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Cooper, Wendy A. An American Vision: Henry Francis du Pont's Winterthur Museum. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art and Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 2002. Order online.
Eversmann, Pauline. The Winterthur Guide to Recognizing Styles: American Decorative Arts from the 17th to the 19th Centuries. Winterthur, Del.: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 2001. Order online.
Fennimore, Donald L., et al. Eye for Excellence: Masterworks from Winterthur. Winterthur, Del.: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1994.
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There are many reasons to plan a romantic getaway, including celebrating an anniversary or just needing a weekend away together. No matter what your reasons are for wanting a romantic getaway, there is nothing worse than arriving at your destination only to discover you forgot something at home. Here are some tips to help you prepare for your upcoming romantic getaway, including what to pack and how to pack it efficiently.
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Unless you are planning a getaway at a nudist colony, you already know to pack standard items, such as clothing, underwear, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrush, hairbrush, shampoo, conditioner, hairspray, curling iron and so on. To help reduce the amount of clothing you bring, be creative when putting together your outfits. Try to find outfits that will work during both the day and night. Remember, a simple T-shirt and a pair of jeans can be dressed up with the right jewelry and accessories, including belts, scarves and vests.
Since you already know how important the above clothing and toiletries are, it is important to focus on the additional items that will help heat things up during your romantic getaway. Here are some suggested items to pack and why they will come in handy while enjoying a romantic getaway together.
- Massage oils: End the day by relaxing and taking turns giving each other a massage.
- Romantic music: Help set the mood by bringing both of your favorite romantic tunes.
- Perfume and makeup: Just because you are planning to relax does not mean you cannot make yourself smell and look nice. Pack his favorite perfume and tease him all weekend by wearing it every time you leave the room.
- Dressy attire: Plan at least once night for the two of you to get out of the room and enjoy a formal, romantic dinner at a local restaurant.
- Books: There is nothing more romantic than waking up with nothing to do. A book will help you relax and keep you occupied while your significant other sleeps in or takes a long shower.
- Snacks: Finger foods are great to have with you in your room, especially if you plan to lock yourself in it when staying at a bed and breakfast. Suggested foods include grapes, bread, cheese, strawberries and a bottle of wine or champagne.
- Gifts: Surprise your loved one with a gift. Suggested gifts include their favorite movie, perfume or a piece of jewelry.
- Candles: Turn off the lights and set the mood with some candlelight.
- Camera: You will want to remember your getaway. Bring a camera and take pictures when you are out exploring the town.
- Bottle of bubble bath: Fill the tub and enjoy a romantic bubble bath for two.
- Bathrobes: Step out of your bubble bath and put nothing on but a fluffy robe.
- Lingerie: You know why you need this. You may also want to pack warmer pajamas for snuggling when sleeping.
- Playing cards: Play a game of strip poker or other card game to pass the time.
- Swimwear: Pack a suit just in case you plan to go swimming. A midnight dip in the pool is extremely romantic.
It is also a good idea to pack a small medical kit to take with. Include basic items such as antibiotic cream, pain reliever, band aids, birth control, bug repellent, extra contacts, anti-diarrhea medication and any prescription medications either of you will need.
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Make a list of what you need to bring with you. Divide your packing list into three categories – his, hers and ours. To help make sure you do not forget anything on the list, cross things off when you have them in the suitcase and ready to go. Your packing list will help you stay organized and ensure nothing gets left behind. Remember to take a copy of the packing list with you so you don't forget anything in the room when checking out.
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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Internet is having a love affair with Charles Ramsey, the man who helped Amanda Berry break down the door of the Cleveland house where she said she was being held captive, along with two other women. All three went missing a decade ago; Berry was 16, Gina DeJesus was 14 and Michelle Knight was 20. It's entirely understandable to focus on Ramsey in the giddy moment of breaking news. He is forthright and funny in describing what happened. ("I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man's arms.")
And what a relief to find a glimmer of help and humor in this macabre story about missing women imprisoned in a house on an ordinary-seeming street of row houses, with a young child believed to be Berry's daughter. According to Ramsey, the owner of the home, Ariel Castro, appeared to be a normal guy who attended backyard barbecues and chatted with the neighbors. Everyone wants this to be a tale of hope. The Cleveland police chief said that finding the women alive gives his department a boost and that they've arrested the men they think are responsible: Castro and his two brothers, all in their 50s. The FBI saluted the women's "survival and perseverance." A doctor in the emergency room where Berry, DeJesus and Knight were taken Monday night emphasized how amazing it is that the women are physically healthy. "This is good," he said. "This is not the ending we usually see from these stories."
But this is not the ending, and surely little other than the escape will seem happy once the facts begin to flow. That's already clear from the frantic tone of Amanda Berry's voice when she called 911. How were these women kidnapped and held undetected for so many years? Does their story connect to the still unsolved disappearance of Ashley Summers, another teen-ager who vanished from the same neighborhood in 2007? Why didn't the police or child-welfare workers see anything amiss when they visited the address in 2000 and 2004, as the mayor said Tuesday? What about the neighbors, especially given Ramsey's description of Castro coming outside to work on his cars? And most of all, what were these women's lives like inside that house? What were their relationships with each other?
I obsess about stories of women who are kidnapped and imprisoned: Elizabeth Smart, taken in Utah when she was 14 and held for nine months; Jaycee Dugard, taken when she was 11 in Lake Tahoe and held for 18 years; Natasha Kampusch, held from the age of 10 for eight years; Elisabeth Fritzl, a captive of her father in Austria for 24 years who had seven children with him. There are more. The pattern is hauntingly familiar: An older man or men, sometimes with the aid of a woman, imprisons a child or a teen-ager. Sometimes she is literally locked away in a cellar or in a closet. Sometimes she has a bit more physical freedom, but she's too afraid or psychologically manipulated to identify herself. Almost always there is repeated rape, and often children are born from it.
These ordeals are our gothic horror stories, our Bluebeards come to life. I fight my own obsession with them because it fills me with morbid fear and not much else. The disappearance that's at the root of this is a made-up story from the movie "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991). When I saw that movie as a college student, I was so frightened that I could barely crawl into my car: I made the friend I'd gone to the film with look under every seat and in the trunk before I would get in to cry all the way home. I tried to focus on the bravery of Jodie Foster's character, young FBI trainee Clarice Starling, because at least in her the film has a female rescuer. But the scene I couldn't shake was the one in which the victim (whom Starling later finds in the dungeon basement of a psychopath) gets captured. It happens when she helps him load a couch into the back of his van. She makes herself vulnerable by giving a hand to a stranger, and he slams the door on her. I could easily imagine myself as that naive, trusting girl. The movie terrified me so much that I turned down a summer job I'd wanted as a caretaker on a stretch of the Appalachian Trail. Suddenly I couldn't handle the idea of being alone and exposed.
This is the opposite of empowering. The stories of girls who have a chance to escape, but don't take it, darken the picture even more. Elizabeth Smart walked around with her captor and his wife, dressed in a robe and veil, without alerting the other people she came into contact with. I know about the idea of traumatic bonding -- the ties that a captor can establish with a young captive (and a more scientifically supported term than Stockholm Syndrome).
After her release, Jaycee Dugard wrote in her memoir about how the man who took her, Phillip Garrido, used rape, pregnancy and the birth of their daughters to bind her to him. Eventually she would answer the front door and talk to people without telling them who she was or asking to leave. When investigators finally questioned her, at first she gave them a false name, called Garrido a "great man," and only identified herself by her real name after he'd confessed to her abduction. In her book, Dugard reminds us how young she was when she was taken, and how desperate she was to keep her daughters safe. Like Smart, she says she was too scared to sound an alarm. "What I knew was safe," she told Diane Sawyer on TV. "The unknown out there was terrifying, especially when thinking about the girls."
It's not clear yet what conditions Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight endured. The account Ramsey gave of Berry screaming to get out, and her 911 call identifying herself as the missing girl who'd been in the news for 10 years, show a strong desire to get away. Maybe this will turn out to be a story of total, unrelenting captivity like "Room," the Emma Donoghue novel that's the best thing I've read about kidnapping and imprisonment. Donoghue's book is told from the point of view of 5-year-old Jack, the boy born of rape to his captive mother. Spoiler alert: The best part of this book comes after Jack and his mother escape and have to figure out how to acclimate to the regular world. He doesn't know how to go up and down stairs. She has to deal with parents who love her but have trouble accepting her son, and with a media spotlight that turns into a harsh glare. "Now you have lots of help from your family as well as lots of dedicated professionals," a chirpy TV interviewer reassures Jack's mother about continuing to raise him. "It's actually harder," she answers. "When our world was eleven foot square it was easier to control." She doesn't mean she wanted to keep him in captivity. She means that the transition is brutal. It's a haunting, amazing book, a novel that somehow spins literature from sensation.
"Room" doesn't go to the Jaycee Dugard place of a victim who surrenders her self-identity to her captor, and then has to win it back. But it helped me understand how difficult it can be to come back from the presumed dead, and how painful the need for explanation can be. Maybe the answers to my questions about what the past decade has been like, day to day, for Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Michelle Knight are none of my business. Maybe my fixation from afar on these life stories can lead to no deep insight. At arm's length, I'm left only with the lesson I already know, the one I repeat to my children every time a story like this hits the news: Never get into a car with a stranger, because much as I wish it were otherwise, there is evil afoot in our world.
Bazelon is a Slate senior editor and writes about law, family, and kids. Her new book is "Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Empathy and Character." Find her at email@example.com or on Facebook or Twitter.


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Around 3:15 a.m., I had a few contractions but was able to get back to sleep. They were much stronger than the Braxton-Hicks contractions I had a few weeks earlier but I didn't want to get my hopes up. I woke up again sometime in the 4:00 hour with a couple more, but again was able to get back to sleep. Same thing in the 5:00 hour, and I began to get hopeful that this might actually be labor starting. I was able to get another half hour or so of rest before they started coming more frequently. At 5:48 they were coming close enough that I began timing them. I know the exact time because I was using an app on my iPhone called "Contraction" that timed the duration and frequency of the contractions. I highly recommend that app for any pregnant mamas out there! When you're in that much pain, fumbling with a stopwatch or focusing on the clock is not easy, but just tapping a phone is doable.
Despite the pain (lots and lots of pain!), I was able to keep my whole body relaxed during contractions and right at 9:00 I was feeling some pressure and an urge to push. They checked me and I was 10 cm dilated so was given the go-ahead to push with the contractions. At this point, the tears started again, as I knew it would be a matter of minutes before I would be holding my new daughter. My water has never broken on its own, so Dr. Andres went ahead and broke it at that point. I tried to breathe through the first contractions while I was pushing, thinking that keeping as relaxed as possible through that would speed things along. But breathing through them proved to be quite difficult and rather ineffective. Dr. Andres said that holding my breath and bearing down would be much more effective and have her here sooner.
Between contractions Jared was getting the video camera set up and ready to go. We have all three of the girls' births on video, with no intention of ever showing it to anyone, but I knew that at some point I'd want to be able to look back on them. A lot of doctors and hospitals are very leery of having births on video for insurance reasons, but I'm grateful that Dr. Andres and McDyer (who delivered Naomi) did not mind at all and were even encouraging Jared to make sure he had it in a spot to get a good view of all that was going on. But have no fear- if we ever invite you over to watch home movies, these will not be shown! They're locked away in a vault!
It seemed like an eternity of pushing and if it weren't for Jared there by my side, encouraging me and kissing my forehead, I would have been one of those screaming maniacs you see in movies. He kept me calm and focused and couldn't have been any better during the whole process. After a couple strong contractions without Heidi seeming to have moved down at all, Dr. Andres put in a catheter to make sure my bladder was empty so that wouldn't be blocking her. As I had peed twice since being there, that wasn't the problem. I started to get a little worried, but within another contraction or two, she started moving down and put my fears at ease. And thankfully the catheter didn't have to stay in for more than a minute! In those moments, though, I remember praying quickly and fervently for God's grace, knowing I would have His strength in my weakness. My friend, Andrea, shared some verses with me that she focused on and had read to her during her delivery with her second born, and I was able to pray through some of those between contractions.
Jared asked Dr. Andres if he could help catch Heidi and it wasn't long before he was putting on his gloves. As Heidi was crowing and about to "pop out", Dr. Andres told me to try to relax for just a minute. Only a woman who has felt the pressure of needing to push with all her might knows the nearly impossible feat this task is. It wasn't that the pain was unbearable, but fighting the urge of pushing with all that pressure made my legs shake uncontrollably. And though I was trying with all my might to refrain from pushing, her head seemed to pop out all on its own. Dr. Andres told Jared where to put his hands and he helped pull her out as I gave one last push and Heidi Lynn was born!
The rest was all the standard procedure of the cord clamping, cutting, pushing out the placenta, but my eyes only focused on the sweet baby girl in my arms. She had a beautiful cry and began exercising her lungs right away. And her bowels. She pooped on me within mere minutes of being born. And like all babies, it wouldn't be the last time that happened. Such is the life of a mom :)
Dr. Andres showed Jared the placenta when it came out, explaining everything he was checking for: only one tear where the water was broken, everything else intact, etc. They were able to clean Heidi while in my arms and I tried nursing right away. She weighed 7 lbs 10 oz and was 19.5".


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Some notes on objects.
Objects and insights
It is possible to think of objects as both catalysts and repositories of meaningful human experiences, and it is the entwinement of objects with our lives, identities, memories and desires that makes them attractive targets for qualitative research. Elicitation is a qualitative method based on the use of visual materials, photography, video, artefacts or other objects, in which participants gather materials which help them to make sense of, or express, experiences and emotions which may be difficult to articulate in purely linguistic or cognitive ways. A broad framework called 'symbolic interactionism' provides a means of understanding elicitations as evidence that provides insight into the meanings that are attached to people's interactions with other people and the object world around them.
Fetish and Phantasy
The significance of objects in the corpus theoretical is clear in the Marxist tradition, in which objects are commodified and then fetishised - that is, according to Marx, we understand the power of acting in the world to be carried within commodities rather than, say the people whose labour made them. Freud later develops the fetishisation of objects into the sexual realm in which objects are the agents of arousal and their absence renders the human subject impotent.
Post-Freudian psychoanalysts working in the tradition of Melanie Klein move the emphasis away from the Freudian school's concentration on ego psychology (or the ability of the conscious individual to manage undesirable unconscious drives) towards the Kleinian investigation of unconscious phantasy (the way that the environment stimulates conceptual capacities).
This shift in emphasis in object-relations from fetish to capacity can be seen in the work of Wilfred Bion, who develops the idea that thinking capacities are provoked by interactions with the object world. Following Bion and Christopher Bollas, we can say that thoughts require a thinker, and it is in our encounters with the environment of people and objects that pre-conceptual impressions and emotions call a thinking consciousness into being. Experiences and emotional responses generate mental phenomena that must be processed, and it is in the act of processing that a reflective self emerges.
As Grotstein puts it, Bion emphasises the primacy of "emotions and the faculties of the mental apparatus that apprehend them, among which are consciousness, attention and reverie, each devised to render us more aware of our emotional life in regard to our relationship with objects as well as ourselves Emotions, unlike sensuous stimuli, are not visible or tangible and, consequently, must be apprehended by reverie, a waking dream state." (Grotstein, 2009) Note also that the progression from consciousness, through attentiveness, to reverie, here suggest the kinds of activities and states of mind that might be necessary for uncovering the kinds of meaningful understandings that are sought in the object elicitation process.
Play and reverie
Bion's work suggests that the identity of the thinker is bound up with the relationship between the experiential and sensory impressions of the object world and the emerging self's mapping of inner phantasies to the external world. Donald Winnicott's examination of infant play also directs our attention to both the meanings that we attribute to objects and the reverie or waking dream-like states. In imaginative play, the child recruits the environment and object-world into their diegetic world:
"(a) To get to the idea of playing it is helpful to think of the preoccupation that characterizes the playing of a young child. The content does not matter. What matters is the near-withdrawal state, akin to the concentration of older children and adults. The playing child inhabits an area that cannot be easily left, nor can it easily admit intrusions. (b) This area of playing is not inner psychic reality. It is outside the individual but it is not the external world. (c) Into this play area that child gathers objects or phenomena from external reality and uses these in the service of some sample derived from inner or personal reality. Without hallucinating the child puts out a sample of dream potential and lives with this sample in a chosen setting of fragments from external reality. (d) In playing, the child manipulates external phenomena in the service of the dream and invests chosen external phenomena with dream meaning and feeling. (e) There is a direct development from transitional phenomena to playing, and from playing to shared playing, and from this to cultural experiences." (Winnicott, 1971)
The ability of the child to invest dream meaning and feeling into objects is what makes those objects transitional, that is, essential elements in the child's development since they form part of the repertoire with which emotions and meanings can be expressed without resort to the as yet incomplete capacity for cognitive and linguistic articulation.
From cathexis to day-dreams
Such investments of emotional intensity, imaginative play and meaning onto external objects is termed cathexis. In Freudian psychoanalysis, cathexis is libidinal; however we need not limit our understanding of the delegation or transferral of emotional experiences onto objects to sexual or erotic meanings. Parkin (1999) and others show that transitional objects can come into play at any time of life in a variety of emotionally demanding circumstances. Parkin notes that under the severe conditions of sudden flight and displacement, refugees who must take what they can carry before departing don't limit themselves to utilitarian items but also take mementoes such a photographs, letter and other personal effects. Parkin argues that this reflects "a more general process of self-inscription in non-commodity, gift-like objects which, through their association with stories, dreams and the transmission of skills and status, temporarily encapsulate precluded social personhood". (Parkin, 1999)
Following Bion we may also see the work of objects in the life of the mind. Bollas draws on Bion's digestive metaphor to explore how external objects and their experiences exert an influence over our mental activities outside the infant play-world or sudden exile. The world of experience continually unfolds for us, yet only some of those experiences can be 'digested'; when such experiences do provide 'food-for-thought', they provide the very materials that our thinking consists of, and the sustenance that the exercise of thinking requires. Switching back to the metaphor of the dream or reverie, Bollas argues that we are "involved in ordinary dream-work, knitting together experiences in the real that form the tapestry of that day's unconscious meaning. Actual things play a huge role in that dreaming, and this may be due to what they contain (mnemically) or how they function (their structure), or what enduring them will put us through (their processual integrity)." (Bollas, 2009) Or in a more peripatetic mode: "When moving in the real, the manifest contents of my meanderings are constituted out of the actual things I encounter. Any latent content will emerge from the aleatory vector as this thinking involves me in encountering the unexpected, out of which a type of thinking arises." (Bollas, 2009)
Selves layered within objects
Building on the insight into how objects are interlaced with meanings and self-inscription, Anthony Elliott and John Urry provide an analysis of how people's lives are changing with the increasing prevalence of mobile digital technologies and their associated objects. We carry around with us objects into which we literally deposit meanings and experiences for storage and later retrieval. We store in them such crucial social tools as our contact lists, the musical and audible bubbles we can enclose ourselves within, and the messages we send to each other. These objects increasingly merge otherwise compartmentalised sections of our lives, such that we address work issues while with loved ones, and communicate with our loved ones while at the workplace. Their presence with us at all times means that those traditional moments of reverie - the delayed train, the unexpected pause between locations - have been invaded by the routines of the digital device, with its seductive invitation to check our emails, to stay on top of work and home life, to graze the latest information. Such a deep implication of the object into life implies a new intimacy between devices and what designers understatedly call their 'users':
"The individual self does not just 'use', or activate, digital technologies in day-to-day life. On the contrary, the self - in conditions of intensive mobilities - becomes deeply 'layered' within technological net works, as well as reshaped by their influence." (Elliott & Urry, 2010)
Objects as emotional companions
Sherry Turkle in her study of evocative objects considered how objects are the things we think with. Her anthology collects together autobiographical accounts of how specific objects have inspired or stimulated the people who have encountered them and provide a model for the sorts of qualitative insights the meditation on objects can invoke. Turkle draws on Levi-Strauss' account of bricolage to begin an exploration of objects as emotional companions.
"Material things, for Levi-Strauss, were goods-to-think-with and, following the pun in French, they were good-to-think-with as well We find it familiar to consider objects as useful or aesthetic, as necessities or vain indulgences. We are on less familiar ground when we consider objects as companions to our emotional lives or as provocations to thought. The notion of evocative objects brings together these two less familiar ideas, underscoring the inseparability of thought and feeling in our relationship to things. We think with the objects we love; we love the objects we think with." (Turkle, 2007, pp4-5)
Object elicitation
Object elicitation can provide insights into the functional relationships between people, objects and attitudes, providing a window onto singular or shared understandings of particular issues and how people interpret and signify the realm of social action and meaning. It is based on the view that interactions with other people and the object world form meaningful experiences for, and emotional responses in, people's lives. Furthermore, our development as individual selves is bound up with our experiences with objects and the pattern of their correspondence with our phantasies. Objects can be thought of as storage mechanisms for emotional content, from their role in imaginative play, through their significance at times of distress, to their ever-increasing intertwining with our technologised selfhood. As well as providing proxies for our emotional lives, objects become necessary components of our meaningful experiences.
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Grotstein, J., in De Cortinas, L. P., 2009, Aesthetic Dimension of the Mind: Variations on a Theme of Bion, London: Karnac
Parkin, D. J., 'Mementoes as Transitional Objects in Human Displacement' in Journal of Material Culture,1999 4: 303 - 320
Turkle, S., 2007, Evocative Objects: Things we Think With, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press
Winnicott, D. W., 1971, Playing and Reality, London: Routledge


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Food Network has great snack recipes that are easily adaptable to be gluten free/dairy free! The other day, I came across some great popcorn recipes and I thought HEY! I'll do a little popcorn series! It first started with the Peanut Maple Popcorn. Today – Mexican Chocolate Popcorn Balls! Movie night snacks will never be the same!
Mexican Chocolate Popcorn Balls
Making these will be sticky but worth it! The mix of chocolate and spices is great!
- 1/4 cup light corn syrup
- 2 tablespoons vegan butter (Earth Balance)
- 1 cupconfectioners' sugar
- 2 cups mini marshmallows
- 2 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder (Hershey's is great – you can use Toll House as well but I like Hershey's cocoa powder way better)
- 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon water
- 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt.
- 12 cups popcorn – popped (I suggest using a natural or light butter popcorn or even Kettle corn (my personal favorite) )
- Cinnamon Sugar for rolling
- Bring corn syrup, butter, sugar, 1 cup mini marshmallows, cocoa powder, cinnamon, nutmeg and cayenne pepper, and water to a boil in a large pot over medium heat, stirring.
- Add vanilla and a pinch of salt.
- Remove from the heat; using a rubber spatula, stir in popcorn and 1 more cup of mini marshmallows.
- Now for the fun and sticky part – yes it will be sticky! Butter your hands, and shape mixture into balls.
- Roll formed balls in cinnamon sugar.
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Optional extras: Mix in a serving of your favorite protein powder to build muscle and stave off hunger. Or, for added fiber, add flax meal, wheat germ, or chia seeds (1/2 teaspoon). For a health boost, add fish or flaxseed oil or probiotics (recommended dosage). And for extra pizzazz and flavor, add cinnamon, nutmeg, vanilla extract, maple syrup, honey, dates, fresh herbs, or fresh ginger (1/4 to 1/2 teaspoon).
Here's a handy chart showing a basic under-300-calorie smoothie with specific ingredients listed underneath.
- 1 cup kale (34 calories)
- 1/2 frozen banana (53 calories)
- 1/2 cup frozen strawberries (23 calories)
- 1/2 cup frozen blueberries (42 calories)
- 3 ounces vanilla Greek yogurt (65 calories)
- 1 1/4 cups cold water
- 1/2 serving vanilla protein powder (45 calories)
- 1/4 teaspoon cinnamon (2 calories)
Total calories: 264
Since diving into the world of smoothie-making can be intimidating, here are some other smoothie recipes you can try out that follow this basic plan. Have a smoothie recipe you love? Share it in the comments below!
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Werth: 'No setback' with hammy
SAN DIEGO -- Nationals right-fielder Jayson Werth, on the disabled list because of a right hamstring injury, was not involved in any rehab assignments the last two days because he felt tightness in the injured hamstring.
Werth was hoping to re-join the team Saturday, but the Nationals want Werth to get more at-bats before he is activated from the DL. It's not known when Werth will rejoin the team.
In an e-mail to MLB.com, Werth said he did not have a setback with the hamstring.
"No setbacks, but [I] did realize I wasn't quite ready," Werth said. "As I'm learning, hammys are tricky, as we have seen with Wilson [Ramos]. You gotta be 100 percent before coming off the DL. There are injuries you can play with/through and there are injuries you can't.
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Cooper Union is Grateful to the estate of Wolfgang S. Homburger (CE'50)
POSTED ON: November 8, 2012
Wolfgang S. Homburger (1926 – 2010) remembered The Cooper Union throughout his life by contributing generously and including the institution in his estate plans. This year, the full-tuition scholarships for six civil engineering students are being underwritten as a result of a generous gift from Homburger's estate.
"For a person who was stateless for over half his life at the time (the Nazis had stripped him of citizenship in 1935 leaving him without a home country until his naturalization in 1951), being accepted by such a renowned institution as The Cooper Union brought him a profound sense of belonging again," says his son Paul, adding that "Cooper Union was always a prominent factor in his life, giving him the education and opportunity to achieve and succeed as a civil engineer. He always remembered how his education had been funded, and he made sure that he would continue this legacy for others."
Homburger was a 1950 civil engineering graduate. He became well known for his expertise in traffic engineering in California. For 35 years, Homburger was a research engineer at the Institute of Transportation Studies (ITS) at UC Berkeley, where he researched traffic and transit design and management. When he retired in 1990, he was Assistant Director of ITS, had taught thousands of undergraduate and graduate students and transportation professionals, lectured all over the world, and written, among others, a popular textbook, Fundamentals of Traffic Engineering, which is in its sixteenth printing and is still widely used today.
In 1997, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, a national professional organization, honored him with the Wilbur S. Smith Distinguished Transportation Educator Award. The award recognizes those who have made an outstanding contribution to the transportation profession by relating academic studies to the actual practice of transportation.
"Mention the name Wolfgang S. Homburger to anyone involved in traffic engineering in the state of California and in all probability he or she will have attended one of his classes," the award citation read, "thousands of students have taken his clear and concise lectures on traffic and/or transit design and management."
Homburger was born in Karlsruhe, Germany on December 18, 1926. In 1939, his parents sent him to England as part of the last Kindertransport, a rescue mission that sent thousands of Jewish children to the United Kingdom where they were placed in foster homes to keep them safe during World War II. He spent the war years attending boarding school at Eastbourne College, although that school was evacuated and the students were housed at Radley College near Oxford. Later he taught younger students at a school that had been relocated to Deudraeth Castle, in northern Wales. Throughout his life, he loved returning to that part of the country.
As a young man, he immigrated to the United States where he reunited with his parents in New York City. He received his Bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from The Cooper Union in 1950, and a Master's of Science in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley in 1951. He was naturalized in 1951 and served in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers from 1951 to 1955, working first as a construction and pavement design engineer and later on active duty with stints in Japan and Korea.
In 1958, Homburger married the late Arlene Levinson, whom he met at International House at UC Berkeley. They had a son and daughter.
Besides traffic engineering, he was passionate about music, and he and his wife were committed supporters of Neve Shalom-Wahat Al-Salam, a village in Israel where Jewish and Arab families live together in a peace-building effort.
Information from article written by Christine Cosgrove, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley


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Easter hops or nots
Nothing says Happy Easter like a kid in a red suit waving a sword while riding a black chicken.
No need to go into what it means – it's beside the point.
Appreciate the whimsy.
"Look Chubs, just how much control do you have with that hammer?"
I get the cracking of eggs, but look at the faces on those chicks and the one stretched out running.
Probably realizes those are going to run out of eggs to smash soon …
(Actually Jenny Eugenia Nyström, the Swedish artist, was well known for her Christmas cards, postcards, and magazine covers featuring gnomes/elves from Swedish folklore and the Swedish version of Santa Claus/St. Nicholas. She is often mentioned as creating what many considered to be traditional Christmas characters and images.)
Lament of the dedicated crafter: "I spent all night decorating these by hand and you expect me to leave them on the ground where someone can stomp them? Stay back, I tell, you."
A touch of elegance: Maybe no Easter bonnet, but quite an Easter basket.
Potential egg drop situation.
("They darn well better get me that pony they promised if I sat very still and smiled. Taking so long my face hurts.")
The flip side of that postcard is below. It is intriguing: the script, when it was sent, that it was sent, that someone cared for it and saved it, and that it is still around.
Tiny stories of ordinary people.
Now that's real history.
Not the published textbooks or "official" records of what happened recorded by someone for some reason or purpose.
What will we leave behind?
Data. Tweets. Blogs. YouTube videos. Facebook
Messages invisibly stashed on servers or clouds – all of which could vanish without a trace.
Might be a good thing?
Wishing your Easter, Passover, or day is eggactly as you pictured.
Phil, the Philosopher Mouse of the Hedge.
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How to make Explorer Report with Oracle Explominer tool
In this topic I will provide detail information how to generate system wide report based on Oracle Explorer Output
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The filecmp module defines functions to compare files and directories, with various optional time/correctness trade-offs.
The filecmp module defines the following functions:
1 if
they seem equal,
0 otherwise.
Unless shallow is given and is false, files with identical os.stat() signatures are taken to be equal. If use_statcache is given and is true, statcache.stat() will be called rather then os.stat(); the default is to use os.stat().
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Ending on a delicious note
Behind the Scenes
Vail, CO Colorado
Editor's note: This is the fifth part of a five-part series on Valais, Switzerland. Visit http://www.vaildaily.com to read the first four installments.
We ended last week's episode of our autumn sojourn in Valais, Switzerland, with a simple question that has no simple answer: "Which wine shall we order?" With more than 600 different Valais wines on the Chateau de Villa's wine list, the choices for our viande sechee and raclette are seemingly endless. Dominique Fornage, the restaurant's director, provided excellent suggestions, some squarely in the "safe" zone, some adventurous, but always traditional regional favorites.
The two white choices Fornage recommended are Fendant and Johannisberg. We sipped on Fendant from Nicolas Bagnoud during our picnic high above the valley. Although the Johannisberg (Sylvaner) is a traditional white that pairs well with so many Valais treats, including an enemy of most wines, white asparagus, I'd like to go with his red suggestion, the lighter cousin of Cornalin, Humange Rouge, for the peppery viande sechee.
Humange Rouge, as we found earlier, is a light, red wine that made its way across the Grand St. Bernard Pass long ago and is now found exclusively in Valais. When drunk young, the wine's fruitiness is best expressed. And unlike Barolo that explodes with perfumes of the earth when drunk at room temperature, Humange Rouge takes kindly to a little chill on the bottle. Best of all, its low alcohol means your adventures on the Chateau's extensive wine list are far from over.
By now, all our senses are teeming with sensory inputs – the smell of melting cheese, the sight of Maitre Racleur Alexandre Alder expertly melting and scraping five different half-wheels of raclette, the multilingual chatter of diners and, of course, the taste of the paper-thin slices of viande sechee, sweet Flora butter and traditional Pain de Seigle Valaisan as the Humange Rouge washes over. The combination of smells, sights, sounds and flavors makes for a lovely entree into the evening's epicurean adventure.
Next wine to choose: What pairs with raclette? For the main attraction, Fornage once again guides us to wonderful choices. We had red, but he suggests we try one of the region's whites – Fendant, Johannisberg (I'm seeing a pattern with these two) or perhaps Heida from Savignin Blanc, a grape that grows well in the higher vineyards near Visp.
White after red! Quelle horreur! Why not? I don't abide by the dictates of others when it comes to something so personal as wine. Suggestions are great. Rules, no. They are made to be broken, and here in this emporium of Swiss vinous treasures, throw all caution to the wind. But like the Swiss, I take risks, but I manage them, as well. Fornage suggested Cornalin, so I'll order one bottle of Heida, also known as Paien, and one of Cornalin. Something for everyone.
Note: If you are not a wine drinker, don't opt for cola or water. Hot tea is the option, as cold drinks can lead to a horrible case of indigestion. Melted cheese – whether fondue or raclette – digests better with alcohol or hot tea.
Like wine that pairs so beautifully with it, alpine cheese such as raclette has its origins in antiquity, having been favored by the Romans. Through the millennia, cows have been paraded to alpages in early summer to graze on sweet grass and flowers that carpet earth barren for the other three seasons. The milk these contented, well-fed cows produce is sweet and perfect for producing aromatic, flavorful cheeses. Raclette takes on the distinctive taste of its alpage of origin, given the diverse flora throughout these high summer pastures. And that's what makes the Chateau de Villa so special. The opportunity to taste five different Raclette du Valais (AOC) in a restaurant is a rarity.
Racler. The simple French verb meaning "to scrape." Raclette. Simple alpine cheese named for the favored way of eating it – melting the cut edge of a half or quarter of a raclette wheel and scraping the molten cheese onto a plate. Legend states it all began when a vintner (or shepherd, take your pick) dropped a piece of alpine cheese on a hot stone next to a fire, scraping it off with his knife, thereby discovering a new way to enjoy the ages-old cheese. This union of fire and cheese gave rise to a communal dining event engrained in Valaisan culture. But there is nothing simple about the flavor explosion of melted raclette paired with cornichons and pickled onions and, of course, those creamy steamed small potatoes bearing the cheese's name.
And simple also is not a word easily describing Alder's expertise. Literally translated, "Maitre Racleur" means "master scraper." And Alder certainly is that! Not only must he keep track of the five different raw milk cheeses he heats and scrapes with a single, fast stroke of his raclette knife but also which diner is enjoying which cheese. Alder presents cheeses from five different alpages, usually beginning in Orsieres, close to the Italian border, and proceeding eastward to Simplon Dorf. The Chateau's choices are seasonal, but all my experiences have included these two and, my favorite, "Turtmann."
With the same flare and efficiency he scrapes the cheese, Alder comes to the table bearing several plates, first declaring the cheese type: "OR-sieres" or "TURT-mann." His enduring kindness and passion for his craft have been a constant in my decades-long visits to the Chateau.
This is "all you can eat," something Americans love. Once diners complete each of the five different cheeses they can choose to either repeat the order or again have those they like the most. Some of the cheeses are strong, some mild, so here's where personal preferences are exercised. My personal best is eight plates!
We've consumed copious amounts of cheese preceded by delicious meat and bread. But this is not time to skip a sweet ending. Monsieur Fornage suggests a light choice, apricot sorbet. Valais is famous for sweet apricots the size of small nectarines, perfect for tarts, sorbet and treasured "eau de vie d'abricot." One boule (ball) of apricot sorbet paired with Amigne, a traditional Valais wine that is slightly sweet, bearing subtle orange flavors, provides the perfecting ending. We are truly sated but pleasantly so.
We are at journey's end, and the winter snows will soon arrive. We've barely scratched the surface of what Valais has to offer gastronomes and nature lovers alike. The canton's 2,018 square miles stretch from where the Rhone River spills into Lake Geneva eastward to the river's source near the Furka Pass. Between the lowest point of 1,200 feet at the lake and Monte Rosa's 15,203-foot peak, Valais' diverse landscape creates a myriad of agricultural and recreational possibilities that make this canton a veritable paradise.
Hopefully, I've piqued your curiosity. Whether you visit in spring when nature wakes up from her long slumber or summer when the bisses run full of winter's melting snow or during a golden autumn replete with the growing season's bounty or winter when the alpine landscape is blanketed in snow, you will always find it hard to leave. As I said when we started, there is no good time to bid Valais farewell but always a great time to arrive.
Suzanne Hoffman is a local attorney, wine importer and the Chambellan Provincial of the Southwest Region and Bailli (president) of the Vail chapter of the Chaine des Rotisseurs. She is passionate about all things gastronomique. For more background information on her "Behind the Scenes" series, go to http://www.facebook.com/vailvalleysecrets. Email comments about this story to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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Congratulations to Maria Sharapova and Rafael Nadal, who competed their way into the Indian Wells semi-finals last night.
Sharapova effortlessly dominated the first set, then completely lost her way, struggling with Peng's retrieving and resistance and above all her own serve, which totally collapsed. It really looked like she was going out until with her back against the wall, she reeled off two clean and beautiful backhand winners in consecutive points and from that point on, never looked back. Very well done to her, although I don't favour her chances in the semi-final, given that Wozniacki is (I think) her equal in competitive tenacity and has a game built to elicit the kind of unforced errors she's so prone to.
Huge props to Peng Shuai for her run here. She's going to be in a Slam quarter-final before the year is out. /bold prediction
Yet again, I didn't see Rafa play because it was in the middle of the night. I did watch the first set and thought that Karlovic's excellent play rather than anything Nadal was doing or not doing was responsible for the good doctor taking it 75. Nadal came back strongly in the second set and finally scraped through (quoting the headlines) 9-7 in the final tiebreak.
Sad for the good Dr. Ivo but he's had an absolutely amazing run here in Indian Wells and should be getting a wildcard anywhere he wants one from now on. And he's 32. Christ on a bike.


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Facebook Gets Into the Holiday Revenue Spirit
Dec 11, 2012 11:45 AM PT
'Tis the season of giving and on Tuesday Facebook made it easier to give, as it added collections of wines to its Facebook Gifts catalog and made the program available for everyone in the United States.
For some Facebook members, the season of giving started early, with the social network giant's September launch of Facebook Gifts, a service that allows users to give a friend something real. Initially, the service wasn't available to all of Facebook's users, however.
Now any U.S. member can send Facebook friends tangible gifts -- including wine -- as well as digital gift cards and charitable donations.
The program could also be the "gift" that gives significant profits to the company; Facebook takes a percentage of every transaction. The social network hasn't revealed how much it has made from the service thus far, but Facebook's 170 million users in the U.S. could generate an estimated billion-dollar revenue stream for the now-public company, according to reports.
"This should be easy for people to embrace," said Billy Pidgeon, senior analyst at Inside Network. "Facebook is already advertising many of these products."
From Virtual to Real Goods
In addition to the advertisements that run on Facebook, the company has been selling virtual goods, so this move could build on its existing strengths. Moreover, the line between socializing and shopping online has continued to blur.
"Google is stepping up in e-commerce, and we're seeing that Pinterist has a laser focus on retail," Pidgeon told the E-Commerce Times. "At the same time, we're seeing that online retailers such as Amazon and eBay are looking to get more social. This is really just the next step in greater convergence of the two."
Given that Facebook hasn't exactly lived up to the expectations set for it in advance of its May IPO, this could be the holiday miracle that Facebook and its investors hoped would deliver the goods. At the very least, it could help the company end the year on an upbeat note.
"This is a major opportunity for Facebook and could generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue," said Greg Sterling of Sterling Market Research. "However, user experience, privacy and security considerations are critically important here. In addition, the selection of products that are available is also important."
Facing Facts
The types of products are likely to be what determines whether this will be the gift that keeps on giving -- at least in the way of that aforementioned potential revenue stream -- or whether the company will face a negative reaction that could turn off some users.
"Remember, e-commerce largely failed on retailer Facebook pages," Sterling told the E-Commerce Times. "That's because people weren't particularly interested in doing e-commerce on Facebook."
However, the integration of gifts could make it a more organic part of the Facebook experience, and that in turn could reap more success, he added.
What about the concerns that plagued the early days of e-commerce? Facebook has many users who would never consider purchasing from Amazon or even using PayPal.
"There will be some people who are wary of giving Facebook their credit card numbers and purchase histories," Sterling noted. "The challenge for Facebook is really about changing the culture of the experience to some degree, and providing sufficient assurances to end-users so that they feel comfortable using their credit cards and making purchases on the site."
Gift Cards Online
The other part of the equation is whether a significant number of users will want to blur the line between social networking and shopping, especially online. Still, it could be a true golden opportunity for Facebook.
"This is a good way to start it. They are starting with some good gift categories like flowers and candy," said Pidgeon.
"But the big move could be in the virtual credits area, where you can buy something at Starbucks or at iTunes, and this could build on the gift cards. So any type of card you can get at the grocery store, you could eventually get through Facebook," he suggested.
"People could see it and use it immediately and send the thank you back through Facebook," Pidgeon noted. "It is a good opportunity for services and vendors. So it is really good for everyone but the current brick-and-mortar vendors who are already selling prepaid cards."


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A Sea of Faces: Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean, 1400-2000
An Exhibition at
The Historical Museum of Southern Florida
02/23/06 06/04/06
On February 23, 2006, the University of Florida proposes to open an exhibit at the
Historical Museum of Southern Florida (HMSF). Tentatively titled A Sea of Faces:
Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean, 1400-2000, the exhibition will draw on the
extensive holdings of rare books, maps, posters, manuscripts, and three-dimensional
objects that are included within the University of Florida's collections. We also propose
to invite participation by other institutions in Florida that have significant holdings
relating to the Caribbean basin.
The holdings of the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections at the George A.
Smathers Libraries include rare books, maps, manuscripts, photographs, charts, theatrical
ephemera, etc. from the 15th through the 21st centuries. The Department also includes the
Latin American Collection, which houses upwards of 300,000 volumes and additional
examples of ephemeral materials. We plan to supplement these materials with three-
dimensional objects from the Florida Museum of Natural History as well as consult our
colleagues at the University of Miami and the Florida International University to present
a comprehensive array of objects to help tell our story. The objects on display will not
only document/elucidate the peoples and cultures of the islands of the Caribbean, such as
Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic; we also plan to include materials from the
circum Caribbean areas, such as Florida, and Central America.
While an image may be worth a thousand words, the story of the peoples and cultures of
the Caribbean is complex, and we plan to provide the viewing public with narrative that
will elucidate the complex relationships of the area as witnessed through image and word.
A Sea ofFaces: Peoples and Cultures of the Caribbean will continue the story begun by
the Historical Museum of Southern Florida's exhibition Visions of the Caribbean. As
with the earlier exhibition, many of these materials have never been on display before
and certainly not in such a contextual setting. We plan to present their documentary
evidence in a series of theme-based components that will be organized chronologically
with the emphasis on portraits and images of people at different times and in different
places. As will have been demonstrated in the earlier exhibition and will be further
developed thematically in the proposed exhibit, perspectives on the peoples, cultures,
geography and politics of this region changed significantly over the five centuries
covered by the project. The following proposal highlights the major areas of focus:
First component: The Caribbean as pre-contact culture. The prehistoric, ideally with
early prints and with stone, wood, and ceramic images depicting the inhabitants of Cuba
and Hispaniola, perhaps Jamaica and Puerto Rico, at the height of the Taino cultures of
the 1400s.
Second component: Old World meets New. Early exploration and conquest. The world
through European eyes. Change in native motifs. Miniatures of En Bas Saline and La
Isabela from Columbus' First and Second Voyage? Perhaps the story of Concepcion de
la Vega? European rivalry and the Drake raids? Bartolome de las Casas?
Third component: From Slavery to Black Republic. The story of Haiti.
Fourth component: Down to the Sea in Ships. Materials spread over time illustrating
relations to the sea and commerce.
Fifth component: The Face of the Land. The natural history of the Caribbean as
illustrated in the 18th and 19th centuries.
Sixth component: King Sugar, Queen Coffee. Economics in the Caribbean in the 19th
Seventh component: Faces Looking Away, Faces Looking Back. Emigration and out-
migration. Examples of the emigrant experience.
Eighth component: The Face of God. Religion in the Caribbean.
Ninth component: One Sea, Many Peoples. Focus on the emergence of the modem
Caribbean and the struggle for social justice.
In the exhibit we plan to display both static and non-static objects to illustrate the themes
noted above. The displays of objects (books, illustrations, maps, three-dimensional
objects) will be matched with virtual counterparts to form seamless transitions that
illustrate and document our increasing knowledge and appreciation of the many levels of
individuality and congruence to be found in this very diverse region.
We propose to the HMSF that the museum mount the exhibit (since the museum staff are
professionals in this area) and we would also like to take advantage of the museum's
excellence and expertise in exhibit design. The chief curator for the exhibit will be Dr.
James Cusick, Curator, P.K.Yonge Library of Florida History with administrative
assistance of Dr. Robert Shaddy, Chair, Department of Special and Area Studies
Collections. Additional staff at the University of Florida will contribute their areas of
expertise as Dr. Cusick completes the project.


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Webster University at NAFSA: A Photo Essay
Jun. 11, 2013
More than 8,000 people visited the annual NAFSA conference on international education in St. Louis from May 27 through May 31, and during their visit all had some exposure to Webster University. Webster, which was a lead sponsor of the conference, hosted numerous events including several educational sessions, a speech by Nobel Peace Prize Winner Annan Kofi, a dinner for University presidents, a night of fun at the City Museum, and a night at a Cardinals baseball game.
Below are just a few of the many photos that were captured during the week.
As attendees headed to the luggage area at Lambert St. Louis International Airport, they were greeted by a Webster sign welcoming them to St. Louis. The above photo was sent via Twitter by one attendee who added "@websteru Could you be more cool than to welcome us to 'nafsa13?'"
A different version of the airport sign also was placed on billboards on the route from the aiport to the America's Center in downtown St. Louis. Numerous attendees also photographed this from their taxi cabs and posted the pictures on Facebook and Twitter.
On opening day, several thousand visitors went through the exhibition hall and were greeted by Webster's high-tech information booth. Webster's high-tech double-sized booth included two video monitors and an interactive touch-screen control panel that allowed attendees to view information and videos about Webster or check their e-mail. Visitors also were able to learn about the Gorlok, as the mascot spent most of the day on the convention floor.
A group of NAFSA attendees from universities from around the world took a tour of the Webster Groves campus and learned about the many international programs offered by Webster University. Above, Provost Julian Schuster explains Webster University's mission to the visitors.
President Elizabeth "Beth" Stroble addresses a packed hall just before Kofi Annan's speech. Approximately 5,000 people were there to hear the opening session. "St. Louis is the city known as the Gateway to the West. Today I expand that phrase and say welcome to St. Louis, gateway to the world," Stroble said. "The St. Louis region welcomes students from 146 countries to a diverse community of 49 higher education institutions. Missouri ranks 13th among 50 states for numbers of international students, and those enrollments are growing – up 6.3 percent in the past year to over 16,000 students."
Kofi Annan, the former general secretary of the United Nations, spoke to nearly 5,000 people about his career in the UN and his views on the necessity of education to address many of the world's problems. Annan's speech was sponsored by Webster.
Students, faculty and staff from the Confucius Institute demonstrated the art of Chinese Calligraphy and also performed a traditional Chinese dance with costumes and drums. Above, a staff member writes out the name of another University in Chinese at the request of a NAFSA visitor. Later that day, Bill Lynch, the resident director of Webster's London campus, Ron Daniel, the academic director at Webster's Geneva campus, Office of Study Abroad Assistant Director Kim McGrath, and Professor Bruce Umbaugh, from the College of Arts and Sciences Department of Philosophy, delivered a presentation on "Integrating Global Learning in the U.S. Undergraduate Curriculum." Grant Chapman also presented on "Transnational Education: Models & Measures of Success." That afternoon, Dean Benjamin Akande spoke at the "Exploring Global Citizenship" luncheon. Just a few blocks away, Provost Julian Schuster welcomed members of the Bilateral Fulbright Commission as they held their meeting at Webster's downtown campus location in the Old Post Office building.
Wednesday evening was equally busy for Webster. The University sponsored the President's Day activities across the street from the Conference, where several dozen university presidents from around the world had a reception, a dinner, and then heard a speech from Shibley Telhami, the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park. President Stroble welcomed all the University presidents to St. Louis during the President's Day dinner and each president at the dinner received a copy of the May issue of "Smart Business" magazine, which features Stroble on its cover.
A few blocks away, Webster employees welcomed NAFSA attendees to the City Museum for "Culture Night," where they were allowed to crawl through the tubes and tunnels, slip down the many adult-sized slides, and explore the attraction for several hours while being treated to hors d'oeuvres and beverages. Above, two NAFSA attendees crawl through some of the adult-sized tubes at the Museum.
On Thursday, the convention started with a presentation on "The Next Big Thing: Emerging Countries for International Students" by Calvin Smith, Webster's director of International Recruitment. By lunch time, members of Webster's national championship chess team played against NAFSA attendees. The team members were given a maximum of one minute for all their moves per each game, while the NAFSA challengers were allowed five minutes per game. Above, the Gorlok and Chess Coach Susan Polgar watch as Chess Team Member and Webster Student Ray Robson play against a NAFSA attendee.
In the evening, President Stroble played host at the Old Post Office campus location to members of "Study Missouri," a grassroots organization that encourages international education among Missouri college students. Above, Dr. Elizabeth Stroble is pictured with Dennis Golden, president of Fontbonne University, and Dr. Mark Lombardi, president of Maryville University.
While Dr. Stroble was hosting Study Missouri, Provost Julian Schuster was just a few blocks away at Busch Stadium hosting a VIP visit to a Cardinal's game. The guests with the Provost were nearly 40 deans, directors and managers representing universities from around the world. Pictured above, Dr. Schuster is interviewed on KMOX radio, a station that draws a St. Louis audience of 250,000 to one-half million listeners during Cardinal games, but also is syndicated to other stations during the games and can potentially reach nearly 21 million baseball fans per game.
That night, a storm moved through the area, surprising many NAFSA attendees who were exploring the St. Louis area, bringing a new level of appreciation to Webster, as Webster had hired a fleet of Pedicabs – pedal powered cabs – that NAFSA attendees could use for free during the week. Above is one of about a dozen tweets that mentioned the cabs that night and how they helped people escape the rain.
The convention ended Friday after a presentation from Hannah Verity, director of global programs in the College of Arts and Sciences, and Anne Browning, the program director in the George Herbert Walker School of Business and Technology, on "Global Hybrid Courses: Online learning enhancing short-term study abroad."
"NAFSA provided the opportunity for Webster to raise awareness, strengthen international partnerships, and further build study abroad and international student affiliates," said Grant Chapman, Webster University's Associate VP Academic Affairs and Director International Programs. "The President's message to the thousands of participants, the Provost's message to Fulbright Commission leaders, the multiple academic presentations by faculty and staff, and the personal interaction at the exhibit booth and networking receptions, all provided the intended result that international educators from all over the world now know Webster University as the truly global university with close to one hundred years of history in the St. Louis community."


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Rangers keeping competition open for fifth starter
Several young starting candidates within the organization will get a shot -- if the Rangers don't acquire a free agent before Spring Training begins Feb. 15. Several of them, including right-hander Justin Grimm and left-handers Martin Perez and Robbie Ross, took part in Friday's pitchers minicamp.
"Maybe someone steps up like [Alexi] Ogando did a couple of years ago and claims the spot and prospers with it," Maddux said. "We have some youth in that role, we have some six-year free agents that might qualify for that role, there's still some free agents out there. There's really no telling who the forerunner is on it, but we do have some in-house candidates out there."
Perez, Grimm and Ross all said they are ready for their chance behind Matt Harrison, Yu Darvish, Derek Holland and Alexi Ogando. Some highlights of what they're thinking heading into Surprise:
Perez said he's been working on his mechanics and refining a slider he started developing last year. The 21-year-old went 1-4 with a 5.45 ERA in spot duty last season, and said it helped him get his feet wet, especially making key starts in a pennant race in September.
"I like to compete," Perez said. "This gives me an opportunity to do my best."
Grimm, 24, has been fine-tuning a two-seam fastball and slider since making two starts last year -- one a great one against Houston and another a tough one against a veteran Detroit lineup.
"I've been preparing myself for this all offseason," Grimm said. "I want to get more consistent. We have a lot of young talent."
Ross, 23, is a wild card, having pitched so well out of the bullpen last season. He was 6-0 with a 2.22 ERA in 58 appearances. Ross said he's ready to battle for a rotation spot, but he's going to prepare how he did last year when he figured he'd be a starter in Double-A or Triple-A.
"I haven't done anything different," Ross said. "I'm keeping the same routine, making sure I'm conditioned and my arm is ready."