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What began as a largely technical and limited universe of designers and users became one of the most important mediums of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. As the Pew Charitable Trust observed in 2004, it took 46 years to wire 30 percent of the United States for electricity; it took only 7 years for the Internet to reach that same level of connection to American homes. By 2005, 68 percent of American adults and 90 percent of American teenagers had used the Internet. Europe and Asia were at least as well connected as the United States. Nearly half of the citizens of the European Union are online, and even higher rates are found in the Scandinavian countries. There is a wide variance in Asian countries; for example, by 2005 Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Japan had at least half of their populations online, whereas India, Pakistan, and Vietnam had less than 10 percent. South Korea was the world leader in connecting its population to the Internet through high-speed broadband connections.
Such statistics can chart the Internet's growth, but they offer few insights into the changes wrought as users—individuals, groups, corporations, and governments—have embedded the technology into everyday life. The Internet is now as much a lived experience as a tool for performing particular tasks, offering the possibility of creating an environment or virtual reality in which individuals might work, socially interact with others, and perhaps even live out their lives.
The Internet has evolved from the integration of two very different technological agendas—the Cold War networking of the U.S. military and the personal computer (PC) revolution. The first agenda can be dated to 1973, when the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sought to create a communications network that would support the transfer of large data files between government and government-sponsored academic-research laboratories. The result was the ARPANET, a robust decentralized network that supported a vast array of computer hardware. Initially, ARPANET was the preserve of academics and corporate researchers with access to time-sharing mainframe computer systems. Computers were large and expensive; most computer professionals could not imagine anyone needing, let alone owning, his own "personal" computer. And yet Joseph Licklider, one of the driving forces at DARPA for computer networking, stated that online communication would "change the nature and value of communication even more profoundly than did the printing press and the picture tube."
The second agenda began to emerge in 1977 with the introduction of the Apple II, the first affordable computer for individuals and small businesses. Created by Apple Computer, Inc. (now Apple Inc.), the Apple II was popular in schools by 1979, but in the corporate market it was stigmatized as a game machine. The task of cracking the business market fell to IBM. In 1981 the IBM PC was released and immediately standardized the PC's basic hardware and operating system—so much so that first PC-compatible and then simply PC came to mean any personal computer built along the lines of the IBM PC. A major centre of the PC revolution was the San Francisco Bay area, where several major research institutions funded by DARPA—Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Xerox PARC—provided much of the technical foundation for Silicon Valley. It was no small coincidence that Apple's two young founders—Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak—worked as interns in the Stanford University Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and at the nearby Hewlett-Packard Company. The Bay Area's counterculture also figured prominently in the PC's history. Electronic hobbyists saw themselves in open revolt against the "priesthood" of the mainframe computer and worked together in computer-enthusiast groups to spread computing to the masses.
Why does this matter? The military played an essential role in shaping the Internet's architecture, but it was through the counterculture that many of the practices of contemporary online life emerged. A telling example is the early electronic bulletin board system (BBS), such as the WELL (Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link). Established in 1985 by American publisher Stewart Brand, who viewed the BBS as an extension of his Whole Earth Catalog, the WELL was one of the first electronic communities organized around forums dedicated to particular subjects such as parenting and Grateful Dead concerts. The latter were an especially popular topic of online conversation, but it was in the parenting forum where a profound sense of community and belonging initially appeared. For example, when one participant's child was diagnosed with leukemia, members of the forum went out of their way either to find health resources or to comfort the distressed parents. In this one instance, several features still prevalent in the online world can be seen. First, geography was irrelevant. WELL members in California and New York could bring their knowledge together within the confines of a forum—and could do so collectively, often exceeding the experience available to any local physician or medical centre. This marshaling of shared resources persists to this day as many individuals use the Internet to learn more about their ailments, find others who suffer from the same disease, and learn about drugs, physicians, and alternative therapies.
Another feature that distinguished the WELL forums was the use of moderators who could interrupt and focus discussion while also disciplining users who broke the rather loose rules. "Flame wars" (crass, offensive, or insulting exchanges) were possible, but anyone dissatisfied in one forum was free to organize another. In addition, the WELL was intensely democratic. WELL forums were the original chat rooms—online spaces where individuals possessing similar interests might congregate, converse, and even share their physical locations to facilitate meeting in person. Finally, the WELL served as a template for other online communities dedicated to subjects as diverse as Roman Catholicism, liberal politics, gardening, and automobile modification.
For the individual the Internet opened up new communication possibilities. E-mail has already led to a substantial decline in traditional "snail mail." Instant messaging (IM), or text messaging, continues to expand, especially among youth, with the convergence of the Internet and cellular telephone access to the Web. Indeed, IM has become a particular problem in classrooms, where students often surreptitiously exchange notes via wireless communication devices. More than 50 million American adults, including 11 million at work, use IM.
From mailing lists to "buddy lists," e-mail and IM have been used to create "smart mobs" that converge in the physical world. Examples include protest organizing, spontaneous performance art, and shopping. Obviously, people congregated before the Internet existed; the change wrought by mass e-mailings has been in the speed of assembling such events. For example, in February 1999 activists began planning protests against the November 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) meetings in Seattle, Washington. Using the Internet, organizers mobilized more than 50,000 individuals from around the world to engage in demonstrations—at times violent—that effectively altered the WTO's agenda.
In the wake of catastrophic disasters, citizens have used the Internet to donate to charities in an unprecedented fashion. Others have used the Internet to reunite family members or to match lost pets with their owners. The role of the Internet in responding to disasters, both natural and deliberate, remains the topic of much discussion, as it is unclear whether the Internet actually can function in a disaster area when much of the infrastructure is destroyed. Certainly during the September 11, 2001, attacks, people found it easier to communicate with loved ones in New York City via e-mail than through the overwhelmed telephone network.
One-to-one or even one-to-many communication is only the most elementary form of Internet social life. The very nature of the Internet makes spatial distances largely irrelevant for social interactions. Online gaming has moved from simply playing a game with friends to a rather complex form of social life in which the game's virtual reality spills over into the physical world. The case of EverQuest, a popular electronic game with several hundred thousand players, is one example. Property acquired in the game has been sold on the online auction site eBay, and characters with particular skill sets are also available for sale. What does it mean that one can own virtual property and that someone is willing to pay for this property with real money? Economists have begun studying such virtual economies, some of which now exceed the gross national product of countries in Africa and Asia. In fact, virtual economies finally have given economists a means of running controlled experiments.
Millions of people have created online game characters for entertainment purposes. Gaming creates an online community, but it also allows for a blurring of the boundaries between the real world and the virtual one. In Shanghai one gamer stabbed and killed another one in the real world over a virtual sword used in Legend of Mir 3. Although attempts were made to involve the authorities in the original dispute, the police found themselves at a loss prior to the murder because the law did not acknowledge the existence of virtual property. In South Korea violence surrounding online gaming happens often enough that police refer to such murders as "off-line PK," a reference to player killing (PK), or player-versus-player lethal contests, which are allowed or encouraged in some games. By 2001 crime related to Lineage had forced South Korean police to create special cybercrime units to patrol both within the game and off-line. Potential problems from such games are not limited to crime. Virtual life can be addictive. Reports of players neglecting family, school, work, and even their health to the point of death have become more common.
By the start of the 21st century, approximately 20 percent of the Internet population had used it at some time to meet others, with Internet dating services collecting nearly half a billion dollars per year in matchmaking fees. Dating sites capture an important aspect of the Web economy—the ability to appeal to particular niche groups. Of the myriads of dating Web sites, many cater to individuals of particular ethnic or national identities and thereby preselect people along some well-defined axes of interest. Because of the low costs involved in setting up a Web site, the possibilities for "nichification" are nearly endless.
Pornography is another domain in which nichification is prevalent. By the 21st century, there were some four million Web sites devoted to pornography, containing more than a quarter of a billion pages—in other words, more than 10 percent of the Web. Forty million American adults regularly visit pornographic sites, which generate billions of dollars in yearly revenues. In response to this proliferation, a suggestion was made to place pornographic sites in a special "xxx" Web domain so that software could easily trace them and render them invisible to children. However, with no organization to ensure voluntary compliance, nothing came of the proposal. All of society's vices, as well as its virtues, have manifested themselves on the Internet.
Nichification allows for consumers to find what they want, but it also provides opportunities for advertisers to find consumers. For example, most search engines generate revenue by matching ads to an individual's particular search query. Among the greatest challenges facing the Internet's continued development is the task of reconciling advertising and commercial needs with the right of Internet users not to be bombarded by "pop-up" Web pages and spam (unsolicited e-mail).
Nichification also opens up important e-commerce opportunities. A bookstore can carry only so much inventory on its shelves, which thereby limits its collection to books with broad appeal. An online bookstore can "display" nearly everything ever published. Although traditional bookstores often have a special-order department, consumers have taken to searching and ordering from online stores from the convenience of their homes and offices.
Although books can be made into purely digital artifacts, "e-books" have not sold nearly as well as digital music. In part, this disparity is due to the need for an e-book reader to have a large, bright screen, which adds to the display's cost and weight and leads to more-frequent battery replacement. Also, it is difficult to match the handy design and low cost of an old-fashioned paperback book. Interestingly, it turns out that listeners download from online music vendors as many obscure songs as big record company hits. Just a few people interested in some obscure song are enough to make it worthwhile for a vendor to store it electronically for sale over the Internet. What makes the Internet special here is not only its ability to match buyers and sellers quickly and relatively inexpensively but also that the Internet and the digital economy in general allow for a flowering of multiple tastes—in games, people, and music.
Commerce and industry are certainly arenas in which the Internet has had a profound effect, but what of the foundational institutions of any society—namely, those related to education and the production of knowledge? Here the Internet has had a variety of effects, some of which are quite disturbing. There are more computers in the classroom than ever before, but there is scant evidence that they enhance the learning of basic skills in reading, writing, and arithmetic. And while access to vast amounts of digital information is convenient, it has also become apparent that most students now see libraries as antiquated institutions better used for their computer terminals than for their book collections. As teachers at all education levels can attest, students typically prefer to research their papers by reading online rather than wandering through a library's stacks.
In a related effect the Internet has brought plagiarism into the computer era in two distinct senses. First, electronic texts have made it simple for students to "cut and paste" published sources (e.g., encyclopaedia articles) into their own papers. Second, although students could always get someone to write their papers for them, it is now much easier to find and purchase anonymous papers at Web sites and to even commission original term papers for a fixed fee. Ironically, what the Internet gives, it also takes away. Teachers now have access to databases of electronically submitted papers and can easily compare their own students' papers against a vast archive of sources. Even a simple online search can sometimes find where one particularly well-turned phrase originally appeared.
College students have been at the leading edge of the growing awareness of the centrality of intellectual property in a digital age. When American college student Shawn Fanning invented Napster in 1999, he set in motion an ongoing legal battle over digital rights. Napster was a file-sharing system that allowed users to share electronic copies of music online. The problem was obvious: recording companies were losing revenues as one legal copy of a song was shared among many people. Although the record companies succeeded in shutting down Napster, they found themselves having to contend with a new form of file sharing, P2P ("person-to-person"). In P2P there is no central administrator to shut down as there had been with Napster. Initially, the recording industry sued the makers of P2P software and a few of the most prolific users—often students located on university campuses with access to high-speed connections for serving music and, later, movie files—in an attempt to discourage the millions of people who regularly used the software. Still, even while some P2P software makers have been held liable for losses that the copyright owners have incurred, more-devious schemes for circumventing apprehension have been invented.
The inability to prevent file sharing has led the recording and movie industries to devise sophisticated copy protection on their CDs and DVDs. In a particularly controversial incident, Sony Corporation introduced CDs into the market in 2005 with copy protection that involved a special viruslike code that hid on a user's computer. This code, however, also was open to being exploited by virus writers to gain control of users' machines.
The Internet has become an invaluable and discipline-transforming environment for scientists and scholars. In 2004 Google began digitizing public-domain and out-of-print materials from several cooperating libraries in North America and Europe, such as the University of Michigan library, which made some seven million volumes available. Although some authors and publishers challenged the project for fear of losing control of copyrighted material, similar digitization projects were launched by Microsoft Corporation and the online book vendor Amazon.com, although the latter company proposed that each electronic page would be retrieved for a small fee shared with the copyright holders.
The majority of academic journals are now online and searchable. This has created a revolution in scholarly publishing, especially in the sciences and engineering. For example, arXiv.org has transformed the rate at which scientists publish and react to new theories and experimental data. Begun in 1991, arXiv.org is an online archive in which physicists, mathematicians, computer scientists, and computational biologists upload research papers long before they will appear in a print journal. The articles are then open to the scrutiny of the entire scientific community, rather than to one or two referees selected by a journal editor. In this way scientists around the world can receive an abstract of a paper as soon as it has been uploaded into the depository. If the abstract piques a reader's interest, the entire paper can be downloaded for study. Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and the U.S. National Science Foundation support arXiv.org as an international resource.
While arXiv.org deals with articles that might ultimately appear in print, it is also part of a larger shift in the nature of scientific publishing. In the print world a handful of companies control the publication of the most scientific journals, and the price of institutional subscriptions is frequently exorbitant. This has led to a growing movement to create online-only journals that are accessible for free to the entire public—a public that often supports the original research with its taxes. For example, the Public Library of Science publishes online journals of biology and medicine that compete with traditional print journals. There is no difference in how their articles are vetted for publication; the difference is that the material is made available for free. Unlike other creators of content, academics are not paid for what they publish in scholarly journals, nor are those who review the articles. Journal publishers, on the other hand, have long received subsidies from the scientific community, even while charging that community high prices for its own work. Although some commercial journals have reputations that can advance the careers of those who publish in them, the U.S. government has taken the side of the "open source" publishers and demanded that government-financed research be made available to taxpayers as soon as it has been published.
In addition to serving as a medium for the exchange of articles, the Internet can facilitate the discussion of scientific work long before it appears in print. Scientific blogs—online journals kept by individuals or groups of researchers—have flourished as a form of online salon for the discussion of ongoing research. There are pitfalls to such practices, though. Astronomers who in 2005 posted abstracts detailing the discovery of a potential 10th planet found that other researchers had used their abstracts to find the new astronomical body themselves. In order to claim priority of discovery, the original group rushed to hold a news conference rather than waiting to announce their work at an academic conference or in a peer-reviewed journal.
The Internet has broadened political participation by ordinary citizens, especially through the phenomenon of blogs. Many blogs are simply online diaries or journals, but others have become sources of information and opinion that challenge official government pronouncements or the mainstream news media. By 2005 there were approximately 15 million blogs, a number that was doubling roughly every six months. The United States dominates the blog universe, or "blogosphere," with English as the lingua franca, but blogs in other languages are proliferating. In one striking development, the Iranian national language, Farsi, has become the commonest Middle Eastern language in the blogosphere. Despite the Iranian government's attempts to limit access to the Internet, some 60,000 active Farsi blogs are hosted at a single service provider, PersianBlog.
The Internet poses a particular problem for autocratic regimes that restrict access to independent sources of information. The Chinese government has been particularly successful at policing the public's access to the Internet, beginning with its "Great Firewall of China" that automatically blocks access to undesirable Web sites. The state also actively monitors Chinese Web sites to ensure that they adhere to government limits on acceptable discourse and tolerable dissent. In 2000 the Chinese government banned nine types of information, including postings that might "harm the dignity and interests of the state" or "disturb social order." Users must enter their national identification number in order to access the Internet at cybercafés. Also, Internet service providers are responsible for the content on their servers. Hence, providers engage in a significant amount of self-censorship in order to avoid problems with the law, which may result in losing access to the Internet or even serving jail time. Finally, the authorities are willing to shut Web sites quickly and with no discussion. Of course, the state's efforts are not completely effective. Information can be smuggled into China on DVDs, and creative Chinese users can circumvent the national firewall with proxy servers—Web sites that allow users to move through the firewall to an ostensibly acceptable Web site where they can connect to the rest of the Internet.
Others have taken advantage of the Internet's openness to spread a variety of political messages. The Ukrainian Orange Revolution of 2004 had a significant Internet component. More troubling is the use of the Internet by terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda to recruit members, pass along instructions to sleeper cells, and celebrate their own horrific activities. In The Iraq the Second Persian Gulf War was fought not only on the ground but also online as al-Qaeda operatives used specific Web sites to call their followers to jihad. Al-Qaeda used password-protected chat rooms as key recruitment centres, as well as Web sites to test potential recruits before granting them access to the group's actual network. On the other hand, posting material online is also a potential vulnerability. Gaining access to the group's "Jihad Encyclopaedia" has enabled security analysts to learn about potential tactics, and Arabic-speaking investigators have learned to infiltrate chat rooms and gain access to otherwise hidden materials.
During the 2004 U.S. presidential campaign, blogs became a locus for often heated exchanges about the candidates. In fact, the candidates themselves used blogs and Web sites for fund-raising and networking. One of the first innovators was Howard Dean, an early front-runner in the Democratic primaries, whose campaign used a Web site for fund-raising and organizing local meetings. In particular, Dean demonstrated that a modern presidential campaign could use the Internet to galvanize volunteer campaign workers and to raise significant sums from many small donations. In a particularly astute move, Dean's campaign set up a blog for comments from his supporters, and it generated immediate feedback on certain proposals such as refusing to accept public campaign funding. Both the George W. Bush and the John Kerry presidential campaigns, as well as the Democratic and Republican parties, came to copy the practices pioneered by Dean and his advisers. In addition, changes in U.S. campaign finance laws allowed for the creation of "527s," independent action groups such as Moveon.org that used the Internet to raise funds and rally support for particular issues and candidates.
By 2005 it was widely agreed that politicians would have to deal not only with the mainstream media (i.e., newspapers, magazines, radio, and television) but also with a new phenomenon—the blogosphere. Although blogs do not have editors or fact checkers, they have benefited from scandals in the mainstream media, which have made many readers more skeptical of all sources of information. Also, bloggers have forced mainstream media to confront topics they might otherwise ignore. Some pundits have gone so far as to predict that blogs and online news sources will replace the mainstream media, but it is far more likely that these diverse sources of information will complement each other. Indeed, falling subscription rates have led many newspaper publishers to branch into electronic editions and to incorporate editorial blogs and forums for reader feedback; thus, some of the distinctions between the media have already been blurred.


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The wines have an extraordinary combination of power, intesity, complexity and great finesse, and bearing in mind the age of the vines and the laughably low yields, no Torbreck wine could ever be accused of being heavy, cloying or over-extracted. View all Torbreck Wines
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The Barossa zone consists of two sections - the Barossa Valley and the Eden Valley. Wines from the Eden Valley can be labelled Barossa or Barossa Valley.
Situated just a bit east of the large city of Adelaide, Barossa is Australia's wine headquarters. Mega producers are based here, boutique wineries call it home and a majority of the habitants claim their income on the wine industry. The valley is strewn with a series of hamlets, small towns spotted throughout the region.


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BREVARD, N.C.- A Drew Gallowitch goal and a solid performance from freshman goalkeeper Heath Turner propelled the Tornados into the Brevard College history books while they claimed a 1-0 win against Anderson Tuesday afternoon at Brevard Soccer Field in Brevard, N.C. in South Atlantic Conference action.
The Tornados (5-8, 3-5 SAC) proved victorious for the third consecutive home match for the first time since becoming a Division II affiliate in 2008. Also, it marks the first time that the Tornados have won consecutive home conference matches since 2010 and with the win it matches the most wins in a season since transferring to DII (five) and the most wins as a SAC member (three).
The Trojans (9-4-2, 4-4-2 SAC) dropped their second consecutive 1-0 decision and saw their three-match win streak against BC snapped.
Sophomore Gallowitch provided the game's lone goal in the 36th minute when he connected on a sliding kick following a pass from Jami Uuttu to best Anderson's Bo Haug.
The Trojans had two opportunities in the 74th and 76th minute, respectively, but missed both wide left.
Anderson doubled BC in the shot category, 10-5, including 6-2 in the second half. The Trojans' Haug finished with two saves while Turner turned in a clean slate and four saves. Anderson's Bernd Muxel paced both teams with four shots while BC's Rhem Stubbs led the Tornados with two.
With the win, BC is currently ninth in the SAC standings with nine points while the top-8 advances to the tournament.
The Tornados seek their first road win when they travel to Mars Hill Friday at 7 p.m. Mars Hill is currently sixth with 12 points.
Anderson (9-4-2, 4-4-1 SAC) vs. Brevard College (5-8, 3-5 SAC)
Date: Oct 22, 2013 Attendance: 71
Weather: 65 degrees, sunny with some clouds
Goals by period 1 2 Tot
Anderson............ 0 0 - 0
Brevard College..... 1 0 - 1
1. 36:55 BC Drew Gallowitch (2) (Jami Uuttu) - cross from 26 into box, 9 sliding shot into net
Shots: Anderson 10, Brevard College 5
Saves: Anderson 2 (Bo Haug 2), Brevard College 4 (Heath Turner 3; Team


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2011 USC Move In, By the Numbers
Editor's note: Numbers relating to the incoming freshman class are preliminary.
7,281 ---- The number of undergraduates who will live on campus this year in residence halls and Greek Village houses.
4,550 ---- The estimated number of students in the university's freshman class.
30,000 ---- The estimated student population on the Columbia campus. There are approximately 45,000 students across the eight-system USC campus.
97 ---- The estimated percentage of freshmen who will live on campus, an important number as research shows new students who live on campus are more involved in campus life and develop stronger social networks.
63 ---- The expected number of high-school valedictorians in the freshman class.
5 ---- The top five states (in order) where out-of-state freshmen hail from are North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland, Georgia and New Jersey. South Carolinians make up 58 percent of the freshman class.
344 ---- The estimated number of freshmen who will enter South Carolina Honors College this fall.
546 ---- The estimated number of freshmen who will enter the Capstone Scholars Program.
544 ---- The number of students who will live in the newly remodeled Patterson residence hall. The major renovation included a conversion to suite-style units and an updated lobby.
97 ---- The estimated percentage of freshmen from South Carolina who will enter the university having earned an academic scholarship (HOPE, LIFE, Palmetto Fellows) from the state of South Carolina.
113 ---- The number of events sponsored by 46 organizations over nine days during Welcome Week.
6,825 ---- The number of books pre-packaged by the University Bookstore (Barnes & Noble, Russell House) for students to pick up.
2,223 ---- The number of book titles available for rent at University Bookstore, an option that cuts student book costs by more than half.
240+ ---- The number of faculty, staff and student volunteers who will help students and their families move belongings into rooms. More than 400 additional staff will help students by opening their service offices.
98,800 ---- The number of Chick-fil-A sandwiches sold in Gamecock Park (Russell House University Union) last school year.
4.4 million ---- The number of meals served annually in the 27 on-campus dining units.
71, 000 ---- The number of pizzas eaten each year at the Pizza Hut and Pandini's restaurants on campus.
46,600 ---- The pounds of chicken fingers consumed on campus by university students last year.
52,600 ---- The number of bagels Einstein's served on campus last year.
More than 100,000 ---- The number of meals prepared at the Russell House University Union each week during the academic year.
39 ---- The percentage of South Carolina-grown produce served in USC dining units.
55,000 ---- The number of packages delivered at the Student Mail Center during the course of the school year.
10 ---- The tons of cardboard expected to be collected and recycled this weekend (based on fall 2010 move-in numbers).
400 + ---- The number of recycling containers found in academic facilities.
103,885 ---- The average pounds of materials recycled each month on campus.
55 ---- The estimated percentage of females in this year's freshman class, which reflects a nationwide trend as more young women enroll in college.
19 ---- The estimated number of sets of twins entering Carolina this fall as freshmen.
1 ---- The estimated number of sets of triplets entering Carolina this fall as freshmen.
39 & 13 ---- The estimated number of states (plus the District of Columbia) and countries represented in the freshman class.
164 ---- The estimated number of student-athletes in the freshman class.
984 ---- The number of students who studied abroad last year.
56 ---- The number of countries in which USC students studied abroad last year, including Spain, South Africa, Denmark and Kenya.
588,705 ---- The dollar value of study-abroad scholarships earned by USC students last year, a 51.5 percent increase from the previous year.
4,878 ---- The number of rooms in the university's 24 residence halls and 20 homes in the Greek Village.
226 ---- The number of residence-hall mentors.
387 ---- The number of registered student organizations (52 new organizations started last year).
35 ---- The number of new Freshman Council members who will represent the largest freshman class in the university's history.
50 ---- The number of student senators representing colleges across the university.
6 ---- The number of student government members who represent the university in Washington for meetings with elected officials during spring break.
9,200 ---- The number of students involved in Student Health Services outreach activities last year.
50,921 ---- The number of patient and client visits to Student Health Services departments last year.
2,113 ---- The number of flu shots administered by the Student Health Services last year.
29,536 ---- The number of prescriptions filled by the Student Health Services pharmacy last year.
997 ---- The number of nutrition consults on campus last year, including 951 for students.
1,371 ---- The number of screenings for body fat percentage, including 1,080 for students and 291 for faculty and staff.
14 ---- The number of registered religious workers who serve the spiritual needs of students and the university community.
31 ---- The number of religious student organizations on campus.
25 ---- The number of buses that will take freshmen to Williams-Brice Stadium Saturday, Aug.13, for First-Night Carolina.
178 ---- The number of sections of University 101. About 3,700 university freshmen are registered to take the course, which is designed to help students successfully make the transition to college life.
12,000 ---- The number of issues of The Daily Gamecock, the university's student newspaper, delivered on campus each weekday.
17 ---- The Daily Gamecock's national ranking in the Princeton Review, out of 376 schools rated by the publication. It's the only student newspaper in the state to make the Top-20 list.
70 ---- The number of Minority Assistance Peer Program mentors, a program designed to help minority students make a smooth transition from high school to college.
80,000 ---- The number of tours and visit appointments planned for the fall 2012 class.
12,705 ---- The number of parents who are registered for the university's Parents Association.
105 ---- The number of countries represented by international students at the university.
1,399 ---- The number of international students at all USC campuses.
58,689 ---- The number of students who attended football games during the 2010 season.
2 ---- The number of NCAA national championships won by the USC baseball team in the past two years.
40 ---- The tons of equipment housed in the weight room at the Strom Thurmond Wellness and Fitness Center, one of the nation's premiere collegiate facilities of its kind.
38 ---- The number of fraternities and sororities at the University of South Carolina.
4,057 ---- The number of fraternity and sorority members on campus.
120,000 ---- The number of hours served in the community by fraternity and sorority members in 2010-11.
20 ---- The number of houses in the university's Greek Village, where 743 residents live.
40 ---- The estimated percentage of freshmen who will participate in fraternity and sorority recruitment this fall.
1,300 ---- The number of women expected to participate in sorority recruitment this fall, an increase of nearly 200 from last year.
600,000 ---- The charity dollars raised by fraternity and sorority members last year.
146 ---- The number of trees planted in 2010-11 by Outdoor Recreation in its ongoing efforts to be a carbon-neutral department.
2,800+ ---- The number of intramural games played each year.
11,080 ---- The number of attendees during Homecoming Week 2010 events.
130 ---- The number of organizations at spring and fall Student Organization Fairs in 2010-11.
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Middle Grades Education (6-9)
Middle Grades Education (6-9)
Being a middle school teacher is a combination of serving in the Peace Corps, organizing an amoebae circus, competing in a decathlon, and earning an Academy Award. In no other job do you laugh aloud, ignite someone's imagination, bring peace, pose conflict, kiss frogs, quell fears, affirm goodness, stand amazed, and read a crumpled love note that assures the end of the world by 3:00 that afternoon. And that's just the end of first period.
Rick Wormeli, Meet Me in the Middle
Campbell University offers a B.S. in Middle Grades Education that is specifically designed to prepare candidates to teach in a true middle school setting. Students successfully completing the program earn a Bachelor of Science degree and initial licensure in North Carolina to teach one of four content areas in grades 6-9: English Language Arts, Mathematics, Science, or Social Studies.
Candidates choose a secondary area of concentration from the four areas in which they earn an additional 18 credit hours. With these hours, they have a solid foundation in a secondary concentration area, enabling them to successfully pass the Praxis II exam for a dual license in 6th-9th grades.
For more information on the middle grades program, please contact Dr. Lorae Roukema at [email protected].
Skittles in the Middle
Erin Overton writes thoughts and insights on middle level education and the young adolescent in her blog: Skittles in the Middle. Erin is a secondary education major in English, but writes about her experiences with middle grades education after taking EDUC 365: Teaching in the Middle. Read Erin's blogs here: http://skittlesinthemiddle.blogspot.com/
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Reports: Suspicious envelopes at Arizona Senators' offices
(Phoenix, AZ) -- Suspicious envelopes are being reported at the Phoenix offices of Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake. The reports come on the heels of reports of envelopes with ricin being sent to President Obama and other senators. White House spokesman Jay Carney says the FBI is taking the lead in the case.


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About Social Security Number
Due to the implementation of the new Kansas Outdoor Automated Licensing System, the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism is now required to comply with certain laws relating to the collection of social security numbers.
Title 42 of the United States Code, Section 666 (a) (13), requirement of statutorily prescribed procedures to improve effectiveness of child support enforcement, requires that social security numbers be collected of any applicant for a recreational license, which includes licenses, permits, stamps, tags or other issues of the KDWPT.
In addition, Kansas Statute Annotated 74-139, licensure, certification or registration by state authority; applicants requested to provide social security number, requires the applicant for original licensure or renewal to provide their social security number.
The KOALS system requires your social security number to be entered only one time. Once entered into the system, the applicant will be provided a unique KDWPT identification number for use in all future transactions. The applicant's social security number is not printed on the license nor is it displayed on the screen when a new license is purchased. The social security number is held in a secure database and will only be available upon request to the Kansas Department for Children and Families for the purpose of child support enforcement or to the Department of Revenue, Director of Taxation, for compliance with K.S.A. 74-139.


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Theater review by David Cote. Ethel Barrymore Theatre (see Broadway). By William Shakespeare. Dir. John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg. With Alan Cumming. 1hr 45mins. No intermission.
The scariest and one of the goriest of Shakespeare's tragedies, Macbeth naturally lends itself to horror-movie tropes. I've seen a multimedia Polish version with an eerie, Donnie Darko–style rabbit. The previous Broadway mounting, with Patrick Stewart, had witches out of The Ring and a sink that spouted blood. Now comes John Tiffany and Andrew Goldberg's high-concept reduction, in which a man admitted to a mental ward recites an abridgement of the classic, playing nearly all the characters while abreacting to an unspecified trauma. Slasher-flick and ghost-story buffs, take note: There are grainy surveillance-camera images; creepy antique dolls; red gimp masks; unnerving, industrial noise; and a hysterical, blood-streaked Alan Cumming freaking out for more than 100 minutes.
There's also a play—remember? Macbeth?—that newcomers to the work might find hard to follow. Still, you can savor Cumming's bravura physical and vocal performance, the way his burr strokes the language to release its incantatory power. And the visuals are positively avant-garde by Broadway standards. The piece's ideal venue is St. Ann's Warehouse, though it's served infinitely better here than it was at the cavernous Rose Theater during last summer's Lincoln Center Festival. While this Macbeth has spooky atmosphere and the verse raises gooseflesh, it falls between camps. Veterans of recontextualized Bard may yawn; people who don't know the text may be frightened, but more likely confused.—David Cote
RECOMMENDED: Why Alan Cumming was born to play Macbeth
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GINA LINKO has a graduate degree in creative writing from DePaul University and lives outside Chicago with her husband and three children. She teaches college English part-time, but her real passion is sitting down to an empty screen and asking herself, "What if . . . ?" Visit Gina online at GinaLinko.com.
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Summary:Developing software for the cloud can make test-driven development more complicated, but not impossible. Arin Sime offers advice for continuing good development practices in the face of challenges from cloud hosting and distributed computing.
Writing software for the cloud can be very different than writing software that runs on a single server. It can make test-driven development (TDD) more complicated, but it is still well worth doing. For the purposes of this article, I'll consider two types of software development in the cloud: cloud hosting and distributed computing.
In cloud hosting, you are still writing the same type of software that you have always written. A simple example is a website developed in PHP, Java, Ruby on Rails, or .NET. You are not developing anything out of the ordinary, and the only impact cloud computing makes on your architecture is that it is easier for you to scale the web UI of your system as traffic grows.
For cloud-hosting scenarios, nothing has changed with regards to TDD. The typical xUnit frameworks will provide all that you need to write solid software using good XP practices.
Distributed computing is different. For the purposes of this article, I will define it as software that is designed to scale horizontally across many servers in order to improve some combination of reliability or speed or simply to spread the computational requirements of complex algorithms across many servers.
The use of clouds for distributed computing is more complicated and less common than the more straightforward cloud hosting scenario. However, more teams are being called on to develop these types of applications, and there are many open source projects that are making it easier to tap into the more advanced powers of cloud computing.
One example of this is Hadoop's MapReduce project, which is used for processing complicated jobs in parallel across many servers. Or, consider the Katta or SolrCloud projects that parallelize searching and indexing across a cloud. Other examples include noSQL data stores such as Cassandra and CouchDB.
Each of these examples runs as its own server or Java virtual machine. This makes TDD a little more complicated, because you need to have those servers running and in a known state for each test that you run. Because many of these projects are relatively new, you may find it hard to find solid examples of how to do TDD with that project.
Adhering to strong test-driven practices is still very important. It may be even more important with these projects, since you will frequently change your code as you learn the nuances of the library. Having solid test coverage will make your learning experience much more pleasant, but simply writing unit tests with a standard xUnit library alone is probably not enough to test your code.


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Winemaking patriarch Colin Glaetzer established his own label to create wines he's passionate about - limited quantities of benchmark Barossa Valley reds. The birth of Glaetzer Wines signalled a new era for Colin's family which boasts more than its fair share of winemakers. The clan includes Colin, his oenology-trained wife Judith, twin brother/winemaker John, and five winemakers among the couple's three sons and their wives.
With the 2004 vintage, Ben Glaetzer took over winemaking at Glaetzer and brought his own flagship wines, Amon Ra and Godolphin, into the fold. Young Glaetzer has implemented many changes at the winery, particularly with regard to harvesting upon physiological ripeness vs. analysis, longer skin contact and the use of the highest possible quality oak barrels. View all Glaetzer Wines
About Barossa ValleyView a map of Barossa Valley wineries
The Barossa zone consists of two sections - the Barossa Valley and the Eden Valley. Wines from the Eden Valley can be labelled Barossa or Barossa Valley.
Situated just a bit east of the large city of Adelaide, Barossa is Australia's wine headquarters. Mega producers are based here, boutique wineries call it home and a majority of the habitants claim their income on the wine industry. The valley is strewn with a series of hamlets, small towns spotted throughout the region.


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10 Things You Didn't Know About Halloween
Shakespeare described the "witching hour" as a time "when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out." Spooky! Equally esteemed author Washington Irving described Halloween night in his classic 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow' as a setting full of "fearful shapes and shadows...amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night." Kids all across the country describe it as the night when the entire world gives them all the candy they can eat until they either pass out or develop early on-set diabetes.


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By Gary Cutrer
Published August 2011
Benny Cox, recognized by any sheep and goat producer who has bought or sold animals through Producers Livestock Auction as the guy in the know about the sheep and goat business in West Texas, has worked for the auction company for more than 40 years.
"My dad liked farming and along with that came livestock. We ran cattle. I just got in to this field and never left," he said.
Now nearing the age of 60, Cox was in high school when he started feeding and helping to receive animals at Producers. Back then, in the 1960s, Producers was selling 15,000 to 20,000 head of sheep and goats a week, or about 600,000 to 800,000 head a year. They were running 220,000 to 260,000 cattle a year through the auction ring. These days, in average non-drought years, they will sell a little more than 300,000 sheep and goats and around 100,000 head of cattle in a year's time, he said.
Cox attended Angelo State University, all the while working at Producers. He graduated from ASU in 1975 with an agriculture business degree.
"When I graduated the oil field was really hot," Cox said, and he considered changing careers. "But I decided to stay here, and I haven't had any regrets."
Now, as sheep and goat sales manager at Producers, Cox is friends with or at least acquainted with just about everyone in Texas who buys and sells sheep and goats. And, he keeps the current market trends in his head and can quote current prices on feeder or fat lambs and kid goats.
That knowledge and those contacts will really come in handy during the coming year as Cox serves as president of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association.
He first served on the TSGRA Marketing Committee a few years ago and was asked by Chico Denis of San Angelo if he would serve as an officer in the association. He served a year as 2nd vice president and another as 1st vice president. "I had a good experiences as vice president. I got to know people who I really didn't know that well, though I might have spoken to them on the phone throughout the years."
As Cox comes to office as TSGRA president he said he would like to see Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association continue to do what it does so successfully.
"I don't think it's broke, so I don't know that it needs any fixing," he said. "We need to continue to be a big voice in the fight to maintain our present services, which include Wildlife Services, the Texas Animal Health Commission and all other associated functional organizations that strive to make the sheep and goat industry a viable business."
Protecting private property rights and being a voice in opposition to those who would limit property rights and threaten animal agriculture is a very important job, he added.
"We need to continue to fight for our vested interest in private property rights. I think that's one of the very most important things that Sheep and Goat Raisers does."
Benny and Elaine Cox have two daughters--Natasha, 20, and Bryce, 19. Both young women attend college in San Angelo.
When Benny Cox is not working for Producers Auction Company, spending time with his family or wearing one of his many volunteer hats, most of his time is spent tending to livestock he has turned out or attending to his other business ventures.
"I can't remember when I didn't own cattle or sheep in some sort of partnership or my own individual grazing program, which may be cow and calf pairs on pasture or whatever. I didn't always partner with somebody; Most of the time, however, I have," he said. Until the drought got bad Cox was running sheep and goats north of San Angelo. "It got so dry that I sold all of my wool sheep. Dry weather made the decision for me." Cox still has a small herd of goats.
Because he's a man who works a lot and enjoys working, it's not surprising to learn that Benny Cox extends those working hours more by volunteering many hours to community service.
He has been a long-time volunteer for San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo Association and was United Way chariman for San Angelo several years in a row. Cox has been involved with many functions that have benefited West Texas Boys Ranch and has raised money for West Texas Rehabilitation Center. While his girls attended elementary school at Trinity Lutheran, he served on the school board there, and as president of the school board as well. He has helped out Sonrisas Therapeutic Riding Club, ASU Block and Bridle Club, the original Lamb Blast, the San Angelo Sheep Run and Lamb Cook-off and, most recently, he led the organization of a volunteer firefighters benefit in San Angelo.
In his job at Producers, Cox has seen first hand the many changes that the sheep and goat business and the livestock business in general have undergone in the past four decades. Perhaps one of the more notable changes has been the decline in wool sheep and Angora goat numbers during the past 20 years. Of course, the loss of the import-tariff funded wool and mohair incentive program in the early 1990s made the biggest impact on numbers. And, depressed wool prices for many years prompted many ranchers to switch from wool sheep to no-shear hair sheep.
The arrival of the Boer goat in the mid 1990s gave many optimism, and indeed the South African Boer goat has caught on nationwide and is now a vital part of the sheep and goat economy.
The current drought in Texas, New Mexico and other Southwestern states, rated as "exceptional," which is worse than "severe," is making another change as ranchers and farmers sell off sheep, goats and cattle.
"I can see a tremendous decline in our wool sheep, numbers wise. And I have a really hard time believing that many of those numbers will be back," Cox said. "Unless something hurries up and happens, a lot of these wool sheep will be gone. And, many of our nanny goats have been sold off due to drought conditions."
Restocking once the drought eases and "normal" weather conditions return will be a challenge, he said, with most of the stocker ewes and nannies sold and moved out of Texas.
But the infrastructure is there, the prices are there and, with some help and fortitude, ranchers will recover.
"I think we're going to continue to have good markets, on both sheep and goats," Cox said. He added that the ethnic market and demand in this country is huge and that market will continue.
Because he so enjoys interacting directly with people, Cox is a little late transitioning to the digital communication game. During the interview for this article he made an announcement:
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BUSTED: Alleged Social Security fraudsters caught on tape
(Becket Adams) The Utah Office of the Attorney General saved the Social Security Administration an estimated $22 million in prevented fraud in 2012 by exposing residents who had been collecting disability benefits under false pretenses, according to KSL-5 TV.
And by "false pretenses" we mean they lied about their health.
Even more outrageous than allegedly conning the SSA is the fact that most of the fraudsters were caught after the AG's office uncovered online videos of them acting like, well, people in normal physical condition.
"One of the most shocking things is the audacity of some of the people who are stealing from you and I," Ken Wallentine, the chief of law enforcement for the Utah Office of the Attorney General, told KSL-5 TV.
For instance, the AG's office uncovered a video of one recipient, a 40-year-old man who claims his "sore muscles" keep him from work, jumping around his living room while playing air guitar.
Another video shows a 31-year-old female recipients banging away at the drums. She has been collecting benefits for "four years because she claimed her mental disorders gave her low energy, therefore she couldn't be in public to work," KSL-5 TV notes.
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Cedar leaf oil poisoning
Cedar leaf oil is a sweet-smelling oil made from some types of cedar trees. Cedar leaf oil poisoning occurs when someone swallows this substance. Young children who smell the oil may try to drink it.
This is for information only and not for use in the treatment or management of an actual poison exposure. If you have an exposure, you should call your local emergency number (such as 911) or the National Poison Control Center at 1-800-222-1222.
Poisonous Ingredient
- Thujone (a hydrocarbon)
Where Found
- Some furniture polishes
- Some homeopathic medicines
- Thuja oil
- Airways and lungs
- Breathing difficulty
- Throat swelling (may also cause breathing difficulty)
- Eyes, ears, nose, and throat
- Loss of vision
- Severe pain in the throat
- Severe pain or burning in the nose, eyes, ears, lips, or tongue
- Gastrointestinal
- Blood in the stool
- Burns of the food pipe (esophagus)
- Severe abdominal pain
- Vomiting
- Vomiting blood
- Heart and blood vessels
- Collapse
- Low blood pressure that develops rapidly
- Nervous system
- Skin
- Burn
- Irritation
Home Care
Seek immediate medical help. Do NOT make a person throw up unless told to do so by poison control or a health care professional.
If the chemical is on the skin or in the eyes, flush with lots of water for at least 15 minutes.
If the chemical was swallowed, immediately give the person water or milk, unless instructed otherwise by a health care provider. Do NOT give water or milk if the patient is having symptoms (such as vomiting, convulsions, or a decreased level of alertness) that make it hard to swallow.
Before Calling Emergency
Determine the following information:
- Patient's age, weight, and condition
- Name of the product (ingredients and strengths, if known)
- Time it was swallowed
- Amount swallowed
Poison Control
The National Poison Control Center (1-800-222-1222) can be called from anywhere in the United States. This national hotline number will let you talk to experts in poisoning. They will give you further instructions.
This is a free and confidential service. All local poison control centers in the United States use this national number. You should call if you have any questions about poisoning or poison prevention. It does NOT need to be an emergency. You can call for any reason, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
See: Poison control center - emergency number
What to Expect at the Emergency Room
The health care provider will measure and monitor your vital signs, including temperature, pulse, breathing rate, and blood pressure. Symptoms will be treated as appropriate. You may receive:
- Fluids by IV
- Breathing tube
- Bronchoscopy -- camera down the throat to see burns in the airways and lungs
- Endoscopy -- camera down the throat to see burns in the esophagus and the stomach
- Oxygen
- Tube through the mouth into the stomach to wash out the stomach (gastric lavage)
- Washing of the skin (irrigation) -- perhaps every few hours for several days
Outlook (Prognosis)
How well you do depends on the amount of poison swallowed and how quickly treatment is received. The faster you get medical help, the better the chance for recovery.
Graeme KA. Toxic plant ingestions. In: Auerbach PS, ed. Wilderness Medicine. 5th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Mosby Elsevier; 2007:chap 58.
Review Date: 2/16/2012
Reviewed By: Eric Perez, MD, St. Luke's / Roosevelt Hospital Center, NY, NY, and Pegasus Emergency Group (Meadowlands and Hunterdon Medical Centers), NJ. Review provided by VeriMed Healthcare Network. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.


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Hi all, I am trying to help the lady who is helping me with coding up my site. The site url is www.papersourceonline.com.au
I am trying to have a gallery of 11 or 12 images across that line up nicely with no white space either side and I want the small thumbnails to expand on hover. The problem we are having is that all the code we have seen so far seems to put the expanded view over to the right side or left side and it does not allow the images on the extreme edges to even have an expanded view. It is weird stuff.. thought it would be dead easy to do, but we are struggling. You can see what we have done in Gallery 2 which now has white spaces either side to accommodate the code I do not like.
Does anyone have any idea of where we can get code that just puts the expanded view over the top of the thumbnails but in the middle of the screen and not crop it if there are not enough rows of thumbnails.
thanks in advanceSharon
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If you want the hover image to show at the right you will need ot remove the overflow:hidden from the main parent. I assume the overflow:hidden was for float clearing so use another method such as this:
#jsn-content {
#jsn-content:after {
The space around the images is controlled by the margin on this element.
.hoverBox a { margin:0; }
Stu Nichols had a lot of good css image galleries if you want something that looks a bit nicer.
Hi Paul, thanks for replying.
I am wanting the hover image to sit in the middle of the screen and not to one side. All the code we have found puts it to one side which means we cannot have images right across.
If you can help, it would be appreciated.
cheers, Sharon
You can't change the behaviour of the hover effect with css alone unless you add classes to to the last few elements on each row and then you can move the image left instead of right. Obviously that would be awkward if the images are dynamic and you don't know how many there are etc.
If you are doing it by hand then you could manually add classes to those items and that will allow you to over-ride the normal position of the hover effect.
The only other option is to script it so that the position of the image is changed based on whether it will overlap the edge or not but that would be a question for the javascript forum.
Paul hiI will pass this onto the lady helping me. For something so very simple, I cannot believe how difficult it is to do. Do you think there are other sites out there with ready made scripts where I can see the code in action?
It's not really that simple because you are asking for some logic to be added which css doesn't do. Css just presents and it can't decide that when a hovered image is close to an edge it should recalculate the position and move the image. That's the job of a script as it is a behaviour.
There are plenty of hover galleries around so just google css/js hover galleries. If you aren't up to scratch with js then there are some jquery ones around also (if you are already using the library).
However, wouldn't you be better of with a slight re-design like those Stu nichol's examples I showed you that are much neater and don't need a script.
Paul hido you think this link will give me what I am trying to achieve?http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex4/imagebubbles.htm
I will have a look again at those Stu Nichols layouts and see how much we can customise as I did not love them the way they were.
thanks againSharon
I think that example might be a little hard to customise for your multiple images.
I think you would be better off with the usual scroller and keep it all together or perhaps display the hover image in the center of the thumbnails in a pre-defined space. At the moment its very awkward to hover from one image to the next and impossible to select the second row without moving the mouse off the page and back again. This makes it a bad experience for the user and really does need a bit of design rethink.
Hi Paulthank you so very much for your help. I have taken your advice and opted for a different style of gallery to make my customer's experience not a tragic one


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Florida Georgia Line is serving as the country music representative at this year's Teen Choice awards. The duo was the only country act appearing at the event, which aired Sunday night on Fox. They shared the stage with Nelly to perform their chart-topper, "Cruise."
Their performance got cheers, but Florida Georgia Line didn't seem to fare a well with the voters. "Cruise" was up for Choice Summer Song, which went to Miley Cyrus' "We Can't Stop," and Choice Country Song, which went to Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together." Florida Georgia Line fell to Lady Antebellum for Choice Country Group. Swift, meanwhile, also captured the nod for Choice Female Country Artist. Hunter Hayes was named Choice Male Country Artist.
One Direction was the night's big music winner. Other top honorees included the TV shows "Pretty Little Liars," "Glee," and "The X Factor;" and the films "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2," "Pitch Perfect," and "The Perks of Being a Wallflower."


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Spring Trend Alert: 10 Hottest Jungle-Inspired Pieces
These savagely stylish pieces are perfect for the warm weather that's right around the corner.
-Rebecca Daly
Summer will soon be upon us, and the fashion forecast is fierce, with wildly chic pieces and prints that range from literal safari hats to perfectly patterned cocktail dresses, like the Alexander McQueen dress Anna Paquin wore on the red carpet. Below, our ten favorite pieces to help you brave the heat, whether you're leading an expedition across the plains of Africa, or just trying to survive the urban jungle.
1. Anthropologie Ruffles & Ripples skirt ($128, anthropologie.com)
2. Rachel Roy Ikat wrap ($28, rachelroy.com)
3. Forever 21 tribal woven top ($14.80, forever21.com)
4. Velvet jungle green embroidered tunic-top ($160, stylebop.com)


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Students don't pay tuition at C of O! How does that work?
Basically……Work Program + Federal and State Grants + College of the Ozarks Scholarship = Your annual tuition!
Each student participates in the on-campus work program for 15 hours per week and two forty-hour work weeks. Earnings from participation in the work program, plus any federal and/or state aid for which students qualify, plus a College of the Ozarks Cost of Education Scholarship combine to meet each student's full tuition charge.
Generous donors, who believe in what College of the Ozarks represents, make financial contributions, enabling the College to provide tuition (cost of education) scholarships in exchange for work on campus. If you paid cash for instructional expenses at C of O, it would cost you the amount shown below, per year! Don't panic! Our students work off a portion of this charge by participating in the work program during the academic year (about $4,312 annually). If students qualify for Federal or Missouri state aid, those amounts are applied to the cost as well. The remaining balance is covered by a College of the Ozarks Scholarship for each student, as demonstrated below.
So, how much is the Cost of Education (tuition) at C of O? $0.00
What is the College of the Ozarks Cost of Education Scholarship? This is a term you'll become familiar with if you attend Hard Work U. The "Cost of Education" is the cost to the College for providing an educational opportunity for each student. Most institutions pass along a portion of this cost as tuition; this is not the case at College of the Ozarks. The College guarantees to meet all of this cost for each full-time student by using earnings from its endowment, operation of its own mandatory student work program, accepting student aid grants, gifts and other sources. Each full-time student's Cost of Education is met 100% by participating in the work program, and a combination of private, institutional and federal/state student aid. The institutional aid provided for each student is the College of the Ozarks Scholarship.
What is so special about a College of the Ozarks Cost of Education Scholarship? Somewhere out there is a donor, actually several, who believe in and support what our unique institution stands for: Hard work, Christian values, freedom from debt, and higher education in a Christian setting. When you accept an offer of admission to College of the Ozarks, you make a commitment to uphold the standards of an institution that is different from the norm. C of O is not a school where drinking and partying is acceptable, nor is it a place where unwholesome attire is the standard. It is a place where we believe you will learn and grow as a Christian, and as a future professional member of the work force. While many folks in this day and age have chosen to lower standards, at C of O we have chosen to adhere to high personal standards; standards that we believe equip students to become successful contributors to society. So, what makes a C of O Scholarship so special? It is special because it comes from donors who believe in the College, and believe in you….people who have so much to offer society.
For 2017-2018 Academic Year
*Tuition only: does not include room and board, books or Health/Technology/Services fees.
Part-time students pay tuition which is $310 per credit hour.
Room and Board, Other Fees
There are many fees associated with college attendance in addition to tuition. At C of O, students may pay these fees in cash from personal funds, or in some cases utilize personal scholarships. Our financial aid office also provides scholarship information that may assist you with some of these costs.
Acceptance Fee
There is an acceptance fee of $315 due two weeks after admission is offered. This fee covers the Health/Technology/Service fee $215 for the first semester, and the residence hall security deposit ($100).
Room and Board
Room and Board for 2017-18 is $3,550 per semester ($7,100 annually). Some students may be awarded a Summer Work Scholarship to pay for room and board charges. Otherwise, the student is expected to pay for their room and board. If a payment plan is needed, please contact the Cash Accounts office.
Health/Technology/Service Fee
This fee is $215 each semester. It covers the cost of the initial ID card, admission to regular season home athletic events, cultural events, campus newspaper and yearbook, student accident insurance, student senate activities, registration services, and some hospital services. This fee is due each semester when pre-registering for classes for the upcoming semester. All students receiving college credit hours must pay the fee. Current students pre-register for classes each semester through Campusweb, which can be accessed either on or off campus, after the student has counseled with an advisor. Pre-registration dates vary by the number of cumulative hours a student has earned, plus hours being attempted in the current semester. Pre-registered students will automatically be registered for their pre-registered classes, provided all holds added after the on-line pre-registration period have been removed. Holds added after this period include BU–Business Office (financial), DS–Dean of Students (convo/chapel deficiency, etc.), DC–Dean of College (overload/underload), RE–Registrar's (grad check), LI–Library (fines/overdue materials), HP–Health Clinic, DW–Dean of Work Education (work hours, etc.), FA–Financial Aid (financial aid). Students who do not have all holds removed or who have not pre-registered by the registration day printed in the academic calendar will be withdrawn from the College. Any pre-registered classes will be dropped. Students who wish to be reinstated may do so by the published deadline through the Cashier's Office and will be charged a $100 processing fee.
Approximately $500 per semester.
Vehicle Registration
$10 per semester.
Part-time Tuition
Part-time student rate is $310 per credit hour. Part-time enrollment is available, however, in order to graduate from the College, students have to meet a full-time enrollment and work-program requirement. For more information, students should refer to Graduation Requirements section in the College Catalog.


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Here are a few pix from the weekend's event, will put all of them up on Flickr in the next few days.......
Here are a few pix from the weekend's event, will put all of them up on Flickr in the next few days.......
does that ref in the last pic have a tattoo on his head?
The Dungeon Sunderland / Checkmatt BJJ team
yes everytime I see it I have a quick giggle
wonder what it means? .. it musta really fuckin hurt..
The Dungeon Sunderland / Checkmatt BJJ team
It's the Japanese calligraphy for Judo
the hard bastard lol...
Nice pics Mr Fisher
The Dungeon Sunderland / Checkmatt BJJ team
I'm hearing great things about this event.Well done to UMA and everyone involved!
Well Done to Sarah Dudley and Martin Abrahams from Sandwell BJJ for their 1st place wins . 1st wins as Blue Belts.
Nice pics, look forward to seeing the full results
Thanks for the comments guys and thanks Simon, it's nice to know the UMA are being spoken about in positive terms
When I was voted in as Chief Officer, part of my task was to take the UMA forward and to amke the events accessible to the BJJ and MMA clubs throughout the UK; we have worked to make the rules familiar to BJJ guys and the points system reflects this in both the no gi and gi events. Jim has placed a lot of faith in me by giving me more or less free reign with his association which he has put many years hard graft into and when I hear positive comments from the likes of Simon Hayes and others I feel that I am doing something right!
Within eighteen months of being involved with the UMA, the grappling events held have gone from being mainly TMA involved to including the likes of Leicester Shoot, Rob Broughton, Lee Hasdell, Team Koabon, Jason Tan, Kevin Capel, Paul Sawyer, GB clubs nationwide, Pedro Bessa and many many more.
We have worked very hard behind the scenes to make our events run as smooth as possible and yesterday's feedback was the best ever and we hope to continue to deliver well run and exciting to watch grappling throughout 2009!


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Without the face-to-face interaction of a normal conversation, it's easy for discussions on social networking sites to get heated and out of hand quickly. Whether you knocked back a few too many before deciding to tell your sister what you really think of her latest boyfriend, or you just accidentally posted a comment before it was finished and need to start over, you may want to occasionally delete messages on Facebook.
Since changing over to the new "Timeline" view, the process for deleting unwanted messages on Facebook has changed slightly, and is done in different ways depending on which type of message you need to remove. If you want to delete a message that you recently posted for all your Facebook friends to see, navigate to your timeline by clicking your name at the top-right corner of the screen.
Scroll down to the unwanted post and locate the "Edit or Remove" icon at the top-right corner of the message. The icon is marked by a pencil and is positioned to the left of the star icon labeled "Highlight."
To completely delete the post, along with any additional comments beneath it, select the "Delete Post" entry in the drop-down menu. If you instead want to still be able to read the post and its comments, but don't want it to show up in your timeline for other Facebook users to view, select the "Hide From Timeline" option.
There's always got to be one obnoxious person who just can't keep an offensive comment to themselves, and in those instances you don't have to leave the comment active for all to see. To delete just that comment instead of the entire post, scroll down to the specific comment and click the blue "X" icon at the far right side. Select "Delete Comment" to remove the message, or instead choose "Mark as Spam" or "Report as Abuse" if you want to send a complaint to Facebook about the comment as well.
Anyone on your friend's list is capable of posting a message directly on your timeline, and posts from friends and family members will also appear there if they specifically tag your profile. In the event you no longer need an old post from a friend, or someone posted a message you have no interest in, these messages can also be hidden from your timeline. Click the "Edit or Remove" icon in the top-right corner of the message, just as you had with your own post previously. Prevent the post from appearing by clicking "Hide From Timeline." Should you later change your mind and want to see the message again, scroll to the post labeled "This Story is Now Hidden From Your Timeline" and click the "Undo" button.
Facebook also provides you the ability to delete your own comments on other user's posts, if you later don't want other people to see the comment. There is no need to specifically search for your comments on other profiles, as Facebook collects them all in one location. Navigate to the top of your profile and click the "Activity Log" button positioned below your picture. Find the specific post you want to remove in the list of all your recent comments, which are arrange in chronological order from newest to oldest. Click the circle icon labeled "Allowed on Timeline" and choose "Delete Comment."
~ Ty Arthur
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Child Nutrition Passes, But Includes Ill-Advised SNAP Benefit Cut
Dec 03, 2010
The child nutrition bill (Hunger-Free Kids Act) passed Thursday includes some important provisions that will simplify access to nutritional programs. The reauthorization package directs $4.5 billion over 10 years to carry out the provisions. This is less than half of the Administration's proposed $10 billion over 10 years, and is paid for in part through the ill-advised step of a reduction in benefits in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly "food stamps").
This bill will improve the nutritional quality of meals served at schools and child care settings and enhance access to free and reduced price meals and to the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC).
Too many hungry children fail to receive benefits for which they are eligible. The legislation expands and simplifies eligibility for school lunches, making the process paperless for many, and expanding direct certification for kids who qualify for Medicaid, those in foster care and many others. It updates the WIC program by allowing agencies to certify children to participate for twice as long and by mandating nationwide use of electronic benefit transfer (EBT) cards by 2020. These and other pieces of the Act will help child nutrition programs be more responsive to economic hardship and serve many more children, ensuring that more grow up healthy and focused on school rather than their empty bellies. The act also includes changes to the Child and Adult Care Food Program by improving nutritional standards and decreasing the paperwork requirements for providers.
The SNAP cuts, however, will mean a benefit cut for millions of households, many of which include children. If the SNAP cuts are not restored, children will receive healthier meals in school, but their families may be forced to buy cheaper less nutritious foods at home.
SNAP is the largest and best established program to alleviate hunger and malnutrition that we have. It currently assists more than 40 million low-income Americans, including many of the kids who would benefit from the Hunger-Free Kids Act. Congress had already cut this program short in order to provide $12 billion in offsets for the state jobs and Medicaid fiscal relief bill earlier this summer. CLASP urges the Administration and Congressional leadership to act immediately to restore these cuts, before Congress recesses at the end of the month.


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