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There are 2 methods for entering NADAC trials.
Postmark date - This means the envelope may not be
postmarked earlier than the date specified in the premium.
There is a waiting period of up to 2 weeks for all entries
postmarked on that date to arrive, then they are stacked and
opened. If spaces remain after that date, then the
subsequent day's entries are opened until a trial fills.
If possible, take your envelope to the post office and ask
them to hand cancel it so the mailing date is legible!
Opening date (no postmark) - This means that the
mailed entry form may not arrive any earlier than the
specified date. For a trial like this, my preference is
to overnight my entry (and that of friends, as it helps
share the cost) the day before so it arrives on opening day
by noon.
Fill out your form with
a standard black or blue ink ball-point pen. Gel inks are
nice, but if they get wet they can smear and make your
carefully prepared form useless. Other colors are pretty,
but on the 100th form, that red or green or purple sparkle
can make your eyes hurt.
Double check your
registration number is:
The one for your dog, and
not your membership number.Printed on the correct line
in the premiumAppears exactly as it does on your card,
spaces, dashes and all.
Do not change your dog's call name from trial to trial. Your dog's name should be written the same for your first trial as it is for your hundredth trial.
Notify the trial secretary of any changes to your contact information
IN WRITING by either email or postal mail if it changes before the trial.
Some trials may have some classes fill before others. If you are okay with being entered in some but not all of your classes, write
"Partial Entry okay" on your entry
Sign and date your premium!
Do your math.
VOLUNTEER! Many trials save a limited number of runs for people who volunteer to work. If you are uncomfortable working any main position, leash runners, score runners and course builders are always welcome.
NADAC Info
What to expect at our trials
NADAC Rules and FAQ
NADAC Membership Form
NADAC Dog ID Registration Form
NADAC Points Request Form
Application for Permanent Height Card
A copy of the current Exhibitors Handbook may be downloaded free of charge from the NADAC web site:
www.nadac.com. A hard copy of the Handbook may be requested through the NADAC office at 11522 South Highway 3, Cataldo, ID 83810. They are mailed free to current members and are $5.00 to non-members.
Current Jump Height Table, Breed Exemption List, description of classes, levels, and divisions are included in the current Exhibitors Handbook is available at
NADAC Rules and FAQ
NADAC Membership Form
NADAC Dog ID Registration Form
NADAC Points Request Form
NADAC offers some new entry options which will be in
effect at 2006 trials:
A dog may be entered at Elite, Open, or Novice levels.
Within Elite, Open, and Novice, they must select either the
Proficient or
Skilled category. In the Proficient category, the
dog will compete at its traditional NADAC jump height, and
all runs must be clean, with no time faults or course
faults, in order to qualify. In the Skilled category, they
may enter at their standard jump height or 4" lower. In the
Skilled category of the Regular Agility class only, the dog
may qualify with 5 or fewer faults (5 point Q) or the usual
10 points for a clean run. A "distance challenge" (worth 5
faults) will now be included in all Regular courses. It
MUST be performed successfully to qualify in the Proficient
category; may be faulted and still earn a 5 point Q in the
Skilled category if the run is clean otherwise.
A dog may compete in only one category (Proficient or
Skilled) during the entire weekend, and if selecting the
lower jump height
option in Skilled, will be entered at that jump height in
all classes for the weekend. (Exception: Veteran jump
height and time
discounts for dogs 7 and older (or handlers 60 and older or
disabled) will continue to be an option in the Jumpers and
classes in either category.)
Dogs will compete with other dogs in their entered height
group, level and category. If a 19" tall dog entered the
category, then they would be judged and placed with all
Proficient dogs in the 20" height group, with the time
allowed for a 20" height group dog. If a 19" dog entered
the Skilled category and chose to enter as a 16" dog, then
the dog would be judged and placed with the 16" Skilled
dogs, with the time allowed for a 16" height group dog.
A Handicapped/Disabled or Veteran Handler may enter
as a Veteran Handler and receive 10% more time to negotiate
their dog around a course. If a Veteran/Disabled handler
enters any dog as a Veteran Handler, then they must enter
all dogs they run in every class as a Veteran Handler.
For Tunnelers, Touch `N Go, Weavers and Jumpers, a
judge might select a course that they feel is a choice for a
"bonus box"
opportunity for handlers. If a course is selected as a
"bonus box" course, then the handler could choose to attempt
to handle a large percentage of the course from a "handler's
box" as marked on the ground. If a handler attempts the
bonus and is successful and the entire run is faultless (no
time faults, no course faults), then the run is worth a 15
point qualifying round. If the bonus box is not attempted,
then a run with no time faults and no course faults is worth
10 qualifying points.
We're all here to have fun, enjoy good company and most of all have a great time with our dogs.
Here's what you can expect from us:
friendly folks ready to deal with any of your questions or problems
a toy and treats
for every dog at check in!
a website that is updated frequently and has all necessary information and forms easily available
We accept both Canadian and US
funds. The trials are priced in both currencies. We accept post-dated cheques dated up to 2 weeks before the trial date.
great trial sites, that are clean, with lots of parking, camping and rv spaces.
a variety of warm up equipment
happy, well appreciated, well fed workers
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Game On! bloggers Reid Cherner and Tom Weir are bidding good-bye to 2010 with their list of the Top 100 Sports Personalities of the Year. These are the people who, for better or worse, drove our traffic. And today we finish off the series with our selection of Nos. 1-10.
10. George Steinbrenner. Yankee haters may say the pinstripe victories in the World Series are checkbook championships, but there's no denying The Boss was as intent on winning as anyone who has ever owned a pro franchise. And he delivered. RIP, George.
9. Drew Brees. Of all the championships that have ever been won, none was truly for a city as much as the Super Bowl title that Brees brought to New Orleans.
8. Reggie Bush. He should have been singing Elvis' Return to Sender when he finally acknowledged the mess he created at USC and returned the Heisman.
7. Rex Ryan. He started the year with a raised-finger gesture. Then he ramped it up with an F-bomb barrage on Hard Knocks. Then he promised the Jets wouldn't be "that team." Then he got embarrassed 45-3 by the Patriots. And then his strength coach went ape on the sidelines. All the news outlets owe him a commission.
6. Ben Roethlisberger. To be fair, Roethlisberger was never formally charged with even the slightest transgression. And yet there was virtually no protest when he was suspended. We were all left wondering exactly how much fire accompanied all that smoke.
5. Cam Newton. Daddy dearest put him up for bid on the open market, but because Cam supposedly never knew he gets to keep his Heisman Trophy. Unless, of course, another Reggie Bush scenario develops as the NCAA gumshoes poke and probe for hidden details. Ah, college football. So much talent, so much money passing under the table.
4. Brett Favre. How did we get so tired of him? Oh yeah, because he couldn't make up his mind. He could have walked away heroically a year ago, having come within one play of reaching the Super Bowl. Instead, his consecutive-games streak came to an odd end in Detroit, and in his final season there was more news about his text messages than there was about his touchdown throws.
3. Michael Vick. Is this the most stupefying comeback in sports history? When all the ugly details about Vick's forays into dog-fighting came out there was a widespread opinion that he would never be able to find a spot on another NFL roster. And yet here he is, being recognized for all the excitement he creates, and possibly headed to his first Super Bowl.
2. LeBron James and the Miami Heat. Not only did LBJ stick a rusty spike in the heart of his home town, he elected to do it on prime time, and drag it out for the NBA version of 60 Minutes. In the span on one Jim Gray-inspired hour, LeBron went from super-cool to new-wave villain. Leaving Cleveland may yet yield his first championship ring, but you can make the case that this divorce was more painful than Tiger's.
1. Tiger Woods. There were times when covering his story seemed like we were writing letters to Penthouse. The number of women claiming to have gone the mistress route seemed like Buzz Lightyear's trademark line of "To infinity, and beyond." And it all ended in divorce, and questions about whether the world's best golfer will ever be recognized that way again. It was a mess, but it was the year's biggest sports story.
We'll also toss in a late-breaking honorable (or maybe dishonorable) mention for Fox commentator Tucker Carlson. His remark this week that Vick "should have been executed" for his dog-fighting crimes was one of our most-read items of the year, and inspired a 2010-high 2,400 comments from our readers.
Here are the rest of our lists of top sports personalities for 2010, and we'll start compiling one for 2011 tomorrow. Happy New Year!
Click here for Nos. 11-20.
Click here for Nos. 21-30.
Click here for Nos. 31-40.
Click here for Nos. 41-50.
Click here for Nos. 51-60.
Click here for Nos. 61-70.
Click here for Nos. 71-80.
Click here for Nos. 81-90.
Click here for Nos. 91-100.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.

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Congress set to ratify Marcos compensation bill-A A +A
Thursday, January 24, 2013
MANILA -- The 15th Congress will make history again on Monday, January 28, as the final version of the bill providing compensation to human rights victims during the Martial Law era is set to be ratified.
Once both the House of Representatives and the Senate ratify the bicameral conference committee report on the proposed "Human Rights Victims Reparation and Recognition Act of 2013," only President Benigno Aquino III's signature is needed to enact the bill into law.
Congress has only six session days left to tackle and approve pending bills and resolutions.
On Wednesday, the bicam committee agreed that the 9,539 claimants who successfully secured a final and executory judgment in the United States Federal District Court of Honolulu, Hawaii, are accorded conclusive presumption.
A Human Rights Victims Compensation Board will determine the extent of the human rights violations and the amount of reparation, which may be granted to each claimant.
Albay Representative Edcel Lagman, a member of the bicam and a principal author of the bill since 1995, said human rights victims recognized by the Bantayog ng mga Bayani Foundation are also entitled to conclusive presumption.
The principal funding for the Marcos victims shall come from the P10 billion, plus accrued interests, which is part of the funds transferred to the Philippine government on December 1997 by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court.
The bicam junked the proposal to allocate 80 percent of the compensation fund to the Hawaii claimants while the remaining 20 percent will be given to all other claimants.
Akbayan party-list Representative Walden Bello earlier opposed the proposed 80-20 sharing, saying it was unfair for those who have suffered greater abuse to receive much less than one who is party to the Hawaii case.
"It is unjust for all the other victims of Martial Law to have to fight over scraps of compensation from a left-over fund," Bello said. (Kathrina Alvarez/Sunnex)
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IRVINGTON — Every year, teams come together for a day of good basketball for an even better cause. First it was at Purchase College, then it made its way to Irvington High School: the Autism Classic.
The Bulldogs hosted eight teams on Sunday in an event that raises money for autism awareness. Irvington, which has hosted the event the last four years, donates the gym, volunteers donate their time, and the fans donate admission for the worthy cause.
"All the coaches who are here are active in Section 1, and we wanted to do something charity — to give back, pay it forward," Bulldogs coach Gina Maher said. "We wanted to make sure that these girls realize that there comes a time in life where you have to give, and you have to do for other people."
Almost every coach of the eight teams participating in Sunday's event — Irvington, Rye, Ossining, Carmel, Valhalla, Edgemont, Ursuline and Kennedy — has spent at least 10 seasons at the helm of a varsity program. Maher, Ursuline's Beth Wooters and Ossining's Dan Ricci are among the winningest girls basketball coaches in Section 1 history.
In fact, Wooters notched her 500th career win in the day's opening game against Kennedy. In a thrilling start to the day, Ursuline freshman Korina Guerra (pictured right) scored eight points in the final 38 seconds, including a game-winning, buzzer-beating layup in the 61-60 victory.
Fans got another nail-biter in the follow-up game between Edgemont and Valhalla. The Panthers missed a potential game-tying layup with seven seconds left, allowing the Vikings to hang on for a 31-29 win after trailing entering the fourth quarter.
Reigning Class AA state champ Ossining put on a show of its own, routing Carmel 86-42 in a team effort that featured 10 different scorers. Junior Jalay Knowles paced the Pride with 28 points and 11 rebounds, most of which came in the first half.
Knowles is 11 points shy of her 1,000th varsity point.
In the finale, Rye completed a 10-point comeback, upsetting the previously-undefeated Bulldogs (12-1) in overtime, 60-56. Maddie Eck led the scoring attack with 19 points, but she was closely followed by Alanna Morque (17 points) and freshman Katie Popp (16 points).
Rachel Egan, who scored eight points in the win, banked in a 3-pointer in overtime to all but end it. The Garnets improved to 9-3 this season after an impressive week that also included a near-upset over Ossining.
Popp, whose clutch 5-for-6 shooting at the free-throw line aided Rye's win, revealed after the game that she played essentially the entire game with what appeared to be a broken pinky in her shooting hand (pictured below). Popp said the injury occurred in the first quarter and that she played through it.
Irvington senior point guard Lauren Chafizadeh fouled out with about six minutes left in regulation after a second questionable charging call. The Bulldogs led by two at the time, but without Chafizadeh, MVP of the Slam Dunk Tournament showcase game earlier this year, the chemistry of the team was off.
Despite everything, the day wasn't really about basketball, so much as it was about autism awareness.
"Autism awareness is becoming something that is very big now," said Maher, who is closing in on her 600th career win. "Most people are touched by it, or know somebody touched by it. Every penny (raised) goes to part of the autism community."
In a bit of comic relief, Maher said that the event, which has always been held the Sunday before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, would likely be moved to the Saturday before in 2015 because it coincides with the NFL playoffs.
Mostly so larger crowds could attend, not so more people could watch the football games.
Photo credit of Guerra: Seth Harrison/The Journal News
Photo credit of Popp: Mike Zacchio/The Journal News
Below is my video recap of the event. As you'll see in the video, I was writing for most of the Ossining-Carmel game, so I really didn't get anything usable of video. I did include a fun clip of Abby Squirrell shooting a free throw (for those of you that have never seen it). Other than that, there's significant footage of the other three games, including Guerra's buzzer-beater, the ending to Valhalla-Edgemont and the final minute of Irvington-Rye's regulation and overtime quarters. It's roughly eight minutes long, so sit back and enjoy it.


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Heyyyyyyyyy woooorrrrrrrrrlllllddddd!!!
Man, am I ever ready to just be home? We just had a really tough road trip out West, losing three of the four games that we played. Counting the trip that we were on before that to Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee, we´ve been home for three days in December. And when you factor in that I got real sick on that first road trip and had to go to the Emergency Room, it´s been a really long month for me!!! At least I did get to celebrate my birthday last week, but we had a six-hour flight and practice on that day.
Here´s to hoping that we can get back home and turn things around. We were right there with Denver last night, but our defense dropped off in the fourth quarter and they pulled away at the end. We held them to 18 points in the third quarter, but gave up 32 in the fourth!!! You can´t win games doing that sort of thing.
We have to play D and that means everybody. We have to do a better job of not allowing anyone to get to the rim on every play.
We went through a little rough patch there, but I´m confident that we can shake it off. We have too many veteran players and too much talent in our locker room to keep playing poorly. We have to defend with intensity, share the ball on offense and play inside-out basketball and we´ll be fine. Every team is going to go through some rough times, and that´s all that´s happening here. We´re not going to go 82-0 and win every game. There is going to be nights where we lose and don´t have energy, but we´ll push through this.
Being that it´s the holiday season, I wanted to tell you guys about some things that I´m doing off the court in the coming weeks to give back to the community. I´ve always said that I´m more than just a basketball player and I want to make an impact in the community and on people´s lives. That´s leaving a true legacy, and that´s my goal for Orlando and Central Florida.
On Wednesday, I´ll be at the BETA Center, a home for teen mothers, to present funds for the new Learning Center that they named after me., I was there last year and it really made an impact on me. I had to do something to help these mothers who are all alone trying to raise their kids. So we´ll have a ceremony there on Wednesday afternoon.
Next Wednesday, a couple of days before Christmas, I´m going to be doing a couple of events to try and brighten the holidays for some kids around Orlando. Early next Wednesday I´ll be at the Toys R Us in Altamonte Springs to take 100 kids from the Central Florida Boys and Girls Club on a Christmas shopping spree. Later that day, I will be working with Burlington Coat Factory to buy 100 kids from the Parramore Kidz Zone new coats. In all, we will be donating 1,500 coats to kids from all over Central Florida. The PKZ, Boys and Girls Club, Big Brothers/Big Sisters and Coalition for the Homeless residents will receive the coats for the holidays.
Just thinking about Christmas and those events coming up puts a smile on my face. We´re going to get it back together and start winning again. We went through a rough stretch kind of like this last season, and we bounced back from that and still won 59 games. We know we can do it again, but it just starts with defense.
Well, I´m going to get out of here for now. Yuuuuuuuuaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!


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On the Shelf
Step Into My Office, and Other NewsBy Dan Piepenbring
- The secret's out: I'm writing this in my underwear, from my bedroom. I reveal this hideous truth to make a point about the nature of the workplace today—that it is everywhere, and that today's "knowledge worker" can perform his functions from anyplace in the world, as long as there are pour overs available and chic quasi-industrial design aesthetics around. As Miya Tokumitsu and Joeri Merijn Mol argue, "It is always anytime. And anytime is check-in time … Wherever you are, you respond to the most urgent requests and make sure to nowhere yourself by deleting your 'sent from my iPhone' signature. You could be at your desk already, right? No one needs to know that you are two blocks away. You don't want to convey that you are on the run and not giving them your full attention. So with some digital camouflaging you say: I am in a place where I can give you due consideration. At no point are we on the train, in a café, in bed, in the restroom … Airspace is essentially diffused workspace because the office has become a mobile home. We take it with us everywhere we go."
- Hey, you wouldn't, by some chance, have happened to see a bunch of letters between Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and Morley Callaghan about a 1929 boxing match in which Callaghan kicked Hemingway's ass, would you? If you have seen those letters, can you get in touch with David Mason? He's been looking for them since 1993: "After receiving the books and letters, I locked them in a store safe. When I opened my shop the next day, I was shocked to discover the safe had been cracked. Except for the letters, very little else of value was taken; it seems clear the thieves were after those artifacts specifically. The case grew stranger when a street criminal was arrested with one of the stolen postcards from the lot in his possession. Soon after confessing that he was part of the crew who robbed the store, he was found dead in his cell—a puzzling suicide. Upon his death, the case went cold."


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Hungry man comes out with a spot full of hungry men (and one lady) who like to stuff their faces with chicken while they watch football. They call this #Couchgating - "look it up" - except don't, because they are trying way to hard to make this nonsensical hashtagged word a football thing. Gameday buckets and couchgating tweets aren't that exciting. If couchgating were similar to tailgating, there's be people sitting in each others laps, and that could get exciting, at least.
Meanwhile, man in red sweater seems to be sitting next to lady-who-must-get-up-every-time-he-speaks-to-camera. Maybe he has really bad breath.
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Budget Deadline Extensions and Budget Referendums
Dear Mayor:
The Division of Local Government Services has released Local Finance Notice 2008-2 that extends budget deadlines for CY 2008 budgets. The Notice also contains basic information about appropriation and property tax levy referendums.
The Notice can be accessed at http://www.state.nj.us/dca/lgs/lfns/08lfns/2008-2.doc.
Please share this information with appropriate staff in your municipality.
The changes modify the statutory dates for introduction and adoption. They also extend the date for holding a budget cap referendum and modify the dates for actions related to the referendum. For the first time the schedule includes provisions for the "early" and "late" Property Tax Levy Cap referendums. The changes are shown below:
Statutory Date
Revised Date
Mayor/Council Faulkner Act Budget Transmission
Municipal Introduction and approval of budget
County Introduction and approval of budget
Municipal Adoption
County Adoption
Introduction and approval of budget and authorization of appropriation cap and early levy cap referendum
Published notice of referendum (day after introduction)
Last date for budget publication (12 days prior to referendum)
Referendum date
Late Levy Cap Referendum Dates
Introduction and approval of budget
By 4/16
Adoption of resolution authorizing referendum for budgets advertised prior to 4/24
No later than 4/23
Last date for publishing notice of referendum, introduced budget or any budget amendment publication
Late Referendum Date
Notwithstanding these changes, a budget may be adopted anytime within 10 days of receiving the Director's certification of approval of the budget. The Division recognizes that despite the revised deadline, some municipalities may be unable to meet the introduction or adoption deadlines, either due to a decision to apply for Extraordinary Aid or local conditions.
In addition, the governing body may by resolution, adopted by February 29, 2008, increase its temporary budget appropriation to provide for the period between February 25 for counties, or March 20 for municipalities, and the extended adoption date of the 2008 budget. If additional appropriations are needed prior to the adoption of the budget, the local unit may adopt an emergency temporary appropriation pursuant to N.J.S.A. 40A:4-20.
The law establishing the Property Tax Levy Cap ("4 percent" cap) allows a municipality or county to ask the voters for permission to exceed the levy cap. This referendum is in addition to the referendum required to exceed the traditional 2.5 percent (appropriation or budget) cap that takes place in March.
The law requires approval of at least 60 percent of the voters that vote in a referendum for passage of a levy cap referendum question. The levy cap law also provides two opportunities for levy cap referendums; referred to as "early" (March) and "late" (May), to reflect their relative position in budget adoption process. The appropriation referendum and the early levy referendum take place on the same day.
A municipality can exceed the 2.5 percent limit by either using a cost of living adjustment (up to 3.5 percent) ordinance or an appropriation cap referendum. A municipality cannot use both an ordinance and referendum nor may it adopt a COLA ordinance if a referendum fails.
Initiating an appropriation or levy referendum (or both) process does not legally preclude a municipality from applying for Extraordinary Aid (EA). Further, if a levy referendum is planned along with an EA application, note that late referendum date comes after submission of applications and before the expected award date for EA, thus precluding a referendum if EA is denied or is less than any prior year award.
Very truly yours,
William G. Dressel, Jr.
Executive Director


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RIVERDALE, N.Y. Everything is on the line for the Manhattan College volleyball team in its regular season finale. The Jaspers (20-11, 13-4 MAAC) will clinch at least a share of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) regular season title with a victory at Iona (15-13, 12-5 MAAC) on Saturday night at 7 p.m. Manhattan will secure a place in the MAAC Tournament even with a loss by simply taking a set off the Gaels.
Manhattan knocked off Iona in five sets at Draddy Gymnasium on Oct. 12, but hasn't beaten the Gaels in New Rochelle since 2006. The Jaspers are coming off a 3-1 victory at Quinnipiac on Sunday afternoon. Senior Ellie Wiekamp (Laguna Niguel, Calif.) leads the team with 2.77 kills per set, while sophomore Sydney Volovski (Oswego, Ill.) tallies 2.63 kills per set and junior Malia McGuinness (Kailua, Hawaii) adds 2.58 kills per set. Freshman Allie Yamashiro (Kapolei, Hawaii) earned MAAC Libero of the Week honors for the fifth time on Tuesday. She registers a team-best 4.50 digs per set. Sophomore Teodora Peric (Chicago, Ill.), meanwhile, hands out 8.37 assists per set.
Iona prevented Manhattan from locking up a playoff spot with a five-set win at Fairfield on Sunday. Sophomore Natalie Ziskin was named MAAC Player of the Week for her performance against the Stags, and she currently ranks second in the MAAC in assists, averaging 10.58 per set. Junior Catrina Warren leads the league with 3.54 kills per set, and senior Alicja Pawelec tallies 2.92 kills per set. Junior Caris Myles paces the Gaels with 3.35 digs per set.
Entering the final weekend of the regular season, there are five teams in contention for the four berths in the MAAC Tournament. Fairfield (15-12, 12-4 MAAC) and Marist (18-8, 12-4 MAAC) are tied for second place, and Siena (12-14, 11-5 MAAC) is a half-game behind fourth-place Iona. The Stags, Red Foxes and Saints will all play twice this weekend, while the Jaspers and Gaels only face each other. There are multiple tiebreaking scenarios involving the five teams, almost all of which would put Manhattan in the field, and the Jaspers can clinch a spot with a win or one loss by any of the others.
The only way the Jaspers can miss out on the MAAC Tournament is if they lose 3-0 and end up in a three-way tie with Iona and Siena. Since all three teams would be 2-2 against the other two, sets won in those matches would be used as the tiebreaker. Iona would then clinch the No. 3 seed, having won 10 sets in the four matches, while a set win on Saturday would be Manhattan's seventh in the mini-conference, surpassing Siena's total of six. However, should Manhattan get swept, the next tiebreaker is total points won in matches between the remaining tied teams, which would put the Saints in and knock the Jaspers out.


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Curtain Walling systems remain the staple fabric of today's modern buildings. It is rare today for any building over 3 floors or so not to have a type of curtain walling system installed and it is widely regarded as being the ultimate glazing solution for large buildings.
This glazed façade solution has enabled more ambitious building projects and architectural flair with modern buildings now having curtain walling as the key element in construction, relying less on traditional building materials such as brick, block or cement.
Curtain walling is also gaining popularity with homeowners. In recent years the design of modern houses has called for large glass areas, such as a glazed screen spanning the entire height of a house being a popular feature.
Curtain walling systems make up the external cladding of a building mainly in aluminium and glass.
The material tends to be aluminium extrusions of various sizes and thickness to suit wind-loads, heights and spans as well as to accommodate special items such as solar shading or brise soleil.
In it's simplest form, curtain walling comes under two generic forms and the most widely used.
The Stick System.
Simply explained, the Stick system of curtain walling consists of grids of vertical and horizontal members which are assembed on site. Once complete, glass is held in place with pressure plates, cappings or other methods and can be termed external "beaded".
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Nobody uses enough herbs. If a recipe calls for a tablespoon of chopped parsley, double it. Instead of buying one bunch of flat-leaf parsley, buy two.
Herbs are not so much a garnish as a major ingredient, not decorative but functional. Nutritionists tend to ignore them but they must be extremely good for you, especially when eaten in the sort of industrial quantities I can put away.
These recipes concentrate on my current favourites: mint and coriander, for their freshness and surprise; chives, for their understated oniony freshness and almost wild flavour; dill, for its faintly sweet, antiseptic taste that goes so well with eggs, potatoes and anything to do with salmon; and basil, tomato's best running mate and the reason we all have those little jars of pesto in our fridge doors.
Resist the temptation to chop your herbs. Most are better left whole or torn with your fingers rather than chopped, the exception being chives, which are best finely snipped with a pair of scissors directly over food. Otherwise, just wrench a whole handful of parsley from its stems, and toss the leaves into pasta sauces and soups, throw sage leaves over pork chops, oregano over pizza, strew whole sprigs of thyme and rosemary over roasts and barbecues - and never make a delicate green leaf salad without chervil.
This recklessly generous way with herbs may not suit every dish you make, but it is much more fun than the polite injunction to "garnish with a sprig of parsley".
Warm salmon, potato and dill salad
750g waxy potatoes, peeled
2 handfuls watercress
1 tbsp olive oil
4 fillets of salmon, 150g each
Sea salt and pepper
3 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
2 tbsp red wine vinegar
1 tsp Dijon or seed mustard
Sea salt and black pepper
3 spring onions, finely chopped
2 tbsp dill, finely torn
1 tbsp small capers, rinsed
Cook the potatoes in simmering, salted water until tender but still firm, about 20 minutes.
To make the dressing, whisk the extra virgin olive oil, vinegar, mustard, salt and pepper in a large bowl until thickened. Add the spring onions, dill and capers.
Heat 1 tbsp olive oil in a large frypan and sear the salmon, skin side down, until the skin is crisp. Turn to finish cooking briefly on the other side, leaving the inside pink. Season well.
Drain the potatoes and slice them thickly as soon as you can handle them. Toss them carefully in the dressing, making sure the slices are well-coated, and arrange on four warmed dinner plates. Place the salmon on top. Wash the watercress, toss it in any remaining dressing and serve alongside salmon.
Serves 4.
Lobster roll with chive mayonnaise
Sheer bliss - a fresh, toasted baguette stuffed with lobster in a squelchy mayonnaise with the light crunch of chives and celery, topped with lightly roasted cherry tomatoes and crisp bacon.
4 rashers streaky bacon
12 cherry tomatoes
1 cooked lobster, about 1.2kg
3 tbsp good quality mayonnaise
2 tsp Dijon mustard
1 tsp lemon zest, finely grated
1 tsp lemon juice
Sea salt and pepper
2 celery stalks, very finely sliced
1 tbsp chives, finely snipped
2 freshly baked baguettes
1 tbsp butter
A few small rocket leaves
Preheat oven to 180C. Bake the cherry tomatoes and bacon in an oiled roasting tray for 20 minutes, removing the bacon when it has crisped.
Pull the lobster tail away from the head in one piece, then cut in half lengthwise. Lift out the meat and remove any intestinal tract, then chop roughly. Remove any meat from the legs.
Combine the mayonnaise, mustard, lemon zest, lemon juice, sea salt and pepper, stirring well. Add the lobster meat, celery and chives, tossing well.
Cut the baguettes into four 15cm sections, then cut sections lengthwise, leaving them just joined. Press them flat and lightly grill the inside. Butter sparingly and spoon the lobster mayo on top. Strew with a few cherry tomatoes and rocket leaves and top with bacon. Eat with the hands.
Serves 4.
Grilled pork balls with mint and coriander
The defining characteristic of Vietnamese cooking is the presence of basket-loads of fresh herbs and salad greens. These little meatballs (nem nuong) are typically eaten wrapped in lettuce leaves with herbs and rice noodles.
1 tbsp raw rice, unwashed
1 iceberg lettuce, chilled
500g minced pork
2 garlic cloves, crushed
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp ground pepper
1 tbsp fish sauce
2 tsp caster sugar
200g dried rice vermicelli
2 tbsp torn mint leaves
2 tbsp torn coriander leaves
1 tsp caster sugar
2 tbsp fresh lime juice
3 tbsp fish sauce
1 fresh red chilli, sliced
8 bamboo skewers
Soak eight bamboo skewers in water to prevent them burning. Dry-fry the rice in a small pan until lightly golden. Grind to a powder and set aside. Separate the lettuce leaves and chill.
Combine the ground rice, pork, garlic, salt, pepper, fish sauce and sugar and knead until well mixed. Boil the vermicelli for 2 to 3 minutes until just cooked, drain and rinse in cold water.
To make the dressing, mix the sugar and lime juice, then add the fish sauce and chilli. Toss the drained noodles and torn mint and coriander leaves in the dressing.
With wet hands, roll the pork mixture into balls the size of a walnut. Thread the balls onto the drained wooden skewers (three to a skewer) and grill on or under a pre-heated grill until golden brown, turning occasionally. Serve with a few extra mint and coriander leaves and chilled lettuce leaves for wrapping.
Serves 4.
Pesto chicken
Mix 2 tbsp pesto with 2 tbsp dried breadcrumbs and push under the skin of 4 chicken breasts, patting flat. Sear quickly in an oiled pan, then roast at 200C for 20 minutes. The stuffing not only protects the breast from drying out, but infuses the chicken with the warm, peppery flavour of basil.


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At a time when Canadian banks are cutting back on free services and raising everyday banking fees, one segment of the banking sector is being eagerly served up at no charge by some financial institutions – the exclusive world of wealth management.
In a sign of just how badly the country's big banks covet high-net-worth customers, some are starting to offer wealth management services free on a trial basis, hoping to entice clients in the door with the promise of high-end advice at no initial cost.
Royal Bank of Canada has made the biggest pro-bono push of late, launching a campaign this spring to target 250,000 business owners across the country with letters inviting them to sample the service. The goal, which is being rolled out over the next few months, is to convince clients who have at least $1-million of investable assets to switch financial institutions, and convert them to paying clients down the road.
It's not your typical flavour of banking. Wealth management for high-net-worth clients can include specialized lawyers, tax planners, estate planners, accountants and investment strategists who normally command a premium for their work. But as banks place a high priority on adding such clients, RBC has decided to be more aggressive.
"We may not get any immediate business from this interaction," said Anthony Maiorino, vice-president and head of RBC Wealth Management. "But there may be an opportunity that ends up coming out of this two to three years down the road."
Giving away free advice is not necessarily a new strategy, since banks often urge people to bring in their stock portfolio to get a free second opinion. However, wealth management usually restricts itself to a well-heeled and ultimately paying audience.
But since wealth management brings in significant fees and doesn't tie up a lot of the institution's investment capital, it is an attractive business right now, and the hunt for clients is intensifying.
RBC is the largest of the chartered banks in wealth management, with slightly more than 180 advisers. But other banks are also fighting to grow their market share.
"It's a pretty competitive landscape," said Rajiv Silgardo, co-chief executive officer of Bank of Montreal's global asset management division.
In the past few years, several players, including RBC, BMO, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, Bank of Nova Scotia and National Bank of Canada, have stepped up their wealth management efforts. The goal is to get a bigger share of a higher-margin business, compared with personal banking and capital markets, which are being squeezed by low interest rates and economic upheaval.
"That is why you see all of the banks coming out and saying wealth management is going to be a priority," Mr. Silgardo said.
Though BMO hasn't embarked on a formal campaign to offer its high-net-worth private banking for free, Mr. Silgardo said banks often will offer clients sample access to the expertise they have.
In a business where relationships can be forged over years, decades or even generations, it can be difficult for a bank to win over a client.
"If you want to be growing your client base, especially if you want to take them away from someone else that they do business with, then it is very hard," said Mr. Silgardo. "You need to be very much on top of your game. You need to be able to show the value to them of changing."
BMO began building an ETF (exchange-traded fund) business a few years ago in order to set itself apart from the pack. RBC relies on its size, offering up an army of specialized advisers, while smaller boutique firms market themselves on the personal touch.
At RBC, Mr. Maiorino knows there are risks involved in the push his bank is embarking on. By reaching out to non-clients and doling out the bank's expertise with no commitment, he knows some of the bank's know-how could be lifted by a customer who accepts the free advice then bolts for another firm. He compares this to drawing up a blueprint for a house, then having a client try to build the home themselves. It's not as simple as it looks, he says.
"We're willing to take the risk and say, you know what, some of these people might come in, they might grab all the info they need and go back to their own financial institution and try to implement it. And I say fantastic, knock yourself out," Mr. Maiorino said. "Because the reality is if you go back to an adviser at another firm and you say I want to open up an RCA (retirement compensation agreement), the majority of those individuals are going to say, 'What?'"
Retirement compensation agreements and other post-career financial planning for business owners such as Individual Pension Plans (IPPs) are part of the growing complexity of wealth management as the population ages and undergoes a generational shift that will see thousands of business owners sell their companies and retire.
But the campaign for more customers is a delicate strategy, RBC acknowledges.
"We are not going out and aggressively saying to clients, 'The firm you're with is no good. Move your stuff,'" Mr. Maiorino said. "We're going out instead and saying ... we have the capability to do [other things]"
It is also aimed at persuading customers to consider a kind of banking they may not have looked at.
"We're trying to drive revenue, there's no question about that," Mr. Maiorino said. "But I think anybody who gets [the invite letter from the bank]and chooses to act on it, that's probably somebody who had a pretty significant need."Report Typo/Error
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Are You Getting The Marketing Results You Expected?
February 08, 2012
Setting Goals For Marketing
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This poll question is a bit loaded and, not that I want to skew the results, the answer for most lies in the fact that they don't really know what results they expected or what result they are actually getting. Mostly they know the results aren't what they had hoped for, but that's another issue.
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Goals are like magnets in a way. If we define them and measure our results towards achieving them, they can produce some pretty dramatic pull.
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He, instead, puts a review of Stanford's El Camino Real development on the council agenda, barely giving lip service to the flaws in the specific plan that allow for such a huge development with no public benefit.
Why? Because on June 6 of last year when the City Council voted on the specific plan, Mayor Ohtaki removed the requirement for any public benefit from anything under the outrageous 84 percent increase in square footage the specific plan allows. Presumably the mayor and council are here to serve the will of the residents who elected them. Clearly, Mayor Ohtaki is not.


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Manhattan Drops Doubleheader To UMass Lowell
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Norfolk, VA – UMass Lowell swept a doubleheader from Manhattan by scores of 10-1 and 5-2 at Perry Field on the campus of Virginia Wesleyan College.
Sophomore Fabian Pena (Miami, FL / Calusa Prep) went 4-for-7 with two doubles, a run and a walk on the day.
The River Hawks improve to 6-6 while the Jaspers fall to 2-9.
Game 2
UMass Lowell jumped out to a 5-0 lead before holding off a late Manhattan rally en route to posting a 5-2 victory.
With two outs, sophomore Richie Barrella (Larchmont, NY / Canterbury Prep) plated senior Evan Brown with an infield single before senior Matt Forlow (Cold Spring, NY / Haldane) followed with a run-scoring single to force in Pena. Unfortunately, that would be as close as the Jaspers would get.
Pena went 3-for-4 with a double and a run while Forlow reached safely three times to pace an eight-hit offensive attack.
Senior RHP Joey Rocchietti (Green Brook, NJ / Watchung Hills) was solid on the mound, striking out six while yielding five runs, four earned, on seven hits over 5.0 innings.
Collin Duffley earned the win, striking out seven over 6.0 scoreless innings of work.
Game 1
Manhattan pitching recorded 14 strikeouts but it wasn't enough as UMass Lowell posted a 10-1 win.
The River Hawks opened the scoring with a run in the top of the first before the Jaspers responded with one of their own in the bottom part of the frame. Junior Michael Pfenninger (Flemington, NJ / Hunterdon Central) drew a one-out walk and after moving to second on a ground out scored on a Brown RBI single.
UMass Lowell reclaimed the lead with a run in the third before putting the game on ice with six runs in the sixth.
Senior LHP Joe Jacques (Shrewsbury, NJ / Red Bank Regional) was saddled with the loss, yielding two runs on three hits while striking out six over 3.0 innings.
Chris Sharpe went 4-for-6 with four extra-base hits, three runs and three RBI while falling a single short of the cycle to pace the River Hawks. Andrew Ryan earned the win, striking out six while yielding one run on four hits over 6.0 innings.
Manhattan returns to action against Lehigh on Friday, March 17 with first pitch tabbed for 12:00 pm at the Seton Hall "Strike Out Cancer" Tournament.


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Back to the Beginning: Persistence and the Cross‐Section of Corporate Capital Structure
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We find that the majority of variation in leverage ratios is driven by an unobserved time‐invariant effect that generates surprisingly stable capital structures: High (low) levered firms tend to remain as such for over two decades. This feature of leverage is largely unexplained by previously identified determinants, is robust to firm exit, and is present prior to the IPO, suggesting that variation in capital structures is primarily determined by factors that remain stable for long periods of time. We then show that these results have important implications for empirical analysis attempting to understand capital structure heterogeneity.


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So far, so good. Japan's extraordinary decision to bring back inflation into its economy saw the Nikkei stock market index rise 2.2 percent even as the yen sank. But the real effect of the move was to ram home the fact that we live in the age of central bankers.
So Haruhiko Kuroda, new governor of the Bank of Japan, joins the ranks of the financial rock stars alongside the Fed's Ben Bernanke and Europe's Mario Draghi. These are the real masters of the universe. Their word is more than law; it is money.
It took just the one phrase from Draghi, that he would do "whatever it takes," to calm last year's euro crisis. He meant that he was prepared to buy as many government bonds as required to ensure that a member of the euro zone wouldn't be forced out of the currency union by bankruptcy.
That is a very big promise to make but for today's central bankers the grandiose gesture has become routine. Bernanke at the Fed has become the trillion-a-year man, spending $85 billion a month -- $1 trillion a year -- to buy assets that are supposed to stimulate the overall economy. That means $45 billion of Treasury bonds and $40 billion mortgage-backed securities (remember them?).
And let us not forget that when this financial crisis began, the Fed's balance sheet was just more than $700 billion and since then it has more than tripled. Add together the measures taken by the Fed, the European Central Bank, the Bank of Japan and Bank of England and the way China's central bank ordered its commercial banks to lend as never before, and more than $10 trillion has been poured into this global economy.
Now comes Hurricane Kuroda from Tokyo, with a mandate from his prime minister to do even more to help haul the Japanese economy out of two decades of stagnation.
Part of the problem has been that prices have either remained stuck of dwindled steadily lower since Japan's property bubble burst after 1990, so consumers wait before they spend, expecting prices to drop. Now he is promising to give Japan 2 percent inflation within two years.
At the same time, he is following in Bernanke's footsteps by promising to buy $50 billion of government bonds a month and to double the country's monetary base by the end of next year.
This is financial tinkering on a heroic scale and it raises three serious questions. The first is: Why, after all this money being created and assets being bought and massive interventions to save the financial system, is the recovery so feeble?
The second question is: Just how is the new Bank of Japan policy different from a deliberate attempt to devalue the currency and boost exports by driving down the value of the yen?
Tsinghua University Professor Li Daokui, , a former adviser to the People's Bank of Chin, called Japan's move "the latest round of the global currency war" in remarks to the Chinese media Friday, adding "the massive monetary stimulus by the Japanese central bank could spell doom for other nations in the region."
The third question is: Do the central bankers really know what they are doing? They have devised fancy terms, like QE -- quantitative easing -- but what they are basically doing is printing money. Traditional economic theory says this is bound eventually to produce inflation.
But inflation has seldom looked less threatening. There are reasons for this. High unemployment means workers have trouble demanding higher wages. Many factories are working at less than capacity. And consumers, worried by their own levels of debt, aren't spending like they used to. Above all, U.S. corporations simply don't believe that there is much demand in the economy; that is why they are sitting on close to $2 trillion in corporate treasuries rather than investing it in new plant and equipment.
However, remembering how tough it was to drive inflation out of the system in the 1980s, when interest rates were more than 15 percent, it seems more than risky to try deliberately producing it today. The fact is that the world's central bankers are engaged in a gigantic experiment with the global economy and it will be some time before we guinea pigs find out if their QE theories are right.
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Sukjin Choi (Assistant Professor, Art and Art History), Corinne J. Diop (Professor, Art and Art History), Gary Freeburg (Associate Professor, Art and Art History), Rebecca Silberman (Associate Professor, Art and Art History), Gregory Stewart (Associate Professor, Art and Art History), Kenneth A. Szmagaj (Professor, Art and Art History), Allyson Mellberg Taylor (Assistant Professor, Art and Art History), Lisa Tubach (Associate Professor, Art), Dr. Cole H. Welter (Professor, Art and Art History) and Susan D. Zurbrigg (Associate Professor, Art and Art History) exhibited "Divergent Visions: The Graduate Art Faculty of James Madison University" in the Staunton Augusta Art Center's R. R. Smith Center for History and Art.
Dr. L. Adriana Banu (Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy) received $25,000 from the Jeffress Memorial Trust for "Studying the (alpha,p)-process in X-ray bursts using rare isotope ion beams" to study the experimentally unknown cross section of the 22Mg(alpha,p)25AI reaction at astrophysical relevant energies by measuring the time-inverse reaction 25Al(p,alpha)22Mg in inverse kinematics.
Kimberlee Hartzler-Weakley (Administrator, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services) received $5,000 from the Office on Children and Youth for teen pregnancy prevention.
Jane Hubbell (Associate Director, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services) received $2,679 from Crossroads to Brain Injury Recovery Inc. for Crossroads to Brain Injury Recovery, calendar year 2011 to provide services to individuals affected by brain injuries, maximizing rehabilitation and contributing to the community and $53,000 from the Claude Moore Charitable Foundation for "Claude Moore Pediatric Respite Care Program" to provide families of children with disabilities an opportunity to take a break from the demands of constant caregiving.
Dr. Robert A. Kolvoord (Professor, Integrated Science and Technology) received $31,893 from the National Science Foundation through Temple University for "Assessing Student Spatial Thinking Skills Through Classroom Video and Observation" to design and execute a classroom-based study of student spatial thinking.
Dr. Christy L. Ludlow (Professor, Communication Studies and Disorders) received $77,257 from the National Institutes of Health through Emory University for "Validity and Reliability of Diagnostic Methods and Measures of Spasmodic Dysphonia Year 3" to develop and validate tools to diagnose Spasmodic Dysphonia and to measure severity and determine the impact of SD on disability and quality of life via a multicenter clinical study.
Dr. Eric H. Maslen (Director and Professor, Integrated Science and Technology) received $565 from HDT Expeditionary Systems Inc. for "HDT: Hot-Weather Testing Project, Analysis and Report" to analyze data from HDT's summer shelter tests, write a summary report and present the findings.
Dr. Brianna S. Quinn (Assistant Professor, Exceptional Education) received $29,000 from the Virginia Department of Education for the Consortium of Institutions of Higher Education in Virginia in Visual Impairments to develop and deliver courses via distance education, expand student participation and carry out administrative responsibilities for the consortium.
Gary S. Race (Fiscal Technician, Institute for Innovation in Health and Human Services; Director, Mahatma Gandhi Center for Global Nonviolence) received $21,424 from the Virginia Department of Health for "Wise Woman/Every Woman's Life Program" to design, direct, implement and evaluate the Virginia WISEWOMAN/Every Woman's Life project, which focuses on adding preventive health services such as nutrition and physical activity to EWL breast and cervical cancer screening services.
Dr. Giovanna Scarel (Assistant Professor, Physics and Astronomy) received $20,000 from the Jeffress Memorial Trust for "Role of polarization of broadband infrared radiation in the heat recovery mechanism involved in the excitation of radiative polaritons in thin oxide films" to broaden the understanding of the interaction between polarized electromagnetic infrared radiation and thin films of dielectric materials.
Dr. Stephanie B. Stockwell (Assistant Professor, Integrated Science and Technology) received $10,000 from the Jeffress Memorial Trust for "Structure/function analysis of unique TonB-dependent receptor protein, FegA for insights into the intermediate stages of the Bradyhizobium japonicum/soybean symbiosis" to complete and publish the FegA NTD structure/function analysis and sequence and annotate the wild type B. japonicum strain 61A152 genome.
Dr. Jacqueline A. Williams (Professor, Kinesiology) received $47,000 from the Virginia Department of Education for the 2012 Health and Physical Activity Institute.
Dr. Nathan T. Wright (Assistant Professor, Chemistry and Biochemistry) received $25,000 from the Jeffress Memorial Trust for "Structural Characterization of protein domains important for Obscurin-Titin interactions in muscle cells" to use high-resolution structural techniques to explore the molecular and biophysical basis of the obscurin-titin interactions.
Dr. Roshna E. Wunderlich (Associate Professor, Biology) received $25,000 from the Jeffress Memorial Trust for "Ontogeny of locomotion in leaping primates" to examine postcranial growth, leaping dynamics and locomotor behavior through the life cycle of sifakas (Propithecus verreauxi).
Dr. Sarah J. Finney (Associate Assessment Specialist, Center for Assessment and Research Studies) has been selected to receive the 2012 Conference of Southern Graduate Schools Outstanding Mentor Award for her work with master's and doctoral students at JMU.
Dr. Anne Stewart (Professor, Graduate Psychology) is one of 12 college and university faculty from throughout the commonwealth presented a 2012 Outstanding Faculty Award from the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia. In receiving the prestigious award, Stewart is recognized for excellence in teaching, research, knowledge integration and public service. A formal ceremony for presentation of the awards is scheduled for Feb. 16 in Richmond. Each winner receives an engraved award and a $5,000 check underwritten by the Dominion Foundation. To read more about Stewart, see http://www.jmu.edu/jmuweb/general/news/general11878.shtml.
Dr. Thomas Adajian (Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religion) presented a paper, "The Good, Social Kinds, and Homeostatic Property Clusters," at the Sixth International Conference on Applied Ethics at the Center for Applied Ethics and Philosophy, held at Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan, Oct. 28-30.
Dr. Thomas Adajian (Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religion), Dr. Tracy A. Lupher (Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Religion) and Christopher Runyon (Graduate Student, Psychological Sciences) presented "Teaching Logic Online" at the American Association of Philosophy Teachers annual meeting, held during the American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Meeting, Washington, D.C., Dec. 29.
Dr. Aderonke A. Adesanya (Assistant Professor, Art, Design and Art History) wrote "Carving Wood, Making History," a book about Yoruba woodcarving by the Fakeye family, published by Africa World Press.
Dr. Scott R. Gallagher (Head, Department of Management; Professor, International Business and Management) wrote "The battle of the blue laser DVDs: The significance of corporate strategy in standards battles," which was published in Technovation, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 90-98.
Dr. Laura Katzman (Associate Professor, Art, Design and Art History) is the principal author of "Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam," published by Penn State University Press. The book accompanied an exhibition that she co-curated for the American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C. (Sept. 3-Dec. 14, 2011). It showcased Rosskam's socially conscious photographs produced in the New Deal and World War II eras for the U.S. and Puerto Rican governments, commercial magazines and the Standard Oil Company. Katzman organized over a dozen public programs for the exhibition, which enabled her to use the project as a laboratory for her fall 2011 museum studies course, incorporating her students into many aspects of the enterprise. The book and exhibition received critical acclaim in the national and international press, having been featured in Washington Post articles and in a BBC television segment that aired on PBS. For examples of the press coverage, see http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/photographer-louise-rosskams-images-recall-washington-of-early-1940s/2011/10/18/gIQAPg2HvL_story.html and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15866752.
Dr. G. Dedrick Robinson (Professor Emeritus, Geology and Environmental Science) wrote "Global Warming: Alarmists, Skeptics and Deniers," a book published by Moonshine Cove Publishing LLC.


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In an era when religion is too often cited as something that divides people, an article on the front page of the Los Angeles Times is a bracing reminder of the how faith can bind and heal.
"One God, Two Cultures" profiles Fr. Peter Banks from St. Lawrence of Brindisi parish in Watts -- a notoriously poor and violent section of South Los Angeles. Fr. Banks arrived in L.A. in the 1970s from Ireland -- and had never met a black person before in his life. His image of Southern California, he tells the Times, "was white. It was wealthy, it was by the beach. There was Hollywood and Disneyland ... The TV did not show Watts."
Immediately, Fr. Banks got to work, building ties with the African-American community. But as the decades moved along, Watts changed -- more and more Latino families moved in and shifted the character of the area. They competed for scarce jobs and scarce resources. Soon enough, violence sparked between African-American and Latino gangs -- reaching a crescendo in the gang turf wars of the mid 1990s that nearly tore this part of town apart.
Fr. Banks stepped into the breach, and has worked against the worst odds to bring both sides together. Things are calmer in Watts now, but it is an uneasy peace -- a peace that needs constant care and oversight. An unlikely caretaker of that peace is a 63-year old priest from a tiny Irish village several worlds away from Watts. His story is worth reading.
A week before the Catholic church launches a year dedicated to celebrating priests we seem to have run across a number of profiles of exemplary priest.
NCR editor at large Tom Roberts writes about Fr. Tom Iwanowski and my fellow NCR Today blogger Peter Feuerherd notes a story about Fr. John Powis.
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Awkward's Jillian Rose Reed is among the new cast members joining the franchise's original stars, Lauren McKnight and Kirsten Prout. Ryan Sypek, Niko Pepaj, Ben Winchell, Onira Tares and Autumn Dial will round out the movie's cast.
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In Part 3 Skye (McKnight) and Sienna (Reed) are on the road to their first year of college in New York City when they receive a call from Skye's estranged sister, Alex (Prout). They decide to pay Alex a visit and find out that her Sweet 16 is that very evening. And you can imagine what that means… teen bloodshed.
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