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'Tis the season for holiday parties and pageants, and Pilgrim Lutheran Church in Puyallup has put an extra dash of the Christmas spirit into its effort.
Julie Halpin is directing an all-kids play Saturday and Sunday afternoon, promising familiar music, a feel-good theme and free admission. And afterward, cookies!
There will be no preaching, though the Rev. Steve Schumacher will be there.
Somewhere between arrival and refreshments, someone from the church will tell you about Jeff and Sonja Hobson.
They're both 33, and each grew up in a family that was part of the Pilgrim congregation.
"We met at church, dated in high school, went to Pacific Lutheran University together and were married in the church," Sonja said. "Our children were baptized there."
They live in North Tacoma, and Jeff has a business — J.Hobson Photography — that's produced cover shots for 425 and South Sound magazines.
He's also the youth pastor at Pilgrim.
The Hobsons' oldest daughter, 6-year-old Ellie, will be among the Sunday schoolers singing carols in the program this weekend.
Much as he wanted to be there, Jeff Hobson can't make it. He will be lying in Swedish Medical Center in Seattle, where he's been for nearly six weeks, fighting for his life.
Just after Halloween, a blood test revealed a form of leukemia, and he began rugged chemotherapy. A blood disorder nearly killed him when he was still in college.
"We've been through this before," Sonja said. "We had a miraculous healing last time, and we have to trust God has a plan. Jeff is strong, but the chemo has taken a toll on his body. He's exhausted, and there have been side effects to drugs."
The news has been good and bad this week.
On Friday, doctors declared Jeff's bone marrow cancer-free. In the past 10 days, however, an immune system weakened by chemotherapy led to a tenacious brain infection. Tests were continuing, including a spinal tap and CAT scan.
"It's dangerous and tricky," Sonja said of the infection, "and they may take a biopsy to see how best to handle it."
The church has mobilized around the Hobsons, filling in where family can't do everything.
"There's a meal train organized, and last week a neighbor and two members of our congregation put up their Christmas tree and decorations," Schumacher said.
The response says something about Pilgrim Lutheran, though Schumacher said it says as much about Hobson.
"He's meant a lot to this community. He's impacted lives in the church and community," Schumacher said. "Jeff's a loving, giving person. The outpouring of support is because of him."
For Sonja, the days and nights are starting to blur. Along with Ellie, she has 3-year-old Noah and 4-month-old Haddie to care for. Trying to get the kids to school, drive to Swedish each day and run a household that's suddenly without income is daunting.
"I have family, good friends and a lot of help from the church," she said. "Our health insurance is through the church, and everyone has been making it work somehow."
Medical bills? "They're just starting to come in," she said.
When those at Pilgrim heard the news of Jeff's illness last month, they immediately hit upon the idea of making the annual Christmas programs a fundraiser for the Hobsons.
This is where that extra dash of Christmas spirit comes in.
The program remains free – period. Families large and small can enjoy a Christmas play and refreshments without donation.
There's no hard-sell fundraising. The kids involved have been practicing for weeks and are excited to perform, the way only children can be.
Anyone attending the program Saturday or Sunday will be welcomed, and during a scene change they'll be asked to sing a carol or two.
The folks at Pilgrim want to kick off the Christmas spirit. They'll do that onstage and then with cookies and fellowship. Anything they raise for the Hobsons will be a holiday bonus.
If you'd like to donate, you can – even without attending – by sending a check with "Jeff Hobson" in the memo line.
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Where: Pilgrim Lutheran Church, 10510 136th St. E., Puyallup.
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Fact Sheet on ETF 10.08, Wisconsin Administrative Code
This fact sheet is intended to help University employees understand the requirements of an administrative rule that took effect on July 1, 1998. This rule, promulgated by the Department of Employee Trust Funds (DETF), defines termination of employment and clarifies the waiting period required before a retiree can return to employment with the University or other participating employer in the Wisconsin Retirement System (WRS).
1. Does the rule on ternination of employment affect me?
This rule is important to you if you are covered under the WRS, are nearing retirement age (at least age 55, or age 50 if you are in a protective occupation), and are considering returning to public employment in Wisconsin after you retire.
No one is eligible to receive a WRS retirement benefit until WRS-covered employment has ended. The new rule defines certain criteria to determine whether a termination of employment has occurred. If you do not meet these criteria, DETF is not permitted to pay you a retirement benefit.
The same rule applies to receipt of a separation benefit (withdrawal of employee contributions before minimum retirement age).
2. What does the rule require?
a) The rule offers some objective criteria to determine whether your employment has terminated:
- You have ceased rendering services for which compensation is paid. and your employer has no right to any further services from you. The timing of your salary payments is irrelevant.
- You no longer have the fringe benefits, supervisory responsibilities, grievance, transfer, and promotional rights, etc., that normally apply to active employees.
- As of the last day of employment, you have no right to future employment that would normally be covered under the WRS. This includes both re-employment of any kind with your former employer and new employment with a different employer in a WRS-eligible position. A contract for future employment is considered to be such a right.
If the termination is voluntary, the employee must follow the employer's normal procedures for resignation (e.g., filing a letter of resignation). If involuntary, the rule provides guidelines to help the employer select the appropriate termination date. With rare exceptions, the date of termination can never be retroactive.
b) The rule clarifies the required break in service. Once terminated, you must continue to be terminated from all WRS-eligible employment until the latest of the following dates.
- The day after the effective date of your WRS annuity. Normally, your annuity effective date is the day after your termination date unless you delay filing your application for more than 90 days.
- 31 days after the DETF receives your benefit application (thus it is advisable to file your application in advance of your retirement date).
- 31 days after the date your employment terminated.
3. Give me an example.
Suppose that you are at least age 55 and your last day of work (including paid vacation or sick leave days) is May 18. You have notified your employer that you will resign effective May 18. As of the end of that day, you have completed all your responsibilities toward your employer and you have no right to future employment with your current employer or to WRS-eligible employment with any other employer.
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4. Are these regulations new?
Yes and no. Wisconsin statutes have long required that an employee terminate WRS-covered employment before receiving a retirement or separation benefit. Federal tax rules also generally prohibit distributions of tax-qualified retirement moneys to employees who are still in service. It is important to maintain the WRS' tax-qualified status in order to protect the tax-deferred status of employee accounts.
Though required by state and federal law, termination of employment is not a clearly defined concept. DETF's new rule provides criteria to determine whether termination of employment has occurred.
Similarly, the 30-day break in service is a long-standing requirement in state statute for eligibility for WRS retirement or separation benefits. Between 1989 and 1996, this requirement was not applied to "rehired annuitants" because annuitants were thought to be automatically ineligible for future WRS coverage. In 1996, as part of a review of WRS compliance with federal tax law, the statutes were amended to clarify that the 30-day break provision applies to all applicants for WRS benefits. Though not specifically required under federal tax code, the break in service provides evidence that a termination of employment has occurred.
5. I want to begin my WR5 benefit, but I would like to continue employment. How should I proceed?
First, you should contact DEFT to receive an estimate of your retirement benefits. Be sure you understand your options, including the option of receiving accelerated annuity payments before age 62. Review your state and University insurance coverages for any changes in eligibility and cost that may result from retiring.
If you decide to retire, you should follow your campus's normal procedures for resignation. Your application for retirement benefits should be filed with DETF 60-90 days in advance of your last day of work. Your payroll office will coordinate certification of your sick leave balance and transfer of your state insurances to DETF's annuitant accounts.
You may discuss with your appointing authority the possibility of returning to work after you retire. However, you may not form any enforceable contract,. whether written or verbal, that would guarantee you future employment until after your date of termination.
You may sign a contract for future employment during the required break in service after your termination date. However you may not return to work until the break in service has elapsed. Failure to observe the break will result in your reenrollment as an active WRS participant and cancellation of your benefit application.
Additional information for Principal Investigators with on-going grants: for purposes of this rule, DETF has determined that receipt of an on-going grant from non-University sources does not constitute a contract for or right to future University employment. Thus a Principal Investigator with two years left on a five-year grant may retire from the University, begin a WRS annuity, and then make an agreement with the University to return to work on the grant after the required break in service. The employee may not enter into the new employment contract until after the termination date, and the normal 30-day break in service is required. Compensation may not be paid for the period of the break in service.
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GASTONIA, N.C. -- Gastonia Police have charged a 51-year-old Bessemer City man with repeatedly sexually assaulting a 9-year-old girl.
David Glenn Scott of 218 North Pinchback Avenue is facing two counts of sexual offense with a child and six counts of indecent liberties with a child.
Investigators said Scott was known to the girl and her family and regularly drove her to services at the Revolution Church in Gastonia where he was a member.
"They knew each other through the church and he was a trusted person," said Donna Lahser of the Gastonia Police Department.
Ben Hibberts, who is a leader at Revolution Church, said after Scott's arrest, "You can imagine there is a lot of grief, there is a lot of hurt, and there is some anger."
Hibberts and police said the assaults on the little girl did not happen at the church. They said Scott admitted he took the girl to nearby Bradley Center and Park on Modena Street.
Hibberts said Scott could be aloof at times but was still shocked to here of the sex charges involving a child.
"He was a little unusual but not in that manner," said Hibberts.
There was no answer Tuesday night at the home in Bessemer City where Scott lives. A neighbor next door, Evelyn Burris, was clearly surprised to hear the charges against a man she thought she could trust.
"He's always been a great neighbor and a good Christian man," Burris said.
After his first court appearance, Scott was ordered held at the Gaston County Jail on a bond of $1 million.
Police said they have no evidence that there are any other potential victims, but they are asking any parents of children who may have known Scott to have a talk with them.
If any parent then feels the need to talk to investigators they can do so by calling Gastonia Police at 704-866-6702.


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If the Packers take away Brandon Marshall as effectively as they did in their September matchup, and the Bears stay true to character, there is no chance the Bears will score enough points to win Sunday.
That is the reality of their offense.
So when Marshall begs Packers defensive coordinator Dom Capers for single coverage, what he's really begging for is a chance for the Bears to win the game.
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And even if the Packers again attack him with two-man (man-to-man coverage underneath with two safeties over the top) or with other coverages that put multiple defenders in his vicinity, the Bears still have to throw more balls to Marshall.
The Marshall show on the field must play on Sunday as well as it did Wednesday off the field.
In the first meeting, Jay Cutler threw to Marshall five times. He caught two passes. One was intercepted and two were incomplete.
That's all you really need to know about why the Packers won 23-10.
The Bears' dependence on Marshall is staggering. Historical, even.
Marshall has accounted for 48.6 percent of the Bears' receiving yards this year, according to STATS. No one else in the NFL has accounted for close to that amount. The closest is Calvin Johnson with 37 percent of the Lions' receiving yards.
The last time a player accounted for at least 48 percent of his team's receiving yards was 37 years ago, when Ken Burrough had 50.6 percent of the Oilers' yards in what was a very different NFL.
But with a career-high 1,342 yards, Marshall already has 279 more than Burrough had in that 14-game season.
Marshall has caught 41.2 percent of the Bears' receptions, again highest in the league by a wide margin over the Colts' Reggie Wayne (31.9).
No player has accounted for at least 40 percent of his team's receptions since Sonny Randle had 49.2 percent of the Chicago Cardinals catches in 1960.
To put the Bears' reliance on Marshall in perspective, consider that in 1942, the legendary Don Hutson had what is widely considered the greatest season by a wide receiver in NFL history. He accounted for 50.3 percent of the Packers' receiving yards and 43 percent of their receptions — which isn't too far from where Marshall is.
The Packers could not throw to Hutson too much that year. And the Bears can't throw to Marshall too much this year — because of how good he is and how much more reliable he is than the other options.
Has Cutler thrown some passes to Marshall he should have thrown to others? Absolutely. Are they more dependent on him than an offense ever should be on one receiver? No doubt.
But on many plays this year, the Bears have had a better chance by throwing to a covered Marshall than to another receiver who is open.
Marshall is a wellspring in a desert of a passing offense.
He has caught 64.3 percent of the passes thrown to him this season even though he gets thrown to while well covered a lot more than anyone else.
Devin Hester has caught 59 percent, Alshon Jeffery 57.6, Earl Bennett 53.5 and tight end Kellen Davis 41.5.
Based on how Cutler ignores Hester and Davis when they are wide open, it is clear he has lost confidence in them.
He has more confidence in Jeffery and Bennett, but both have been in and out of the lineup all year and never have gotten in a groove.
That hasn't been the only reason Marshall sometimes seems to be the only viable option. The offensive line has contributed to this issue as well.
The Bears can't pass protect with five men because they fear Cutler will be hit so hard they won't be able to piece him together again. That means they usually are devoting one or two players to blocking who otherwise would be receiving options.
That being said, Cutler would benefit from checking down more. Too frequently, he chooses to force a pass into a risky hole rather than making a safe throw to a running back or tight end.
To score points Sunday, Cutler needs to find Jeffery, who is in his second game back after a knee injury. And he needs to find Matt Forte, both as a safety valve in checkdown situations and as a route runner when he is split out.
Forte is a reliable receiver who can create mismatch problems. In the first game against the Packers, he led the Bears in catches (four) and receiving yards (49), and he only played until the first drive of the third quarter before leaving with an ankle injury.
But ultimately, the Bears need to pump it to Marshall to have a chance against the Packers.
In these circumstances, you could say Marshall law has been imposed.
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Late runs lift Cyclones over Rangers10:29 pm | April 13, 2013
Hall of Fame catcher Yogi Berra once said "It ain't over till it's over." And thus was the case between Elizabethton and Unaka at Claude Holsclaw Field on Saturday
The Rangers were within one out earning a 7-5 victory, but a couple of infield errors left the door open for a 'Betsy comeback. They did so by scoring five runs with two outs, then held off a last charge by the Rangers in a 10-8 non-conference win.
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A tough earnings season and election politics could combine to make for a volatile stock market in the week ahead.
The second presidential debate takes place Tuesday night, and it has the potential to once more move the needle in a very tight race between President Barack Obama and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney . (Read more: Who Won the VP Debate—Biden or Romney? )
At the same time, many multinationals with exposure to the slowing global economy are among the dozen Dow components and 80 S&P 500 companies reporting earnings. General Electric, IBM, Microsoft, Intel, Citigroup, McDonald's and Coca-Cola are among them.
"The election seems to come and go in terms of its impact. The tendency of the market is to trade with earnings, " said Gina Martin Adams, institutional equities strategist at Wells Fargo Securities. "I think earnings are still the driver of stocks despite the fact we like to get distracted by all these policy measures. While the election on any given day will be a focus, it's really all about earnings. There obviously is a connection between the election and earnings because the winner can affect policy. For now, we'll go with what the companies are telling us."
But analysts are also watching to see how Romney fares in the debate after he was viewed as the clear winner in the first one. Since then, his poll numbers have matched and even in some cases surpassed President Obama, and stocks and sectors that would perform better with Republicans in the White House have also done better. (Read more: Stocks That Favor GOP Victory See Post-Debate Boost )
"If Romney puts in a good showing, it's definitely going to help the market, " said Thomas Lee, J.P. Morgan chief U.S. equity strategist.
"I think everyone is betting on an Obama re-election as the base case right now, but definitely a Romney victory would affect how corporates might feel, " said Lee, adding they favor Romney's approach on taxes. "If Romney wins, people have to become more invested. People are cautiously positioned now."
Companies, so far, have been signaling that a weaker global economy is stealing their earnings thunder. Based on actual earnings for companies that have already reported and estimates for those expected to report, third-quarter earnings will be down 2.6 percent, according to FactSet. Five of the 10 S&P industry sectors are expected to report a decline in earnings growth, led by materials and energy, while eight of the 10 sectors are expected to report revenue growth. (Read more: Fourth-Quarter Earnings Warnings Start Rolling In )
"This quarter should be the first quarter in five in which the mega-caps underperform the index, so that will be tested next week, " said Adams. "It's a pretty big mega-cap week with all these big names. Without the support of the mega-caps, the earning season could be even more negative than expected. You get a couple of big misses and suddenly you're looking at a much worse season."
For that reason, Adams said she's relying on stocks that generate earnings domestically. "I've been overweight consumer as well as health care. I've been playing the domestic theme all year because they tend to benefit from domestic growth. My call has deteriorated from one of optimism to one of hiding from the storm of earnings because the earnings situation has deteriorated so much, " she said.
Stocks , in the past week, turned in their worst performance since the beginning of June. The Dow was down 2.5 percent to 13, 328, and the S&P 500 fell 2.2 percent to 1428. Nasdaq fell 2.9 percent to 3044. Treasury yields fell, with the 10-year yield finishing Friday at 1.66 percent. Oil gained nearly 2.2 percent to $91.86 per barrel for the week, as Mideast tensions flared.
Besides earnings and the election, there is a series of important economic reports, including the Philadelphia Fed and Empire State surveys that will give a first look at how October is faring. Retail sales Monday should provide more insight into the consumer, after Friday's consumer sentiment number saw a surprising jump to its highest level in five years. China also releases data this week, starting with Monday's inflation reports. Then on Thursday, China releases industrial production, retail sales and GDP.
"I think we're seeing what we already know, which is the U.S. economy has been holding up while the global economy has really weakened over the last few months. I think earnings are only telling us that and reinforcing it, " said Lee.
There are also a number of U.S. housing-related reports, including builder sentiment Tuesday; housing starts Wednesday and existing-home sales Friday. Housing has been the one data series that has shown improvement.
Adams said housing-related stocks are also one of the favorite plays of investors focused on domestic stocks. "Obviously the home builders are the first group that come to mind and those are fairly volatile and pricey options. There are other peripherals to play housing — consumer durables. Some of the specialty retailers have exposure to housing. Usually autos tend to trade in line with housing, but for most of this year the auto sector has done poorly, and a lot of the consumer space tends to benefit when housing benefits, " she said.
Lee said it appears consumers are feeling better because of the improvement in housing, but also the stock market, with the S&P 500 up 14 percent year-to-date. JP Morgan crunched the numbers and determined the gains in housing prices in 2012 amount to $1.7 trillion and the gain in stocks is $3.6 trillion, for a total $5.3 trillion, the biggest gain in household wealth ever. The increase in housing prices does not nearly match the steep decline, but it is the first increase since 2006.
"It explains why consumer confidence keeps going up. Consumer sentiment hit a new high today. It's not because jobs are picking up, " he said. Consumers spend more when they see asset values rise. "Historically five percent is spent in the following 12 months … The spending effect would be about $260 billion on incremental spending, " Lee said.
The improvement in consumer confidence may actually be something that helps President Obama, according to Dan Clifton, head of policy research at Strategas. He said the economic numbers were hurting the president until recently, and the race is now too close to call. He said the surprise decline in the unemployment rate to 7.8 percent was helpful to Obama because based on history, the president needs 7.6 percent unemployment to get 50 percent of the vote.
"The University of Michigan consumer sentiment is a great predictor of presidents getting re-elected, " Clifton said. Sentiment jumped to 83.1 Friday, close to the 83.5 level Clifton said the president needs to be re-elected. "It's been sitting at 72 all year, hanging out at Jimmy Carter and George Herbert Walker Bush levels — two guys that lost."
Europe will also stay in the headlines in the week ahead. There is an EU summit Thursday and Friday, at which leaders are expected to discuss budgets and tighter financial integration. Lee said Europe is making progress and beginning to stabilize, and that should help markets.
"We're getting the bad news in front of us, and out of the way and then we can focus on what's going to drive forward growth, " he said. "I think earnings revisions are going to turn positive soon. I think Europe is stabilizing and the U.S. demand story is better."
Adams, however, said she's concerned about what companies will say about future quarters when they report earnings. "What started in Europe became China's problem which is now our problem. It's a generalized slowdown and the only thing that seems to have improved modestly is the housing market and everything else seems to have slowed. It's fairly broad-based, " she said.
The fourth-quarter expectations for earnings per share imply a 16.5 percent increase year-over-year. While some of that is due to the easy comparison from last year, it still may mean estimates have to come down, she said.
What to Watch in the Week Ahead:
Earnings: Citigroup, Gannett, Charles Schwab
8:00 a.m. New York Fed President William Dudley
8:30 a.m. Retail sales
8:30 a.m. Empire State survey
10:00 a.m. Business inventories
12:45 p.m. Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker
1:10 p.m. St. Louis Fed President James Bullard on economy
8:30 p.m. San Francisco Fed President John Williams
Earnings: Coca-Cola, Goldman Sachs, Johnson and Johnson, United Health, Intel, IBM, Mattel, PNC Financial, CSX, Cree, Intuitive Surgical
8:30 a.m. CPI
9:00 a.m. Treasury international capital flows
9:15 a.m. Industrial production
10:00 a.m. NAHB housing
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|Interpro abstract (IPR006639):
In the MEROPS database peptidases and peptidase homologues are grouped into clans and families. Clans are groups of families for which there is evidence of common ancestry based on a common structural fold:
In many instances the structural protein fold that characterises the clan or family may have lost its catalytic activity, yet retain its function in protein recognition and binding.
Aspartic endopeptidases EC 3.4.23. of vertebrate, fungal and retroviral origin have been characterised [(PUBMED:1455179)]. More recently, aspartic endopeptidases associated with the processing of bacterial type 4 prepilin [(PUBMED:10625704)] and archaean preflagellin have been described [(PUBMED:16983194), (PUBMED:14622420)].
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This group of aspartic peptidases belong to MEROPS peptidase family A22 (presenilin family, clan AD).
SPP and potential eukaryotic homologues represent a family of aspartic proteases that promote intramembrane proteolysis to release biologically important peptides. Signal peptide peptidase (SPP) catalyses intramembrane proteolysis of some signal peptides after they have been cleaved from a preprotein. In humans, SPP activity is required to generate signal sequence-derived human lymphocyte antigen-E epitopes that are recognised by the immune system, and are required in the processing of the hepatitis C virus core protein.
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Resistance training causes muscles or muscle groups to work against a force (eg, gravity or exercise equipment) that provides a resistance strong enough to increase strength. Some of the more familiar equipment used for resistance training are free weights, machines, and cable systems.
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Help your child identify coins with this coin matching and coloring pack. Set out some change so your preschooler can select the coins that match the objects in the pictures.
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Today in History – June 27, 1954 – First nuclear power plant begins operation. In the mid-1950′s, both the Soviet Union and western countries were exploring the non-military uses of the atom. However, even this non-military work was done in secret and not much was known about it in the West at the time. The Obninsk Power Plant in the USSR, was the world's first nuclear power plant to generate electricity at 5 megawatts. Ordered by Stalin for nonmilitary purposes, this graphite-moderated and water-cooled reactor could be switched to plutonium production if needed.
Two years later in Calder Hall (England) and three years later in Shippingport two other power plants started operation.
On April 29, 2002, the Obninsk Nuclear Power Plant was decommissioned after 48 years of commercial operation.
See the Engineering Pathway's educational resources on nuclear power. Or visit the Nuclear Engineering Education community site for more information.


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Welcome to the department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University
The Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown University grants undergraduate degrees in the History of Art and Architecture, as well as in Architectural Studies. Graduate study in this department is geared toward earning a PhD in the History of Art and Architecture, and many areas of visual culture from the ancient world through the present. Work in the department of the History of Art and Architecture at Brown is conceived as an interdisciplinary undertaking, in which students are encouraged to become familiar with the variety of methodologies and practices that have historically been, and continue to be productive in our fields. We also maintain a longstanding commitment to museum studies and the study of objects through a close working relationship with the Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design. Interested students in this department have the opportunity to hold internships and (in the case of graduate students) proctorships at the museum.
News and Upcoming Events
2014 Anita Glass Lecture: "The Whisperers"
Christopher Wood
Carnegie Professor, History of Art, Yale University
Thursday, March 6, 2014, List Art Center 120, 5:30pm
"Exit Implies Entries Lament: John Hedjuk's IBA'1984/7 Projects and Immigrant Housing in Berlin"
Esra Akcan
Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Illinois, Chicago, Wednesday, February 26, 2014, List Art Center 110, 5:30pm
Professor Osayimwese published an article, "Prolegomenon to an alternative genealogy of German modernism: German architects' encounters with world cultures c. 1900," in the Journal of Architecture, Volume 18, Issue 6, 2013. An excerpt from the article is available here.
Professor Dietrich Neumann presented a lecture at the American Academy in Berlin as a Fall 2013 fellow entiled, "Politics and Architecture: Mies van der Rohe in the Context of Weimar Germany". A video recording is available through The American Academy in Berlin. Visit NPR Berlin for an episode of 'The Berlin Journal' featuring an interview with Professor Neumann.
Professor Shiva Balaghi was consulted by the Guardian for their recent article: "Iran's Artists Warn U.S. and European Sanctions are Affecting their Work".
Professor Dietrich Neumann and students launch new iPhone app, Brown FACADES, an interactive guide to the architectural history of the Brown University Campus. The app can be downloaded for free from the App Store. Please refer to the Facebook page, to the Department's announcement, or to Brown's new feature story for further information.


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The Old 97's, The Travoltas
Tuesday at 9 p.m. at the Hi-Tone Café, 1913 Poplar. Tickets are $15, available at the door or at hitonememphis.com. Call 901-278-8663 for more information.
Next month will mark 20 years since the first time the members of the Old 97's got on a stage together. It's another in a series of career milestones for the long-running Dallas alt-country band.
Last fall, the group celebrated the 15th anniversary of its 1997 major-label debut, Too Far to Care, with a lavish reissue and a slate of concerts at which they performed the album from start to finish. On Tuesday, the group — singer Rhett Miller, bassist Murry Hammond, guitarist Ken Bethea and drummer Philip Peeples — will be in Memphis to work up the LP, along with other favorites from its catalog, during a show at the Hi-Tone Café.
"It's weird: Playing that album every night has had a transportive effect on me," Miller says of the critically acclaimed Elektra LP which helped define the band's charming, kinetic brand of roots-pop. "That record represented such a specific moment for us. We were poised on the brink of making a life and a living out of this weird thing that we all had grown up loving but figured would never work. And finally it was working."
"I'm generally not one for nostalgia; it's inherently depressing to me," he says. "But I love the fact that we get to celebrate this record and it doesn't feel like that. Maybe it's that we never had that huge breakthrough success, so it doesn't feel like we're somehow trying to resurrect the '90s. That record isn't frozen in time. The songs, and the album — it still feels like a living thing to us."
Too Far to Care enjoyed a second life last year when it was released in a deluxe expanded edition, accompanied by set of unreleased demos called They Made a Monster. The band has been playing their full-album shows to widespread acclaim ever since.
"We are pretty faithful to the record," Miller says. "We always talk about how we should switch this up and switch that up, and we don't ever do it. The songs sort of bully us into playing them the way they were recorded on the album. But, of course, we've got the perspective of being 40-year-old men, not 20-somethings, playing these songs now, so it is different in some ways."
For Miller, it's clear that the Too Far To Care-era holds a special place in his heart. "It was definitely my most fertile time as a songwriter," he says. "There are still songs from that time I'm remembering now that I should finish, or songs that wound up on later records that were started during that period. I really lived and breathed songwriting then.
"Nowadays, the business of music gets in the way and all the logistics of it. And there's also life: I've got a family and a couple kids. The songwriting isn't at the top of the list every morning when I wake up. It's still on the list. But that was a unique time for me personally."
The Too Far reissue followed on the heels of the band's last new studio albums, the two-volume series The Grand Theatre. The projects marked the end of a fruitful decade-long run with Los Angeles-based label New West.
"We loved working with New West and especially with A&R man Peter Jesperson, who is such a cool guy. But I like moving around. Switching labels is a little like redecorating your house. Sometimes it's nice to walk into a new room."
The 97's recently hired new management, and the band is currently shopping for a new record deal. They don't anticipate having the next album out until 2014, though fans may hear new music sooner than that.
"One of the nice things about the modern music industry model is we can record songs here and there and just release them online or digitally," Miller says. "There are lots of fun options, so I'm sure we're going to do things differently than the old 'one album every 18 to 24 months' schedule."
More important than the timing of the album is the quality of the work. It's clear the Grand Theatre and Too Far to Care projects represented a summing up and clearing of the decks for the band, allowing them to start a new phase of their career. "I for one want to make sure that the next record is not a retread or walking back over the same old ground," Miller says. "I want to put out a record that feels like it belongs right now."
While maintaining his role leading the 97's, Miller has carried on a solo career as well, releasing five albums under his own name, including 2012's The Dreamer. He says he has a pile of solo songs that he may record and release after the next 97's project. "I'll always do both, but I try and make the 97's my priority. They're the train that brought me to this awesome station," he says. "That's a clunky metaphor, but you get what I mean."
After they finish up their final Too Far to Care album dates this month, the band will co-headline a tour with Southern rock band Drive-By Truckers. Miller will then do a solo acoustic run and then start thinking about the next 97's LP and the start of the next 20 years of the group's career.
"Twenty years: Wow! I don't think we ever realistically thought that we'd get to this point and still be viable creatively as a band and selling tickets and having fun," Miller says. "So it's all very cool to us. And we're excited about what comes next."
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The problem with lawsuits in the village just keeps going. The latest is one filed on June 2 by Jane Forman, the former operator of the tennis facility at Coral Reef Park.
The Jane Forman Tennis Academy had been there since 1989, signed a lease agreement with the county in 2002, signed a new lease agreement with the Village of Palmetto Bay which called for her to pay for improvements she wanted to make. In the new agreement, the village said it would reimburse her for half those costs if it chose not to renew her contract.
Then in 2008 and 2009 there was a dispute over whether Forman, who had been paying the utilities fees for the tennis facility, should also pay for the cost of the east parking lot lights after park closing time at 7 p.m. each day, since the tennis facility stayed open until 10 p.m. To make a long story short, Forman ended up paying the costs to avoid having her operating hours shortened to daylight only.
Forman's lease ran out in April of this year and the village council voted not to renew it. In May the village sent her notice that they would pay her half the construction costs, plus interest, but deducted about $20,000 to cover accounting fees, permits and a bunch of other costs that Forman believes are unfair.
So now this is headed to the 11th Judicial Circuit in Miami-Dade County where the costs of litigation will make a small dispute a lot worse. Couldn't this have been resolved without the lawyers?
And don't forget that the ongoing Palmer Trinity lawsuit still is pending because of decisions by elected officials. More costs for the taxpaying residents of the village.
Palmetto Bay is a small community that prides itself on its hometown atmosphere. Wouldn't it make sense for everyone on both sides of any dispute to just sit down face-to-face and work out things? Times are tough, and only the lawyers will benefit from these ongoing battles.
Why can't everybody just get along?
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It sounds like Palmetto Bay does not have the funds to pay in or out of court. So by them doing this it gives them time to get assistance. In a more legitimate proposal to there Attorney so they can put it behind them and pay you by introducing this to there Community. As if it's invisible but some advice do your due diligence,dot all the i's & cross all the t's. This type of stuff always pays-off just to keep them out of the red tape. Palmetto Bay is not wealthy like some. They don't have a pre-cash flow. But I would knock on one's door not out of disrespect they need to realize that they have a responsibility to pay you and it's not something that everyone can just forget. Make an appointment and make them give you times and dates of when this payment can be made to this account and give them your account number. Good luck getting it all in one payment but if paid in a few payments. But don't worry you will get paid. The County. The City. The State will not let this go unpaid…For some reason they don't like this kind of stuff hanging.
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Beer samplings at designated locations on the courses.
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Courses: Wild Turkey & BallyowenDate: Saturday, June 15, 2013Time: 9am Shotgun Start; 3-7pm Beer Festival; 4pm Shootout begins
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Scoring/Flights: Gross & Net Divisions - players must have USGA handicap to participate in Net Division
Handicap Deadline: Friday, June 7, 2013 (USGA)
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Williams himself was a member of a small number of boy singers backing up a well-known female performer, Kay Thompson. Interestingly enough, it was the same showroom that first saw Liberace appear here. During the famous pianist's appearance, his brother George had a simple task of lighting a candelabra.
My most intimate encounter with Andy Williams occurred when he was brought to Reno to play in the Mapes Invitational Golf Tournament in the '60's. He was accompanied by the Mapes booking agent Pierre Cossette, who numbered Ann Margaret and Dick Shawn among his clients. During the stag event at the golf tournament, Mapes asked me to have Williams come up and sing a few ditties. I approached Andy and he said, "Tell Mr. Mapes I am here to play golf not to perform." I relayed his message to Mapes who immediately said, "Take him off the mailing list." Consequently Williams was never invited to another tournament.
The last time I saw Andy was at his nitery dinner show performance at Harrah's South Shore Room at Lake Tahoe. My wife and I were guests of Harrah's host, Lee DeLauer. We were seated at ringside along with Lee's wife, Geneve, at a table for four. Just before the show, Lee approached us and said, "I'm giving my seat to Andy's girlfriend Claudine Longet," who proved to be a petite French damsel. It was the same young lady who years later, after she had left Andy, was accused of stabbing skier Spider Sabich to death. Strangely enough, it was Andy's support that cleared her of the charge. It was hard to imagine that a person so slight of build could inflict a deadly attack on a sturdy skier like Sabich.
As time wore on, Williams became a staple on TV and his recordings sold handsomely. It is probably well to note that he got his first big break on the tube when he was signed as a summertime replacement for singer Pat Boone, who was a regular at the Tahoe Racquet Club on the North Shore.
Williams' mellow crooner style eventually faded from the entertainment scene, and I lost track of him for a number of years. In the story about his passing, I was surprised to learn that he had become a permanent member of the Branson, Missouri entertainment complex, even to the point that he built the Moon River Theater at that location. The name of the theater was well chosen since "Moon River" was his signature song. Too bad he never sang it in person at the Mapes.
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|Working for a healthy U.S.-Mexico border
Washington, DC, November 2nd, 2011 (PAHO/WHO) – Obesity, overweight, diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular diseases are common issues on the U.S.-Mexico border region for this reason the Pan American Health Organization/World Health Organization U.S.-Mexico Border Office (PAHO/WHO-USMBO) is working to prevent chronic diseases and improve health on the border. From October 28th to November 2nd 2011, representatives from the PAHO/WHO-USMBO participated on a special panel on border health during the American Public Health Association (APHA) 139th Annual Meeting and Exposition in Washington, D.C.
The PAHO/WHO-USMBO team had the opportunity to discuss strategies to strengthen the effectiveness of Community Health Workers (CHWs) in the prevention and control of chronic diseases in a binational context. On this panel, where Dr. Jon Andrus, Deputy Director from PAHO/WHO was the moderator, Dr. Maria Teresa Cerqueira, Chief from the PAHO/WHO-USMBO compared the different roles of CHWs in the U.S. with the Promotores de Salud in Mexico in the prevention of chronic diseases along the U.S. -Mexico border.
In addition, the innovative mechanism designed to promote the systematic use of high quality health research in policymaking known as "Evidence Informed Policy Network (EVIPNet)" was presented by M.C. Lorely Ambriz, Knowledge Management and Communication Advisor. EVIPNet on the border has been an opportunity for sharing processes and methodologies to achieve the development of policy briefs in chronic diseases particularly with diabetes and childhood obesity.
Furthermore, Dr. Gustavo Iturralde presented the promotion of a healthy community among youth and children through out the Ecoclub initiative. An Ecoclub is an independent organization, directed and driven by the youth community. It promotes activities to improve the quality of life and contributes to environmental preservation.
Dr. Marcelo Korc, had the opportunity to share research information about drinking water, sanitation, and safety as social determinants of health in the colonias of west Texas, specially on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The APHA annual meeting panel discussions included: Border health, the role of social media in public health, epidemiological methods, effects on community violence, healthy schools and healthy communities, and much more.
For more information please contact:
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