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Mountain Pride Disc Golf
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This is my home course and our local club is very active improving it. We have some new concrete t-pads, also new tee locations for 15 long and 18 short. This is a challenging course that is played thru a canyon behind the park. Wear shoes with good footing as you will be walking both up & down many dirt trails. Avery Jenkins remarked on a visit, "It's a little rugged" and that describes it well. There are long and short pads on 13 holes,1,2,4,5,6,8,9,13,14,15,16,17 & 18, and multiple pin placements on 8 holes, 4,5,6,8,10,11,12,& 16. The guys I play with, like to mix it up by varying all long or all short or flipping a putter to decide each hole. Add in different pin placements, the abundance of vegetation ready steal a stroke or two, the wind that kicks up regularly in the afternoon, and you've got yourself infinite challenges that would satisfy even the most seasoned player. There is a course map posted on the community bulletin board at the parking lot and if you take a photo with your smart phone you will have no problem working your way through this course (or print the one here and take it with you). There are new Tee Posts (Sept 2014) that have the distances & placement of each pin marked. Each basket has signs to show you to the next Tee. I play here at least a couple of times a week and love it!!! A mandy right on 7 with a raised basket, and one btwn. 2 trees on 14 long. The only OB is 'anywhere inside the fence of the softball fields'. No signs YET but they are certainly on the list, as well as ongoing continued improvements performed and funded by the club. The city maintains 2 porta potties at the parking lot. The course has benches and trash cans throughout the canyon (not every hole yet) The club currently, does weekly Doubles on Saturdays and Monthly on the last Saturday. I gave it a 4, but I think of our course as a 5 because I play it so much and see the beauty of the challenge. When it has proper signage, and ALL the t-pads are improved (currently doing a fund raiser project for them), (and they will get there) it will be a candidate for a 5! Definitely a "must play" course.
Pros: The Murrieta course is not your typical green fairways and wide open shots. The course presents refreshing obstacles between you and your par score.
For advanced players, the course offers multiple levels of difficulty that include blind shots, unpredictable wind conditions, long basket positions, and technical shots. If you have played the courses in socal the course seems to be a mix of Brengle Terrace and Huntington Beach. The local club has added multiple pin positions so if you play the course a few times a month you will play different layouts often.
The course has a few holes where you can let loose and bomb your discs (a couple 400+ft and an almost 500ft). You'll almost certainly find yourself using your technical skill to layup or get out of the rough--which there is a good amount of.
If you live in SoCal and play disc golf you should be able to say you played Mountain Pride. Even better if you finish under par.
Cons: While it's a fun course for both beginners and advanced players - beginners can get caught off guard if they try to play from the long tee pads. Highly suggest starting from the short pads and getting used to the course layout and basket positions.
For those who are older and want something more level, this course could be hard on you. The course provides a hiking-like experience and you will go up and down a few times.
Other Thoughts: There is a map near the baseball field posted on the board for people new to the course. The worst thing you can do is start at the wrong pad and start throwing. You will lose a disc or two. This is the only complaint I've heard about the course and typically it's from people who don't know which pad to throw from. The course is a challenging one and if you don't have the arm to throw then start from the short pads and have fun!
This course is still in its infancy and already among the most challenging in Southern California. The local club has worked hard to maximize the tight area and continue to make improvements. With 18 holes (11 with long and short tees and 11 with multiple pins) it can present a challenge to any level and still fun for the novice if he chooses to play from the short pads. This course rewards fairway play and with short tight shots, long narrow fairways, a couple of bomber holes, most of which is flanked by nasty deer brush and river willows. If you are unfortunate enough to miss the fairway you will face a tough shot (or possibly more) to get to the hole. It rewards good shots and punishes bad ones. The most unique and varied course around. I gave it a 4 because of the length (over 6000), shot variety (several with only one or two windows yet many options on how to put a disc through them) and overall challenge with only the rubber pads and the lack of signage detracting from what will eventually be a 5.
In the past six months a lot of course improvements have been made due to the very active local club. There have been 11 new pin locations created and a lot of foliage has been trimmed and sculpted to create one of the most challenging courses in Southern California. * I had to rate a 5 because of the unwarranted 1 chain rating; this course is a 3-4 chain course, hands down...
Reading the other review of this course I almost skipped this course but instead brought a machete for all of the hardcore foliage. Boy was it unnecessary. Yes there are some bushes but nothing like I've experienced on the east coast. If you're in the area this canyon course is a nice change of pace. The reason I only gave this course 3 stars is the lack of signs (take a picture of the map at the entrance before playing) and the rubber tees.
Hands down the worst foliage situation in Southern California. This park has a lot of potential but a good experience is at least a few years out. Not for beginners and pros should bring their best spotter. Unless you've got tons of extra discs you don't mind parting ways with, don't go there.
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Lady Gaga Issues 'Warning' to 'Call Me Maybe' Singer Carly Rae Jepsen Via Twitter
Call me, maybe… but top my record, never.
Carly Rae Jepsen has been warned by the Mother Monster herself, Lady Gaga, after her hit "Call Me Maybe" broke one of Gaga's chart records.
That's not much of a shocker considering how catchy the tune is — see the Call Me Maybe lyrics on DirectLyrics.
How did Justin Bieber's prodigy surpass Gaga?
"Call Me Maybe" just spent its seventh week at #1 on Billboard Hot 100, surpassing Gaga's six-week stay at the top with her "Born This Way" single.
Gaga tweeted on Wednesday, July 25:
"@carlyraejepsen I SEE you just swooped in and broke my BORN THIS WAY record of the most weeks at #1. DON'T GET COMFORTABLE I'M COMING FOR YOU."
Despite being trumped on the Hot 100, Gaga has a lot to be proud of — the pop singer is soon to take on her first acting gig in the new Robert Rodriguez film, Machete Kills.
She also just previewed some fresh tracks to her fans on July 22, blasting the beats from an SUV in a New York City parking lot.
Fans will have to wait in anticipation for the title of Mother Monster's new album: the 26-year-old Grammy winner says she'll reveal the name in September.
However, there is one album tease — Gaga has suggested that one of its singles will be produced by DJ White Shadow, who worked with her on songs such as Born This Way and The Edge of Glory.
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During Thursday's education breakout sessions, Jeremy Doak, director of reward and wellness solutions for Edenred North America, shared with attendees the building blocks to create a strategy for delivering effective programs that impact consumer health-and-wellness outcomes during his presentation titled, "How to encourage consumer participation in health and wellness programs."
While it's tough to be an indulgent food in a health-conscious society, chocolate candy is still seeing growth in a few key segments. While the category is finding its balance between satisfying a loyal base of consumers looking for a guilty pleasure and an increased national focus on healthy eating, new segments are emerging.
Mars Chocolate North America announced that a new M&M'S brand Chocolate Bar is in stores.
Domtar Corp. announced the signing of a definitive agreement for the acquisition of privately-held Associated Hygienic Products, a manufacturer and supplier of store-brand infant diapers in the United States, from DSG International for $272 million.
Cosmoprof North America has announced the first-ever "TV Shopping Open-See" at the upcoming conference in Las Vegas in July.
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By Daniel Gonzalez and Dan Nowicki, The Arizona Republic
An elite Border Patrol squad was pursuing a gang that preyed on drug smugglers when agent Brian Terry was shot and killed Tuesday night, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said Friday.
"They were seeking to apprehend what's called a 'rip crew,' which is a name given to a crew that it is organized to seek to rip off people who are drug mules or traversing the border illegally," she said during a meeting with The Arizona Republic's editorial board. "That's why they were in that area."
Her comments were the first official confirmation that Terry and other members of the Border Patrol's specially trained tactical unit known as BORTAC were pursuing bandits the night the 40-year-old agent was killed in a gunbattle, which occurred in a remote canyon near Rio Rico.
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Four suspects, including one who was wounded in the shootout, are in custody. A fifth suspect is at large.
Napolitano, a former Arizona governor, state attorney general and U.S. attorney, declined to provide details about the suspects or elaborate on the circumstances of Terry's death, citing the ongoing investigation. She was joined at the meeting by Alan Bersin, commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Homeland Security agency that includes the Border Patrol.
Napolitano toured parts of the border Friday and met with some of Terry's colleagues as part of a trip to Arizona that had been planned before Terry was killed. But she reworked her schedule to meet with agents and praise the work they have done to increase security along the border, where the number of agents is at an all-time high.
"Here's the message that I gave to our Border Patrol agents down there, which is that the work they are doing is producing very, very strong results," she said. "And you can see that in every metric. … There is no doubt that that border, which I know very well, having dealt with it since '93, when I became U.S. attorney here, is a very different place than it was five years ago, six years ago."
Napolitano cited FBI crime statistics showing that violent crime in Arizona, Texas, California and New Mexico has declined sharply in recent years. She said that agents have been, and still are, surging into the Border Patrol's Tucson Sector in Arizona and that the National Guard will continue to maintain a border presence.
"We're seizing more currency, we're seizing more drugs, we're seizing more guns, and so those numbers are going up," she said. "And the illegal-immigrant apprehensions are down, which, again, is a measure that overall illegal immigration is down. So the numbers that need to be going up are going up and the numbers that need to be going down are going down, and substantially so."
The number of illegal-immigrant apprehensions in Arizona have plummeted from a high of 725,093 in fiscal year 2000 to 219,318 in fiscal year 2010, which ended on Sept. 30, Homeland Security statistics show.
Napolitano said she thinks the trend will continue.
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The decrease in illegal immigrant apprehensions likely is a combination of the poor economy and the increase in Border Patrol agents, the improved technology and border fencing, she said.
Congress has authorized funding for an additional 1,000 border patrol agents, who are being hired and trained. Napolitano said a "big swath" of the new agents will be assigned to the Tucson sector.
Bersin cited the increased staffing and technology on the border as a crucial factor in the four suspects in Terry's slaying being apprehended so quickly in the remote canyon near Rio Rico. He concurred with Napolitano's characterization of the border as safer and more secure than it has been in years, but cautioned that the stepped-up enforcement efforts and aggressive steps taken "to dismantle these entrenched smuggling and organized crime groups" increases the danger for Border Patrol agents.
"They know that they stand between the American people and the Arizona community and this kind of danger," Bersin said. "That shooting, in fact, in some ways is the result of a challenge that is being made by law enforcement here to organized crime."
Terry's death this week has rekindled concerns about Mexico's bloody drug war spilling across the border into the United States.
But Napolitano said it would be wrong to conclude from Terry's death, as well as the killing of longtime southern Arizona rancher Robert Krentz, that drug violence is on the rise or rampant along the border. Krentz's March slaying in Cochise County remains unsolved. The Krentz killing became an issue in this year's congressional midterm elections and contributed to the Arizona Legislature's passage of the state's controversial immigration-enforcement law known as Senate Bill 1070.
"They were terrible crimes, and crimes occur, even when overall numbers are down," Napolitano said.
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House Republicans worked hard to present a united front on Friday when they voted to keep the government financed in a way that also cut off funding for U.S. President Barack Obama's signature health law.
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A TRIBUTE TO SHIREEN CHANG, 29TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WOMAN OF THE YEAR--2004 -- HON. ADAM B. SCHIFF (Extensions of Remarks - March 16, 2004)
Mr. SCHIFF. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Women's History Month. During the month of March, we pay special tribute to the accomplishments of our Nation's most distinguished women. It is my great privilege to recognize outstanding women who are making a difference in my district.
I stand today to recognize an extraordinary woman of California's 29th Congressional District, Mrs. Shireen Chang of South Pasadena. Mrs. Chang has been pivotal in the social and cultural vitality of our community, and I wish to salute her efforts today.
Born and raised in Malaysia, Shireen came to the United States in 1978 as a court reporting student. When she achieved her American citizenship shortly after, it was, in her words, one of the proudest moments of her life. Shireen married her husband, John Chang, in 1983; and they moved to South Pasadena in 1984. They have three children: Leonard, Samantha, and Arthur.
As a young mother, Mrs. Chang began volunteering at her son's school, Monterey Hills Elementary School. She assisted with sports activities, art classes, dance classes, classroom projects, and field trips. She was the den leader for her son's Boy Scout troop for 4 years and was very active in the local PTA, serving as president, vice president, and as chair of various committees. She was awarded an Honorary Service Award from both the Monterey Hills School PTA and the South Pasadena Council PTA. In addition, as a member of the South Pasadena Educational Foundation, Mrs. Chang raised thousands of dollars for the fine arts and language programs for South Pasadena schools.
Shireen is currently a member and past president of the South Pasadena Public Library Board of Trustees, where she has been instrumental in fund-raising to benefit the restoration of South Pasadena's library. She is also extremely active in the South Pasadena Chinese-American Club, having served as vice president, secretary, chair of various fund-raising events, and chair of the education committee, providing translations, grants and scholarships to South Pasadena Unified School District schools. Mrs. Chang is also active in her church, Chinatown Church of Christ, where she organizes retreats and teaches Bible study.
In addition to her service to the community, Shireen works for her husband's law firm in San Marino. Some of her future plans include forming a Neighborhood Watch, organizing workshops to educate new immigrants about services available to them and the importance of voting, and continuing to advocate for South Pasadena's schools and library.
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San Francisco (AFP) March 15, 2016
Apple fired anew Tuesday at the US government's legal fight to force it to break into an attacker's iPhone, saying the tactic would "appall" the country's founders.
Apple dug into its legal position in a written filing ahead of a hearing set for March 22 before a federal judge in Southern California.
Apple stuck to its argument that the FBI was overstepping legal bounds by using an All Writs Act to compel the company to help break an iPhone used by one of the shooters in the December terror attack in San Bernardino, California.
"The government attempts to rewrite history by portraying the Act as an all-powerful magic wand rather than the limited procedural tool it is," Apple attorneys said in a filing that responded to one submitted to the court a week earlier by the Justice Department.
"Thus, according to the government, short of kidnapping or breaking an express law, the courts can order private parties to do virtually anything the Justice Department and FBI can dream up. The founders would be appalled."
Apple urged the court to reject the FBI request on the ground it is forbidden by the Constitution.
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Forcing Apple to help unlock an iPhone is a "modest" demand that may turn up vital evidence in a terrorist attack, the US government argued in a brief filed last week, upping the ante in its legal standoff with the technology giant.
Apple, which is backed by a broad coalition of powerful rival technology firms and activists, argues that the FBI is seeking a "back door" into all iPhones as part of the probe.
The government brief, in sharp contrast, argued it is a single case of technical assistance in an important national security investigation.
"The court's order is modest," Justice Department lawyers wrote.
"It applies to a single iPhone and it allows Apple to decide the least burdensome means of complying."
An FBI victory in the case could serve as a legal precedent backing requests for access to iPhones by law enforcement agencies throughout the US.
Apple general counsel Bruce Sewell last week slammed the Justice Department brief as reading "like an indictment" and apparently crafted to smear the iPhone maker with innuendo such as implying a "sinister" relationship with China.
He bashed the "cheap shot" brief as "an unsubstantiated effort to vilify Apple" that was on a flimsy legal footing.
Apple attorneys said that the California-based company has "categorically and absolutely not" been asked by any government other than the United States to build a backdoor into a product.
The government brief said the request is similar to requiring telephone companies to install wiretaps under court orders.
Apple is "fully capable of complying with the court's order," government lawyers wrote.
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The Park-Poor City
"Not all spaces are created equal."
"That's especially true in Los Angeles, where, when it comes to public space, the Maguire Gardens are the exception rather than the rule. The most park-impoverished major city in America, Los Angeles devotes only 4 percent of its land to public greenery. By contrast, parkland comprises 17 percent of New York City and 9 percent of Boston (where 97 percent of the city's children have immediate access to a park - as opposed to one-third of kids in Los Angeles). Even in San Diego, often dismissed as L.A.'s cultureless, beer-buzzed little brother, parks make up 16 percent of the landscape."
"Of the parks L.A. does have, many are caught in varying states of detritus. The jewel of our system, Griffith Park, is less park than wilderness area, and subject to the wildfires that devastated it last year. Elysian Park is beautiful but isolated and underused. And not only have Echo Park's famous paddleboats been sporadically removed from service due to budgetary woes, but Echo Park Lake has become so foul that the park's stunning lotus flowers have all but disappeared."


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Celebrating Maori Theatre
Te Pūtahitanga a te Rēhia
Celebrating Maori Theatre
At no other time in our history has the Māori Theatre sector had such a vast range of experience, talent and skill on offer.
For decades, Māori theatre has featured in our regional arts festivals and, more often than not, is the theatre that represents us internationally. The growth in Māori Theatre over this time has seen the sector move from relying on one production company to multiple companies whose work is expanding in its depth and diversity.
"Increased depth, variety and quality doesn't necessarily equate to increased opportunities though" says Jason Te Kare, Pūtahi Festival Producer. "Māori Theatre deserves more; it deserves its own festival here.
Māori artists can gather and be stimulated by each other - opposing the current model of competing for funding, venues and regional festival spots. It gives our artists a chance to contribute. A chance to challenge themselves and the quality of their work."
Te Pūtahitanga a te Rēhia - an Independent Māori Theatre collective of professionals (such as Jim Moriarty, Nancy Brunning, Tanemahuta Gray and Hone Kouka) has formed to support and strengthen the sector, advocate for change within the current infra-structure and support the needs of the community at present.
The roopu's first project together is Pūtahi Festival – a week of choice Māori theatre.
"All the work in the festival is presented by Māori companies featuring Māori writers and performers, but more than that, the festival is infused with Māori values like manaakitanga, whanaungatanga and what it means to be a good host. The festival not only begins and ends with kaupapa Māori but IS kaupapa Māori, from top to bottom, inside and out" says Te Kare.
Tawata Productions, created by Miria George and Hone Kouka and celebrating it's 10th birthday this year, is presenting Kouka's newest work the beautiful ones. The hyper real digital love story weaves together a handful of Aotearoa's finest artists from theatre, dance & music scenes.
Te Rākau Hua O Te Wao Tapu, established by Jim Moriarty and Jerry Banse in 1989, is a company known for its use of 'Theatre Marae' to work in marginalised and mainstream communities. The company is presenting their moving story of friendship, loyalty, madness and redemption The Battalion by Helen Pearse-Otene, directed by Jim Moriarty.
Tikapa Productions, a company committed to creating professional performance and the development of actors and musicians, is presenting Bruce Mason Award 2013 recipient Jamie McCaskill's new work Not in our Neighbourhood, a solo show on life at the Women's Refuge.
Two new works are having readings during the festival - Nancy Brunning's play Hikoi - a journey of love that follows the lives of two generations dealing with a radically changing world and their way of saying something about it, and Steph Matuku's award winning A Story of Rona, a prequel to the classic legend of Rona.
Rounding out the festival is TGI Whanau – an evening of fine Māori music and company.
"Coming together offers each company, and individual, a sense of belonging, the courage to continue creating for Wellington audiences" says Nancy Brunning. "I hope Pūtahi Festival encourages new projects, employment, a growing community. It takes an honest, strong and supportive community working together to grow your ideas and develop your skill base - with that anything can be accomplished. "
The festival is on from 25 February - 1 March at Studio 77, 77 Fairlie Terrace, Kelburn, Wellington.
Go to http://putahifestival.com for more information or www.facebook.com/putahifestival for further insights into the companies and performers.


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"With the advent of new and evolving electronic technology, and because the airlines have not conducted the testing necessary to approve the use of new devices, the FAA is taking a fresh look at the use of personal electronic devices, other than cell phones, on aircraft," said Brown.
The FAA likely put this testing off due to costs and the amount of testing required for these devices to pass. In order for the FAA to approve the use of e-readers and tablets during takeoff and landing, each kind of device needs to be tested. For example, an iPad cannot be tested alone; the iPad 2 and the new iPad must be tested as well. There are already several versions of the Kindle available as well, such as the Kindle Fire tablet, and many other Android-powered tablets on the market. Windows 8 tablets are expected to hit the market this year as well. This explains why smartphones are not going to be tested anytime soon, since there are way too many for individual testing.
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EMT Labs also said that the "two tablets versus many" theory the FAA used was incorrect as well, saying that electromagnetic energy doesn't add up as more e-readers or tablets are used. Rather, the "noise" from such gadgets decreases as more are used.
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Mum's Advise
My friend has a two-year old daughter when she gave birth to her second child. She asked me of the following questions which I believe that I will get a better answer here.
1. Is it possible that her daughter got "stressed" when the second child was born? She's already potty trained before the 2nd baby was born, but then, she started to wet her panties again without telling her mum that she wants to go to the bathroom.
2. Is she getting the attention of her mother because of the new baby?
3. What is the best approach that she will do for her eldest daughter aside from giving her the love and care that she usually does?
4. Her eldest daughter is still using her dummy at times, how can she train to wean from it at this time?
I would love to hear the advise of other mums out there so I can also help my friend who's in this present situation.
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My second daughter was born 3 weeks after my eldest daughter turned two. I can't answer all your questions, but yes, I found my daughter regressed with toilet training and she actually wouldn't go near me for a week - she only wanted her daddy.
In the end, I found letting daddy care for baby and taking my eldest out for a drive or play alone in the park helped. Also, getting my eldest to "help" with all things baby related got her excited and feeling like a "big girl". Also, letting her choose outfits and products at the shop!
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Thanks a lot for your wonderful advise!


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Facing the English coast, the Gris-Nez cape (Grey Nose Cape) marks the passage from the Channel to the North Sea. Offering both diverse scenery and historic places of interest, the Pas-de-Calais is renowned for its elegant seaside resorts and its long sandy beaches on the Opal Coast, where both relaxation and sports activities are catered for. The Pas-de-Calais also boasts designated Cities of Art and History, such as Boulogne-sur-Mer and its fortified upper town of Saint-Omer with its Gothic cathedral, and Arras and its two magnificent squares.


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For me, I think the price point exceeds both what my wallet and, more importantly, my soul could give.
Quality and craftsmanship were removed from the equation—it was all about a price point and a label.
But its price point of $499 ($629 with cellular support) is still pretty steep.
Everywhere you go, at any hour, at any price point, there is something incredible to eat.
The biggest challenge for consumers is going to be price point.


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What is Future Generations? Future Generations is an international 501(c)3 non-profit civil society organization founded in the United States in 1992. In 2003, the organization founded a separate Graduate School.
What is the purpose of Future Generations? Future Generations advances community-based solutions for two of the greatest challenges facing international development and conservation: 1) how to sustain local successes over time, and 2) how to scale-up local successes to have regional and national level impact.
What is it that you actually do? Future Generations uses action, research, and education to extend innovations in community change and conservation.
Action: We provide training and build the capacity of communities and governments to shape sustainable futures, meeting especially the needs of children, women, the environment, and the poor. This work has led to four global demonstrations of community change in Afghanistan, China, India, and Peru.
Research: We research the effectiveness of community-based approaches to such issues as peacebuilding, conservation, and child health.
Education: Our Graduate School offers a Master's Degree in Applied Community Change with concentrations in Conservation and Peacebuilding for community leaders worldwide. Our Class of 2013 is funded by noted philanthropist, Kathryn W. Davis.
Why does Future Generations focus on a Process of Community Change? At the behest Jim Grant of UNICEF in 1992, Future Generations led two task forces to review global successes in international development. Key lessons and principles emerged that suggest while there is no universal solution to global challenges, there is a universal process that can be used by communities in diverse settings worldwide. Future Generations named this process Seed-Scale (growing the seeds of human energy into the scale of societal change) and continues to refine it through ongoing implementation and research.
I don't understand, you focus on community change but also work with national governments? If communities could change by themselves, they would have done so a long time ago. While communities must lead in the process of shaping their own futures, they need the enabling support (financing, policies, training) of their governments. Governments also provide essential support for extending local successes to the regional and national level. They can support training and study tours to help communities learn from one another; they can help communities take ideas that work and adapt them to their own local conditions.
Where do you work? Afghanistan, China, Haiti, India, Peru, and West Virginia
Why are your country programs so different? Each country program uses a community-based process to address a unique set of priorities and opportunities.
- Afghanistan demonstrates how to strengthen local governance for peace and development in a highly insecure region.
- Peru demonstrates how to engage communities and improve the quality of the existing national health care system.
- China demonstrates how to create enabling government support for a national environmental youth movement (the Green Long March) as well as a Tibet-wide program for integrating community development with nature conservation.
- India demonstrates how to mobilize more than 100 groups of indigenous women for integrated health, development, and nature conservation across the state of Arunachal Pradesh.
- West Virginia demonstrates how to expand educational and employment options for people living in rural communities through broadband and computer training programs.
- Haiti demonstrates how to build the capacity and harness the energies of people involved in a youth-led movement, Konbit Soley Leve, in the urban slum of Cite Soleil.
Why do you work only in six countries? Why don't you work in Africa? In 2003, Future Generations made the strategic decision not to expand its work through direct country operations but to expand learning instead through a Master's Degree Program in Applied Community Change with concentrations in Conservation and Peacebuilding. Offered through the Future Generations Graduate School, this Master's Degree program has trained students and alumni from 38 countries, including Nigeria, Rwanda, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya, Namibia, and Tanzania.
Where are the offices of Future Generations located? Future Generations and the Future Generations Graduate School are located in rural West Virginia. The organization partners with local affiliate organizations, which have offices based in Kabul, Afghanistan; Beijing, China; Lima, Peru; and Arunachal Pradesh, New Delhi in India, and Cite Soleil, Haiti.
What is Future Generations Canada? Future Generations Trustee Emeritus, the Honorable Flora MacDonald of Canada, founded Future Generations Canada as an independent partner organization to encourage the Canadian public to support the efforts of Future Generations in Afghanistan and countries worldwide.
How can I enroll in the Master's Degree program started by your organization and are there scholarship funds available? The next conservation class begins January 2015. To enroll, fill out the Initial Contact Form. The organization works with each student to identify available scholarship funding. Getting your application in early will help ensure adequate time to identify potential scholarship support. Federal student aid is an available option for students in the United States. In addition, the Graduate School has some scholarship funds available for students of Tibetan ethnicity.
How is Future Generations financed? Future Generations receives its largest support from private philanthropists. Thank you! Gifts from individuals are often unrestricted and allow the organization to respond more effectively and strategically to community priorities. In addition, the organization receives significant contributions from private foundations, government agencies, and corporations.
Can I volunteer with Future Generations in an overseas setting? Future Generations focus is to build the capacity of communities to meet their own local priorities. This means that we already work with hundreds of local community volunteers and do not have an active program to accommodate international volunteers.
How is the success of Future Generations measured? Future Generations and the Future Generations Graduate School both have a number of ongoing research programs in the areas of health, conservation, and peacebuilding. Within its country programs, the organization typically measures successes not by traditional outputs (numbers of people trained or the numbers of wells and springs constructed, etc.,) but by changes in people's behaviors. Most recently, Future Generations sent an independent evaluation team from Johns Hopkins University to review impact of an approach to improve child health in two remote valleys of Afghanistan. The review showed a 46% decline in child mortality as a result of the actions of Community Health Workers and most especially Women's Action Groups. In addition, the organization continues to identify simple 'key indicators' that can be used by communities themselves to measure and respond to their progress.
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This collection consists of the papers and audio cassettes collected and created by journalist and talk show host, Joe Ortiz. This collection also contains the papers related to Mr. Ortiz's successful public relations company, Joe Ortiz and Associated.
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Joe Ortiz has the distinction of being the first Mexican American in US history to conduct a talk show on an English-language, commercial radio station. He began his broadcasting career in 1971 at KABC TALK RADIO 790 AM in the highly competitive Los Angeles media market. He went on to become an award-winning broadcaster, news reporter and newspaper columnist in Los Angeles for over 20 years. Raised and educated through the religious principles of Catholicism, he drifted away from the Catholic Church in his late teens and instead became involved in civil rights, politics and other human endeavors. On January 5, 1975, after many years of living a hectic jet set lifestyle, he turned his life over to Jesus Christ and began attending services at various Assemblies of God churches in Southern California. After much Bible studies and growing in the Lord, on August 29, 1979, he formed what is now called God's Broadcaster Ministries, Inc. From 1979 to 1986, he traveled throughout the country evangelizing the Gospel and lecturing from his first book, Saved, What Do You Mean Saved? Fascinated by prophecy and end time's topics, and his journalistic penchant for delving into the true meaning of words found in the Bible, Joe began an extensive study of prophecy and eschatology, using various Greek and Hebrew dictionaries and concordances to provide him greater clarity as to what biblical words truly meant. As he continued studying the Bible, he began to notice inconsistencies in the prevailing pre-tribulation "Rapture" theory the Assemblies of God Church professed. Not wanting to offend his pastors or teachers at the churches he attended, he took a leave from his local church and his broadcasting activities to begin writing The End Times Passover in 1985. In 2006, after 20 years of research and writing, Joe self published his original manuscript into two books with Author House Publishers in Indiana, entitled The End Times Passover [Etymological Challenges to Millenarian Doctrines] and Why Christians Will Suffer Great Tribulation [The Sequel to The End Times Passover]. Throughout his researching and writing of The End Times Passover, he operated his own public relations company, Joe Ortiz & Associates, where he developed and implemented publicity services for numerous clients, including special events and fund raising campaigns that featured many celebrities and sports personalities, including Milton Berle, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Rita Moreno, George Lopez, Vincent Bugliosi, Edward James Olmos, Pia Zadora, Freddy Fender, Sha Na Na, Paul Rodriguez, Boy George, Ricardo Montalban, as well as sports celebrities such as LA Dodgers Manny Mota and NFL Football legends Jim Plunkett and Tom Flores. He provided public relations services to numerous community organizations, including the Boy Scouts of America, Manny Mota International Youth Foundation, Hollenbeck Youth Center, Make-A-Wish Foundation and the Salesian Boys and Girls Club. He also managed the press relations for many elected officials including California State Senator Diane Watson (now a member of the US Congress), former Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley (now deceased), and Los Angeles City Councilmen Richard Alatorre, Robert Farrell and John Ferraro (also deceased.) Prior to forming the company in 1988, Joe worked at various social service and public relations positions including Job Agent for the California State Employment Development Department; Parole Officer for the State of California; public information specialist for the Greater Los Angeles Community Action Agency; teacher/counselor at the Los Angeles Unified School District's Skills Center Program; Director of Employer Relations at South Bay College and as the National Director of Corporate Development for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund. A 20-year veteran news reporter and talk show host, Joe Ortiz began hosting shows on KABC-AM 79 in 1971. He also conducted radio and television talk shows at KLOS-FM (72-73); KCBS (then KNXT) Television (72-74); KPFK-FM Radio (where he was Chief News Reporter from 75-76) and the "Prime Time With Joe Ortiz" show, which aired on KPPC-AM in Pasadena (85-86) and KPZE-AM in Anaheim (88-89). He also starred in a 6-9 a.m., weekday, drive time show (Mornings with Joe & Cris) with comedian Cris Franco at KPZE-AM Radio in 1989. His last stint on radio was in 1992 as a substitute host for Dennis Prager on KABC TALK Radio during the Persian Gulf War. In 1976, he received a Golden Mike Award for news reporting while at KPFK-FM Radio and the Angel Award for Best Talk Show Host in 1973 while hosting the shows The Siesta Is Over and Bienvenidos at KCBS Television in Los Angeles. In the November, 1989 issue of Hispanic Business, he was named to that national magazine's 100 Most Influential Hispanics in the US for his broadcasting excellence. Educated at the University of California at Riverside and UCLA, he holds California State credentials authorizing him to teach Public Relations, Public Affairs Broadcasting, Human Relations in Business, and Personnel Training and Related Occupations. He has taught at Riverside City College and both Los Angeles and Riverside Unified School Districts. In June 2000, he returned to his hometown of Indio, California and managed a family emergency homeless shelter in Palm Springs for three years. Now semi-retired due to physical injuries, he lives with his wife Martha, a Registered Nurse at a major southland hospital, and devotes much of his spare time to more extensive Bible research, as well as managing several blogs and web sites, and provides public relations consultation services to various nonprofit groups dedicated to unwed mothers, the homeless and youth services.
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ePortfolios: Mediating the minefield of inherent risks and tensions
Kift, Sally M., Harper, Wendy E., Creagh, Tracy A., Hauville, Kim L., McCowan, Colin R., & Emmett, David J. (2007) ePortfolios: Mediating the minefield of inherent risks and tensions. In ePortfolio Australia - Imagining New Literacies, 26th and 27th of March 2007, RMIT University, Melbourne. (Unpublished)
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The ePortfolio Project at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) exemplifies an innovative and flexible harnessing of current portfolio thinking and design that has achieved substantial buy-in across the institution with over 23000 active portfolios. Robust infrastructure support, curriculum integration and training have facilitated widespread take-up, while QUT's early adoption of ePortfolio technology has enabled the concomitant development of a strong policy and systems approach to deal explicitly with legal and design responsibilities.
In the light of that experience, this paper will highlight the risks and tensions inherent in ePortfolio policy, design and implementation. In many ways, both the strengths and weaknesses of ePortfolios lie in their ability to be accessed by a wider, less secure audience – either internally (e.g. other students and staff) or externally (e.g. potential employees and referees). How do we balance the obvious requirement to safeguard students from the potential for institutionally-facilitated cyber-harm and privacy breaches, with this generation's instinctive personal and professional desires for reflections, private details, information and intellectual property to be available freely and with minimal restriction? How can we promote collaboration and freeform expression in the blog and wiki world but also manage the institutional risk that unauthorised use of student information and work so palpably carries with it? For ePortfolios to flourish and to develop and for students to remain engaged in current reflective processes, holistic guidelines and sensible boundaries are required to help safeguard personal details and journaling without overly restricting students' emotional, collaborative and creative engagement with the ePortfolio experience. This paper will discuss such issues and suggest possible ways forward.
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A scoring decline has left Alex Ovechkin looking rather unworthy of the 13-year, $124 million contract he signed in 2008. Perhaps we can blame the slump on his burgeoning rap career.
Last September Ovechkin created a stir when it became known the Washington Capitals superstar would contribute a verse on Sasha Belyi's rap song, Champion. (Those of you who get Russian MTV on cable might have even seen the feature they did on the song's production.)
The song is out now, and Ovechkin chimes in at the 2:55 mark of the video. For those who don't speak Moscow hip-hop fluently, RussianMachineNeverBreaks.com provides the translation:
Alumni of Dynamo
8 on the back.
In the All-Star game all attention is on me.
On the NatTeam since 17
Scored 100 points in a season
Gold medal in Canada in '08
Among the ten best players of the decade,
Stick in my hands, Rap in my headphones,
Saying hello from Washington,
Together with Sanya Belyi,
For every champion
(H/T Puck Daddy)
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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Editors Note: Glenbrook, along with the rest of the payments industry, has been watching developments in mobile payments closely. A few weeks ago, our partner Carol Coye Benson profiled Boku and CashEdge products. Today, she takes a look at Canada's Zoompass, Zong (below), Billing Revolution, and Blaze Mobile. [UPDATE Aug 6th: Be sure to check out Carol's latest installment on Obopay, one of the original mobile payment pioneers.]
Zong is a mobile payments product from Echovox which enables digital content purchases on mobile phones. A few weeks ago, I profiled competitor Boku, and commented on some of the benefits they offer digital goods merchants. Last week, I spoke with Zong's CEO David Marcus. Like Boku, Zong offers consumer ease of use (leading to higher purchase completion rates – a key problem solver for merchants), simplicity of merchant implementation, broad global carrier coverage, and a strong four-letter consumer brand.
From a payments system standpoint, Zong shares with Boku and others in this category the defining characteristic of using the carrier's bill to the consumer as the means of payment. Zong gets paid, and pays the merchant, only once the consumer has paid their mobile bill: there are different patterns depending on whether the underlying consumer phone account is prepaid or postpaid. The carrier is an economic participant in the value chain, driving the total cost to the merchant, including Zong's "slice", to 30% to 50% of the gross purchase price.
David discussed some of the additional aspects of Zong's service that he believes give Zong a competitive advantage. In the key area of consumer convenience, Zong's "pin code based flow" is, he believes, superior to a "reply to text message" based flow, and drives a claimed 15% higher payment conversion rate.
But the critical differentiating element of their product, they believe, is the nature of Echovox's relationship with global carriers. Echovox has been working with carriers for over nine years. Rather than using an aggregator model (aggregators, who evolved to enable the ring tone market, are intermediaries standing between digital content or service providers and the carriers), Zong is directly connected to the carriers. There are a number of important advantages to this, according to David.
One advantage is that the payment from the carrier to Zong happens more quickly with these direct connections than with the aggregator model. This enables Zong to pay the end merchant more quickly. Secondly, simply having one fewer layer in the value chain means fewer parties to compensate, enabling Zong to charge lower rates to the merchant. Finally, digital content merchants working with aggregators are exposed to a number of financial and operational risks – aggregator failure is one. Payments to merchants may also be delayed for sometimes staggering periods of times (many months).
Finally – and this is pretty intriguing – David believes that by avoiding the aggregator model, Zong may be on track to establish a different type of economic model with the carriers in the future. Today, no carrier is going to tinker with the highly profitable ring tone model that the aggregators enable. But some carriers, David says, are open to establishing a new business model to enable payments transactions – as long as it doesn't threaten that ring tone model. The long term payoff? A separate transaction type, with much lower carrier "cuts", could enable this model to greatly extend the market for mobile payment platforms. Think of it this way. Today, The New York Times (which has played with any number of digital content models) is not going to try a model where a subscription – or an article purchased – nets a carrier (or a payments service working with carriers) half of the consumer revenue. But – who knows? – maybe they would if that cut were, for example, 10%. More than a merchant discount rate, less than a digital content rate.
David summarized his comments on the aggregator model by saying that "it simply doesn't scale" to match the market potential. Aggregators, in his view, are a bottleneck limiting the growth of the market.
I asked David about the likelihood of Zong expanding into non-digital goods purchases, P2P payments, or funding sources other than carrier bills. He thinks Zong has a "sweet spot in social networking and gaming", but says "we do have broader ambitions".
In my view, although it is interesting to look at the competition between Zong and its closest peers, such as Boku, the far larger question is how these types of services will compete with other types of payments, including cards and ACH type bank network payments. Three years from now, will most mobile, low-value, digital content purchases be made through carrier billing arrangements, or through mobile-enabled card and bank account payments? I'm not sure I know which side of that bet I'd take!


text: The Colorado Avalanche wanted to put together a new promo video but they went about it the wrong way. I know the playoffs are coming up soon, but having Paul Stastny, Matt Duchene, Gabreil Landeskog and Nathan MacKinnon lip-sync an Imagine Dragons song that has been drastically overplayed is not the best way to promote it. It was just creepy.


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Would you like to save as your currency permanently or for this visit only?
Great service, you feel immediately welcome by the owner, his wife and the staff. The kitchen is very good and you get value for money. The room is cosy and traditional, but with all luxury you need. Certainly a place to come back!! Nothing!
Very scenic, quaint village, ideal "get away from it all", excellent cuisine (the "carré d'agneau" - rack of lamb - is to die for!), professional and service-minded owners and staff. Rooms are a bit small for the price asked, no pool
Peaceful location - slightly away from the main centre but within easy walking distance. Friendly staff, good sized room. Bathroom not well lit.
A beautiful location, useful free wifi. Small and personal. Great views from balcony. Quiet and peaceful away from town.
The friendliness and kindness of the staff, the cleanliness, the breakfast, the view, the location of the hotel. The balcony was a little smaller than I expected.
Very friendly staffs, and spacious room. I think this hotel is run by a family and they seem quite interested in our comfortable stay and also opinion about the hotel.
Had an excellent room upstairs with a nice view, family atmosphere, great food - overally very satisfied! little bit noisy church relatively close... but that would be problem in a whole Scuol...
I liked the willingness of the staff to please,and the attention to the cleanliness of my room and the hotel common rooms. would prefer the rooms to be more easily accessible---not as many stairs to upper floors.
Perfect location in historical part of Scuol. Excellent combination of comfort and place spirit. Staff is very good but many of them do not speak English at all.
A good hotel, starts with the staff. The Engiadina has wonderful staff. Second the room. Our Suite was divine. The design, quality, and cleanliness were excellent. No concerns about the bed quality either, just so comfortable. The duvet and pillows top quality. The Engiadina is in old Scuol. It is a beautiful character filled hotel, and is a 3 minute walk from the main street. A great hotel.
Very nice hotel, stylish furnishingsand. Very comfortable room. So romantic. Good breakfast too. Location: quiet but not so comfortable because of the tortuous mountain road. There is nothing around, only other hotels. You always need the car to go to Scuol. Price quite high.
The hotel is beautiful, we admired the flowers, ate delicious food and the hotel staff did everything they could to make our stay pleasant and enjoyable. A make-up miroir in the bathroom would be useful
large room very high prices.
Very comfortable - when we checked in we receivd a 'free' bus pass this was fantastic and we used it to travel around the region (not just the town) - hotel was close location to bus station. Hotel was in a peaceful and pretty location with great views - good restaurant
Excellent dishes. Beautiful nature.Very good place for winter rest.
Very kind staff, room clean and nice, right price, good position in front of the rail station, good and plentiful food for breakfast. Good food at the hotel restaurant too. No time restrictions for eating: We had lunch at 3 pm. At 10 am a chambermaid will try to open your room door even if the check out time is planned till 11 am so you will have to start dealing your way out!
Such a nice place to stay and relax in spa. Ive got a small room but it was pretty comfort (too big tv screen :-)). The best breakfast at all, comparing to the 3 other hotels I visited during my holiday. Not possible to connect to hotels wifi using different operation system (linux), nobody able to help with this issue !
The hotel was situated over a river which had a lovely sound. It was run by a friendly family and staff. The breakfast buffet was delicious and varied.


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The New York Red Bulls are closing in on the first major piece of silverware in club history, but the Houston Dynamo won't make things easy when the East rivals meet on Sunday.
The Red Bulls have a chance to win the MLS Supporters' Shield, as well as re-take first place in the Eastern Conference, with a win in Houston, where they posted an impressive 4-1 victory just last month.
Much has changed since that Sept. 8 meeting. The Dynamo are unbeaten in five matches since then, with Oscar Boniek Garcia and Ricardo Clark leading a resurgence for Houston, which is looking to get in position to reach a third straight MLS Cup.
The Houston midfield will look to contain a Red Bulls attack that has looked sharper in recent weeks thanks to the stellar form of Tim Cahill. The Australian star combines with Dax McCarty to form one of the best tandems in the league, and containing them will be key to limiting the Red Bulls' chances.
Just as important to Houston's chances will be dealing with Thierry Henry, who notched a goal and assist in the last meeting between these teams. Henry has had an up-and-down season for the Red Bulls, but has provided a consistent threat in recent weeks and he will look to test a Houston defense that has allowed just two goals in its past five matches.
A Red Bulls win would set them up with a chance to clinch the Supporters' Shield, and top seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs, while the Dynamo need a victory to move back ahead of the Montreal Impact for third place in the East. Montreal's 2-1 victory versus Philadelphia helped the Impact climb a point ahead of Houston for third place.
For Houston, beating the Red Bulls at home will also help avoid giving New York a psychological edge by winning at BBVA Compass Stadium for a second straight time. The teams could very well meet in the East playoffs, and the Red Bulls have won both of their meetings in convincing fashion this season.


text: Header Content Hard to beat Skidmore College in May! We look forward to having you and your classmates join us back in Saratoga Springs May 28 – 31 for Reunion 2015. Register for any number of the many exciting Reunion activities we have planned for you this year and we'll see you soon!Non-Reunion Year AlumniAll Skidmore Alumni are welcome to attend Reunion regardless of their class year! If you would like to join us in May but your class year does not end in a 0 or 5, we ask that you fill out a printable registration form for the class you would like to participate with. Please follow the directions provided on the form and mail or fax the form back to the Office of Alumni Affairs and College Events. Registration for Reunion is NOW CLOSED! While you can no longer pre-register for Reunion weekend, you are still more than welcome to join us May 29-June 1. You may register on-site starting Thursday, May 29th at 12 noon at the registration desk (Case Center, second floor).To speed up your walk-in registration, we recommend printing out a printable registration form, filling it out and bringing it with you to Case Desk.. Contact Information p. 1-800-584-0115f. 1-518-580-5669 firstname.lastname@example.com


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Tournament Central | Box Score | Photo Gallery | Press Conferences: Yale | Princeton
PRINCETON, N.J. -- Yale punched its ticket to the 2012 Men's Lacrosse NCAA Championship field with an emphatic 15-7 win over Princeton in the Ivy League Tourament Championship on Sunday afternoon at Sherrerd Field at Class of 1952 Stadium.
As Ivy League Tourament Champions, the Bulldogs earned the League's automatic bid and will the return to the NCAA Championship for the first time since 1992. Yale becomes the third team to with the Ivy Tournament title in its three seasons of play (Princeton in 2010, Cornell in 2011).
Senior Matt Gibson had two goals and four
assists to lead the Bulldogs' offense, giving the first team
All-Ivy honoree 14 points on the weekend. He was named the
tournament's most outstanding player. In goal, sophomore
Jack Meyer made seven saves and he was also named
to the All-Tournament team.
Dylan Levings, Yale's super sophomore face-off man, won 14-of-23 and kept the ball on Eli sticks most of the game. Levings, continuing the line of Yale face-off powers, found the net for the first time in his career to give the Elis a four-goal lead in the third. He won 27-of 49-between the two games and has now won 63 percent of his attempts this spring.
The win was Yale's ninth in a row, its longest winning streak since opening 1990 with 14 consecutive victories.
The 2012 NCAA Championship field will be announced tonight on
ESPNU at 9:00 p.m. The Ivy League has had at least two teams make
the NCAA field in each of the past three seasons and in five of the
last six years.
All-Tournament Team
Roger Ferguson, Brown
Alex Capretta, Princeton
Mik MacDonald, Princeton
Chad Wiedmaier, Princeton
Michael McCormack, Yale
Dylan Levings, Yale
Peter Johnson, Yale
Deron Dempster, Yale
Matt Gibson, Yale*
Jack Meyer, Yale
* - Most Outstanding Player


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Feb. 2, 2009 – Images from the Special Collections and Digital Library and Archives Departments at the University Libraries will be featured during the documentary The Polio Crusade, to air as part of the PBS American Experience series on February 2, 2009.
Part of the documentary is focused on the polio epidemic that occurred in Wytheville, VA in 1950. Images from the Virginia Tech Library's Earl Palmer Collection were used to document the event. The Palmer Collection contains approximately 750 photos taken by Palmer from the 1940s through the 1970s, and depict the landscape and culture of Appalachia. Many images from the collection can be accessed online from the Virginia Tech Imagebase.
The documentary will feature two photos from the Palmer Collection.
Born in 1905, Earl Palmer was a grocer and mayor of Cambria, Virginia from 1954-1964, when it merged with Christiansburg. Palmer was also a prolific photographer, billing himself as the "Blue Ridge Mountains' Roamin' Camera Man," and had photographs published in Life, National Geographic, and the Saturday Evening Post, as well as other newspapers and magazines. Though based in southwestern Virginia, Palmer traveled through Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky and West Virginia in search of subjects. He donated his collection to the University Libraries and Appalachian Studies Program in 1989. Palmer died at his home in 1996.
The Polio Crusade is an hour-long documentary that chronicles a decades long crusade, fueled by the March of Dimes, and features a bitter battle between two scientists and the breakthrough of a forgotten woman researcher. It is based in part on David Oshinsky's Pulitzer-Prize winning book, Polio: an American Story.


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The Wayne Business and Industry Center will offer the free seminar "How to Do Business With the Federal Government" 10 a.m.-noon, Thursday, Nov. 7 in Room 101 of the Walnut Building on Wayne Community College's main campus in Goldsboro.
The session, led by Boyce Haywood, coordinator of the Military Business Center at Wayne Community College, is designed to let businesses know what resources are available to them through the center and help them take advantage of those resources to increase their federal government contracts.
The seminar will explain how businesses can sell their products and services to federal government agencies such as the Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Homeland Security, Veterans Administration, and others here in North Carolina and across the country.
This interactive session will cover ways to enhance marketing and outreach effectiveness, lower operational costs, more effectively engage and leverage customers, take advantage of low-cost or no-cost technology, and build brand equity. Case studies of small business successes will be discussed.
To pre-register, go to www.ncsbc.net, click on "Contact your Local SBC," select "Wayne County," choose an event, and click "Register." You also may call (919) 739-6940. Participants are asked to complete and bring to the seminar the registration form found under the "Small Business Center" heading at www.wayneworksnc.com.
The Wayne Business and Industry Center at Wayne Community College offers "on time" and "on target" training, counseling, education, and technical services to business and industry in Wayne County. WBIC involves all levels of business and professional organizations in the local community through four main avenues: the WORKS Initiative, Small Business Center, Military Business Center, and Customized Training Program.