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Plymouth, N.H – Plymouth State University has recognized three faculty members for their outstanding commitment and performance in an annual celebration of faculty excellence. University Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dr. Julie Bernier said the three awardees, professors Chris Chabot, John Krueckeberg and Christian Roberson, are excellent representatives of the high quality and exceptional faculty at PSU.
"These three individuals have been recognized by their peers and by the students for excellence in scholarship, service and advising," Bernier said. "In each case, I can't think of a better choice. They are most deserving of these recognitions."
John Krueckeberg, Professor of History – Award for Excellence in Faculty Service
As a teacher at Plymouth State since 2001, Krueckeberg has served on many levels at the University, from being coordinator of the history discipline, to filling-in as a Department Chair, to serving on the institution's Planning/Budget/Leadership Group and to representing PSU on USNH's academic technology steering committee. Off campus, he has served for nearly a decade on the Town of Plymouth's Planning Board.
"Service is very important to me," noted Krueckeberg. "I truly believe that it represents one's commitment to their community."
Beyond his PSU teaching responsibilities, his service extends to expanding history education across the state and beyond: he serves as the state coordinator for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History's History Teacher of the Year award and also works with PSU geography professor Patrick May in bringing National History Day (NHD) to New Hampshire. The pair began working with schools across the state and launched NHD in 2002; they now reach more than 1,000 students from every region of New Hampshire, with PSU hosting the statewide competition each year.
Krueckeberg notes the University's motto (Ut Prosim) is about service – "I'm almost speechless to receive this award at an institution that defines itself with the dictum: 'That I May Serve.' To receive an award focused on someone fulfilling this part of the University mission is very humbling."
Christian Roberson, Assistant Professor of Computer Science – Distinguished Advising
Roberson was chosen by students for the Distinguished Advising Award because of his unwavering commitment to their success and genuine caring attitude. In presenting the award to Roberson, Alex Herbst, Student Body Vice President, quoted the comments written by the award selection committee.
"This year's distinguished advisor goes above and beyond just talking about which courses to take," said Herbst. "He carefully discusses academic and career paths available to you, the pros and cons of each, and then helps you work out which one may be the best for you. He encourages students to ask the questions they need to ask."
"This year's distinguished advisor 'gets it'— he values the time he spends with students and knows that quality advising, like quality teaching, is much appreciated and long-remembered," said Herbst.
"It means a lot to me to know that I was selected for this honor by the student body," Roberson said. "Knowing that my students really do appreciate the things I am doing for them as their advisor is truly rewarding. Advising students is one of my favorite aspects of my job here at PSU and helping them succeed as they work their way through our department is a great experience for me personally."
Roberson joined the faculty of the Computer Science and Technology department at Plymouth State University in 2007.
Chris Chabot, Professor of Biology – Award for Distinguished Scholarship
Chris Chabot is described as a prolific, dedicated, and innovative scholar due to his impressive record as a research biologist in his primary area of interest, biological clocks, and the life cycle and behavior of the Atlantic horseshoe crab. During his 20-year tenure at Plymouth State, he has served as principal investigator and has received external funding from agencies including the NH Sea Grant, the National Science Foundation and, most recently, as part of the IDeA Network of Biological Research Excellence (INBRE), a program whose goals include increasing biology research opportunities for undergraduate students.
"We humans learn best by doing, so the blending of research and teaching seems a natural to me," Chabot noted. "The faculty here is essentially a community of learners and we help to both support and to push each other towards excellence. PSU students nearly always have the opportunity to work directly with professors on real research. Collaborating with students on meaningful research is the epitome of fun for both me and for many students."
Chabot is also a past recipient of the PSU Distinguished Teaching Award, in part because of the extraordinary extent to which he involves his students in his research.
The awards were presented August 29 as part of PSU's Faculty Day ceremony.
For more information about this release, contact Bruce Lyndes, PSU Media Relations Mgr., (603) 535-2775 or email@example.com


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Tim Freundlich: HUB, a New Kind of Workspace
Written by John Shankman, publisher of The Awl Network
Timothy Freundlich is co-founder of HUB Bay Area, a co-working, meeting, and community space serving approximately 1,000 social innovators. On any given day, HUB is home to a diverse cast of programmers, designers, developers, and policy-minded individuals—all of whom seek to leverage technology for social good.
"HUB is where entrepreneurs, mentors, and investors come together locally and globally, physically and virtually, accelerating people, ideas and capital toward creating a better world," explains Freundlich. "It is a global physical 'co-working' community, a growing set of gatherings including the 1,500+ person annual SOCAP conference [an event that connects impact investors (who want a mix of financial return along with positive social and environmental impact) with investable entrepreneurs] that radically accelerates social and environmental innovation."
Just like a cell phone plan, members buy an amount of time they will use the space per month. They can dial up or down on a month-to-month basis, as each member's unique needs require.
There are now 36 HUBs open across five continents, including Sao Paolo, Johannesburg, Tel Aviv, London, Milan, and San Francisco. And there are 60+ teams working simultaneously to open the next wave of HUBs across the globe in the coming year. This constellation of international offices allows traveling HUB members to move fluidly between local workspaces using a "HUB passport." Having co-founded HUB Bay Area three years ago, Freundlich is no stranger to innovating in the social enterprise sector. Over the last 15 years, he has served in a number of capacities at Calvert Social Investment Foundation, and launched the Giving Fund – a more than $90 million impact investment-based donor advised fund that was spun out to a new organization, ImpactAssets, for which he serves as president. Freundlich also co-founded and serves as executive board member of Good Capital. He sits on the global HUB Association board of directors.
The HUB Cities Fund has been investing in the proliferation of HUBs across the U.S. Los Angeles, Boulder, and Seattle are now open, with many more in the works in the coming months.
We spoke with Freundlich about the process of re-imagining work environments.
You've asserted that physical workspaces are more important than ever. Why?
My-wiki-face-tube is fine, but we have lost the town square and a sense of place. The trust and relationships required to spur deep collaboration and the design principal of persistent everyday proximity for "creative collision" are best served by the marriage of the physical to the virtual. And in this global economy, they are further best served by expanding beyond a local context to also include a broad network of people spread throughout the world.
What's the biggest difference between yesterday's workspaces and the workspaces of tomorrow?
The cubicle is dead, and so is the cafe! Entrepreneurs, young and old, are looking for community and for radical collaboration: an open floor plan, creative and professional environments, with affinity to a larger context. Large companies are struggling to retain talent and innovation, while small startups are seeking connectivity to a greater community.
Gone are the days of rented boxes and empty conference rooms. Shared, dynamic space is the new black. And we are seeing that sustainability and purpose trump the blind pursuit of riches for the next generation of entrepreneurs coming on line. Hence, HUB exists both locally as a work community, and globally as an interconnected network of these communities.
What role does community play in HUB locations?
HUBs are curated by hosts and program managers on a daily basis. In San Francisco alone we had more than 300 events in the last 12 months, bringing together 15,000 people. Add that to the 100 meetings per day adding up to another 20,000 people a year, and a dozen affinity clubs for everything from international development to whisky tasting… and you have the makings of a diverse and dynamic environment.
HUB members don't just work and meet and convene together every day. They form deep bonds around shared values, the exchange of value (people, financial and intellectual capital).
Now multiply that by 36 communities all around the world, going to 50, 100, and beyond quickly. This is a piece of infrastructure for "social innovation" that will (modestly) change the world.
Is there an optimal number of people to sign up for a HUB location at once?
Individual HUBs have between 200 and 1,000 members generally speaking, but per company you usually see a spectrum of startups and satellite teams in the 1-10 person range at each HUB. Bigger than that, and teams tend to outgrow the HUB model and take down more traditional office space. For example, my "day job," ImpactAssets.org (an impact investment firm), has five team members working out of HUB SF.
But when NYC and DC HUBs likely get opened in 2013, our firm's two-to-four person teams in each of those locations will also start working out of those HUBs. And we will create, like so many other members' enterprises, a natural transference of ideas, people, and in our case investment capital, amongst these HUBs. That is how the local/global model works so brilliantly.
What's the biggest, enabling factor helping organizations like the HUB to thrive?
The tectonic shift in how people, especially millennials, want to physically go to work and the understandings emerging around the utility of rapid prototyping, collaboration and "creative collision," married to the surge in having sustainability and one's values incorporated into our work all make this type of model successful. Also, the trend toward fusing work and social life is well suited to the HUB model.
What are some of the biggest benefits and rewards of being part of a global network?
The global network gives us three main advantages.
First, all local members have a "passport" wherein they are a member of one, but also a member of all, meaning that as a member of San Francisco where I work every day, I also have the ability to work out of Amsterdam or Singapore, etc.
Second, we have global initiatives including program innovation and partnerships being developed concurrently in 35 locations; that all bubbles up for the benefit of all local HUBs and their members (e.g., entrepreneur accelerators and incubator programs and funding, etc.).
Finally, we can draw from the global membership and locations to gather resources such as peer to peer funding of companies, testing out market entry for member products and services across regions, or sourcing talented people for new ventures (either as new team members or for piece work) from across the global network.
My favorite success stories trace the launch of new ventures (that evolve) through to growth and success, transition, and then come back to pay it forward. For example, it could start with an entrepreneur who has an idea for a new venture, say a mobile app platform to connect low-income underemployed job-seekers with high-quality employment opportunities in real time. This entrepreneur joins the HUB, finds a second founder by the coffee machine and a board member at a monthly mixer. They then apply and get accepted to the HUB Ventures' three-month accelerator program as part of a 10 peer-member cohort, get a seed investment from the HUB Ventures sister fund for $50,000, and (in part due to being spotlighted in an investor demo-day) go on to raise $1 million in early stage venture funding within six months. The team grows to eight people at the HUB and gets its business developed, takes a private team room, and eventually is acquired in a multimillion dollar transaction and moves out to join the new parent company. Success. But then the kicker is that the founders stay in the HUB community, become angel investors and mentors for the next generation of entrepreneurs. This kind of scenario could play out in as little as 24 months.
What other business trends do you think will be significant over time?
We feel that millennials are changing the way businesses think about innovation and growth. For a whole new generation of entrepreneurs, it's no longer just about the bottom line. Millennials want to innovate and invest in such a way that takes in to account the ecological, technological and policy-related issues affecting our globalized world. That's what "impact" investing and collaborative consumption are all about. We're building a work environment that reflects this ethos. These trends point exactly to what we're building.


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: Robert Scoble gets to watch as Buzz Bruggeman pitches Activewords to a skeptical Esther Dyson. Minds meet.
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: Robert Scoble gets to watch as Buzz Bruggeman pitches Activewords to a skeptical Esther Dyson. Minds meet.
: David Weinberger, probably the gentlest folk I know in this world (unless there's a bad side I haven't gotten on yet), writes an essay that rings very true with me about not being a pacifist anymore: "Then, one day I was writing a dialogue about the morality of pacifism, and I lost the argument with myself."
My story isn't the same but isn't all that different. I made myself a pacifist early in life (after being a Civil War fan in the third grade but well before I was Vietnam draft bait; watching Vietnam on TV certainly had an impact). I wrestled with the same angels David wrestled with (what about Hitler? oh, that's now a hypothetical). And then I faced the demons of September 11th and gave up my pacifism, publicly, in front of the few readers I had here a few years ago. Different paths. Similar feelings.
Assigning citizen journalists
: When I saw a story the other day about a media outlet encouraging citizens to send in photos of tornadoes, I wasn't the only one who was worried that this might endanger those citizens.
: First, go read the Bill Clinton report, below. I hate it when something that took a lot of work scrolls off the screen. Isn't it pathetic to plug and link to your own post? Yes, it is. Anyway…. Here's one more thought that came out of what Clinton said…
The right was clever, no brilliant, to bypass the news — which they felt was stacked against them — to use other media and even entertainment to sell their political cause. Now the left is fighting back and so it's interesting to look at the scorecard:
: Radio — still owned by the right, of course. Is Air America an inroad? Not if it doesn't survive past the election. But Clinton said its getting audience last night and, of course, Al Franken says so.
: Books — shifting. Clinton said that during his presidency, most political books were from the right and they filled the best-seller list. Now the left is gaining with Franken, Moore, Clinton, and Clinton. There are still loads of conservatives selling well — start with O'Reilly. But now it's a battleground. Only thing is, the audience for books themselves is tiny. The hidden agenda (besides earning advances) is going on book tours and getting publicity on TV, I think.
: Movies — owned by the left. Well, of course, they're a product of left-wing Hollywood, aren't they? There's Fahrenheit 9/11, The Hunting of the President, The Day After Tomorrow in theaters now. What am I missing on the right? Who was the last big right-wing star after John Wayne?
: Music — always been the left. But I don't think that's effective today; it's no longer and has not been in ages a medium of lyrics and the rebellion these days is often generic: anger at the Man rather than this Man or that Man.
: TV — outside of the news (let's not get into that), isn't TV rather apolitical? Oh, sure, there's your random anti-Reagan miniseries and the message snuck in here and there. But I think this will be the next frontier of political entertainment. See Al Gore's new network. It won't be as overtly political as Air America, they say, but it will have a world view, of course. And I'll be you'll see some efforts to create the Norman Lear or the anti-Lear in politically hued sitcoms and dramas.
What do you see?
The mass market is (still) dead
: McDonald's has discovered that the mass market is dead. The mass market started dying with the inventions of the remote control, cable, Internet, and VCR. But it's still news when McDonald's wakes up and smells it. I saw the other day (sorry, lost link) that McD's is even using body paint on scantily clad women to push coming to McDonald's late at night.
Steve Hall has a quote from a McDonald's exec:
"Any single ad, commercial or promotion is not a summary of our strategy. It's not representative of the brand message," he said. "We don't need one big execution of a big idea. We need one big idea that can be used in a multidimensional, multilayered and multifaceted way."
That befuddled Steve. I think it means:
The mass market gives way to a mass of niches.
The No. 1 hamburger chain has cut its spending on prime-time commercials from two-thirds of its advertising budget to one-third over the past four years and plans to move further away from a one-stop strategy to draw consumers. The money has gone to "all other media" …
Pepsi agrees:
"We're looking at the landscape very differently," said Dave Burwick, chief marketing officer at beverage company PepsiCo . "Online will be bigger … print and outdoor will benefit from where we're going. We're taking dollars directly out of television."
: Important, too: The TV upfronts (when folks like movie studios pay a premium to get the time slots they want) is down from last year. See TV is exploding. [via Lost Remote]
: UPDATE: Seth Godin reacts to the McDonald's news:
I worry, though, about two things:
1. changing the marketing without changing the underpinnings of the business is almost always a bad strategy. If all the people, the systems, the real estate, the factories and the menus are organized around monolithic marketing, slapping a little brand journalism on top isn't going to work awfully well.
2. The marketer doesn't get to run the conversation. It's not really brand journalism that's happening, you see. It's brand cocktail party! You get to set the table and invite the first batch of guests, but after that the conversation is going to happen with or without you.
: My blogging friend Rex Hammock is back after sudden silence. Update bookmarks, for he has a new address — and that is what's bugging him. It's about links. Ever reasonable, Rex says:
My frustration is not with losing server space. I am a fortunate person who has access to abundant server space and bandwidth. The fact that Dave Winer took away my access to his server space has absolutely nothing to do with my read on the significance of this event. My frustration is with those who should know better not recognizing that the Cluetrain issue here is about links: That when someone does something, either innocently or with malice, that disrupts the efforts one has made to allow others to find "your stuff" on the web, then they have done something that says, "you don't exist."
Clinton speaks
: "I don't wake up in the morning hating Kenneth Starr. I wake up in the morning feeling sorry for people who believe they are in possession of the whole truth… And I think you should, too," President Bill Clinton told a large crowd tonight after the premiere of The Hunting of the President. "If you want to be forgiven, you have to extend forgiveness, even to people who aren't smart enough to ask for it."
It was an angry — at last — yet calm and philosophical Bill Clinton who stood on stage at NYU tonight, at an event sponsored by The Week, as he lectured the audience about the "historical context" of the film they had just watched. The film was based on a book that connected the dots about the — yes — vast, right-wing conspiracy that tried to bring Clinton down. It rehashed the troopers and Paula "with the hair and the nose" and Gennifer and Whitewater and the McDougals and Vince Foster with the bullet and, of course, Monica and showed who was behind it all. Just watching Ken Starr, that destructive prig, brought up the taste of bile again. But Clinton doesn't hate Ken Starr, remember. He said that Starr et al "were not independent agents, they were instruments of a grand design."
I found it odd, maybe sad, perhaps distasteful, no, maddening to see Clinton — whom I admire, let me be clear (or as we say, transparent) — coming out after the rehashing of all that, even if it was done by his defenders. Yet Clinton saw it as an opportunity for a history lesson.
To find "the roots of this," he started in the '60s. "The rise of the right in America basically began in the 1960s in all the turmoil over civil rights and the war, aggravated by the women's movement and the gay rights movement and the controversy over Rowe vs. Wade." With the end of the Cold War, he said, the right "didn't have an enemy anymore and needed an enemy and I had to serve as the next best thing. I think it's really important you understand that." He kept repeating, "I think it's really important that you understand," the prof letting us know this will be on the exam.
He said the "anti-government movement" and the religious right "thought they had found a permanent way of holding onto the White House by characterizing the Democrats as weak elitists… And we helped them, frankly. Our party made a lot of mistakes." He said the right considered Carter's victory in 1976 "an aberrational result of Watergate" and that the "anti-government-values crowd basically believes that the most important thing to do is to have the right people in power and concentrate power in their hands…."
But then he want back further. He said that "in every hinge point in history we have a fight like we have now."
"Our founders gave us a mission… to form a more perfect union. That was both a humble statement and a bold statement. It was humble because they recognized as flawed human beings, we will never be perfect… It was bold because it embodies the 18th Century idea of progress. It could always be more perfect…. But we always fight about this. At big times of change, it requires us to define, defend, and expand the union."
Now Clinton goes way back. "The personal animosity I engendered, maybe that's because there's something about me they just didn't like… But the time that most parallels that in the history of the country was the beginning of the republic." When the country was formed, he said, the only things we agreed about were getting the English out and Washington in; we didn't agree about the national economy or national legal system. "No one had really defined what it meant to be an American." We debated and grew the union. Then slavery and the union ripped at us; we fought and expanded. Then monopoly business versus government controls; we debated and grew the union. Then the Cold War, then the information age, then the growth of American diversity and a worldwide economy. "The people on the far right have their view and they're pursuing it as they think they should. We can win that fight because when you look back at American history, we have always decided to expand and extend. So I think you should feel optimistic and you should be very grateful — at least I am — that the American people, every time they get a clear shot and see what's really going on, they go forward." This, he said, is what we "will debate as we move to a new concensus about what it means to be an American in a 21st Century world."
Then, coming back to today, he says, "The reason the last [presidential] election was 50/50 is we haven't decided where we're going yet." He said there is "an honest disagreement in America today."
Harry Evans got on stage and said we were all assigned 4,000 word essays on presidential politics.
: Clinton's Golden Rules: "The effort of this was to show that I was bad people. I don't think we have to show that they they are bad people. We have to say that we're right and they're wrong." And: "I don't believe we need to get into that kind of demonization. I think the evidence shows our way works better." And: "They don't think they're bad people and I think it's a mistake for us to treat them the way they treated us, because if we do, then they own us, they turn us into the kind of Pavlovian creatures they turn their voters into."
: On that conspiracy: "Hilly was once hooted and derided when she called it a vast right-wing conspiracy." He said that when she came home after that, he questioned only the word conspiracy. "Conspiracies are normally secret," he said.
: On Susan McDougal: "The star of this movie and my personal heroine was Susan McDougal," Clinton said — it was the first thing he said after coming on stage — and she got a standing O, just as he had. "If you like what's in the film about her wait till you read what I wrote about her in the book…. Susan McDougal was a victim of abuse of power. She was simply a political pawn. And there were many more like her."
: On the special prosecutors: "I asked for the derned thing…. I was such a naive fool, I thought people actually wanted to know the truth. I knew I hadn't done anything wrong. I lost money in a land deal… That doesn't exonerate me from the stupid personal — and wrong personal — mistakes I made… All this started when the press said they wanted to know the truth about what went on, they actually wanted to know the truth." He said his counsel, Bernie Nussbaum, begged him not to approve the appointment of a special prosecutor. He believed Fiske, the first appointee, a Republican, would find the truth and it would be over. But "Fiske was replaced [because] he was too fast and too fair and he had to go." He was replaced by "somebody who was more results oriented, as they say." Ken Starr, he said, "saw himself as throwing the infidels from the temple."
: On the press: "The mainstream media basically was in the tank with Starr by and large until the issuance of the Starr report. And I give them this: There was a dramatic sea change then." And: "Media forgot briefly what they did in Watergate. What they did in Watergate was stop an abuse of power… They thought the game was get the President, not stop the abuse of power… But they got over it."
: On the New York Times: He said he certainly had problems with their coverage of Whitewater and Starr at first but "the New York Times was the first great establishment institution that got it wrong to at least have a conscience. They did finally say that Kenneth Starr should resign."
: On the new media age: "The press changes in the information age, too." In the old days, he said, there were three networks and "they all had enough market share… to afford to send older, very experienced, very seasoned journalists to Vietnam and say here's what we saw… The newspapers had enough money to have a correspondent in Paris and Beijing.. .to write thought pieces. It was a different world. They're in a much more competitive world today and the lines between all media are being merged and the traditional lines between news and advocacy are being blurred."
: On politics and media: Well, the right has radio. But the left has movies. Take Moore. Take this. And, Clinton says, the left is making inroads back into other media. "Look at what MoveOn.org did this year. Look at what Air America is doing. Al Franken is beating Rush Limbaugh in a couple of markets with that little tiny network." [Note: Anybody have those ratings books?] "When you're up against something you can either sit around and whine about it or get up and do something about it." He said the right used to produce more books but now the left is, and he sure hopes his is one of the big sellers.
: On religion: "What separates us is that we haven't tried to have our politics driven by religion…. That's the historical context of the film and that's why the film is so important."
: On sanity: Harry Evans asked how Clinton "sustained yourself in this ordeal." Clinton replied that "most days it bothered me more what was happening to other people…. My friends stayed, the administration stayed, and the American people stayed. That made it a lot easier… I said if I give up on this I will compound my error [agreeing to a special counsel]. When I realized there was no limit to what they could do I realized there was not alternative but to suit up and take the field."
: On the election: "We've got a 50/50 chance, maybe better, that we'll win the White House next time." He said the Congress may shift to the left but only by a few votes. "I think you need to worry more about the concentration of this right-wing view of government, particularly in the courts…."
: I didn't go to the after-party. Nor did I get to hobnob with celebs, though I did see Salman Rushdie and Mike Myers and seats reserved for Uma Thurman, Glenn Close, and Moby. It's late. Notebook's empty. Good night.
: UPDATE: The AP report on the event; not much there. Roger Friedman's FoxNews column on the event. Newsday review of the flick here.
: UPDATE: Micah Sifry does not partake of Clinton nostalgia. Way doesn't.


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"Brake, the high-concept, tightly-wound thriller starring Stephen Dorff (BLADE, IMMORTALS), is now available on SundanceNOW, Cable VOD, Amazon Streaming, iTunes and XBox Zune before its limited theatrical release on March 23rd. Held captive in the trunk of a car, Secret Service Agent Jeremy Reins realizes he won't be set free by his captors until he gives up the whereabouts of "Roulette," a secret location where the U.S. President is taken in the event of a terrorist attack.
Also starring Chyler Leigh (Grey's Anatomy, Not Another Teen Movie), Brake is the first feature film from emerging writer Timothy Mannion directed by Gabe Torres."


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Zip back to Nov. 4, 2008, when CNN newscaster Wolf Blitzer seemed smitten by some techno-spice his network rolled out during its coverage of the presidential election. It went like this: A 3D image of a CNN correspondent in Chicago was beamed to the network's New York headquarters, where she appeared in-studio as a hologram.


text: In 1964, LIFE magazine published a photo essay titled "Real Witches at Work," about Wiccans in contemporary England. They've just posted a number of those striking images plus others, including the beautiful shot above. Of course, people practicing witchcraft in the nude has always freaked out (and turned on) the squares. Here's how Mrs. Ray Bone, one of the Wiccans interviewed in LIFE at the time, responded to that mindset: "It seems obvious to me that people can be just as immoral with their clothes on as with them off." Real Witches at Work: Photos of English Pagans in the 1960s


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THS baseball craves season's first victory
Tonganoxie couldn't end its early-season losing streak, but lightning did put the clamps on one of its games.
The Chieftains, who started the season 0-5, played their second game against Mill Valley Thursday when a storm front moved in. With lightning approaching, school officials postponed the game. Although no date was set, the game will resume with the start of the bottom of the fourth and Tonganoxie's Matt Gripka at the plate. Mill Valley leads the second game, 6-1.
In the earlier game, the Chieftains appeared ready for their first victory. Trailing 5-0, Tonganoxie scored five runs in the bottom of the fourth, and answered another Mill Valley run in sixth. The Jaguars, though, churned out six runs in the top of the sixth. Tonganoxie added a run in the sixth and had the bases loaded in the seventh, but couldn't generate any runs in the final inning. Mill Valley went on to win, 12-7.
Despite the team's rough start, THS coach John Lee said his team is beginning to produce.
"I think we're starting to hit the ball better," Lee said. "The kids are starting to understand their roles better."
Lee has been pleased with his pitchers. David Saultz allowed three earned runs in 4 2/3 innings in a 6-2 loss to Piper. In that game, Zach Sanders was 2-for-4 with an RBI, Saultz was 2-for-3 and Pat Weyer was 1-for-4.
In game two, Tonganoxie lost, 15-0. Still, Lee has seen improvement with other players, especially relief pitchers Matt Gripka and Brad Reischman.
Tonganoxie takes on Basehor-Linwood on Thursday at home, and then heads to Santa Fe Trail next Tuesday.
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Good questions Steel.
Getting some intel from MRO is great advice to get a sense of what may be going on in terms of flows and hatches that you may run into. Knowing a bit about the hatches helps a lot too--- in terms of when in the day they tend to happen, and also what parts of the stream they tend to happen over- fast water, below riffles, slow water with muddy bottoms etc. They should be able to tell you that too if you ask, (or post here if they dont).
If you have a limited amount of time to fish, try and hit it when you have the best chance and things are most likely to be popping. For example a lot of the big deal hatches out your way like hexes and brown drakes might bring up every fish in the river. But if youre out fishing in a fast water section of the stream mid-morning you maybe wonder what all the fuss is about, since they rend to come off in slow sections at and after dusk into late evening after dark.
This time of year a lot of the hatches tend to happen in the morning or evening as opposed to early season hatches that come off midday. Id also think youd be better off trying to cover some water rather than camping out in one spot, unless youre waiting for something specific to happen. A pool can be hard to fish, and a lot of casts will eventually put fish down.
Youd be better off running and gunning and casting to likely looking spots as you move., hitting current seams, undercut banks, deadfalls, fronts and backs of rocks, etc. Try a couple casts at each spot and move on, or if its really fishy, change your angle by moving a bit.
Depending on time of day of likely hatches, you may want to work your way down stream nymphing and swinging wets, and then work back upstream over the same water casting dries. This way, if the hatch starts in late afternoon and you'll be mimic-ing the behavior of the naturals as nymphs get active, start to emerge (wet flies), and then finally start popping later when you work your way back with dries.
If youre fishing and nothing is going, on prospecting with standard dries like a size 16ish Parachute Adams or Elk Hair Caddis, swinging a wet fly, soft hackle or caddis pupa below riffles, and hitting riffles with a Green Rockworm (caddis larva pattern also a good steelhead pattern) are good ways to dredge something up.
As far as fishing streamers, Id say practice on bass since they should be all around you. Find some small mouth streams to fish em in moving water. The techniques for trout are the same and you'll have more of a chance to fish them if you do limited trips for trout. Although you can fish streamers anytime, personally I go to them more in early spring (high water) and late fall for trout.
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text: Celebrities' Favorite Paint Colors\nChoosing wall colors with Nicole Kidman, Elizabeth Olsen, January Jones, and other stars\n"I'm a cream-and-white girl," answered Nicole Kidman on the red carpet at the New York Film Festival. "I'm very, very much about trying to keep the place as peaceful as I can. But at the same time, I'll choose paintings that have color."\\n\\nKidman is pictured here at the Variety Power of Women event.\nActress Elizabeth Olsen seeks simple contrast. Perched in a booth at a chichi Swarovski event, she told AD that her color scheme was a work in progress. "I'm in the process of picking colors right now," the ingenue said. "And because I have a lot of raw materials, natural linen colors, I'm going to try to figure out what kind of dark color to paint my walls so that all the neutral colors don't just blend in."\\n\\nOlsen is pictured here at a movie premiere.\nWhile her designer father-in-law purveys a line of elegant paints, FEED Projects founder Lauren Bush Lauren, wife of Ralph Lauren's son David, admitted that she didn't actually choose the colors in her apartment. "I moved in with my husband," she told AD at a Target event. "The colors are white and neutrals. But it's beautiful—very simple and modern."\nAlso at the Target event, actress Hailee Steinfeld discussed color. "I wanted a very fun, mellow vibe, so at the end of the day, when I go into my room, it's not very loud," she said. "My room is light pink and chocolate-brown. It's very calm and fun."\\n\\nSteinfeld is pictured here at the Teen Vogue Young Hollywood Party.\n"I worked with a special designer on colors," answered cookbook author Jessica Seinfeld at Target. "And the designer had some brilliant ideas. But it's certainly hard to repaint my house now, because a lot of the colors are custom-made. I chose soft, offbeat colors that were not going to be too masculine or too feminine. I have a lavender-purple dining room and a pea-green sunroom."\\n\\nJessica and Jerry Seinfeld are pictured at a fashion week presentation.\nDuring the glam New York celebration of Chanel's Bijoux de Diamants collection, actress January Jones told AD that she had recently gone to Farrow & Ball and picked out some beautiful neutrals: "A stone color and a greenish one for my TV room," she said. "And I used light blue in my bedrooms. It makes me happy to wake up to light blue."\\n\\nJones is pictured here at a gala.\n"I'm so excited," said actress Nora Zehetner during the Chanel dinner. "I painted my living room pink myself. But I got a really nice pink, a peachy nude. It's not like princess pink, because that would be embarrassing. And yes, I went to the hardware store and got all the samples, and I went home and tried them on the wall."\\n\\nZehetner is pictured here at a fashion show.\n"I do what feels right," replied model and actress Daisy Fuentes before a Carlos Miele fashion show. "I have a wonderful friend, [AD100 designer] Martyn Lawrence Bullard, who has incredible taste. And I do ask him for advice—he did a couple of the rooms. I've got some grays, neutrals, a lot of creams."\\n\\nFuentes is pictured here at an event honoring costume and production designer Catherine Martin.\n"At my house in Westchester, New York, I have a lot of glass and stone," said actress Vanessa Williams at the Carlos Miele fashion show. "So I wanted to do a lot of natural colors. I've got hardwood floors and lots of creams and golds that reminded me of leaves."\\n\\nWilliams is pictured here at a gala.\nAt last summer's Hamptons Classic Horse Show, we discussed color with the now former mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg, who worked with his designer, Jamie Drake—using public and private funding—to restore Gracie Mansion, Manhattan's historic mayoral residence. "There were obviously bright colors," he said of the rooms, "because in those days, there were gas lamps. And if you didn't have bright colors, nobody would have been able to see them—everything would have looked gray."\\n\\nBloomberg is pictured here at the opening night of the Winter Antiques Show.\nDuring an event at the Calvin Klein flagship store in New York, actress Gabrielle Union mentioned that her designer, Lorraine Letendre, takes a minimalist approach. "What she does is kind of like this store," said Union. "Very simple, sophisticated, and chic. So the less color, the better. Everything is timeless. I don't want to have to redo everything every two years."\\n\\nUnion is pictured here at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.\n"Honestly, tones of gray. Cool colors, not warm colors," noted famed makeup artist Bobbi Brown after a Rachel Roy fashion show. "Whites and cool grays. My husband and I look at them in all different lights, and we make sure that they don't look blue. Because I can't stand when I think I've painted something gray and it's actually powder-blue. You have to look at it in daylight and at night."\\n\\nBrown is pictured here at a Nonoo fashion show.\nNurse Jackie star Edie Falco is currently decorating with the assistance of a former Sopranos costar. "I'm actually having help from my dear friend Aida Turturro," said Falco before the Nanette Lepore fashion show. "We're working on it right now. And we're looking at teal and orange. She's got a real knack for this. Who would have thought?"\\n\\n"Actually," asserted Turturro, seated nearby, "She's doing a beautiful Tuscan natural plaster, and the furniture will have the color. But we're just starting. Talk to us again when we're done."\\n\\nFalco is pictured here at the Golden Globe Awards.\nIn the front row at a Rachel Zoe fashion show, designer Prabal Gurung, who grew up in Kathmandu, Nepal, called the process of selecting colors at home enormously personal. "For me, the house is your sanctuary, where you're supposed to be comfortable," he said. "So I think it has a lot to do with memories of childhood. I do a pure white with little hints of red."\\n\\nGurung is pictured here at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards.\nBackstage at a Jenny Packham show, actress Minka Kelly informed AD that she, too, works with an interior designer. "Estee Stanley helps me with that," she answered when we asked about her color scheme. "Swiss coffee is a good color," she added. "And white."\\n\\nKelly is pictured here at a movie premiere.\nAt a Tory Burch fashion show, actress Jordana Brewster said for color choices, she trusts her interior designer and best friend, Chiara de Rege. "I want colors that make me happy," she noted. "No grays or browns, but more oranges and beautiful bright whites."\\n\\nBrewster is pictured here at an Oscar party.\nDuring a front row chat before a Richard Chai fashion show, designer Phillip Lim said that his choice of color at home is informed by photography. "It always goes back to the photos I love. [I use] grays and navies," he said. "And I try to keep everything just natural and simple, using the philosophy of wabi-sabi [the appreciation of natural beauty and imperfections]."\\n\\nLim is pictured here at the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund Awards.\nBackstage at a Naeem Khan show, Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi served up practical advice. She said she considers what's going to be in the room first. "But I use sage-green a lot," she noted. "I think it's very relaxing and pretty. I also like super-pale blue. Valspar has some great colors—also Farrow & Ball or Benjamin Moore. And I love Moroccan red in a kitchen."\nAlso backstage at Naeem Khan, author Carole Radziwill told AD that she likes to "choose colors that make me feel calm and quiet and serene, because my house is my little cave."\\n\\n"My entire bedroom is beige Ultrasuede," said Radziwill. "I learned that trick from my mother-in-law, Lee Radziwill, who has the most exquisite taste."\\n\\nRadziwill is pictured here at a Bravo event.\n"Right now, I like a bohemian Indian influence," said actress Jenna Dewan-Tatum over brunch at the Hotel Chantelle in New York. "We have lots of reds and oranges and yellows." And how does her husband, actor Channing Tatum, react to her color choices? "Pretty much, I say, 'Is this okay?' and he says, 'Yes.'"\\n\\nChanning and Jenna Dewan-Tatum are pictured here at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.\n"I never believe in hiring someone to pay them for their taste," insisted actor Anthony Mackie at the bar during the Hotel Chantelle brunch. "I paint my own walls and buy my own couch. It's my taste, not the taste of a person I paid to give me a 'feel.' At my place in New Orleans, there is a soft green in the living room and a soft yellow in the kitchen—but the wall bends, so I painted a hard line on it. There are cypress floors, and those colors complement the floors really well. They're mellow colors."\\n\\nMackie is pictured here at a gala.\n"I always tend to go with light grays, whites, and pinks," answered Diane Kruger from the front row of a Calvin Klein show. "Gray on walls is very warm," she said. "And I like to bring in colors through flowers and artwork, but I feel like the furniture should be neutral."\\n\\nKruger is pictured here outside of a fashion show.\n"I'm actually crazy about interior design," replied actress Eva Amurri Martino at an event at the Montage hotel in Beverly Hills for Heifer, an organization that fights hunger and poverty around the globe. "It's my secret hobby. I find one object, a rug, a bowl, and I design an entire room around it. One was a vintage Art Deco rug that had been in my family for years. My mother [Susan Sarandon] gave it to me. And I planned my entire library around that one rug. The walls are indigo, but the color is called Gentleman's Gray by Benjamin Moore."\\n\\nMartino is pictured here at an exhibition opening.\nOn the red carpet at the Emmy Awards, actress Melissa McCarthy said she likes to pick a single "tonality" for the whole house. "I find a color or tone that I'm in love with, and then everything branches off from there," she said. "I usually have everything with a little touch of gray. If it's a light green, it has a touch of gray; if it's a plum, it has a little gray. I find that more relaxing to the eye."\\n\\nMcCarthy is pictured here at the Critics' Choice Awards.\nWhile attending a New York City Ballet gala at Lincoln Center, Anne Hathaway indicated that she is yet another lover of pale shades. "At the moment, I'm very much into neutrals," she said. "So I'm using a lot of creams."\\n\\n"Any cream in particular?" inquired AD.\\n\\n"Oh, you think I'm a much more involved decorator than I am," demurred the actress.\\n\\nHathaway is pictured here at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party.


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Creamy Italian Skroodle Salad
We love pasta at our house. You can usually find it on our dinner plates at least once a week in some variety or another. I love that you could mix almost anything with pasta and it would be delicious.
Lately I've been trying to make sure I eat lunch. For some reason when I work at home, I tend to skip lunch, usually because I don't want to stop and make something.
Last week I remembered a creamy pasta salad my mom used to make all the time after Thanksgiving with left over turkey. It was a family favorite I hadn't thought about in years. I knew if I had a big bowl of flavorful pasta salad sitting in my fridge, I'd have no trouble grabbing a bowl full for lunch.
This is a creamy tangy pasta salad, thanks to the centerpiece of the recipe, Marzetti's Sweet Italian Dressing. The dressing creeps inside every rotini noodle, so each bite is delicious. It features a medley of chopped cucumber, celery and green onion, combined with black olives and a cup or two of chicken or turkey (your choice). It makes a unique, mouthwatering dish that you are sure to love.
Tip: For pasta that is going to be served cold or room temperature
1. Cook pasta in heavily salted water. Pasta for a cool pasta salad should be well-seasoned while it cooks, use 4 tablespoons of salt per 4 quarts of water.
2. Cook it just a little beyond al dente, so that the pasta stays soft when it cools. Let pasta cook for an extra minute than what you normally would for al dente. Then run the drained pasta under cool water to stop the cooking.
3. Dress warm pasta. The dressing will coat the pasta better if placed over warm pasta, rather than cold.
It can be enjoyed as or main dish or sans the meat and serve as a side dish. This pasta salad is perfect for picnics, potlucks, parties, or everyday eating—-like lunch! Enjoy!
This pasta salad can be enjoyed as or main dish or sans the meat and serve as a side dish. It's perfect for picnics, potlucks, parties, or everyday eating.
- 1 pound rotini pasta
- 1 cup Marzetti Sweet Italian Dressing
- 1/2 cup real mayonnaise
- 6 tablespoons lemon juice
- 2 tablespoons mustard
- 2 cups cucumber, chopped
- 1/2 cup celery, chopped
- 1 cup sliced black olives
- 1 bunch green onions, sliced
- 2 cups cooked turkey or chicken
- salt and pepper, to taste
- sprinkle with paprika, optional
- Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Heavily salt the water and stir in the pasta. Cook one minute past al dente. Rinse with cold water, and set aside.
- While pasta is cooking chop vegetables.
- In a large bowl, combine warm pasta with all other ingredients, stir until well combined.
- Serve room temperature or chilled.
NEW FEATURE: Save recipes to your personal recipe box with the Once you have your favorite recipes in your Recipe Box create a Meal Plan with them and the ingredients will automatically be added to a Grocery List!
So tell me………do you eat lunch every day? If so, what's your favorite "go to" lunch?
Disclaimer: This post is sponsored by by T. Marzetti Company as part of a compensated partnership. All views and opinions are my own.


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Got an interesting story to share? Send your story to email@example.com Tobi Phillips, World Miss University Nigeria 2012, has won the 'World Miss University Africa' crown.
Tobi represented Nigeria at the 25th Edition of World Miss University Pageant 2012 held in Seoul Korea, where she clinched the top African spot.
Tobi came 4th position in the World Miss University Contest which automatically made her the Continental Queen.
Miss Denmark, Mia Hasanagic of Aarhus University came tops and was crowned World Miss University 2012!
The pageant was founded by International Association of University President (IAUP) and United Nations and is held annually in Seoul, South Korea since 1986. About 54 contestants from universities around the world participated this year.
Tobi becomes the first Nigerian to be crowned "World Miss University Africa."
Queen Tobi Phillips is 20 years old and she is a 400 level, Marine sciences student of the University of Lagos, Akoka. She hails from Okitipupa in Ondo state.


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On the first morning back from winter break the University of Oregon campus community experienced a series of explosions. The booms and resulting smoke were traced to an underground tunnel which houses the electrical power system.
UO spokeswoman Julie Brown says it's likely a transformer blew up. Brown says power is off in the residence halls.
"Most of them are without power at this point. So we are looking at how we can get power back as quickly as possible, whether that's by generator or fixing the main system that our campus operations is working on right now."
Brown says the University Health Center was evacuated as a precaution because the explosions occurred near that building. Brown says no one was hurt in the explosions.
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CBS interviewed hip-hop star and activist, Lupe Fiasco, where he called Obama and the U.S. government the "biggest terrorist.":
"In my fight against terrorism, to me, the biggest terrorist is Obama, and the United States of America…I'm trying to fight the terrorism that's actually causing the other forms of terrorism. You know, the root cause of terrorism is the stuff that the U.S. government allows to happen, and the foreign policies that we have in place in different countries that inspire people to become terrorists. And it's easy for us because it's just some oil." — Lupe Fiasco


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Below are answers to some of the most frequently asked questions posed to us by prospective students:
How flexible is the UPR graduate program? Do working professionals or stay-at-home parents, for example, enroll?
UPR online courses are designed so that students may access study materials, engage in forum discussions and complete assignments at any time of the day convenient to them. We expect working professionals and stay-at-home parents to form the majority of our student population.
May I enroll as a part-time student?
Yes, the UPR graduate programs and courses can be pursued on a part-time self-study basis. You can do self-study, engage in forum discussions, and complete assignments and research papers or projects at your convenience, within the time-constraints of the study-calendar. UPR online courses are designed flexibly to suit the needs of working executives.
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The study materials for UPR courses are available both online and in DVD/CD form, containing video, audio and text material. These can all be studied wherever you have computer access. The predominant part of the study materials are the audio lectures, which can also be listened to on any audio playback system – during travel, housework or free time anywhere. For forum discussions, you will need some weekly access to the internet. This is usually widely available through cyber-cafés or business centers of hotels. Many working executives with high travel requirements take and complete UPR online graduate programs and courses.
Does the UPR MA program help in regards to becoming a professional counselor?
UPR is not a professional school. UPR graduate programs are primarily geared towards the growth of knowledge and transformation of consciousness, leading to the acquisition of universal values and the integral development of the human being. Through the enhanced comprehension and self-reflective assimilation involved in UPR programs, students will be enabled to mobilize their latent potential and engage in a more effective and responsible way in whatever they have chosen as their field of work.
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Yes, UPR is accredited by the Distance Education and Academic Council, a national agency for postsecondary accreditation authorized by the US Department of Education.
Does this university qualify in regards to applying for student loan?
There are loan programs available for students of accredited universities. For more information, contact the Registrar.
How are tuition fees accepted? One lump sum, over the course of the program?
The student does not need to pay the total cost of the program at initial enrollment. Payment of fees is needed on a quarter basis, depending on the number of courses taken.
What if I don't finish the program? Am I liable for the entire program fee?
No, there is no stipulation in the contract obliging the student to pay the total program cost. Fees need to be paid only for courses taken.
How many courses do I need to take to complete my Masters?
For a Master's degree, a students needs 51 credit units. Each graduate level course at UPR fetches typically 3 credit units. Thus a student usually takes 17 graduate courses for a Master's degree and writes a Master's thesis, which counts for 3 credit units.
How much time can I take to finish the program?
A student may complete an UPR graduate program in a minimum period of one year; and a student may take a maximum period of 5 years to complete the program.
Do courses need to be taken in a particular order?
UPR has four academic quarters in a year. Courses are distributed quarter-wise through the academic calendar. A course can be taken in any quarter in which it is offered.
When can I enroll for an UPR program or course?
The UPR academic calendar is divided into four quarters – Winter, Spring, Summer and Fall. A student may apply for enrolment to an UPR program or course in any one of these quarters. See the Academic Calendar page under Academics for more information.
Is every course offered every quarter?
No. Courses are distributed according to the annual academic calendar. See the section on Online Courses to find out more about the courses offered.
Is the credit acquired here transferable to other institutions?
Credit acquired by students in accredited universities are considered for transfer by most universities. However, units you earn in our Masters of Arts programs may or may not be transferable to any other college or university, such issues must be resolved by the college or university in question.
Do I need a Bachelors degree in order to enter into the MA program here?
Yes. To be admitted to an UPR Master's program, the student must have a Bachelor's degree with a minimum GPA of 3.0 from a college or university accredited by an accrediting association recognized by the United States Department of Education.
Are there special requirements for international students?
If the degree has been completed in another country, documentation must be provided that the institution offers degree programs equivalent to those approved by the U.S. Department of Education. Students who are not first-language English proficient must provide verification English proficiency in the form of a TOEFL test with a minimum score of 530. See the "Out of Country Students" section under Admissions Requirements.
Will I need to travel to the University at any point?
There is no mandatory requirement for physical presence for UPR distance graduate programs. However, extra-curricular educational events such as seminars, workshops and colloquia aligned with UPR courses and programs are hosted at UPR premises in Los Angeles, CA and the UPR library is available for reference materials.
Is there any facility for the students to come and study at the campus?
UPR has no residential facilities but the campus library is available for reference study. See the section on Library under Resources.
What kind of interactions should a student expect with faculty members?
UPR academic courses are conducted online using the popular world wide web-based classroom management software system, Moodle. Students and faculty members engage in conversations using the forum feature for the specific class on this platform. Students may also email their professor. The course format also includes two mandatory one-hour teleconferences, when students can participate together in an audio conversation with their professor.
Does the program fee $9895 include books?
No. Textbooks may be purchased from UPR.
What type of equipment does the student need in order to join the distance learning program?
To successfully take and complete UPR distance learning courses, the student needs to provide assurance of access to a personal computer with worldwide web access and must have an e-mail account and e-mail access. See the section on Virtual Classroom.
If the student drops a course does he/she get the money back?
See the section on Withdrawal and Refund policy on our Tuition page. UPR refund polices are in line with mandated state and national educational policies.
May I take electives?
The UPR programs are designed to allow students to choose from a wide selection of electives from the complementary graduate degree program to finish a degree. UPR is constantly expanding its curriculum through the addition of more electives.
How do I get my undergraduate records to you and what do you require?
As part of the Admissions Application process, the student's undergraduate records need to be sent directly to UPR by the records office of the degree-granting institute or sealed official transcript(s) of undergraduate courses taken should be enclosed with the application by the student. See the section on Admissions Requirements.
What can I expect to do after I graduate from UPR?
Our graduates have gone on to pursue doctoral studies or have found employment as teachers, writers, counselors, life-coaches and administrators. Apart from these fields, our graduates find themselves equipped to become responsible leaders of society and excel in whatever profession they find themselves in.
What Doctors Degree programs might I pursue after finishing a Masters Degree at UPR?
A UPR degree in either Consciousness Studies or Transformational Psychology is good preparation for Doctors Degree programs in Psychology, Mythological Studies or Philosophy. For schools with degree programs likely to be compatible with our organization, check our Affiliates page.
More broadly, UPR is nationally accredited by the DEAC and its 2006 survey of DEAC graduates showed that of those attempting to transfer credits and degrees, 70% were successful. Acceptance of degrees or credits from DEAC – accredited institutions is largely determined by the policy of the "receiving organization," e.g., a college registrar.


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The National Dairy Herd Information Association (DHIA) Scholarship Committee chose 25 high school seniors and college students as recipients of $500 scholarships. Judges evaluated applicants on scholastic achievement and leadership in school and community activities. To be eligible for a National DHIA scholarship, applicants must be a family member or employee of a herd on DHI test, a family member of a DHI employee, or an employee of a DHI affiliate. The DHI affiliate for the herd or affiliate employee must be a National DHIA member.
This year's National DHIA scholarship winners are: Tyler Lee Boyd, Parrotsville, Tenn.; Brett Boyum, Battle Lake, Minn.; Kevin Davis, Cokato, Minn.; Jean Haldeman, Ottsville, Pa.; Jessica Hammerand, Epworth, Iowa; Isaac Hammock, Chatham, Va.; Christy Hindman, Brockway, Pa.; Kayla Holscher, Twin Brooks, S.D.; Katelyn Horning, Manchester, Mich.; Logan Horst, Chambersburg, Pa.; Sarah Innerst, Red Lion, Pa.; April Johnson, Heron Lake, Minn.; Joshua Joseph, Viola, Wis.; Tera Koebel, Three Oaks, Mich. (Joe Drexler winner); Samuel Olson, Chetek, Wis.; Brenda Reiter, Elgin, Minn.; Laura Rosenhammer, Sleepy, Eye, Minn.; Jason Smith, Fremont, Mich.; Isaac Solum, Rice Lake, Wis.; Darcy Steffes, Elizabeth, Ill.; Brittany Thompson, Snow Camp, N.C.; Steven Joseph Toone, Grace, Idaho; Katelyn Walley, Walton, N.Y.; Tyler Warren, Watkins, Minn.; and Hannah Wentworth, Quarryville, Pa.
2010 marks the second year for awarding a scholarship in memory of Joe Drexler, who worked for NorthStar Cooperative DHI Services. NorthStar members and employees, friends and family contributed nearly $8,000 to establish this scholarship fund.
"Joe's love of nature, animals, dairy cattle and the young people who strive to learn are the ingredients for this scholarship that his family, friends and colleagues established in his memory," stated Mark Adam of NorthStar. "He was a friend to all and an inspiration to anyone who ever had the opportunity to spend time with him."
Money generated from the annual National DHIA Scholarship Auction primarily funds the organization's scholarship program. Investments and donations also help build the fund. To make a donation to the fund, contact National DHIA Scholarship Committee Chair Barb Roth at (616) 897-7435, or firstname.lastname@example.com; or National DHIA Communications and Events Manager JoDee Sattler at (608) 848-6455, ext. 112, or firstname.lastname@example.com.
National DHIA, a trade association for the dairy records industry, serves the best interests of its members and the dairy industry by maintaining the integrity of dairy records and advancing dairy information systems.
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Do you hate what the media has done to the Royal Family, or has it all been part of their job and in the public interest
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I do not like what they have to put up with .. It's a bit disgusting after all they are people too x
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it appears at times that the media confuses "public interest" with "entertainment value"
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Quite frankly I'm tired of hearing about them and couldn't care less.
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Off with their heads.
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Stop the ban on all adult blogs as well as some NSFW blogs.
The fact that Tumblr is trying to hide all blogs with adult content and practically shun some blogs that actually do post quality art even though they do post NSFW sometimes is bad. I do understand porn and things like that are bad, but I think that Tumblr should give some people a chance, considering that some post/draw NSFW to make a living and can't do so if they're being blocked from all tags. Shunning people off of Tumblr is NOT THE ANSWER to getting rid of all of the porn. We gotta make Tumblr/Yahoo! Staff see this! Please try to support, the fate of some really great artists are in your hands! Any sort of popularity helps! Reblogs, Tumblr posts, etc, etc. If you to make Tumblr post, though, tag them as 'stop the ban' or 'dont ban nsfw', please! If you'd like more info on this situation, the link to the problem is here: http://www.tumblr.com/docs/en/nsfw More info here:http://www.dailydot.com/lifestyle/tumblr-nsfw-content-tags-search/ SUPER IMPORTANT EDIT!: We did it, everyone! 20,000+ in about 2 and a half days! Bravo! And would you look at that! Tumblr's NSFW content rules are back to normal again! David Karp himself made a post about the situation, and you can find it here!: http://staff.tumblr.com/post/55906556378/all-weve-heard-from-a-bunch-of-you-who-are If you'd also like to contact me, my tumblr blog is: http://www.leafari.tumblr.com !!! Thank you so much for your support! I'm so very proud of all of you who signed this petition, and mailed in letters to tumblr staff, and everyone who participated in making Tumblr stop the ban! Bravo!


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Introducing the Ultimate Q-Car: Volvo S60 Polestar
A new era in high-performance European sedans has arrived, with the launch of the Volvo S60 Polestar.
SYDNEY - June 17, 2013: Sharing the same DNA as the 508bhp (373kW) Volvo S60 Polestar Concept Car, the S60 Polestar is the first road car from Volvo Car Group's performance and motorsport partner Polestar.
A limited production run of just 50 cars has been developed exclusively for the Australian market as a pilot project, with the first cars being delivered to customers in late June 2013.
"The Australian market for performance cars is – and always been – strong," says Matt Braid, Managing Director of Volvo Car Australia.
"We are delighted to be able to offer our customers the Volvo S60 Polestar, a car more than capable of getting into the thick of the action in this competitive segment of the market.
"The work done by Polestar on the S60 is impressive to say the least – they have transformed the already fun to drive Volvo S60 into a great handling driver's car. Its point-to-point ability – in all weather – is second to none."
Cutting-edge technology straight from the racetrack
The Volvo S60 Polestar shares technology from the Polestar racing cars currently pounding the race tracks in the Swedish Touring Car Championship and, previously, in the World Touring Car Championship.
Dampers from Öhlins, upgraded high-performance brakes, and an extensively-developed, highly-tuned chassis are just some of the changes to the already capable standard Volvo S60.
A new aerodynamic package has also been developed, including a front splitter, rear wing and diffuser – all having been tweaked and modified in the Volvo Car Group wind tunnel in collaboration with the Volvo Research and Development team.
The six-cylinder turbo-charged Volvo T6 engine has been optimised by Polestar with a bigger turbo, new intercooler, revised engine mapping and racing exhaust to produce 257kW (350bhp) and 500+Nm.
The S60 Polestar accelerates from 0-100km/h in just 4.9 seconds, via a Polestar-tuned six-speed automatic gearbox – which also features a launch control system – and a Polestar-tuned Haldex 4WD system. The car is limited to a top speed of 250km/h.
"We have built a car that we, as car enthusiasts, want to drive," says Christian Dahl, Managing Director of Polestar.
"This is a driver's car, bringing out the very best of the already competent Volvo S60 chassis with our experience and technology from motorsport.
"We received a fantastic response to our Volvo C30 and S60 Polestar concept cars, so we're happy to now introduce our first production car to the Australian market. This is an important step forward for Polestar, one that promises an exciting future."
Extensive chassis development – by racing drivers
Key to the development of the Volvo S60 Polestar was the extensive work done on the chassis over thousands of test kilometres in Europe – from the ultra-fast autobahns in Germany to the twisty roads of southern Spain, and the freezing cold of northern Sweden.
Volvo Polestar Racing driver Robert Dahlgren – a 33-year-old Swede with 10 years as a Volvo factory racing driver under his belt – has been an integral part of the development work.
"The Volvo S60 Polestar is a car that we are truly proud of, our first step to a 'mainstream' car available to customers," he said.
"We have taken the best bits of the standard S60 T6 and our S60 Polestar Concept Car, and created a vehicle that puts a smile on your face every time you drive it over your favourite twisty road.
"At the same time, it is more than capable of everyday driving, too. It is, in my eyes, a very good combination of the Volvo and Polestar core values: safety and performance."
Introduction of the Volvo S60 Polestar to further markets across the globe is under investigation pending the response of the Australian introduction.


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Ashley Isham's amazing headdresses, by Hayley Warnham.
I'm never really sure how to take Ashley Isham. On the one hand some of his dresses are quite fabulous, he seems to attract quite a cool crowd and has a pretty good rep… on the other hand some of his dresses are frankly tacky.
Paloma Faith and the singer from the Noisettes by Stephanie Parr.
It's almost as if he's cornered the market in awards ceremony frocks for the slightly oddball celebrity: outre, but not too out of place on the red carpet. Hence, I guess, the front row presence of the kooky Paloma Faith and that girl whose name I can never remember from the Noisettes.
Ashley Isham by Hayley Warnham.
I've only skim read Matt's blog so that I don't get swayed by his opinions of the show, but it was enough to note that his photos are way better than mine are: it's interesting, if you're taking photos from the audience so much of it is down to pot luck. And this time – despite my seat very close to the pop darlings – I was in quite a shite position for good photos: changing light levels meant I had to change my ISO setting manually as they walked. Not easy I can tell you. And not that I'm making excuses you understand. Still, if you want to see some superb pics I suggest you scurry over to Matt's blog. They are really quite wonderful. But mine do give ample cause to marvel at the wonderful cut paper surround to the catwalk entrance.
There was lots of sheeny satin fabrics, frothy feathers and splashy coloured prints, all accessorised with what I can only describe as some really rather marvellous Hawaiian Geisha headpieces. After the show I espied stylist Tamara Cincik peeking out from backstage. I can only presume these were her doing, and very fabulous too. Now what I'd like to see is someone stride down the red carpet in a posh frock… and one of these hectic hair adornments. Then maybe they'd give that Lady Gaga a run for her money.
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Who would have ever imagined that our much-beloved, big, fat, lumbering, harmless, vegetarian, gentle manatee would be transformed into a tool of delusional tea party alternative universe international intrigue?
What's next, accusing the Muppets' Miss Piggy of running a Jane Fonda-funded bordello in Washington?
Perhaps this is a classic case of no good public policy idea goes without being subjected to an addled star chamber of paranoia. And, yes, you're right, Glenn Beck, the Oprah Winfrey of the lunatic fringe, will be making an appearance shortly.
This certainly seemed simple enough until the tea party crowd decided to turn Citrus County's Kings Bay into an aquatic Area 51. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, otherwise known as the environmental Stasi for wanting to engage in such radical stuff as protecting fish and wildlife, proposed a plan to better protect the 500 or so manatees who call the warm waters of Kings Bay their home. The nerve of some mammals.
The proposed rules came about because some dopes love to run boats at high speeds through the area. That is a problem since manatees, which are slower than Sarah Palin contemplating a U.S. history textbook, can't get out of the way.
Over the past decade, 13 of the sea cows have been killed by reckless boaters. So the proposed regulations would end a summer water sport zone and close other areas as needed to provide better protections for a species that has no known predators — except for humans and irrationality.
Seems simple enough. Seems reasonable enough. Ah, but that was before the Republican Party's answer to Yosemite Sam got wind of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plot for world domination.
Edna Mattos, who leads the Citrus County Tea Party Patriots, railed against the proposed manatee protections, arguing they violated the tenets of the Bible and the Bill of Rights, which taken to its ridiculous extreme (and why not?) would probably make St. Francis of Assisi a Marxist tool of the Trilateral Commission.
The Madame Defarge of Citrus County fretted the Fish and Wildlife Service's proposed manatee protections are a capitulation to the United Nations' Agenda 21 conspiracy to impose a world government on the populace under the duplicitous guise of trying to protect nature.
You never know. Once you start safeguarding a rain forest or two, can Fidel Castro lighting up a Cohiba in the Oval Office be that far behind?
Who would have guessed James Bond nemesis Ernst Blofeld was sitting over in the Fish and Wildlife offices, stroking his cat and conspiring to rule the world through a 1,200-pound pile of floating blubber?
The notion the U.N.'s Agenda 21 environmental program is really a dark, treacherous confederacy to bring America under the thumb of Dr. No has been a pet fantasy of Glenn Beck and his hand-wringing fellow travelers for quite a while. Mattos and her tea party lemmings have fallen for the talk show weeper's unhinged theory that there is a black helicopter hovering behind every water hyacinth-chewing manatee in Kings Bay.
If Citrus County residents feel the proposed federal rules protecting the beasts are unfair, or too broadly drawn, or too much of an imposition on those who want to boat in Kings Bay, fine. That's why socialist/Marxist/despotic agencies like the Fish and Wildlife Service solicit public input regarding proposed rule changes and regulations on matters like trying to spare manatees from being run over by idiots in speedboats.
Tea party acolytes frequently whine that their views are not taken seriously and that they are unfairly dismissed as a cabal of dim-witted, extremist malcontents. Gee, why would anyone arrive at that conclusion?
If the tea party rabble with pitchforks want to be taken seriously in the nation's political discourse, they need to resist the temptation to get their tin foil in a wad and react to every benign government idea or proposed regulation as if it were a case of Red Dawn meets Auric Goldfinger.
Contrary to the twisted efforts of Glenn Beck and the rest of the Plan 9 From Outer Space community's effort to suggest saving a herd of manatees is akin to the subjugation of mankind, it is safe to say United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is not thinking: "Okay, once we get Citrus County into the re-education camp, it's only a matter of time before we conquer Sopchoppy."


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Goodreads First Reads: First Thrills
To celebrate ThrillerFest in NYC this week, we're offering ten copies of the First Thrills anthology edited by Lee Child through Goodreads!
Enter for a chance to win a copy on Goodreads!
About First Thrills: New York Times bestselling author Lee Child and the International Thriller Writers, Inc. present a collection of remarkable stories in First Thrills. Showcasing many of the organization's bestselling authors as well as rising stars in the genre, here are twenty-five brand-new, never-before published, stories packed with murder, mystery, and mayhem.
*A cunning criminal thinks he can use a child to take the rap for his crimes.
*A hospital intern turned body-snatcher.
*A priest who comes face to face with his wife's murderer on death row.
*A confederate soldier comes home to his love, but changed by more than just the war….he comes back wrong.
*The discovery of a flying saucer in the deep sea brings one man to the brink of a massive revelation.
*A dying man's last request proves to his ex-wife that he's still rotten to the core.
*A clandestine operative finds himself caught in a wicked game of confusion . . . but who is calling the shots?
No matter what type of thriller you read, you'll find something here that will entertain you . . . and perhaps a new writer you'll cherish for years to come.
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Congratulations are in order! Three of our Forge authors have been nominated for an Edgar Award!
- Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva has been nominated for an Edgar Award in the Best First Novel category!
- Also, Jeffrey Deaver's "The Plot" from First Thrills has been nominated for Best Short Story and
- Neil Cross (Burial, Forge 2010) receives two nominations for TV Episode.
The full list can be found here.