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315 Faculty Development
Faculty Development at Georgia State University takes place at the department, college and university levels. See the Promotion, Tenure and Development Document for general policies regarding development.
The University has several resources available to faculty for development. These include the Center for Instructional Innovation, the Instructional Resource Center, the Office of Research, and the Teaching and Learning with Technology Center.
315.01 The Center for Instructional Innovation
The mission of the Georgia State University Center for Instructional Innovation is to support and promote high quality educational opportunities within a learning-centered academic culture that addresses the needs of qualified students, non-traditional as well as traditional. The Center reflects the collective expertise and continued commitment to excellence in teaching by the university faculty.
The Center promotes student learning by encouraging and supporting faculty efforts to explore the teaching-learning process. Such explorations include development of instructional skills, reflection on current instructional practices, implementation of teaching innovations, and use of emerging technologies. Further, the Center serves as an advocate for excellent teaching and for the expansion of incentives for the continued improvement of teaching and learning at the University.
In collaboration with the colleges of Georgia State University, the Center promotes the availability of existing efforts that develop and expand excellence in teaching and learning.
The Center serves the University by a) functioning as a clearinghouse of information and resources related to the continuing improvement of teaching at GSU, b) developing initiatives which encourage ongoing faculty commitment to excellence in teaching,
c) promoting continuing development of a community of scholars interested in teaching-learning excellence, d) identifying information and resources that support high-quality teaching, and e) coordinating the University's role as a leader in the regional, national, and international network of scholars interested in instructional excellence.
315.02 Special Funding Opportunities
315.02.01 Faculty Mentoring Grant
Faculty Mentoring Grants are designed to encourage and support the development of the faculty as externally funded scholars. The program links faculty mentees that have not yet established a sponsored research agenda with experienced mentors and provides an informal seminar for mentees to cover the basic components of proposal preparation. Faculty members are not eligible for Faculty Mentoring funds if they have ever received external grants for research or are currently receiving CIF support. The maximum grant is $10,000 ($9,000 for mentee and $1,000 for mentor).
315.02.02 Research Initiation Grants
The Research Initiation Program encourages and supports scholarly research and other creative activity at Georgia State University. This grant program is intended to help full-time faculty meet the costs associated with their research activities. Priority is given to new and promising research efforts. One campus-wide competition is held each fiscal year with a Spring deadline. The maximum grant is $5,000.
315.02.03 Research Team Grants
The Research Team Grants foster collaboration among two or more faculty members at Georgia State University for the initiation of research and the preparation of proposals for external funds. Teams of faculty members from different departments are encouraged to apply. One campus-wide competition will be held each fiscal year. The maximum grant is $15,000.
315.02.04 Dissertation Grant Program
The Dissertation Grant Program encourages and supports dissertation research at Georgia State University. Intended to help full-time doctoral students meet the costs associated with their dissertation research, the program makes one-time awards of up to $1,000. Proposals for the biannual competitions are due in the fall and spring. Applicants working in areas presently funded by external funding sources and funded under the Chancellor's Initiative Fund are ineligible for support.
315.02.05 Equipment Matching
This program provides matching funds for equipment obtained by faculty from externally funded grants. Funding is provided for up to 50% of the cost of equipment costing less than $100,000 in each proposal/award. Matching requests exceeding $50,000 should be discussed, prior to submission of the grant proposal, with the appropriate Dean and the Vice President for Research.
315.02.06 Instructional Improvement
This program encourages and supports instructional development activities. The Instructional Improvement Program seeks to enhance individual faculty and/or departmental efforts to develop and implement creative approaches to teaching at GSU. The maximum grant is $2,000, and proposals are due in the winter.
315.02.07 Quality Improvement Funds
The Quality Improvement Program's intent is to maintain and upgrade the infrastructure of the University by purchasing research and instructional equipment. A significant award criterion is the impact of the proposed equipment on the research and/or instructional program. Funding is available for individual projects, group efforts, and support facilities. Interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary, along with disciplinary proposals are encouraged. Proposals are submitted in the fall, and grant amounts vary.
315.02.08 Chancellor's Initiative Fund
The goal of this program is to enhance research productivity at GSU by supporting existing faculty research projects. Supported projects either have, or have substantial potential for, extramural funding. All disciplinary, as well as multidisciplinary and inter-disciplinary proposals are eligible for this competitive funding. There are two categories of program development: (1) Initial Funding, for projects not previously supported by CIF, and (2) Continuation Funding, which includes funding for projects experiencing temporary difficulties due to the loss of external funds. Proposals are submitted in early spring.
315.02.09 Directed Research Funds and Travel Grants
The Directed Research Funds are designed to provide competitive funding for scholarly activities not covered under other University-sponsored funding initiatives. Examples of eligible activities include:
Funding under this program requires a match of 50% from the department and/or college. Proposals are accepted throughout the year.
Travel Grants, limited to $500, are to facilitate the acquisition of extramural support for new research projects. The award does not support travel to professional meetings. Proposals are accepted throughout the year.
315.02.10 African-American Faculty Research and Development Grants
Grants of up to $4,000 (with one-half provided by the Provost's Office and the balance by the College or other academic unit) are available for untenured, tenure-track African-American Assistant or Associate Professors who are U.S. citizens. Funds may be requested for the following activities:
315.02.09 Special Funding Initiatives Summary
Program Maximum General
Program Purpose Amount Award Deadlines*
Faculty Development of faculty $ 50,000 $10,000 October,
Mentoring members as externally April
funded scholars
Research Research support for new $125,000 $ 5,000 March
Initiation and promising efforts
Research Collaborative Research $ 75,000 $15,000 October,
Team Grant Support for two or more April
faculty members
Dissertation Supplies and travel $ 15,000 $ 1,000 November,
Awards dissertation expenses May
Equipment Equipment (50% matching) $250,000 $50,000 Open
Instructional Instructional development $ 15,000 $ 2,000 February
Quality Instructional and research $300,000 N/A October
Improvement equipment
Chancellor's Research enhancement $750,000 N/A March
Initiative Fund
Directed Research support, renova- $250,000 $50,000 Open
research funds tions and equipment
and travel
African- Research and $ 2,000 $ 2,000 November,
American development April
Faculty R & D
*For exact due dates, contact the Office of Research.
Program guidelines are distributed prior to the deadline.


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Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Smoking and Tobacco
if wanted to quite smokeing how do i do it. please tell me.
It sounds like you are ready to quit; good for you! I`d suggest a visit to your doctor to discuss whether medications like nicotine replacement or bupropion might help. Then, set a quit date, ask family and friends for support, think about joining a smoking cessation group offered by a local American Cancer Society or Heart or Lung Association, get rid of all smoking-related objects like ashtrays and lighters, make a plan for dealing with craving (see website), and go for it!
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Associate Professor
College of Medicine
University of Cincinnati

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Working at the CDC
Many KSC students choose to work at the CDC for their work/study job, which is part of their financial aid package. These students are hired to assist throughout the day. We strive for consistency for children as we schedule work/study students, who are trained and supervised by CDC staff. Each student is expected to maintain a professional attitude throughout the duration of their scheduled participation.
Students interested in applying to the CDC should send the following information to the Director or Office Manager:
- Work Study award
- Course schedule
- Experience working with young children
- Major
- Preference: Infant Room, Toddler Room, Preschool Classrooms, Kitchen/Office
Jobs are typically posted on MYKSC over the summer, but we are happy to receive applications throughout the year. Hiring decisions are made at the end of the summer, and students learn of their status during the last two weeks of the summer and the first week of the academic year.
If a student does not have a work-study award, it is possible to become a substitute teacher. Interested students need to meet New Hampshire Licensing Rules for an Associate Teacher in order to be a substitute a the CDC.
Contact the CDC
CDC Office
Tara Kavanagh
CDC Director
Ellen Edge
Academic Program Coordinator
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BOSTON (TheStreet) -- Sure Seattle crushed Denver in Super Bowl XLVIII, but football enthusiasts who move to the Seahawks' hometown will find some of the NFL's least-loyal fans there, two Emory University experts say.
"You definitely see a decrease in the number of people coming to [Seahawks] games at times when the team's performance has gone down," says Emory researcher Manish Tripathi, who recently conducted a study with colleague Michael Lewis that ranked Seattle fans 23rd among those of the NFL's 32 teams.
Tripathi and Lewis, two sports-marketing experts at Emory's Goizueta School of Business, analyzed fan loyalty by measuring how much money each team took in from ticket sales between 2002 and 2012 after adjusting for variations between cities. For instance, the pair took each team's win/loss record and stadium size into account.
Tripathi says franchises with the most-loyal fans don't always have the greatest records, but historically had at least one string of championship seasons that diehard supporters still wax nostalgic about.
By contrast, NFL cities with weak fan bases generally have few good times for fans to fondly recall, as well as lots of "transplant" residents who grew up somewhere else and didn't root for home team.
Tripathi adds that many communities with low fan loyalty also have warm climates and top pro teams in other sports vying for residents' attention.
So the professor says true football fans might want to avoid moving to cities that sit at the bottom of the study's rankings. "If you like a packed house and fans putting their money where their mouths are and buying tickets to games, you probably [won't] enjoy these places," Tripathi says.
That said, the expert admits that NFL cities with weak fan bases do often offer one advantage: low ticket prices.
"You might not see people showing up at games in these cities through thick and thin, but you're often able to enjoy a quality football product at a lower ticket price," Tripathi says.
Read on to check out the five NFL cities at the bottom of the Emory professors' rankings, as well as some details about each community's housing market.
Tripathi and Lewis compiled their rundown by projecting what ticket revenues each team should have had the 2002-12 period and comparing that to estimated actual sales.
Teams with the highest ticket sales above expected levels topped the professors' rankings, while those with the lowest revenues relative to predicted amounts placed at the bottom.
To account for differences between markets, Lewis and Tripathi factored in each franchise's stadium capacity, average ticket price and win/loss record during the period studied. The pair also adjusted results to account for variations in each metro area's local population and median-income levels.
Home-price figures refer to market tracker Zillow.com's estimates of median values for all properties (not just those up for sale) in a given metro area as of December 2013, the latest month with data available.
No. 5 worst city for loyal NFL fans: Detroit
Detroit Lions fans have had little to roar about in recent years.
That's because the team finished below .500 in 10 of the 11 seasons Tripathi and Lewis studied, including a humiliating 0-16 record in 2008. Detroit did manage to have a winning season and make the playoffs in 2011, but New Orleans eliminated the Lions in the first round.
Tripathi says that when you add in the fact that the Lions have never reached the Super Bowl and Detroit has long suffered from a weak economy, it's not surprising the team has substandard ticket revenues.
"People either won't show up or won't pay much to watch a poor product," he says.
Still interested in moving there? Zillow says the median Detroit home is worth $100,300. Click here to check out the roughly 14,000 local properties the site lists as for sale.


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As the Walt Disney Co. prepares to break ground today on its first theme park in mainland China, the significance for the company reaches well beyond the opportunity to sell legions of Mickey Mouse-ear hats.
Although it will be much smaller than Walt Disney World near Orlando, the Shanghai park holds outsize importance for the company because it will provide access to a market of 1.3 billion people, 30 million of whom enter the middle class each year. When it opens in five years, the $3.7 billion tourist attraction will serve as a launching pad for Disney's broader ambitions in the region.
The Shanghai park culminates a decade-long effort to bring Disney's distinct brand of themed attractions — built around Mickey, Minnie and the company's other animated characters — to the world's most populous country. Disney chief executive Robert A. Iger plans to attend the ceremonial groundbreaking, underscoring the project's importance.
"We view it as a real cornerstone of our growth initiative in that market," Iger said in remarks made at a recent investor conference in California.
The 963-acre park will bring the Magic Kingdom to the Middle Kingdom. Plans include a castle that will be bordered by themed areas, two hotels and a shopping district near a lake, with additional land set aside for future development. The Disney resort will anchor a broader International Tourism Resort, roughly 12 miles southwest of Pudong International Airport.
"In about five years, we'll have a park that is distinctly Disney, yet authentically Chinese," said Disney Parks and Resorts chairman Thomas O. Staggs in remarks to investors in February. "Taken as a whole, we believe China is the most exciting opportunity we've had since Walt first bought land in Florida in 1964."
China so far has proved a frustrating market for U.S. entertainment companies. The communist government tightly controls distribution of foreign movies and television programs, which in turn has fueled rampant piracy of Hollywood content. Prime-time television slots are reserved for domestic fare such as the wildly popular animated series Pleasant Sheep and the Big Bad Wolf, while imports, including Mickey Mouse (known in China as Mi Lao Shu), struggle for airtime.
Disney will share ownership in the new theme park with Shanghai Shendi Group, a government-controlled entity that will own a 57 percent stake in the joint venture, according to reports in Chinese media.
Investors hope Disney's strategy of partnering with the government will give the company the leverage it needs to negotiate a 24-hour cable network in China or to win wider distribution for its films. As the majority owner of the park, China will benefit from prospective visitors' greater exposure to the Disney brand, media analyst Alan Gould of Evercore Partners said.
But even Iger has acknowledged there are no guarantees.
"There isn't a specific promise to launch a Disney Channel in China," Iger said at Disney's February investor conference. "But obviously, it's something that we would love to be able to do at some point."
For now, Disney has developed innovative end runs around the limitations on traditional media.
The entertainment giant partnered with China's two dominant online video sites, Tudou.com and Youku.com, to stream Disney's ABC prime-time shows, including Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy, directly to adult viewers.
And to reach Disney's core family audience, the company operates a few English-language schools in China for children ages 2 to 12. These Disney English centers use learning materials filled with images of Winnie the Pooh, Donald Duck and other characters.
"Disney, in our view, has the strongest China strategy of any of the studios," Evercore Partners' Gould wrote in a recent analyst note.
Gould estimates that Disney stands to collect fees of $65 million to $70 million in the first year of the park's operation, growing to potentially $200 million in 10 years. The Shanghai park also will serve as a powerful brand ambassador.
"Disney sees the theme park as a way to establish themselves in the Chinese market," said John Gerner, managing director of Leisure Business Advisors, a consulting firm in Richmond, Va. "That will drive people to the movies, establish the characters, which will drive merchandise sales."
Success is far from assured, however.
The Hong Kong Disneyland Resort, which opened to great fanfare in 2005, has been criticized as too small and as offering too few rides to live up to Disney's giant aspirations. That's why the company is pumping millions into the park to add scores of attractions and themed areas, including Toy Story Land, which opens in the fall.
And there will be plenty of regional competition. By the time the Shanghai park opens, Disney's rivals will include Universal Studios Singapore and a renovated Ocean Park in Hong Kong. Also, Asia's first Legoland is set to open in Malaysia in 2012.
Enterprising local operators could prove formidable as well. At least two Beijing theme parks have borrowed liberally from Disney's repertoire — including costumed Plutos and Minnies and a castle that looks eerily similar to the one near Orlando. Knockoff Disney clothing, toys and DVDs are widely available in China.
"The key to Disney's success has been migrating products to different platforms and cross-selling them. The challenge to doing that in China is piracy," said Patrick Chovanec, a professor at Tsinghua University's School of Economics and Management in Beijing.
"The downside is you don't get paid for all that content," he said. "The upside is everyone knows the characters. So the question is: How do you monetize it?"


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GUN VIOLENCE: Jason Cherry, 34, killed and three others injured following a shooting Saturday night at a residence located at 1249 Dickinson Street SE in Grand Rapids, Mich.
Three of the victims were taken to local hospitals for treatment. Two of them suffered non-life threatening injuries, while a third person's injuries were considered life-threatening.
There were three to four suspects involved in the shooting. The victims described them as young black males. One is described as a light skinned black male with a short afro, wearing a red bandana that covered his face and is between 5'5″ – 5'7.' Another suspect is described as wearing all black and was between 6'0″-6'2." Police said no other descriptions were given. No motive has been determined and no suspects have been arrested.
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And I'm struggling. A lot of those games are painful and I'm not going to watch them. On the other hand, I have ~32 hours of Pacers footage in MPEG-2. The pack-rat in me doesn't want to throw it away.
I went back and watched our games against Miami, where we had a sane Ron and a healthy Tinsley. Jermaine was our third-best player. That game was depressing.


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We'll never tire of hearing about the post-NBA life/career of former Sixers legend Allen Iverson. Whether it's his exploits in Turkey or his failed attempts to get back into the League, we still love hearing about what A.I. is up to at the moment.
According to basketball blog Rush'N Hoops, Iverson is finally set to play some ball in China.
They write:
Allen Iverson has finally decided to pursue his
basketball career in China, and has to take what's available right now –
a contract for a handful of exhibition games. It remains possible that
the former NBA MVP signs with a professional team in China before start
of the season, but so far the talks didn't result in a deal.
They have a bunch of photos of A.I. at a press conference in China looking like he wishes he were at the nearest T.G.I. Friday's and link to what appears to be the site for the upcoming exhibition games. Any Chinese readers out there?
Pretty badass poster as well.


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Sanctuary Saga
The House of Shadows
A rather mysterious home of the Sneaks of Sanctuary. Headed by Sanctuary Elder, Thovin Beestinger, a Halfling Male of 65 Winters. The House is of normal size and provides supplies, training and board to the 12 Sneaks of Sanctuary. Sneaks are employed as spies or scouts for Travelers. They are adept at climbing, sneaking and figuring out complex mechanical problems.
Not much is known of the interior of the House and nearby citizens say they see people on the rooftops from time to time or report being startled by a Sneak practicing Shadow Hiding in the alleyways near the house.


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NSIDE THE HOUSE OF VIKTOR & ROLF: Viktor & Rolf/Penny Martin
Captured during the final week of their ground-breaking exhibition at London's Barbican Gallery, this series of films offers a glimpse behind the scenes and into the creative universe of Viktor & Rolf. Featuring an interview with the Dutch duo recorded live during the symposium, framed by three presentations exploring their heritage, designs and the retrospective itself and completed by a video of their subsequent collection 'Funny Face', this project affords a rare insight into the creativity of two of the world's leading fashion stars' technology.
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The Electric Chair
Do you wanna be surrounded? A setup diagram on the new electronica surround-sound DVD compilation Awaken shows how to position your TV and six (6) matched, specially amped speakers so the experience can fully enjoy you. It looks like some kind of futuristic custody. The listener shrinks in his chair while the speakers -- uh, monitors -- vigilantly circumscribe his existence. Freeze, dirtbag, we got plans for you.
Movies have already conditioned audiences to similar captivity; music, before now, has cut us more physicalfinancial slack. Call it evolution: Seventies quad didnt become extinct, it just mutated. Therell be fences more electrifying to come, but as an example of the current surround-sound circuit, Awaken is a hospitable prison.
Its even idealistic. The producers and musicians who made Awakens 12 discrete tracks are young and slobby. In the discs artist interviews (the package also includes alternate mixes and visuals), they talk about stuff like accentuating the positive and realizing your dreams. Life and death are of supreme importance, reads one screen title. Thanks for the tip, right? But these days, the statement isnt completely axiomatic.
The music is a welcoming environment of warm electronica. And, considering that it comes from 12 individual artistsentities, its coherent, thanks to the shepherding and sequencing of musical director Poet Name Life. Though you can get Awaken as a simple stereo CD, and it sounds fine that way, the project was clearly conceived for surround sound -- 5.1 its called, after the five satellite speakers and one subwoofer. Avoiding the heavy frontal assault of rock and most dance music, Awaken emphasizes the kinds of rhythmic blips, smears and warbles that can move unobtrusively around your head. (You got 5.1? Me neither; I went to a friends house.)
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The checklist: Its spacy. Its melodic. You can dance (in place), or not. Because lots of samples are present, the fi isnt audiophilically hi. Words as such hardly surface after Divine Stylers anomalous heavy-handedly poetic, hip-hoppy opening track. Vocals are sprinkled here and there, just like you want em: ah-oh; ah-ah; uh-ah-uh; ooh-hoo-ooh. Recurring influences? You hear traces of Jamaican dub (tapped on RPLs and Omids tracks), and of bedroom mumbler Barry White (on DJ Motive8s and King Britts). Not many more.
While youre listening, Awaken gives you things to look at, mainly paintings by graffiti and spray-can artist Kofie, who created several for each track. Theyre good: colorful, gritty and not too literal. But theyre stationary. So the combination -- music that moves with images that dont -- offers less reward than fixating on your lava lamp. Animation, of course, wouldve been expensive.
When you get to the end, after the fast distortions and turntable scratches of Relms Revenge of the Nerd have yielded to the coarsely compressed beats and distant glacial landslides of Mount Cyanides extended Antarctica (my favorite track -- also check out its clean-mean alternate video), you wont feel disappointed. You might not feel blown away, either, but Godzillan pummeling isnt what these organic explorers are after. If said pummeling is your meat, youre probably using your DVD player the way the Good Lord and Paramount Pictures intended, and wont yearn to be Awakened. Whos fooling whom remains to be seen: The Awakeners may be subverting the machine, or they may be getting sucked into it. (The project was executive-produced by Richard Dashut, co-producer of Fleetwood Macs Rumours.)
What, in fact, is Awaken? A 5.1 test-drive? Its more than a demo but less than a full realization of this baby technology. Trip fodder? This breakfast is more coffee than fried egg. Makeout music? On the discs danciest track, Time Bomb, Rabbit in the Moon hisses, Got to have sex through electronics -- okay, if thats the way you want it, and the abstract sensuality on Awaken does suggest celibacy. A call to arms? Aside from the populism of the street-level painting and some oblique commentary on mechanization and seal-clubbing, the politics are vague; besides, your average proletarian could hock all his leather-bound Marx books and not scrape up enough change for a surround-sound amplifier. Possibility: In this writers experience, the music provided excellent background for a family game of Parcheesi. Was this the artists intention? Doubtful.
So . . . dunno. Must be art.
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No. 1 With a Bullet
Jillian O'Neill's new attitude, repertoire have her gunning for opponents' top guns
Jan. 23, 2012
By Jon Cooper
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Playing at No. 1 means you are the tone-setter for your team.
You get other teams' best players every night and have to be at your best or risk humiliation at the forehand and backhand of a world-class player.
It's not a pursuit for everyone. Jillian O'Neill is not everyone.
The senior from Montreal, Canada knows what's expected and is unafraid to go after it.
"It's definitely exciting. I have to be ready because all the team's No. 1's are definitely very good," said O'Neill, who was the ACC Women's Tennis Player of the Week last week (she was jazzed to learn that Tech's Sasha Goodlett was named ACC Women's Basketball Player of the Week that same week). "I have to come out and I have to be 100 percent prepared but it's a great challenge and I look forward to it. It's fun to go out and know you're going to have a really competitive match in front of you."
O'Neill's stepping up to the challenge doesn't surprise Women's Tennis Head Coach Bryan Shelton.
"She's one of those girls that you could almost describe as a game day player. She plays her best in matches," said Shelton. "She's elevated her practices, especially off-court where she's pushing her body and working harder to get fitter and stronger. That wasn't always the case. There's something special about her that when the match is on the line and she's out there playing she can raise her intensity to another level and can compete with the best players in the nation. She's just that good."
She showed that Jan. 14-16 at the Michigan Invitational, Tech's season opener. O'Neill won two of her three singles matches, including knocking off University of Washington senior Denise Dy, the No. 10 player in the country, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (4). That match was big for O'Neill's confidence.
"It definitely showed me that I can play at that high of a level," she said. "[Dy] is ranked very high in the country. So it's always a confidence boost for me to know that I can keep up with the best, mentally, physically stay there."
Shelton was excited to see that light go on.
"I think that she has a lot of confidence in what she can do on the court," said Shelton. "She knows that she can hurt people. She's definitely got some weapons out there on the court that other people have to be aware of.
"The good thing about her is now her weaknesses aren't so glaring," he added. "They don't really stand out so it's hard to see. Where as before a player might think that she could outlast her or wear her down, she's now more physically fit and so she's able to go the distance. A good example of that was when she played [Dy] and beat her 7-6 in the third, in a three-hour-plus match. That was a huge confidence boost for her, something that told her, 'I can go out there and I can play explosively and I can get the job done quickly or I can go out there and, if I need to, I can stay out there for three hours and do the work and I can still get the job done in the end.' So I think that was a huge boost for her confidence."
O'Neill, who is ranked No. 45, dropped her next two singles matches -- 4-6, 4-6 to No. 36 Emina Bektas of Michigan, the day after the Dy match, then, this past Saturday, 6-2, 0-6, 3-6 against No. 2 Chelsey Gullickson of Georgia -- but proved she can play with anyone. She also showed she won't let a loss linger, as the day after the loss to Gullickson, part of a heart-breaking 4-3 team loss, she bounced back, quickly disposing of Memphis' Courtney Collins, 6-2, 6-1, spearheading Tech's 6-1 win.
Her growth has transferred over to the doubles court.
After forming a superb partnership with Caroline Lilley last season, O'Neill has been paired with sophomore transfer Alex Anghelescu and the two have shown spectacular results. They are 4-0 as a team and over the weekend knocked off Georgia's second-ranked tandem of Gullickson and Nadja Gilchrist (8-5), then, the next day, knocked off Memphis' top team of Alyssa Hibbard and Tiffany Welcher, the nation's 41st-ranked team, (8-4).
"We play different game styles but we mesh really well together," said O'Neill. "I have a big game, Alex definitely has a big game, too, and she has a lot of feel. Together I feel like we can throw our opponents off with all the different angles we can throw in. We have a complete game together. There aren't any holes that they can exploit on us. We're a pretty complete team together."
Thus far on the season, the Yellow Jackets have won the Doubles point in every match and have won 13 of the 16 matches played. (By the way, Lilley is doing quite well with her new partner, freshman Jasmine Minor, as they are the nation's 33rd-ranked team.).
Led by O'Neill, the Jackets are looking for bigger things, starting this weekend at the Moore Center, when they take on Georgia State on Friday (a 2 p.m. start), and either South Carolina or William & Mary on Saturday (time TBA), then Princeton the following Friday (another 2 p.m. start). Those matches lead into the ITA National Team Indoors held Feb. 10-13, in Charlottesville, Va.
But they're not looking that far ahead. For now, improvement on a day-to-day basis is the name of the game.
"We put in a lot of work fitness-wise last semester," she said. "I feel you can definitely see that it paid off for all the girls on the team. Hopefully we'll all keep improving and getting better all season long."
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Fatal Frame
Review by Vapor Snake
"This game freaked my crap out..."
... and THAT's coming from a rabid horror movie fan. When it comes to getting scared, a horror fan is to scared as a porn star is to arousal: Damn near impossible to do. In a repetitive genre of this survival horror crapfest (''After all, Resident Evil and Silent Hill struck gold, why can't we?''), this game is a beam from heaven in originality. Your weapon? A camera. The puzzles? Ugh, don't get me started on them. I got stuck for hours on one involving Japanese numbers. The atmosphere? Spooky as hell, with excellent, uh, ''camera'' work. It won't take to long before your heartbeat is passing up that of the controller's..
Story - 8/10.
The ''Based on a true story'' crap will start to freak you out if you dwell on it later in the game.
The story is that a young man is off on a search for a famous novelist, who vanished while doing research for an upcoming book.
The boy enters the mansion, which is the location where the author was last seen. The boy soon disappears, and then you control his sister, looking for her brother.
You know how most games have you watch an FMV intro? You play this game's Intro. Done up really nice with the Black and White, it serves as an introduction to the mood, feel, and controls of the game.
Audio/Video - 10/10.
Lalalalala.. I'll just open this doo- AHHHHH! JESUS ****ING CHRIST! *Pounds on camera button like a madman*
This game is awesome when it comes to this category. The creaking floorboards, haunting whispers, and just the environments' themselves will all take part in the total and absolute demise of your sanity. Try to escape em by running to the next room, eh? These guys aren't no retarded Resident Evil zombied up, virus infected characters. They'll hunt your ass down THROUGH the walls. Beautiful effects and the superb design of the ghosts makes this category the most bad-ass, no contest.
Replayability - 5/10.
Alas, there is no real reason to replay the game, save for getting all the camera techniques and building up points. You might as well just start up a new game should you get the urge to play it again. I think that's more fun to do, anyway.
To buy or to rent? - Rent first, then buy.
It's vital to always try a game out before you buy it, no matter how astounding the review. This game is a gem in a dying genre, and it shines like pure gold. Got any ''I'm not scared a any schtuff!'' friends? Introduce them to your little friends: The PS2, and Fatal Frame. You'll have them running for the hills screaming ''The Dead live!'' in no time.
True, it's not your average horror game... but I sure as hell like it. I haven't been scared by a game in a while. And I don't mean the cheap ''*breaks through glass* Boo!'' type scare games count on now.
The beautiful atmosphere, spooky sounds, damn scary story, and originality ought to give this game a sure spot in your collection.
Reviewer's Rating: 4.0 - Great
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Ahmedabad, July 29 (ANI): A court in Ahmedabad has granted anticipatory bail to P.P Pandey, a senior Gujarat police officer accused of murdering college student Ishrat Jahan.
P.P Pandey, who had been absconding for over two months, appeared in a CBI special court today, on a stretcher from the hospital where he was admitted on Sunday after complaining of chest pains.
According to reports, the Special CBI court has now asked Mr Pandey to appear before it on July 31 in connection with a non-bailabe arrest warrant issued against him.
The apex court on Friday had restrained the CBI from arresting the officer as decision on his appeal was still pending.
P.P Pandey was heading the Crime Branch in Ahmedabad when the 19-year-old was shot dead with three men on the outskirts of the city in 2004.
He was chargesheeted by the CBI, accusing him of being part of the conspiracy to eliminate Ishrat Jahan and three others. In its first chargesheet filed last month, the CBI listed Pandey as one of seven policemen who allegedly murdered her in what it described as a "staged encounter" committed "in cold blood."
The policemen have said in their defence that Ishrat Jahan and her accomplices were involved in a sinister plot to assassinate Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi, on behalf of the Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). (ANI)


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The Anoka-Ramsey Community College Cambridge Campus will host, "A Girl Named Vincent," with nationally acclaimed vocalist Prudence Johnson, Friday, March 25, from 7 – 9 p.m. in the Juanita and Charles Peterson Community Room. The event is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the college Student Life Department.
"A Girl Named Vincent," created and performed by Prudence Johnson and The Millay Project, is an exciting new collection of songs based on the works of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Edna St. Vincent Millay, composed by Laura Caviani, Michelle Kinney, Joan Griffith and Gary Rue. For more information, visit www.prudencejohnson.com/millay-web.html.


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It's a Tuesday morning in late spring at the Cub Foods in Crystal. Carts, filled with food, toiletries and prescriptions, begin to form an organized line near the registers.
Women and men with clipboards in hand begin to double-check that the items in each cart correspond with the 22 separate orders. Janet Lynch of Maple Grove notices that the breadsticks, milk and Kleenex in one cart are a different brand than what is on the order sheet.
Hurriedly, Lynch grabs the items and races through the store to find their replacements. Within minutes, Lynch is back at the registers, helping the others bag groceries.
Lynch, along with the other retirement-aged Cub shoppers in her group, are volunteers with Store-to-Door, a nonprofit organization that grocery shops and delivers food, prescriptions (and anything else Cub Foods sells) every two weeks to homebound seniors in the seven-county metro area.
Everything about Store-to-Door, from the grocery ordering method to the way they are delivered, is aimed at making life easier for seniors.
Unlike many of the for-profit grocery delivery services that require computer and Internet access to place a grocery order, Store-to-Door clients can place their order over the telephone. Like clockwork, volunteer order-takers call the clients every two weeks and assist them with completing their grocery list.
Jane, one of the organizations 15,000 clients who asked her last name not be used, said she was denied one grocery store's delivery service because she didn't have Internet. Learning about Store to Door while staying at the Masonic Home Convalescent Care unit, "gave her hope," she said.
"Store to Door is the only service I found that understands not only the needs of seniors, but also the struggles crippled seniors like me have who can't lift or carry the heavy loads anymore."
After the groceries are purchased – Store to Door pays for them on credit and reimburses Cub Foods' parent company, Supervalu, after payment is received from the clients – a volunteer delivers the groceries into the senior's home. In addition to paying for the groceries, (the average order is $75), the clients contribute toward the cost of delivery based on their income.
Bill Jackson of Brooklyn Park is the delivery coordinator and said he enjoys getting to know the people beyond what type of peanut butter they prefer.
Jackson said the clients are happy to see him – and not just because he comes bearing food.
"I get the feeling that I am the only person they talk to in weeks," he said.
The service that Store to Door provides enables seniors to continue to stay in their homes and live independent lives, said Executive Director Mary Jo Schifsky.
"One of the primary reasons why seniors move into nursing homes is because they are no longer able to access food," she said.
Because of Store to Door, Jean, 86, and Paul, 88, of Minneapolis are able to continuing living in their downtown Minneapolis home.
"We don't want to go to an old folks' home, you cannot believe how much this service means to us."
Last year, Store to Door made more than 18,000 deliveries, 86 percent of which were delivered to senior women, according to the organization's website. Of the client base, 54 percent are over the age of 80-years-old.
As a way raise money for Store to Door and ensure that the level of service provided to this growing population continues, a Store to Door volunteer, Linda Roeller and her husband organized a golf fundraiser at Pheasant Acres golf course in Rogers Saturday Aug. 4.
The fundraiser costs participants $75 and includes golf, dinner and prizes. The registration deadline for the second-annual event is July 14. To register, contact Linda Roeller at 612-669-8029 or [email protected]. A registration form can also be downloaded at storetodoor.org.


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Family Dog Saves West Michigan Toddler
A 14-month-old Michigan boy is alive today after nearly drowning the family's pool. The hero that saved the boy is Bear, the family's black Labrador Retriever.
It was then that she realized that the family pet was under the boy, keeping his head above the water.
"He proved that he's got enough love for the kids, that he's more than just our hunting dog," Drauch told the station.
The boy was taken to the hospital, and later released. Drauch is grateful that the family pet was out, and watching over Stanley.
"I'd always told [Bear] since he was four weeks old that these are your babies, watch out," said Drauch. "If Bear wasn't out, I don't think Stanley would have made it."


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Pizza concepts sweeten things up in October
When it comes to menu launches, October was a sweet one for many pizza concepts, as dessert innovations took over the spotlight.
For starters, Papa John's launched a new family-sized chocolate chip cookie, cut into eight slices and served warm.
Pie Five Pizza'schef Andy Wittman debuted the Pumpkin Patch Pie, calling the creation a blend of cake and cookie. The dessert features pumpkin, brown sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg and clove, and is available through Dec. 1.
The Detroit Style Pizza Co. recently unveiled its new "Sweet Temptations" dessert breadsticks, available in original and cinnamon.
Six Cinnarollies are part of Mazzio's Italian Eatery's new Trio Box, joining six Pepperollies and an extra-large pizza.
And, finally, as part of Mellow Mushroom's new Bootleg Bacon Fest menu, available through Nov. 23, the Family Feud was unveiled. It features smashed Oreo cookies, vanilla bean mousse and bananas, all topped with chocolate sauce.
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Of course, pizzerias have to focus on their signatures as well, and there was no shortage of new news in October.
Also as part of Mellow Mushroom's new menu, the brand is now offering Don't Mind if I Dip, with Italian sausage; Wake-n-Bacon, a pizza with asparagus and Applewood smoked bacon and a mushroom trio; Bubba's Bacon Bonanza, with bacon, ham and pulled pork; The BLT Buckle, a BLT-style pizza; and the Doublewide Cuban-style sandwich. There are also two new additions to the beverage menu: the Red Bourbon Barrel and the Call Me Pumpkin.
Meanwhile, Pizza Ranch's menu now features a Bold & Beefy Steak and Onion Pizza and a Mediterranean Salad.
California's Fresh Brotherspicked up its marketing messaging for its new Meatball Slider, served on a King's Hawaiian Sweet Roll.
Hungry Howie's Pizza featured a Garlic Sesame crust throughout October.
Papa Murphy'sbrought back its Jack-o-Lantern Pizza for Halloween, topped with cheese and pepperoni slices arranged to resemble a Jack-o-Lantern's face
Villa Fresh Italian Kitchen added the Jalapeño Ranch Chicken Stromboli and stuffed cheesy bread at stores nationwide.
And, perhaps the biggest news from October came from the largest pizza chain in the country adding its first permanent menu item for the first time since 1995. Pizza Hut's3-Cheese Stuffed Crust Pizza includes white cheddar, mozzarella and provolone cheeses.
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Carles Baguer's Orchestral Music, vol. V (Two bassoon concerto in F)
The bulk of the orchestral production by Carles Baguer is comprised of symphonies, but there are also works for solo instruments as the Concerto for Enflish horn, the violin Symphony and the concert for two bassoons.
With its textures, rhythms and colorful, instrumentations the concertant symphony is light music, reminiscent of the divertimento. Another of its features is its scarce use of the minor mode, much less than in other instrumental genres of Classicism, where its use was already relatively low.
As in the other published volumes of Carles Baguer's orchestral works, we have tried to present the score as free as possible from indications with regard to the edition. Thus, without renouncing a critical edition, in order to make the real content of the original source clear and easy to follow, and to separate out what we have added or modified, we have moved all of these elements to the critical notes, preceding the score.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - Service Pro.net is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year.
The company's first product was a Windows-based program designed specifically for the family pest control business of Richard Deering. After selling his lawn and pest control business, Deering and his family began to focus on Service Pro.net, which has evolved into web-based programs with more than 1,400 databases between its two flagship products, ServSuite and ServBasic, the company said. The company, which started with less than ten employees, now employs nearly 100, Service Pro said.
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Gringo Bandito Prepping Limited-Edition 'Private Reserve' Version for Nov. 15 Release
You could imagine how pissed I was when Vickie sent me a note that Gringo Bandito was announcing on its website something about a "Private Reserve" version of its not-so-famous hot sauce--you know, given I'm basically their spokesperson for the best hot sauce not named Salsa Huichol. So I fired off an angry email to Gringo Bandito marketing head Matt McCollum. Ever the Dallas gentleman, Matt sent me a typed note explaining what the Private Reserve gimmick is--and boy, does it sound chingón.
The effort actually started last year, when Gringo Bandito headgabacho
Dexter Holland teamed up with his co-cook, Florencia Arriaga, to make a special batch of their hot sauce--only 250 bottles. In addition to a different flavor, Holland packaged each in small wooden boxes, autographed them and added a Gringo Bandito pick. The company announced the bottles would go on sale one Tuesday at 9 a.m., and that it was first-come, first-serve; the demand was so high that Gringo Bandito's website servers became fried.
Loins girded on said servers, McCollum writes, "Dexter and Flor are going to try to make one every year for at least the next five years . . . changing the recipe every time, as well as the label color and a few other subtleties."
The release for this year's batch is 9 a.m. on Nov. 15--mark those calendars, son!
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1. Relief wells
The first relief well is ahead of schedule, having reached a depth of 9,000 ft on Saturday.
The second drilling rig, the Development Driller II should be in position by mid-week. Drilling of the second relief well should commence over the weekend.
2. Containment dome/cofferdam
The clogging of the first containment dome by methane hydrate crystals has been widely reported and its details will not be repeated here. The most recent strategy is referred to as "top hat," and involves the placing of a smaller dome (4 x 4 x 5 ft, weighing less than 2 tons) above the primary leak. This dome will already be connected to the riser system when it is lowered into position, which is expected to occur mid-week. BP plans to use anti-hydrate solutions (presumably methanol) via the riser to prevent a repeat of the hydrate clogging problem.
This Rigzone article provides further details:
3. "Top kill/junk shot"
Another strategy involves deliberately clogging up the existing blow-out preventer (BOP) by injecting various ground-up solids into the bottom of the BOP. Last week BP removed the "yellow pod/brain" from the BOP with the intention of reconfiguring it and re-inserting it in order to obtain data on pressures (and thus determine the feasibility and safety of this strategy). The expectation is that if this strategy is to be attempted, the attempt will be made in a week or two (ie. before the end of May).
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4. New BOP
Another option is to shear off the lower riser and stick a new BOP on top of the existing one. However, this is described as "a very, very complicated task [which] also brings risks…".
This Upstream Online article provides further details:
5. Congressional hearings
Senior executives from BP Americas, Transocean and Halliburton will face intense questioning today when they appear before two Senate committees. Tomorrow they face a House Energy & Commerce subcommittee.
House to grill execs over Macondo
6. Cementing
One topic that is certain to be scrutinized is the use of nitrogen-injected cement to seal the well. Cementing was completed 20 hours before the blow-out occurred.
Nitrogen-Cement Mix Is Focus of Gulf Inquiry
7. Government oversight
Another topic which is receiving intense examination is that of government regulation (with a particular focus on the Minerals Management Service), the degree to which industry has been allowed to self-regulate, and the role of backup systems.
This article from WSJ provides an excellent summary.
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Fun Experiments With Different Kinds of Light Using the Belair X 6-122013-10-22 1 Share Tweet
Experimenting is fun here in Lomography and we highly encourage it. Lomo cameras are built to be fun and exciting. This series of photos does exactly just that with a good light source, plenty of creativity and the Belair X 6-12 camera!
Fun is the name of the game here in Lomography and that's why we never tire of sharing with you guys the amazing stuff we get to look at here in the community. Taken using the beautiful and equally functional Belair X 6-12 cameras, these experiments in light will make you want to go shooting at night, midday and even during the break of light!
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Call of Duty: Ghosts' Devastation DLC is available to download now on PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 3, and will be available later today on PC.
The new map pack includes four new multiplayer maps: Ruins, Collision, Behemoth and Unearthed; a new episode for co-op mode Extinction, and The Ripper, a brand new 2-1 transforming weapon.
The DLC is available for £11.59 and is free to Season Pass owners.
A further two expansion packs are due to launch for Ghosts prior to this November's Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. To find out what we thought of Devastation when it landed on Xbox One and Xbox 360 last month, head through to our review.
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This motor yacht DANADIA is a 45 m 146 (foot) generous aluminium ship which was constructed at Breauxs Bay Craft and designed by Tim Borland. Accommodating 10 guests and 7 qualified crew, motor yacht DANADIA was once called Gray Mist Iii which was her project name or actual name. Launched to celebration in 1996 this boatâs interior design reveals the yachting ideals which are originating from Paul Marchetti and the owner who commissioned the yacht.
Tim Borland was the naval architecture company involved in the professional vessel design work for DANADIA. Her interior design was realised by Paul Marchetti. Tim Borland is also associated with the yacht wider design collaboration for this yacht. the United States is the country that Breauxs Bay Craft built their new build motor yacht in. After the formal launch in 1996 in Loreauville La the boat was then delivered on to the happy owner following sea trials and testing. Her main hull was constructed with aluminium. The motor yacht superstructure component is fabricated extensively with aluminium. With a width of 8.26 m / 27.1 feet DANADIA has fairly large interior. A fairly shallow draught of 2.47m (8.1ft) selects the amount of overall harbours she can enter into, contingent on their specific characteristics.
Fitted with twin CATERPILLAR diesel engines, DANADIA can reach a top speed of 15 knots. For propulsion DANADIA has twin screw propellers. She also has an efficient range of 3600 nautical miles when sailing at her cruising speed of 14 knots. Her total HP is 3000 HP and her total Kilowatts are 2208. With respect to bow thrusters she utilises Abt. With respect to the shipâs stabalisers she utilises Naiad.
The large luxury yacht motor yacht DANADIA is able to sleep as many as 10 people and has 7 professional crew.
Main Engine(s) is two 1500 HP / 1104 Kilowatts Caterpillar. The Model type is 3512TA diesel. - Total engine power output 3000 HP /2208 KW. - Cruising at a speed of 14 knots. - Top Speed: 15 knots. - Range in nautical Miles is 3600 at a speed of 12 knots. - Fuel tanks: 56700 L. - Potable water capacity: 8316.00. - Generators: Caterpillar 2 times 99 kilowatts. - Stabaliser Stabality devices: Naiad. - Thrusters: Abt. - Air Conditioning: Aqua Air or JDNall. - Beam: 8.26m/27.1ft. - Draught Maximum: 2.47m/8.1ft.
Aqua Air or JDNall is the brand of air-con onboard. DANADIA features a aluminium-teak deck.
The luxury yacht DANADIA displayed on this page is merely informational and she is not necessarily available for yacht charter or for sale, nor is she represented or marketed in anyway by CharterWorld. This web page and the superyacht information contained herein is not contractual. All yacht specifications and informations are displayed in good faith but CharterWorld does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the current accuracy, completeness, validity, or usefulness of any superyacht information and/or images displayed. All boat information is subject to change without prior notice and may not be current.
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The Elk River girls cruised to a 4-0 win over a team higher in the standings, Champlin Park, on the Rebels' ice, on Tuesday evening.
Penalty kill was exceptional for the Elks as they were unscathed on nine power plays by the Rebels, while going 2-for-7 themselves.
The Elks (5-7-2 conference, 8-10-3 overall) had power play goals by Abbie Canton and Kaylee Forster (assisted by Chelsey Petrich).
Scoring even-strength were Canton (Breanna Simon assisting) and Julia Miller (McKenna Wesloh assisting).
The Elks had just a 25-24 edge in shots, with senior Kim Scott making 24 saves for the team's third shutout of the season and first against a team with a winning record.
Maddy Foss was in goal for Champlin Park (8-6 conference, 11-9 overall).
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Pat Boone, wearing a Western-stitched sports jacket and an engaging smile on his still-boyish face, is looking into the television camera and quoting Scripture to convince telethon viewers to donate money to the United Jewish Appeal's Operation Exodus drive.
"We need godly men and women to say, 'Yes, I am my brother's keeper,' he exhorts. "Send in your sacrificial gift of $100 or $600 or whatever you can afford."
And his viewers have responded.
In addition to the $100,000 that Pat Robertson donated last year, evangelical Christians have contributed more than $100,000 to Operation Exodus through the telethon, which is called "While the Door Is Still Open." It has run on dozens of Christian cable stations since it debuted in the beginning of 1992.
Viewers' average gift is $90, says the telethon's producer, an Orthodox rabbi named Yechiel Eckstein, three times more than the typical average gift brought in by telethons.
Eckstein is executive director of the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, an organization he created in 1983 to help corral support for Jewish issues in evangelical circles and encourage understanding between the two faith communities.
But not everyone in the Jewish community waxes enthusiastic about working closely with evangelicals. According to some interreligious affairs professionals and observers, evangelicals' mission to convert people to belief in Jesus must be weighed carefully against the value of their support for Israel.
Boone himself seems to embody the paradox presented by the evangelicals' relationship to the Jewish community: The man hired by the Israeli government to be its tourism ambassador to born-again Christians also supports Hebrew-Christian groups like Jews for Jesus.
Still, the evangelical community's potential benefit to the Jewish community is not easily dismissed.
Thirty-eight percent of Americans — an estimated 68 million people — call themselves "born-again," or evangelical Christians, according to the Princeton Religion Research Center.
And to Eckstein, these Christians are a well of support for Israel just waiting to be tapped by the Jewish community. They feel called upon to be a blessing to the Jewish community," he says.
But Jews have an unnuanced view of evangelicals, says Eckstein, They tend to equate the entire community with the right-wing, most vocal segment, which he says accounts for no more than one-third of the whole.
The more moderate center, which accounts for about two-thirds of the movement, is growing in importance, Eckstein says.
"And by and large, the Jewish community is not working with them," he says. "Fear, suspicion and an inability to talk to them is ubiquitous among Jewish leadership."
Rabbi Leon Klenicki, director of interreligious affairs at the Anti-Defamation League, agrees that it would be a mistake for Jewish organizations to ignore evangelicals.
"We haven't paid enough attention to the evangelical movement Working with them allows us to eliminate anti-Jewish feeling," said Klenicki.
The cornerstone of evangelicals' commitment to Jews is a verse in Genesis, where God tells Abraham, "I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you." They see their support of Israel as cooperation with God in the fulfillment of biblical prophecy.
But, say Jewish observers, some evangelicals consider Jews "religiously incomplete" and in need of conversion.
"It's dangerous to take the support of Israel and not look at the other side of the coin," says Rabbi A. James Rudin, director of interreligious affairs for the American Jewish Committee. "They may be supportive of Israel, but they have another equally important agenda: conversion."
But besides their political support for Israel, evangelicals will remain attractive to Jews as long as they are a source of tourist dollars spent in Israel. And the Israeli government is working hard to make the most of their interest in the Holy Land.
The Government Tourist Office hired Boone last year to be its "official ambassador" to the born-again community.
And in October, El Al will begin running flights between Dallas — the heart of the Bible Belt — and Tel Aviv, three times a week, expressly to accommodate evangelical tourists.
Roughly 55 percent of Israel's visitors from the United States are Christian, according to Rafael Farber, Israel's commissioner of tourism in North America.
Eighty percent of them are Protestant — mostly evangelicals, rather than liberal Protestants — and 20 percent are Catholic, Farber says.
Forty percent of his $2 million annual marketing budget targets Christians through television commercials and Christian magazine ads.
"Our goal is to bring half a million Americans to Israel a year within two years. And statistically, our people are very few. We have many more Christians. In terms of marketing, we can't put our heads in the sand," says Farber.
Rabbi Bentzion Kravitz, director of Jews for Judaism, an anti-missionary group, believes that Israel's outreach to evangelicals is misplaced because of their proselytizing among Jews here and in Israel.
Kravitz estimates that 150,000 adult Jews have converted to Christianity as a conscious decision, rather than passively through intermarriage, and attributes most of the conversions to the efforts of Christian evangelists.
Boone is a poor choice of a spokesman on behalf of Israel, Kravitz says, because he has been supportive of the Hebrew Christians and "Messianic Jews" who target Jews for conversion.
Boone, who wears a Star of David and "chai" around his neck, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that understands "why rabbis and others are confused or suspicious."
But he sees no contradiction between his support of Israel and his acknowledged support of Hebrew-Christian groups. The groups "are not trying to be deceptive," he said. "It is simply part of their identity" to maintain that they are Jewish while they follow the teachings of Christianity.


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The John L. Warfield Center for African & African American Studies and the Texas Institute for Literary and Textual Studies (TILTS) invite you to a roundtable discussion of 12 Years a Slave on Thursday, February 6, at 5pm in the Santa Rita Suite (3.502) of the Texas Union. The film, directed by Steve McQueen from an adapted screenplay by John Ridley, tells the story of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery in 1841, and it has been nominated for 9 Academy Awards. 12 Years a Slave has sparked national and international debates about slavery, American history, the representation of American history on film, and the experiences of African and African diasporic actors and filmmakers in Hollywood.
The roundtable will be moderated by Helena Woodard of the Department of English. Panelists include UT professors Daina Ramey Berry (History), Eddie Chambers (Art and Art History), and Shirley Thompson (American Studies) and Mark Cunningham from the Department of Radio, Television, and Film at Austin Community College. A reception in the Santa Rita Suite will follow the panel.
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In Reply to: 'long and short of it ' and 'canary'/canaries (shakespeare) posted by Courbel on June 17, 2004
: I need help with a couple of things:
: i)the meaning of 'the short and the long of it'
: ii) the meaning of 'canary'/'canaries'
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: 1) MISTRESS QUICKLY (to Falstaff)
: Marry, this is the short and the long of it;
: You have brought her into such a canaries as 'tis
: wonderful. The best courtier of them all,
: when thecourt lay at Windsor, could never have brought her to such a canary.
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: (Merry Wives of Windsor, Act 2, scene 2)
: thanks!
THE LONG AND THE SHORT OF IT -- "In sum; the heart of the matter. If you have told it 'long' and told it 'short,' you have surely told it all. Sometimes it was reversed: 'the short and the long of it.' Robert Manning of Brunne wrote in his 'Langtoft's Chronicle' " 'To say longly or schorte, alle (that) arms bare.'" From "The Dictionary of Cliches" by James Rogers (Ballantine Books, New York, 1985).
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Safe Haven offering discount cat adoptions for new year
Posted December 30, 2014
Safe Haven for Cats is bringing in the New Year by offering $20.15 cat and kitten adoptions.
The adoption fee for the spayed/neutered, microchipped, vaccinated and fully examined cats and kittens is usually $95.
The shelter, which is at 8431-137 Garvey Drive in North Raleigh, will be open from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday. There will be additional adoption counselors on hand to help the future cat owners pick the perfect feline companion.
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Morning Edition ran a segment this morning telling us about the tragic plight of the poor doctors who don't know how much their reimbursements will be from Medicare next month. It gave us the doctors' perspective and also the perspective of a Medicare beneficiary who complained that she could not find doctors who are willing to work for Medicare's pay rate.
It would have been helpful to include the perspective of an economist who could have told listeners that physicians are the most highly paid profession. An economist also could have told listeners that our physicians are paid far more than doctors in countries like Germany and Canada, which is one reason that the U.S. health care system is so uncompetitive. An economist also could have discussed the protectionist measures that keep the pay of U.S. physicians so far above world levels.
Finally, an economist could have ridiculed the idea that physicians will en masse stop accepting Medicare patients. The logic is very simple. There is no large group of wealthy potential patients that is underserved now. In other words, wealthy people already have all the doctors that they need. This means that if the nations' physicians decide that they will not accept the 40 million Medicare beneficiaries then they will have no way to make up this lost income. They will have to get by on a lower income. The threat to just serve higher paying patients is nonsense.


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Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> wrote: > > We use 1 bit per block, so we cannot separate pages that need either > > vacuum or freeze only. The reason is that we cannot determine where to > > record before/after updated tuples. If the transaction is commited, > > before-version should be recorded into needs-vacuum bitmap and > > after-version into needs-freeze bitmap. But on rollback, it is inverted. > > We cannot judge which we should do until the end of transaction. > > Yeah, that makes the DSM less useful. Are you thinking of freezing more > aggressively because of that? Or doing a full-scanning vacuum every now > and then to freeze? I recommend to use VACUUM FREEZE with the patch, but what you say is surely reasonable. I think that backends record all of the changes into 1st bitmap, and then, VACUUM moves some bits from 1st bitmap to 2nd one. Assumimg we had two bitmaps; (1)invisible-from-someone-bitmap and (2)freeze-needed-bitmap. (Actually, two bits would be packed into one compound bitmap, but for illustrative purposes.) We have to record changes into (1) at first, because we can find a page needs either VACUUM or FREEZE only after commits or rollbacks. VACUUM scans pages using (1). Newly inserted pages are also scanned at first vacuum, even if they requires only freeze. If the vacuum find that all of tuples in a page are vacuumed completely and old enough to be visible by all open transactions, delete the page from (1). Then, all are also frozen, the page is not in both bitmaps. Otherwise, put it into (2). We can use (1) for the index only scanning, because all of the tuples not recorded in (1) are visible to all backends, regardless of whether they are also recorded in (2). Regards, --- ITAGAKI Takahiro NTT Open Source Software Center
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A big one for WSJ. Magazine. Their just released October issue focuses on the "state of man." While Beckhan might be the best first choice for pulling in those eyeballs, the content inside looks to be more interesting with content that brings a more academic look into topics such as "Death of a Playboy" with its look at the death of the international playboy and one of the weirdest plays in the world of content-wrapped shopping pitting Leonardo Girombelli, fashion director of thecorner.com against Jeremy Langmead, editor in chief of mrporter.com in a battle to decide who actually knows best as to what men want. I hope someone has a serious answer, goddammit.
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In Honor Of St. Patrick's Day, Trudy's 5 Favorite U2 Songs
Happy Saint Patrick's Day! In honor of this day and all things Irish, I'm spotlighting one of my most favorite bands, U2. This Irish band, which hails from Dublin, has been a worldwide success for years. They have so many terrific songs but if I had to pick my top five favorite U2 songs, they would be these . What's your favorite U2 song?
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Ralph Hotere art fetches top dollar
A Ralph Hotere artwork depicting the fight to stop an aluminium smelter being built at Aramoana sold for $183,000 at an auction in Auckland last night.
The work, Vive Aramoana, was part of an 11-piece collection that once hung in the historic Carey's Bay Hotel, in Port Chalmers, and was sold by the International Art Centre in Parnell.
The collection sold for about $250,000.
Two other Hotere works were also up for grabs last night but didn't sell. They are still under offer and negotiations are continuing today, gallery director Richard Thompson said.
In total the 13 artworks are expected to sell for between $300,000 and $400,000.
Hotere, 81, has lived in Carey's Bay for more than 40 years.
Thomson said there was ''spirited bidding'' for the entire collection.
"Ralph Hotere is a very fine painter of exceptional talent but has always been reluctant to talk about his work," he said. "He prefers people to make up their own mind without influence from him.
"Hotere works have an allure to them that makes them very powerful.''
The artist painted Vive Aramoana in the early 1980s as part of the protest movement to stop an aluminium smelter being built at the entrance to Otago Harbour.
Thompson said the work sold for a ''very respectable'' price which reflected the renewed interest in Hotere's art.
He said it was rare that such an important and significant collection of Hotere's work came on the market.
A painting by another celebrated New Zealand artist, Charles Goldie, called Relics of a Bygone Age, Mere Werohia, sold for $284,000 at the auction.
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Charleston Doctor charged after 9 dogs left in car die
Wed, 13 Aug 2014 18:56:13 GMT —
MOUNT PLEASANT, S.C. (AP) -- A doctor faces charges of ill treatment of animals after nine dogs died when they were left in his car while he worked at a Charleston-area hospital.
Area media outlets report bond was set Wednesday at $90,000 for 64-year-old Dr. Charles Bickerstaff of James Island.
Mount Pleasant police say he left nine Cavalier King Charles Spaniels in crates in the back of his SUV on Monday while working at East Cooper Medical Center for three hours.
Bickerstaff's attorney, Bill Thrower, tells The Post and Courier of Charleston his client had an emergency, thought the dogs were safe and "feels as bad as anybody" about the deaths.
Police say after Bickerstaff left the hospital he took the dogs to a veterinarian because they had passed our but the dogs were dead.


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On the Cloture Motion S.Amdt. 1603: Motion to Invoke Cloture on Hutchison Amdt. No 1603; To prohibit the use of funds for the purpose of issuing a notice of rulemaking with respect to the valuation of crude oil for royalty purposes until September 30, 2000.
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WHOLE – sex, death, religion & dubstep!
Event Date / Time: 25/02/2013 @ 5:40pm
Event Summary: Renowned theatre company 20 Stories High present WHOLE, a gritty, funny and uncompromising new play, exploring sexuality, love, death and religion, with urban live music, spoken word and song.
Venue: Octagon Theatre Bolton
Octagon Theatre Howell Croft South Bolton BL1 1SB
Price per Person: Free
Event Full Details: Renowned theatre company 20 Stories High present WHOLE, a gritty, funny and uncompromising new play, exploring sexuality, love, death and religion, with urban live music, spoken word and song.Julia Samuels (Director) and Philip Osment (Writer) worked with 20 Stories High youth theatre members to discuss, discover and explore the most poignant topics of the story: sexuality and religion. WHOLE has been inspired from the real stories of the young people of Liverpool that 20 Stories High engages with.
WHOLE is recommended for ages 13 years and over, due to the use of strong language and references of a sexual nature. WHOLE will be at the Octagon Theatre Bolton from Monday 25 February to Friday 1 March 2013, with performances at 2pm, 5pm, 7.30pm and 9pm. There are a full list of dates and times available at https://www.octagonbolton.co.uk, where you can also watch a video trailer about WHOLE and see images from the production.All performances will be followed by a free 15 minute post-show discussion, and there will be a free post-show jam, featuring local MC artists, following the 9pm performance on Friday 1 March. The evening performance of Whole on Tuesday 26 Feb will be followed by a 15 min post-show talk discussing LGBT issues. Tickets are from £10 - £5. Book on 01204 520661 or at www.octagonbolton.co.uk.People age 17-25 years can buy tickets for just £5 if purchased within 3 days of the performance, see the Octagon website or call 01204 520661 for details and full terms and conditions.


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Mushroom Collection by Sonneman Lighting
The Mushroom Lighting Collection by Sonneman installs easily. Illuminate the overall environment of your living room, hallway, bathroom, or office space. Designed with white opal frosted shading, these lights come with your choice of polished nickel, satin black, or satin nickel finishes. This lighting style from the Mushroom Collection adds a fashionable look to your decor.


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Basketball Jul 14, 2013
Japanese players show streetball flair
by Jason Coskrey
Masayuki Kabaya wanted Hideki Mitsui to shoot the rock. Actually, he was daring him to shoot it. Kabaya had just drained a 3-pointer in their one-on-one basketball semifinal match at the Red Bull King of the Rock Japan tournament Saturday afternoon, and instead of getting ...