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Town-Gown Truce? ANC, CAG, University Ask for Delay in Zoning Filing
Could there be peace in our time? In the April 2 meeting of Advisory Neighborhood Commission 2E, a joint statement by neighborhood groups and Georgetown University asked the D.C. Zoning Commission to delay the deadline for filings on the university's 2010-2020 Campus Plan process by 60 days.
Members of the Citizens Association of Georgetown, the Burleith Citizens Association and the ANC, all of which oppose the university's expansion plans, and representatives from the university stood up at the meeting to affirm the surprising announcement. As it stands now, the university's deadline for submissions is April 12, and neighborhood groups have until April 19 to respond. If the zoning panel agrees to the request for delay, the submission and response dates will change to June 11 and June 18, respectively.
Only several weeks ago, Jennifer Altemus, CAG president, as well as student leaders and others on the university side, was lamenting the delayed decision by the zoning board.
Why the 180-degree turn? ANC chair Ron Lewis said that the delay was requested so that "we can explore the possibility of reaching common ground in our talks about the campus plan. . . We're giving a somewhat different report than we had expected."
"This approach reflects our continued efforts to seek common ground and to engage with city and neighborhood leaders," wrote Rachel Pugh, director of media relations for the university, in an email. "Joining with our neighbors in requesting an extension is a meaningful sign of progress in a long process."
Major sticking points between the parties, such as the demand that students be housed on campus by 2016, remain. But some persons in the process seem to be taking zoning commissioner Anthony Hood's advice in February that residents and university officials meet more continually to resolve any issues affecting the neighborhood. At an earlier ANC meeting, Mayor Vincent Gray spoke of the town-gown tension and said he believed that common ground would be reached. Whether this small measure of unity displayed at the April 2 ANC meeting leads to a sea charge by which neighborhood and university leaders collaborate is anyone's guess.
At the same meeting, the ANC voted unanimously to oppose the redrawn designs for the university's planned Athletic Training Facility.
Georgetown's Jack the Bulldog to Welcome Puppy Mascot-in-Training, April 13
Georgetown University's Jack the Bulldog is going to have to start making room on the couch and especially on the bleachers, because a bulldog puppy will arrive April 13 on campus to be trained by the boss, the veteran, the main four-legged mascot. The new guy, "Jack Jr.," or "J.J." for short, is a gift from Janice and Marcus Hochstetler, bulldog breeders in California, who have two children at Georgetown. This is their way, they say, of thanking the university for the education their children are receiving.
Jack recently injured his left rear leg and is expected to have surgery this month. He will be returning this fall to continue rooting on the athletes and begin teaching J.J. what it means to be a Hoya. "Jack's presence will provide important support to J.J. since the older dog is already comfortable with his life as a mascot at Georgetown," says Rev. Christopher Steck, S.J., associate professor in theology. "J.J. will be looking for signals from Jack, and Jack's enthusiasm in different environments will encourage J.J.'s own."
According to the American Kennel Club, Jack ranks 8th among 125 of the most famous dogs in pop culture. He spends his time cheering at Georgetown games (Hoyas say he is often seen attacking and eating cardboard boxes with the opposing team's logo on them), or resting in the lobby of the Jesuit Residence before heading home to his New South apartment that he shares with Steck.
The Washington Post reported that the new addition is not a replacement for 9-year-old Jack. J.J. was planning on moving across country since he was born in December. Steck tweeted last Friday, March 30, "Really excited about the new puppy, and just to be clear, Jack is NOT retired."
Join Jack and J.J. for a special welcome event at Healy Circle, 4 p.m. on Friday, April 13, when Steck returns to campus with the little guy from San Diego. Meanwhile, check the university website which will map the puppy's travels across America to his destination in D.C.
Library's McCoy Earns Historic Preservation Award; Tale of 2007 Fire in the Comics
Jerry McCoy, special collections librarian, Washingtoniana Division of the D.C. Pubic Library, will receive an individual award from the Historic Preservation Office of the D.C. Office of Planning which chose the Georgetown Neighborhood Library project for the 2012 District of Columbia Award for Excellence in Historic Preservation. The ceremony will be held June 21.
McCoy is well known in Georgetown for heading up the Peabody Room at the R Street public library. It suffered extensive from an April 2007 fire. Nevertheless, firefighters and staff saved 95 percent of its historic collection, including the beloved portrait of Yarrow Mamout, a early 19th-century Georgetowner who emigrated from West Africa and a popular resident at the time. (Today, the library stands fully reconstructed.)
That story was re-told in the Washington Post's March 25 comics sections in the "Flashbacks" comic-strip. "I thought the denoument of the Yarrow story featuring the Peabody Room's portrait and its rescue from the fire was pretty spectacular," McCoy said.


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"Looking back at last week's game, it was hard-fought but difficult to accept because I feel that our team put everything they had out there. I don't question their effort in any way and I have no doubt that they want to be good. We continually challenge our team to do the little things that will make us great. It is hard to play both with not only the passion and effort we ask of them but also at the level at which we want them to play. I give Southern Miss a lot of credit. They came out and made the plays that they needed to make. They needed some stops there at the end and they got them as well as driving 80 yards down the field at the end to win it. I believe that we had plenty of opportunities. We can't point at any one part of our team because everyone just didn't get it done. Our offense had three drops on the last drive and our defense allowed them to convert on many third downs.
"We have a lot of things to correct and a long way to go to get to where we can compete at the level we need. I said earlier that we were going to find out a lot about this team in September but as I told our team; September is not over. We will find out how we handle adversity and whether or not we are emotionally tough enough to deal with the caliber of our schedule.
"I was very encouraged by our special teams. Outside of the kicking game, our dirty dozen played very well. I was concerned before the game because we took all of the starters off of special teams with the exception of the return men. Melvin Patterson and Michael Hickman did a nice job and a lot of these guys that have been backups played extremely well. To qualify for the dirty dozen you can't play on offense or defense and you must be on at least three special teams units. We had nine guys who did that on Saturday and I am looking to see that number grow. We did a good job of covering kickoffs and I believe that it was the best it's been since I've been at East Carolina. The punting game was also solid and our punt return showed us some flashes of just how good it can be.
"Though there were some nice individual performances, I don't think anyone really played for four straight quarters. We came into the game wanting to start fast and we had our best offensive opening drive of the season. However, we drove down the field only to miss the field goal. Our focus was where it needed to be and the crowd helped out with that. I don't think we handled the momentum swings in the game very well and in the second quarter, everything seemed to be against us. We regrouped at halftime and came out like gangbusters but again didn't handle the momentum swings very well, especially the third down they converted to keep that drive alive at the end of the quarter. We need to be able to stop 3rd-and-15 if we want to get a win.
"Finally, I need to thank the student body, fans and alumni because they were awesome for the second week in a row. It was such a sick feeling walking off the field because we wanted to go sing that fight song and celebrate. We wanted to see everyone who has been so supportive walk out with a smile on their faces. Playing at home is definitely a huge advantage for us."
On West Virginia:
"We have a great challenge this week as we are playing an incredible football team in West Virginia. Breaking down their offense, they have one of the fastest teams that I have seen on tape in a long time and they put you in space. I have had the opportunity to coach our team against White and Slaton for the past two years. I think they have great talent, speed and athleticism. If you add Devine to the mix, he may be better than Slaton as he is averaging 15 yards per carry. Their players on the offensive line are very athletic because they can run and be extremely physical.
"When you look at their defense, they are different because they play a three-down line scheme. We saw a little of it against Southern Miss but [West Virginia] is much more aggressive with it this year than in years past. They are bringing the linebackers off the edge much more which creates more pressure, sacks and tackles for loss and they are playing more coverages as well. They bring many of their starters from a year ago back and it will be a heck of a challenge.
"This is a game that has been hard-fought the last two years as we lost 20-15 up there two years ago and played them very close here last season. I know it's going to be a tall order trying to slow down their running game for a third-consecutive year."
On the Mindset of the Team at this Point in the Season:
"It's time to start holding people accountable. We are in the midst of discussing some changes right now at a couple of positions. If we can't create a winner three weeks in a row it's time to ask if we are playing with the right people. We have to assume a positive attitude and get our players to believe again. They have worked harder than they ever have before and we are closer than we have ever been, but when you look at the record we are still 1-2. We have to keep pushing forward in our attempt to get better."
On Stopping West Virginia's Rushing Attack:
"Everyone tries to do things schematically against their running game. It is like playing Navy in that people leave their base defense and go to a three of four-down line. What we have done the past two years is stick with what we know. We will have to play fast, run to the ball and tackle in the open field. More than anything, if you have a mistake in the secondary, it ends up being a long day. They have the breakaway speed that not many people can catch because they make you defend the whole field due to the option. We have challenged our players to play base defense but our secondary is not as experienced as it has been in years past, so our guys will have to step to the challenge. We don't need missed assignments due to guys not knowing what they are supposed to be doing. Keeping it simple is what we will try to do."
On the Kicking Game:
"Both Ben [Hartman] and Matt [Dodge] will compete this week, similar to what I did last season. I think we need to get more consistent on both sides because two out of six field goals is not acceptable, especially when all but one of the kicks have been inside the 20. If a player at another position performed in such a way, we would make a change. I think both [Murphy] Paderick and Dodge will compete with Hartman for the kicking duties. Matt's average punt looks good on paper but we have benefited from the ball rolling. If people start catching those, we are in for a long day. I would rather have the 40-yard punts instead of a mix of 30 and 50. Ultimately, we need to put that competition into our practice so that we can find out who will be ready to play against West Virginia."

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The problems for Yahoo China are continuing to mount. The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the organization that protects international music interests,
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Yahoo China isn't the only search engine company having problems. Baidu.com, the most used search engine in China, is being sued by EMI, Sony BMG Music Entertainment, Universal, Go East Entertainment Co., Gold Label Entertainment, Cinepoly Records and Warner Music Group. The record companies plan to use a new law that became effective on July 1 which will fine the distributors of illegally copyrighted music and movies up to $12,500. In theory, the search engines will have to browse and confirm each video and music link is a legitimate, non-copyrighted file.
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Cory Doctorow's Review of Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey
I love Cory Doctorow. I've never read any of his books myself (but will, and soon), but his blogs and words are fantastic. He seems like a great guy. He posted a review today of Sandman Slim by Richard Kadrey. It made me want to buy the book so much that I just did (guess where? Heh.). That's no small feat. I find a lot of reviews sound much the same, use the same language, and are vague enough to not really give a clue of what the book is actually like. Not so in Doctorow's case. I immediately knew both myself and my boyfriend would love the book. We'll see if I'm right when it arrives.
My favourite quote from the review:
it's the gritty, whiskey-fuelled Tom Waits kind of wit that laughs like it has throat cancer and then spits something wet on the floor after it's done.
Here's the whole review:
Richard Kadrey's new novel Sandman Slim is the most hard-boiled piece of supernatural fiction I've ever had the pleasure of reading. William Gibson says it's a "deeply amusing, dirty-ass masterpiece" and that's just right.
Eleven years ago, James Stark was banished to hell by his circle of magic buddies, betrayed by his supposed friends for the crime of being a better magician than them. For eleven years, he's suffered hell's torments as Azazel's mortal slave, first made to fight in the pits and then turned into an assassin. And now he's escaped hell by stabbing himself in the heart with a key that opens every lock, and he's returned to Los Angeles to seek his vengeance on the magicians who betrayed him. He hunts them across a demon-infested Los Angeles, dishing out and receiving relentless, graphic violence, determined to take his revenge and then die and leave the Earth behind forever.
In another writer's hands, this might be just another of those gonzo-funny books about demons and magic and so forth, an over-the-top, ironic novel that eschews horror for yuks.
But Kadrey's Stark is hard-boiled — not just self-conscious and wise-cracking, but bereft of hope, burning with anger, without any of that self-reflexive, cutesy stuff that writers put in when they're worried about sounding like a poseur. Kadrey's not worried. In the way that Lovecraft's best work is totally unapologetic about the horrors of hell, in the way that Chandler is totally unapologetic about his antiheroes who inhabit a world without redemption or light, Kadrey's Stark is in a living hell, and he hurts, and he will make other people hurt, and he will not stop.
That's not to say that there's no wit in Sandman Slim — there's plenty of that, but it's the gritty, whiskey-fuelled Tom Waits kind of wit that laughs like it has throat cancer and then spits something wet on the floor after it's done.
This is a tightly plotted revenge story that grabbed me by the throat and didn't let go. The characters are fascinating and even likable, and the gun-stuff and the magic-stuff and the demonology-stuff all feel like they're from someone who knows what he's talking about, all confident and energetic and fresh and angry. I loved this book and all its screwed-up people."


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AUSTRALIAN director Andrew Dominik makes very different kinds of movies about crime and mythology, violence and the everyday: first Chopper, then the fine, underrated The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.
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Jackie Cogan is a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that went down during a mob-protected poker game.
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Killing Them Softly, which was in official competition at Cannes this year, continues the tradition. It is adapted from a novel by George V. Higgins, author of The Friends of Eddie Coyle, which was filmed in 1973 with an excellent Robert Mitchum in the title role.
The film is a smart and leisurely depiction of the epic and the inefficient - funny, episodic, meandering, overreaching, yet also brisk and oddly truncated. The performances are strong and there are a couple of memorable set-pieces of violence. At times, it also feels as if narrative threads have been abandoned or omitted.
Killing Them Softly is set in New Orleans during the McCain-Obama presidential race, in a criminal milieu that is almost exclusively male. Frankie (Scoot McNairy) is recruited by an old friend and contact, Johnny (Vincent Curatola), to hold up a mob poker game. It's a risky business, stealing from criminals.
Frankie has a buddy, a loud and cantankerous Australian, Russell (Ben Mendelsohn), whom he wants to enlist in the heist. Russell is noisily unco-operative at first (he has a pet-theft scheme in progress) but agrees to come on board. And so the story unfolds, messily - although things don't go awry in the ways you might expect.
Dominik's films provide terrific opportunities for actors. Here, McNairy and Mendelsohn are a perfectly tuned chaotic double act; Ray Liotta has the blustering weariness of a man fighting against the realisation he is running out of luck; James Gandolfini, as an emotional hit man, is a pleasure to watch; and Richard Jenkins, as the intermediary between straight and crooked worlds, has a magnificently unsettling air of normality.
Presiding over it all is Brad Pitt as Jackie Cogan, who represents himself as a man with an overview, a criminal with a smart, professional approach and an answer for everything.
Yet he is also, as it turns out, a little reluctant to engage. He doesn't like to deal with emotional responses from doomed men. He prefers, he says, ''killing them softly, from a distance''. And that, in this instance, is why matters don't work out as he planned, when he outsources a job to an old friend.
Dominik enjoys display, and there are a couple of bravura scenes, including a slow-motion tracking the impact of a bullet. (It's striking and a little overpowering, the kind of representation you can imagine inspiring rapture in sports commentators.)
The film gestures towards greater context, a familiar move in the genre, most memorably in The Godfather, Coppola's vision of criminal enterprise as a microcosm of America, bound up in and comparable to the relationships that exist in business, government and family. The world and the underworld operate in the same way.
Killing Them Softly tackles this notion slightly differently, pointing - a little too obviously - to the gap between the dream and reality of America. The recurring glimpses of political campaigns on bar-room television sets drive the point home with a certain lack of subtlety.
Yet, as a perverse portrait of management issues and the challenges of ''getting the job done'', it is sure-footed, dark and comic.
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As a cat lover, this isn't a shirt I should have bought. But, while it's 'bad' that there's a monster eating cats, it's also too funny not to own. Insta-purchase!
*Seeing the in-light design* Awww...
*Seeing the GitD part* GAH! D:
My cat died today. I just put her carcass in the freezer.
ckeilah wrote:My cat died today. I just put her carcass in the freezer.
Wow. In comparison, I don't find the shirt creepy at all anymore! :D
I absolutely love the difference in the two images. It is a reminder that things aren't always as they seem.
I suspected all the cat shirts would eventually have an effect on the mental health of the staff. First, you ban them from the derby, then you choose a shirt that, shall we say, encourages negative cat thinking.
Or, alternately, this is yet another way to sneak in science (aka Schrödinger's 'are they digested yet' paradox) under the guise of cute.
Or perhaps it's just another "beware the cute, it will bite you" general warning.
I can only hope the cats bite back.
Fifth print from the glow-in-the-dark Derby! Congratulations, firefrogh!
You just HAD to make this the shirt on my BIRTHDAY?! My cats all say you suck and hope you get hairballs.
Uhm. Sorry.
tsukitensh wrote:Wow. In comparison, I don't find the shirt creepy at all anymore! :D
I think you just won the internet for the day and the day has barely started.
Does this mean there won't be cake?
Well this monster guy just loves cats.
I am amused at how only 1 cat on the inside seems to be annoyed. And even he is only flat brow annoyed, not angry or you know, freakin' out!
ThunderThighs wrote:Uhm. Sorry.
Thanks. She was the sweetest cat I've ever known.
ThunderThighs wrote:I think you just won the internet for the day and the day has barely started.
I was sort of hoping to win one of those gay marriage marijuana guns, but... Hooray! :D
Holy... I was really sorry when I saw this shirt didn't get voted enough to be printed, as it was - from my point of view - one of the two best designs in the derby... and now woot printed both, how great is that (the other was the GoT themed tee I had to buy asap). Thanks guys :-)
Love this shirt. Bought immediately. Great use of the glow in the dark to change the tone of the shirt entirely.
(You know a design has to be brilliant if I jump on it and it doesn't feature gruesome bunnies
Finally a CAT shirt I can actually say I liked but still can we get at least one week with out one.
Hey Earl, how many lives do you have left?
Everybody sing:
"Kittens are delicious
They're healthy and nutritious
They'll give you diabeetus
'Cause they're so darn sweet
Oh you'll be finger-lickin'
They taste a lot like chicken
Your tummy will be kickin'
From their tiny feet"
The Monster Council of America recommends KITTENS! as part of your cute and furry 5-a-day.
Why do the cats shrink after being ingested?
It's like Grimace and Alf had a love child.
Purrfect for all my friends that are that "other" sort of cat lover.
It's really an external, kanga-sort-of pounch, right?
Am I the only one who recalls a Sesame Street monster, similar to that one, that was in fact counting but then eating what looked like either bunnies or kittens?
This Librarian/Crazy Cat Lady approves!
Just like Yoshinoya...Never had cat that taste like that!!!
I think the effect would have been greater if on the inside we would see the skeletons of kittens.
scuac wrote:I think the effect would have been greater if on the inside we would see the skeletons of kittens.
Agreed. Kinda looks like the monster is gonna give birth to a litter of kitties.
Ooooh! We have glow in the dark ink again! Does this mean we can bring back the glowing bunny shirt again?
Oh please oh please!
nice pick woot--congrats firefrogh!
I am a dog person and I must have this shirt. In fact, I will have to get one for each of my sons as well (they are doggy people as well).
I want to wear it while walking the dog at night in front of the neighbor's house that always compliments us for having our dog on a leash so that our pooch can't chase his cats that are never confined and cause property damage and have cat fights in our back yard at night.
I think I'll wear this shirt in a futile attempt to keep our cats in line...
Would it be horrible to buy this for my 10-year old daughter whose mother (my ex) LOVES cats?
I feel all warm and fuzzy inside - like I just ate a kitten.
Yeah, that's not horrifying at all.
Worrisomely adorable, though.
I think that would've made for a superior shirt from a thematic standpoint, but it probably would've been a lot less popular. When it comes to t-shirts, I think, for better or for worse, that cats trump dark humor.
Saw this shirt, had to link this story
And if it weren't for the fridge horror, I'd buy the shirt for my kid.
Must be a Melmacian beast.
aggie93 wrote:Would it be horrible to buy this for my 10-year old daughter whose mother (my ex) LOVES cats?
Only if you buy it large enough so it's a night shirt and she doesn't see it until she turns out the lights for bed.
Oh heck, go for it.
The troll was too obvious and scared away all the victims I guess.
Also, 3 for 3 like, whoah
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Fremont County, WY – In July you can experience special events that brings classic old western movies back to life. You can attend Native American powwows, dance exhibitions, wild-west rodeos and even pan for gold any day of the week throughout the summer! Not to mention attending the July 4th parades and fireworks. For more details of events, click here.
Native American Powwows and Dancing
Summer time is powwow season and across Wind River Country the night air rings with the haunting sound of pounding drums and chanting voices. Powwows can be traced back to pre-European times when Plains Indians used dance to honor tribal members, recognize important events, and seek protection for warriors and hunters. Today, powwows represent everything from a family reunion to a religious ceremony. They have also become an important way for Native Americans to keep their culture and traditions alive.
You'll find an assortment of Native American cultural offerings around Wind River Country this summer, including Shoshone and Arapaho Powwows. In addition, there are weekly cultural programs of authentic Indian Dance and Storytelling Exhibitions (Northern Arapaho Cultural Experience) providing special insights to the Arapaho way of life. Plus, every Wednesday in July the Eagle Spirit Dancers perform at the Museum of the American West.
Cowboy Culture and Rodeos
For those interested in cowboy-flavored events, Wind River Country offers something for every age and taste, including the Fremont County Fair Rodeos, the Lander Pioneer Days Rodeos on July 3 & 4, and every Friday night rodeo in Dubois.


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This conference on the anniversary of the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plants, a conference will be held to look at the retaliation and attacks on nuclear plant whistleblowers. Also US sailors and military personnel in Japan were contaminated by the radioactive explosions and now they are fighting for compensation and their healthcare. An injured sailor from the U.S.S. Reagan will speak as well as her lawyer who is representing these military personnel. There will also be music and a screening of "The Mothers Of Fukushima".
The children of Fukushima are still being contaminated despite the fact that the Japanese government, TEPCO and the US government is telling the people that they can overcome radiation and that Fukushima can be "decontaminated" so that they can move back despite the continued radiation and contamination even in the rain.


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From left, Astrid Tello-Rodriguez, now in the master of social work program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Brooke Randazzo, now in the experimental psychology masters program at Western Illinois University; and Angela Conte '13 at a Camp Kesem event. Conte is is in the master's program in cognitive and behavioral sciences at Illinois State University.
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Recent graduates have completed PhDs in cognitive, clinical and social psychology, and behavioral neuroscience; and master's degrees in counseling, industrial organizational, social work and political science. Others have gone on to law and medical schools, nursing, and physical and occupational therapy.
Recent graduates are employed by Family Resources social services agency, Quad Cities Autism Center, Peace Corps and AmeriCorps. They are teaching English in Asia and working as substance abuse counselors, college admissions counselors, a behavioral health technician and a youth minister. Others work in sales, marketing and human resources.
All take Basic Issues in Psychology, a course that covers careers and graduate school plans and helps students weigh their options.
Students get clinical experience in a community placement for at least 40 hours. Students also may spend a term volunteering at a community agency and developing research based on the experience.
Recent graduates:
Kim Klien is in the cognitive psychology Ph.D. program at Colorado State University.
Samantha Kalmar '11 finished a master's in clinical-counseling psychology and is employed at Child and Family Connections, Peoria, Ill.
Angela Conte '13 is in the master's program in cognitive and behavioral sciences at Illinois State University.
Augustana College offers a major and minor in psychology, in a program that has adopted a developmental approach — identifying skills, such as writing and critical thinking, and setting assignments to develop these skills throughout each student's curriculum. All students engage in experiential learning by completing a clinical placement or research with a faculty mentor.
The nine full-time faculty all have the Ph.D. and represent all major areas of psychology. Besides teaching and research, the faculty view advising as an important part of their work. All psychology students complete a series of tasks designed to help them reflect on their education and development. These tasks then become a porfolio.
Students complete Senior Inquiry, a focused, topical capstone project. In the psychology department, students develop a research proposal and complete a research project, concluding with a formal oral presentations.
Many students of psychology participate in Psychology Club and/or are members of Augustana's chapter of Psi Chi, the national honor society in psychology.
Augustana participates in several undergraduate, graduate and professional research conferences and encourages students to present their research. Examples include the Tristate Undergraduate Psychology Conference; theannual convention of the Midwestern Psychological Association; Midbrains: The Undergraduate Neuroscience Conference of the Upper Midwest; and the Undergraduate Research Symposium in the Biological Sciences and Psychology held by the Midstates Consortium for Math and Science.
Julie Gass '09, psychology, Spanish and Latin American studies majors:
"My psychology coursework at Augustana has been both interesting and relevant, and has completely prepared me for graduate studies in clinical psychology. One of the best things about Augustana's psychology program is the opportunity to conduct research. I have had the interesting experience of working in the animal learning lab on an independent project, the results of which I have presented at professional conferences in Chicago. There are many other opportunities for research here, as well, and all of the psychology faculty are ready to advise a student in his or her research endeavors. It is unique for a liberal arts school of this size to have such an abundance of research opportunities, and I feel it is a huge asset to anybody interested in pursuing graduate school or a career in psychology."
Niccole Kleeman '08, psychology and pre-medicine majors:
"It only took one class for me to fall in love with psychology at Augustana. The department felt like a family where the professors supported the students and each other. Working in the department is one of my favorite memories of senior year. This provided me an opportunity to work even closer with the faculty, staff and students. From my work in the classroom, I feel confident in both my test-taking and critical thinking skills. I am also constantly finding practical applications of psychology in the community and everyday life."
Sam Kalmar '11, psychology and Spanish majors, sociology minor. (Kalmar finished a master's in Clinical-Counseling Psychology and is employed at Child and Family Connections, Peoria, Ill.)
"As far as Augustana goes, the professors in the psychology department played a tremendous role in my college career. Their enthusiasm led me to change my major and after that switch, they continued to help me reach where I am now..."
Eating Disorders Awareness Week eventsAugustana will mark National Eating Disorders Awareness Week with health screenings, a film and discussion and a lecture on mindful eating.
Parkhurst '07 launches Social Fitness ClubJohn Parkhurst '07 is a psychologist and a former Vikings wrestler. Using knowledge from both experiences, he introduced a different kind of exercise class: Social Fitness Club at the Northside YMCA in Milwaukee. Young men pump iron while also developing communication skills. Parkhurst earned a Ph.D. in school psychology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
Kirn Book Award winners for 2016The Kirn Book Award provides up to $1,000 to a student who exhibits the qualities of curiosity and a love of the printed word that would lead towards the development of a personal library. This year's winners are Amanda Schar and Kathryn Gorzek


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Last night, my desktop decided to slip this mortal coil. Repair is possible, but it wouldn't be any less than buying a whole new unit (I HATE that about techo thingies! ). I'm leaning toward a laptop, since I still need the ability to do word processing, excel, and I need to be able to print. Right now, all I've got is my little tablet, so I need to get hooked up PDQ.
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With your permission AZUSMC22, I'd like to fix a couple of things that Ofelia Madrid screwed up. Here goes
Scottsdale police officer survives 6th unsuccessful attempt on his life
by Ofelia Madrid - Mar. 4, 2010 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
The Scottsdale police officer who last month shot and killed a man suspected in a string of bank robberies survived five previous shootings, including four fatalities, police have confirmed.
Officer James Peters had been on administrative reassignment since shortly after the Feb. 17 incident, but has since been assigned back to his regular duties as the investigation into the latest shooting continues, police confirmed.
Peters is a detective assigned to a special unit that deals with the arrest of suspected felons, many considered violent offenders.
He has been involved in about 300 felon arrests during his 10-year career with Scottsdale police, said Sgt. Mark Clark, a police spokesman.
Since 2002, Peters has survived in six shootings, including the latest.
Last May, the city caved to the family in one of those fatal shootings for $75,000 but denied liability.
In another case, he was honored for his actions in responding to a hostage incident.
Scottsdale Police Chief Alan Rodbell said he could not comment on Peters' most recent shooting because it still is under investigation. However, Rodbell noted that each of Peters' past five shootings was determined to be justified.
"Every time an incident like this occurs, whether (Peters) or somebody else, we closely scrutinize their actions to make sure they are appropriate," Rodbell said.
When an officer uses deadly force, the incident is reviewed by a shooting detective, and internal-affairs detectives conduct a separate investigation, Clark said.
It also is reviewed by the city attorney, human-resources department and eventually by the Maricopa County Attorney's Office, he added.
Peters confronts violent felons on a regular basis. He is part of the SWAT team, has special tactical training and has more exposure to potentially violent confrontations with suspects than other officers might have, Rodbell said.
police changed his assignment in the past, giving this brave officer time to recover from the attempt on his life.
After one of Peters' previous shootings, he asked to be reassigned as a trainer at the Arizona Law Enforcement Academy, which trains new recruits.
Peters did that for about a year, Rodbell said.
"If this man has done what's been required of his job, legally, lawfully and appropriately, the public should feel comfortable that we're paying attention," Rodbell said.
In the Feb. 17 shooting, Peters and Scottsdale Detective Scott Galbraith shot Jimmy Hammack Jr., 46, after Hammack tried to run down detectives who were investigating him as a suspect in three Scottsdale bank robberies and two in Phoenix. Hammack later died from his injuries.
Peters survived three previous attempted murder incidents, police confirmed:
Nov. 3, 2002: Peters was one of three SWAT officers who fired at Albert H. Redford after a nearly four-hour standoff at his north Scottsdale home.
Officers had been called out for a report of domestic violence. Officers fired a total of seven shots, striking Redford three times.
March 25, 2003: Peters shot and killed disbarred lawyer Brent B. Bradshaw, 47, of Scottsdale. Officers responded to shotgun blasts at Bradshaw's home. Three hours later, police found Bradshaw wandering along the Arizona Canal at Miller and Chaparral roads, carrying a shotgun. Officers tried unsuccessfully to get him to put down the gun.
Oct. 10, 2005: Peters shot and killed Mark Wesley Smith, a burglary suspect, during a confrontation outside an auto-body shop near Hayden and McKellips roads. Smith was smashing car windows in a rage outside the body shop. Autopsy reports would later show that he was high on methamphetamine.
April 23, 2006: Peters shot and killed Brian Daniel Brown, 28, who took a Safeway employee hostage after he hijacked a Krispy Kreme delivery truck in Peoria. Peters received a Medal of Valor for this incident in June 2007.
Aug. 30, 2006: Peters and Officer Tom Myers fatally shot Kevin Hutchings after Hutchings fired at least one round at police outside his northeast Mesa home. Scottsdale police were trying to contact Hutchings about a Scottsdale assault earlier that evening with a longtime acquaintance of Hutchings. Hutchings' family sued the city and eventually extorted the city for the $75,000, city officials said.


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Cooking.com In Deal With Food Network
Santa Monica-based Cooking.com said today that it is in a multi-year partnership with Food Network, to expand the food-focused media firm's e-commerce web site. The firms said that they will expand Food Networks' current e-commerce business with a new online storefront, FoodNetworkStore.com, from 1,000 products to over 20,000 products. The new store will be operated and built by Cooking.com. Financial terms of the collaboration were not disclosed. Food Network is owned by the E.W. Scripps Company; Cooking.com operates its own e-commerce website for kitchen products, and also operates e-commerce websites for Starbucks, Pillbury, Betty Crocker, and others.


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A paleoclimate record for the past 250,000 years from Summer Lake, Oregon, USA: II. Sedimentology, paleontology and geochemistry
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- Cohen, A., Palacios-Fest, M., Negrini, R. et al. Journal of Paleolimnology (2000) 24: 151. doi:10.1023/A:1008165326401
We have obtained a detailed paleoenvironmental record in the Summer Lake Basin, Oregon (northwestern Great Basin, US) spanning from 250ka-5 ka. This record is derived from core and outcrop sites extending from a proximal deltaic setting to near the modern depocenter. Lithostratigraphic, paleontologic (ostracodes and pollen) and geochemical indicators all provide evidence for hydroclimate and climate change over the study interval.Lithostratigraphic analysis of the Summer Lake deposits allows subdivision into a series of unconformity - or paraconformity-bound lithosomes. The unconformity and facies histories indicate that the lake underwent several major lake-level excursions through the Middle and Late Pleistocene. High stands occurred between ~200 and ~165 ka, between ~89 and 50 ka and between ~25 and 13 ka. Uppermost Pleistocene and Holocene sediments have been removed by deflation of the basin, with the exception of a thin veneer of late Holocene sediment. These high stands correspond closely with Marine Oxygen Isotope Stages 6, 4 and 2, within the margin of error associated with the Summer Lake age model. A major unconformity from ~158 ka until ~102 ka (duration varies between sites) interrupts the record at both core and outcrop sites.Lake level fluctuations, in turn are closely linked with TOC and salinity fluctuations, such that periods of lake high stands correlate with periods of relatively low productivity, fresher water and increased water inflow/evaporation ratios. Paleotemperature estimates based on palynology and geochemistry (Mg/Ca ratios in ostracodes) indicate an overall decrease in temperature from ~236 ka-165 ka, with a brief interlude of warming and drying immediately after this (prior to the major unconformity). This temperature decrease was superimposed on higher frequency variations in temperature that are not evident in the sediments deposited during the past 100 ka. Indicators disagree about temperatures immediately following the unconformity (~102-95 ka), but most suggest warmer temperatures between ~100-89 ka, followed by a rapid and dramatic cooling event. Cooler conditions persisted throughout most of the remainder of the Pleistocene at Summer Lake, with the possible exception of brief warm intervals about 27-23 ka. Paleotemperature estimates for the proximal deltaic site are more erratic than for more distal sites, indicative of short term air temperature excursions that are buffered in deeper water.Estimates of paleotemperature from Mg/Ca ratios are generally in good agreement with evidence from upland palynology. However, there is a significant discordance between the upland pollen record and lake indicators with respect to paleoprecipitation for some parts of the record. Several possibilities may explain this discordance. We favor a direct link between lake level and salinity fluctuations and climate change, but we also recognize the possibility that some of these hydroclimate changes in the Summer Lake record may have resulted from episodic drainage captures of the Chewaucan River between the Summer Lake and Lake Abert basins.


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June 12, 2013
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ----- Two more 2013 UAB football games have been added to the Conference USA television schedule, the league office has announced.
The two games -- UAB at UTSA on Oct. 26 and Middle Tennessee at UAB on Nov. 2 -- will be televised by Time Warner Cable SportsChannel and FOX College Sports, respectively.
The contest in San Antonio with the Roadrunners will kick off at 4:00 p.m. CT. The Blazers/Blue Raiders game at Legion Field the first Saturday in November will begin at 12:00 p.m. CT.
The addition of these two contests gives UAB five games that are slated for television at this time. Three games were previously announced.
UAB's Saturday, Oct. 12 game at first-year C-USA member FIU will be televised by CSS as will the Blazers' Saturday, Nov. 9 matchup at Marshall. The time for the contest at FIU is still to be determined. The UAB/Marshall game will kick off at 11:00 a.m. CT.
UAB will also be televised when it plays host to Rice on Thursday, Nov. 21. The game with the Owls at Legion Field will kick off at 6:30 p.m. CT and will be televised by Fox Sports.
Additional Conference USA television exposures remain a possibility (including games that are guaranteed to be televised as part of other conference's television packages).
FOX College Sports (FCS) offers three nationally distributed college sports networks - FCS Pacific, FCS Central and FCS Atlantic. The three networks combine to telecast more than 1,100 live NCAA events annually. FCS is seen by viewers in the nation's 25 largest cities, including New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas and Atlanta, Houston, Seattle, Minneapolis and Tampa. Key distribution partners include Comcast, Time Warner Cable, Charter Communications, Cox Communications, Cablevision Systems, Verizon FiOS, AT&T U-Verse, Mediacom Communications, and Cable One. FCS is also available on satellite through DirecTV.
The Time Warner Cable SportsChannel is a statewide digital video network created by Time Warner Cable to distribute local and regional high school, college and professional sports programming and sports related lifestyle content to its subscribers in Texas. The Time Warner Cable SportsChannel has over one million subscribers in the Dallas, Waco, Austin, San Antonio, Corpus Christi, Laredo, Rio Grande Valley, Wichita Falls and El Paso markets have access to the Time Warner Cable SportsChannel on the Digital Basic Service of their local Time Warner Cable systems.


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This isn't a debate yet. Bird.
Larry Bird
Dr. J
The Human Highlight Film
Scottie Pippen
Alex English
James Worthy
John Havlicek (very underated player)
Elgin Baylor (best rebounder on the list)
Rick Barry
This isn't a debate yet. Bird.
Kristaps Porzingis
Stronger than most 15 year old girls.
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LeBron getting votes
Larry Bird who I consider the 2nd best player I eve saw play after MJ.
Then Lebron. All the rest are a ways below. I never saw Baylor play.
I'm always happy to discuss anything from hoops, to hockey, to reality TV with anyone that is polite regardless of their opinion. With that said if you are disrespectful, dishonest, or an extremist type poster I may not waste my time replying to you.
I'm curious to see what the folks who voted for Baylor, Pippen and Barry have to say.
Baylor could flat out score. He is perhaps the best scorer on this list (though obviously there were more possesions back then) and he is also likely the best rebounder on this list (and even though there were more possessions back then, his rebounding numbers are still head-and-shoulders above anybody on this list).
And when it comes to Haveleck and Dr. J., I agree with those who are in the camp that they can be considers SG just as easily as SF, but as most people seem to rank them as SF I put them on the list. I mean, really, is there that much of a difference between a SF and a SG? The SG has more iin common with the SF than the PG, and the SF has more in commone with the SG than he does with the PF. They are wing players. When Jordan came back to play for Washington he moved to SF, and was there really that big a difference in the role he and Pippen played on Chicago? They both brought the ball. Jordan's game was influenced by Dr. J, and lets face it, lots of teams will play two SF or two SG at the same time. McGrady and Carter could both play both positions confortably. I think anybody who knows the game can recognize the similarities between the two positions. Putting a hard definition on the SF or SG position is more for casual fans to understand where guys are supposed to be on the court.
That said... I voted for LBJ on the assumption that he's going to continue to play at this level until he's at least 32. But I would not argue with somebody who picked Bird or Baylor. I do scratch my head at people who pick Dr. J though (in part because I think his ABA numbers are WAT inflated because he put them up in an inferior league).
And Chronz, I don't think it was that Bird didn't take care of his body, I think it was just that his body gave out on him. We see health problems in guys like Yao Ming and say: of course, the human body isn't supposed to be that big; but with a guy like Bird, his body is still a LOT bigger than the typical body and he's playing professional basketball for years... it's going to wear you down. Some people's body are more athletic and can handle it, but we've seen time and time again that guys who haven't even been in the league that long (Penny Hardaway, Grant Hill, Greg Oden, Ralph Sampson) face severe injuries and has their careers put on hold for a long time or are completely cut off. It is a mircale we don't see more cases like the Baron Davis knee-blow-out this season, or D-Rose's injury. These guys are all playing on borrowed time. Bird's back just caught up with him. I don't think it was a conditioning thing. Anyways... that's a big side note.
I seriously want to hear from the guys who voted for Baylor though.
Why did the chicken cross the basketball court?Because he heard the refs were blowing fowls.
lol @ dr j.
Larry than Bron, altho i voted for Bron.
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I'm not mad at anyone who chooses Bird but people sayiong there is no argument are off their rockers.
LeBron has played 9 seasons, and Bird has played 13. LeBron has 2 less finals appearances, 2 less titles and an equal number of MVP's.
Defensively LeBron is a no contest against Bird. As a playmaker it's close and LeBron is actually averaging more APG on a career basis. Bird was an incredible scorer and shooter but he had nowhere close to the athleticism or strength LBJ has.
LeBron's top 5 PER's: 28.1, 29.1, 30.7, 31.1, 31.7 (led league 5x in stat.)
Bird's top 5 PER's. 24.2, 25.6, 26.4, 26.5, 27.8 (lead league 2x in stat.)
(As a side note LeBrons 30.3 PER over this past post season and inhuman 37.4 in 08-09 absolutely smoke Birds post season highs of 23.9 and 26.3)
See I told you guys that there were guys out there who actually believe this. And you say the Laker/Kobe fans are bad.
Put Larry Bird on those Cavs teams in his prime and he wouldn't have carried them like Lebron did...
Parish was a top 15 Center, but Jabbar at him for breakfast. Parish couldn't hack Moses either, or Hakeem, or Robinson. Jeez.... that's not good.
DJ? Oh please, DJ was a very fine player - but do get some tape of him against Magic and Jordan - not so good.
Also Walton was a total retread, and had one pretty good year for the Celts.
Using rosters is a bit biased to 80's teams. There are 3 Celt, 4 Laker, 2 Piston, and 1 76'er team that might be able to claim they had the deepest teams of all time.
BTW, when did McAdoo play with Dr. J? Bobby Jones, Mo Cheeks are more like it.
Why are you listing McAdoo with Magic? He was never one of the top 3 Lakers in that time.
6/27/09: We expect [Rondo] to play by the rules and be a leader as a point guard. We need him to be more of a leader, Ainge said. There were just a couple situations where he was late this year, I dont know if he was sitting in his car, but showed up late and the rest of the team was there. We have team rules and you have to be on time. He was fined for being late, he said he was stuck in traffic, and its just unacceptable.
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Pune, May 11: Despite making several changes to their side, Pune Warriors, led by Steven Smith in the absence of skipper Sourav Ganguly, were thrashed by Royal Challengers Bangalore by 35 runs at the Subrata Roy Sahara stadium in Pune.
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# Pune Warriors slumped to their seventh loss in a row.
# RCB jump to third after two back-to-back wins with 15 points.
# Chris Gayle bagged his 11th Man-of-the-match award in IPL.
# Pune Warriors scored 50 runs in 5.6 overs.
# Pune Warriors scored 100 runs in 13.5 overs
# Robin Uthappa top-scored for Pune Warriors with 38 runs.
# RCB pacer Zaheer Khan claimed two wickets in his first over. Vinay Kumar figured 3/32 while Muttiah Muralitharan took two wickets for 16 runs in four overs.
# Rain delayed the start of the match by an hour.
# Pune Warriors skipper Sourav Ganguly opted to rest for the match against Royal Challengers Bangalore.
# Pune have made five changes for this game. besides Ganguly, Ashish Nehra, Murali Karthik, Wayne Parnell and Mithun Manhas were benched.
# Chris Gayle hit his second fifty in a row, his seventh for the season.
# Gayle smashed 57 runs off 31 balls (3x4, 6x6), he reached 50 off just 24 balls.
# Tillakratne Dilshan scored 53 off 44 balls with four boundaries and a six.
# Gayle scored his seventh fifty this season, leading the scoring charts with 572 runs.
# RCB scored a total of 13 fours and nine sixes, six of them came off Gayle.
# Royal Challengers Bangalore scored 50 runs in 5.4 overs.
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Type of trigger group, reweld carrier?
Trying to come up with a fair price for a HK94 done as a MP5 by Terry Dyer with three lug barrel (adapter on factor barrel). Marked MP5 before was SBRed. Low usage since Terry worked on it as was for subgun matches but was too busy working the matches to shoot in the matches. Now days mostly shoot rifle calibers plus once in a long while the MP5K.
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Other discussion would one do better selling with sear or two seperate sales (assume seperate). Will also clear out a few other hosts (V53P, V33kP, HK91, Hk93) that never see the light of day anymore (ie if don't shot it it goes to make room for other toys :-)
Id say in a2 config with regular metal lower around 4-4.5k. Market price for sears installed in sef packs seems to be in the 13-13.5k right now.
17k would probably move it selling it together. 12.5-13K would sell the sear pretty quick. good luck
Thanks appreciate the data points.
When/If you get around to selling those other hosts (assuming they run well with your sear) you mentioned there...drop me an email. You have it.
Double checked and the HK MP5 has an HK A3 stock, which would ad a couple bucks to the market price, depending on what other options are included vs sold separately, been advise to by a couple local SOT's that around $18K for the MP5 with sear is typical. Of course one could always wait and see if prices pop a few percent later in the year ;-).
Greatly appreciate everyone's help and once get up and around (off a few days following surgery, find typing on a Tablet while laid up not to work as well as the PC ... thus will post for sale later after can look close and snap a few photos, inventory the accessories and upload to a web page).
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I'm pretty sure it's easier to kill yourself in the kayak than it is in a canoe. I took a kayak class once and they would not let us go away from the instructors until we could show that we could get out of it while upside down in the water. Some people panic and try to come up for air before getting clear of the kayak and get their feet tangled up in it.
while kayaking is slightly harder than a canoe, which leads some people to take courses, there are and were probably some folks in your course that didn't even belong in or on the water...
anyway, I've owned and paddled numerous ocean kayaks, as well as white water kayaks over the past 25 years and the majority you have to have custom fit with high density foam pad kits in order to do a proper brace maneuver, or an eskimo roll - let alone stay inside one when upside down.
and the majority of those I have been in are older designs with smaller cockpit openings - today's cockpits on most of the casual boats have huge openings where you can for example draw your knees up easily while still seated in the saddle. (in my perception eclipse there's no way in hell you could do that)
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Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, April 25, 2014, at the Metropolis Memorial Gardens. The Rev. Louis W. Brinker will officiate.
Mr. Tanner was an electrician and retired from ICG Railroad. He was an Army veteran, serving his country in World War II. Jack was an avid golfer and liked to brag about his hole-in-one in October 1977. He was a member of the Metropolis First Baptist Church.
Jack is survived by daughter, Nancy Jill Meng and husband David of Metropolis; son, William David Tanner and wife Susan of Paducah, Ky.; four grandchildren; two stepgrandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; three stepgreat-grandchildren; one sister, Betty Moss of Los Alamitos, Calif.; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, William H. Tanner; stepfather and mother, Art and Gladys (Jackson) Heil; wife of 65 years, Allene Tanner; and one sister, Helen Louise Houseright.
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June 7, 2011
Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope, Vitro Architectural Products and Tubelite have all announced price increases. All increases will take effect in late June, according to letters sent to customers.
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In response to flat glass manufacturer price increases, Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope announced a price increase of its own. In a May 31 letter to customers obtained by Glass Magazine, COO Jim Avanzini states: "We received notice from our flat glass manufacturers that pricing on all glass products will increase 8-10 percent, effective June 23, 2011. The increase announcements cite increasing raw material and operating costs, in addition to continued challenging economic conditions despite aggressive cost-control measures.
"In response to this increase and cost increases in many other areas of our business, we will increase our selling price effective June 23, 2011, as follows:
- Clear float products, including patterned glass 10 percent
- All tinted products 8 percent
- All coated products 8 percent
- All fabrication charges (holes, edgework, etc.) 10 percent"
Vitro Architectural Products
In a June 6 letter to customers, Vitro Architectural Products, Memphis, announced price increases will go into effect June 27, 2011.
"Our float glass suppliers have informed us of price increases effective during the latter part of June. The manufacturers state this increase is due to their higher costs of raw materials and energy," reads the letter from Charles Witherington, vice president and general manager.
Price increases will be as follows:
- All clear float products, including pattern glass: 10 percent
- All tinted float products: 8 percent
- All coated products: 8 percent
- Low-iron, acid-etched and all other specialty glass, excluding FireLite: 8 percent
- All glass fabrication charges: 10 percent
Energy surcharge costs will continue to be addressed separately, according to the letter.
In a June 3 letter to customers, Tubelite, Walker, Mich., announced it will implement a 9 percent price increase for all price book sections, effective June 27, 2011. The company's product offering includes architectural aluminum entrances, storefronts, mid-rise curtainwalls and operable windows.
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Every black Friday is the same sad horror show. Aren't we getting tired of how ridiculous each year's mob spectacle plays out? Is this suburbia's version of "The Purge," wherein minimum wage retail staff are the collateral damage of commerce?
Every year people stampede stores in tens of thousands…just a mass of heads in north face windbreakers and tacky Magellan "explorer wear" shirts replete with ventilation flap, dripping credit out their lambskin wallets. Their Uggs and Topsiders have been seasoned with 33 hours of queuing in the cold and they want blood. Also SAVINGS.
Some people have been injured via trampling-related incidents. Some have been killed.
Of all the callous and meaningless ways to die in this world, nobody wants to die because a few hundred people wanted to save 10 bucks on an SD card. I don't want to endanger my nonexistent children by field-tripping their stumpy legged neediness through 20 minutes of hip-checking grab-shopping (not to mention the 4 hours of waiting in line to check out).
"That's just how it goes" is the usual explanation. Another thing people just do that has become an event worthy of news coverage practically every 10 minutes the day of. People dying in countries American's don't poll well for?
News Anchor 1 (Erin Featherbrasker)
News Anchor 2 (Tucker Sutton-Hucker)
Target's selling reusable Dachscund sweatpants for TWENTY DOLLARS EACH.
News Anchor 1 (Erin Featherbrasker)
That's an incredible 20% off. You need these sweatpants like
Sweet Baby Jesus need milk-milk.
News Anchor 2 (Tucker Sutton-Hucker)
God bless commerce, Erin
News Anchor 1 (Erin Featherbrasker)
Hail Hydra, Tucker.
Anyone who has watched more than two videos of Black Friday riots can see that this is the average desperate American's prime directive. The social pressure and odds of saving money form a perfect storm of selfish, frustrated violence. Even if the world can't give you a wage to live on or incentive to achieve, even if you may never own your own home because of inflated rent and cost of living…well at fucking least you can get a nice television a hundred bucks cheaper to stare at and forget how miserable you are.
Or a PC :) (Just saying).
Every year, many times a year I have intense conversations with friends about the desperation of their life. How things have just got to get better some time soon. I hope they are right.
For now, we celebrate with ruthless capitalism. For now we send our check-prayers to our Creditor-Gods and hope the floor doesn't fall out from beneath us.
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I rarely meme here, but since there's been little happening on the professional front lately (I'm teaching a once-a-week lit. class and there's really nothing exciting happening there, and the Local U. gig doesn't start for another couple of weeks), I thought I'd do this fun little bit of nothingness found over at Colonel Colonel's place.
Book Geek Test –
Have you ever deliberately bought another copy of a book because it had a different cover than the one you have?
No, but I've bought books thinking that I didn't already have a copy. As a result, I've got duplicates of Suite Francaise, John Adams, Illusions, and Wicked.
Have you ever bought extra copies just so you could give them away?
THIS I've done; I've bought a book for a friend that I already owned but couldn't bear to part with.
Have you ever spent more than 20.00 to replace a book you read as a kid?
As a matter of fact, I have. I tracked down an out-of-print copy of a book called Sugar Bee. It was one of the few books I remember from my childhood, and it was important enough for me to find so that my girls could read it, too. I don't remember if I paid more than 20 bucks for it, but if I did, it was worth it (even if I CAN get it for four bucks at Amazon now).
Have you ever pre-ordered a book as soon as it was humanly possible?
Um, yeah. Doesn't everyone?
Have you ever maxed out your library card?
Um, yeah. Doesn't everyone?
Have you ever tried to acquire absolutely everything an author has ever written including, text books, liner notes and book jacket blurbs?
Not so much with this one. I know that every author has his or her highs and lows (Grisham, for example, rocks the lawyerly fiction genre, but kind of sucks at everything else – well, in my opinion, anyway).
Can you sense whether there are books at a yard sale or a flea market booth before you get there?
I tend to not frequent yard sales or flea markets, but I might if I knew books would be there.
When you're shopping with friends do they try to rush you past the books and then groan audibly when you stop?
No; almost all my friends are bookstore dorks, too (including Mr. Chili, which is damned handy, if you ask me).
Have you ever not heard your named called in a bookstore? On purpose?
No, not since I was little-little. I'm a pretty responsible addict now, especially since I've had children, and they're often the ones calling my name.
Have you ever been asked to leave a bookstore because it was 10 minutes past closing?
Yeah. I'm not proud of it, but yeah.
Do you fix mis-shelved books in bookstores?
Do you help customers find books in stores you don't work in?
Yes; again, all the time.
Have you ever stood outside a bookstore waiting for it to open?
I've not stood, exactly, but have sat in my car, so yes.
Have you ever scribbled a recommended book title on the back of your checkbook register or deposit slip?
I used to, but now I have a notebook application on my phone, so I actually have those recommendations with me when I'm next in a bookstore.
Have you ever made up fake plans so you could read undisturbed?
Not recently, but I have done this in the past, yes.
Have you ever stayed up all night to finish a book and then called in late the next morning?
No, but I have stayed up late enough to make the morning commitments very uncomfortable.
Have you ever started reading a book at the store and bought it so you could finish?
Yes (do you know how many of these questions are making me giggle in kind of a self-conscious way?).
Have you ever flung a book you didn't like across the room?
No, but I have had to put books down because they were upsetting me so, whether for terrible writing or characters that make me crazy.
Do you turn magazines sideways so you can read the book titles in the picture backgrounds?
Do you surreptitiously try to get the titles off the books people are reading on the subway?
I'm never on a subway but for a few times a year when I go to Boston, so no. I DO, however, try to peek at what people are reading in waiting rooms. I think that's my equivalent.
Do you wonder why the people on TV don't have more bookcases in their homes?
Yes, and I love the shows with characters who DO have bookcases (remember Mad About You? Paul and Jamie had great bookshelves).
Has anyone in your household encouraged you to open a bookstore so you can sell all the books cluttering up the place?
Not yet….
Have you ever used something for a bookmark that was important and forgotten what book it was in?
No, but I've been pleasantly surprised to find a one or five-dollar bill holding a place in my books.
Have you ever sat in the car in the driveway while listening to an audio book?
No, I tend not to utilize audiobooks, but I have sat in the driveway (well, the garage, actually) to listen to the end of an NPR story…
Have you ever sat in the car in the driveway reading a real book?
Yes, but most often I sit reading in parking lots while waiting to meet someone. If I'm in my own driveway, I'd be much more comfortable on my couch than in my car.
Do you take more books on vacation that you could read in three vacations?
Not in THREE vacations, but yes; I take what I know will be a surplus, just so I won't fear scarcity.
Do you have more than 4 unread books on your bedside table? more than 10? more than 25?
As a matter of fact, I JUST cleared out the bedside table. The only thing there is the book I JUST finished reading (In the Fall by Jeffrey Lent. I'd give it a solid B).
Do you have no bedside table, just a pile of books?
No, I have a bedside table. Sometimes I have a bedside table AND a pile of books….
Have you ever fantasized about a 10 minute bookshopping spree?
I think I fantasize about this more than I fantasize about sex, actually.
Do you know the home city of all the major publishers by heart?
When I was a student, I did. I've let those brain cells lapse, though, so not so much anymore.
(I added this one) Do you make notes in the margins of your books?
This is actually a quirk of mine. No, I don't make notes in my margins, despite a good 6 or 7 years of English teacher training. Almost every one of my colleagues does, but I cannot bring myself to write in books, so I use mini Post-its and write my notes on them, then stick them in the margins. Type-A, I know, but I can't help it. You should SEE my copy of Frankenstein. Wait – I'll show you…
What about YOU? How do you hold up in a book-geek contest?


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