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The University of Maryland Eastern Shore has seen some changes over the 124-year span of its history. The institution has grown from the one building, one faculty member and nine students of the original academy to today's university, part of the University System of Maryland, comprising 300 full-time faculty members and a student body over 4,000 strong and growing.
According to UMES President Thelma B. Thompson, UMES is proud of its tripartite mission: being a Historically Black University, being Maryland's 1890's Land-Grant Institution and being a comprehensive teaching/research institution.
"Founders' Week (September 12-18) gives UMES the opportunity to invite the community, for which we are a part, to share in its rich heritage," said Dr. James White Jr., associate vice president for Student Life and Enrollment Management and chairman of the Founders' Week committee.
The celebration begins with a worship service on Sun., Sept. 12, at 11 a.m. at Metropolitan U.M. Church on William P. Hytche Blvd. in Princess Anne. The two institutions were founded just days apart in 1886--UMES on September 13 and Metropolitan on September 19.
Later that evening at 7 p.m., a screening of the acclaimed 1967 movie, "To Sir, With Love," staring Sidney Poitier, will be shown in the Student Services Center Theatre. Based on the best-selling novel by E.R. Braithwaite, the movie explores the author's experiences as a black high school teacher in the East End of London struggling to connect with his white students.
Braithwaite will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters during the Founders' Day Convocation and Summer Commencement at UMES on Tues., Sept. 14, at 10 a.m. in the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts. The speaker for the event is Lorenzo Hughes, assistant superintendent (the first African-American) for instruction for Dorchester County Public Schools and a UMES alumnus.
Hughes is one of only 42 educators in the nation to participate in the College Board Leadership Institute for Principals. In 2008, he was appointed by Governor Martin O'Malley to serve on the Governor's Task Force on the Principalship, where he researched issues pertaining to attracting, retaining and developing principals in the state.
The Frederick Douglass Library opens a new exhibit, "UMES Women Alumni of Distinction," at a reception on Monday, Sept. 13, at 7 p.m. The exhibit, on display through December 15, features the achievements of alumnae as depicted through photographic images, 3-D displays and historical documents.
Also on Monday, members of the campus and area communities can enjoy Light Night, a tour of the historic UMES Academic Oval by horse and carriage or by walking tour. The tour begins on the portico of the Richard A. Henson Center at 7 p.m. with students acting as tour guides.
Billed as "a musical evening under the stars," the Founders' Week Outdoor Concert (indoors in the event of inclement weather) features entertainment by UMES' Jazz Band, alumni group and the Gospel Choir. The event takes place on Wed., Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m. at the Ella Fitzgerald Center for the Performing Arts lawn.
As part of a 15-year tradition, Fine Arts faculty display their latest artwork in a fall exhibition in the Mosely Gallery. According to Gallery Director Anke Van Wagenberg, the artwork is diverse with paintings, photographs, ceramics, experimental media and cutting edge conceptual work. The exhibit runs through Oct. 15. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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The Science Scholars Program at St. John Fisher College will hold a two-day symposium on Tuesday, April 10, and Friday, April 13. The event will kick off with a keynote address on Tuesday evening featuring Dr. George Hudler, a Professor of Plant Pathology and Plant-Microbe Biology at Cornell University, at 6:30 p.m. in Basil 135. Science Scholar final presentations take place April 13 in the Wegmans School of Pharmacy between 4:00 and 9:00 p.m.
For the past 35 years, Hudler's research program has focused on diseases of trees in residential landscapes, parks, historic sites, city streets, and college campuses. His lecture will focus on his most recent work focused on the abrupt, and sometimes catastrophic, decline and death of majestic old European beech trees in much of the northeast U.S. He and his team have learned enough about the trees to provide plant health care professionals with tools for successful disease management.
Hudler's research aims to learn enough about the cause of lethal bleeding cankers on European beech to address issues related to prevention and therapy with a sound background on the biology of the pathogen(s). He also conducts active outreach and research programs in the area of tree pathology, including publication of a bi-weekly pest management newsletter, BRANCHING OUT.
He has received the Award of Merit and the Distinguished Arborist Award from the New York State Arborists Association, the Innovative Teaching Award and the Professor of Merit Award from Cornell's College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Phytopathological Society, the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, and the USDA Northeast Region Award for Teaching Excellence.
In addition, Hudler is the author of "Magical Mushrooms, Mischievous Molds," the same title as his popular undergraduate course. In 2004, Hudler became chair of Cornell's Department of Plant Pathology and, in conjunction with that appointment, also became the director of the Northeast Regional Center for the National Plant Diagnostic Network. In 2011, he received The Edgerton Career Teaching Award and became a Weiss Presidential Fellow.
Nine senior Science Scholars will be presenting their final projects on Friday evening. Additionally, junior Science Scholars will be presenting posters about their proposed research projects for fall 2012, which will then be presented at the Science Scholars Symposium in spring 2013.
The Science Scholars Program is a merit-based scholarship program for students majoring in biology, chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, or statistics. Its mission is to recruit, retain, and graduate students who are engaged in mathematics, science, and technology in a way that supports collaborative approaches to problem-solving.


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The Cleveland Cavaliers have won six straight games to move within sniffing distance of the final playoff spot in the Eastern Conference. Yesterday, they traded for a big man — Spencer Hawes — who should help their cause. And their young point guard — Kyrie Irving — just lit up the NBA All-Star Game.
Amazing what firing the general manager can do.
Until Cleveland pink-slipped Chris Grant on Feb. 6, the team was a pressure cooker without a release valve. Grant was not guilty of creating the anxiety, but his removal resulted in a collective exhale nonetheless.
The Cavs entered the season considered a playoff contender. Such expectations were both new and uncomfortable. When you spend the previous two seasons playing — by not playing — for a lottery pick, suddenly being labeled fashionable can be unsettling, like a teen leaving the gawky stage.
The Cavs could not handle the stress. Their locker room snapped like a radio tower tension wire stretched too far. Players sniped at one another and at coaches. Agents whispered poison to their clients.
The worst of the bickering played out between Grant and Irving's agent, Jeffrey Wechsler, while Irving's father, Drederick, chimed in against Grant to anyone who would listen.
There was a belief around the league that Grant and Wechsler were at odds.
Now, probably not by coincidence, Irving's mood has lightened significantly. For most of the season, the point guard played like a joyless specter, his game appearing one minute and disappearing the next.
One can rip Irving for such inconsistency or try to explain it. We forget that Irving barely is legal drinking age. He is 21, but perhaps because he appeared in Pepsi Max commercials as "Uncle Drew," — complete with gray wig — the tendency is to think of Irving as being much older.
His sometimes pouty behavior, however, reveals a young adult still trying to find his way. When Irving won the All-Star Game MVP award, he was so unsure of what to do with the trophy that LeBron James had to encourage him to hold the glass prize aloft.
Other than during high school, Irving has never been asked to carry a team. An injury forced him to miss most of his one-and-done season at Duke, and he arrived in Cleveland without the leadership chops necessary to make a bad team much better. Part of his petulance can be attributed to the growth process of a puppy trying to become an alpha dog.
"He's just learning how to win in the NBA, that it doesn't mean getting 20 (points) and 15 (assists) every night but learning how to make the people around you better," said Jason Lloyd, who covers the Cavs for the Akron Beacon Journal. "There have not been enough moments where he wills the team to win. But I think he's figuring it out."
Irving is getting there. The talent is undeniable, and the attitude is beginning to catch up. During the current winning streak, Irving has looked looser. In a comeback win over Detroit last week, Irving made a technical foul shot and strutted back to the Cleveland bench, where he side-fived coach Mike Brown and smiled at the coach for what seemed like the first time in weeks. Maybe months.
The entire team seems more relaxed, too, as if the players have decided to have fun playing basketball without worrying about whether a playoff appearance will materialize.
The Cavs remain a young work in progress, and adding Hawes will help solidify the middle. But the biggest move was addition by subtraction. Grant's handling of the general manager's job wasn't specifically the problem, but his departure has been a most definite solution.
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DENVER — Regis University shot 61 percent from the floor, including 75 percent after halftime, and the Rangers rolled to a 96-71 victory over Eastern New Mexico University's men on Saturday night.
Senior forward Jeremey Gibson posted career highs with 39 points and 15 rebounds for the Rangers (2-0), who opened their season on Friday night with a 65-58 victory over Hawaii-Hilo. Gibson blistered the nets with 18-of-21 field goal shooting, helping him overcome a 3-for-9 night from the free throw line.
Junior guard Andy Pokorny added 16 points, going 4-for-4 from 3-point ranger. Regis hit 36-of-59 shots from the field, including 8-of-12 from 3-point range.
Senior guard Justin Redman-Trotter led the Greyhounds with 22 points, including 10-of-11 from the free throw line, but the Greyhounds (2-3) committed 19 turnovers while collecting only eight assists. Senior guard Kendall Davis, playing for the first time in three games, added 13 points on 6-of-10 shooting, and junior guard Chad Johnson scored 10 points.
Eastern led only briefly early in the game. The Rangers took the lead for good on Gibson's dunk with 15:38 left in the half, making it 8-6.
Redman-Trotter's 3-pointer pulled the Hounds to 21-16 with 9 1/2 minutes remaining in the half before the Rangers took complete control with a 16-4 run. They led 45-31 at the half.
Regis built its advantage to 20 points with under 13 minutes left. The Hounds got as close as 10 with just over seven minutes left, but they were outscored 22-7 the rest of the way.
Junior guard Gabriel Green scored only three points but had 11 of Regis' 23 assists. Another junior guard, Aaron Sutton, also reached double figures for the Rangers off the bench with 11 points.
The Hounds return to action on Wednesday, hosting Oklahoma Panhandle State in a 7 p.m. tipoff at Greyhound Arena.


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It looks like the former leadership of Infinity Ward are not going down without a fight. Former Infinity Ward CTO Jason West and president Vince Zampella have officially filed a lawsuit against Activision, according to a press release issued by their law firm, O'Melveny & Myers LLP.
According to the release, West and Zampella were terminated by Activision "weeks" before receiving royalties for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. Activision purchased Infinity Ward in 2003.
"We were shocked by Activision's decision to terminate our contract," said West. "We poured our heart and soul into that company, building not only a world class development studio, but assembling a team we've been proud to work with for nearly a decade. We think the work we've done speaks for itself."
O'Melveny & Myers LLP attorney Robert Schwartz is suing Activision in pursuit of West and Zampella's right to compensation for the production and sales of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 and the contractual rights allegedly granted to the duo to control "Modern Warfare-branded games." If seems West and Zampell may be fighting for the right to create Modern Warfare games outside Activision or to prevent Activision from creating Modern Warfare-branded games. Until we have more details, it's difficult to draw a specific conclusion.
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"Modern Warfare 2 is arguably one of the most successful games in history and together with Call of Duty, has generated more than $3 billion in sales for Activision. In addition, Activision seized control of the Infinity Ward studio, to which Activision had previously granted creative control over all Modern Warfare-branded games. The suit was filed to vindicate the rights of West and Zampella to be paid the compensation they have earned, as well as the contractual rights Activision granted to West and Zampella to control Modern Warfare-branded games."
"Activision has refused to honor the terms of its agreements and is intentionally flouting the fundamental public policy of this State (California) that employers must pay their employees what they have rightfully earned," said Schwartz in the release. "Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public, last month Activision hired lawyers to conduct a pretextual 'investigation' into unstated and unsubstantiated charges of 'insubordination' and 'breach of fiduciary duty,' which then became the grounds for their termination on Monday, March 1st."
According to the release, the suit is alleging "breach of contract, breach of the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, wrong termination in violation of public policy, and declaratory relief."
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Buchholz States The Obvious
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Here it comes:
Minor league players would rather be in the major leagues.
That's my reaction to an interview that Clay Buchholz did a few days ago with NECN that appears to be growing into a minor controversy.
You can see the interview here.
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In the interview, Buchholz admits that he's growing frustrated with the abundance of starting pitchers in Boston.
"There's nowhere to go, and it's sort of a logjam up there (in Boston)," Buchholz told NECN. "Whenever they come to a problem, they seem like they find a way to fix it without me being in the picture. It is what it is — it's frustrating at times."
Buchholz added that while he would like to help the Red Sox return to the World Series, he wouldn't mind being traded if that meant an opportunity to be in the major leagues.
"I feel like I'm more equipped with everything that I have right now — as far the pitches, and the mental aspect and I'm physically healthy — to be up there and helping that team," Buchholz said. "And if not that team, I want to be in the big leagues and I do want to go somewhere where I'll be able to play and pitch every fifth day."
As I drove to the ballpark yesterday, I listened to one of the hosts on WEEI cite this interview as proof of Buchholz's mounting frustration as if it were a crisis. When manager Ron Johnson sat down with reporters before Monday's rainout, one of the first questions he received was, "What is your reaction to Clay Buchholz's comments to NECN." (RJ had no idea what the person was talking about).
Today in the Boston Globe, Tony Massarotti made mention of how Buchholz "expressed his frustration with his situation over the weekend."
Here's the deal. Of course Clay is frustrated – who wouldn't be? He's too good for the International League and he's eager to show what he can do at the major league level.
The Red Sox are conscious of that and RJ has had several conversations with Buchholz about being "stuck" in Triple-A.
What's important to stress is that Buchholz is not walking around complaining and isn't demanding a trade – he simply stated the obvious in response to a reporter's question – that he wants to pitch in the big leagues as soon as possible. I'm sure his preference would be to pitch for Boston, but if there's no room with the Red Sox, he wouldn't mind going elsewhere.
That may disappoint some Boston fans, but in 20-plus years of being around pro baseball players, I've only met one player in Triple-A who said he wouldn't want to be traded if it meant an immediate opportunity to go to the big leagues – it was Dustin Pedroia in 2006.
Being in Pawtucket this year has been a good thing for Clay Buchholz. He's re-established his dominance in a low-pressure situation, got his old confidence back, and has been pulled from games with low pitch counts allowing him to "save bullets" for later in the season with Boston.
The Red Sox have two starting pitchers in their 40's (Tim Wakefield and John Smoltz) and another starter on a one-year contract (Brad Penny). Baring an injury or trade, Buchholz might be in Pawtucket for another month or two, but he's eventually going to be in Boston's rotation.
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Dan, thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you for saying this. It's been driving me crazy that anyone–let alone people who cover baseball professionally–thought his remarks were in any way controversial. He's tremendously talented, he's worked very hard, he wants to be in the majors, and it sure seems that the reason he's not there now has nothing to do with him and everything to do with other players on the roster. How would he not be frustrated? And what good comes of demanding that players not acknowledge such a thing? He answered questions honestly–he wasn't going around looking for someone who would listen. As you noted, he wasn't complaining and he wasn't demanding a trade, nor was he disrespectful of the judgment of anyone in the front office. This was a non-issue. I'm only disappointed that Clay didn't get to pitch for the NESN audience last night, so folks could see how good he is right now.
Journalism is when it reports the truth. Media is when that truth gets slanted to satisfy ratings. Unfortunately, the truth is, as you say, that minor league players want to be in the majors, and as your quotation shows, he merely expressed that. "Sitting still" is right…to bad that the media spins that to generate ratings/revenue, instead of Red Sox Nation getting a chance to see Clay pitch at McCoy.
Oh, my mistake…I guess Clay shouldn't be frustrated that it rains on his day either….


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Peanut Butter Topped Chocolate Cake
- Prep Time: 10 min
- Cook Time: 20 min
- Ready Time: 120 min
- Yield: 24 servings
- Crisco® Original No-Stick Cooking Spray
- 1 package Pillsbury™ Moist Supreme® Sugar Free Devil's Food Premium Cake Mix
- 1 1/4 cups water
- 1/2 cup Crisco® Pure Vegetable Oil
- 3 large eggs
- 1 cup cold skim milk
- 1 (1 oz.) package sugar free, fat free, instant vanilla pudding mix
- 2/3 cup Simply Jif® Creamy Peanut Butter
- 1 (8 oz.) container frozen sugar-free whipped topping, thawed
- 1/4 cup finely chopped dry roasted or cocktail peanuts
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- HEAT over to 325ºF. Coat a 15 x 10-inch jelly roll pan with no-stick cooking spray.
- PREPARE cake mix batter according to package directions using water, oil and eggs. Spread in prepared pan. Bake 16 to 20 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan on wire rack.
- BEAT milk and pudding mix in large bowl with electric mixer on medium speed until thickened, about 15 seconds. Add peanut butter; beat until smooth. Beat in whipped topping until smooth. Spread over cooled cake. Garnish with chopped peanuts.
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Serving Size (1 slice, 1/24 of cake), Calories 200 (Calories from Fat 110), Total Fat 200g (Saturated Fat 13g, Trans Fat 0g), Cholesterol 25mg, Sodium 190mg, Total Carbohydrate 22g (Dietary Fiber 1g, Sugars 1g), Protein 3g; Percent Daily Value*: Vitamin A 2%, Vitamin C 0%, Calcium 4%, Iron 8%.
*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
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Senior vice president of investor relations and communicationsof Nvidia Corp. said at a technology conference earlier this week that in several years timeframe there will be about billion of gamers worldwide, which means that those people will be potential customers of Nvidia, a leading supplier of graphics processing units and multimedia chips.
"[According to a market intelligence], [over 200] million people were online playing games [as of 2008] and that audience is supposed to grow at 21% compound annual growth rate. So, if you do the math, in a few short years Nvidia's addressable market just for video gamers will be a billion of people. Some of them will remain casual gamers and some of them will become enthusiast gamers and that is ultimately a market we can always sell to," said Michael Hara, senior vice president of investor relations and communications, at Barclays Technology Conference.
Obviously, far not all people play games online using personal computers that feature discrete graphics cards, the cornerstone of Nvidia's business. However, Nvidia also develops graphics solutions for video game consoles (Sony PlayStation 3) or personal digital media players (Microsoft Zune HD), which means that popularization of video games in general potentially means additional revenue for the company.
It remains to be seen whether prediction that in "a few short years" there will be one million of gamers who play games more or less regularly. For example, there are 4 billion mobile phones in the world today and the vast majority features some form of interactive entertainment, however, only a handful of end-users actually utilize those functions frequently. So, one billion people addressable market for Nvidia (and its arch-rival ATI, graphics unit of AMD) means gamers, who use PCs, dedicated game consoles or highly-integrated mobile devices, not just simplistic cell phones.
Nvidia believes that the market of video games will continue to grow, even amid the global economic slowdown.
"A lot of people around the world play video games. [Games] are part of their lifestyle. In hard times people play more games because they cannot afford to go out. […] It has always been an important segment [for us], […] it is a corner-stone of Nvidia. It is a good indicator that more and more people play games every day. […] Realistically, if you look at the dynamics of online gaming, if you look at the age children play at this games, it is getting younger and younger. For Nvidia [it means] increase of the installed base; ultimately, the addressable market is going to bigger," said Mr. Hara.
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In a rural community in Swaziland there is a small primary school dedicated to the education and care of the community's children. The school provides meals for the children, and these meals are often the only food the children receive each day.
The cooks at the primary school work in an unhealthy and dilapidated kitchen. It is constructed of old mud, bricks and a corrugated tin roof. The structure is poorly ventilated and falling apart. The area receives strong wind, and torrential rains that threaten to wipe out the structure every season. The food is cooked over a fire in large pots which result in no ventilation, clean air, or hygienic work space. In the kitchen the food sits on unsanitary surfaces with rickety doors because there is no storage space.
In place of the unsuitable kitchens it is proposed that a new facility be constructed that will serve the community and the school. It will be large enough to accommodate a cooking area, space for food, storage and the supplies that the structure once held. The kitchen will be soundly built, able to withstand harsh rain and extreme wind. It will be a healthy, reliable place for children to get two or more meals a day. Once built, the kitchen will be maintained, kept clean and supplied by the community, children and the cooks. It is a project the neighborhood is fully supporting with all measures being taken to efficiently complete the structure.
Note: This summary was provided by a Peace Corps Volunteer and the community administering this project.


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55-Year-Old Program Recognizes Non-Sales Format For First Time Ever 56 New Certifications Announced Today Emeli Sande, Cher Lloyd and Jason Derulo to be Recognized by RIAA Tonight At NARM & digitalmusic.org's Music Biz Awards in Los Angeles
May 09, 2013 WASHINGTON/LOS ANGELES – The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) today announced the integration of streams to its historic Gold & Platinum (G&P) Program, the industry's premier award for recognizing artistic achievement in the marketplace. On-demand audio and/or video song streams will now be counted towards the 500,000 (Gold), 1,000,000 (Platinum) and 2,000,000 plus (multi-Platinum) thresholds required for G&P's Digital Single Award certification.
56 titles, encompassing songs from dozens of music labels and spanning many musical genres, are included in the inaugural certifications for the newly expanded Digital Single Award. Specifically, the RIAA is awarding 11 Gold, 18 Platinum and 27 multi-Platinum new "combined" Digital Single Awards counting both downloads and streams. This includes streams from on-demand services like MOG, Muve Music, Rdio, Rhapsody, Slacker, Spotify, Xbox Music and others, plus video streaming services like MTV.com, VEVO, Yahoo! Music, YouTube and more.
"Including music streaming in Gold & Platinum awards marks the continued evolution of the industry's premier program for recognizing artistic achievement, and it reflects the wide spectrum of ways consumers enjoy music from their favorite bands," said Cary Sherman, Chairman & CEO, RIAA. "The music business, along with its incredible array of digital service partners, is offering fans more access to music than ever before. We're thrilled that our awards will now more fully recognize artists' commercial success today."
With the launch of the new program, RIAA today is awarding the following artists/songs with new certifications: 30 Seconds To Mars/"This Is War," Adele/"Rolling in the Deep, "Aerosmith/"I Don't Want To Miss A Thing," Andy Grammer/"Keep Your Head Up," Anna Kendrick/"Cups," Avril Lavigne/"Smile," Ca$h Out/"Cashin' Out," Carly Rae Jepsen/"Call Me Maybe," Carrie Underwood/"Before He Cheats," Cher Lloyd/"Oath," Don Omar/"Danza Kuduro," Drake/"Started from The Bottom," Emeli Sandé/"Next To Me," Eminem/"Love The Way You Lie," Frank Ocean/"Thinkin Bout You," Gym Class Heroes feat. Ryan Tedder/"The Fighter," Imagine Dragons/"Radioactive," J. Cole/"Workout," Jake Owen/"Alone With You" and "Barefoot Blue Jean Night," Jason Derulo/"Watcha Say" and "Ridin' Solo," Josh Turner/"Why Don't We Just Dance," Journey/"Don't Stop Believin,'" Juanes/"La Camisa Negra," Justin Bieber/"Baby," Justin Timberlake/"Suit & Tie," Kansas/"Dust In The Wind," Kanye West/"Stronger," Kelly Clarkson/"Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)," Kelly Rowland/"Motivation," Kendrick Lamar/"Poetic Justice," Kenny Chesney/"The Boys Of Fall," Lady Gaga/"Bad Romance," Lana Del Rey/"Video Games," LMFAO/"Sexy And I Know It," M83/"Midnight City," Michael Jackson/"Billie Jean," Of Monsters And Men/"Little Talks," Olly Murs/"Troublemaker," One Direction/"Little Things," P!nk feat. Nate Ruess/"Just Give Me A Reason," Pitbull feat. Christina Aguilera/"Feel This Moment," Rihanna/"We Found Love," Robin Thicke/"Lost Without U," Selena Gomez & The Scene/"Love You Like A Love Song," The Black Keys/"Lonely Boy," The Fray/ "Over My Head (Cable Car)," The Script/"The Man Who Can't Be Moved," The Weeknd/"Wicked Games," Toby Keith/"Beers Ago," Train/"Drive By," Usher/"Scream," Whitney Houston/"I Will Always Love You," Will.i.am/"Scream & Shout" and Wisin & Yandel/"Follow The Leader."
This new expansion of the G&P Program – the approach, methodology and formula – was the culmination of a year-long project by the RIAA, led by Sherman, and a variety of label marketing, business and data analysis executives, in which the RIAA examined comprehensive information comparing data on digital downloads to similar data on on-demand audio and video streams. The RIAA also closely consulted with NARM/digitalmusic.org, many digital music services, artist managers and industry leaders. It is important to note the new certification approach, including the formula of 100 streams being equivalent to one download, is an approximate barometer of comparative consumer activity; the financial value of streams and downloads were not factored into the equation.
Notably, the following 11 artists are receiving their first-ever RIAA digital song certifications due to streaming's inclusion to the program: 30 Seconds To Mars /"This Is War" at Gold, Aerosmith/"I Don't Want To Miss A Thing" at Platinum, Andy Grammer/"Keep Your Head Up" at Platinum, Anna Kendrick/"Cups" at Gold, Emeli Sandé/"Next to Me" at Gold, Juanes/"La Camisa Negra" at Gold, Lana Del Rey/"Video Games" at Gold, Robin Thicke/"Lost Without U" at Platinum, The Weeknd/"Wicked Games" at Gold, Whitney Houston/"I Will Always Love You" at 2x multi-Platinum and Wisin & Yandel/"Follow The Leader at Gold.
Tonight, Emeli Sandé, Cher Lloyd and Jason Derulo will pick up inaugural "combined" Digital Single Awards during a red-carpet event at the NARM and digitalmusic.org Music Biz conference, held at Los Angeles' Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. Capitol Records singer Sandé will receive her first-ever RIAA Gold award for "Next To Me," Epic Records artist Lloyd her second RIAA Gold for "Oath" ("Want U Back" is currently RIAA 2x multi-Platinum) and Warner Bros. Records musician Derulo will take home his top RIAA award yet – a 4x multi-Platinum for "Watcha Say" – in addition to a 3x multi-Platinum for "Ridin' Solo."
Jim Donio, President of music business association NARM commented, "Getting streams included in the RIAA's Gold and Platinum Awards certification has been a top agenda item for all of the member music services who participate in our digitalmusic.org Music Subscription Work Group. They are especially pleased to see these collaborative efforts come to fruition, and for music fan's streaming activity be measured and recognized by the G&P Awards, one of the most important milestones in an artist's career. Over the past few years, our members have also worked on related initiatives such as the creation of the first On Demand Songs Chart with Billboard and Nielsen, and we will continue to work with the RIAA and others as our industry evolves in the digital era."
On-demand streams on digital music services that are authorized by and reported to the record labels, whether paid for by the consumer through a subscription or free to the consumer through ad-supported services, will be accepted for RIAA certifications. Only official label/company videos count towards certification; user generated videos do not. Whymusicmatters.com, a joint initiative of the RIAA, NARM, and digitalmusic.org, lists the leading authorized music services in the United States.
The RIAA developed its Gold & Platinum Awards Program in 1958 to honor artists and create a standard by which to measure the commercial success of a sound recording. The program trademarked the Gold record and formalized the industry practice of presenting awards to artists for music sales achievements.
First awarded to LP recordings but expanded to a number of formats overtime to include cassette tapes, CDs, digital tracks, digital albums, ringtones, and now streams, more than 14,000 titles have been certified by the RIAA during the last 55 years.
All certifications are calculated by the firm Gelfand, Rennert & Feldman, which has audited title sales for the RIAA for more than 30 years. Complete lists of all album, single, mastertone and video awards can also be accessed at riaa.com, while new and notable program news can be found at facebook.com/GoldandPlatinum.
1958 Program launched by the RIAA to honor artists and create a standard by which to measure sales of a sound recording. First Gold song certification goes to Perry Como for his single "Catch a Falling Star" (RCA Records). First Gold album certification awarded to the cast album to "Oklahoma!" sung by Gordon MacRae (Capitol).
1964 The Beatles earn their first Gold album certification for "Meet The Beatles!" (Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol). Today the band is the most awarded in G&P history having certified 199 million units across all formats.
1999 Diamond Award established to honor sales of 10 million copies or more of an album or single.
2004 Digital Sales Award introduced in recognition of the significant sales of emerging digital music formats.
2005 First Platinum Digital Single Award goes to Gwen Stefani for her "Hollaback Girl" (Interscope) selling more than one million downloads.
2006 Master Ringtone Award introduced to recognize the growing popularity of enjoying music through cell phones.
2009 Michael Jackson's legendary album "Thriller" (Epic/Legacy) certifies 29x multi-Platinum to join the Eagles' "Eagles - Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975"
(Elektra/Warner Bros.) as the highest album certification in G&P history. Lil Wayne's ringtone "Lollipop" (Cash Money) becomes the highest certified ringtone to date at 5x multi-Platinum.
2012 The Black Eyed Peas earn RIAA's highest digital single certification ever upon certifying "I Gotta Feeling" (Interscope) 8x multi-Platinum.
2013 "Combined" Digital Single Award launches, counting both downloads and on-demand streams in recognition of the increasing popularity of streaming as a method of music listening.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is the trade organization that supports and promotes the creative and financial vitality of the major music companies. Its members are the music labels that comprise the most vibrant record industry in the world. RIAA® members create, manufacture and/or distribute approximately 85% of all legitimate recorded music produced and sold in the United States.
In support of this mission, the RIAA works to protect the intellectual property and First Amendment rights of artists and music labels; conduct consumer, industry and technical research; and monitor and review state and federal laws, regulations and policies. The RIAA® also certifies Gold®, Platinum®, Multi- Platinum™ and Diamond sales awards as well as Los Premios De Oro y Platino™, an award celebrating Latin music sales.


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Flynn runs school at Henry Vilas Zoo
Published On: Aug 30 2012 03:25:32 PM CDT Updated On: Aug 16 2012 01:12:48 PM CDT
Erin Flynn from the Henry Vilas Zoo helps keeps kids busy this summer by running the Zoo school at the Zoo. Charlotte Deleste profiles this month's Top Notch Teacher.
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Sometimes the cases the U.S. Supreme Court does not agree to review tells as much about the high court's mood as those cases it decides to hear. That's the situation this week as the high court continued to proceed with a caution that is becoming familiar in the weeks since a new member and new chief justice came aboard.
The court, for example, declined to take a case in which evangelist Jerry Falwell sought to shut down a Web site whose domain name is a misspelling of his name and which is devoted to criticizing his views on gays. The court also dismissed an old case in which relatives of Gen. Rene Schneider, former head of the Chilean army, sought to hold former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger responsible for his killing in 1970.
Even the more substantive decisions came in the form of declining to review cases. The decision not to take an appeal from Los Angeles Roman Catholic Archbishop Roger Mahony has the effect of forcing the church to turn over 21 pages of pastoral counseling records that may hold evidence of sexual molestation by priests to the L.A. district attorney — and will probably require similar disclosure in hundreds of civil lawsuits nationwide.
There are reasons to be concerned about a wholesale assault on the privacy of churches and other institutions. As a general rule private records should not be available to government on a whim or a hunch. But these cases involve alleged criminal activity. Even if government has created too many legislative crimes — and it has — sexual assault on a minor would be a crime under the most libertarian of legal systems, and gathering evidence of such outrageous activity can legitimately trump claims of privacy.
The court's decision not to take the case of two Uighur Muslims who lived in China and ended up in the Guantanamo prison camp was sad but not surprising. The two men in question are Muslims who got caught in a roundup of suspected terrorists in Afghanistan. The U.S. military has determined they are not enemy combatants, so there is no legitimate reason to continue to hold them. But the U.S. does not want to turn them over to the government of China, which persecutes its small Muslim minority.
It would have been nice for the Supreme Court to shortcut the procedure by taking the case. But ruling that the case must be heard by a lower federal court first was justifiable. The Supreme Court is an appellate court, not a trier of fact.
The court won't be able to avoid controversy forever. In Hudson v. Michigan it will have to rule on the circumstances under which noknock warrant can be served on drug suspects. In Burlington Northern. v. White it must decide what constitutes illegal retaliation against an employee who filed a sexual harassment complaint against a superior.
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A container load of molasses-spill casualties rolled into the yard of a rendering plant in Campbell Industrial Park Thursday afternoon.
The state had the fish in the deep freeze until it could take inventory of just how many species of fish had been killed as a result of the molasses overload.
That job was completed just the other day.
The next step is getting rid of the evidence.
It's a big messy job, but someone's got to do it.
"The department of health gave me a call and asked me to help them out to dispose of the fish," said John Tsukada of Island Commodities.
Tsukada makes a living with meat and fish scraps--from local markets and producers. He processes 28,000 pounds every day.
"The plant was set up to help the slaughterhouse next door, but since we do mostly fish, 55-65 percent fish," Tsukada said.
But even Tsukada hadn't expected to see what was turned out in the boxes and bins.
He hadn't expected the fish to be bagged and frozen.
"I was surprised by the large puffer fish, and the large moray eels. They must have been living for a long time," said Tsukada.
The processing of the fish and meat scraps involves cooking it, producing tallow--a fuel source, and then turning it into a green product.
The end product is fish fertilizer, that soon will be headed to local farms.
The nitrogen-rich meat and bone meal is sold wholesale to the agriculture industry specifically , our flowers and fruit nurseries.
"A lot of the ginger farms on Kauai, and the banana and papaya farmers on the Big Island and some local farmers here on Oahu," said Tsukada.
Island Commodities prides itself in being a green company before green was popular.
It also disposes of all its wastewater at the nearby treatment plant.
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Most local schools closed
Most area school districts have called off classes today, including Arrowhead, Hamilton, Kette Moraine, Oconomowoc, Pewaukee, Waukesha, University Lake School and Lake Country Lutheran High School.
Check for more closings here.
Celebrate everything Celtic this weekend
Everything Celtic will be celebrated this weekend at the Wisconsin Highland Games at the Waukesha County Expo Center, 1000 Northview Road, Waukesha.
The Celtic fun includes food, live music, dancing, games of strength and skill, and kids activities.
Admission is $7 adults in advance, $10 at the gate, $15 weekend pass, free for kids 12 and younger.
For more information visit www.wisconsinscottish.org
Billy Sullivan, a former band member of Gary Lewis and the Playboys and the Raspberries, will present a free concert for Operation Christmas Child from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at the Rhodee Memorial Band Shell, City Beach, 324 W. Wisconsin Ave., Oconomowoc.» Read Full Article
Harvest Fall Festival comes to Nature's Classroom
Nature's Classroom Institute, W1802 Highway J, Mukwonago, will hold its Harvest Fall Festival from 11 a.m. - 2 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 3.
The event will include hayrides, a bouncy house, face painting, farm tours, and pumpkin decorating, along with baked goods, soups and other lunch items for sale.
Cost is $20 per family or $5 per person.
Nature's Classroom is located three miles west of the Elegant Farmer.
Woman, 56, killed in motorcycle crash with minivan
A 56-year-old woman died Saturday when a minivan hit the motorcycle that she and a 55-year-old man were riding on National Ave. in Vernon, the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department reported.
The two, both from Walworth County, were headed eastbound at about 1 p.m. when a 41-year-old woman driving westbound in a minivan made a left turn and crashed into the motorcycle.
The man, who was driving the motorcycle, was seriously injured and taken to Froedtert Hospital. The woman riding with him was pronounced dead at the scene after lifesaving measures failed. The minivan driver, a Mukwonago resident, had minor injuries.
Police are investigating the incident. They say alcohol and drugs were not involved, according to WISN.
Initial Reaction Podcast: Menomonee Falls baseball virtuoso Ty Weber and Big Ten Media Day
Lake Country/Now sports director JR Radcliffe and Time Warner Cable Sports Channel's JP Cadorin chat about the Wisconsin sports scene, with an emphasis on Milwaukee-area preps. Find the podcast on Stitcher and iTunes.The guys welcome in Ty Weber, who pitched Menomonee Falls to a second straight WIAA baseball championship with a superb state-tournament performance. Plus, JP and JR talk about revelations (or lack thereof) gleaned from Big Ten media day and offer some thoughts on the Milwaukee Brewers as they approach the trading deadline. Each week,
Woman moves into 'miracle home' in Mukwonago
Barbara Saladin had to brace herself on the door as she walked into her newly remodeled home.
"I'm just overwhelmed. This is gorgeous, just beautiful," Saladin said. "He would have been so happy."
"He" is her husband Joe, who died of cancer last fall. It was Joe's dream for Barb to live in a beautiful home with no repairs to worry about. That wish has come true.
In an effort spurred by the Mukwonago Home Depot, volunteers are giving Barb, 79, the house that her husband always wanted her to have.
The relationship between the Saladins and the local Home Depot store began in 2015 when Joe needed to repair a tractor. The store sent tool technician Rich Springsteen to the Saladin house on Lake Street. He and Joe, both veterans, became fast friends.» Read Full Article
Longtime Hartland volunteer recognized nationally for service with local community theater group
If you've attended a Lake Country Players production within the last four decades, you've probably witnessed, in some way, the work of Barb Christensen.
Christensen, 76, of Hartland has been volunteering with the organization since 1970. She was recently recognized with the Robert E. Gard Superior Volunteer Award from the American Association of Community Theatre, a national nonprofit corporation, for her service.
She spent several days in New York City as part of the award ceremony and, like a kid in a candy store, was in the heart of the city and Broadway, seeing the musicals "Fun Home" and "Kinky Boots" while she was there.
She spoke recently with Lake Country Publications about the friendships she's made through community theater, her favorite playwrights and her little known knack for the accordion.
1 Tell us a little about yourself, where you're from, how old you are, what your family looks like.» Read Full Article
$90,000 winning lottery ticket sold in Oconomowoc
One lucky player matched all five numbers in the Badger 5 drawing on Monday, July 25 to win the night's $90,000 jackpot, according to information from the Wisconsin Lottery office.
The lucky winner, who has yet to come forward, purchased the ticket at Herrs Service at 402 East Wisconsin Ave., in Oconomowoc.
Badger 5 is a daily lotto game available only in Wisconsin. Winners at all prize levels have 180 days from the drawing to claim their prizes by mail or in person at the Lottery's Madison or Milwaukee offices.
Menomonee Falls man accused of hit-and-run while intoxicated, his 4th OWI in 5 Years
Village of Lannon — Charles Mossman was charged with hitting Donna Reuter's car and causing injury to her while driving intoxicated, then proceeding to drive away from the scene on Friday, July 22 in Lannon, according to the criminal complaint.
This is Mossman's fourth offense of operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated in five years.
The incident occurred at the intersection of Lannon Road and W. Good Hope Road at a four-way stop sign. The complaint stated Mossman did not stop at the sign, and so he struck Reuter's vehicle as she crossed the intersection.
A Lannon Police Officer found Reuter lying in grass adjacent to the road, complaining of head pain.
After leaving the scene, Mossman was later located by a Waukesha County Sheriff in the 20400 block of W. Main Street. He was brought back to the scene of the crime, where he failed a field sobriety test.» Read Full Article
Lake Country businesses team up to host Christmas in July
It may seem too hot outside to think about cocoa and caroling, but two Lake Country businesses are working to spread the Christmas cheer during the next few weeks.
The Purple Giraffe, 183 E. Wisconsin Ave., Oconomowoc, and Silly Willyz, 161 W. Wisconsin Ave., Pewaukee, are teaming up for their first annual Christmas in July Toy Drive for children in Waukesha County's foster care program, according to a news release from the stores. It will run through Aug. 25.
Participants can drop off new toys in original packaging at either store, according to a news release.
"There is a need all year round," said Jackie Schoenhotz, owner of the Silly Willyz toy store. "We thought it was something we could really make an impact with."
The businesses will accept toys from any store, but the two locations are offering a 25 percent discount for donated items purchased at their locations. They anticipate the drive will provide toys for more than 120 children.» Read Full Article
Allen Road in Oconomowoc to close
City of Oconomowoc — Beginning Aug. 1, Allen Road between Jonathan Drive and South Concord Road will close to through traffic for about eight weeks while crews work on road repairs.
Drivers will be required to follow detour signs through the Orchards of Oconomowoc subdivision to continue in either direction, according to a news release from director of Public Works Mark Frye.
City crews will realign the Concord Road/Allen Road intersection, replace worn asphalt surfaces and widen the street to 14-foot lanes with curbs and gutters on each side, the release said. Storm sewers will be added in two areas for improved drainage, and a multi-use path will be installed on the south side of the street between Jonathan Drive and Majestic View Lane.
Frye said he anticipates the cost of the half-mile construction to be about $841,000.
Other work in the area includes the installation of a multiuse path along Concord Road from Hickory Creek Drive to Aeppler Way, the release said. The path is being installed to make travel for pedestrians easier between subdivisions and to downtown.» Read Full Article
Memorial fund honors Oconomowoc grad Craig Ireland
Craig Ireland had a passion for football, and not just playing it. He loved being around the game.
The 2013 Oconomowoc High School graduate played on the varsity level, but he also had a strong connection to the Oconomowoc Youth Football program. His father, Chris, a Waukesha County sheriff who's the vice president of the OYF, has long been involved in the Oconomowoc football community.
When Craig died in his sleep of an acute asthma attack on July 24, 2014 at the age of 19, those who knew him — and there were many — grieved after the shocking news. Four days later, OYF president Gary Wipperman announced the creation of the Craig Ireland Memorial Fund.
Two years after Craig's death, the fund has given back to youth football players in the community and also at the high school. Recently, Wipperman announced the fund would donate money to provide an Aurora athletic trainer, Tyler Syltie, at every home OYF game and practice.
Getting more help» Read Full Article
Lake Country businesses team up for Christmas in July
It may seem too hot outside to think about cocoa and caroling, but two Lake Country businesses are working to spread the Christmas cheer during the next few weeks.
The Purple Giraffe in Oconomowoc and Silly Willyz in Pewaukee are teaming up for their first annual Christmas in July Toy Drive for children in Waukesha County's foster care program, according to a news release from the stores. It will run through August 25.
Participants can drop off new toys in original packaging at either store, according to a news release.
"There is a need all year round," said Jackie Schoenhotz, owner of the Silly Willyz toy store. "We thought it was something we could really make an impact with."
The businesses will accept toys from any store, but the two locations are offering a 25 percent discount for donated items purchased at their locations. They anticipate that the drive will provide toys for more than 120 children.» Read Full Article
Lake Country golf courses bucking national trend, staying busy
It happened in the bowling business beginning in the late 1990s. Over-saturation with too many bowling centers, increasing costs to participate and several other outside factors all but destroyed the sport in Wisconsin and throughout the country.
At one time, Pewaukee, Hartland, Okauchee and Oconomowoc had as many as eight bowling centers. Now just one center remains, Mapleway Bowl in Oconomowoc, with just eight lanes.
Many people thought the same thing would happen to the sport of golf, not only in the Lake Country but around the state and in many parts of the country. Over-saturation was considered to be the biggest problem, while rising costs also threatened to keep many regular players off the courses.
Two significant U.S. economic recessions definitely hurt the sport in 2001 and again in 2007 through 2009. Popular courses suffered a decrease of business, estimated between 10 to 20 percent, and even more depending upon location.
Some golf websites have reported business down nationally about 10 to 15 percent since 2005. Hundreds of courses have closed, and there's no doubt business will never be anywhere like it was in the heyday of the 1980s and 1990s.» Read Full Article
Michna to perform at Center for Life Enrichment
Jessica Michna will perform as Cordelia Harvey in "Angel in a Gray Bonnet" Wednesday, Sept. 14 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Center for Life Enrichment at 1306 W. Wisconsin Ave., Oconomowoc.
Cordelia Perrine Harvey came to Wisconsin as a young school mistress. She soon met and married Louis Harvey, who became Governor of Wisconsin. Cordelia's life unraveled when she was widowed after less than three months in the Governor's Mansion. She would set aside her grief to become the healing angel of a nation racked by the civil war. Some consider her to be the mother of the modern Veteran's Administration.
Lunch and performance cost $25. To register, send payment to Center for Life Enrichment, 1306 W. Wisconsin Ave., Oconomowoc, WI 53066. Please include names of attendees and contact phone number. Go to www.shorehavenliving.org to learn more.
12-year-old Pewaukee girl in car-bike accident dies
The 12-year-old girl struck by a vehicle on Prospect Avenue in the City of Pewaukee on July 19, died last night, according to a release from the Waukesha County Sheriff's Department.
The girl has been identified as Ashlyn Flegel from Pewaukee.


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Geico Commercial Depicts Christopher Columbus with Speed Boats
Geico, the insurance company famous for running multiple catchy advertising campaigns at once, has added a new one that may ruffle a few feathers in Indian country.
Geico is responsible for the Cavemen advertisements, the Taste Test series, and spots featuring the Geico Gecko. The latest series of advertisements shows people having fun, and proclaims that Geico insurance will make you happier than _____.
The first one we saw proclaimed Geico customers would be happier than a bodybuilder directing traffic. The one below Geico customers will be happier than "Columbus with speedboats."
The advertisement was posted to Geico's Facebook page, and commenters are outraged -- but only some of them because of Columbus' genocidal legacy. The majority are reacting to a Fox News story (via TMZ) about R. Lee Erney claiming he was let go by Geico for criticizing President Obama.
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Program can mean free school meals for all
BARRE Statewide, 6,500 schoolchildren in 23 schools will be able to have free breakfasts and lunches thanks to a new federal program.
Under the community eligibility provision, schools can now implement what is called universal school meals, a model that provides meals to all students at no charge, regardless of economic situation.
In an interview on Central Vermont Public Televisions City Room with Times Argus Editor Steven Pappas on Friday, Hunger Free Vermont Executive Director Marissa Parisi said the program will level the playing field and give students in qualifying schools access to free, nutritious hopefully local food. She wants all eligible Vermont schools involved.
Parisi said that one in seven households in Vermont is not able to meet its basic nutritional needs on a daily basis and that many such households have children.
Everyone can identify with what its like to feel hungry, and then how you behave when you feel hungry, said Parisi. Children who are hungry are not able to focus, they have a harder time learning and retaining information, and they have more behavior problems and are ill more often, she said. School staff have to be disciplinarians rather than educators when kids are hungry, and their health and futures are compromised.
To be eligible, at least 40 percent of enrolled students in a school must be certified to receive free school meals. A formula is used to determine the rate at which a school receives federal reimbursement for providing free meals to all the higher the number of qualifying students, the more the school will be reimbursed.
By giving all students in a school access to healthy, nutritious meals, there are wins on every front, Parisi said. There are 23 Vermont schools rolling out the universal program this year with no individual applications for aid and no more cash registers.
And no stigma for kids who used to receive free and reduced-price meals.
To help trumpet information about the program, Hunger Free Vermont has just released a four-minute animated video that explains how the program works. It can be viewed on the hungerfreevt.org website.
Hunger Free Vermont has been talking about universal meals in Vermont for a long time and how it would transform a school if they were able to offer free meals to children, said Parisi. Its the only place where children are segregated by economic status ... in the lunch line.
Parisi said the group will show the video to school boards, principals, superintendents and anyone who will listen. Hunger Free Vermont will be tracking data from schools taking part in the universal school meals program to see how things are going.
Many families barely miss the income guidelines to qualify for free and reduced-price meals but are struggling to keep up, said Parisi.
Those working parents who might not qualify now have the convenience and the comfort level that theyll be able to drop off their kids at school and know they will eat well, she said.
This nutrition education will also carry into the childrens homes.
Weve found that children are these really powerful change agents in their homes, she said.
Vermont schools that qualify for the program have until Aug. 31 to notify the Agency of Education if they are going to utilize the eligibility provision, said Alida Duncan, spokeswoman for Hunger Free Vermont.
Anore Horton, child nutrition advocacy manager at Hunger Free Vermont, said Friday, This formula means that whether it ends up costing less or more or the same varies dramatically from school to school. Each school is really a unique case. And of course, it depends on how much a town is already subsidizing their school meal program. The town might be able to provide universal school meals but would have to commit to continuing to subsidize a school meal program that is running a deficit anyway. This is definitely what some schools and supervisory unions have decided to do.
According to Hunger Free Vermont, schools in Barre and Rutland are taking part in the program. As many as 50 public Vermont schools are eligible.
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Skip to comments.Watch the Good Guys and Leave the Terrorists Alone
Posted on 06/16/2013 5:57:09 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
Barack Obama alleges that snooping is in the nation's best interest because it is a powerful tool needed to keep Americans safe from dangerous terrorists. Yet, taking political correctness to a whole new level of lunacy, mosques, where terrorist types like to mingle with likeminded people, are currently off-limits to spying, snooping, and undercover stakeouts.
That's right -- cell phones are being tapped, keystrokes on computers are being logged and email intercepted and read; but mosques, which are home base for homegrown terrorists, are strictly off-limits to counterterrorism efforts.
Apparently this is how it works: Let's say law enforcement is looking for a serial murderer who's known to take a cooking class or two before butchering his victims. So to prevent non-murdering chefs from being offended, the thing to do would be to avoid looking in culinary schools for the killer. Right?
Then, while the Killer Chef hides in a cookery sharpening his meat cleavers, the FBI should spend most of its time surveilling florists, shoe stores, and yoga classes. To avoid insulting Jeffrey Dahmer types, the protocol must be to never ever search for suspicious-looking characters in places where lust killers with cannibalistic tendencies are likely to hang out.
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I will point this out. If regular cops had access...they'd see a robbery at a 7-11 at 2:11AM. They'd reference the 16 cellphones active within 500 feet of the 7-11 at the time, and go to each house with a photo from the store cam. It'd take twenty-four hours to make the bust because the idiot robber carried his cellphone in his pocket. I could bust ten thousand robbers a week using this method.
A kidnapping? I'd get the last location of the person missing via their cellphone records, and then ask for all cellphones within that point. A dozen suspects...with just four cops, and I'd have the kidnapping solved in less than forty-eight hours.
Obama's message to America is clear and simple. Islamic Jihadis are not his enemy...he hates Americans, particularly conservatives, Christians, and Jews.
Have you noticed that most Americans seem to not care about this? Most Americans shame America.
And Congress just seems to look the other way.
It all depends on how you define what a terrorist is.
The problem is that Obamaites have their heads stuck so far up Obama's rectum that they don't want to see what is happening.
Muslims in the White House. Hillary eating at a Muslim Y. Egypt Libya, Nigeria, Syria, all going to Al Qaeda. We are supplying arms to Cartels in Mexico and Muslim Brotherhood in Syria. We are importing Hispanics by the Thousands and now Obama wants to import Syrians. Obama has stated he will help Muslims while he fills out military with queers and women. A Muslim murdered fellow soldiers 3 years ago an hasn't gone to trial yet.
Obama needs a vacation so we spend 60 to 100 million dollars to send him and hundreds of Secret Service Agents to Africa on a trip that will serve no useful purpose.
How can people ignore this????
The same way Democrats in Congress ignore it.
They just keep breathing the odoriferous fumes emanating from the Royals buttocks of our Kenyan Monarch.
What do you think this police department would do with that information?
A very good point and it's a lot more legitimate and legal usage of such data. Providing a search Warrant, etc. was obtained properly and not through some quasi-legal 'invisible court'.
The new Inquisition - instead of "heresy" you will be charged with "racism" until you confess.
To Obama's administration, a terrorist is any threat to Obama's administration.
Excellent analogy.
Find it strange when the excuse for "amnesty" is that while the government knows whats going on in 300 million citizens lives. But because the illegals are not citizens and live "in the shadows" the US doesn't know who they are or where they're comming from so we must make them citizens..
Bad guys aren't stupid. They're going to stop using cell phones and the internet when doing bad stuff.
This is why the NSA revelations have the statists all in a tizzy. Their "we're collecting everything" plan only works if people don't know about it.
Which is why Clapper and Obama can look the American people right in the eye and lie about it. Knowing everything about US is everything to THEM.
It's amazing the amount of stuff you can not know if you don't want to.
obama truly hates white people... he hates everyone but blacks and jihadis... he hates hispanics but he uses them so he favors them.
They care down here in the South... ALL of this treason and scandal has everyone fuming... just mentioning it changes the atmosphere.
Bad guys are this stupid. Look around, no one giving up their cellphone since they learned that the Feds are collecting this data.
When I climb on the Metro bus each morning....eighty percent of the riders are gazing at their cellphones. Go out for lunch....same number of folks checking email and Facebook. Go to a airport....same number. We are addicted. And I don't see any dimwit robber suddenly getting smart. The vast majority of them are doped up on something and are on automatic most evenings as they cruise for a hit.
He said all they do is workout angry and foam about Obama.
Our 39 year old daughter severely berated us for the looks we gave each other. How can I convince her that if/when the muslims are in the majority (here) that she and I will wear a burka or have our heads chopped off for disobeying?
Teach her about how muslims treat minorities. Tell her about every case of muslims kidnapping little Christian/jewish/hindu/sikh girls that you see on Jihadwatch etc. Eventually she might wake up to what islam really is.
You can't teach her that islam is evil, but with enough examples of its evil she may realize it herself.
She is totally PC on everything, blacks, Jews, Orientals, gays etc. but it is the muslim angle that disturbs me.
Thanks for the suggestion.
I understand... if I get much further south... I would be standing in the water.
This cartoon can be done again, but with the Tsarnev brothers instead of Maj Hasan.
How many officers like Hasan has President Hussein advanced in the military and FBI?
The title says it all.
Reject the talk of privacy and safety trade-offs. We are losing our Freedom AND our safety.
That's right -- cell phones are being tapped, keystrokes on computers are being logged and email intercepted and read; but mosques, which are home base for homegrown terrorists, are strictly off-limits to counterterrorism efforts.
This is what Dick Cheney doesn't understand - the top of the organization might be communist now... and if the NSA has gone in that direction - or large parts of it... we've got a problem ... a real bad one.
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Is Arctic Permafrost the "Sleeping Giant" of Climate Change?
June 24, 2013
Arctic permafrost soils contain more accumulated carbon than all the human fossil-fuel emissions since 1850 combined. Warming permafrost, poised to release its own gases into the atmosphere, could be the "sleeping giant" of climate change.
ISS "Firestation" to Explore the Tops of Thunderstorms
Sept. 10, 2013
Sometimes, Earth mimics a supernova, producing a Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash from the tops of thunderstorms. A new lightning sensor on the International Space Station could solve the mystery of these energetic bursts.
Kepler Discovers a System of Tiny Planets
Feb. 20, 2013
NASA's Kepler mission scientists have discovered a new planetary system that is home to the smallest planet yet found around a star similar to our sun.
Kepler Discovers Smallest 'Habitable Zone' Planets
April 18, 2013
NASA's Kepler mission has discovered two new planetary systems that include three super-Earth-size planets in the "habitable zone," the range of distance from a star where the surface temperature of an orbiting planet might be suitable for liquid water.
Mega-Canyon Discovered Beneath Greenland Ice
Aug. 29, 2013
Proving that there is still much to discover about the landscape of Earth, data from a NASA airborne science mission has revealed an immense and previously unknown canyon hidden under a mile of Greenland ice.
Mystery of the Missing Waves on Titan
July 21, 2013
Saturn's giant moon Titan is dotted with hydrocarbon lakes and seas that bear an uncanny resemblance to bodies of water on Earth. Strangely, though, on Titan there are no waves. In this week's story, planetary scientist Alex Hayes discusses the mysterious flatness of Titan's liquid bodies and predicts a sea-change in the near future.
NASA Finds Long-Term Climate Warming Trend
Jan. 15, 2013
NASA scientists say 2012 was the ninth warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures. With the exception of 1998, the nine warmest years in the 132-year record all have occurred since 2000, with 2010 and 2005 ranking as the hottest years on record.
NASA Mission To Study Mysterious Lunar Twilight Rays
Sept. 3, 2013
A NASA spacecraft slated for launch on Sept. 6 will fly to the Moon to investigate the tenuous lunar atmosphere. Researchers hope "LADEE" will solve a mystery that has been puzzling them since the days of Apollo.
NASA Spacecraft Maps the Solar System's Tail
July 10, 2013
Like a comet, the solar system has a tail. NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer (IBEX) has for the first time mapped out the structure of this tail, which is shaped like a four-leaf clover.
NASA to Broadcast Asteroid Flyby of Earth
Feb. 13, 2013
Starting at 2 p.m. EST on Friday, Feb. 15, NASA Television will provide commentary and images of near-Earth asteroid 2012 DA14 as it flies safely past Earth closer than many artificial satellites.


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Weighing the destruction of pristine wilderness to make more cans
Icelandic writer and director Andri Magnason (PopTech 2012) comes from a country of pristine rivers, idyllic waterfalls and picturesque fjords. And he has meticulously documented plans by industry and government to squeeze every ounce of energy from frighteningly huge tracts of that largely untouched wilderness.
Iceland's 320,000 people have been energy independent since around 1990, thanks to an aggressive push to tap domestic geothermal energy. So why the big push for more energy exploration? Strangely enough, the answer is aluminum, and what Magnason sees as the mindless pursuit of endless growth for growth's sake.
Magnason has documented in books and on film how industrial giants and pliant Icelandic politicians became enticed by the allure of easily accessible "green" energy across Iceland and set out to use that power to make Iceland home to a massive colony of energy-hungry aluminum smelters.
Each aluminum smelter would consume as much energy as adding a million people to Iceland. A colony of smelters would result in the ravaging of vast pristine waterways to generate the requisite power.
But do we really need more aluminum, Magnason asks, in a world when you could build four commercial airline fleets with the one million tons of aluminum cans Americans don't recycle each year?
Magnason explored this theme of unsustainable growth and mindless waste in his 2012 PopTech talk in Camden, Maine. "Can we break out of the cycle?" he asked. "Can we stop these damaging activities?"
The risks of endless growth is a recurring theme for other members the PopTech community as well. PopTech's own Andrew Zolli recently explored why China might be building a 500-person embassy in Iceland. China is moving aggressively in that region with an eye toward the area's rich mineral, oil and gas deposits, including those in Greenland. Zolli notes how Greenland's people are also struggling to manage "the interests of the insatiable global extractive economy into their country in a controlled way, while trying to conserve one of the world's pristine – and globally essential – ecosystems."
It's a serious conundrum.
Other PopTech alumni have also mined this rich vein of debate. Social critic John Thackara (PopTech 2012) presented a stunning rebuttal of the growth-forever paradigm at PopTech's gathering that actually took place in Iceland earlier this year. Thackara delivered his most devastating arguments in mathematical jabs, like when he points out that early humans survived on about 5,000 kilocalories a day, including food and fire. We each use 300,000 and counting.
Thackara deadpanned that it is "very sensible" that we humans have pinned the survival of our economic system on perpetual growth to infinity. He has a point. And Iceland's wilderness provides a provocative vehicle for asking the tough questions about endless, unsustainable growth.
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Willful blindnessJune 20,2013Once again the honorary degrees have all been handed out, the commencement speeches have all been delivered, and Poor Elijah is clearing his throat in my living room. Its not that he expected to take the presidents place at Annapolis, or that he hopes to match the level of insight in Oprahs Harvard declaration that theres no such thing as failure. Its just that every year he composes his thoughts, and every year hes left with me as his audience.
If youve got a few minutes to spare, weve still got plenty of seats up front.
Nearly four decades ago, President Carter got himself into trouble by confronting the nation with what he described as our crisis of spirit. His message that night got tagged as his malaise speech, and it dogged him for the rest of his single term. If you read his speech over, youll find its remarkably prescient. Mr. Carter talked about things we need to talk about today, like an ineffective government that trades in false claims and evasiveness and a Congress where every extreme position is defended to the last breath by one unyielding group or another. He condemned our worship of self-indulgence, and he quoted ordinary Americans, like the citizen whod told him, Mr. President, were in trouble. Talk to us about blood and sweat and tears.
Mr. Carter did, and we sent him packing.
How would we react today to a leader, like Churchill, who promised us nothing but blood, toil, tears, and sweat? I doubt well ever find out, because a speech like that would never make it past the presidents Oval Office censors. They know us too well.
When FDR faced the nation in the Depressions dark hour, he promised a leadership of frankness. Do we, whove now fought two lengthy wars on the backs of a small corps of volunteers, and opted, even in good times, not to raise taxes to pay for either do we really want frank talk about our own obligations and our own shortcomings? Or would we prefer that our president speak frankly about everybody else?
Do we really want to know how dark our hour is?
Do you want to know?
Im a teacher, which means I deal every day with the next generation of adults. Im genuinely fond of my students, and Id likely be fond of most of you, but Im genuinely worried about the kind of adults weve prepared you to be. First, weve muddied the distinction between being an adult and being a child. At school, having determined that you dont know very much, which sadly many of you dont, we elected to solve the problem by empowering you to design your own education. Unfortunately, children who dont know much dont know enough to be able to do that.
We extended the definition of bullying to include even the smallest slights. Then having rendered you hypersensitive, we informed you that as bystanders, it was your job to stop the bullies. Meanwhile, we adults retired from the field and waited to counsel the bullies before we sent them back at you. Thats because we decided that as bad as bullying is, punishing bullies is worse.
In fact, we decided that punishing anybody is worse. We decided to appeal instead to everyones sense of social responsibility, entirely forgetting that some of you, like some of us, dont have a sense of social responsibility.
We declared ourselves child-centered and then left you to shift for yourselves. We enacted laws that placed your classmates right to hit you above your right to have a teacher who can legally stop him. Weve turned reason on its head and been appallingly derelict in our responsibility to be responsible adults.
Weve declared war on schools that suspend disruptive students, and as we pass laws that outlaw suspensions, we congratulate ourselves that students and parents have won a major victory.
Which students and parents have won this victory? Los Angeles has passed a new law that prohibits schools from suspending students for willful defiance. Who benefits when willfully defiant students remain in our classrooms and corridors? Which students and parents should rejoice in this dubious triumph? We outlaw suspensions and then illogically conclude that those lower suspension rates mean behavior has improved. We crow about our success when all thats really happened is more disrupters are still in school stealing more education from their classmates than they used to.
In our crusade against dropping out, weve created alternative programs that bypass most of the elements of a high school education but still award a diploma. Then we congratulate ourselves that dropout rates are declining.
Its easy to cut the dropout rate when you let kids graduate without coming to classes.
Officials and experts are concerned that you lack skills for the 21st century. They demand that schools change to provide those skills. They entirely ignore the fact that literacy, mathematics, and a grasp of the arts and sciences are skills for any century. Those are the skills you lack.
You and the age in which you live are not exceptional. Knowledge means hard labor whether it comes on paper or on a video screen.
When the president visits a middle school and promises connected classrooms with laptops for every student, all the 12-year-olds cheer. The president touts technology as the key to improving our education system. He credits the students enthusiasm for that technology as enthusiasm for learning. Meanwhile, Arne Duncan, his education secretary, sermonizes about the necessity of increasing schools Internet bandwidth.
Im no more opposed to the appropriate use of computer technology than I am to the appropriate use of ballpoint pens. But does the president really think all the 12-year-olds are cheering because they love knowledge, or because they love all the new apps theyll be able to play with during class? Does Arne Duncan really believe that the primary reason American students cant read or work with numbers is they lack adequate bandwidth?
Will adequate bandwidth save a nation where homes are dissolving, a nation that expects schools to feed its children, and tend them 12 hours a day, and fix their teeth, and soothe their psyches?
What will you expect of schools?
What will you expect of yourselves?
Because now its become your turn, as it was once mine.
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