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[lastfm]Journey[/lastfm]'s sing-along classic "Don't Stop Believin'" has grabbed yet another generation of new fans after being featured on Fox's hit series Glee. And, according to guitarist [lastfm]Neal Schon[/lastfm], the group is more than happy to parlay the song's continued success into headlining festival gigs.
"[The song's success is] brilliant for us and bands like us," he told Classic Rock magazine. "If people think 'Don't Stop Believin" is a Glee song and not one of ours, I don't mind. Those are brand new fans – I'm happy they like the song, period."
Schon continued on to explain that some good luck on the road has allowed them to focus in on their new album.
"We did really well the last time we toured in the U.K. [in June 2008], also playing at [last year's] Download [Festival], so we've taken the rest of the year off to prepare this new CD," he said. "Things are on the up-and-up for us over there. It's great to know that doors are finally opening." He added, "We're going to be here [in the studio] for a little bit over a month. Overdubs and vocals are going really well. Kevin [Shirley, producer] has to run off to another project, so we will come back and sing some more in November. The material is extremely strong."
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The Vancouver Canucks are playing one of those so-called "meaningless" games on Saturday, wrapping up the NHL regular season with a home contest against the Calgary Flames.
The Canucks can neither drop, nor rise, from third place in the Western Conference, and the Flames are out of the playoffs. But consider what former NFL coach Bill Parcells used to say "they're only meaningless for the people not playing in them." Also consider this: for a meaningless game, there sure is a lot at stake. Such as:
-- Henrik Sedin's Art Ross Trophy. Sedin, who leads Alexander Ovechkin by two points in the scoring race, will look to wrap up the Art Ross (awarded to the scoring champion). The Canucks have never had a major individual award winner (defined as Hart, Ross, Norris or Vezina), and their fan base has closely followed Hank's head-to-head battle with hockey's most colourful player. Ovechkin plays Sunday, so he'll know the number to catch. For Sedin's sake, he better hope he has a comfortable lead, because the Capitals are playing a "meaningless" game as well, and are sure to give Ovie every opportunity to win the hardware
-- Goaltender Roberto Luongo has been inconsistent since returning from the Olympic break, and he has one last chance to find his game and head into the Stanley Cup playoffs with some good tidings. It should also be noted that Luongo was chased from a "meaningless" season finale against Calgary two years ago, after allowing three goals in an eventual 7-1 rout. This is a goaltender who doesn't forget slights.
-- The defence could use some warm fuzzies, too. Christian Ehrhoff (knee injury) is expected to play, and Shane O'Brien and Kevin Bieksa could also use strong performances, lest their confidence be shaken come the postseason. If the Canucks could win a 2-1 game with stellar performances from Luongo and the blue line, that would be manna from heaven right now. Because the recent evidence suggests this is a team that cannot win tight-checking, low-scoring games.


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Strange-sounding or not, experts themselves aren't sure how Sweden's insults compare to those in English in quality or number.
"I don't think Swedes have more insults than other people from other countries, but it's notoriously hard to know," Sofia Malmgård, language advisor at Språkrådet (Swedish Language Council), told The Local.
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The Ole Miss Rebels started strong, sputtered midway through their SEC schedule and nearly blew their NCAA bid with two devastating road losses at South Carolina and Mississippi State. But the Rebels rallied, with victories over Alabama and LSU to close the regular season, and made it into the field of 68. Can that momentum carry into the NCAAs?
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Marshall Henderson, meet Bo Ryan. Specifically, meet a Wisconsin defense that will force the ball out of his hands and squeeze the life out of Ole Miss. Credit the Rebels for winning the SEC tournament, but nothing Ole Miss has seen this year can prepare them properly for the Badgers. This will be another popular 5/12 upset pick, but it's not happening.
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It's been more than a month since Axl Rose told fans that the music video for Chinese Democracy's "Better" was a week away from debuting. In a message board interview, Guns n' Roses associate Fernando Lebeis said Lars Ulrich was responsible for the hold-up because the Metallica drummer needed to sign a release. That was on December 30th. Today is January 21st (hell, it's a new year!). So where's the "Better" video? Don't blame Lars, Ulrich says.
Asked whether he knew he was being blamed for "holding up" the video, Ulrich responded, "I have heard about this, yes. There was a couple of clips of me in the video and they asked if I would sign off on it. When it got to me, I signed off on the one clip... I don't know where [the rumor] came from. I'd love to be in a Guns n' Roses video. It's my favorite song on the record — I think it's a great song." Added Lars before the band's concert in Milwaukee, "I can't wait for the video to come out. There's a shot of me and Axl embracing backstage at some concert, and I signed off that, and hopefully it'll make it in the final cut."
We don't how it could take so long to edit together the live footage that will eventually become the "Better" video, but knowing Axl he's probably meticulously overlooking the project to ensure it has proper continuity or something. At least now we have confirmation from outside the Gn'R camp that a "Better" video does exist.
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The possibility of a first-round playoff match between the Toronto Maple Leafs and the Montreal Canadiens has been tantalizing the fans in both cities for more than a week now.
A lot of this has to do with the oldest rivalry in the NHL but more of the excitement springs from the belief the Canadiens would be an easier matchup for the Leafs than the other likely opponent, the Boston Bruins. After Saturday night's 5-1 laugher at the Air Canada Centre, which saw Canadiens goaltender Carey Price chased after giving up three goals on the first four Leafs shots and backup Peter Budaj let in the first shot he faced, the Leafs have a 3-1 record against the Habs this season.
It is a much different tale with the Bruins, as it has been for the last several years. The Leafs finished their regular-season series against Boston at 1-2-1. In their last 37 regular-season games, the Bruins hold a 26-6-5 edge on the Maple Leafs and it seems like the Leafs have never won a game against them since the infamous Phil Kessel trade in 2009.
There certainly is not much appetite among the Canadiens to discuss why the Leafs give them such trouble.
"No reason," said Montreal head coach Michel Therrien.
"No, I don't know," said Canadiens captain Brian Gionta. "[But] we've got to find an answer for it."
The reason can be found in the youthful Leafs' acceptance of the defensive system preached by head coach Randy Carlyle. He doesn't mind shots on goal, as long as they come from the periphery. The mantra is to protect the area in front of goaltender James Reimer at all costs and clear every rebound. Second and third scoring chances are verboten.
When the Leafs are playing to the plan, the Canadiens cannot cycle the puck around the boards in the Toronto zone and they have to resort to long shots from the outside. This, by the way, is how the Bruins routinely smother the Leafs in their encounters, which also feature towering defenceman Zdeno Chara shutting down Leafs sniper Phil Kessel, although the emergence of Nazem Kadri made their last two encounters much closer, with the Leafs taking three of a possible four points.
"When we're skating, when we're moving, we're forcing turnovers and fighting other teams' [defences] down low," Gionta said. "We weren't able to establish that [against the Leafs]. We had a lot of outside shots. You have to penetrate that net front and have to get second and third shots on that."
Gionta said the biggest difference between this season's Canadiens, which have bobbed around the top of the Eastern Conference all season, and the team that finished 28th overall in the NHL in 2011-12, is its ability to bounce back from bad games. The Leafs have also shown much improvement in that area as well.
As for the rivalry angle, even though the players showed by their combativeness on Saturday there is a strong sense of dislike between the teams, Therrien brushed it aside. It is the Bruins who are the Canadiens' big rivals, he said, because the last time the Habs met the Leafs in the Stanley Cup playoffs was way back in 1979 when the Leafs were swept on the way to the Canadiens' fourth consecutive championship. None of the Leafs' players were even born then.
"So why is there a rivalry with the Bruins and us?" Therrien said. "Because we play those guys so often in the playoffs."
Left unsaid was the fact the Leafs haven't been in the playoffs in the last eight years to have even a chance of playing the Canadiens.


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The Bemidji School Board met Monday to call a vote on the preliminary proposed budget for the 2009-2010 fiscal year.
The vote carried and a proposed preliminary budget of general funds is $48,689,192 in revenue and $48970,799. The total proposed budget for all funds is $57,098,446 in revenue and $57,264,942.
Chris Leinen, director of business services, submitted the budgets.
Currently, the proposed budget is about one half a percent away from being balanced, with only a $280,000 deficit remaining. The former balance was around five percent.
Several unknown variables remain that could still affect the balance of the budget including the negotiation process, Gov. Tim Pawlenty's possible cuts and the effect of federal revenues.
The proposed budget also did not assume inflation, as was assumed in the previous budget, and allowed zero dollars for federal stimulus funds.
The stimulus fund affect on the budget is unknown because of possible conditions that will likely apply, according to Leinen.
Superintendent Jim Hess called this approved proposal a summary of the current budget, saying that substantial progress has been made to nearly finish the budget process.
"It's been a very, very difficult process. We're 95 percent there right now," Hess said.
In other news, recommendations were made by Jordan Hickman, director of human resources, for reductions in programs and positions affecting licensed teaching positions, as well as non-personnel expenditures, non-licensed personnel, and administrative positions.
This motion carried in an effort to also address the District's budget shortfall.
Curriculum review
Kathy Palm, director of curriculum and administrative services, submitted teacher requisitions for new K-12 music, art and language curriculums. This motion carried and committee chairs, respectively, Mike Ohl, Jackie Schaffer and Amanda MacKinnon presented the results of their new curriculum assessments.
The new curriculum will be purchased after July 1. Curriculums stayed within the $200,000 budget.
Finally, the School Board discussed the search process for a new Bemidji High School and Bemidji Middle School principals.
The Bemidji High School is in the process of searching for a new candidate to act as principal and the search is closing this Friday. The new candidate will be chosen by the end of June.
James Wheeler, Bemidji Middle School principal, has announced his resignation and a notice for new applicants has been posted today.
The interview closing date will be June 29 and a new principal will be chosen by the end of July to the beginning of August.
The search process remained with an internal pool of candidates for the high school principal and both an internal and external candidate for the Bemidji Middle School principals.
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I love Primark, it really can't be beaten for bargain clothes. I go there regularly to stock up on essentials like knickers and bras as well as seasonal items and special one offs. I was so excited when they started doing make up. Unfortunately it didn't last long in my local store, but I did stock up while it was there! One of the items I bought was a purple Primark Opia Eye Crayon for the pricely sum of fifty pence.
The packaging is really simple, very clear and basic, which represents the price, and normally when you buy eye pencils they do not have any baggage so thi sis an extra anyway. In a shop as chaotic as primark the extra packaging is probably an essential. The eyeliner itself is quite a chunky pencil. It has a clear plastic lid which is easy to take on and off, but has got a little bit lose over several uses.
This eyeliner suffers in the same way a lot of other brands do, it is just not quite soft enough. It is great for doing the inner eyelids it glides on easily. If you want to do the outer eye lids I would recommend warming it up, either by rubbing it between your fingers or a very quick blast with your hairdryer! Otheriwse you will get very inconsistent blobs!
The eyeliner stays on for an average amount of time. It is by no means an all dayer, more like just a couple of hours before fading or sliding, but this is no more or no less than the rimmel ones which are a higher price.
Bear in mind this eyeliner is better for chunkier application due to it's size than fine detailing, as you would not be able to sharpen it thin enough.
Primark cosmetics are affordable-'cheap as chips' as some would say and I discovered the Opia Crayon a while ago when I was looking for something similar to my BarryM pencil (the jumbo one which dare I say I paid around £5.00 for). So I purchased the black one, not being daring enough to try an adventurous colour.
The crayon is simply packaged-the bag is clear (no frills or fancy business). The crayon is just like say a kohl pencil, just chunkier and in my humble opinion slightly oilier (is that a word?!) than kohl pencils (the more expensive ones anyway).
The crayon is easy to apply, and less figidity than a liquid eyeliner so gets a thumbs up from notive make up artists! It's great for creating bold lines-I don't think you'll get fine detailing done with the crayon.
Staying power-I found the crayon stayed put for at least 4 hours without looking saggy or like it was applied last night. It was easy to remove with baby wipes-so easy to remove.
I found this product just as good as the expensive brands-and for the price I was paying before I could now buy all the colours I came across that looked scary without worrying about spending too much on a product I may not use again.
A great addition to a make-up bag.
Don't forget to purchase a pencil sharper that takes larger chunkier pencils!
This 'crayon' packs a lotta punch for its price!
At just £1 for an average sized eye liner pencil, one that you can sharpen and has a clear lid, Primark has done really well.. It really did amaze me.
It comes in SO many colours, i have a few of them (as well as a standard black one) in a dark brown, a deep purple and a really deep blue and surprisingly they don't look at all silly! There are a lot of other colours such as neons and rather ridiculous ones such as orange, but for the ones that are more suitable colours they aren't that bad.
They come in a clear, plain, simple plastic bag that doesn't give you much information about the product. But if you're buying eye liner, you should know how to use it.
I'm not going to lie and say they're perfect, because my eye liner loyalty lies elsewhere. But Primark Opia Eye Crayons are really worth what you pay and more! They go on nicely, sometimes you have to apply it twice to get it thicker but that doesn't really matter for £1. It doesn't make my eyes red when i use it and it is really easy to remove.
The only problem is that it runs rather badly if you get it wet.. But what do you expect? It's Primark and it's cheap.. For an eye liner to have in your bag just in case you need it, it's well worth the buy.
I was in my local Primark store recently and couldn't help but notice a lot of cosmetic items within the store. These were hanging on a display, and each item was supplied in a little clear plastic bag so that the cosmetic items were each visible and easy to inspect more closely.
Noting that some of the cosmetics, in particular those aimed at eye make-up such as eyeliner and shadow pots, were available in some rather interesting colours, I took a closer look to see what was on offer.
I eventually decided to purchase the Primark "Opia" eye crayon. The colour I have is a very deep purple/plum shade, but there is nothing on the packaging to tell me what this shade is called.
I have been using this eye crayon for around two months now (yes, my Dooyoo suggestion DID take a long time to be accepted!) and I cannot believe how well this product performs, especially given the fact it only cost me £1!
I have been known to pay up to £15 for similar products from alternative brands available on the high street and the results between those cosmetics and the Opia eye crayon are probably not all that different.
Ok, so the eye crayon - for those of you who are unfamiliar with the term - is similar in design to a traditional eyeliner or kohl pencil. It is of course, pencil shaped, with a pointed edge and a clear plastic lid. The main difference is that the Opia eye crayon is chunkier and thicker than your average liner.
The texture of the crayon is similar to an eyeliner pencil, although because the Opia crayon is larger, the 'nib' or point is larger in size too. This means that thicker lines and curved designs can be achieved easier and quicker by the crayon than if using a thin liner.
I find that the product is very easy to apply, and I don't think it feels like a real budget product at all! The eye crayon glides over my lash line and eyelid with ease, and I find that it performs as well as other products that I use to achieve this effect on a regular basis.
I would say that the crayon is designed with drawing thicker lines and curves in mind, although I find that by doing so, it does mean that I have found the nib of the Opia crayon gets worn down much quicker than my standard eyeliner or eye pencil. This is easily remedied though, as included in the little clear plastic bag alongside my Opia crayon was its very own little plastic pencil sharpener! A great idea if ever there was one, as I personally would have been hard pushed to sharpen the point of the Opia crayon, as even though I own three cosmetic pencil sharpeners of varying sizes, the Opia crayon doesn't fit any of them.
The colour, once applied, stays put for a good few hours although if I am being critical I did find that it started to smudge a little after this time, and this is not what I would have expected if I had paid my usual £15 for a product like this. As I didn't pay anything of the sort for this eye crayon though, I was happy with the staying-power that it DID have, and felt it offered reasonable wearing time.
I found too that the colour was pleasant to wear, and it felt almost the same as any other similar products that I use regularly. I say 'almost' because I did feel that the Opia crayon felt a little 'heavier' (hopefully you know what I mean) after it was first applied. This wore off after a while though, and given the amount of it that I used to colour my eyes, I'm not altogether surprised at it feeling slightly heavy!
A rather noticeable smell is evident when using the Opia eye crayon, although I couldn't say that the smell is altogether unpleasant...it just smells like make-up really. I also found that the smell wasn't evident when I was actually wearing the product and I could only really detect it when I was in the process of applying it to my eyes.
I think it is important to note that I do suffer from very sensitive skin, particularly around my eyes and on my face. For this reason I have found that cheap mascara doesn't agree with me, and I am always a bit cautious as a result, when I use cheaper branded eye make-up. I am happy to say that the Opia eye crayon caused no irritation or unwanted side-effects to my eyes or skin.
I find that the Opia eye crayon is removed as easily as any other eye make-up products that I use on a regular basis with either a wet 'facial wipe' or some eye make-up remover soaked into a cotton wool pad, I find that I do not need to scrub overly hard to remove all traces of the crayon.
All in all I would thoroughly recommend this little crayon. I intend to stock up on some alternative colours before the party season is upon us, and I would award this product full marks! Five stars from me, and a huge thumb's up!


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Fort Hays State University > About FHSU > Academic Divisions > College of Arts and Sciences > Department of Philosophy > Grade Appeal Policy
Department of PhilosophyFort Hays State University600 Park StreetRarick Hall 340Phone: email@example.com Department
All students in philosophy classes
have the right to questions assigned grades in the department. Students should
carefully examine their own work and other related factors of performance, such
as class attendance, before pursing an appeal. However, if student believe
assigned grades are the result of an instructor error, discrimination, or other
unfair practices, they should most certainly question the basis upon which the
grades were awarded. If such an appeal is made, the philosophy department will
proceed in the following steps. Note
well that STEPS 1 and 2 must be initiated by the student within thirty calendar
days after official final grades are posted, usually the Monday following
finals week. If the student is appealing a grade assigned
by the chair of the department, then the tasks assigned to the chair in each of
the following steps will be assumed by the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and
Social Sciences.
STEP 1. The student should meet
with the course instructor and request an explanation of the basis for the
grade. If this explanation is unsatisfactory to the student for any reason, the
student should proceed to step two if the course instructor is not the chair of
the department or to step six if the course instructor is the chair.
STEP 2. The student should contact the chair of the
department and explain the questions and issues concerning the course
instructor's assigned grade. The student
should explain any and all information relevant to the questions at hand. The chair will then discuss the matter with
the instructor. The desired outcome of
this stage of the process is agreement between student and instructor. The chair will not decide upon an appropriate
grade at this point. If these
discussions with the student and instructor do not produce a resolution
satisfactory to the student, the student has the option of continuing the
appeal process with step three.
STEP 3. The student will prepare a formal, written
complaint concerning the assignment of a grade, addressing the complaint to the
chair of the department. The chair will
proceed with step four.
STEP 4. The chair of the department will constitute
a Philosophy Department Appeals Committee and refer the student's formal appeal
to the committee. This committee will
consist of three faculty members, including as many as possible from within the
philosophy department. The committee
will not include either the chair of the department or the instructor in
question. The Philosophy Department
Appeals Committee will make a recommendation to the chair.
STEP 5. The chair of the department will decide to
accept or reject the recommendation of the Philosophy Department Appeals
Committee and will communicate his or her decision in writing to the student
within one week of receiving the committee's recommendation. If the student is not satisfied with the
chair's decision, the student has the option of continuing the appeal process
with step six.
STEP 6. The student may appeal the assigned grade to
the Provost. This appeal will be
conducted according to the procedures the Provost has established. The
department chair will notify the Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences in
writing that the student is appealing the decision to the Provost.


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Here's what we have our eye on today:
- Ford may lose $500 million to $600 million in the tough European market this year, according to Ford CFO Lewis Booth, who spoke with Bloomberg News. Other large carmakers, such as Opel (owned by GM) and PSA Peugeot Citroën, also are having a tough time operating in Europe and have agreed to collaborate on some vehicle developments together. Europe's unemployment levels continue to hit record highs, according to the Economist. The economies of Italy, Belgium, Greece, the Netherlands, Spain and Portugal have officially slipped back into recession.
- Chrysler may dump Ally Bank as its preferred lender, according to Bloomberg Businessweek. General Electric Capital Corp., U.S. Bancorp, JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Ally are all vying for Chrysler's auto loan originations, which come in at over $25 billion a year. Wells Fargo is interested, too, according to Bloomberg. Ally's current relationship with Chrysler's dealers and customers ends in April 2013.
- Terrafugia, maker of the first "flying-car," will debut its vehicle at the 2012 New York auto show, according to the company. The Transition, which is the name of the model (shown above), has folding wings and a propeller. It will be street legal, too. The company will discuss its plans for the Transition at the show, with a new round of flight tests scheduled for next month, according to the Wall Street Journal.
- The state of California is set to pass new laws that will permit automated cars on its roads, according to Bloomberg News. The new law will mimic the legislation passed in Nevada earlier in the year that gave its highway authority the permission to develop regulations for self-driving cars on state roadways. Google, who's developing its own advanced automated-vehicle technology, had a strong hand in the legislation passed in Nevada and in California. Similar bills have been introduced in Hawaii, Oklahoma, Florida and Arizona, says Bloomberg.


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Public Record for Feb. 29, 2008
-- ANTONIO D. HICKMAN, 20, whose address was listed as the Rock County Jail, on a charge of substantial battery Wednesday after another inmate at the jail�an 18-year-old Janesville man�was beaten Monday. The 18-year-old was treated and released at Mercy Hospital in Janesville.
-- SOUPHY SISOPHA, 53, of 702 S. Washington St., Janesville, on a bench warrant Thursday at his home charging failure to appear in court on an earlier charge of third-offense drunken driving.
-- DANIEL R. DONEHUE, 39, of 2021 Townline Ave., Beloit, on bench warrants this morning at the Rock County Jail charging failure to appear in court on earlier charges of felony battery, felony bail-jumping, misdemeanor battery and misdemeanor bail-jumping.
-- PAULA A. BARTZ, 35, of 2095 Lilly St., No. 6, East Troy, in Waukesha on Thursday on bench warrants charging failure to appear in court on earlier charges of third-offense drunken driving and driving on a revoked license.
Intoxicated driving arrests
-- ERIC A. CALKINS, 21, of 4430 N. Fellows Road, Evansville, at 12:49 a.m. Wednesday at North Gilbert and Janesville streets in Footville. It was reported as his second arrest on a drunken-driving charge; also ticketed for driving on a revoked license.
-- DAVID J. WHITTIER, 48, of 117 W. Beloit St., Darien, at 10 a.m. Sunday at Highway 14 and Emerald Grove Road in Bradford Township. Deputies reported he was under the influence of legally prescribed pain medication.
-- SEXUAL ASSAULTS reported Wednesday to 11- and 12-year-old girls in Johnstown Township. Deputies have a suspect in the case.
-- SEXUAL ASSAULT reported Wednesday to a 12-year-old girl in Orfordville. Deputies have a suspect in the case.
-- THEFT of furniture and household accessories from a storage area on West Court Street owned by SSI Technologies reported Thursday, though the theft is thought to have occurred in early December. Reported stolen were a suede leather sofa and chair, glass table, chairs and a bowl, total value $19,500.
-- BURGLARY to a residence in the 4400 block of Fieldcrest Drive in Janesville reported Thursday. Reported stolen were two TVs, two iPods, video game controller and games and a diamond ring, total value $6,420.
-- BURGLARY to a residence in the 800 block of Arlington Court in Janesville reported Thursday. A TV and video games, total value $1,925, reported stolen.
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Max: quick pic
Here's a pic from my phone of Max as it is now. Small pic, but I'll add some more, better pics soon. Enjoy!
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Max: quick pic
Here's a pic from my phone of Max as it is now. Small pic, but I'll add some more, better pics soon. Enjoy!
Max: Wiring & board placement
I rewired and relocated the motor controller and the micro board. Now all the boards are off the base platform and mounted on the frame scaffolding. This is a much cleaner arrangement and frees up some space for the batteries.
There are a couple more changes to do, so I'll get to it, and make some more progress.
More updates coming soon.
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Sensors for Max
I've mounted the IR and US Sensors, and have done some coding, to get the data. The data is being streamed via the UART, but that may go away, or be used mainly for debugging telemetry data. I will be working on the control logic soon, once I build the data stream correctly.
The sensors that are mounted, will be exposed through the body of the robot. I just need to make the measurements, and make cut out the openings.
The sensors are on lower front (IR), side (US), and another on the top front (US) of the body. The top front, I am still trying to decide if I want it to incline, be on some type of motorized tilt, to scan up and down/left and right.
I will update again soon…
Max Upgrades & Improvements
I have changed up the tubing stand-offs that cover the threaded rods on Max.
Also, some "scaffolding" have been added where the different components are mounted, such as the sensors and cct boards.
A new power regulator was also finished and added which improved the power issues.
So now Max is running nice. Some adjustments to the speed was needed for motion tests.
Will have the sensors connected and working soon. Stay tuned for new pics and more updates.
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Max's additions
I've added a 12v battery to Max to power the additional modules. Also added a nice blue light strip, for cool visual effects. Pics to follow soon, so stay tuned.
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UltraMega: Debugged/Fixed
For UltraMega, I fixed some sensor wiring issues, and debugged the motor control code. It's now in working order.
So now, 2 IR sensors mounted on the front are working, which is sufficient. So when left or right sensor is triggered, the appropriate evasive behavior is invoked. So if the left sensor is triggered, Mega backs away from the left. And if the right sensor is triggered, Mega backs away from the right. Just some simple maneuvers to test. The previous avoidance code will also be reviewed, and rolled in.
Next will be looking at the odometry sensors, to make sure everything is working properly. Will update again soon.
Speakjet module
I am finishing up the speakjet project. I just have a few additions to make, and then test it out on a regular AVR, and then the Arduino. It will be good to hear it speak, and make sound fx.
Will update again soon…
testing social plugins
I am testing out a few social nw plugins…
Max progress
I've made some good progress since my last post. I've finally screwed down the motor driver, encoder, micro boards, and also secured the batteries and power strip.
The XBee Wireless Board was is also attached, and seems to work pretty well. However, I've disconnected the power for now, since it was drawing too much current. I've since, built another 5volt power supply for it, and will work on another in the next few days for other boards. It now contains, some extra protection, and a heatsink, and seems to work pretty good so far. See the pic…
I'm still trying to get the odometry working properly, but it should be too bad…too much a perfectionist I suppose…It has a few quirks to it, so it's justified right now…
I've also added a small canopy to Max, as shown in the pictures below. This is the top of a garbage bin, and the small piece of the rim is removed. This allows the canopy to sit more or less, flush with the chassis base (Lexan). The bin will be cut down to form the lower part of the torso of Max's body. I plan to build the an upper portion where a shoulder, arms, etc. would be, but for now, lots of work on the lower torso. Once I have the LTorso cut down, I'll add the treaded rods, and it'll be the frame to add the internal structure…like a skeleton.
I will be adding some sensors to this LTorso project, such as ULTRAsonic, and IR sensors, a "off-cliff" detector, and also a bump skirt, which protects and the chassis and objects in the room from damage.
Currently Mega and Max have demo code, for doing some motion control tests, open loop. But will be working adding better code. max has sensors, and I'm working on getting one of them working better…stupid wiring issue.
I will add these and other pics to the gallery. I will update again soon.
I suppose I am due for an update. I have been working on the Ultra series robots, Mega and Max. I have been updating UltraMega, aka Mega, eventhough it has been retired.
There were some wiring issues where the ISP header wasn't making good connections, and so updating the firmware was a problem. Also, the IR Sensors were on the same connector, so this had to be fixed as well. So I made these changes to Mega.
Also, replacing the AT90S8515 with the ATMega8515 was done since AVR Studio 4 doesn't support the older chip, and I'm using the AVR ISP MKII. Now, Mega and Max have the same code, and are able to run more or less the same.
At this time, Mega has a 2 IR sensors, and is able to do some basic obstacle avoidance routines. Another behavior that Mega has is the ability to get unstuck if it gets snagged somewhere. It seems to work pretty well. I'm fairly impressed, and it resembles seeing a child get out of some issue in its environment, and it seems as if they are learning. However, Mega is not learning, but given certain states of it's sensors, it triggers the behavior to get unstuck. I will do some more basic stuff with Mega, then have it running around again, for demonstrations, etc.
[Later I will probably have Mega and Max in some robot team tasks.]
The progress on Max is steady. I added the XBee Interface, so now Max may be controlled remotely, via serial commands. This is mainly for telemetry purposes, such as sensor and odometry debugging. I have added some code to read the odometry encoders, and later will add the code for speed control. It's not getting the wheel rotation fast enough, so I'm still working on the ISR code.
I have also been working with the I2C Compass and Ultrasonic Sensors with the Arduino. The Compass seems to work pretty well, as I have an actual analog compass (from my Orienteering days) to test the accuracy of the Digital Compass. I have also installed the Digital Compass in a plastic case to mount away from any magnetic/metallic objects.
The Ultrasonic sensors are impressive, as the readings are coming in real-time. I am thinking of getting a few more of these, since they work so well. I am thinking of adding the Ultrasonic sensors and the analog GP2D12 IR Sensors to the front of Max's chassis. Experiments with the correct placement will be done, for best results. On the left and right sides, I will also place some GP2D12 sensors as well, for wall following, and other behaviors.
I have also gotten the shell for Max's body, and it is nice and slick looking. I'm doing some tinkering to see what mounting method works best, something that's easy for the body to either remove, or open to work on the innards of Max's base. I also just picked up some threaded rods, to install on Max's chassis, to add a couple of decks.
I'll try and take some pictures and vids, so please stay tuned…lots to do…til next time.
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DNA Precious Metals Hires Agoracom for On-Line Marketing and Investor Relations
Jun 24, 2014, 09:45 ET from DNA Precious Metals Inc.
MONTREAL, June 24, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- DNA Precious Metals, Inc. (OTCQB: DNAP) ("DNA" or "the Company") today announced that it has retained the services of Agoracom Investor Relations (http://www.agoracom.com) to provide online investor relations services. Agoracom will specifically provide an online investor relations community for current shareholder communications, in addition to online marketing through search engines, social media networks and Tier-1 financial content partners.
Online investor relations maximizes the speed of communication, the degree of transparency and access to company information. In response to large amounts of research data being generated by small-cap investors, the Company selected this online investor relations source to facilitate faster and more efficient communications with both current and prospective shareholders around the world.
The agreement with Agoracom is for a one-year term commencing immediately. DNA Precious Metals, Inc. has agreed to pay Agoracom 250,000 shares of DNA Company stock. The shares issued to Agoracom under the agreement are restricted for six months.
About DNA Precious Metals, Inc.
DNA Precious Metals, Inc. is focused on near-term production of the Montauban tailings mine in the Province of Quebec, Canada with an aggressive search for economic production assets. The Company trades on the OTCQB market in the United States under the stock symbol DNAP. For more information, please go to www.DNAPreciousMetals.com.
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Agoracom is the pioneer of online investor relations, online conferences and online branding services to North American small-and mid-cap public companies. Agoracom is the home of more than 873,000 investors who visited its website 6.1 million times and read 57 million pages of information every year (average from 2008 to 2013).
Agoracom traffic ranks within the top 0.5 percent of all websites around the world. These traffic results are independently tracked and verified by Google analytics. Agoracom traffic can be attributed to its strategy of maintaining the cleanest, moderated small-cap discussion as a result of implementing the first ever investor-controlled stock discussion forums.
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Social learning (learning from others through conversation, observation or imitation) has always been a natural part of face to face learning. The growth of online social tools means that we can now create social learning experiences online. Modern social technology makes this approach scalable, so it costs the same to train 10 people as 110. It also means we can create flexible experiences that fit around the needs of the learner.
This tool will answer the following questions:
- What is a Structured/Guided Social Learning Experience?
- When should I consider creating one?
- How do I design and deliver a successful structured/guided social learning experience?
Unit: Facilitating Collective and Social Learning (5CSL)
This tool maps to the following learning outcomes:


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This is a complete and accurate transcript of the tape of the oral history interview of Tom Skinner (Collection 430, T2) in the Archives of the Billy Graham Center. No spoken words which were recorded is omitted. In a very few cases, the transcribers could not understand what was said, in which case "[unclear]' was inserted. Also, grunts and verbal hesitations such as "ah" or "um" were usually omitted. Readers of this transcript should remember that this is a transcript of spoken English, which follows a different rhythm and even rule than written English.
. . . Three dots indicate an interruption or break in the train of thought within the sentence of the speaker.
. . . . Four dots indicate what the transcriber believes to be the end of an incomplete sentence.
( ) Word in parentheses are asides made by the speaker.
[ ] Words in brackets are comments made by the transcriber.
This transcript was completed by Wayne D. Weber and Paul Ericksen in February 1999.
Collection 430, T2. Interview of Tom Skinner by Robert Shuster, June 13, 1990.
SHUSTER: You were saying the nationalists drew . . . .
SKINNER: The nationalists drew their [pauses] . . . much of the [pauses] origination of the black nationalists came out of the Marcus Garvey movement. Marcus Garvey was a . . . a Jamaican who came to New York in the [pauses] early 1920s early . . . right after World War I and began to mobilize masses of black people in the United States to . . . to think of going back to Africa and establishing an African nation made up of former slaves [pauses], and even built ships, had ships bought and stuff. He was eventually convicted by the U.S. government for fraud. And it's very interesting when you read the case that today the case probably would have been thrown out of court, but given the climate and the times he was disgraced and . . . and exported. But the nationalist movement was very strong in Harlem. And on 122nd Street and 7th Avenue there was a black nationalist bookstore in Harlem [pauses] owned by a man by the name of Mitchell, Mitchell. Now Lee Mitchell was very interesting because he was the . . . he was the brother of Elder Mitchell who was a Pentecostal leader in Washington D.C. and bishop of a group of Pentecostal churches on the eastern seaboard. But his brother Lee was a strong black nationalist and it was . . . it was under . . . it was . . . they were tremendous influences in . . . in my political views as a . . . as a . . . as a teenager. [pauses] You could come by there after school on any day and . . . and Malcolm X would be in there, Louis Farrakhan would be in there, and they were all young men at the time, you know. And [pauses] Adam [Clayton] Powell would come by, be in there and they would have great debates and stuff. So I grew up under that. But my view of Jesus was based on that, that . . . (of course black nationalists argued very strongly that the historical Jesus was black, and, you know, they . . . they . . . they quoted Solomon's [unclear] "I am black." John's vision at Patmos [Revelations 1:14-15] of . . . of . . . of the . . . the Lamb of God whose hair was as lamb's wool, whose feet were though they were burned they had been burned in a furnace and etcetera, etcetera, as all being descriptive of a black man. They were very strong on that. We even had black nationalists who considered themselves completed Jews and that . . . that they believed that black people were the lost Jewish tribes that the Scriptures talked about. So all of that was . . . . [taps table, pauses] So my view of God was I didn't accept that God was there. I accepted that there was a historical figure called Jesus who did some good stuff, but He probably was black and . . . and was for liberation and freedom. And [pauses] that's where I was. I . . . my people got . . . if people came up to me with doubt or passed me a tract or something [pauses] I said, "Well, show me God. Where is God? Will he let me touch Him, see Him, feel Him?" You know what I mean. And . . I had read a enough, you know . . . philosophically I had read a lot of philosophy books by that time. Bertrand Russell was very popular in those days so I knew all his arguments [slaps table] against God and I'd just field them all back, then see they went on their way. But I was mapping out strategy one night for what was to have been the largest gang fight ever take place in New York, would have involved five gangs: the Harlem Lords, the Imperials, the Crowns, the Sportsman, and the Jesters (taken after the court jesters) would unite together to fight a bunch of gangs from the other side of the city. My . . . my job was map out the strategy and if I succeeded in leading the guys to victory in this fight I would have . . . I would have emerged as a leader of an alliance of gangs that would have made me the most powerful leader in the area. Had my radio on this night listening to my favorite DJ [disk jockey]. It was a rock program. It came on every night between the hours of eight and ten o'clock. And normally at nine o'clock there's a station break or commercial and then the DJ comes back on the air with the rest of the program. Now this night an unscheduled program came on and . . . and a guy starts speaking from second Corinthians chapter five from the Scriptures, verse seventeen, "If any man be in Christ he is a new creation. Old things are passed away, all things are become new." And, of course, I saw God entering in [?], got to listen to religion again. And . . . and to me that's what it was. I mean, I . . . I went to church because my father was the minister and it was expected, plus I liked the kind of dual . . . dual life I was living. One covered the other, you know, so that . . . that . . . that my parents would never suspect anything because I was going to church and . . . and I was president of the young people's department in the church. And every fourth Sunday the young people were in charge of the church service and parents would tell their kids, "Why can't you be like Tom?" And, you know, so it was really [unclear] I thought. But I . . . I never bought any of the stuff in church. And . . . but the thing that arrested my attention was that he said, "Every person born into the human race is born without the life of God and that it is the absence of God's life in a person that causes a person to be what the Bible defines as a sinner." Now the preachers I have have heard who preached about sin and damnation and judgment and brimstone and fire and stuff have always impressed me that people were sinners because they did bad things. They were sinners because they lied, they cheated, they committed adultery, they stole, they murdered, they whatever. But for the first time the thing that arrested my attention was this guy's definition of sin, that sin was not what you did, sin was what you are and that a sinner is a person whose life is independent from the life of God. Now, I mean, that was the f . . . that was mind blowing because that was the thing that got my attention that I'd not heard that idea before. And what causes a person to be a sinner is that they do not have God's life in them. And that changed a whole lot of stuff, you know, in terms of [unclear] but I still only ignored it all because I had intellectual problems with God. "Show me God. I can't see Him. The Bible contradicts itself. Men wrote the Bible. Men make mistakes. There are mistakes in the Bible, things like . . . ."
SHUSTER: Do you recall who that radio preacher was? Did you . . . .
SKINNER: No. There were . . . to this day I don't know the guy's name . . . to this day. [pauses] So [pauses] I went on mapping out the strategy and he came down to the end of his message. Well, he . . . he went through . . . he . . . he went through the whole story: that God became a man in Christ and that when Jesus Christ walked the earth, this was not another religious leader, but for the first time in human history God put skin on Himself and walked the earth as a man, but at the same time He was God; and that when Jesus was nailed to the cross it was not another religious natic . . . religious fanatic being crucified but that Jesus was literally taking on Himself my independence from God. And it was the constant use of this word "independence" that really got my attention because then it started becoming clear to me that here was somebody who defining sin as independence, not as bad things you did, which now means that . . . that there are lot of good people who are independent, you know. And so I'd always gotten the impression that there were bad people who did bad things and what these folks were saying is that when they die they're going to hell and then there are good people who do good things and they chalk up credit accounts with God and when they die they're going to heaven, see. "Well, it was obvious to me," I always said, "Well, I know where I'm going," you know. But here was a person saying, "No, there are going to be a lot of good people . . . and . . . and the good people are . . . are . . . are there because they are ind . . . [something dropped onto the floor in the background] they are independent, which really has nothing to do with that. You want to . . . ?
SHUSTER: Sure. [Stops and then restarts tape recorder]
SKINNER: So what became clear is that sin was independence [background sound] and that every person born into the human race was born independent and therefore they . . . they act independent and it's that independence that is sin. And Jesus came to end the independence and to bring us to dependency on Christ [talking in background] and to qualify us to have a right relationship with God. And . . . well, I said, "Well, yeah, everything the preacher is saying, he's quoting from the Bible. The Bible contradicts itself, men wrote it, there are mistakes in it, it's the white man's attempt to keep us down anyway." But, you know, it started dawning on me that I had to make the same application to these issues and questions I had that I had, that the . . . the same kind of inquiry I made for the other things that I conceived to be more important, and I had . . . I had enough respect for research and the scientific approach that I had been educated into that I began to realize that I had not taken Jesus through the same process, that is my . . . my belief system had not gone through the same process. And the . . . the . . . the preacher said, "The prom . . . that the promise of God is that any person who comes to Christ, He will not reject." Now by this time he had explained why Christ died, the importance of the death of Jesus on the cross, that Jesus was buried, and that Jesus three days later got up out of the grave. And he said that when Christ got up out of the grave He didn't simply rise from the dead to prove He had power over death, but that the He arose from the dead as evidence that He had accomplished the work that He had been sent to accomplish which was to bring us into right [watch alarm rings twice] relationship with God. And that He was now called to the second man. He is now the leader of a new creation. God is recreating the human race in Jesus Christ. That was a powerful statement, you know, to think the human race is being recreated, you know, I mean . . . I mean, it's such an attention-getter [?] for me. Well, the preacher said, "The promise of God is that any person who comes to Christ, He will not reject him." See, now it was show time [unidentified sound in background] because if what Jesus . . . if what was being said about Jesus was true, [pauses] the only way I could prove it wasn't true was that I would have to test it. Now my science teacher ironically had begun the lesson that day by saying, "Today we're going to study the atom, A-T-O-M. The atom cannot be see with the human eye. The atom can't be seen under most microscopes." As teacher of the class he admitted that he had never seen an atom and then he proceeded to say, "This atom which we have never seen was divided into three parts: the proton, a neutron, an electron," Which I thought was kind of ridiculous if he had never seen it, then how did he know it had three parts to it. But I believe it and I began to realize there were things in my everyday life that I believed that I could not see, touch, [something dropping in background] or feel for which I had implicit faith in. I could not . . . I have never seen a vitamin A. I believed it was in carrots. I'd never seen vitamin B and I believe it was in wheat and yeast and I'd never seen vitamin C but I believed it was in citric fru . . . fruits and on and on. And that were thing that I trusted that I did not understand. I didn't fully understand the law of aerodynamics' ability to supercede the law of gravity but I, you know, I believed in flying. I didn't understand the international monetary system but I didn't want to stop spending money until I discovered. [laughs] And I knew that . . . and my science teacher had always [slaps on table] pressed us that you have to take things through the empirical method. You had to find out what you wanted to prove, [unclear] all the information you can get on it, you have to gather that information, systemize it in some sort of logical order. Based on the classification of your information, you venture what science calls a guess or a theory and . . . but science does not accept guesses as laws. If you want to change something from a theory to a law you have to take it through a process called experimentation and observation. And I knew I'd never done that with Jesus. I had never taken anything that Jesus said and put it to the test. And that I . . . I really . . . somehow I came to know . . . I came to understand that night that . . . that there was no real intellectual honesty if I could not test it, meaning that I would have to come to Jesus and He would have to turn me down and then I could tell Him to get off my back. And I found myself praying a very simple prayer that night. I said, "Look, I don't understand all this [pauses] but I do know that I need You. I real . . . I . . . I . . . I know that I'm independent [pauses] and I know that the results in my life show that I'm independent from You. And that I don't understand all this and I'm not even sure that You can hear me, but if these things are true I give You the right to take over my life." And I had no . . . I had no emotional, traumatic experiences so, you know, no blind flashes, no light, no thunder bolt, no mountains cave in. I simply accepted the fact that if God was God, God could only by [unidentified loud sound] God because He doesn't lie. And Jesus Christ who is God says, "A person comes to Me I will not reject." [someone whistles in background] And that . . . that was the beginning of my [pauses] . . . my long romance with the . . . with the living God and my intellectual struggle to come to grips with Him. And that night Jesus Christ did take over my life and [pauses] . . . and somehow I knew it. [pauses] I had to go back the following night, face my entire gang, told them I made this commitment to Christ, I didn't know what it meant, but I knew I could no longer responsibly lead the gang, [laughs] which was a foolish thing to do. [laughs] But I walked out without being touched. But that was the beginning of the end of Tom Skinner.
SHUSTER: What did the other gang members say? What did they . . . ?
SKINNER: The number two man stopped me about two nights later [pauses] and he said, "The other night when you go up and walked out, [pauses] I was going to come with you and put my blade right in your back." But he said, "I couldn't move. It was like something or somebody glued my to my seat." So I [pauses] asked did . . . did he wanted to know what had happened, so I told him what had happened in my life. Well, he eventually gave his life to Christ and we had several other guys within a year that made the same commitment. I was very fortunate that there was a group that had been meeting together in Harlem on the West Side for . . . they had been together for over fifteen years studying the Scriptures together. And just meeting, talking about what the Christian life was and they kind of took me under their wing. And they had been . . . they had been studying Watchman Nee's The Normal Christian Life. And they took me line by line through. So the very first [pauses] understanding of the person of Jesus Christ for me came from Watchman Nee. And I . . . I . . . he was kind of the guy, I mean, his writings kind of discipled me.
SHUSTER: Who were some of the people in the group? Who were some of the people in the group that took you under its wing?
SKINNER: Oh, they were . . . one person was a hair dresser, one person was a plumber, one person was a truck driver, one drove a cab, and just everyday hard working people who were just trying to understand the Christian life.
SHUSTER: How did they hear about you or you hear about them? How did you [?] get together?
SKINNER: I was [pauses] . . . I had gone to a church with my father one Sunday afternoon and I was standing in the back of the church at the end of the service talking with a friend of mine, another guy my age. And I was arguing with him about how irrelevant all this was. [sound of squeezing soda pop can] And . . . and in my overzealousness I was saying, "You know these people . . . the . . . these . . . these people don't know about Jesus. They . . . this is just religion to them." [sound of squeezing soda pop can] Well, it was very interesting. There was this woman who overheard me and she came over and she sensed my frustration as a kid not being able to really articulate what I was trying to say but just mad, you know. [laughs] And so told me about a group of . . . and she said, "If you would really would like to learn about who Jesus is . . . ." And so they kind of took me in. That's how . . . that's how we [?] got it started [?].
SHUSTER: How old were you when you had this experience?
SKINNER: I was fifteen years old.
SHUSTER: When did you tell your family? How did your family react?
SKINNER: My parent's first reaction was [slaps desk or unidentified object] we'll never live this down. You know, 'cause they could only think of the embarrassment of . . . if the story got out about their son. But it really helped them to understand some of the problems and also to work more closely with my younger brothers and sisters, understand kind of like . . . . My father [pauses] gave his life to Christ about three years later. And I had the privilege of seeing him come to the Lord and . . . and he became a very effective . . . effective preacher. He got interested just before he died in helping to develop what we call storefront church preachers that . . . . There are literally thousands of churches in this country in ghetto communities that are storefronts. There is twenty members, twenty-five, thirty members, but they're very powerful because they are a close knit family but many of the pastors of these churches don't have the . . . the tools and resources they need to really develop their people. And my father got very interested in . . . in that and he began to teach storefront churches and stuff to give them the tools they need. But [coughs] that was my parents' immediate reaction, but [pauses] later they came to see what God had done.
SHUSTER: You said their immediate reaction was embarrassment. Embarrassment over what?
SKINNER: Well, this is their son who was leader of the largest gang in Harlem, who hurt people. [laughs] You know, that mean . . . that . . . so they . . . they were not thinking about the part about I'd been changed etcetera. It's like, "Oh, gasp," you know. [laughs] "Our . . . our son did this," you know.
SHUSTER: Well, this might be a good point to break the sequence a little bit and just describe the chronology of the rest of your life up to this point. How would you describe the major events . . . the major events of your life since then?
SKINNER: Well, I . . . I . . . by this time I was in high school. And while I was in high school was when I met . . . shortly after my conversion I met Dr. King. [Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.]. I was the . . . I was in an oratorical . . . national oratorical contest that took me to Omaha, Nebraska. And Dr. King was the featured speaker at this convention where the contest was being held. I was representing New York State.
SHUSTER: This would be in '58 or '59?
SKINNER: This is '57 . . . '58 . . . '58. And the first time that I hear and then had a chance to spend time with Dr. King he preached a sermon that night from Deuteronomy, chapter one, verse six, "We have dwelt long enough in this mountain." And he talked about the mountains we have dwelt in, you know. He . . . he build the story of Israel's wandering around in the wilderness and the quagmire of confusion for thirty-eight years and then the challenge of Moses that they needed to move from this mountain and to go to the place that God had prepared for them. And he talked about the mountains that we had been in too long. And it was very clear to me that there was something very unique about this man and . . . and I wanted to know him. But anyway, a group of us were able to meet with him and stuff and talk to . . . and he began to share with us his philosophy of nonviolence. And so I got involved in the Freedom Rides in those days and [pauses] . . . and became . . . began to become a very avid student of nonviolence to . . . and . . . and . . . and to see very clearly a certain behavior that was based on the Scriptures for resolving social conflict. I graduated from [taps on desk] high school in 1959 and I went to Wagner College on Staten Island, where I did my undergraduate work as a history and philosophy major. Played baseball and football and basketball, was on the debate team and while I was [pauses] . . . while I was in college began to spend all my summers and holidays relating to guys I used to run with and . . . and got interested in the fact that there were the Harlems of America where . . . . And so it was while I was in college that I began actually doing ministry. [sound of soda pop can] I graduated in 1963 and I went to Manhattan Bible Institute, which was a very effective African American run Bible institute in New York [pauses] led by Dr. Edward H. Boice. Dr. Boice is dead but . . . [pauses] (that's something that needs to be archived), but he was the most effective Bible teacher and teacher of theology and homiletics that I've ever [taps on desk] . . . to this day had ever been exposed to.
SHUSTER: What made him effective?
SKINNER: He was . . . Dr. Boice was by [pauses] . . . was by experience and background a Pentecostal who approached the scholarship of Scripture in the tradition of those old Dutch Reformed theologians. You know, he was just . . . like they lived in him, you know. And who was born in Barbados, a black man who came to America in the nineteen . . . 1930s, was an entertainer, was converted, gave his life to Christ and became a life-long student of the Scriptures and theology. And so he built essentially a kind of Bible seminary that [pauses] . . . that was the most effective [pauses] . . . most effective school among African Americans in the East at the time. When I graduated there were three of us who graduated in top of our class.
SHUSTER: What year was that?
SKINNER: This was in 1966. [pauses] Tom Skinner, Effie Whittle who became Effie Soles, (there is in Chicago a brother by the name of Henry Soles)
SHUSTER: He . . . yeah, he lives about four doors from me.
SKINNER: Well, his wife and I graduated from there. And the third person graduated in the top three of the class was a man Dwight D. Eikerenkoetter III, who later became known as Reverend Ike. [Shuster and Skinner laugh] And . . . .
SHUSTER: Distinguished class.
SKINNER: That's a famous class. [laughs, clears throat] In 1962, when I was in my last year in college, a group of us got together and formed what was known as the Harlem Evangelistic Association. There was a man by the name of Walter Whittingham. [pauses] Now that . . . that's an interesting story, which I probably need to come back to. But Walter Whittingham was a member of a soul-saving station in Harlem, which was founded by a man by the name of Billy Roberts in 1939, who was converted on a Mississippi gambling boat from drugs and came to Harlem in 1940 preaching about how God saved him from drugs. Heroin was relatively unknown at the street level in those days. There were some entertainers and middle class people who were into it a little bit, but it was not commonly on the street as it would be common in the 60s. And he formed this soul-saving station and . . . and so Walter Whittingham was part of that. Walter Whittingham had a sister by the named Louise Whittingham who ran a . . . kind of a . . . a . . . a ministry on the Low . . . on the East Side on 125th Street, mostly with children, built a whole church just raising children. But they had a . . . Walter had a vision of the gospel of Christ being preached in Harlem and . . . and so a group of us got together. There were twelve of us, Walter Whittingham, [pauses] Louis Brathway, Larry Thomas, Rupert Bingham, George Perry assembled together and worked for almost a year and began block by block, neighborhood by neighborhood to do evangelistic campaigns up and down Harlem. And we climaxed it in the summer of 1962 with the largest evangelistic campaign ever held in New York . . . I mean ever held in Harlem, in the history of Harlem. It was held at the Apollo Theater, which was the number one entertainment spot in Harlem. Apollo was where Sammy Davis, Jr., Ray Charles and all of them got started. And the . . . the gospel became front page news in Harlem. And it was the most extraordinary pouring forth of the Spirit of God that . . . that had been seen. I mean, it was . . . it . . . it was just . . . it was just unbelievable [pauses] the response. And [pauses] it was that crusade that kind of launched the . . . my evangelistic ministry around the world over the next twenty-some odd years.
SHUSTER: Was that the first time that you'd preached before a large group?
SKINNER: Uh-huh. Yeah. The . . . .
SHUSTER: What does . . . what does preaching feel like for you? I mean, what's it like to be up front of a group and preaching?
SKINNER: One of the things that growing up in the black church did was that you were used to talking to people, so that was not the . . . that was not the phenomenon. But the . . . the great struggle for me was always being aware of where the people were and what their needs were, what the striking issues of people were and how the gospel of Jesus Christ would speak to that. And [pauses] the . . . the fact of the matter is that [pauses] I have a [pauses] . . . . It's interesting that you should ask that. I have an absolute passion about preaching and at the same time it scares me to death. It . . . the old folks used to pray a prayer that went like this. When they were praying for the preacher on Sunday morning, the old folks would pray, "Lord, bless the man who is going to stand in John's shoes, the man who is going to stand between the living and the dead, and break unto us the bread of life." So my formative years in preaching were shaped with the idea that every time you stood up to preach the Word of God, you were standing between the living and the dead and that the issues of life and death were at stake, and that was the frightening part, I mean. The exhilarating part was that you could offer people life, you know. And so I'm . . . I'm enthralled with preaching. I don't mean with the mechanics of preaching. I'm enthralled with the . . . with the . . . with the idea that God has chosen through the foolishness of preaching to change people's lives. I mean it's just a . . . it's . . . you can get drunk off of that, you know what I mean? And . . . and yet at the same time . . .
SHUSTER: "Be drunk not with wine but with the Spirit." [Ephesians 5:18]
SKINNER: Yeah, yeah. And at the same time, frightened about the responsibility, you know. True preaching is . . . is a sacred trust to me. It's like I am a different person. And I don't mean in a schizophrenic sense like, you know, I take on another personality or, you know, I am a sinner who suddenly becomes holier when I preach . But I mean I . . . preaching is serious business to me. See, I've never been able to understand and I guess I have a different . . .different view. [pauses] It was . . . it was a cultural shock when I discovered that . . . that . . . that white folks could after service have a session where they critiqued the pastor's sermon. I mean, that was . . . look for me, you don't critique a sermon! You critique a lecture, you critique a . . . a monologue of a play, you critique the opening act of a . . . of a . . . of a theater production, you . . . you critique a concert. You do not critique preaching! [laughs] You know what I mean? It's like . . . I mean . . . I mean . . . I mean . . . not that I don't need for that [unclear] . . . . It's just that . . . that preaching, if it's . . . if . . . if . . . if it is . . . if it's legal and right, is the anointing of the Spirit of God on the Word of God through a vehicle that God chooses to use and you don't critique that. You listen to it, receive it, and obey it, you know. [laughs] It's . . . and so that the thought that people could sit around [laughs] and take it apart was just a whole different . . . . And . . . and . . . and . . . and in spite of the fact that I consider myself a . . . a very sophisticated, mature person today, I still find it difficult. Because that's for me, preaching is: the preacher allows himself or herself to be . . . to become submissive to the Spirit of God and that it is through the Holy Spirit working through the preacher and the preaching of the Word of God that attracts people to Jesus Christ. And that to me is what the act is, that's what the whole thing is . . . you know, is about. And I guess the second problem is that I view it as an evangelist, because the majority of my life, of my Christian ministry has been spent talking to nonbelievers. And so [pauses] my whole mindset is geared towards . . . towards the person who does not know Christ and how you continue to find ways to communicate to people who . . . who don't know . . . who don't know the Lord. And so I have to work hard at talking to Christians. Now when you ask about what it's like to stand in front of lots of people. Now where I really have trouble is when I have to stand up [slaps table] in front of a lot of Christians. I mean, I really have to work to be at ease. I am . . . I'm a total . . . I'm totally at ease and at home with pagans, totally at home.
SHUSTER: Because Christians have defenses against your . . . ?
SKINNER: Yes, yes. And they bring all this cultural garbage with them and . . . that you have to work through and all these conflicting theologies you have to come through. You know what I mean? And . . . but . . . but . . . but . . . but I love ministering to nonbelievers. I love it.
SHUSTER: Well, that might be a good point to stop.
SKINNER: Wonderful.


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White bar markings have been placed on Conway Street in an attempt to solve parking concerns.
Department for Regional Development (DRD) Minister Danny Kennedy agreed to the action after residents in the area reached out to him saying they were at their wits end because of mounting car parking issues and anti-social behaviour near their homes - including students urinating at the front of a church.
Councillor Ronnie Crawford approached the Minister on the matter on behalf of the concerned locals on the street situated off Wallace Avenue near to the SERC campus.
Mr Crawford said: "I am now happy to report that the lines have now been installed and coupled with action taken by the owners of the church car park, there has been a great improvement in access.
"I would like to thank Mr Kennedy for the application of common sense to this problem."
Councillor Yvonne Craig who also represented residents on the matter said: "DRD have agreed to place white bar lines across the end of the private driveways in Conway Street.
"This will highlight where the driveway is and hopefully prevent cars parking across them in the manner they have been in the past."
She continued: "The Roads Service have also agreed to place Conway Street on the list for Residents only parking.
"It's amazing the difference a white line can make but hopefully it will go a long way to ease the parking issues in the area and not simply move them elsewhere."
A Department for Regional Development spokesperson said: "Following concerns raised by residents and locally elected representatives, Minister Danny Kennedy agreed to provide white bar markings across each private entrance in Conway Street in an attempt to prevent obstruction by inconsiderate parking.
"This work has recently been completed and it is hoped that this will now address the difficulties faced by residents as a result of parking."


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'I love you Chavez!': Legions weep for late leader
The throng waited for Hugo Chavez under a searing tropical sun, a sea of red shirts waving Venezuelan flags, clutching pictures of their leftist hero, chanting "Chavez lives! The struggle goes on!"
At last, there it was, the hearse carrying the socialist leader's wooden casket, crawling up the road under one of the hillside slums that was a bastion of his support.
The chants rose to a crescendo, women threw flowers at the flag-draped coffin and then the tears came. Uncontrollable tears. Young women, young men, grandmothers, grandfathers, weeping as the coffin passed mere meters away.
"I love you Chavez! You're like a father," Carlos Betancourt, 24, shouted through sobs, as if hoping his voice could penetrate the casket while he stood on his motorcycle seat, capturing the whole episode with his phone camera.
This was the scene all along an endless avenue of Caracas on Wednesday, when hundreds of thousands of loyalists bade farewell to a leader whose oil-funded revolution enchanted the poor and angered the wealthy during his 14-year rule.
Some watched from rooftops under garden umbrellas, others climbed on lamp-posts to get a better view, while legions stood along the road, close enough to throw roses on top of the coffin. Others crowded bridges for a bird's eye view.
Chavez, 58, built a near-mystical bond with his followers, mesmerizing them with bombastic speeches against capitalism, and theatrics like dancing and singing in the rain during his last campaign rally before re-election in October.
In December, he spoke to them for the last time to say he was going to Cuba for urgent cancer surgery. Now, Chavez is in a casket, silenced forever, though many followers said his revolution would live on, because "Chavez lives."
"After Jesus Christ, there's Hugo Chavez," said Maria Alexandra, 46, and a mother of six, as the president's coffin was being taken to a military academy, where he will lie in state until Friday.
"Before him, the government didn't take care about us," said Alexandra, adding that she lived in poverty until Chavez came around. "Now children have everything."
Others compared him to South American 19th century independence hero Simon Bolivar, whose portrait was held alongside pictures of Chavez amid chants of "Chavez in the pantheon, next to Simon!"
And then there was the man Chavez hand-picked to succeed him, Vice President Nicolas Maduro, the broad-shouldered former bus driver and union activist, walking somberly in front of the hearse, wearing a jacket in the colors of the Venezuelan flag, at one point stopping and staring at the sky.
The crowd chanted: "With Chavez and Maduro, the people are safe!"
While Chavistas mourned on Wednesday, they will soon have to start thinking about elections, which must take place within 30 days under the constitution. Many said they would fulfill Chavez's last wishes and vote for Maduro.
Jose Viloria, a 64-year-old agricultural trader, said it was a day of sadness because it was the death of a "revolutionary leader" but that his "revolution of the 21st century is stronger than ever."
"We will carry him in our hearts forever. We're going forward until death with him," Viloria said, wearing red a cap with the words "Chavez, my friend, the people are with you."
Roberto Galindez, 32, a former professional basketball player turned computer engineer, said the people would back Maduro, but that they were really voting for a socialist system.
"The leader is gone, but the ideas will never disappear," Galindez said. "Maduro has the same Chavista doctrine. He will continue with the same ideals."
Zaire Cordoba, a 28-year-old administrative assistant, said she will support Maduro but argued that Chavez's heir has yet to convince some of his ideology.
"He hasn't convinced them yet, but if they give him the opportunity, he will," she said under a building with a huge billboard of opposition leader Henrique Capriles, Maduro's likely opponent.
While Chavistas paid respects to their leader, opposition supporters in well-heeled neighborhoods remembered a different man.
"Hate and division was the only thing that he spread," said 28-year-old computer programmer Jose Mendoza in an eastern Caracas cafe.
"He did a lot of social things, but he could have done much more. He also did a lot of harm because there are no institutions, there is no justice. He mistreated everyone who disagreed with his government."


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LEVEL 201 – "Intermediate Improv & Scenework Techniques": In this class, students will work the skills they were previously introduced to with more targeted exercises the help them explore the concepts of character, relationship, and environment on stage more deeply. They will also learn how to recognize and build on patterns to advance their scenes. Students will begin to learn elements of structure for performance and create fully improvised scenes with more than two performers.
Dates: Sundays, June 16th, 2013 through August 4th, 2013
Times: 12:00 p.m. (noon) – 2:30 p.m.
Location: The Adrienne Theatre, 2nd floor rehearsal room, 2030 Sansom Street, Philadelphia, PA 19103 (get map)
Show: Sunday, August 11th, 2013 at 3:30 p.m.
Show Location: The Shubin Theatre, 407 Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147 (get map)
Instructor: Jessica Ross (bio)
What Students Say About Jessica: "Jess was great, she bought a lot of energy and a positive attitude to each class." – "You could tell she knew her stuff." – "I felt inspired to act ridiculous right away because she was so supportive and laughing with us the whole time."
Cost: $199 until 6/9/2013, $249 afterwards
Pre-requisites: PHIT Improv 101 or equivalent (with advance approval of the PHIT Education Director).
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