text:
Researchers from West Virginia University (WVU) have successfully demonstrated that a low-cost, remotely controlled (R/C) aircraft can provide a stable aerial platform with the potential to aid transportation professionals in a variety of research and applied uses. The small unmanned air vehicle (UAV) acquires high-resolution images that could be used in work zone management, traffic congestion, safety, and environmental impact studies. Compared to fixed-position ground sensors, airborne sensors offer mobility and measurements from multiple perspectives. Additionally, UAVs can be used to perform missions within hazardous environments without endangering the operators.
Aerial Data Acquisition Platform
A remotely controlled aircraft, named 'Phastball-0', was custom developed at WVU for remote sensing for highway applications. The airframe features a modular composite construction with most components manufactured in house by WVU undergraduate and graduate students. The aircraft has a 96-inch wingspan and a takeoff weight of 21 lb, including 7 lb of remote-sensing payload. The aircraft is remotely piloted with a 9-channel R/C radio system and is powered with a pair of brushless electric ducted fans. The use of an electric propulsion system simplifies the flight operations and reduces the amount of vibrations on the on-board sensors. Figure 1 shows a group of WVU students working on
the 'Phastball-0' aircraft at the airfield.
The main components of the remote-sensing payload system include a high-resolution digital still camera (either in the visible spectrum or near infrared), a 50 Hz GPS receiver, a low-cost Inertial Navigation System (INS), a 400- yard down-looking laser range finder, a flight data recorder, a video camera and a wireless video transmission system. The custom-designed flight data recorder allows for full control of the sensor selection, sampling rate, data quality, and time synchronization. The wireless video system serves primarily as a viewfinder for assisting the ground crew in determining an area of interest before taking a sequence of still images. An extensive calibration and analysis effort for major measurement instruments was performed to ensure that flight data are properly calibrated and time aligned. Additionally, an Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) based 15-state GPS/INS sensor fusion algorithm was developed to reduce noises in the GPS measurements and to estimate the
aircraft attitude angles in flight. The location of each on-board sensor on the aircraft is shown in figure 2. Geo-ReferencingGeo-referencing software was developed by the research team to measure distances to an aerial image and estimate the geo-location of each ground asset of interest. A comprehensive study of potential geo-referencing sources of errors identified factors that might affect the position estimation accuracy.A number of flight test experiments were conducted to evaluate the functionality and performance of the remote sensing system. Figure 3 shows two collected images of the same general region with both visible and near-IR wavelengths.The geo-referencing performance was evaluated using a set of flight data and the known location of a fixed reference point on the ground. The flight data analysis shows an approximately 7.2-meter mean position estimation error was achieved with estimates from a single aerial image, after a set of lens distortion and camera orientation corrections. Furthermore, a 0.5-meter position estimation error was achieved with an averaging of 15 individual estimates. The geo-referencing performance for one of the flight experiments is illustrated in figure 4.This study successfully demonstrated that a low-cost aerial platform, with a proper calibration and fusion of sensory data, can achieve a high level of geo-referencing performance. This project also provides opportunities for five graduate students and one undergraduate student to perform hands-on research and to increase their exposure to the latest technology in sensors, electronics, image processing, sensor fusion, software development, and flight-testing.
West Virginia University
|Figure 2. Aircraft Instrumentation for Remote Sensing
|West Virginia University
West Virginia University
|Figure 4. Distribution of Position Estimates With and Without Attitude Corrections


text:
MARTINSBURG - Legend has it that there is a pot of gold at the end of every rainbow.
At the end of a Malique Watkins rainbow, there was Tory Lee and a Martinsburg touchdown to start the second half of the Bulldogs' playoff opener.
Martinsburg glittered after that point by pouring it on visiting Spring Valley in the second half as the three-time defending Class AAA championship Bulldogs rose from something of a sluggish start to turn a 7-0 halftime lead into a 36-0 victory Saturday at Cobourn Field.
Article Photos
Tory Lee of Martinsburg outleaps Spring Valley's Trevor Maynard for a 27-yard touchdown catch in the third quarter of Saturday's game. The pass from Malique Watkins was thrown from around the 40-yard line. See more photos at CU.journal-news.net. (Journal photos by Ron Agnir)
Martinsburg defenders Tyler Miller (44), Mitchell Henson (12), Malik Cobb (4) and Dylan Brewer (6) bring down Spring Valley running back Dylan Lageman (31) during the third quarter.
Martinsburg's Carter Walburn (2) returns an interception against Spring Valley's Chase Lucas (40).
Martinsburg quarterback Malique Watkins (7) runs away from Spring Valley's Trevor Maynard (10) on a 94-yard touchdown run during the third quarter.
Martinsburg runner Deamonte Lindsay looks back as runs for a long touchdown during third-quarter action. Chasing him is Spring Valley DB Bryer Brewer
The Bulldogs scored on their first four second-half possessions to advance into the quarterfinals against Cabell Midland - the team Martinsburg defeated in last season's final for its third title in a row.
"I think we're a second-half team, and we get rolling," Watkins said. "It's hard to stop us.
"I think that's what happened today."
It started with Watkins looking every bit the part of an improvisational Ben Roethlisberger when he went back to pass from the Spring Valley 27-yard line. The Martinsburg quarterback, who zigzagged in trying to escape a fierce pass rush by the Timberwolves, wound up back beyond the 40. He heaved the ball from near the right sideline to the far left side of the end zone, where Lee caught the ball for a touchdown.
The pass sailed as high as it travel long, it seemed.
"I'm a big target," Lee said. "I'm always telling him to throw it up and I'll get it.
"It was a rainbow ball."
One that left a queasy feeling in the stomach of Martinsburg coach David Walker, who saw Watkins throw interceptions on his first two passes deep in Spring Valley territory to end drives.
"I saw the arc on the ball and thought it would be an interception," Walker said. "Tory made a very athletic play."
Martinsburg also scored a two-point conversion after the touchdown as Eric Mitchell tossed to Troy Walker on a fake, making it 15-0 in the Bulldogs' favor.
The burst started an onslaught for Martinsburg, which didn't score in the first half until 1:46 remained and Watkins pushed over from inside the 1 for a touchdown.
Deamonte Lindsay ran 50 yards for a touchdown on Martinsburg's next series, a four-play, 90-yard drive, then Watkins dashed 94 yards on a two-play drive on the final snap of the third quarter as the Bulldogs pushed out to a 26-0 lead.
"Our kids played their guts out," Spring Valley coach Brad Dingess said. "We gave them everything they wanted in the first half. Genetically, we don't have that speed.
"Out kids did well with what we do; we couldn't handle the speed. Our five yards are 75 to them."
An 8-yard scoring run by Lindsay with 8:06 remaining finished the scoring for Martinsburg (10-1).
"They did a good job of keeping the ball away from us," Walker said. "Turnovers were a part of our slow start.
"Once we settled in, we were OK."
Spring Valley (6-5) ran for 48 yards on the opening series of the game and chopped nearly five minutes off the clock. The Timberwolves managed 95 yards of total offense in the first half but just 47 in the second half.
"If we go in (to the locker room at halftime ) 14-7 or tied 7-7..." Dingess said. "Our confidence was up going into the half, but it would've really helped if we had scored."
Spring Valley lost two fumbles and threw an interception in the first half, part of five turnovers in all over the first 24 mniutes.
Martinsburg's quick offensive start in the second half "took the air out of us," Dingess said.
Watkins overcame his slow start by rushing 17 times for 204 yards and also throwing for 84. Lindsay ran 12 times for 110 yards as the Bulldogs piled up 368 yards rushing and 477 overall.
"I don't know who can beat them," said Dingess, whose team has played Cabell Midland and top-seeded and undefeated Huntington.
"You can beat them for a quarter or two, but they're going to break one on you."
Dylan Lageman led Spring Valley's rushing game with 19 carries for 61 yards.
"Coming out for the playoffs, we just had to get back into it," Lee said. "We got a feel for them in the second half."
Watkins blamed himself for part of how Martinsburg opened the contest.
"I started out real bad," he said. "That can't happen again. I thought it was going to cost us the game."
Eventually, he and his teammates struck gold.
It started when the Bulldogs sailed over the rainbow.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
PECO ENERGY Co. expects to have power restored to 90 percent of its customers by Friday night, a Peco spokeswoman said Wednesday afternoon.
Spokeswoman Karen Muldoon Geus said that 350,000 Peco customers still were without power as of 4 p.m. Wednesday, with customers in Bucks and Montgomery counties accounting for 282,000 of those still in the dark. In Philadelphia, 35,000 Peco customers were still without power.
Geus said that 850,000 Peco customers lost power as a result of Hurricane Sandy.
Now that Sandy is gone, getting the juice flowing again can't happen soon enough for those customers still waiting for power.


text:
What Others Are Saying
"When it comes to finding out what works for students and what's possible when an institution transforms itself, (the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation) turns to Georgia State. That's because your university is a powerful example of how—with the right strategies and the right support—students from any background and from every background can succeed."
Sue Desmond-Hellmann
Chief Executive Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Georgia State commencement address
May 7, 2016
In a New York Times op-ed on curbing college dropouts, David Kirp, professor of public policy at the University of California, Berkeley, praised the strides made by Georgia State to improve graduation rates, especially among minority, first-generation and low-income students. "The impetus for reform comes from academic leaders who insist that student success be regarded, not as an afterthought, but as a practical imperative and a moral obligation," he noted.
New York Times
May 1, 2016
U.S. News & World Report ranked the the College of Law's Center for Law, Health & Society 6th in the nation, between Georgetown's and Harvard's programs. This is the 10th consecutive year it has been named one of the top 10 health law programs by U.S. News. The college's part-time program was No. 14 in the nation, and its clinical education program was the only one in Georgia to make the list, ranking No. 30.
U.S. News & World Report
Best Healthcare Law Programs
March 2016
U.S. News & World Report ranked the Robinson College of Business's part-time MBA program 27th in the nation, up 17 spots from the previous year. The program was 17th among public universities.
U.S. News & World Report
Best Part-Time MBA
March 2016
The Washington Post called Georgia State "a perpetual laboratory for new ideas on using 'big data' to improve higher education," noting the university's innovative efforts to keep disadvantaged students on track toward a degree.
Washington Post
Oct. 1, 2015
Money Magazine lists Georgia State as one of "10 commuter colleges that give you a world-class education," noting that top urban campuses that let students live at home can dramatically cut the cost of a degree.
Money Magazine
Sept. 28, 2015
U.S. News & World Report ranked Georgia State 14th in the nation for its commitment to undergraduate teaching, among institutions such as Yale, Stanford, Duke and Michigan. The publication identified schools "where the faculty has an unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching."
U.S. News & World Report
Best Undergraduate Teaching
Sept. 9, 2015
U.S. News & World Report ranked Georgia State 5th in the country among the top "most innovative" universities, a list of schools nominated by college and university leaders. The list includes institutions that are making the most innovative improvements in terms of curriculum, faculty, students, campus life, technology or facilities.
U.S. News & World Report
Most Innovative Schools
Sept. 9, 2015
The National Jurist ranks Georgia State's College of Law No. 1 on its list of Best Value Law Schools in major metropolitan areas and the No. 3 Best Value Law School in the nation.
The National Jurist
August 2015
Georgia State's College of Law is one of Above the Law's Top 50 Law Schools, based on outcomes. Georgia State Law tied for 44th with the University of Missouri.
Above the Law
May 2016


text:
One of the more prominent places to show off some ink is on your knee. Due to the shape of the knee and the pain that comes from tattooing it knee tattoos are relatively few and far between and it usually takes a heck of an artist to pull them off correctly. In this gallery you will find nothing but the best of the best knee tattoos that we could find. Enjoy!
Image 1 of 19
This amazing knee tattoo was inked by Aivaras Lee.
Copyright © 2016 Quadra Media, LLC. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy | Sitemap| DMCA Policy Notice


text: Responsiveness. Expertise. Agility. Frugality. Excellence. Honor. All are values which Shortridge, Fitzke & Hultquist, P.C. strives to bring to each client relationship. Whether serving individuals or businesses, the Firm is skilled in customizing its full complement of transactional and litigation services to provide resourceful solutions to legal matters while being sensitive to client resources.


text:
Trova una copia in biblioteca
Stiamo ricercando le biblioteche che possiedono questo documento…
|Time-travel fiction
Fantasy fiction
Detective and mystery fiction
Mystery fiction
|Tipo materiale:
|Fiction, Risorsa internet
|Tipo documento:
|Book, Internet Resource
|Tutti gli autori / Collaboratori:
Jasper Fforde
|0670032891 9780670032891
|Numero OCLC:
|xv, 375 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
|Thursday Next: the story so far --
Author's note --
The absence of breakfast --
Inside Caversham Heights --
Three witches, multiple choice and sarcasm --
Landen Parke-Laine --
The well of lost plots --
Night of the grammasites --
Feeding the minotaur --
Ton-sixty on the A419 --
Apples Benedict, a hedgehog and Commander Bradshaw --
Jurisfiction session no. 40319 --
Introducing UltraWord --
Wuthering Heights --
Reservoir near the church of St. Stephen --
Educating the generics --
Landen Parke-Somebody --
Captain Nemo --
Minotaur trouble --
Snell Rest in Peece and Lucy Deane --
Shadow the sheepdog --
Ibb and Obb named and Heights again --
Who stole the tarts? --
Crimean nightmares --
Jurisfiction session no. 40320 --
Pledges, the council of genres and searching for Deane --
Havisham--the final bow --
Post-Havisham blues --
Lighthouse at the edge of my mind --
Lola departs and Heights again --
Mrs. Bradshaw and Solomon (Judgments) Inc. --
Revelations --
Tables turned --
The 923rd Annual BookWorld Awards --
UltraWord --
Loose ends --
Heavy weather (bonus chapter exclusive to the U.S. edition) --
|Altri titoli:
|Thursday Next in The well of lost plots
|Jasper Fforde.
|Maggiori informazioni:
Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. After two rollicking New York Times-bestselling adventures through the Western literary canon, Britain's Prose Resource Operative was literally and literaturally at her wit's end -- not to mention pregnant. So what could be more welcome than a restful stint in the Character Exchange Program down in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots? But a vacation remains elusive. In no time, Thursday discovers that the Well of Lost Plots is a veritable linguistic free-for-all where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market and lousy books (like the one she has taken up residence in) are scrapped for salvage. To top it off, a murderer is stalking Jurisfiction personnel and nobody is safe, least of all Thursday herself. Once again, it's up to the ever-resourceful gal detective to track down the killer, save her pulp novel-slash-temporary abode from being chucked into the Text Sea, and get back to her "real" life with her body (and memory, if it's not too much to ask) intact. Jasper Fforde has done it again in this absolutely brilliant feat of literary showmanship. When it comes to sheer wit, literate fantasy and effervescent originality, nothing can touch this new Ffordian tour de force.
Commenti degli utenti
Documenti simili
Soggetti correlati:(11)
- Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) -- Fiction.
- Characters and characteristics in literature -- Fiction.
- Women detectives -- Great Britain -- Fiction.
- Books and reading -- Fiction.
- Libraries -- Fiction.
- Books and reading.
- Characters and characteristics in literature.
- Libraries.
- Next, Thursday (Fictitious character)
- Women detectives.
- Great Britain.
Liste di utenti con questo documento (5)
- Fr. Tom Books - VU Library(373 documenti)
di ViterboLibrary aggiorna 2014-10-09
- Things I Recommend(7 documenti)
di kdbshaffer aggiorna 2010-10-28
- Things to Check Out(5 documenti)
di meduttweiler11 aggiorna 2010-05-17
- SciFi/Fantasy(25 documenti)
di steas aggiorna 2007-09-15
- Fforde Fiction(7 documenti)
di lisahmit


text:
Have a question, comment or something you think we should know?
Email us HERE
In order to help us better serve you- Please be sure to include the name of the location that your e-mail is regarding.
Click Here to purchase a gift certificate online!
To sign up for the weekly newsletter, click once more on the EMAIL PROGRAM.
Home | Links | Corporate | About Us | Contact | Gift Certificates / Donations | Event | Newsletter
© Copyrighted Fridley Theatres Inc. 2009
To assure you are viewing the best of the web
make sure you update your browser to the latest version!


text:
John Edwards: 'I Did an Awful Lot That Was Wrong'
After a glint of good news during an otherwise stunning fall from grace, John Edwards on Thursday took full responsibility for what he called his "sins" even as he maintained he believed he did nothing illegal.
The onetime Democratic presidential candidate also spoke emotionally about his 4-year-old daughter with mistress Rielle Hunter, calling her "my precious Quinn, who I love more than any of you could ever imagine, who I am so close to and so, so grateful for. I'm so grateful for Quinn."
It was Edwards's alleged efforts to use illegal campaign contributions to cover up his affair with Hunter that stood at the center of his federal corruption trial that ended with one not guilty verdict but a mistrial on five other undecided counts.
After praising the jury as "an exemplar of what jurors are supposed to do," Edwards, 58, told reporters and others outside the courthouse in Greensboro, N.C., that "I want to make sure that everyone hears from me and from my voice."
"While I do not believe that I did anything illegal, or even thought I was doing anything illegal, I did an awful, awful lot that was wrong," he said. "There is no one else responsible for my sins."
He added: "I am responsible. And if I want to find the person who should be held accountable for my sins … it is me and me alone."
Edwards then praised his parents and all of his children, including grown daughter Cate, who sat next to him throughout the trial, and spoke of his future, saying he wants to be a good father and to work with poor children.
"I don't think God's through with me," he said. "I really believe he thinks there are still some good things I can do."
With reporting by SHARON COTLIAR and WENDY GROSSMAN KANTOR


text:
free samples
Here are some keywords which we've determined lie within the same circle of relevance as free samples.
free, samples, coupons, free stuff, freebies, stuff, products, deals, offers, printable coupons, mail, gift cards, win, cards, beauty, product samples, skin, skin care, sites, save
1. free freebiesfrenzy.com
Enter a domain name or a keyword.
# a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z


text:
Download citation file:
The summary below is from the full reports titled "Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement" and "Screening for Asymptomatic Bacteriuria in Adults: Evidence for the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Reaffirmation Recommendation Statement." They are in the 1 July 2008 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 149, pages 43-47 and pages W-20-W-24). The first report was written by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force; the second report was written by K. Lin and K. Fajardo.
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) is a group of health experts that makes recommendations about preventive health care.
Bacteriuria refers to bacteria in the urine. When bacteria get into the urine, a urinary tract infection (UTI) (also called bladder or kidney infection) can occur. The symptoms of UTIs include painful and frequent urination, fever, and pain in the lower abdomen or back. However, sometimes people have asymptomatic bacteriuria. This means that they have no symptoms even though they have bacteria in their urine.
Urinary tract infections are usually easy to treat with antibiotics, but sometimes serious complications can occur, including kidney damage or spread of the infection through the bloodstream. Urinary tract infections in pregnant women can lead to problems for both the mother and the fetus. Because UTIs can be uncomfortable, have serious health effects, and are easy to treat, it might make sense to test for bacteriuria even if patients have no symptoms. This would allow physicians to treat patients with antibiotics before symptoms or complications happen. Looking for a disease in people with no symptoms is called screening. To test for bacteriuria, a sample of urine is collected and sent to the laboratory.
In 2004, the USPSTF recommended against screening adults for asymptomatic bacteriuria, except for pregnant women. The Task Force wanted to see whether studies published since 2004 should lead to changes in this recommendation.
The USPSTF reviewed research published since their 2004 recommendation on screening for asymptomatic bacteriuria to look at the benefits and harms of screening.
They found strong evidence that identifying and treating pregnant women with asymptomatic bacteriuria with antibiotics reduces UTIs in the mothers and low birthweight in the babies. They found adequate evidence that identifying and treating nonpregnant adults with asymptomatic bacteriuria does not improve outcomes. The potential harm associated with screening is that it might lead to the use of antibiotics in people who might have been fine without treatment. This would needlessly expose people to possible antibiotic side effects.
The USPSTF recommends that all pregnant women receive a urine culture at 12 to 16 weeks or their first prenatal visit, if later than 12 to 16 weeks. The USPSTF recommends no screening for bacteriuria in nonpregnant patients with no UTI symptoms.
The recommendations may change as new studies become available. However, the USPSTF has judged that it would take large, high-quality studies to overturn these recommendations.
Please read the other comments before posting. Contributors must reveal any conflict
of interest.
Comments are moderated and will appear on the site at the discretion of The American
College of Physicians editorial staff. Please be sure your email address is
updated in your account, otherwise the American College of Physicians will not be
able to contact you about your comment.
Anyone can submit a comment any time after publication, but only those submitted within 4 weeks of an article's publication will be considered for print publication. One month after publication, editors review all posted comments and select some for publication in the Letters section of the print version of Annals. (Not peer reviewed)
Authors: No more than 5
Text: Word Limit 400 (excludes references), 5 references, no figures or tables
* = Required Field
Disclosure of Any Conflicts of Interest*
(applies to the past 5 years and foreseeable future) Indicate any potential conflicts
of interest of each author below, including specific financial interests and relationships
and affiliations relevant to the subject matter or materials discussed in the manuscript
(eg, employment/affiliation, grants or funding, consultancies, honoraria, speakers
bureau, stock ownership or options, expert testimony, royalties, donation of medical
equipment, or patents filed, received, or pending). If all authors have none, check
"No potential conflicts or relevant financial interests" in the box below. Please
also indicate any funding received in support of this work. The information will
be posted with your response.
Terms of Use
The In the Clinic® slide sets are owned and copyrighted by the American College
of Physicians (ACP). All text, graphics, trademarks, and other intellectual property
incorporated into the slide sets remain the sole and exclusive property of the ACP.
The slide sets may be used only by the person who downloads or purchases them and
only for the purpose of presenting them during not-for-profit educational activities.
Users may incorporate the entire slide set or selected individual slides into their
own teaching presentations but may not alter the content of the slides in any way
or remove the ACP copyright notice. Users may make print copies for use as hand-outs
for the audience the user is personally addressing but may not otherwise reproduce
or distribute the slides by any means or media, including but not limited to sending
them as e-mail attachments, posting them on Internet or Intranet sites, publishing
them in meeting proceedings, or making them available for sale or distribution in
any unauthorized form, without the express written permission of the ACP. Unauthorized
use of the In the Clinic slide sets will constitute copyright infringement.
Learn more about subscription options


text:
Local shoppers are being asked to flock to a downtown business Wednesday as part of Create Buckhannon's first-ever "Cash Mob."
Main Street Gallery will be the first beneficiary of the gathering. Shoppers are asked to take $25 to the store between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. The store on East Main Street offers handmade glass products, West Virginia jewelry, wood carvings, photographs and much more.
"It's going to be a win-win for everyone involved," Upshur County Convention and Visitors Bureau director Laura Meadows said. "Main Street Gallery sales will benefit, each artist displayed in Main Street Gallery gets extra promotion, and our community has the opportunity to support small, local business."
Create Buckhannon, a grassroots group of local residents, has been discussing the idea of a "Cash Mob" for some time, Meadows said. The group plans to stage similar events each month at various local merchants.
"We all jumped into planning our first 'Cash Mob' in Buckhannon," she said. "We plan to 'Cash Mob' The Market Bistro some time in June. We haven't finalized anything after that, but I'm sure this will be an ongoing event for other small businesses."
The origins of "Cash Mobs" trace back to the "Flash Mob," where people assemble at specific locations for brief times for entertainment or other purposes. The first-ever "Cash Mob" site is debated between the cities of Buffalo and Cleveland. Buffalo organizers claim to be the first such event when residents assembled at a local wine shop. Cleveland's claim comes from organizing an event at a local bookstore.


text:
Track & Field Places 4th At Miami Invitational
OXFORD, Ohio - - The Ball State outdoor track & field team used a 51-point second day to finish fourth among the 16 teams competing at this weekend's Miami Invitational at the George L. Rider Track in Oxford, Ohio.
Added to its first day total of eight points, the Cardinals finished the two-day event with 59 total points. Host Miami won the event with a score of 245.50, while Dayton (125.50), Eastern Illinois (100), BSU and Findlay (55.50) rounded out the top five teams.
Senior sprinter Janae Taylor led the Cardinals with 11 total points on the second day of competition by placing fourth in the 100m dash (12.25) and seventh in the 200m dash (26.10). Taylor also ran legs in both the 4x100m and 4x400m relays to help the Cardinals score five more points on the day.
For her career-best effort in the 5,000m run yesterday, senior MaryKate Mellen was awarded eight points upon completion of the event's second session Saturday afternoon. Mellen also placed eighth in the 1,500m run with a time of 4:41.01 to add another point.
Overall, Ball State's student-athlete combined to score 16 top 10 finishes and six career-best efforts on the second day of the Miami Invitational.
The Ball State outdoor track & field team returns to action Friday (April 12), when it hosts the Cardinal Invitational at the University Track. Action in the meet is schedule to begin at 2 p.m. with action in the hammer throw, pole vault and long jump.
Ball State Individual Results At The Miami Invitational
100m Dash
4th Janae Taylor - 12.25 (8 pts - second among scored runners)
10th Jordan McMillan - 12.39* (2 pts - seventh among scored runners)
200m Dash
7th Janae Taylor - 26.10 (3 pts - sixth among scored runners)
12th Jordan McMillan - 26.28
400m Dash
8th Emilee Zets - 1:00.39* (1 pt)
9th Katie Behrendt - 1:00.40*
800m Run
16th Danielle Dahl - 2:19.47*
25th Esther Tirado - 2:23.60
26th Emilee Zets - 2:23.97
1500m Run
8th MaryKate Mellen - 4:41.01 (1 pt)
46th Danielle Dahl - 5:19.28
5000m Run
4th: MaryKate Mellen - 17:37.53* (8 pts - second among scored runners)
5th: Courtney Edon - 17:43.96* (6 pts - third among scored runners)
13th: Katelyn DeVries - 18:20.22
100m Hurdles
18th Becca Kropf - 16.22
19th Jazmine Gray - 16.55
23rd Lindsay Wallace - 19:09
400m Hurdles
10th Becca Kropf - 1:07.27*
3000m Steeplechase
6th Courtney Edon - 11:19.33 (3 pts)
8th Caitlynn Edon – 11:46.95 (1 pt)
4x100m Relay
5th Jordan McMillan, Janae Taylor, Lindsay Wallace, Becca Kropf - 49.57 (4 pts)
4x400m Relay
9th Katie Behrendt, Becca Kropf, Danielle Dahl, Janae Taylor - 4:09.41 (1 pt - eighth among scored relays)
High Jump
4th Haley Austin – 1.63m/5-04.25 (6 pts – third among scored jumpers)
Pole Vault
7th Hannah Ciasto-Poor - 3.41m/11-02.25 (2 pts)
Shot Put
13th Michaela Hull - 12.28m/40-03.50
DNF Melissa Melgarez - Foul
7th Erin Walker - 42.87m/140-08 (2 pts)
9th Melissa Melgarez - 41.45m/136-00
11th Michaela Hull - 40.52m/132-11
Javelin Throw
6th Michaela Hull - 31.02m/101-09* (3 pts)
9th Jorden Traver - 27.64m/90-08
* = career-best effort


text:
You are here: Home /
Publications /
AER: Agricultural Economic Report /
World Agriculture and Climate Change: Economic Adaptations
Stay Connected
Agricultural Economic Report No. (AER-703) 98 pp, June 1995
Recent studies suggest that possible global increases in temperature and changes in precipitation patterns during the next century will affect world agriculture. Because of the ability of farmers to adapt , however, these changes are not likely to imperil world food production. Nevertheless, world production of all goods and services may decline, if climate change is severe enough or if cropland expansion is hindered. Impacts are not equally distributed around the world.
Keywords: Climate change, world agriculture, global change, crop production, livestock production, regional economics, land use, water use, modeling, computable general equilibrium
In this publication...
Need help with PDFs?
Last updated: Wednesday, January 30, 2013
For more information contact: Roy Darwin, Marinos Tsigas, Jan Lewandrowski, and Anton Raneses


text:
Access control and passwords on
cl.cam.ac.uk web servers
This page explains how you can restrict access for some of your web
pages to certain domains, users, or groups of users. You can do this
by creating a
.htaccess file in the relevant
subdirectory, which allows you to control access to all files in this
directory and all its subdirectories.
On 2016-10-04 we shall be upgrading the main Lab web server from Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4.
Unfortunately the mechanism to restrict access changed between Apache 2.2 and 2.4 meaning that
.htaccess files need to be reviewed.
Including the Apache Module mod_access_compat eases the transition,
but does NOT cope with mixed use of machine and user authorisation.
More information on the migration and some tools are available at
/anfs/www/tools/share/migration/README.txt and on the
Lab WiKi.
Apache access control
Our Apache web servers have three ways to identify ("authenticate") users who request files:
- by the domain name or IP address of the client machine
- using the University's Raven web authentication system (Ucam-WebAuth protocol)
- via a HTTP password
Method (1) is useful for permitting password-free access for every user connected to a departmental or the University network. You normally want to combine it with one of methods (2) or (3) for the benefit of users who access from outside the University network, e.g. from their home PC.
Methods (2) and (3) are mutually exclusive, so you have to decide first whether you want to rely on the Raven password that users have already received from the Computing Service, or whether you want to maintain your own password file. Raven authentication is much less effort for you to set up, and is more secure, but it can currently only authenticate members of the University who have been assigned a Computing Service identifier (CRSID). All the examples below use method (2).
Method (3) involves editing a password file using the Apache htpasswd command-line tool.
For details on all three options, read the Apache documentation section on Authentication, Authorization and Access Control for 2.2 or Authentication and Authorization for 2.4. (Unfortunately, the mechanisms are very flexible and this part of the Apache manual is not written in the clearest possible style, both of which together can be rather confusing.) The next section covers the simplest cases.
Common configuration examples
The following examples show some of the most commonly used .htaccess configurations, which define which users are permitted ("authorized") to access the directory for Apache 2.2 and Apache 2.4:
Apache 2.2
- Cambridge-wide access – allow access to anyone who is
connecting from within the University of Cambridge or who is able to
login to Raven:
Order Allow,Deny Satisfy Any Allow from .cam.ac.uk Require valid-user
- Lab-wide access – allow access to anyone who is either
using the Computer Laboratory LAN (excluding the PWF student PCs) or
who is a member of the Computer Laboratory:
Order Allow,Deny Satisfy Any Allow from .cl.cam.ac.uk Deny from .pwf.cl.cam.ac.uk Require group all-cl-users
Apache 2.4
- Cambridge-wide access – allow access to anyone who is
connecting from within the University of Cambridge or who is able to
login to Raven:
Require host .cam.ac.uk Require valid-user
- Lab-wide access – allow access to anyone who is either
using the Computer Laboratory LAN (excluding the PWF student PCs) or
who is a member of the Computer Laboratory:
<RequireAll> Require host .cl.cam.ac.uk Require not host .pwf.cl.cam.ac.uk </RequireAll> Require group all-cl-users
Apache 2.2 or 2.4
Access controls which implement only a logical
OR of one or more Require directives are compatible between the two.
Where there are no Allow or Deny directives being used, any Order or Satisfy directives are redundant and should be removed,
because Apache 2.4 no longer understands them.
Apache 2.2 has an implicit default of
Order Allow,Deny Satisfy Any
Apache 2.4 around the outermost level of any Require directives an implicit segment
<RequireAny> ... </RequireAny>
- Course-specific access – allow access to anyone who is a
member of the group students-part1b, all-cl-users, or cl-supervisors:
Require group students-part1b all-cl-users cl-supervisors
- Password access (non-Raven) – deactivate Raven and allow
basic password-controlled access to user "supervisor" (the hash
value of the password of each user is listed in file /homes/mgk25/.htpasswd):
AuthType Basic AuthName "supervisor login available from Markus Kuhn" AuthUserFile /homes/mgk25/.htpasswd Require user supervisor(The "htpasswd" tool for changing your .htpasswd file is in the Ubuntu Linux package "apache2-utils".)
Predefined user groups
By default, our main web server defines the following groups of users (AuthGroupFile /auto/anfs/www/auth/group-raven):
|CST Part IA students
|NST Part IA, PPS Part I students
|both of the above
|CST Part IB students
|CST Part II students
|CST Part III students
|MPhil ACS students
|all of the above
|departmental teaching officers, senior staff, SRAs
|all resident members of the department (including research students, visitors, interns, but excluding students on bachelor/masters courses)
|members of the Computer Science DoS mailing list of the same name
|members of the Lookup group of the same name
Each of the students-* groups has a year-specific alias, with (mostly) immutable membership. For example, between early October 2008 and early September 2009, the group students-part1b can also be refered to as students-part1b-0809. Sometimes in September 2009, this group disappears and the new alias students-part1b-0910 becomes available for the next lot. This facility is useful for giving students of a particular year access to solution notes after the end of supervisions, without risking that this access will be transfered accidentally next September too early to the next lot.
Denying access to groups "all-cl-users", "students-part3", or "students-acs" may be ineffective. In most cases, our main web server serves files by accessing them from the filer "elmer" via NFS, according to the "other" access-control bits set for the file and its parent directories. Anyone with access to the filer (roughly all-cl-users and masters students) can also see the same files that the web server serves via NFS or CIFS, and can bypass .htaccess restrictions this way. Routinely allowing access to members of "all-cl-users" ensures that the access control settings reflect what can realistically be enforced at present. (Future plan: run the web server under a proper LDAP-known user and group id "www-cl", such that we can grant to it access via the "user" or "group" permission bits. – RT #74735)
It is also possible to test membership of Lookup groups via LDAP (although this is still a somewhat experimental facility).
Oder and Satisfy directives in Apache 2.2
The first two lines in some Apache 2.2 examples select the semantics of how the following access control list will be interpreted. Apache 2.2 actually supports four different semantics, but all examples here use the same one only. We previosly suggested that you do the same and start all your access control lists with these same two lines in the interest of simplicity:
- The Order Allow,Deny directive chooses that any Deny directive that matches will override any Allow directive that might also match. This directive also causes access to be denied by default.
- The Satisfy Any directive chooses that a user will be granted access either based on the host address from which the request came (Allow or Deny directive), or based on the user id or group membership (Require directive). Fulfilling only one ("any") of those two conditions will suffice to get access.
For the exact syntax of the relevant directives, please follow the above links to the relevant reference pages in the Apache manual.
To prepare for the switch to Apache 2.4, we suggest that you remove any Oder or Satisfy directives from any .htaccess files that do not also contain Allow or Deny directives, because in that case they were redundant anyway.
General policy
As a general rule, the Computer Laboratory aims to make all its information as freely available as possible. Access on its web site should only be restricted where there is a specific reason to do so.
Typical examples for material where access control may be necessary:
- Personal data
- Material for which the copyright holder has not given permission for web release
- Model answers to exercises and past exam questions
- Draft publications that are not yet ready for release


text:
Begin Your Search
Related Products
Additional Vintages
WineAccess Travel Log
Read stories from the world's greatest wine trails.
More About This Wine
About Beringer Vineyards
Founded in 1876, Beringer is the oldest continuously operating vineyard in Napa Valley. Head winemaker Laurie Hook directs operations at 14 different vineyards which produce almost as many varieties of wine. Decadently rich Cabernet Sauvignons, lush Merlots and rich, exotic Chardonnays are the standout wines at Beringer.
2005 Beringer Vineyards Alluvium Blanc Knights Valley
Producer: Beringer Vineyards
Style: White Wine
Grape Type: White Blend
Origin: California
Region: Sonoma
Appellation: Knights Valley
Your Rating & Review
1 Member RatingAverage Member Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
|5 stars
|4 stars
|3 stars
|2 stars
|1 stars


text:
Lightner Witmer
Lightner Witmer (June 28, 1867 – July 19, 1956) was an American psychologist who is credited with the introduction of the term and the founding of "Clinical Psychology." Witmer also founded the world's first "Psychological Clinic" in the United States at the University of Pennsylvania in 1896, as well as the first journal of clinic psychology and first clinical hospital school in 1907.
Witmer contributed greatly to numerous branches of psychology including school psychology and clinical psychology. He also contributed to the development of the field of special education. However, despite all of his contributions to psychology Witmer is one of the least well-known figures in the entire discipline.
Little is known about Witmer's life. He is described as being an introverted person who limited the information he shared about his personal life.
- 1 Witmer's early years and family
- 2 Education
- 3 First years at the University of Pennsylvania
- 4 Teaching at Rugby Academy
- 5 James McKeen Cattell's influence
- 6 The Experimental Psychological Lab
- 7 Journey to Germany
- 8 Witmer under Wundt's supervision
- 9 Return to the University of Pennsylvania
- 10 The American Psychological Association
- 11 First Psychological Clinic
- 12 Witmer's Clinical Psychology
- 13 Witmer's Other Contribution
- 14 Witmer's final days
- 15 Witmer's Erasure from the History of Psychology
- 16 Works
- 17 Notes
- 18 References
Witmer's early years and family[edit]
Lightner Witmer was born in Philadelphia on June 28, 1867. He was born David L. Witmer Jr. but at the age of 50, he changed his name to Lightner. Witmer was born to a devout Catholic mother and father, David Lightner was a Germantown pharmacist who graduated from a Philadelphia College in 1862, and Katherine Huchel, about whom little is known. Lightner Witmer was the eldest of four children, being followed by Albert Ferree, Lilly Evelyn (the third, only girl), and the last child named Paul DeLancey. Later in life, Lightner Witmer was a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. His siblings also did well for themselves, Ferree his brother obtained his physiology doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, his sister Lilly Evelyn received her bacteriology medical degree in Berlin, and the youngest sibling obtained a doctoral degree in Pharmacy.[1] By the end of 1905, Lightner Witmer and all his siblings had become doctors in a range of science careers. There is no doubt that their father influenced his children, he instilled in them a value of higher education, and the drive to continue on to obtain doctorates..
Lightner Witmer was born two years after the Civil War had ended. As a young man, Witmer wanted a better future and a better world after the social problems he saw as a result of the Civil War. Perhaps, this experience influenced his decision to develop a theory of applied psychology which focused on helping people, mainly children and those who most needed it. In 1880, Lightner Witmer and his brother Ferree enrolled the prestigious Prep School "Episcopal Academy of Philadelphia", one of the best schools in America at the time. Witmer and all his siblings attended only top and outstanding private schools. An interesting anecdote where Witmer showed his intelligence and ability to reason was when he was attending his Prep School. Here, Witmer and two other boys were told to build a canoe. Each one had everything they needed to complete their assigned task, the two other kids were arguing over who would build the canoe first, but Lightner Witmer thought and told the other kids, "I wish to finish last as I will learn from others' mistakes and build the best canoe."[2] By saying this, Witmer showed his ability to reason, and eventually he graduated with high honors at the age of seventeen years.
First years at the University of Pennsylvania[edit]
In 1884, Witmer enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania to study Art, but then after a couple of years studying, he decided to change his Art major, and transferred to The Finance and Economy department where he obtained a BA degree at the age of twenty years.[2] During his freshman year at the University of Pennsylvania, he was chosen as the president of the class and earned a reputation as an outstanding student. He obtained his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in 1888. After a stint as a teacher Witmer decided to return to the University of Pennsylvania for his graduate studies in political science.[3]
Teaching at Rugby Academy[edit]
During the fall of 1888, Witmer was offered a job as an instructor at Rugby Academy, a male secondary school. Here, he taught two different subjects, history and English. While he was teaching at the academy, Witmer noticed that a 14-year-old student who wished to go to college, had extreme difficulties in differentiating sounds, and also had other speech problems which might today be called dyslexia. Witmer decided to help him to correct his verbal problem; the child progressed satisfactorily and was able to continue studying and enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania[4] This success made Witmer believe that children with problems could satisfactorily engage in education with support, dedication and special education. In the following year in 1889, Witmer finally decided to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and got into the Philosophy department with the intention of studying law and start working towards an advanced degree in political science. While he was there he was introduced to James McKeen Cattell who inspired him to begin studying in the emerging field of psychology. This is when Witmer finally made his decision to join the experimental psychology department.
James McKeen Cattell's influence[edit]
George Fullerton, a member of the The University of Pennsylvania brought the well known experimental psychologist James McKeen Cattell to join the faculty of the University. At this time, Cattell was known as one of the best-trained psychologist of the world who had been educated by one of the most influential psychologists, Wilhelm Maximilian Wundt. Witmer was asked by George Fullerton to become Cattell's assistant and, Witmer accepted this great offer, eventually, He decided to resign his teaching position at the Rugby Academy and attend the graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania as a full-time student.
The Experimental Psychological Lab[edit]
After he decided to become Cattell's assistant, Witmer and Cattell decided to work together and found the experimental psychology lab with the purpose of studying individual differences by using a wide range of subjects.[2] Witmer's main tasks at the lab were to gather data on individual differences in reaction times, and through these he gained a lot of knowledge in the area of psychological experiments. While he was working at the lab, Witmer published a manual which explained how experimental psychology should be properly conducted. Witmer intended to get his doctoral degree under Cattell's supervision, However Cattell suddenly left the University of Pennsylvania, effectively abandoning his students, and laboratory. Cattell intended to obtain a higher paying position at Columbia University in New York. As a result, Witmer also decided to leave. There was no psychologist besides Cattell at that time, who could have taught psychology to Witmer and his classmates at the University of Pennsylvania, so Witmer was in search of a new teacher.
Journey to Germany[edit]
After Cattell left Witmer and his other experimental psychology students, he helped Witmer to get a job as Wundt's assistant in Leipzig, Germany.[3] Witmer knew that Cattell's offer was a good opportunity, and without hesitation he travelled to the University of Leipzig to become Wundt's assistant.
Witmer under Wundt's supervision[edit]
In 1891, Witmer decided to travel to Germany for a year and work as Wundt's assistant, He also took classes with Oswald Kulpe, and Ludwig Strumpel. There are no records of what exactly Witmer did while he was working as Wundt's assistant, this is probably because Witmer was a very private person who did not like to share personal information of himself with others, moreover, historians have not found letters written by him sent to other colleagues while he was under Wundt's supervision. However, it is often said that while Witmer was Wundt's assistant, they both had disagreements. One of those disputes was that Witmer desired to continue working on the work he had previously started with James Cattell, the study of reaction times, but Wundt insisted that they both should study the aesthetic value of different visual forms, and other different branches of psychology such as educational psychology and developmental psychology. Naturally, Witmer accepted. Witmer obtained his doctoral diploma in the year 1892 from Wundt.[3]
Return to the University of Pennsylvania[edit]
In 1892, Witmer left Germany and decided to go back to the University of Pennsylvania. On his return, he became the Director of The Laboratory of Psychology, effectively filling the shoes left by his old advisor, James McKeen Cattell. He was interested in teaching Child Psychology and taught several different courses. He also began conducting research on individual differences in sensory-perceptual variables and presented different papers in experimental psychology.In 1896, he became involved in teaching a special series of courses that were being offered to public school teachers at the University. Sometime during March of that year a special case was brought before him of a 14-year-old student who was having extreme difficulties learning to spell yet was quite able, and even excelled, in other subjects. This case offered a special challenge to Witmer and was in line with his developing view that psychology should be of practical benefit, and he soon began remedial work with the youth. Out of a direct necessity for a space in which to work with his new client Witmer established the first psychological clinic, which operated out of the University of Pennsylvania.[5] Also during 1896 he presented a plan of organization for practical work in psychology to the American Psychological Association, in which he used and explained the term "Clinical Psychology" for the first time.[2] In 1902, he started advising graduate students, and published a laboratory manual. He married Emma Repplier in 1904, a prominent Philadelphian student graduated of the exclusive Agnes Irwin School. She was an excellent writer who worked for the American Philosophical Society, which is most likely the place that she and Witmer met, since both belonged to the society.[5] In 1908, he established and staffed a small private residential school near Wallingford, Pennsylvania, an institution dedicated to care and treat retarded and troubled children. Later, he established a similar, but larger facility in Devon, Pennsylvania. He also founded the first speech clinic in the world in 1914.
The American Psychological Association[edit]
By 1896, Witmer, Stanley Hall, William James and James McKeen Cattell decided to become members of a new association for psychology professionals, during a meeting in the American Psychological Association (APA). Witmer and other experimental colleagues proposed that the APA should accept only psychological papers, be separated from the American Philosophical Association, and have a better selection process for choosing new members. These proposals caused disagreements among the members of the American Psychological Association because many of the current members did not want the field to separate from philosophy. Their proposals were ignored so Witmer decided to start a new society with Stanley Hall exclusively for experimental Psychologists, but Stanley Hall refused. In 1904 however, Titchener accepted Witmer's proposal to separate Psychology from Philosophy and decided to abandon the APA society and help Witmer create a society solely for experimental psychologists. Witmer told Titchener that the association should be only for men and women should be excluded because they were too emotional when talking about scientific issues.[6] A reason to it could have been that women had not yet been recognized as scientists. But then, he changed his attitude and decided to teach female students and women became accepted to work at his clinic. Moreover, Witmer appointed a woman to become the manager of his clinic. Witmer also wrote and published articles to the APA, one article titled: "The Organization of Practical Work in Psychology," where he described his desire to apply his knowledge to study humans, and help kids in an academic manner. After he presented his proposal he started developing his plan concerning education. Here, he proposed that schools should become more involved with their students' classes and grades, and that schools should have better educational equipment and the faculty members should receive teaching reflecting psychological findings. However, his proposal was not completely accepted by many.[7]
First Psychological Clinic[edit]
|This section needs additional citations for verification. (May 2012) (Learn how and when to remove this template message)
Witmer opened the first Psychological Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania in 1896, with the purpose of studying children who had either learning or behavior problems. Witmer's main participants were children who attended public schools from Philadelphia and surrounding areas who were brought to the Psychological Clinic by their own teachers, or parents. Witmer's clinic was appreciated by many because it proactively employed psychology as a means of assisting these children who were struggling in school. In the clinic Witmer regularly dealt with speech problems, sleep disturbances, behavioral problems, hyperactivity, refusal to stay in school, as well as other issues. Every child who entered was given a complete examination of mind and body, which often ruled out physiological symptoms. His method of improving children with psychological problems involved breaking down information to a level that they could understand. He would focus on particular problems and work with the child in that area, often improving several areas at once.[4]
In 1907 Witmer founded the journal The Psychological Clinic. In its first issue he published the article "Clinical Psychology" which explained its definition, describing it the following way:
"Although clinical psychology is clearly related to medicine, it is quite as closely related to sociology and pedagogy... An abundance of material for scientific study fails to be utilized, because the interest of psychologists is elsewhere engaged, and those in constant touch with the actual phenomena do not possess the training necessary to make the experience and observation of scientific value…I have borrowed the word "clinical" from medicine, because it is the term I can find to indicate the character of the method which I deem necessary for this work."[4]
Witmer's "Clinical Psychology" was published and got a lot of attention, because it dealt with the study of children individually. In his article, Witmer presented the idea that all kinds of children (smart or mentally retarded) could reach their full potential with help. He included a definition of retardation using two different terms: "physiological retardation" referred to individuals who did not acquired a normal development for their chronological ages, whereas the other term was called "pedagogical retardation" referred to children who did not develop their full capacities when they reached adulthood.[4]
In the first issue of The Psychological Clinic, he also criticized some of his colleagues and their departments because they had refused his ideas proposed to the American Psychological Association.[8] In 1908, in a later issue of his journal, he criticized William James for what he felt was his unscientific attitude, calling James "the spoiled child of American Psychology".[5] There was no doubt Witmer always defended his own ideas and beliefs even though it seemed that he did not care about other psychologists point of views. This and other disagreements caused Witmer to lose most of their colleagues' friendships, who decided not to attend any more of Witmer's meetings.[citation needed]
Lightner Witmer also attacked Harvard University for using the theory of introspection and teaching psychology incorrectly since Witmer also refused the idea theory introspection and did not care much for pure experimental psychology. He also criticized "Intelligence Tests" and encouraged his students not to trust them, because he thought those tests only gave a measure of the individual's efficiency, nothing else. He thought that people should not be referred as normal or abnormal due to the results of such tests. As one could then say that an individual was "normal" or "abnormal" depending on if, for example, he or she knew or not how write and read properly.[citation needed]
Another type of study performed by Witmer was the use of apes and compared them with children and taught them how to articulate some elements of spoken language, but their efforts to learn were not successful, however, one day Witmer attended a performance and noticed that a monkey was able to do some things human beings could do such as reading and writing, after being instructed to do such things. As mentioned before, Witmer also studied people's behavior and changed his mind by starting to study gifted children instead of mentally retarded children. In 1900, his book called "The Restoration of Children of the Slums" described Witmer's beliefs that criminal behavior was not caused hereditarily, instead he thought criminal behavior was caused due to environmental facts.[citation needed]
It is known that Witmer supported children tremendously, however, one day in 1911, Witmer supported a bill in the state of Pennsylvania in order to sterilize severely retarded people, with the purpose to minimize their spread in the nation. It is known that years ago, Witmer had defended the rights of all children, no matter if some were gifted or retarded children. But in 1912, he decided to go to Italy and learn how to study pedagogical methods with special children.[citation needed]
Witmer's Clinical Psychology[edit]
In the paper he presented to the American Psychological Association in 1896, cited to be the first instance of his use and explanation of the term" Clinical Psychology," Witmer also outlined the four main goals for his new discipline.[9] Firstly, it was to focus on the investigation of mental and moral retardation by means of statistical and clinical methods. Secondly, Clinical psychology as a discipline was to work to establish more psychological clinics and hospitals specifically for children suffering from retardation or physical defects that inhibit academic progress. The discipline was also to focus on the creation of opportunities for those in other disciplines such as teaching, medicine, and social work to come in, observe, and work with retarded and normal children. Witmer's final goal for Clinical psychology was that it would focus on the training of more psychologist to become experts in working with mentally and/or morally retarded clients. Also in this same paper Witmer outlined the main concern of clinical psychology: that the discipline would be focused on active clinical intervention for the purpose of the restoration and treatment of mentally or morally disabled individuals. According to Witmer, for Clinical Psychology to actually be on any worth it needed to actually be able to help and improve clients mental health and well-being.
As Clinical Psychology was the first discipline in psychology that attempted to apply the principles of scientific psychology to diagnostic and remedial work it required its own unique set of techniques and procedures. Clinical psychology's original methodologies were highly practical and problem-oriented, and were developed from the ground up solely by Witmer.[5] Witmer's early clinical psychology used a hands-on approach to observation and interviews, emphasizing a one-on-one interaction between the client and clinician.[10] Additionally, great emphasis was placed on the ability of the clinician to be able to work with their clients in a professional, yet personal way. Witmer also highlighted the concept of treating each client as an individual person, and not simply as a physical manifestation of their problem or a phenomenon to be observed and explained. To Witmer, each client was to be seen as a human being, and nothing less. He also emphasized researching each client's personal background history, as he held that it would allow clinicians to better and more fully understand their situation. He was also one of the first psychologists to accept that a client's problems could have environmental factors as well as hereditary factors and because of this he emphasized the importance that treatment should not end with the client being placed back into the environment from which their physical, mental, or moral problem originated unless something had been done to change it.
The treatment programs Witmer created for Clinical Psychology were systematic, constantly being changed, revised, and implementing new treatment methods as either the client improved or problems were encountered. Treatment involved continual weekly visits to the clinic which would continue until either the client's problem was solved (at least as best as was possible) or the client, or the parent/guardian, decided to end it. However, Witmer's treatment programs were not just limited to the clinic in which they took place. Witmer emphasized the importance of remediation that was continued by the client and their caregivers both in between treatment sessions and after treatment had officially ended. To this end Witmer made a point to provide direct advice and consultation to both the client and their caregivers on what was needed to be done with the client, their living environment, and the other aspects of their lives in order to improve their problems or disabilities. Interestingly enough many of Witmer's original methodologies for Clinical Psychology have been carried forward and still exist in modern-day Clinical Psychology in some way, shape, or form.
Witmer's Other Contribution[edit]
Beyond his obvious contributions to clinical psychologyy Witmer was also responsible for several major advancements in the field of school psychology, and has even been cited as the founder of this discipline.[10] Witmer was the first psychologist to undertake and focus, not only on the study of school aged children, but the treatment of those with mental, physical or moral handicaps with the goal of improving their deficits. He also ensured that the treatment of school aged children suffering from any sort of deficit impairing their academic success would be a major focus of Clinical Psychology when he outline one of the discipline's main goals to be the creation of psychological clinics and hospitals to treat children with mental or physical impairments that were interfering with their academic progress. Witmer was also the first psychologist to realize the integral role played by the teacher and began offering special class, taught out of his clinic, specifically for teachers to help train them to better evaluate and teach handicapped children. However, he went one step further and opened up his clinic to not only those in teaching, but those in medicine and social work as well, and gave them the opportunity to observe and work with both normal and handicapped children. What this did is allowed the groups of people who interacted with handicapped children the most a chance to work with them in a controlled non-work related environment. Additionally, by having both normal and handicapped children together Witmer gave these professionals the chance to directly observe the differences between the two groups for themselves. Finally, offered these same professionals another set of courses which demonstrated how to practically apply his clinical methods in their respective fields. Not only did this increase the number of trained professionals able to work with handicapped children but it also helped the other disciplines see the importance of working with disabled children in order to help them.
Witmer's final days[edit]
By 1917, Witmer joined the Red Cross during World War I. His main tasks were to help to rehabilitate homeless people who were victims of the war, but in 1918, decided to go back to the United States. When he came back, in 1920 his mother died, followed a few years later by Titchener. He decided not to publish any more. By 1930, the University of Pennsylvania presented him with a volume called " Clinical Psychology: Studies in honor of Lightner Witmer." On July 19, 1956 when he was 89 years old he died at the hospital in "Bryn Mawr", in Pennsylvania from a heart failure, being the last founding member of the American Psychological Association who died[5]
Witmer's Erasure from the History of Psychology[edit]
Despite being a figure in psychology who was incredibly influential, Witmer never actually gained much recognition outside of Clinical Psychology and today is one of the least talked about and least known psychologists. This, however, is not a complete coincidence and there have been several factors put forward that are believed to have contributed to this phenomenon.[1]
The first factor had to do with Witmer's personality. Though he was known to be a generally kind person, as a psychologist he was incredibly vicious, argumentative, and blunt, to the point of impoliteness. He had no limits to who, what, or how harshly he would criticize his target and over the course of his career was reported to have attacked numerous different, and often important, people and organizations. Witmer's targets included the American Psychological Association; Non-experimentalists ; Psychology as a discipline; and even his own colleagues. In short Witmer's willingness to harshly lash out, seemingly against anything, no doubt made him an unpopular member of the discipline which in part could explain why he is mentioned so little
The second factor contributing to Witmer's lack of coverage was due to his ideas. Firstly, many of his theories were not empirically testable. Secondly, though Witmer was a major advocate for scientific procedures in psychology, he often did not follow them in that he presented many of this theories as facts, instead of as hypotheses. This problem was made even worse as he did not provided methods of testing his theories. However it is also possible that his ideas were just too ahead of their time. Many of his principles, methods, and ideas are easily seen as congruent with the psychology of today but were far less in line with the psychology of the late 1800s and early 1900s. In fact at his official address in 1897, where he presented his ideas for clinical psychology, the only reaction he got from the entire group of psychologists gathered there was a few raised eyebrows.[1] It is likely that most members of psychology at the time either dismissed or were uninterested in Witmer's work which is what likely caused it to never get much recognition outside of the Clinical Psychology community.
Witmer was also highly critical of many popular trends in psychology and society during his career.[1] For instance he was directly opposed to the popular education methods being used by schools at the time which focus on the mass instruction of students. Witmer argued that education should work from a more personal level and take an interest in students as individuals. He also was highly critical of intelligence and IQ tests, which he saw as being problematic. He believed these tests actually only measured the individual's efficiency not intelligence, that such tests erased its participant's individuality, and that they were of little use as they did not provide insight into actual performance and ability, which is what he saw as the true defining feature of intelligence. Additionally he saw intelligence as being determined not just by heredity, but as having an environmental component as well, which was not the general view at the time. The problem with his beliefs here is that they were criticizing programs, methods, instruments and beliefs that were widely held, accepted and popular within mainstream society of the time. The fact that his beliefs ran directly against the existing paradigm did nothing to help him gain acceptance or notoriety within mainstream society.
In summary his lack of coverage in psychology today is due to his personality, and ideas being unaccepted by his colleagues, by psychology as a whole, and by society at the time when he was active.
- ''The Association Value of Three-Place Consonant Syllables. Journal of Genetic Psychology 47 (1935): 337-360.
- ''Are We Educating the Rising Generation?" Education Review. 37 (1909): 456-467.
- ''Children with mental Defects Distinguished from Mentally Defective Children." Psychological Clinic. 7 (1913): 173-181.
- ''Clinical Psychology." Psychological Clinic. 1 (1907): 1-9.
- ''Courses in Psychology for Normal Schools. Education Review 13 (1897): 45-57, 146-162.
- ''The Exceptional Child and the Training of Teachers for Exceptional Children. School & Society. 2 (1915): 217-229.
- ''Experimental Psychology and the Psych-physical Laboratory. University Extension (1894): 230-238.
- ''Intelligence—A Definition." Psychological Clinic. 14 (1922): 65-67.
- ''Performance and Success: An Outline of Psychology for Diagnostic Testing and Teaching. Psychological Clinic 12 (1919): 145-170.
- ''The Problem of Educability. Psychological Clinic 12 (1919): 174-178.
- ''The raining of Very Bright Children. Psychological Clinic 13 (1919): 88-96.
- ''What Is Intelligence, and Who Has It? Scientific Monthly 15 (1922): 57-67.
- ^ a b c d Thomas (2009)
- ^ a b c d Grassetti, Stevie (2007). "Biography for Lightner Witmer". The Pennsylvania State University. Retrieved 8 May 2013.
- ^ a b c McReynolds (1996)
- ^ a b c d Witmer (1907)
- ^ a b c d e McReynolds (1987)
- ^ Thomas (2009), p. 7
- ^ Routh (1996)
- ^ Thomas (2009), p. 8
- ^ Baker (1988)
- ^ a b Fagan (1996)
- Baker, David B. (1988). "The psychology of Lightner Witmer". Professional School Psychology. 3 (2): 109–121. doi:10.1037/h0090552.
- Fagan, Thomas K. (1996). "Witmer's contribution to school psychological services". American Psychologist. 51 (3): 241–243. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.51.3.241.
- Hergenhahn, B. (2009). An Introduction to the History of Psychology. (6th ed.) Wadsworth, CA:Cengage Learning. McReynolds, P. (1997).
- Lightner Witmer: His life and Times (1st ed.), Washington, D.C. American Psychological Association.
- McReynolds, P. (1987) Lightner Witmer. Little-Known Founder of Clinical Psychology. American Psychologist, Vol 42(9), pp. 849–858.
- McReynolds, P. (1996). Lightner Witmer: A centennial tribute. American Psychologist, 51(1), 237–240.
- Routh, D. (1996). Lightner Witmer and the first 100 years of clinical psychology. American Psychologist, 51(1), 244–247.
- Thomas, H. (2009). Discovering Lightner Witmer: A forgotten hero of Psychology. Journal of Scientific Psychology. 3–13.
- Watson, R. The American Journal of Psychology Vol. 69, No. 4 (Dec., 1956), pp. 680–682.
- Witmer, L. (1907). Clinical psychology. The Psychological Clinic, 1, 1–9.


text:
Fewer Agents Working Weleetka Killings
OSBI: Number Of New Leads In Case Drops
The number of agents investigating the slayings of two girls near Weleetka has been reduced.
Four agents are now working full-time to find out what happened to Skyla Whitaker, 11, and Taylor Paschal-Placker, 13, whose bodies were found on a dirt road in June.
The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation said it reduced the number of agents because there has been a significant drop in new leads.
Several people testified before a grand jury investigating the case last month but the panel issued no indictments.
Officers continue to look for a person of interest matching a composite sketch released shortly after the discovery of the bodies.
Anyone with information is asked to call the OSBI hot line at 800-522-8017.
Copyright 2002 by ChannelOklahoma.com. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.


text:
The Florida Parishes Juvenile Detention Center's commission paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for court reporting services, a huge expenditure that officials should have noticed and questioned.
It took years, but when someone finally did notice, authorities discovered a scam.
Brenda C. Bickford, administrative assistant for the commission that oversees the center, is accused of submitting invoices for a phony court reporting service over a four-year period and funneling the money into her personal bank account.
She was arrested Monday and booked with felony theft, filing and maintaining false public records and malfeasance in office.
In all, more than $1 million was paid to B & B Court Reporting, according to an affidavit attached to a warrant for Ms. Bickford's arrest.
That's a large amount of money for any agency to lose to fraud, and it's worrisome that it went on undetected for so long.
In January, John Feduccia, who serves as the commission's attorney, noticed a line-item for court-reporting services in the commission's most recent audit that he knew was out of line.
It showed that the commission had paid $265,000 for court reporting services in the last fiscal year.
"I wouldn't begin to think that any organization would spend that much money on court reporting services,'' he said. Beyond that, Mr. Feduccia knew that the charges weren't valid because he was the one who hired court reporters used by the commission.
Mr. Feduccia launched an internal investigation and turned his findings over to the Tangipahoa District Attorney's Office, which turned the case over to the state attorney general's Office.
Going forward, the commission should be more vigilant. Large expenditures that seem unreasonable ought to raise an immediate red flag.


text:
First day at WRHS
year, only at Wachusett Regional High School, due to the $70.5 million construction project.
School will open for Wachusett on Wednesday, September 7.
Parents of Wachusett Regional High School incoming freshmen should have received in the mail a packet of information about the school; additional copies are available at the main office.
A reminder of some first-day items:
Homeroom assignments will be posted on the front entrance windows on September 6.
Due to construction, the number of available lockers has been reduced by half, so students will have to double up on lockers. Each student will be charged an annual locker rental fee of $5; students in good standing (lock/locker not lost or damaged) who paid a $10 deposit last year, will receive a $5 refund. Students are same grade, by registering August 24-26 from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., and 1-2:30 p.m. Both students must be present to sign up. Those who do not choose a partner will be assigned another student at a later date.
Lunch has gone up this year to $2. Due to construction, the cafeteria will not be able to serve hot lunches the first half of the year, but occasionally will bring in pizza from a local restaurant.
Bus route information was mailed to parents in midAugust. Any questions should be directed to the bus hot line: (508) 829-1688.
School pictures are usually taken on the second, third and fourth day of school, but this year's delay may require rescheduling the photographer. Ordering information is being mailed directly to parents.
Retakes are expected be done sometime in October on a date to be announced.


text:
Drummer Vocalist Songwriter Producer
Scot Coogan is a charismatic front man with a commanding presence. Whether he is singing center stage or from a riser behind his drum kit, Coogan's performances are always as exciting to watch as they are listen to. Regarded in the industry as an exceptionally talented vocalist, drummer and percussionist, Scot is also proficient on bass, guitar and piano. An all-around performer, with a great ear, perfect pitch and captivating blue eyes.
Scot grew up in Chicago and began performing at age 5. Always a lead member of his high school marching band, it was no surprise when after graduation at age 18, he was offered the prestigious position as featured soloist on drum kit with the Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp Jazz Ensemble and toured Europe for two months. Scot relocated to Los Angeles to continue his education at Musician's Institute of Technology in Hollywood, CA, graduating top of his class, with honors and receiving the coveted TAMA Rock Stylist of the Year Award.
Shortly thereafter, Coogan was signed to his first record deal with the band Violet's Demise on Atlantic. Proving his versatility, Scot was hired as backing vocalist and drummer for the Top 10 R&B band, All For One, landed a grunge gig with POL, toured the states with Vanilla Ice and went to Ozfest with metal maven Otep. Known for his accomplished drumming, spot on vocals and exciting live performance skills, Scot was signed to several more record deals, featured in magazines, on radio and TV with various rock and pop acts including Ednaswap, Pete Yorn, Paul Gilbert (Mr. Big) and Sinead O'Connor, touring the world, traveling to Europe, Asia and Japan.
Between tours and sessions, Coogan continued to bolster his prominence in the LA music scene with his popular residency show, 6 Foot Nurse. Scot mesmerized audiences, performing as lead vocalist and drummer, replicating Robert Plant's voice and John Bonham's drumming style, concurrently and note for note, ending each show with array of classic and obscure Beatles and John Lennon tunes, an homage to his musical influences. The show's popularity led to performances in New York and Las Vegas, along with other opportunities for Coogan.
After catching a 6 Foot Nurse performance in 2003, Nikki Sixx (Motley Crue) and Tracii Guns (LA Guns) hired Scot as drummer and vocalist for their heavy metal super group, Brides of Destruction, a critically acclaimed band that went on to record two albums and tour the world through 2006. Coogan served as writer and vocalist on the Bride's hit, LIFE, a song which had an emotional impact on listeners around the world. To this day, fans are still inspired by Scot's heartfelt lyrics of hope and are moved by his melodic and powerful vocal performance.
In 2007, Coogan was recruited by original KISS guitarist ACE Frehley to be his band's new lead singer and drummer. Scot performed on Ace's comeback 2008 Rocket Ride World Tour, 2009-2010 Anomoly World Tour and 2011 No Regrets US Tour. Scot is featured on Ace's 2009 release, Anomaly and 2010 DVD, Behind the Player.
At the end of 2009, during a break in in the Ace Frehley tour schedule, Coogan took over front man duties in the
New York based band January Jane, a position that once featured American Idol contestant, Broadway performer, Constantine Maroulis.
From 2008 through 2012, Scot continued to perform, write, record, produce and tour with Lynch Mob, featuring George Lynch (Dokken). In the summer of 2012, Coogan was handpicked by Lita Ford (The Runaways) to be her backing vocalist and drummer on the extensive Rock of Ages arena tour, in support of the motion picture, which also featured Poison and Def Leppard.
Besides headlining some of the world's biggest events like Sweden Rock Fest, UK's Download Festival and here in the USA at M3 and Rocklahoma, Scot has been featured on over 35 albums, including Multi-Platinum Spiderman soundtrack and recently as guest vocalist on Bret Michaels' (Poison) 2013 release "Jammin' with Friends".
Coogan has numerous television appearances under his belt including "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno", "The Late Late Show" and "Good Morning America". With many tour stories to tell, Scot is a press and radio interview favorite, entertaining both hosts and listeners with his ability to imitate the voices of those in his stories. This unusual talent has also served him well on the stages of Las Vegas, where Scot engages audiences by performing in the vocal styling's of over a dozen popular lead singers.
Scot currently resides in Las Vegas, NV where he is a performer at Blue Man Group, Rock Star Counselor at Rock and Roll Fantasy Camp and sings our National Anthem at local sporting events.


text:
Holidays and Books
At the end of June Riley, Riley's Dad and I went on a little holiday. We went to Wales for a few days in a caravan and we had a great time. We went to Anglesey for a day out.
The beach was a bit pebbly so we spent some time looking fossils.
and found this one (I think it's a leaf).
On another day we went round Caenarfon Castle (said as Can-are-von), which was beautiful. Riley and I went right to the top of one of the towers. The original stone spiral steps are great going up, but very hard work coming down again, especially with a 3 year old in tow!
This cute little baby Seagull was sitting on a ledge in the castle watching all the visitors
Later that day we got to see the castle from a different vantage point
when we got to go up in this 4 seater plane as a treat from Riley's Dad. It was the first time in the air for both Riley and I. What an amazing experience!
We flew over Snowdonia as well as the castle. Looking at the mountains from above the clouds was awesome!
Here's Riley with the headset on talking to the pilot
We also visited the Sea Zoo and I took lots of shots of the sealife, but I don't want to make this post even more photo heavy so here's just one pic of a starfish.
And to finish the holiday we went out for a special meal. When it came time to order our sweet, I asked the waitress for a Sherry Trifle for myself and a Strawberry Icecream Sundae for Riley. Riley got quite agitated and kept saying he didn't want that. When I asked him what he did want then, he said "well I do want the strawberry icecream, but I want it TODAY not on Sunday"! LOL I suppose you had to be there, but that was soo funny.
Here is the Strawberry icecream "Tuesday"!
Hope you enjoyed your peek at our little holiday.
Since my last update I haven't picked up a needle. I could only ever stitch when Riley wasn't around, so evenings (but usually too tired) or when he went to his grandparents, as he just would not leave me alone to do it. Even if we've had a fun play session just before hand, he still refuses to let me do something for 'me'. Same with trying to watch at programme on tv, but I have found that he'll leave me in peace to read. So that's what I've been doing.
A couple of days before going on holiday I went out shopping with my mum and dad and we called in a book shop. I've not 'read' a book for a couple of years. I had been listening to audio books for the last few years but had not even done that since Christmas time, but I picked up a copy of "Glass Houses" by Rachel Caine, just because I liked the cover.
Well, I got totally drawn into the story and read it in just a couple of days. I was so hooked that we even found a book shop whilst we were on holiday so I could buy the next book/s in the series. Since then I've just not stopped and have read all eight in the series and a couple of different books too. I have just finished "A Certain Slant of Light" by Laura Whitcomb, which was a beautiful ghost story told from the point of view of the ghost (not at all scary - more like a romance) and now I'm on "Second Glance" by Jodi Picoult. I joined Goodreads too, which may or may not have been a bit mistake as my 'want to read/wish list' has already grown so long with reading all the book reviews! If you're a member and would like be become Goodreads Friends, please let me know.
Have a good week everyone. Maybe even some stitching this weekend as Riley could possibly be spending some time at his Dads.


text:
Christian Standhardinger scored 27 points and Hauns Brereton added 24 as the University of Hawaii men's basketball team defeated Maryland Eastern Shore 76-64 on Friday at the Stan Sheriff Center in Honolulu.
It was the season opener for both teams.
Isaac Fotu grabbed 15 rebounds for UH, and Jace Tavita had nine assists. Vander Joaquim, who is coming back from a knee injury, had 11 points and eight rebounds in 19 minutes.
Maryland Eastern Shore's Troy Snyder scored 17 points.
Hawaii will host Arkansas-Pine Bluff on Sunday.


text:
"Accidental" Savings
|Email Print
Reader Joe recently shared a clever little tactic he and his wife use to "accidentally" save money. The strategy, in brief, involves Joe regularly transferring money from his checking to his savings to cover large planned annual and semi-annual payments such as insurance. When the time comes to actually make the payment, he'll make it out of his regular checking account if he can cover it there. If he can't, he pays from the savings account he's made regular payments to. If he can pay for it out of the checking, then he has just "saved" himself the amount of the payment in the savings account.
In His Words
Here is an explanation in his words and then I'll talk about why I like this strategy so much:
Jim, I'd like to share our ING strategy with you, I'm curious if anyone else is doing this:
Jen and I set up several ING accounts for some recurring expenses that come up once or twice a year. Then we set up an automatic deduction from our checking account monthly that will give us the total we need by the time the bill comes due. For example:
- Garbage collection: If we pay for 11 months, we get one month free! That would cost us about $425, so we put $35/month in our ING account and collect interest until the payment is due.
- Life Insurance: We pay a total of about $700/year between both term policies. So $60/month comes out of our checking account monthly.
And so on……….we have 6 accounts in all. And the money is gone from our checking so we honestly don't even miss it.
We typically do this for annual or semiannual bills that would total anywhere from $300–$1,000. In the past, we've found that if things are tight, these bills (though not terribly huge) tend to show up at the worst times and can disrupt our budgeting and bill-paying in the short term. But this way, the bills become part of our budget every month, just spread out so it's easier to handle. Otherwise with bad luck we might see several of them come due at the same time!
Here's The Twist: If the bill comes, and we DO have the money in our checking account, we just pay the bill and leave the money in our ING account to keep growing and earning interest until the next time we may need it. And I have to say, this has been working for about a year now and many times we have NOT withdrawn the money from ING and have steadily increased our savings to over $2,100. We can use this money as part of an emergency fund, or as a downpayment on our next car (I'm dreaming of an electric plug-in hybrid).
Why I Like It
There is nothing exceptionally novel about the idea, it's the same thing many people do to help manage large regular payments. By dividing out the single payment across multiple payment periods and saving it in a high yield savings account, you are maximizing how hard your money is working.
The twist that Joe mentions is a nice added wrinkle. It's in part possible because some of the bills are small, only a few hundred dollars, but it's still a good way to approach saving. I think there are many different techniques you can use to save, whether it's this one or regular 10% transfers or snowflaking, and it's best to find the one that fits your financial situation and your personality.
What do you think of this idea?
(Photo: xt0ph3r){ 15 comments, please add your thoughts now! }


text:
Ahnu Lodi WB - Women's
Durable shoes, but horribly uncomfortable. My feet…
Price Paid: gift
Durable shoes, but horribly uncomfortable. My feet go numb in them and I have tried to "break them in" to no avail. I have never had this issue with any hiking/sneaker shoes.
Ahnu Women's Lodi WB
$38.48 - $74.93
The Women's Lodi WB has been discontinued.previously retailed for:
$38.48 - $74.93
The Ahnu Women's Lodi WB is not available from the stores we monitor. It was last seen May 21, 2010 at Backcountry Outlet.
If you're looking for a new trail shoe, check out the best reviewed current models.


text:
NEW YORK — He survived the grenades, the booby traps, the land mines, the jungle heat, the swamp snipers, the mud sucking at his boots, the weeks of nerve-racking boredom broken by bursts of orgiastic mayhem - he survived it all because he had become a competent killer, a predator, and it's no wonder that those 16 manic months still live deep down in his gut.
Twenty years after this trial by fire, Philip Caputo is not the kind of man who chants a mantra. Rather, he's like one of those spray cans with the contents under pressure, the kind that spews gases when the shell is pierced. He smokes a lot and talks a lot about "the dark side of our national character," the "lust for blood" that lurks within the human heart, just beneath the thin veneer of civilization.


text:
Residents learn more about plan to spruce up Berryville Avenue
Tim Youmans (from left), Winchester's planning director, talks with Warren Bowman, John Butcher and Ronnie Jensen on Monday at a public meeting at the Hampton Inn on Berryville Avenue about the proposed changes to the road's corridor.
Will Moore (right), a planner with the city, writes down some suggestions as he talks with Winchester resident Chester Ramey at a public meeting about the proposed Berryville Avenue Corridor Enhancement District project, held Monday at the Hampton Inn on Berryville Avenue. (Photo by Ginger Perry/The Winchester Star)
WINCHESTER — More than 20 local residents attended an information meeting Monday night to learn about proposed changes the city could enact for properties along Berryville Avenue.
City officials are…
To See This and Every Local Story from The Winchester Star, Click Here to Become a Subscriber!
Login to view the full story


text:
Interest Level
Grades 5 - 9
Reading Level
Grade level Equivalent: 4.4
Lexile® Measure: HL610L
Guided Reading: U
- Autobiography and Biography
- Abuse and Neglect
- Dogs
- European History
- Homelessness and Poverty
- Survival
- Violence and Crime
- Objectionable Language
- Violence
About This Book
A small boy, a cruel city, and the incredible dogs who save him.
Based on a true story!
When Ivan's mother disappears, he's abandoned on the streets of Moscow, with little chance to make it through the harsh winter. But help comes in an unexpected form: Ivan is adopted by a pack of dogs, and the dogs quickly become more than just his street companions: They become his family. Soon Ivan, who used to love reading fairytales, is practically living in one, as he and his pack roam the city and countryside, using their wits to find food and shelter, dodging danger, begging for coins. But Ivan can't stay hidden from the world of people forever. When help is finally offered to him, will he be able to accept it? Will he even want to?
A heart-pounding tale of survival and a moving look at what makes us human.
Items Added to Cart:
1 Paperback
2 Hardcover
1 Teacher's Edition
$48.99 Subtotal


text:
The latest version of Adobe Flash Player is required to watch this video.
Please click on the link below to download the latest version. Thanks!
The U.S. has done a lot to make itself safer since 9/11, but a new report shows the New York City subway system is one of the country's most vulnerable targets. The report points to the system's underwater tunnels as a major concern, saying if they were attacked, water would fill-up the subway system killing an estimated 19,000 people. Other cities like Washington, D.C. and Atlanta have advanced surveillance systems in place to stop attacks. New York City has been working on such a system for the last four years, but it is being held up by legal issues.
"I think the Secretary of Homeland Security should have on her desk a list of the high priority projects that are in trouble and this would be up if not on the top of that list," counter-terrorism expert Richard Clarke said.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano told reporters the "overall safety of the subways is safe," but she did not comment on technology advancement.
The report said an attack on New York's subway would not only kill tens of thousands of people, but also shut down the subway system for years.
Log in or create an account to post a comment.
Are you seeking answers in life? Are you hurting? Are you facing a difficult situation?
Find peace with God, discover more about God or send us your prayer request.
Call The 700 Club Prayer Center at 1 (800) 823-6053, 24 hours a day.
A caring friend will be there to pray with you in your time of need.
CBN News is a national/international, nonprofit news organization that provides programming by cable, satellite, and the Internet, 24-hours a day. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, and Google+.
More Info


text:
"Pettway is sorry and she knows that she has caused a lot of pain," the complaint states.
In her confession, Pettway offered details of how she took Carlina. She says she saw the 19-day-old baby at the hospital on Aug. 4, 1987, slipped into her room a few hours later and took her.
"When no one stopped Pettway she took the victim with her on a train to Pettway's home in Bridgeport, Conn.," the complaint says. "She told her friends and family members that the victim was her child."
As Carlina, who then became known as Nejdra Nance, grew up, she lived with Ann Pettway at times and at other times with Pettway's mother, Mary, who also lives in Bridgeport, according to Ann's confession.
She says she tried to create a fake birth certificate for Carlina but was never able to create one that appeared real.
Pettway faces federal kidnapping charges. Three of Pettway's family members were with her in Manhattan Federal Court on Monday to lend their support.
Robert Baum, Pettway's public defender, tells PEOPLE he first met his new client Monday morning and she was tearful during the interview. "She's pretty upset, but she understands what's going on," Baum says. "She became aware of the police chasing after her because of press accounts."
The attorney confirmed she turned herself in and says she faces life in prison. Pettway will not have to enter a plea at the arraignment later Monday and he says he will not ask for bail.
Asked about her confession to the FBI, Baum says, "It's alleged she made those statements. I will investigate her medical history, the miscarriages. She cares deeply about Carlina. She feels badly. She is very upset. She has expressed concern about her family, especially Carlina. She understands the gravity of the situation."
See what other readers have to say about this story – or leave a comment of your own


text:
Women 2.0 And Ellas 2.0 Launch Founder Friday Santiago (Chile) On May 11 – Free RSVP Here
Join Women 2.0 and Ellas 2.0 on May 11 in Santiago, Chile on May 11 for its Founder Friday Launch!
By Patricia Araque (Co-Founder, Ellas 2.0)
With the new Women 2.0 partnership with Ellas 2.0, we are expanding Founder Friday to Latin America – identifying the best regional entrepreneurship while inspiring and connecting the next generation of women entrepreneurs.
Marta Cruz (Co-Founder, Nextperience) and Constanza Díaz (Co-Founder, Hecho Para Ti) will be co-hosting Founder Friday Santiago on May 11, 2012. Free RSVP for Founder Friday Santiago here.
Founder Friday is a monthly networking event