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SPCH 141 Fundamentals of Speech
A study and utilization of the principles and techniques of oral communication. Problems of research, preparation, content, organization, argument, and delivery are examined.
Meets MSU-Northern General Education Core Communication (CAT I) requirement.
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SPCH 142 Interpersonal Communication
A study of the theory and application of verbal and nonverbal communication as they occur in relatively unstructured person-to-person settings.
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An introduction to the theory and practice of purposeful leadership and participation in group, committee, conference, and public discussion. A focus of this course will include analysis and participation in small groups, how small groups function and an examination of conflict management in small groups. Group interaction will focus on a service learning activity that has outreach components.
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The purpose of this course is to develop the skills necessary to build and maintain positive communication and relationships across cultures. Students will focus on similarities and differences in communication. Perceptions, language usage, nonverbal style, thinking modes, and values all will be explored to see how they influence face-to-face communication between individuals of different cultures.
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President signs 1st Irish abortion bill into law
President signs 1st Irish abortion bill into law
Jul. 30, 2013
DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland's head of state has signed the country's first bill on abortion into law, legalizing the practice in exceptional cases where doctors deem a woman's life at risk.
President Michael D. Higgins surprised some analysts Tuesday by signing the Protection of Life During Pregnancy Bill rather than referring it to Ireland's Supreme Court to determine its constitutionality.
The new law does amend the constitution's ban on abortion, so anti-abortion activists are likely to pursue a Supreme Court challenge.
The law permits abortions to alleviate life-threatening conditions, including a woman's own threat to commit suicide if refused a termination.
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IDOT changes work zone signs as speed limit climbs
Apr. 14, 2014
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois transportation officials are adding extra safety precautions to work zones around the state after the speed limit was increased to 70 mph on some highways.
The (Springfield) State Journal-Register reported (http://bit.ly/1qWBzy3 ) motorists are being warned of construction projects with extra signs, including speed indicators. The placards are also being placed further away from work zones to give drivers an earlier warning.
"When you're going 70 mph, people don't realize how far you travel and how quickly," said Priscilla Tobias, the state safety engineer from the Illinois Department of Transportation.
The speed limit for 87 percent of interstate highways and 98 percent of rural interstates under IDOT's jurisdiction rose to 70 mph in January, up from 65 mph. About 28 percent of the Illinois Tollway's 286-mile system also climbed to 70 mph.
IDOT opposed legislation raising the speed limit from 65 mph. But lower limits remain for work zones, where drivers need to slow to 45 mph if construction crews are present.
Tobias said takes drivers 470 feet to come to a safe stop if they're traveling 70 mph. That compares with 405 feet while driving 65 mph.
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Police investigate possible selfie on stolen iPad
LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) — Police investigating a burglary in Colorado are searching for a man who they believe snapped a selfie with an iPad reported stolen from a gymnastics studio.
According to the Denver Post (http://tinyurl.com/n5yb5wf ), a picture of a dark-haired, bearded man with a cigarette clamped in his mouth appeared in Premier Gymnastics' online business account on Saturday.
Along with the iPad, several other items were also taken from Premier Gymnastics in Loveland on March 1.
In California, a selfie found on a phone at a church that had been burglarized last month helped lead police to a suspect.
Information from: The Denver Post, http://www.denverpost.com
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After a 19-month antitrust investigation, the Federal Trade Commission decided not to bring charges against Google over its search business practices, and instead it delivered what amounted to a wrist-slap. Microsoft, which spent untold sums lobbying regulators to lower the boom on Google, could not contain its frustration with the FTC's ruling.
"The FTC's overall resolution of this matter is weak and -- frankly -- unusual," Dave Heiner, Microsoft's vice president and deputy general counsel, said in a blog post.
Heiner also noted that "Google seems to be walking with a new spring in its step" in the wake of the ruling and suggested that things might turn out differently when European regulators render their decision in the case. All of this bluster no doubt triggered much snickering in the hallways of Google's Mountain View, Calif., headquarters.


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Charise Isis lives in Kingston, between Midtown and the Rondout, and radiates softness, acceptance. Originally from New Zealand, she is self-taught, shooting photo essays about strippers before moving on to start a business helping women find their own sensuality via her Boudoir Series of photos. Now she has embarked on an ambitious project documenting survivors of breast cancer. Her works imply the mood of a Sharon Olds poem, the world of a Margaret Atwood.
Tanya Marcuse is raising a family in Dutchess County; is busy, professional. She got her Bachelor's at Oberlin, her MFA at Yale; is a Guggenheim recipient; teaches photography at Bard College's Simon's Rock School in the Berkshires. She has become known shooting armor, lingerie, vegetables, wax bodies. Her works resemble both still-lives and prose poems. They're also about resilience, strength. They feel postmodern, like a William Carlos Williams snippet crossed with Frank Lloyd Wright.
"I observe and document the contrast between the organic natural processes of growth and decay with the strict geometric forms of our technological infrastructure," says Hebb in his Artist's Statement. "Issues of permanence versus entropy, obsolescence and the impulse to control and sanitize are contrasted with the regenerative power and cyclical structure of Nature."
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Brooklyn's Finest (US - BD)
Gabe saves time by watching three derivative cop dramas in one movie...
I'm going to start this review off more honestly than usual (though I do hope if my reviews aren't well written, they are at least honest in all cases). I had no interest in watching Brooklyn's Finest from the beginning. Everything about the film's advertising pointed to desperation. Three of the four leads (Richard Gere, Wesley Snipes and Ethan Hawke) are quickly dwindling into STV obscurity, and the fourth (Don Cheadle) isn't known for turning down too many paycheques. The director, Antoine Fuqua, has proven his talent over the last decade, but failed to move himself out of 'urban crime drama' mould when 2004's King Arthur met with studio interference and was forgotten. From my point of view, having not actually stopped to watch the film yet, Brooklyn's Finest is a transparent attempt to recapture the Oscar gold struck by Fuqua's Training Day, which also stared Ethan Hawke, and saw the actor receive his one and only Academy Award nomination. I was really hoping A.J. would take this one on, but he picked a better movie instead. And now my review is super late, so it's into the generic, but well made urban crime drama fire I go.
Things open and our main characters are set up as a hesitant, Catholic guilt-ridden corrupt cop (Hawke) hiding his sin from his family, a suicidal, drunken cop on the verge of retirement (Gere), an undercover a heart of gold who has sunk too deep (Cheadle). The supporting cast features an idealistic young Turks, and a boisterous, charming crime boss with a rat tail (Wesley Snipes). Oh, and the cop on the verge of retirement loves a hooker, the undercover cop is forced to bring down his closest criminal friend, and the corrupt cop's wife is pregnant with twins and deathly allergic to mould in the walls. These characters are defined in the broadest visual and expositional terms, and their defining traits have been old news since Raymond Chandler starting writing. The dialogue is sometimes so stilted and unnatural I'm not entirely sure it isn't meant as some kind of statement on the state of genre. The performers are all pretty much trapped in overdrive, except Gere, who plays it so dour he looks as if he's going to pass out any minute. Eventually Gere's story takes an interesting enough turn to warrant continued viewing, even for those of us otherwise completely out of patience. The actor's melancholy and character's predictable problems actually approach something resembling affection, and turn out the biggest shocks in the end.
The ensemble aspects do, however, mostly work from a storytelling standpoint. Fuqua interlaces the three major storylines effectively, and about as organically as anyone could expect. Basically the movie works overall because the audience is given three short films, and for some reason three cliché-ridden short movies is more easily acceptable than one cliché-ridden long movie. Fuqua and cinematographer Patrick Murguia create a sense of flow between stories with surprisingly graceful camera work (not a lot of shaky-cam here), and smooth editing practices. The three-way set piece at the center of the film is close to great filmmaking, may be the best I've seen from the director, and is one of a handful of moments that overcome the unoriginal story and properly embrace the over-the-top performances. An inevitable sense of doom lingers throughout the three stories, but Fuqua never develops that appropriate brand of gut-wrenching promenade found in Requiem for a Dream, Magnolia or Amores Perros. The final act is reasonably satisfying, but doesn't really resonate beyond the expected shock value (at least it didn't for me).
Brooklyn's Finest, which comes to Blu-ray in 1080p, 2.35:1 widescreen, is shot for maximum grit, which means its plenty grainy, dark interiors, and overcast daylight exteriors. And when I say dark I mean 'stub your toe looking for the light switch' dark. Dark as pitch. Close-ups and medium shots actually wear this darkness pretty well, including sharp highlights and fine details. Overall colour schemes mostly skew towards natural, including gray streets and brown houses, but certain colours subtly follow certain storylines. Gere's house is lit with bold reds while his daylight reality is particularly cold, the drug house is tinted with sickly yellows, Hawke's homelife is warmer and yellow, and Cheadle's basic dealings are often tinted by oranges and reds. These aren't visual rules, but there are some noticeable themes. The colours are well blended, and sharply separated when needed. There are some perfect pops throughout, like Hawke's poker table, Cheadle's diamond earrings, and Gere's uniform. The transfer reveals some possibly avoidable chinks in wide-angle shots, where grain is more prevalent, colours become slightly muddied, and highlighted edges expand with minor enhancement.
One again Anchor Bay goes the uncompressed, no brand name PCM audio route, which means many viewers will be forced to accept the compressed Dolby Digital track instead if they want to experience a 5.1 channel mix. Both tracks are pretty similar, but the DD compression does rear its head in terms of overall volume. Of course there ends up being little purpose to the rear channels in the end, as the vast majority of the track is frontal and pretty thin in terms of sound effects. I ended up adjusting my system's balance to cut back the volume of the center speaker a little bit, but not because the dialogue is distorted at higher volumes, rather I felt I was missing out on incidental stereo and surround effects, which are few and far between. There's one scene that features just about the softest rendition of Jefferson Airplane's 'White Rabbit' I've ever heard. The song is so low on the track it strikes me as a waste of the production's money. I recall one solid sounding surround channel helicopter, and a few stereo channel crowd sounds, but directional support isn't much of an issue. Gun shots are very loud on both tracks, and feature a solid LFE punch on impact. These and Marcelo Zarvos' consistently building symphonic score are the track's strongest assets.
Extras begin with director Antoine Fuqua's solo commentary track. The track is utterly humourless, and tonally Fuqua's speech pattern threatened to lull me to sleep any minute, but there are some interesting nuggets in the mix. The director spends too much time narrating, stumbles over his thoughts a little too often, and ignores plenty of the film's obvious problems (can't really blame him for that one…), but his discussion of themes, especially visual themes is consistently engaging, and makes the second viewing at least somewhat meaningful. A smart track overall, if not a particularly entertaining one, save the behind the scenes tale of Wesley Snipes' legal troubles.
Next up are a series of making-of featurettes starting with 'Chaos and Conflict: The Life of a New York Cop' (6:50, HD), which despite its title is just a basic post-release EPK. Discussion includes scripting, actor research, character traits and general themes. Richard Gere's brief interview shows insight I missed while watching the film, and reveals that he knew this was a B-Cop film at its heart. 'Boyz N The Real Hood' (5:50, HD) covers the location shooting, which despite the Brooklyn area's reputation, went off without many hitches. The crew donated four cameras to students at a local school. 'An Eye For Detail' (6:30, HD) is concerned with Fuqua as a director, focusing on his work with the actors. 'From the MTA to the WGA' (5:20, HD) follows suit, focusing on writer Michael Martin, who apparently wrote the script while working for the MTA. This rags to (semi)riches story really makes me wish I liked the film more. Still very strong first time script. 'Three Cops and a Dealer' (8:00, HD) is the most trailer like of the featurettes, though it's meant as a look at the cast and characters.
The disc is completed by a collection of deleted/extended scenes (31:10, SD), most of which just flesh out expositional pieces, including Gere's and Snipes' most impressive work, and a better ending, and Anchor Bay trailers.
My initial assumptions prove mostly correct, Brooklyn's Finest is a derivative attempt at recapturing former glory. It's not a bad film, and director Antoine Fuqua brings a lot to the table visually speaking (I'd love to see him tackle a horror film), but familiarity, stiff dialogue and unearned melodrama make for some hard going. Viewers looking for an original, enticing, and engaging crime drama will likely be disappointed, but those with softened expectations, and a genuine love for the actors involved will probably enjoy a rental. Richard Gere's character's plot line is mostly worth traversing the bumps in the road. This Blu-ray presentation is about as crisp as can be expected from such gritty and dark material, but Anchor Bay's use of generic PCM will be a problem for viewers without the appropriate audio equipment. The extras are brief, but informative enough, including a whole lot of extended material that would probably have made the film better if included in the theatrical cut.
*Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 6th July 2010
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 2.40:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: PCM 5.1 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Subtitles: English SDH and Spanish
Extras: Director Commentary, Chaos and Conflict: The Life of a New York Cop, Boyz N The Real Hood, An Eye For Detail, From the MTA to the WGA, Three Cops and a Dealer: Character Profile, Deleted/Extended Scenes, Trailers, Digital Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Cast: Richard Gere, Don Cheadle, Ethan Hawke, Wesley Snipes
Genre: Crime and Drama
Length: 132 minutes
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Woman to stand trial in toddler's death
Woman to stand trial in toddler's death
OMAHA, Neb. —
An unlicensed home day care provider will stand trial in a toddler's death.
Elizabeth Harding, 33, was charged with child neglect resulting in death last month.
In court on Monday, Harding waived her preliminary hearing.
Investigators said Harding put 13-month-old Chase Hunter in a car seat for a nap on Feb. 22, but did not buckle the bottom strap, causing Hunter to slide down and strangle himself with the seat-belt harness.
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It seems Jon Gosselin is starting to feel the consequences of his douchebagary ways, as a new FoxNews report reveals the Jon & Kate Plus 8 dad is in serious financial trouble.
According to the report, Jon is broke due to TLC being granted a preliminary injunction that forced Jon to stop making public appearances. This has apparently been a major blow to Jon, as he can no longer earn money from staging paparazzi photos and giving out paid interviews.
"Jon's in pretty serious financial trouble because his plan for making money was shut down in court," the insider said. "He has warned his lawyers that he can't pay them and if he doesn't succeed against TLC, he will have no funds. He's even gone so far as to say that if they want to be paid, they will have to sue him."
Those lawyers include father/son team – Mark and Mike Heller, who were introduced to Jon by Michael Lohan. Taking any form of advice from the troubled Lohan is of course always a great idea. The source tells Fox News, "Lohan wanted to latch onto Jon and involved many people he knew. He convinced them Jon was going to have a successful career after the show."
In October, a judge ordered Jon to return $180,000 of the $230,000 he withdrew from the joint account he shares with his estranged wife Kate Gosselin, which violated an arbitrator's previous order that they not withdraw any funds without the other's approval. Kate claimed back then that Jon's withdrawal left her with no money to pay the bills.
Jon might have also led his lawyers to believe he had more money than he actually did. Jon's bills are said to be stacking up as he now has no job, and is not making any effort to get a job. "It's a good thing Kate Gosselin has been put in charge of the family funds that provide for the couple's eight children," the insider says. "She is the responsible parent."
This is likely just the beginning of financial troubles for Jon, as TLC lawsuit against him is scheduled to go to trial in April, 2010. Until then, the preliminary injunction granted against him will continue to stand.


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The narrative has become all too familiar: accusations of sexual assault, followed by bullying of the victims on social media.
The case in Steubenville, Ohio, last year drew national attention. Two high school football stars were found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl. The assault was filmed and photographed; the images and threats circulated online.
More recently, the focus has turned to Torrington, Conn. Two football players were arrested for the statutory rape of two 13-year-old girls. Social media comments from students swarmed to protect the players, and the girls were called names like "whore" and "snitch."
Activists have been pushing for years to stamp out assault on campus through campaigns for awareness and stronger accountability. But classroom education isn't the end of the story.
At Torrington, for example, half of the high school's students had participated in classes provided by the Susan B. Anthony Project, a nonprofit that educates young people about healthy relationships and preventing sexual violence.
Project Director Barbara Spiegel tells Neena Satija of member station WNPR they taught students at the school boundaries and consent, healthy relationships and cyberbullying in media.
Cyberbullying, in particular, plays a key role in these recent assault cases; social media provides the potential to amplify the reach of hurtful comments.
Cyberbullying is a public act that now has infinite witnesses, but bullying itself is not exactly a new phenomenon.
Amanda Hess, who writes about the relationship between teen sexuality and technology for Slate's XX Factor blog, is not convinced technology can be blamed. Before Twitter, she says, kids used paper "to shame each other sexually."
"That's been going on for a very, very long time. Social media's just the new way that we talk about everything, whether it's positive or negative," she tells NPR's Jacki Lyden on weekends on All Things Considered.
It's not just how people communicate — what they say can be revealing, too. Deborah Roffman, a longtime human sexuality teacher, says she has noticed a shift in the way her students think about sex and relationships. She began teaching grades four through 12 in Baltimore in the mid-1970s.
"When I first started teaching, kids understood, almost by osmosis, that sex and relationships were really flip sides of one another," she says.
About 20 years later, Roffman says, they seemed to become separate things.
"The whole concept of sex as a meaningful form of human intimacy is really vanishing — at least in the things they are exposed to," she says. "And kids are not going to be making real choices; they are just going to be modeling what they see around them."
Roffman points to the ubiquity of pornography. She overheard two male 10th-graders commenting on how lucky they were to have easy access to porn.
"How did previous generations learn about real sex?" one asked.
Roffman told the students that once a camera is involved, the act becomes a performance. The conversation expanded to more students, and eventually others shared new perspectives.
"That's where the power is in working with groups of kids, is for them to feel safe enough to articulate differing points of view, and that's when they really pay attention," she says.
A new conversation is also taking place in Torrington, says Spiegel of the Susan B. Anthony Project. While students are taking different sides, she says, at least they are openly talking about the issue.
But in tackling sexual assault and searching for answers, Hess of the XX Factor says zeroing in on teens is misguided.
"I think it's interesting that we focus on teenagers," she says. "Rape is not a teenage problem. Cowardice in bystanders is not a teenage problem. That's a societal problem, and that's a human problem."
You're listening to WEEKENDS on ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Jacki Lyden.
Coming up on the show, the genocide trial against a Guatemalan dictator gets a discouraging setback, and how do you know when a tree is thirsty? Maybe you just need to listen. And in the program, the latest hot music from Cuba.
But first, a sobering subject which has befuddled, appalled and appeared with increasing frequency in the news lately. Teen-on-teen sexual assault recorded and then distributed online. That's our cover story tonight: teens, rape and shaming on social media.
It's tough to think that something like teen-on-teen sex assault could be posted, commented and shared online. Let's start with the case in Steubenville, Ohio, which gained notoriety last fall. A 16-year-old girl inebriated and unconscious was raped at a party by two of the high school's star football players. Last month, the men were convicted. The assault was filmed and shared online. And the victim was bullied, intimidated and threatened. Two other girls were later arrested for threatening the victim via Twitter.
Teens, rape and Twitter aren't just a U.S. phenomenon. In Nova Scotia, a teenager committed suicide after she was raped, photographed and harassed online. Let's take a recent case in Torrington, Connecticut. Two high school football players there are awaiting trial for raping two young girls, as Neena Satija of member station WNPR reports.
NEENA SATIJA, BYLINE: It's spring break this week in Torrington, a town of about 36,000 people in northwest Connecticut. That's given students and school staff some relief from the chaos that erupted here a few weeks ago. Two 18-year-old football players from Torrington High School were charged with sexually assaulting two 13-year-old girls who had snuck into the boys' apartment complex. The local newspaper broke the story and found comments posted by students on Twitter, calling the girls names like whore and snitch.
Matt DeRienzo is an editor at the Torrington Register Citizen.
MATT DERIENZO: The real troubling thing that made it a much more important and bigger story was the widespread bullying of these kids.
SATIJA: Police are calling the alleged incident statutory rape. And two more 17-year-old football players have since been similarly charged. But with many details of the cases still sealed, the town and students are divided.
At a skate park near the high school this week, Anton Dziedzic and Cody Walton were testing out their bikes and skateboards. Dziedzic is a freshman at nearby Wolcott Technical High School. Walton graduated from Torrington High last year. They both say the alleged sexual contact between 18-year-olds and 13-year-olds isn't surprising.
ANTON DZIEDZIC: I think it happens all the time.
CODY WALTON: Yeah, I really do. I think it happens a lot.
DZIEDZIC: Yeah.
WALTON: Like, I mean...
DZIEDZIC: Because I know kids at my school that are dating middle schoolers.
SATIJA: But they also say that a few kids and a few posts on Twitter don't reflect Torrington as a whole. Many students are outraged at the way their classmates acted and at the hateful comments they posted online. And now, Walton says, they just want their lives to get back to normal. After all, the alleged perpetrators aren't in school anymore.
WALTON: They're in jail. Things are going on. It's all over with. Like, they got their freaking punishment.
SATIJA: Actually, one of the 18-year-olds is in jail awaiting trial and the other is out on bail. What happened in Torrington - the alleged assaults, the slurs on social media - was especially heartbreaking for Barbara Spiegel. She directs the Susan B. Anthony Project, a nonprofit that teaches school kids about healthy relationships and preventing sexual violence. In the fall, Spiegel's staff reached more than half of Torrington High School students in various health classes. Here's what they were teaching.
BARBARA SPIEGEL: Cyberbullying in the media for ninth graders, boundaries and consent for 10th graders and healthy relationships for 12th graders.
SATIJA: Clearly, Spiegel says, those lessons have not yet sunk in. In the last few weeks, the project's educators have gone back into the school. Student responses have been mixed.
SPIEGEL: You know, I think people are having a reaction like, you know, I'm on this side, I'm on this team, I'm on that team, I think the whole thing's stupid.
SATIJA: Spiegel says she hopes the recent conversations in classrooms made a difference. But it's hard to reach teenagers. Over at the skate park, Anton Dziedzic of Wolcott Technical High remembers when the Susan B. Anthony Project visited his health class.
DZIEDZIC: They always talk about the same thing: bullying, sex, you know, sexual harassment...
WALTON: Yeah.
DZIEDZIC: ...rape, all that stuff.
SATIJA: He says no one really took it seriously.
DZIEDZIC: They all think it's a joke. I admit, I used to think it was a joke too.
SATIJA: Dziedzic says as he got older, he realized it wasn't funny.
DZIEDZIC: It just kind of hit me. I was, like, wow, if that happens to someone, I'm not going to be laughing, you know?
SATIJA: And it does seem like some others are getting that message. A number of people in the community have opened up to Barbara Spiegel about sexual assaults they've suffered. And she says not enough people talk about this stuff. So at least now, Torrington is talking.
LYDEN: That's WNPR's Neena Satija.
Such education may be more vital than ever, but it isn't new. Educators say what is new are the earlier and earlier ages at which it should be required. Deborah Roffman is a human sexuality teacher in Baltimore where she helps students understand the highly sexualized world that is all around them.
DEBORAH ROFFMAN: Well, I've been in the field actually more than 40 years. I've been a classroom teacher ever since 1975.
LYDEN: Roffman says she's seen exponential changes in the way her students think about sex. She began teaching grades four to 12 back in the mid-1970s.
ROFFMAN: Well, when I first started teaching, kids understood, almost by osmosis, that sex and relationships were really basically flip sides of one another. And I would say about maybe 15 years later, 20 years later, I started to hear, well, this is sex, and that's relationships. And if you want to bring them together, well, you could, which was an enormous change.
So the whole concept of sex as a potentially meaningful, at least, form of human intimacy is really vanishing, at least in the things that they're exposed to, and kids are not going to be making real choices. They're just going to be modeling what they see around them.
LYDEN: We know what kids see because we see it too. What we're learning is the disturbing way sexuality is interpreted to blur with pornography in TV, movies, on magazine covers and advertisements, on Web pages. Online pornography, says Roffman, has come to influence an increasing number of students at every younger ages. She gave us a striking example.
ROFFMAN: So I was doing an exercise where there were these two 10th grade boys who were talking about pornography. I said: May I listen in? And one of the boys was saying: We are just so lucky - our generation - to have pornography so easily available to us. How did previous generations learn about real sex? And the other boy said: Yeah. I pointed out that: Well, you know, it's not exactly real. Once there's a camera in the room, it becomes a performance.
And a couple girls came by and I said to the girls: Well, what do you think about that? And one of the girls said: Those women make a whole lot of money doing that, and they're liberated. They're choosing to do what they want to do.
LYDEN: Wow. What was your own meter on that as you're reading your own internal meter?
ROFFMAN: My internal meter was that I wanted to scream. Scream or shake them, I guess. So I just continue to ask questions and brought more and more kids into the conversation until, finally, there were kids who stated points of view that were not the same as the kids who initially started the conversation. That's where the power is in working with groups of kids, is for them to be able to feel safe enough to articulate different points of view, and that's when they really pay attention.
LYDEN: And kids are paying attention. Seventeen-year-old Tavi Gevinson is a high school student and blogger who lives in a suburb of Chicago. She says she talks about these teen sexual assault cases with her friends. Her high school teaches self-defense to girls and has a class for the boys that teaches respect for women, which Gevinson says she appreciates, but admits that it can take a real-world event for the hypothetical to hit home.
TAVI GEVINSON: You know, like a guy sent around - at my school sent around a list a couple years ago where he ranked 50 female students and gave them offensive nicknames and rated their body parts and included rumors about their sex lives. And he wasn't the only person who - I mean, he wrote the list, but so many people shared it on Facebook, and a lot of people were really angry about it.
LYDEN: Online sharing is such a troubling aspect of these cases that it's easy to blame social media and smartphones for exposing our kids to online harassment 24/7.
Amanda Hess writes about the relationship between teen sexuality and technology for The XX Factor, a blog of Slate.com. I asked her if social media is making this type of incident easier.
AMANDA HESS: I don't think so. I went to high school before the Internet was really a powerful aspect of teenagers' lives, and, you know, we used paper for that sort of thing. High schools are really small communities, and so kids don't really need social media to learn how to shame each other sexually. That's been going on for a very, very long time. Social media is just the new way that we talk about everything, whether it's positive or negative.
What I've seen through looking at communities of teenagers on the Internet who never would've been able to find each other before this moment in time, a lot of those teenagers speak openly about sexual harassment, about sexual assaults, about being harassed on the street. They have this opportunity to engage with a community that's making positive conversation about teen sexuality.
LYDEN: What about the idea that kids are willing to be not only passive bystanders and not intervene to stop something like a rape, but that they'll film it or pass it around and comment on the photos and the videos?
HESS: I think it's interesting that we focus on teenagers. Rape is not a teenage problem. Cowardice in bystanders is not a teenage problem. That's a societal problem, and that's a human problem.
And so I think when we talk about teenagers, we're really fascinated by them and we're kind of scared by them. But, really, we're talking about ourselves. And I think there's this misplaced focus on technology because it's something that we don't understand as opposed to focusing on all these other human elements that adults are suffering from as well and passing on to our kids.
LYDEN: And maybe that's where this conversation starts for adults. It's disturbing to think that the victims and perpetrators are all our sons and daughters, amplifying their most tormented moments online. Maybe all these cases will make teens, friends and parents start a dialogue, bringing more and more people into a difficult essential discussion.
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How to Give Your Dog a Good Leash on Life
Find out what kind of leash is best for your dog
Like collars, leashes are available in many colors and designs from charming to chic. They are made of a variety of materials ranging from leather and nylon to hemp and metal.
Size matters
As with collars, size is important. Make sure the leash is the proper size for your dog and for his collar. A thin, lightweight leash designed for a little dog may not be strong enough to control a rambunctious Labrador retriever. And the clip on the end of a small leash might break from the pressure of the metal ring on a large dog's collar, which would allow your dog to run off.
Several styles of leashes are available. Some are made for convenience, and some have special purposes.
Basic leash
Retractable leash
Bungee leash
Long line
Slip lead
Basic leash
Your basic flat leash is 6 feet long. A basic leash is quite versatile. Not only can you use it to walk your dog, in an emergency, you can use it as a slip lead or even make a muzzle out of it.
Retractable leash
A retractable leash consists of a thin cord wound onto a spring-loaded device inside a plastic handle. As your dog walks away from you, the cord unwinds. When he walks toward you, the cord retracts. A button on the handle allows you to control how much of the cord can be extended.
People like retractable leashes because they give dogs more freedom to explore their surroundings on a walk, but these leashes have many drawbacks and can even be dangerous.
Drawbacks to a retractable leash:
- You have minimal control over your dog. Even if you pay close attention to your dog, he may still get far enough away from you on a retractable leash to run into traffic where he may be injured or killed, or rudely jump on people or other animals.
- The cord can break. If you have a strong dog who suddenly takes off running at full speed, the cord can snap. If that happens, your dog will escape, or you may be injured by the cord as it whips back toward the leash handle. You and/or your dog could become entangled in the leash, resulting in cuts, burns and more serious injuries.
- Retractable leases could also cause your dog's body posture to send the wrong signal to other dogs. His pulling at the end of the retractable leash may appear to approaching dogs as a sign of aggression, leading to a confrontation between the dogs.
- The handle of a retractable leash is bulky. Your dog could easily pull the handle out of your hands and escape. He also might be scared if the handle hits his body as it falls or bounces on the ground behind him.
If you walk your dog at night, stay safe by being more visible: Wear reflective clothing and outfit your dog with a leash and collar made of reflective material.
Bungee leash
Bungee leashes stretch. They may be made of rubber tubing or may just have an elastic section. Bungee leashes are marketed as a way to help control a dog who pulls on a leash.
These leashes are designed to minimize the risk of injury to your dog's neck as he pulls. However, the best way to get your dog to not pull is to train him to walk politely on a loose leash.
Long line
A long line is a very long leash. It may be a thin cord made of nylon or plastic, or it may be flat and made of leather, nylon or cotton like a basic flat leash.
Long lines vary from 10 to 60 feet in length. They are typically used for training your dog. You can be some distance from your dog and still have control over him so he can't run away. For example, as your dog learns the "come" command, you'll want to call him from greater distances—perhaps from across the yard instead of across the living room. Be sure to limit the use of a long line to safe areas like a field, not near a busy city street.
Slip lead
These leads can be helpful when you don't have another leash available, but shouldn't be used on a day-to-day basis. A slip lead looks like a regular flat leash, except it has a metal ring on one end instead of a clip. You pass the handle end of the leash through the metal ring to form a loop. Then you put the loop over your dog's head. Pulling on the handle tightens the loop around your dog's neck. A slip lead allows you to walk your dog on leash when he's not wearing his collar.
Caution! Only use a slip lead when a regular collar and leash aren't available. Because you can't control the tightness of a slip lead, don't use it as your regular leash. You don't want to risk damaging your dog's windpipe or neck, or even strangling him.
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You have got to be fucking kidding me. In yet another blow against a woman's right to choose, and yet another blow for the Forced Birth Movement that is the Republican party and the "pro-lifers" who only give a shit about life until it's out of the womb, the Kansas legislature just approved a ban on insurance companies covering abortion in their general health plans.
Via Peter Rugg at The Pitch, as reported in the McPherson Sentinel:
Rep. Pete DeGraaf, a Mulvane Republican who supports the bill, told her: "We do need to plan ahead, don't we, in life?"
Bollier asked him, "And so women need to plan ahead for issues that they have no control over with pregnancy?"
DeGraaf drew groans of protest from some House members when he responded, "I have a spare tire on my car."
"I also have life insurance," he added. "I have a lot of things that I plan ahead for."
Like being drugged and raped and impregnated. You never know when some stranger might accidentally put their penis in your vagina and inseminate you while you're minding your own business! Because that's the actual analogue to what happens when you accidentally get a flat tire, you see. Hey, women, by taking on the responsibility of vagina-ownership, you need to be aware that you're now legally obligated to insure yourself against being raped and inseminated. Shoulda thought of that before you picked the womb with a view, because now you've got legal responsibilities that come from your choice of genitalia.
Until DeGraff is forced to take out an insurance policy on his pecker in case it happens to impregnate a woman while he's being raped, this is unduly onerous to women.


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IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa man who beat a puppy to death with a baseball bat didn't commit animal torture, an appeals court ruled Wednesday, in a decision denounced by an animal rights group.
Prosecutors failed to show that Zachary Meerdink, 31, acted with "depraved intent" when he killed the 7-month-old Boston terrier outside his girlfriend's apartment complex in Davenport in 2011, the Iowa Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 decision.
The court vacated Meerdink's conviction for animal torture, an aggravated misdemeanor, and the two-year prison sentence he received. Meerdink was paroled in April, but the court ordered that he be acquitted of the charge.
Chief Judge Larry Eisenhauer said prosecutors must prove the defendant acted with "depraved" or "sadistic" intent to support an animal torture conviction. He said that standard wasn't met because no one witnessed the killing, it's unclear how many times the dog was struck and Meerdink didn't appear to be happy or eager before and after the killing. What's more, Meerdink killed the dog after it demonstrated aggressive behavior that was getting worse, including biting a 9-year-old child, Eisenhauer wrote in a ruling joined by Judge Nancy Tabor.
The founder of a Des Moines-based nonprofit that's pushing for tougher sentences in animal cruelty cases called the decision shocking.
"The decision by the court is inconceivable and breaks the logic barrier," said Lin Sorenson of St. Francis Foundation for Pets. "Beating an innocent dog to death with a baseball bat meets the level of sadistic intent necessary in the Iowa Code to constitute animal torture."
Meerdink was living with his girlfriend in 2011, and she bought him the puppy. The girlfriend, Jamie Holladay, testified that the puppy had accidents in the home because of a weak stomach, often jumped on people, had bitten her and her three sons, and wasn't responding to coaching.
Holladay said she was running an errand when Meerdink called to ask where the Lysol spray was because the dog had an accident. When she returned, Meerdink walked out of the house with the dog under his arm. He came back minutes later carrying a baseball bat, saying the animal was dead.
Holladay ordered Meerdink to leave and called police. An officer found the dead dog in tall grass behind the apartment.
Judge Cheryl Traum found Meerdink guilty after a bench trial, saying the animal's death was enough to justify the torture charge. The act of hitting a dog in the head with a bat shows depraved intent because it was obvious severe physical pain would result, she ruled.
Appellate court Judge Anuradha Vaitheswaran agreed, noting in a dissenting opinion that photos show the dog lying on its side with a bloodied eye and mouth and significant bruising on its head. She rejected claims that Meerdink acted after the puppy bit a child, saying there was no evidence of a biting incident on the day of the killing and the law doesn't allow for a justification defense.
She said a reasonable judge could have determined that Meerdink killed the puppy because of its accident, "an extreme response to an ordinary and foreseeable occurrence."
"A reasonable fact-finder could have found depravity based on the dog's age, the fact that the act was precipitated by nothing more than the puppy's weak stomach, the inference that Meerdink spent some time searching for a blunt instrument with which to kill the dog, the uncontested fact that Meerdink inflicted 'severe physical pain,' and the fact that the animal was a family pet," she added.
Scott County Attorney Mike Walton, whose office prosecuted the case, said lawmakers should consider removing the "depraved" and "sadistic" language from the law. He said it's up to the Iowa Attorney General's Office to decide whether to ask the state Supreme Court to review the ruling.
"We thought that the evidence of him beating a puppy to death with a baseball bat fit the definition," he said. "There was no additional evidence that could have been introduced to bolster the case."


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girlysprite wrote:a talking sword would require a lot of scripting, dont think that will happen. Maybe if your sword has snoic damage you could call it s singing sword?
There actually is a singing sword. Elenya had it.
Elenya's Singing Sword - personalized description, +3 enhancement, 1d8 sonic damage, and Balagarn's Iron Horn spell thrown in for good measure. Only downside - continued use makes the wielder hard of hearing.
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PHOENIX — I'm told when you have one of these mini-strokes, your fingers might hit the wrong keys, so my meaning well in a column might come off as something else.
I can't explain the previous 39 years.
I should have known this trip to spring training was headed to the hospital.
They tell me the first clue should have been when I fell getting out of bed. Again and again. By the way, I do not recommend sitting on a toilet and falling off toward the tub.
Fortunately, my training as an athlete — having played as much golf as I have — saved me.
I'm told I should have dialed 911. That's funny. Marriott hotels do not have telephones between toilet and tub. And I'm a platinum member and usually get one of the better rooms.
By the way, I understand the true meaning of being a lifetime platinum member. It means there's a good chance you might die in a hotel room.


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Sunday was my birthday so we took the day off for an escapade in Portland.
Dim sum at Wong's King ~ Steam Milk Custard ... Yummy!!! Yummy!!!
A much needed walk after much eating
A much needed walk after much eating
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NEW YORK (AP) — ABC is planning a spinoff of its fairytale drama "Once Upon a Time" for next season and an action-adventure series based on the Marvel Comics universe called "S.H.I.E.L.D."
One of its new comedies is "Mixology," focusing on singles looking for love. Another is "Trophy Wife," starring Bradley Whitford and Marcia Gay Harden.
The network announced its programming plans on Friday. Those plans include saying farewell to cancelled series "Happy Endings," ''Body of Proof," ''Malibu Country" and "Red Widow."
ABC is bringing back 10 current series including "Once Upon a Time," ''Modern Family," ''Scandal," ''Grey's Anatomy," ''Castle" and "Nashville."
The official unveiling of ABC's fall schedule takes place on Tuesday.


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The kind of challenges that the food and agriculture sector is faced with increasingly asks for approaches that can engage effectively with related complexities. Much is invested in multi-stakeholder platforms as they hold a potential for playing an important role in doing so. However, there is a great need to assess their contribution to inclusive and sustainable development, and to assess what makes for effective platforms. More details
Transitions to Agroecological Food Systems
This project will examine potential pathways for transitioning to more sustainable food systems in order to contribute to improved ecological, economic, social and nutritional outcomes. More details
Policy Instruments and Public-Private Collaborations
The collaboration will assess policy approaches to economic inclusion of highly marginalised populations (displaced, indigenous, Afro-Colombian, extremely poor) in agricultural value chains in Colombia. It will focus on a key policy instrument – public-private partnerships – and on approaches that support stabilisation in post-conflict regions. More details
BEAM Exchange Program
The BEAM Exchange is a global knowledge exchange facility for market systems practitioners. It supports development programmes and private sector initiatives that fight poverty by working with businesses, governments and others to transform markets so they work better for poor people. More details
Strengthening Agri-food Value Chains for Nutrition
The project aims to help reduce undernutrition by informing policy and providing tools to make food and agricultural systems more 'nutrition-sensitive'. More details
Pathways to Inclusive Development through Innovation, Technology and Change
Pathways to Inclusive Development through Innovation, Technology and Change is developing a framework to analyse alternative pathways that link different forms of technological innovation, and evaluate resulting structural change and inclusion outcomes in low-income countries. More details
Market Based Solutions for the Extreme Poor
Studies have shown that it is often wealthier people in a community who benefit from market approaches to combatting poverty – men more than women, non-disabled more than disabled. So how and to what extent can market-based solutions improve the lives of extremely poor people? More details
Changing Business-State Relations in Development
There is much we still need to learn about the structure and process of business and the state interactions with regards to specific and general development issues. This project therefore aims to assess the state of play in research on state-business relations in developing countries, and outline a research agenda which builds on this foundation towards better understanding of the role of state-business relations in shaping development outcomes, including but also beyond economic growth. More details
BRICS Economic Engagement Footprint Study
This project investigated the nature of economic relations between the BRICS and Africa, in order to quantify the development footprint, focusing on various elements such as trade, investment. finance, ODA and migration. The current phase aims to look at development finance and the role of BRICS development banks. More details
Market Systems Approaches to Enabling Women's Economic Empowerment through Addressing Unpaid Carework
Market systems programmes are increasingly recognising the important role that women play in market activity and including women's economic empowerment and gender equality objectives. However, unpaid care work is a significant and regularly overlooked factor which affects women's economic, political and social activities. More details
China-UK Cooperation on African Trade and Investment for Poverty Reduction
This IDS led project aims to evaluate changing trade and investment relations between China, and also the UK, with Kenya and South Africa and the consequences of these changes. More details
Business Innovation Facility
The Business Innovation Facility (BIF) aims to catalyse market systems change in order to benefit poor producers, consumers and employees More details
Sustainable Services at Scale (Triple-S) Initiative
The Triple-S Initiative aims to catalyse systemic change in rural water policies and practices, to move from an infrastructure-based approach towards service delivery approaches. IDS is providing ongoing external learning and methodology support to the initiative. More details
Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) in Agriculture: Enabling Factors and Impact on the Rural Poor
This research will identify the key factors driving the effectivness of public-private partnerships (PPPs) at bringing sustained increases in income for smallholder farmers at scale and delivering positive development outcomes across rural communities. More details
Assessing the Impacts of Enhancing Access to Nutritious Foods
The objective of the research is to develop capacity and an analytical approach for the analysis of value chains-based initiatives aimed at enhancing access and consumption of nutritious foods by the poor and to use this learning to develop research proposals on leveraging value chains for nutrition. More details
Research on the Poverty Impact of Market and Enabling Business Environment Programmes in Kenya
To what extent does private sector development work in Kenya contribute to a reduction in poverty and inequality? This review aims to assess the evidence base for DFID Kenya's Wealth Creation Pillar programming. More details
Inclusive business in practice
Inclusive business has been recognised as an opportunity to deliver development impacts through innovative approaches to business. IDS has been working on case studies of what this actually means in practice with the Business Innovation Facility (BIF). More details
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When carriers release new devices, often times they always try to sneak their branding on somewhere and the BlackBerry Z10 is no different. While Rogers actually isn't sporting any carrier branding on their Z10, Verizon went the complete opposite route and is throwing their branding not only on the front of the device but on the back as well. It's not the prettiest way to do things, but there will be no mistaking a Verizon device that's for sure.The option is always there to change out the battery door at least if you're not a fan of the design.
AT&T looks to be taking a simple approach to branding for the Z10 this time around. As seen in their upcoming devices, there is no carrier stamp on the front of the device, rather just a simple AT&T globe logo on the bottom of the battery door - which again can easily be swapped out should you choose to do so. I actually don't mind this branding so much - it's very subtle and not at all obnoxious, so most users shouldn't have an issue with it. If you're going to use a case on your device then it doesn't matter so much in the end regardless.
What are your thoughts on the AT&T Z10 branding - love it? Hate it? Don't care? Let us know in the comments!
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Taqman probe not easily synthesized
Posted 12 May 2010 - 02:50 PM
that is 38% GC, and has one possible self - complementary stretch (CAAC ---- GTTG) .....
- The probe vendor says that the synthesis has been difficult and if I could figure something out about the sequence I might be able to modify it so that we can make the probe. Any help here?
Posted 12 May 2010 - 03:02 PM
6. Runs and repeats: The probes should not have runs of identical nucleotides (especially four or more consecutive Gs), G+C content should be 30-80%, there should be more Cs than Gs, and not a G at the 5' end.
I see that my probe has more Gs than Cs. I chose this particular probe because Primer Express recommended it. Any reason I should not try to synthesize the reverse complement? Also, if I go shorter, (trim 2 nucleotides with a resulting drop in Tm) then maybe they can sythesize the thing as a full length probe. But, the Tm would be lower.
As things stand, the probe is difficult to synthesize and the background fluorescence is crazy high. I can still see my amplification curves, but just barely and the Ct's are not reproducible one run to the next.
Edited by patty4150, 12 May 2010 - 03:02 PM.
Posted 13 May 2010 - 12:37 AM
Anyway, I think that good manufacturer should synthetize your original probe without discussion - try Sigma-Aldrich for example.
Posted 13 May 2010 - 02:31 PM
Well, they did synthesize it without discussion (on the third try), I went back about a month after receiving a mediocre synthesis to ask them why it was not as high quality as the other probes they produced for us and they said it was difficult to synthesize. So I came here to see if there was something I could do to improve it.
Your probe is too long (32bp). I understand you want Tm 70°C and you have it so long because it is AT-rich. Solution to this is to choose the shorter probe in another region or if you cannot move to another region then order shorter variant of this probe but with LNA - locked nucleid acids or MGB which will incerase probe Tm even if it is short.
Anyway, I think that good manufacturer should synthetize your original probe without discussion - try Sigma-Aldrich for example.
Interseting about the length, thanks, and the tips about working with a shorter probe. I will make a note.


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Are you wondering how to determine the return on your social media activities? If so, look no further.
In my prior Social Media Examiner article about Social Media return on investment (ROI), I discussed the financial definition of social media ROI.
This article goes a step deeper by working through a few examples of estimating the social media ROI.
Why Estimate a Return?
Before we go any further, let's review why we need the social media return and ROI again.
You use the return and the ROI to compare the efficiency of marketing campaigns; for an in-house team, you can use these numbers to negotiate budgets with your management; for agencies, you can use estimated numbers to land prospective clients and to retain current clients. The numbers are used in conjunction with social and web metrics to analyze and optimize current and future campaigns.


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Tricks of the Trade: Easy Way to Biscuit-join Edgebanding
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I edge-band plywood shelves with solid wood, attaching the edge-banding with #20 biscuits. It's no problem at all to hold the plywood shelf solidly while cutting the slot; that's what bench dogs and an end vise do so well. But the edgebanding itself can be a little squirmy, either bending or rotating when held between dogs or slipping if held by the ends in a vise.
I finally realized I could use the Veritas Wonder Pup (#05G10.03 at leevalley.com) to capture the edgebanding between the Wonder Pup and a dog while another dog kept the edgebanding from rotating. With the biscuit cutter registering off the benchtop, this setup is nice and secure.
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Instruments of American Excellence
The Bowling Green Daily News: Ordinary Items, Extraordinary Accomplishments
- Author: Chuck Mason, Bowling Green Daily News
- Author: Tuesday, September 18th, 2012
Elvis' Sun Records microphone, Tony Hawk's skateboard, Jack Nicklaus' golf club, Helen Keller's Braille Bible chapter of Genesis, Jimmy Carter's hammer and the underwater camera housing and instrumentation developed for the Titanic expedition – they are all here.
There's more. Dale Earnhardt's racing shoes, along with Liza's dancing shoes.
Western Kentucky University has put together everybody's attic and invites you to climb the stairs of the Kentucky Museum and take a look.
"Everyone will find an awesome thing in here," said Tim Mullin, director of the Kentucky Museum, about the new exhibit "Instruments of American Excellence," which opens Friday.
"The collection spotlights the ordinary means by which renowned Americans from all fields of study have achieved extraordinary things," said Bob Skipper, media relations director at WKU.
The collection of more than 140 items spans politics, entertainment, sports, science, education and many other walks of life.
The underwater camera for the Titanic expedition was developed by Robert Ballard, and the device helped connect the surface ship to the deep sea robots, also called remotely operated vehicles, according to information provided by WKU. Ballard discovered the Titanic wreck in 1985.
"This collection at WKU is history come alive," said David M. Kennedy, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and editor of the Oxford History of the United States series, in a release. "It is a record of ideas made real and dreams come true."
The size of the exhibits ranges from the 16-foot long, 1,000-pound former desk in the U.S. Senate that took 12 men to haul upstairs to lightweight ballet slippers belonging to Julie Kent and Sara Mearns.
A wood lathe from Louisville Slugger in Louisville, which has original parts dating back to before 1893, according to Mullin, only took five men to carry up the stairs.
The idea for the exhibit first originated in October 2010 with Dan Murph, who broached it with university President Gary Ransdell. As the items came in, Ransdell began storing them in a small closet in his office.
"At WKU, we are constantly looking for new ways to educate and inspire our students," Ransdell said in a news release. "We know this collection will motivate students and visitors to become the next generation of American titans in the arts, academia, sports, science, research and media fields."
Three of the items, the Helen Keller Bible chapter, the Sun Records microphone used by Sam Phillips to record Elvis and the Earnhardt shoes were recently kept in a vault deep within the rooms of the Kentucky Museum. Sandy Staebell, collections curator of the Kentucky Museum, let the Daily News have a peek inside the vault prior to the exhibit's opening.
The mic that Elvis and perhaps Jerry Lee Lewis used at Sun Records says RCA in a little red logo on the front of it.
The exhibit also includes a microphone used by Jay Leno on "The Tonight Show" that was used during interviews with then U.S. Sen. Barack Obama and U.S. Sen. John McCain. The Neumann microphone also broadcast conversations between Leno and many guests between 2004 and 2008, including comedian Robin Williams, Robert Downing Jr., Toby Keith and Rod Stewart.
Keller's Genesis chapter was made in Louisville by the American Printing House for the Blind, Staebell said.
Earnhardt's shoes, black and red with the Nike swoosh, have some wear on the bottom, showing that they were used, she said.
Liza Minnelli wore the jeweled, high-heeled sandals during her Tony-winning performances of "The Act," from 1977 to 1978. Martin Scorsese directed the performances.
One of the most recent acquisitions is the old copper bucket from Maker's Mark that was placed on a kitchen stove to make the first batch of the trademark Kentucky bourbon, Mullin said.
Carter's hammer, which he used during his Habitat for Humanity projects, has the name "Jimmy C." carved into the wood just below the metal part of the hammer. Hawk's skateboard has two stickers on its underside, one for "ShredorDie.com," and the other "Theeve Titanium Truck Co." The Birdhouse brand skateboard – a company Hawk began in the early 1990s – shows several ridges in the material, no doubt the times it slammed into the ramp as the pioneer of extreme sport modern vertical skateboarding performed his routines.
Stacey Biggs, chief marketing officer for WKU, said University President's Circle members and football season-ticket holders have been invited to Friday night's opening.
The Kentucky Museum event is prior to WKU Parent & Family Weekend on Saturday, which includes "Focus on WKU" at E.A. Diddle Arena and the President's Festival on the South Lawn, according to a release from the university.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The shift from Jennifer Damiano's last workplace to her new one is striking.
The old one was the biggest theater in Times Square, with 2,000 or so seats. The new one is downtown and has room for just 275. The old stage — the setting for the most expensive musical on Broadway — had pyrotechnics and aerial stunts. Her new stage has just a bare scaffolding and a chair.
"It's such a shift but I'm happy for that," Damiano said during a recent interview at The Public Theater. "It feels very different, very intimate, which is what I needed."
Damiano is following up her role as Mary Jane Watson in "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" with a darker, less cartoonish young woman in "Venice," a thrilling musical that debuts at the Public this month. It marks her return to the stage after taking time off after a five-year nonstop grind.
"This project just came up right at the perfect time. I had taken a little bit of time (off) and it just kind of happened," she said. "I honestly wasn't sure what the next thing would be at all, even if it would be theater. But I can't stay away from the new musicals."
"Venice," which has been incubating for five years, is a collaboration between Eric Rosen and Matt Sax and can best be described as an "Othello"-inspired futuristic hip-hop musical. The story centers on an attempt by a dynamic new leader to reunite his war-fractured city of Venice, still reeling from a terrorist attack.
Damiano, who grew up in Westchester County, N.Y., plays the leader's bride-to-be, Willow, who may or may not be lying about whom she really loves. The body count mounts as jealousy and ambition run rampant.
"It's so new and so its own thing," says Damiano, who celebrated her 22nd birthday last month during rehearsals. "It just felt like the perfect role for me at this age and this moment in my life."
Rosen wrote the book, Sax composed the songs and stars as the rapping narrator, and the two combined forces on the lyrics. They pursued Damiano and got her to say yes on the third attempt.
"We knew the purity of her voice, and the simplicity of her acting style was such a huge dream for us," said Rosen, who also directs. "It's a totally different vibe for her and I think she's really thriving in it. She grows more and more every day."
Sax said two songs in the show have even been written with Damiano in mind and with her input. "She has such a soulful spirit when she sings. I think we're really lucky that she's part of the team and also lucky that she's invested her heart in the show," he said.
Damiano may be young but she's a stage veteran. She made her Broadway debut as an understudy in 2006 in "Spring Awakening" at 15 — so young that she almost got into legal trouble.
She had been rehearsing for parts that included simulating onstage sex but the creative team found out that New York City law prohibits actors under 17 from such acts. So she took over another part. "Thank God they didn't know this when they cast me," she said.
Damiano's next job was as an overachieving daughter in "Next to Normal," for which she earned a Tony Award nomination. She went from that to Spider-Man's love interest, riding that roller coaster until late 2011.
Despite all the bad press, the accidents and the internal fights, Damiano doesn't regret being part of the show. She was never herself injured, and she made lifelong friends.
"There was a big, big heart in the building. There was a lot of love and cast camaraderie. It was always a challenge — the way every kind of new work is," she said.
"When you're 19 or 20 and going through general growing pains of your own, that on top of that is overwhelming, but I wouldn't take it back for the world."
In total, she had just done five years of solid work for a young woman who had left high school after just one year and missed her prom. She finished her high school course work with a tutor in Washington, D.C., where "Next to Normal" was being worked on before it landed on Broadway.
That summer, her mother insisted she skip the musical on graduation day and walk with her class. "I didn't want to go and my mom made me call out of a show," she said. "My life is just different. It's some other beast."
After "Spider-Man," Damiano did some TV pilots and dabbled in film. She currently stars in the indie movie "B-Side" as a pop star who falls for a DJ played by Ryan Eggold. Damiano also took time to reconnect with her family and focus on her personal life after years of eight-show weeks.
She turned 22 on May 12 but made no fuss. "Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah. I didn't do much. It was so low-key. I even told my family, 'Don't get me anything, it's fine,'" she said with a laugh. "I'm old now."
These days, she is energized by working with young people on a musical she feels her generation will connect with. Plus, she gets to do it at the Public: "I get a summer camp kind of theater vibe," she said with a laugh.
Rosen said that while Damiano can light up a room with her smile, she also radiates depth. "She brings a kind of darkness that I really wanted for Willow — not just ingenue, not just pretty-girl-saves-the-day but someone with a lot of gravitas."
There's another benefit of starring downtown in a cool new show: her friends can see her. That wasn't an option when she was on Broadway and tickets were more than $150.
Now to see her it only costs $15.
"Fifteen bucks!" she said. "My friends say, 'What? I'll be there every day.'"
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Los Angeles Times blogs editor Tony Pierce sat down with Bruce Willis last week at the Roosevelt Hotel to discuss "The Expendables," the 10th anniversary of "Unbreakable" and the actor's new vodka brand. Willis also compared the thrill of having a star on Hollywood Boulevard to being a lyric in a Beastie Boys song.
"Pulp Fiction." "The Sixth Sense." "Die Hard." "Twelve Monkeys." "Sin City." Bruce Willis has put together a fascinating and unpredictable film career since he caught America's eye on the 1980s television hit "Moonlighting." The latest chapter: "The Expendables," which reunites him with old Planet Hollywood pals Sly Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Willis says he appeared in "Expendables" for free but that's not the case when it comes to the booze venture. The interview above was set up by the team promoting that new vodka, Sobieski, named for the 17th century Polish king Jan Sobieski III, whose military prowess fended off the Turks. Belvedere, the parent company of Sobieski, gave Willis a 3.3% share of the company to secure him as a spokesman.
While Willis is no expert in making spirits but in the Sobieski commercial titled "Bruce Has Ideas" he argues that you should buy a bottle anyway: "What do I know about saving the world from impending doom? Even less. You see, I'm an actor."
— Tony Pierce
Stallone: Velcro muscles made old-school stars expendable
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Hello, Im a long time listener, and first time caller. My first post.
Ill first say, Ive been browsing this site for several months now, and have learned many excellent tips. Most importantly Ive learned how to spell HVAC. Many thanks to the people who run it.
My Question: Im a new homeowner with a Carrier Infinity 58MVP80-14 / 38TDB36. Ive just noticed something strange with my furnace blower. After the unit is finished with its low heating cycle the fan will run for about 3 minutes like expected, but when it shuts off it immediately comes back on low for a few seconds. There are no errors on the display, and there is nothing in the system log (other than faults the day it was installed).
Im not sure how long this has been going on, because I normally leave the blower run on low all the time. Is this something I should be concerned about at this time? Any ideas? TIA
BTW: I love the system. No other problems. My 2600Sq/ft home is always comfortable, and my Gas bill is running half of my old 1600Sq/ft house.
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Heating airflow set to Efficiency.
It runs at about 720CFM on low
Im running one of those MERV 12 1 filters.
High Stage - Static @1400CFM = .57 to .69 (.69 after 1 month use)
Filter Setting = EAC (I only have 1 media filter) I did this because after 2-3 weeks I keep getting the change filter notice) I change filter once a month.