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During his career, "Pistol" Pez Whatley broke more than a few boundaries. Whatley, who died Tuesday at age 54, was the first black high school wrestling champion in Chattanooga and in Tennessee. He was then the first black wrestler at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
As a pro wrestler, he brought smiles to many faces in and out of the ring when he was a good guy as "Pistol" Pez or Willie B. Hurt; as the heel Shaska Whatley, he drew happiness from the fans' ire.
"I liked being a hero, making people like me, but I liked making people cheer against me too," Whatley told the Chattanooga Times Free Press just before Christmas.
His friend of over 22 years, Rocky King, said that wrestling was the centre of Whatley's existence. "He just loved wrestling," explained King, who first met Whatley in Florida. "That's all he'd talk about."
As a heel, Shaska Whatley had an epic feud with "The Boogie Woogie Man" Jimmy Valiant in Jim Crockett's World Championship Wrestling promotion in 1986.
Valiant ticked off his friend when he called Whatley the best "black" in wrestling; incensed at the racial implications, Whatley turned on Valiant, and cut part of his beard. He then took on "Number One" Paul Jones as a manager.
"If there's anything I hate more than a black honkeytonk, it's a white honkeytonk," the newly-named Shaska Whatley once spouted on TV in regards to Valiant. The two feuded throughout the summer of '86 at the Great American Bash shows, with Whatley eventually losing his hair in a match.
Valiant was saddened by the death of his old friend. "I have known Pez since the late
'60s in Tennesse," Valiant said. "He was an old time trooper traveling by car on the road at least 100,000 miles a year for many decades. The Pistol was a true shooter and a
great worker. I loved him and I'll always keep a special place in my heart for that old Tennesse stud. We were born only 75 miles and a couple of years apart."
The 5'10", 245-pound Pezavan Whatley was raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee. After excelling in sports at Notre Dame High School and then the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, he turned to pro wrestling, learning around Tennessee from the likes of Phil Golden, Saul Weingeroff, and promoters Nick Gulas and Angelo Poffo.
As a singles wrestler, his biggest success aside from the WCW run against Valiant, was in Florida, where he was NWA Southern Heavyweight champion, losing the title to Rick Rude.
He had a few notable tag teams. His initial success came with Ray Candy, holding the Mid-American titles in the IWA. In Poffo's ICW, Whatley was a tag champ with Rip Rogers. After his heel turn in WCW, Whatley teamed with Tiger Conway Jr. in the Jive Tones.
"Pez always had a smile on his face. That's what I'll always remember most," posted Dusty Wolfe on Oldschool-wrestling.com.
In the Continental Wrestling Federation in 1988, booker Eddie Gilbert took Whatley in another direction and re-named Willie B. Hurt. He feuded with Gilbert and his manager Paul E. Dangerously after Whatley's real teenage son was involved in an angle.
During his career, Whatley worked across the U.S., Australia, the Caribbean, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico and the Virgin Islands. He came to southern Ontario as a part of the NWA.
Whatley was also one of the trainers at WCW's Power Plant. It was there that his health first turned. "I was in Denver and got bronchitis during production and training for the WCW," he told the Chattanooga paper. "When we left there for Louisville, I felt like I needed to lay down ... Every time I'd lay down, I'd feel like I was drowning. I'd turn my head and get a rush."
He was treated for bronchitis, but the doctors also found that his high blood pressure was as a result of an enlarged heart that would eventually stop pumping. Whatley actually was pronounced dead on two occasions while awaiting a heart transplant during the subsequent years. He never had the transplant.
King was stunned by his friend's recovery; after being hospitalized, Whatley would be out again to King's wrestling shows and charity events. "It was incredible. I'd never seen anything like it in my life," King said of Whatley's recovery.
In his story in the Chattanooga Times Free Press, writer Ward Gossett described Whatley during his December 2004 visit. "Today 'Pez' is a shadow of his former physical self. Clothes that fit so well on a muscular 225-pound frame now sag on his shoulders. His belt is cinched tight, just short of needing a new notch. The personality remains vibrant, but the bounce in his step has been replaced with a shuffle."
Yet Whatley was thankful for the extra time. "It's a miracle I'm here," he said. "I'm walking, talking proof there is a God."
Whatley died Tuesday, January 18, at the Parkridge Medical Center in Chattanooga. The funeral will be Saturday at noon at Tucker Baptist Church, 1115 N. Moore Rd. in Chattanooga.
Greg Oliver is the Producer of SLAM! Wrestling and can be emailed at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Press Release: Agribusiness and Human Rights in Southeast Asia Workshop brings together Human Rights Commissioners, indigenous peoples' representatives, academics and NGOs from across the world. November 2011
A landmark workshop, "Human Rights and Business: Plural Legal Approaches to Conflict Resolution, Institutional Strengthening and Legal Reform", is taking place at the Santika Hotel, Kuta, Bali, from today until 1 December 2011, convened by the Indonesian National Commission on Human Rights (Komnas HAM) and supporting NGOs SawitWatch and Forest Peoples Programme. The event will be attended by over 60 participants, from the National Human Rights Commissions of the Southeast Asian region, the ASEAN Intergovernmental Human Rights Commission, notable academics, representatives of indigenous peoples, as well as members of supportive national and international NGOs.
Nur Kholis, Deputy Chairperson of the Indonesian National Human Rights Commission (Komnas HAM), said,
"We are taking this initiative in collaboration with the other human rights commissioners of South East Asia as a way of ensuring a more balanced approach to development based on respect for peoples' rights, with an emphasis on the need to secure livelihoods and the right to food."

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British Go Journal No. 54. October 1981. Page 6.
Jim Barty
The endgame is the most consistently neglected aspect of amateur go. In an effort to remedy this defect a little we begin here a series of articles which we hope will become a regular feature of BGJ. Each article will be dedicated to a particular yose position in which some skilful play or common mistake occurs.
We hope that these articles will mostly be written by people other than the editors. Yose is an area in which players of almost any strength can arrive at definitive answers with a little time and effort, and all our readers are encouraged to send in details of any discovery they make in this area.
We begin the series with the one point jump to the first line, a play that doesn't appear as often as it ought to in amateur games.
Dia 1
Dia 2
White is to play in Dia 1 and protect his territory to the left. If he just pushes down with 1 in Dia 2 as almost all amateurs do without thinking, then Black will play the hane (2) and connection (4) in sente immediately.
Dia 3
Dia 4
The correct move is to jump down to the first line immediately, at 1 in Dia 3. Black will probably play the 2, 3 exchange in Dia 4 but black 4 in Dia 5 does not now require an answer. The exchange of 6 and 7 in Dia 6 is small, and if Black is foolish enough to play Dia 5 White will be delighted to play elsewhere, having protected against most of the damage which Black could have done in Dia 1 in sente.
Dia 5
Dia 6
Dia 7
The correct result is for Black to play elsewhere after Dia 4, but in that case the exchange 5, 6, 7, 8 in Dia 7 will be sente for White. The difference between this result and Dia 2 is two points, and that is the size of white's mistake in Dia 2.
It is not always correct to jump to the first line but it is always correct to think about it, and you should never play Dia 2 without a very clear idea of why you are giving up those two points.


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Hello all! Hope you had a productive weekend. I just got news that another magazine has accepted one of my short stories for publication. This was another story that had been rejected a few times. Persistence pays off. I don't have much today as I'll be apartment hunting. Take a risk with your writing. Submit you work. Press on. And like the picture to the left says, write something.
1. Folio Poetry Contest
Folio is proud to announce its 2013 Poetry Contest, which will be judged by the acclaimed poet and translator, Martha Collins. The winner of our contest will receive $500 and publication in the Spring 2013 issue of Folio. Martha Collins will also select a first runner-up and an honorable mention, which will each receive $150. Contest deadline is February 15, 2013.
2. The 2013 Gulf Coast Prize Contest
The 2013 Gulf Coast Prize Contest is now accepting entries of fiction, non-fiction/lyric essay, and poetry. The contest awards $1,500 and publication to the winner in each genre, as well as $250 to two honorable mentions in each genre. The winners will appear in Gulf Coast 26.1, due out in Fall 2013, and all entries will be considered for paid publication on the website as online exclusives. Reading fee is $23 and the contest closes March 15, 2013.
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1. Faultline: Journal of Arts and Letters
Faultline: Journal of Arts and Letters at UC Irvine is accepting submissions for its spring 2013 issue. Faultline welcomes previously unpublished submissions of poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, translations, and art. Submission period deadline is February 15, 2013.
2. Diverse Voices Quarterly
Diverse Voices Quarterly is celebrating its fourth year of publishing online. Submit poetry, short stories, and personal essays/creative non-fiction for their spring issue by February 1, 2013.
3. Surreal South `13 Anthology
Surreal South `13 seeks submissions of prose fiction of 1000 to around 7000 words. The theme: A Surreal Lost and Found. For this edition in particular, they're looking for stories of impossible finds, or of unthinkable losses.
They welcome stories that are horrific, speculative, mysterious, dreamlike, or that draw from any of the various fiction genres, but please note that they aren't necessarily looking for pieces that are loyal examples of a genre, whether literary, fantasy, crime, horror, or others. What they want is to be disturbed and delighted by good narrative through good prose.
While they're strict about needing stories that go "beyond the real"—stories that involve the impossible or the supernatural—they're a little more flexible on the "southern" part of Surreal South. Either the story's content needs to involve the south, or it can be that the writer is associated with the geographical American south (born, living, spent time in prison or otherwise dallied somewhere south of the Mason-Dixon).
Submission deadline is May 1, 2013 and authors will be notified by July 1, 2013. Publication date (e-book and print) will be October 31, 2013.
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Timber Journal is seeking the best innovative fiction and poetry. Submission deadline for the next issue is February 28, 2013.
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JUNEAU, Wis. — An investigation into the heroin overdose death of a Dodge County man has led to a homicide charge against a Racine man.
Joshua Loewen, 23, of Portand Township, was found unresponsive in his home Aug. 20 and later declared dead at Columbus Hospital, according to a criminal complaint.
His parents told police he was out with friends the night before and they discovered him unresponsive when he didn't get up for work. They also told police Loewen had a heroin addiction and had overdosed before, according to the criminal complaint.
Willie D DeGroot, 26, of Racine, was taken into custody on other charges Aug. 23 after a search warrant was served at his house, according to the complaint.
He pleaded not guilty and is due to be sentenced this week on charges of possession of narcotic drugs and felony bail jumping.
DeGroot is now charged with first degree reckless homicide.
The complaint states DeGroot admitted giving Loewen heroin but told police he was just a middle man.
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Saturday, November 24, 2012
Intel's Two-Pronged Evolution
Intel's new Itanium 9500 and Xeon Phi coprocessors are impressive, evolutionary steps for the company and myriad current customers. However, the new processors also cast considerable light on how Intel will succeed in developing and delivering innovative solutions for core existing and emerging new markets.
It's hard to think of an IT vendor with a stronger leadership position than Intel, but the company is having trouble shaking off the perception that it is on the ropes or headed for disaster in some of its core markets.
On one hand, Intel's mission-critical Itanium platform suffered when Oracle and HP publicly butted heads in an altercation that ended up in court. On the other, the use of graphics processors in high-performance computing and supercomputing applications has caused some to doubt Intel's future in those markets.
Both of these issues are reflected in the company's new Itanium 9500 and Xeon Phi announcements, though the light each casts on Intel is significantly different.
Partner Problems
Regarding Itanium, Intel was stuck between the rock and hard place of two significant partners -- HP and Oracle -- when the latter claimed the platform was headed toward demise. Both HP -- by far, the largest producer of IA-64 systems -- and Intel denied this vociferously. In fact, Oracle's claims contradicted numerous Itanium roadmaps and publicly stated strategies.
However, Oracle refused to back down and said it would not develop future versions of its core database products for the platform. HP fought back, noting an agreement Oracle signed after hiring its former CEO, Mark Hurd, and in August the judge overseeing the case issued a ruling supporting HP. Though Oracle said it will appeal, it also resumed Itanium development and support.
So where do things stand today? Along with providing a significant performance boost over previous-generation processors -- a point that will please loyal IA-64 customers and OEMs -- Intel's new Itanium 9500 is also likely to bolster HP's claims against Oracle and the case for the platform's health and well-being. That isn't just because of the Itanium 9500's capabilities, which are formidable, but also due to Intel's new Modular Development Model, which aims to create common technologies for both the Itanium and Xeon E7 families.
That will certainly add to the mission-critical capabilities of Xeon E7 and it should also take a significant bite out of the cost of developing future Itanium solutions. In the end, not only does Intel's Itanium 9500 deliver the goods for today's enterprises; it also represents a significant advance in Itanium's long term prospects.
The High End
A completely different corner of the IT market -- HPC and supercomputing -- is at the heart of Intel's new Xeon Phi coprocessors. The latest top-ranked system on the Top500.org list, Titan, at the DOE's Oak Ridge Laboratory, is based on AMD Opteron CPUs and NVIDIA GPUs. It certainly is the foremost event in the trend of using GPUs for parallel processing chores, but other systems using similar technologies are also cropping up.
A curious thing about supercomputing is that while these systems deliver eye-popping performance and bragging rights for owners and vendors, their immediate effect on mainstream computing is less significant. Sure, such technologies eventually find their way into commercial systems, but those are typically not high-margin products for OEMs and many customers -- particularly those in the public sector, such as universities -- aren't exactly rolling in dough.
In fact, maximally leveraging existing resources, including the knowledge and training of programmers, technicians and managers, is crucial for keeping these facilities up, running and solvent.
That's a key point related to the Xeon Phi coprocessors, the first commercial iteration of Intel's longstanding MIC development effort. Not only do the new Xeon Phi solutions deliver impressive parallel processing capabilities, they do so in a notably efficient power envelope.
Power Saver
The Intel Xeon/Phi-based Beacon supercomputer at the University of Tennessee is the most energy-efficient system on the latest Top500.org list. More importantly, however, Xeon Phi supports programming models and tools that are common in Intel Xeon-based HPC and supercomputing systems.
That will be welcome news to the owners of high-end Xeon-based systems, which constitute more than 75 percent of the current Top500.list, but the effect should also ripple downstream into the commercial HPC and workstation markets, benefiting end users, their vendors and developers.
Overall, Intel's new Itanium 9500 and Xeon Phi coprocessors are impressive, evolutionary steps for the company and myriad current customers. However, the new processors also cast considerable light on how Intel will succeed in developing and delivering innovative solutions for core existing and emerging new markets.
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The following list of the 5 most influential hair designers in history is by no means inclusive of all the hair designers that have become famous and forever affected the popular styles of men's and women's hair. This is completely subjective- just one person's list of the 5 people who seem to have positively changed this industry the most.
1. Kenneth Battelle
This was the first hairdresser who was commonly known simply by his first name. Kenneth became a legend in the 1960s thanks to his work on Marilyn Monroe's hair, making it look soft and lovely despite countless bleaches and perms. Ironically, he was the one who did her hair when she sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F Kennedy, and he was also the one responsible for Jackie Kennedy's famous bouffant hairstyle. Other famous clients that Kenneth worked with included Lauren Bacall and Audrey Hepburn.
5. Paul Mitchell
Although he is now deceased, Paul Mitchell is still a huge influence on hair stylists all over the world. As co-founder of the world-renowned Paul Mitchell brand, products are available in stores everywhere across the globe, and he has been a household name since the 1970s and 1980s when his cuts appeared on the covers of magazines such as Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. Many attribute Paul Mitchell with freeing women from the constraints of bouffant hairstyles.
African American Healthy Hair Care: The Basics
Whether you want to want to get rid of that gray hair or you just want to have a new look, dying is a good way to achieve it. Unfortunately, hair dying entails consequences that may damage and dry your hair when used inappropriately. The selected color of your dye should blend with the original color of your hair and eyebrows and to enhance your features. Experimenting is good, but dyes can be rough on your hair when used frequently. Although it is best to dye at a professional salon or stylist, it is much cheaper at home with the same creative effect. Before you see the top 10 hair dying mistakes, it is important to have an understanding of the different types of hair dye that are available so you can put them in context.
Types of Hair Dye
1. Permanent hair dye
While dying your hair permanantly is, by some, considered in and of itself a mistake, the obvious benefit is that it lasts for a considerable time. As the hair grows, it is applied to the roots. It contains ammonia and peroxides, which can possibly cause dryness and damage. Exposure to the sun and salt water will cause the color to fade. That's why in order to maintain the color, it is best to cover your hair by using a hat or bandanna when going outside.
2. Long-lasting Semi-permanent
- Number 4: Picking a color that does not fit with your natural hair color
Pick a color one shade lighter when dying your roots. This will make the transition from your colored hair back to your natural hair color graceful without roots that are a completely different color sticking out. Obviously, this rule does not apply if you are dying your hair a completely different color than your natural hair color.
- Number 3: Losing hair
After dying, always rinse with cold or tepid water to avoid your own hair from falling out.
- Number 2: Over-dying hair
If you did not achieve the desired effect, using Liquid Tide can correct this. A couple of days of use will lighten the color until your hair returns to the original color. Instead of over-dying, do touch-ups every four to five weeks to keep your hair color picture perfect.
- Number 1: Dying eyebrows and eyelashes
Never use hair dye on eyebrows and eyelashes! Ask for medical help when dye gets into your eye.


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Baby, baby, baby light my way…Best concert ever and almost my last. The Joshua Tree success had brought U2 world-wide mega-stadium status. Unfortunately I was not able to see them in Goteborg 1987 during the Joshua-tour and then they "disappeared". With lost hope of seeing them live again their astonishing comeback surprised me. How could they ever match The Joshua Tree? Well, they did. Achtung Baby is U2's strongest album. That the U2-members were confident with their new album, and happy playing it live, was obvious, including all of the album's songs, but two (So Cruel and Acrobat) in the set. The concert was marvelous musically and all the visual added an extra dimension. All the new songs came down well and the choice of older material was perfect. Mysterious Ways was magic and to hear (and feel) Bullet the blue sky live for the first time was a blast, with a surprisingly bluesy guitar solo from The Edge. The intros to Where the streets… and With or without… gave me goose pimples (and they still do!). But who was the beautiful woman appearing on the screens during Ultra Violet? I feel in love with her face and occasionally, she still comes to me in my dreams. After the concert I realized that, except for Pride, no songs were played from the pre-Joshua era and I had not missed them either, having experienced them live in 1985. Afterwards, I was so emotionally struck by this concert that I promised myself not to see U2 again, to avoid disappointments. How could they ever make anything near this again? I was not able to stand by my resolve but it took nine years and Beautiful Day before I returned to a U2 concert. I have seen U2 in 2001 and 2009 since then and there has been no reason for disappointment but the concert on June 10, 1992 remains unsurpassed. From the concert I bought a cap with a red star. A few years later I got hold on a bootleg from the concert, or at least that was what I believed until starting to listen. It turned out that it was a recording from the June 11 concert, where U2 (and the audience) performed Dancing Queen with Bjorn and Benny from ABBA.


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Okay, since I've managed to collect a few pieces of fan-art since starting the comic, so I thought I'd post 'em all together in this thread.
Anyone who'd like to do some fan-art is welcome and encouraged to do so...although please don't post it directly into this thread. PM me the art and I'll edit it into this post. Basically I just want to keep things organized...as this thread grows (hopefully) I don't want people to have to scroll through multiple pages to see all the art.
Well anyways, without further ado...
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Harrison Musgrove is my great grand uncle. His parents are Harrison Musgrove and Jane Rooking (my 2x great grandparents).
Harrison was born on 29 May 1858 in Kendal, Westmorland. He remained in Kendal until sometime in the mid 1880's. On the 1871 census at the age of 12 his occupation is given as "tobacconist" and in 1881 he was working as a "farm servant indoors".
Sometime in Q2 1883 Harrison married Jane Harrison in Kendal. As far as I can tell Harrison and Jane had at least six children:-
Agnes Jane – 1881; Eliza – 1886; Alice – 1888; Elinor – 1892; Rachel – 1894; Elizabeth Ann – 1896
In the 1891 census the family were living near Horton in Ribblesdale and Harrison was working as a "general labourer". By 1901 they had moved to Holme, Lancashire and Harrison was now a "limestone quarryman".
The family continued their regular travels and in 1911 they were living in Halifax, West Yorkshire. Harrison was employed as a "quarryman".
I have today found the following article from the Yorkshire Post & Leeds Intelligencer of 15 July 1911.
A farm labourer, named Harrison Musgrove, aged 45 years, died from the effects of the intense heat on Thursday, at Burton-in-Lonsdale, four miles from Ingleton. Dr Troughton was able to certify that death was due to heat apoplexy. Musgrove hailed from Jubilee Street, Halifax, where his wife is now living.
This was the first time I had come across suggestions that there was a heat wave in the summer of 1911. I was able to find a report from The Independent newspaper from July 2006 with details about the Long, hot summer: The Great British heatwave of 1911
Harrison left a will with effects of £5 going to his wife Jane.


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By Jim Kouri
Sooner or later it was bound to happen: The Central Intelligence Agency summarily terminated the employment of a senior officer for leaking classified information to news organizations, including secret intelligence for stories appearing in the Washington Post that revealed the agency maintained a network of secret detention facilities overseas for high-ranking terror suspects.
The termination marks the latest in a series of crackdowns on spy agency officials accused of unauthorized disclosures of classified information for political reasons.
While the CIA refused to reveal the identity of the canned officer, current and former intelligence officials -- continuing the CIA's new tradition of leaking information to the news media -- identified the officer as Mary O. McCarthy, a former White House intelligence aide for the Clinton Administration, who until last week held a senior position in the CIA's inspector general's office.
The CIA, without identifying McCarthy officially, announced Friday that an unnamed individual had confessed to having contacts with the press and discussing classified information, which is a violation of the secrecy agreement that all employees sign as a condition of employment with the CIA.
Intelligence officials said McCarthy's admission came after she failed a polygraph test conducted as part of several internal investigations into leaks. It is believed that the Justice Department has been apprised of developments in the internal CIA probes and McCarthy and possibly other officers may face criminal charges.
Besides working for the CIA and White House, she also performed work for the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank.
While it is sad to see a long career of service end in disgrace, hopefully there will be more officers and agents discovered who use their positions to further political agendas by selectively leaking intelligence to the news media.
One complaint often heard privately within law enforcement circles is that the Central Intelligence Agency over the years has morphed into a Liberal think tank rather than maintaining its role as a strategic and tactical intelligence agency. An even bigger concern is that the agency has become overly politicized and prone to leaking information to the mainstream news media in order to have an impact upon the political climate within the Beltway.
For instance, it was the CIA hierarchy who, with the help of Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY), demanded a special prosecutor investigate the so-called Valerie Plame-CIA leak case. It's widely accepted that the law regarding divulging a covert operative's identity did not apply in the Plame case. Even the writers of the statute are quoted as saying such. Yet here we are in the midst of a far-reaching investigation into the alleged leak.
The need to insulate intelligence from political pressure is a powerful argument for maintaining a strong, centralized capability and not leaving intelligence bearing on national concern up to individual policymaking departments.
Competitive analysis of controversial questions can also help guard against politicization, as can Congress and the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board (PFIAB). Competitive or redundant analysis needs to be carried out and conveyed to policymakers in those areas where being wrong can have major consequences. The leaders of the intelligence community must reinforce the ethic that speaking the truth to those in power is required, and defend anyone who comes under criticism for so
The best way to ensure high-quality analysis is to bring high quality analysts into the process. Analysis would be improved by increasing the flow of talented people into the intelligence community from outside the government. Greater provision should be made for lateral and mid-career entry of such analysts as well as for their short-term involvement in specific projects. Closer ties between universities and the intelligence community is not desirable in this regard. Careerists would benefit
The most important function for the clandestine services is the collection of human intelligence, that is, espionage. Such intelligence can complement other sources and, especially in closed societies, be the principal or sole source of information. In so doing, it will at times prove necessary to associate the United States with unsavory individuals, including some who have committed crimes. This is acceptable so long as the likely benefits for policy outweigh the moral and political costs of
The capability to undertake covert action is an important national security tool, one that can provide policymakers a valuable alternative or complement to other policies, including diplomacy, sanctions, and military intervention. Building a capacity for both espionage and covert action takes time and resources; nurturing such a clandestine capability ought to be one of the highest priorities of the intelligence community.
Constraints on clandestine activity need to be reviewed periodically to ensure that they do not unduly limit the effectiveness of this tool. Unfortunately, when officers and high-ranking officials decide that they know more than their colleagues or that their opinions are being disregarded by those holding opposing positions on an issue, that doesn't give them the right to leak classified information to the news media. Compromising secrecy reducing the effectiveness of any organization that
Jim Kouri, CPP is currently fifth vice-president of the National Association of Chiefs of Police and he's a staff writer for the New Media Alliance. He's former chief at a New York City housing project in Washington Heights nicknamed "Crack City" by reporters covering the drug war in the 1980s. In addition, he served as director of public safety at a New Jersey university and director of security for several major organizations. He's also served on the National Drug Task Force and trained police and security officers throughout the country. Kouri writes for many police and security magazines including Chief of Police, Police Times, The Narc Officer and others. He's a news writer for TheConservativeVoice.Com. He's also a columnist for AmericanDaily.Com, MensNewsDaily.Com, MichNews.Com, and he's syndicated by AXcessNews.Com. He's appeared as on-air commentator for over 100 TV and radio news and talk shows including Oprah, McLaughlin Report, CNN Headline News, MTV, Fox News, etc. His book Assume The Position is available at Amazon.Com. Kouri's own website is located at http://jimkouri.us.
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Melanoma survivors are at increased risk of other cancers as well as the return of their skin cancers, according to a new study, leading National Cancer Institute researchers to urge lifelong follow-up of such survivors.
The study included data from more than 89,500 patients collected from 1973 to 2006. There were 12,559 subsequent cancers, including 3,094 melanomas.
While not the most common form of skin cancer, melanoma is the most serious and most likely to be fatal. The American Cancer Society estimates that 68,720 Americans were diagnosed in 2009 with melanoma and that 6,850 Americans died from the disease.
Noting that most people with melanoma — more than 92 percent of white women, and nearly 87 percent of white men — survive at least 5 years after diagnosis, Dr. Portia T. Bradford and colleagues wanted to measure the risks of the disease coming back or of survivors developing a second melanoma or another type of cancer.
"The risk of subsequent cancer is important for melanoma survivors," they write in the March issue of the Archives of Dermatology.
Analyzing data collected by the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) program, they concluded that survivors had a 28 percent increased risk of a second cancer, mostly due to their 9-times greater likelihood of developing another melanoma than the general population. The most common second cancers after melanoma were breast, prostate, and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Over the span of the study, doctors diagnosed 1,156 female breast cancers, 2,200 prostate cancers and 481 non-Hodgkin's lymphomas among the more than 89,000 melanoma survivors. In each case, the number of secondary cancers reported among survivors was higher than what would have been expected in the general population.
The risks of a second cancer were highest within the first year and declined somewhat over time but "remained quite elevated more than 20 years" after the first diagnosis.
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Despite high survival rates for melanoma, there's no international consensus on how melanoma survivors should be followed-up.
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Roleplaying is a method of playing games where the player makes up their own storyline and experience. This method of gameplay is favoured by many over simply completing the storyline missions, and even side missions.
In GTA games, there are many opportunities for pretending the player or protagonist has a job, such as being a police officer, FBI agent, airline pilot, limousine chauffeur, drug runner or mass murderer. There is also a lot of scope for acting like real life, such as eating, going to entertainment venues, and purchasing vehicles/property rather than stealing.
Some players enjoy roleplay as it makes the game more realistic, often giving them an insight into a life they would prefer to have, or can look forward to when they're older. Other players enjoy the opportunity to do things they can't do in real life.
This article discusses some aspects of roleplay in GTA games. Many players will drift in and out of various aspects of roleplay, whereas a few do stick religiously to the rules they have given themselves.
Driving and Vehicles
In real life, most people don't steal and trash dozens of cars each day, nor drive random vehicles like ice-cream vans or fire trucks, nor are able to fly a plane/helicopter. To make the GTA experience more realistic, many players prefer to purchase one or two permanent vehicles which they keep in garages and maintain at various in-game facilities such as Pay 'n' Spray.
They would often purchase vehicles which are appropriate to their role-playing character. Most normal people would have a simple sedan rather than an Infernus or Comet; whereas a celebrity or highly-paid person would have a very flashy vehicle. It is also worth remembering that most workers don't take their work vehicle home at night, so they would swap their police car for their personal vehicle after work.
Other players also try to stick to the rules of the road. This includes driving within the speed of the traffic, not running red lights, and not driving on the wrong side of the road or off-road.
Clothing should also reflect the status of the character. At the start of most GTA games, the protagonist is poor, at the bottom of the criminal food chain, and the choice of clothing represents that. Petty criminals and average workers would wear different clothes to highly-paid businessmen or celebrities.
One of the more mundane experiences in life is eating. In most GTA games, the player does not have to eat, although it does regenerate health. Some players get their character to eat 2 or 3 meals a day. They can also vary meals between fast food outlets, restaurants and shops or vending machines.
Missions can be done continuously end-to-end without sleep, however this is unrealistic. Some players prefer to let their character sleep every night, and only do one or two missions per in-game day.
Most people don't commit murder on a daily basis, so this is often avoided in the roleplay experience. The police are present in all GTA games, and will pursue and arrest (or kill) the player if they commit a crime. Some players will surrender to the police if they commit a crime, as most people would do in real life, rather than attempt to escape. However, as crime is a major part of the gameplay experience, others will escape and spend their life hiding from the police, rather than being best friends with them 5 minutes after losing their wanted level.
Guns and Ammunition
Some players find it unrealistic to carry massive amounts of weaponry and ammunition, so will ration themselves to a realistic amount. Also, it is not common to see people walking around with miniguns or RPG launchers, so these are often avoided.
Friends and Relationships
In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, it is possible to have more than one girlfriend at a time. However, this isn't realistic and bigamy should be avoided. Some players also try to maintain relationships with a small number of key friends, rather than the constant cycle of befriending and betrayal that the missions condone.


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I would like to map the volume controls of my remote to the windows (XP) wave control, not the master slider.
I'm currently using volume tracker which forces the wave control to follow the master control, which is a functional solution, but is not 100% reliable.
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Friday, 2 July 2010
Doner Kebabs
Long the butt of jokes and the final resort of a hungry lush as he or she stumbles back home from the pub via a neon takeaway, the poor kebab as we know it in England is far removed from its original form.
Sweaty mystery meat sculpted into the famous 'elephant's foot' rotates slowly in front of orange hued heater bulbs behind the counters of less salubrious dining establishments throughout the country. Unimaginably long lengths of it are hacked off and crammed into epic flatbreads or warm pitas before being topped with a token salad of four cucumber rings, some harsh raw onion and a few wedges of watery tomato.
The whole lot is finished with a Russian roulette chilli sauce that ranges from the pathetic to nuclear hot and then eaten with gusto, delight and a side order of late onset guilt.
And it tastes great.
Admittedly the average doner diner is three or even four sheets to the wind by the time they get their laughing gear around this culinary oddity that somehow manages to pack a day's worth of calories into a single polystyrene box. They are chowed down late at night to sate the deep hunger brought on by overindulgence of the grape and grain's fine nectar.
I can recall many morning after conversations that have included the phrase 'I must have been quite pissed – I even had a kebab' and fondly remember one incident when the distinctive doner niff followed us round for an entire Sunday after a heavy Saturday night. Even a shower and a change of clothes wasn't enough to quell the odour. It was only when my friend reached into his coat pocket for his wallet and pulled out a length of brown meat that the mystery was solved.
In short kebabs tend to be eaten in haste and regretted at leisure when noxious burps scented with onion exacerbate the hangover. They are the guiltiest of guilty pleasures and a gastronomic punchline for a joke that ceases to be funny at about 6 o'clock the following morning when the belly cramps and the head aches.
But this shouldn't be the case. In its true form, the doner is a thing of beauty: marinated lamb meat, slow cooked into tender softness – warm with spices and rich with natural fat. Blistered flatbreads with that wonderful gentle bitterness. Heat from chillies tempered with cool salad. Hummus. Yoghurt. These are all good things. Great, wonderful tasty things. And more importantly all things you can achieve at home.
Doner Kebabs
OK – this isn't a true doner. For that you'd need epic amounts of meat of dubious origin, a large vertical spit, six hours of turning and a hungry mob to consume it all. So we cooked a simplified version which was superior in every way.
Once a lamb shoulder had been boned out and butterflied it was covered with a spice mix containing cumin, coriander, chillies, oregano, garlic, lemon zest and olive oil before being tied up and roasted in the oven over a layer of roughly chopped onions.
Three hours at a low heat was long enough to render the meat tender and almost liquefy the onions.
Whilst it was resting we cooked up a batch of flatbreads, made some hummus and a chopped salad of cucumber, tomato, red onion and plenty of parsley.
The lamb meat was shredded with two forks and mixed in with the cooked onions and the fat and juices that had pooled in the bottom of the roasting tray. Heaped into fresh warm flatbreads and then finished off with all the necessary accoutrements it was a meal fit for the gods themselves. Or at least Bacchus.
Photography by Charlotte
13 comments:
- Kavey said...
This doesn't happen as often as you'd think: you have ACTUALLY made my stomach rumble. Out loud. At my desk. Luckily it's 12.24 on a Friday and I'm about to head out for lunch.
I love doner, even when I'm not pissed but this home-made version looks so far superior... I want.
- 2 July 2010 at 11:25
Over here in Quebec the good ones are Lebanese: pita bread used like a wrap, chicken or beef sliced from a vertical giant skewer, hummus, tabbouleh , tomato etc. After a night out there's always poutine....fries, curd cheese and chicken gravy. - Magi
- 2 July 2010 at 11:43
- Violet's Curd said...
I have decided I am having this for dinner. And, I'm very excited about it.
- 2 July 2010 at 13:08
- danthemackem said...
I've just come back from a (long) lunch with my work-mates (all on the boss too), read this post and I'm hungry again...
- 2 July 2010 at 15:11
- Just Cook It said...
Kavey - Good to know that my work does exactly what food writing should do - make you hungry. Thanks!
Magi - That sounds wrong. Deliciously wrong.
Violet's Curd - Excellent choice. Let me know how you get on
cook it, eat it, enjoy it - Well I consider that a success
- 2 July 2010 at 15:29
- Helen said...
I could not be more in agreement with you and nor could my boyfriend. We eat way too much 'posh babbage' as we refer to it.
- 3 July 2010 at 15:02
- Hollow Legs said...
Ah, kebabs. Awesome stuff; I usually go for the chicken shish option as I figured as it's cooked from fresh it's generally nicer.
And yes, always pissed. A particularly memorable one (no less because it was all over my jeans) was Helen (above) and I eating it on the back of a night bus... with our hands. Good times.
- 5 July 2010 at 16:47
- matt said...
oh man this brings back memories. I have to say I have never had a doner so well cooked and constructed as yours - and doubt I ever will! Fab. photos.
- 5 July 2010 at 23:02
- Jonathan said...
Great stuff. How does this differ from a lamb shawarma? This one from Cafe Helen on the Edgeware Road is particularly epic...
From my experience they are made from marinated boned shoulders of lamb which are then flame grilled on a spit. Whereas doner is reclaimed meat and mainly fat.
- 6 July 2010 at 16:26
- Sinéad Ryan said...
We've made this twice now. Both times utterly delicious. I can see it becoming a regular feature!
For the salad, I mandolin the red onion really thinly, and then soak it in cold water for at least 30 minutes. You get all the crunch and flavour, but it takes the sting out!
- 12 July 2010 at 11:17
- Unknown said...
Just got back from Turkey and the kebabs (or kebaps) are nothing like the greasy imitations sold on British high streets. The Donor that we had was proper lamb meat shredded up and reminds me very much of this recipe. I'll look forward to trying it.
- 31 July 2010 at 16:48
- Chef Jay said...
This looks very delicious. The salad on top is a good healthy accent.I bet adding a homemade salsa wouldn't be to bad either. For more information on cooking ideas please visit my website.
- 27 December 2010 at 22:14
- Katanga said...
Only place in the UK that sells doner meat direct to the consumer is http://www.donerkebabmeat.com I've tried to buy it but seems they aren't quite open for business yet.
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Coursera announced last week that it will be partnering with ten state university systems to "explore MOOC-based learning and collaboration on campus." The news revealed what many of us who have been working in this field for some time have known since about when non-Canadians started talking about MOOCs: grand proclamations about the inevitable revolution coming to higher education via Silicon Valley are being propelled by a significant amount of hot air. Eduprenuers interested in changing higher education by developing new technological tools and curricula are going to have to do the same thing that a lot of us have been doing already for years: experimenting, failing better, iterating, scaling, dreaming, scratching and clawing within/against existing institutional frameworks, and persisting.
The most troubling aspect of the MOOC hype has been how quickly this approach to teaching and learning with technology has been seen by a variety of constituencies as a tool/excuse for slashing public funding for higher education, for "doing more with less," and (in the spirit of capital accumulation) for proclaiming that only the elite universities can lead us through contemporary communicative changes. The MOOC hype has somehow squeezed another tier of employment into the system — "course guiders" — who will sit below adjuncts and slightly above peer mentors on the hierarchy of academic labor (and will displace both in some spaces). Proponents and detractors of xMOOCs agree on one thing: the primary goal of all this is "disruption." The proponents are certain that whatever replaces the status quo in higher education will be better, while the detractors see such thinking as reckless academic planning at best, and mendacious privatization at worst.
The second most troubling aspect of the hype is how poorly informed by the scholarship of teaching and learning so much of what's happening in the xMOOCeshpere has been. In announcing their partnerships, Coursera noted that "studies have shown many benefits to blended learning." They tried to link the word "benefits" to this study but screwed up the html in the post so that the link is dead (it's still dead nearly a week after first posted). The study they failed to link to is focused primarily on K-12 instruction, and its citation evidences a sloppiness and a carelessness about this stuff. It suggests either they don't know what they're doing or they don't care what anyone else thinks about what they're doing. It's actually kind of edupunk, if you convince yourself to think that way about it.
Much of the same sloppiness is embedded in the design of the Coursera learning platform. As Alex Usher and others have noted, Coursera just announced to the world their service is essentially an LMS. If you've not taking a Coursera course, I encourage you to do so — with a pseudonym, if you like — because it becomes clear that absent the hype and praise from the New York Times op-ed page, Coursera is Blackboard with a hipper stylesheet and a slightly enhanced feature set.
Which is to say, Coursera is pretty meh as a space for teaching and learning. Online courses take place in spaces, and just as the physical environment in which we teach impacts the ways we communicate with our students, virtual environments can be structured to make certain things possible and other things difficult. The design of Coursera as an LMS reinforces traditional notions of the "class" and the classroom, and makes it difficult, if not impossible, to think about and experiment with new structures. Just like Blackboard.
It also makes clear the idea that effective teaching online requires experienced, thoughtful, and engaged teachers. There's a lot of bad models out there, which, when combined with bluster and grand proclamations, has led to some deliciously loud failures this year. If you look at the primary modes of interaction that Coursera affords, you see a platform that, just like other LMSs, places significant barriers before the instructor who wants to do something new, something open, or something connected.
What follows is based on a review of 8-10 Coursera courses that ran in Spring 2013.
The 15 Minute Video Lecture
Students, we're told, need to have lecture content broken down into digestible chunks, and these chunks must be less than 15 minutes. Universities that partner with Coursera have to bear their own costs for producing the courses, and much of the investment (which tends to be around $50k a course) goes into high definition video content. Coursera will help you integrate a quiz into your video lecture, which in theory isn't a bad way to make a lecture more interactive. Courses provide a transcription of the lectures (which are often sloppy), but do not offer audio files, which makes listening to them on the go quite difficult. Coursera tells you when your account has viewed a lecture, but it's up to university partners to name the lectures, sometimes leading to titles like Rousseau 1, Rousseau 2, Marx 1, and Marx 2. University partners can also annotate lectures, but rarely do (it happens more in the math classes than others). In many cases you wonder where that $50k is going.
I don't really have a problem with the idea of the chunked lecture, as long as it's by a seasoned lecturer. If I were ever to teach a course on the American Civil War, I'd draw heavily upon David Blight's work, and would extract specific segments to combine with other texts. I do though have a problem with the fact that within Coursera these bits of content are usually locked into specific courses run during specific time periods on a specific service that requires a specific log in. It's clear that most Coursera courses view video content as the sine qua non of instructional modes. So did the Sunrise Semester.
A recommendation to colleges producing content for Coursera: make sure your video content lands in your institutional repository, and consult the librarians (always consult the librarians!) on ways to make this content discoverable and reusable. And, make it truly open.
Most student activity is located within the Forum area of a Coursera course, which, again, is planned, organized, and supported by each university partner. The faculty and/or course assistants must establish and name subforums in a way that fits the structure of the class. In any course this is a pedagogical process, where teachers first imagine what conversations they would like to nurture and then adapt the structure of the space to fit the dialogues that are actually emerging. In a fully online course, the stakes of instructional design are heightened. There's a lot of room for error within this process, and it requires experienced, adaptive teachers.
The forums for each course are sortable by creation date, activity date, level of activity, and threads to which you're subscribed to; you can also see "top forum posters," who are awarded points and ranked "based on the sum of the square root of all the votes received for each post." (I don't know, either). There are many paths to interact with the content, but if you dig down there's very little sustained dialogue actually happening within the forums. Good ideas are raised and responded to once or twice, and then things tend to peter out. There's little to no remix and iteration — which are central modes in innovative digital pedagogy — in part because the forums make it difficult to do this type of work. Technical questions are mixed with task-oriented ones; content-based questions often go without response; students get anxious.
Fine. This stuff happens in all classes. But a good teacher anticipates concerns and confusion and corrals it towards productivity. In the Coursera courses I participated in, very little to none of this redirection happened. Posts in forums can be tagged, but rarely are. Useful tagging requires instruction, and instruction on tagging requires a sense of how to structure taxonomies. (Consult the librarians!).
Until recently, Coursera didn't support permalinks in the forums, which made it very difficult to find your way around. Permalink functionality is now present, which allows email subscriptions to include anchors to specific comments in a thread, and for each member of a course to see a compiled stream of their forum posts from within that course. This is a massive improvement in the platform over what it was just a few months ago. At this moment, however, the activity stream is not extracted to the platform level; it's only available within a course, and that course must be currently active or archived in order for you to access your posts, which you can only do by clicking into the course. Each course is atomized, just like in Blackboard, and thus there is no space currently on the platform for thinking about or working at the level of curricula.
Forums behind logins that are not permanently available are not open.
There's basically two modes of assessment within a Coursera course: quizzes and short peer-evaluated essays. There's some space here for thoughtful pedagogical work that reinforces certain ideas from course content (quizzes can be useful). The prompts for the essays however are widely varied: in one class I "took" the same prompt was used for every reading in the course:
Please write an essay that aims to enrich the reading of a fellow student who is both intelligent and attentive to the readings and to the course. Each essay should be between 270 and 320 words.
The essay should focus on this unit's reading and the subject may be any literary matter that you studied in that reading: plot, style, theme, structure, imagery, allusion, narrator reliability, and so on. Such matters are discussed in the video clips.
This is a terrible prompt for many reasons: the target essay size is incredibly small and distracting, not even enough space for a blessay. And the focus — "any literary matter that you studied" — is far from what my comp/rhet friends would call an "enabling constraint." Other prompts I've seen are stronger; one asks students to hone in on a text's arguments, exposition, and use of evidence, and then provides a detailed rubric that defines what it means to do that well.
The peer assessments are double-blind, and there's no quality control or opportunity for continued exchange after the review phase is over. Students often create a forum thread to solicit more dialogue about what they've written. This is a microcosm of one of the overall structural problems with Coursera: the inflexibility of the platform locks communication into specific spaces, which poses significant challenges to iteration. What about making rubrics available outside of the assignment, or even outside of the course? What about allowing students to know whose work they're reading, and who's reading their work, to force more honest dialogue and accountability?
Openness on the web requires the flexibility to loosely join small pieces, and to directly engage whomever is engaging you. Coursera fails on this count. Not open.
Data Lock
Coursera students have no way to extract their content (other than to copy and paste) or to delete their account, and the only way to delete previously published content is to navigate to it individually and delete comments one by one. Users retain "ownership" over their content, but grant Coursera the right to do whatever it wants to do with it. What kind of ownership is that?
This data lock-in, more than any of the other structures, makes clear the level of concern Coursera has for students who use its platform. Disallowing a user from deleting their account and extracting their data? Not. Open.
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— Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) March 26, 2012
We've established that these are most definitely massive online courses. There's a specific set of pedagogical benefits that truly open education offers students and the world: it foregrounds connectivity and puts the student at the center of his or her own learning; it prioritizes the generative iteration that is central to the evolution of ideas; it is skeptical of expertise; and it posits that learning is not limited to specific spaces but instead flows across them.
The design of Coursera as an LMS makes those learning goals very difficult to integrate. A good teacher can teach well using any set of tools, and it's certainly possible to have "good" courses inside of Coursera. But the structures and design of these platforms matter, their settings and capabilities are ideological, and the notion that an institution can simply choose to scale up without experimentation, trial, and error is foolhardy. Spending $50k to do so is an outrageous waste of resources. Maybe Coursera is realizing all this and has determined that there's more potential profit in changing their mission and competing against Blackboard under some perverted notion of "openness." They'll probably have a better chance of making a buck there than if they try to go toe-to-toe with the Canadians.


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After World War I started, all non-naturalized "Enemy Aliens" were required to register with United States authorities as a security measure.
Registrants were from all walks of life. For the State of Kansas the registered aliens represent a broad cross-section of the German-born population of the State.
NARA has a database of this set of records, but it is not indexed, and is tricky to search. I spent time creating indexes for the registrants (over 6,000 names!)and putting them in alphabetical order.
For 120 of the 6,000 registrants there are online digitized images of their registration papers at NARA. This contain details such as year of immigration plus ship name and port of arrival, maiden names of wives, parents' names (including mother's maiden name), place and date of birth, childrens'names and birth dates, siblings names and places of residence, photo,fingerprints, and more.
Those names without online digital images have more details such as place and date of birth, residence, etc. The full records can be obtained offline for these registrants.
The index I have created is for almost 6,000 affidavits filed in the Kansas Judicial District, 1917-1921.
This index is online and searchable at
You can also start at
and follow the link on that page.
I have written out detailed instructions on how to use the online index to find the full records on NARA's online database, and how to order the records for those names without online images.
Enjoy, and I hope you find an ancestor or two :-)


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Undergraduate Programs
B.F.A. in Studio or Graphic Design
The B.F.A. program provides an excellent comprehensive education for the future professional artist, both in general studio and graphic design and prepares students for entry into Master of Fine Arts degree programs. Students in the B.F.A. program work with faculty to develop a professional portfolio. A portfolio review is administered each academic year during the spring semester to provide a qualitative assessment of all students in this program. Students must pass the review to remain in the program.
Both concentrations include coursework in art foundations, drawing, photography, and portfolio development. Students choosing to concentrate in studio specialize in either 2D or 3D media. Graphic design students study web design, publication design, branding, and other professional skills.
B.A. in Art with a Concentration in Art History and Museum Studies
An art history/museum studies concentration involves examination of the history, sociology, and politics of the visual arts and the public's involvement with art through museums and exhibitions. An interdisciplinary field, the B.A. in art history prepares students for graduate work in the humanities, in museum studies, art therapy and curatorial studies. A capstone project in the student's area of art historical interest completes the program. Many students will also participate in museum internships.
B.S. in Studio Art
The B.S. degree in studio art allows a student with an interest in art to combine that interest with the study of other disciplines. Students pursuing the B.S. degree often combine the art major with a major in fields such as marketing, psychology or media studies.
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Radford's art education program has long been recognized for its excellence. Graduates of this program can be found in classrooms throughout Virginia and beyond. The program focuses on professional level artistic development along with appropriate courses in professional education. Students participate in field experience and student teaching under the careful supervision of the art education faculty. This experience also leads to certification in art education for teaching at the elementary and secondary levels.
An internship program enables students to apply acquired skills in a variety of professional environments including graphic design studios, advertising agencies and museums.


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Last year, I finally tackled a long-lived goal of making homemade gingerbread houses from scratch with a lot of inspiration and great advice from Sister Diane and her mom, Pam, both gingerbread house making experts. This year, we're in the process of selling our house and moving so I don't know if I'll be able to replicate last year's giant gingerbread house extravaganza, but I just might be able to tackle this tiny plastic canvas gingerbread house ornament that Diane shares over on Crafty Pod. Its cuteness is killing me. Check out that adorable use of ric rac trim and the teeny sequin door knob. I'm in love!
How-To: Tiny Plastic Canvas Gingerbread House Ornament


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|Mount Katsuragi
Mount Katsuragi (葛城山, Katsuragizan) is a mountain which holds the Tsuchigumo clan's kinjutsu. Hotaru and Tonbee live on this mountain. To prevent any intruders from obtaining the kinjutsu, the mountain is surrounded by a seemingly unbreakable barrier and protected by a large amount of traps. The Magaki Group managed to break the barrier from the inside and evade all the traps successfully.
Mount Katsuragi became the home of the loyalists to En no Gyōja after he and the elders of the clan split over the fate of the Tsuchigumo clan's kinjutsu. The majority of the clan remained in the village with the elders, while the few loyalists left for Mount Katsuragi, where their numbers dwindled down over the years to Hotaru and Tonbee.
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My main focus is the development of mathematical tools and numerical
methods for the analysis of dynamical systems which are both
stochastic and multiscale. The particular areas of applications I am
interested in include molecular dynamics, chemical and biological
networks, materials science, atmosphere-ocean science, and fluids
dynamics. My main objectives are to understand the pathways and rate
of occurrence of rare events in complex systems; to develop and
analyze multiscale algorithms for the simulation of random dynamical
systems; and, more generally, to quantify the effects of random
perturbations on the systems dynamics.
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- Sampling techniques for rare events
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- The string method page
Together with international collaborators we used novel computational methods in combination with molecular dynamics simulations to identify the pathways of diffusion of a carbon monoxide molecule inside myoglobin, a protein involved in oxygen transport and storage in various animal species including humans. These results shed light on the important mechanism of ligand-protein binding and indicate how dynamical aspects of protein function are related to its structure. The full article was published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society and can be found here.
In collaboration with Cameron Abrams (Drexel University) we used a new molecular dynamics simulation method to investigate the conformational variability of large proteins, a problem of interest e.g. in drug design. The method was applied to two complex proteins, a subunit of GroEL, a protein that catalyzes folding of substrate proteins, and the HIV-1 envelope gp120, a protein responsible for the fusion of the virus with a target cell. In this second example, the method generates plausible all-atom models of the unliganded conformation of HIV-1 gp120, which was uncharacterized so far and may prove useful in the development of inhibitors and immunogens. The full article was published in the Proceeding of the National Academy of Science and can be found here.


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Santa Clara, CA (PRWEB) July 9, 2013 - Cloud vendor, Giva®, today announced a significant new standalone cloud product release for ITIL change management for Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) compliance for IT service management.
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With all of the demands imposed by SOX compliance and other industry specific compliance policies such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA), there is a very high demand for IT change management software in the cloud. Giva is the only vendor that provides standalone cloud IT change management software. Many vendors provide IT change management software, but they are highly integrated with IT service desk incident and problem management modules. The problem is that many organizations already have such systems in place and only need the functionality of IT change management. Also, these integrated systems are expensive, difficult to customize and very complex to use.
"When comparing all of our IT vendors, Giva's commitment and passion in maintaining its products with new releases and providing excellent customer service is 'best in class' and clearly distinguished Giva above the rest of our vendors", said Peter Griffiths, IT Director, Westway Group, Inc. "Giva has enabled our team to reduce the amount of time spent on change control process by approximately 70%. Using Giva, we estimate an 80% decrease in IT auditing costs for next year's public accounting firm audit. This translates into a significant savings in labor and hard dollar auditing costs for the company." [Click to download the case study.]
Change management is typically composed of the raising and recording of changes, assessing the impact, cost, benefit and risk of proposed changes, developing business justification and obtaining approval, managing and coordinating change implementation, monitoring and reporting on implementation, reviewing and closing change requests.
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Change management is responsible for managing change process involving: hardware, communications equipment and software, system software, all documentation and procedures associated with the running, support and maintenance of live systems.
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When my husband mentioned that Coca-Cola had broken into the milk business (during a long drive up to Nor-Cal to visit family for Thanksgiving), I was intrigued. Coke is making milk? It seemed pretty strange.
I immediately started researching, spending the remainder of our drive scouring the web for information about Coke's new milk product called Fairlife (launching early 2015).
What I found was a mess of misleading and deceptive marketing — all wrapped up in a pretty package that's advertised as "purely nutritious" milk. But it's not — not even close.
Not because it's made by Coca-Cola. And not even because of their controversial pin-up advertisements. I'll get to all of Fairlife's flaws (and there are many) in a minute. But first, let's talk about what Fairlife is.
What is Fairlife?
Fairlife is a lactose-free "super milk" that contains 50% more protein, 30% more calcium, and 50% less sugar than regular milk.
Even though this hot new product (a joint venture between Coca-Cola and Select Milk Producers), won't be available in most stores until early 2015, it's already making headlines nationwide. According to this article from Business Week,
Unlike soda, the U.S. milk industry remains highly fragmented with few recognizable brand names. In fact, store-brand milk accounts for almost one-third of milk sales, according to market research firm Euromonitor International. With Fairlife, Coca-Cola is looking to use its marketing prowess to change that — creating the "Coke" of milks.
Sandy Douglas, president of Coca-Cola North America, expects Fairlife to "rain money" once it's established in the marketplace. "We'll charge twice as much for it as the milk we're used to buying in a jug," Douglas said.
Mark McAfee, owner of Organic Pastures (the largest raw-milk dairy in the United States) isn't quite buying it. "It's a dead-end venture," he said. "Our core consumer wants unprocessed, whole, delicious, easy-to-digest full-fat raw milk from a farmer they know and trust."
I tend to agree with him.
Not just because I'm a fan of Organic Pastures, but mainly because I get kind of annoyed whenever a big, powerful company tries to trick people into thinking that something they have created is better than what nature has already perfected (whole, raw, organic milk from happy cows that live outside and eat grass).
5 Reasons Why I Won't Be Drinking Fairlife
Let's get one thing straight. Companies are certainly free to sell whatever they want. And I am by no means on a mission to turn people away from a product just because I don't like it.
But once I really started looking into Fairlife and the claims attached to their products (via their website and from speaking with a Fairlife representative on the phone), I felt that some light needed to be shed on their extremely misleading marketing messages.
Because it doesn't strike me as fair to manipulate consumers with good intentions into buying something that they think is healthy (when its really anything but) — especially at twice the price of regular milk!
Here's why Coca-Cola's Fairlife Milk is anything but fair:
- #1: It's not innovative — it's Frankenmilk. Fairlife prides itself on being at the cutting edge of milk-making with their "innovative" filtration process. From their website:
Our milk flows through soft filters so that we can concentrate the good stuff – like protein and calcium – and filter out the fat and sugars. That allows us to bottle only delicious, nutrient-rich milk – with no added protein powders or synthetic junk.
This video further explains how their filtration process works:
All of this will probably sound really good to a lot of people, which is part of the reason why it irks me so much. Everything in nature is put together for a reason. And the naturally occurring nutritional components in the foods we eat work synergistically to provide us with whole foods that are healthful, nourishing, and safe to eat.
When we start deconstructing these foods, picking and choosing what to leave in and what to take out, we open the door for problems to occur. Numerous studies have proven parts of certain foods to be harmful when consumed in isolation (without the same vitamins, minerals, fats, etc. found in their natural food form).
For example, T. Colin Campbell proved in The China Study that the milk protein casein caused cancer in rats. But the milk protein whey (conveniently left out of The China Study) appears to be effective in protecting against cancer.
I'm certainly NOT claiming that drinking Fairlife will cause any kind of sickness or disease. But when it comes to deciding what components should and shouldn't be in milk, I think we're better off trusting nature over Coca-Cola.
- #2: Factory farming is not sexy. It takes a lot of guts to try and manipulate folks into thinking that factory farming is cool and progressive (as opposed to cruel, inhumane, bad for the environment, unhealthy, etc.) but that's just what Fairlife does in this video…
Showing the words "we believe in better farming" next to a picture of an adorable calf trapped inside of a cage is a total joke — one that I don't think many people will fall for.
- #3: Fairlife's FAQs — yikes. Some of these literally made me LOL. This one was my favorite:
If cows could talk, I seriously doubt they would tell you that they prefer the "luxury" of an artificially lighted indoor feed lot to to being outside on fresh pasture — but that's just me.
UPDATE (2/9/15): Fairlife has since removed this FAQ from their website, but has NOT changed their farming practices.
- #4: Highly pasteurized does not equal healthy. Milk is at its best in a natural, raw, unpasteurized state.
Pasteurization exists to destroy dangerous germs found in the milk of cows that are raised irresponsibly in feed lots. Although pasteurization does destroy the bad stuff, it messes with milk's nutrient profile and wipes out much of the beneficial bacteria found in milk. For this reason, many people who can't digest pasteurized milk are able to tolerate raw milk with no problems.
Fairlife takes this unnatural process one step further and pasteurizes their milk at an even higher temperature than ordinary milk. This process (advertised as another one of those progressive, cutting-edge innovations) is said to give Fairlife a longer shelf life than average milk.
- #5: "From Grass to Glass" — really? This probably won't come as a surprise, but Fairlife's cows do not eat grass or spend ANY time on pasture throughout their entire lives (a Fairlife rep confirmed this for me over the phone).
So why do they use this phrase to describe the their milk? Good question.
Fairlife's "from grass to glass" promise really has nothing to do with grass. Instead, it's a phrase used to describe their process of growing their own crops for their cows. According to the Fairlife rep I spoke with, the company grows a mixture of GMO corn, soy, alfalfa, and grains that is used to feed their cows.
From grass to glass? Not quite. But it has a nice ring to it and will surely catch people's attention.
The Bottom Line
The people behind Fairlife are smart. They know what people want. And these days, more and more people want to eat real food that was raised responsibly, ethically, and healthfully. This is a good thing.
But what bothers me the most about Fairlife isn't that their milk comes from cows that are housed indoors, fed grains and GMOs, and given antibiotics. And I don't really give a hoot that their Frankenmilk is ultra-pasteurized.
What really irritates me is how Fairlife is taking advantage of the "real food" movement by selling people on the idea of transparency, simple ingredients, better farming practices, etc.
But that's all it is — an idea.
Failife isn't selling milk. They're selling consumers all kinds of happy, feel-good terms without actually delivering any of them. Seems pretty unfair if you ask me!
What's your opinion of Fairlife? Did you find their methods of marketing as disturbing as I did? Let me know with a comment!