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Teaching & Learning Resources
Books About Law Teaching - linked to LawCat records
Steven Friedland and Gerald F. Hess, Teaching the Law School Curriculum (Carolina Academic Press 2004)
Paul Maharg, Transforming Legal Education: Learning and Teaching the Law in the Early Twenty-First Century (Ashgate 2007)
Madeleine Schachter, The Law Professor's Handbook (Carolina Academic Press 2004)
Michael Hunter Schwartz, Expert Learning for Law Students (Carolina Academic Press 2005)
Roy T. Stuckey, Best Practices for Legal Education: A Vision and a Roadmap (Clinical Legal Ed. Assoc. 2007)
William M. Sullivan, Educating Lawyers: Preparation for the Profession of Law (Carnegie Foundation Study - Jossey-Bass/Wiley 2007)
Alan Watson, The Shame of American Legal Education (Vandeplas Pub. 2006)
Articles About Law Teaching - linked to full-text (if available)
Association of American Law Schools, Statement of Good Practices by Law Professors in the Discharge of Their Ethical and Professional Responsibilities (1989, amended May 2003), available at http://www.aals.org/about_handbook_sgp_eth.php
Ron M. Aizen, Note, Four Ways to Better 1L Assessments, 54 Duke L.J. 765 (2004)
Susan J. Becker, Advice for the New Law Professor: A View from the Trenches, 42 J. Legal Educ. 432 (1992)
Paul L. Caron and Rafael Gely, Taking Back the Law School Classroom: Using Technology to Foster Active Student Learning, 54 J. Legal Educ. 551 (2004)
Marcia Gelpe, Professional Training, Diversity in Legal Education, and Cost Control: Selection, Training and Peer Review for Adjunct Professors, 25 Wm. Mitchell L. Rev. 193 (1999)
Joan MacLeod Heminway, Caught in (or on) the Web: A Review of Course Management Systems for Legal Education, 16 Alb. L.J. Sci. & Tech. 265 (2006)
Dennis A. Honabach, Precision Teaching in Law School. An Essay in Support of Student-Centered Teaching and Assessment, 34 U. Toledo L. Rev. 95 (2002-2003)
Stephen M. Johnson, www.lawschool.edu: Legal Education in the Digital Age, 2000 Wis. L. Rev. 85 (2000)
Gene Koo, New Skills, New Learning: Legal Education and the Promise of New Technology (March 26, 2007), Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, Research Publication No. 2007-4, download from Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
William L. Prosser, Lighthouse No Good, 1 J. Legal Educ. 257 (1948), reprinted in 28 Stetson L. Rev. 1017 (1998)
Arturo Lopez Torres and Mary Kay Lundwall, Moving Beyond Langdell II: An Annotated Bibliography of Current Methods of Law Teaching, 35 Gonz. L. Rev. 1 (2000)
Arturo Lopez Torres, MacCrate Goes to Law School: An Annotated Bibliography of Methods for Teaching Lawyering Skills in the Classroom, 77 Neb. L. Rev. 132 (1998)
Arturo L. Torres and Karen E. Harwood, Moving Beyond Langdell: An Annotated Bibliography of Current Methods of Law Teaching, 1994 Gonz. L. Rev. 1 (Special Ed. 1994)
Kent Syverud, Taking Students Seriously: A Guide for New Law Teachers, 43 J. Legal Educ. 247 (1993)
Paul T. Wangerin, Teaching and Learning in Law School: An "Alternative" Bookshelf for Law School Teachers, 1994 Gonz. L. Rev. 49 (1994 special edition)
Douglas J. Whaley, Teaching Law: Advice for the New Professor, 43 Ohio State L.J. 125 (1982)
Organizations and Other Resources
Institute for Law School Teaching: Gonzaga University School of Law established as a clearinghouse for ideas to improve law school education and provide national law school teaching leadership; the Institute also publishes a newsletter on law teaching
Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI): distributes computer-assisted law lessons for students, provides software for faculty to develop computer-assisted lessons, and sponsors an annual conference that examines a broad range of issues regarding technology and teaching in law schools
Association of American Law Schools (AALS): Provides information on standards for law schools, conferences, law school curriculur innovations, and jobs; also publishes the Journal of Legal Education
American Bar Association (ABA): Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, provides information of standards for law schools (including distance education), a guide to approved law schools, a guide to bar admissions requirements, and more
Teaching and Learning Law Resources for Legal Education: Resource page for law teachers created by Professor Barbara Glesner-Fines at University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School
Students - Learning - Legal Education: Resource page for law teachers created by Professor Professor Vernellia Randall at the University of Dayton Law School
Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching: Site for Educating Lawyers study on teaching and learning in American and Canadian law schools (see books, above)
Educause: a nonprofit association to advance higher education that promotes intelligent use of information technology, provides a clearinghouse of information, and sponsors national and regional conferences on higher education and technology
Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence: Penn State University - provides a useful list of tools for teaching and learning in higher education
Humanizing Legal Education Symposium: (2007) Washburn University School of Law - meeting to discuss the adverse effects of law school on students. Now a section of AALS called Balance in Legal Education
Official Standards for Legal Education
American Bar Association: Standards and Rules of Procedure
Association of American Law Schools: ByLaws, Executive Committee Regulations, and Statements of Good Practice.
Law Blogs ("Blawgs") - Subscribe through RSS (learn more about RSS here)
Best Practices for Legal Education: blog for exchanging ideas on current reforms in legal education arising from the publication of Roy Stuckey's Best Practices for Legal Education and the Carnegie Foundation's Educating Lawyers study
Law Professor Blogs: network of blogs to assist law professors in their scholarship and teaching- for example, the Law School Innovation blog
Legal Scholarship Blog: A service from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the University of Washington School of Law
Out of the Jungle: co-authored blog on the "present and future of legal information, legal research, and legal education"
JURIST legal News: University of Pittsburgh School of Law - subscribe to legal news feeds from JURIST's Paper Chase legal news service
Discussion Lists (Listservs - learn more about law Listservs here)
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One rescued a fellow firefighter after he was trapped under a high pressure water hose. Another organized a charity softball game and raised $14,000 for victims of domestic violence. And the last saved a man who suffered a heart attack on his birthday.
The recipients of this years South Augusta Exchange Clubs Annual Public Safety Awards all surpassed expectations to make their communities safer, their supervisors said today at an ceremony held in Ts Restaurant on Mike Padgett Highway.
Standing before the attendees, Richmond County Fire Department Lt. Neal Brown described how award-winner Lt. William Dickerson threw himself on a high pressure hose which was swinging out of control and had injured a coworker. The incident, which occurred as they tried to extinguish a blaze at the 154-year-old Southern Milling Co. Building on Twiggs Street last year, broke the fellow firefighters collar bone and leg and would have likely killed him if Lt. Dickerson hadnt taken action and got the hose under control, Lt. Brown said.
Thats like diving on a hand grenade as far as Im concerned, Lt. Brown said. Those things will beat you to death.
Lt. Dickerson said his action was second nature.
It was a fellow firefighter, he said. He was hurt and his life was in danger so I just dived in.
He will share the honor with firefighter Lt. Robert Morris, who also won for aiding a fellow firefighter who suffered a heart attack. The firefighter, Rick Perry, was on vacation and celebrating his birthday when he went into cardiac arrest. Lt. Dickerson said he had no idea he would be treating a coworker when he was dispatched to Mr. Perrys home. He was able to stabilize Mr. Perry and get him to the hospital.
Deputy Bill Walker won the award for the Richmond County Sheriffs Office. Deputy Walker helped to organize a charity softball game with North Augusta Public Safety which raised $14,000 for local charities.
Your family sees what you do everyday but having an outside organization approve of what you do, its a good feeling, Deputy Walker said.
The winners were given a plaque honoring their service and a gift certificate for dinner.


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Working well past midnight, a weary Senate was mowing down a parade of Republican proposals aimed at undercutting President Barack Obama's signature health care law as Democrats push toward final passage of the companion piece to his overhaul plan.
In a voting marathon that began the previous afternoon, senators were voting early Thursday on an uninterrupted stream of GOP amendments to a measure altering the new health law. The president was flying to Iowa later in the day for the first of many appearances he will make around the country before the fall congressional elections to sell his health care revamp.
Obama was appearing in Iowa City, where as a presidential candidate in 2007 he touted his ideas for health coverage for all. His trip comes with polls showing people are divided over the law he signed Tuesday, and Democratic lawmakers from competitive districts hoping he can convince more voters by November that it was the right move.
Adding an ominous undertone to the political clashes, Obama's barnstorming comes as the FBI says it is investigating threats and vandalism against congressional Democrats who backed the health legislation.
At least 10 Democratic lawmakers had reported such incidents as of Wednesday. These include a brick tossed through a window of the Niagara Falls, N.Y., office of Rep. Louise Slaughter and threats received by the office of Michigan Rep. Bart Stupak, an anti-abortion leader who accepted White House assurances on limiting the procedure.
The Senate, meanwhile, set out to complete a bill making changes in the health law. It was being considered under rules allowing its passage by a simple majority instead of 60 votes in the 100-seat chamber, making its approval virtually inevitable.
But first, Democrats ran into a mountain of GOP amendments. Outnumbered and all but assured of defeat, Republicans nonetheless forced votes on amendments aimed at reshaping the measure - or at least forcing Democrats to take votes that could be used against them in TV ads in the fall campaigns.
"There's no attempt to improve the bill. There's an attempt to destroy this bill," said an exasperated Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.
"The majority leader may not think we're serious about changing the bill, but we'd like to change the bill, and with a little help from our friends on the other side we could improve the bill significantly," answered Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.
Senators had voted on 28 consecutive GOP amendments as 2:30 a.m. approached and were still working through a series of votes that began at 5:30 the previous afternoon. No clear end was in sight.
By 57-42, Democrats rejected an amendment by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., barring federal purchases of Viagra and other erectile dysfunction drugs for sex offenders. Coburn said it would save millions, while Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., called it "a crass political stunt."
Democrats also deflected GOP amendments rolling back the health law's Medicare cuts; killing extra Medicaid funds for Tennessee and other state-specific spending; barring tax increases for families earning under $250,000; and requiring the president and other administration officials to purchase health care from exchanges the statute creates.
The bill would make drug benefits for Medicare recipients more generous than they are in the new health law by gradually closing a gap in coverage, increase tax subsidies to help low-income people afford health care, and boost federal Medicaid payments to states.
It kills part of the new statute uniquely giving Nebraska extra Medicaid funds - designed to lure support from that state's Sen. Ben Nelson - that had become a glaring embarrassment to Democrats. It also eases a new tax on expensive health coverage bitterly opposed by unions and many House Democrats, while delaying and increasing a new levy on drug makers.
The legislation also halts federally subsidized student loans issued by private banks, substituting a new system of loans made directly by the government.
The landmark legislation that Obama signed Tuesday would provide health care to 32 million uninsured people, and make coverage more affordable to millions of others by expanding the reach of Medicaid and creating new subsidies. Insurance companies would be forbidden to refuse coverage to people with pre-existing illnesses, individuals could buy policies on newly created exchanges and parents could keep children on their family plans until their 26th birthdays.
The $938 billion, 10-year price tag would be financed largely by culling savings from Medicare and imposing new taxes on higher income people and the insurance, pharmaceutical and medical device industries. Those money savers outweigh the bill's costs, for a net savings over the coming decade of $143 billion, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office.
With reporters barred from watching, Obama - an abortion rights supporter - signed an executive order Wednesday promising that federal funds would not be used to pay for elective abortions covered by private insurance. To attract the crucial votes of Stupak and other anti-abortion Democrats for last Sunday's climactic House passage of the main health care measure, the president promised the order to allay concerns that the bill's restrictions were too weak.
Associated Press writer Darlene Superville contributed to this report.


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Dr Mahathir Mohamad's claim that Sabah will be 'richest' soon, hints that he is privy to facts behind speculations that the state is sitting on the 'biggest oil find in the region'.
KOTA KINABALU: Former Malaysian prime minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad "predicted" Sabah would very soon become the richest state in term of natural resources. But he also shared a healthy advice for Sabahans – "take up cycling as a means of transport".
In one stroke he managed to rile up Sabahans and get them laughing at the same time. But then, Mahathir usually has more up his sleeve when he starts dishing out praise and advice especially before an election.
Many believe he is still privy to certain information, especially of the secretive Malaysian oil giant, Petronas.
Throughout the 20 years of his premiership, Petronas was said to have been answerable only to him.
His prediction that Sabah would vault out of its position as among the poorest states in the nation could well be a hint that rumours about the state sitting on the "biggest oil find in the region" is true.
Mahathir suggested that the Sabah-based Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) quickly set up a petroleum engineering faculty in view of an emerging oil and gas industry in Sabah.
He made the proposition while delivering a lecture on Sabah's socio-politics development in the context of Malaysia at the university campus near here on Workers Day.
"Surely we need engineers in petrochemicals, exploration… we cannot let go off these opportunities just because we don't have the necessary expertise," he said.
Malaysia currently produces 650,000 barrels of oil a day and Petronas maximises its income by being involved in both the upstream and downstream activities in the oil and gas industry. In comparison, the world's biggest producer, Saudi Arabia, pumps out 12 million barrels a day.
Constantly manipulated
However, Jeffrey Kitingan, the man Mahathir accused at one time of promoting the disintegration of Malaysia, sees the federal government again siphoning off Sabah's wealth as it has been accused of doing for years.
"There is no point if we have the richest state in natural resources like oil and gas but our people languish in poverty for decades since Sabah signed an oil agreement with Petronas in 1976," he said in response to Mahathir's hint.
"The federal government would keep pumping out our oil and gas but we, the bona fide Sabahans, have virtually no control whatsoever on our oil, so what is the point?" he said yesterday.
Jeffrey claimed that the federal government has always manipulated Sabah and its meek people and this had resulted in Sabahans becoming the poorest in Malaysia, as stated by the World Bank in its 2010 report even though the state was one of the richest in the 1970s.
"Because of manipulation we never fully benefited from this partnership in a federation. The partnership is not managed the way it should have been managed.
"Mahathir was partly responsible for turning Sabah into an colony of Malaya…" said Jeffrey, who was imprisoned for almost three years under the recently repealed Internal Security Act (ISA) during Mahathir's premiership.
Saying natural resources are inherently and rightfully owned by Sabah and not by Petronas or the federal government, Jeffrey said the oil agreement signed in 1976 between Sabah and Petronas should be reviewed by the state and federal governments.
Just last week the Sabah Law Association (SLA) also questioned the legality of the Petroleum Development Act 1974, which assigned all the petroleum rights in the country to Petronas, at the same university last week.
SLA constitutional and administrative law issues sub-committee chairman, Sukumaran Vanugopal, argued the legality of the Act in his paper "Formation of Malaysia – The Constitutional Rights of Sabah and Sarawak".
"The Act might be unconstitutional in view of the fact that one of the special rights assigned only to Sabah and Sarawak in 1963 was on managing its own tariff and finance where both states are provided with special sources of revenues.
"But one interesting fact is that the petroleum found within the shores of Sabah no longer belongs to the state. It remains there but the resources would go to Petronas and in return under the Act, Sabah gets five percent royalty," Vanugopal said.
Land matters are Sabah's right
He added that all land matters "including those under the sea", fall under Sabah's jurisdiction.
"Land is a state matter, meaning that only the State Legislative Assembly may decide on it. So what is the validity of such a federal Act (enacted in Parliament)?
"Can a matter concerning land in Sabah be dealt with in Parliament? If the answer is no, then this Act is invalid," he said.
Mahathir in his paper also touched on the "independent-minded" Sabah. He said that in 1965, there were rumours that Sabah and Sarawak might join Singapore to leave the Federation of Malaysia and create a new country.
He said he came to Sabah with then Deputy Prime Minister, Razak Hussein, who met Sabah leaders and eventually managed to convince them to remain in Malaysia.
Mahathir's disclosure of what transpired when Singapore was booted out of a federation and the shredding of the Malaysia Agreement of 1963 throws up the question of whether Sabah, Sarawak or even Malaya, for that matter, could sever ties with each other.
Jeffrey, who now heads the United Borneo Front (UBF) and the Sabah chapter of the State Reform Party (STAR), both dedicated to reinstating Sabah and Sarawak's rights within the federation, once questioned if the Malaysia Agreement is still valid with the 1965 departure of Singapore.
Meanwhile, Mahathir's advice to Sabahans to take up cycling to reduce pollution, also went down the wrong way, with many questioning the wholesale importation of peninsular Malaysia-registered second-hand cars into the state in the 1990s.
Jeffrey said that it was well known that Sabahans were too poor to cause serious pollution to the state whereas major industries that had moved to the state were the biggest polluters.
"If you are serious, please help build us better roads and please asphalt our kampung roads so that our vehicles' engines last longer and so emit less smoke and pollution into the environment or build efficient public transport in Sabah towns; don't just ask us to cycle to offices," he said.
Mahathir made his remarks about people taking up cycling as a healthy lifestyle when he graced the Tour of Borneo here just before he went to deliver his lecture in UMS.


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She said it's still a positive issue, based on News Corp.'s long-term outlook. The company's stock closed off 5/8 to 41 1/8, near its 52-week high.
Stanton R. Cook will retire Jan. 1 as chairman of Tribune Co.'s board of directors. Charles T. Brumback was elected to replace Cook and will continue as president/CEO. Cook will remain on board and continue as chair of Tribune's Chicago Cubs baseball team.
Tribune owns seven television stations and publishes seven daily newspapers, including the Chicago Tribune.


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Golden Island Guesthouse
Golden Island Guesthouse (GIG) is newly decorated in 2008 and located in Nathan Road where is the heart of commercial and entertainment district in Kowloon. We're nearby Jordan MTR Station and Yaumatei MTR Station, and can be easily accessed by most of major public transportation from/to anywhere in Hong Kong . We provide clean and comfortable accommodation to budget travelers at most affordable price. All the rooms are equipped with private bathroom, television, telephone and FREE WIFI internet access.
Single Bedroom - 1 single bed
Double Bedroom - 1 double bed
Twin Bedroom - 2 single beds
Triple bedroom - 3 single bed; or 1 double bed + 1 single bed
Quad bedroom - 1 double + 2 single beds; or 2 double beds
- Air-conditioning
- Private Bathroom
- TV and telephone (free local call)
- Free Wifi Internet access
- Hostel amenities such as sleepers, toothbrush, shampoo, clean towels and bed linens.
- Computer, Fridge, a microwave oven and drinking water machine.
- FREE WIFI internet access in room!!
- FREE local phone in room
- FREE towers and linen
- FREE cold/hot drinking water
- FREE Luggage storage
- Local Day Tour
- IDD Phone Card
- Car Rental
- China VISA application (1-2 working days, price from HKD300 or up per passport)
- Ocean Park Ticket and Disneyland Ticket
Please feel free to send email to us (firstname.lastname@example.com) for further questions.
Temple Street : 3 min working distance
Lady's Market : 20 min working distance
Victoria Harbor : 25 min working distance
Stars Avenue : 25 min working distance
Ocean Park : 30 min by bus (Bus no 171)
Disneyland : 40 min by MTR (From Yaumatei station to Disneyland Station)
The Peak : 10 min by MTR (from Jordan station to Central station) + 15 Min working distance
Lan Kwai Fong : 15min by MTR (from Jordan station to Central Station)
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre : 15 min by MTR (from Jordan station to Wanchai station)
Hong Kong Airport : 45 min by Shuttle Bus No A21
MTR (Subway): 5-8 min walking distance to Yaumatei or Jordan MTR station.
KCR (Train): 10 min by bus no 81C or 87D; Or 8 min by taxi
China ferry Terminal: 10 min by bus no.: 3C; Or 8 min by taxi
Airport: 45 min by airport shuttle bus no.: ; Or 30 min by taxi
Disponibilidad y preciosPara ver la disponibilidad y los precios, selecciona las fechas y pincha "Actualizar fechas"
Instalaciones & Políticas de Albergue
- Aire acondicionado
- Tarjetas telefónicas
- Ascensor
- Servicio de teléfono/fax
- Acceso gratuito a Internet
- Secadores de pelo para alquilar
- Check out tardío
- Incluye ropa de cama
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- Baño de Vapor
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- Mostrador de excursiones
Política de cancelaciónEsta propiedad cuenta con una política de cancelación de 2 días. Si no se realiza la cancelación dentro de ese plazo se aplicará un recargo de anulación igual a la primera noche de tu estancia.
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MTR (Subway): 5-8 min walking distance to Yaumatei or Jordan MTR station.
KCR (Train): 10 min by bus no 81C or 87D; Or 8 min by taxi
China ferry Terminal: 10 min by bus no.: 3C; Or 8 min by taxi
Airport: 45 min by airport shuttle bus no.: ; Or 30 min by taxi
From Hong Kong Airport
1. Airport Shuttle Bus (No.: A21 / N21)
Airport shuttle bus is the most convenient and popular way to get to downtown areas. You're highly recommended to take the Airport Shuttle Bus Number: A21 from airport to our guesthouse. The bus departs approximately every 10-15 minutes. The fare is HKD $33 per adult, and HK$16.5 per child or senior. The Airbus A21 is serviced from 05:00-23:59, and N21 is serviced from 00:00 AM to 5:00A.M. Please take off at the 10th stop with named Nathan Hotel, then cross the road to opposite side and find our guesthouse at "ALHAMBRA BUILDING" in 383-385 Nathan Road. After entering to Alhambra Building, please take the 1st and 2nd lifts to 7th Floor, and you will see our guesthouse is on your left hand side after you come out from the lift
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24 hours service. It takes about 30 minutes and costs around HKD250-300 from airport to our guesthouse (Alhambra Building, 383-385 Nathan Road).


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My experience with ASTEP has changed who I am and what I live for. They are an extremely well organized group made up of passionate and driven artists that believe that arts education can stop the poverty cycle. And through my experience with them, I am now a believer of this concept too and will continue to dedicate much of my time to help it come true. I have absolutely no complaints.
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The Class of 2006
Today is Brooklyn Law School's Commencement. Congratulations to the members of the Class of 2006. These students started at Brooklyn the same year I began teaching.
Our commencement is always a lavish affair. We take over Tavern on the Green for brunch and then the commencement exercises are held at Lincoln Center. Many of our students are first generation lawyers; a good number are immigrants. Our commencement speaker this year is Richard Goldstone, formerly of the Constitutional Court of South Africa. A preview we got last night at dinner suggests his speech will be a highlight of the day.
In a few months, we'll have a new crop of 1Ls. Nobody is quite the same after they are done with law school; there are things we all wished we knew before we began.
In that spirit, I ask our readers who are graduating this year or who have already graduated from law school: if you, older and wiser now, could send back in time some advice to yourself in the summer just before you began law school, what advice would that be?


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Last year when we were here the entire trail was in heavy woods and really reminded me of Elbe many years ago when the trails were very tight and heavily wooded. Now the area has been logged so a lot of the beauty of the trail is lost. It was still a fun trail on the greasy slick mud but its a shame is almost all in the open now. The only upside is there are some great views now that we didnt have before.It didnt look like its been getting much use recently as we had to clear quite a few deadfalls and did some blocking to get the trail back where it belonged.
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Phillips Academy, Andover: An Architectural Tour
Princeton Architectural Press, 2000 - Architecture - 132 pages
The newest titles in our Campus Guide series are these guides to Phillips Academy, Andover and Duke University. They present architectural tours of two of America's finest campuses, revealing the stories behind the historic and contemporary campus buildings, gardens, and works of sculpture.Phillips Academy, founded in 1778, blends colonial, Federal, neo-Georgian, and modernist styles. Noted architects whose buildings appear on campus are Charles Bulfinch; Peabody and Stearns; McKim, Mead, and White; and Frederick Law Olmsted.Duke University was officially founded in 1924. Until 1950 it was designed primarily by Julian Abele, one of the few professional African-American architects working in the United States at that time. The campus architecture is best known for its medieval-style Gothic buildings, notably Duke Chapel.
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Get ready for The Bourne Legacy with this EXCLUSIVE look inside
As it turns out, the Bourne story didn't start and end with Jason. The trained, dangerous and super-elusive covert operative is, as it turns out, only one part of a global operation aimed at quietly completing top-secret missions and when another skilled agent cuts loose, the powers that be find themselves in a by-any-means-necessary situation in The Bourne Legacy.
Relaunching the franchise with Jeremy Renner as the man in the cross hairs, writer-director Tony Gilroy dives deeper into complex conspiracies and secret identities with the next movie in the Bourne franchise. And we want to get you ready for the newest action-thriller with the Canadian EXCLUSIVE of a special look inside with the key players, including co-stars Rachel Weisz, Ed Norton and Renner himself, and take a look at what this new chapter has to offer audiences.
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Top 20 Professionals: Dr. Paul Kietzmann -- Alexandria Clinic
Nichole Roell nominated Dr. Paul Kietzmann of the Alexandria Clinic as a Top 20 Professional.
Here is Roell's story:
"When my OB [obstetrics physician] asked who my (yet unborn) baby's doctor would be I had no idea, so it was basically a matter of playing eenie-meenie-miney-mo based on the doctors' biographies on the Alexandria Clinic website.
"I selected Dr. Paul Kietzmann and I couldn't be happier with the result. Dr. Kietzmann from day one was very comforting, soft-spoken and, most of all, reassuringly competent in his duties. It's been a pleasure seeing him for baby's checkups and our occasional medical woes.
"His nurse, Lindsay, has always been wonderful to work with as well - professional, friendly and very quick to return phone calls whenever we have questions or concerns.
"Both she and Dr. Kietzmann seem to take a genuine interest in the health of our family, which is hard to find these days."


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SEATTLE (AP) — A large pod of orcas in Puget Sound this week has been thrilling whale watchers.
But they were especially exciting on Tuesday when they came close to a ferry from Seattle as it approached Bainbridge Island. The killer whales surrounded the ferry and splashed in the water.
By coincidence, on board the ferry were officials from The Burke Museum in Seattle who were returning tribal artifacts to the new Suquamish Museum. The artifacts were dug up nearly 60 years ago from the site of the Old Man House, the winter village for the Suquamish tribe and home of Chief Seattle.
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Utility public hearing
A hearing to receive public testimony concerning St. Johns County's proposed purchase of St. Johns Service Co., a Ponte Vedra Beach-based water and sewer utility with 5,000 customers, is scheduled for 4 p.m. today at Our Lady Star of the Sea Cultural Center, 545 State Road A1A North, in Ponte Vedra Beach.
Arson reward offered
St. Johns River Water Management District, along with the Florida Division of Forestry and St. Johns County Sheriff's Office, is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the person responsible for setting three fires in the district's 12 Mile Swamp property.
About 75 acres have burned over the past three weeks. and they have all been ruled arson fires. A fire last week destroyed a building belonging to the county. Anyone with information may call the Arson Alert hot line at (800) 342-5869.
Candlelight vigil today
A candlelight vigil will be held in support of Cindy Sheehan at 7:30 p.m. today in the Plaza de la Constitucion.
Sheehan has been hosting anti-war protests outside President Bush's Texas ranch since Aug. 6, and has vowed to stay until Bush agrees to meet with her. Her son was killed in Iraq in April 2004.
Hill holds office hours
A legislative assistant for Senator Anthony C. "Tony" Hill, Sr. will be in St. Augustine to talk to constituents about their concerns from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 18 in the Neighborhood Council Office at St. Augustine City Hall, 75 King St.
Starting in September, constituent service hours will be held on the second Thursday of every month. The first meeting will be Sept. 8.
For an appointment, call Deborah Parsons in the district office at (866) 867-0289.
Ramp closed for repair
Palmo Boat Ramp, at 8550 Palmo Fish Camp Road, will be closed for improvements until Aug. 31. Residents can use the Trout Creek, 6795 Collier Road, Orangedale, or the Riverdale, 980 County Road 13, boat ramps instead.
For information regarding ramp closures, call 209-0333.
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K.J. Williams already has two offers and more are sure to come. At this point, however, it looks like everyone will have their work cut out for them if they're to beat out Pitt.
Pitt and Rutgers are the two schools that have offered the 6-foot-2, 190-pound receiver from Bethlehem (Pa.) Liberty, and while both schools have left a positive impression it's the Panthers that should feel the best about their chances.
"I've been to Rutgers a lot and I just had a tour at Pitt not too long ago," Williams said.
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"At Rutgers I really like the offensive coordinator and my position coach, the receivers coach. They've got nice facilities there, too.
"Pitt, I like how everything is combined with the Steelers stuff. I really like that. The coaches all seem really good over there. If I had a favorite it would probably be Pitt right now."
That said, there's a long process ahead and plenty of other schools are sure to have something to say about where Williams ends up.
Williams attended the Rivals Underclassmen Challenge in Dallas just recently and he also camped at Syracuse this summer. He plans to visit Temple before shifting his focus exclusively to his junior year at Liberty.
In addition to wide receiver Williams also plays safety in college.
Williams had listed Pitt as his favorite at the beginning of July as well.


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By Ellen | July 09, 2012 | Comments (13)
Temperatures in Palm Springs had soared to 105 degrees when Michael Olah, who was shopping in Walmart, heard the pager system announce that a dog was trapped inside a parked minivan. The Palm Springs resident got upset and decided to act.
"I grumbled under my breath a bit because it's damn hot outside and has to be roasting inside that van," he said.
A group of people surrounded the van as Michael used a tool to shatter the van's window and save the Chihuahua.
Palm Springs Police Sgt. Mike Kovaleff confirmed Michael's story and said the incident serves as a reminder to pet owners that they should never leave dogs or cats in their vehicles.
When the Chihuahua's owners learned Michael had saved their dog, they were relieved that he had broken the window. They told police the dog must have snuck into the car, as they were unaware he was in the vehicle.
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Originally Posted by mercy
I worked in the game development industry and every time a company tanked it was because inexperienced and/or untalented people were hired. No quality product was made or work was very slow - in comparison to this talented people work super-fast - so publishers ceased paying for crap and the whole studio filled with crappy developers closed down. This happened at least five times.
Pray that real talent was hired or else Mass Effect is done with the trilogy.
Kind of an amusing choice, imo. You take people that basically tanked a company, and put them in charge of a series that, at best, has also tanked. I can almost smell the desperation in the air off this one. And no, I'm not a fan of KoA or ME (after the first one, which I actually enjoyed).


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Hammond ready to show its Heart
Hammond residents are getting ready for a weekend of fun. Heartland Days begins today and goes through Sunday.
Throughout the weekend there will be food stands and a beer garden.
Area garage sales start on Thursday and continue through Friday. Maps are available at the Hammond Bank, Amoco and the Village Hall.
New to Thursday's festivities is a Carnival at the Library from 4-8 p.m. There will be a clown, face painting, a water balloon throw, Henna painting, digging for bones and lots more. For sale will be hot dogs, chips and pop.
Other events tonight include a free appreciation dinner sponsored by Associated Bank at 5 p.m., a pie and ice cream social at 5:30 and performances by the SCC Pep Band and Bifocal Band. This is the Bifocal Band's debut performance.
At 6:30, the Wisconsin State Kids' Pedal tractor pull will wail off, as well as the ever popular baby show.
The pageant to crown this year's Miss Hammond starts at 7 in the Middle School. Nine girls have spent months preparing for the competition.
Music by Trigger Happy closes out Thursday's festivities.
Crabfest Weekend at Hammond Hotel starts on Friday along with the men's softball tournament.
The Little Miss Heartland Days pageant is back for its second year. Coronation begins at 6 p.m. in the park.
Tree-O and the Dweebs start rocking the town at 7:30 p.m. and go until 1:30 a.m. While the bands play, mechanical bull rides will be at the park. Northern Skies will play at the Doll House as well.
Saturday's events begin early: a breakfast buffet starts at 6:30 a.m. at the Doll House and a pancake breakfast at Trinity Lutheran Church opens at 7 a.m.
New to Saturday are three events held at the Library. First in the day is a Cookie Contest at 10 a.m. Cookies can be old family recipes or new creations. They will be judged on appearance, taste and texture. All ages are welcome to enter; a recipe must be provided. Extra cookies will be for sale at the food stand.
The next new event is the talent show at noon. Auditions have already taken place for performers. Ages 5 and up may participate and performances will range between three and five minutes.
A pet show at 2 p.m. is also hosted by the Library. The pets must be stuffed animals. They may be dressed in costume or come as they are. Registration is at 1:30 p.m. at the Library. There is a one pet per person limit and all ages are welcome.
The 21st annual United Fire and Rescue Car Show starts at 8 a.m. on Saturday on Davis Street.
The horseshoes and Texas Hold 'Em tournaments begin at noon. Euchre play starts at 1 p.m.
The Gopher State Garden Tractor Pull begins at 1 p.m. at the Village Park. Admission is free.
Live music will feature two bands, Round 2 and Hairball, from 7:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. at the Village Park. The Grand Fireworks Display will be ignited at dusk.
Sunday's events include the Grand Parade at 12:30 p.m. sponsored by the Doll House, Hammond Hotel, Ras' on Main and Pheasant Hills Golf Course.
A petting zoo, Auggie the Clown and Boondoggle begin after the parade at 2 p.m.
New to Heartland Days but not to Hammond is the Knights of Columbus Football Punt-Pass-Kick and Soccer Challenge. The event is usually held in September but has been moved to Sunday at 3 p.m. Registration for boys and girls ages 8-14 begins at 2:30 p.m.
The final event of the weekend is the Tractor Pull, which starts at 3:30 p.m. This is the first time in about three years that there has been a tractor pull at Heartland Days. The St. Croix Valley Pullers Association and the Track Patrol of Independence, Wis. will run the pull with the assistance of the Village of Hammond Public Works Department. Proceeds will go to enhancement projects, like banners and welcome signs, for Hammond.


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CALGARY - Michael Cammalleri could have a sure-fire Hockey Hall-of-Famer working on his right wing next season.
Yeah … another one.
Cammalleri, who enjoyed his best season while skating alongside Jarome Iginla in Calgary, said "so-long" to the Flames during the first hour of Tuesday's free-agent frenzy, declining an offer to stick around the Saddledome and instead signing a five-year, US$25-million deal with the New Jersey Devils.
"Jarome Iginla called to congratulate me, and said, 'Pretty cool to get to play with (Jaromir) Jagr.' That was a little tidbit from Jarome," Cammalleri said, referring to his former teammate and the newest member of the Colorado Avalanche.
"(Jagr) is a legend of our game, for sure."
The 42-year-old Jagr is, indeed, one of the most dangerous snipers in NHL history. But that's probably not the primary reason Cammalleri will be skating in The Swamp next season.


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Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
Do-Now Discussion
List ways your class can help in your community this year and plan a day of service for your school.
"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
January 15, 2018
In honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s lifelong dedication to justice, equality, and service for the greater good, the National Constitution Center will once again join with Global Citizen's Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service for a daylong commemoration on Monday, January 15, 2018.
The museum's Martin Luther King, Jr. Day activities are part of a series of Macy's Family Days at the Constitution Center.
Book Drive and School Supplies Kits
11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
In the spirit of service emulated by Dr. King, the museum will serve as a drop-off point for those who wish to donate books as well as school supplies including pens, pencils, crayons, copy papers, hand sanitizer and folders for Philadelphia school students. The collection will begin in December; items can be dropped off at the Center's box office. On January 15th, visitors will be invited to help museum staff sort the supplies in preparation for delivery to the schools and other facilities.
Two of a Kind Performance
11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
Children and their families can sing along with "Two of a Kind," an award-winning, nationally touring, husband-wife duo, during an interactive musical program. Focusing on themes related to Dr. King, the performance will encourage audience participation through songs, sign language, movement, and stories.
"I Have a Dream" Speech
12 p.m. and 2 p.m.
A diverse ensemble of local actors will join students from local colleges to perform a passionate reading of the "I Have a Dream" Speech.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his Legacy
10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., 2:30 p.m.
In this engaging show, visitors can learn about Dr. King's vision of himself as an agent of service, how that understanding led him to the use of nonviolence, and how other leaders from around the world were influenced by his legacy. Visitors will also discover ways they can serve their own communities.
Craft Activity Tables
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Visitors can create "I Have A Dream…" mobiles and express their dreams for their communities, the country and the world.
Day of Service Story Corner
9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Center staff will engage our youngest visitors at our Story Corners, we we'll read beloved books about Martin Luther King Day of Service, like Uncle Willie and the Soup Kitchen by DyAnne DiSalvo-Ryan.
Constitution Hall Pass
Those who are unable to honor Dr. King in person on January 15th are encouraged to tune in to a special episode of the Constitution Center's popular educational video series Constitution Hall Pass titled "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: A Legacy of Service."
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. saw himself as a servant of humanity, and he wanted his life to be remembered as a life of service to others. In this episode, we'll look at Dr. King's legacy of service. We'll explore how his use of nonviolence was not just a political tool, but a way to demonstrate service to others. Get ready to learn about some of the other activists who drew their inspiration from Dr. King. And we'll even learn about ways that you can serve your community. Join us as we honor the memory of this great American by talking about service!
Have a question about Dr. King's impact or how you can become civically engaged? Educators and museum staff members will be available to answer questions via live chats at www.constitutioncenter.org/hallpass
Lesson Plans and Activities
- Download January's Civics in Literature Lesson: Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
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Jonni Cheatwood's paintings describe the broad visual ideas stemming from still life, abstraction and minimalism. The graffiti-like scribbles, scratches and primitive colors of Cheatwood's work is the controlled chaotic work of an erudite, expressionist.
"Process is everything for me as a painter. There has always been this game going on in my practice of balancing negative space and structure, which I love. I tend to use differing fabrics that I sew together to allow my paintings take a breath when they need to. I try to include everything I can within a canvas without overwhelming myself, as well as the viewer. For these works, I focused on the interaction with the viewer of the painting, as I want my audience feel involved. For example, when I write something within a canvas, make a mark, use a color, sew, or let my work roll around my studio floor, I'm interacting. I'm trying to convey an honesty by showing you the bones of this painting, as well as my process, and not just what's on the surface."
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Sometimes I bring a lot of bad news to you. Much of what I see makes me angry, and then I tell you about it, and maybe I make you angry too. So I owe you one. I need to tell you about something wonderful I watched at City Hall. I mean wonderful. A miracle on Marilla Street.
Last week the Dallas Plan Commission voted unanimously to save the Ash Creek Mobile Home Community, a ragtag little trailer park on the bottomlands along Highland Road, a mile southeast of the spillway on White Rock Lake. Had the commission voted the other way, 50 families would have been booted out of their homes, all because a fancy new gated community nearby didn't want to look at them.
The vote was an act of mercy and courage. The debate preceding it was heartfelt, difficult and prolonged. I was on the edge of my seat with my fingers dug in the cushion.
Ash Creek mobile home park
The air was thick with legalese, of course, but the most powerful moments were speeches straight from the heart about the moral duty of a city toward its citizens. Carol Ann Brandon, vice chair of the plan commission, told the leaders of the group seeking to have the park shut down, "I say that it is a shame that anyone who has been there since 1952 should be outcast. Outcast!
"I could live in a mobile home park," she said. "I may be vice chair of the plan commission, but I could live in a mobile home park. I could live in an Ash Creek situation, and you would want me to get out like that?"
The people who want the mobile home residents tossed out come from a nearby, recently developed gated community and from the "Ferguson Road Initiative," a regional neighborhood improvement association that did great work in the '90s and now apparently has gone proto-fascist.
But a delegation of leaders from the immediately adjacent neighborhood, Little Forest Hills, also appeared before the plan commission and made emotional speeches in favor of the trailer park. Carol Lyons, who lives in one of the houses on huge wooded lots on Barbaree Boulevard, told the commission she and her neighbors want to help the city fix whatever may be wrong with the trailer park rather than toss poor and working families out of a viable community.
"Talk about throwing the baby out with the bathwater," she said. She called on the commission to treat the case as "an opportunity to put civics to a test." She urged them to "not turn a blind eye and take the easy way" by simply expunging the trailer park from the map.
Up until last week's proceeding, the opponents of the trailer park were on a roll. They had persuaded a lesser city board to yank the park's zoning entitlement--a move that would have forced it to cease operation had it not been able to persuade the plan commission to give it new zoning.
I wrote about this late last year ("Board of Scrooges," December 22). When the trailer park was established in the early 1940s, it was outside the city limits. Dallas annexed it in 1952, and the city granted it legal permission to continue operating as a grandfathered and legal "nonconforming use."
Things went fine for decades. The little park was sort of lost in the weeds along the creek in a remote corner of East Dallas that stayed remarkably rural until quite recently. That rural ambience began to erode when developers got interested in the area in the last 10 years.
A new gated community nearby, called "The Enclave at White Rock," literally looks down on the trailer park from a high bluff. An alliance of homeowners from the Enclave and other affluent and middle-class neighborhoods in the area appeared before the city's Board of Adjustment last year to talk it into removing the park's grandfathered status.
The only way out of the predicament for the trailer park was to ask the city for full-fledged zoning as a trailer park, instead of the grandfathered "nonconforming use" status it had before. It may seem like a fine distinction, but in fact it was a mountain no one believed the park could climb. Creating an island of permanent mobile home zoning would have been a real slap in the face to all the new development in the area. It just was not going to happen.
Enter two key players: Steve Crossett of Austin, who owns the park, and Jonathan G. Vinson, a zoning and transactions lawyer with Jackson Walker in Dallas. Vinson crafted an elegant solution that provided just the amount of wriggle room and face-saving the plan commission would need in order to show mercy.
He didn't ask for permanent zoning. He asked for a two-year temporary "special-use permit" for the park and offered along with it the owner's promise to screen the property from the view of the offended rich people on the hill. Vinson, a former Dallas plan commissioner himself for four years, knew it wasn't going to be easy to get the commission even to think about voting against the Enclave and the Ferguson Road Initiative, which now goes by the scary Sovietique name "F.R.I."
It's also one reason I was on the edge of my seat with my fingers dug in the cushion. Things don't fall to poor people very often at City Hall. I just wrote about another instance in which the city council, except for the mayor, voted to toss thousands of poor and working-class tenants out of an apartment complex on Northwest Highway to help a developer make a buck ("Looters," May 18).
I have come to know some of the trailer park people--Bill Ashe, for example, a wonderful East Dallas eccentric, smart as hell and open-hearted, and some of the families who live there.
Some of them pay less than $200 a month in rent. It's what they can afford. You know, where do we think people live if they work and earn less than $1,000 a month?
The other key player here is Crossett, the owner. All afternoon long before the plan commission, Crossett was called to the microphone again and again where he was verbally flayed by a succession of commissioners, who blamed him for allowing the trailer park to decay over the years.
Crossett stood with shoulders slumped and took it. A couple of times he spoke up, objecting that he had addressed every code complaint and citation of any kind the city had given him. Every time he spoke, I cringed, because I knew that if he told the truth, the whole deal might collapse. Luckily, he knew it too.
The commissioners were taking strips of hide off him because they needed a villain in this scenario, and the villain could not be the Enclave or the F.R.I. Crossett had to be the bad guy--the greedy absentee landlord from Austin who would go on forever exploiting his poor tenants if City Hall didn't whip him into shape.
What I knew was that Crossett doesn't make a dime off the trailer park. It was his father's business and then his mother's when she became a widow. Yeah, it's his on paper, but his mother runs it, and it is her sole source of income.
Is he blameless for allowing his mother's business to get down at the heel? No. He doesn't claim to be. But is he a greedy absentee bloodsucker? Hey, anybody who thinks that hasn't yet been in the position of trying to conduct a life, a business and a family while having elderly parents in another city.
The other thing was this: Crossett and his mother could make a killing right now by kicking out all the trailer park people and selling the land to a developer. Testimony before the Board of Adjustment last year showed that people were begging him to sell. But he and his mother feel loyalty to their tenants.
I asked him before last week's meeting why he was spending lawyer money, to say nothing of blood, sweat and tears, to keep this property as a trailer park, when he could just sell it, put the money in CDs and be better off.
"Why are we doing this?" he said. "We have 50 families there that they're trying to kick out on the street. These people have no place to go, no place to live. Our average rent in the mobile home park is $192 a month. You tell me what you can rent for $192 a month anywhere. These people can't afford to go anywhere else."
I said: "But you're a property owner. Why should you care at all what their problems are?"
Crossett said: "Why should I not care?"
Here was the dilemma and the source of my nail-biting suspense. Vinson, the lawyer, had given the commission a brilliantly crafted compromise. They could vote for the temporary-use permit and not create a big gaping precedent-setting hole in the surrounding zoning.
But politically, Crossett had to take a whipping. And if he did not take it--if he bit back one time--then it was my sense that the whole thing could collapse in a heartbeat. The commissioners would say to themselves, "We're not going to vote against the rich people and give this guy new zoning rights if he's not willing to eat some dirt over it."
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He took it. Every lick. All afternoon.
They voted unanimously to grant the new permit.
This still must go to the city council. A simple majority vote of the council could knock it all apart.
But I don't think so. I think what we saw was a better face of our city. And, lo and behold, wonder of wonders...


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NORRUSS Call opens with launching
The seminar will run at Monday 5th March from 14.30 - 16.00 at Forskningsrådet, Stensberggaten 26, Oslo, in meeting room Abel.
1. Welcome: Introduction to the launching – Jesper W. Simonsen, Director, Division Society and Health, Research Council of Norway
2. Russia and High North related research as an important foreign policy objective – Torgeir Larsen, State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
3. Objectives and content of the NORRUSS Programme – Nils Morten Udgaard, Chair, NORRUSS programme board
4. Open Question & Answer session – Birgit Jacobsen, NORRUSS coordinator, Research Council of Norway
The launching seminar will be held in Norwegian.
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Dir. Thorold Dickinson
UK 1940 | Black & White | 82 mins
Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Robert Newton
A powerful Gothic melodrama of domestic sadism and psychological suspense, now digitally remastered by the BFI National Archive
The novelist/dramatist Patrick Hamilton is regularly 'rediscovered' but the first film version of Hamilton's Victorian stage play Gas Light has not had its time in the sun – until now. Mingling suavity and cruelty, Anton Walbrook excels as the sadistic husband who attempts to drive his wife mad to prevent her disclosure of his guilty secret while he searches obsessively for some hidden jewels. The project appealed to Dickinson for allowing him 'to expose the worst side of the Victorian male's attitude to women'. The film's critical success in Britain prompted the sale of all rights to MGM, who suppressed this version. Fortunately Dickinson had made a 'secret' print which was donated to the BFI. - Nigel Algar
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Calendar of County Events
Davis - Forests, Farms & Fossils
An Earth Science Sing-along
- Date: 07/15/2014 3:00 PM
- Location: Stephens - Davis Branch Library
315 E. 14th Street
Davis, California 95616
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Forests, Farms & Fossils: an Earth Science Sing-along
Forests, Farms & Fossils: an Earth Science Sing-along
Who knew that singing about science could be so much fun? For ages 5-12.
Questions? For more information, call 530-757-5593.
Programs are generously supported by Friends Groups of the Yolo County Library system.


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The small German port of Cuxhaven is betting its future on North Sea wind, promoting itself as a base for new offshore wind farms as the country embarks on a bid to scrap nuclear power.
Five-hundred-tonne tripods, meant to be sunk to the sea floor to support giant wind turbines, line the quays awaiting shipment out to sea.
"Wind power is the promise of an industrial future. Business used to be stagnant," says Hans-Joachim Stietzel, scientific director of the local economic development agency.
For this port of 52,000 inhabitants, which once lived off fish factories and retirement homes, Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision late last month for Germany to renounce nuclear power by 2022 is manna from heaven.
Cuxhaven, which was losing its importance as a harbour because of the development of giant container ships that prefer ports such as Hamburg or Rotterdam, decided to take up the windpower challenge as early as 2007.
It built a specialised terminal, with roads and platforms designed to take very heavy loads, and turned sheep pastures into industrial parks.
With parliament expected to vote later this month on abandoning nuclear power and the government promising five billion euros ($7 billion) to develop offshore electricity production, Cuxhaven is eyeing a golden opportunity.
"Of course this is going to help. But we didn't wait for the government to get on with the job," says engineer Rolf Bartelheim of Cuxhaven Steel Construction, a firm that set up shop here in 2009.
Workers busy themselves around the giant tripods which will be sunk in waters from 20 to 40 metres (65 to 130 feet) deep.
The turbines will then stand 100 metres high with rotor spans of equal dimension, taller and wider than London's St. Paul cathedral.
"We have a two-to-three-year jump" on other German centres, such as Bremerhaven in the northwest, says Stietzel who believes nevertheless there will be "enough work to go around".
By 2030 Germany wants offshore wind power to provide 25,000 megawatts of power, the equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors.
Three offshore wind farms are currently operating in German waters, while some 20 more have been granted planning permission. Another 20 are planned.
Merkel recently inaugurated the country's first commercial wind farm, with 21 turbines set to supply electricity to more than 50,000 households, off the northeastern Baltic coast.
Germany has big plans for offshore "clean" energy, but it got off to a slow start compared to Britain and the Netherlands because of its very strict planning rules, which have only allowed turbines to set up in deep waters.
In the North Sea, this has made everything more difficult, from setting up the turbines to connecting them to the grid.
"Because of weather and safety concerns, we're happy if we can get 85 days in the year to go out to sea to set up the wind turbines," says Bartelheim.
Financing is also a problem, he says.
"The five billion promised by the state won't cover all the costs" at a time when private investors are reluctant to back such costly developments, he says.
The start-up cost of a wind farm is about one billion euros.
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Been Trill x PacSun Athletic Pack 2014 Lookbook
Been Trill is about to drop a new collection for all you budget ballers out there (ain't shit wrong with balling on a budget, STOP living by the law of rap videos). For their new batch of goods with PacSun, the Been Trill Boyz present a range of cut and sew items inspired by modern athletics.
The first piece, shown above, is their take on the mesh baseball jersey. Polished off with Been Trill's ever-present "double hashtag," this baseball jersey is sure to have you lookin' draped up and dripped out, oozing steez.
The second piece from the collection is inspired by hockey sweaters. Implementing bold, contrasting horizontal bands, minor details on the garment provide a look into "Been Trill on Ice." The team crest is a skull and crossbones coupled with the infamous "double hashtag," letting you know that this ain't about ice dancing, it's about swift, unforgiving, sartorial prowess… if you can harness it that is.
You can't do an apparel collection inspired my modern athletics without a nod to "the pigskin." The piece above comes in a monochromatic makeup, blocked off in black and white, with company branding across the chest and shoulders. Sure to keep you lookin slick and on the verge of runnin' downhill on some steelo-challenged yentas… word to Cam'.
You can scoop the collection August 1, over at your local PacSun or online HERE.


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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Matt Besler typically doesn't like to look ahead on the schedule – for club or for country.
But ever since U.S. Soccer booked Friday's World Cup qualifier against Jamaica at Sporting Park, Sporting Kansas City's All-Star center back has been looking forward to donning the national team's colors in front of his hometown fans.
"It's something that's going to be special," Besler told MLSsoccer.com late last week, while awaiting the official call-up that came on Sunday. "You hate looking forward to games before they happen, but this is a game that I've had on my mind for a very long time, and once it came out I was just looking forward to hopefully getting a chance to play."
The venue for Friday's match at Sporting Park was announced on March 21, five days before Besler's first qualifying start – a scoreless draw against Mexico at Azteca Stadium.
"Everything was going through my mind when that came out," said Besler, who joins Sporting midfielder Graham Zusi on the US roster. "I was basically just thinking, 'How cool would it be to get that chance to play in a meaningful game?' And here we are now."
Besler has made five starts in Hexagonal play despite missing last month's 2-0 win over El Tri in Columbus on a yellow-card suspension, and also helped the US to a Gold Cup title this summer after joining the team for the knockout stage.
His latest call-up came a day after Besler gave Sporting's fans a scare, when he knocked heads with Columbus' Chad Barson just before the hour mark in Saturday night's 1-0 away victory against the Crew. The collision opened a bloody gash in Besler's head that would later require 10 stitches – but that was after he changed to a backup kit, donned headgear and finished the match.
That perseverance earned praise from manager Peter Vermes what he called "big-time" toughness.
Zusi, who missed three league matches in August with a quad strain, also bounced back from an injury scare after recording the game-winning assist against the Crew. He appeared to pull up lame after whiffing on a second-half shot, but quickly shook it off and went on to complete a dominating full-90 performance.
He has already played for the US at Sporting Park, starting in a 3-1 victory over Guatemala in an early-stage qualifying match last October.
"I take an immense amount of pride in having the honor of representing my club and my country," Zusi said in a statement issued by the club on Sunday. "This next match will be that much more meaningful to do so in front of the fans at Sporting Park. It's a special occasion for me personally and an important match for the team."
Steve Brisendine covers Sporting Kansas City for MLSsoccer.com.


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M&M: Heroes VI - Shades of Darkness Review @ Softpedia
Softpedia has a review of M&M: Heroes VI - Shades of Darkness. Word of warning it's not positive. I can't blame though after the release the game became unplayable again.
The game was billed as a standalone expansion and was supposed to be easily downloadable via the much lauded Uplay service from Ubisoft.
As soon as the new content was launched, players who bought it started complaining that they could not access it at all or that it was only playable in its most basic form, with no sound and no cutscenes.
The team behind Might & Magic: Heroes VI – Shades of Darkness announced that all problems would be dealt with quickly but, at the moment, there still are significant issues with the game despite the fact that one patch was launched.
It's hard to recommend a video game that fails to perform its most basic functions, from a company that is willing to take players' without giving them a quick and simple way of running the purchased product.
If we ignore the launch problems, which might be solved at some point in the future, Might & Magic: Heroes VI – Shades of Darkness fails to deliver any sort of important innovation for the series and delivers a rather bland, over-developed campaign and tactical battles that are spectacular at times but rarely capture the magic of the series.
Heroes of Might & Magic fans should pick up and replay the second and third games in the series and their expansions to get their dose of turn-based tactics and strategy.
Information aboutM&M: Heroes VI
SP/MP: Single + MP
Setting: Fantasy
Genre: Strategy-RPG
Platform: PC
Release: Released


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Quilting Community AQS Authors
Teri Henderson Tope
As I write this, I realize, that in my short life, I have accomplished a great many things. A portion of that has to do with this book and my career as a professional quilter. I have made a great many quilts that have had the honor of hanging in national and international quilt venues. I even won a ribbon or two. I have written and produced a line of patterns through my company MaTERIal Girl Designs, taught and lectured across the United States and even ventured over seas. I have authored three books with The American Quilters Society: Applique in Reverse, Home Sewn Celebrations, and the Bag It book. I have filmed for Quilting Arts TV and can be found on The American Quilters Societys iQuilt Network. I have even judged a few quilt shows. What I wish really wish for you to know is my love for my family and my love for simply stitching beautiful creative things. My family is the foundation that lets me do all the things that I do. I am not truly happy unless I have a needle in hand. My mind never stops. On occasion when I have trouble sleeping, my go to visualization is to put a quilt block together. Quilting is as much a part of me as my skin and bones. My wish for the reader of this book is that, for some small speck of time, they enter my creative, crazy world. Life is too short so go be creative!
Website: http://www.materialgirldesigns.com
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Three days to Minnesota shutdown: secret talks and public sparring
ST. PAUL - Three days remain before a potential state government shutdown and negotiators still are saying little about budget talks while their aides are arguing about whether letters are political.
Gov. Mark Dayton led fellow Democrats into a Capitol negotiation session today with Republican legislative leaders in an attempt to avoid a shutdown, which would come if there is no budget for the two years beginning Friday.
While Republicans going into the talks said they were close in many areas of the budget, Dayton said that has yet to be found out.
Overall, however, those in the talks remained tight-lipped about what was happening. They called it a "cone of silence" and "vow of silence," an effort to keep public rhetoric at a minimum.
But communications aides kept the dialog going, but over whether letters sent by GOP leaders and Dayton's commissioners are political.
House Speaker Kurt Zellers, R-Maple Grove, and Senate Majority Leader Amy Koch, R-Buffalo, on Monday sent a email to state employees endorsing a St. Paul Pioneer Press editorial saying that Dayton's budget negotiation strategy was one of taking hostages.
Some state workers immediately called the letter political and inappropriate.
Now, Dayton commissioners are coming under fire for sending letters considered one-sided.
A letter from Legislative Auditor Jim Nobles, which Republicans released today, chastised Public Safety Commissioner Ramona Dohman for writing a letter to her employees that was "one-sided and could be interpreted as promoting a political position," Nobles wrote.
Dohman's letter said Dayton's position was "reasonable" while pointing out "negative impacts" of the Republican budget.
Nobles said the letter appears to have violated state policy that forbids using the state email system for political purposes.
Republicans say several Dayton commissioners have written similar letters.
Twitter this morning was full of comments about the dust-up, more so than the budget talks themselves.


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A successful master data management strategy goes beyond data integration and data warehousing.
First, data integration does not equal data management, as Collin White argues so eloquently in his blog:
It is also important to realize that master data integration doesn't always equate to master data management. There are many good CDI solutions out there, but many of them don't have sound management capabilities for supporting master data hierarchies, master data versioning, historical master data, master metadata, data lineage reporting, and so on.
While covering both of these bases will certainly take more effort up front in defining and implementing all the additional business rules, it is sure to pay dividends down the road. (This argument reminds me of the Inmon vs. Kimball discussion of Data Warehousing--do you go top-down, or bottom-up ... except that I think the answer in this instance is much more obvious.)


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Slave to the Rhythm : Music Video Atrocity
Alas, many things can be said about this strong womanly lady, but somehow everything you could ever think to say about her is tidily summed up in the video for her major 1985 hit "Slave to the Rhythm."
Though its approach and general effect have been noted as highly artistic, it's still pretty mind-boggling to try to figure how the hell it ever ended up on television at all (especially in its own time) with the amount of completely crazy nudity it contains (seriously?!).
It should come as no surprise that we've decided to process and present this video for your twisted amusement. So without further ado; ladies and gentlemen, Miss Grace Jones:
A disturbing beginning…
This video begins aptly enough; with a razor blade. The blade in question is put to use slicing apart Miss Jones's beautiful profile to make room for additional pieces to be pasted in at will.
The whole scene (mild as it may be) is bizarrely reminiscent of a self-documentary of a deranged stalker/serial killer, hacking away at faces and letters to concoct a chilling Valentine's Day letter for the corpse in his freezer.
That disturbing image quickly evolves and we suddenly find ourselves on a roller coaster ride through that very stalker's mind. Mind you, certain segments of the video may not be covered in full as we blithely leap from portion to portion on the rickety, convoluted mesh of lunacy that links together the many scenes that comprise this MESS. Nonetheless, you won't have missed much by the end of the ride.
A hodgepodge of horror:
After a succession of various displays of human activity caught on film, we are presented with a scene featuring a topless man and woman drenched in un-matching paint with televisions on their heads.
Next up is an image that we can only describe as some sort of metaphoric testament to uncontrollable ejaculations followed by a collage of blissfully surprised-looking female faces and some *ahem* naked spanking (in other words, your grandfather's sexual fantasy made reality).
Nudity, wine and cars (oh my!)
Bizarre images flash by before we're confronted with a semi-nude woman posing as a risqué Olympic runner with a hot glue gun (?). Perhaps this is Grace herself as are the rest of the images that follow.
Then, like a knock out sucker punch in a dive bar on the wrong side of town, a naked woman (presumably Miss Jones) and her photo companion (a very naked man) take the stage with slightly askew berets and raised glasses of wine (looks like they were both just caught in the middle of a heavy roll-playing session gone wrong).
Things take a turn for the undeniably surreal as we witness a giant Grace Jones head protruding from the sandy surface of an unforgiving desert. The head turns and opens wide to allow a car to be driven out of it by the lady in question.
Just after that scene, some images crop up that are so random there's not really much else to say about them. Then, out of nowhere we're sucker punched again; this time with an image of a young girl lifting up her dress (an honest to goodness WTF?! moment if there ever was one).
Le Grande Finale
Tears cascade from our eyes as tiny dancers flood the screen and Grace lets out an inaudible shriek through a microphone with an accordion in her lap. An image follows of a young girl clutching a cup with liquid exploding out of it and falling into another cup that she's deftly balancing on her backside.
The metaphorical roller coaster we began our journey through this video in has long since taken a nose dive off a bottomless cliff and the subsequent images of a topless woman sticking her head in a cannon seem almost commonplace at this point (or perhaps symbolic of what we'd all like to do to ourselves to end the torture of viewing this crap).
Thus, instead of describing the myriad disturbing images that follow we'll just mention them in passing and skip right to the end where Grace shoots herself in the head.
Yep, she shot herself in the head.
Fun Fact: Grace Jones's album "slave to the rhythm" was written by Bruce Woolley, Simon Darlow, Stephen Lipson and Trevor Horn and was originally intended to be used as a follow-up album for "Frankie Goes to Hollywood" after "Relax." For some reason, it was given to Grace instead.


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My son is the waterboy for Florida Tech Institute. When one of the players was injured (he could not play for the rest of the season) my son felt so bad he wanted to do a cake. My son came up with the idea all by himself. I did the floor and the jersey however he did the basketball all by himself. Vanilla cake covered in BC. Thanks for looking


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True bugs include shield bugs, ground bugs, mirid or capsid bugs, water bugs, frog hoppers, plant hoppers, aphids and scale insects.
Not all true bugs can fly, but those that can have wings that usually overlap when they are folded, instead of meeting in a mid line.
All species have piercing mouth parts with which they spear plants, and in some species, body fluids or blood.
Most people are familiar with shield bugs, squash bugs and other plant bugs including aphids and plant scales.
A number of species are prolific plant pests and transfer viruses from one plant to the next as they feed on the sap.
Number of UK species: about 1,700
These forums are looked after by scientists and experts in the Museum's Identification and Advisory Service.
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- Alexandra ChongLulu
Lulu: Shut down Lulu
For those of you who do not already know, there is currently an app, available on the Apple App Store, that allows women to anonymously rate and rank men based on a variety of different attributes. This App is called Lulu. Lulu is only viewable for women, and links directly to men's Facebook accounts without their knowledge. The men listed have no say in what content is posted about them, and also have no way to view content posted about them. This is a CLEAR violation of men's privacy and infringes upon possible online slander. For more information, see www.onlulu.com.
Ladies, this is for you: If Lulu gets sued, guess who takes the brunt of the lawsuit? The content poster herself. Forget being anonymous, when this App goes belly up, they will be taking YOU the poster, down with them! (It's in their privacy policy!) So say no! Sign the petition and pull yourself away from the risk of lawsuit!
So ladies! Sign the petition HERE to protect yourself.
And "share" this to your girlfriends so they can protect themselves too!
Lulu can also represent a means of "cyber bullying", a term that describes public slander that takes place over the internet. We CAN NOT tolerate this!
So, stand with your fellow men, and protect your integrity, your identity and your privacy and sign this petition so that we can get this terrible App taken down for good.
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Alexandra Chong
Your App "Lulu", is a blatant violation of my personal privacy. I did not consent to being posted on this App, and I will not tolerate my name being associated with it. With that said, I am demanding that you remove my name, any postings associated with me, and any other information about me from the App IMMEDIATELY.
The purpose of the App may be genuine, but the side effects are intolerable. Lulu creates an environment that fosters rumors, false facts, and slander. Once again, THIS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
Finally, we demand that you shut down Lulu for good!
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Burglaries have been on the rise in the UK, figures show a 10% hike from 2011-2012 and experts are expecting that to have grown significantly thanks to the recent recession.
It's in times like these that protecting yourself from crime is as important as ever. Video protection is one of the best forms of protections as it deters criminals, can catch them in the act or can be used in prosecution if the culprits are apprehended.
CCTV and video surveillance systems are now affordable and can help protect your home or small business when you are not around.
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Freedom's Program for Veterans
Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind recognizes, appreciates and supports the service and sacrifices of all service members past and present. In recognition of service to our country, Freedom will place a guide dog at no cost, anywhere in the continental United States with a veteran who has lost vision in the line of duty. We are deeply appreciative to those who have fought for our FREEDOM and so we attempt to give back some measure of FREEDOM and independence to blind and visually-impaired veterans. Below are several stories of veterans we have been able to assist (some with multiple disabilities). To learn more about our veterans program, please call 315-822-5132.
James Fair joined the military right out of high school and worked his way up to being a mid-level leader. In December 2003, he became forever changed. While walking back from a work detail, a bomb exploded…..that is all he remembers. James was left with no vision and no hands.
The journey to recovery has been a long one. Through numerous surgeries, different hospitals and seemingly endless efforts with rehabilitation, James has persevered. He was able to return home to Pittsburgh, PA where he lives with family, the support system that has seen him through the worst of times.
After being turned down by other guide dog schools, James was ready to give up. But with Freedom's Hometown Training program, he was able to obtain a guide dog.
Working with James' occupational therapist, Freedom was able to adapt training methods and equipment to his individual needs. The dog's collar was adapted so that James could easily put it on the dog and take it off. The leash that fits around James' shoulder gives him the ability to use it with his arm for control of the dog. Also, when considering how James was going to hold the harness, a rowing prosthetic worked best to give James a firm grip.
James and his guide dog, Oakley, continue to make progress every day. His patience and perseverance have given him the freedom and independence that he deserves.
For ten years, David Stemmerich of Parker, Pennsylvania devoted his life to serving as a Staff Sergeant in the U.S. Army. He completed two, one-year tours in Iraq as an Infantryman. Between tours, he was stationed in South Korea for four months. At just 28 years old, David suffers from a traumatic brain injury, caused by the IED explosions and severe post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD creating a myriad of mental, social and physical problems that have deeply affected both David and his family. His wife, Stephanie says David isolates himself from everyone, including his toddler daughter.
Eric practiced diverse training with Sarge in public places such as restaurants, malls, etc. He then spent time taking trips in public with Sarge and David together. David and Sarge continue to make progress every day. While David remains emotionally disconnected from most, Stephanie sees hope through his interactions with his assistance dog, Sarge, a German Shorthaired Pointer. With Sarge as his security, David is able to slowly venture back out into the world.
It is a long, slow journey, but he is on his way to living a happier, more independent life with his wife and daughter. Read more about David and Sarge by clicking here.
Before losing his sight in a road-side bomb explosion, Sgt. Eric Martz served with the National Guard in Iraq. Today he is able to travel independently with the help of his guide dog, Deacon, aka "Deacon the Beacon."
The road to recovery for Sgt. Martz has been a long one. However, with Freedom's Hometown Training service, Eric has been able to regain his independence without having to leave home. Freedom Guide Dogs brought a well-trained Deacon to Eric at his home in North Dakota, training the team in a familiar setting on commonly traveled routes without interruption of Eric's daily routines.
"In the Army we train with a buddy, you entrust your life with that soldier. Deacon is my new battle buddy. I put my life in his hands getting around town."
Chris Paiser of Plattsburgh, NY, was a sergeant in the Army National Guard for seventeen years. He was deployed to Iraq in 2004 with the 108th Infantry as a fire-team leader. On June 16, 2004, Chris' life changed forever when 57mm Hellfire rockets hit the post exchange where Paiser had taken his team on a day off. Chris lost vision in both eyes….along with his independence.
Through a contact at the Wounded Warrior program, Paiser met Eric Loori, Executive Director of Freedom Guide Dogs. He was particularly interested in Freedom's Hometown Training program since it made sense to him to train with his dog in the community where he would be using his guide.
And that is how Paiser's guide dog, Ike, changed his life by providing freedom and independence. To read more about Chris and Ike, click here


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Tim has spent most of his professional career in the Medical Device industry working for some of the largest device manufacturers in the world. The work of doing things that matter to the quality and longevity of life in others fit with Tim's personal values. Upon discovering the Farrell's program, he found it to be the right match with those values on a much more personal and tangible level.
Tim began his journey at FXB Blaine in MN, where he progressed from 10-week challenge member to instructor. His classes are high energy with an intensity to push members to find what they thought were their limits and go beyond them to achieve new levels.
Tim is a respected instructor and coach, routinely sought out for his advice on training and nutrition. Tim is committed to making Farrell's the premiere group fitness program in Maple Grove.