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A UR-sponsored program is one with which the University has a formal affiliation. In most cases, these programs have hosted UR students for many years, and the program staff have become familiar with the academic interests, needs and strengths of UR students. UR offers more than 75 programs during the summer and the academic year.
Advantages of UR-sponsored programs:
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- Applications are available at the Center for Study Abroad, and all materials are coordinated by that office.
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- You may be interested in a studying a language or topic not currently offered on a UR-sponsored program.
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it takes the same effort to swing an AR at a door knob every time... your gonna hit it as hard as you can every time so that you dont have to do keep doing it.
first thing you learn is that knowing " a little" will get you killed. most of my family members were in the service from WWII, Korea & Vietnam they all like to "teach".
yeah ive been beat with a ball bat, hit with a hammer, slashed with a knife & it wasnt peeling apples... or a family member... what i was taught is why im still alive.
NO: im not in the military(if thats what you mean)... didnt pass the physical. lmao
how that relates in breaking a polymer lower? or saying that they are no good? im curious for the tie in, cause if this is where you tell me that since im not in the military, i dont know anything about building/testing/using guns... dont waste either of our time.

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Cains is based in Ayer, Mass., and generates approximately $80 million in annual revenue. The company employs approximately 100 people. Its product portfolio offers retail and foodservice customers an assortment of packaging sizes, sold under both private label store brands and the Cains, Naturally Delicious and Olde Cape Cod brands.
TreeHouse has agreed to pay $35 million in cash for the business, subject to adjustments for working capital and taxes. The transaction is expected to have a neutral impact on TreeHouse's earnings in 2013, but is expected to positively impact 2014 earnings by approximately $0.05 per share. The transaction is expected to close within 30 days, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, and will be financed through borrowings under TreeHouse's existing $750 million credit facility.
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Discussion in 'THE OTHER BIKES' started by Drummerboy1975, Oct 28, 2010.
oyster bed?? :lol:
I see the stainless fenders but still dont recognize it...
That's taking the whole 'beach bike' theme about as far as you can! Unless, it's a 'Barge bike' theme... :roll:
I thought it had a funky chain guard on it.. but looking closer I think its the chain... :lol:
Extreme Beach Cruiser.... :lol:
something pulled out of the ocean?
I think it's a bicycle.
an old anchor :lol:
Dinner.....after you shuck those oysters.
Going by the frame and cottered cranks, I'll guess it was a Raleigh sports 3 speed or Hercules, the fork crown will tell.
Your next project?
Wow, love the patina!!! I say spray some clear coat and call it a day :mrgreen: Enter it in the next RR build 6 :lol:
No sorry, not mine. Found on the Net.
your on the wrong forum, thats a mussel bike! lol.
btw, *You're* and *that's*
It was an artificial reef.
That'll buff out...
That would look great with a scalloped paint job. :wink:
ok guys clam it up with the wise cracks ....
it Looks like a bike that someone found in a shipwreck! lol! :mrgreen:
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How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car — which he calls "a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prosthetic device" — by making our cities more walkable and more pleasant for more people.
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see hicktown; city in southeastern, ky known for its large amounts of meth, marijuana, and pain pills. The main attraction in Williamsburg is the local University, which is waaaaay too christian for where it is. The main hangout spot for kids on the weekends is their back yards, smoking pot and making meth to sell to the "higher-class addicts" for more weed money. It is also acceptable to fuck your siblings and kill the gays.
I went on down to Williamsburg, Ky to kill me some fags and fuck my sister while waiting on those damn teenagers to finish my meth.
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No Child Left Behind Empowers Parents
Success on the Summer Reading Front
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No Child Left Behind Empowers Parents
No Child Left Behind ensures that parents receive the information they need to make informed decisions about their child's education.
Based on achievement data from last school year, each state must compile a list of schools that did not make academic progress (what's commonly referred to as adequate yearly progress, or AYP). Working within the law's parameters, each state sets its own standards for academic achievement and goals for annual progress. Schools receiving federal Title I funds that don't meet the state goals are designated as needing improvement; schools must then notify the parents.
Some parents are now finding this notice in their mailboxesand the results may be unexpected. Parents may be understandably concerned about their child's school, but they should also feel empowered.
Many parents now have the right to know how their child's school is doing and whether their child's teachers meet the definition of a "highly qualified" teacher in the No Child Left Behind law. Parents can choose to transfer their child from a Title I school needing improvement to a public school that is performing better. Children from low-income families in schools needing improvement for more than one year will be eligible to receive additional academic services or tutoringat no cost to parents. Parents who have questions should contact their local school districts, or log on to www.ed.gov for more information.
Success on the Summer Reading Front
Middle school students in the Atlanta public school system spent their summer doing more than having fun in the sunthey were reading books as part of the No Child Left Behind Summer Reading Achievers Program.
The pilot program encouraged students in grades K-8 to read during the summer months and thereby avoid the loss of reading skills that often occurs during summer vacation. Students in the program were asked to read an average of one book a week.
Some exceeded that mark, like sixth-grader Simone Penn, who read 45 books. "Reading is kind of fun," she reasons. "[Plus,] it keeps you functioning during the summer, so when you come back to school you can be smart and know different words."
Students were expected to read 10 age-appropriate books during the summer months and then briefly describe the books by completing a simple form. Students who participated are receiving an embossed "No Child Left Behind Summer Reading Achiever" certificate signed by Secretary Rod Paige and Atlanta Public Schools Superintendent Beverly L. Hall, along with a variety of prizes. (Results of the total number of books that children read were not available at the time this publication went to press.)
|"Reading is the one skill upon which all others depend, and research tells us that children who don't read during the summer may lose a month or more of the reading progress they had made in school."
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige, announcing the pilot No Child Left Behind Summer Reading Achievers Program.
Atlanta was chosen to pilot the program because of its dedicated school leaders and its strides over the past several years in narrowing the achievement gap for economically disadvantaged students.
Since many students in the high-poverty district live in homes where books are unaffordable luxuries, reading 10 books a week was no small challengeuntil the program's partners stepped in to help.
"When a parent has to make the decision on whether or not to buy food and clothing or a book, obviously it's going to be food and clothing," says Linda Lancaster of First Book, a children's literacy organization that donated more than 55,000 books to the program. First Book is a national nonprofit organization that gives children from low-income families the opportunity to read and own their first new books. In the last two years, First Book has provided almost 15 million new books to children in need in hundreds of communities nationwide.
Other contributing corporate and nonprofit partners included Barnes and Noble; BellSouth Telecom Pioneers; Boy Scouts of America; Chick-fil-A; MeadWestvaco; Scholastic, Inc.; Six Flags, Inc.; Target stores; Walt Disney Company; Atlanta-Fulton County Library System; Atlanta Coca-Cola Bottling Company; Communities in Schools of Atlanta; City of Atlanta Bureau of Parks and Recreation; Boys and Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta; Atlanta Metro Chamber of Commerce; Atlanta Partners for Education; Atlanta Council of PTAs; and Parenting Coalition International.
Contributing partners donated their time and talentsuch as the "DisneyHAND Reading Together with Belle," a series of interactive readings performed by Belle from Disney's "Beauty and the Beast"and also prizes. For example, Coca-Cola donated 10 bicycles and 85 tickets to its local museum; Six Flags pledged passes to its theme park; and Scholastic, Inc., pledged a book to every child that met the 10-book quota. Among other incentives, the Atlanta-Fulton County Library system, whose local branches posted running tallies of participating students' accomplishments, is set to award eight personal computers through a lottery, in which only children in the program could participate.
Jill Van Leesten of Communities in Schools of Atlanta, one of the school district's family-support arms, says children felt better equipped to begin the new school year as a result of participating in the summer reading program. "They feel like they've done something over the summer," she says. "And their parents feel more comfortable, too."
Tawanda Copeland, whose fifth-grade daughter Ashanti was a participant that read 25 books this summer, said, "Instead of going outside playing so much or watching TV, I let her read to me or to her little brother."
Copeland's daughter also received support through her school's virtual book club, which incorporated the program's suggested reading list. The online chat group, established by a former media specialist at Waters Elementary in connection with other area and national schools, provided a forum for children to compare and contrast their ideas, which the program considers just as important as filling the reading logs.
More information about the No Child Left Behind Summer Reading Achievers program is available at www.ed.gov/parents/academic/summer/reading/index.html.
Close-Up: No Child Left BehindDistance Education
Enrollment in distance education courses has nearly doubled since 1995, with more than half of the nation's colleges and universities offering distance education courses in 2000-01, according to a new report by the Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics (NCES).
Distance Education at Degree-Granting Postsecondary Institutions: 2000-2001, the third survey of its kind from NCES, reports 3.1 million enrollments* in distance education courses at the 4,130 institutions that responded to the survey.
Nearly 56 percent of higher education institutions offer distance learning (see chart below), as compared to 33 percent in 1994-95 and 44 percent in 1997-98, when previous surveys were done. The reports define distance education as education or training courses delivered to off-campus sites via audio, video or computer technologies.
Other key findings include
- Public institutions were more likely to offer distance education courses than private institutions. During the 12-month 2000-01 academic year, distance education courses were offered by 90 percent of public two-year institutions and 89 percent of public four-year institutions, compared to 40 percent of private four-year institutions and 16 percent of private two-year institutions.
- For institutions that did not plan to offer distance education in the next three years, factors perceived as preventing these institutions from starting distance education included inconsistency with the institution's mission (44 percent), program development costs (33 percent), concerns about course quality (26 percent), limited technological infrastructure to support distance education (24 percent), and lack of perceived need (22 percent).
For more information about distance learning, visit www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/os/technology/distance.html or call 1-800-USA-LEARN.
*If a student was enrolled in multiple distance education courses, institutions were instructed to count the student once for each course in which he or she was enrolled. Thus, enrollments may include duplicate counts of students. **Detail does not sum to totals because of rounding.
Tips for Parents
These tips may help boost your child's reading skills and make reading fun
- Get a library card for your child. Children love seeing their names on the cards and choosing books they either want to read or have read to them. Many libraries offer story hours and computers for public use. Librarians also can help your child with everything from locating books to tackling research.
- Read with your child for at least 20 minutes every night from a broad selection of children's books, including fairy tales, songs, poetry, fiction and nonfiction.
- For beginning readers, point at each word as you read it. This helps children learn that we read from left to right. It also helps children understand that the word they say is the word they see.
- Let your beginning reader read to you.
- Talk with your child about the pictures and what is happening in the story to help develop comprehension skills.
- Read your child's favorite book over and over again. Children love hearing certain stories many times, and the repetition helps them connect the sounds they hear with the written words.
- Invite your younger children to join in when you read stories that have rhyming words and lines that repeat.
- Point out new words and explain what they mean.
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With 1,200 educational resources supported by 30 federal agencies, the Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE) Web sitewww.ed.gov/freehas been updated to help users do more precise and faster searches. New search capabilities eliminate the guesswork in locating a wealth of resources for teaching and learning on a variety of subjectsfrom arts to vocational education. In addition, FREE just added some dynamic resources to its repertoire (one of which includes an animated illustration of a raindrop traveling through the water cycle). Examples of these new resources include:
- Emergence of Advertising in AmericaNearly 9,000 images from the Library of Congress present the early history of advertising in the United States, including cookbooks, billboards, print advertisements, trade cards, calendars, almanacs and leaflets.
- Exploring Earth: Visualizations100 animations and images from the National Science Foundation illuminate key concepts in earth science, including how coal forms, how continents grow, how geysers erupt, how waves and tectonic plates move and more.
- Reading Rockets: Launching Young ReadersParent tips, video clips and transcripts from the Department of Education, including interviews with some of the nation's foremost reading experts; motivational e-cards that grandparents and teachers can send to children; and a forum for sharing suggestions and booklists.
The Achiever is published semi-monthly during the school year for parents and community leaders by the Office of Intergovernmental and Interagency Affairs, U.S. Department of Education (ED). Rod Paige, Secretary.
For questions and comments, contact: Nicole Ashby, Editor, U.S. Department of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Room 5E217, Washington, DC 20202, 202-205-0676 (fax), firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Disclaimer: The Achiever contains news and information about public and private organizations for the reader's information. Inclusion does not constitute an endorsement by the U.S. Department of Education of any products or services offered or views expressed.
Thank you for your interest in The Achiever, the U.S. Department of Education's biweekly bulletin on No Child Left Behind, the historic, bipartisan education reform law signed by President Bush in January 2002. We are delighted to hear that the newsletter is providing you with the resources needed to help you in your efforts to improve education.
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Can't believe they picked Wilkes-Barre , I'm only 35 mins from there , could come in handy . Just hope it doesn't hurt the little guy selling nucs to make a few bucks .
Can't believe they picked Wilkes-Barre , I'm only 35 mins from there , could come in handy . Just hope it doesn't hurt the little guy selling nucs to make a few bucks .
looks good to me only 142 miles and 2 hrs 15 min.
mike syracuse ny
Whatever you subsidize you get more of. Ronald Reagan
cool that's not to far brushy is closer to me I think tho
I, personally, was fine not paying PA Sales tax though. Just far enough I would not go there unless in the area. Everything will be getting 6% more expensive.
At EAS i signed a sales tax exemption form and Dadant kept the form so I didn't have to pay sales tax on the stuff they brought to the convention for me. I wonder if this is possible to do with Brushy, and Mann Lake?
Not much talk in here lately. Nice to see the bees more active this weekend with the warmer temps.
Now is a good time to check your PA Apiary Registration/License. I looked at mine, it expires 12/31/13 and does not represent my 2014 expansions.
In the my last local club meeting, the Department of Health had their Chester county representatives there to discuss the Mosquito Spray program. They could not stress enough to register your hives. Should they ever need to spray, they do look at where all the hives are located and try contact the beekeepers ahead of time by phone. They only spray late evening when the bees are back to the hive.
Following is the link to the registry form. I completed my update this evening to mail in tomorrow.
Hope everyone has their hives ready for the winter months. The next few months will be for reflection on 2013 and making plans and preparing new equipment for 2014.
Happy Holidays to all!
For 2014, I plan to:
Establish a new apiary in Western PA on a family Farm - We already prepared the site for a 25x25-ish fenced in area (bear country)
Move many of my local hives to the new site. I have 17 hives going into winter. Hives making it to the spring flow will be split once the flow gets going to get the new apiary up and running.
Get more swarm traps built and deployed. I was lucky enough to capture 9 swarms using traps in 2013.
Sell more 6 frame medium NUCs with good laying queens. (I make my own custom NUC boxes).
Venture into queen rearing. I have done spring splits basically using the mdasplitter.com OTS methods, but want to give grafting a try.
Put the queen castle I built this year to use. I built a four bay castle (medium frame size), but have not cut the entranced yet. I will get this ready to go over winter and give it a go in the summer.
Find a new Apiary site in the West Bradford Township area of Chester county (small farm preference) where I can establish some hives and NUCs.
Take many more hives into honey production, but leave more honey behind.
Focus on making more robust hives late in the year. Pay more attention to my queens and replace my weak ones with daughters from my booming hives.
Bring in a couple new high quality queens to extend my genetics. Was part of a group buy this summer and got a couple FULL Bloom Carniolan queens (http://www.fullbloomapiaries.com/). I would be up to do something again in 2014 and maybe get a couple VSH queens.
Have a couple queens on reserve in mating NUCs for the end of season if I find a hive has gone queenless in September. It would be nice to know I have a couple on reserve. I needed one this year.
Do better record keeping.
Creep closer to going into the black. Seems I can always find something to spend money on to support the hobby.
420, eh?
Hey Everyone, 1st year beek in SE PA. My top bar hive has a split cluster. I suspect they are queenless. We are supposed to get some warm weather (67 but rainy) this weekend. Would you recommend opening the hive and putting the cluster together as one. The bees are at the back of the hive and the front. Should I move them all to the front??
I don't have experience with top bar hives but my understanding is that this is the problem with them. YOu need to make sure that the cluster is on one side while the stores are on the other. In a Lang you want the stores above the cluster which isn't very hard because that's how they typically put it anyway. With the warmer weather coming up they'll probably be able to break those clusters and rejoin as they are able. It does seem that they are lite on stores. You may want to consider putting some dry sugar in there somewhere. From what the video looked like the cluster on the back side was next to a follower board and the front side was at the entrance. It seemed that the combs in the middle were empty. What you can do is remove one frame and simply pour dry sugar in it's place. I'd remove one that's as close to the back of the front cluster as possible but make sure it's empty. You don't want to hinder them from getting on either side of any frame that has brood or you run a risk of that brood dying. Perhaps post a new thread in the top bar forum. (I think there's one) Or post in the general beekeeping thread. Hopefully you can get others with experience w/ top bar hives to chime in. I personally wouldn't assume that they're queenless. It seems that if the cluster was in the middle and stores on either side then that just created a natural break in the cluster as the bees went outside of the cluster to get to the stores and that shifted things a bit.
Thanks for your insight. I'll wait to see if they rejoin this weekend. The combs in between the two clusters are actually fully capped. They are about 17" wide at the top, 10 " wide at the bottom, and 10.5" deep... So they have about 6 or 7 fully capped, heavy bars. I was going to wait until January/February before adding fondant. What do you think?
ETA - I'm adding a lang in the spring. The TBH is great for learning and the kids love to look in the window, but it has caused nothing but roadblocks.
My first question would be when did you last check this hive? If it was over a month ago then they may not have that much in capped stores at this point. Second question is do they have a second entrance (or a space they can get in and out of through the back side)? This weekend I hope to do some inspecting / working on one hive particularly. If the weather is above 50 you can quickly open them up. With your hive I don't know of your setup, but I'd try to cover some parts as you look into others so you don't stress them out too much, but it's supposed to be in the 60's on Sunday so that would be the best chance. I'd inspect those center frames. At least on the edges they aren't capped. Perhaps in the center the could be, but in looking at your video that's what I thought. It made sense that the cluster would split in this case. (Well to my logical / sometime illogical mind) If they only have one entrance and this weekend you don't see them flying out of the opposite end then they'll have to recombine. For the bees in the back to get out they'll have to cross over through the front. Hopefully this doesn't cause issues for you because they may have been apart for several days / weeks, but hopefully things will be fine. On another note I am not sure of where you got your bees from, but there are some queens (specifically southern queens) that never really shut down overwinter. They will go through a bunch more resources then a northern queen would.
On another note. . . What kind of roadblocks has the top bar hive caused for you? I can imagine some things, but I'd be interested in hearing your thoughts on this.
Adding fondant is your call. When to do it is also your thoughts as to when it'd be most beneficial. If you find out that the bees don't have the center frames capped, then I'd add stuff this weekend that hopefully would cary them through the winter. January / February you may not have a chance and if they don't make it until then you'll open them up to a dead hive. In research I've done you want about 3/4 of the hive (whatever size they've been using) to be capped stores to get through our winters. So if you have a 10 frame box you want at least 7 of them solid. Now you'll probably have stores in all 10, but the middle 3 or 4 will only have capped stores in the upper and outer portions. They need cluster space. I hope this helps.
13 of 13 alive and well here today. Not bad for approaching Christmas. I made sure they all had at least two winter patties to get through the two flying days I'm likely to have here. Cheap insurance.
Dan Boylan, When in doubt "It's mites".
Good deal DPBsbees. I checked my hives today also. I had 17 going into winter. A few seemed to be in trouble leading into fall (late swarm captures). I had 2 dead outs of the 17. Added some insurance sugar bricks to the lighter hives and buttoned them up. I have four 6 over 6 medium frame Nucs - they were all doing great, so I'll likely have some insurance going into spring to cover some losses. I'll check on them again in early - mid February.
I did have one hive that was queen-less in Mid November. Debler lives close by and contacted me that he had a NUC that was crashing, so he caged the queen for me and I installed her. I'm still holding hope that we may have saved that hive. If it makes it, Debler and I will both have one more hive next year than we would have. I'll make a split and return her once they build up some and their are drones available. Keeping fingers crossed.
Tomorrow I'm going to take 6 frames of capped stores off the dead outs and add a third box to a couple of the strongest NUCS. That will give them more room for rearing brood in the spring. Next year I plan to winter all my 6 frame medium NUCs in 3 boxes rather than 2.
Happy Holidays!
Chr157y -
I'm curious what you find in your top bar hive come Christmas day when it gets cold again. I see we are looking at a high of around 31 degrees in SE PA. Did the bees regroup into a single cluster?
I'm 25 for 25 have not lost any hives this year.
Going to check to see if I need to ad sugar to any tomorrow it's going to be in the 60s .
Hoping for a good turn out come spring but winter has not even started and it's been cold in these parts.
So guess time will tell.
Say hello to the bad guy!
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Went though my 2 dead-outs today. They seemed to just dwindled down to very small clusters and froze in that last cold snap. Something must have happened with the queens late in the year. I dug up 3 of my custom 6 frame med NUC boxes, filled each with stores from the dead hives, and added a 3rd box to 3 out of 4 of my NUCS. They should have plenty of food to make it till spring now. I plan to start feeding pollen sub patties late Feb/Early March.
Dan Boylan, When in doubt "It's mites".


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Alumni Association to honor faculty, staff alumni
By Marcia Mattingly
Office of Alumni Programs
(Nov. 7, 2006)--The UTSA Alumni Association wants to connect with and celebrate UTSA faculty and staff who also are UTSA alumni... and they are invited to an event in their honor.
Today's headlines
- La Prensa Foundation is newest member of UTSA Lone Star Society
- UTSA alumna Jordan Kaufmann wins $50K for new stent-graft start-up
- UTSA begins new way-finding sign installation this summer at Main Campus
- USA Today: UTSA long jumper Tyler Williamson rescues three-year-old boy
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A luncheon for UTSA alumni who are UTSA employees is noon, Thursday, Nov. 9 in the Business Building University Room (2.06.04) on the 1604 Campus.
"The event is an opportunity to learn more about the UTSA Alumni Association," said Jane Burton, director of alumni programs. "We want to thank you for your loyalty to the university, not only as a graduate, but also as employees. We look forward to seeing you there."
To make a reservation for the luncheon, call (210) 458-4133.


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If you missed his emotional, classy speech from Friday, here it is.
(Illustration by Clay Larsen)
If you missed his emotional, classy speech from Friday, here it is.
(Illustration by Clay Larsen)
She lived with us for 56 years. She raised me and my siblings without pay. I was 11, a typical American kid, before I realized who she was.
The ashes filled a black plastic box about the size of a toaster. It weighed three and a half pounds. I put it in a canvas tote bag and packed it in my suitcase this past July for the transpacific flight to Manila. From there I would travel by car to a rural village. When I arrived, I would hand over all that was left of the woman who had spent 56 years as a slave in my family's household.
The condition has long been considered untreatable. Experts can spot it in a child as young as 3 or 4. But a new clinical approach offers hope.
This is a good day, Samantha tells me: 10 on a scale of 10. We're sitting in a conference room at the San Marcos Treatment Center, just south of Austin, Texas, a space that has witnessed countless difficult conversations between troubled children, their worried parents, and clinical therapists. But today promises unalloyed joy. Samantha's mother is visiting from Idaho, as she does every six weeks, which means lunch off campus and an excursion to Target. The girl needs supplies: new jeans, yoga pants, nail polish.
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At 11, Samantha is just over 5 feet tall and has wavy black hair and a steady gaze. She flashes a smile when I ask about her favorite subject (history), and grimaces when I ask about her least favorite (math). She seems poised and cheerful, a normal preteen. But when we steer into uncomfortable territory—the events that led her to this juvenile-treatment facility nearly 2,000 miles from her family—Samantha hesitates and looks down at her hands. "I wanted the whole world to myself," she says. "So I made a whole entire book about how to hurt people."
A Washington Post report suggests the president's son-in-law and adviser sought to give Moscow information he wanted to conceal from America's own intelligence agencies.
Why did Jared Kushner seemingly trust Russian officials more than he trusted the U.S. government?
Friday evening, The Washington Post broke the story that, according to an intercepted report by the Russian ambassador in Washington to his superiors in Moscow, Kushner sought to use secure communications facilities at the Russian Embassy to correspond directly with Russian officials. The Russian ambassador, Sergei Kislyak, reported that the proposal was made in December, after Trump won the election but before he had taken office. The conversations reportedly involved Michael Flynn, the former Trump national-security adviser who was fired after it was revealed that he lied to administration officials about the content of his conversations with Russian officials.
The permissiveness of Republican leaders who acquiesce to violence, collusion, and corruption is encouraging more of the same.
In the annals of the Trump era, May 25, 2017, will deserve a special mark. Four remarkable things happened on Thursday, each of which marks a way that this presidency is changing the nation.
The first remarkable thing was President Trump's speech at the NATO summit in Brussels. Many European governments had hoped—which is a polite way to say that they had suggested and expected—that Trump would reaffirm the American commitment to defend NATO members if attacked. This is the point of the whole enterprise after all! Here's how it was done by President Obama at the NATO summit after the Russian invasion of Crimea:
First and foremost, we have reaffirmed the central mission of the Alliance. Article 5 enshrines our solemn duty to each other—"an armed attack against one … shall be considered an attack against them all." This is a binding, treaty obligation. It is non-negotiable. And here in Wales, we've left absolutely no doubt—we will defend every Ally.
While he avoided major blunders in the Middle East on his first foreign trip, he may come to regret his failure to affirm U.S. support for the alliance.
Presidential trips are hard to assess. George H.W. Bush threw up on the Japanese prime minister; he was sick. Bill Clinton went to China without going to Japan, a big no-no. Someone threw a shoe at George W Bush; he ducked. President Barack Obama failed to meet with human-rights activists in China. His speech was censored on Chinese television.
These all passed for big problems. Then again, those were different times.
The bar for President Donald Trump on his foreign trips this past week was, by comparison, unusually low. Everyone expected problems. Trump famously knows very little about foreign policy. In his March 17 meeting with Angela Merkel, the chancellor of Germany, he confessed he had never heard of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership or the G-20. She made him a colorful map of the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, which he apparently liked. So, when Trump embarked on a nine-day trip of five countries, it seemed particularly ambitious. Most new presidents go to Canada or Mexico.
Borrowing from other cultures isn't just inevitable, it's potentially positive.
Sometime during the early 2000s, big, gold, "door-knocker" hoop earrings started to appeal to me, after I'd admired them on girls at school. It didn't faze me that most of the girls who wore these earrings at my high school in St. Louis were black, unlike me. And while it certainly may have occurred to me that I—a semi-preppy dresser—couldn't pull them off, it never occurred to me that I shouldn't.
This was before the term "cultural appropriation" jumped from academia into the realm of Internet outrage and oversensitivity. Self-appointed guardians of culture have proclaimed that Miley Cyrus shouldn't twerk, white girls shouldn't wear cornrows, and Selena Gomez should take off that bindi. Personally, I could happily live without ever seeing Cyrus twerk again, but I still find many of these accusations alarming.
Should you drink more coffee? Should you take melatonin? Can you train yourself to need less sleep? A physician's guide to sleep in a stressful age.
During residency, I worked hospital shifts that could last 36 hours, without sleep, often without breaks of more than a few minutes. Even writing this now, it sounds to me like I'm bragging or laying claim to some fortitude of character. I can't think of another type of self-injury that might be similarly lauded, except maybe binge drinking. Technically the shifts were 30 hours, the mandatory limit imposed by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, but we stayed longer because people kept getting sick. Being a doctor is supposed to be about putting other people's needs before your own. Our job was to power through.
The shifts usually felt shorter than they were, because they were so hectic. There was always a new patient in the emergency room who needed to be admitted, or a staff member on the eighth floor (which was full of late-stage terminally ill people) who needed me to fill out a death certificate. Sleep deprivation manifested as bouts of anger and despair mixed in with some euphoria, along with other sensations I've not had before or since. I remember once sitting with the family of a patient in critical condition, discussing an advance directive—the terms defining what the patient would want done were his heart to stop, which seemed likely to happen at any minute. Would he want to have chest compressions, electrical shocks, a breathing tube? In the middle of this, I had to look straight down at the chart in my lap, because I was laughing. This was the least funny scenario possible. I was experiencing a physical reaction unrelated to anything I knew to be happening in my mind. There is a type of seizure, called a gelastic seizure, during which the seizing person appears to be laughing—but I don't think that was it. I think it was plain old delirium. It was mortifying, though no one seemed to notice.
The Islamic State is no mere collection of psychopaths. It is a religious group with carefully considered beliefs, among them that it is a key agent of the coming apocalypse. Here's what that means for its strategy—and for how to stop it.
What is the Islamic State?
Where did it come from, and what are its intentions? The simplicity of these questions can be deceiving, and few Western leaders seem to know the answers. In December, The New York Times published confidential comments by Major General Michael K. Nagata, the Special Operations commander for the United States in the Middle East, admitting that he had hardly begun figuring out the Islamic State's appeal. "We have not defeated the idea," he said. "We do not even understand the idea." In the past year, President Obama has referred to the Islamic State, variously, as "not Islamic" and as al-Qaeda's "jayvee team," statements that reflected confusion about the group, and may have contributed to significant strategic errors.
The president's business tells lawmakers it is too difficult to track all its foreign revenue in accordance with constitutional requirements, and it hasn't asked Congress for a permission slip.
Days before taking office, Donald Trump said his company would donate all profits from foreign governments to the U.S. Treasury, part of an effort to avoid even the appearance of a conflict with the Constitution's emoluments clause.
Now, however, the Trump Organization is telling Congress that determining exactly how much of its profits come from foreign governments is simply more trouble than it's worth.
In response to a document request from the House Oversight Committee, Trump's company sent a copy of an eight-page pamphlet detailing how it plans to track payments it receives from foreign governments at the firm's many hotels, golf courses, and restaurants across the globe. But while the Trump Organization said it would set aside all money it collects from customers that identify themselves as representing a foreign government, it would not undertake a more intensive effort to determine if a payment would violate the Constitution's prohibition on public office holders accepting an "emolument" from a foreign state.
Uncovering the link between early trauma and lifelong illness
A wealthy white lawyer has spent 16 years and millions of dollars turning the Whitney Plantation into a memorial to the nation's past.
In a StoryCorps animation, Patrick Haggerty remembers the remarkable advice he got from his dairy farmer dad.


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It's no fun dwelling overly long on New Zealand's test record of late.
There are any number of depressing activities available these days. Reading New Zealand's recent test statistics is one.
So when captain Ross Taylor talked this week about having "an opportunity to create some history" in Galle starting tonight, it sounded long on optimism, short on hard evidence to suggest going into the first test with real confidence about the task ahead.
Since beating England in Hamilton with a cracking performance in early 2008, New Zealand have played 38 tests, lost 20 of them and won only six, of which four, with due respect, were against Bangladesh and Zimbabwe.
Only Pakistan in Dunedin in 2009 and Australia at Hobart last December were wins against major test nations. That's wretched reading. Both previous tests in Galle have been lost heavily.
But wait, there's more. Since playing in Australia late in 2008, New Zealand have had 14 overseas tests and lost 10 of them, the only wins coming in Hobart and Bulawayo.
Things may well get worse before they improve. Two tests in South Africa are coming up in the New Year; three at home to England, and then back to the Mother Country for two more next May.
Sri Lanka have won 11 and drawn four of their 20 tests at the Galle International Stadium.
Still, chins up. The Sri Lankan team, although containing some reasons to be on guard, also offer the prospect of, at the least, being competitive.
For a start there's no Muttiah Muralitharan any more. In 15 tests at Galle, the one-off offspinner took a whopping 111 wickets. But there is, in captain Mahela Jayawardene, a batsman who could have designed the pitch block for himself.
Few players bat with the style and panache of the 35-year-old; no one comes close to his 2193 test runs there, at an average of 75, in 20 matches.
Throw in familiar figures and proven run-makers in Kumar Sangakkara, Tillakaratne Dilshan and Thilan Samaraweera, and Sri Lanka have class batting acts.
Rangana Herath has proved an awkward left arm spinner in the past and there's a bright prospect in 19-year-old offspinner Tharindu Kaushal, in for his first test experience.
Sri Lanka have decent seamers too, but there's a feeling that if New Zealand can get among the key figures, there is a softish underbelly to the home side. This, of course, pre-supposes that New Zealand bowl thoughtfully, mixing economy with penetration, and bat sensibly and with an offensive mindset.
In the back-to-back losses in India in September, there were some encouraging aspects.
Taylor hit a century; Tim Southee grabbed seven wickets in one innings; offspinner Jeetan Patel did well and wicketkeeper Kruger van Wyk had his best test as a batsman.
Taylor suggested Sri Lanka's bowling could be vulnerable - not something which would have been uttered in Muralitharan's heyday - and believes the new ball might be crucial, "asking some questions" as he put it.
The seam trio of Southee, left armer Trent Boult and Doug Bracewell, backed up by Patel, were used in the most recent test and, assuming all are fit, would be favoured to retain their places. A middle order of Kane Williamson, Taylor, Daniel Flynn and James Franklin, below openers Martin Guptill and Brendon McCullum, seems probable.
"We've still got to play well ourselves and concentrate on what we can do. It's about doing the basics and hopefully put some pressure on their team."
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Track and field is one of the oldest and most popular sports at the Summer Olympic Games. It's also the largest sport. The sport (also called "athletics") debuted at the first Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, in 1896. What started as a handful of foot races has since expanded into 47 different events (24 men's and 23 women's events).
Rules of the Game
Olympic track and field competitors fully embrace the Olympic motto: faster, higher, stronger. They are among the fastest runners, highest jumpers and strongest throwers in the world.
Most running events take place on the track. These include sprints, mid-distance runs like the 1500-meter race, and longer runs. There are also hurdling events and the steeplechase, a long-distance race where runners must jump hurdles and leap over a pool of water.
Out in the field, athletes defy gravity, launching themselves into the air for the long jump, high jump, triple jump and pole vault competitions. Others test their strength in the shotput, discus, hammer and javelin throws.
Runners hit the road for the 26.2 mile-long marathon. Walking races also make tracks outside of the stadium. At the 2012 London Games, road events will occur on the streets of Central London, ending in The Mall, an iconic outdoor location near Buckingham Palace.
The women's heptathlon and the men's decathlon are the ultimate tests of speed and strength. Over the course of two days, athletes participate in a series of events. Women compete in seven overall, while men compete in 10. The better the athlete performs at each event, the more points he or she earns. At the end of the two days, the athlete with the most points wins a gold medal.
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Reality Check: How Does Capitol Security Compare To Other States?
Lawsuit Filed Over Security Measures At State Capitol
MADISON, Wis. - Security has been high at the Wisconsin state Capitol since protests in February over Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill.
WISC-TV looked into how security at the Capitol compares to other states.
The new security measures at the Capitol are the subject of a lawsuit.
Those entering the Wisconsin state Capitol must now step through a metal detector, which is a big change from the past.
Before the protests, all ground floor doors to the Capitol at eight entrances were open to the public with no metal detectors.
Now, only two doors are open, even for school tour groups: at Martin Luther King Boulevard and North Hamilton Streets.
Visitors are sent through the metal detectors or wanded by Capitol police or state troopers.
"Work needs to occur. People need to have their First Amendment rights. We need to make sure that access is available, and it certainly has been, but we need to balance all of those things," said Mike Huebsch, the Department of Administration secretary.
How does Wisconsin's new security measure up to other states?
According to the bipartisan National Conference of State Legislatures, exactly half of state Capitols across the country use metal detectors -- 26 if Wisconsin is included.
Illinois installed metal detectors in 2004 after an unarmed security guard was shot in the Capitol. Minnesota has no metal detectors.
Twenty-five states also have security guards present in the Capitol building. Only eight other states have more than six entrances open, and 16 states have three to five entrances open.
The DOA said it is looking at these statistics before it makes a decision on security in the future.
"Is there a date certain I can give you now? No, but I can tell you we are diligently working toward that to determine what should be the future security policies and practices of the state Capitol," Huebsch said.
On March 3, a judge ordered the Wisconsin Capitol building open "as it was on January 28."
Lawyers have said they believe the DOA is in contempt of that order, and an injunction hearing will be held on the matter next week.
The doors on the first floor of the Capitol used to be open to the public as well, but they were closed permanently after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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Wednesday, January 11, 2006
work work work!
Another night, another tight deadline. Tonight it's "Max Finder Mystery" -- the comic feature I draw each month for Owl Magazine (a fine canadian children's publication). Written by Liam O'Donnell, it features 7th grade detective Max Finder as he solves mysteries and crimes around him hometown. I'm currently frantically drawing up the March 2006 edition, but here's a sketch of some of the main cast members.
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I like the personalities! The second from right I had to look at closer, as I couldn't make her out very well. You do incredible work!
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|Kessel on the Big Show
|12.18.08 at 11:21 am ET
Among a team of young Bruins breathing life into a previously moribund franchise, Phil Kessel has been the brightest constellation in the Bruins hockey universe. The 21-year-old winger has become a dynamic scoring force in his third year in the league, and has paired with Marc Savard to become one of the top scoring duos in the NHL this season. People keep looking for a specific turning point for Kessel, and he surely has stepped up his intensity and two-way play. But don't overlook that this is the first time in his NHL career that young Kessel has played an extended amount of time with a legit playmaker in Marc Savard at the center position.
They had always played together in short bursts through their careers in Boston, but this 30 game stretch is the longest period of time that their two intertwining skills have been married on the frozen sheet. (Just look at last season's early box scores when Savard was skating with Peter Schaefer and Brandon Bochenski…my how times have changed.)
Kessel was recently named the Top Star in last week's NHL Three Stars competition, and was a guest of WEEI's Big Show yesterday afternoon. Here's the transcript:
What's the difference? What light went on? PK: You know, I don't know. I think I'm getting some better chances skating with Savard and Lucic. You play with those two and we have pretty good chemistry together. They find me in good spots and I'm getting some good chances.
It's got to be reassuring that Lucic is one of the top policeman in the league right now and he can also put the puck in the net. PK: Obviously it's nice and he clears a lot of room for me and Savvy out there. He's a skilled player too and he can really make things happen out there.
What's it like being a Bruin now as opposed to two years ago? PK: It's way different. My first year you could really just tell there wasn't as much support for the Bruins. You would go to the games and there weren't as many fans. It's way different now. There's much more hype now. We're getting big crowds and people are into it, and it feels much different to be a Bruin right now.
What has Claude Julien meant to you personally? PK: Well, ah I think he's helped me mature as a hockey player and helped my two-way game improve. He always tells me that if you play good defense then the offense will come.
You guys have an 11 game win streak at home. How much do you feed off playing at a full house? PK: It's been a big factor when it's a packed house and the fans are excited and loud. We get fired up and want to play that much harder to get a win in our own building.
Blake Wheeler…you guys were teammates in Minnesota. Have you been surprised by how quickly he's developed at such a young age? PK: Well, he's a great player. Obviously he was a high draft pick and he's one of my buddies. Playing with him at Minnesota, I knew what kind of player he is and what kind of skill he brings. Overall, I wasn't overly surprised that he's having a good year and playing really well for us.
Phil, did you help recruit him at all to the Bruins? PK: No. I stayed out of it. He's one of my good friends, but that was his decision. He has to make his choice that's best for him. Obviously, he's chosen Boston and its worked out pretty well for him.
We saw the highlights when Chara went out and protected you. What does that mean in the locker room? PK: It means a lot. It means that he's a great leader. It means guys care for each other. When a guy will scrap for another guy I think it says a lot for the guy. Obviously he's our Captain and he's a great leader in the locker room. It means a lot to our team.
Do you buy him a watch or anything? PK: Yeah, right. Obviously I said thank you for that. It means a lot for a teammate to step up and defend you.
After the series with the Canadiens the team was definitely headed in the right direction. But could you have dreamed the team would have this much success? PK: Well, you always have to believe that. You've always got to go out and work hard on your game, and get better with each game and with each practice. You just keep going and moving forward.
Phil, you seem to really take advantage of your speed. Sometimes it can take a while for a young player to find ways to create space, though. Was there a turning point for you where you found a way to create more space? PK: Obviously it took a little bit. I think this year has been a little different because I've been skating with Savvy and Looch, and we just have good chemistry out there. Looch gives us a lot of space and Savvy will find you with the puck wherever you're at. You just have to get open. When you're open it's better because he's going to get the puck around to you pretty much all the time.
There also seems to be a big difference with this team, particularly in the power play this year. What's been the difference? PK: I think that we're getting more shots and making more plays getting pucks to the net. I think we've got more screens going on in front of the net, and guys are willing to pay the price to score goals.
Can you talk about the nice mix of young guys and veterans on this Bruins team? PK: Well, I think it's really important. We've got a good mix of young guys, older guys and rookies. I think everybody cares about each other on this team and would do anything for the other guys. When you have that in the locker room, it makes it much easier to go out on the ice and do whatever it takes to win hockey games.
Tim Thomas established himself last year. Manny Fernandez has played well this season. Can you talk about the play of the goalies this year? PK: Yeah, it's comforting for our team. No matter who's in net, we're confident they're going to play well for us. We've got two really elite goaltenders that can go in between the pipes for us. They're going to stop the puck and play great for us every night.
How important has it been to play through some of the injuries this season, particularly on the blue line? PK: You just look at it like we've got a lot of good young guys in Providence and whoever gets called up is going to step in right away and contribute. [Matt] Hunwick has been having a great season for us, and the other night I thought Marty Karsums came up and did really well for us. He did all of the little things right. We're just confident we can put anybody in the lineup and they'll do great for us.
For the first time in a long time, this team has three really great lines. It's very refreshing to see that. PK: We can roll all of our lines and be confident that they're going to do the job. If you look at Krejci, Wheeler and Ryder's line they're playing great right now and scoring a lot of goals. Bergie's line is doing well too, but they've just got to get going. I think they're playing good hockey and it'll eventually show up more on the offensive end.
Is there any one guy you kind of lean on in the locker room for advice and things like that? PK: I don't think anyone in particular. I think we're a pretty close-knit group and every guy looks out for each other and will help any of the other guys.


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If you ask me, this team could use some fire, personality and a a bit of attitude on offense...other then Bradshaw the offense is comprised of a multitude of laid back personalities. I love Eli, Cruz, Nicks and Snee and their unhurried demeanor is also a great quality and attribute. I just feel that you need to balance that "relaxed" with some more hungry/vocal presence.


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A while back I wrote about a book called Cooking for Geeks by Jeff Potter. One chapter I didn't explore in going through the book with my kids was called "Modern Industrial Chemicals." In it Potter discussed making gels and foams out of unexpected ingredients, along with other weird magic-show effects you could get with the right combination of additives. Since all the "chemicals" were hard to find in regular food stores — and since it all sounded so strange — I just let that aspect of geeky cooking slide.
There was another reason of course, and that is the feeling that artificial ingredients just ain't healthy.
Now, I try my best to prepare meals using home-grown or local ingredients, with as little processing as possible. But the fact is, certain members of the family (who do not have to worry about their weight) tend to bring in a lot of junk food, so artificial ingredients are not unknown to us either. And being a fan of science in the kitchen, Potter's book planted the idea in my mind that it'd be fun to play around with some of those artificial ingredients in their original form and see just what it is they do.
So when I saw something called the Molecular Cuisine Kit on ThinkGeek not long ago, I asked them for a review set to try out. Molecular Gastronomy, as it is also known, is a term coined in 1989 the late Oxford physicist Nicholas Kurti and the French chemist Hervé This. It quickly spread from a field of scientific study to a style of cooking. If you watch shows like Top Chef you have probably have some idea of what it can do. But even if it's brand new to you, as it was to us, this kit will get you started on your own strange gastronomic adventure.
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The centre of Berlin, Mitte is most famous for sights like the Brandenburg Gate, Alexanderplatz, and Museum Island. The central location makes this one of the city's most expensive places to live. It is here the oldest traces of the city can be found, and evidence of some significant transformations, as well. The gangsters that once ruled the impoverished streets between Alexanderplatz and Hackescher Markt have given way to an international crowd pursuing fashionable designer clothes, the newest food trends and frequenting the many craft shops. Graphic designers have taken up residence in what used to be backyard barns and stables. There are still vestiges of the old days, however. The occasional housing complex is a reminder of the neighbourhood's past. And if you look carefully, an old 1920s ball house nestled amongst the art galleries and exhibitions of Auguststrasse can still teach you how to dance the old fashioned way.
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Faculty Close-Up: Associate Professor David Sebald prefers amateur music with feeling over uninspired professional
By Cindy Brockwell
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(Feb. 3, 2009)--Associate Professor David Sebald has seen many changes during his 19 years at UTSA. He has worked under the leadership of three UTSA presidents. The Downtown Campus was only a dream when he arrived. His music students have competed with the sound of jackhammers and bulldozers as new buildings sprang up around the Arts Building.
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An associate professor and director of music technology in the College of Liberal and Fine Arts, Sebald joined the UTSA faculty in 1989. He already had gained a reputation as an advocate of teaching through computer technology, and as a technology junkie -- specifically in music and media technology.
"I was trained as a classical musician, and the first time I heard Willie Nelson sing 30 years ago, I thought, 'This must be a joke,'" he said.
Since then, Sebald has changed his mind. "Music is about communication of feeling, and Willie Nelson is a master communicator," he said.
For that reason, too, Sebald says he would rather listen to an amateur high school band that tries to play with feeling than to a professional orchestra with no soul.
Sebald, 62, grew up in Alpena, Mich., on Lake Huron's Thunder Bay. He comes from five generations of teachers, and now his daughter is continuing the family tradition. As a budding clarinetist, his first professional job was in the Alpena City Band. The paycheck wasn't large, but it provided the opportunity to travel with the band. It made him feel like a performing musician.
But in the family tradition, teaching became his true passion. Sebald earned a Ph.D. in music education from Michigan State University and taught music in Michigan public schools before moving south to Durango, Colo. From there, his teaching jobs took him to Colorado Springs, Fort Hays State University in Kansas, and to Corpus Christi State University (now Texas A&M University Corpus Christi).
He had been moving west and south in search of warmer climates. When Sebald arrived in Texas 25 years ago, he finally found a place warm enough to call home.
Sebald credits Bob Moog, the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, for his own immersion into the field of music technology. "I remember my reaction in 1970 when I heard 'Switched On Bach,' the first million-selling classical album. Here was this exhilarating classical music coming out of an electronic machine," he said. "I later learned it was a Moog Synthesizer, and I was hooked."
Since then, the Moog synthesizer has been replaced by more powerful equipment and software. That's where Sebald's research comes in. He enjoys exposing others to contemporary music technology through educational product development and multimedia, and says, "I love teaching creativity with creativity."
So, in the early 1990s, he formed a production and consulting company, Advanced Instructional Media, to produce instructional CD-ROMs and videos.
Under his leadership, UTSA's music technology program has provided multimedia course materials via the Internet for more than 15 years. He calls his current instructional delivery technology the TIME Machine (an acronym for Train, Inform, Motivate and Entertain). Over the last decade, Sebald has traveled the country demonstrating the TIME Machine's technology at computer, music and distance learning conferences.
This fall, students at Brackenridge and Jefferson high schools were offered a new digital music technology course developed by Sebald and largely delivered through his TIME Machine. More San Antonio ISD high schools will be added next year. Other school districts from Dallas to San Angelo also are looking at his program for their music students.
Sebald said that there is tremendous interest in music technology today. At UTSA, he gets nearly a call a day from students interested in the music technology certificate program.
"They hope to become music producers or engineers, but too often they don't know music," said Sebald. "It looks easy in the movies, just sliding all those controls and getting a great sound that communicates feeling. I tell them they have to be musicians first."
Others, he said, see someone like Gene Simmons of the rock group KISS and think that being a musician is about the trappings. Sebald cautions them that successful musicians work really, really hard. And, his students do.
"I absolutely love the work I'm doing here," he said. "Our students are so very appreciative of the opportunity to learn, and it makes teaching a real joy."
Sebald concentrates primarily on teaching and educational product development these days, but he is still a performing musician. He currently performs on a WX-7 MIDI Wind Controller for schools and conferences. He will be a featured performer at the Texas Music Educators Association convention in San Antonio in February.
Fun Facts: David Sebald's favorites
- Movie: Any educational or uplifting movie, particularly in IMAX
- Music: Avidly takes in everything
- Leisure reading: Rarely time for anything but technical manuals, always working on product development
- Pastime outside the classroom: Enjoys walking the wooded trails near his home
- High school friends would remember him as: The nerdy clarinet guy


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Workshop for writing childhood memories offered
Have you ever wanted to record your childhood memories for your children and grandchildren?
Mary Jo McCarthy, author and writer, will offer a one-day workshop entitled "A Time to Remember" at Lutheran Church of the Cross, just off Highway 371 south of Nisswa, across from Schaefer's Foods.
The workshop will run from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Cost is $25 per person. Class size is limited to 12 for more personal attention.
Upcoming scheduled classes are Thursday, May 16, and Wednesday, June 5.
Through a series of questions, McCarthy will guide participants to write a series of stories recalling their childhood memories. At the end of the day, participants will leave with a folder full of stories, perfect for sharing with their children and grandchildren.
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Expert recommendations for the best places to eat in four price ranges: budget ($), moderate ($$), expensive ($$$), and luxury ($$$$)
"Cheap and filling food."—Sergei Avrutin, film producer. Russian specialties (Solyanka soup and cabbage pancakes) and international dishes; speedy service; housed in a beautifully restored 19th century building overlooking a busy canal. 16 Kanala Griboedova Naberezhnaya; tel. 7 812 449 4153.
Authentic Greek food; perfect for lunch; convenient location not far from Nevsky Prospekt; salad bar laden with fresh options; Greek music; art exhibitions. 31 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa; tel. 7 812 314 6563. www.tavernaoliva.ru
"The atmosphere of a literary café…cozy, informal."—Shimon Iakerson, St. Petersburg author and historian. Simple, traditional choices such as herring in mayonnaise and beetroot sauce; impressive drink menu; English-language library; frequented by local intellectuals and their foreign friends; known for vegetarian options. 82 Naberezhnaya Reki Moiki; tel. 7 812 315 1675. www.restoran.ru
"Attentive staff and a generous Russian table."—Maria Akinshina, author, Where: St. Petersburg. Informal atmosphere near Mariinsky Theater; unpretentious Russian specialties including fine seasonal mushroom dishes; well-stocked wine bar. 2 Glinki Ulitsa; tel. 7 812 920 8228. www.probka.org
Russian Kitsch
Elaborate, amusing design details poke fun at Russian pop icons and political figures; traditional and international dishes, including sushi; glass terrace offers superb views across the River Neva to St. Isaac's Cathedral. 25 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya; tel. 7 812 325 11 22. www.concord-catering.ru
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Convenient choice for breakfast; try the kashas (porridges); close to the Philharmonia and Russian Museum; difficult to spot so watch for the sign. 16/19 Italyanskaya Ulitsa; tel. 7 812 571-7716
Côté Jardin
Original interpretations of French and Russian dishes by charismatic French chef; famous for its Scandinavian Sunday brunch (seafood, baked meats, soups); minimalist sleek decor. 3a Mayakovskogo Ulitsa; tel. 7 812 335 1188.
Fashion-conscious hotspot worth visiting for its location and river views; top floor of sleek City Center building; one big room with two levels; pasta and beef specialties. Tip: Call weeks in advance to book an upper level table by the two-story windows. 18 Petrogradskaya Naberezhnaya; tel. 7 812 332 0200. http://www.hotelmoscow.ru/eng/restoraunt.html
Backstage (Za Stsenoy)
Owned by the Mariinsky Theater; perfect for post-performance dining; French-inspired cuisine and extensive wine list; interior features original stage floorboards and props. 18/10 Teatralnaya Ploshchad; tel. 7 812 327 0521. www.elbagroup.ru
Le Borshch
Skillful combinations of French and Russian cuisine served in modest portions; pleasing modern twist to traditional recipes; superb views of the Fontanka River and palaces on the opposite bank. 11 Naberezhnaya Reki Fontanki; tel. 7 812 314 00 56
Wine bar downstairs from Il Grappolo restaurant; wine-by-the-glass and Italian specialties; known for its Caesar salad and pasta dishes; popular with the local beau mondes and ex-pats. 5 Belinskogo Ulitsa; tel. 7 812 273 4904
Authentic Russian cooking; numerous homemade salads and pickles; hand-crafted vodka with different fruit infusions; stylish Petrine Baroque interior. 2 Tamozhenny Pereulok; tel. 7 812 327 8979. www.elbagroup.ru
Dvoryanskoe Gnezdo
Housed in a former garden pavilion of the Yusupov Palace; somewhat formal and ceremonial atmosphere; live classical music. 21 Dekabristov Ulitsa; tel. 7 812 312 0911.
Le Paris
One of the first haute cuisine restaurants in the city; Parisian chef and Paris photographs on walls; duck, fish, and vegetarian specialties; French wines; opposite Yusupov Palace on the banks of the River Moika. 63 Bolshaya Morskaya Ulitsa; tel. 7 812 571 9545
Caviar Bar and Restaurant
Part of Grand Hotel Europe; opulent interior; wide range of black and red caviar; dozens of brands of vodka served in chilled glasses; full meals and light snacks. 1/7 Mikhailovskaya Ulitsa; tel. 7 812 329 6000. www.grandhoteleurope.com
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Lorna Luft hangs out with her sister Liza Minelli and a guy named Barry. He writes songs.
Liberty Ross has already moved on from Rupert Sanders. She is dating Jimmy Iovine who turns 60 next month.
Lindsey Vonn has had her surgery. Confined to bed, Tiger Woods has her right where he wants her.
Naomi Campbell seems to have recovered from her surgery very nicely.
Flynn talks to Orlando Bloom about what role Orlando should take next.
Meanwhile, Patrick Schwarzenegger gets advice from his dad about how not to get caught cheating on your wife.
Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne at a party this weekend.
It is Selena Gomez being helped to her car, but doesn't that look like Brad Garrett as her limo driver?
Taylor Swift lives on the edge. Wants to do the next Jackass movie.
Will Smith shows off his new deodorant.