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2013 Spring Undergraduate Commencement Address
President Jack Thomas - May 11, 2013 - Macomb, Illinois
Western Love, Western Loyalty, and Western Legacy
This is one of the most exciting times on a University campus when students graduate and cross the stage to receive their degrees. John Dunning once said, "No man or [woman] is an island" and you did not make it to this moment on your own. So give your supporters a round of applause. As the 11th president of this great university, I want to welcome you to one of the greatest institutions of higher learning in the world.
The title of our university's alma mater is Western Loyalty. Walter P. Morgan, the third and longest serving president (1912 until 1943), wrote the words for the school song in 1930, and the words were set to music by Harold F. Schory. In 1994, Kathy Cavins, a University administrator, and Tim Krug, a music graduate student, added a verse to the song to make it more contemporary. The music was edited by James Caldwell, a current member of the music faculty. I penned this commencement address with the words of our alma mater in the forefront of my consciousness with this thought guiding this address entitled, Western Love, Western Loyalty, and Western Legacy. I want to expound on your love for Western, your loyalty to Western, and your legacy at Western and the challenges that are before you once commencement exercises are completed.
Western Love
The words of the alma mater should conjure up deep sentimental feelings. This commencement is just one moment in time, but I am certain that there are so many memories that bring smiles to your faces as you reflect on your time at this fine university. Whether it is memories of the late night study sessions and then acing that examination, attending fraternity and sorority formals, sitting in the student union or residence hall conversing with your friends, going to one of our great athletic events, participating in community service – like our big pink volleyball event (for which I am still in physical therapy for my knee), listening to one of our outstanding band or choral performances, your hearts should swell with purple pride as you think about your experiences here at Western. Oscar Wilde once said, "Never love anyone that treats you like you are ordinary." Graduates, you are not ordinary, you are extraordinary. If you are taking part in this ceremony and you are leaving these purple and gold grounds as a graduate, you should love Western. During your academic career at Western, professors have prepared you with conceptual and content knowledge and with a great deal of love. This love may have taken the form of discipline for being late to a class or missing an assignment, but it was out of love. It is out of their love for their respective disciplines, their love for the profession, their love for the learning process, and their love for seeing students succeed that they have labored in love to ensure that you will be able to compete with other individuals in the world. I have a special love for this class, and this is a memorable moment for me. I am not only president of this university, but I am also a proud parent as my eldest son Patrick is a member of this graduating class. So, I understand the jubilation and joy of parents of today's graduates. Now, maybe we (as parents) can have a little extra income in our households now that our children are graduating.
Western Illinois University Psychology Professor Eugene Mathes studies relationships. Dr. Mathes states, "A little jealousy is good for relationships." His research shows that a little jealousy (I said a little jealousy) is okay because it allows people to adjust their behaviors to maintain relationships that are important to them. We want you to love Western Illinois University wholeheartedly. We want you to wear Western's apparel instead of wearing apparel from other institutions in which you have no affiliation. Why wear orange and blue or red and white, when our school colors are purple and gold? Love is also about change. So, when your six pack abs turn into a keg and you can no longer fit into your old tattered WIU shirt, please come back and purchase more apparel from our university bookstore. Keep your Western gear up to date.
As musical artist Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, better known as Sting sang in his 1985 hit, "If you Love Somebody, Set Them Free." Sting says in his song,
If you need somebody, call my name
If you want someone, you can do the same
If you want to keep something precious
You got to lock it up and throw away the key
Free, Free, Set them Free
The principles of the saying and Sting's song rings clear. We want you to keep Western's name near and dear to your hearts. We want Western's name to remain precious to you, as Sting says, lock Western in your heart and throw away the key. Western Illinois University is about to set you free, and if you love your university, you will keep abreast of what is happening at your alma mater, and you will visit often. Please know that we want you to come back and visit the majestic beauty of the campus. Your love for your university should undergird your loyalty to your university. Western Love, Western Loyalty, and Western Legacy.
Western Loyalty
Loyalty is standing by what you believe in, even when someone else may not agree with you. Loyalty keeps you faithful and true to your friends, family and your alma mater. As you move to the next chapter of your life, we want you to be loyal to Western Illinois University. As a graduate, you are now entitled to all of the rights and responsibilities that are associated with being a graduate of this fine institution. However, in the next few weeks, many of you will be inundated with additional responsibility. For some of you, your new responsibility will come in the form of honoring your military commitment. For some of you, your new responsibility will come with graduate and professional school, a new career, and many others. With all of these new responsibilities, I know that it may be difficult to keep your alma mater in the forefront of your minds when you leave Macomb, but I want to urge you as graduates to remember this place, this wonderful place, an intellectual, epic center of ideas with fondness in your hearts and minds. While you may be embarking on new endeavors and matriculating to a new stage in your life, be loyal to Western Illinois University. Loyalty is more precious than silver and gold. Chinese philosopher, Confucius stated, "The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith." When others brag about their university, you tell them about your university. You tell them about Western Illinois University and that this university is still ascending to great heights and our standards remain high. You tell them that we are still educating intelligent, industrious, and innovative young men and women. You tell them that Western Illinois University has had another record-breaking fundraising year and to date, has raised nearly $56 million of our $60 million comprehensive campaign goal. You tell them that U.S. News and World Report and the Princeton Review continue to rank Western as a top tier Best Midwestern University. You tell them that G.I. Jobs magazine continues to rank Western as a military friendly institution. You tell them that the Pell Foundation and the Southern Regional Education Board recognized Western as an institution that graduates more students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds than many of our peer institutions. You tell them that Western now has more high achieving students than it has ever had in its history. We want you to be proud and loyal to this great institution.
Now that you are about to become an alum of this great university, I ask that you become active with the Alumni Association and give back financially to your alma mater. Your donations (that is with an s) assist this institution in providing meaningful experiences to students. I am reminded of the words, "To whom much is given much is expected." We are expecting you to make monetary contributions to your alma mater and to the alumni association. Your loyalty will compel you to give back. Western Love, Western Loyalty, and Western Legacy.
Western Legacy
Most people wait until the end of their lives to think about their legacy. I believe that this is not the most opportune time to think about our legacy. The time to think about our legacies is now. How do you want to be remembered? Graduates, you must define your legacy. Legacy thinking is grounded in self-awareness, hopes, and intentions. There are various kinds of legacies. Some graduates choose to leave a financial legacy. Some graduates choose to leave a legacy of supporting causes such as aiding in the fight against breast cancer and prostate cancer or child abuse. Some graduates choose to leave a legacy by building a new building or buildings at one's alma mater. (We would love to have a new building.) Leaving a legacy is about an innovative way of thinking, unselfish thinking and providing a helping hand. Think of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Civil Rights Movement. Think of Theodore Roosevelt and the legacy of the national parks. Think of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Women's Suffrage Movement. Think of Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. Think of Steve Jobs and Apple Computers. Think of Bill Gates and Microsoft and Melinda Gates's work with the Gates Foundation. All of these individuals will be forever revered and remembered for their efforts and their legacies. What will your legacy be?
In speaking of leaving a legacy, recently, I read a story about a medical doctor in Rushville, Illinois a city of 3,200 people and about 28 miles south of Macomb. Dr. Russell Dohner (pronounced donor), who was a member of the first pre-med group at Western after World War II, operates a one-man practice in Rushville. Dr. Dohner is an 87-year-old family physician who still practices medicine, something he has done since 1955. He is a small frame gentleman with large glasses who is a throwback to a gentler era. The phones are rotary, the records are handwritten, and the charge since the 1970s has been just five dollars. Dr. Dohner refuses to charge any more than five dollars because he believes that the cost should be affordable for all people. If people do not have the money, he sees them anyway. Dohner is a beloved figure in Rushville, but it is not just the small amount of Dr. Dohner's fee that keeps patients coming back. It is the kindness he has shown and the impact of his care. It is, in short, Dr. Dohner, a calm and gentle presence who has held the hand of the dying, tended to the sick and injured, and helped everyone else get on with the business of living. He loves people, and he loves his community. When they asked him about retiring, his gentle reply was "What if someone needs me? I never went into medicine to make money. I wanted to be a doctor, taking care of people." Dr. Dohner works seven days a week, opening his office for an hour before church on Sundays. He has never taken a vacation and rarely leaves Schulyer County, with the exception of attending an occasional medical conference. Dr. Dohner is leaving an indelible legacy for the entire world to take notice.
Graduates, may your love, may your loyalty, and may your legacy live long for Western Illinois University. Let your love for Western shine that others may see your good works. May your loyalty and commitment to this university be evident in your service to all humanity. May your legacy be one that represents this university extremely well. I congratulate you, and wish you well in your future endeavors.


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Monday, October 18, 2010
Don't Forget - Boston Marathon Registration Opens Today
Here are the qualifying times:
Age Group Men Women
18-34 3hrs 10min 3hrs 40min
35-39 3hrs 15min 3hrs 45min
40-44 3hrs 20min 3hrs 50min
45-49 3hrs 30min 4hrs 00min
50-54 3hrs 35min 4hrs 05min
55-59 3hrs 45min 4hrs 15min
60-64 4hrs 00min 4hrs 30min
65-69 4hrs 15min 4hrs 45min
70-74 4hrs 30min 5hrs 00min
75-79 4hrs 45min 5hrs 15min
80 and older 5hrs 00min 5hrs 30min
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Boston Athletic Association, said that online registration for the race April 18, 2011, began at 9 am Monday.
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As far as I could see, Black was absolute junk, and Blue didn't fare a whole lot better in general. I was sold on White and Red as soon as I saw Angelic Skirmisher, Wojek Halbediers and Spark Trooper all in there, not to mention all the other Battalion guys and generally good cards.
I'm a bit disappointed in the lack of one-drops, but then there wasn't really any in the entire pool except Experiment One and Spire Tracer (and Foundry Street Denizen, both of which are decent enough (in fact, I run Experiment One as a 4-of in my Constructed deck...), but not worth messing around with the mana base for, especially with only one dual land available in the right colours (and one that enters tapped at that). Besides, it's 2 cards and if I don't get them first turn, along with a Forest, they're a complete waste, and that also shuts down any chances of a turn 2 Wojek Halberdiers, so I decided splashing for green just wasn't worth it, not even for the other RG cards available. Not when there were so many good cards in just White and Red, anyway.
So I'm interested in hearing your thoughts. I'm pretty new to building Sealed decks honestly. The last time (and first) I did it was at the Gatecrash Pre-release, but I'm getting there. Feel free to post up your results in the comments as well!


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Tapping the Scales of Justice - A Dose of Connecticut Legal History
In the 1963 case of Gideon v. Wainwright, the United States Supreme Court
held that an indigent defendant in a state felony trial has a constitutional
right to state-appointed counsel. In reaching this decision, the Gideon
Court wrote:
The right of one charged with crime to counsel may not be deemed fundamental and essential to fair trials in some countries, but it is in ours. From the very beginning, our state and national constitutions and laws have laid great emphasis on procedural and substantive safeguards designed to assure fair trials before impartial tribunals in which every defendant stands equal before the law. This noble ideal cannot be realized if the poor man charged with crime has to face his accusers without a lawyer to assist him.
Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, 344 (1963)
Many years earlier, Connecticut had recognized the critical role of counsel in a fair trial. In 1917, Connecticut became the first state in the Union to adopt the public defender system on a statewide basis.
See Chapter 225 of the 1917 Connecticut Public Acts.
Some interesting discussions of Connecticut's public defender system and its history can be found in the Connecticut Bar Journal.
See 1 Conn. B. J. 330 (1927); 9 Conn. B. J. 307 (1935); 33 Conn. B. J. 297 (1959); 39 Conn. B. J. 221 (1965).
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Find your space. Whether you are coloring for relaxation, to de-stress or simply for fun, you need a place where you are comfortable coloring. It doesn't have to be somewhere quiet (although that can certainly help if you want to get lost in your coloring page), there are plenty of coloring groups and meetups where adults who enjoy coloring can go to chatter and color at the same time, the important thing is find your own space, reserve some time, get a comfy seat and give yourself every opportunity to color in comfort.
Make sure you warm your hands and wrists up before coloring by doing some simple exercises. Rotate your wrist ten times clockwise, then repeat anti-clockwise. Clench and stretch your fingers as you unclench your fist – do this ten times to get the blood flowing to your hands and finger-tips. This will help avoid your hand cramping as you color. Take regular breaks and repeat this exercise, I try not to color for more than 20 minutes without shaking the stiffness out of my hands!
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Is the Internet, despite the rumors, actually getting more open?
There was lots of ink and talk Thursday about Google and Verizon linking up to set "net neutrality" aside and make sure Google got preferential treatment. Not so, say the CEOs of both companies.
Google and Verizon just wrapped up a joint news conference and came forward with an idea they say will actually make the Internet at least as neutral as before.
Google CEO Eric Schmidt, after taking a shot at the New York Times (no, he says, the rumors you reported on were false), says the two companies have been talking about new transparent, enforceable guidelines to make the internet more open than it has been in the past. Then, Verizon's Ivan Seidenberg says, yes, we also want equality and openness, without too many rules.
The upshot? This blog post from Google.
What does all this mean? Verizon seems to be saying that at some point, some 'net-related services could be paid for. Google seems to be backing away from that and says its offerings, including YouTube, will always be free.
So what changes? For now, it seems like not much. In the future, carriers like Verizon may offer premium-type services. Nothing yet, at least pending FCC approval. For Google's part, it seems to be important for the company to point out that last week's rumors were wrong.
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Tombstone Tuesday – Julian Jones – Barren County, Kentucky
by Sherry Stocking Kline
13 April 2010
I snapped this Tombstone for a couple of reasons. One, I hoped he was family, and Two, it just caught my eye. It stood there, and though it said "Gone, but not forgotten," it seemed, well, lonely.
And like some tombstones that you see, it just made me wonder, who was he? Why is he buried there all by himself? What did he do for a living? What did he die of?
All those questions ran through my mind, but I guess first and foremost, was the question, is he part of my family?
On the Stone:
Julian Jones
1863 – 1932
Gone But Not Forgotten
Today I don't have those answers, and even though he is buried near my Smith family stones, I don't have the answer to the "is he family" question.
But it's a puzzle that I plan to solve!
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Mixing Medications Safe?
My son age 6 who has a history of sever asthma is currently taking albutrol solution(nebulizer) flovent as a preventive prednislone steriod for the presisit wheezing amoxicillion antibiotic for strep throat and atuss dm for presist cough. Is it safe for him to mix this many medications and is each medicine treating each syptom?
Your sonâs medications are doing the following:Flovent is a controller asthma medicine. The purpose is to prevent asthma symptoms from starting; if working, flares should be less frequent and milder. (Flovent should be taken every day, even after he recovers.)Albuterol treats asthma symptoms that are currently happening. The purpose is to relieve the spasm of airway muscles.
Prednisolone treats asthma symptoms that are currently happening and not responding to just albuterol. Prednisolone also relieves airway swelling and mucus production.Amoxicillin is an antibiotic that treats the strep infection. (The infection may have triggered the asthma) All of these medications are safe to give at the same time.The Atuss DM is a form of cough syrup. It wonât hurt but also often doesnât help much. If you are concerned about the number of medications he is taking, it would be OK to stop this one. If his cough isnât going away with the other medications, he should have a recheck by his doctor.
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A few days before Thanksgiving, we add the Butterball hotline number to our speed dial. We�ve never used it, but knowing that someone is on call to help with whatever turkey crisis we�re in is a comfort. We feel the same way about the Pork Board website (www.porkbeinspired.com). Although we�ve never run into trouble with pork chops or tenderloins and learned years ago that one of the best ways to fix pork is to braise it with apple cider and fresh vegetables, it always helps to have an expert standing by.
As it turns out, the questions the Pork Board gets asked most often are about food safety and overcooking. Most people know to wash their hands before cooking and not use the same plate for uncooked and cooked meat, but in a sign of the times when everyone is a frugal cook, people ask if it�s safe to cook pork that�s been sitting on the counter overnight. Absolutely not! About overcooking, the board recommends taking pork off the heat or out of the oven when its temperature is 145F.
Finally, for help choosing pork, we spoke to Dr. David Meisinger , a meat science expert at Iowa State University. Look for reddish-pink, he said, as it has the best flavor and is the juiciest. �The other white meat,� it turns out, refers to pork after it�s cooked.
1 Tbs. vegetable oil
1 (2-pound) boneless pork loin
2 medium onions, vertically sliced (about 2� cups )
4 medium carrots, cut diagonally into �-inch slices (about 1� cups)
2 celery stalks with leaves, sliced
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 tsp. dried rubbed sage
1 tsp. dried thyme
1 tsp. coarse salt
� tsp. freshly ground black pepper
1 cup apple cider
Heat oil over medium-high heat in a Dutch oven. Add pork and cook until well-browned on both sides. Remove to a plate. Add onions, carrots and celery to pan; cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally, until onions are tender, about 10 minutes. Stir in garlic, sage, thyme, salt and pepper.
Return pork and any juices to Dutch oven and pour cider over top. Cover and simmer, basting occasionally, until temperature on meat thermometer inserted in middle reaches 145F, about 1� hours. Remove roast from pan and let rest 10 minutes. Slice pork and serve with vegetables and pan sauce.
Serves 6.
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Have you got an interview for an exciting job or a research post? If the only preparation you're planning is a trip to the hairdressers and five minutes shining your shoes, then think again.
You'd be amazed by how many interviewers complain that job applicants know next to nothing about the company they're coming to work for, or have not taken their interview for a research position seriously enough. Nowadays with the wonders of the World Wide Web, there's simply no excuse for failing to do a bit of basic background research on a prospective employer.
Your first port of call should be the organisation's website. Have a good look through. While the site itself should give you a good idea of who they are and what they do, you'll need to go deeper than that. Company websites will provide you with information on their products and services, annual review and latest developments. Equally, research institutions will provide you with background information about their research areas, collaboration, funding and details of the academics and their specialism. Usually, all the above information will be downloadable from the website, but if not, phone and ask them to send you this information.
If you really want to stand out, do similar web-research on their key competitors – again, look at how they're performing financially, and note any key product differences. It takes a bit of work, but that's the kind of information that will really give you the edge at interview.
Next, review the press. Have a look at the websites of newspapers with good business coverage, such as the Financial Times or the Daily Telegraph. Obviously, if the company has made record profits recently or been involved in a major scandal, you'll want to know about it. Equally, keep up-to-date with your field of interest by reading the relevant journals and articles. You don't want to be left in the dark about high-brow research especially if it's been done by your interviewer.
Finally, use your contacts. Do you know anyone personally who happens to work for that company, or in that field? It needn't be your closest friend – it could be a friend of the family or someone you used to work with. Phone them up or email them, explaining that you have an interview and ask them (discreetly) if they have any advice.
If there's any major nugget of information you fail to find out during your researches, keep it in reserve as a question to ask at the end of the interview.
Once you have researched the company it is time to think about the types of questions that you may be presented with at the interview.
Below are a few that may crop up, whether you are being interview for a graduate job or lab technician post.
To get a better idea of how you should structure your answers, download a copy of the physicists' guide to interviews. (Member sign in required). To request a hard copy or large print version of this booklet, email firstname.lastname@example.com.
Also, Rob Yeng's, book Answering Tough Interview Questions for Dummies includes over 200 interview questions and is written for all job seekers from those new to the job market through to the very experienced individuals.
Questions that you may be asked during an interview
- Why do you want this job/research post?
- What can you contribute to this position?
- Where do you see yourself in five years' time?
- What relevant experience do you have?
- What do you consider to be your greatest achievement to date?
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European Commission - Press release
Education report warns of growing teacher shortages
Brussels, 10 February 2012 – Several Member States, including Germany, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Austria and Belgium, may face serious teacher shortages in the future, according to a new report published by the European Commission. The report, entitled 'Key Data on Education in Europe 2012', was presented to EU Education Ministers at their meeting in Brussels this morning. It shows that the number of graduates specialising in education is falling at a time when many current teachers are approaching retirement age. But it also highlights encouraging signs: funding for education is stable in most Member States and it underlines that higher education remains the best insurance policy against unemployment, with graduates more likely to find a job faster than non-graduates.
"This report is an invaluable resource for policy-makers and provides important guidance for future decisions. The professional development of teachers is a key factor in ensuring high quality education for our students. That's why Erasmus for All [the Commission's proposed new programme for education, training and youth] aims to strengthen the professional development of teaching staff while at the same time modernising education systems," commented Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth.
The report finds that targeted training for teachers, such as mentoring, guidance for assessment and classroom observation, is now more widespread across Europe. However, these measures have not been sufficient to increase the attractiveness of teaching. The Commission wants to contribute to the attractiveness and quality of the profession by providing 1 million teachers with opportunities to gain teaching and training experience abroad as part of its proposed Erasmus for All programme.
The report finds that the share of the population with a tertiary qualification has risen and that graduates find jobs twice as quickly as people with lower qualifications (5 months compared to 9.8 months). This finding shows that the European Union's 2020 target for a 40% level of higher education attainment is supported by solid evidence; however it is also clear that graduates are increasingly over-qualified for their jobs and that some professions offer better employment perspectives than others; the choice of course is therefore increasingly important.
The 'Key Data on Education 2012' report was presented to EU Education Ministers alongside a joint Council-Commission report entitled 'Education and Training in a smart, sustainable and inclusive Europe' (see MEMO/12/76).
The report is produced jointly by the Eurydice network and Eurostat. It traces the main developments in European education systems over the past decade. combining statistical data with qualitative information to describe the organisation, management and functioning of 37 European education systems, from pre-primary to higher education. The data is collected through the national units of the Eurydice network, Eurostat, and the 2009 PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) international survey compiled by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The previous Key Data on Education report was published in 2009.
The publication covers priority areas for European cooperation in education and training and the broader European strategy for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth. The 95 indicators in the report cover areas such as demographic context, educational structures, participation, resources, teachers and management staff, educational processes and qualification levels and transition to employment.
The Eurydice network provides information on and analyses of European education systems and policies. It consists of 37 national units based in all 33 countries participating in the EU's Lifelong Learning programme (EU Member States, EFTA countries, Croatia and Turkey). It is co-ordinated and managed by the EU Education, Audiovisual and Culture Executive Agency in Brussels.
For more information:
Highlights of the report Key Data on Education in Europe 2012:
Video interview on Key Data on Education in Europe 2012 with Brian Holmes and Andrea Puhl from the Executive Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture
Follow Androulla Vassiliou onTwitter @VassiliouEU
Percentages of students aged 15 attending schools where teaching is affected by a lack of qualified teachers in the core subjects, 2009
Average length of transition from education to work by educational attainment level, 2009
Trends in the annual expenditure on public education institutions by pupil/student, in EUR (thousands), 2000 and 2008. The data shows constant prices adjusted for purchasing power.
Source: Eurostat, UOE and national accounts statistics.
Tertiary education graduates in employment by occupational category and sex, 2010
Source: Eurostat, Labour Force Survey
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It was August of 2006 and I had just moved the rest of my stuff into my new room in Sakac Hall. I was excited for this new journey I was about to embark on, but I was also scared to death. What if my roommate and I didn't get along? What if I failed all of my classes? What if I didn't make a single friend on campus and I was doomed to walk into the dining hall and eat all alone? These thoughts circle throughout every freshman's mind at least once before arriving at college. For most of us, it's our first time away from home and the thought of not having our parents, family, or friends nearby to turn to when we may need them can be terrifying. I always wished there was an office on campus that was designed to help first year students with their adjustment to college life, because when I was a freshman, we had to figure it out mostly on our own.


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Tim Tebow: A quick snap for the Epilepsy Foundation
If Tim Tebow responds as quickly on the field as he did for the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado, the Denver Broncos are going to be very happy with their rookie quarterback.
The 2007 Heisman Trophy winner, chosen by the Broncos in the first-round 2010 NFL draft, arrived in Denver last Thursday and on Friday he had autographed — and delivered — a football to be included in the auction that was part of La Dolce Vita, a May 1 gala that raised money for the Epilepsy Foundation of Colorado's Jason Fleishman Summer Camp.
The donation is the result of event chair Candy Palazzo's friendship with Kelly McCoy, whose husband, Mike, is the team's offensive coordinator. Candy and Kelly play tennis together and so Candy felt comfortable asking her friend if there was any chance of getting the much-talked-about player to make a donation to the benefit.
"Kelly said she'd be happy to find out — and within 24 hours of his arrival, I was picking up the autographed ball," a happy Palazzo told us as fans hovered over the bid sheet during the gala's social hour.
I'll have a complete report, including how much the ball went for, in my Inside Line column that will appear in Wednesday's Denver Post.
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If you like Chocolate and Lotus Biscoff Cookies, then you will love this recipe from the "Original Speculoos 50 Recipes " book by famous French Chef Philippe Conticini.
- Melt the butter and the chocolate in a double boiler.
- In a mixing bowl, whip the egg yolks.
- Pour the melted chocolate into the bowl, and mix quickly and thoroughly, so that the egg yolks don't cook from the heat of the melted chocolate.
- In another bowl, whisk the egg white and the brown sugar into a smooth and frothy meringue.
- Fold the meringue gently into the chocolate mixture in two batches.
- Pour 1/2 of the mousse into a serving bowl.
- Crumble 6 Biscoff Cookies and scatter on top of the mousse.
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bada wrote:E-Man wrote:TMC wrote:martin wrote:hm, ok, i will join this as well - do cheerleaders bang a lot basketball players from the team?
Yep. But nobody talks about it. It's the kind of secret everybody knows but ignores, just in case it happens to them.
And Capt ain't gonna make the team. She perfectly could, going by her looks, but I'm pretty sure you can't join any team's cheerleader squad when you have a restraining order.
im sure it happens often, but if anyone finds out, the cheerleader gets fired. happened to my friend last season after people found out she was having "lunch dates" with kobe.
Yes, it happens quite often. I know of at least 3 Warriors players (one ex player) in the last few season that are regularly banging some of the cheerleaders.
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October 16 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of George Marshall. In 2010 the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development will begin celebrations to mark its own 50th anniversary. These two events are related, because the OECD remains one of George Marshall's great legacies.
The forerunner of the OECD was the Organisation for European Economic Co-operation (OEEC), formed in 1947 to administer American and Canadian aid under the Marshall Plan for the reconstruction of Europe after World War II. Its headquarters were established in Paris, France, in 1949.
The OECD took over from the OEEC as a more global institution in 1961. Since then, the organisation's mission has been to help its member countries to achieve sustainable economic growth, employment and financial stability, to raise living standards, and to foster world development. Its member countries work together on a multilateral basis. Their goal is to help build a stronger, cleaner and fairer world economy.
The OECD is evolving fast in a rapidly-changing globalised economy. It is taking on new members, strengthening its relations with emerging economic powers, and deepening its work with developing countries. The organisation is becoming more effective at a time when international cooperation is again badly needed.
For OECD Secretary-General Angel Gurría, George Marshall's vision still inspires the organisation's work today: "The rebuilding of Europe was one of history's great successes, but many people in the world still live in poverty and we still face major global challenges on several fronts, such as the fallout from the economic crisis, as well as threats to our survival from the likes of climate change and water depletion. We know from half a century of experience that international economic cooperation and development are essential for surmounting the problems we face. Our determination to succeed in leading this effort is our tribute to one of the great visionaries of the 20th century. The OECD is proof in action that the spirit of George Marshall lives on."
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Recently I took Caleb on one of our long rambling walks to a small pond where he likes to splash around. When we reached the pond, Caleb trotted up to say hi to a woman who was sitting on her cooler next to the water with a spinning rod and a plastic container full of night crawlers. Immediately he was distracted by a little pile of fried pork rinds she had spilled on the ground next to the night crawlers, and delighted (he is a Southern Urban Forager, too), he helped himself.
In the middle of my apology for my dog's doggielike behavior, the fisherwoman interrupted me:
"Uh . . . I'm sorry?"
"Are those simmins?" She pointed to the plastic grocery sack I had in my hand, full of soft, bulging, oozing golden fruit.
"Oh! Yes, they are!" I replied, suddenly understanding that she meant my persimmons.
I offered her some and she reached into my sack and took a handful. I warned her to brush them off before eating them because I had picked them up off the ground underneath a tree that was dropping them like crazy, but she just gave each one a quick blow and popped them into her mouth, spitting the seeds onto the ground. She smiled at me. "We used to eat simmins when I was a little girl."
I used to eat persimmons when I was a little girl, too. There was a tree across the road from our house, right next to where the school bus let us off. Before walking home in the fall, I'd go over and give the tree a good shake, then gather up what fell and cram them into my mouth. You had to be careful, though. An unripe persimmon will turn your mouth wrongside out.
Eating a ripe one, though, is like eating the flesh of the autumn sun — dense and spicy-sweet, almost warm. The persimmons that grow wild around here are nothing like the Japanese ones you see at markets. They are soft and easily mooshed — too soft for commercial transport. But that's what makes them so delicious.
On this day I gathered up about a quart and a half from a tree we came across during our walk to the pond. I probably got as many stuck to my shoes as I got into my sack — the ground was layered with rotting ones, and my feet slid around as I gathered. It's a good year for persimmons. The old wisdom is that a persimmon isn't ripe until it has been frostbit. But that isn't true — we haven't had temperatures below 55 yet and I found plenty of ripe fruit.
I wished the fisherwoman good luck, and Caleb and I set out for home with our bounty. Then I made a run of persimmon-orange jam. I rinsed the earth off the fruit and ran it through a food mill. Even then, the milled flesh was the consistency of cake batter.
In a pot I combined it with sugar and orange juice and added a dash of nutmeg. I cooked the whole mess down until it was so sturdy it practically stood up in the pot. Then I filled five jars and processed them in a hot water bath for about 20 minutes.
Won't this be a delicious layer in some kind of tart?
**Important note if you try this yourself: Alone, persimmons are not acidic enough to prevent botulism. The orange juice should give the butter enough acidity to make it safe to can without refrigeration, but just to be extra-safe I decided to make this a "freezer jam," which means the sealed jars will stay in the freezer until opened, then they will live in the fridge until the stuff is gone — which probably won't take long!


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STUN (Session Traversal Utilities for NAT) is a standardized set of methods and a network protocol to allow an end host to discover its public IP address if it is located behind a NAT. It is used to permit NAT traversal for applications of real-time voice, video, messaging, and other interactive IP communications. It is documented in RFC 5389. The STUN URI scheme is documented in RFC 7064. STUN is intended to be a tool to be used by other protocols, such as ICE.
The STUN protocol allows applications operating behind a network address translator (NAT) to discover the presence of the network address translator and to obtain the mapped (public) IP address (NAT address) and port number that the NAT has allocated for the application's User Datagram Protocol (UDP) connections to remote hosts. The protocol requires assistance from a third-party network server (STUN server) located on the opposing (public) side of the NAT, usually the public Internet.
STUN is a lightweight client–server network protocol. Its purpose is to allow an application running on a host to determine whether or not it is located behind a network device that is performing address translation. The basic protocol operates essentially as follows: the client sends a message (known as a binding request) to a STUN server on the public Internet. The STUN server responds with a success response that contains in its payload the IP address and port of the client, as observed from the server's perspective. The result is obfuscated through XOR mapping to work around NATs that indiscriminately translate payload IP addresses present in STUN responses.
STUN messages are usually sent in User Datagram Protocol (UDP) packets. Since UDP does not provide reliable transport guarantees, reliability is achieved by application-controlled retransmissions of the STUN requests. STUN servers do not implement any reliability mechanism for their responses. When reliability is mandatory, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) may be used, but induces extra networking overhead. In security-sensitive applications, STUN may be transported and encrypted by Transport Layer Security (TLS).
An application may automatically determine a suitable STUN server for communications with a particular peer by querying the Domain Name System (DNS) for the stun (for UDP) or stuns (for TCP/TLS) server record (SRV) resource record, e.g., _stun._udp.example.com. The standard listening port number for a STUN server is 3478 for UDP and TCP, and 5349 for TLS. Alternatively, TLS may also be run on the TCP port if the server implementation can de-multiplex TLS and STUN packets. In case no STUN server is found using DNS lookups, the standard recommends that the destination domain name should be queried for address records (A or AAAA), which would be used with the default port numbers.
In addition to using protocol encryption via TLS, STUN also has built-in authentication and message-integrity mechanisms via specialized STUN packet types.
When a client has discovered its external address, it can use this as a candidate for communicating with peers by sharing the external NAT address rather than the private address (which is, by definition, not reachable from peers on the public network).
If both peers are located in different private networks behind a NAT, the peers must coordinate to determine the best communication path between them. Some NAT behavior may restrict peer connectivity even when the public binding is known. The Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) protocol provides a structured mechanism to determine the optimal communication path between two peers. Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) extensions are defined to enable the use of ICE when setting up a call between two hosts.
RFC 5389 obsoletes the previous specification, documented in RFC 3489 that specified an algorithm to allow endpoints to characterize NAT behavior, according to the address and port mapping behavior. The algorithm was dropped from RFC 5389, as it is not reliably successful and only applicable to a subset of deployed NAT devices.
Network address translation is implemented via a number of different address and port mapping schemes, none of which is standardized.
STUN is not a self-contained NAT traversal solution applicable in all NAT deployment scenarios and does not work correctly with all of them. It is a tool among other methods and it is a tool for other protocols in dealing with NAT traversal, most notably Traversal Using Relay NAT (TURN) and Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE).
STUN does work with three types of NAT: full cone NAT, restricted cone NAT, and port restricted cone NAT. In the cases of restricted cone or port restricted cone NATs, the client must send out a packet to the endpoint before the NAT will allow packets from the endpoint through to the client. STUN does not work with symmetric NAT (also known as bi-directional NAT) which is often found in the networks of large companies. Since the IP address of the STUN server is different from that of the endpoint, in the symmetric NAT case, the NAT mapping will be different for the STUN server than for an endpoint. TURN offers better results with symmetric NAT.
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The University of Colorado's Boulder campus was included today on a list released by the U.S. Department of Education of 55 colleges and universities with open sexual violence investigations.
The list, published by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights, names 55 higher education institutions under investigation for possible violations of federal law for their handling of sexual assault and harassment complaints.
CU's Denver campus also is on the list, as well as Regis University and the University of Denver.
The list comes days after the White House issued recommendations about how campuses can better address sexual violence.
The Boulder campus announced last summer that it was being investigated by the Office of Civil Rights, and at the same time launched an independent review of its compliance with Title IX, part of a 1972 federal law prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex at any educational institution receiving federal funding.
That external review found the Boulder campus to be in full compliance with the law.
The results of the federal investigation are still pending.
The federal investigation began after an undergraduate woman filed a complaint over CU's handling of her sexual assault last year. The woman spoke publicly about her assault, and has said that the perpetrator in her case was suspended from school for eight months, fined $75 and asked to write a paper reflecting on the incident.


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A grass roots relief effort organized by four area businessmen hit the road early in 2006 has one of the group's relief semis filled with much-needed supplies began its journey toward hurricane-ravaged Louisiana.
Five days after Jeremy Gold, Al Gold, Efren Fuentes and Jim Meurer began a drive to collect donations of food, medicine and other essentials, Cali-4's first 53-foot semi-truck trailer loaded with hurricane relief supplies pulled out of Davis bound for the Gulf Coast.
Seven more trucks packed with Cali-4 supplies were expected to leave Davis after the first shipment.
The shipment comes after a week of collecting water, icemakers, non-perishable food, personal necessities and medical supplies in Davis, Folsom and Sacramento. The first 180,000 pounds of donated items were packed on 150 pallets and began their 32-hour drive to Baptist missionaries in Baton Rouge
From there, the supplies were distributed to victims across Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi.
"It's a disaster and everybody needs to jump in and help," said Cali-4 volunteer Chris Snow. The Davis real estate agent was one of hundreds of volunteers who spent several days sorting, packing and loading the donated items an area made available by a sod farm in South Davis.
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Feminist scholar: Where's Mary breastfeeding Jesus?
'The lactating virgin was the primary symbol of God's love'
As Christmas draws closer, a new question has emerged this year connected to the early days of Jesus' life – the very early days.
Some are wondering why there is a lack of modern imagery showing baby Jesus breastfeeding with his mother Mary.
The Religion News Service has posted a report on the matter, titled "Christmas' missing icon: Mary breastfeeding Jesus."
In it, writer David Gibson notes, "all the familiar scenes associated with the holy family today – creches and church pageants, postage stamps and holiday cards – are also missing an obvious element of the mother-child connection that modern Christians are apparently happy to do without: a breast-feeding infant.
"Jesus certainly wasn't a bottle baby. So what happened to Mary's breasts? It's a centuries-old story, but one that has a relatively brief answer: namely, the rise of the printing press in 15th-century Europe."
He says the new technology led to a demystification of the human body, plus a new-found focus on the text of Scripture as opposed to the use of images.
Gibson quotes feminist scholar Margaret Miles, dean of Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley and author of "A Complex Delight: The Secularization of the Breast, 1350-1750," who suggests the printing press also shifted Christian artwork away from baby Jesus nursing to the adult Jesus being crucified.
Religion News Service quotes Miles:
"It was the takeover of the crucifixion as the major symbol of God's love for humanity" that supplanted the breast-feeding icon, she said. And that was a decisive shift from the earliest days of Christianity when "the virgin's nursing breast, the lactating virgin, was the primary symbol of God's love for humanity."
In fact, the oldest known image of the Virgin Mary is from a third-century fresco in a Roman catacomb that shows the infant Jesus suckling at her exposed breast.
From those early traces, the motif of "Maria Lactans," as it is called in Latin, became increasingly popular – and increasingly graphic – an illustration of what the Catholic writer Sandra Miesel called "the shocking fleshiness of our faith."
By the Middle Ages, the breast-feeding Mary was shown in every possible context, and "lactation miracles" and "milk shrines" proliferated across the Christian world. Mary was "the wet-nurse of salvation," as one phrase had it, offering holy succor to communities exposed to the vagaries of war and disease. Some images of St. Bernard of Clairvaux even show him kneeling in prayer before a statue of Mary, who is squirting breast milk onto his eager lips.
The report is now coming under fire from the likes of Ken Shepherd at Newsbusters, who called the story "utter nonsense," saying, "[M]odern Christians should not be characterized as "silly prudes just because no one imagines much less shops for a Nativity scene which depicts a bare-breasted Virgin Mary feeding the baby Jesus as the cattle, shepherds and magi look on."
Shepherd continued:
Obviously Marian art has been around since early in church history, but to argue that it was predominant, more so than the crucifixion, is absurd. To argue that the "primary symbol of God's love for humanity" was, from the days of the early church to the Reformation, "the virgin's nursing breast," is clearly contradicted by the biblical teaching that, "In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins." (1 John 4:10 ESV)
To Christians, Christmas is about Jesus taking on human flesh to redeem His people. The Nativity is the earthly beginning of a divine rescue mission that met its climax at the crucifixion, was vindicated by the resurrection, is ongoing through the ministry of the gospel in the church Christ commissioned, and will be completely realized at Christ's glorious return.
That's truly the greatest story ever told, but Miles seemed fixated on Mary's mammaries, and ultimately shifting the focusing away from the Christ child to Christ's mother.
Last year, when Berjuan Toys introduced a new doll called "The Breast Milk Baby," the company, in the face of some public criticism, actually invoked images of Mary in support of its product.
"Churches all over the world are filled with images of Mary nursing baby Jesus, and yet we can't imagine letting our daughters learn how important breastfeeding is for our society?" said Dennis Lewis, U.S. spokesperson for Berjuan Toys. "Americans have been duped into believing that breastfeeding is shameful."


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Scottish National Party
"C'Mon Alex, give me more policies, I want to imitate your bad ones and petulantly refute your good ones"
"Wash your hands after touching that raw chicken my dear, otherwise you might catch Salmondella"
"I bet Scotland can have a million fans before England"
The Scottish National
paintbrushers Party (SNP; Scottish Gaelic: Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba; Scots: Scotch Naitional Pairtie) is a group of brutal tyrants that currently shares rule with London over Scotland. They were founded in 1938, temporarily deposed in 1942, and reinstated in 1950. The current dominant male is Mel Gibson.
To the right is a picture of Nicola Sturgeon cooing as she realises that she has worn a completely inappropriate lego hair piece to a television interview. Silly sturgeon.
Current Status and History[edit]
Pàrtaidh Nàiseanta na h-Alba is a political party within Scotland. It promises to free the Scotland from the shackles binding it to the United Kingdom and allowing it to regain it's Independence by waving ta-ta to one foreign country and replacing it with another foreign country. It's sole aim is to replace Scotland's London rule to Scotland's Brussels rule. The country will still have the Queen as Head of State. pretend military bases where Scottish troops will be armed with plastic bows & arrows with suckers on the end, paper origami darts and a selection of brightly coloured water bomb balloons.
About the Party[edit]
The SNP controls 2.3 of the 7.5 seats within the Scottish Parliament in Holyrood, Edinburgh and was founded at the Battle of Bannockburn near Stirling in 1314 when a couple of guys at the back of the infantry had finished playing their game of cards and finally put the whisky decanter down. Their idea to set a political party and set rules & regulations and party political manifestos was based solely on incoherent drunken ramblings. (Nothing's changed I see!)
Nowadays, the party has grown into a crack political team consisting of Alex 'Fat Boab' Salmond, John 'Hen Broon' Swinney, Keith 'did ye ken I was a marine' Brown, Stewart 'Beaker' Stevenson, Nicola 'Jimmy Krankie' Sturgeon and Christina 'havnae a clue whit am dain' McKelvie who all like to piss and moan at anything Labour suggest or anyone in Scotland with any kind of brain or forward thinking recommends.
The SNP currently run Scotland using the following method of Government:
- 1) SNP make suggestion in Parliament.
- 2) Scottish Labour laugh at SNP and talk about how crap and stupid their idea is.
- 3) Other parties all laugh simultaneously at SNP and talk about how crap and stupid their idea is.
- 4) SNP go round Holyrood offices begging other political parties to help put their idea through.
- 5) Other parties laugh at the SNP saying they will run an Independent Scotland but can't get silly and stupid ideas through presently.
- 6) SNP give up crap and stupid idea and then blame Westminster.
- 7) In more recent times, it is more important to promise indepedndance from these paternalists in London. It is still immoral to tell Salmond to give his people a ballot paper (on any issue that concerns Scotland).
The Leader[edit]
The leader of this rag-tag band of morons is a strange man called Eck the Fish. Some take pity on the fat man- his inability to answer questions has lead to suggestions he is deaf, or perhaps stupid. Others with a reasonable amount of IQ realize that Unionists Jack McConnell, Annabel 'Jabba' Golding are much better. The SNP is a piss-your-vote-away party.
The name of "Salmond" is no coincidence. It is not well known, but Alex was actually the result of a breeding experiment gone badly wrong. Scientists tried to breed Sean Connery with a salmon, hoping to create a super-espionage fish to spy on the Russians with. However, the experiment backfired and the opposite happened. Instead of a super-fish, what we got was a man with a distinctly salmon-like face. This could also explain his obesity, but the most people think he just eats way too many custard pies, mince pies, sausage suppers, black pudding suppers and strawberry tarts.
Obesity is no coincedence as Alex is usually found touring the Indian curry houses throughout Scotland whilst drawing love hearts and writing "A.S. loves S.T." on the pages of his Racing Post newspaper each day in in typically schoolboy admiration to musician Sandi Thom. Sean Connery is said to be deeply saddened and extremely broken hearted that Alex has cooled his romantic links with him now Sandi Thom has come on the scene. Alex always remains upbeat saying Sean shouldn't feel too sad and lonely as he'll never, ever forget his first real crush and still has a poster of Sean up in his office.
Alex is well known to be available for a photo opportunity whenever one should arise. He was photographed astride a bicycle decked out in saltire spandex and holding a saltire flag above his head as someone recently passed him on the steps of Hollyrood and shouted the words "Hoy you ya bam!" Mr Salmond took this to mean that he had just been mistaken for superfit gold medalist Chris Hoy and now eats a well known breakfast cereal to be just like Chris.
SNP Policy[edit]
- Rebuild Hadrian's Wall... and make it taller.
- It's Scotland's oil, let's burn it.
- Complete outlawing of cricket or anything resembling it.
- Borrow lots of money and then go independent so as not to pay it back, also called "the-one-night-stand" policy.
- Make sure Scotland continue their tradition of not reaching major international football events.
- Ban Morris Dancers in Scotland.
- Ban all Alcohol not made in Scotland, expect Irish Whiskey. So no more Buckfast.
- Full acknowledgement that Scotland invented the chair.
- Full acknowledgement that Scotland invented wallpaper.
- Make shortbread and whisky the staple diet of all primary school children.
- Take away free speech and ban music.
- Open as many donut shops across Scotland and name them after their chief donut McSalmonds.
- Have every female over the age of 16 wear tweed skirts and size two granny shoes as homage to Nicola Sturgeon.
- Have Alex Salmond pick the Scotland football & rugby squads for all major competitions.
- Have every well represented person in Scotland bankrupt while the SNP use their money to pay for the wasters.
- Have curry houses throughout Scotland open 24/7.
- Turn Scotland into one big Braveheart themed funpark.
- Oversee a haggis adoption scheme which will bring much neeeded Scotch Groats into the economy.
- Monopolise the worlds mince pie outlets and have one overall outlet based at Bute House.
- Claim all people throughout the world who have ever achieved anything of note to have Scots blood in them.
- Remake a Scottish version of every Laurel & Hardy film which will star himself as Oliver Hardy and Nicola Sturgeon as Stan Laurel.
- Replace the "welcome to Scotland" sign at the border between Scotland & England with one saying "Jings crivens yer noo in Scotland ye ken, aye braw Scotland ken"
- Kidnapping Britney Spears and making her queen of Scotland and declaring Scotland a Communist country.
- Make it law that every Scottish male has to wear a glengarry hat with an 18" feather or face deportation.
- Airbrush images of the Monarchy from photos & replace with images of William Wallace. (Falkirk SNP were chosen to oversee this policy)
- Make it illegal to be sober after 6pm.
- A 5 year prison sentence for anyone found preserving the peace.
- Make sure that all Scots speak with such an accent no one else in the world can understand them.
- Bankrupt Scotland within three weeks of Independence and blame Westminster for allowing us.
- Change policy at will whenever everyone laughs at previous policies.
- Make everyone wear a piece of clothing daily with a Saltire flag on it.
- Every swinger club in Scotland will be required to have ten Union Jacks hanging from the ceiling. Then they can swing like Tarzan.
- Mr Al-Fayed will become President. If a hotelmanager in Edinburgh has 250 ppm of alcohol in his blood, he will be told to double it.
- Everytime the hotelmanager drinks a third bottle of booze, he will have to purchase a new Ferrari for the Hotel, while taking it for a spin.
The Opposition[edit]
The SNP's constantly impeded progress has been attributed by historians to whom the SNP have to share a parliament with.
Scottish Labour (London Labour) Want to keep Scotland dank, desolate and depressing.
Liberal Democrats (Hangers On) Want to take credit for everything while doing absolutely nothing.
Conservatives (Tories) Want to "conserve" Scotland by closing it down completely.
Scottish Greens (Hippies) Want everyone in Scotland to peddle a bike, wear beige corduroy fashion trousers and have a constant supply of candles for lighting purposes.
Scottish Socialists (Cubans) Want to recreate the country of Cuba in Scotland.
Solidarity (Jailbirds) Want to show solidarity by putting everyone in Scotland in jail alongside their leader and recreate the country Cuba behind bars.
The BBC[edit]
The BBC love the SNP with a vengeance, and its employees have been known to sacrifice children and create life-like Alex Salmond dolls to show how Pro-Scotland they are.
The BBC's adoration of the SNP can be summed up in their obsessive promotion of Scotland in general, they treat Scotland as if it was heaven, in which they only ever air pro-Scotch propaganda and football on the TV to keep the English subdued.
Recently the BBC were threatened with legal action by the SNP when they refused to screen a full weekend of "sheep watch". The SNP argued that every Scot should learn all about the sheep as it's their national animal. Rumours that a full weekend of "dry stane dyking for beginners" was postponed until further notice, due to a supposed legal dispute, are yet to be confirmed.
On 6 May, 2011 the BBC were turned into the TBI otherwise known as Trump Broadcasting International. Alex Salmond will present the Scottish News in Gaelic, Scots Doric, Auld Scots and local dialect Weegie talk.
The BBC and all other media organisations have hailed the recent performance of the SNP in local elections as: "an historic victory", "genius" etc. because about one in five Scotch voted for the SNP.
After this secton was written, Stewie Griffin told the BBC that it was written. More importantly: no one in Britain would think of these alegations as untrue, and someone needs to counter-act these impressions. To move away the BBC from these strange manners, the Chief Editor ordered the BBC to start up the ""BBC loves Scandinavia". Joanna Lumley was legally obliged to make a documentary on the Aurora Borealis. BBC loves Scotland was the BBC, now it is no more.


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'There is no need for forced lessons, lectures, assignments, tests, grades …'
Picture a generation of children losing their capacity to play. Picture a school system where recess and free time are disappearing. Imagine an educational mindset that tests its students with greater frequency even as students report growing anxiety and stress.
If your imagination fails, it may be because there was no room for imagination in your school day.
Peter Gray offers an alternative in his book Free to Learn and his speaking tour, which brings him to Chesapeake Country on October 5.
"There is no need for forced lessons, lectures, assignments, tests, grades, segregation by age into classrooms or any of the other trappings of our standard, compulsory system of schooling," Gray writes. "All of these, in fact, interfere with children's natural way of learning."
Fewer American children are learning naturally. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention reports an ominous 41 percent rise in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder diagnoses in the past decade, resulting in millions of children taking daily doses of stimulants like Ritalin or Adderall.
A Boston College researcher, Gray has spent his professional life observing children and schools.
Framing his book is the personal experience that shaped his career choice: his son Scott's education at the Sudbury Valley School in Framingham, Massachusetts. Since 1968, Sudbury Valley School has inspired a worldwide movement toward education based on freedom and responsibility.
"Gradually, as I became convinced that Scott's self-directed education was going beautifully, my interest turned to children in general and to the human biological underpinnings of education," Scott writes.
Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life adds a new voice to the chorus of writer-educators questioning current trends in parenting and education. You may have read Lenore Skezany's Free Range Kids or Kim John Payne's Simplicity Parenting: Using the Extraordinary Power of Less to Raise Calmer, Happier and More Secure Kids.
Gray writes in clear, accessible prose and includes chapters on trustful parenting, play in both hunter-gatherer societies and in human social and emotional development and the history of compulsory schooling.
Meet Gray and hear his ideas Saturday, October 5 at 1pm at Fairhaven School in Upper Marlboro: www.fairhavenschool.com.


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NASD Regulation Kicks Off October Settlement Month for the Southeastern Region, Offering Special Prices for Mediation Services
Settlement Month Marks Fourth Year of NASD Regulation's Mediation Program
Washington, D.C.—NASD Regulation, Inc., today announced the start of the Southeastern Region's Settlement Month, a program to promote the use of mediation as an alternative to arbitration. From October 18 to November 19, the benefits of mediation that are offered throughout the year will be available to parties in the Southeast at significant cost reductions. This past July, NASD Regulation's Office of Dispute Resolution sponsored a successful Settlement Month for the Northeast Region, generating a 100 percent increase in new mediation cases during the one-month period. The Office of Dispute Resolution is currently sponsoring Settlement Month in the Midwestern and Western regions.
Mediation is a voluntary, non-binding dispute resolution process in which an impartial individual, trained in facilitation and negotiation techniques, helps parties to find common ground and reach a settlement. The process of mediation is unique in that there are no "winners" and "losers;" instead, the mediator assists the parties in reaching a compromise that is acceptable to both sides.
"We are now in the fourth year of what continues to be a growing and successful mediation program – since 1995, over 3,000 cases have come into the mediation forum. The low prices offered during Settlement Month encourage more parties to think about mediation – a less expensive but equally effective alternative to arbitration," said Linda D. Fienberg, NASD Regulation Executive Vice President.
The Office of Dispute Resolution reports that 20 percent of the parties that come into the NASD forum to resolve a dispute choose mediation. Parties that use mediation reach a settlement more than 80 percent of the time.
"Most parties that choose to mediate are seeking actual damages greater than $25,000 because, at that level, mediation is less expensive than arbitration. While Settlement Month is designed to attract all parties to the mediation forum, we think the event will be most compelling for parties with smaller cases. No matter what the value of actual damages alleged, all parties will have access to the highest quality mediators on our roster during Settlement Month," said NASD Regulation's Kenneth Andrichik, Director of Mediation.
Prices for mediation in during Settlement Month in the Southeastern Region are as follows:
- Cases alleging up to $25,000 in actual damages are entitled to a four-hour mediation for $100 per party;
- Cases alleging from $25,001 to $50,000 in actual damages will be entitled to a five-hour mediation at $300 per party.
- Cases alleging more than $50,000 in actual damages are entitled to a seven-hour mediation at $600 per party.
Dispute resolution hearing offices for the Southeastern Region are located in the following cities: Atlanta, GA; Boca Grand, FL; Charlotte, NC; Little Rock, AR; Memphis, TN; New Orleans, LA; Raleigh, NC and Tampa, FL.
Persons interested in the mediation program should contact Kenneth Andrichik, Director of Mediation, or Elizabeth McCoy, Assistant Director of Mediation, at 212-858-4400. Parties may also contact the Southeastern Region mediation staff at 1-888-FLA-SETL (888-352-7385).
NASD Regulation oversees all U.S. stockbrokers and brokerage firms with public customers. NASD Regulation and The Nasdaq-Amex Market Group, Inc., are subsidiaries of the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., the largest securities-industry self-regulatory organization in the United States.


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At the Baldwin Board of Education's community input meeting recently, a group of middle school girls performed a cheery musical selection from their upcoming production of "The Little Mermaid Jr." At a Bruins wrestling registration event in late January, BHS class of 1992 alumnus Chris Weidmann — now a rising mixed martial arts star — signed autographs and talked with recruits. As parents and residents filed into a hastily arranged budget work session in the school district office on Hastings Street on Jan. 30, they admired the commemorations of academic achievement on display.
The vote by the school board at Hastings that windy night — to present Baldwin with a budget containing a 7 percent tax levy increase — was, in a way, about those singers, wrestlers and budding geniuses. Because, according to school officials, if the community doesn't approve their proposal, the district's arts, music, extracurricular activities and sports will be significantly reduced.
"The school system is the heart of the Baldwin community," said Superintendent Dr. James Mapes, who will retire in June (see story at right). "If we cut the schools, Baldwin will suffer. The community needs a chance to vote. Do you want to keep what we have, or do you want us to build a school system around these cuts?"
The issues
Mapes made his comments before board trustees voted on the percentage by which their budget proposal will exceed New York state's tax levy increase cap. Baldwin will vote on the budget on May 21, and more than 60 percent of voters will have to approve any increase of more than 3.14 percent. (Baldwin's last two budgets were approved by more than two-thirds of district voters.)
A series of school board meetings, budget work sessions and other gatherings dating back to last school year have made it clear that the board has been planning an assault on the tax cap for some time. (The Baldwin Education Assembly's budget advisory committee recommended piercing the cap in December.) The issue resolved on Jan. 30 was how aggressive the board will be in asking for a tax levy increase for 2013-14.