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Grand County Middle School placed in the top three yet again in both brackets, in the third junior high-level Quiz Bowl event of the season. The tournament was held March 20 at Green River High School and included teams of students in the sixth through ninth grades.
In the junior varsity bracket, the GCMS T-Birds went 3-2 overall, losing only to champion Mont Harmon Middle School's "White" team. Grand Middle took home the second-place trophy in that bracket.
Grand County High School's team of ninth-graders also went 3-2, taking fourth place overall.
In the varsity tournament, the closest match of the day was between the two Grand County schools in the one-loss bracket. With both teams facing elimination, the Grand County High School team and the Grand County Middle School team battled back and forth before ending the 25-question game tied 105-105.
The game then went to sudden-death overtime, and question reader Chip Beall then had to read one or more extra questions, any of which, if answered correctly, would win the game outright.
Both teams then missed the next seven questions, however, as the already intense pressure built up. Finally, on the eighth tiebreaker question, a noticeably easier one, the teams were asked what the steps of a ladder are called. Grand Middle School's Tobin Wainer rang in and correctly answered "rung."
The GCMS team went on to win one more game after that before losing to eventual champion Canyon View Junior High, which emerged from the one-loss bracket to defeat Mont Harmon's "Blue" team twice in a row in the finals. GCMS came away with third place overall out of the eight teams in the varsity tournament.
Earlier this month, Grand County High School and Grand County Middle School posted strong finishes at another junior high Quiz Bowl tournament held in Moab on Thursday, March 14. The Quiz Bowl events are organized and conducted by the Southeast Education Service Center, based in Price.
Grand High School's team of five freshmen went undefeated and won the junior varsity tournament, which took place in the GCHS band room. The Red Devils won all four of their games, beating Canyon View Junior High, San Rafael Junior High, Grand Middle School, and the other San Rafael Junior High team to win the first-place trophy.
Members of Grand High's team were Tommy DeWitt, Tressa Renn, Seth Holyoak, Hannah Rice, and Preston Bagley-Gurtner.
Each game consisted of 25 questions, with each question worth between 5 and 20 points. Questions covered a wide range of academic topics. For example, Grand High's Cody Jones was able to name two of the nine members of the United Nations with names starting with the letter "L." He responded with Latvia and Libya. One tricky math question asked for the product of x(b-b), but both teams missed the correct answer of zero in both tournaments.
A few of the questions even included a bit of humor. Austin Aubry of GCHS was able to correctly fill in the punchline of John Dryden's wife's epitaph: "Now she's at rest, and so am I."
Grand Middle School, which had won the JV tournament the week before in Price, settled for third place this time after losing to both GCHS and to San Rafael.
Grand Middle School also took third overall in the nine-team varsity tournament, winning their first two games before losing to eventual champion Mont Harmon Jr. High. In the one-loss bracket, Grand then lost to Canyon View Jr. High, which went on to take second place.
Grand County High School fielded two teams in the varsity tournament, with the GCHS Red team beating the GCHS White team in a close game in the second round and eliminating them from the tournament. The GCHS Red team won its next game before losing to Canyon View Junior High.
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Scientology Exposes Psychiatry?
26-08-2012, 04:08 PM (This post was last modified: 27-08-2012 07:21 AM by Atheist Jesus.)
Scientology Exposes Psychiatry?
Apparently Scientologists are extremely skeptical of psychiatry. They even made a documentary about it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4vD4QC0kQ8
What are you guy's thoughts on a false religion going up against psychiatry? About the psychiatric industry in general?
Personally, I like to keep positive and believe that the industry isn't full of greedy bastards just looking to squeeze every last penny from the general public. I'd like to think that some people within psychiatry are genuinely concerned about the mental health of their patients.
"If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal." - Carl Sagan
RE: Scientology Exposes Psychiatry?
I'm sure there is various attacks you can pull on psychiatry that are valid. It's not anything close to an exact study and has a lot of various ideas.
However, I don't think a thing about Scientology trying to attack it. Of course they would to demonstrate their idea.
There's nothing within your brain that is affecting your moods/thoughts/feelings you dislike, it's all those extra souls attached to the body you need to spiritually cut off!
"Allow there to be a spectrum in all that you see" - Neil Degrasse Tyson
RE: Scientology Exposes Psychiatry?
(26-08-2012 04:08 PM)Atheist Jesus Wrote: ... false religion (oxymoron) ...
Is it? I thought it was a tautology
RE: Scientology Exposes Psychiatry?
OK, that's way too long to watch. And really, I can't be too impartial (had things gone different--I would've been a psychiatrist). Even psychologists, books, despite all the studies and research, they say it's not a science in the sense of cut-and-dry results. It's statistical probability, experience, and general feels for things for diagnosis. At one time, psychiatrists would prescribe a placebo first (or when saying "hmm, that didn't work, let's try this"), just to see if it helps and it's "all in the head" so to speak.
One of the big issues with psychology/psychiatry is that the disorders overlap--there were two that we discussed in a class (can't remember which offhand), that had a list of around 20 symptoms each, only a few were different. Of the few, they were not "these always show" symptoms. If all of the "may or may not happen" symptoms didn't happen, the problem could be even more disorders. The catch is, the treatment for the different disorders is different. Many of the psychology-based places (social services and the like) opt for counselling over anything as it is (financial, talking, groups, whatever). Other meds for depression and such are prescribed by regular doctors, what seems to be at least, more than a psychologist. My mother has a drug for anxiety prescribed by her heart doctor!
Some in the (just going to type "psych" now) psych field prescribe medications, or other "meds", based on what the medications do and how it alters the body's functioning. There's an entire field of psych people who are more researchers with medications and functioning. For example, they're in lab coats, experimenting with drugs to see how they alter the body, check the ways it alters the brain, and then figures out what disorders could be assisted by them.
One of my friends was seeing a psychiatrist (granted an abusive boyfriend, being gang raped, multiple suicide attempts, uncle molesting her.... well let's just say it wasn't to be unexpected, especially on her third suicide attempt, resulting in a hospital trip, with two in two days). Anyway, the psych department evaluated her, and gave her one diagnosis (borderline personality disorder), she said they were crazy (she had most of the signs) and found another psych person who gave her another diagnosis (bipolar) with massive depression. Given her, either could work--she just shopped around until she got the diagnosis she thought was right. The best pill that worked for her? A placebo. Her mother also let her move back home to look after her, and her life becoming more stable too, and she had therapy.
The one catch is psych fields with patients is this: if your patients are "crazy" they may tell you what they think you want to hear, or a number of other things, any of which makes it harder to diagnose the problem. Imagine diagnosing a person who's actual disorder is one where they try to please everyone. The person tells the psych people what they want to hear, it may take a while for them to see through it to get the "real" person. I can't remember from where, but someplace during my psych classes they said that a few sessions (sometimes lasting months) are needed just to see through the person's charade and get to the real issues. It's not they want to last that long, sometimes they need to. The psych people can deal with manipulative people. Sometimes the psych people screw up--so do doctors (I had a MD say I didn't like school and pain was all in my head--my appendix was inflamed and it ruptured before they had an official diagnosis of the problem--and I had pinched nerves in the area too from a prior surgery).
I had a doctor refer me to psych people because I didn't sleep well--the psych people were a corporation-based place, and they were focused on money and it showed. They said I was a drug and sex obsessed teenager who was highly manipulative and would commit suicide within 24 hours. Basically "play on the fears of the parents", they knew it was a lie because I was home when I wasn't at school functions, and I arrived home within 5 minutes of school letting out. The MD never asked about my home condition, nor did the psych people. If they had, they would have found out that all the people in my family are "night owls", and my father worked swing shifts, and more often than not worked in a way that I would be up late, or disturbed, so I wouldn't sleep well--my parents knew because they were up too!
RE: Scientology Exposes Psychiatry?
(26-08-2012 04:54 PM)DLJ Wrote:(26-08-2012 04:08 PM)Atheist Jesus Wrote: ... false religion (oxymoron) ...
Shoot! I mixed up my words. Yes, you are right.
(26-08-2012 05:00 PM)elemts Wrote: One of the big issues with psychology/psychiatry is that the disorders overlap--there were two that we discussed in a class (can't remember which offhand), that had a list of around 20 symptoms each, only a few were different. Of the few, they were not "these always show" symptoms. If all of the "may or may not happen" symptoms didn't happen, the problem could be even more disorders.
Yeah that's one of the things I agree with. Back when I was taking an Abnormal Psychology course I heard about the DSM-4 and I thought the idea of it was great. What could be better than a manual with all the psychological disorders and symptoms? But then I learned that diagnosing a person isn't always accurate. I don't remember in which of my psychology classes I heard about it, I think it was either Abnormal Psychology or Research Methods, where the professor talked about an experiment where a researcher made his accomplices go to an institution and fake a disorder. I don't remember the entire facts correctly, but the doctors and psychiatrists could not spot out the real one from the fakes and that even the real mentally disturbed patients noticed that these accomplices were BSing. I've also heard that the new DSM-5, to be released sometime next year, scored low on reliability in some of it's categories, that is, psychologists and psychiatrists examining the people with the exact same symptoms diagnosed them differently.
"If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal." - Carl Sagan
RE: Scientology Exposes Psychiatry?
(26-08-2012 06:11 PM)Atheist Jesus Wrote:(26-08-2012 05:00 PM)elemts Wrote: One of the big issues with psychology/psychiatry is that the disorders overlap--there were two that we discussed in a class (can't remember which offhand), that had a list of around 20 symptoms each, only a few were different. Of the few, they were not "these always show" symptoms. If all of the "may or may not happen" symptoms didn't happen, the problem could be even more disorders.
I believe I heard of the same study.... which put it in probably one of the same classes you mentioned too. Can't remember which though. Although it was also said to never read the DSM--you'll swear you have all the disorders. I had one instructor/psychologist say that most to all people have a mental disorder, most people just deal with it fine on their own--others just decide to seek help.
Of course it's not just in psych based things either. One disorder (medical) I have is a standalone disorder..... and all the symptoms of it are also warning symptoms of Parkinson's, and Parkinson's is a potential "stage" of it. Basically it makes a disorder also a symptom, it can stand alone, or be part of something bigger.
RE: Scientology Exposes Psychiatry?
(26-08-2012 06:29 PM)elemts Wrote: Of course it's not just in psych based things either. One disorder (medical) I have is a standalone disorder..... and all the symptoms of it are also warning symptoms of Parkinson's, and Parkinson's is a potential "stage" of it. Basically it makes a disorder also a symptom, it can stand alone, or be part of something bigger.
That's one of the strangest things I've heard. But yeah, it's not only psych based things. And part of the problem is that some disorders have spectrums which same some of the symptoms that may or may not require different medications through the different stages. The thing that really annoys me of these conspiracy theorists, like in the video I talked about, is that they point the finger and say that all psychiatrists are corrupt because they diagnose the same symptoms with different disorders, which isn't always the psychiatrists choice, merely a fallibility in the diagnosing process.
"If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal." - Carl Sagan
RE: Scientology Exposes Psychiatry?
Well, I guess if psychiatry can undo someones brainwashing so they don't think they need thetan clearing, then someone should produce videos against psychiatry to make sure its minions don't partake.
Mental illness is real- like physical real-, and psychiatry is a doctorate of this field to help mental health.
RE: Scientology Exposes Psychiatry?
There are those within the medical profession who are only in it for the money and do try to take their patients for a ride. I've had the misfortune of meeting a few of them in my time. But, I do believe that most of the people who are in the medical field are there because they honestly do want to help people get better.
The human brain and mind are very difficult things to understand, so I know a psychiatrist has a lot on their plate with the patients they treat. My mother, for example, is seeing a new psychiatrist. She was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia in the late 70's and has received treatment for that up to now. This new doctor doesn't think she's schizophrenic and has diagnosed her with bi-polar disorder and general psychosis, which I don't believe is accurate, but I'm gonna wait and see. Maybe she's right. Maybe she's not. It's really difficult to tell, because the symptoms overlap so much with other mental illnesses. That is not an easy career path and I don't envy anybody whose job it is to deal with somebody like my mom!
As for why Scientologists don't like psychiatrists, I'm gonna go with what Lady Jane said. They can probably undo the brainwashing that Scientology inflicts on its members, so they'd definitely want to scare their people away from it to make sure they don't lose them... and their money.
26-08-2012, 11:51 PM (This post was last modified: 26-08-2012 11:55 PM by LadyJane.)
RE: Scientology Exposes Psychiatry?
(26-08-2012 06:11 PM)Atheist Jesus Wrote:(26-08-2012 04:54 PM)DLJ Wrote: Is it? I thought it was a tautology
I think this illustrates exactly the difficulty and difference between this field of study and the other fields. In other sects of medicine- radiology, neurology, surgical, diagnosis, etc- there are numbers and absolutes to work with. It's a matter of adding them all up to see what box is best to solve the medical issue.
With mental health, there is so very little known as far as how the brain is organized and functioning. We have come leaps and bounds compared to a few decades ago, but we are still very much in the primitive stages of knowing what is going on.
Which leads us to what our psychologists and psychiatrists have to work with, which is simply the symptoms. And the symptoms can be sooo similar in several diagnosis. I would be very skeptical to go to one doctor and get a major diagnosis. I would shop around and get a majority diagnosis if I was in the position to find out what mental illness I have (if I presented symptoms).
My husband has bi-polar disorder, and I took him into the hospital during an episode. My uncle is a doctor at this hospital. He is not in this unit, he is in a completely different field, but he made sure a panel of doctors sat to meet, and he sat in on the panel, too. They all agreed unanimously and my husband has had very successful treatment since then. I wish all people had this opportunity, to have several experts conclude a diagnosis, not just one.
My sister-in-law is not so lucky. She married a fuckhead loser who refused to bring her in when she was manic- like extreme off the wall crazy manic- and his super religious family decided to lock her away (which isn't even illegal ) to give her herbs to help her and to start a prayer chain. Yeah, that didn't go over so well. After 4 repeat episodes over the course of two years, they finally brought her in. She has had three different diagnosis and we (the family on her side) still don't know the truth. I suspect bipolar like her brother, but she was also given schizophrenia and borderline personality. She has a very tough time adjusting to regular life and gets overwhelmed very easily. I feel like I never got to know her because she has never been 'herself'.
So, I think this field has a long way to go. Neurology needs to step up to balance the physical side of the brain and the way it functions, or we will always be basing things on symptoms instead of the root cause.
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The 7.5 percent cushion is how much over the cap the team can be including potential performance bonuses, which only count hard against the cap once they are achieved. Right now, the Bruins have Tyler Seguin, Mark Recchi and Steven Kampfer on deals that include performance bonuses.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama would sign a short-term increase of the debt ceiling, if Congress passed a "clean" bill without policy conditions, but would prefer a longer extension, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters on Friday.
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A kerchief in the archives of the New York Historical Society inspired this retro-chic design. The design features exhibits from the 1939 New York World's Fair, such as the Trylon and Perisphere, the Textile Building, the Aviation Building, and the Railroad Building. This 1939 World Fair was the first to focus on the future, and it encouraged all visitors to explore 'the world of tomorrow'. The fair was one of the six World Fairs featured in the National Building Museum's exhibit 'Designing Tomorrow: America's World's Fairs of the 1930s'.
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Local athletes sign letters of intent on National Signing Day
Local athletes sign letters of intent on National Signing Day
National Signing Day 2013 is in the books, as several area athletes made their college decisions official today with the signing of their national letter of intent.
Of all the sports involved, football is by far the most watched on this day, as it's the first day that high school seniors can officially sign on to play at the collegiate level.
High School Playbook has been following the action throughout the day.
Here is a list of area signees:
Football Bowl Subdivision
- Jalin Marshall (Middletown): Ohio State University
- Ben Flick (Hamilton): University of Cincinnati
- Rasheen Jones (Northwest): University of Cincinnati
- AJ Burdine (Elder): Miami University
- Jake Hilvert (Elder): Miami University
- Randy Anderson (Mason): Miami University
- Corey Quallen (Mason): Ohio University
- Mason Morgan (Sycamore): Ohio University
- Trent Smart (Clinton-Massie): Ohio University
- Shane Jones (Moeller): Michigan State University
- Trey Kilgore (St. Xavier): Michigan State University
- Jaleel Hytche (La Salle): University of Kentucky
- Kyle Meadows (Lakota West): University of Kentucky
- Keith Watkins (Moeller): Northwestern University
- Dylan Wiesman (Colerain): University of Tennessee
- Marcus Oliver (Hamilton): Indiana University
- Evan Jansen (Moeller): Indiana Unversity
- Alex Gall (Moeller): University of Miami
- Mike Kelly (Lakota West): Naval Academy
- Kaleb Nypaver (Moeller): Air Force Academy
- Jamiel Trimble (Northwest): Air Force Academy
- Sean Welsh (Springboro): University of Iowa
- Nick Isaacs (Withrow): Ball State University
- Truman Gutapfel (Harrison): Boston College
- Elijah Nkansah (Mason): University of Toledo
- Victor Cave (Glen Este): University of Toledo
- Austin Wolf (Lebanon): University of Akron
Football Championship Series, Division II & Division III
- Nick Marsh (Elder): Brown University
- Keith Brady (Lakota East): Columbia University
- Cameron Dunn (St. Xavier): Columbia University
- Lonnell Brown (Colerain): Indiana State University
- DeJuan Lang (Colerain): Indiana State University
- Chris Davis (Colerain): Indiana State University
- Alfred Ramsby (Colerain): Georgia Southern University
- Blake Chambliss (Moeller): Robert Morris University
- Logan Kelleher (Moeller): Robert Morris University
- Drew Garbenis (Lakota West): Robert Morris University
- Rahman Hardin (Springboro): Saginaw State University
- Zach Leftenant (Oak Hills): Ashland University
- Jimmy Rodenberg (Moeller): Ashland University
- Wyatt Running (Clinton-Massie): Notre Dame College
- Jake Chestnut (Lakota East): Notre Dame College
- Will Mahone (Lakota East): Notre Dame College
- Blake Bir (CovCath): University of Dayton
- Ben Pendery (Lakota West): University of Dayton
- Chamoda Palmore (Lakota East): Georgetown College
- Jettie Bailey (Middletown): Georgetown College
- Rudy Mirizzi (Colerain): Urbana University
- Mike Williams (Fairfield): Urbana University
- William Blevins (Princeton): Urbana University
- Caleb Coletts (Sycamore): Urbana University
- Jaylen Mayo (Mason): Morehead State University
- Darien McDowell (Oak Hills): Morehead State University
- Dominic Iori (St. Xavier): Morehead State University
- Robbie Ries (St. Xavier): Yale University


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Grassroots Activists Mobilize Against Proposed Louisiana Coal Export Terminal
Big Coal's "RAM" idea is being met with calls to "scram!"
The "RAM" coal export terminal being rammed through Louisiana's permitting process by coal companies has aroused the ire of communities that would rather keep the state's natural places from being trampled by dirty fuels. Nearly 200 people showed for two recent public hearings held by the state Department of Natural Resources, giving a huge boost to grassroots activists fighting to keep the process transparent.
"This terminal threatens more than our air," said Devin Martin, conservation coordinator with the Sierra Club's Delta Chapter. "It would be built adjacent to a site that the state has determined is the best possible location for a sediment and freshwater diversion project to help restore our eroding coast, the fastest disappearing landmass on the planet and the first and best protection from deadly storm surge from hurricanes."
Initially, state officials had planned to hold one hearing in the rural town of Davant in the Mississippi River Delta, an out-of-the-way location that would have been a burden to reach for many opponents of the plan, especially people in the New Orleans area. After a public backlash, state officials agreed to add a second hearing in Belle Chasse, only 15 minutes from the proposed location of the export terminal and much closer to the metro area.
"The meeting extension was a huge win for public access and transparency on the permitting process, something that's not always a given here in Louisiana," Martin said.
The proposed site is in Plaquemines Parish, not far from two existing coal terminals that already inflict air pollution on nearby families. At the Davant hearing, 50 people spoke unanimously against the proposal -- only coal company consultants spoke in favor.
"After the hearing concluded, the public was invited downstairs to a cookout prepared by our local volunteers, who also distributed literature on the impacts of coal and coal trains along with lots of Beyond Coal swag," said Martin. "Even Mr. Gil Chatagnier, president of the firm representing RAM, ate a burger and asked for a Beyond Coal t-shirt!"
More than 120 people showed at the Belle Chasse hearing, which lasted nearly four hours. Environmental organizations were joined by social justice activists, and faith community leaders. Locals are dead set against the proposal that includes a coal export facility, railroad line, 15,000 square-foot maintenance shop, and a multistory office building that will only harm their communities.
"I am definitely in opposition to this terminal," said Plaquemines Parish Councilman Burghart Turner. "It's not that I'm anti-business, but this is dirty business."
"The terminal will only add to respiratory problems we already have from a grain elevator and two oil refineries nearby," said fifth-generation Ironton resident Audrey Trufant Salvant. "We're concerned about a railroad we hear they want to run along the Mississippi and through the back of our town to carry coal. Trains could be running constantly. Right now the rail ends at the CHS grain elevator north of us."
After the hearing, Martin said, "We'll be watching closely for the decision outcome, but today we celebrate the success of building a Beyond Coal movement."


text: Student Profiles Anna Noucas '11 Anna Noucas '11 Major(s): Government and Legal Studies and Environmental Studies Hometown: Portsmouth, New Hampshire Why did you choose to come to Bowdoin? Since my family is very tight-knit, I did not want to go far from home for college. My sister was already at Bowdoin when I started my college search, and after seeing how much she loved it, I knew I had to be at a similar type of school. I looked at all the NESCAC schools and talked to coaches about playing volleyball as well. When I came to Bowdoin there was something different from the other places I visited; there was this feeling on campus that was indescribable. I decided to matriculate because of the beautiful brick buildings, the amazing professors, and the delicious food; it certainly didn't hurt that my best friend, my sister, was here for two years with me, too. Why did you choose your major? In high school, I was a math and science geek. Not only were these my best subjects but they influenced what I believed I wanted to do with my life, and so upon coming to Bowdoin I planned to major in biology and attend medical school. However, I didn't get into Biology 109 my first semester; I did end up taking it later, but by then I was taking a course called Introduction to American Government. Rather than immersing myself in biology, I found myself fully engaged and excited by my government class, taught by Professor Michael Franz. As for environmental studies, I found a course with Professor DeWitt John that was cross listed in government and environmental studies called Energy, Climate and Air Quality, and realized that picking up environmental studies as a major satisfied my passion for science and caring about the world we live in. What has been a course you especially enjoyed at Bowdoin? The Politics of Development with Professor Ericka Albaugh has influenced my education at the College. After spending my summers working with Somali immigrants from Lewiston, Maine, I found this class especially interesting and was able to connect with the topics on a personal level. I took it upon myself to learn as much as I could about developing countries and how they are evolving. Professor Albaugh's readings and lectures kept me fully engaged and really made me question and wonder how countries can help themselves or how other countries can provide assistance. Our final project was to research and fully understand a development project funded by an outside organization in a developing country. While I cannot say that I found solutions to the many problems I studied, I can say that I am certainly better educated and better prepared to understand the world beyond our nation's borders. What professor or professors have especially inspired you during your time at Bowdoin? Professor Franz is one of the reasons I majored in government and legal studies. Normally, one might expect an introductory class would be boring; however, thanks to Professor Franz, Introduction to American Government was far from boring. His passion for the subject truly inspired me, and he kept our class engaged by turning our class into a mock Senate. Not only did we study the logistics of the government that keeps our country thriving from day to day, but he also immersed us into the crazy and trying process of how the legislative branch functions. One of my favorite things about Professor John is the way he taught us to teach ourselves. He makes sure that students learn from each other by engaging the entire class in discussions, creating a learning environment that I have not experienced elsewhere. If for some reason we were confused by a topic, he would step in and teach us by creating charts and boxes for everything. There is not a reading, event, or story that cannot be categorized in a table or chart by Professor John. Anna competing on the women's volleyball team. Which staff members have you connected with most? My volleyball coach, Karen Corey, is one of the main reasons that I came to Bowdoin. Not only does she have an amazing knowledge of the game, but she also cares deeply about each of her players. She makes our team feel like a family and in some ways, especially during the offseason, has become my "mom away from home." She has been more than willing to open up her home to me and has certainly been there to give me advice whenever I need it. My strength and conditioning coach, Jim St. Pierre, is one of the most caring people I have met. However, this caring does not always come across in the most loving way, seeing as he is the one who makes me run sprints and lift weights. Regardless, this man has played a large role in making me the athlete that I have become today. He has certainly become someone that I can vent to or turn to at any moment for advice. Finally, the third is Patty, who swipes meal cards at Moulton Union Dining Hall. The friendly smile and bear hug that I get from Patty every day at lunch really makes my day a hundred times better. That you can build close relationships with staff members is one of the best parts of being at a small school—I feel so lucky to have gotten to know her. Anna performing during Orientation at "Speak About It." What extracurricular or work experiences have you had at Bowdoin? For the last four years I have been a member of the women's volleyball team, and this year I am a co-captain. Although volleyball takes up much of my time, I do find time for other activities. I'm a member of V-Space, a group that facilitates discussions with women's athletic teams about sexual assault and violence; Out Allies, a group for straight students who support the LGBTQ community; "Speak About It," a show produced for first years during Orientation that examines the realities of sexual encounters at Bowdoin; The UnDiscussed, a dialogue-based group that promotes discussion of topics that Bowdoin students would not bring up in normal conversation; and most recently, Green Global Initiatives, a group of students working to bring professionals to Bowdoin to discuss sustainability and environmental issues, and how these issues relate to their jobs. What have you done during your summers? For the past two summers, I worked as the activities coordinator for Upward Bound at Bowdoin. Upward Bound is a federally funded TRiO program through the Department of Education that helps send low-income and first-generation students to college. My job was to make sure that the students had fun in their six weeks with us, and that included taking them to Portland Sea Dogs games, Funtown/Splashtown in Saco, Maine, and Boston for an IMAX viewing of the newest Star Trek movie. While these summers were fun, they were also challenging—I learned a lot about myself and a lot about the students. Through Upward Bound, I met some of the most amazing people and worked closely with a group of Somali immigrants from Lewiston. Hearing about where they came from and how hard they worked changed my outlook on life. I hope to keep in touch with many of these people to hear about how they have grown up, gone to college, and become amazing individuals. What is your favorite Bowdoin memory? It was my birthday on October 4, 2007, and I had only been at Bowdoin for little more than a month. I had become good friends with girls on the volleyball team, but I also found a smaller group of friends. Some of these girls lived in my dorm, some were the roommates of other people I had met, and others just happened to find their way into our group somehow. It was a Thursday night, and I was not really expecting to do anything. My friends would be going out, and I had a volleyball match the next day so I was staying in. However, I still had planned hang out with them before they left. As the night went on, no one was answering my text messages or phone calls. It was my birthday, and to be honest, I felt a little bit lonely. So finally, I decided to go upstairs to the room where we all normally hung out and knocked on the door. Everyone inside suddenly got quiet, and then one of my friends answered the door and said, "Come on in to your surprise birthday party, Anna!" My friends all turned around and yelled "Surprise!" I walked in to discover that the room had been decorated in a Disney princess theme. I realized that night that after just over a month of school, I had met some of the best friends I would have at Bowdoin. What are your plans for after graduation? My plans for after graduation are unclear at this point. However, I would love to live in Washington, D.C. I have always loved the city and being a government and environmental studies major, there are many different options for me down there. Ideally, I would love to work on Capitol Hill, though I am also considering applying for positions in environmental nonprofits based there. What advice would you give to a prospective student or first-year about the Bowdoin experience? Bowdoin is a liberal arts school for a reason. Don't think that after your first year you need to know what you want to do for the rest of your life or even what you want to major in. Give yourself time to find your passion. There is a reason that the College does not require students to declare a major until the end of sophomore year. Take advantage of your first year and a half to explore, because if you have not found what you want to study, then I guarantee the College has something among its wide array of classes that will spark your interest. What quirky or fun thing do you wish you had known before you came to Bowdoin? There are two things I wish I had known before matriculating and both involve food. The first is that I wish I had known how amazing Bowdoin's granola is! The granola here is homemade and I did not realize the "amazingness" of this granola until Dawn, one of the Bowdoin chefs that we had at Upward Bound in the summer, made granola for us. After my first summer, I ate granola as much as possible in the dining halls. Second, I wish I had known that cereal was the best dessert ever. Having cereal at the end of any meal is a cool thing to do at Bowdoin and it is a requirement on the volleyball team, especially when we are in season and have every dinner together. I was not a big cereal person before Bowdoin, but once I saw the array of cereals in the dining halls, I fell in love with it. Story posted on October 17, 2010 « Back | More Student Profiles | Go to News Home


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A Hound's Jolly Humbug!
As I decked the halls with boughs of holly
I put a Santa hat on this dog to be jolly.
When down to the dog park we went to play,
The strangest things my dog had to say!
Santa Hat, for who? Not me!
I won't wear it! I'm a dog you see!
All I want is to bound and play
And your holiday cheer gets in my way.
Barking and howling, he became quite a yelper
For he'd have no part in being Santa's little helper.
His head he shook with all his might
Removing that hat with eager delight.
With his big fuss and his grim mug,
He traded Santa's hat
For a Bah and Humbug!


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Doubleheader: Donavon Frankenreiter and Megan McCormick
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A love of life and the ocean provides Donavon Frankenreiter inspiration for his laid back, acoustic music. He stresses that the most simple things in his life- surfing, music and his family- keep him grounded and happy. Frankenreiter started surfing early and after gaining a sponsor for himself at only thirteen he landed in Hawaii where he rented a place from Jack Johnson's parents. Johnson and Frankenreiter became instant friends and spent much of their time surfing and making music. By the time he was in high school, Frankenreiter formed his own band, Peanut Butter and Jam and later helped form the band Sunchild, which gained acclaim for its laidback style. The professional surfer became increasingly drawn to music due to its overwhelming ability to define communities while inspiring thousands. Inspired by artists like Clapton, Page, Dylan and Marley, he strived to embody a sense of positivity in California kissed folk tunes. Eventually going solo, the soulful and charismatic individual reunited with the now successful musician and label owner Jack Johnson in order to release his debut self-titled album. Though he broke away from Johnson's Brushfire Records in favor of Lost Highway for his second studio effort "Move By Yourself" he maintained his signature acoustic sound with gem after gem.
After collaborating with the likes of Ben Harper and G.Love for the "Pass It Around" album, Frankenreiter returns with two new albums for the year. The first, Revisited, warmly pieces apart the tracks from his debut album, re-recording the songs with a complete Hawaiian approach. But while Revisited was a warm blast from the past, he also busily put together a set of new tracks on Glow. And again, he blends together the perfect concoction of hope, warmth and simplicity.
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Release Date: October 5, 2010
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Stemming from a vibrant lineage of jazz musicians in Alaska, Megan McCormick was struck by the wondrous effect both her family and artists like Bonnie Raitt and Steely Dan had on her. Picking up her first guitar at age 9, she studied everything from folk to blues to alt-country, and eventually branched out to play the mandolin, bass and lap-steel. But from a highly inquisitive and determined child, she has become a strong 23 year old singer, songwriter and instrumentalist. Though still young in age, McCormick's musical gravity tends to delve into unexpected worlds of darkness, intimacy and reflection. Such emotional outpouring lines rock and indie-pop structures in what McCormick refers to as the "never-ending search for self-understanding." Her beautiful yet raw and heavy style has already reeled in two International Bluegrass Music Association Awards for Recorded Event of the Year in 2006 and again in 2009.
Currently based in Nashville, she teamed up with Grammy Award winning producer Dave O'Donnnell in piecing together a strong outfit of tracks for her debut album "Honest Words." It is an album that immediately drives into the soul with talk of love, addiction, obsession, family, and every common thread of hope and struggle that ties people together. She is unquestionable a bold character for reaching so far within on her debut, but the recipe of honesty seems to strike a resonant chord with all those who listen.
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Recent Release: Honest Words
Release Date: August 17, 2010
Label: Rykodisc/Warner Music Group
Origin: Nashville, TN
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SEC M5: 04.04.13 EditionPosted by Brian Joyce on April 4th, 2013
- Freshman forward Alex Poythress announced his decision to return for his sophomore year at Kentucky on Tuesday. Poythress' decision comes on the heels of freshman Willie Cauley-Stein and sophomore Kyle Wiltjer announcing their decisions to return to Lexington as well. Poythress isn't returning just to improve his NBA Draft stock, but says that the team has unfinished business. "This year didn't end like we wanted it to," Poythress said. "I want to come back and do what we said we wanted to do and that's win a national title. I want to develop more as a player and the competition coming in next year should help me do that." Poythress, Cauley-Stein, and Wiltjer add a "veteran" presence for a UK team loaded in talent, similar to the dynamic created by Darius Miller, Terrence Jones, and Doron Lamb in the national championship year of 2011-12.
- Poythress admits he wasn't prepared for the grind in college basketball, and says he is ready to put the work in to becoming a better player. "It starts in the weight room. We are going to be in there every day in the offseason," he said. "We have to work on getting stronger and getting our bodies better. We did a great job last summer, but we have to pick it up and go harder. We can't let this happen again. We have to focus on having a great season next year and if we feel like giving up (in the weight room) we just have to think about what happened this season and push through." Wildcats coach John Calipari needed a leader in the locker room this season, and perhaps with another year of growth and maturity, Poythress can be that leader with a young team in 2013-14.
- Kentucky freshman guard Archie Goodwin has ended his college eligibility with the Wildcats by signing autographs for pay with a local sports company, Lexington Sports Cards. The company is pre-selling $15 tickets to receive an autograph from Goodwin, meaning he is no longer an amateur athlete. Goodwin lashed out at some of his fans on Twitter by saying, "If you can't respect my decision then that's your own problem. I'm still living life and blessed." The backlash from UK fans is odd considering most in Lexington couldn't wait to see Goodwin go. With as deep as Kentucky is next year, it's possible Goodwin would not have gotten as much playing time or as many shots as he saw this season, making his decision a no-brainer so long as he remains a first rounder.
- Missouri freshman guards Negus Webster-Chan and Dominique Bull have announced they are transferring according to a team spokesman on Tuesday afternoon. Wesbter-Chan averaged 2.5 points and 2.0 rebounds per game including two double digit point performances. However, the 6'7″ guard could have difficulty finding additional playing time next season with the returns of guards Jabari Brown and Earnest Ross and the addition of eligible Tulsa transfer Jordan Clarkson. Bull saw very little action last season, playing in just eight games and only 1.8 minutes per game.
- We're a little late on this, but The Tennessean spent time with Vanderbilt coach Kevin Stallings and asked the head coach 20 questions following the end of the Commodores season. Stallings was excited about what the future, particularly the progress of one of his freshman. "I would say Sheldon Jeter was the guy that improved the most, because he was a guy that when we were in our early practice sessions that really did not… his performance in practice did not warrant being in the rotation. But he improved so much that he became a real factor on our team. I think he's got a great future here." Jeter started seven games for the Commodores, a team that should have a lot more experience next season. Vandy, void of any seniors on this year's roster, won't lose a single player to graduation.


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Long Term Update 7: 2010 Acura ZDX
12 Months and 23,858 Miles
The ZDX has incited more editorial arguments and spontaneous thumb-wrestling than the choice of caterers at the last company picnic. Opinions are right down the middle in styling with people like myself comparing it to Star Wars vehicles and others stating that after almost a year, it still leaves them scratching their heads. One thing everyone agrees on is the arduous process of getting in and out of the back seat. Associate Web Editor Kong concluded after extensive scientific investigation that the optimum height for rear seat passengers is anything under 5-feet. To be honest, I still haven't ridden in the back, I tried getting in and out and it was certainly difficult, my 5-foot, 4-inch wife even struggles with the process. Unlike other editors here, I don't seem to have a problem with front seat ingress/egress. Years of folding in and out of sports cars has taught me well.
Drivetrain opinions are equally split ranging from perfectly adequate to sadly underpowered. Interestingly enough it seems to be the camp that used the Scifi-UV for road trekking that finds it adequate, the around-towners find it underpowered for the purpose of shooting in and out of traffic. Although I would like more power, who wouldn't, the engine provides decent thrust when the transmission is used to best effect. Perhaps the well sorted suspension and steering do too great a job giving the ZDX a small car feel and expectations exceed its considerable girth.
The size is a big downside for urbanite empty-nesters this car is intended for. The width of the flared out fastback is substantially greater than the wrap around cockpit leads the driver to believe. I find myself parking too close to the vehicle to the right and having to pull out and reposition so passengers can open the longish doors. The price you pay for style.
Even after 12 months of service, it does in fact still turn heads. The ZDX continues to be a rare beast, even in the trendiest areas of Southern California. In parking lots where more exotic and even less useful pseudo-off-roaders reign, the big Acura sticks out like a futuristic cyborg thumb. Something that is great for owners of ZDXs but certainly not a good sign for Acura's accounting department. In several months of driving, I have only seen another three or four fellow future-philes in other ZDXs. Suprisingly, I have only seen one other that wasn't silver and it was basic black.
Even if you don't like tomorrow's looks, you have to appreciate the technology. Automotive journalists tend to hate blind spot warning systems, active cruise control and anything that may suggest they need help driving. The system is much loved and appreciated on this Acura. Given the limited visibility out the back of the dramatic roofline, the Blind Spot System has probably saved us more banged up quarter panels than the invention of the horn. The Active Cruise Control is equally loved. While I tend to think my "money foot" is nigh infallible, it does need rest on road trips. Just set the cruise to a maximum speed and the car will do that speed whenever possible. If a slower car moves in front of you, it will match their speed at a driver programmed distance. When the lane clears, the ZDX automatically accelerates back to the preprogrammed speed. Cars like the Acura are quickly approaching autopilot ability and while some may cringe at the idea, I will quickly accept it on futuristic vehicles like the ZDX. Get me to Vegas, R-2.
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Alyce Anderson, 91 - February 14, 2012
Funeral services for Alyce M. Anderson will be conducted from the Christian Homes Chapel in Holdrege, Nebraska, on Tuesday, Feb. 21, at 2 p.m. with Pastor Murray Jones, Chaplain DeWane Dow and Mr. Wayne Carlson officiating. Interment will be at the Moses Hill Cemetery in rural Phelps County.
Visitation will be held on Monday, Feb. 20, from 1 to 8 p.m. with the family greeting from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Nelson-Bauer Funeral Home in Holdrege.
Alyce Mae Anderson, 91, of Holdrege, passed away on Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2012, at the Christian Homes Care Community at Holdrege.
Anderson was born on Nov. 15, 1920, in Phelps County near Loomis, the seventh of eight children born to Edward Hilbert and Hanna (Hanson) Edlund. She was baptized at Moses Hill Evangelical Covenant Church. She attended school in Phelps County and graduated from Holdrege High School with the class of 1938.
She was employed as a telephone operator for Northwestern Bell Telephone Co. in Holdrege and also in Omaha.
On Aug. 28, 1948, she was united in marriage to Ray Gerald Anderson and to this union one daughter was born, Janet Kay.
The family lived in Gothenburg, moved to Broken Bow, and then moved to a farm northeast of Holdrege in 1952. They engaged in farming for 30 years until their retirement in 1982 and moved into Holdrege. Ray passed away on May 17, 2001.
Anderson accepted the Lord in her youth and was a past member of the Moses Hill Evangelical Covenant Church, where she was active teaching Sunday School and served in music ministry. Since moving to Holdrege, she had attended Trinity Evangelical Free Church.
Besides her parents and her husband, Ray, she was preceded in death by: five sisters: Helen (Boyd) Elander, Eula (Lynn) Burnett, Ruby Edlund, Louise Trauerman, Mary Ann Edlund; two brothers: Harley Edlund and his wife, Betty, and Norman Edlund; one sister-in-law, Marilyn Anderson; and one brother-in-law, Wilbert Anderson.
She is survived by: her daughter, Janet Anderson of Lincoln; two sisters-in-law: Norrene Anderson of Brady and Jewel (Forrest) Johnson of Gothenburg; two brothers-in-law—Delmar (wife) Anderson of Gothenburg, Wendel Anderson of Omaha; several nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.
A memorial has been established in her memory and suggested to the Moses Hill Cemetery Association.
The Nelson-Bauer Funeral Home in Holdrege is in charge of arrangements.
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Cain, Jose Saramago's final novel, is another of the author's attacks on religion in general and especially the Abrahamic faiths. Saramago showed how deeply he could cut with his 1991 masterpiece, The Gospel According to Jesus Christ, a troubling, fascinating retelling of the gospels. In that book, biblical contradictions became a source of delight. With Cain, the source book is the Old Testament, but instead of delighting, Saramago chooses to bully and preach at us. As a sort of prequel to his earlier novel, Cain is unnecessary; as a work in itself it is a mess; and as a conclusion to an important literary career, it doesn't seem to fit.
Perhaps comparisons to The Gospel According to Jesus Christ aren't fair — after all, this is its own beast, with its own temperament. Sadly, if we don't see it as a continuation of that earlier project, I'm not sure the novel deserves any attention at all. This is because Cain stoops to all the cheap tricks that Gospel mostly managed to avoid. Saramago was careful to humanize Jesus without making his psychology the focus of his text, and his version of the gospels struck an almost perfect balance between satire and tragedy. The world he depicted made sense, the God he insulted was just mysterious enough (for the greater part of the work) for the whole thing not to collapse every time He appeared. There was, in short, an attempt at harmony. It read beautifully as a story and as an anti-religious tract. It showed that Saramago was capable of handling sensitively, a subject far more complex than it is now fashionable to admit.
That's why Cain is such a disappointment. It hasn't got a pinch of subtlety, and the irony has been replaced with adolescent sarcasm. The eponymous protagonist is a cipher for the critic of religion and nothing else; there is nothing to say about him except that he has no personality, that he is there because the book pretends to need a hero, or anti-hero. At the beginning of the novel he murders his brother — an event which, one would have thought, could be described in some kind of detail, so that we might get a better sense of Cain's actions than we are given by the Bible; instead, like so much of the book, we are told only that he "asked his brother to go with him to a nearby valley where it was said that a fox had its lair, and there, with his own hands, he slew him with the jaw-bone of an ass that he had previously hidden, with treacherous intent, in a bramble patch." That's it; perhaps there is no surpassing the simplicity of biblical narrative? We quickly discover, however, that it doesn't really matter why Cain kills Abel. What matters is that Cain is cursed and made to wander forever.
That gives Saramago a chance to have Cain present at many of the major scenes we all know from the Old Testament. In a weird, inexplicable shift of styles, once Cain has been marked by God and condemned to roam, the only way the author manages to show his protagonist these events is by invoking the concept of time travel. Although he dresses this up in philosophical flourish — there are, for the narrator, "many presents" instead of past and present and future — that is essentially what Cain's journey amounts to: a lot of time traveling. He witnesses the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, the battle of Jericho, the misfortunes that befall Job and his relatives, the Great Flood. Nothing of substance is said about these puzzling stories, unless you are happy to count sneers and narratorial denunciations as the substance of fiction. God, as a character — as the only acknowledged bad guy in the story — is about as ridiculous and inconsistent as you'd expect, an autocrat obsessed with glory and power and the obedience of his creations; but because, unlike Saramago's version of Jesus, Cain has no specific cause, nothing he considers worth fighting for, God acts as a foil only to a series of loose plots. While in The Gospel According to Jesus Christ there was a wonderful contrast between the forgivably human Jesus and the angry, incomprehensible (but also perfectly humanized) God, in Cain there isn't any true tension between good guy and bad guy. But this is not because Saramago is willing to grant that such a simple distinction between good and bad is problematic. All we get is a very bad God and a multitude of indifferently depicted secondary characters. There's nothing driving the narrative forward except Saramago's anger.
A shame, because with source material as rich as the Old Testament, and with his undeniable gift, Saramago could have done something important. The story of the binding of Isaac, for instance, might have served as something more than an occasion to write the following: "Yes, you read correctly, the lord ordered Abraham to sacrifice his own son, and he did so as naturally as if he were asking for a glass of water to slake his thirst… In short, as well as being as big a son of a bitch as the lord, Abraham was a consummate liar, ready to deceive anyone with his forked tongue…" Yes, you read correctly: Saramago, in the last novel he would ever write, could come up with nothing better than calling Abraham a son of a bitch. Perhaps there's something beautiful in that. I don't think so — not when you remember how complex and satisfying his previous fuck-you gestures have been.
Saramago, in Cain, is as petty as the God he denounces. I suspect even most atheists, of which I am one, will find themselves siding with the believers here, and demand a greater subtlety of thought than can be found in this novel.
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By Mary A. Sego
Title: Winder E. Goldsborough papers, 1895-1901
Primary Creator: Goldsborough, Winder Elwell.
Extent: 1.0 Folders. More info below.
Arrangement: Chronological
Subjects: Electrical engineering, Purdue University--Faculty, Purdue University. School of Engineering
Forms of Material: Articles
Languages: English
Mr. Goldsborough was born in Baltimore, Md., October 10, 1871. He was educated at Wrights' University School, Baltimore, and Cornell University, graduating from the latter in 1892 with the degree of M. E.
In 1892 and 1893 he was employed as electrical engineer by the Colliery Engineer Company, Scranton, Pa.; and in 1893 and 1894 he occupied the chair of Electrical Engineering in the University of Arkansas; afterward he held the same position for eleven years at Purdue University. Resigning from teaching in 1904, he became Business Manager for J. G. White Company of New York and London, holding the position for three years. Next he became Vice President and General Manager of the Denver Reservoir Irrigation Company for two years, then General Manager of the Laramie Water Company, and finally President of the Goldsborough Company, civil, mechanical, electrical, mining, hydraulic, and irrigation engineers.
He was Consulting Engineer to the Edison Electrical Illuminating Company, Baltimore, Md., in 1894 and 1895, and was Chief of the Department of Electricity at the St. Louis Exposition from 1902 to 1905.
He held many positions requiring the greatest executive ability and the exercise of thorough technical training and knowledge.
He read papers before prominent scientific and engineering societies, and contributed articles to the leading scientific and engineering journals. He was an inventor with four U. S. patents to his credit; and his research investigations included arc lamps, electrical machinery, and transformers.
He was a member of a number of the leading technical and scientific societies of America and England, and was decorated with the Order of the Crown of Italy. He traveled extensively, including a trip to China.
Mr. Goldsborough's definition of work as being "something agreeable to do" is a good one and should be remembered and appreciated.
Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Alternate Extent Statement: 3 folder
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation: MSF 146, Winder E. Goldsborough Papers, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries


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