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The Places in Which We Work
Posted by Brantley Gasaway
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To what extent should the places in which we work--not the institutions, but rather our local communities and their religious landscapes--influence our scholarship and especially teaching of religion in America?
I have pondered this question from the vantage point of my own place: Bucknell University, located in the Susquehanna Valley of central Pennsylvania and about an hour north of our capital, Harrisburg. As I moved here and settled into my job and daily life, I began to think about what it meant to be a teacher and scholar here in this place. In other words, what difference did it make that I was teaching about and studying American religion in the middle of Pennsylvania rather than in North Carolina (during my PhD program) or at Drake University in Iowa (during my first job)? And that's when I began to think about the "plain people."
The rural areas that surround Bucknell contain many communities of Amish, Old Order Mennonite, and other "plain people" who practice separation from the world, dress plainly, and live simply. It's hard not to think about them when regularly driving past their horses and buggies, visiting our local farmers' market where they have many stands, or shopping at the discount grocery store owned and staffed by Old Order Mennonites. After my first semester here, I determined that I wanted to incorporate plain people into my historical survey course on religion in the United States in a substantive rather than only cursory way. While their presence is not unique to our area, of course, I thought that studying plain people would give my students both insight into the local religious landscape as well as a deeper appreciation of these traditionalist communities so visible in our area.
Amish Grace: How Forgiveness Transcended Tragedy by Donald Kraybill, Steven Nolt, and David Weaver-Zercher. The book recounts the story of how the Amish community of Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania (near Lancaster, the heart of Amish country) responded with grace and forgiveness to a schoolhouse shooting in 2006 that left five children dead and five others injured. Beyond simply narrating the heart-wrenching events, the authors analyze how the countercultural "lived religion" of the Amish--that is, the ways in which their particular religious beliefs and rituals shape their everyday lives and experiences--prepared them to respond in this fashion. In the four semesters that I have used this book, it has generated excellent discussions and pushed students to think about "lived religion" in new ways.
In keeping with the theme of using local (or, rather, reasonably close) resources, one semester I invited to my class one of the authors of Amish Grace: Dave Weaver-Zercher, professor of American religious history at Messiah College outside of Harrisburg. Dave did an outstanding job of discussing how he and his co-authors produced the book and answering students' questions. (For a different course on religion and American politics last semester, I was also able to bring to campus our blog's own John Fea, also from Messiah College. John spoke to my class after we read his Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? and then gave a well-received public lecture.)
In addition to reading Amish Grace, I would like to figure out ways to have my students interact directly (but respectfully, of course) with local plain people. While this goal may prove too lofty, I am hoping that friendships that my family and I are beginning to build with several Old Order Mennonite families may facilitate its realization. Last fall, our closest Old Order friends invited us to their church, and my daughters and I rode over a half hour each way in their horse and buggy. We sat through a service that consisted of over two hours of preaching and plain singing in Pennsylvania Dutch (their German dialect), and then we returned to our friends' house for lunch and a long afternoon of conversation with seven other Old Order families. While I don't expect to show up again at their church with 35 college students in tow, I am hoping that members of this community will be open to talking to my students.
As of now, my place in central Pennsylvania has not affected my scholarship. I used national publications as my sources for the book I am completing on politically progressive evangelicalism, and my methodology did not involve any ethnographic work. Besides, it's hard to find progressive evangelicals in this overwhelmingly conservative area. But as I develop my future research projects, I do want to consider how my particular interests may intersect with local resources.
We all know that place matters in terms of how our subjects believe and behave religiously. So let me pose these questions to readers: To what extent does place matter to us? How, if at all, has the nature of your own place influenced your teaching and even research on religion in America? In what ways are you taking advantage of the unique religious landscape and resources of your area? I know that in recent posts Seth Dowland and Michael Pasquier have touched upon this subject, and I look forward to hearing from others of you.
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- Mark T. Edwards at: February 26, 2013 at 5:53 AM said...
Great reflections and question! As a Northeast PA boy who grew up sledding and picking snowball fights with Bloom University students, and eventually graduated from there, and attended a 77s concert at Messiah, I have a deep connection to that place and people.
When I taught as a grad student at Purdue, I assigned Liz Cohen's Making a New Deal; students generally hated it, and 17 out of 95 downloaded essays from the internet as their "own", but several had grown up among Cohen's people and really engaged the book in a profoundly personal way. Small victories.
Now, being in Michigan, I reference Detroit alot and use Sugrue's book, which alot of students resonate with, especially non-traditionals. I live in Jackson next to Spring Arbor, and made friends with an ice cream shop owner (always a bad idea), a nice old-timey Protestant and bit of a local historian; I give extra credit for students to visit with him, find out why Jacksonn IS the birthplace of GOP 1.0, and eat some of his hershey's selection.
As far as places impacting research, I'm currently plotting out a history/ethnography of ecumenical groups and churches in Detroit. I was initially considering Indi. but then thought, "I'm right here, why wouldn't it be Detroit?" BTW, if anyone knows of previous studies that touch on religious life in Detroit, I'd much appreciate the reference.
- Trevor Burrows at: February 26, 2013 at 6:20 AM said...
This is a great post - I think it, along with Mark's comment, really speaks to the usefulness of bringing relatively local subjects into the classroom. I'm sitting in on a Modern Jewish History undergrad course this semester, and the prof is having her students head out on a "scavenger hunt" to find and research landmarks of Jewish interest. Now, this is in Greater Lafayette, Indiana - not a county known worldwide for its massive Jewish community or history. But it *does* have a substantial history, much of which is quite visible yet regularly overlooked. She says she's had a fair amount of success with the project, in part because the students are engaged: they get to add distinctly new knowledge to a topic they already know something about (where they live).
In terms of research, there's an element of practicality and usefulness to doing something near your current location. I'm still hammering out my dissertation project, but I am almost positive that I will be using a nearby city as my primary case study. Not only does it make the research process a bit easier, but it also gives me a chance to a bit more connected to the topic. I can see buildings or intersections of significance, visit landmarks - places that may or may not make it into the final product, but will undoubtedly make me a better student, teacher, and researcher.
- John Fea at: February 26, 2013 at 6:43 AM said...
Great post, Brantley. I am going to link to it at TWOILH with some commentary. Thanks.
- Curtis J. Evans at: February 26, 2013 at 2:42 PM said...
As a Chicagoan of nearly six years, I've had to find my place here. Walking from the condo to my office, I pass at least three churches only a few blocks apart. Often I wonder about their history and the changes they've witnessed over the years. Besides my assigning of books on some aspect of the religious history of the city, I've not yet done the hard work of field trips and certainly not ethnography of any kind (unless one counts visiting churches to get a "feel" for different institutions as "study" of some kind). In my survey course on African American religion, which is taken by undergraduates, I assign Wallace Best's "Passionately Human, No Less Divine." That has always provoked good discussion and led to substantive conversations about the city today. Although not entirely on Chicago, we've also read in several instances John McGreevy's "Parish Boundaries." Usually, only one student likes the book (which is one of my favorite texts), but it does open up conversation about neighborhoods in Chicago. I've often used excerpts from the classic "Black Metropolis" (1945), which was such a vivid portrayal of Chicago's changing racial dynamics during the Second World War years. I wonder if my own sense that I don't yet "know" Chicago has been one factor in my tardiness in venturing forth with students into neighborhoods and houses of worship. As a child of the rural South, I am still adjusting to city life, even though I have lived in large cities for many years. The thought of holding in my hand clumps of rich black soil as I was working in the family garden rushes to my mind. Car trips in the MS Delta buried deeply in my psyche might be just as significant in my assigning John Giggie's "After Redemption" as the book's own merits and its compelling description of black religion life in the Delta in a period much before my time there. I suppose too that living in Chicago has a way of forcing me to realize how the past is so much in the present since the simple act of riding in a taxi and asking a few questions elicits from the driver memories and conversations about neighborhoods, race, place, etc. and one gets the sense that history is continuously playing itself out in the lives of many who feel, for whatever reason, that the past cannot be so neatly sealed off from the present. Space for them is a way of recognizing and reordering that past. Or so it seems to me.
- David Stowe at: February 28, 2013 at 6:43 AM said...
Teaching in Michigan, like Mark, I have tried to make myself aware of the state's distinctive religious landscape. Detroit, with its important African American churches and Arab-American population and robust Muslim communities. Grand Rapids, with its very different Dutch Reformed tradition. And the important Amerindian groups like the Ojibwe. For my current research on Psalm 137 I visited Detroit's New Bethel Baptist Church and interviewed the current pastor, who succeeded C. L. Franklin.


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I can speak it pretty well, but I don't think I'm fluent. I still have trouble understanding a lot of the spoken language.
That's very interesting. I know a girl from Russia who moved here when she was 10, and while she speaks her language well, she says she has forgot how to spell. I told her to read the Russian Wikipedia or something.

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The Sony Ericsson Xperia Play: Where Do You Want To Take Your Gaming Today?by Brian Dipert on 8/8/2011 1:26 PM EST
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SilthDraeth - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkI wonder why they chose a Dpad for directional control vs a flat analog slider pad reminiscent of the Nintendo 3ds?
I would have thought the analog slider pad would have better mimicked the capacitive touch circle control. In fact I probably would play some more N.O.V.A 2 if my Samsung epic had a analog slider pad.
I wonder, if maybe they didn't do it, because at the time the phone was designed and released, the 3DS hadn't came out, and no one had thought of it yet... Reply
LordOfTheBoired - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkInteresting theory, but there's a problem with it... the PSP had a flat analog slider long before the 3DS did.
It's also an input that is largely reviled by the fans, and not without justification.
Though the fans think the problem is that it isn't a "real stick"(actually, two of them) rising high above the face of the device like a home gamepad(specifically, like the DualShock series of gamepads), and to hell with pocketability. See also: the upcoming PS Vita.
Personally, I think it was just a poorly-considered implementation of a good device.
The fault as I see it is that it's topped with a convex thumb-piece and the centering springs are fairly high-tension. Though the awkward location doesn't help matters either(I'm pretty sure the slider was shoehorned in late in the system's development and it was intended to be digital-only).
I'm rather disappointed to know the capacitive disks don't work, as I thought they were a good idea. Especially as it avoided the preference for cardinal directions in dual-spring potentiometer designs(a very strong preference in the case of the PSP's high-tension slider). Reply
Guspaz - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkGood idea, terrible implementation. While I'm not a PSP owner,and have only played with them a bit, my experience was that the problems were:
1) Horribly positioned. My hand cramped up using the analog nub on the PSP while simultaneously holding the PSP with that hand
2) Concave form factor made it harder to grip
3) Rough texture was uncomfortable
4) Spring put up too much resistance
5) Too small and not enough range of motion
The 3DS circle pad attempts to address all of these complaints, and while it isn't quite perfect, it's a good enough implementation that it can compete with "real" analog sticks rather nicely. Of course, by giving it good positioning, it makes the 3DS' d-pad uncomfortable to use, but you can't have it both ways. Anyhow, a circle-pad would certainly fit on something like the xperia play. In fact, I wish that the circle-pad was on more devices, but unfortunately Nintendo's patents will prevent that. Hopefully Sony can come up with their own similar slider pad that, if not identical to the circle pad, at least makes the same corrections. Reply
MacTheSpoon - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkThis first gen phone is underwhelming, but I hope they stick with the concept and iron out the problems. The underlying concept of a smartphone with physical game controls seems spot-on. I'd love to play console-type games on my phone using physical controls instead of multitouch. Reply
ImSpartacus - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkThe first gen phone is underwhelming and ever single phone after that will follow similarly.
Why? The Vita. I can't understand why Sony thought it was a good idea to split the Vita and Xperia Play. If you want to compete with iOS gaming, you can't do it with two distinct devices. Sony needs a unified gaming device. They are welcome to sell a wifi version (a la iPod Touch), but their flagship needs to be a phone. Reply
seamonkey79 - Monday, August 08, 2011 - link^ This Reply
Exodite - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkBecause Sony isn't the same company as Sony Ericsson?
It's not even a subsidiary, indeed SE is made up from far more of the old Ericsson phone division than it is Sony.
This isn't in any way, shape of form a 'Sony' phone - Sony doesn't do phones. Reply
ImSpartacus - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkThen Sony should do phones. Reply
Zoomer - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkNot outside Japan, anyway. Reply
Guspaz - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkSony Ericsson is 50% owned by Sony and 50% owned by Ericsson. They make Walkman-branded phones, Cyber-shot branded phones, BRAVIA-branded phones... Sony and Ericsson could clearly have come to an agreement if Sony had wanted to do this all in one device.
After all, the XPeria Play and Vita are similar architecturally. They both use ARM SoCs (a departure for Sony in a game console), although the XPeria Play is using a Qualcomm Snapdragon with an Adreno GPU while the Vita is using a quad-core ARM Cortex A9 with a PowerVR SGX534MP4.
In actual fact, the hardware in the Vita is identical to the iPad 2 except doubled (same CPU/GPU, just double the cores each). Reply
RoninX - Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - linkMaybe they should just release a 3G/4G version of the Vita that makes calls.
Then you would get by far the best portable gaming experience without having to carry two devices. Reply
SimKill - Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - linkBut then battery life would go to the dogs. Reply
etobare - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkThere you make it sound as if xperia play didn't have access to android non-xperia play optimized games... i concur with much of the review but that may lead to confusion Reply
Mike1111 - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkA gaming smartphone with fewer, more expensive and worse looking games compared to iOS devices? Why even bother. It's a niche market at best. To have a chance in the mainstream market the successor must have PS Vita-like hardware, graphics and kick-ass games. And should Apple ever decide to make an adequate Bluetooth profile available for (analog) gamepads then the dedicated gaming smartphone market is dead anyway. Reply
lowlymarine - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkI just finished a run of BrowserMark on my Captivate (AT&T Galaxy S) and got a score of over 71,000. Admittedly I'm running at a fairly modest overclock of 1.2 GHz, but unless each one of those 200 MHz are imbued with pure magic, there's no way the likes of the Droid 3 and the Atrix should be doing worse. Similar with Sunspider - my 3193ms result (yes, on 0.9) beats out even the fastest device you've tested. I'm not using Firefox Mobile or something either; this is all with the stock AOSP browser.
I'm just curious as to why there's the massive discrepancy in browser performance. My Linpack scores are, while still nearly 3 times what you've got for the SGS (largely attributable to the difference between Gingerbread and Eclair, I'm sure), no where near those of the dual-core powerhouses. I know the second core won't really help them on Sunspider et al., but certainly it shouldn't be hurting them? Reply
Death666Angel - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkAre you using other/newer kernels and roms? They usually add nice boosts to those benchmarks by either having better drivers, better optimizations or just fewer active programs. :-) Reply
Vepsa - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkI considered getting a Xperia Play, but I decided against since I kinda like having more than 512MB of RAM on my phone. The bulk doesn't bother me and nor does the SoC since I have the same one in my Droid Incredible 2. If the phone had had 1GB of RAM & 2GB+ of app storage I would have probably gotten it. The only thing that will get more games made for them is if more are sold since its an open API. Reply
StormyParis - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkDid someone just receive a new digital camera ? Is there an epidemic of photographic logorrhea I'm not aware of ? Are Ars writers paid a lot more for each picture ? Or is it about the page views ?
One could easily cut half the pictures in the article (first page), redo some (you can put 3 phones in a single picture for comparison, yessir....).
This article is giving me a feeling akin to PCmag's infamous "slideshows" Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkFixed :)
We have no internal mandates for picture or page count, sometimes it's easier just to string a bunch of images together rather than toss them in a gallery but I've done the latter here at your request :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
StormyParis - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkThanks. Am I the only one bothered when there are so many pics in an article ? because, frankly, the numerous screenshots and charts on the following pages also bother me. With Anandtech's already narrow, heavily paginated format, there's lots of scrolling involved already... I find more than 1 pic/page a pain, except when the pics are *really* needed... which they are not, for example, to report a *one-number* test result. It gets even worse when reading the article on my phone or tablet.
Personally, I simply jumped to the conclusion after a few pages. I find the galleries you put in the first coupl of pages the best trade off: really motivated readers can see all the pictures, the rest of us can read the article without kilometers of scrolling. <ripoff source="Arrested Development ">It's a nice way to satisfy the "buy" crowd and the "curious" crowd, and we're all buy/curious </ripoff> Reply
The0ne - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkOne of my duty as an Engineer is to write for others be it technical people or non technical; I write a lot to be honest. But I do spend quite a bit of time choosing and modifying any graphics (charts included) to ensure they are essential in any document. Randomly using graphics is generally not a very good idea. The only reason I know of is to cater to people who love to have tons of graphic and who love to stare at them all day long. Thankfully, I don't care much about these type of people until they pay me or the company to do so, I guess :) hahaha
I'll take an Anandtech review over any Dailytech "news" article. Now, those are just poorly written, especially by Jason Mick who seem to think the audience is a bunch of kids and resort to the numbering type news reporting. Reply
Anand Lal Shimpi - Monday, August 08, 2011 - linkLet's try this again :)
Take care,
Anand Reply
vshah - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkAre you confusing the two? you mention it has 512mb of RAM, and that when that drops, the phone complains about free space being low. I think you meant ROM, as android will almost never complain about RAM, it will just kill stuff in the background to free up more. Reply
vshah - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkalso, the large game installs would go to the 1 gig of flash storage, not the 512mb of RAM Reply
bdipert - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkGreat point, vshah, I did indeed intermingle RAM and ROM (aka local flash memory storage) observations. I'll go update the writeup now. Thank you! Reply
snajk - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkI'll probably get one of these, not for the branded games but for using emulators. My current android works ok at this, but the controls are a pain to use even though I have a phone with a "D-pad". Why settle for a few old ps1 titles when you have all the old nes/snes/genesis/neogeo/mame games to choose from? Reply
eallan - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkMy main device is a GS2, but i also have one of these.
They are absolutely perfect for emulation.
So many super nintendo games, genesis games, even PSX games and N64. I'm pretty sure thats the best use of this phone.
The dpad and buttons are truly excellent. Reply
BaCh - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkDear Mr. Anand, you should have spared a few words for its exceptional audio quality, as testified by both Gsmarena and Phonearena. Reply
PC_Jones - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkThe main reason for me getting a Play was so I wouldn't have to tote around a Wiimote if I ever wanted to play any SNES games on my phone with any accuracy. I'm surprised that the use of emulators wasn't discussed more in this article. Reply
The0ne - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkI'm a retrogamer by heart. The problem with emulation is that most people don't own the games/roms they are using. I'm sorry, this is just the sad case. Retrogamers like myself, and even more hardcore, have games that we do own and setups to be able to play them with nostalgia.
And while I would love to see a discussion about emulation on any platform it quickly becomes more of a "pirated" scene than anything. I collect classic games, it's sad for me to see people pirating them because they can. Reply
name99 - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - link"Yes, the silver trim is plastic, not metal, ... and minimized the potential for interference-induced antenna sensitivity degradation"
Do we know that this is ACTUALLY true? Or is this high school EM applied completely inappropriately?
Obviously it is true that have metal parts in a phone affects the antenna. It's just as true that
- most phones (from a whole range of manufacturers) ship with large chunks of metal in them
- Apple's portables (those with which I am most familiar) went through a phase some years ago where the plastic MacBooks had better reception than the metal MacBook pros, but that hasn't been the case for a while. And the limited knowledge I have of Win portables (or various tablets) doesn't have people all stating unanimously "buy xxx [with a plastic cover] because its radio reception is so much better than yyy [covered with magnesium or titanium or aluminum or whatever]".
I don't have a strong opinion about this either way, but it seems to me, based on behavior across a range of manufacturers that the true state of affairs is
- if you're an amateur then using plastic is probably best because you can just ignore it BUT
- if you're a professional (and pretty much every company of interest IS now professional] you just model the entire environment (metals plus dielectrics) as finite elements. optimize the antenna for that environment, and things works out as well as they realistically can.
[And, OMG, please, if you're a commenter who feels the need to pipe up about "antenna-gate" and "grips of death", ask yourself before you comment:
- does my comment add anything useful to the question that has been posed? AND
- does my comment make me look like a retarded 14yr old with poor impulse control?] Reply
medi01 - Wednesday, August 10, 2011 - linkI worked in EM field, and what you state is utter nonsense.
You can repeat "I'm a professional, very professional, superprofessional" all day long, with "it's magical, it's very very magical" on top of it, but it still won't help you to get EM waves through the metal. Reply
Surrept - Tuesday, August 09, 2011 - linkIs this the Brian Klug that was once bitten by a fox. It only makes sense he is on the staff here. Smartest person i've ever met in the field of computers. Reply


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Seventeen Magazine featured Kristen Stewart on the November 2009 cover. Kristen, Robert Pattinson, and Taylor Lautner were interviewed. The Twilight Saga: New Moon and each of the stars' characters that they portray were the main topics of discussion.
For the June/July 2010 issue, Ashley Greene was on the cover. She was photographed and interviewed. In her interview, she discussed Kellan Lutz, Robert Pattinson, and moving from Jacksonville, Florida to Los Angeles, California when she was seventeen years old.
Taylor Lautner was Seventeen's October 2011 cover star. He was also photographed and interviewed. He discussed what he was like in high school, what he looks for in a girl, and where he sees himself in five years.
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"Unknown" is a movie about redemption, both behind the camera and on screen.
Oh, I can just hear it now. All the Shakespeare purists will soon be noisily picking apart "Gnomeo & Juliet," an unassuming animated family movie that riffs on "Romeo and Juliet." They'll pull out quotes arguing for the gravity with which we must treat The Bard and prove the essentially tragic nature of the original play.
Maybe James Cameron should consider making only silent movies.
Poor CBS Films. They just can't pick a winner.
Oh good, another wealthy costumed vigilante with daddy issues. Does anyone else feel like we're using the same fill-in-the-blank template for these movies?
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It's a bad sign when the best thing you can say about a movie is: it isn't too long.
It is a joy to watch an actor embody a role with complete confidence and understanding of the character. You might think I'm referring to the stars and seasoned character actors in "True Grit," which include Jeff Bridges, Matt Damon, Josh Brolin and Barry Pepper.
Hollywood definitely saved its best for last in 2010. No single movie looks to dominate the box office the way "Avatar" did last year, nor does any movie look poised to sweep the awards season (although "The Social Network" seems to be leading the pack for the moment).
I've never seen anything like "Black Swan," and I almost never get to say that.
The Chronicles of Narnia series returns this week - but it almost didn't.
"Love and Other Drugs" is a testament to the talent and appeal of its stars, Anne Hathaway and Jake Gyllenhaal.
Here's all you need to know about the new Dwayne Johnson star vehicle, "Faster."
Haven't they toyed with us long enough? Isn't it time to bring the Harry Potter saga to an end?
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I have a little code to do a Google search that someone made me. It works in dos but I'd like to also use it in the Python program. I am not sure how to define the --url parameter though so that it executes properly. I was wondering what I should do to define it. I've tried url = and that didn't quite work. Here is part of the code:
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def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("-u", "--url", help="| The URL to scrape on.")
parser.add_argument("-n", "--num", type=int, help="| The number of results to be shown.")
parser.add_argument("-s", "--save", type=bool, help="| If the URLs are going to be saved in a local file.")
args = parser.parse_args()
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I have a great climbing partner, but whenever we go climbing we just seem to end up arguing and pissed off. I don't want another partner, because the one I have is solid and knows exactly how to feed me rope. What can I do?
Your scenario exemplifies the old adage, You dance with them that brung you. But, obviously, some adjustments are likely in order.
Disagreement is fine, but you need to kiss some serious butt here, because a belayer who can feed out rope just so is as valuable as a time machine that works. Don't do anything you'll regret later, when you're on the sharp end. Take the High Road. If you have a point of contention, and you believe you are right, stick to it, but be polite. Say things like I hear you, but Or try this old classic: I respect your opinion, but when you argue, stay on course. Don't dredge up past grudges, and don't make it personal by calling your butt-face partner names or pointing out that he is a stupid jackass. Pick your fights, too. Figure out the points of disagreement you can live with, and give ground on those. So what if his dog pisses all over your jacket or you pay for all the gas from NYC to Vegas or he throws your Johnny Cash Gospel Collection out the car window? If you make him feel as if he is winning, he'll be more likely to shut his stinking pie hole and deliver that slack you need. Next!
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Last week, VMware welcomed a record number of resellers, integrators, and business partners to the VMware Partners Exchange (PEX) 2012 conference in Las Vegas, where an impressive 4,300 people made the journey to hear what the virtualization giant had to say. With so many partners gathered together in one place, VMware took the opportunity to unveil new programs, solution competencies, and rewards designed to help those very partners prepare for the arrival of the cloud era while simplifying the experience of doing business with VMware.
While the keynote from Scott Aronson, VMware's senior vice president of global channels and alliances, didn't make any specific mention of new products or services, it did attempt to inspire the channel and provide a vision as to what was to come in 2012.
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Aronson recapped the company's successful 2011 year findings, stating that it took in $3.77 billion in revenue for 2011, an increase of 32 percent from 2010; achieved 350,000 customers with the help of its 50,000 partners; had 32 percent growth year over year, with 85 percent of sales coming from VMware partners; and noted that 95 percent of enterprise data centers have at least one instance of a VMware software product, while small businesses remained somewhere between 20 percent to 30 percent virtualized.
If those numbers don't seem impressive on their own, consider the fact that analysts are projecting that the global private cloud market will reach a whopping $41.5 billion by 2015. VMware intends to own the lion's share of that market over the next three years. To help them achieve that goal, VMware is going to be looking to its partner channel.
VMware is asking partners to broaden the scope of their traditional areas of technological expertise. For doing so, VMware will offer a variety of new incentives to those partners that make the investment.
Aronson said that at a time when other technology companies are pulling money out of the channel, VMware is doubling down. But in doing so, VMware is asking partners to double down as well.
VMware is now requiring its premier and enterprise-level partners to invest in at least two solution competencies within the next year. To back up this request, the virtualization giant argues that research shows the investment is well worth it, since partners with at least one solution competency currently sellson average 3.5 times more than those without a competency.


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Ralco Nutrition has announced the issuance of US Patent No 8,575,212, which relates to organically chelated mineral compositions and methods used to make Ralco's exclusive technologies. The minerals affected by the method are versatile and proven to stimulate beneficial microbial activity for improved plant and animal health.
"This patent places Ralco in a position to positively impact generations of producers and customers," said Brian Knochenmus, vice president and co-owner of Ralco. "The technology that this patent protects is impacting global food production."
The methods covered by the patent produce a microbial catalyst that is highly soluble and completely available. The microbial catalyst promotes efficiency by stimulating microorganisms in various environments, like the rumen of ruminant livestock and soil for increased nutrient uptake. The technology was discovered when it was applied to greenhouse plants.
"It was a blessing when we discovered what this technology could do for plant growth and performance. It was not a result we were looking for. With that being said, it is extremely important that we utilize the technology to the best of our ability and improve the lives of a rapidly growing global population. The issuance of this patent goes a long way in helping us achieve that goal," Knochenmus said.
Ralco is a third-generation family owned multinational company with distribution in more than 30 countries. A leading global provider of livestock nutrition, animal health products and crop enhancement products; Ralco supports large segments of the livestock, poultry, aquaculture and crop industries.


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WASHINGTON -- Fatherless since an awful day in Dallas, motherless these past 19 years and brotherless since a handsome scion of Camelot banked his little plane into the sea, Caroline Bouvier Kennedy comes to Congress to accept a cherry-blossomed sinecure, the American ambassadorship to Japan.
The murdered president's daughter is 55, a wife and mother of three grown children, a lawyer, fundraiser, editor and advocate for education, a soft-voiced, hesitant and sometimes self-damaging speaker, a woman little-known to the general public despite her eminent bloodline, a liberal Democrat by genetic predestination, and an early and wealthy supporter of Barack Obama, which, in the way that too many diplomatic appointments are decided in this town, is pretty much all that matters. So the Senate foreign relations committee goes through the requisite pantomime of grilling a woman with not much to say.
"You are the pluperfect embodiment of someone who has devoted her life to public service," says the junior member from her ancestral Massachusetts.
It has been four years since John Fitzgerald Kennedy's daughter -- remembered by my generation as a little girl riding a pony named Macaroni on the South Lawn of the White House, half a sanguinary century ago -- declared she happily would accept the Senate seat from New York that was being vacated by Obama's incoming secretary of state, Hillary R. Clinton, without the messy complication of standing (and spending) for election.
"She's nice, smart and has a golden political pedigree," said the New York Daily News at the time, "but where does Caroline Kennedy stand on the auto bailout, immigration, Wall Street regulation and other sticky issues? The answer, many New Yorkers are quickly realizing, is 'No one knows.' "
Compared to her father's "Ask not what your country can do for you" and "Ich bin ein Berliner," Ms. Kennedy made scant oratorical history during her campaign for a free pass to membership in the same chamber to which her father and her late uncles, Bobby and Ted, acceded by general suffrage, some of it purchased for cash or whiskey by their tycoon patriarch, Joe.
"So I think in many ways, you know, we want to have all kinds of different voices, you know, representing us," she said in a 2009 interview, wounding her candidacy mortally, "and I think what I bring to it is, you know, my experience as a mother, as a woman, as a lawyer, you know... So obviously, you know, we have different strengths and weaknesses."
Now she is back in the witness chair, dubbed to take over in Tokyo from a Californian named Roos who was one of Obama's preeminent bagmen, back in 2008. If confirmed by the Senate -- there is no chance she will be rejected -- Ms. Kennedy will be the first American woman to be credentialed to the Chrysanthemum Throne since U.S. gunboats forced the 19th-century shoguns to abandon their "Edict to Expel Foreigners At All Costs" and the figurehead of U.S. interests in a country whose own destroyers nearly killed her navy-lieutenant father aboard his famous PT-109.
"I can think of no country in which I would rather serve," she tells the committee, reading from prepared remarks. With her in the chamber are her spouse of more than 25 years, a son and a daughter, Ted Kennedy's widow, a young Representative (Joseph P. Kennedy III) from the pretty towns south of Boston who is the latest of his clan to be sent to Washington by an adoring and reflexive electorate, and, no doubt, unrecognized clusters of Bouviers, Shrivers, Lawfords, Radziwills, Onassises and Schwarzeneggers.
The committee is chaired by Bob Menendez of New Jersey, the same senator who said Vladimir Putin's recent column in the New York Times made him want to vomit. Tea Party Republicans Rand Paul of Kentucky and Marco Rubio of Florida, who have been working as hard as they can to reject the federal budget, shut down the entire United States government, defund and/or abolish Obamacare, plus have the country default on its national debt in the hope of being nominated for president in 2016, do not show up. (Sen. Rubio is excused by a death in his family.)
John McCain is present and asks Caroline Kennedy about some disputed, oily islands in the South China Sea.
"I'd like to study that further," the nominee diplomatically replies in her unaccented murmur.
Blessed and bound by birth to her country's most starred and star-crossed family, chained forever to a childhood within its most famous public, private house, the new ambassador will be far away in Edo when, nine weeks from now, the 50th anniversary of her father's brutal destruction will captivate a country in which so many other lives have been destroyed by bullets and bullheaded politics.
Once, of course, it was a Japanese emperor's sons who fired on American boys. Soon enough, a Kennedy will bow to his pacifist descendants.
"That arc of enemy to friend doesn't happen by accident," a senator from Virginia says. The famous-named witness rises, and the gentle committee adjourns.
Allen Abel is a Brooklyn-born Canadian journalist based in Washington, D.C.


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Online Map of World Time displays current local time in any place around the world right now.
World Time Clock & Map is an indispensable utility for everyone who deals with people abroad or anybody who is keen on knowing what time it is further than locally.
This advanced application is very helpful for travelers who need to know time difference around the world and want to be aware of world time zone they are traveling to, as well as for businesses which are located in different time zones and want to know current local time of their partners and customers.
Just click on "Settings" button on the top-right of the map and discover how you can customize the map yourself! New features like the ability to add more clocks and set alarm time were added recently and general usability was improved. Furthermore, we have developed brand-new HTML Time Clocks for Europe, Australia, Canada and United States, making time check even more easy!
Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the basis for modern civil time. Since January 1, 1972, it has been defined to follow International Atomic Time (TAI) with an exact offset of an integer number of seconds, changing only when a leap second is added to keep clock time synchronized with the rotation of the Earth.
Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is an older standard, adopted starting with British railroads in 1847. Using telescopes instead of atomic clocks, GMT was calibrated to the mean solar time at the Royal Observatory, Greenwich in the UK. Universal Time (UT) is the modern term for the international telescope-based system, adopted to replace "Greenwich Mean Time" in 1928 by the International Astronomical Union. Observations at the Greenwich Observatory itself ceased in 1954, though the location is still used as the basis for the coordinate system. Because the rotational period of Earth is not perfectly constant, the duration of a second would vary if calibrated to a telescope-based standard like GMT or UT - in which a second was defined as a fraction of a day or year. The terms "GMT" and "Greenwich Mean Time" are sometimes used informally to refer to UTC.
Earth is split up into a number of time zones. Most time zones are exactly one hour apart, and by convention compute their local time as an offset from UTC or GMT. In many locations these offsets vary twice yearly due to daylight saving time transitions.
A time zone is a region on Earth, more or less bounded by lines of longitude, that has a uniform, legally mandated standard time, usually referred to as the local time. By convention, the 24 main time zones on Earth compute their local time as an offset from UTC, each time zone boundary being ostensibly 15 degrees east or west of the preceding one. The reference point for UTC is the Greenwich Meridian (the Prime Meridian), which has a longitude of 0°. Local time is UTC plus the current time zone offset for the location in question. A corresponding one hour decrease relative to UTC occurs every 15° heading westward from the western boundary of the UTC time zone, up to the International Date Line.
Daylight Saving Time (DST) also known as "summer time" is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Typically clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn.
In a typical case where a one-hour shift occurs at 02:00 local time, in spring the clock jumps forward from 02:00 standard time to 03:00 DST and that day has 23 hours, whereas in autumn the clock jumps backward from 02:00 DST to 01:00 standard time, repeating that hour, and that day has 25 hours. A digital display of local time does not read 02:00 exactly at the shift, but instead jumps from 01:59:59.9 either forward to 03:00:00.0 or backward to 01:00:00.0. In this example, a location observing UTC+2 during standard time is at UTC+3 during DST; conversely, a location at UTC−5 during standard time is at UTC−4 during DST. Clock shifts are usually scheduled near a weekend midnight to lessen disruption to weekday schedules.
In space, light and time act differently than here on Earth, and speed is a different concept when time can theoretically be stopped in its tracks.
The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, or approximately 670 million miles per hour. Nothing in the universe travels faster than light: at the speed of light, time stops. No matter how fast you are moving when you observe it, the speed of light will always be 186,000 miles per second. In physics, the three dimensions of space and the fourth, separate dimension of time combine to form a single construct throughout the cosmos called space-time. Using space-time, scientists can measure both the place and time something occurs in one.
Time is relative to the person observing it and time may change depending on how fast the observer is moving. Time passes more slowly for satellites in orbit when compared to time on Earth because those satellites are moving. Satellites used for the Global Positioning System are launched with their clocks running faster so that when they reach orbit they mark time the same as Earth-based clocks. Because time passes more slowly in orbit around Earth, astronauts arrive home a little younger than if they had spent the same amount of time on Earth. If you were to travel near the speed of light for what seems to be 20 years, you would return to Earth thousands of years in the future.
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Get free, personalized health advice and answers with HealthTap
Five months ago, HealthTap launched its public beta to help people share health information based not around symptoms or treatments, but around the individual. This week they've expanded the system by launching iPhone and Android apps.
HealthTap is an interactive health network that connects patients with physicians for quick, personal, localized answers 24/7 for free. Users choose their own profile names and images, so true identity disclosure is optional, offering privacy to those who may need help but don't want to visit a doctor. Personal information that is shared on the site is not shared outside of your personal account settings page. What you reveal is up to you.
Initially the service was targeted at pregnant women and mothers of children under one. The new mobile apps as well as the web platform are now open to a wider medical field and include advice from physicians in 82 specialties.
The app, HealthTap Express, has one version for patients and one for physicians. It puts "5,000 doctors at your fingertips" without visiting a doctor's office. Patients can get answers to just about any health question from 5,000 doctors across the US. Doctors benefit from having a "virtual practice," where they can help people by being able to talk to them in real time, which means they can better serve existing patients as well as potentially attract new office patients.
The HealthTap vision is of "a healthier, happier world — one person at a time. We envision people everywhere making confident, informed, fact and data based choices that maximize their health and improve their well-being. We see a future of true individualized medicine, where physicians are at the center of the health conversation, and where people's increased control of their health reduces anxiety and increases optimism."
The company's values are open source values and include trust, openness, transparency, and collaboration, which they apply to try to improve health through sharing.
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Topic: My Dad's Progress
Hi All,
My Dad slips a little each day. He is currently going through stages. He is very jaundice and confused. He has not additional pain or nausea. Thank goodness! He will sleep for two to three days waking only for bathroom and sips of water or something cold to eat. He won't be up at all and my sister and I will keep a vigil day and night. Then he will walk down the hall in his boxers scratching his head! Talk about scaring us! He'll ask what everyone is doing. Then he'll be awake for most of the day and then go through the same thing again. Other days he is pretty grouchy and demanding. It's wearing us out.
Another new development is because he is sleeping so much we ordered a hospital bed. It looked like it was from the 1950s. Metal railings, narrow, and only partly motorized! After he was in it for two days, he was not happy. We called Hospice and we were sure they understood we wanted a proper hospital bed. That's not what we got! The medical equipment company only wanted to attach a motor to make it go up and down. We told them to take the whole thing away! We have had other issues with this Hospice service, so we are switching on Monday. We picked a bummer one. I was against switching at first, but my family assured me it would be a smooth transition. I am his main caregiver. It has been an up and down weekend for sure. Good thing is my dad doesn't know any of this and he really won't care. We just told him a new bed was coming on Monday and that they were closed for the weekend.


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A POPULAR cafe bar has been forced to close after owners of the Little Lonsdale Street site that has housed shops for at least a century decided to demolish it.
Loyal patrons on-site and on Twitter mourned the closure, on Saturday week, of Rue Bebelons, which for 17 years has been a Brunswick Street-style hangout in the CBD that hosted events for the Melbourne Fringe, Comedy and Emerging Writers festivals.
A Heritage Victoria spokeswoman said the property, believed to have been built more than 100 years ago, is not on the state heritage register but will require archaeological investigation after its demolition.
On Twitter, ''MelbourneVinyl'' tweeted: ''One of my favorite CBD spots and a site for many of my first dates. Sad.''
Michele Sammut tweeted: ''Very sad to hear of closing doors for what is in my humble opinion the best cafe in Melbourne.''
Jonathan Toogood, a bank sales manager having a coffee with friend Lauren Haynes, said such little coffee hubs were ''a joy of the city'' and it would be missed.
''You come here and you can chill, catch up with friends, it's a nice meeting place.''
Tim Bramley, a Melbourne University psychology student, lamented the loss of his haven from studying at the nearby State Library. ''It's a pity. There's a bit of a community here. I see people that are familiar.''
Sam Twyford-Moore, director of the annual Emerging Writers Festival, said his event was now looking for a new hub for readings, forums and social nights.
''I'm very sad to hear they're closing because they've been so great for us over the years, letting us come in and take over the place for 11 days.
''It's had a huge following in the arts community, and particularly in the writers' community.''
He said it was a ''shaky building'' but the warm interior and the cafe's signature espresso martini ''will be much missed''.
Property industry sources said a family bought the block including Rue Bebelons on the corner of Swanston and Little Lonsdale streets several years ago for $13 million and were redeveloping it for at least $3 million.
Barry Novy, a director of property agent Kliger Wood, said the building was in an unviable condition, with outdated wiring and plumbing and uneven floor levels.
Five shops, including three Asian restaurants in Swanston Street, will be demolished.
The shop facades will remain, but a new architect-designed, two-storey building will be erected, including five new shops, probably food-based.
Co-owner Aaron Lind said he was ''devastated'' at having to leave, but has resolved to reopen Rue Bebelons elsewhere in the city.


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THE boss of the ambulance service covering Worcester has been named among the best the National Health Service (NHS) has.
Anthony Marsh, chief executive of the West Midlands Ambulance Service, said he was "incredibly proud" to be given the accolade by the Health Service Journal.
"I am very touched and flattered to have been chosen by such an expert panel and to be ranked alongside some fantastic colleagues across the country," he said.
"Whilst it is a humbling experience and I am obviously very proud, this award is a reflection on the hard work of all of the staff who work with me in the West Midlands, whatever their role within the organisation.
"The passionate way in which they go about their work is a credit to the service.
"From my conversations with them, I know how dedicated they are to providing the very highest level of care possible for each and every patient."


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POLICE ordered four Taunton taxis off the road after finding 'dangerous defects' during routine checks, it has emerged.
Roads policing unit officers carried out the checks on taxis in Taunton town centre in partnership with the Department of Work and Pensions, VOSA (Vehicle Operator Services Agency), HM Revenue and Customs and Taunton Deane Borough Council's licensing department.
The compliance checks were carried out on Thursday (March 27) on 20 vehicles. Of those inspected:
Four were given immediate prohibitions, requiring them to be taken off the road as dangerous defects were highlighted.
These included badly worn tyres, exhaust leakage and serious steering/suspension defects.
Four vehicles were given delayed prohibitions, which allows them to continue business for a limited time before a prohibition comes into force).
The defects included having no fuel filler cap fitted, lighting defects, suspension defects and loose batteries.
One driver was operating without his licence badge, as required by regulations by the council.
One vehicle was highlighted as having three defective tyres , while another taxi had three separate defects, with each defect to a level prohibiting the vehicle to be driven on a road.
Other vehicles checked were in a good physical condition and were clearly looked after.
PC Paul Baker of the Taunton RPU said: "It is our priority to help make our roads safer for all. This includes those who choose to travel by public transport.
"For 40% of the vehicles we inspected to have been prevented from further use on our roads due to their dangerous defects, the results appear to be poor.
"Many vehicles checked were found to have been in a good overall condition and those drivers clearly showed a pride in their work.
"However, there are others who do not take time to carry out very basic checks on the vehicles they operate, who we will - together with our partners – target for flouting the law, to ensure the public are safe and feel safe on our roads."


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Just had a look at these smithjones - they are lovely! I'm now enjoying my Mei Tai with my 4 month old.
Best wishes,
Just had a look at these smithjones - they are lovely! I'm now enjoying my Mei Tai with my 4 month old.
Best wishes,
Hi - I am looking to get my first backpack for my baby and I am interested in some recommendations! I have a 5 month old and currently use a wrap carrier. I don't use it too often as the extremely long piece of fabric can be frustrating at times. As my little one is getting older and heavier, I am thinking it is time to get a back pack. Also, I would like one that is relatively easy to use (I have seen some that look difficult to strap on - with a baby dangling on mum's back before it is securely strapped!)
Hi Dee,
That's great to hear you are currently babywearing. Babywearing gives so many advantages to mum and baby and research has even shown it reduces the chance of suffering from postnatal depression.
Is your wrap carrier a stretchy wrap (like the Moby or Karime wrap) or a woven wrap? Although some of the older instructions say otherwise, stretchy wraps are actually not suitable for back carries because it is possible for a baby to fall out of them. Woven wraps are absolutely great for back carries.
However, it sounds like you would like a carrier which is quicker to use. I would recommend the Manduca which is a full-buckle carrier (i.e. the waist and the arm straps have buckles). There are many full buckle carriers such as the Tula and the Boba. Is there a 'sling library' near you where you could hire one from and try it? Many sling libraries also offer postal hiring if they are too far for you to visit. Meeting up with other babywearers is a great way to hear how people get on with different carriers and to get some hands on tips at getting your baby on your back when you are on your own.
I carry my 12 month old on my back in both a Mei Tai and a half buckle carrier (the half buckle has buckles around the waist but wrap straps so I can adjust it more than with a full buckle carrier although it takes slightly longer to put on). Personally, I would highly recommend that you use one of the carriers I have mentioned rather than a backpack carrier with a frame which will not distribute the weight evenly around your body and your daughter is unlikely to be happy being in there as long as a softer wrap/ carrier. My son will happily nap on my back and if I need to breastfeed him whilst I am out and about I can use any of these baby carriers on my front and breastfeed him whilst I walk around (this is great because I also have a toddler).
All of these carriers take a little practice and perseverance but the result is a happy baby and a comfortable mum.
Please do post back and let me know what you think.
Warm wishes,
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Thanks for the reply. I currently have the moby wrap. I tried out the Manduca a few months ago, but I think my baby was too small at the time and did not like it. I might try it out again and see how she likes it. I'll also look into the half buckle carriers.
I love the Moby wrap for under 4 month olds! It depends on the baby's weight, but my experience has been that from about 4-6 months old stretchy slings are not supportive enough for the weight of the baby and the sling tends to hang lower and lower.
Yes I can understand that with a Manduca - whilst they are technically suitable from birth I prefer them for an older baby. You may find you prefer a half buckle to a full buckle because you can adjust the straps (a half buckle has wrap straps) and this is more similar to the Moby's style of carrying (but with supportive, comfortable material).
Do let me know how you get on or post back if I can help you further.
Best wishes,
My experience has been that from about 9 months old, depending on the weight of your baby, it is more comfortable for the baby to be carried on your back. Your baby can then watch the world go by too! Forward facing front carries aren't recommended because of the position the put the baby's hips in.
Really so nice ....Thanks to share .
It helps me after some time .
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Students at Oxford College of Emory University can begin looking forward to added opportunities and space to learn now that the college announced it will begin construction on a new science building this spring.
The $29.9 million project, which is expected to achieve a LEED Gold certification, is being built by Brasfield & Gorrie and should be finished by January 2016.
"Having a science facility that can meet the needs of Oxford's thriving curriculum has been our primary goal for a number of years," said Stephen Bowen, dean of Oxford College.
The new building will be located on the northwest corner of the campus quad. The two dorms that stand there now, Branham and East, will be torn down in July once students leave for the summer. By the time they come back in August, Fleming Hall, a 206-bed residence hall that is already under construction, will be available for move-in.
Newton County Fire Service and Covington Fire Department plan to use Branham and East halls as fire training and smoke alarm sites before demolition.
At 57,500 gross square feet, this building will be the largest structure on the Oxford campus. Building designs were completed by EYP Architecture & Engineering, an award-winning firm that specializes in higher education facilities.
Red brick will be used around most of the structure, according to a press release, to match some of Oxford's historic buildings, adorned with Lithonia granite, which is a locally quarried stone used in many other campus buildings.
Designs show a main entrance from the south side, facing the quad, which will lead to the "nucleus," a two-story gathering space designed to look and feel like the center of the four-story building. The nucleus will be available for group study, learning activities and faculty or student meetings. Wood-plank flooring and Gothic-influenced decoration will glow from the two-story window that is designed to shine into the nucleus.
Rooms and teaching spaces were created with an aim to be available for a variety of learning experiences. A research and investigation zone was included on each floor with space for faculty-student research.
According to the press release, students who come to Oxford College with an interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) continue on to graduate in STEM disciplines at a higher rate than students nationwide.
"The small class size (a typical maximum is 24) allows faculty to know and work with each student individually, and Oxford faculty teach their own laboratories, an unusual learning experience for students at the introductory level," said Eloise Carter, a biology professor at the college and lead faculty member for the building's planning and design.
All 947 students enrolled for the 2013-2014 academic year, as found on the Oxford College website, are freshman and sophomores.
"With all Oxford students required to take at least one laboratory course," Carter said, "the new science building will touch the education of every student."
Cathy Wooten, director of communications at Oxford College, said in an email that funding for the building was sourced entirely by charitable contributions from alumni, faculty, staff and friendly donors to the college. The new residence halls were funded partly through student residential fees.


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GARETH Gates returns to Bingley on July 17 when he appears at the Arts Centre following his sold out show there last year.
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In the run-up to the inaugural Winnipeg Fringe Festival, executive producer Larry Desrochers went shopping at a men's clothing store in the Exchange District, hoping to buy a sports jacket he could wear when hitting up potential corporate sponsors for his new venture.
The salesman inquired about the reason for his purchase and Desrochers, then 29, explained he was working on creating an annual summer theatre festival that staged mostly never-before-seen shows from noon to midnight. His big plan was met with immediate derision.
"He actually says it to me and he's actually trying to make a sale," recalls Desrochers during a recent interview. "I had the jacket in my hand but I told him I wanted to look around a little bit more. I didn't want to buy it because of his attitude.
"There were a lot of naysayers at the start."
Even MTC board members were dubious of the festival's chances of success, given their belief that everyone goes to the cottage in the summer.
The Winnipeg Fringe Festival survived that early skepticism to celebrate its silver anniversary this year as one of the city's true artistic triumphs. It is easy today to forget its modest birth and the arm-twisting needed to establish a new, anti-elitist, anything-goes theatrical blowout.
It wouldn't exist today if Manitoba Theatre Centre artistic director Rick McNair had not been the first to simply ask why Winnipeg did not have a fringe festival like the one in Edmonton -- which introduced the concept to Canada in 1982 -- and Vancouver and Victoria. When no one had a convincing reason why not, McNair found the money to send Desrochers off to the 1987 Edmonton Fringe Festival to study its set-up and prepare to spearhead the first Winnipeg Fringe Festival the following year.
In his pitch to the MTC board for seed money, Desrochers wrote that the objective was "to break through the public's 'eight o'clock, formal dress, reservations-only' perception of theatre by making drama something inexpensive, accessible and fun, something that can happen anytime, anywhere, for anyone."
It doesn't sound like a big deal today, but then, it was revolutionary for MTC to cede quality control to a bunch of unknowns with $150 (the admission fee) and an idea. Worse, there was no way to tell the charlatans from the shamans.
"It was a wacky idea for a regional theatre that protects its artistic integrity to undertake, especially because I couldn't guarantee that any of the shows would be good," says Desrochers, currently the executive producer of Manitoba Opera.
The nine-day event opened July 16 in five indoor venues surrounding the fest's outdoor hub at Old Market Square, a neighbourhood that Desrochers noticed mirrored in personality and potential that of Edmonton's Old Strathcona District. To ensure that festival-goers got the message that they were in for something completely different, shows were staged in non-traditional spaces like the Cauldron Club, a sweatbox on the third floor of a sketchy Princess Street edifice, and the beer-soaked back room of the Woodbine Hotel on Main Street.
"What worried us is what if we threw this big party and nobody came," he says.
The five noon-time shows were modestly attended on the opening Saturday, with turnouts for some in the single digits. Attendance did pick up in the evening, with a Calgary puppeteer by the name of Ronnie Burkett the first to crack the 100-ticket mark before a local production of Sexual Perversity in Chicago registered the first sellout.
Burkett, with his one-man, nine-character Fool's Edge, was a raunchy revelation as Winnipeggers roared at the sexual innuendo spouted by his 15th-century puppet characters.
Talk to anybody who performed or attended the 1988 festival and they immediately bring up the blistering heat. No one remembers what went on at the two air-conditioned venues, just the three that didn't have AC.
"It was hotter than you can imagine," says Burkett, the marionette virtuoso who went on to perform at MTC many times and become an international star. "I was wearing a quilted Renaissance tunic. It never dried between shows.
"It was an exciting time. It was new, the city took to it and there was the thrill of discovery between audiences and performers. It felt like theatre was being liberated somehow."
And it was. The offbeat shows, the late-night curtain times, the dubious venues and the cheap tickets (top price was $5) appealed to a younger demographic looking for a laugh or something weird after dark.
"We saw there was a hunger on the part of Winnipeg audiences for something different from what they were seeing the rest of the year," says actor John Bluethner. "At the time in the summer it was Rainbow Stage and nothing else."
Right from the start, the festival exuded a Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland let's-put-on-a-show feel that swept through the Winnipeg theatre community. Everybody who was anybody wanted in, setting off an unprecedented flurry of activity.
Future Governor General's Award-winning playwright Vern Thiessen directed Sexuality Perversity with a cast that included Michael Nathanson, current artistic director of the Winnipeg Jewish Theatre. (Both Thiessen and Nathanson have two plays eaach in the 2012 fringe festival.) Rick Chafe made his debut as a playwright with Player Pool; this past season, Prairie Theatre Exchange presented his most recent, The Secret Mask. Ann Hodges, who last season helmed the brilliant August: Osage County at RMTC, started her directing career back then with Vegetable Inside. Genie-nominated filmmaker Gary Yates co-wrote Something Strange in 1988.
Actor Steve McIntyre was involved in three shows: the French-language Sommeil entre coupe, un trilogie, the Theatre X improv show A Loony a Night, and Mind of the Iguana, in which he played the title reptile.
"We wanted to do as many as we could," says McIntyre. "We didn't have to worry about getting in because we all got in."
It was a boom time for directors and actors.
"We got our money (ticket revenue) after each show, so 100 per cent of the actors in town had cash in their pockets at the same time," says McIntyre. "So there was quite a party at the beer tent."
Despite the sweltering conditions, the fringe sold 14,000 tickets, almost tripling Desrochers' prediction. It was the most successful debut of any Canadian fringe festival and 25 years later, it still is.
Browse through the covers of the Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival programs, going all the way back to the beginning.
Only at the Fringe
- Tanya Ashton and her boyfriend Alan eloped from their homes in Thompson and got married in Old Market Square with all the pomp and circumstance the fringe festival could muster.
- In 1991, owing to a $10,000 deficit, the Fringe put out a call to its volunteers in the hopes of getting 120 of them to agree to become guinea pigs for a local research company testing various personal products. For every 13-visit participant the festival would receive $60, to a maximum of $7,200.
- In 1991, Andrew Goldfuss thought to himself during a fringe show, "Even a monkey could do a better job than this." He couldn't find a monkey, so he entered the 1992 festival with a show called Man is Not Spam, but cancelled the entire run owing to an acute case of stage fright.
- Even though there was no money-back guarantee at the fringe, executive producer Craig Walls used to carry $50 cash just in case he ran into irate patrons.
- To create a park environment for the play Steel Kiss, 200 square feet of sod was laid down on the second floor of the Melnychenko Gallery in 1992.
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- Live Sex Show -- Llamas
- Captain Vaseline vs The Radioactive Slut Bunnies from Hell
- Penis De Milo
- F--king Stephen Harper: How I Sexually Assaulted the 22nd Prime Minister of Canada
- The Wet Dream Catcher
- A Procrastinator's Guide to Depressive Masturbation
- Wall to Wall Bum
- Uncle Willy's Spray-On Condoms
- The Condom, the Cucumber and the Girl from Ipanema
- The C--kwhisperer -- A Love Story


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Home truly is where the heart — and apparently power — is. On a night when Jerry Manuel was serving a one-game suspension, the Mets exploded for eight runs as they beat up on Cardinals ace Adam Wainright. That's more runs scored than in the past five losses combined.
Caption: Carlos Beltran (15) and on-deck batter Josh Thole (30) greet Jeff Francoeur (12) at the plate after Francouer hit a fourth-inning, three-run home run off St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Adam Wainwright on July 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)
It looked like it was going to be another long night in first inning as Mets starter Jon Niese got into trouble. He allowed two singles to lead off. He got the first out, but it advanced the runners to second and third. However, Niese was able to limit the damage to one run.
After that, he settled in and didn't give up another run. He walked two, struck out just one but only gave up seven hits, three of which were in the first inning.
With two Cardinals on base in the seventh inning, one thanks to a Mets error, Manny Acosta came in and relieved Niese. Acosta was able to escape the inning but allowed three straight batters to reach in the eighth. That's when Raul Valdes came and cleaned up the mess, only allowing one inherited runner to score. Francisco Rodriguez cleaned up the ninth.
The real story tonight, however, was the offense. It was powered by two home runs, a three-run shot by Jeff Francoeur, who was replacing the ailing Jason Bay, in the fourth and a two-run blast by Jose Reyes in the sixth. Niese, who had singled beforehand, scored on Reyes' no-doubter.
Carlos Beltran and Luis Castillo had two hits apiece. Beltran drove in a run with a bloop in fifth inning. Also in the that inning, David Wright hit a sac fly to score Castillo. The Mets also got a run in the second off an RBI groundout by Ike Davis.
The Mets picked up ground on the Braves who lost but are still 2 1/2 games behind the Phillies. Johan Santana will try to keep things going Wednesday but will have a tough job as he faces Jaime Garcia. The Mets hope tonight's offense wasn't a fluke like their six-run win over the Dodgers on Friday was.


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Date Posted: February 5, 2013
Arlington, VA—U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) has hired Laura Evaenes as its Fiscal Officer.
Evaenes started in her new position at the USW Headquarters Office in Arlington, VA, on Jan. 26, 2013, by attending an Audit Committee meeting at a USW Board of Directors meeting.
"Laura is inquisitive, enthusiastic, and has a great variety of experience," said Vice President of Finance Kevin McGarry.
"We are very happy to have her bring all of those qualities to USW so that we can continue to give our members the best possible service."
As USW's Fiscal Officer, Evaenes is now responsible for consolidation of all foreign office expenditures, liaison with USW foreign offices and the U.S. Department of Agriculture on expenditure reporting, account analysis and internal auditing.
Evaenes said she is excited to start this new chapter.
"I have always had an interest in working for non-profit organizations," Evaenes said, "and I see this position as an opportunity to learn and grow as a professional while helping those who feed the world."
Evaenes is originally from Montreal, Canada, but attended high school and college in Maryland.
She graduated from the University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, with a bachelor's degree in business administration.
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