so much more D:< The thing people don't understand is you aren't returning what you bought. You're returning a disc with a game. What you bought was the game experience. Nintendo sold you hours of entertainment and italian space plumber fun. The game disc itself is worth $7 to Gamestop, they then sell that, and experience to yet another gamer for a discounted price. If you were able to resell the game for around full value, you basically bought the experience for free. As for Amazon, they have better selling deals than Gamestop. That doesn't mean you're getting screwed over. It just means you're dealing with a business who needs profit margins.
In short, Gamestop is a business, You're either helping the company who bought thousands of games from the designers of your favorite Game, or giving/getting $40-$50 to somone who only bought 1 copy.
yes for games what choice us irish only when only 2 shops left that sell games in ireland smyths and gamesstop
well smyths is cheaper the gamestop for games when you use the smyths member card for discounts, its €5 to join membership and you get €5 voucher for smyths when you join and preorder games are free to preorder while in gamestop minimum to preorder is €5,
Gamestop sells used games as new; there's a reason they keep all the games outside of the shelved game cases.
Gamestop has ruthlessly bought out most competition so it can hold a monopoly on gaming retail; in America, it has wholly succeeded.
Gamestop damn-well needs their extra profits from overpriced used game sales and underpriced buying of used games, because it's literally the only reason they're in business. Used electronics are what their profits are almost-entirely made of.
It's not just used games. Used systems are bought cheap and sold back for oft-absurd prices.
Gamestop as a whole is known for sour and even illegal business practices; and terrible costumer service, in-store or otherwise.
Learn of the tyranny that is Gamestop.


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HOPEWELL TOWNSHIP -- The Hopewell Township Police Department is searching for a 72-year-old man who has been missing since Monday, authorities said.
Wilber Vannoy was last seen May 19 around 8 p.m. at his home in the Titusville section of the township. He was reported missing on Wednesday, but it is unclear when he may have left the residence, police said.
Vannoy is described as a white man standing 5 feet, 3 inches and weighing 135 pounds. He has gray hair and hazel eyes, police said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Hopewell Township Police Dispatch Center at (609) 737-3100, ext. 0 or Detective Francis Tulko at ext. 536.
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Hines Ward to be on 'Dancing with the Stars'
February 28, 2011 - Cory Giger
Hines Ward can catch and block with the best receivers in the NFL, and he apparently can dance, too.
America will find out just how well beginning in three weeks as Ward will be a contestant on the upcoming season of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars," according to published reports Monday night.
The Pittsburgh Steelers star will be competing against the likes of boxer Sugar Ray Leonard, "Karate Kid" Ralph Macchio, former "Cheers" star Kirstie Alley and professional wrestler Chris Jericho.
Ward's dancing partner will be Kym Johnson, according to reports. Johnson has danced with David Hasselhoff, Donny Osmond, Warren Sapp and Mark Cuban, among others, in previous seasons of "Dancing with the Stars."
Other NFL football players who have appeared on the show include Emmitt Smith (who won in 2006), Jerry Rice and Jason Taylor.
Ward, who turns 35 next Tuesday, had 59 catches for 755 yards and five TDs this past season and helped the Steelers reach the Super Bowl.
The new season of the show begins March 21.
The full cast, according to Entertainment Weekly:
Ralph Macchio, 49, the baby-faced star of three Karate Kid movies and My Cousin Vinny
Kirstie Alley, 60, starred in Fat Actress, Veronica's Closet, and, of course, Cheers
Petra Nemcova, 31, a Czech model who's been linked to James Blunt and Sean Penn
Wendy Williams, 46, a frank talk-show host
Sugar Ray Leonard, 54, the Olympic gold-medal-winning boxer who, as a pro, famously claimed world titles in five weight divisions
Psycho Mike, a.k.a. Michael Catherwood, 31, a popular deejay for KROQ in Los Angeles
Chelsea Kane, 22, best known for playing Stella on Disney Channel's Jonas L.A.
Romeo, 21, once known as Lil Romeo, is a rapper, actor, and son of past DWTS participant Master P
Kendra Wilkinson, 25, the former star of E!'s The Girls Next Door and the current star of her own eponymous reality show
Chris Jericho, 40, a pro wrestler who won 23 championships in the WWE
Hines Ward, 34, an NFL Pro Bowler from the Pittsburgh Steelers and the third wide receiver to appear on DWTS


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Presque Isle Audubon to count birds Saturday at peninsula
American coots led the way in 2012, but northern cardinals also made a decent showing.
Sixty-one species appeared on Erie-area tallies submitted for the Great Backyard Bird Count, according to the Presque Isle Audubon Society. This year's four-day count continues today, and Presque Isle Audubon has planned an event for the public.
"It's something called citizen science," Susan A. Smith, a member of the local society, said.
The Great Backyard Bird Count engages people of all ages with varying levels of bird-watching experience, according to the event's website. Participants count birds for as little as 15 minutes on one day or as long as they want all four days. A tally of individual birds of each species that are counted is entered at www.birdcount.org so scientists can use the data.
"It gives the people who study birds a snapshot of bird trends," Smith said.
The idea behind citizen science is for everyday people to contribute information that can be used by scientists. Bird count data can help them see what is happening with bird populations, including changes in migratory patterns or the effect of weather, Michele Rundquist-Franz, the local society's president, wrote in the group's February newsletter.
John Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, said, "We need as many people as possible to help build the wealth of data that scientists need to track the health of bird populations through time."
The Great Backyard Bird Count is a joint project of the Cornell Lab and the National Audubon Society. "We're eager to see how many of the world's 10,240 bird species will be reported during the count this year," Fitzpatrick said in a statement.
Local participants in 2012 submitted more than 70 checklists with 61 species, according to the Presque Isle newsletter.
The northern cardinal appeared on 69 of the checklists.
The total number of birds tallied was 7,399, according to Rundquist-Franz. That included 1,817 American coots, which are chickenlike swimming birds that can be mistaken for ducks and are found in ponds, marshes and along the edges of lakes.
Being able to tell the difference between birds like an American coot and a duck is a requirement for taking part in the count. But Presque Isle Audubon Society members will be available today to help.
The society will count birds at Presque Isle State Park between 8 a.m. and noon from a base set up in Picnic Shelter 2.
Members will talk about birds and being a citizen scientist, organizers said. The event also will feature informational displays and bird crafts for children.
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The 33-year-old man charged with murdering a retired Stroud
Township school teacher admitted to
the slaying today and was sentenced to up to 62 years in state prison, his attorney said.
Jury selection for the capital murder trial for Rico Herbert was slated to begin at 9 this morning in Monroe County Court. Herbert was accused of killing Joseph J. DeVivo, 87, in February 2012 and stealing his car. DeVivo's son, Joe, lives in Bethlehem Township, Pa.
Herbert's plea to
third-degree murder, vehicle theft and abusing a corpse left him with a
sentence of 31 to 62 years in state prison, attorney Thomas Sundmaker said.
The case was resolved over the weekend and Herbert met this morning with Judge Margherita P. Worthington before she pronounced sentence in open court, Sundmaker said.
The sentence is basically half the statutory maximum on each of the three charges, Sundmaker said. That's outside the sentencing guidelines and potentially an avenue of appeal, he said.
DeVivo's oldest son, Joe, addressed the court and said the family was satisfied with the outcome, Sundmaker said.
The third-degree murder plea means that Herbert did have malice but didn't have premeditation in killing DeVivo, Sundmaker said.
"It beats first or second degree," Sundmaker said. "... It means his actions that particular evening led to the demise of Mr. DeVivo."
If Herbert had been convicted of first-degree murder, he would have faced either the death penalty or life in prison without parole, Sundmaker said.
But Herbert showed remorse, even leading authorities to DeVivo's body in South Carolina, Sundmaker said.
"If that's not remorse, I don't know what is," said Sundmaker, who is a private attorney but because of his qualifications in capital cases was asked by the judge to represent Herbert.
The plea "spared everybody a very long trial," the Stoudsburg, Pa.-based attorney said.There was no fingerprint or DNA evidence in the case, just statements from Herbert about the crime, Sundmaker said. It was a circumstantial case that would have been difficult for the prosecution or the defense to make, he said.
Monroe County District Attorney's Office Detective Wendy Serfass said while the case was indeed circumstantial and there was limited physical evidence, there was certainly enough evidence for a first-degree conviction.
"It would have been a long, detailed trial," she said.
But the plea did provide the family with closure and a full understanding of the crime, she said.
"Mr. Herbert took full responsibility," she said after what she described as two years of lies, including Herbert's claim -- reported by the Pocono Record -- that someone named T.J. killed DeVivo and then traded the victim's car to Herbert for drugs.
Herbert went into DeVivo's home where he was confronted by DeVivo, Serfass said. While DeVivo yelled at Herbert, Herbert pulled DeVivo's shirt over his head and strangled him, Serfass said.
DeVivo's body was then put in the car's trunk and driven to one of Herbert's girlfriends so Herbert could gather clothes, Serfass said. Herbert then stayed the night with a second girlfriend at a motel before setting out for a planned trip to North Carolina -- with DeVivo's body still in the truck, Serfass said.
"We now know what happened," Serfass said.
Saying Herbert didn't display the "coldness of heart" of a first-degree murderer, "he wanted closure for himself and his family," Sundmaker said about Herbert's decision to agree to the plea.
This may not be the end of the case, but it's far too early to tell, Sundmaker said.
"He has every right to appeal," Sundmaker said. "The sentence is in excess of the guidelines."
Following the killing, police found Herbert in DeVivo's car in North Carolina. He told authorities he dumped DeVivo's body in South Carolina and eventually led police to the body, according to court records.


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Sustainability in leadership – A salutogenic approach
One aspect which has a very strong impact on employee performance is healthiness. Although it is the responsibility of every single person to take care for their health and to avoid illnesses, the company of course has a great impact and a basic interest that their workforce stays healthy.
To create framework conditions which ensure a safe working environment is already common in the companies of today. Henkel for example has a very extensive health program in place – including special health and sport programs, information events as well as medical check ups etc. But beyond that central offer, there is another measure which could help companies to maintain the healthiness of its staff: Salutogenic leadership.
Salutogenesis is basically the opposite of pathogenesis and focuses on resources people have and need to stay healthy. The key question is 'What causes health?' not 'What are the reasons for a disease?'. The prospective concept was first invented by Aaron Antonovsky in 1979 and since then was conveyed to different topics, also to leadership scholars and research.
But what exactly does a 'salutogenic leadership style' may look like? It is not a toolkit of brand new leadership measures what makes it unique, but the whole framework and mindset behind it. Some aspects of a leadership style which helps to maintain healthiness are:
- ensure a lasting communication and cooperation
- Show appreciation to employees
- enable open-minded teamwork
- foster the delegation of responsibility
- acting as a role model regarding personal healthiness
- build up a certain quality and trust regarding the relationship to the members of the team
- foster job satisfaction, self-confidence and pride within the team
- make decisions, processes etc. transparent and give the chance to participate
- lead in a meaningful way
This is not a complete list but shows what to emphasize and that this is a leadership style which requires certain social management skills. Anyhow, not only the behavior of the superior is important here. The culture of the organization needs to be ready for this kind of mindset. In a culture of short-term orientation, pressure and top-down communication a leader who tries to follow the concept of salutogenic leadership would most probably fail. As it is proven in various studies that the daily leadership style has an impact on the healthiness of the employees companies who would like to foster a sustainable concept of leadership should have in mind, that a holistic approach is needed. An integrated understanding of healthiness must be established as a mindset and health-promoting factors have to be considered in all the management decisions. Healthiness is a value which then has to be fostered – sometimes even though this is not aligning with short-term results.


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30 September 2016
I'm thrilled to be here today, particularly to launch Chris' book but also to talk about journalism and talk about it in a room that has so many memories for me.
What a great book by an editor in love with journalism - not everyone is of course but Chris Mitchell is and he evokes a passion and a romance for his profession and I think it's good to see that, it's good to see that enthusiasm and passion.
NEIL MITCHELL: Sydney Swans supporter - Malcolm Turnbull. Good morning.
29 September 2016
Bringing the university into the heart of the city is a vital part of its rejuvenation. It's a vital part of the innovation, the investment and the entrepreneurship that drives jobs in the future.
Surrounded by so much creativity and imagination here. I'm delighted to be here with the Acting Premier, my Federal colleagues Angus Taylor, Senator's Dunium and Bushby
Today - National Police Remembrance Day - we solemnly reflect on the service and the sacrifice of our police officers.
28 September 2016
Australia mourns the passing of Shimon Peres, his life was as eventful as it was long: his passion for the State of Israel, which he helped found, as strong as his commitment to peace.
Farewell to Tangles. Max Walker was one of Australia's great cricketers - but he was much more than a cricketer: footballer, architect, commentator, story-teller and, above all, great Aussie character.
I have requested that His Excellency General the Honourable Sir Peter Cosgrove AK MC (Retd), Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia, represent Australia and Australians at the funeral service of Shimon Peres.
Australia mourns the passing of Shimon Peres - nation builder and peacemaker.


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MARTINSBURG - There seems to be a hierarchy with the girls basketball teams involved in the Class AAA, Region II, Section 1 tournament.
It's Martinsburg at the top of the pyramid and the remaining teams at different levels on the way down the pyramid.
The Bulldogs (16-4) have been at the top all year long as they've run through their regular-season sectional schedule with an undefeated mark. In fact, Martinsburg has won all 11 games by an average of 30.6 points, the smallest margin of victory being 13 points.
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Spring Mills' Jaylyn?Copeland, left, has a ball go off her hands as Martinsburg's Essence Underwood defends during their game earlier this season.
That's allowed the Bulldogs to take one of the key top spots.
"That was our goal in the beginning, to get one of the top seeds. When you have a six-team section like we do, it's important to get the No. 1 or 2 seed. Otherwise, you have to win three games to win the section," Martinsburg coach Wes Hall said. "Like I told our girls in practice, the whole state is 0-0. It doesn't matter if you beat a team twice in the regular season. If you can't beat them now, you're done."
The Bulldogs seem to be in good shape with a team that has multiple scoring options, among them Kristen Nunn, Taylor Ferguson and Essence Underwood, the team's three leading scorers. Martinsburg has also stepped up its defensive effort over the past several weeks.
Hall likes how his team is playing but sees room for improvement.
"I'm happier, more than I was before," Hall said. "We have a lot we can improve, so we're going to try and improve on what we have every minute that's available to us. We're going to have a tough week ahead of us in practice and push the girls a little harder."
After Martinsburg, it's No. 2 Spring Mills, No. 3 Jefferson, No. 4 Washington, No. 5 Hedgesville and No. 6 Musselman.
The biggest surprise of the season has been the success of the Cardinals, who have the second-best record in the area with a 14-6 mark. Against sectional competition, Spring Mills is 6-4, including a perfect record against Musselman and Washington and a 1-1 record against Hedgesville and Jefferson.
"There's moments in the game where I assess them as unbelievable as how much they've improved from Day 1 to Day 2 to Day 200," Spring Mills coach Bob Eaton said. "And then there's moments in the game, it's like we've never ever practiced, and I'm looking around going, 'Did we not just go over this last night,' and things like that. It's just a process.
"All we can do is just go play every game. We can't look ahead, we can't look sideways, we can't look back, we have to play every possession," he said.
While the Bulldogs and Cardinals each have a first-round bye, the remaining teams begin their posteason tonight with Hedgesville at Washington and Musselman at Jefferson, both at 7 p.m. The semifinals will take place Wednesday, while the championship game is set for Friday night.
In the Hedgesville-Washington matchup, the Patriots have a 2-0 edge on the Eagles, winning both regular-season matchups by double figures - wins of 61-36 and 55-41.
In both cases, the teams will rely on a few usual suspects. For Hedgesville, Carly Elliott will be key as she has been all year as the team's leading scorer at 20.2 points per game. The Patriots have relied heavily on leading-scorer Morgan Adams but have gotten big contributions from Brittani McCoy down the stretch.
The second game features Musselman and Jefferson, and the Cougars won the only regular-season meeting by a 67-59 margin.
The Cougars will be without leading scorer Kirsten Doleman, who also runs the floor at the point guard position. Jefferson has one other double-figure scorer in senior Marissa Jones, who will need a big game for the Cougars to move on.
The Applemen had a rough time against sectional opponents, going just 1-9. However, the Applemen have played well in spots, though coach Amanda Eaton has stressed limiting turnovers and transition defense as keys for her team.
In the Class AAA, Region 1 tournament, Hampshire is the top seed, followed by No. 2 Buckhannon-Upshur, No. 3 Lewis County and No. 4 Elkins. Games begin Tuesday, with the Trojans hosting the Tigers and the Buccaneers hosting the Minutemen. The championship game is Thursday night.
Hampshire (9-11), the defending sectional champion, takes on an Elkins team it defeated 48-30 in the season-opener, the only game between the two teams. The Trojans played just three sectional games, going 2-1, including a win over Lewis County and a loss to Buckhannon-Upshur.
Hampshire has a few scoring threats, led by Ericka Gordon, who's averaging almost 14 points a game. Mary Feaster, one of the top 3-point shooters in the area, is scoring at a 9.6 clip, while Emilynn Corbin is averaging 8.3 points a game but has a few double-figure scoring effort this season.
Berkeley Springs has a tough opening game of the Class AA, Region II, Section 1 tournament with a game on the road against Keyser.
The Indians, with a very young squad overall, have struggled this season in sectional play with an 0-6 record. The biggest bright spot for Berkeley Springs has been the play of senior Sarah Haynes, the team's leader in points scored, rebounds, assists, steals and blocks.
Even with Haynes at her best, the task ahead is tough for the Indians. The Golden Tornado have been a top 10 team most of the season and have a 19-2 record.
"We're certainly the underdog," Berkeley Springs coach Dale McCumbee said. "They have a great team, and they did a great job against us this year."
In the Class A, Region II, Section 2 tournament, Paw Paw (5-12) goes on the road to play East Hardy (4-13).
The teams did not play in the regular season, with the two games canceled because of the weather. The Pirates have a few scoring/rebounds threats in Belle Harrold, Alivia Snyder and Shiann Groah, who will need to come up big if Paw Paw wants to advance.


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One or two years ago, I made a decision: to only spend my time in environments that made me feel good. As a consequence, I have a problem with where to practise.
I come from a line of aikido where people are pretty generous: always seek new students out, practise with them and help them, if you go to a café or a pub after practise it is announced on the mat after class so everybody knows they are welcome to join.
Some years ago, I switched to another line of aikido. Here, the culture is radically different. You have got to show that you are good, or the popular ones will not practise with you. You practise several rounds with one person the same class if you like, it is up to you. When sensei is about to show next technique, people look around before they sit down in the line... so they are close to someone they would like to practise with. As finding the right people to practise with is so crucial, people are incredibly quick in doing this and sometimes do it with a light slap on the other person's lap.
Of course there is two ways of climbing - technical advancement and social. The popular ones will practise with you because you are good, or because they like you. This creates an atmosphere with lots of competition. Not competition in aikido, but competition in being popular. Everyone turns into social climbers.
Why on earth, then, did I choose to practise in this dojo in the first place? Becasue they do very good aikido. The teachers are, in my mind, the most interesting ones in town.
Of couse I have seen similar social patterns before, but for an aikido dojo it was news to me. I had problems adapting. I did not want to behave what I considered badly. So I did not follow the local standards. Of course, the only one who got punished in the end was me. I have been thinking about adapting, but... I can not. I would have problems respecting myself. Instead, I left. I think this is a place where people learn good aikido, but not a place where people are happy.
For a few years, I have been practising at a another nice and technically good dojo. Unfortunately, because of work circumstances I will not be able to make it to this particular dojo in the future.
Going back to the kind of aikido they do in the generous dojo is not an option. I am not interested in what they do.
I do not ask for advice, really. If I can not find interesting aikido places in which I am happy, I rather go to another art - maybe a Chinese one. I am investigating the possibilities. I just want to ask if there is somebody out there who have had similar experience?
Also, I kind of wonder if a more selfish atmosphere is better in creating top students from a technical point of view. I think that maybe it is - not better for the level of the whole group, but for the top students.
In most other activities, in school etc, we like to separate the smart kids from the slow ones and the advanced people from relative beginners - and we claim that it is for the best of everybody. In aikido, everybody is practising together except for maybe a separate beginner's term and we say that this is for the best of everybody. Maybe we have one advanced or two a week, but the bulk of practise does not separate the group according to level. This in contrast to most other Japanese MA I have come in contact with.
Maybe the question is, "for the best on everyone" - but in what sense?