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It�s almost magic as William Herring Jr. perfectly airbrushes designs and letters onto T-shirts, drawing freehand with confidence and ease.
Thursday, he was drawing his own designs on four T-shirts for Kimiko Lyons of Jacksonville. Lyons came across the new shop in Vernon Park Mall and ordered the personalized shirts for family members, including one for her mother with the grandchildren�s names on the back.
�He�s very artistic,� she said about Herring.
Mr. Magic Airbrushing & Photography and Mr. Magic Art School opened Sept. 24 in the mall.
Herring, a Goldsboro native and resident, started drawing at age 3 and brings a long list of credentials and experience to the drafting table.
He has bachelor�s degrees in graphic design and K-12 art education from Elizabeth City State University, where he graduated in 2007. In 1996-97, he trained through Art Instruction Schools, an online program.
Herring also trained with Disney in Orlando, Fla., and worked as an official Disney autograph artist.
His experience includes working as an event and school photographer, caricature artist, comic strip artist, web design consultant, substitute art teacher, mentor, Boys and Girls Club volunteer and construction worker. He has worked with special needs children in a variety of settings.
The name of the business came along when he purchased a box truck and removed the part of the name that said �Rentals� on it. What was left was �Mr. Magic.�
Somebody saw the partial work done on the side of the truck and called him Mr. Magic and the name stuck.
Herring can airbrush on just about anything � license plates, leather jackets, helmets, bikes and cars, to name a few.
�I�ve done practically every kind of commercial art, except tattoos,� he said.
He photographs events, such as weddings and senior proms.
In the evenings, the airbrush shop becomes an art school.
�The reason I put an art school in here,� Herring said, �was because they told me kids here have nothing to do.�
Students in K-8 can take basic drawing, Disney character drawing, caricature drawing, photography or airbrushing. Each is held one day a week, Monday through Friday, respectively.
Students eat pizza, listen to classical and jazz music and watch educational videos while they work systematically on a month-long project. The cost of supplies is included in the registration price.
�My ultimate goal,� Herring said, �is to build a mega art school for the children.�
Mr. Magic, near the main entrance inside Vernon Park Mall, is open for airbrushing from 10 a.m. to 1:45 p.m. Monday through Saturday and K-8 art classes from 6-7 p.m. Monday through Friday. For information, call 865-368-4405.
When the sun is beating through the windows of your car, house or business and fading fabrics and artwork, it may be time to have those windows tinted.
Carlyle�s Custom Window Tinting has been protecting car and building interiors for 20 years and offers manufacture lifetime warranties.
�I opened it as a part-time venture,� Owner Dail Carlyle said.
Joe Debord, who owned Auto Xtreme and Sun Products in Goldsboro, got him started, and Debord�s employee, Brian Hickum, taught him how to tint windows.
Carlyle, a Kinston native and produce manager at the former Winn Dixie, began tinting windows in his yard around 1989. He opened the business in October 1993 at Skinner�s Bypass and U.S. 70.
With his part-time business quickly becoming full-time, he moved to 1300-A W. Vernon Ave., a year later. In April, he moved across the road to 1002-B W. Vernon Ave.
�I have a much nicer waiting room for my customers,� Carlyle said.
He offers a complete line of Llumar window film, including dyed, metalized and ceramic films in a variety of colors for privacy, protection from the sun, glare reduction, aesthetics and energy conservation. Service is available on- or off-site.
The lifetime warranty covers anything except if the tinting is scratched by something inside the door mechanism or an object hitting the window, Carlyle said.
�Not one cent will it cost you,� he said about the warranty replacement.
The company will also do headlight restoration � sanding and buffing the covers when they become cloudy or yellowed.
Carlyle�s Custom Window Tinting is open from 9 a.m. until at least 5 p.m. Walk-ins are taken as time allows. For information or an appointment, call 252-527-6353.
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"Our life is over like a sigh. Our span is seventy years or eighty for those who are strong. And most of these are emptiness and pain. They pass swiftly and we are gone. Who understands the power of your anger and fears the strength of your fury? Make us know the shortness of our life that we may gain wisdom of heart."Indeed, may we know the passing nature of this life and turn to Christ, who is the wisdom of God and who endured God's wrath on our behalf, and live.
After initially posting this, I read an item posted by Deacon Greg over on The Deacon's Bench about the death last week of Paul Weyrich, a fellow Catholic deacon, albeit not a Roman Catholic deacon. May his memory be eternal.
As to the issue of addressing deacons in the Eastern churches brought up by Deacon Keith Fournier in his remembrance of Weyrich, my Syriac priest friend calls me Father Deacon Scott. While this may grate on the ears of Latins, it is an ancient and venerable greeting for deacons in the East, where the diaconate as permanent order, while it certainly declined over time, never completely disappeared, as it did in the West. I am in no way arguing for the importation of this form of address into the Western church. I just think it is something that shows what is demonstrated well by James Monroe Barnett in his book The Diaconate: A Full and Equal Order, namely that the diaconate is a full and equal order, arguably older than the presbyterate.


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This workshop, taught by leading experts in the field, is the fruit of a three-year programme between the International Heritage Conservancy (IHC), ICCROM, the Canadian Conservation Institute, the University of Kent and University College London- Qatar on how climate change affects cultural heritage.
There is much talk about the change of climate and its drastic effects on our lives. Some heritage managers are already aware of changes in their sites, and want to take action. This workshop will help heritage managers evaluate emerging risks related to climate change, and will identify ways to manage these risks at a local level.
Day 1 - Introduction to climatology and material damage. Climate Myths and Heritage.
Day 2 - Climate and pollution data and predictions. Using climatic data sets.
Day 3 - Assessing the impact of climate, and gathering more readily-available data. Analysing data, and converting data to policy. Programming tools.
Day 4 - Assessing risk and values at the site. Data reliability and uncertainty. Writing a management plan.
Day 5 - Developing a management plan – taking new risks into consideration.
Day 6 - Project management. Developing a long-term project plan.
Day 7 - Risk management and stakeholder communication. Drafting a long-term project plan.
Day 8 - Effective presentations. Presenting a project plan to stakeholders.
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Day 10 - Final revisions to text of project/management plan.
The workshop is open to a maximum of 20 participants with at least four years of experience actively involved in heritage management. 2-4 places may be allocated to excellent post-graduate students in heritage management.
Tuition fee: €750
There are ten Stavros Niarchos Foundation scholarships for heritage managers from developing countries, which cover all tuition fees (€750), accommodation and food.
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Not a crock: Shipwreck yielded porcelain treasures
Probably everyone at one time or another believed or hoped that their grandparents' old geisha-and-bony-tree-branch vase was really a Ming treasure, and that they'd strike it rich as soon as they took it to the Antiques Roadshow.
Of course, they never turn out to be Mings, which is always disappointing since, in the popular imagination at least, a Ming is a vase without peer. Well, as all of you Chinese dynastic trivia buffs have probably already guessed, the Shunzhi in the title of UVA Art Museum's current exhibit, "Treasures from an Unknown Realm: Shunzhi Porcelain," was no Ming emperor. That is, they don't have any Mings either. But what they do have is much more fascinating.
Not so very long ago, a ship was found only 100 feet below the surface of the South China Sea, loaded with nearly 23,000 pieces of porcelain from the reign of Shunzhi, the first child emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Dating between 1650-1660 A.D., these vases and plates missed out on being Ming by only a few years. The ship preserved the vases extremely well– some have only minor sand and water abrasion, others have their original shine still intact– giving modern scholars a completely different notion of China at the time.
In 1644, the Manchurians swept down from north of the Great Wall, gradually overrunning China and replacing a crumbling Ming Dynasty. By placing one of their own, Shunzhi (who was only five or six years old at the time) on the throne, they began a new dynasty that would stretch through the beginning of the 20th century. During the reign of Shunzhi, exports were reduced and Imperial porcelain was not produced– so little scholarly attention had been paid to the porcelain of this time. The salvaged shipwreck changed all that.
Of course, the museum has not snagged 23,000 pieces of porcelain, nor could they accommodate such a motherlode. But they have packed the upper gallery with a very healthy sampling of Shunzhi Porcelain, and it's in remarkable shape.
Decorated with a cloudy, blue glaze and often filled out with dense reds and greens, the vases come covered with Taoist and Buddhist symbols (the kingfisher for abundance, the lotus for purity, the crane for longevity) or they depict stories from history, myth, or plays.
This is an impressive catch for the museum, and they have planned an entire symposium around it, scheduled for this March. Non-scholars should find plenty of interest in the Shunzhi haul as well. After all, the exhibit has mystery, shipwrecks, and vases. What more could you ask for?
The University of Virginia Art Museum presents "Treasures from an Unknown Realm: Shunzhi Porcelain," through March 22. Rugby Road. 924-3592.


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Family vacations for my crew are all about serious adventure, exhausting the kids, and having some new experiences along the way. I strive every day of vacation to play hard and exhaust my kids physically and mentally. I aim to stimulate their minds to total exhaustion. At the end of the day, I hope that they are so tired and overstimulated that they forget to bicker and are forced into a sleep trance by 9 p.m. (which leaves me about 2 hours of quiet adult time to relax). Flashing back to last summer, we took an adventure to Manuel Antonio, Costa Rica. Hands down, this is the most beautiful place I've been so far, absolutely breathtaking. Really this place had it all…plenty to explore, beautiful beaches, amazing people, and tons of adventure.
Manuel Antonio is one of the most popular National Parks in Costa Rica and thought by many to be one of the most beautiful beaches in the world. It sits on the Pacific Ocean, and it is where the jungle meets the sea. The monkeys and lizards roam freely on the beach, giving an amazing show and entertaining travelers several times a day. The beaches are great for surfing, horseback riding was amazing, and the dining was fantastic. While the kids would vote the playtime on the beach was the highlight, I think I vote the zip lining as my highlight. I have to admit that seeing my middle schooler (that knows everything) a little frightened was a bit entertaining. If you're reading this Son, stop now. You might not like the next picture. Overall for family adventures, Manuel Antonio has it all.
The lodging options are endless in the Manuel Antonio area. There are rustic hostels to elaborate villas. Since I was traveling family style and watching a budget is always a concern, I found our dream vacation spot right in the middle. After many hours of research and planning, I decided on a private home in the Tulemar Gardens gated community. Best decision ever. The waves on their private beach were perfect and the kids loved the boogie boards and sand toys. There were cocktails served on the sand and the monkeys were always around to entertain you during the day. The kids were happy (and exhausted at the end of the day) and I was relaxed.
After a full day of fun in the sun, we settled in to our comfortable home to enjoy a dinner on the patio while watching the sun set. Casa Panorama was truly a perfect spot for a family or group of friends. Whether we were preparing a great meal in the gourmet kitchen or sitting in the hot tub, this was the perfect home away from home.
So, families looking for a big adventure to exhaust your own little monkeys, Manuel Antonio has it all. There was always somewhere to explore, waves to ride, and monkeys to watch.
WARNING: I am not a professional videographer. Actually, I'm a pretty crappy amateur videographer. So, if you are prone to motion sickness, watch this at your own risk. At least it will give you a visual of my monkeys being entertained by some real monkeys and amazing scenery of the jungle meeting the sea.


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SUNDAY, Aug. 19, 2018 (HealthDay News) -- If your child has a food allergy, safety prevention belongs at the top of your back-to-school checklist.
"Ensuring that parents and school personnel are all on the same page as far as preventing exposures and treating symptoms is critical to keeping food-allergic children safe," said Dr. B.J. Lanser, director of the Pediatric Food Allergy Program at National Jewish Health in Denver.
"In severe cases, a child doesn't even have to eat a food to have life-threatening anaphylaxis. Just sitting next to a student who has food they're allergic to can trigger a reaction," he noted in a news release.
One child in 13 -- or about two in every classroom -- has a food allergy, Lanser said.
He offers four tips to keep your allergic child safe:
Talk to school officials: Parents should meet with teachers, principals, nurses and cafeteria staffers to learn how the school manages food allergies. "Meeting with school personnel allows parents to ask questions and inform staff members about their child's specific needs. It also helps put a parent's mind at ease to see these precautionary measures for themselves," Lanser said.
Write it down: Ask your allergist to help you create a written plan that includes your contact information and details about your child's food allergy, including ways to prevent accidental exposures and how to recognize and treat symptoms of an allergic reaction. "It should be on file with the school, and everyone who comes in contact with that child throughout the day should have a copy," Lanser said.
Post photos: Tape a photo of your child to the classroom wall along with information on their allergies to alert anyone who goes into the room. You can also post one on your child's desk. "If there is a substitute or another parent that visits the classroom, they may not be aware of a student's food allergies," Lanser said. "Posting a photo is a quick and easy reference for anyone who does not have that child's action plan."
Pack safe snacks: Pack allergen-free snacks so your child doesn't feel left out if someone brings in a treat for the class.
Every student with a food allergy should have emergency medications readily available, including oral antihistamines and an epinephrine autoinjector, Lanser said.
More information
The American Academy of Pediatrics has more on food allergies.
SOURCE: National Jewish Health, news release, August 2018
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Justin Bieber has never been known for his refined taste in clothing. Backwards caps, XL white wife-beaters and an addiction to drop-crotch pants. But it still came as a surprise when the 18-year-old singer showed up to meet the Canadian Prime Minister wearing a simple white Tee, bulky silver chain, bracelet, backwards cap and – overalls.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper bestowed Biebs with a Diamond Jubilee Medal in Ottawa on Friday -- and onlookers and media outlets were quick to judge the freshly-legal pop star for his less than formal getup. Gawker dubbed Bieber the "White Trash Prince," but Bieber fired back: "The pic of me and the Prime Minister was taken in a room in the arena where i was performing at that day." He continued: "If you . . .expect me to have a change of clothes let a loan [sic] a suit at that specific time that's crazy.. Wow am i ever white trash." During a concert where he often has several outfit changes -- well, that actually wouldn't be too much to ask.
Lucky for Bieber, Harper responded comically to the incident, tweeting this response from his official account: "In fairness to @justinbieber, I told him I would be wearing my overalls too. #cdnpoli #beliebers"


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In the spirit of March Madness, my good blogger buddy Heather, of Girlichef fame, is hosting a really fun contest. From now until March 26th, she is featuring the award-winning Mad Housewife wines, which include a Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, White Zinfandel, and Chardonnay. The contest asks the oenological question, "What type are you?".
Well, if I could have FOUND some Mad Housewife in a twenty mile radius of my house, I would have loved to answer that question. I popped in to Tim's Liquors in South Glens Falls, where Tim was puffing away on one of his eternal cigarettes (despite this unpleasant smokiness he does have a good wine selection), and inquired about Mad Housewife. "Never heard of it", croaked Tim hoarsely, but he promised to look into it.
Next I tried Diamond Plaza Wines and Liquors in South Glens Falls where I managed to pry the shop clerk away from her soap opera for a query about Mad Housewife for two seconds, before her eyes glazed over again.
Okay, says I, they must carry Mad Housewife at Mohan's in Queensbury, which is a big discount wine and liquor supermarket, but nooooooo... I inquired after Mad Housewife and got a funny look from the lady at the checkout counter. "Well", I pointed out, "you do carry Smoking Loon, Menage a Trois, Il Bastardo, Gnarly Head and Mommy's Time Out, so why no Mad Housewife?" "Good question", said the clerk, "I'll make a note of it".
So I did my best to try and enter Girlichef's fun contest, and I feel like I would have enjoyed a glass of their Merlot, since I am that type of spicy red Mad Housewife according to my dear husband. To get in the spirit of the contest, I had my daughter doll me up with a boatload of lipstick and eyebrow pencil to resemble Ruby, the Mad Housewife Mascot, (that's Ruby on the right) and I made do with another Merlot-who-shall-remain-nameless in my wineglass.
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Select or upgrade to the $100 PACK O' CRAP reward and you'll receive a copy of Crap Hound #6 + 16-pg. Supplement + Button Pack + #6 Bonus Digital Pack + Skull Print + Good Luck/Bad Luck Gift Wrap (3 of each) and Elephant/Bear Greeting Cards (3 of each)! + the DIGITAL FONT PACK and 3 ADDITIONAL DIGITAL IMAGE PACKS (#4, 5, & 8)! That's a $165+ value for just $100!
Digital packages are ONLY AVAILABLE as Kickstarter rewards! There's no other way to get them so pledge now/don't ask later!
We've added some last minute rewards! For $20 you'll receive five digital fonts designed by Sean Tejaratchi (SEE BELOW FOR IMAGES AND MORE INFO)! In the interest of limiting our already overabundant reward levels we invite you to add $20 to any pledge level to add the font package to your reward. Here's how:
- New backers: Simply add $20 to the reward level you want and select it.
- Existing backers: Click the "manage pledge" button and add $20 to the reward level you've chosen.
- Pack O' Crap backers: You will receive the fonts as part of your $100 package! That's a $120+ value!
Also, if you'd like to add the Digital Bonus Packs for issues #4, #5, #6, or #8 you can add the following to any reward level:
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Please see description below for details ~ Digital Bonus Packs are NOT digital versions of the issues. We only offer these bonus packs through our Kickstarter projects so if you want them you'll need to become a backer!
Finally, we've added a $35 reward that includes three issues of Crap Hound + shipping at a 20% savings!
MARCH 5th, 2012
Dear Readers,
Sean is currently working on a book-length version of Crap Hound devoted to "Unhappy People" to be published by Feral House Press, so we thought we'd reprint an old favorite -- Crap Hound #6: Death, Scissors & Telephones with a 16-pg. supplement of all new images -- in the meantime! All the new material is in the supplement, the only change to the magazine from the 3rd edition is the cover.
This time around we're offering pre-orders, as well as a variety of highly covetable rewards! Our goal is $13,000, which will cover the cost of printing 5000 copies of the magazine and supplement, silkscreen print, shipping and handling, and project fees.
Thanks for your interest in our project! If you like what you see, please help spread the word by sharing it with your friends! Remember, Kickstarter is an all or nothing proposition. If we don't meet our goal, we won't receive any funding!
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P.S. For more information about Crap Hound, Show & Tell Press, and various rewards, please see below.
This 4th edition reprint is 100-pages including the cover, comes with a 16-pg. supplement featuring all new material, sports a new cover and includes five copyright free typefaces!
Between a brief introduction and the end credits, Crap Hound is pure imagery. Each page is filled with high-contrast line art, culled from vintage catalogs, advertising, obscure books, and found ephemera. Through sheer volume of artfully arranged iconography, Crap Hound provides a visual survey of death, telephones and scissors.
Debuting in 1994 and created by Sean Tejaratchi, Crap Hound became a favorite of both zine readers and publishers, and has received enthusiastic reviews from sources including The New York Times Magazine, RE/Search Books, AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts), and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
Read a great interview with Sean by Ian Lynam in PingMag. Check out the issues currently available at Reading Frenzy.
Founded in 2005, Show & Tell Press is an offshoot of Reading Frenzy, a small, specialty bookshop in Portland, Oregon devoted to independent, small press and self-published titles. Crap Hound is our main project, but we aim to publish a variety of titles -- zines, comics and books -- with a special focus on good design and strong visual content.
Visit our Facebook page for more cover and interior views of Crap Hound. We also have a Show & Tell Press blog.
The only way to guarantee obtaining one of our reward items -- digital bonus pack, 16-pg. supplement, buttons, print -- is to become a backer BEFORE our project ends. We will be producing a set quantity of each item and some may sell out during our project, any remaining stock will be sold at Reading Frenzy. Kickstarter reward prices will not apply.
Everything we put out will be beautifully designed and skillfully produced using high quality materials. All our printing is done in the U.S. and Canada. We use American-made textile products, and forest friendly paper for all prints and cards.
A pack of 4 buttons designed by Sean Tejaratchi! Death, Telephones, and Scissors images! Image will be added soon!
This 16-page supplement contains hundreds of images not previously included in Crap Hound #6. It will be offset printed and saddle-stitched. After the project it will only be available with the purchase of Crap Hound #6 (4th ed.).
Designed by Sean Tejaratchi. Limited edition (250), two-color, 18x24, silkscreen print.
PLEASE NOTE: The Digital Bonus Pack is only available as a Kickstarter reward for the duration of our project. It will not be available for purchase after our project ends.
Hundreds of images in the Crap Hound #6 supplement required extensive clean up and refinement in Adobe Photoshop before they were ready for layout on the page. These images were high-quality intermediate steps that were made during the issue assembly. Plenty were taken from imperfect photos or scans, and as such, they're not necessarily pristine. On the other hand, all have a great deal of detail that inevitably gets lost when reduced to fit on the final page.
Many are pure line art, without any shading. Others have high-contrast stippling or grit as shading. Before they were reduced on the page, most of these images measured twice the size, almost always at 1200 ppi (pixels per inch). For a few files, when it's too good to pass up, a high-res greyscale or color version will accompany the high-contrast art.
This bonus collection will be uploaded and delivered to you via a download link. You will have two weeks to download it before it's removed. File size should be under 200 MB. Format will most often be high-res bitmap tiff. In some cases, greyscale or RGB will be included. All files were created on a Macintosh, if that's a concern.
We created this gift wrap for our last Kickstarter project and it turned out beautifully. 19x25, 2-color, offset printed. You'll get 3 sheets of each in our Pack O' Crap reward!
Another reward created for our last Kickstarter project, these beautiful silkscreened, 5x7, blank greeting cards were lifted directly from the pages of Crap Hound #8. You'll receive 3 of each in our Pack O' Crap reward.
Five original digital fonts, created by Sean Tejaratchi. All but Orange Phelps feature only uppercase, though Clean Steve and Yelberton have alternate caps in the lowercase positions. All fonts feature a full set of numbers and the standard punctuation set (?!.,.$/ etc.).
These fonts haven't been previously offered for sale or distribution, and all are released under a Creative Commons license allowing for personal and commercial use, but not distribution.
This digital fonts will be uploaded and delivered to you via a download link. You will have two weeks to download it before it's removed.
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Ring ripples reveal how long a day lasts on Saturn
The giant planet rotates once every 10 hours and 33 minutes
Space Science Inst., JPL-Caltech/NASA
You can't tell how fast Saturn is spinning by watching the clouds swirling at its surface. But ripples in its rings reveal how fast the planet rotates: Its day flies by in 10 hours, 33 minutes and 38 seconds.
"That's a really fast clip," says astronomer Christopher Mankovich of the University of California, Santa Cruz, who reports the rotation rate in the Astrophysical Journal on January 17. Saturn, with a radius of about 58,000 kilometers, is about nine times the size of Earth yet its day is less than half as long.
Scientists previously estimated possible lengths for a Saturnian day using radio measurements from the Voyager spacecraft in the 1980s and from the Cassini orbiter in the 2000s. But those estimates, while in the same ballpark as the new one, varied by about 20 minutes.
In 1993, astronomers Mark Marley and Carolyn Porco, who later led Cassini's imaging team, realized that Saturn's seismic activity changes the planet's gravity enough to make its rings of tiny, orbiting particles shift in response. Because rotation stirs up the planet's gas, the frequency of those inner oscillations could be used to figure out how fast the planet spins. Cassini's 2004 arrival in Saturn's orbit finally delivered ring images good enough to test the idea.
Using those images, snapped up to the 2017 end of the NASA orbiter's mission (SN Online: 9/15/17), Mankovich and colleagues measured waves in the rings as the rings responded to Saturn's vibrations. That let the team calculate precisely how fast the planet was rotating beneath the clouds.
Knowing Saturn's rotation rate can help scientists figure out how the gas giant is structured. Astronomers think Saturn has a solid core about 15 times the mass of all of Earth, topped by layers of different phases of fluid hydrogen. Mankovich and his colleagues assumed Saturn rotates as a rigid ball, but it could instead be layered like an onion, with each layer rotating at a different speed, Mankovich notes. The team's next step is to peel back the onion layers.
C. Mankovich et al. Cassini ring seismology as a probe of Saturn's interior. I. Rigid rotation. The Astrophysical Journal. Published online January 17, 2019. Doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aaf798.
M. Temming. Saturn's 'ring rain' is a surprising cocktail of chemicals. Science News Online, October 4, 2018.
L. Grossman. 5 things we've learned about Saturn since Cassini died. Science News. Vol. 193, April 14, 2018, p. 6.
L. Grossman. Saturn's rings are surprisingly young and may be from shredded moons. Science News. Vol. 193, January 20, 2018, p. 7.
L. Grossman. R.I.P. Cassini. Science News Online, September 15, 2017.
L. Grossman. As Cassini's tour of Saturn draws to a close, a look back at postcards from the probe. Science News. Vol. 192, September 2, 2017, p. 16.


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Madness, Fun, and 1000s of Pictures...
Our teams of students from America have come and gone, and it still all feels like a blur. How has the past month flown by so fast?!??! It seems like 2006 just began and now it's half way over, as is my time here in India. Insanity...
Both of our teams were absolutely FABULOUS and SO much fun--so unique and energetic, and definitely a true blessing to have around. They ran hard, meeting students, drinking coffee, trying all sorts of new food, exploring the city, and just having a good time. Some highlights from these 2 incredible groups:
-watching their reactions to all that is India (bollywood movies, animals everywhere, riding camels and elephants, holding hands with friends of the same gender, rickshaws, poverty, insane traffic, religious saturation of life here, student culture, etc)
-playing in the park with hundreds of curious people
-not having to hold their hands every step of the way, but seeing them jump in and run with everything we gave them
-celebrating my 26th birthday (am I really that old already?!?! yikes!)
-singing, laughing, and just hanging out with college students
-getting sarees made!!!
-planning parties for the students they met and having a blast, esp. playing games and doing skits
-their energy, excitement, and passion
-touring temples and mosques and learning more about Indian culture and religion
-visiting local campuses and seeing what life is like for students here
-shopping and learning to bargain, and watching them pay WAY too much for stuff :)
-training them to share their stories with people they met and seeing them have a blast doing it
-hanging out with students for hours on end, just getting to know them and having fun
-eating out more times and places than I care to count...
-traveling by train back from a meeting in Solapur (nearby city)
-1000s of pictures (literally, i have over 5 gigs of pics from the past month!)
-seeing them tough out even some of the roughest situations (flooding, monsoons, nasty squatty potties, sickness, changed plans, you name it!)
It's been a great couple of weeks, and I'm excited about what the next month has in store as well--tomorrow my friend Jill arrives from Louisiana! This is exciting because she's the first person from my "old life" that I've seen in over 10 months--insane! We'll hang out here for a while, then travel to Delhi and Varanasi (she was there in summer 2004). Then she heads back to America and I head to Thailand for meetings. Then on to Vietnam with some friends for vacation, and back to Delhi to meet up with Tep, who's coming in from Spain to visit!!! It's going to be a wild couple of weeks, but I'm excited. Until my next update, peace out :)
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Welcome to Angell Pets
My name is Richard Angell and I am the owner of Angell Pets in Gloucester. What seems a long time ago now, when I was still in my "teens", I worked in a type of pet shop that seems to be disappearing fast. It's what we call a "traditional" shop. What do we mean by traditional? We mean we take customer service as our priority.
I don't know if your experiences of pet shops have been the same as mine but I have found that they fall into three categories. First there's the "pet supermarket", where you help yourself off of stacked shelves and pay at the counter without anyone even trying to assist you (or being capable). A lot of web stores obviously also fit into this category.
Then there's the "expert hobbyist store". They don't seem to want to even talk to you, unless you can show them you know as much as they do about the most unusual of animals. Have you noticed how their sole purpose seems to be to demonstrate they know more than you?
The third group is VERY small and it's where we fit in. The family owned, community pet shop, where the staff know what they are talking about but are only too happy to help with advice and assistance regardless of your own level of knowledge and where you are made to feel as welcome buying a dog chew as if you were buying the most complex vivarium set up for your exotic pet. I hope that's what you are looking for from your pet shop.
We stock a very wide range of pet products. Quality dog, cat and everything else food, accessories and toys for the most pampered pooch and moggy, small animal enclosures, runs, toys and feed, reptile habitats and equipment, live and frozen food, invertebrate housing and substrates, bird cages and toys, tropical and coldwater fish equipment etc. The list is very long and includes all the major brands and some excellent independent ones too. We also have the knowledge to back up the sale of these items and the advice is free. Our staff are highly qualified in all areas of our work and can help you if you need advice before buying.
We also stock a wide range of quality livestock including fish, birds, rabbits and guinea pigs, rats, mice, hamsters, gerbils, chinchillas, ferrets etc, lizards and snakes, turtles and tortoises, insects and spiders and more. However we strongly believe livestock should not be sold on line and posted out. You really need to see an animal before buying it and we have seen for ourselves how animals are treated by certain commonly used courier companies and would never subject our animals to this treatment. All our livestock is normally "collect in store" only for these reasons. We can arrange delivery in our own van, as we can guarantee the quality of the animals on arrival under these circumstances and you can contact us to discuss this.
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Champagne Cocktails
Fellow cocktail enthusiasts, I'm back from a relaxing week and ready to talk cocktails. With New Year's Eve and Day coming up quick I thought it would be good to look at some Champagne cocktails this week. Before we get rolling too quickly, I'd like to clear something up. I'm going to use the term Champagne for these posts. That said, I'll likely be mixing with slightly cheaper domestic sparkling wines. I know it's "technically" incorrect to use the name Champagne for these wines, but it's just a lot simpler. So, in this case, my laziness wins.
Here's a quick overview of the week. I've got a book review for you on a title dealing exclusively with Champagne based recipes. I'm going to cover a couple cocktails, obviously. :) Finally, I'm going to point you to some good advice on Champagnes for your parties.
To kick the week off and get you, and me, in the right frame of mind, I want to point you to a cocktail that I covered about a year ago. The French 75 is definitely my favorite Champagne cocktail that I've mixed thus far. It combines gin, which you know I love, Champagne, which I'm also a huge fan of, and some citrus for freshness. It's truly a fantastic drink and you definitely need to mix one up. In fact, I'm sipping one right now for some motivation. I think this drink would be a great addition to a New Year's party. They're quick to mix, can be customized easily by switching up the syrup and are a great way to switch up the traditional Champagne. A word of warning that is echoed in my previous post. These drinks pack a punch. Serve and enjoy in moderation.


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Kepler Telescope Narrows Hunt For Earth's Twin
By tracking the blinking light of distant stars, NASA's Kepler space telescope has identified the first Earth-sized exoplanets, and another which orbits its star in the "Goldilocks zone," where liquid water—and possibly life—could exist. Principal investigator William Borucki talks about the newly discovered worlds.
This is SCIENCE FRIDAY. I'm Ira Flatow. If you're scanning the Milky Way for life, where do you look? Well, probably someplace not too different from planet Earth, right? So you want to find a planet about the same size as Earth to increase the chance it has a rocky surface, with oceans of course rather than being a giant ball of gas like Jupiter, and it should be just the right distance from its star, in what they call the Goldilocks Zone: hot enough to have liquid water but not so hot that the surface has completely scorched.
Well, this month, scientists using the Kepler Space Telescope announced the discovery of exoplanets that fit into each of these categories. How long before they find Earth's twin, a planet that fits both categories? And once they do, what's the next step to investigate whether or not it might harbor life?
Here to talk about it is William Borucki. He is principal investigator for the Kepler Mission and a space scientist at the NASA-Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. Welcome to SCIENCE FRIDAY.
WILLIAM BORUCKI: Hello, Ira, it's nice to be here.
FLATOW: Let's talk about these three new planets, Kepler-22B, -20E and -F. What's so special about them?
BORUCKI: Well, clearly the goal of the mission is to determine the frequency of Earth-size planets in and near the habitable zone of stars like the sun. And these are a major step toward that goal. First of all, Kepler-22B is a planet that is in the habitable zone of its star. It's the right temperature, but it's probably a little bit big. It's about 2.4 times the size of the Earth, and when we look at that, our suspicion is it probably is mostly a water planet, or maybe it has a lot of gas.
But we don't think it's a solid, rocky planet. It's in the habitable zone. Any moons that have - which might also - would also be in the habitable zone. But the other aspect of what Kepler has found this week are two planets that are Earth-sized.
So they are the right size, and we believe they are probably rocky, but they're too close to their star. They're too hot. So they're not in a habitable zone. So we're sort of finding planets all around the air that we want, and little by little, year after year, as Kepler gets better at this and finds more planets, we're getting closer to the major goal, Earth-sized planets in a habitable zone and in particular enough of them so that we can get an idea how frequent they are.
Are they common in the galaxy, or are they very rare? Because that's the real question, not just finding one or two but finding out are they common. If they're common, probably lots of life in our galaxy. If they're very infrequent, you know, we may be alone. So the frequency is important, and to get at the frequency, we've got to find planets in a habitable zone that are probably the size of the Earth or maybe up to twice the size of the Earth.
FLATOW: And we're up to, what, 2,300 exoplanets that have been found so far?
BORUCKI: We found some 2,326 candidates. These are stars that show us signals that look like planets. But we have to do ground-based observations to check them out, to make sure that it's not a small star crossing a big star or two stars in a background eclipsing one another.
And so of those 2,300 candidates, we've only been able to confirm 33 so far.
FLATOW: And I've heard that the Kepler satellite has been quoted - has been dubbed your baby. Would that be accurate?
BORUCKI: Well, I certainly advocated it starting in 1984 and built some photometers and worked with headquarters to find a mission that we could launch. And so over the years, I and Dave Koch and several others have worked to build this mission, and we were so delighted to find in 2001 that it was accepted as a mission.
It got launched in 2009, after a lot of work building this and testing it, and it's worked beautifully ever since.
FLATOW: So between 1986 and 2001, many years, you're telling me you got turned down all those times?
BORUCKI: Well, in 1984, I wrote the first paper on what we should be able to do, and I started building some photometers to prove it could be done. The missions that would allow this Kepler to fly didn't get started until 1992. And so we proposed in '92, in '94, '96, '98, and each time they turned us down because they thought it would be too expensive, or the detectors couldn't possibly work, or no one had done photometry of tens of thousands of stars simultaneously.
And Kepler does 150,000 stars simultaneously. So we had to go through many different steps to prove that this would work before we got permission to launch.
FLATOW: And look what they would have missed if they hadn't launched it.
BORUCKI: Yes, we wouldn't know anything about all these small planets. We're finding planets as small as Mars, a few that might be even smaller than Mars. We're finding, you know, thousands around all kinds of stars. So it's just been an enormous bounty of planets.
And people in the United States and people in Europe are all getting together, looking at these objects, trying to confirm them and writing lots and lots of papers. And we'll be rewriting the books on astronomy because what we've found is not what we expected.
FLATOW: What do you mean it's not what you expected?
BORUCKI: Well, everyone expected that we would find small planets close to their stars and big planets further away, just like in our solar system. That's not what we find. We find lots of big planets that are close to their stars, and we find planets, you know, whole groups of planets, six planets well inside the orbit of Mercury, very, very close to their stars, very, very hot, planets that are hotter than - as hot as molten iron, for example.
So just a huge range of planets bigger than Jupiter, planets smaller than Mars.
FLATOW: And you find some that - some of these last two that they orbit the - they orbit their sun in, what, six days?
BORUCKI: That's right.
FLATOW: Wow.
BORUCKI: And one that we found a little bit earlier called Kepler-10B orbits in less than a day, which means that if you got up in the morning, you know, it would be spring, and the trees would be blooming, and by noon it would be summer, and, you know, the leaves would be - you'd go out and pick tomatoes in the evening. Fall would occur, all the leaves would fall off, and that night it would be winter.
BORUCKI: So that, you know, years are one day, six days, a month. We find a huge range like that. Now, planets that close to a star of course are so hot that they couldn't possibly have life, but what I'm saying is that you have to imagine things so different on the planets that we're finding.
FLATOW: And you imagine that from what you're finding, there's got to be some planet like ours in that Goldilocks Zone, right?
BORUCKI: That's right, but, you know, to be in the Goldilocks Zone, for stars like the sun, the Earth is in a habitable zone, by definition, and it takes this Earth one year to go around the sun. So that gives you a first transit, first one and second one, and every year you get another transit. We need a minimum of three times to cross the star so the star dims. And that dimming tells you how big the planet is, and the repetition tells you how far away the planet is from the star.
And that tells you whether or not it's in the habitable zone because if it's close to the star, it's too hot. So for a planet like the Earth, around a star like the sun, it takes three years for us to make the measurements we need before we say oh, this is an interesting candidate, let's see if we can prove it's a real planet.
The spacecraft has not been operating three years yet. So those small planets at the habitable zone of the stars like the sun, you know, we will not have found yet. We're finding planets in the habitable zone, and we've found 48 candidates in the habitable zone so far, but they're stars smaller than the sun, cooler than the sun.
And so we're finding those, but they're not exactly sun-like. They're a little bit cooler and smaller. And our hope, then, is since we're finding those, and the stars aren't very much different, in the coming year or so, we'll be finding more planets like the Earth in a habitable zone of stars much more like that of the sun.
FLATOW: If you're finding only planets that pass in front of their stars, so you can see the shadow from them, or - how many stars are you missing?
BORUCKI: That's a very good question because for us to see the transit, the planets moving between the star and ourselves, you can calculate that the chance of doing that is equal to the diameter of the star over the diameter of the orbit.
Now for the planets with periods of the order of a few days or a few weeks, that's about 10 percent. So we would miss 90 percent of such planets. But if planets are out with orbital periods closer to a year, closer to the distance from the Earth to the sun, then we miss about 99 and a half percent. So every one that we find, there must be at least 99 more out there.
And so we use that geometrical correction to say we have found a certain number, and we can predict how many are out there.
FLATOW: And how close is the closest one that might, you know, be close to an Earth-kind of planet?
BORUCKI: Now, are you speaking of close in terms of size, temperature...
FLATOW: To the Earth. I mean, how close to the Earth, the distance to the Earth?
BORUCKI: The distance? OK, fine. I think we have found some that are within 50 light-years.
FLATOW: Fifty light-years?
BORUCKI: Yes. Now, these are planets. These are not Earth. They're just planets. But if you're saying I want to find an Earth, and I want to find it in a habitable zone, we haven't found any Earth yet in a habitable zone. We have found objects bigger than the Earth in a habitable zone, we found Earth-size too close to their stars to be in the habitable zone.
But the stars we look at are generally - for example, Kepler-22B, the one that's in the habitable zone that we announced, that's 600 light-years away. Now, the two Earth-sized planets that we found that we announced, that's 1,000 light-years away.
So those are - basically Kepler is a probe. It looks out into the galaxy and says what do we - what's out there? Future missions will look at just the closest stars because they'll have to look at the whole sky then. We look at just one portion, a big portion, but it's not the whole sky.
FLATOW: Will there be future missions?
BORUCKI: Oh, I'm sure there will be because...
FLATOW: What makes you - with the way the Congress has got budgets going these days, what makes you so sure?
BORUCKI: I believe that in Europe and the United States, we'll look seriously at our problems, and we will solve them and that we will get back to a much more productive, happy time in the future.
FLATOW: Well, you know, that's optimistic, and we can certainly hope for that, but there are no plans for another Kepler on our drawing board now is what you're saying.
BORUCKI: We have quite a few missions that people have ideas for and have been proposing. The problem with two that come to mind immediately is something called TESS, which is a terrestrial planet-finder, which is for the nearest stars. It actually finds bigger planets than Earth, but it looks at the whole sky to see which ones have planets.
And then the Europeans have one called PLATO, which does the same thing. So each continent, basically, has ideas. But the ones that both Europeans and the people of the United States are really looking forward to are ones that look at the atmospheres of these planets because if you find that these planets have atmospheres - and we don't know that ahead of time - that's important for life.
If the atmospheres have CO2 and water, that's important for plants. The CO2 is what they breathe, water is what they respire. So if you have plants, you could have life, and maybe the plants are building oxygen, in which case you might have even higher forms of life.
And so these future missions are designed to find the composition of the atmospheres.
FLATOW: Well, we'll have to look forward to them, and we want to wish you good luck and thank you for coming on to talk with us today.
BORUCKI: You're most welcome, my pleasure.
FLATOW: Have a happy holiday. William Borucki is principal investigator for Kepler Mission, space scientist at NASA-Ames Research Center in Moffett Field. We're going to take a break. When we come back, the war on cancer turns 40 today. Make you feel old? Harold Varmus is here to talk about how far we've come, where we're headed. Stay with us. We'll be right back after this break.
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Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2002.1, March-April 2002: Social Situation in the Countries Applying for European Union Membership (ICPSR 29361)
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Thomas Christensen, European Commission; Ruben Mohedano-Brethes, European Commission; Renaud Soufflot de Magny, European Commission
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The Candidate Countries Eurobarometer (CCEB) series, first conducted in 2001, gathers information from the countries applying to become members of the European Union (EU) in a way that allows direct comparison with the standard Eurobarometer series carried out in the existing EU countries. The CCEB provides decision-makers and the European public with opinion data on the similarities and differences between the EU and candidate countries. The CCEB continuously tracks support for EU membership in each country and records changes in attitudes related to European issues in the candidate countries. This round of the CCEB survey was conducted between March 1 and April 5, 2002, in the candidate countries: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. The survey first asked respondents three questions in regard to European Union membership. In addition to these questions, respondents were queried on the following major areas of focus: (1) quality of life indicators and life satisfaction, (2) family and children, (3) elderly people, (4) lifestyle and health , (5) access to and quality of social services, (6) household income and standard of living, (7) social protection, inclusion, and exclusion, (8) social and political participation and integration, (9) employment, unemployment, and quality of work, and (10) regional mobility. For the first major area of focus, quality of life indicators and life satisfaction, respondents were questioned about life satisfaction in the past, present, and near future, and particular factors which contribute to or improve their present quality of life. For the second major area of focus, family and children, respondents provided their views in regard to the ideal number of children for a family, decision-making in having a child, age at birth of first child, parental and family roles, and the role of government in improving life for families with children. For the third major area of focus, elderly people, respondents gave their opinion on who should care for elderly persons, as well as who should pay for their care. The survey also asked respondents whether they cared for an individual who has a long-term illness, or who is handicapped or elderly, in-home or outside the home. For the fourth major area of focus, lifestyle and health, respondents were queried about their current lifestyle and whether they had any long-term illness and/or handicap that limits their activities in any way. For the fifth major area of focus, access to and quality of social services, respondents provided feedback about their distance from a particular service or business, their satisfaction with the health and social services in their country, and whether the local or national government, private companies, or associations should provide certain services. For the sixth major area of focus, household income and standard of living, questions asked of respondents included the lowest net monthly income level their household would need in order to make a living, their appraisal of the current household income situation, whether any household member had difficulties in paying the bills, and their ability to save and invest. The survey also queried respondents about their current standard of living, and whether and how they are improving their standard of living. For the seventh major focus, social protection, inclusion, and exclusion, respondents provided their ideas about necessities of the good life, their opinion as to whether they could rely on anyone outside the home for certain problems, and their views on social exclusion, poverty, and the state of the area in which they live within their country. In addition, the respondents were asked about their response to the poor or socially excluded, which entities provide the most help to these individuals versus who should do so, the reasons why people are poor or socially excluded, as well as the extent of social disparities in their country and government's role in reducing these disparities. For the eighth major area of focus, social and political participation and integration, respondents were asked about their participation in social, community, political, and advocacy groups or organizations. For the ninth major area of focus, employment, unemployment, and quality of work, the survey queried respondents about their current and past employment, employment status, and to describe their job. In addition, respondents identified the average hours they worked per week and stressors arising from their current job situation. For the last major area of focus, regional mobility, respondents were asked about moving in the last ten years, including how often, where, and why or why not, the prospects of moving to a different location in the next five years, the factors that would influence relocation, and whether moving would improve job prospects. In addition, the survey queried respondents about their willingness to live in another European country where the language spoken differs from their native language. Demographic variables include age, gender, marital status, age when stopped full-time education, occupation, income, source of household income, main income earner, number of people living in the household, ownership of durable goods, type and surface of area residence, type of community, and region of residence.
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Citizens of the EU aged 15 years and over residing in the 13 countries applying for European Union membership: Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Turkey. There are two exceptions. In Estonia, the survey covered permanent residents aged 15 years and over. In Cyprus, the survey only covered the territory of the Republic of Cyprus.
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- Christensen, Thomas, Ruben Mohedano-Brethes, and Renaud Soufflot de Magny. Candidate Countries Eurobarometer 2002.1, March-April 2002: Social Situation in the Countries Applying for European Union Membership. ICPSR29361-v1. Cologne, Germany: GESIS/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 2011-01-20. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR29361.v1
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M.A. in LLCL: Linguistics
Graduate Studies in Linguistics at Florida Atlantic University
The FAU graduate linguistics program prepares students for a broad range of opportunities in language education and research. Our alumni have found employment in public and private schools, colleges, and institutes, here in South Florida and overseas. Our graduates hold positions directing ESL, EAP, and Remedial English programs; they teach English or foreign languages both in the US and abroad; and some have continued their education in doctoral programs in related fields.
How do we prepare graduates for such a broad range of contexts?
Our MA program combines theoretical and applied linguistics, providing students with a well-balanced grounding of theory and practice. Thus, our students graduate with a broad range of expertise that allows them to successfully compete in today's global job market. They are well-suited to not only apply pedagogical techniques but also interpret the research literature and integrate it into their particular instructional situation. Students have the choice of an MA degree with thesis and a non-thesis option.
Our Department offers financial support for MA students, either as supervised Teaching Assistants teaching one of the foreign languages offered in the Department (Arabic, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish) or by assisting professors in teaching undergraduate courses in linguistics.
All Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTAs) are guided by experienced faculty members. GTAships include a stipend and tuition waiver.
English as a Second Language (ESL) Studies Certificate
The college-wide ESL studies certificate program is a graduate/undergraduate program that expands and complements our Linguistics degrees. This certificate is especially appropriate for those who wish to teach English to adult non-native speakers in intensive English institutes, community colleges, private schools, and in international contexts.
M.A. (thesis option)
There are two options available to students for the MA in Linguistics: with thesis and without thesis. The MA degree with thesis option requires 30 credit hours: 24 of course work and 6 of thesis credit. For all graduate work students must earn a B or better to receive credit toward the degree. Students who earn a B- or less will need to retake the course or substitute another in order to fulfill the requirement. (MA Linguistics: Thesis Option Checklist)
M.A. (non-thesis option)
The MA degree non-thesis option requires 36 credit hours of course work and a comprehensive exam. For all graduate work students must earn a B or better to receive credit toward the degree. Students who earn a B- or less will need to retake the course or substitute another in order to fulfill the requirement. (MA Linguistics: Non–Thesis Option Checklist)
The Comprehensive Exam
Students in non-thesis programs must complete a written comprehensive examination administered by their graduate committee, during the last semester of course work, no later than week 12. The examination will be drawn from the student's course work and a bibliography compiled by the student in consultation with his/her graduate committee. It will consist of about 9 questions and will be administered on two different days (4 hours per day) or over the course of one day (8 hours). The student's committee may also require an oral exam. If a student fails the written examination, it may be repeated once. (Reading List)


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Anyone interested in the North American fur trade during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries is certainly familiar with the important role played by the birchbark canoe. Its light weight and cargo capacity allowed fur traders to take advantage of a network of lakes, rivers, and streams that nearly crossed the continent. Yet these vessels, so important to the colonial economies of New France and British America, were constructed from natural materials like spruce roots, cedar, pine resins, and of course tree bark so it is little wonder that they rarely survive in the archaeological record.
Fortunately the building tradition was not lost over time. Books such as The Bark Canoes and Skin Boats of North America by Edwin Tappan Adney and Howard Chappelle, documented the materials and building techniques used for several canoe varieties. The following video shows Mr. Francois Rothan building a birchbark canoe in Quebec in 2007. While a few modern tools are used the basic steps shown are very similar to those used centuries ago.
The MUA would like to thank Mr. Rothan for sharing this video with us.
You can learn more about Mr. Rothan and see other examples of his work at http://birchbarkcanoes.blogspot.com/


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COMMENTARY: Manufacturers Are Shifting Gender Roles in the Toy Space
The blurring of gender roles is a trend that I've been noticing more and more, and I have mixed feelings about it. On one hand, I think it's silly to try and reinvent the wheel—let's be honest, toys that are pink, sparkly, or doll-related attract girls, while Super Heroes, cars, and trucks attract boys (this is, of course, generally speaking)—and what's wrong with that? On the other hand, there are some toys that are shifting to neutral territory that I think are not only appropriate, but smart on the part of the manufacturers. Hasbro's Easy Bake Oven is a great example of this. Introduced in the 1960s, the Easy Bake Oven has always been seen as a girls' toy. Recently, a young girl contacted the company and asked for a gender-neutral version of the toy. Her younger brother had an interest in cooking, but Easy Bake Ovens were only available in "girly" colors, such as purple and pink. Hasbro agreed and has created a black and silver oven that looks more realistic and appeals to all young chefs. Male chefs are certainly not a revolutionary concept, especially with the range of current TV shows featuring men in the kitchen—think Top Chef, Chopped, Cake Boss, America's Test Kitchen. I expect that this new look will attract a lot of boys when it becomes available this fall. Changing gears, Educational Insights' Nancy B's...Read More


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Scripture: Exodus 11: 4 – 9, 12:1 – 13, 12:24 – 42 or pages 117 – 119 in The Golden Children's Bible
Target Age Group: 1st through 6th grade
Welcome the children to the classroom and chat with them about their week as they gather around the table.
Pray and ask God to teach the children not just head knowledge, but also heart knowledge.
Bible Lesson:
Have the children open their Bibles to Exodus 11 or pages 117-119 in The Golden Children's Bible.
(Read the story to the children because at this age some of the children do not read smoothly, which hinders comprehension for the whole class.)
- What was the 10th plague? At midnight every firstborn son in Egypt would die.
- What were the two qualifications for the lamb? A year old male that had no defects.
- What were they to do with the blood of the lamb? They were to paint the doorposts of their houses with it.
- Do you ever decorate your doorpost? Christmas wreaths at Christmas, welcome sign, "Gone Fishing", "Do Not Disturb", "Open", "Closed", etc.
- What we put on our doorpost tells people on the outside a lot about those of us inside, doesn't it? When the people put the blood of the lamb on their doorposts, what were they telling God? That they trusted Him to save them.
- That night they were to eat the lamb. How were they to prepare it? Roasted over a fire with bitter herbs and with bread made without yeast. If any was left over, they were to burn it.
- What were they to wear when they ate it? Their traveling clothes and with staffs in their hands.
- Why were they to eat in these clothes? Because they were to be ready to leave.
- Why was the bread made without yeast? Because they had to leave in a hurry and didn't have time to let the bread rise.
- What would God do that night? God would pass through Egypt and kill all the firstborn of people and animals.
- Which houses would escape this plague? Those that had the blood on the doorposts. Those houses would be passed over.
- Can you think of another time in the Bible when a Lamb was sacrificed? Jesus was the Lamb of God who was crucified on the cross.
- Which ones of us will escape from the consequences of our sins? Those of us who are covered with the blood of Jesus.
- How do we obey and become covered with Jesus' blood? We pray and ask him to forgive our sins.
- Have you done that? (Don't force anyone to answer. Give the children a little time to ponder this.)
- What did Pharaoh do when the firstborn were found to be dead? He called for Moses in the middle of the night, and he told him to take the people and go and worship the Lord as he had asked.
- How long had the people lived in Egypt? 430 years.
- Let's pray and ask Jesus to cover us with His blood to save us from the slavery of sin…
During the remaining class time do activities that help to reinforce what the children have learned. Here are some suggestions…
Memorize the verse.
Exodus 12: 13b "when I see the blood, I will pass over you."
Have the children use colors or pastels to draw their own vision of the story on a sketch pad page. Or have them color a color page related to the story. Color page #1 from Messianic Trust. An excellent color page book is "Through-the-Bible Coloring Pages For Ages 4-8" by Janet Skiles. The pages are reproducible.
Show this video, Yeshua, Our Passover Lamb. Or this one, Passover Lamb. These two are also very good. #1 Plagues #2 The Lamb of God
Share the story "God to the Rescue" from "The Jesus Story Book Bible". (Make sure that you order the collector's edition, which has the DVD with the stories animated and narrated. It's wonderful.)
Have the children act out this little skit from Kid's Sunday School.
Have the children fill in one of these worksheets from Calvary Children's Curriculum. Or have them do this one from Bible Wise.
Make the "Two Houses at the Passover" craft or do the worksheet from Gospel Hall. Go to the activities index and search for lesson 211. (The teachers guide is very helpful with the worksheet.)
Sing "Plagues" and "What Seems Impossible" by Mary Rice Hopkins from the Dancing in the Desert album.
Play the "Moses Says" game. Make sure that Moses says, "Paint your doorpost with the blood of the lamb."
Print out Passover Paper Dolls from Messianic Trust, and have the children use them to tell the story.
Buy or bake matzah bread and have the children have a piece to taste. Talk about how Jesus body was like the un-leaven bread in a Seder.
There are more ideas here at The Last Supper lesson.
Evaluate what the children have learned. While they are coloring or crafting ask each one what they learned today.
Send each child's parent an e-mail (or a hard copy) of the Parents' Page.


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Branden Dawson Returning to Michigan State for Senior Season
Branden Dawson officially announced on Tuesday that he will return to Michigan State for his senior season in 2014-2015.
The junior's strong play in the Big Ten and NCAA tournaments had increased his stock as a potential NBA draft pick, but Dawson said he wants to continue his development and finish college.
"I was always pretty sure that I wanted to return for my senior season, but Coach Izzo said he would do what he does for all his players and gather some information," Dawson said in a news release issued by MSU. "As he started making calls, my mom came up and we met with Coach. The three of us decided that as far as my basketball career, both present and future, and the chance to finish my degree, including possibly needing to take just one class during my final semester, that my initial decision was the correct one. I'm vowing to improve my consistency and am looking forward to a great final season.
"This last year, I made some big improvements in my game as I've worked on my shooting and ball handling. I know that with another offseason of hard work that I can make even more improvement and become more consistent. After not being able to work on my game between my freshman and sophomore seasons due to an injury, I saw what a difference a summer can make last year. I'm ready to put in another summer of work and excited to see the results. I think I played some of the best basketball of my career over the last month, and I can't wait to do that every game next season."
It's good news for the Spartans, who are losing Adreian Payne and Keith Appling to graduation, and Gary Harris to an early-departure for the NBA.
More from the MSU release:
A 6-foot-6 guard/forward from Gary, Ind., Dawson averaged 11.2 points and a team-best 8.3 rebounds for the Spartans in 2013-14. He missed 10 games due to injury, including nine straight with a broken hand from Jan. 25 to Feb. 23. Upon his return in March, Dawson elevated his level of play. In seven postseason games, he averaged 15.7 points, ranking second on the squad, and posted a team-best .681 field-goal percentage, while being named Most Outstanding Player of the Big Ten Tournament, leading the Spartans to a tournament crown. In four NCAA Tournament games, he averaged 16.3 points and 8.8 rebounds, shooting .634 from the field.
Due to the number of games he missed due to injury, Dawson was not eligible to be ranked in the Big Ten statistics. Had he played in enough games, he would have ranked second in the Big Ten in rebounding (8.3 rpg) and first in field-goal percentage (.613). At MSU's Awards Banquet, he was co-recipient of the Best Defensive Player and Antonio Smith Glue and Guts Award, and a tri-recipient of the Chairman of the Boards Award.
RELATED: Nik Stauskas, Glenn Robinson III leaving Michigan for NBA draft
Quote from Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo:
"As I always do for players with NBA prospects, I did my due diligence of gathering information regarding Branden Dawson's draft status. But before I could get deep into the process, B.J. and his mom came to me and expressed his desire to return for his senior season. I'm excited about his decision because he expressed to me his passion to be more consistent and perform at a high level each and every night. If you look at his numbers over the last seven or eight games, including averaging 16 points and nearly nine rebounds in the NCAA Tournament, I think the outlook is very promising for his senior season. As he continues to develop as a player and perform with greater consistency, he can position himself for a successful NBA career in the future."


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Painting a ceiling is not as difficult as it may appear. Here are some tips to help you finish the job just like the pros.
Painting is perhaps the easiest of DIY home upgrades, but tackling the ceiling can be a daunting endeavor, particularly since it requires a bit of elevation and contortion. Here are some pointers on prep and techniques that will help you accomplish the job easily and successfully, just like a pro.
Tools and supplies required:
• Paint
• Primer
• Drop cloth
• Painter's tape
• Roller and extension pole
• Roller tray
• Damp sponge or cloth
• Stepladder
Before you begin, remove as much of the furniture from the room as possible; doing this will make it easier for you to maneuver through the space where you're working. Use drop cloths to cover any remaining furniture and to protect the floors from paint splatters and mishaps.
If you are just painting the ceiling and not the walls, use quick-release painter's tape where the walls meet the ceiling. Tape should also be applied around any moldings that decorate the ceiling's edges. And if you are painting the entire room, the ceiling is where you should start.
Apply a coat of primer. It may seem like an added step, but the primer will provide a stain barrier and in most cases will make it possible to use only one coat of paint to finish.
Use a stepladder to paint a 2-3" cut-line along the edge of the ceiling. Start in a corner and with a 2" trim brush, paint about three feet along one wall, then the adjoining wall. While the cut-line is still wet, begin painting the ceiling with the roller. Painting the ceiling while the cut-line is still wet will help reduce visible lines. The same will be true for paint applied from section to section with the roller.
To use a roller, fill the deep portion of a roller tray with paint and roll the apparatus over the paint until the nap is covered. The key is not to submerge the roller, but rather to glide it over the paint, gently working it back and forth in the shallow part of the tray until the nap is completely covered and paint drips are minimal.
Attach the extension pole to the roller. To paint the ceiling, use the paint-filled roller to create a zigzag pattern measuring 3-4" square. Next, go over the same area using straight, controlled strokes to even out the paint. Avoid leaving paint lines from the edge of the roller. Since you need to work while the paint is still wet, tackle smaller sections and be sure to feather the edges to reduce distinct, visible lines between sections.
Depending on paint and coverage you may need to repeat the process—from cut-lines to painting—once the coat has dried thoroughly. Be sure to clean your paintbrushes, roller and paint tray with warm soap and water.


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In December 2016, HfS Research published its 2016 RPA Premier League Table ranking Accenture number one in the Transformation Enablers category.
As part of its review, HfS analysts examined service providers' RPA-centric strategies and deployments in two categories: Transformation Enablers and Automation Pure Plays. They found that, "Accenture is pushing the envelope on innovation while leveraging the transformational capabilities of its consulting division. Crucially, it is driving a holistic approach to Intelligent Automation by defining a spectrum of technologies that span RPA, virtual agents, natural language processing, machine learning, advanced analytics and other areas of artificial intelligence."
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