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Tess Chakkalakal [pronounced "Chah-KAHL-ickle"] has published widely on nineteenth-century African American and American literature. She is the author of Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century America (Illinois, 2011) which earned the Robert K. Martin Prize for best book on American literature from the Canadian Association of American Studies. She is co-editor of Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs (Georgia, 2013). Professor Chakkalakal has earned fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Social Science and Humanities Research Council, Duke University, Emory University, and the Mellon Foundation. Before coming to Bowdoin in 2008, Professor Chakkalakal taught at Williams College and Bowling Green State University.
Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs, with Kenneth W. Warren, University of Georgia Press, 2013
Novel Bondage: Slavery, Marriage, and Freedom in Nineteenth-Century American, University of Illinois Press, 2011
"Abolition in the Age of Obama," American Literary History, (Fall 2015) 27. 3: 539-548.
Review of Help Me to Find My People: The African American Search for Family Lost in Slavery by Heather Andrea Williams in Journal of the Civil War Era 4.1 March 2014. (126-129)
"Finding a Home for Equiano," in Teaching Olaudah Equiano's Narrative. University of Tennessee Press, 2012. (95-117)
"Whimsical Constrasts": Love and Marriage in The Minister's Wooing and Our Nig in The New England Quarterly March 2011 (Vol. 84, no. 1).
"To Make an Old Century New" Review Essay in American Quarterly December 2010 Vol 62, No. 4, pp. 1001-1012
"Wedded to the Color Line: Charles Chesnutt's Stories of Segregation" in Representing Segregation, Toward an Aesthetics of Living Jim Crow, and Other Forms of Racial Division, SUNY Press 2010
"Wedded to Race: Charles Chesnutt's Marital Fiction" in Studies in American Fiction 36.2 (Autumn 2008) 155-76.
"Making a Collection: James Weldon Johnson and the Mission of African American Literature" Spec. issue of South Atlantic Quarterly 104.3 (2005): 521-541
"Uncle Tom and the Making of Modern African American Literature." Review of Black Political Economy 33.1 (2005): 73-87.
"I, hereby, vow to Read The Interesting Narrative" in Captivating Voices: Writing Confinement, Citizenship, & Nationhood in the Nineteenth Century. Eds. Jason Haslam and Julia Wright. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 86-109.
"Making an Art Out of Suffering: Bill T. Jones' Uncle Tom." Peering Behind the Curtain: Disabilities in Contemporary Drama. Eds. Kimball King and Thomas Fahy, New York: Routledge, 2002. 35-46
"Being Reena in Canada: A Case of Reckless Eyeballing." Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Criticism Toronto: Insomniac Press, 2000. 159-167.
"Rev. of Autobiography and Black Identity Politics: Racialization in Twentieth-Century America." Biography: an Interdisciplinary Quarterly. 23.3, (2000): 568-572.
Bowdoin: The Civil War Era Course Cluster
Academic Spotlight: Tracing Lasting, Local Footprints of 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'
Introduction to the Black Novel in the United States (AFRS/ENG 107) SyllabusPDF
African American Literature and the Law (AFRS/ENG 326) SyllabusPDF


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The 22 smallest states have 38 million people and are represented in Washington by 44 senators. California also has 38 million people, and it has two senators.
That is one of the stark facts in a recent New York Times story exploring the advantage to small states that is built into the U.S. Constitution.
As an example, the writer pointed to Rutland County in Vermont, which has received $2,500 per person in federal money since the onset of the financial crisis in 2009. Next door, Washington County in New York has received only $600 per person. The stimulus money that washed over the nation during the economic meltdown washed with far more abundance over some places than it did over others.
The over-representation of rural states has been a reality since the nations inception. The creation of the U.S. Senate, which gives each state two senators, was crucial to the compromise that won approval for the Constitution. The result is that small states have a voice amplified in Washington far beyond the number of people actually represented.
Vermonters like the people of Wyoming, the Dakotas or Alaska are not likely to bemoan the power granted to them by the Constitution. Indeed, on Wednesday, the states three-man congressional delegation was trumpeting the news that the state would receive an additional $18 million in federal grants to help communities rebuild from Tropical Storm Irene.
Politically, the small-state advantage generally benefits the Republican Party, which is stronger in rural states. The electoral map on election night told the story: a great expanse of Republican red spread over the middle of the country, with Democratic blue showing the strength of the party on the East and West coasts and the upper Midwest, where actual voters congregate in larger numbers.
One of the most mischievous effects of the small-state advantage is in the Electoral College, where a states total number of electoral votes equals its number of House members, reflecting population, plus two, reflecting the number of senators. It can happen, as it did in 2000, that a candidate wins more electoral votes while losing the popular vote.
The rules of the Senate magnify the power of the small states. For decades, Democratic senators from the South exercised enormous power because rules of seniority gave them committee chairmanships that allowed them to block civil rights legislation. The use of the filibuster has enhanced the power of senators in the minority to obstruct.
Given the anti-democratic character of our democratic system, it is important to see politics in the United States not simply as the exercise of democracy, but as a continual struggle to achieve democracy. At the outset the Constitution enshrined slavery and the privileges of the slave states. The Civil War was not only about the abolition of slavery. It was also about the creation of democracy.
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Though often described as a unified artistic movement, New Objectivity, or Neue Sachlichkeit, is better understood as the spirit of an era, or zeitgeist, rather than a strictly defined aesthetic or ideological framework. Germany's Weimar Republic was marked by a turbulent period at its 1918 inception, followed by relative stabilization from 1924-1929, and a second crisis of political extremism that led to eventual collapse after 1933. Comprised of unique voices and sensibilities, the tendency toward New Objectivity emerged during this particularly volatile period in German history, producing artwork that made visible the social, cultural, and political anxieties of the day.
The term Neue Sachlichkeit was first introduced by Gustav Friedrich Hartlaub, whose 1925 Kunsthalle Mannheim exhibition of the same name sought to chronicle this pervasive trend in post-World War I art. Artists like George Grosz, a former Dadaist, and Otto Dix, a former Expressionist, assumed critical postures in the aftermath of the war. Reacting against the abstraction and subjectivity that previously characterized much of their work, artists like Grosz and Dix revised their concerns to reflect a new sobriety, choosing instead to represent the harsh conditions of the contemporary urban landscape. Grim social realism and figuration became important stylistic armatures, hence the prevalence of portraiture that emphasizes the vulgar, gritty qualities of sitters and their surroundings.
The artists featured in this exhibition engaged in a biting form of social critique, bearing witness to the trauma of a period defined by political and economic struggle. Unsettling images depict difficult subject matter, including the anguish and desperation of the infirm and unemployed, in an effort to accurately document fundamental societal ills. Neue Sachlichkeit artists vividly catalogued rampant disruptions of the social order, including poverty, violence, discrimination, alienation, exploitation, sexuality and its perversions, greed, and death.
Over the course of 30 years, the late Marvin and Janet Fishman amassed one of the most important collections of early twentieth-century German art. In 2000, the Haggerty Museum of Art received a substantial gift of paintings and drawings from which the works on view were selected. The Fishmans were highly attuned to the challenging content and unique power of Neue Sachlichkeit works and were drawn to the genre because of these qualities. As Marvin Fishman recounted in a 1990 interview:
These German works derive from such a troubled time in the country's history. That is what we find so compelling. You can't just simply look at them. You get involved with what they say. The works speak to your mind as well as to your eye, especially those of the Weimar artists who were so involved with the upheavals of the time—the war Germany had lost, the revolution, inflation, Hitler. These paintings and drawings make you think even after you've stopped looking at them.
Reinhold Heller, Art in Germany, 1909 – 1936: From Expressionism to Resistance: From the Marvin and Janet Fishman Collection (Munich: Prestel Verlag in association with the Milwaukee Art Museum, 1990), 12.


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Well tumblr is pretty obscure out of certain circles. Namely, "young people who grew up on the internet" circles. The funny thing about that Amusing Anecdote is primarily that tumblr is quite feminist, and the implication that the teacher (a young feminist) either doesn't know about tumblr or is unwilling to discourage its use is "hilarious."
I think the abundance of porn on Tumblr outweighs any feminist edge it might have...
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Gark the Goblin wrote:I think the abundance of porn on Tumblr outweighs any feminist edge it might have...
Well tumblr is pretty obscure out of certain circles. Namely, "young people who grew up on the internet" circles. The funny thing about that Amusing Anecdote is primarily that tumblr is quite feminist, and the implication that the teacher (a young feminist) either doesn't know about tumblr or is unwilling to discourage its use is "hilarious."
Really? Most of the porn I've seen is non-photographic and commonly gay pairings. And I know it's not feminist to objectify male/male pairings but it's not really anti-feminist either.
Maybe I've been living in a very sheltered fashion but I don't block any tags and I really do not see much porn.
iunno why I told/am telling you guys
but he was really cool
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Haven't done my movies in a while, mostly because I haven't been watching very many movies.
Watched Role Models last night and I'm afraid it wasn't as funny as the trailer makes it appear. I'll give it a C+ with another full grade for all of the LARPing.
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No movies forever and then two (with the same kid) in one weekend!
Hee hee! I'd seen it before, but this movie is funny. Also, it somehow takes everything I don't like about Nicholas Cage and makes it work.
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|The Mad Badger
Hey how is everyone doing? Been a busy last few weeks. Everyone doing well?
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|Gruumash .
|The Mad Badger
What are you playing?
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|The Mad Badger
Hey DB we getting lunch this week?
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|The Mad Badger
Yeah Friday works for me.
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Well you certainly picked a great day for a picket sunny and wonderful.
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My campaign setting. More ideas.
Animals can be born with sorcerous blood. They cannot utilize it consciously, however. To become a werewolf (or other werecreature) you must hunt and kill one with nothing but a stone knife, skin it, and wear the hide. This will give you some traits of the animal and it's sorcerous bloodline.
Vampires: In real life mythology, they come in more breeds than you can imagine, and they don't all fight the same. Going against a Filipino vamp is nothing like fighting Dracula. I have done the same for my campaign setting. There are a lot of different types with very different stats, weaknesses, and special abilities.
Spells: Nothing above 3rd level. You will be compensated with a new metamagic system.
BAB and armor: Both nixed. It's a guns everywhere setting, and I don't see the need to replace armor just to keep BAB, which I view as needless extra math.
Magic items: Weak ones are common, but anything stronger (including a +1 weapon) is very rare. I want such things to be legendary. Magic is common in the world (it is magitek), but a powerful enchantment is very hard to do.
Damage and healing: Fewer hitpoints, and a dice based description system so that you can hear exactly what you did to your foe. Healing magic is present, but in large amounts will make you sick. Resurrection magic ALWAYS brings back a damaged soul, not a whole one. On the other hand, brain death takes a good 5-10 minutes after hitting -Constitution hit points (which is when your heart stops), and the soul does not depart the body until the brain has died, so healing magic can bring you back if you haven't hit brain death yet.
Tecnological period:
18th century magitek
Primary sources of inspiration:
Pirates of the Caribbean
Master and Commander
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Magic: The Gathering (a lot of the art on my cards gives me ideas)
Victorian Horror (Dracula, Frankenstein)
Early Colonial Witch Hunts
Zombie books and movies
Questions? They help me think of details I haven't considered yet.
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|Gark the Goblin
Urizen wrote:Watch out for that Badger. He'll bend your ear with his subversive ways.
Yup you wouldn't know anything about that would you ...being subversive... I think I am still recovering from your bad influence.
How are things going my friend?
Judging by the latest photos I've been tagged in on Facebook, the usual trouble.
How were the USMC?
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If he only fell 40 feet he would have just been crippled for life.
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Aww poor necromancer!
Nice stuff, Kelsey! The sorcerous blood thing and the dice thing sound pretty neat.
Yea, I think the dice thing solves one of the bigger problems with martial characters: lack of cool things to do. Spellcasters have all these neat spell effects, but martials swing to hit for X damage. I want to make X damage have an actual effect beyond depleting a bar, so I'm making a damage system based on penalties and status effects. Healing magic can remove these effects, but too much of it too quickly will make you ill and, if you REALLY overdo it, dead. It's like painkillers without the dependancy. Good when you need them, bad when you have too much.
{rolls Will save: 1d20-4 (fails, links to Youtube)}JMD031 wrote:If he only fell 40 feet he would have just been crippled for life.
Good stuff. The falling 40 feet bit is an inside joke with my group.Long story to follow
Bonus story.
|Doodlebug Anklebiter
I'm going to get you, Black Goblin!
In other news, so I had told the guy at the auto shop to divide what needed to be done to my car into the "wicked wicked important" and the merely "wicked important."
The good news is that the wwi stuff came in $200 under estimtate. The bad news is the the wi stuff is gonna be another $800!
Man, I miss public transportation.
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He was born Oct. 3, 1923 in Ander to Arthur F. and Martha Wilhelm Jacob.
He is survived by Betty Marie Ponton Jacob, his wife of 64 years; daughter, Betty Jo Kincaid of Goliad; son, Michael R. Jacob and wife Vickie of Rosenberg; five granddaughters, Natalie Martisek and husband Rudy, Heather Roeske and husband Will, Rae Ann Zurcher and husband Matthew, Victoria Jacob and Kathleen Jacob; six great-grandchildren, Bryant Roeske, Caroline Roeske, Evelyn Martisek, Pearl Martisek, Joy Martisek and Gavin Zurcher.
He is preceded in death by his parents and sister, Elorine Bluntzer.
Pallbearers were Rudy Martisek, Will Roeske, Matthew Zurcher, Luc L'Ecuyer, Bryant Roeske and Jim Bluntzer.
Visitation was Monday, March 3 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Grace Funeral Home in Goliad.
Funeral services will be Tuesday, March 4 at 10 a.m. at Grace Temple Church in Goliad, Clem Garcia and Larry Lancaster officiating.
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Buying Chevron? Consider an Exit Strategy
The billionaire hedge-fund trader has a way with words, and the following is one of my favorite quotes attributed to him:
The most important rule of trading is to play great defense, not great offense... I am always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money... Risk control is the most important thing in trading... Never play macho man with the market.
That is precisely the approach I've been taking with Chevron (CVX) . Since my most recent share purchase of CVX at $104.26 I've kept a 15% stealth trailing stop at a share price level I'm comfortable with.
The trailing stop alert service that I use sends me an email alert when and if the shares of CVX fall 15% (my chosen percentage) below the highest price CVX attains from the time I purchased it. So, for instance, with the shares trading at around $111.65 on Friday, my trailing stop alert order stands ready.
If the shares were to fall from $111.65 to $94.90, I'll receive an alert telling me it's either time to sell or it's time to buy more. I set the parameters, but it's all part of my carefully chosen exit strategy that gives me my version of what Paul Tudor Jones called "risk control."
With trailing stops, I'll always know exactly when it's time for me to sell a stock, because I've predetermined at what level or price that will happen. There's no more guessing or operating on unreliable hunches, and it keeps emotions (like fear and greed) out of the decision-making.
My renewed resolve is to never again hold on too long to any stock, thus letting small losses get out of hand, or selling too soon and leaving money on the table. Everyone says smart traders "cut their losers and let their winners run," but how many are truly that disciplined?
With all that said, I'm delighted that CVX has done well enough for me since I bought my initial shares in my Roth IRA back on Oct. 10, 2012 at $112.53. My trailing stop loss guided me to not panic and sell when the share price fell to as low as $100.66 on Nov. 15. If CVX shares had closed at $95.65 or below that day I would have stuck to my discipline and sold my shares for a barely acceptable 15% loss.
Don't misunderstand what I'm suggesting here! Trailing stop alerts and having an exit strategy you can live with is not foolproof, as any fool will tell you. In an age of mini-flash crashes I've chosen to use TradeStops, which is an online service that helps me monitor my stocks and my trailing stops without the stock's market maker being able to see my order.


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SPRING MILLS – A benefit spaghetti dinner, in support of the Spring Mills High School baseball team, will be held from 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday in the cafeteria of Spring Mills High School. The all-you-can-eat meal costs $7 per adult; and $4 for children 5 to 12. Those 4 and under eat for free.
Spaghetti dinner to benefit church
INWOOD – Cedar Grove Christian Church, 2320 Sulphur Springs Road, will host a spaghetti dinner at 5 p.m. Saturday. Proceeds will benefit the teens' trip to Winterfest 2014. Cost is a $7 per adult; and $4 for children under 12. The event will also feature a silent auction, bake sale and craft show.
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Oyster dinner to be held Saturday
ROHRERSVILLE, Md. – A ham, oyster and turkey dinner will be held from 1:30 to 5 p.m. Saturday at the Rohrersville Ruritan Schoolhouse, 20123 Rohrersville School Road. Menu also includes mashed potatoes, filling, green beans, sauerkraut and dessert. Cost is $16 per adult and $8 for children 6 to 12. Children 5 and under eat for free. Carryout is welcome, but bring containers.
For more information, call 240-818-1038 or the day of the event, call 301-432-5541.
Bag bingo to be held Jan. 25 at fire hall
SHEPHERDSTOWN – The Shepherdstown Elementary Association will be hosting its annual Longaberger Basket and Thirty One Bag Bingo on Jan. 25 at the Shepherdstown Volunteer Fire Department. Doors will open by 3 p.m., and games begin at 4 p.m.
Lyme disease gala set for Feb. 1
SHEPHERDSTOWN – The Lyme Warrior Dinner Gala will be held from 6 to 11:30 p.m. Feb. 1 at the Clarion. Tickets are $75, plus a small service fee, and may be purchased at www.eventbrite.com/e/lyme-warrior-gala-tickets-9233019209. The event will feature a gourmet meal, open bar, dancing and celebrity guests. All funds raised will be appropriated to Lyme disease research.
Race for the Birds on tap for April 5
SHEPHERDSTOWN – The Potomac Valley Audubon Society has begun accepting online registrations for its 14th annual "This Race is for the Birds!" event.
The event will be held April 5 on the campus of the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC) near Shepherdstown.
To register and for more information, go to the race website at www.raceforthebirds.org or contact Krista Hawley at firstname.lastname@example.com or 304-876-8471.
The race will include two professionally timed races – one 4.9 miles long and another 7.7 miles long.
Registration for these two races will be capped at 400 for both, so same-day registration may not be available.
There will also be a self-timed two-mile community jog/walk for families and individuals who prefer a slower pace, and a one-mile "Fun Run" for children under 10 years of age.
The 4.9- and 7.7-mile races will follow trails that wind through the forests and fields of the 538-acre NCTC campus.
The two-mile jog/walk will follow a course that will be very user-friendly for families with small children, and trail-friendly baby joggers will be appropriate and encouraged.
The trails on the NCTC campus are not normally open to the general public, so this will be a good opportunity to visit and enjoy the facility's beautiful trail network.
The two races will begin at 9 a.m. The jog/walk will begin shortly afterward, and the children's Fun Run will be held at about 10:45 a.m.
The children's Fun Run will be free. Fees for the other portions of the event will range from $15 to $25.
All proceeds will be used to support Potomac Valley Audubon's programs for children, and all fees will be tax-deductible.
Friday night bingo held at fire hall
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Dreaming big in politics difficult
When I see common sense appearing in politics, I am impressed. That great old-fashioned quality is rare these days.
Barack Hussein Obama has taken the United States so low that a real sharp 15-year-old could solve our problems. That is, until someone told them how to get re-elected. I can remember when the Democratic party was for the working man. I can remember John F. Kennedy's famous quote, "It is not what the country can do for you, but what you can do for the country."
In recent years, liberal Democrats have learned how to get elected through entitlement and welfare programs. This not only puts an excessive burden on small businesses in taxes and regulations, but also destroys the American work ethic! Illegal immigration brings in millions of votes for the Democrats. Small business cannot get help because of so-called entitlements.
The news media tries to cover up all the Obama scandals and cheers him on – no matter how grave the consequences. Obama wants to destroy the coal business – the cheapest electricity in the world comes from coal. If fossil fuels were eliminated in America, it would destroy America economically. And just If their global warming theory is correct (which it's not, but that's a whole other story). Destroying our economy would only make an 8 percent difference in world climate change. So, when I hear Joe Manchin talk some common sense crossing political lines, I dream of what he could do for our country and especially our state. Just think about the price of electricity, the price of gasoline, the price of natural gas, etc.
When I hear Chris Christie talk common sense across party lines, I dream big. When I think of the possibility of motivating the working man and woman to vote in greater numbers than the entitlement people, I dream big. When I think of the possibility of some great American who can explain how great America is, and that socialism is not the answer, I dream big.
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WOODSTOCK The Covered Bridges Half Marathon will go on in spite of Mondays tragic events at the Boston Marathon.
About a dozen organizers met on Wednesday at the Woodstock Recreation Center to talk about the upcoming half marathon June 2. But what really occupied their minds were the Boston Marathon runners.
Race Director Mike Silverman said he learned about the bomb explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line while talking on the phone with another committee member.
According to Associated Press reports, two bombs detonated 10 or more seconds apart on Boylston Street, killing three people and injuring more than 140. No suspects were arrested as of Wednesday evening.
According to Silverman, 33 percent of this years entries in the Covered Bridges run are from the Boston area. He assured that the course will be safe and will be patrolled by law enforcement.
I think there will be runners from all over who need to feel comfortable and we need to be supportive of their concerns about what happened. We want them to enjoy their sport, Silverman said. Committee members voiced their approval of a commemoration, similar to the 802 Strong campaign. The 802 Strong logo was developed by Studio 56 of Burlington and appeared on T-shirts, bumperstickers and more.
The money raised through 802 Strong supported the Vermont Community Foundation and the Barnard General Store, according to the 802 Strong Facebook Page. The committee suggested a Boston Strong concept and will be discussed at the next organizational meeting.
We want to show camaraderie and compassion. We want them to know that were aware and not oblivious to it, Tad Nunez, Hartford Parks and Services Director, said.
The Covered Bridges Half Marathon route begins at Suicide Six Ski Area in South Pomfret and passes by four covered bridges. They are the Meadow, Middle and Taftsville Covered Bridges in Woodstock and the Quechee Covered Bridge in Hartford.
Hartford Deputy Police Chief Leonard Roberts said the Windsor County Sheriffs Department will patrol the starting line area and Hartford Police will be at the finish line. Woodstock Police will also patrol the course route in Woodstock.
We probably will have a few more officers than usual this time, Roberts said. Theres an organizational meeting coming up in a matter of days and well determine where to go from there.
Committee member Charlotte Lanahan of Pomfret was skiing at Killington when the two bombs detonated at the Boston Marathon finish line. Lanahan met up with a friend from the Boston area and her friend said her daughter was at the finish line where the bombs went off and was safe.
Lanahan was stunned upon hearing the news. Last years Covered Bridges Half Marathon occurred after Tropical Storm Irene and many people were putting the natural disaster behind them. With the Boston Marathon attacks, Lanahan said it is important for everyone to feel safe and have fun.
We want it to be an uplifting experience, Lanahan said. (What happened in Boston) isnt going to stop people from running. This is going to be a big run for so many people.
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since larry brown cant seem to decide who should be his starting five after 60+ games. i wanna hear what everyone else thinks the best bet for the starting 5 would be. ud have to be crazy to go against these 5...
guard- marbury
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not a good balance..none of them got good D
i like it... tho u better be playin with 2 balls... one is definitely not enough...Originally Posted by sxmarbury516
i say francis comes offf the bench because no team can stop tje fact another great point is coming of the bench ... plus defensive is a mismatch for us ...
u can put them in together when we need to but not to start ....
q rich
j rose
imma stick wit the knicks even when s**t gets tough ...
imma tru knick fan for lyfe ...
Lee is probably one of the best on the team in terms of playing basketball, frye need to learn if he is going to be a franchise player and richardson IS going to find his shot, might not be this year...
If I was coach... this is what I would do"
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SG: Francis
SF: Richardson
PF: Lee
C: Curry
Jalen Rose
Malik Rose
I have always liked when teams had two solid ball handling guards on the team. This should help cut down on the TO's that plague this team! Plus both Marbury and Francis can penetrate with the best of them, they can take the ball to the rim and draw fouls and they can work on pick and rolls pretty well! Richardson offers spacing due to his outside shooting and he also can be used as a POST-UP option on offense. David Lee, I just love the fire in this guy. He plays hard and he goes hard, he is fearless on both ends of the court! Curry is a good offensive Center, but defensively and passing I dont like out of him. But this would be my starting lineup..
The Second unit would have again two decent ball handlers in Jalen Rose and Crawford and Robinson has shown he can dribble. Frye is solid on the low post, but is still learning the defensive side... He is a solid player though. Malik Rose is a straight up hustling type bruiser all teams need.
This would be my unit...
Jackie Butler would also get some minutes as well as Mo Taylor, but I dont really like their games.. I think Taylor is stiff, but Butler has shown a good energy at times...
we should see alot more from Robinson off the bench also
the more i think about it the more im starting to agree. i think david lee has earned a spot in the starting 5. him and steph read eachother very well on the court. and every single time hes on the court hes puttin in 110%. so my 5 would prolly look like this...
g- marbury
g- francis
f- rose
f- lee
c- curry
2nd string...
g- robinson
g- crawford
f- q-rich
f- frye
c- butler
utility- woods, mo taylor, m. rose, & last and deft least j. james
i go to school in MD so i really cant watch the games, but i check the box scores for every game and it seems Jalen Rose scores between 15-20 every game. I didn't like the trade at first simply because it made no sense, but Jalen is a solid player. Maybe im wrong and he plays terribly but scores a lot.
Also i really am starting to like Q. I always get the sense that he really cares about his performance and has stepped up his game in other areas, even though his shooting sucks. I hope we dont trade him.
Eddy Curry blows, this guy is an embarrassment. He has one good game where he drops 20 and then he just sucks the next day and scores 6. This guy is ridiculously inconsistent.
curry,lee,Q,crawford,marbury hands down the best lineup we could have francis off the bench for pg,sg j.rose off the bench for sf and frye off the bench for pf,c


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Adding to a rapidly growing portfolio of accolades, Ergotron—a global manufacturer of digital display mounting and mobility products—is pleased to announce that multiple products have been selected to receive the prestigious ADEX award. The annual award competition sponsored by Design Journal recognizes products for superior design and engineering excellence. The LX Video Conferencing Cart (2008 CES Honoree), the Neo-Flex HD Swing Arm, the Neo-Flex Mobile WorkSpace (2008 CES Honoree), and the Neo-Flex Notebook/Projector Lift Stand (also a 2008 CES Honoree) all received the top ranking Platinum ADEX award, while Ergotron's LX Desk Mount Notebook Arm received a Silver-level award.
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Saturday night's jackpot was up to $325 million, which The Associated Press reported would be the game's fourth-largest ever.
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Mrs. Riedel was born on October 17, 1937 in Laredo. Mrs. Riedel was a graduate of Karnes City High School and a member of the First Baptist Church in Karnes City. She was a secretary for Gulf Energy Gas Plant in Runge for over ten years. On September 23, 1983 she married Leonard Riedel.
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In a letter sent to members of the Honolulu City Council Wednesday, Emergency Management Director Mel Kaku is requesting to expand the use of surveillance cameras during the Dec. 8 Honolulu Marathon. Such authority would come in the form of a resolution passed by the council.
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"We are required by council to not only disclose that, but get their approval in advance of the particular event," explained Kaku.
Under current city ordinance, surveillance cameras are only allowed in Chinatown and Waikiki as a deterrent to crime. Kaku says the city may erect as many as 12 of the all-seeing, electronic eyes along so-called marathon "blind spots," but that number could grow.
"We believe those are the absolute minimum," said Kaku. "Like anything else, we could always want more."
A spokeswoman for Council Chairman Ernie Martin said the resolution authorizing the use of surveillance cameras during the marathon will likely be heard next Tuesday by the Public Safety and Economic Development Committee. A required public hearing and final passage would likely occur during the full City Council hearing Nov. 13.
Honolulu Marathon organizers say the request for surveillance cameras comes after the Boston Marathon bombings of April 15. Two brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, are suspected of planting pressure cooker bombs along the finish line of the race that killed three people and injured hundreds more. Since the deadly attack, at least one U.S. marathon has used surveillance cameras to monitor both participants and spectators.
"They were used at the Oct. 13 Chicago Marathon, and they're also anticipating use of these security cameras at the upcoming New York Marathon," said Ricky Taniguchi, the Honolulu Marathon's deputy race director in charge of security. "We endeavor to keep this race safe for all the participants, the spectators and the volunteers as well."
It's not known how much the installation of surveillance cameras could cost taxpayers, since discussions with Honolulu Marathon officials are ongoing. However, the resolution authorizing their use states some cameras could remain in place once the race is over to help monitor traffic as well as public facilities.
"There's no need to put them up and take them down, it's prohibitive in terms of cost to keep repeating that," said Kaku. "It'll serve the public in the long term."
Still, some Oahu residents aren't sold on the idea of Big Brother remaining put once the last marathoner has crossed the finish line at Kapiolani Park.
"They're not necessarily needed, especially since we live in a digital age where everybody's around (and) everybody has cameras," said Waikiki resident Terran Carter. "That money could go towards things that are really necessary right now."
Kahaluu resident Rod Martin took a similar tact, saying Honolulu is an unlikely target for terrorism, and surveillance cameras would not necessarily deter an attack.
"If it'll make the runners feel safer, I don't mind," said Martin. "But, I just think it's unnecessary; it's not going to be a problem."
During last week's Chicago Marathon, race organizers installed barriers, used undercover police officers and required all marathoners to use clear plastic bags for their belongings. Taniguchi said the clear plastic bag requirement will also be used during the 41st running of the Honolulu Marathon.
"Primarily, it's to ease monitoring of what's in the bags," said Taniguchi.
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There are a wide variety of community outreach events where NUHS
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such as:
"Outreach events not only increase massage therapy awareness,"
says Dr.
Patricia Coe, massage supervisor at NUHS. "They provide
valuable massage practice experience for our interns and instill in
them in the importance of giving back to the communities we
Community service opportunities that share the "hands-on"
benefits of massage not only bring awareness to the value of
massage therapy, they are part of what makes the massage therapy program at
National University outstanding.
American Massage Therapy Association (AMTA) has put together a list
of 25 evidence-based ways that massage therapy can improve health
and wellness and relieve symptoms of common health conditions.
Each item on the list below is linked to an AMTA article that in
turn links to research behind the benefit:
1. Relieve
Boost immunity
Reduce anxiety
Manage low-back pain
Help fibromyalgia pain
Reduce muscle tension
Enhance exercise performance
Relieve tension headaches
Sleep better
Ease symptoms of depression
Improve cardiovascular health
12. Reduce
pain of osteoarthritis
13. Decrease
stress in cancer patients
Improve balance in older adults
15. Decrease
rheumatoid arthritis pain
Temper effects of dementia
Promote relaxation
18. Lower
blood pressure
19. Decrease
symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
20. Help
chronic neck pain
21. Lower
joint replacement pain
Increase range of motion
Decrease migraine frequency
24. Improve quality
of life in hospice care
25. Reduce
chemotherapy-related nausea
The AMTA is also offering the list as a
downloadable flyer that massage therapists can use in their
practice, or that massage enthusiasts can give to friends to
encourage them to get a massage.
If you've never received a professional massage, National
University of Health Sciences offers affordable massage therapy at
its on-campus integrative medical clinic - the NUHS Whole Health
At National University,
students in the massage
therapy program not only learn how to take care of future
clients, they also learn how to take care of themselves. Toward
this goal, the required curriculum includes a participation class
featuring Qi Gong.
Qi Gong is a Chinese system of breathing exercises, body
postures and movements, combined with mental concentration and
meditation. The techniques are used to maintain good health and
control the flow of vital energy, or "qi".
Students in the class learn Qi Gong relaxation techniques so
that they can recharge their own energy and maintain wellness
throughout their career. "I teach the MT students specific
techniques to keep their hands healthy, how to manage emotions,
keep themselves well," says John Robertson who owns Seven Stars
Martial Arts and has been teaching Tai Chi and Qi Gong at NUHS
since 2005.
"I tell my students that
Tai Chi and Qi Gong are the 401k plan for your health. It is what
you do today that allows you to have health and wellness in your
later years," says Robertson.
Massage therapists must maintain a level of fitness without
injury to continue thriving in this physically demanding
profession. It can also be very easy for a therapist to find
him or herself so invested in taking care of others, that they
forget to take good care of themselves. That's why it's
critical for massage therapists to develop self-care regimens such
as yoga, Qi Gong, Tai Chi - and even remembering to get a massage
You'll find John
Robertson and his MT students doing Qi Gong outside when the
weather is nice. Robertson also teaches at several local park
districts, assisted living centers and in Alzheimer's and dementia
outpatient care programs.
"I think its awesome that self-care is a requirement at National
University," says Robertson, who also teaches Taichi in the acupuncture and oriental medicine degree
programs. "It's part of the old physician's code 'heal thyself.' If
you're not well, then you're not able to work to the best of your
ability, or give your client the finest care."
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hoopshype says paul's contract has a player option in 2012.donnie needs to be preemptive and get john wall. we need to have wall in the chamber just in case james or wade stay put or bail on the knicks for the nets(in james's case) or the bulls(in wade's)
next year's draft is loaded with big men, and the teams i assume will be lotto teams seem set at pg.
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wall is the franchise player this team needs.he'll be revolutionary.he's a pass first pg with swag(for those who feel that's a necessity being a ny pg )


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Wesleyan announces new staff member
Charles Powell III has been appointed as the new advancement officer at West Virginia Wesleyan College.
A 2010 graduate of the college, he returns to Wesleyan after a three-year stint with the Sherwin-Williams Co. Since November 2011, he has served as a market manager for the company in London, Ohio.
Powell earned a Bachelor of Science in business administration. At Wesleyan, he served as the president of Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity. Under his leadership, the group was awarded the President's Cup for the best overall performance in academics, philanthropy and recruitment by a Greek fraternity.
In his role as the advancement officer, Powell will travel extensively and visit alumni and friends to build friendships, connections and support for the college.
"Charlie has an excellent background in higher education advancement and marketing," said Bob Skinner, vice president for advancement. "Both of his parents have enjoyed a distinguished career in higher education, and Charlie's instincts and work ethic allowed him to receive several promotions at Sherwin-Williams. We are delighted that he is returning to Wesleyan."


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A high-ranking executive from Hewlett Packard advised the company's channel partners to demand Oracle to continue supporting Intel Corp.'s Itanium-based mission-critical servers with new software. HP claims that Oracle may change its mind once it hears feedback from its customers.
"We are asking you to rally around and ask Oracle to reverse this decision. Call or write - they have changed their minds in the past on issues, and we are asking you to rally to make this happen," said Dave Donatelli, executive vice president and general manager for HP's enterprise servers, storage, and networking business, during his speech at HP's Americas Partner Conference 2011 in Las Vegas, reports CRN web-site.
According to the vice-president of HP, the company commands 26% of Unix server market and is ahead of Sun/Oracle based on market share. Still, Oracle applications are the most common software running on HP's HP-UX Unix platform. As a result, Oracle's decision to cancel development of new software for Intel Itanium-based platforms (citing end-of-life of the IA64) looks like an attempt to boost popularity of its own SPARC platform.
"In a high market share area, this is a shameless attempt to force customers to spend a lot of money to move to a platform over time that gives customers no benefits. Oracle made this decision to slow Sun SPARC market losses," added Mr. Donatelli.
Chief executive officer of HP also believes that Oracle's decision is motivated by performance of its own hardware business and desire to get additional customers, but not by the uncertainties with Itanium or HP-UX roadmaps. According to HP, Itanium and HP-UX will continue to exist for over ten years.
"From my perspective, it's a rather clumsy attempt by Oracle to try and prop up a failing and deteriorating Sun server business. It is an anticompetitive decision, it is self interested and it is to the endangerment of customers," said Leo Apotheker, the CEO of HP.
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Yiri T. Kohl is an underground comic artist that was born and bred in Amsterdam. Though he spent much of his childhood in bed with migraines, in between attacks he would draw like a madman. At age five he decided that the only career worth pursuing would be that of an artist. During high school he grew out of the migraines, and into amphetamines and Transcendental Meditation.
This was a very good phase for his drawing outlets. In 1993 the first three issues of his underground comix series 'Bijlmer Boys' appeared. By the fourth issue, expectations of a comics career were high, but the tides were against him for a time, so he got a job at an IT company.
Artistically, Yiri's focus shifted to making paintings and poetry, which resulted in some exhibitions and two publications. In 2004 he left his desk job on his doctor's advice. Then in 2007 he hooked up with the international theater group FoolishPeople, first as an artist, then as a performer.
In early 2008 Yuri met comic artist Margreet de Heer, which encouraged him to draw comics again. He started working on the long-awaited fifth issue of 'Bijlmer Boys', as well as a special Omnibus-edition of the first four issues. He married Margreet in January 2009. Yiri and Margreet introduced his new 'Bijlmerboys Omnibus' on the 6th of February 2009 at Galerie Lambiek. He is also the colorist of Margreet's work.
Yiri and Senoeni introducing the Bijlmerboys Omnibus at Lambiek
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My bad, I just made a game thread too....
New York Knicks (13-22) vs. New Orleans Hornets (22-11)
Starting Lineups:
New York Knicks:
PG- Chris Duhon
SG- Quentin Richardson
SF- Wilson Chandler
PF- David Lee
C- Jared Jeffries
New Orleans Hornets:
PG- Chris Paul
SG- Rasual Butler
SF- Peja Stojakovic
PF- David West
C- Tyson Chandler
Highlights from last game:
Key Matchup:
Chris Duhon vs. Chris Paul
Song of the Day:
Talib Kweli- Listen
My bad, I just made a game thread too....
nice thread JayJ you should do some in my opinion.....nice choice on the song, Talib got some skills
and highlights from last game....i thought there weren't any ill check em out anyways
hope we come out with some energy today it's our last game on the road trip so it'll be nice if we show were not completely dead yet...
ima call it Nate gets out of his recent slump(i hope)
and Chandler and Harrington have bounce back games
Final score
Hornets- 105
DaTPRiNCE...That EGYPTiAN Fella, #MeloMafia
^ Thanks, Talib is pretty underrated. Him and Mos Def make a very good group.
Jeffrie is playing well to start. Rebounding, playing good defense. Nobody seems to be shooting that well. Hopefully they can start knocking down shots. Pretty good overall performance so far.
I love the way we've been playing so far. Moving the ball very well, playing defense. Jeffries is really hustling and grabbing a lot of rebounds. Sometimes we come out of halftime and play like crap. Like the last game against the Rockets. Glad to see that's not the case here. Can't believe we're up by 12. Hope we can keep it up.
Remarkable! a Knick Win in New Orleans...
nice win to close out the road trip hopefully this will convert to a nice stretch after the horrible one we just stopped
Jeffries did his thing out there tonight(no homo) had 3 points but he provided stuff that doesnt show up on stat sheets like taking charges and playing defense that made west's life miserable...to go along with 6 assts and 8 rebs(5 offensive)
so he's the player of the game
chandler was good after a bad game vs Houston, and Harrington hit a big three to give the momentum back to us
Nate still shooting bad....he needs to bust out soon(no homo)
DaTPRiNCE...That EGYPTiAN Fella, #MeloMafia
Great win, I wish I could watch the game, have to follow it online.
Great Win, Hope We Can Get Some Momentum With 2 Wizards Games Coming Up.
That was a great team effort tonight from all the guys that played.They finally played team ball and all was on the same page.
Lee was the man again tonight with his awesome play 12-16 24points,9rebounds,and 3 dimes.
Chandler played a great game, shot the ball well and did'nt take bad shots like he normally has been doing.
Nate and Harrington is still stinking up the gym with their terrible play.Hopefully they can get out of their slump and get back to normal.
Overall is was a great win that the Knicks really needed and my player of the game is Lee.
that might have been one of the biggest wins of the season, besides beating boston, but they have choked lately (they did win tonight though........****) anyways, i missed the first half, but i saw the entire 2nd half and the knicks led by as many as 14 in the 4th! it was a nail biter game but im glad we came out on top. great way to end the roadtrip, Q-Rich had another poor shooting night but his rebounding and assists were outrageous and big. same goes for J-Jefrries, his rebounding and assists were crucial too! i think the stat was 30 total assists for the team and only 8 turnovers. thats how you win games! we played good defense overall. Just a great game after a pathetic outing at Houston and getting downed by a 20 point loss.
D-LEE42FanLEE'S A BEAST!!!
Who would've thought (bet their Money) that the Knicks would've beat Chris Paul NO Hornets on their homecourt?
DatPrince, your absolutely right on the Q.Richardson & Jefferies theory, they started this game playing like a Proffesional SF/SG switching position on offense/defense with Wilson Chandler which threw a curve in Hornets coach Baron Scott plan with Peja & Chris Paul.
It's our bad that Q.Rich have those kind of games 1 out of 8 games and Jefferies team-chemistry shows up 1 out of 6 games....so excuse me for calling him Q.Brick through those 7 games and Jefferies the 12th man on the roster.
The Knicks shooting was not all that well but their defense deserve a B-+ plus for effort....I still get frantic about all the 3-balls we shoot in the 4th Qtr....but Q.Rich & Harringtons 3's dropped with Chandler layup then his jump-shot at the top of the foul line which sealed this Knick Win.
Lets Go Knicks
Gallinari be aware of Rookie Brook Lopez 31pts & 13rbds over a centerless Thunder team to give his Nets team a start to finish win.
I dont trust the Knicks "two-headed" clueless monsters selecting in the 2009 draft after their poor-poor selection in 2008 draft.


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The wetter, cooler May-June has turned back into the customary hot, dry July, and our nearby lake levels are dropping accordingly.
Just a week ago, Corpus Christi officials announced that city was implementing stage 2 water restrictions.
The combined levels for Choke Canyon Reservoir and Lake Corpus Christi had fallen to 40 percent of capacity (now about 39 percent).
Then, on Monday, City of Beeville utility customers were requested to begin stage 3 water use restrictions.
That means lawn sprinklers can only be used one day a week on residents' normal trash pickup days. Also, no yard watering will be allowed between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. on those days.
Stage 3 restrictions also mean persons cannot allow water to run off a property into streets or storm drains, and not allow water to flow constantly through a tap hydrant or valve.
Hand-held irrigation will be allowed at any time on any day, and drip irrigation is OK if the irrigation system is equipped with a shutoff nozzle.
Many residents lament the fact that our city relies on a surface water system from the lakes, which are plagued by high evaporation rates and mandated water releases into the Coastal Bend bays and estuaries.
We believe our city leaders understand their concern and are expected to begin implementing steps to use several water wells from the shallow Evangeline aquifer to create a supplemental water supply.
In the meantime, conservation is the key to survival (for both humans and our yards and gardens) in this semiarid region.
"Dryness has always been a problem for the western part of the state," Corpus Christi water expert James Dodson said at the Beeville Rotary Club meeting last week.
"Groundwater has huge potential," he said. He believes it's the future for water development in the Coastal Bend – there's fresh water in many of the water tables in the area and brackish water in other aquifers.
Dodson said the entire region needs to be ready to depend on multiple sources for its water in the future and the time to act is now. Many of us around here have been saying that for the last five years or more.


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Feb. 25, 2010—Volunteer efforts by North Central College students, faculty and staff are being recognized by a federal agency that leads President Barack Obama's national call to service initiative, United We Serve.
North Central has been named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
The Corporation for National and Community Service administers the annual Honor Roll award and engages more than five million Americans in service through its Senior Corps, AmeriCorps, and Learn and Serve America programs. Visit www.nationalservice.gov to learn more.
North Central College was recognized for its national and international service trips, its partnerships between the Uncommon Life Movement student group and World Relief organization to aid refugees, and for large-scale local service projects. The College's Office of Ministry and Service coordinates many projects. Visit http://northcentralcollege.edu/content/serve-others to learn more about community service at North Central.
Every year during the College's December Term, spring break and summer break, North Central sends teams of students to serve in communities. In 2008-2009 students served with the Appalachian Service Project in Kentucky, Mission of Hope in Haiti, Casa de Los Angeles daycare in Mexico, three Habitat for Humanity sites across the country, the L'Arche community in Florida for people with disabilities, Youth Service Opportunities' homelessness outreach in New York, Center for Student Missions in Washington, D.C., and Koinonia Community's centers for street children in Nairobi, Kenya. Visit http://northcentralcollege.edu/content/serve-others to learn more about service/mission trips.
North Central partners with World Relief Aurora to serve as tutors, friendship partners, homework helpers and interns with new refugee families by providing everything needed to set up the refugees' apartments, receive them at the airport and continue to support them weekly as they adjust to life in America. The partnership benefits North Central students by creating career paths in social service and cross-cultural work, and increases the capacity of World Relief staff to assist local refugees with their adjustment. Visit http://worldreliefaurora.org/ to learn more about World Relief Aurora.
North Central's two large-scale community service events are Into the Streets in the fall and Intersection in the spring. Into the Streets is part orientation in which first-year students serve the local community by volunteered with the meal-distribution organization Feed My Starving Children or picking up trash in local forest preserves. On Intersection Day, North Central faculty and staff volunteers devote a day to helping six social service agencies in Aurora and Naperville: Bryan House, Hesed House, Katherine Manor, Sudanese Community Center, Loaves and Fishes Food Pantry and Rebuilding Together.
The Corporation for National and Community Service recognized more than 700 colleges and universities for their impact on issues from poverty and homelessness to environmental justice. On campuses across the country, thousands of students joined their faculty to develop innovative programs and projects to meet local needs using the skills gained in their classrooms.
"Congratulations to North Central College and its students for their dedication to service and commitment to improving their local communities," said Patrick Corvington, CEO of the Corporation for National and Community Service. "Our nation's students are a critical part of the equation and vital to our efforts to tackle the most persistent challenges we face. They have achieved impactful results and demonstrated the value of putting knowledge into practice to help renew America through service."
The Corporation oversees the Honor Roll with the Department of Education, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Campus Compact and the American Council on Education.


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#20215 - 08/24/02 02:51 PM Re: Chinese
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Yes, spoken chinese is so different from one area to another it can't be understood.. but all the languages use the same characters to mean the same thing.(so any one can read something and come to the same understanding.)
think just of american engish and english english..
"fanny" has very different meanings.
"schedule" (is that skedule? or shedule?) is spoken differently)
to hospital? or to the hospital?
now imagine, the changes that can, and did occur over the thousands of mile that chinese is spoken, over thousands of years!
Mandrin is one main "dialect", Cantonese is an other.. there are thousands.. some are fairly close to each other, but all have some differences..
a character in chineses might represent a period of time (from new moon to full) it could be said as "two weeks" or "for'tnight", or 14 days, all very different words, but each represents the same interval of time.
but if you "said" it as for'tnight, many here in US would not know what you meant.. So too with chinese.. the idea (an interval of time that is 1/2 of a lunar month) can be expressed in many different "sounds". Not every one knows all the different sounds, but if presented as written chinese, it would be understood by all of the "speakers"._________________________
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#20216 - 09/12/02 12:59 PM Re: Esperanto
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Posts: 161
Loc: Aberdeen, Scotland
>vocabulary and grammatical features are borrowed from >romance
now, that would be a language that everybody understands...
make love - not war!
#20217 - 09/14/02 11:04 AM English as a global language
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Posts: 161
Loc: Aberdeen, Scotland
>I have yet to see any mention of power. When the French were powerful, their language was the most >important at top-level meetings. When the British Empire existed English took the place of French. Now that the >USA is the most powerful country, English is the main world language
This is a good point but not complete picture. Russian empire used to be very powerful and not only in Europe but in Asia ass well but nobody (big groups of people outside the empire) ever tried to study Russian. Too complicated. I think that Chinese as the most difficult language has only theoretical advantages (which Esperanto also has but see the discussion) and it will never become the language of the Net, for example.
English language is as simple as Basic in contrast with C++ if you compare it with Chinese, German or even French.
#20218 - 09/14/02 12:11 PM Re: English as a global language
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Dear Vika: Almost two hundred years ago political power prompted increase
in French speakers. Russian power made many US schools offer Russian. My
second daughter planned to teach Russian until she found how shabbily
Harvard treated the women in the Russian department. So she went to medical school.
But it is the commercial advantages of English currently that predominantly motivates its
acquisition as a second language. That may persist for an appreciable period, since neither
India nor China possess a single national language that appears likely to become competetive.
#20219 - 09/15/02 07:56 AM Re: English as a global language
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I think that the reign of French as the standard language of diplomacy extended well beyond the time of France as an effective global superpower. I believe that it was the openness of English to foreign influences, a quality actively opposed in the French language, that gave English the edge in the twentieth century. Having a world wide empire may be necessary to establish a world language but it is not sufficient. English has been about change since the days of the Danelaw. The language is a creole taking bits and pieces of every language it has touched and for this reason is more available to other peoples.
#190973 - 05/09/10 06:10 PM Re: . [Re: Max Quordlepleen]
Registered: 05/09/10
Posts: 4
Hi! I am new here. I am a fluent speaker of Esperanto despite the fact that I have two mother languages (first languages) that are rather widely spoken around the world: American English and German.
At this point in time, Esperanto is no more artificial than Hochdeutsch or Cambridge English, both of which have been purposefully and consciously shaped by a group of people. Esperanto has slang (lots of it), dialects, and is used in daily life (e.g. in my house). My partner is Brazilian and so we both have acquied the other guy's language (well, his German is still a work in progress).
I have made love in Esperanto, sworn in Esperanto and used Esperanto to talk about grocery shopping and who should wash the dishes. I have also dreamed (or dreamt) in Esperanto.
There are native speakers of Esperanto (George Sorros is one of them). New words come into the language (e.g. "mojosa" - means something like "cool" in English. Noone knows how that word came about, it just did.)
Esperanto is not, as someone here wrote, a bouquet of plastic flowers. It is a living language. In fact, there are no non-artificial languages. All languages were created by humankind. Unless you are an evangelical protestant and believe that God created language and passed it down to us, then you must believe that humans created language.
I don't mean to contradict anyone here but I feel as hurt by some of the things people say about "my" language as they would if I were to make fun of their language. Furthermore, I have the impression that some of those who criticize Esperanto don't speak it or have ever studied it.
jI recently delivered a paper at a conference on the use of morphology in teaching Chinese vocabulary and was surprised when I was writing the paper that Chinese "creates" words in the same way that Esperanto does and that both languages have a large body of unbound morphemes which can be used as heads or codas for new words, which is not true of most European languages.
#190974 - 05/09/10 09:21 PM Re: . [Re: Dr Robb Kvasnak]
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Posts: 655
Loc: Florida, USA
Welcome aboard, Dr. Robb. There's no need to be defensive about the artificial origins of Esperanto. So what if one person essentially made up from whole cloth the grammar, syntax, spelling, etc.? That certainly doesn't make it a useless construct. That it has evolved (and is evolving yet) only underscores its different origin from other languages - in 300 years, "original" Esperanto will be unintelligible to Esperanto speakers.
On the other hand, to say that all languages were "created" by humans in the same way Esperanto was is patently specious. All of our many languages evolved from preexisting forms through the contributions of millions of people using the language(s) to suit their needs. As will happen to Esperanto. But no committee of Cro-Magnons decided the entire structure of their language at a sitting and presented it to the grunting populations outside their cave. The ability to speak and the vehicle of language evolved initially from lesser skills. The origins of Esperanto and virtually every other language that has ever been are inarguably different. Again - So what? That doesn't make Esperanto bad, but it does make it unique._________________________
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#190979 - 05/10/10 06:51 AM Re: . [Re: beck123]
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Originally Posted By: beck123The origins of Esperanto and virtually every other language that has ever been are inarguably different. Again - So what? That doesn't make Esperanto bad, but it does make it unique.
But not so unique as to make it sui generis. Cf. e.g., Lojban, Ido, Na'vi, Sindarin, etc.
#190982 - 05/10/10 08:59 AM Re: [senskriba titolo] [Re: Faldage]
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I think that Esperanto will have succeeded when it has two mutually unintelligible offspring, and, no, I do not count Ido.
But, on a more serious note, that Mandarin Chinese and English both have unbound morphemes is is not unusual as world languages go. Esperanto has more inflections (bound morphemes) than English or Mandarin._________________________
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#191037 - 05/11/10 01:34 PM Re: [senskriba titolo] [Re: zmjezhd]
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Originally Posted By: Dr Robb KvasnakHi! I am new here. I am a fluent speaker of Esperanto despite the fact that I have two mother languages ...
... but I feel as hurt by some of the things people say about "my" language as they would if I were to make fun of their language.
Dr Robb, the posts you are referring to are eight years old. Check out the posted date on the right of the post-box. No point in being hurt eight years later.
That said...
You can love your language but denying its origins is not honouring it. It is a recently constructed (in the late 1800s), deliberately-planned language. It did not evolve, it was carefully crafted. The fact that it is now evolving does not make it any less artificial in origin.
The fact that it was crafted does not demean the humanitarian reason for its creation though, i.e., better communication might lead to better getting along.
Revel in it, champion the cause getting along is a good cause but dont get on a soapbox with the wrong history, people will only discount you for it. Instead, honour the root of the language for what it was meant, a tool of better understanding and peace.
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Length: 60 Minutes
The SBA's guaranteed loan programs are now more accessible to banks and more attractive to borrowers due to significant changes that went into effect on January 1, 2014. This webinar will clarify the policy changes, including new process methods, and discuss how your institution can take advantage of them to earn non-interest fee income while meeting the needs of small business customers.
Arne Monson is president and co-founder of Holtmeyer & Monson, an ICBA Preferred Service Provider that has been helping community banks meet the SBA lending needs of their customers since 1982. Arne is a recognized authority on SBA lending and his opinions, knowledge and input are frequently requested by the Small Business Administration, Congressional bodies and regulatory agencies. He is a Certified Management Accountant and a member of the Lender Service Provider Committee of the National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders.
1 CPE Credit
Program Level: Basic-Intermediate
|ICBA Member Price: $199.00
|Non-Member Price: $299.00
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