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Welcome to The Experiment in International Living's summer abroad leadership opportunities. Group leadership is a chance for you to share your knowledge of and interest in other cultures with an exceptional group of young people.
The Experiment is looking for individuals who have demonstrated interest in intercultural and experiential learning, in-depth experience living abroad, competency in the language of the host culture, and experience working with young people to lead high school summer programs in 2017. Experiment group leaders are dynamic, responsible, emotionally mature adults who support Experimenters in a number of ways. First and foremost, they maximize the well-being of all participants so that participants can have a meaningful and memorable learning experience. Leaders also represent The Experiment abroad and manage in-country relationships with integrity and professionalism.
Experimenters are met by their two group leaders at a specific meeting location in the designated port of departure in the United States. Group leaders immediately start engaging students in conversations and ice-breaker activities. Right away — and continuing throughout the in-country orientation — leaders work with Experimenters to increase their knowledge of the host country and culture, develop communication skills, and cultivate new attitudes and awareness.
During the course of the program, group leaders keep in close contact with homestay families, conduct group excursions, and guide students through discussions of and reflections on their experiences.
At the end of the program, leaders help students evaluate their experiences and assist them in considering how they can integrate what they learned about themselves and the world into their lives moving forward.
Experiment group leaders are chosen for their leadership skills, particularly in working with young people, and their cross-cultural experience and language competence. The Experiment selects group leaders who have:
Group leaders are responsible adults who support Experimenters in a number of ways.
Leading an Experiment program is a very rewarding and demanding job. The responsibilities of an Experiment group leader can be categorized as follows:
The responsibilities of a leader begin at the time of assignment to a program and extend until program reports are submitted. To understand how these responsibilities translate into day-to-day realities and specific tasks, please read the following chronological outline.
Leaders receive a weekly stipend in addition to the following:
World Learning is an Equal Opportunity Employer and seeks qualified applicants to represent diverse geographical, ethnic, religious, and economic backgrounds. Our goal is to select the most qualified leaders for each program. The competitive standards are set by each group of applicants.
Applicants who have led before bring that experience as one strong component of their qualifications, but must compete successfully with new applicants.
Applicants must complete all of the following sections of the online group leader application:
Provide your name (as it appears on your passport), contact information, citizenship (if you are a US citizen, please be prepared to share your passport expiration date; if you are a non-US citizen, please be prepared to share your work visa type and expiration date), and criminal background.
Provide details regarding your youth experience, international experience, homestay guest and/or host experience, expertise in our program themes, language expertise, comfort level with outdoor/physical activities, relevant certifications, and past experience with World Learning.
Answer the question set that applies to you. Answers should range from 200 to 400 words in length.
Provide a 100- to 200-word statement about yourself (written in the third person) describing your background, interests, education, and work experience. Keep in mind that if you are hired as an international group leader, this biography will be posted on The Experiment website, shared with your in-country colleagues, and sent to your Experiment students and their parents (who are entrusting you with their child!).
For ideas on how to structure your biography, see our program pages for examples of past leader biographies.
Please provide the names and contact information of two references. One must be an individual who has overseen your academic and/or professional work (e.g., manager, boss, dean, professor, etc.). The second reference may be another supervisor, or it may be a former or current colleague or student who knows you well. The Experiment office will contact references via email, usually during the interview phase of the selection process. Please do not ask references to submit a letter of recommendation at this time.
Please provide the name and contact information of one professional reference who has overseen your academic and/or professional work (e.g., manager, boss, dean, professor, etc.).
Upload your current résumé in PDF format.
The application for summer 2017 international group leaders will be available online in early November 2016.
The Experiment will be accepting 2017 group leader applications on a rolling basis between November 2016 and January 24, 2017. The Experiment team will begin reviewing applications during this time period, but will not begin scheduling leader interviews until after the New Year.
Group Leader applicants interested in completing the application process on an expedited timeline are invited to submit their applications by the December 1, 2016 early bird deadline. Early bird application review and interviews will be held during the month of December. Selected early bird applicants will receive offers of employment in January, 2017. Early bird applicants, who do not receive an offer of employment in January, may be deferred and processed with the full applicant pool in February. (Both return and first time Group Leader applicants are eligible to submit early bird applications.)
2017 Group Leader applications will be accepted through January 24, 2017.
During this time period, The Experiment will review leader applications and will begin contacting qualifying applicants to schedule interviews. The interview process may include two separate interviews (a preliminary interview and an in-depth second-round interview) and a brief language check (for programs where strong language proficiency is required).
Selected applicants will receive offer letters for 2017 international Group Leader positions. While potential program placements will be discussed with applicants during the interview process, exact program placements are typically confirmed after leaders have signed their contracts.
Leaders will complete the required hiring paperwork, be introduced to their co-leader, and engage in several pre-training preparatory tasks, all of which can be completed remotely.
All leaders are required to attend in full the Leadership Training Workshop (LTW), which takes place on the World Learning campus in Brattleboro, Vermont. Leaders will travel to Vermont on June 20. LTW programming begins the evening of June 20 and concludes the morning of June 26, at which time leaders begin departing Vermont to travel to their group's US departure airport.
LTW presents leaders with a professional development intercultural training that will prepare them to implement successful programs using The Experiment's experiential learning pedagogy. Leaders will be trained on effective leadership practices, how to monitor participants' safety and welfare, and how to administer the program logistics and budget. Leaders will benefit from the insight of past and present leaders and World Learning's vast professional network.
Experiment programs are from three to five weeks in length. The earliest 2017 Experiment programs depart from the United States on June 26, and the majority of programs conclude by the end of July. You can find more information about Experiment programs, including specific dates for each program, on our website.
Leaders work with the Experiment office to provide feedback and evaluations on their program, including submission of written reports due within one month of their program's conclusion. All post-program responsibilities can be completed remotely.
All leaders are required to attend the Leader Training Workshop in Vermont prior to leading a program. The Leader Training Workshop is scheduled to begin on June 20.
Programs run between three and five weeks in length, and you can find dates for specific programs here. Groups begin departing the United States for their program country on June 26, and the majority of groups return to the United States between July 24 and August 4, 2017.
On the application, we ask you to list your language capabilities, experiences living abroad, and expertise in The Experiment's program themes. These factors give us a very good idea of which program(s) you would be qualified to lead. If there is a particular program/location you would specifically like to be considered for, you may note your preference in the Additional Information section at the end of your application. We also make sure to discuss program preferences with applicants during interviews.
While the majority of our leaders have extensive experience abroad, we do occasionally hire leaders who have only lived abroad for a semester — especially if those individuals have other strong qualifications such as thematic expertise or extensive experience facilitating youth programs.
In addition, we sometimes assign leaders to countries where they don't have direct in-country experience. For example, we might assign a leader to our South Africa program if they have extensive experience elsewhere in sub-Saharan Africa and expertise in the program theme.
Given that each program set-up varies slightly, there are several programs (e.g., Korea and Vietnam) for which we don't require our leaders to be fluent in the country's language(s). Typically in these countries, our in-country partners provide a native guide 24/7 who can assist leaders with translation. However, for the majority of our programs, leaders do need to have a strong working proficiency of the language. For some of our programs (e.g., Japan and France), it is absolutely critical that leaders are fluent in the language of the host country, and for these programs, we will often ask candidates to do a brief language-check interview as part of the selection process.
Our programs do change slightly from year to year. While many of our programs have run for years and continue to do so, we are constantly evaluating and updating our portfolio to refresh our current programs and to create innovative new programs. In this process, there are sometimes programs we stop running or place on hiatus while we improve them.
Please do not submit letters of recommendation with your application. We ask that you list your references' contact information on the application, and we will contact them via email during the interview stage of the selection process.
International group leaders are professional employees of World Learning and not participants; therefore, there are no fees to apply for a leader position.
The only program-related expenses leaders are responsible for are their own personal elective expenses, having a current passport valid through January 2018, and obtaining immunizations if you choose to do so.
In addition to providing leaders with a stipend for their work, The Experiment covers leaders' program-related travel expenses, including:
The Leader Training Workshop is held on the World Learning campus in Brattleboro, Vermont. We provide leaders with lodging in our dorms and meals in our cafeteria.
The leaders stay in all the same places as the students, and this varies based on program. You could find yourself in a tent, a hostel, a dorm, a hotel, a yurt, etc. Generally, each leader is assigned a host family during the homestay portion of the program.
The program officially ends upon the group's return to the United States. The group is doing lots of reentry processing and program wrap-up and is cherishing those last bonding experiences in the final hours of the program, even continuing through the flight back home — so it's a very important time! Thus, we require all new leaders to accompany their group back to the United States. Return leaders do have the option of staying in-country after the program, and the Experiment team will share more information with return leaders about this benefit as they are hired.
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Afghans protest U.S. church's plans to torch Koran
KABUL (Reuters) - Several hundred Afghans chanting "Death to America" rallied outside a mosque in the Afghan capital on Monday to protest against an American church's plan to burn a copy of the Koran on the anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
The protesters, mostly students from religious schools, gathered outside Kabul's Milad ul-Nabi mosque to condemn plans by the Gainesville, Florida-based Dove World Outreach Centre to burn copies of the Koran to mark the ninth anniversary of the attacks against the United States.
"We call on America to stop desecrating our Holy Koran," student Wahidullah Nori told Reuters. He said the street protests condemning the church would continue "every day."
U.S. President Barack Obama has made efforts to reach out to the world's 1.5 billion Muslims since taking office last year, most recently hosting Muslim leaders at the White House at the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan in August.
The U.S. Embassy in Kabul said the "United States government in no way condones such acts of disrespect against the religion of Islam, and is deeply concerned about deliberate attempts to offend members of religious or ethnic groups."
"Americans from all religious and ethnic backgrounds reject this offensive initiative by this small group in Florida, a great number of American voices are protesting the hurtful statements made by this organisation," it said in a statement.
A proposal to build an Islamic centre and mosque two blocks from the site of the worst of the September 11, 2001, attacks in New York has stirred heated debate in the United States.
Opponents of the plan say it is insensitive to families of the victims of the September 11 attacks by al Qaeda.
U.S.-backed Afghan forces toppled the Taliban government in Afghanistan soon after those attacks for harbouring al Qaeda leaders, including Osama bin Laden. Continued...

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The Brian Lehrer Show
30 Issues: Tax Incentives and Competition for Jobs
It's Jobs Week in the Brian Lehrer Show's "30 Issues in 30 Days" election series. See the full schedule and archive of shows here.
Gordon MacInnes, president of New Jersey Policy Perspective, and Greg David, director of the Business and Economic Reporting Program at CUNY Journalism School and contributor to Crain's New York Business, discuss the impact of tax incentives and regional competition for jobs.


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A Leaner MotorolaBy
Motorola (MOT), the world's No. 2 mobile- phone maker, hasn't been top of the list this year among institutional investors. Better-than-expected second-quarter results jolted the stock from 33 to 39, but it has eased to 36--way below the 61 it hit in March. Motorola is at a 50% discount to European peers Nokia and Ericsson, based on 2001 estimates. An earnings shortfall in the first quarter and a write-off of more than $2 billion related to its stake in the Iridium satellite system soured investor interest in Motorola. Time to jettison Motorola for good?
Definitely not, argue some, who think it's on the road to recovery. Operating margins in its personal communications segment weakened in the first quarter but rose to 4% in the second quarter, mainly because of cell phones. They see Motorola upping output of handsets with new designs and features.
"A lot of investors haven't been up to speed on Motorola," says Robert Lyon of Institutional Capital, which manages $13 billion. "They are ignoring the valuable assets that Motorola owns"--including a major stake in Next Level Communications, worth $6 billion; 10% of Nextel Communications, worth $5 billion; and 7% of Broadcom, $2 billion. All told, they're worth $7 a share in Motorola stock. Subtracting their value, Motorola really sells at 29. Motorola also owns cable company General Instrument.
Lyon says Motorola may unload these assets, as it is doing with Propel, a company it formed to package Motorola's holdings in companies that provide wireless services overseas. Motorola will sell 20% of Propel's stock in a $500 million initial public offering. Lyon thinks the IPO will highlight the value of Motorola's other assets. Not counting those assets, Lyon sees Motorola earning $1.07 a share in 2000 and $1.60 in 2001.


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I would like to openly challenge anyone doing zine runs of 10-30 issues to double their next print run. You're going to so much work to create your zine, and to provide your own unique voice and perspective in the world of publishing--which let's face it gets more and more consolidated every day--that it's a crying shame that your zine doesn't reach more people. Even a few dozen more people. Try printing more issues, sending more out for review, and growing your audience and reach. Make an impact with your DIY publishing venture, even if it's small. Gawd knows the world needs more independent voices.
Not everyone makes it their goal to have a super-popular zine with a 10,000-copy print run. There are different definitions of "success."
For the past few issues of both my zine and my comic, I've done fifty to start. Then runs of 20-30 as I need them. I don't keep really accurate count of things (though I'm getting better at it now that I have a distro), but the second issue of the zine wound up running around 130 copies. I was going to make more this month but then I found out my flats had yellowed and half fallen apart! I should have used tape instead of rubber cement, but I love the smell of rubber cement so much. But then I decided that the zine really didn't speak to me anymore so when it's gone it's gone. Just be organic and let your "market" determine how many copies you make. You can always make more copies (at least if your flats are intact), but having 200-some zines a few years from now that may not represent you anymore? Not good.


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This publication and accompanying DVD, covering 1946 to 1953, cover the historical relationships between the Central Intelligence Agency's Directors of Central Intelligence (DCIs), President Truman, and Congress. The recently declassified documents in the collection focus on the activities of the first four DCIs: Sidney W. Souers, Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter and Walter B. Smith, and include office logs, memorandums, reports and various correspondence from each DCI's tenure.
The CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence and CIA Historical Collections Division describe this multimedia publication:
Admiral Sidney W. Souers, General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Admiral Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter and General William Bedell Smith accepted President Harry S. Truman's challenge to craft an intelligence organization. Each man marked his tenure with his unique brand of leadership that provided his successor with the foundation needed for the next step toward the Central Intelligence Agency of today. The Crafting of an Intelligence Community collection of 800+ Agency documents along with 600 supplemental items shows the day-by-day activities, decisions, staff meetings and contacts that confronted each DCI. They ran the gamut of choosing a secretary to responding to a Presidential question to an evening social event with various ambassadors and dignitaries.
The booklet covers the key points from a symposium held in partnership with George Mason University, School of Public Policy, on September 13, 2012. The overall theme of the event was the ebb and flow of the relationships between DCIs, presidents and Congress, and the way those relationships impact the role intelligence plays in policy decisions. The event highlighted the public release of over 800 recently declassified documents covering the CIA's first four DCIs, which are included on the accompanying DVD.
Other related products:
Intelligence and Espionage resources collection can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/security-defense-law-enforcement/intel...
Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice resources collection can be found here:https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/security-defense-law-enforcement/law-enforcement-criminal-justice
Other products produced by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/agency/539
Audience: Members and retirees of the intelligence community, members of government, and anyone interested in the history of the U.S. intelligence community would enjoy this informative book and DVD. In addition, teachers of high school and college students studying government, politics and intelligence may find this a useful resource. Public libraries would benefit from making this publication and DVD available to their patrons.
Keywords: National and Foreign Intelligence, leadership, primary source documents, research, U.S. espionage, espionage, U.S. intelligence, national and foreign intelligence, DCI, Director of Central Intelligence, intelligence history, espionage history, President Truman and U.S. intelligence, Congress and U.S. intelligence, Sidney W. Souers, Hoyt S. Vandenberg, Roscoe H. Hillenkoetter, Walter B. Smith, history of intelligence DCIs, intelligence community
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Long story short about months ago I got my board waxed. About 2 months after that I looked at my board (it had been stored in a snowboard bag for those two months) and it had this weird white residue on it. It feels no different then the rest of the board, its just you can definitely see it on the board (the weird white streaks and white marks. Most of my board is flat black but now this weird residue makes some of it look white.)
Again, I cannot feel it at all. It feels completely normal and everything, but it just looks weird and im scared this is not normal. Anyone seen this before?
Almost the entire board normally is black except for the words and designs. Any white blobs/streaks is what im talking about. As you can probably see, I used my nail to try and scrape some of it off. I really dont knows whats going on, but my board should look better then this.
UPDATE*** I just tried taking a brush to it...most of the white stuff came off. I got this board waxed around 6 months ago. Haven't ridden it yet since then, but I will be in about a month. Do I need to take it in for a wax again despite not having ridden on it?
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Kyle Marshall is a captain of Cal Poly San Luis Obispo's National Concrete Canoe Competition team. He has been involved in the contest for three years.
Q: How did Cal Poly do in your regional competition in April?
Cal Poly competed against 16 other teams to win ASCE's Pacific Southwest Regional Conference (PSWRC). Now we're looking forward to competing in the national competition in June.
Q: What's your record?
Cal Poly has taken 1st place at the PSWRC for 13 of the past 15 years. In the national competition, our concrete canoes have won 2nd (2006), 5th (2007), and 4th place (2008).
Q: Who's on Cal Poly's team?
Our team has six captains to ensure equal distribution of responsibilities: one project manager (Kyle Marshall), two construction captains (Gary Welling & Meggie O'Hagan), and three mix design captains (Nic Capuchino, Sheila Shideh, & Greg Stone).
Six captains' assistants play vital roles in the design-build process, and ensure transfer of knowledge and methods for future years
More than 50 Cal Poly ASCE members helped place concrete during fabrication days.
Q: Can students participate more than once?
Students can compete as registered participants for three years.
Q: How much time do students spend on the contest?
A total of 4600 hours went into the creation of the 2009 Cal Poly Concrete Canoe, "Vintage."
[Editor's note: Engineering students participate in the NCCC on a volunteer basis. They do not always receive course credit for their work.]
Q: What unique features give your canoe an edge?
Vintage showcases a plethora of unique features including sandblast recessed colored slurried tiles, pre-cast colored tiles, elaborate staining, and recessed concrete graphics. Innovative features include a post-tensioning system with incorporation of a carbon sequestering cementitious material into the concrete mixture.
Q: How did you come up with the theme for your canoe?
San Luis Obispo County is home to a flourishing wine country. "Vintage" (the name of the canoe) captures this local heritage through its aesthetic attributes. The elaborate mural on the hull depicts local wineries through acid stains. The sandblast recessed colored slurried tiles depict the wine making process from nose to tail, grapes to glass. The gunwales encompass recessed concrete graphics with the name of the canoe, and clean, fine lines contribute to its aesthetic appeal.


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This article was published 10/7/2014 (1081 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Neepawa Natives forward Sam Briscoe is joining the Minot State Beavers.
The 21-year-old forward has committed to the North Dakota school's hockey team after scoring 14 goals and notching 43 points in 60 Manitoba Junior Hockey League games with the Natives last season.
"Sam is a playmaking forward who will give us immediate offence to our lineup," Beavers head coach Wade Regier stated in a team news release.
Briscoe joins Natives forward Robbie Moar, 21, in committing to Minot State, which competes in the American Collegiate Hockey Association.
In other league news:
• The MJHL announced Thursday that pre-season action will open on Sept. 1.
The Virden Oil Capitals will open on the road in Portage against the Terriers on Sept. 2, while the Dauphin Kings will host the Swan Valley Stampeders the same night. Neepawa begins pre-season play on Sept. 4 in Portage, while the Waywayseecappo Wolverines open on the road against the SJHL's Yorkton Terriers on Sept. 6.
First pre-season home games are Sept. 7 for Neepawa (vs. Dauphin), Sept. 9 for Waywayseecappo (vs. Virden) and Sept. 11 for Virden (vs. Portage). The MJHL regular season begins on Sept. 19.
• Goaltender Connor Shaw of Dauphin has committed to joining the Dauphin Kings.
Shaw, who was listed by the Kings in 2012, posted a 4.02 goals-against average and .882 save percentage as a 17-year-old with the Parkland Rangers of the Manitoba AAA Midget Hockey League last season.
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AMORY — The Amory School District has been awarded a federal grant of $97,436 for drug prevention efforts in the coming school year.
The grant was part of $5.8 million that the U.S. Department of Education awarded to 49 schools in 20 states.
According to Amory Superintendent of Education Jim Sappington, this money will allow the school district to begin random drug testing of students involved in any extracurricular activities in seventh through twelfth grades. All students who participate in any extracurricular activity that involves them in competition in any way with students from other schools could potentially be tested for drug use. This includes such activities as band, chorus, sports, vocational clubs, Envirothon team, math and science competitions and other such events.
Parents will be notified of the drug-testing program when the students sign up for extracurricular activities and their names will be entered into a pool of students which will be randomly selected for testing through a urine sample. A private company will perform the drug testing and provide results to the school. Drugs that will be tested for include but are not limited to the following: alcohol, amphetamines, metahamphetamine, barbituates, cocaine, marijuana, opiates, PCP, steroids.
If a student tests positive, Sappington said, "We'll identify these kids' drug use to their parents and remove them from extracurricular activities for 30 days and then test them again," Sappington said. "The results will remain confidential."
Sappington said the aim is to identify students early who are having problems with illegal substances and to get them help, then get on with the business of educating them. Because the drug testing program will be an entirely new process for the school district, Sappington said they will move slowly with it at first and make adjustments as they see the need.
Sappington told Amory School Board members at their June 9 meeting the grant will pay for one of the district's full-time school nurse positions and will enable the drug testing program to get started in the fall.
In May 2007, Amory athletic director and head football coach Pat Byrd recommended the district begin random drug testing. The board adopted a drug-testing policy last summer, but had not implemented the screening program yet. Some area school districts, such as Itawamba and Tupelo, already have similar drug screening programs in effect.
"I'm proud of our athletic director (Pat Byrd) for coming forth and pushing for this. It's not the easiest thing to do. A lot of schools just pretend the problem doesn't exist."
The school district's grant writer, Carol Rogers, applied for the federal funds for the drug-testing program and now the program can be put into place, Sappington said.
The $97,000 the district was awarded is for the first year of the program and has money for start-up, including staff training and student pre-education about drug screening. It also includes the cost for screening students. The program also will include providing information to parents on resources for counseling of students who test positive for drug use. The school district will not be involved in any treatment of students who test positive.
"We're not trying to expel kids or throw kids into the slammer," Sappington said. "What we're trying to do is get rid of a problem that we think a lot of our kids have."
Sappington said the testing and results will be very confidential.
The district will receive two more years of federal funding for this program, bringing its total to about $290,000 over three years.
"It's a positive approach to dealing with it," Sappington said. "But it's a ratger costly project."
The random drug screening will be a continual process at the high school, occurring nearly every week targeting different randomly selected students.
Rogers said she felt the drug testing program was needed. She said a survey of middle school students here revealed some are using a wide range of drugs and illegal substances, even at higher than national levels for their age.
Since the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of school-based random student drug testing in 1995 and 2002, the demand for drug testing has outpaced the Department of Education's grant award program.
In the past five years, student drug testing has gained participants. More than 4,000 schools nationwide have implemented a random student drug testing program to promote a healthy learning environment and to shield young people from addictive substances.
Other school districts in Mississippi besides Amory receiving drug prevention grants in this go-round include districts in Brandon, Macon and Lucedale.
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Tiger Woods Wins the Memorial Tournament
By mustang6560 on 6/4/12
Tiger Woods found himself in a precarious situation Sunday at the Memorial Tournament. And in typical Tiger fashion, the former world number one rose to the occasion to hit a truly incredible shot.
Tiger hit his approach shot on the par-3 16th long and it settled in the long rough. At this point in the tournament, he was trailing by one stroke so he needed to get up and down to keep pace with the leader. Facing a tough lie, a downhill slope to the pin, and water behind the hole, Tiger hit a flop shot for the ages - one that would even make the likes of Phil Mickelson jealous.
Prior to the shot, Peter Kostis said if Tiger could get his chip shot inside six feet that it would be a "wonderful shot". What kind of shot would it be if he chipped it in? Remarkable? Unbelievable? Stupendous? Well, that is exactly what Tiger did. He chipped in for birdie to match Rory Sabbatini at 8-under-par for a share of the lead.
While the adjective may differ from person to person, the underlining meaning will be the same. It was an amazing shot, at the most opportune of time, and it was the catalyst that propelled him to his 73rd victory, matching host Jack Nicklaus for the second most wins in PGA Tour history. Now he can start working toward Jack's other record.
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bducharm says:
I remember hearing Bob Rosburg always say "he has no chance". This time, that was true and Tiger pulled off the shot of the year!!! I believe it was better than the Masters shot. When Nicklaus says is was one of the gutsiest shots he's ever seen, you know it was good!!! Welcome back Tiger!!!
Scott Shields says:
Welcome back Tiger, golf needs you. :)
bkuehn1952 says:
That shot underlines why many of us tune in to watch Tiger. For years he always found a spectacular way to get the job done. That has been missing for almost 3 years.
ppinkert says:
Sweet shot! Way to go Tiger..
legitimatebeef says:
73 Tour wins is mind-boggaling. And these days people gush over a Luke Donald, McIlroy or Rickie Fowler when they cobble together a couple of them. It is still Tiger's world.
madmx99 says:
Great shot!!!! He looked a little lost without Stevie to jump up and down and do high fives. Love the new caddie!!!
dottomm says:
The most aggressive golf shot I've ever witnessed! There is no doubt he the greatest golfer of our generation and I don't really like the guy. I'm more happy I didn't have to watch Rory in his dumb hat pick-up the win.
jcstoll says:
I'm surprised nobody has said it yet here, so I'll stoop to it: Tiger Woods is the next Tiger Woods!
joe jones says:
Simply put. Wonderful!
The Full Monty says:
I've been watching Tiger before he won his 1st major and it's great to see some of his old form again. I am not as impressed with the shot on 16 as I am with his ability to hold it together for a full 4 rounds and then close out #18 with authority. That's what's been missing for so many years now and the reason he's been able to hit 73 wins and 14 majors.
If he manage to keep this calm and collected swing in place, he will move to the top spot very quickly. Funny thing is, his putting isn't even back YET.
homermania says:
Yes! Now let's see which Tiger shows up for the Open.
mmontisano says:
dude hit a 140 yard sand wedge in Sunday. it was downwind, BUT STILL!
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Summer Streets on Alki is Sunday; Full Schedule offers sports, music and family fun
It's time for Summer Streets again on Sunday May 20 on Alki. This is the 5th Annual Summer Streets event , organized by Seattle's Department of Transportation. Events start at 11 am and will happen till 5pm but before all the music and activities the West Seattle High School PTSA will put on the West Seattle 5k walk/run starting at 8 am. Alki Ave S.W from 63rd to 58th will be closed during the main event so pedestrians and vendors can take over the streets.
Here's the schedule:
Summer Streets events start at 11 a.m.:
- Race in Waste Management's recycling relays
- Learn about SPU's Puget Sound Starts Here storm drain markers
- Experience the "Art Demo Block" brought to us by Alki Art Fair, including watercolors with Barbara Bennedsen; button making, origami and paper arts, painting and drawing, mobiles and nature crafts with Theresa Anderson and Young at Art staff
- Build your own community out of newspapers!
- Check out the artists and musical performances at Alki Arts gallery (see schedule below)
- Make flowers with Flowers of Lesotho
- Decorate bikes with Cascade Bicycle Club and participate in SPD's "Kid's Bike Parade"
- Participate in Detective Cookie's Youth Chess Club games
- Get your helmet fitted and bike tuned up
- Try Coastal Surf Boutique's street bowling
- Visit the Seattle Humane Society's MaxMobile pet adoptions
- Talk to neighborhood Police Officers during one of the "Officer Chats"
- Watch a self defense, martial arts demo by Alki Taekwondo
- Get in on a 3on3 Battle on the Blacktop game
- Learn about local organizations, such as Seal Sitters and the SW Historical Society/Log House Museum
- Try stand up paddle boarding from the beach
- The Seattle Fire Department will make a special stop with their fire truck
- Support the local restaurants and businesses
- Help us build Seattle's Healthiest Canned Food Pyramid started with donations from Metropolitan Market and PCC Natural Markets, benefiting the West Seattle Food Bank in front of Tully's Coffee. Drop off your cans ahead of time at Tully's (2676 Alki Ave SW), Safeway (2622 California Ave W), or QFC (4550 42nd Avenue Southwest).
Performances at 61st & Alki:
11:00 a.m. Hollow Earth Radio DJ's
11:30 a.m. Sarey Savy - singer
12:10 p.m. Hollow Earth Radio DJ
12:40 p.m. Mighty Tiny Band
1:20 p.m. Hollow Earth Radio DJ
1:50 p.m. Choro Tocando – Brazilian choro music
3:00 p.m. Hollow Earth Radio DJ
4:00 p.m. Not Dead Yet
Other Activities (at various locations):
11:00 a.m. Youth Chess Games (Kids Zone)
11:30 a.m. SPD Officer Chat (Kids Zone)
12:00 p.m. Fire Engine 29 Visits Alki (Art Demo Block)
1:00 p.m. Puget Sound Starts Here/Storm Drain Markers
1:30 p.m. Bike Decoration & Helmet Fittings (Bike Lane)
2:00 p.m. SPD Kids' Bike Parade (Bike Lane)
2:30 p.m. Alki Taekwondo Demo (Performance Area)
3:00 p.m. SPD Officer Chat (Kids Zone)
Seattle Humane Society's MaxMobile Adoption Center (Bike Lane)
Make sure to visit the "Art Stop" at Alki Arts gallery:
Musical Lineup: Artist demonstrations:
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1:00 p.m. The Brian & Janie Show Christine Sharp
3:00 p.m. Joe Ross Jim Gerlitz
NOTE: On Sunday, May 20 from approximately 8:00 AM until about 6:00 PM, DART route 775 will be rerouted off of Alki Av SW and Harbor Av SW, due to the West Seattle 5K Run/Alki Summer Streets Event.
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Schools are failing in their official duty to protect girls as young as four from female genital mutilation because teachers are not trained to identify when pupils are at risk, Britain's biggest children's charity warned today.
The NSPCC says that staff could play a vital role in combating the potentially life-threatening practice and bringing perpetrators to justice.
But it says that an absence of training means that most staff are unaware of the warning signs and that some are so ignorant about the abuse that they do not even realise that it is a crime.
The NSPCC's call — which comes only weeks after the education inspectorate Ofsted announced that schools would be assessed on their efforts to combat FGM — was prompted by the findings of a survey of teachers carried out for the charity.
It found 83 per cent of staff saying that they had not had child protection training about girls at risk of mutilation and that one in six did not know that the practice is illegal in this country.
A similar proportion failed to say that they regarded FGM as child abuse, while 68 per cent were unaware that there is government guidance setting out how teachers should tackle the risk of mutilation.
Lisa Harker, head of strategy at the NSPCC, said the findings were disturbing and that both schools and council-run Local Safeguarding Children Boards should take urgent action to address the problem.
"There are young girls in British classrooms who will be subjected to the agony and trauma of FGM and a life of pain, but teachers on the frontline in the fight against FGM clearly feel unprepared for this role," she said.
"The secret world of female genital mutilation means that teachers may be the only professionals these children come into contact with. This is why they play such a vital role in raising concerns."
Official Home Office guidance says in a section aimed at schools that while staff "should recognise and respect children's wishes", child welfare "must be paramount" and that any suspected cases of FGM must be reported.
It states: "FGM is child abuse and against the law. If a member of staff believes that the girl is at risk of FGM, or has already undergone FGM, the police and social services must be informed even if this is against the girl's wishes."
Signs of FGM
Prolonged absence from school.
In the case of a girl who has started menstruating, absence from school for a week when she is having her period.
Going to the lavatory more often than usual, or staying in there for an unusually long time.
Pupil is unable to cross her legs when sitting down on the floor.
She appears in pain and clutches her body.
Sudden behavioural changes — she may be unusually quiet and subdued, or start to misbehave.
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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African anti-apartheid hero Nelson Mandela died aged 95 at his Johannesburg home on Thursday after a prolonged lung infection, plunging his nation and the world into mourning for a man hailed by global leaders as a moral giant.
Although Mandela had been frail and ailing for nearly a year, Zuma's announcement late on Thursday of the death of the former president and Nobel Peace Prize laureate shook South Africa.
Tributes began flooding in almost immediately for a man who was an iconic global symbol of struggle against injustice and of racial reconciliation.
U.S. President Barack Obama said the world had lost "one of the most influential, courageous and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this earth".
British Prime Minister David Cameron called Mandela "a hero of our time" and said "a great light has gone out in the world".
Ordinary South Africans were in shock. "It feels like it's my father who has died. He was such a good man, who had good values the nation could look up to. He was a role model unlike our leaders of today," said Annah Khokhozela, 37, a nanny, speaking in Johannesburg
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- 3 cups Pioneer Original or Buttermilk Biscuit & Baking Mix
- 1 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/2 cup chopped pecans, toasted
- 2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon ground cloves
- 2 large eggs, beaten
- 1 can (15 ounces) pumpkin
- 1/2 cup low-fat buttermilk or plain yogurt
- 1/2 cup vegetable or canola oil
- OATMEAL STREUSEL TOPPING:1/2 cup chopped pecans
- 1/3 cup Pioneer Original or Buttermilk Biscuit & Baking Mix
- 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
- 1/3 cup old-fashioned rolled oats
- 1/4 cup butter or margarine, melted
Make these moist muffins to share with your family on Thanksgiving morning, or serve them at the big meal later in the day.
This recipe courtesy of Pioneer Brand, C.H.Guenther & Son, Inc.
- In large bowl, combine 3 cups Pioneer Biscuit & Baking Mix, 1 cup brown sugar, 1/2 cup pecans, cinnamon and cloves.
- In medium bowl, stir together eggs, pumpkin, buttermilk and oil. Gently stir pumpkin mixture into dry ingredients just until dry ingredients are moistened.
- Spoon about 1/4 cup batter into each of 24 muffin cups coated with cooking spray.
- In small bowl, stir together streusel ingredients until crumbly. Sprinkle over batter.
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The Queen will spend the day resting after suffering symptoms of gastroenteritis, Buckingham Palace said.
She was due to attend a military celebration in Wales today during the city's St David's Day celebrations, but has been forced to cancel her planned engagements because of the sickness.
She will instead spend the weekend at Windsor, a palace spokeswoman said.
The Queen was expected to travel through Swansea to the Guildhall, where she would present St David's Day leeks to the 3rd Battalion The Royal Welsh, of which she is Colonel-in-Chief.
She was then due to attend a reception with members of the battalion and their families, before proceeding to the George Hall for lunch.
A palace spokeswoman said last night: "The Queen will no longer visit Swansea tomorrow as she is experiencing symptoms of gastroenteritis.
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"Her Majesty is currently spending the weekend at Windsor, as usual."
The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh are due to fly out to Rome for a two-day visit next week, which could now be in doubt.
A palace spokesman said the visit was still due to take place, but a decision would be made after she was assessed.
The Queen, who is 86, has undertaken a number of engagements during the last week. On Tuesday she met the Archbishop of Canterbury at Buckingham Palace, and on Thursday she presented a host of Olympic stars with honours during an investiture ceremony.
Swansea Council said the ceremony would go ahead today as planned with the Lord Lieutenant of West Glamorgan, Byron Lewis.
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"The ceremony will continue as planned and will be carried out by the Lord Lieutenant of West Glamorgan, Mr Byron Lewis.
"The Lord Lieutenant will be met upon arrival at the Guildhall by Brigadier Philip Napier, Colonel of the Regiment.
"The parade will present arms for a royal salute and play the national anthem before the Lord Lieutenant is invited to present leeks to a representative body of the regiment.
"Following the parade, the Lord Lieutenant will attend a reception with members of the battalion and their families, before proceeding to the George Hall for lunch.
"The event will take place in and around the Brangwyn Hall and public viewing areas will be available."
The Queen has rarely missed a royal engagement due to ill health in recent years.
She was last forced to pull out of an investiture ceremony in October last year after suffering with a bad back.
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NORTHRIDGE, Calif. - The USC baseball team needed extra innings, but came back to take an 8-7 victory over Cal State Northridge in ten innings Saturday afternoon.
USC started off the game strong by scoring the three runs in the top of the opening inning. The Matadors immediately struck back in the bottom of the inning to cut the Trojan lead to 3-2 and took a 6-3 advantage with four runs in the fifth.
The Trojan offense was not finished however, as it scored a run in the seventh and three in the eighth to retake the lead. The Matadors scored a run in the bottom of the ninth to tie the score 7-7 and send the game into extra innings. USC scored the winning run in the top of the tenth.
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This is a discussion on Armed robbery scenario within the Carry & Defensive Scenarios forums, part of the Defensive Carry Discussions category; Just finished reading a great book called "The Concealed Handgun Manual" Really learned much from this book. I learned a great approach to take if ...
Just finished reading a great book called "The Concealed Handgun Manual"
Really learned much from this book. I learned a great approach to take if I am being robbed or threatened at gun-point. Here is the scenario:
Gunman has gun and is at close range pointing it at me. I then create a distraction such as looking over his shoulder and saying "No it's o.k, I can deal with it."
Speaking to someone who isn't there but the bad guy doesn't know that. The bad guy will naturally want to see who I am talking to. Then I draw my Kel-Tec 32 out of it's Desantis Nemesis holster and in the time it would take to call him a scumbag, I unload a few Fiocchi rounds into his cardiovascular triangle and face.
Police show up at the scene. " I was attacked and shot in self defense."
"I was in fear of losing my life or being seriously injured."
"I am a licensed gun carrier." As I hand them my permit and license.
Being polite I say, "I really dont want to make any statement until I've had
an opportunity to talk to a lawyer."
Any comments or suggestions for improving this scenario besides carrying a larger caliber? BTW Georgia has the Castle Doctrine.
"An armed society is a polite society"
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
After unloading several .32 into the BG, BG will look down then look back up and fire his 9mm or 45.
I wouldn't really mess around even with a .357mag or a 50 cal if the guy is at close range pointed a gun at me..
I would take out my wallet drop it on the ground and try and place as much distance between me and the BG, when he moves down to pick it up then and only then if I am far enough away and able to take a few shots then take cover would I attempt anything.
But keep in mind this isnt the movies and several people have been shot multiple times at close range and have lived or been able to fight back.. I was taught in CCW class that the survival rate for a gun shot is over 80%.
You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." . . . You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosevelt
Have your lawyer on speed dial. As soon as you call 911, get off the phone with dispatch and on the phone with your lawyer.
Everything additional you say could harm your ability to make a workable defense in a courtroom.
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliott
The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
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Lawyers are overrated.
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
Who is John Galt?
Let's face it. A lawyer is just some guy who went to school for three years studying cases that have nothing to do with your present situation. They are invaluable in a courtroom and have the knowledge and resources to navigate the judicial system. Hopefully, your lawyer has some direct experience with a self defense shooting but probably not.
My first call would be to 911 for the exact reasons Kerbouchard wrote because there is no way I would relinquish my firearm before police arrived.
My next call would be to my family and let them handle the details if I were to be arrested.
He has already got the drop on you. If he pulls the trigger, you have an extra hole in your body. As you distract him, if he sees you make a sudden movement out of the corner of his eye, he could pull the trigger several times before you could clear leather.
Even if you shot him through the heart before he reacted, he could still empty his gun before he died.
It's a tough spot to be in. The best thing to do is to have a good enough situational awareness to never find yourself in that position.
Do not spend too much time and effort envisioning any one set "deadly threat" scenario in your mind.
Because there are 1,000 other possible scenarios and variations thereof and the only thing you can ever be absolutely certain of right now...is that whatever you think might happen exactly the way you're picturing it today....probably won't.
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Personally, if I have a gun, I'm not going to try to wrestle someone else's away from them. But, as you say, Chuck Norris might disagree.....
It really doesn't matter how you or I would see it. It's how the DA and/or jury would see it. If they think an attack is someone holding a gun on you then you are good to go. If they don't see it that way then it will be hard to explain how you were attacked if they didn't pysically touch you.
If you are going to lawyer up you might as well leave anything out that you won't have to explain later when everyone else wants to analize everything you did and said.
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
I have more general comments about SD situations as a whole. While working out these situations in our heads is definitely beneficial, one of the best ways to see how you would react to situations is to take a good Force-on-Force class. They usually use airsoft guns and you get shot if you don't do things right. I found that after I took one of these classes it completely changed the way I thought about SD situations and gunfights. They happen much different that the average person imagines. I saw people who were NRA instructors who couldn't even get their guns out of their holsters after being put under stress. People couldn't even remember where they were during simulated 911 calls after their scenario. Things happen so fast that everyone later admitted they were not able to even think about using sights. Reality tends to be much different than what we work out in our minds.
As far as shooting someone, unless you hit the brain or spinal column they will most likely not go right down. A person hit in the heart can still fight or up to 10 seconds, plenty enough time to kill you. One of my instructors once told us "a dead man can still kill you". Mental preparedness and willingness is the most important aspect of dealing with dynamic critical incidents. Most fights are not won by supreme tactical skill but rather raw aggression and willpower. Prisoners are a great example of this and people like them are the ones that will most likely be attacking you. Long and short of it, practice and prepare, both physically and mentally. Seek out relative training from good competent trainers to help you along the way.


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Both of you, my dear, I hope, after the first flurries are over.
Every little while flurries like this occurred, each flurry culminating in the revolver shot that put an end to it.
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List of Design-related Grants and Fellowships
Last Updated: May 2016
We suggest using the Google Search function to locate fellowships and grants on this page that are related to your field of study.
Follow hyperlink to websites for more information regarding eligibility and application deadlines.*
*We do our best to keep these pages updated. However, if you find broken links or have suggested additions, please contact the Dean's office at 612-626-9068.
Akademie Schloss Solitude - Residency Fellowships
Architecture (Design, Landscape Architecture, Urban Planning) and, Design (Fashion, Costume, Product and Furniture Design, Visual Communication), are among the disciplines encouraged to apply.
American Academy in Rome – Rome Prize
Each year, the Rome Prize is awarded to about thirty emerging artists and scholars who represent the highest standard of excellence and who are in the early or middle stages of their working lives. Relevant eligible categories in Design are listed below.
American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) - Mary Josephine Cochran National Graduate Fellowship
The Mary Josephine Cochran fellowship was created in 1988 with a bequest from Mary Josephine Cochran. A $5,000 fellowship and up to $1,000 of support for one year of AAFCS membership and participation in the AAFCS Annual Conference will be awarded to no more than one (1) qualified graduate student pursuing a degree in textiles and clothing.
The American Association of University Women (AAUW) – Fellowships and Grants
Fellowships and grants are provided to support women in a wide range of disciplines. Note the "Selected Professions Fellowships" includes architecture as one of the four areas it supports.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) -- Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships
These fellowships are to assist graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of Ph.D. dissertation writing. This program aims to encourage timely completion of the Ph.D. The fellowship tenure may be carried out in residence at the fellow's home institution, abroad, or at another appropriate site for the research. Appropriate fields of specialization include architectural history.
The American Research Center in Egypt
ARCE administers research fellowships for students enrolled in doctoral programs at North American universities, and for American post-doctoral scholars and professionals affiliated with universities and research institutions worldwide. ARCE Fellowships are awarded for a minimum of three months and a maximum of twelve months depending on the funding source. Students in doctoral programs, including architecture are eligible.
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens – Advance Fellowships
Several fellowships for the full academic year at the School with a stipend of $11,500 plus room, board, and waiver of School fees are available to students who have completed the Regular Program or one year as a Student Associate Member and plan to return to the School to pursue independent research, usually for their Ph.D. dissertation. Advanced Fellowships include the Samuel H. Kress Fellowship in art and architecture of antiquity and the Gorham Phillips Stevens Fellowship in the history of architecture.
American Institute of Architects – Arthur Tuttle Jr. Graduate Fellowship in Health Facility Planning and Design
The goal of this program is to increase architecture students' awareness of the special requirements and nature of healthcare facilities; to attract talented young architects to this challenging area of professional practice; and to advance the knowledge of planning and design for healthcare environments. Felllowships typically range from $2,000 to $10,000.
American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) - Joel Polsky Prize and Joel Polsky Academic Achievement Award
The Joel Polsky Prize is given annually to recognize outstanding academic contributions to the discipline of interior design through literature or visual communication. The Joel Polsky Academic Achievement Award is given annually to recognize an outstanding undergraduate or graduate student's interior design research or thesis project. Both awards are for $5000.
American Society of Interior Designers (ASID)- Irene Winifred Eno Grant
Irene Winifred Eno Grant is to awarded to provide financial assistance to individuals or groups engaged in the creation of an educational program(s) or an interior design research project dedicated to health, safety and welfare. Award is $5000.
American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) – Fellowships and Scholarships
ASLA provides a variety of fellowships and scholarships to students in Landscape Architecture. Please visit website for details.
Ars Electronica – Voestalpine Art and Technology Grant
The aim of this art & technology grant bestowed annually by voestalpine and Ars Electronica is to honor new and extraordinarily promising ideas and to support the process of developing them further. Men and women worldwide who have developed but not yet implemented a concept in the fields of art, design or technology are encouraged to apply for this grant. The recipient will receive a cash stipend in the amount of €7,500 and an invitation to collaborate with tht Ars Electronica Futurelab as Artist/Scientist-in-Residence.
The Architectural League of New York – Norden Fund Travel/Study Grants
The Deborah J. Norden Fund awards up to $5,000 annually in travel grants to students and recent graduates in the fields of architecture, architectural history, and urban studies.
Asian Arts Council – Individual Grants
Each year the ACC funds about one hundred of today's established masters in their fields and tomorrow's rising stars in areas which include Architecture (Design, Theory, and History) and Design (Noncommercial).
ASID-Alternative Awards and Scholarships
The ASID awards represent the Society's highest level of professional recognition. In addition to the Irene Winifred Eno Grant noted above, there are other national awards, Student Chapter Awards, and scholarships available.
Department of Transportation -- The Dwight David Eisenhower Transportation Fellowship Program (DDETFP)
This fellowship awards funds to students pursuing degrees in transportation-related disciplines, which includes architecture and human factors. DOT funds between 150 and 200 fellowships per year.
Dumbarton Oaks - Junior Fellowships
Junior Fellowships are for degree candidates who at the time of application have fulfilled all preliminary requirements for a PhD or appropriate final degree and will be working on a dissertation or final project at Dumbarton Oaks under the direction of a faculty member at their own university.
Foundation for Community Association Research -- Byron Hanke Fellowship for Graduate Research on Community Associations
Fellowships are available to graduate students working on topics related to community associations. Community associations govern common-interest communities of any kind—condominiums, cooperatives, townhouse developments, planned unit developments, and other developments where homeowners support an association with mandatory financial assessments, and are subject to use and aesthetic restrictions
Garden Club of America - Douglas Dockery Thomas Fellowship in Garden History and Design
This fellowship reflects and promotes the Garden Club of America's interest in supporting garden history and design, and examining the future of gardens and their unique place in our environment. It is awarded annually to an exceptional graduate student to assist with study and research at a leading American institution.
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation – Grants
The Foundation awards grants (pre-doctoral and post-doctoral) for travel
to and residence in Venice and the Veneto. These grants are made to
individuals to support historical study of Venice and the former
Venetian empire and the study of contemporary Venice. Grants will be
awarded for historical research specifically on Venice and the former
Venetian empire, and for study of contemporary Venetian society and
culture. Disciplines of the humanities and social sciences are eligible
areas of study, including architecture.
Graham Foundation – Carter Manny Award
The Carter Manny Award supports dissertation research and writing by promising scholars whose projects have architecture as their primary concern and focus and have the potential to shape contemporary discourse about architecture and impact the field. Projects may be drawn from the various fields of inquiry supported by the Graham Foundation: architectural history, theory, and criticism; design; engineering; landscape architecture; urban planning; urban studies; the visual arts; and other related fields. The Graham Foundation offers two Carter Manny Awards: a research award for a student at the research stage of the doctoral dissertation and a writing award for a student at the writing stage of the doctoral dissertation. The research award is acknowledged with up to $15,000 and the writing award is acknowledged with up to $20,000.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD)- Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant Program
The Doctoral Dissertation Research Grant program is intended to stimulate policy-relevant urban research in several ways: by encouraging doctoral candidates to pursue research topics in community, housing, and urban development; by assisting doctoral candidates in the timely completion of the dissertation research; and by providing an arena for new scholars to share their research findings. HUD competitively awards one-time grants of $15,000 per student each year to approximately 15 doctoral candidates currently enrolled in accredited programs.
International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) -- IAESTE Exchange Program
The International Association for the Exchange of Students for Technical Experience (IAESTE) is an independent, non-profit and non-political student exchange organization. It provides students in technical degrees (primarily Science, Engineering and the applied arts) with paid, course-related, training abroad and employers with highly skilled, highly motivated trainees, for long or short term projects.Areas of eligibility include: Textile technology, Architecture, Architectural Studies.
International Furnishings and Design Association (IFDA) - Vercille Voss Graduate Student Member Scholarship
This $2,000 scholarship is for a graduate student pursuing an advanced degree in interior design or related field.
Mellon/ACLS -- Dissertation Completion Fellowships-Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellowships support a year of research and writing to help advanced graduate students in the humanities and related social sciences in the last year of PhD dissertation writing. Architectural history is an eligible category.
Metropolis Magazine – Next Generation Design Competition
The Metropolis Next Generation® Design Competition was launched in 2003 to promote environmental activism, social involvement, and entrepreneurship among young designers. Every year the editorial team identifies what it believes is the most critical issue facing the built environment and challenges the Next Generation to solve it.
Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) - Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship in Textiles and Costume History
The Veronika Gervers Research Fellowship exists to promote research incorporating the textile and fashion collections of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM). Applications are encouraged in all areas of textile and costume history.
Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation -- Traveling Fellowship Program
The purpose of the Sir John Soane's Museum Foundation Traveling Fellowship is to enable students in graduate degree programs in the history of art, architecture, interior design, and the decorative arts to travel to London to pursue research projects related to any aspect of the work of Sir John Soane or Sir John Soane's Museum and its collections. Annually, the Foundation entertains and reviews proposals from qualified candidates from universities and institutions around the world. Two awards are presented - one to a student of architecture and the second open to all candidates.
Smithsonian Institute -- Baird Society Resident Scholar Program
Stipends of $3,500 per month for up to six months are available for individuals working on a topic relating to collections, such as the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
Smithsonian Institution (SI) -- James Renwick Fellowship in American Craft
This felllowship is available for research in American studio crafts or decorative arts from the nineteenth century to the present. Fellowships are residential and support full-time independent and dissertation research.
SOM Foundation – SOM Prize
The SOM Prize and Travel Fellowship are two annual awards that are administered as a single competition. The awards are given to students and recent graduates of Architecture, Design (including interior design, landscape architecture, environmental graphics or industrial design ) and Urban Design.The SOM Prize in architecture, design and urban design is a $50,000 research and travel fellowship. A second award, the $20,000 SOM Travel Fellowship, offers an applicant the opportunity to expand his/her professional education beyond the classroom through the observation of buildings, design, culture, and history that can only be achieved through travel.
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) - Montêquin Research Fellowship
This award provides a support for travel costs related to research on Spanish, Portuguese, or Ibero-American architecture. The awards consist of a $2,000 stipend for a junior scholar and a $6,000 award for a senior scholar.
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) - Charles E. Peterson Fellowship of the Buildings of the United States and the Athenaeum of Philadelphia
In a joint program with the Athenaeum of Philadelphia, the Society of Architectural Historians is pleased to offer an annual fellowship that will support the participation of a graduate student in the research and writing for a volume in the Buildings of the United States (BUS) series and/or SAH Archipedia, the Society's online architectural resource.
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH)- Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship
The Sally Kress Tompkins Fellowship, a joint program of the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) and the National Park Service's Historic
American Buildings Survey (HABS) permits an architectural historian to work on a 12-week HABS project during the summer.
Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) - H. Allen Brooks Traveling Fellowship
The Society of Architectural Historians' prestigious H. Allen Brooks Travelling Fellowship will allow a recent graduate or emerging scholar to study by travel for one year. The fellowship is not for the purpose of doing research for an advanced academic degree. Instead, Prof. Brooks intended the recipient to study by travel and contemplation while observing, reading, writing, or sketching.
Urban Land Institute – Gerald D. Hines Student Urban Design Competition
This competition challenges multidisciplinary student teams to devise a comprehensive development program for a real, large-scale site. Teams of five students representing at least three disciplines have two weeks to develop solutions that include drawings, site plans, tables, and market-feasible financial data. This is an ideas competition; there is no expectation that any of the submitted schemes will be applied to the site. The winning team receives $50,000 and the finalist teams receive $10,000 each.
U.S. Capitol Historical Society – Fellowships Fellowships let scholars, including graduate students in architecture, to use the extensive documents housed in the Office of the Architect of the Capitol, the Library of Congress and the National Archives to do research on the Capitol building.
Western European Architecture Foundation
The Gabriel Prize provides a $20,000 grant for the study of classical architecture and landscape in France. Prize winners embark on a three-month itinerary of their own devising.
Wilhelm Lorch Foundation – Prizes for Completed Projects
The foundation awards prizes to completed works that are appropriate to the fashion sector, the textile trade, or the textile and garment manufacturing industry, as well as related fields. The project can be concerned with creative, marketing, logistics, technical, and communication aspects or interdisciplinary subjects, such as ecology, new media, and international interweavement. University dissertations on creative, economic, or technical subjects relevant to the textile sector are considered particularly worthy of support.
Winterthur Museum and Country Estate -- Dissertation Research Fellowships
Winterthur Library is a recognized center for advanced study and is dedicated to the understanding and appreciation of America's artistic, cultural, social, and intellectual history from colonial times into the twentieth century. Eligibility for the dissertation fellowships include material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, garden and landscape studies. Dissertation fellowships are for up to $14,000.
Winterthur Museum -- Fellowship Program
Research fellows are awarded for research in many areas of social and cultural history, including material culture, architecture, decorative arts, design, consumer culture, and garden and landscape studies, Winterthur's collections are rich in material relating to the colonies of British North America and the United States from the seventeenth to the mid-twentieth centuries. Winterthur welcomes researchers. Academic, independent, and museum scholars, as well as advanced graduate students are invited to apply for short and long-term residential research fellowships. The suitability of a project to Winterthur's collections is the primary consideration of the fellowship award committee.
The Wolfsonian-Florida International University – Fellowship Program
These fellowships support research on the museum's collection, generally for three to four week periods. The museum explores through its exhibitions and special programs the critically important role of design at the height of the industrial age (1885-1945) in the context of social, political, and technological issues.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- In attempt to raise awareness for ALS research, head coach Butch Jones and staff participated in the Ice Bucket Challenge. Each of the coaches challenged Tennessee legends prior to being frozen out.
Jones accepted his challenge and then challenged three more Tennessee affiliated individuals, including Donnie Tyndall, Jon Gruden and Peyton Manning.
Senior A.J. Johnson was one of the players that participated in pouring the water over coaches' heads and had the distinct pleasure of doing it for Jones.
"It felt real good," Johnson said. "I know the ice dumping was for charity, so we did it for a great cause and it felt good dumping it on coach."
Along with Jones, linebackers coach Tommy Thigpen challenged Al Wilson, one of the greatest linebackers in UT history having played from 1995-98.
Defensive backs coach Willie Martinez took the opportunity to challenge the great Eric Berry, All-Pro safety of the Kansas City Chiefs who played at Tennessee from 2007-09.
Zach Azzanni, wide receivers coach, challenged Minnesota Vikings' All-Pro wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson.
Defensive coordinator John Jancek called out three-time Super Bowl Champion Bill Bates who played for the Vols from 1979-83 before playing with the Dallas Cowboys. Bates of course is the dad of freshman Dillon Bates.
Offensive line coach Don Mahoney made sure to challenge one of his most recent graduates and current NFL rookie Ja'Wuan James, who has earned himself a starting role with the Miami Dolphins.
Running backs coach Robert Gillespie accepted his challenge only to call out two more people, including current rookie Rajion Neal of the Packers. He also named Baltimore Ravens Hall of Famer Jamal Lewis for the challenge.
Former Vols star quarterback and Heisman runner-up, Heath Shuler, was called out by quarterbacks coach Mike Bajakian.
Defensive line coach Steve Stripling challenged Reggie McKenzie, general manager of the Oakland Raiders, and legendary Vols lineman.
To the mix, Director of Strength and Conditioning Dave Lawson accepted the challenge to pass it on to Ben Bartholomew, a former Vols fullback from 2008-2012.
Mark Elder, tight ends coach and special teams coordinator, dared the great Jason Witten of the Dallas Cowboys to accept his challenge.
With the players fully supporting the cause by pouring the water, they recognize the meaning behind an important cause.
"I think that's awesome," quarterback Justin Worley said. "This whole ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has really taken off. You see all these different teams doing different things and just having all of our coaches involved, calling out some of these awesome VFLs, is a great experience and it opens a lot of eyes."
Here's the list of challenges:
Tommy Thigpen to Al Wilson
Willie Martinez to Eric Berry
Zach Azzanni to Cordarrelle Patterson
John Jancek to Bill Bates
Don Mahoney to Ja'Wuan James
Robert Gillespie to Jamal Lewis, Rajion Neal
Mike Bajakian to Heath Shuler
Steve Stripling to Reggie McKenzie
Dave Lawson to Ben Bartholomew
Mark Elder to Jason Witten
Butch Jones to Donnie Tyndall, Jon Gruden, Peyton Manning


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