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- 2 1⁄2 cups flour
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 cup shortening
- 1 egg, separated
- milk, to equal 2/3 c
- 8 -10 apples, peeled and sliced
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 dash salt
- cinnamon
- 1 cup powdered sugar
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
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- Crust: Put egg yolk in a liquid measuring cup and fill to 2/3 cup mark with milk. Mix with flour, 1 T. sugar, 1 tsp salt, and shortening.
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By Sal Ruibal, USA TODAY
WHISTLER Nobody's perfect. Snowboard cross rider Lindsey Jacobellis has proved that axiom at two Winter Games.
Her first mistake was when she botched the final jump at the 2006 Torino Games after a spontaneous trick spontaneously combusted and turned her sure-thing gold medal into a silver.
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Now 24, she has spent the last four years aiming at redemption in the Vancouver Games, but when the time came on Tuesday afternoon at Cypress Mountain, her spirit was willing, but her board was weak. A slip right after the start of her semifinal heat pitched her into a course gate panel, and instead of gold, she received an automatic disqualification. Game over.
"I feel OK," the most successful woman in her sport said after the race. "Sometimes you can't control things the way that you want to and that's boardercross. I've had a great career in it, and I've been dominant in it. And sometimes I fall into funks where things like that happen."
A six-time X Games gold medalist, Jacobellis defended her 2006 gaffe by saying it was part of the sometimes-irrational exuberance of action sports.
She offered no excuses and emphasized that by performing a two-handed "Truck Driver" grab as she sailed over the final jump, this time as the last rider on the course from that heat.
"I was just having fun since I knew everyone was waiting. … They'd be watching, so I figured I'd have some fun and show them that I still have a deep passion for the sport."
Jacobellis says that mainstream sports fans and commentators don't understand action sports and the philosophy that fun with your friends is more important than fame and fortune.
"It's definitely not the end of the world for me," she said Tuesday, a big smile behind her curly mane. "I still win so many competitions each year. It's unfortunate that the rest of the world only sees this race and the one four years ago, though I guess I don't have a great track record to the general public.
"I know with my own self so many things that I have accomplished, and when people think of boardercross they think of me as one of the top women athletes. I feel that that's a great accomplishment."
Before the crash in the semifinals, Jacobellis appeared to be headed to a showdown with Canadian Maelle Ricker, who captured gold by a wide margin. Ricker said she never thought about doing a trick at the finish.
"I was thinking about staying balanced," said Ricker who crashed in the 2006 Olympic final, sustaining a concussion. "I wanted to stay on my feet and make it across the finish line."
The silver went to Deborah Anthonioz of France and bronze to Olivia Nobs of Switzerland. Jacobellis earned a curtain call by winning the "little final" for fifth through eighth places.
"I go into every race the same way," she said. "I still have butterflies, and I'm nervous. That never changes, and I didn't feel that this race was any different from a World Cup. I'm competing with the same ladies all year round.
"I'm only 24, and I've made a significant mark in this sport. … I still feel great riding, and I'm training as hard as I always do."
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Teaneck Public Library
840 Teaneck Road, Teaneck, NJ 07666
Tel.: (201) 837-4171 | Fax: (201) 837-0410
|All interviews were taped and documented. They are available through the Reference Department of the Teaneck Public Library. The Library is not responsible for the accuracy of the statements nor does it necessarily endorse the opinions expressed.
|Orra Davage
|June Kapell
|April 18, 1984
|Jackie Kinney (1/7/1985)
(I) Orra, you've been in town since the end of the 50s. Would you tell us how you chose Teaneck?
(N) I didn't choose it. My husband did. And it was one of those things where we well we were at a state college where Penn State is. My husband had been teaching there for going on two years in their Psychology Department and then he got a position at Hunter College. But we had no place to live and he had to do the, he had to report for work before we had a place to live and there was still time on our lease in the faculty housing at Penn State so I stayed there with the baby while he took off for New York to househunt and to start his new job at the Psychology Department at Hunter. So he, well, searched on both sides of the river I found out and I would get these letters back, they would want to know what my qualifications were and I had no idea about problems about where to move except that my criterion was two bathrooms and that was it. If it had two bathrooms, then OK. So he apparently searched on both sides of the river and ended up with three houses on this side, one in Englewood and two in Teaneck. I don't remember where they were but he described them to me with little diagrams and we decided on where we live now on Summit Avenue which I subsequently have found that that was one of the furthest places that, or closest to Teaneck Road that blacks had moved into in town at that time. But my husband is a stickler for finding out as much as he can about a place where he goes or about any situation so he apparently had found out that there were problems, insisted on being shown where he could go. He knew that there was more than just this northeast section of Teaneck and of course we had a money problem. There were only certain places we could look at that we could afford so he ended up, we ended up here but he knew that there were other places around and he insisted on being shown around but for where we live, access to New York was, this was really ideal for our situation and it has turned out to be very ideally located. So that's how we got here in this particular spot.
(I) And you've been very active in town since you came here. What was it, 1959?
(N) Yes it was in December. I'll never forget that big snowstorm when we moved in. A week before Christmas. Wow!
(I) What were your earliest involvements? What was the first thing you do when you get to a town?
(N) Well, you know, we are used to, I grew up in a university town. Southern university town. Hampton, Virginia where Hampton Institute is and we lived on a campus and moved to Washington which was university-like because that's where I went to school and we got involved with that and then went to Ann Arbor which was a university town, and then went to Penn State which was a university town. So you get kind of clickish between you move around like that, you find out how to find out what is going on where you are going and one of the things that I learned was to join the League of Women Voters to find out about the makeup of the town and where, what the facilities were and usually at that time the League of Women Voters had a welcome division where they had little packets of information that they would go to newcomers, you know, when you made your, you made it known to them that you were a newcomer, they would come and tell you about the community services and stuff like that. So that's how I found out about what was going on here in Teaneck. One of the ways. One of the main ways of finding out about your community. And then of course I had loved reading from very early on and libraries are a passion with me so I will find out where the public library is wherever I am. Even if it is just visiting for two weeks. So that was the other place that I came into Teaneck so those were my first two involvements in town. The League and it turned out it involved the whole town.
(I) And these were involvements that lead on later to PTA, when your children got to school. Would you tell us about your children?
(N) Yeah. I've got two boys who were practically babies, no I can't say that. Steve will kill me. He was, well I guess they were what, three and two, three and one or almost or anyhow they were pre-school age, let's put it that way, when we moved into town and one of them, the older one, was nursery school age and even through the League I found out about a cooperative nursery school and so I got involved into that. So that's how the older one got into a cooperative nursery school. Of course by the time I finished co-oping with him, the other one I decided I wasn't going to co-op and just put him in a nursery school so I mean you get fed up. But we lived in the Washington Irving school district and it was a neighborhood school so that's where my boys went to school and my really first involvement was with PTA which was very educational experience.
(I) In what way?
(N) Well I remember the first PTA meeting I went to and I came in and you know how they have the opening with this and that and then they have the Treasurer's report and this was the first meeting of the year and they had the listing of the budget and all sort of other things and I thought, not bad, that's interesting and I made the mistake of asking a question. I wanted to know what they meant by something on this thing. You know, what did you spend the money for? Where do you get your money? Things like that. So the next thing you know, you are a PTA lady, you are a committee. But I soon found out that a lot of that was, a lot of PTA work was just busy work and I decided I didn't want busy work but I would, you know, give me a job and I'd do it as long as they didn't have me going around and drinking tea and coffee and eating cake all the time.
(I) What were some of your first jobs? What did you do for the PTA?
(N) Well, I don't know, somehow or other I got roped into Recording Secretary because you know I kept asking questions and they figured so I finally worked my way out of that into a Vice Presidency. I think they had first, second and third vice presidents and I was helping with the, we had to have a, I was interested in the libraries and things like that so I was working on trying to get libraries organized, I organized the book fairs, that's what I did. Those were our fund raisers and I used the book fairs
(I) You mentioned working, trying to get elementary school libraries. Was this just in your school or was this is all the schools?
(N) Oh no. I was on a level for all of the elementary schools. Of course it started out early with us, we, 1 wanted more books for the kids and places for them to go but then with a PTA project, we thought it should be for the whole school system. I mean thinking for the district and so we wanted to organize through as much as we could to make our needs felt, we thought, at the Board of Education. That took a little doing but you know, we finally managed through the years and the cooperation of everybody.
(I) And you eventually did get libraries in all of the elementary schools.
(N) Right. That's right.
(I) Wonderful.
(N) Well now we don't have librarians to man them. But that's another story.
(I) What else did you do with the PTA, primarily the libraries?,
(N) Yes that's primarily what I did. I really, you know, you can go to meetings and you can go to other meetings and I finally decided that I didn't particularly want to do much of anything except a job and not attending, even progressing through participation on the junior high school level and the high school level. I just was library assistant.
(I) Well I presume then that your library experience lead you on to the, to your work with the town, the public library.
(N) Oh yes. That was one of my first jobs in town too, you know, You change your registration, you know, so you can vote and you also get a library card so you can take books out and in there I met, I don't remember, I think Agnes Norton, was she the librarian when I first came into town. Anyway I came with the kids and sat them up on the main table and yakity-yaking and talked about how I had just came from Penn State which, at that time, was in the boondocks and how we had had League of Women Voters meetings there and had managed to open the first public library in the town and I was interested in, you know, that and the next thing I knew, I had net the other librarians and I met Olive Tamburelle and she was interested in my interest in the library. So we came pretty fast friends, you know. I would came in and I'd chat with her and then that's how I found out about the Board of Trustees. You know how the structure for running this particular public library was or the libraries in New Jersey and she said, so why don't you get on the Board of Trustees? I said how do you do that? So I found out that you have to be appointed by the mayor of the town and who was the mayor at that time? Oh dear. I don't really remember. Thomas Costa? No, Mayor Feldman. Matty Feldman. Anyhow, it wasn't until Frank Burr was the mayor that I finally got on the Board of Trustees. I kept pitching for it , you know, and for some reason or other, whenever a vacancy occurred, somebody else would get in and so finally I got in by being the mayor's alternate, you know, sort of like slid in that way. And then finally when the next vacancy occurred, I become on the board. But it was still fun. I still went to the library every day and I still do as often as I can.
(I) How many trustees are there?
(N) There are seven. Seven trustees. Five appointed by the mayor and the mayor is one and the superintendent of schools is one. This is by New Jersey state law. And because they are always so busy, these two municipal officials with their original duties, they are allowed to have alternates to come and attend the meetings and vote for them so that you know there are usually seven people there so I got in as the mayor's alternate, you know, was appointed as his alternate.
(I) Of the mayor's appointees, are there any advise and consent with the rest of the council or are they
(N) Usually not until, unless there is some confusion, but not until this last bruhaha with the new building, that is, you know the building fund that went down the drain. Then the council decided well we are going to have to look into who is on the board and we can't trust you to appoint anybody so you have to run your names by us. But I don't think it has made, yes I think it has made a difference in the last few people that have been suggested because before the mayors used to consult with the librarians, do you know people who might be an asset and what kind of people do you need on the board to fund your business and, you know, give me the names and I'll see. As of right now, we are in desperate need and we have been in need, always are in need of having a lawyer on the board. It is important that we have, and we've always had lawyers on the board and we have one now but George Heftler has moved out of town which is all right according to state law he can still be in there but he is sick. He is a sick man and eventually we know we are going to have to replace him so you know we are looking for somebody like that. We need people with business acumen and you need a broad base to help run the library because the library is a real business I found out. Boy did I find out.
(I) Maybe you better tell us a little bit about this.
(N) Well you know there's always this business in every library, there is never enough space and even this new building, it is too small. Even when it opens. It is just like when you get a new book, it is out of print, a new textbook, it is out of print just by the time you buy it the material is old. So apparently for years Olive, who now at this time was director, Olive Tamburelle, had had a visions of a new building and there was, when I first moved in the town, a referendum for a new library building that was defeated by the town because it was too expensive. I remember because I was on that committee to help push for the referendum and it was defeated. And Olive was very disappointed and it, we did, of course she was interested in having the people get the best services for their money and the place was so cramped and crowded and so inefficient that a new building or some new kind of structure was needed so she decided, she said well if they won't build it with the public money, through a public referendum, then maybe we can get contributions to, you know, a building fund to support a new
(I) Privately
(N) Yeah, privately funded, and this was to be a bicentennial project. That's how it started out. And the township OK'd it because we had to run it by the council and the council ran it, started out doing with the bicentennial. This is why it is so funny. They act like they never heard of this before. Like whose idea was it? They were in it from the ground floor. But, so contributions began to come in slowly, you know, very small amounts, for one who knows about fund raising, I hate to ask people for money which is another reason why the League of Women Voters, I gradually, you know, because their way of getting money was to solicit funds. You get tired of people saying no to you. Anyway, the building fund idea took off and seemed to be going well. It was run by a special building fund committee which was made up of community representatives. This is aside from the Board of Trustees who did not belong to the building fund, the committee, and but were in communication with them because you had to talk about what you needed money for and how and whenever we were needed to ask people for money as members of the board of trustees, we tried to explain what our needs were. So we all were in there pitching in and finally we thought we had enough money to start everything and had hired architects and had mockups of buildings. In other words, ready groundbreaking.
(I) Well who did the hiring of the architects
(N) Oh the Board of Trustees did. We did it. Oh sure. That's their business because they can build libraries. We are instructed to do that. We are empowered to do that. I guess that is the word - by the state. But the point was the council didn't care. They knew that we could do that. The building was going to belong to them anyway because the building was township property.
(I) Where was it going to be placed?
(N) It was going to be placed in the parking lot over in that corner over there where Eugene Field is. Right in the hill by the park and of course we got a tree-loving council person who was all upset about that but as long as everybody knew there was enough money there, then there was really no problem because the council's main concern was that they didn't have to spend any money for it you see. So we ran everything by them, including all what we thought were the proper papers and things and got everything
(I) How much did you think you had at that time?
(N) Oh, over $100 ,000 to start it with, you know, and you know once you start, and then commitments to go even more than that.
(I) Weren't there state commitments there?
(N) Thank you for reminding me. I had forgotten because I knew that we had gotten a what do you call it, federal grant, and that federal grant was really, Olive did that practically by herself, and it ain't easy when you have to fill in all those million and one forms and run back and forth to Philadelphia and phone calls and Washington. She did that practically single-handedly. Got the federal grant which was really seed money, that started it off and then once that, we got the federal grant and the Board of Education was in competition with us for the money, now I've forgotten how that was, no they waived their right to it, any money coming into the township deferred to the library project . Now I don't know how many people know that.
(I) I didn't.
(N) But they did. I can remember, now who was the, oh dear, the board secretary. You know
(I) Jac Gnirrep
(N) Jac Gnirrep, yeah. We were in close contact with him. We worked very closely together. As a matter of fact, they had similar problems that the library had about getting bills paid and working through the financial officer of the town who has his own ideas about how we should spend our money, you see. So he, Jac, cooperated with us in even helping us with the forms and everything and when it came through that the township of Teaneck was going to get the money and that they had already put in one for them when Olive was doing all of this and it turned out that we'd either have to split it which wouldn't help either one of us or one or the other, the board deferred to the library board so that we got the grant, you know, the bulk of the grant and the council was glad to accept it. And so we felt we were off and running. It turned out we weren't off and running. That some of the pledges that we had had, had not been pledged at all and it was very unfortunate because Olive was so sure, you know, she wanted it so much that it just became an obsession and when everything broke, well we had to recover, recoup as much as we could and we finally, after a lot of abuse, name calling and this, that and the other, did get the council to undertake a renovation of an old building and it has turned out to be fairly good except that you still don't have a permanent certificate of occupancy. Now you won't believe the kinds of things that they have put in our way and we told them this time, when they have it done, we said you do it. We are not going to do anything. You called us all kinds of names and said we should get out. Now you want, the people want this building renovated, you do it. And we told them it wasn't going to be easy.
(I) What was the last stumbling block? Why isn't there a certificate
(N) Well you see you've got to spend money to get decent help. The contractors they got to do it was the lowest bidder and by gum, he did the worst work I am sure. Shoddy work that had to be redone. As a matter of fact, they ended up withholding some of his money because the work, even I know, and I am not an architect, but you learn an awful lot when you see building a building and you read and you do this and you learn how to, we had an architect on our board, Jim Loring was the best there is, and he knew the kinds of pitfalls that you get and so we didn't have that problem with the new building but we learned that there are pitfalls we tried to tell the township. You know, this is a lot of, you know, you got to watch this and the main thing that you have to do, you got to have a you got to have somebody here to watch these people all the time. Make sure you don't get wrong things here, wrong things there. And when was the last time they built something here in Teaneck? That building down there on by Votee Park, that square thing, the recreation, I mean, this is the way they think. They think in square things with nothing, well needless to say, we've had problems and we still have problems. And the original problem or reason for having a new building that is the water problem. Do you know we still have it?
(I) What's the water problem?
(N) It floods because of the way the ancient plumbing hooked up the the township plumbing and we tried to get them to fix it and we said, you know, we really have, the drainage has never been right and the only solution is to move and to another site. No, we can solve that. Well, needless to say with all the rain we've had in the last few weeks, we still have water. How unsanitary.
(I) Well does this actually damage the books?
(N) Well it did until we finally got them to change a few of the plumbing stuff because the guy put in the wrong pumps and stuff and we were having, we really had problems so now, don't ask June.
(I) We've got to get off the library.
(N) Well I must say though the work we've had done so far, the renovation, it is nice. But it is still not enough room. We are out of space already. You know.
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Cal comes back in final seconds, beats IUP, 26-24
California (Pa.) sophomore Cody Nuzzo saved his best kick for last on Saturday night at Adamson Stadium.
Nuzzo made a 30-yard field goal with three seconds left to deliver the Vulcans a 26-24 home victory over Indiana (Pa.). The game-winner changed the fate of Nuzzo, who less than a minute earlier missed a game-tying extra point attempt.
"I saw it, and it went right down the middle," Nuzzo said of the winner. "It was the only one of the day I was so sure about. I couldn't have been happier. That's the first game-winning kick I ever hit."
A showdown between No. 14 Indiana (3-1, 1-1) and No. 6 California (4-0, 2-0), the preseason co-favorites in the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference's West division, held the promise of drama. But neither side anticipated a conclusion that included such unpredictable play.
"To answer the question quickly, no, I've never seen anything like that," California coach Mike Kellar said. "I knew going into this game we had our work cut out for us. … I knew they'd try to come out and pound the ball, and I knew we'd be lucky to come out with a win. I feel good, and I feel like we're a good football team. But either one of those teams, to win that game, would need a fortunate bounce."
The Crimson Hawks tied the score, 17-17, when workhorse running back Harvie Tuck scored his second touchdown of the game, a 3-yard run, five minutes into the fourth quarter. And they went ahead, 24-17, three minutes later on a 8-yard touchdown pass from second-string quarterback Mike Box to Pat Brewer.
IUP appeared ready to score insurance points when it drove 60 yards to Cal's 13. But sophomore kicker Brett Ullman, good from 41 yards earlier in the game, missed a 30-yard attempt.
Cal took over with less than a minute remaining.
On the ensuing play, Peter Lalich threw an 80-yard touchdown pass to Nadir Brown, who was wide open after defensive back Marvens Toussaint fell while in one-on-one coverage down the left sideline.
"I actually felt the corner fall, so I was like, 'Uh, touchdown,'" Brown said. "That was all that was going through my mind: 'Touchdown.'"
Nuzzo sent the extra point kick over the left goal post, so California remained down by one.
Senior All-American safety Rontez Miles recovered Nuzzo's onside kick — the ball did not go 10 yards, but it touched an IUP player.
Lalich then completed two short passes to running back Lamont Smith and a 20-yard strike over the middle to Trey Johnson, who went down at IUP's 13.
Nuzzo delivered when given his shot at redemption.
"I wasn't real sure that I missed (the extra point)," Nuzzo said. "I was a little discouraged because I thought that I made it. But I tried to forget about it. I always have a 15-second rule: You have to forget about the last kick 15 seconds after it happened."
Lalich finished with 438 yards — the second-best total in school history — and three touchdowns. Brown had six catches for 128 yards, Johnson grabbed six passes for 120 yards, and Mike Williams finished with a team-high nine receptions for 143 yards and a score.
Cal's aerial show allowed the Vulcans to keep up with Indiana's brutal ground game, which finished with 290 yards on 51 rushes. Tuck had 262 yards on 43 carries.
"I feel very bad for our kids, but all of our goals are still attainable," Indiana coach Curt Cignetti said. "Last year, Alabama lost to LSU in the middle of the season, and they came back, took care of business, and won the national championship. I think we can play with anybody in the country. And I think this was good for our kids, to see how good they can be."
Just minutes before their comeback, the Vulcans experienced a heart-breaking moment, as they watched junior defensive tackle Darnell Harding lay motionless on the field. Emergency personnel eventually brought out a stretcher for Harding, who showed some signs of motion as he left the field.
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Ranger volleyball showed up to win in four last Tuesday when they traveled to Mounds View.
Forest Lake beat the Mustangs 18-25, 25-22, 25-19, 25-23 with senior captain Miranda Haug leading the way with 13 kills and two blocks. Also contributing to the Ranger win was junior Chelsie Bethke with 8 kills and 2 blocks,
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"We played fired up team volleyball, which is the difference maker," Forest Lake head coach Sherri Alm said. "When we bring energy and enthusiasm to our floor we play well. [We are] looking to be more consistent and pick up the intensity."
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ADMISSIONS and REGISTRATION
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|Equivalents to B.C. graduation
|Security of your student records
|Course withdrawal
|When to apply
|Conditional offers of admission
|Choosing your courses
|Continuous application
|Admission with registration priority
|Registration times
|Course challenge
|Specific date applications
|Procedures for requesting registration priority
|Registration order
|Application dates for specific date applications
|Special admission
|Prerequisites and coreqisites
|How to apply
|Concurrent studies
|Course waiting lists
|Definition of a full-time student
|What to send to the Admissions office
|Need to apply for re-admission
|Reserved seats
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Admissions and Records Office
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The Admission and Records office handles applications for admission, course registrations, course fee payments, exam scheduling, student records, and graduation applications.
Admissions and Records personnel
Registrar: Bill Cooke, BSc (McMaster)
Associate Registrar (Admissions): Elaine Harris, BA (SFU), MEd (UBC)
Manager, Systems & Records: Warren Stokes, Dip. Bus Admin (UCFV), ID (VCC), Cert. Micro Elec (VCC)
Records Supervisor: Marna LeVae
Admissions Coordinator: Robin Smith
Admissions staff: Lynn Best, Valerie Hughes, Mary Rigby-Jones, Tami White
Registration staff: Annette Aerssens, Denise Browne, Val Cave, Bernadette Dickie, Gloria Dyck, Leona Fountain, Rose Merritt, Kelly Raymond, Anne Reisenger, Rae Smith, Marilyn Thompson, Rosemary Wolf
Room bookings/records staff: Vera White Phipps; Mary White
The information that follows is intended to provide applicants with general admission guidelines. Each program description in this calendar outlines entrance requirements and information about when and how to apply to the program.
Specific admission requirements are necessary to ensure a reasonable chance of success. Students who meet these requirements are admitted in order of their date of application provided their application is complete when submitted, and a sufficient number of spaces are available. The dates listed in this section are for the 2003/04 academic calendar year. A separate admissions guide is published in the summer and provides detailed information about the admissions process.
Admission to a program does not imply space availability in all courses required for the program.
When to apply
Early application is recommended for all programs, as assignment of registration times and acceptance to programs is by date of application. Applications should be complete upon submission, or completed as quickly as possible, as the application date recorded is the date the application form, all required information or documents for the program, and the application fee are mailed or submitted.
See the Admissions chart to determine whether applications are continuous or specific date for a particular program.
Continuous application
Applications are accepted throughout the year, the names of applicants with complete applications are added to a waiting list, and a seat is offered to qualified applicants when a space becomes available.
If you are applying to a continuous application program and want to enrol in General Studies while you are waiting, you must submit a second application form.
Specific date applications
For these programs, you apply on or after a certain date.
Application dates for specific date applications:
First day to apply
You should apply before:
Fall (September)
October 1
March 31*
Winter (January)
August 1
September 30*
Spring (May)
October 1
January 31*
* Some programs may reach capacity and close before this date. Programs with seats available may accept applications after this date, but applicants should check our website at www.ufv.ca/ar, or contact Admissions & Records before sending an application. Please note that applicants who apply after these dates, or who do not provide all the required documents by these dates, will generally be scheduled to register later than other applicants for the semester.
How to apply
You are advised to mail in your application for two reasons: to avoid lining up and to obtain daily priority over hand-delivered applications. The postmarked date is used to determine the date of a mailed-in application, regardless of when it is received by UCFV, provided the application is complete upon submission. See What to send to the Admissions office, below, for further information. Mailed applications are assigned earlier application times than applications hand-delivered on the same day.
What to send to the Admissions office
Read the How to Apply section for the program you choose to determine entrance requirements and the necessary documents required for your program.
To apply, submit everything required by your program. Your application package would normally include:
Complete application
The application fee and all the documents listed in the How to Apply section for each program (i.e., all required documents for a complete application) must be enclosed in order to have a complete application. If you apply through the web, your application fee (if you did not provide a credit card number) and any required documents should be mailed the same day you transmit your application in order to retain your application date. If you have official transcripts sent directly from another institution, you should ensure they are ordered in time to arrive within two weeks of the date your application is submitted.
If an application is incomplete, the date of application is changed to the date the application becomes complete.
Students currently registered in courses required for admission should submit a confirmation of enrollment in these courses, along with a transcript showing courses already completed. Students currently attending Grade 12 have until April 10 to submit test scores and official transcripts of final grades and/or interim grades for required courses, but should submit all other required documents with their applications form. See Documents for further information.
Apply directly to the Trades and Technology Centre for programs listed under those headings on the Application for Admission form.
What you should expect to receive from A&R
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Note: If your application is not complete on submission, your date of application will be changed to the date your application becomes complete, which may affect your position on the applicant list for the program and/or your registration time. A complete application includes all the documents required in the How to Apply section for each program, and the application fee.
Official transcripts from other institutions attended are required for entrance to many programs. Transcripts are considered official when they are bearing the institution seal or authorized signature and are in the original sealed envelope of the issuing institution. If official transcripts are required for entrance to a program, and you are having them mailed directly to UCFV, order them early so they arrive within two weeks of the date you apply.
The majority of credit programs, including General Studies, require that students be high school graduates or 19 years of age by the first day of the semester. Students who are under 19 and not in school will be required to submit proof of high school graduation (an official high school transcript) with their application forms. Students currently enrolled in Grade 12 should submit a copy of their course schedule when they apply for any program requiring specific courses, grades, or GPA. All students enrolled in B.C. Grade 12 should also arrange to have their grades sent directly from the Ministry of Education, however, if the program requires completion of specific high school courses, Grade 12 students will be given until April 10 to submit spring interim high school grades. Report cards will be accepted for interim grades.
Students who have taken course prerequisites at other institutions will also need to submit official post-secondary transcripts for evaluation. An Application for Transfer Credit form is required to evaluate post-secondary transcripts (allow a minimum of six to eight weeks).
A certified translation is required for documents in a language other than English (some exceptions may be possible for documents in French).
Documents submitted become the property of UCFV. Only documents that are considered by UCFV to be irreplaceable will be returned to the student on request.
Admission from other provinces
Many programs require that students have B.C. secondary school graduation or equivalent in order to meet entrance requirements. Students who have graduated from the secondary school system (Grade 12) in the Yukon, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland are considered to have satisfied this requirement. Students from Quebec who have completed one full academic year at CEGEP and students from Ontario who have graduated on the new curriculum (2003 or later) are also considered to have equivalent to B.C. graduation. Ontario graduates from previous years are required to have six OAC courses or Grade 13.
Equivalents to B.C. graduation
Students who have completed the International Baccalaureate diploma program, the ABE Provincial diploma, the B.C. Adult Graduation diploma Adult Basic Education completion, or the General Education diploma (GED) may be considered to have the equivalent of B.C. secondary school graduation for admission purposes. However, students who are applying for any program that requires specific secondary school level courses for entrance, e.g., Math 11 or equivalent, or who intend to register for a course that has a specific secondary school course as a prerequisite, must provide an official transcript showing a final grade in the appropriate subject.
Conditional offers of admission
Some programs may accept students prior to completion of all entrance requirements. Other programs do not consider applications without documentation that all requirements have been completed. Check the How to Apply section for your program for information.
If an admission decision is based on courses in progress, acceptance will be conditional upon proof of completion of final academic requirements. Your offer of admission will state a final date for receipt of this information. However, applicants are encouraged to submit final grades as soon as possible.
Admission with registration priority
Registration priority is available, upon request, to applicants for General Studies (including General Arts and General Science) with higher academic qualifications. Students who qualify for registration priority will receive an earlier registration time than other new students in their program group. Requests are accepted from April 130 for the Fall semester only. See Procedures for Requesting Registration Priority, below.
Applicants who are new to UCFV for the Fall semester, or re-admitted after a two-year absence, are eligible if they meet one of the following criteria:
A. new or re-admitted students who have not completed post-secondary courses and whose grade point average from secondary school is 3.5 or higher (based on the Ministry of Education grading scale see below) calculated on the following 16 credits:
English 12, plus the three highest grades achieved in provincially examinable four-credit Grade 12 courses.
The Ministry of Education grading scale assigns GPA as follows: A = 4.0, B = 3.0, C+ = 2.5, C = 2.0, C- = 1.0, below C- = 0.
B. Students who have completed post-secondary education courses with a cumulative gradepoint average of 3.5 or higher (minimum 18 credits) or a last-semester minimum grade point average of 3.5 or higher (minimum 12 credits).
Students accepted for admission with registration priority will maintain the same position in the registration order for the winter semester.
Procedures for requesting registration priority
Requests are considered for Fall entry only.
To request registration priority, the applicant must submit a letter, marked Request for Registration Priority, and grades, to Admissions and Records from April 130. Only requests which have supporting documents (grades) enclosed will be considered. Grade 12 students must submit recent interim grades. Be sure to enclose a separate copy of your grades with your Registration Priority request, even if you are sending your grades to Admissions for program entrance.
Special admission
Any person who does not meet stated admission requirements may petition our Academic Standards committee for special consideration. Special Admission application forms are available from our website at www.ufv.ca/ar, or at Admissions and Records. Special Admission applications and supporting documents should be forwarded to the Associate Registrar, Admissions.
Special Admission applicants are required to provide a rationale for special consideration, transcripts, and a reference from a UCFV advisor or counsellor. They may also be required to undertake testing, write provincial examinations, attend an interview, and/or write an essay in order to assess academic level. Applicants are advised to apply for special admission at least six weeks before the start of the semester.
Concurrent studies
Secondary school students may take a course at UCFV while still working toward secondary school graduation. Concurrent studies may be permitted under the following guidelines:
1. The student is attending a secondary school.
2. The student is deemed to have exceptional ability or may benefit substantially by taking the university college course.
3. A similar course is not available at the secondary school.
4. The principal of the secondary school and the students parent or legal guardian provides written support.
5. The course instructor and program/department head approves the request.
6. There is space in the course at the time classes begin.
Applications for concurrent studies should be submitted to the Associate Registrar, Admissions, at least one month before the start of classes.
Interim grades, letters from the student, the principal, and the parent or guardian, and the application fee, must accompany the application form. Written permission from the instructor must be available at the time of registration.
Need to apply for re-admission
Students who have been admitted to a program at UCFV and who fall into any of the following categories must apply for re-admission to that program:
1. UCFV students who fail to attend courses in the program for two years. Some programs, e.g., Computer Information Systems, Graphic Design, Health Sciences, and Trades, require continuous enrolment or a shorter absence. Check individual program information.
2. Students who fail to register in the first semester, or who withdraw completely in the first semester of attendance.
International Education
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Increasingly, UCFV is called upon to respond to the needs of foreign students. These include exchange students sponsored by local community groups, visitors from overseas and others residing temporarily in our communities, as well as students applying from outside Canada. Although it is not always possible to meet the needs of international students completely due to the priority for college services which is reserved for local residents, the University College does, wherever possible, attempt to make available its full range of services to interested students. Different fees, application forms, and procedures apply. For further information concerning International Education and the enrolment of foreign students please call the International Education office at 604-504-7441 or 604-854-4544.
Placement tests
Students may be required to take tests which will help to determine skill levels and aid selection of courses appropriate to their educational backgrounds and abilities. Placement tests are also required for entrance in some courses and programs. Students need to review program entrance requirements and course prerequisites to determine whether they need to write a placement test.
Dates, times, location, cost, minimum scores, preparation, etc., and detailed handouts on placement tests, are available at Assessment Services located in Room B230 on the Abbotsford campus, and Room D117 on the Chilliwack campus. Contact the Abbotsford office at 604-557-4006, or the Chilliwack office at 604-792-0025, local 2460.
The Composition Placement Test (CPT) is designed to assess the level of your writing skills and has two functions at UCFV:
Refer to the program section and course descriptions to determine if you need the CPT score at the time of application or prior to course registration.
Register for a CPT sitting three to four weeks before you need the score.
As of Fall, 2003, a CPT score of 41 or higher will be required to register
in ENGL 099. As of Fall, 2004, a CPT score of 41 or higher will be required
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Students who have a final grade of A in English 12 or English Literature 12 do not need to write the CPT in order to register in ENGL 105170.
Note: The Language Proficiency Index (LPI) can be used in lieu of the CPT. An essay score of 30 (level 5) is considered equivalent to a CPT score of 48. Allow six weeks to receive your score.
The Math Placement Test (MPT) is designed to assess the level of your math skills and direct you in choosing the math course which will be most suitable for you. It is also a prerequisite for the UCFV equivalents of Math 11 and 12.
The Math 12 Ability Test for the Business Administration and Computer Information Systems departments (MATA) is designed to assess ability within specific components of B.C. Math 12 or its equivalent. Departmental approval is required to register for this assessment test.
The Computer Skills Placement Test (CSPT) can be used to assess the level of your basic Windows, Internet, word processing, and spreadsheet skills, or if you are unsure whether you have the skills required for CIS & COMP courses or for BUS 160.
Students are responsible for the accuracy and completeness of their registrations, and for meeting the stated prerequisites and corequisites of a given course or program. Registration in the future will be primarily through the web, with in-person or telephone available in special circumstances. Students doing any registration transaction through the web should check carefully that the transaction is completed and print a copy of their registration record.
Students who register in person or by telephone will be given, and should always keep, a receipt of their registration and/or withdrawals for their records.
Security of your student records
To ensure that no unauthorized person can obtain access to a students records, students are expected to keep their UCFV student numbers private and confidential. Students will be required to set a unique PIN (Personal Identification Number) to use student web services. It should be kept safe and secure. Students are responsible for any transactions made using their student number and PIN.
Choosing your courses
The Admissions and Records office publishes a Registration Guide and Timetable of course offerings prior to each registration period. The timetable is also available on the internet at www.ufv.ca/ar
You should plan your courses carefully prior to your registration time. If you need help, arrange to meet with an educational advisor in Student Services or your program area.
Registration times
Registration times are assigned according to UCFV registration order policy (see Registration order, below).
Admissions and Records schedules registration times for continuing students just prior to the start of each registration period (i.e., in mid-May for fall semester registration, and in mid-November for winter semester registration). Students can obtain their registration times through Student Web at www.ufv.ca/ar, or by consulting a printout of registration times at Admissions and Records.
Continuing students who are not attending the current semester will be scheduled for a registration time if they have completed credit courses within the last two years, and are eligible to continue in their programs. See the Need to apply for re-admission section and program information in this calendar to determine whether you require an application for re-admission.
Registration order
UCFVs registration order policy governs the assignment of registration times. Students are placed in registration groups depending on their programs. The groups register in the following order: first, students in bachelor degree programs; second, students in certificate, diploma, associate degree, or Engineering Transfer programs; third, students in general programs (e.g., General Studies, General Arts, General Science, visiting students, English as a Second Language, and College and Career Preparation).
Within each registration group, continuing students in good standing register first, and are ordered based on number of UCFV credits completed and grade points (the sum of the GPA value multiplied by the number of credits for each course). The number of credits completed and grade points are indicated on grade statements and transcripts. New students and re-admitted students register after continuing students in the same program group, and are ordered according to the date their complete application was post-marked or submitted. Continuing students in the third registration group who have both a cumulative GPA less than 2.0 and less than 2.0 in their last term at UCFV will register after all other students. This may apply to other programs in the future.
New or re-admitted General Studies, General Arts and and General Science students, or those re-admitted after a two-year absence, entering UCFV with higher qualifications, can apply for Admission with Registration Priority in April for the fall intake only.
Prerequisites and corequisites
A prerequisite is a requirement which must be met before a student enters a course or program. A corequisite is a course which must be taken concurrently with another course. In some cases a requirement may be taken as either a pre- or corequisite. Prerequisites and corequisites for each course are included in the course description. The minimum grade required is a C- unless another grade is stated. A P grade does not, unless stated otherwise, meet a prerequisite or corequisite requirement. Students are expected to consult the current UCFV calendar to ensure they meet prerequisites before registering. Students who do not have the stated prerequisite or corequisite courses may not register in a course having these requirements without written permission of the instructor.
Prerequisite checks generally occur the night after registration, but may occur at registration or at any time up to and including the start of classes. Students lacking pre- or corequisites may be withdrawn.
Any British Columbia secondary school course that is used to satisfy program entrance requirements or course prerequisites must be completed for full value (four credits). Some courses or programs require that Math 12 and English 12 be provincially examined.
Course waiting lists
If a class is full students may put their names on the waiting list, but the class must fit their timetable. If students are registered in a course they may not also be on a waiting list for another section of the same course. There may be limits placed on the number of waitlisted courses permitted for each student.
Until just prior to classes beginning, the Admissions and Records office will contact students if space becomes available. They will be given a deadline to register. If they do not meet the deadline, they will be removed from the waiting list.
Once classes begin, students must have an instructors written permission to register for any course. Students seeking a seat should go to the first class to seek permission. Instructors will use the waiting lists to fill vacancies for the first class only.
Reserved seats
UCFV may reserve seats for students to enable them to enrol in a particular sequence of courses. Reserved seats are usually removed not later than 10 days before classes begin.
Repeating a course
Students may not register in a course more than twice without permission of the appropriate dean or designate.
The GPA at UCFV includes only the higher grade of a repeated course, but all attempts appear on the transcript.
Some programs limit the number of courses which can be repeated.
Students are expected to attend scheduled lectures, laboratories, field trips, seminars and examinations unless given instructions to the contrary.
Note: To ensure maximum class size and an opportunity for students on wait-lists to occupy vacant seats, students must attend the first meeting of the class or notify the instructor in advance if they are unable to attend. Students who fail to attend the first class and who do not notify the instructor in advance may, at the discretion of the instructor, be withdrawn from the class if there is a waiting list for the class.
Late entry
Once classes start, students may register only with the written permission of the instructor (see Schedule of Events for specific dates). A late registration fee of $10 per course (subject to change) applies to registrations after the second week of classes. Late entry will not be permitted after 30 percent of the course is completed except with the permission of the instructor and the appropriate dean (see Schedule of Events for specific dates).
Course withdrawal
Students may withdraw from a course at any time before approximately 75% of the course is completed (see Schedule of Events for withdrawal deadlines) through Student Web at www.ufv.ca/ar, or through the Admissions & Records office. Withdrawal prior to the date on which 40% of the course is completed will not be recorded on the official transcript. Withdrawal after 40% of the course is completed will be shown on the transcript (see Schedule of Events). A student who stops attending but does not properly withdraw from a course is given an NC grade.
A student may be permitted to withdraw in the last 25% of the course duration if the student can show that there were extenuating circumstances. Extenuating circumstances are defined as unusual circumstances beyond the students control, such as a serious illness, which make it impossible for the course to be completed. A withdrawal in the last 25% of the semester requires the majority decision of a committee of the dean, department head, and instructor concerned. A withdrawal, if granted, would be recorded on the official transcript.
A student may audit a course with instructors permission upon payment of the prescribed tuition. An audit student is required to attend at least 80% of classes and participate as a regular class member, but does not normally complete class assignments or examinations.
Many instructors and/or departments will not permit a change to audit status after the first few weeks of class. In other courses, a student may change to audit status up to but not later than, the last day of classes, with the permission of the instructor. Students should check with their course instructor during the first weeks of class.
An audit grade is not included in the calculation of the grade point average, but is reported on the official transcript. In order for an audit grade to be recorded, the student must have attended at least 80% of the course. Students who do not meet this requirement, and who have not formally withdrawn from the course, may receive an NC grade.
The fee to audit is the same as the regular course tuition fee.
Course challenge
Some UCFV courses may be challenged for credit. This means that a student who can demonstrate mastery of course objectives may be granted credit without taking the course.
Course challenge is available to students who are currently registered in credit courses at UCFV, or who have completed one or more credits at UCFV within the past three academic years, and have been re-admitted to a UCFV program. Course challenge is not permitted for courses previously failed, or for which credit has been obtained at UCFV through transfer credit. A student may challenge a course only once. Students require permission from the department or program head before they may register for a challenge. Admissions and Records or Student Services will provide a list of courses that may be challenged. A slightly reduced tuition fee applies.
Courses challenged do not count towards UCFV program residency requirements.
UCFV measures the workload of a student by assigning units of credit to a course or program. A typical university studies or career course is three credits (three or four hours/week of instruction for 15 weeks) or four credits (five to seven hours/week of instruction for 15 weeks). In vocational programs, one credit is generally defined as the equivalent of one week of full-time study. In Continuing Studies courses, credits (when they are applicable) may be determined on the basis of one credit for every 30 hours of instruction.
Courseload university courses/general studies
A full courseload is normally five courses per semester. Students are encouraged to enrol in not more than five courses per semester and may not enrol in more than six courses without permission of a dean. Some university-transfer programs, such as Engineering Transfer, require an overload.
Definition of a full-time student
A full-time student is enrolled in 60% or more of the full or standard course load for a given program. A part-time student is enrolled in less than 60% of a full course load. Students who are applying for a student loan should consult the Financial Aid office for more information about the minimum courseload required to qualify.
ID cards
Student identification cards are issued by the Library to all registered students. There is a $10 charge to replace an ID card.
Where to find more information
Contact Student Services to sign up for a free Introduction to UCFV session and individual appointments (phone 604-854-4528 Abbotsford, 604-795-2808 Chilliwack).
The Admissions and Records office will assist you with any questions regarding your application (phone 604-854-4501 Abbotsford, 604-795-2802 Chilliwack).
Contact your department directly by calling your nearest UCFV centre.
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Some of your friends know, the real friends, the ones you hang out with. But your more distant Facebook friends, the occasional tennis buddies and the co-workers, have no idea. You're living in South Carolina, after all. You let people in on your secret on a need-to-know basis. But when you do, you have been universally relieved at the responses. Maybe those responses say something about who you choose as your friends. Maybe they say something about the Southern inclination toward politeness over honesty and candor. But you'll take it, whatever the explanation. It's worked to redeem your faith in your fellow South Carolinians.
And then a day like yesterday arrives …
As your Twitter and Facebook feeds fill up through the day, it's mostly just baffling to you. You wonder if they really believe their own cover story about free speech. Whether the posters know it or not, it's clearly not really about religion or politics. It's much more raw, more personal, this unfolding response. You know not one of these people raised an objection that night when the Governor had State House protestors illegally arrested in a driving thunderstorm. First Amendment abstractions, divorced from the underlying message, clearly do not outrage South Carolinians.
Something else, something much more disturbing, is at play here.
Whether anybody admits it even to himself, the chicken sandwich saga was about something much more deeply emotional. Something arising not from an inapplicable constitutional abstraction, but from the content of the message. That message, if one traces it through to the organizations funded by all those chicken sandwiches, is not really about marriage at all. It's about you. Who you are.
So, in your gay imagining, you realize that they did, indeed, get their point across yesterday. There's no denying those lines at the restaurants were long. Your friends and followers filled your Facebook and Twitter feeds not with a dispassionate political or religious argument, but with enthusiasm, anger, and vitriol. And in a bizarre display, politicians had their pictures taken literally buried in fast food bags and posing with people wearing cow costumes.
You used to wonder about those old black and white photos showing otherwise good people in the 1950?s and 60?s doing unimaginable things. How could those housewives scream slurs at those kids going into the Arkansas high school? Yesterday was a wake-up call, a reminder that good, fine people can be terribly wrong in a ways that only history can reveal and correct.
And on this, the day after, looking for a reason to be hopeful, that's about the best you can do.
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5. (p. 110) Choose two genes from Figure 4.6 https://mylmuconnect.lmu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_tab_group_id=_2_1&url=%2Fwebapps%2Fblackboard%2Fexecute%2Flauncher%3Ftype%3DCourse%26id%3D_57614_1%26url%3D (PDF of figures on MyLMUConnect)] and draw a graph to represent the change in transcription over time. *Note: Dr. Dahlquist said that this will be done on a seperate piece of paper to be submitted in class on Thursday.
6b. (p. 110) Look at Figure 4.7, which depicts the loss of oxygen over time and the transcriptional response of three genes. These data are the ratios of transcription for genes X, Y, and Z during the depletion of oxygen. Using the color scale from Figure 4.6 (bright, medium, dim green, black, dim, medium, or bright red), determine the color for each ratio in Figure 4.7b.
7. (p. 110) Were any of the genes in Figure 4.7b transcribed similarly?
9. (p. 118) Why would most spots be yellow at the first time point?
10. (p. 118) Go to http://www.yeastgenome.org and search for the gene TEF4; you will see it is involved in translation. Look at the time point labeled OD 3.7 in Figure 4.12, and find the TEF4 spot. Over the course of this experiment, was TEF4 induced or repressed? Hypothesize why TEF4's gene regulation was part of the cell's response to a reduction in available glucose (i.e., the only available food).
11. (p. 120) Why would TCA cycle genes be induced if the glucose supply is running out?
12. (p. 120) What mechanism could the genome use to ensure genes for enzymes in a common pathway are induced or repressed simultaneously?
13. (p. 121) Given rule one on page 109, what color would you see on a DNA chip when cells had their repressor gene TUP1 deleted?
14. (p. 121) What color spots would you expect to see on the chip when the transcription factor Yap1p is overexpressed?
15. (p. 121) Could the loss of a repressor or the overexpression of a transcription factor result in the repression of a particular gene?
16. (p. 121) What types of control spots would you like to see in this type of experiment? How could you verify that you had truly deleted or overexpressed a particular gene?


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Elizabeth Banks & Chris Pine Premiere "People Like Us"
Joining together to celebrate their latest film, Elizabeth Banks and Chris Pine attended the Cinema Society with Linda Wells & Allure screening of "People Like Us" in New York City on Monday evening (June 25).
The "Hunger Games" hottie brought her fashion A-game in a nude sequin embellished knee length dress and strappy heels while her handsome co-star looked dapper in a perfectly fitted grey suit as the two posed for pictures together before heading into the Clearview Chelsea Cinemas.
As for the Alex Kurtzman directed drama, "People Like Us" finds a man tasked with delivering $150,000 of his deceased father's fortune to the sister he has never met.
Prior to the red carpet premiere, Banks and Pine made an appearance on "Good Morning America" during which Elizabeth talked about the details of the film, saying, "It's also about family secrets. Our father passes away and it turns out he had this secret family. And it's about how those secrets work their way through families. And that the damage that they do doesn't have to affect your future. You can have forgiveness and get past it and come together and that's what we do in this film."
Also starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Olivia Wilde, the new motion picture is set to hit theaters this Friday (June 29).


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Downloading the Installer
Simply put, there isn't one yet. This wiki/faq/guide is for MAL Updater 2, and MALu2 is still in beta now, so you'll have to get it from the Beta Topic in the forum of the MAL Updater Club.
You'll have to download the file named App.rar from there and unrar it to a folder to your choice. If you don't already have WinRar installed (or any software able to extract files from a Rar archive) you can download it at the RarLab Website
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing
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Breaking news: Boner caves in again. House voting to end shut down
Ok Solo - It's back to work for you guy. No more gov't shut down.
Vacation time is over and GOP won't starve your baby any longer-lol.
I called this one from the beginning. The House is voting or might be done voting to end the shut down but will continue to fight
O BUMMER CARE. Yea, what with? ILMAO
Boner said we fought but lost. Says HOuse won't fight it anymore
and Cruz said he won't filibuster it.
DEMs will get their debt ceiling raised once again by shutting down the gov't.
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The blueberries are in season in Central Florida. And you know what that means, don't you? Blueberry pie, cobbler, syrup, pancakes … anything blueberry!
It's still early in the season, so most of the berries aren't ripe. You have to look very hard to find berries that are pick-able.
Erysse has an unfair advantage. Most of the good berries are on the underside of the blueberry bushes, within easy reach of little sister.
Picking blueberries is an olfactory experience. The blossoms smell like a spring bouquet.
Iden wanted to harvest the most berries. He's thinking of hitting the blueberry picking season in Alaska this summer.
Wow, that's a big berry.
The boys have just enough for a cobbler. They can't wait for Mom do do her magic.
The blueberries are mixed into a thick sauce with a hint of Grandma and Grandpa's maple syrup, then baked with a light pastry batter. The resulting blueberry cobbler is fantastic.


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Anyone who knows me knows that I'm the farthest from a gear head as one could possibly get. But the reality of my situation is that I love to make weird sounds using pedals, and am slowly figuring out that I need to learn a lot more about them than I currently do. I recently made the plunge to buy a Pedailtrain pedal board, and Dunlop DC Power Brick. Today I finally put all the pieces together and decided on a preliminary routing for the board. I'm going to check it out on a gig tomorrow night, so fingers crossed it all works the way I want it to in action! Check out some pictures of each of the pedals I have in this current configuration, and I'm going to try to be better at updating the site when I start using new pieces of gear or switch things out in my pedal board.
Weight plays a significant part of the decision making process when it comes to which pedals I can fit on the board. I have to be able to travel internationally with this and keep it around the 50lb mark as far as weight goes. I would love to include my Moog MP-201 Multi Pedal, My Moog CP-251, and a bunch of other cool toys I have, but weight is just killing me right now. The next time a tour bus tour comes around I think I'll have a lot more stuff, but the plane situation is a pain in the ass, and I have to play by the rules.
The routing is as follows: OC-2, Bass BB Preamp, Bassballs Nano, CS-2, Moog Ring Modulator, Moog Low Pass Filter, PN-2, D.O.D. meatbox, Nova Repeater, Flshback. There are also two moog expression pedals for the ring mod and the low pass that aren't pictured.
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Klopfer alleged in an interview with Rh Reality Check that these anti-abortion groups have doctored his forms.
Policy watchdog Rh Reality Check deemed it "one of the most extreme pieces of anti-choice legislation in the country."
Rh: One of the most important things to avoid in a green project is tearing down existing buildings.
Rh: The planking system drains into the plantings so only about 20 percent of the rainwater will go into the sewer system.
She writes regularly about gender and pop culture for Rh Reality Check.
A variety of this species with hairy ears, from Assam, has been separated as a distinct form, under the name of Rh.
A landing was effected on the Isle of Rh, and siege was laid to the principal fort of the island.
Duisburg (dis-bu¨Rh), a flourishing town in Rhenish Prussia, 13 miles north of Dsseldorf.
The fatal descent on the Isle of Rh sent home Buckingham discomfited, and spread dismay through the nation.
And I'll warrant his eye is as keen and his arm as strong as it was when he and I fought side by side in the retreat from Rh.
Rh 1 (är'āch')
Of or relating to the Rh factor.
Rh 2
The symbol for the element rhodium.
The symbol for rhodium.
Symbol Rh
A rare, silvery-white metallic element that is hard, durable, and resistant to acids. It is used as a permanent plating for jewelry and is added to platinum to make high-temperature alloys. Atomic number 45; atomic weight 102.905; melting point 1,966°C; boiling point 3,727°C; specific gravity 12.41; valence 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. See Periodic Table.


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He's opted to charge $0.25 for 30 days' access to the strip, using the BitPass system that Scott McCloud was touting a little while ago. Of course, BitPass requires that you buy a $3.00 prepaid "card" in order to give Patrick his $0.25, and there's precious little else I want to buy with my remaining $2.75, so as far as I'm concerned, I've just spent $3 on this Apocamon installment, and as far as I'm concerned, it was worth it -- I'd pay that much for a comic book this good any day.
On the other hand, I'd own the comic book and be able to read it whenever I want to. Patrick's charging $0.25 or $3.00 (depending on how you squint at it) for 30 days' worth of access to his funnybook. Now, if I could only figure out a way to give Patrick the remaining $2.75 for permanent access (preferably without giving any money to BitPass).


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I am so very sorry for your loss.
I'm so, so sorry. Run like the wind Bonnie!
Riley (black & tan, born 8/2002), Madison (ruby, born 9/2003), and Oz (tri-color, born 7/2007)
In loving memory: Oliver 2001-2015
So sorry for the loss of Bonnie
Aileen, what really beautiful words.
Proud Mummy to Kaley, 9 year old Tricolour
Sonny ,Blen ( at the Bridge)
I am so very, very sorry.
So so sad to read this. Sending my best wishes to you and your family at this sad time.
Mumma to Leonardo (Leo to his friends)
Waiting at the bridge
So sorry for your loss. I know you will miss Bonnie very much.
Joyce - Proudly owned & loved by
BellaMia (Aug. 30, 2012) My Beautiful Ruby Milo (Jan. 20, 2014) My Handsome Tri
Sydney (April 16, 2000~April 4, 2012) Always and Forever In My Heart
So sorry to hear that you have had to give Bonnie her wings. Her memory will stay in your heart always.
Minnie-May (6yrs) & Rosie the Rescue (approx 6 yrs)
My Darling Cinders and Lady Jane waiting at the Bridge
It's always so sad to read of a parting of the ways, but Bonnie was so lucky that you cared for her so well and loved her enough to let her go when the time came. We'll be thinking of you all here
Marie-Anne taken over by
Hattie (Blenheim) Poppy (Blenheim) + Lucy (Shih-tzu)
Louie, Joss, Peppa, Megan, Victoria all waiting patiently at the Bridge
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At the telephone; Blanche Ring's telephone song; His Majesty
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Corn flower waltz
Don't be what you ain't; Moonshine
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Black Hawk waltzes
When the moon shines
Dusky Salome; Mr. Hamlet of Broadway
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The squee-gee
Somebody's coming to my house
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A court in Senegal has sentenced the son of former President Abdoulaye Wade to six years in prison for corruption.
Karim Wade was also fined $228m (£153m) for illegal enrichment during his father's 12-year rule, reports say.
He was chosen at the weekend as the presidential candidate of the main opposition party, the PDS.
President Macky Sall warned last week that his government would not tolerate any attempt to destabilise Senegal after the court gave its verdict.
Mr Sall defeated Abdoulaye Wade in fiercely contested elections in 2012.
Karim Wade was accused of illegally amassing about $1.4bn and has been in detention since April 2013.
Judge Henri Gregoire Diop said he had hidden away funds in offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands and Panama, Reuters news agency reports.
"The facts before us constitute illicit enrichment by Karim Wade," the judge is quoted as saying.
Opposition supporters inside the courtroom shouted in protest, denouncing the verdict as "shameful".
Wade was a senior minister in his father's government, and was in charge of major infrastructure and energy projects.
His large portfolio led to him being dubbed "the minister of the earth and the sky".
His arrest came after the new government vowed to tackle corruption.
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The Earth Institute's International Research Institute for Climate and Society (IRI) is pleased to present "Environmental triggers of outbreaks in seasonal vector-borne diseases" with Michael Wimberley, Professor and Senior Scientist, South Dakota State University.
Free and open to the public.
Ongoing global climate and land cover change have raised concerns about
the impacts of these trends on human health. In particular, the risk of
vector-borne and zoonotic diseases will be impacted because the ecology
of their vector and host species is sensitive to changes in both climate
and habitat. Many of these diseases exhibit a marked seasonality that
is strongly modulated by recurring patterns of temperature and
precipitation. In this talk, I will explore the implications of this
seasonality for mapping disease risk and forecasting disease outbreaks
through two case studies: West Nile virus in the United States and
epidemic malaria in the highland of Ethiopia. In both cases, outbreaks
are associated with climatic signals that precede the main disease
transmission season. However, these climatic sensitivities vary
throughout the season, supporting a conceptual model in which outbreaks
are facilitated through a cascade of environmental "triggers" occurring
at different points in time. These nature and timing of these triggers
also vary geographically as functions of ecological context. This
conceptual model has important implications for understanding the causes
of vector-borne disease epidemics and ultimately developing more
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Shenzhen dangles port subsidies
Hong Kong under pressure as rival offers up to five million yuan to shipping lines
Shenzhen will offer one-off concessions of as much as five million yuan to international shipping lines and freight forwarders that increase their presence in the city, increasing the pressure on rival Hong Kong's harbour operations.
Deputy mayor Zhang Siping announced the incentive during the holiday weekend, according to the municipal government's website, describing it as a move to ensure the city can fill the three new berths that will increase capacity 15 per cent.
In the subsidy programme, shipping lines would receive five million yuan for every international route added and 1.5 million yuan for new domestic coastal routes, the Nanfang Daily reported. It also said barge service providers - small vessels moving goods from feeder ports to the container terminal - were being offered 75,000 yuan per new service calling at Shenzhen.
Qualified international shipping lines will receive as much as four million yuan for moving their headquarters or operation centres to Shenzhen. Freight forwarders opening their headquarters in the city and multinationals setting up a distribution centre there can claim up to three million yuan in subsidies.
'This is a very aggressive policy and will deprive Hong Kong of cargo growth over the long term,' said Zheng Tianxiang, an infrastructure studies professor at Sun Yat-sen University.
Although Beijing in its most recent five-year plan has deemed shipping and logistics as one of Hong Kong's strengths, exporters have been increasingly using Shenzhen's ports as they are much closer to the factories producing the shipped goods.
Last year, Shenzhen ports handled 18.4 million 20-foot equivalent units (teu) while Hong Kong moved 24 million teu. In the first quarter of this year, Shenzhen ports handled 4.53 million teu, up 15 per cent from a year earlier. In comparison, for the first two months of the year, Hong Kong handled 6.8 per cent more containers, or 3.55 million teu.
Shenzhen has only become a serious industry player in the past five years, and its growth has spurred Hong Kong port operators to hedge by also running terminals there.
Modern Terminals, controlled by China Merchants Holdings (International) and Wharf (Holdings), operates a port in west Shenzhen and Hutchison Whampoa's terminal arm HIT has one in Yantian container terminal.
'In terms of absolute numbers of containers handled, Shenzhen surpassed Hong Kong last year, when 95 per cent of the containers that Shenzhen handled was direct, compared with only 40 per cent in Hong Kong,' said Alan Lee, the chairman of the Hong Kong Container Terminals Association.
Most goods shipped through Hong Kong are double-counted, once when they arrive from the mainland and again when they are sent off to a third destination.
Shenzhen is expanding its container terminal capacity in Dachan Bay, Shekou and Yantian, aiming to add three berths by the end of this year and boosting its capacity to 27 million teu. The city aims to surpass 20 million teu of throughput this year.
In the meantime, Hong Kong's own plan to add its 10th terminal is still under review.
'It is not possible for Hong Kong to build a new terminal while the usage rate of the existing terminals is just 50 per cent,' Mr Lee said.
While each Hong Kong berth can handle 1.25 million teu per year, they averaged only 666,000 teu last year.
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