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Tuesday, 11 February, 2003, 22:50 GMT
Dibble fined by FA
Wrexham goalkeeper Andy Dibble has been fined for his part in a dispute with supporters during the Dragons' defeat at Hartlepool last October.
Dibble, a former Hartlepool player, was accused of making gestures to Pool supporters after being the subject of taunts and allegedly having objects thrown at him from behind the goal at Victoria Park.
An FA panel decided to fine the former Wales international but not impose a ban.
Meanwhile, Wrexham are giving a trial to free-scoring Caersws striker Graham Evans, 22, and Bangor City midfielder Owain Tudur Jones, 17.
Evans, the son of former Wrexham player Mickey, and Jones,18, are spending the week training with Denis Smith's side and have played for the club's reserves.
"We have an open mind about where to look for good quality players and I hope both players do themselves justice during their time with us," Smith told the Wrexham website.
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Startup Grind Karachi Hosts Yasin Paracha (Team A Ventures)
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Yasin Paracha started his career in 1992, spending a year in the family owned Trading and Logistics business, and exploring new opportunities. After completing his MBA, Yasin started his first business project and proceeded to set up a small Stuffed Toy manufacturing and export business in EPZ, Karachi. Ziqi Toys is still the only producer of Stuffed Toys in Pakistan, exporting to Germany and other markets, as well as, distributing the same child safe and international standard toys within Pakistan, and is being managed by a trained and experienced team. A major step in his career took place in 2004, when he entered the retail sector. Yasin is the Founder and Managing Director of Team A Ventures, established in 2004 as a retail franchise business representing renowned international high street brands, starting with the franchise for Mothercare Plc. The company has grown rapidly in the last 8 years, in terms of like for like growth, brand portfolio and infrastructure. At present the company represents eight brands, including, Mothercare, Next, Debenhams, Timberland, Accessorize, Monsoon, Crocs and Early Learning Centre, and manages more than 80,000 sft. of prime retail space across 35+ stores and a team of over 350 people. The company continues to focus on training of sales force to enhance customer experience, strengthening supply chain to ensure quick warehouse to shop and shop to floor availability of stock, and employing retail tool and data systems to ensure that customer expectations are met. Yasin holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the London School of Economics and a Master of Business Administration degree from Clark University, Massachusetts.
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Broncs Host Canisius Wednesday
LAWRENCEVILLE, NJ—Following three losses on the road, the Rider Broncs return home to the friendly confines of Ben Cohen Field to host Canisius in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference game Wednesday at 3pm.
Rider (7-8-1, 2-5-1 MAAC) is 5-3 at home this year and has two regular season games remaining, both at Ben Cohen Field.
"We've got two home games this week and we still have a lot to play for," said Rider head coach Charlie Inverso. "We have a lot to look forward to, for the rest of this year and for the years to come."
Rider and Canisius are tied for seventh place in the 11-team MAAC, with the top four teams reaching the playoffs. Rider and Canisius each have seven points, seven points behind fourth place Manhattan (4-2-2).
Canisius (6-8-2, 2-5-1 MAAC) comes to town riding a four-game losing streak. The last Golden Griffin victory came October 16 with a double overtime win over Siena.
The Broncs last won October 19 with a victory over Manhattan.
In MAAC play Rider also defeated Marist and tied Saint Peter's, while Canisius also defeated Marist and tied Manhattan.
The Broncs continue to be led by freshman Christian Flath (Bargeshagen, Germany), who ranks second in the MAAC in assists (eight) and fourth in points (18).
Last year Rider won 2-1 in overtime at Canisius. The last time Canisius came to Lawrenceville Rider lost 2-1 in overtime in the final home game of the 2011 season but the Broncs came back to defeat the Golden Griffins in the first round of the MAAC Tournament.
Rider and Canisius have met 18 times with each team winning nine.
The 2013 regular season finale is Saturday, November 9, a 7pm home game against Quinnipiac. Prior to that game Rider's graduating senior, Academic All-American candidate Eric Elgin, will be honored.
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Feminism | Posted by Julie Z on 04/30/2012
The Women's College Experience
Over the past few weeks, there has been an influx of accepted students on Barnard's campus. I've tried to talk to as many as possible, successfully resisting the urge to desperately grab them and urge them to get as much sleep as possible before Fall, and instead asking them if they have any questions about what it's like to go to Barnard. Time and time again, these prospective students mentioned their trepidation about the idea of attending a women's college — which is something I totally understand.
When I initially began the college application process, I had absolutely no interest in attending a single sex institution. In fact, I knew exactly what I wanted in a school. I wanted to go to a small liberal arts school in New York …


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Heat Lose NBA Finals Game 4, Down 3-1 to Spurs
The Miami Heat's season is in danger after their 107-86 loss to the San Antonio Spurs in Game 4 of the NBA Finals. Down 3-1 in the series, the Heat head to San Antonio needing a Game 5 win to force things back to Miami for a potential Game 6 on Tuesday.
LeBron James and Dwyane Wade got off to a cold start, shooting just 4-14 from the field in the first half. James took over in the second half, finishing with a game high 28 points, but it was not enough.
Defense continued to be an issue for the Heat. San Antonio outrebounded Miami by 17.
The last two losses are the first back to back defeats in the playoffs for the Heat since the 2012 Eastern Conference Finals. Only eight teams in NBA Playoffs history have come back from a 3-1 deficit and none of those historic rallies occurred in the NBA Finals.
Game 5 from the AT&T Center is Sunday at 8:00.
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When Takashi Takemoto goes shopping for groceries, he looks for two things: freshness, and proof that the produce came from nowhere near Japan's stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant.
Like many Japanese, Mr. Takemoto says he can't trust government assurances that the produce from the region around Fukushima Daiichi is safe. So he boycotts rice and vegetables grown in Fukushima prefecture and the surrounding provinces. He avoids all Japanese meat and seafood, concerned that even livestock from elsewhere in Japan might have been fed contaminated grains. Fish, too, in case they were pulled from waters too close to the crippled nuclear reactors.
"We rely now on Moroccan octopus and Chilean salmon," the 60-year-old business consultant says, chuckling. "It's not too expensive, and it's good enough."
The Fukushima fallout has now spread well beyond what can be measured with a Geiger counter. In the minds of many consumers, Fukushima prefecture – which, at almost 14,000 square kilometres is bigger than Lebanon or Jamaica – and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant are one and the same. Though the Japanese government has evacuated only a 20-kilometre radius around the plant, many inside and outside Japan treat the entire region as though it's contaminated, unsure of what to make of shifting official assessments of the situation.
In addition to spurning the region's produce, Japanese tourists have also avoided Fukushima's previously popular beaches and hiking trails, leaving hotels and traditional ryokan inns on the verge of closing. The Fukushima stigma is such that schoolchildren from the region are being ostracized and bullied by their classmates. "The other kids surround them after school and yell 'radioactive, radioactive,'" said Masahiri Watanabe, a resident of the town of Hirono in Fukushima prefecture.
The stoic solidarity that Japanese have shown in responding to the tsunami that wrecked entire cities in the northeast of the country is absent when it comes to Fukushima and the threat of invisible radiation. "People from other [parts of Japan]don't want to visit Fukushima prefecture, even the places that don't have heavy contamination. People are simply afraid," said Toshifumi Takada, an accounting professor who lives in Fukushima city, 50 kilometres from the nuclear plant.
Part of the problem is the country is still struggling – seven months after a massive tsunami set off a series of explosions and meltdowns at four of Fukushima Daiichi's six reactors – to understand the scale of the disaster and how it will change Japan.
Seemingly every week there's another headline in the local press about radioactive substances being discovered on another product from the region: beef, milk, spinach and tea from Fukushima have all seen recalls or bans. Last month, elevated levels of radioactive cesium (though not high enough to be considered unsafe by Japanese government standards) were discovered on the region's rice, leading to concerns about even that staple of the country's diet.
The region's $3.2-billion-a-year agriculture industry has been decimated for at least this year, dealing another economic blow to an already reeling region. The Japan Times newspaper reported this month fishery officials say catch volumes from the area are down 85 to 99 per cent, as many fishermen realize they can't sell produce with a "Fukushima" label on it.
"Fish from Chiba and Ibaraki [two neighbouring prefectures]are all caught from the same area of the sea, yet only ours aren't selling well because they are labelled 'Fukushima.' It's absurd," a fish market official was quoted as saying.
On Tuesday, the Japanese government publicly stated that all newly harvested rice grown in Fukushima prefecture had been tested and was considered safe for consumption since none exceeded the limit of 500 becquerels of radioactive material per kilogram.
But some Japanese say they no longer believe such guarantees. "Many people do not trust the information publicly released by the government. It's hideous, but we don't trust the news released by [national broadcaster]NHK or the private channels and newspapers," said Mr. Takemoto, the business consultant. He is particularly sensitive to radiation worries since his 84-year-old mother is a Hiroshima survivor.
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Gaga over Google
Smart and simple, Google Search Appliance GB-1001 is a great find
With the word Google being regularly used both as a noun and a verb around most offices these days, it's a safe bet that employees in your enterprise already appreciate the simple interface, quality search results, and overall speediness of the search engine. With the Google Search Appliance GB-1001, IT managers can now bring the power of Google into the enterprise.
I took a look at Google's newest offering, and my test results demonstrated why Google continues to dominate the relatively small search-appliance market over competitors such as the Thunderstone Search Appliance. The box boasts most of the features of Google.com but puts them under the full control of your IT staff. End-user training is not an issue with such a familiar front-end, making the GB-1001 a must-have for enterprises that want to buy a search solution today and have it running in production tomorrow.
After a cursory scan of the instructions and a quick, painless setup of the bright yellow appliance, I was ready to go. Throughout my test, I kept the small documentation booklet by my side but rarely needed it since the online help was sufficiently comprehensive.
For my first test, I pointed the GB-1001 crawler at a server mirroring InfoWorld.com. Configuring the search crawler demonstrated just how far beyond simple keyword searching the Google engine goes. In a corporate intranet environment, I might want all searches for "emergency contacts" to return a URL with our company's emergency contact list. Using Google's KeyMatch feature, I was able to set up the engine to do just that.
In a similar vein, the Google Search Appliance offers a synonyms feature, enabling an administrator to easily set up suggested synonymous terms for user's search words. In my test, I configured searches for "William Gates" to suggest "Bill Gates," and sure enough, all searches for "William Gates" returned a message that read: "You could also try: Bill Gates." I had similar success when I set up "OpenBSD" as a synonym for "FreeBSD."
In the familiar search interface, you'll find the same features you find at google.com, though you can change the look and feel via simple Web forms or XSLT (eXtensible Style Language Transformation) style sheets.
The GB-1001 comes with the same automatic spell-checker found on google.com, and I was pleased to find that it worked with information specific to my own company. When I deliberately misspelled my own name in a search as "Chad Dikerson," the search returned no results but asked, "Did you mean Chad Dickerson?" The built-in spell checker is self-learning and does not have to be configured in any way. Very nice.
In my second test, I indexed content from InfoWorld's production intranet, which includes a diverse mix of HTML, PDF, and Microsoft Word documents. The GB-1001 does an excellent job of unlocking the information inside the non-HTML documents that reside on most enterprise networks. My searches for "Peoplesoft setup" and "content management" returned a relevance-sorted list of links to HTML, Word, and PDF documents, and I found what I was looking for. The GB-1001 can deliver results chronologically, and users can also search within particular document types. The appliance caches all documents it indexes, so critical information is available when other network resources are down, though links to cached documents are easily disabled in the search results if you choose.
The GB-1001 can also be configured to send automatic status updates to administrators via e-mail, a feature that I found useful in keeping track of the daily crawl of the site.
The only downside to the Google Search Appliance GB-1001is that it lacks an API, which is surprising because Google has been a pioneer in the Web services arena with its SOAP-based Google Web API. Many enterprises will neither need nor want API access to the appliance, but for those wanting to integrate search results into enterprise applications, this feature is notably missing. In a similar vein, API access to manipulate the search index on a per-URL basis would be useful.
Despite this shortcoming, the Google Search Appliance GB-1001 promised power, simplicity, and the quality search results you expect from Google and it more than delivered. With an API for the system, the Google Search Appliance would be close to perfection.
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Advocates of lost civilization theories, including the likes of Graham Hancock (author of Fingerprints of the Gods) and earlier, Charles Hapgood (Maps of the Ancient Sea Kings) have proposed the existence of a world-spanning homogeneous maritime civilization whose apex occurred as much as 12,000 years before our current technological high-water mark. Very often, these writers are careful to avoid mention of the word 'Atlantis', but the main belief structure behind all these theories remains fundamentally the same: more than 10,000 years ago, before our recorded history, there existed a relatively advanced civilization that attained a high enough level of culture that they had written languages, maritime trade and sophisticated naval technology.
Leaving aside – for the moment – such superficial, facile approaches as comparison and contrast of New World and Old World pyramids…in fact, steering away from all the Von Danikenesque hyperbole, is there any evidence for a civilization anything like what we've described above?
As it happens, there is.
European Megalithic Culture was a prehistoric culture that stretched from the Iberian Peninsula in the south and Sweden and the Orkney Islands in the north, while stretching from the Baltics in the east as far west as the Atlantic.
The earliest structures in this civilization can be reliably dated to about 4800 BC, and consist of circular ditches and communal tombs, and later evolved to include more complicated structures, including henges (the most famous of which is Stonehenge in Somerset, England).
The people belonging to this megalithic culture displayed highly advanced technologies at an almost incredibly early date. For example, by 4000 BC, the Neolithic inhabitants of the Orkneys, Hebrides and Shetlands were demonstrably using skin boats and voyaging nearly out of sight of land. Skara Brae, the spectacular megalithic culture settlement uncovered in the Orkneys features extremely well-designed houses and hearths, some of which seem to include provision for a not-so-primitive sort of plumbing. In England, the first evidence of farming became evident, along with stone axes and distinctive grooved pottery. The culture was knitted together in its use of a common measurement system, most particularly in the use of the megalithic yard, discovered in 1955 by Prof. Alexander Thom, professor of Engineering Sciences at Oxford University. In his March 23 submission to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Vol. 118, Thom described the results of more than 20 years of research, at 250 megalithic sites in England and Scotland. Above all, Thom reported that he isolated a common unit of measure, constituting exactly 2.72 feet, and present in site after site.
Many – if not the majority -- of the henges and standing stones erected by the Megalithic Culture displayed astronomical alignments with solstices, equinoxes and the movements of the sun, moon and stars. Some, such as Newgrange or Maes Howe would be masterpieces today, even without the incredible intricacies of their alignments. Add in their sophisticated astronomical capabilities – Maes Howe is aligned to the setting winter solstice sun and to the winter setting full Venus, while Newgrange is aligned to the rising winter solstice sun and the winter rising full venus – and you have artifacts of unparalleled sophistication for their time.
Additionally, says Robert Lomas, author of Uriel's Machine and Mysteries of the Ancient World, they possessed centralized manufacturing and mass production techniques. He cites axes as evidence, illustrating how ax heads were created at two specific sites (with a sea voyage separating them), then finished, polished and fitted with shafts at two other sites. The wide-ranging nature of their trade supply chain is established by the fact that these mass-produced axes are found throughout Britain. Just from this one example, says Lomas, we can infer that the Megalithic Culture people specialized into roles which – for the purposes of ax production – included quarry workers, sailors, polishers and finishers, and "a sales force".
At around the same time – as much as two thousand years prior to the pyramids – a predynastic Egyptian people began building their own megalithic structures on the Nabta plateau near the Sudanese border. These structures would seem to mark the position where the morning star, Sirius, would have risen at the summer solstice.
Academics such Grafton Elliot Smith, an Australian anatomist who was a proponent of the theory of hyperdiffusionism, which suggested that all megalith-builders originated from Egypt, believed the Nabta peoples and the European Megalithic Culture peoples were one and the same. Today, the hyperdiffusionist theory has fallen out of favour, but there remains the coincidental emergence of cultures within a few hundred years, both of which erect standing stones to track astronomical phenomena.
There also remain the startling similarities between Mediterranean Megalithic structures and those in northern and western Europe, with structures in Sardinia, Sicily and Malta being almost identical. Both cultures featured henges, chambered tombs and standing stones.
So who, then, were the Megalithic Culture peoples? One theory, known as the Anatolian hypothesis, popularized by Colin Renfrew, suggests that they were a Proto-Indo-European (PIE) people from Anatolia, who migrated into Europe along with the spread of Neolithic agriculture. More recent thinking about the spread of the PIE-speaking peoples has tended to reject this, largely on the grounds that the Proto-Indo-Europeans expanded out of the Pontic Steppe later, in the 4th millennium. This theory, called the Kurgan hypothesis, suggests that this migration occurred too late to account for the Megalithic Culture.
Others propose that the migration may have taken place the other way. At around 10,000 BC, the Azilian-Tardenoisian peoples – considered to be the first wave of the Iberians – migrated into Europe. There are suggestions that – unlike other theories which suggest an east-to-west populating of Europe – the Azilian-Tardenoisians arrived from the Atlantic. Their provenance as a sea-going people is further supported by finds of finely worked, but very large, fish-hooks. In this theory, the Megalithic Culture is simply the result of 5000+ years of evolution from a landfall made on the Iberian peninsula at the closing of the Ice Age.
Barry Cunliffe, professor of European Architecture at Oxford University, has pointed out the relative homogeneity of the Megalithic Culture – or at least that of the European Megalithic Culture. Writing in an article titled People of the Sea, in the February 2002 issue of British Archaeology, he says in the late bronze age "had a warrior from the Algarve sailed to Aberdeenshire he would have found much in local behaviour and equipment that was very familiar."
Cunliffe goes on to say, "it is quite clear...that the technical skills of the people, both in shipbuilding and navigation, must have been sufficiently advanced, even at a very early date, to allow voyages in the open sea to have been a normal part of life...if we accept that networks of maritime communication along the entire Atlantic façade had developed during the Mesolithic period, then it is easier to understand how the cultural traits of agro-pastoralism, which characterized the subsequent Neolithic way of life, quickly spread from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic coast of Portugal and from Continental Europe to the British Isles and Ireland."
One of the most recent weapons added to the arsenal of those studying the relatively mute passages of prehistory is biostatistics and the analysis of genetic information, particularly Y-DNA. Much groundbreaking study has been done by researchers such as S. Rootsi and Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza. One of the more revealing findings to emerge from the new discipline of "genetic geography" may be the identification of a Megalithic Culture genetic 'fingerprint', Y-DNA haplogroup I.
According to the International Society of Genetic Genealogy, "Y-DNA haplogroup I is a European haplogroup, representing nearly one-fifth of the population. It is almost non-existent outside of Europe, suggesting that it arose in Europe. Estimates of the age of haplogroup I suggest that it arose prior to the last Glacial Maximum. Probably, it was confined to the refuge in the Balkans during the last Ice Age, and then spread northward during the recolonization of northern Europe following the retreat of the glaciers.
There are two main subgroups of haplogroup I: I-M253/I-M307/I-P30/I-P40 has highest frequency in Scandinavia, Iceland, and northwest Europe. In Britain, haplogroup I-M253 is often used as a marker for "invaders," Viking or Anglo-Saxon. I-S31 includes I-P37.2, which is the most common form in the Balkans and Sardinia, and I-S23/I-S30/I-S32/I-S33, which reaches its highest frequency along the northwest coast of continental Europe. Within I-S23 et al, I-M223 occurs in Britain and northwest continental Europe. A subgroup of I-M223, namely I-M284, occurs almost exclusively in Britain, so it apparently originated there and has probably been present for thousands of years."
What this seems to suggest is that not only is a pan-European common megalithic ethinic culture not far-fetched, but even quite likely, based on the Y-DNA evidence. In fact, given the significant presence of Haplogroup I in Sardinia, which spread along the northwest coast of continental Europe – often considered the "heartland" of megalithic culture we may even be able to infer links to the Mediterranean megalithic culture.
If this is true – and only further research will tell one way or another – the implications are manifold. For one thing, later Bronze Age migrations (not to mention predations) of the Sea Peoples (which were thought to contain a significant Sardinian and Corsican continent), demonstrated the relative ease with which a population in this portion of the Mediterranean to easily influence culture in the Aegean, Crete, Malta, the Phoenician / Lebanese Coast and even as far south as Egypt. Given this, perhaps hyperdiffusionist theory needs to be considered once again.
This would mean that the megaliths of Malta, Brittany, southern England, the Orkney Islands, Crete, Lebanon (Baalbek) and even Nabta on the Egypt/Sudan border really are far-flung outposts of a common cultural empire.
And if that can be established, how likely is it that other megalithic cultures – for example those in China, India and Japan – that existed at roughly the same time, and built similar structures, are completely unrelated? Or does Occam's razor suggest that there may be a relationship; indeed, perhaps just another branch of a global, world-spanning homogeneous civilization, spread through maritime travel, whose apex occurred as much as 12,000 years before our current technological high-water mark.


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Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies
Where can I find grotto maps?
I finished the game, and I only have 2 grotto maps; and one I got for beating the other. Where they at?
armageddonwes - 6 years ago
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You get a new grotto map each time you defeat the boss of a current grotto. You can reset your current grottoes by simply closing the treasure map while you're outside. For Legacy bosses, I believe you have to beat another Legacy Boss (you can get Baramos from a quest) and get lucky. There is a Grotto/Treasure map sticky thread on the Board page.
TGSnowwy (Expert) - 6 years ago
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There are a very small handfull of quests that reward with grotto maps, some of which are not even yet available for download. You can read more about those in the Quest FAQ. However, as you've now experienced the primary way of getting new grotto maps is by beating grottoes. As your levels and revocations increase you will get increasingly challenging maps as rewards. They are meant to be progressive.
The other method to get a LOT of grotto maps at once would be to attend or organize a tag event in your area. While in tag mode the game allows you to carry maps with you that you have beaten. When you get tagged with someone's character that is carrying a map you can receive that map from them by talking to their represented charater in your Stornway Inn. The map will then appear as a new map for you to challenge.
Donkeygame (Expert) - 6 years ago
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A student who finds it necessary for any reason to withdraw from the College should make an appointment to see the assistant dean for academic advising and complete an official withdrawal form. If this is not possible, the student must submit to the dean a letter stating reasons for withdrawal.
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- On or before the first day of classes, 100% of tuition, room, board, and other fees will be cancelled. However, enrollment and room deposits, where applicable, will be retained by the College.
- After the first day of class but within the 60% point of the semester, tuition and fees will be adjusted based on the number of calendar days remaining in the semester; room and board refund policies are outlined below.
- After the 60% point of the semester, no adjustment is made in tuition and fees.
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Room fees: residence hall rooms are rented on an annual basis. A student who signs a room contract is expected to reside in College housing for the full academic year. After the first day of classes, in the event that a student withdraws from the College, he or she will receive a pro rata refund of room charges only if the residence hall lease can be transferred by the dean of student life to another student for whom no other College accommodations exist. If this condition does not exist, the student will be held liable for the full amount of the contracted housing charges for the term in which the withdrawal was initiated.
Board fee: board fees will be adjusted on a pro rata basis, based on the remaining number of unused weeks in the semester. Unused dining dollars will be forfeited; unused M-Flex dollars will be refunded to the withdrawn student.
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- A student who is required to withdraw from classes and/or from College housing for disciplinary reasons is not eligible for any refund except pro-rated board, unless required by federal, state, or other regulations.
- Upon request, a detailed official policy and examples of allocation according to the College's refund policy are available in the following offices: Financial Aid, the Comenius Center, and the Bursar's Office.
- Dropping out of some, but not all, classes is not considered a withdrawal, though adjustments to financial aid may be required depending on circumstances. (See dropping courses, below.)
- M-Flex Dollars will be refunded to a student who has withdrawn, to the amount of unused dollars.
- If funds are released to a student because of a credit balance on the student's account prior to a student's withdrawal or change in registration status, the student may be required to repay some federal grants.
- Refunds will be determined, processed, and paid 30 calendar days after the date of withdrawal.
Questions about the College's refund policy and its application to particular cases may be addressed to Susan O'Hare, bursar. Appeals concerning the application of this policy may be made in writing to Mark F. Reed, vice president for finance and administration, Colonial Hall, for final determination by the College.
Dropping Courses
Full-time students who drop to part-time status (fewer than three units) and part-time students who withdraw from courses without replacing an equal number of credits or units in the same session will receive an adjustment of tuition on those courses dropped within the 60% point of the semester.
It is the student's responsibility to contact the Financial Aid Office to verify the effect that any change in courseload will have on the student's financial aid eligibility.
Administrative Withdrawal
Prior to the announced last day for students to withdraw with a "W", instructors may request an administrative withdrawal for a student who has been absent from class without notification for a period of three weeks or more. The request will be submitted to the registrar in writing. The registrar will then consult with one of the academic deans on the appropriateness of the request. If a student's status changes from full-time to part-time as a result of the administrative "W", the bursar and financial aid will make appropriate adjustments to the student's account for said term. Students who are absent with notification may not be withdrawn by the instructor.
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A student who finds it necessary to leave the College but who plans to return within a year may request a leave of absence. Please see information on requesting a leave of absence elsewhere in this catalog or in the Student Handbook. The effective date of an approved leave of absence and associated adjustment of tuition, fees, and financial aid is determined in the same way as the withdrawal date. Please refer back to withdrawal from the College for details.
When the student wishes to resume studies, he or she must submit a written request to the associate dean for academic affairs to return and make an appointment to select classes.
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A student who does not follow the formal withdrawal procedures may be withdrawn by the College. This may occur if the student fails to complete the registration process, to show up for classes at the beginning of a term, or to return when scheduled from an approved leave of absence, or simply "drops out" in the middle of a term. A student who has been withdrawn by the College is no longer matriculated and must apply for readmission in order to return. A student who intends to return within a year is strongly advised to follow the formal procedures for a leave of absence.
In the case of a withdrawal by the College effective after the beginning of a term, there is no adjustment of tuition, fees or institutional financial aid for that term. However, federal financial aid must be adjusted according to regulations governing the return of Title IV funds. The student is responsible to repay to the College the amount of any federal aid that is returned. It is to a student's advantage to follow the formal withdrawal procedures in a timely manner. Following are examples of the effective dates of withdrawal by the College for the purpose of the return of Title IV funds only:
- A student who engages in academically-related activities and does not follow the formal withdrawal procedures will be considered an "enrolled" student and will not be considered formally withdrawn until notification is made to the Office of the Provost. If notification is never made by the student to the Office of the Provost, the student's withdrawal date is the midpoint of the semester, unless the College can determine the student's last date of engagement in an academically-related activity after the midpoint.
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The College (not the student) must document both that an activity is academically-related, and that the student participated in the activity. Examples of academically-related activities include examinations or quizzes, tutorials, computer-assisted instruction, academic advising, academic conferences, completing an academic assignment, paper, or project, or attending a class or study group where attendance is verified. Examples of activities that are not academically-related include living in institutional housing, participating in the College's meal plan, participating in an athletic activity, participating in a music-related activity that is not required for class, and working on campus.


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Mumbai: The director Anand L. Rai is very excited, as the long awaited day of the release of the film "Tanu Weds Manu" is just around the corner. Anand said that the film is very honest, and it displays a part of the world from which is comes, in New Delhi. He stated that watching the film will make the audience feel like they are part of the story, based on love and humor.
Anand L. Rai feels like the film is part of the world from which he comes and where he belongs. As he is a Delhiite, he is very familiar with the north Indian culture. The director has also been sure since the beginning of the lead cast Madhavan and Kangana, that they would best fit the characters of the films, Manu and Tanu.
Since it is a love story and an Indian comedy, the director had to make it seem real and powerful, and he says that he is pleased with the result. "Tanu Weds Manu" hits the theaters this Friday, so run over and get the tickets!


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Equity Residential, EQR is in the exchange NYSE and its industry is REIT – Residential in the sector of Financial. Based in USA, Equity Residential, EQR has a market cap of 25176.03. Since its IPO date on the 08/12/1993, Equity Residential, EQR performance year to date is -3.87%. Today Equity Residential, EQR has gained 1.59%, with a current price of 70.1.
Ownership of the company is 0.80% for insider ownership while institutional ownership is 99.10%. The management of the company have seen the company have a payout ratio of 18.40%. Return of assets are at 18.90%, with return on investment at 4.70%.
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For the last year Equity Residential, EQR has seen a EPS growth of 42.10%. A performance for the year of 9.64%. The 52-week high is -6.44%, and the 52-week low is 30.62%. The average volume for Equity Residential, EQR is 854275.
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The poverty of Africa's history
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To feel part of something that really matters is irresistibly uplifting. The two to three billion people who tuned into the Live 8 concerts would agree. That close to half of humanity was moved to consider the injustices visited upon Africa is a laudable achievement. As the leaders of the wealthy democracies of the G8 meet this week, very many people - from the rock stars to the humblest TV viewer - will be basking in the glow of doing the right thing. No global rock concert, nor any pledge of aid can, however, make poverty history. That truth does not diminish the Live 8 message, nor the G8's expected policy response. The world owes Africa a better deal. But it is the work of a lifetime, not a moment .
Where does Africa's tragedy begin? Europe's expansionist colonial powers carved up the continent, like they were sharing out a cake. For centuries Africa was merely an economic opportunity for the West, a vast, rich land to be plundered for slaves and mined for gold, timber and the like. After World War II a new generation of nationalist African leaders emerged. But a proud new era did not follow the end of colonial rule, despite heady expectations. There was trouble with borders. Some split ethnic groups in two, others bundled up rival tribes into one nation. Then came the Cold War. The United States and the Soviet Union armed and funded a slew of competing African dictators who pillaged at will. That Africa's ruthless scramble for power and profit persists is, in large part, a legacy of this long history of exploitation.
As this year's G8 chairman, Britain has secured pledges for an additional $US25 billion ($33 billion) in aid for Africa, and promises of debt relief. That is very important. But throwing money at despair does not necessarily work. In sub-Saharan Africa, life expectancy is falling and per capita incomes have declined since the 1960s. Yet, over that same period the West has poured in about $US600 billion. Aid is most effective in nations with reasonably competent governments committed to basic services such as health and education. Otherwise, it is too easily squandered by corrupt elites. Over generations, Africa's wealth has been systematically looted and few Africans enjoy accountable government. Instead, violence, corruption, poverty and preventable diseases prevail. Breaking this cycle demands the arduous and complicated rebuilding of institutions and governance - from the village up. Africa also needs access to fair global markets, not those distorted by rich nations' agricultural subsidies.
There is no generic solution for Africa. But there are some "quick wins" on the United Nation's wish-list, like funding "barefoot doctors" for regions with no health infrastructure or insecticide-treated mosquito nets to cut infant deaths. Every step forward, however, requires a deep understanding of local conditions because, up close, poverty has a poignantly human face. Villagers in Uganda, for example, were recently implored not to turn new mosquito nets into wedding gowns. Garnering the will to help Africa is a crucial first step. But the real challenge lies in turning aid into better lives.
A master of Swiss timing
Every now and then, an athlete arrives on a competitive field with such majestic authority that others, each of them blessed with extraordinary talent, are made to look also-rans, their attendances necessary only for the facade of contest, much like a sparring partner to a boxing champion. Roger Federer, the Swiss tennis champ, is one such athlete. His Wimbledon finals victory over the American Andy Roddick was as complete a demonstration of powerhouse tennis as the sport offers.
Whatever height Roddick could reach, Federer climbed further. Whatever Roddick's splendid array of shots and tactics, his unpredictable variety, his steely endurance and his unnerving focus, Federer did not skip a beat. His tennis was all but faultless. Therein is some explanation of his tennis genius. A player who does not make mistakes by definition is tough to get around.
Federer said the final was "my best match maybe" and Roddick conceded: "You just have to sit back and say, 'too good', sometimes." The American's exasperation was obvious. "Hope he gets bored or something," Roddick said of Federer.
Roddick should not hold his breath but given the stamp of Federer dominance, it is difficult envisaging a safe means to escape the Federer shadow. Indeed, Roddick is at risk of becoming one of those slightly tragic sporting characters who would likely reign supreme but for the master with whom their time clashes - a Stirling Moss to Juan Fangio, a Merv Lincoln to Herb Elliott.
After Federer joined Bjorn Borg and Pete Sampras as the only men professionals to win three straight Wimbledon singles titles, John McEnroe said Federer was the "greatest talent of all time" and Boris Becker said he was a champion without a weakness. He lost only one set during last year's tournament and two sets this year, bringing to 36 his consecutive match victories on grass.
At just 23, Federer expects to be around for years to come. And watchers expect his tennis, if anything, to get even better. The French Open is the only grand slam tournament missing on his path to glory. Federer, however, is the player most likely to adapt to a court surface unsuited to his style of play.
Federer is not unbeatable. But beating him requires an opponent to play beyond themselves, to lift to levels they themselves regard as exceptional. Defeat is so very rarely Federer's doing. While form and temperament fluctuate within others, Federer ticks on like a Swiss watch.


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I did these last weekend for All Moments Remembered. The girls had some challenges for CHA to use your stash before all the new goodies roll in.
This layout, you had to use eyelets, stickers, fiber & paper older than 6 months. So, here ya go, got them all.
Did some fun stitching to mimic the pumpkin tendrils that grow on the vines:
Here's a close up of the stickers. They are glitter stickers, and not too terribly old:
The other challenge was to use orange, 3 buttons & ribbon. I might journal on this, haven't decided yet.
And, here's my sneaky way of getting 3 buttons on without scattering them or lining them up... I stacked them:
I just finished up a mini album, that I'll post later on.
Update on Ethan:
Ethan is feeling better. He doesn't seem to be in much pain at all. Thursday night he said he felt sore, so I gave him some Advil. He was only complaining about the cast being tight. Since the swelling went down in his arm, he says it feels much better.... now it's itchy, but, we knew that was going to happen.
Monday is the day he gets the follow up Xray.... I'm crossing my fingers that everything stayed put, and he won't need anything else done.
Catch ya later!!
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Couple of Scrapbook Pages
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Labels: Family stuff, Layout, Scrapbook Pages
4 comments:
- joscelyne cutchens said...
love the stitching! :) Glad to hear the Ethan is doing better!
- July 26, 2008 at 9:00 PM
- tigardlilly said...
Those are amazing layouts! I love them.
- July 27, 2008 at 12:47 AM
- Debbie Gaydos said...
Oh man.... the eyelets with the stitching - ADORABLE! The stack o' buttons - BRILLIANT! I'm working with that same LYB paper right now, too, isn't that a great line?
Good luck with the x-ray tomorrow!! I hope you get good news!
- July 27, 2008 at 8:13 AM
- Stacy said...
Love the way you stacked the buttons. Very clever!
- July 28, 2008 at 11:49 AM
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Alonso S. Perales
Rio Grande City, Texas
June 29, 1927
Data for the press:
My projects for the immediate future.
I intent to dedicate myself to exercising my profession in the lower valley of the Rio Grande and have my law offices established in McAllen and Rio Grande City by July 15 of the current year at the latest.
I also intend to sustain some conferences pro-race in time not distant, at the same time take the preliminary steps for the formation, in the Valley first and then in other populations of Texas, of a strong entity of American citizens of Mexican origin whose exclusive objective would be sincerely labor in pro of the improvement of the intellectual, economic, social and political of the Mexican Americans in general. The success of said organization will essentially depend on the type of leaders that will lead them. Therefore, these leaders will have to reunite the following qualities: they must be honorable, active, brave and intelligent. They must be honorable so that they will not fool or exploit our unhappy race in Texas; they must be active so that our general progress will be fast; they must be brave so that they will not fear asking for justice when their rights as citizens in the united states of America have been violated; and they must be intelligent so that better govern our destinations as citizens and as a race.
I have the firm conviction that our race counts in Texas with a great number of leaders that unite those qualities and the day is not far in which the organization of the Mexican Americans will be a fact; and, given that this organization will be founded over a solid base, their pro-race activities in Texas will be crowned for a complete success.
Wedding Invitation
C. Perez Albares &
S. Pena de Perez
Make you participants of the forthcoming marriage of their daughter
Marta Engracia
to Mr.
Alonso S. Perales
They have the honor of inviting you and your gracious family to the
Nuptial ceremony that will take place the 26th of the current month
At 7:30 p.m. in the Catholic Temple of this city
Rio Grande City, Texas
November 1922
Alonso S. Perales
Friday, Washington, D.C.
9:30 p.m. May 19, 1922
My Unforgettable Martita:
Today 15 days ago I wrote you a letter telling you that I had resolved to continue studying some more time, but that I want to marry you as soon as possible.
I also asked you if you thought your father would consent for you to come to this city to marry me.
To this date I have not received your response.
Why do you punish me this way? Why are you taking so long to respond to a letter as important as that one? Why do you not write at least some lines telling me something in respect to our situation? Why are you so ungrateful with me, Love of Mine? Huh? Huh?
Does it not occur to you that I will be anxious to know what you think about our situation?
Imagine how I am here imagining thousands of things. I say:
Did she misinterpret my letter and feels offended by me?
Did her father feel offended?
Did the letter not arrive?
I don't know what to think.
Tomorrow is Saturday and if I do not receive a letter from you, you can imagine the splendid Sunday that I will have.
What I tell you in my letter does not mean that we will not get married given the case that your father will not want for you to come here and contract marriage with me. No, no…life of mine.
We will get married as soon as possible. That is, as soon as I can make the trip and arrange everything properly.
Many kisses.
Your Alonso
Yours Always


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By Anton Adamek
Monday, June 10, 2013 2:59 AM
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For two full weeks, from June 9 to 23, more than just the bird's song will be heard in and around the Eagle Bluff Environmental Learning Center in rural Lanesboro. In its 14th straight year, the Stringwood Chamber Music Festival will bring some of the most talented high school and professional string musicians in the nation to the bluffs of southeast Minnesota.
The increasingly popular chamber music festival began as an idea in 1999 when the Artaria String Quartet performed at Eagle Bluff during the "Dinner on the Bluff" series.
Artaria violinist Ray Shows said the experience and environment were wonderful. "That was the initial interest in the area," he explained.
The following summer, the first crop of talented artists arrived to musically train within a natural setting. Over the years, Artaria has continued to lead the organization of Stringwood even though the program has changed somewhat. The original one-week experience expanded to the two-week format in 2007. Connections to professional coaching and guest artist masterclass instruction also continued to broaden. Guest artist and student performances increased and moved out to various locales, including the Commonweal Theatre in Lanesboro. By 2012, those 24 students had doubled and were arriving from all corners of the United States.
Most of the students' time will be spent on the campus of Eagle Bluff. "The facilities are beautiful and really enhance the beauty of the music," said Shows. "There is a perfect connection between the music and with nature."
Eagle Bluff naturalists agree with that statement. "It's really nice to be walking around and hear beautiful string music all the time," shared graduate naturalist Stephanie Davidson, who worked with Stringwood students last year.
The musicians spend several hours, both morning and afternoon, in rehearsals, lessons or masterclasses. Professional staff will both compliment and critique their playing.
Their musical education is complemented with evening programs put together by the staff at Eagle Bluff. These include the High Ropes Challenge Course, canoeing, archery and rock wall climbing. "They are so excited to be a part of the experience and they are a great group of kids to work with," shared Davidson.
Beside the adventure to be found at Eagle Bluff, the group of students and Stringwood staff take an annual bike ride from Lanesboro to Whalan where they stop at the Aroma Pie Shop.
When they aren't rehearsing or relaxing, the musicians travel to nearby performance venues. The first Young Artist Concert will be Friday, June 14, at 2 p.m. at the Commonweal Theatre. The artists will hit the road the following day and perform at 3 p.m. at the First Presbyterian Church in Rochester. The first weekend will conclude on June 16 with another performance at the United Methodist Church in Lanesboro at 1 p.m.
The following weekend will have the students performing at the Sons of Norway Hall in Lanesboro at 2 p.m. on Friday, June 21. A musically significant trip down to Spillville, Iowa, will occur the next day as the students will visit the home where Czech composer Antonín Dvorak lived in 1893 and composed three of his most recognizable chamber pieces. They will also perform a concert at St. Wenceslaus Catholic Church at 3 p.m. The next and final day will have the students traveling to St. Paul to perform at the Sundin Music Hall on the Hamline University Campus at 1 p.m. Each Young Artist Concert is free and open to the public.
In addition to the student concerts, the Artaria String Quartet will hold two ticketed concerts at the Commonweal Theatre beginning at 7:30 p.m. on June 12 and 19. Both will celebrate the chamber music of Dvorak, Shostakovich and Haydn. Tickets will be $20 for general admission with reduced rates applying for those with season tickets to the Commonweal.
Artaria has been a quartet for 27 years since first forming in Boston, Mass. The Boston Globe has described their playing as "exquisitely balanced and sonorous" and the St. Paul Pioneer Press as "emotionally taut and powerful" in their Shostakovich Cycle production.
One of Artaria's teachers, Meadowmount School of Music Professor Gerardo Ribeiro, will be presenting a violin performance masterclass on June 20 at 10 a.m. at Eagle Bluff. Being able to bring his teacher into the mix means a lot to Shows, as it exemplifies the impact musical education can have on successive generations.
"Teaching is a profession and a calling," he shared. "Many senior members gave me a leg up in music and to return that is something I love."
Learning at Stringwood also brings with it an expectation to pass on the knowledge to others. "That's how music survives. We expect it from our students to teach," he explained.
Artaria will present its annual chamber music masterclass on June 13 at 3 p.m. Two other professional musicians will give masterclasses as well: cellist Käthe Jarke, who serves on the faculty of the Julliard School; and violist Masumi Per Rostad, who won a 2009 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music Performance with the Pacifica Quartet. All masterclasses are provided free to the public. More information can be found on stringwood.com.
The students who will be attending Stringwood understand chamber music on a level that is perhaps not understood by many in the area. However, as Shows is quick to point out, that is why the young artists reach out through their concerts.
"There is a satisfaction that comes from sharing this," he stated. "We are blessed to be playing the music and the take away is the look on people's faces."
Shows and his fellow musicians in Artaria feel that they have been able to make real and lasting connections with the people of Lanesboro and Fillmore County through these Stringwood experiences.
For Shows, there is always work to be done to improve those relationships, but it sounds like Artaria and Stringwood have already played on the heartstrings of the Bluff Country
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