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Mired in last place and with the season slipping away, the defending world champions part with players who were key to their remarkable World Series title in 2013.
The trade deadline has passed and the Boston Red Sox have cleaned out the heart of the team that won the World Series in October.
The Oakland Athletics won the Jon Lester sweepstakes, acquiring the left-hander and outfielder Jonny Gomes from the Boston Red Sox for slugging outfielder Yoenis Cespedes before Thursday's trade deadline.
Oakland, with the best record in baseball at 66-41, also received cash from Boston in another blockbuster deal by A's general manager Billy Beane. The Red Sox also get a draft pick in a deal confirmed by both teams.
A few hours later, the Red Sox traded their No. 2 starter, right-hander John Lackey, to the St. Louis Cardinals for right-hander Joe Kelly and outfielder Allen Craig, a person with knowledge of the deal said. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to The Associated Press because neither club announced that trade.
The Red Sox swapped reliever Andrew Miller to the Baltimore Orioles for pitching prospect Eduardo Rodriguez, and shortstop Steven Drew to the Yankees for light-hitting third-baseman Kelly Johnson.
The Tampa Bay Rays also traded ace David Price to the Detroit Tigers.
A source who spoke on condition of anonymity because the deal was not yet announced did not say whom the left-hander was dealt for, but Tigers center fielder Austin Jackson was pulled mid-inning Thursday moments ahead of the non-waiver Trade deadline.
The trade joins Price with Max Scherzer and Justin Verlander, the past three AL Cy Young Award winners in the AL Central-leading Tigers rotation.
Lester is having an outstanding season with a 10-7 record and career-best 2.52 ERA in 21 starts. He's allowed seven earned runs in his last eight games with 54 strikeouts and nine walks. But the Red Sox put him on the trading block because he can become a free agent after the season.
He was sought by many teams, including the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Los Angeles Dodgers. The 30-year-old, three-time All-Star originally was scheduled to start Wednesday night for the slumping Red Sox, who instead scratched Lester ahead of the trade deadline.
After winning their third World Series in 10 seasons last year, with Lester getting two of the four wins with a 0.59 ERA against St. Louis, the power-poor Red Sox are last in the AL East with a 48-60 record. They had Thursday off after losing for the eighth time in nine games to drop 13 games behind first-place Baltimore.
While the Red Sox look toward next season, the A's are determined to take the next step after losing in each of the past two Octobers in five-game division series to the Detroit Tigers. Oakland was off Thursday before returning home to begin a weekend series with the Kansas City Royals on Friday night.
It's unclear what day Lester would start. Sonny Gray (12-3) is scheduled for Friday, but manager Bob Melvin has discussed the idea of giving some pitchers extra days between outings to keep them fresh in the second half.
Beane believes in starting pitching depth, and the A's sure have it. Lester joins Gray, Scott Kazmir and recently acquired Jeff Samardzija and Jason Hammel, each dealt by the Chicago Cubs on July 4.
Gomes, a fan favorite who grew up in nearby Petaluma, provides Oakland with a veteran in the clubhouse who proved invaluable during the A's run to the AL West title in 2012. The A's reached the playoffs for the first time in six years.
He also was a respected clubhouse leader in Boston, which signed him as a free agent before last season. He's hitting .234 with six homers and 32 RBIs in 78 games this season.
For Boston, this marks another big move of a starting pitcher to the Bay Area after Jake Peavy was traded to the San Francisco Giants on Saturday for two solid pitching prospects.
The 28-year-old Cespedes won the past two Home Run Derby titles at the All-Star game. The Cuban left fielder is in the third season of a $36 million, four-year contract he signed before spring training 2012. Cespedes is batting .256 with 17 homers and 67 RBIs, 26 doubles and three triples.
Speculation had centered on the Red Sox seeking prospects to add to their already deep farm system. That would have given them more young players to use in another deal for an established player, possibly a power-hitting outfielder.
They got that in Cespedes, whose 17 homers is the exact number hit this season by the nine Red Sox players who spent time in the outfield. And Gomes' six was the most.
Lester has said leaving the Red Sox doesn't rule out a return to the team next season.
He had said he would take a hometown discount to stay in Boston, but the team's four-year, $70 million offer in spring training fell far short of what he could get on the open market.
Lester leaves his only pro baseball organization. The Red Sox drafted him in the second round in 2002. He made his major league debut on June 10, 2006 and got no decision in a 7-4 loss to the Texas Rangers. He won five of his next seven starts before taking his first loss in his 10th.
In his nine major league seasons, all with Boston, Lester is 110-63 with a 3.64 ERA. He's also a proven postseason star with a 3-0 record in his two World Series. He pitched 5 2-3 shutout innings against the Colorado Rockies in the clinching fourth game in 2007.
Without Lester and Lackey, Clay Buchholz heads a rotation that includes youngsters Rubby De La Rosa, Allen Webster and Brandon Workman.
Felix Doubront began the season in the rotation but was ineffective and sent to the bullpen before being traded to the Chicago Cubs on Wednesday.
Boston's minor league system is rich with pitching prospects, featuring right-handers Anthony Ranaudo and Matt Barnes at Triple-A Pawtucket and left-handers Henry Owens and Brian Johnson at Double-A Portland.
Drew hit .253 for the World Series champion Red Sox last year but did not accept a $14.1 million qualifying offer. He re-signed with Boston on May 22 and has hit .176 with four homers and 11 RBIs in 39 games.
He will likely play second base for New York.
Johnson is hitting .219 with six homers and 22 RBIs in 77 games and is on the disabled list.
Boston also sent cash to New York.
Miller provides the AL East-leading Orioles another solid lefty in a bullpen that has flourished this season.
The 29-year-old Miller has a 2.34 ERA in 50 appearances with the Red Sox, who unloaded several of their veterans Thursday before the end of the non-waiver trade deadline.
Miller has limited left-handed hitters to a .150 batting average and kept righties to a .180 average in 150 plate appearances.
Since becoming a full-time reliever in 2012, Miller has a 2.78 ERA in 140 games while averaging 13.3 strikeouts per nine innings.
The 21-year-old Rodriguez is 3-7 with a 4.79 ERA in 16 starts with Double-A Bowie this year.
AP Sports Writer Howard Ulman in Boston contributed to this report.


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Cara Dore necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 7 diseños de 3 diseñadores freelance.
Action4Health Inc, no website yet, "Take Action. Own Your Health."
The Action4Health team is made up of a previous registered dietitian and a kinesiologist to bring forth over 25 years of experience in nutrition and activity promotion. Our Mission is "Action4Health Inc. will become the most sought after health promotion resource and service provider in Canada. We will offer our customers innovative, technologically savvy, reliable and affordable nutrition and activity information kits and services that will enable kids and adults to take action to improve and optimize their health". Our Corporate culture- social and cohesive atmosphere whereby passion of team to improve the health of kids and adults is the backbone of organization
Our products and services will be sold to organizations that want to improve or optomize the health of kids and adults. These organizations will include schools, boys and girls clubs, recreation facilities, after school programs and kids camps, also weight loss and fitness facilities. The nutrition and acitivity products and services will have two categories, adults and kids (broken down into ages 4-8, 9-13, 14-18) and they will be the end users that will benefit from the "Cool Health Tools" provided.
The logo must be catchy for both adults and kids as target audience encompasses both
Make the logo have both a nutrition and activity focus, it should be obvious that is our focus
Typeface of company name to stand out and be bold and easy to read.
No cartoon characters or clip art please
Colors thought to depict nutrition (orange- as in color of fruit or neon) and then blue (turquoise or latest ) but are open to other colour combo ideas.
Would prefer a vector graphics quality logo for final product
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The Port St. Joe Jr./Sr. High School baseball team dropped a district game to Bozeman last week before rebounding with two wins as the District 4-1A season drew to a close.
The Port St. Joe Jr./Sr. High School baseball team dropped a district game to Bozeman last week before rebounding with two wins as the District 4-1A season drew to a close.
Port St. Joe finished its regular season Tuesday night against Altha.
The Tiger Sharks, the fifth seed, will open district tournament play on Monday at Liberty County.
Bozeman, the top seed in the district after finishing the district schedule unbeaten, handed the Tiger Sharks a 7-3 loss last Thursday.
Bryce Godwin started on the mound and was the losing pitcher, tossing five innings before giving way to Will Ramsey who pitched the final two innings.
Cole Cryderman had a pair of singles to lead Port St. Joe at the plate. Ramsey, Austin Clayton and Devon Strickland also had singles and Tyler Worley doubled.
�We had the bases loaded with no outs but could only muster one run,� said Port St. Joe coach Chuck Gannon.
The following day Port St. Joe traveled to South Walton and came away with a 12-6 victory.
Gannon said his team�s bats �came alive� with 12 hits, three for extra bases.
Tucker Smith, Chase Wilder and Worley each had two hits. Ricky Pennington reached base five times, walking once, singling and being hit by a pitch three times.
Eighth-grader Ethan Sander pitched six �quality� innings, Gannon said, allowing five hits and four earned runs.
The following day, Port St. Joe hosted Tallahassee Godby during Senior Day.
Smith, Worley, Pennington and Clayton, all seniors, contributed in the 7-2 win.
Clayton went the distance on the mound, striking out three and scattering nine hits.
Drew Lacour had a pair of hits.


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Updated: June 12, 2012, 6:29 PM
George Zimmerman's wife was arrested and charged Tuesday with allegations that she lied to the judge in her husband's second-degree murder case in the killing of unarmed Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
Shellie Zimmerman, 25, was booked into a Seminole County jail shortly after prosecutors filed a single perjury charge against her. She was quickly released after posting a $1,000 bond.The arrest comes less than two weeks after Judge Kenneth Lester Jr. ordered her husband back to jail when investigations revealed the couple had hidden more than $130,000 from authorities back in April.
The money was significant because Shellie Zimmerman and other family members testified at a court hearing that they had little money to pay for George Zimmerman to be released from jail after he was arrested and charged in the killing.
In part because of their testimony, the judge granted George Zimmerman a much lower bond amount than the $1 million prosecutors had asked for. The result was that George Zimmerman was allowed to go free from jail after his family paid just $15,000 to a bondsman.
Days after the hearing, however, George Zimmerman's attorney revealed on CNN that his client had managed to raise more than $200,000 for his own defense using a crudely built website and a PayPal account. The revelations were startling given that the Zimmerman family had claimed near poverty in court.
Then earlier this month, investigators said they discovered Shellie Zimmerman knew about the money all along.
Authorities alleged the couple had more than $130,000 at their disposal when she took the witness stand at the April hearing. They also said Shellie Zimmerman transferred some of the money between bank accounts and that she and her husband had talked about the money using thinly coded language in recorded jailhouse phone calls before the hearing.
On Tuesday, special prosecutor Angela Corey's office revealed in court documents more about the supposed code words the couple used. The Zimmermans appear to have been speaking in dollar figures, but in much lower numbers than the huge amounts of money they were actually referring to.
This is from an April 16 phone call, for instance:
George Zimmerman: in my account do I have at least $100?
Shellie Zimmerman: No
George Zimmerman: How close am I?
Shellie Zimmerman: There's $8. $8.60
George Zimmerman; So total everything how much are we looking at?
Shellie Zimmerman: Um, like $155
Corey's office said that conversation and others were proof that Shellie Zimmerman later lied on the witness stand. The charging document filed on Tuesday compared those conversations with her testimony at her husband's bond hearing four days later when she was being questioned by prosecutor Bernie de la Rionda:
Q. And you mentioned also, in terms of the ability of your husband to make a bond amount, that you all had no money, is that correct?
A. To my knowledge, that is correct.
Q: Were you aware of the website that Zimmerman or somebody on his behalf created?
A: I'm aware of that website.
Q: How much money is in that website right now? How much money as a result of that website was —
A: Currently, l do not know.
Q: Do you have any estimate as to how much money has already been obtained or collected?
A: I do not.
The judge, Kenneth Lester, has already expressed serious anger about being deceived. After verbally ordering George Zimmerman back to jail earlier this month, Lester made his decision doubly known with a written order that was made public on Tuesday.
In it, Lester said the deception adds to the reasons why he should possibly keep George Zimmerman in jail until his trial, which may not begin until 2013. And in what may be a worse sign for the defense, the judge wrote that the evidence against Zimmerman is "strong."
"There are several factors that weigh against his release: this is a serious charge for which life could be imposed; the evidence against him is strong; he has been charged with one prior crime, for which he went through a pretrial diversion program, and has had an injunction lodged against him," the judge wrote, adding: "Most importantly, though, is the fact that he has now demonstrated that he does not properly respect the law or the integrity of the judicial process."
Still, Lester has scheduled another bond hearing for June 29, where he will give George Zimmerman and his lawyers and chance to explain why he should let the defendant go free one more time.
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Acadia University is recognized as one of Canada's premier undergraduate institutions. Academic innovation and a technology-rich teaching and learning environment have garnered the university a reputation for excellence. Our progressive workplace is located only one hour from Halifax in Nova Scotia's beautiful Annapolis Valley - a small-town setting offering an affordable lifestyle, outstanding recreational opportunities, internationally acclaimed restaurants, a healthy economy, and the best weather in the Atlantic Provinces.
Position # 20912CLT – The Department of Mathematics and Statistics seeks to fill a 9.5-month contractually limited position at the rank of Assistant Professor effective August 1st, 2014. The successful candidate should hold a PhD degree or have equivalent qualifications. Extensive teaching experience is an asset.
The Department seeks a dynamic individual, who has a strong commitment to teaching, as well as an active Research program. Duties for the position include teaching Undergraduate courses during the Fall and Winter semesters, as well as the potential to work with Honours or Graduate students. The successful applicant will also contribute to the service activities of the Department.
Applications must include a letter of application, an up-to-date curriculum vitae, and confirmation of degree (Master's or PhD). Potential candidates shall send the application package and arrange to have three letters of reference sent to:
Dr Jeff Hooper, Head
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Acadia University
PO Box 29, Wolfville, NS B4P 2R6
Phone: (902) 585-1382
Facsimile: (902) 585-1074
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Competition Closes: March 31, 2014.
The University invites applications from all qualified individuals; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority. Acadia University is committed to employment equity and values a diverse and inclusive workplace. We therefore invite applications from Aboriginal peoples, African Nova Scotians, persons with disabilities, visible minorities, and women, as well as persons of any sexual orientation or gender identity. Consistent with the principles of employment equity, the primary criterion for appointment to a position is academic and professional excellence. Candidates who are a member of one of the aforementioned groups, and who wish to have the application considered as such, should complete the Employment Equity Voluntary Self-Identification Form as part of their application package.
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GOSHEN — The long, rancorous debate over the fate of the Orange County Government Center ended abruptly Wednesday, as a group of Republican lawmakers sided with Democrats to pass a proposal to renovate the 43-year-old complex.
GOSHEN — The long, rancorous debate over the fate of the Orange County Government Center ended abruptly Wednesday, as a group of Republican lawmakers sided with Democrats to pass a proposal to renovate the 43-year-old complex.
The 15-6 vote marked another stinging defeat for County Executive Ed Diana, who has pushed to demolish and replace the county government's main office building since 2010, and a victory for Democratic lawmakers and others who defended the architectural landmark and insisted it could be upgraded much more cheaply.
Chairman Michael Pillmeier's resolution, which authorizes bonding $10 million to design the renovations, was sprung on lawmakers Wednesday, only two days after Democrats and Republicans clashed over whether to renovate or embrace Diana's fallback plan — replacing two-thirds of the building and renovating the court section alone.
Pressure has mounted recently with an approaching March 12 deadline to decide what path to take or risk losing up to $2.7 million in federal funds to repair water damage caused by Hurricane Irene and Tropical Storm Lee in 2011. Until Wednesday, neither side appeared to have the two-thirds majority, or 14 of 21 votes, needed to approve bonding.
During debate at Thursday's meeting, Democrats — who have supported renovating the building all along — applauded Pillmeier, a Republican, for showing leadership in bringing forward the proposal, something no one had done since Diana's previous plan for a $75 million complex failed to win enough votes last May.
"I am thrilled to see us moving forward on something," said Roxanne Donnery, a Highland Falls Democrat.
Republicans Melissa Bonacic and Katie Bonelli both said they supported Diana's new construction plan, estimated to cost up to $68 million, but were voting for Pillmeier's resolution to end the conflict. Bonelli said she was concerned about the toll the closure of the Government Center has had on businesses in downtown Goshen, which she represents.
Voting against the proposal were Republicans Leigh Benton, Patrick Berardinelli, Steve Brescia and Dennis Simmons; Independence Party member Michael Amo; and Democrat Harvey Burger.
Brescia argued that renovating would cost more than building new in the long run and still leave the county with an inefficient building. Benton and Simmons pressed unsuccessfully for amendments limiting the total renovation cost and the time for the initial designs.
Only a handful of renovation advocates were on hand to witness the strangely anti-climatic conclusion to the Government Center battle. As he left afterward, architect Francis Wickham said, "After years of neglect, the building will now get some attention. I'm very pleased. I just hope the building will become part of the legacy of the county."
Goshen officials and business advocates, who stayed neutral in the debate, cheered the Legislature's decision.
"The Village Board and I never advocated a specific course of action," Mayor Kyle Roddey said. "I'm happy about any action that's taken, any action that brings activity back to the downtown, back to the site."
Lynn Cione, executive director of the Goshen Chamber of Commerce, said, "We think it should have been done last year. We want them to not just vote, but to continue on with some momentum."
Diana closed the building in September 2011, citing water damage and mold left by the back-to-back storms.
Staff writer James Walsh
contributed to this report.


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Democrats have filed six bills seeking to either repeal or rewrite 'stand your ground law
By Brendan Farrington
Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — For a gun-friendly state like Florida, there's a lack of gun-friendly bills that will be considered in this year's legislative session.
Instead, Democrats are trying to control the gun agenda with a slew of bills that mostly try to undo or change what Republicans have done in the past. Other bills would allow local governments the right to ban guns at certain events.
Good luck with that.
While the Trayvon Martin shooting, the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting and President Barack Obama have created a lot of buzz about gun-control issues, don't expect the Republican-dominated Legislature to suddenly advocate for tighter gun laws during the 60-day session, which begins March 5. This year, though, don't expect a push for broader gun rights laws either.
"We're in a very highly emotionally charged atmosphere in these cases," said Rep. Dennis Baxley, the Ocala Republican who sponsored the "stand your ground" bill. "Let's keep our eye on the ball about building good policy and let's don't overreact to what the atmosphere is. This might not be the best time to make some good (gun) policy decisions."
Even the state's top gun lobbyist isn't asking for any new laws, though she says it was a decision that was made before the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting and Obama's call for stricter gun laws.
"We decided that there were important issues facing the state and we just want to take a breather," said Marion Hammer, who represents the National Rifle Association and the Unified Sportsmen of Florida and is considered one of the most influential lobbyists in the state.
There is a bunch she'll be fighting, however. Democrats have filed six bills seeking to either repeal or rewrite the "stand your ground" law that says people can use deadly force if they feel threatened with no requirement to retreat if possible. They were filed in response to Martin's shooting death by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman in February 2012, a case that has drawn national attention. Zimmerman, 29, is charged with second-degree murder, but is expected to argue that Martin, 17, attacked him and that he should be acquitted under the "stand your ground" law.
Democrats have also filed bills that would allow local governments to ban concealed weapons and ammunition from public events held in public facilities. Other bills would require gun owners to turn their weapons over to school principals or police officers to avoid being charged with carrying a concealed weapon in a school safety zone. Other bills would repeal a law that Republicans passed two years ago that restricts doctors from asking patients if they own guns.
"We intend to oppose these bills," Hammer said. "It would be a difficult road for any of these bills to travel."
That's putting it mildly. And Democrats know that it will be difficult passing bills when their outnumbered nearly 2-to-1 by Republicans who tend to support a pro-gun agenda. But their hope is to start a dialogue and at least get a vote.
"I'm in firm agreement with the president. Like he said, if they deserve a vote at the congressional level, they deserve a vote at the House and Senate level throughout all the chambers throughout the country," said Rep. Alan Williams, D-Tallahassee, who is sponsoring a bill to repeal the "state your ground" law.
It's not about taking away gun rights, he said.
"How can we make our communities safer ... while at the same time protecting our Second Amendment rights and also protecting the ability defend ourselves within our homes and on our property," Williams said. "I think all of that can be accomplished."
Senate President Don Gaetz said he is not interested in retreating on gun laws.
"I'm an NRA member. I have been for longer than I have been in politics. I've been carrying a shotgun since I was 11 years old, shooting pheasants and ducks. My grandmother gave me my first shotgun and taught me how to shoot it," said Gaetz, a Niceville Republican.
He said the state has made significant gains in supporting gun rights in recent years and it's appropriate to take a break given the circumstances.
"The environment right now from Washington is a gun-control environment. I would understand why Marion Hammer and the NRA would want to secure and protect the Second Amendment as opposed to making any initiatives right now," Gaetz said.
Instead, Republicans want to send a message.
Rep. Neil Combee has filed what's called a House memorial that urges the president and Congress to protect gun rights. It's a way of allowing a vote and debate without actually passing a bill. Combee, R-Auburndale, said he realizes gun-control advocates are getting most of the attention right now.
"Just because you're hearing more from them doesn't mean there aren't a good number of folks that are rightly concerned about their ability to keep and bear arms," said Combee, who has 47 co-sponsors.


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Adult Tutu DIY - No Sew
This tutorial is showing how easy it is to make a no-sew adult tutu. I wish I'd have made a pink tutu for my daughter when she was young. Instead, she asked me (as a grown young adult) to make one for her and a friend for a relay they're running soon. I started and finished both pink tutus today.
Anyone can make a no-sew adult tutu. Here's how I did it:
- 2 yards of hot pink tulle and 2 yards of white tulle
- 5 yards 1" wide pink grosgrain ribbon
- sewing scissors
- tape
- straight pins
- sewing graph board
- a few basic stitches on the sewing machine or by hand if desired
I'm so tickled how these no-sew adult tutus turned out. Really a quick project. Now my only problem was how to get these in one box for priority mailing without smashing? Well, space bags of course! lol


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Adam Bedell is a 6-foot-7 (79 inches tall) forward that the Crew signed officially on Wednesday. Per MLS, he is the tallest rostered player in MLS history. "Adam is a strong, tall target forward that gives additional depth this season," said Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter.
With the addition of Adam Bedell on Wednesday, the Crew's active roster sits at 30 players. 31 players are officially under contract, but rookie Homegrown Player Matt Wiet is on the Disabled List presently and does not count as a roster spot while he recovers from an ACL surgery.
Sporting Director and Head Coach Gregg Berhalter faced Ben Olsen as a player just one time, on August 22, 2009, in a 0-0 draw between Berhalter's LA Galaxy and Olsen's D.C. United.
The last time Gregg Berhalter faced D.C. United was on July 8, 2010 when Berhalter was a starter in the 2-1 win for LA over United. At the time, Ben Olsen was an As- sistant Coach with United, and less than a month later, Olsen took the reins for D.C.
The Crew's inaugural game was April 13, 1996 in a 4-0 win for the Crew at Ohio Stadium. 560 regular-season games later -- with Saturday as career regular-season game 561 for the Black & Gold -- the Crew and United square-off to open their 19th seasons in MLS.


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Sorry about the delay in response.
I'm playing catch-up after finishing up my course of study.
Yes, living on Maui is great, but we've had so many fires on the island in the last few years. I feel like I should invest in a boat, since there's really nowhere to go should the wind blow in this direction.
Ah, so you know how things are 'round these here parts. :) I've been here for about 7 years, but really itching to just up and ruuuun, lol.
Thank you for the greeting(: I'm good, trying to figure out this site still.
Thank you for the welcome, I appreciate that. I am doing well today, just navigating my way around the site.
Thanks, doing fine. Hope you are as well!
hope i am on the right boat, but the capitain seems very nice
thanks for the welcome greetings
Thank you for the welcome Brent. I'm very happy to be among like thinkers. I grew up in the great state of Georgia and I am constantly inundated with religion from total strangers on a daily basis. I want to be with the intelligent people and this website is a breath of fresh air. Smells good.
Thank you very much for the warm welcome, I'm doing great :)
Thanks, sorry i have not been around much, work, kids, illnesses... life! :)
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Kansas had a share of its ninth Big 12 regular-season title in a row even before Ben McLemore scored a layup off the opening tip at Baylor.
That ended up being the only lead the fourth-ranked Jayhawks had, and as close as they came to claiming the outright league title on the final day of the regular season.
Pierre Jackson had 28 points with 10 assists and Cory Jefferson scored 25 points, mixing in his first three career 3-pointers with his usual powerful dunks, and Baylor handed the Jayhawks their worst loss in seven years. The 81-58 loss Saturday night kept Kansas from winning conference regular-season title outright for the fifth year in a row.
"It doesn't feel like we've won it at all. We tied Kansas State," said Jeff Withey, one of four Kansas seniors in the starting lineup with standout freshman McLemore. "It's cool to win, obviously. To win nine in a row is huge. But it just stinks to lose."
Especially like this, after winning their last seven games.
The Jayhawks (26-5, 14-4 Big 12) will still be the No. 1 seed for next week's conference tournament in Kansas City.
"Yeah, I'm happy we got a ninth, I'm never going to apologize for winning a league championship," Kansas coach Bill Self said. "It's not exactly the way we scripted it, which I think is pretty obvious. They were so much better than us. ... I'm not happy, but I'm a lot happier than I would be if it was different and we finished second."
The Jayhawks knew they already had a piece of the Big 12 title after ninth-ranked Kansas State (25-6, 14-4) lost 76-70 earlier Saturday at No. 13 Oklahoma State. But the KU loss gave the rival Wildcats a share of their first regular-season conference title since 1977 in the Big Eight.
"I'll be candid with you: I was excited and knew that we got piece," Self said. "I thought we would play better because we knew we did. Because there would be no pressure, total freedom, confidence going out and it didn't work out that way for us. We got off to a rough start."
McLemore's quick basket gave the Jayhawks no momentum.
Baylor (18-13, 9-9) scored the next six points, including a two-handed slam dunk by Jefferson, and led the rest of the game.
Jefferson had a pair of early dunks before hitting the first 3-pointer of his career for a 22-13 lead. The 6-foot-9 forward was 0 for 7 from long range before that.
"It's something I've been doing in practice, and I just figured I might as well do it in a game," Jefferson said.
Jackson, the Big 12's leading scorer, and Jefferson both made 11 of 13 field goals - Jefferson made all three of his 3-pointers. A.J. Walton added 12 points for Baylor and Isaiah Austin had 11 for Baylor.
McLemore had 23 points for Kansas, which hadn't lost this big since a 25-point loss to Texas in February 2006.
Kansas used an 11-0 run in the second half to get within 61-55 with 6:23 left after consecutive baskets by Perry Ellis, who finished with 12 points.
"When we cut it to six, I still thought we were climbing a pretty steep hill," Self said. "They were terrific and we weren't good. They were terrific and had a lot to do with us not being very good. And, of course, two players played about as well as any two players against us in a long, long time off the same team."
After the Jayhawks' spurt, Jackson stole a ball from McLemore and drove for a layup made between two defenders. After Ellis missed a shot, Jackson got the ball and made a pass ahead to Brady Heslip for an easy layup.
The Bears kept piling on after that, and because of that could still have a shot at an at-large NCAA berth with a couple of wins at the Big 12 tournament.
"We were just focused. We knew what was at stake, we know how big this game was," Jackson said. "We handled business."
Baylor had lost six of its previous seven games and was already locked in as the No. 6 seed in the Big 12 tournament. The Bears play Oklahoma State on Thursday night in Kansas City - they split their two regular-season matchups.
Kansas, which has won an NCAA-best 56 overall conference regular-season titles, plays Thursday against the West Virginia-Texas Tech winner.
Jefferson had 18 points by halftime, including a 3-pointer for the last points of the half. That came on the possession right after he took a charging foul that wiped out a basket by Elijah Johnson.
"Cory was O-for for his career and now I think we'll have to design some plays for him to get him 3-point shots," Baylor coach Scott Drew said. "Cory makes 3s in practice and works on them. ... If you don't go out and guard him, Cory is going to shoot the 3 and he was on fire."


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President Trump ordered the Defense Department on Monday to take steps toward creating a new branch of the military focused on space. "I am hereby directing the Department of Defense and Pentagon to immediately begin the process necessary to establish a space force as the sixth branch of the armed forces," Trump said during a meeting of the National Space Council.
Lawmakers and the Pentagon have been discussing the creation of a new, space-oriented organization within the military for decades. There was a U.S. Space Command back in 1985, which was folded into U.S. Strategic Command by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in 2002. In April of 2017, Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), chair of the House Armed Services strategic forces subcommittee, said that the Air Force should create a Space Corps, which could eventually stand on its own, much as the U.S. Army Air Corps was spun off as the U.S. Air Force in 1947.
President Trump mentioned the idea of a space force in March and again in May, saying he first used the name as joke but then realized it was a good idea.
Not everyone agrees on that last point. The proposal has met serious resistance from the Pentagon in the past, largely on the grounds that it would create new, unwanted layers of bureaucracy and expense. The 2018 defense policy bill ordered the Defense Department to study how space should be treated within the military. That study is ongoing, with a final report due at the end of the year.
Trump, who has asked Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford to work on the space force plan, will need help from lawmakers to see it through. Colin Clark of Breaking Defense pointed out that the president cannot unilaterally create a new branch of the military, which requires a law passed by Congress.
A tweet from Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) suggested that the president's plan may be in for a rough ride on Capitol Hill: "The president told a US general to create a new Space Force as 6th branch of military today, which generals tell me they don't want. Thankfully the president can't do it without Congress because now is NOT the time to rip the Air Force apart. Too many important missions at stake."
Retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Dave Deptula also criticized the plan, saying Monday that the space force plan was "another example of ready, fire, aim."


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QUIRKY CANINE CONTEST: One could truthfully say that the internet is one giant morass of "awww"-inducing photos. You only need to click on three or four different links before you come across some animal playing a guitar or snoozing -- this is practically fact, right? -- and then the "awww"-ing begins. But few real-world, offline events can give the internet a run for its "awww"-some abilities like the World's Ugliest Dog Contest. Covered by every known form of media from practically every part of the planet, the Sonoma-Marin Fair event has catapulted to mega fame. It isn't hard to figure out why: People love dogs, and if those dogs happen to, um, have a certain distinct look? Our hearts grow three sizes, much like the Grinch. And while most of us just see pictures of the competition, some humorous hound lovers make the jump and actually enter. You can, too: Entries remain open for the Friday, June 21 happening, which happens to be the 25th year of the canine contest.
THE DOGLY DEAL: There's an entry form to fill out, and you'll need to submit a picture, and there's some vaccination stuff to consider as well before making for Petaluma. Top prize? One thousand, five hundred dollars, plus a trophy. And worldwide acclaim and affection for your sweet pet.
PREVIOUS WINNERS: If you follow the World's Ugliest Dog, you can see patterns. Hairless dogs show well, as do pups showing a certain snaggle-o-sity in their teeth region. But beauty, or non-beauty, is in the ocular region of the person looking at the pup, so whether you consider your hound a possible front-runner is up to you. And if you don't have a dog to enter? You can vote for the pup that is the, um, most charming, to your heart, soon. That will soon kick off, so watch the Ugliest Dog HQ for details.


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Next Monday, September 1, 2008, marks my two year "blogoversary" for this blog!
I won't be blogging on Monday, of course, because that is [Labor Day] holiday here in the United States.
(From a Canadian colleague: US is not the only country who celebrates Labor Day on the first weekend in September. Canada also celebrates Labour Day on the first weekend in September. It's the only holiday(other than Christmas/New Years) where we are in sync with US. Our Thanksgiving Days are different as is your July 4 vs our July 1. But for Labour Day we are one with the Borg...)
The rest of the world celebrates Labor Day on May 1, but the USA celebrates this on the first Monday of September, which this year lands on September 1.Originally, the day is intended to be a "day off for working citizens", IBM is kind enough to let managers and marketingpersonnel have the day off also. (Not that anyone is going to notice no press releases next Monday, right?)
I started this blog on September 1, 2006 as part of IBM's big["50 Years of Disk Systems Innovation"] campaign. IBM introduced the first commercial disk system on September 13, 1956 and so the 50th anniversary was in 2006. Last year, IBM celebrated the 55th anniversary of tape systems.
Several readers have asked me why I haven't talked about recent current events, such as the Olympic Games in Beijing, or the U.S. National Conventions for the race for U.S. President. I have to remind them of one of the key precepts of IBMblogging guidelines:
8. Respect your audience. Don't use ethnic slurs, personal insults, obscenity, or engage in any conduct that would not be acceptable in IBM's workplace. You should also show proper consideration for others' privacy and for topics that may be considered objectionable or inflammatory - such as politics and religion.
I made subtle references to my senator from Arizona, John McCain, in my post [ILM for my iPod], and to Barack Obama in my post [Searching for matching information]. I don't think anyone would mind that I send a "Happy Birthday!" wish to both of them.Senator McCain turns 72 years old today, and Senator Obama turned 47 years old earlier this month.
And lastly, Tucson itself [celebrates this entire month] its 233rd birthday. That's right,Tucson, the 32nd largest city of the USA, and headquarters for IBM System Storage, is older than the USA itself.While the Tucson area has been continuously inhabited by humans for over 3500 years, it officially became Tucsonon August 20, 1775.
Fellow blogger Justin Thorp has opined that [blogging is like jogging]. Somedays, you are just too busy to do it, and other days, you make time for it, because you know it is important.For the record, it is not my job to blog for IBM, that ended last September 2007. I continue to blog anyways because I have benefited from it, both personally and professionally.I want to thank all of you readers out there for making this blog a great success! Being named one of the top 10 blogs of the IT storage industry by Network World, two back-to-back Brand Impact awards from Liquid Agency, and recently earning a "31" Technorati ranking, has really helped keep me going.
So, I look forward to next month, and beginning my third year on this blog. I am sure there will be lots of surprises and announcements you can all look forward to in the next coming weeks and months that I will have plenty to write about.
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Monday, October 1, 2012
»Nathan McClintock, Urban Studies and Planning, presented "Bridging University and Community through Urban Agriculture Education: Experiences from Portland" at the Urban Agriculture Summit in Toronto, Ontario, Aug. 17, and at the Sustainable Agriculture Ed
»Jill Rissi, Public Administration faculty, received a $225,223 contract from the Oregon Health Authority to evaluate the PEBB Health Engagement Model. She will be working with Leslie McBride, Community Health faculty, researchers from the Providence Healt
»DeLys Ostlund, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "La prueba de los ingenios: En defensa del ingenio femenino" at the Grupo de Estudios sobre la Mujer en España y las Américas, pre-1800 2012 Conference in Portland, Sept. 13-15.
»Jodi Lapidus, Mathematics & Statistics adjunct faculty and OHSU faculty, presented an invited talk, "A Variable Selection Method for Logistic Regression Models Based on the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve" at the Seminar on Applied Statistics spon
»Jon Holt, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "'Thus Have I Heard': the Auditory Hallucination Poetry of Miyazawa Kenji" at the 2012 Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs, Sept. 21.
»Vicki Reitenauer, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Seanna Kerrigan, University Studies, presented "Facilitating Critical Thinking in Cooperative Education Settings" at the 9th International Conference on Cooperative and Work-Integrated Education
»Eva Nunez and Raven Chakerian, World Languages and Literatures faculty, authored an article, "A Comparative Linguistic Study Between Sicilian and Spanish," published in International Journal of Literature and Linguistics, (2012) Vol. 25: 249-274.
»Sully Taylor, Business Administration faculty, presented a paper, "Career Management and Social Capital in MNCs," at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Aug. 3-7.
»Harry Anastasiou, International Peace and Conflict Studies faculty, was invited by the U.S. Department of State to present an up-to-date analysis of the Cyprus conflict and the effect of regional developments on the country. The event took place in Washin
»Christof Teuscher, Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, presented the paper "Memristor-Based Reservoir Computing" at the IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Nanoscale Architectures held in Amsterdam, July 4-5. The work was done by graduate student
»Talya Bauer and Berrin Erdogan, Business Administration faculty, co-authored a chapter titled "Organizational Socialization Outcomes: Now and Into the Future" published in The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Socialization, Oxford University Press.
»Donald Truxillo, Psychology faculty, presented a workshop, "Age in the Workplace: Myths, Realities, and Emerging Questions for Employers and Society," at the 19th annual Oregon Diversity Conference in Salem, Sept. 12-13.
»Jennifer Dill, Urban Studies faculty and OTREC, co-authored an article with doctoral students Arlie Adkins (lead author) and Gretchen Luhr, and Community Health faculty Margaret Neal, "Unpacking Walkability: Testing the Influence of Urban Design Features
»Emily Ford, Library faculty, authored a blog post, "What Do We Do and Why Do We Do It?" for the group, peer-reviewed blog In the Library with the Lead Pipe on Aug. 8.
»Becki Hunt Ingersoll, Advising and Career Services, and James Ofsink, Student Financial Aid and Scholarships, authored an article, "Pushed Across the Finish: One University's Success in Helping Students Complete Their Degrees Despite Obstacles," published
»Richard Lycan, Urban and Public Affairs; Mark Sytsma and Rich Miller, Center for Lakes and Reservoirs; Will Garrick and Morgan Harvey, Academic Research and Computing; and Dave Banis, Geography, co-authored an article, "Developing the On-Line Atlas of Ore
»Leerom Medovoi, English faculty, authored "Dogma Line Racism: Islamophobia and the Second Axis of Race" published in Social Text, Vol. 30, No. 2, Summer 2012.
»Laura Schott, Athletics, was recently inducted in the Jesuit High School Hall of Fame. Schott is head soccer coach at PSU. While at Jesuit, she scored 116 career goals, helping to lead the school to four state titles.
»Lee Shaker, Communication faculty, authored "Local Political Knowledge and Assessments of Citizen Competence" published in Public Opinion Quarterly.
»Marion Sharp, Education faculty; Kellie Herold, Social Work faculty; and others in Oregon's services community, received a regional award for PSU's Therapy with Adoptive and Foster Parents program, which Sharp heads. The collaborative program was the 2012
»Vivek Shandas, Urban Studies and Planning, authored a paper with graduate research assistants Meenakshi Rao and Moriah McSharry McGrath entitled "The Implications of Climate Change on Residential Water Use: A Micro-Scale Analysis of Portland (OR)" publish
»Heather Burns, Education Leadership and Policy faculty, presented "Cultivating Integrative, Engaged and Transformative Learning: Lessons from the Learning Gardens Laboratory" at the Sustainable Agriculture Education Association national conference in Corv
»Michael J. Smith, Educational Leadership and Policy faculty, authored "Cooperation, College Knowledge, and Strong Parent Communities in the L.A. Concrete Jungle: The Case for Family-Centered Outreach" published in the Metropolitan Universities Journal, Vo
»Marek Elzanowski and Serge Preston, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, organized the session Geometric Methods in Mechanics and Thermodynamics at the Algebra Geometry Mathematical Physics 8 meeting at the Technical University of Brno, Brno, Czech Republi
»Anmarie Trimble, University Studies faculty, authored "No Theory But for Practice: Born, Multimedia, and the Avant-Garde" published in the anthology The New Work of Composing, Computers and Composition Digital Press, Utah State University Press. The eBook
»Eric Mankowski, Psychology faculty, delivered a keynote address, "Better Practice in Batterer Intervention: What Does Research Tell Us?" at the annual conference of the Northwest Association of Domestic Violence Treatment Professionals, Vancouver, Wash.,
»Margaret Everett, Graduate Studies and Sociology faculty, was awarded a $23,000 grant from the Ruth Landes Memorial Research Fund for a study, Healing and Gender in Urban Oaxaca: A Medical Anthropology Study of Mexico's Pentecostal Movement. The award is
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
»The Oregonian: Oregon university students pitch ways to make money so they can help an Oregon community
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
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Friday, October 5, 2012
»Jay Gopalakrishnan, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, gave a keynote presentation, "Mixed and Nonconforming Families of Elements for Linear Elasticity," at the Sixth European Conference on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, Vienn
»David Ervin, Economics faculty, presented "Rural and Urban Ecosystem Services: Substitutes or Complements?" at the Ecosystem Services Partnership Conference held in Portland, July 31.
»Kevin Kecskes, Hatfield School of Government faculty, gave a peer-reviewed presentation titled "The Engaged Department: Research, Theory and Transformation of the Academic Unit" at the International Association for Research on Civic Engagement and Service
»Wim Laven, Conflict Resolution, presented "Militarism vs. the World: Is the Military Bound to the Environment and Future Generations?" at the Peace and Justice Studies Association Conference at Tufts University, Boston, Oct. 6.
»Charla Mathwick, Business Administration faculty, participated in a Social Media Summit in Munich, Germany, Sept. 19-21. The summit was co-sponsored by the University of Munster, Roland Berger Strategy Consultants of Germany, and the Journal of Interactiv
»Nathan McClintock, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, presented "Tales from Two Cities: Urban Agriculture Research in Portland, Oregon and Oakland, California" at the Université du Québec à Montréal on Aug. 20.
»Eva Nunez, World Languages and Literatures faculty, was invited to teach two classes in the Graduate Summer Program of Middlebury College in Buenos Aires, session 2012.
»Mary Ann Barham and Vicki Wise, Enrollment Management and Student Affairs, authored "Assessment Matters - Moving Beyond Surveys" published in About Campus, May-June 2012, Vol. 17, No. 2, pp. 26-29.
»Will Parnell, Education faculty, co-authored a book chapter, "iDocument: How are Smartphones and Tablets Changing Documentation in Preschool and Primary Classrooms?" published in Spotlight on Young Children and Technology, June 2012.
»Heejun Chang, Geography faculty, and graduate assistant Betsy Breyer authored a paper titled "Land-use, Temperature and Single Family Residential Water Use Patterns in Portland, Oregon and Phoenix, Arizona" published in Applied Geography, Vol. 35, pp. 142
»Dilafruz Williams, Education faculty, was awarded a grant by the Spencer Foundation for her 2012-2013 research project "Garden-Based Learning in Green Ribbon Schools: Case Studies of Exemplary Schools." This is her second Spencer grant in two years.
»Risa Proehl, Population Research Center, was recently elected to the steering committee of the Federal-State Cooperative for Population Estimates. She represents Oregon in the co-op, an organization of state members and Census Bureau staff who work togeth
»John Hall, Economics and International Studies faculty, coauthored the article "Veblen's Predator and the Great Crisis" published in the Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. XLVI, No. 2, 2012, pp. 411-418.
»Kathy Rupley, Darrell Brown, and Scott Marshall, Business Administration faculty, had a paper titled "Evolution of Corporate Reporting: From Stand-Alone CSR Reporting to Integrated Reporting" awarded Best Paper at the California State Fullerton's Academic
»Sean Kohles, Mechanical and Materials Engineering and Biology faculty, co-authored "Serious Head and Neck Injury as a Predictor of Occupant Position in Fatal Rollover Crashes" published in Forensic Science International, Vol. 222, No. 1-3, October 2012.
»Lauren Simon, Business Administration faculty, had a paper titled "From Negative Act to Negative Relationship: Understanding How Patterns of Abusive Supervision Emerge and Develop Over Time" win Overall Best Paper from the Southern Management Association.
»Tracy J. Prince, Portland Center for Public Humanities, authored Culture Wars in British Literature: Multiculturalism and National Identity, McFarland publishing, September 2012. This is Prince's second published book.
»J.J.P. Veerman, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, gave an invited lecture on Asymptotic Reliability Theory at the Universidad Carlos 3 of Madrid, Spain, in June.
»Joan Strouse, Educational Leadership and Policy emerita faculty, will serve as a faculty member on the spring 2013 voyage of Semester at Sea, a 100-day study abroad program sponsored by the University of Virginia.
»Lihong Qian, Business Administration faculty, authored an article titled "Configuration of Value Chain Activities: The Effect of Pre-Entry Capabilities, Transaction Hazards, and Industry Evolution on Decisions to Internalize" published in the September/Oc
»Eva Thanheiser, Mathematics and Statistic faculty, co-authored "From Dissertation to Publication in JRME" published in the Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2012.
»Piman Limpaphayom, Business Administration faculty, authored an article titled "Form Versus Substance: The Effect of Ownership Structure and Corporate Governance on Firm Value in Thailand" published in the June 2012 issue of Journal of Banking and Finance
»Talya Bauer, Business Administration faculty, gave a keynote speech, "Socialization and Onboarding: Four Decades of Research," at the third biennial Institute of Work Psychology International Conference, Sheffield, U.K., June 28.
»Angela Strecker, Environmental Science and Management faculty, along with co-investigators Mark Sytsma, Val Brenneis, and Ian Davidson received a $210,000 grant from the Oregon State Marine Board to study management of aquatic invasive species.
»Alan Cabelly, Business Administration faculty, gave a talk titled "Generational Differences in the Workplace: Let's Work Together" at the 2012 NW Higher Education Internal Audit Conference.
»Christof Teuscher, Engineering and Computer Science faculty, received a Semiconductor Research Corporation Cross-Disciplinary Semiconductor Research grant for a proposal entitled "3D FPGA Cell Matrix by Self-Assembly." Nick Macias and David Gracias are co
»The Oregonian: New 978-bed apartment building for Portland State students signals neighborhood shift
Monday, October 8, 2012
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
»The Oregonian: Multnomah County Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders lag behind their counterparts locally and nationally
Wednesday, October 10, 2012
»Portland Advertising Industry Emergency Fund helps establish first ever advertising student scholarship
»The Oregonian: New 978-bed apartment building for Portland State students signals neighborhood shift
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Friday, October 12, 2012
Monday, October 15, 2012
»Gerry Sussman, Urban Studies and Planning and International Studies faculty, has been appointed to the editorial board of the Sweden-based journal, Cognition, Communication, and Co-Operation.
»Tom Fisher, English faculty, authored "Acting Disaster" published in Celebrity Studies, Vol. 3, Issue 3.
»Jon Holt, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a paper titled "Clanging Bells, Clanging Words: Iwate Dialect in Miyazawa Kenji's 'Changa-Chaga Umako' Tanka Poems" at the 21st annual meeting of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies at
»Meredith Farkas, Library faculty, presented an invited keynote, "Sustainable Transformation: Creating Lasting Change in Libraries," at the Library and Information Association of New Zealand Aotearoa Conference in Palmerston North, New Zealand, Sept. 24.
»Amy Hofer, Library faculty, co-authored "Troublesome Concepts and Information Literacy: Investigating Threshold Concepts for IL Instruction" in portal: Libraries and the Academy, Vol. 12, No. 4 (2012), pp. 387–405.
»Donald G. Frank, Library emeritus faculty, presented "Political & Economic Realities Associated with Major League Baseball in Portland, Oregon: The Soft Underbelly of Major League Baseball Exposed" at the Annual Conference of the Society of American Baseb
»Nathan McClintock, Urban Studies and Planning faculty, co-authored an article, "Toward a Food Policy 'First Step' in Oakland, California: A Food Policy Council's Efforts to Promote Urban Agriculture Zoning," published in the Journal of Agriculture, Food S
»Jay Gopalakrishnan, Mathematical and Statistics faculty, gave an invited lecture, "Best Test Spaces in Petrov-Galerkin Methods and DPG Methods," at the International Conference on Computational Mathematics, Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, during July.
»Eva Thanheiser, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, co-authored "Justification as a Teaching and Learning Practice: Its (potential) Multifaceted Role in Middle Grades Mathematics Classrooms" published the Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2012. PSU gradua
»Meiru Liu, International Management and Confucius Institute faculty, presented "Case Study and Analysis of Three Chinese Language Teacher Training Models: The U.S. Federal Government's 'StarTalk,' Hanban's '5P,' and CIPSU's Task-Based Training" at the 11t
»Tom H. Hastings, Conflict Resolution faculty, presented "Climate Chaos and Conflict Management" at the Peace and Justice Studies Association conference, Tufts University, Oct. 5.
»Liane O'Banion, Shoshana Zeisman, and Courtney Sandler, Student Affairs, presented at the International First-Year Experience Conference in Vancouver, B.C., July 19.
»Jason Jurjevich, Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies and the Population Research Center, and Meg Merrick, Community Geography Project, participated in the National Science Foundation-sponsored Measuring People in Place Workshop that brought togethe
»Igor Lacan, University Honors Program faculty, presented "Urban Forest Governance in California (USA) cities: Legal, Fiscal and Political Aspects of the Private-Public Interaction in Managing Urban Trees" at the International Union of Forest Research Orga
»Eva Nunez, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented an invited lecture, "The Most Asked Questions about the History of Spanish," at Reed College in Portland on Sept. 27, Lewis & Clark College on Sept. 28, and at University of Portland on Oct. 2.
»David Percy, Geology faculty, presented a plenary session about Open Source GIS at the Field Technology Conference in Portland, Sept. 26.
»Christof Teuscher, Engineering and Computer Science faculty, gave an invited plenary talk and led a plenary discussion session at the Frontiers in Natural Computing workshop in York, U.K., Sept. 10-12. The workshop aimed to highlight and discuss emerging
»J.J.P. Veerman, Mathematics and Statistics faculty, gave an invited lecture on a mathematical model for evolution and speciation at the International Workshop for Complexity at the Institute for Math and its Applications in Minneapolis during August.
»Heejun Chang, Geography faculty, and Il-Won Jung, former post-doctoral fellow in Geography, authored a paper titled "Climate Change Impacts on Spatial Patterns in Drought Risk in the Willamette River Basin, Oregon, USA" published in Theoretical and Applie
»Paul Collins, English faculty, authored "Lost and Found" published in the Fall 2012 issue of Tin House.
»Jennifer Allen, Institute for Sustainable Solutions and Public Administration faculty, gave a presentation on the institute to the U.S. Academic Energy, Sustainability, and Environmental Centers at Northwestern University.
»Charles Deemer, English adjunct faculty, authored an opera libretto, Varmints: A Tragi-Comedy of the Old West (A Libretto in Search of Music), published by Round Bend Press. The libretto is based on Deemer's stage play of the same name, which received a g
»Jill Emery, Library faculty, authored "Are Libraries Thriving? An Oxford Debate" published in Proceedings of the Charleston Library Conference.
»Sharon Carstens, Anthropology faculty, gave a keynote address, "New Questions, New Directions in Malaysian Chinese Studies," at the First Biennial Conference on Malaysian Chinese Studies in Kuala Lumpur, June 10. Carstens presented the paper again at Mala
»Talya Bauer, Business Administration faculty, was recognized as a scholar with impact in an article titled "Scholarly Impact Revisited" published in Academy of Management Perspectives. Bauer was featured as one of the top influential scholars of the past
»Craig Epplin, World Languages and Literatures faculty, authored an article, "Sacrifice and Recognition in Carlos Reygadas's Japón," published in the journal Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, Vol. 28, No. 2.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
»Ben Anderson-Nathe, Child and Family Studies faculty, presented "'Just Hold On:' Queer Youth, Risk, and Resilience in the 'It Gets Better' Project" at the Triennial International Child & Youth Care Conference in Canmore, A.B., Canada.
»Talya Bauer, Business Administration faculty, was a facilitator in the session "OB Research Incubator" at the annual meeting of the Academy of Management, Boston, Aug. 3-7. She also had three papers presented: "Deeds that Help and Words That Hurt: Helping
»Sherril Gelmon, Public Administration faculty, presented a preconference workshop and a conference symposium on "Rethinking Peer Review" at the annual research conference of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Enga
»Nobuko Murakami-Chalfen, Business Administration instructor, received the 2012 Ray Verzasconi Pacific Northwest Postsecondary Teacher of the Year Award from Pacific Northwest Council For Languages at Oregon and Washington foreign language teachers
»Sean Kohles, Mechanical and Material Engineering and Biology faculty, and biology graduate student, Shelley Mason, presented "The Influence of Vitamin D on Osteogenic Precursor Cell Biokinetics for Bone Tissue Engineering" at the Oregon Health & Science U
»Branimir Pejcinovic, Mark Faust and Andrew Greenberg, Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty, presented "Redesign of Senior Capstone Program in Electrical and Computer Engineering and its Assessment" at the Frontiers in Education conference, Seattle,
»Jill Mosteller, Business Administration faculty, presented "Transformational Solutions of Self through Companion Animals" at the Association of Consumer Research North American Conference, Vancouver, B.C., Oct 4-7.
»Jill Emery, Library faculty, has created a wiki on the web titled TERM: Techniques for Electronic Resources Management. Emery is working with Graham Stone from University of Huddersfield in the United Kingdom. Their wiki focuses on best practices for mana
»Tom Fisher, English faculty, authored "The Audible and the Inaudible: Bob Kaufman and the Politics of Silence" in Babilónia n. 10/11 (2011).
»Dilafruz Williams, Education faculty, participated in a symposium, "What's the Learning in Learning Gardens?: Direct and Indirect Outcomes," and a roundtable, "Gardens for Training Teachers," at the North American Association of Environmental Education An
»Jason R. Jurjevich, Urban Studies and Planning and Population Research Center, co-authored a paper, "Voters on the Move: The Political Effectiveness of Migration and Its Effects on State Partisan Composition," published in Political Geography. His co-auth
»Leerom Medovoi, English faculty, authored "The Race War Within: Biopolitics of the Long Cold War" published in American Literature and Culture in the Age of Cold War: A Critical Reassessment, Steven Belletto and Daniel Grausam editors, University of Iowa
»Dan Meeker, Theatre and Film faculty, designed the scenery and lighting for Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, playing at Portland Playhouse in October and November.
»Joan Petit, Library faculty, authored "Free Is the Best Price: Building Your Collection of Primary Sources with Free, Online, Digital Collections" published in Something's Gotta Give: Charleston Conference Proceedings, 2011.
»Sharon Carstens, Anthropology faculty, presented her forthcoming book Language through Culture, Culture through Language: A Framework for K-8 Mandarin Curriculum at the 2012 Hanban American Local Professional Training for Chinese Language Teaching and Tea
»Eva Thanheiser, Mathematics and Statistic faculty, authored "Understanding Multidigit Whole Numbers: The Role of Knowledge Pieces, Connections, and Context in Understanding Regrouping 3+ Digit Numbers" published in the Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 20
»Jay Gopalakrishnan, Mathematical and Statistics faculty, received a $161,186 grant for 2012-13 from the National Science Foundation as principle investigator for the study Novel Mixed and DG Methods.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
»The Oregonian: Portland downtown plan update begins with nationally renowned blueprint of 1972 as the guide
»The Oregonian: PSU Library, Black Studies Department host reception honoring Northeast Portland family's donation
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
»Introducing urbanLAB::PDX, a collective seeking to challenge the potential of the urban environment
Thursday, October 25, 2012
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Monday, October 29, 2012
»Janet Walker, Social Work and Regional Research Institute faculty, presented an invited plenary entitled "A Positive Development Approach to Serving Emerging Adults with Serious Mental Health Conditions" at the International Focus on Youth in Transition:
»Talya Bauer, Business Administration faculty, authored an article titled "Organizational Socialization Tactics: Determining the Relative Impact of Context, Content, and Social Tactics" published in the October issue of Revue de Gestion des Ressources Huma
»David Ervin, Economics faculty, co-authored "Motivations and Barriers to Corporate Environmental Management" published in Business Strategy and the Environment.
»Suwako Watanabe, World Languages and Literatures faculty, was an invited panelist and gave a presentation titled "Japanese/Chinese Community-Based Learning Course at Portland State University" for the Berkeley Language Center Lecture Series at University
»Eric Franklin, Fine and Performing Arts, had his work selected and included in an exhibition of contemporary glass art at the Museum at Mesa Arts Center in Arizona, Sept. 14 – Jan. 6. The exhibit titled Fire and Sand, Contemporary American Glass celebrate
»Jay Gopalakrishnan, Mathematical and Statistics faculty, co-authored "Instability in a Generalized Keller-Segel Model" published in the Journal of Biological Dynamics, Vol. 6, 2012, pp. 974–991.
»Nobuko Murakami-Chalfen, Master of International Management Program instructor, received the 2012 Ray Verzasconi Pacific Northwest Postsecondary Teacher of the Year Award from Pacific Northwest Council For Languages at Oregon and Washington foreign langua
»Leerom Medovoi, English faculty, co-hosted a symposium on the University of California Berkeley campus, Oct. 18-19. Medovoi worked closely with a faculty member in the UC Ethnic Studies department. The symposium gathered a group of distinguished national
»Heather Burns, Sybil Kelley and Dilafruz Williams, Educational Leadership and Policy faculty, presented "Nurturing Sustainability Leaders: Pedagogical Practices and Guiding Stories at the national Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Highe
»Annabelle Dolidon, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented "To Discipline and Punish in French Science Fiction: An Anticipatory Return to the Body" at the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association conference in Seattle, Oct. 19-21. She al
»John Hall, Economics and International Studies faculty, organized the four paper panel "Theoretical Philosophy and Evolutionary Thinking" and co-presented the co-authored paper "Subreption and Institutional Inquiry" at the 24th annual meeting of the Europ
»Jean Henscheld, Education faculty, is editor of About Campus, which received a 2012 APEX Award for Publishing Excellence. About Campus is published by Wiley and ACPA-College Student Educators International. It provides articles on issues faced by both stu
»Kevin Kecskes, Public Administration faculty, co-presented a keynote address, "Fits and Starts: Visions for the Community Engaged University," at the annual National Engaged Scholarship Conference, University of Alabama, Oct 3.
»Jennifer Allen, Institute for Sustainable Solutions; Darrell Brown, Business Administration; Danielle Grondin; Leslie McBride, Community Health; and Jacob Sherman presented PSU's efforts to create an authentic undergraduate experience in sustainability at
»Wim Laven, Conflict Resolution, presented "Forgiveness: A Tool for Peace, Justice, and Human Rights, at Concerned Philosophers for Peace Theme: "Struggles for Recognition: Individuals, Peoples, and States" 2012 Conference, Oct. 27, 2012 Mercer University,
»Eric Mankowski, Psychology faculty, served on two panel discussions, "Questions and Challenges in Doing Male Gender-Based Action Research in Communities" and "Beyond the Individual: Perspectives in Community Psychology," at the 7th annual Northwest Commun
»Julie Smith, Scott Gallagher, Christian Aniciete, and Chelsea Kastelnik, University Communications, presented "Building Your Brand's Reputation Through Outreach and Engagement" at the National Council for Marketing and Public Relations District 7 Fall Con
»Eva Thanheiser, Mathematics and Statistic faculty, presented "Using Interviews With Preservice Teachers as a Tool to Motivate Them to Learn Mathematics" at Teacher of Teachers of Mathematics, Ashland, in September.
»Jon Holt, World Languages and Literatures faculty, presented a paper, "Lost in Seattle: What Does Nagai Kafu's Encounter with the American Northwest Tell Us about Japanese Travel and Immigration Accounts of the Early 1900s?" at the 2012 meeting of the Pac
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Godsmack's Sully Erna Talks Covering Metallica, Calls Lzzy Hale a 'Super Rock Star'
Godsmack frontman Sully Erna recently sat down with a radio station to talk about everything from the Mass Chaos tour with Staind and Halestorm to how the band decided on the four covers selected for their new disc 'Live & Inspired.'
On the recently wrapped Mass Chaos tour, Erna had nothing but positive things to say about his tour mates. "What an awesome tour it's been, all the bands got along great. [Halestorm's] Lzzy [Hale] is a super rock star, love her to death man, I'm a new fan of hers now," said Erna to radio station WMMR. "The guys in Staind are our Massachusetts brothers, we haven't seen them or toured with them in 10 years so it was really great to get back together again." Making up for lost time, Godsmack will join Staind again in mid-August when the 2012 Uproar Festival kicks off.
Erna said the idea for the cover songs started way back when the band was recording their last disc. "It started when we were recording 'The Oracle' and we had that version of 'Come Together' we were messing around with and we really liked it a lot. Then we just shelved it because we had nowhere to put it," explained Erna. "Then when we had the opportunity to do this live record, and it all became about the fans and giving back to the fans and including them in this album. We actually let the fans pick the songs, everything from A-Z, this was all built and inspired by the fans."
Of the four cover songs included, Erna said the Metallica tribute was probably the most difficult, "'Nothing Else Matters' was probably the trickiest one for me because I decided you can't dwarf Metallica right? So there's no sense trying to do it bigger and heavier." Instead, Godsmack took a different approach. Sully explained, "What we did, I was sitting at the piano and noodling around, I just realized, when I started playing the chords it was really an emotional piece of music. He wrote a beautiful – I don't know if it's him or Kirk [Hammett] that wrote it, I'm assuming it's James Hetfield - but the music is so well built and so well thought out that when you play it on the piano it just has a strong emotion to it so we went the other route and just decided to do a more orchestrated version."
In addition to 'Nothing Else Matters,' the disc also features the Joe Walsh classic 'Rocky Mountain Way.' Check out Godsmack's video for the latter song here.


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Your feeder is very cool and I'll bet it would have worked if it had been inside the follower and next to the bees.
Hey Showme,Do you have any pics? Are you still keeping it on the empty side of the follower board?I started my TTBHs with Langstroh frame style feeders from Walter Kelley. I did put it on the hive side of the follower board. The bees took the syrup well, but they decided the newly empty space and wire mesh (for climbing out) are a great place to build comb. With the amount they built on it in just 2 days between install and releasing the queen, I'll have alot of burr comb to clean out of it by the end of this week.I need another solution.


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Trees are often viewed as individuals that compete with one another for access to limited resources. But could trees in stressed environments actually benefit from positive, facultative interactions? The authors of a new paper suggest that might be the case for certain tree species--and that it may take the form of root grafting.
Natural root grafting between individuals has been observed in over 150 species of plants around the world. However, while much is known about benefits of merging stem tissues (primarily from horticultural practices), little is known about why plants may merge, or graft, their root tissues with one another.
Emilie Tarroux and Annie DesRochers, from the Université du Québec in Abitibi-Témiscamingue, Canada, were interested in determining if root grafting conferred any advantages to individual jack pine (Pinus banksiana) trees. Although the joining of tree root systems can confer advantages such as increased wind stability and sharing of resources e.g., water, photosynthates, or nutrients, Tarroux and DesRochers are the first to show how root grafting affects the growth of trees. They published their findings in the June issue of the American Journal of Botany (http://www.amjbot.org/content/98/6/967.full).
"Trees, even seed-regenerated ones like jack pine, are not independent individuals," DesRochers commented, "and may directly affect growth of their neighbors by forming root grafts."
After felling select jack pine trees in three natural stands and three plantations, Tarroux and DesRochers hydraulically excavated their root systems using a high-pressure water spray to determine if the trees had root grafts. They then aged the trees, roots, and grafts by counting and cross-dating their respective growth rings.
Interestingly, the authors found that radial growth patterns differed between jack pine trees growing naturally versus those grown in plantations. In the natural stands, there were more root grafts per individual tree than in the plantations, and growth of these trees slowed down when they were forming root grafts with other trees, but then resumed or gradually increased their rate of growth once the root graft was established. In contrast, root grafting in the evenly spaced plantations seemed to have less of an effect on growth rates.
The authors also discovered that trees which would later form root grafts tended to have better growth rates compared with trees that did not form root grafts, even prior to graft formation. Individuals may need to become large enough in order to have enough energy to complete a root graft, or so their root systems are able to come into contact with those of other trees. Conversely, smaller, weaker trees may lack energy to form root grafts, or they may not have very extensive root systems.
So what are some of the advantages of joining root systems with another tree?
"Root grafting could give an evolutionary advantage to the species," said DesRochers. "For example, it could allow well-located trees to support trees that grow in drier or poorer environments. This has been known for herbaceous species that propagate vegetatively, but has rarely been addressed in trees."
Indeed, if the larger trees facilitated acquisition of resources among conspecifics in the stand, they could maintain stand integrity; supplying carbohydrates to suppressed trees could deter tree death that would create gaps in the stand which would then allow other species to invade. Such root grafting behavior could be viewed as the formation of a communal root system, enhancing conspecific growth within the stand. This challenges the typical competition outlook, and could be interpreted as an intraspecific cooperative behavior that maintains stand integrity.
"Interestingly, we also found a couple of root grafts between jack pine and black spruce during the excavation of the sites," noted DesRochers. "Mentions of interspecific grafts are absent from the literature and makes us question the evolutionary significance of these grafts. Unfortunately, we haven't found any more since--and we have searched!."
"The next step in our research is to study the ecological significance of these root grafts," concludes DesRochers. "Among other things, we'd like to see how much, how far, and what substances (photosynthates, water, hormones, etc.) are shared between interconnected trees."
Tarroux, Emilie, and Annie DesRochers. (2011). Effect of natural root grafting on growth response of jack pine (Pinus banksiana; Pinaceae). American Journal of Botany 98(6): 967-974. DOI: 10.3732/ajb.1000261
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text: For millions of Americans the Second Amendment and its guarantee of the right of the individual to bear arms appears irrelevant and practically anachronistic. It seems a throwback to those earlier days of the Wild West, when many men, far from the law and order provided by the town sheriff and circuit judge, had to protect their families and land from cattle rustlers and outlaw bands. Such people are wrong.


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Why are the good ones always hitched? Sadly, Lorenzo Martone isn't ours for keeps, but we did get him to share his fave moments from fall '10 New York Fashion Week. The Brazilian ad exec seemed to be everywhere, hanging with the Ruffian boys, sitting front row at Yigal Azrouel, and mingling backstage at Fashion For Relief. There's no pictures of husband Marc Jacobs, but that's okay. We don't want to share him anyways.
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There is an old story told about Augustine, the early church father, and a little boy on a beach. At the time, Augustine was writing his book on the Trinity and was walking along the seashore, deep in thought. Augustine noticed the little boy pouring seawater into a hole that had been dug in the sand.
The little boy would go down to the surf, scoop up handfuls of the salty water, and quickly carry it back to the hole and dump it in. The boy did this repeatedly. Augustine finally asked the little boy what he was doing. The boy answered, �I am pouring the sea into this hole I have dug.�
Augustine smiled, and then said to the boy, �Young man, you are wasting your time. You will never get all that water into that one little hole. It cannot be done.� To which the boy responded, �Well then you are wasting your time writing about God. You will never get all of him into that one little book.�
That little boy was right. God is bigger than our books, our doctrines, our belief statements, and our theories about him � far bigger. I now resist even using the words �theory� or �explanation� when speaking of God, because these imply that we can figure it all out, when we can�t.
We get fooled into thinking that the totality of the holy, the Incarnation of God in the flesh, the essence of the Creator, can get crammed into one book, one series of sermons, one doctrinal system, or one denomination. How can that be possible when the entire universe cannot contain God?
The best we can do is use the tools at our disposal: Words, metaphors, stories, and pictures. We use these to describe our relationship with the Almighty and with his world. And even then, we are attempting to express the inexpressible. In some ways, every time we open our mouths to describe God, we commit heresy; because whatever we say will be wrong.
Like the proverbial blind men describing an elephant, we articulate our own understanding best we can, of what we cannot and have not clearly seen. But these understandings, these blind explorations, can quickly become unyielding dogma. We get locked into one perspective, discounting the views of others. Then we become more committed to our dogma than we are to our relationship with God.
C. S. Lewis explained it like this: Suppose a man looks out at the Atlantic Ocean. Then he goes and looks at a map of the Atlantic Ocean. When he does that, he has turned from something real to something less real. He has turned from actual waves and salty air to �a bit of colored paper.�
Now, the map is important, because it is based on what hundreds and thousands of people have found out by sailing the real Atlantic.
And, if you want to go anywhere, the map is necessary, but it�s not the real thing. Lewis concludes that our beliefs are just like that map; important, yes, but a weak representation of the genuine.
What we believe about God is not God. These are bits of colored paper pointing to what is real and actual. Yet, our tendency is to fall in love with the map, when God wants us to love him. We are skilled at knowing the ins-and-outs of all our religious charts, but God wants us to know him. After all, we cannot have a relationship with a map. We cannot commune with a theological concept. We cannot experience creed or dogma. But we can relate to, commune with, and experience God, a God that is an ever-unfolding mystery of wonder and grace, larger than the universe.
So let�s not sit on the beach, reading the map, concluding that words and paper are all that faith is about. Instead, let�s hit the water, and with the wind in our face, we can begin to learn that merely thinking or learning about God is a poor substitute for actually experiencing him.
Ronnie McBrayer is a syndicated columnist, speaker, and author of multiple books. You can read more and receive regular e-columns in your inbox at www.ronniemcbrayer.me.


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STOCKTON - For Jenna, the words and images hit home.
STOCKTON - For Jenna, the words and images hit home.
And she couldn't stay silent.
"There are a lot of girls on Wilson Way doing that. I am so sorry. I want to save them. It's sad."
The 14-year-old Jenna was the first to speak up Tuesday following a presentation of "The Making of a Girl," an intimate, 2011 video journey of a hypothetical preteen girl as she faces a life of sexual exploitation.
Jenna spoke of a smooth-talking sex trafficker who would lure Stockton children into a life on the street.
Her voice brought reality and poignancy to University of the Pacific's Human Trafficking Symposium, an event that drew nearly 200 people to the DeRosa University Center.
"There was sex, drugs and money," Jenna said later. "I was a runaway in Stockton with nowhere to live - except with friends and on the street.
"There were bad influences. A guy I knew was the Romeo type, and I was getting sucked into it. I was getting money fast."
Jenna was 12.
She and her mother, 52-year-old Regina Markarian, came to the symposium to learn.
Mandy Johnson, a human-trafficking analyst with the state of California, gave them plenty to think about.
She spoke for two hours about definitions, perpetrators, types of trafficking and efforts to end what is being called "modern-day slavery."
Johnson broke down the three types of sex traffickers:
The Romeo: This person is "lovey-dovey." He woos his victims and promises protection. He tells them he's their boyfriend.
The intimidator: This person is abusive and threatening, and likely to rape his victims. He tells them that he owns them. He is a "gorilla."
The CEO pimp: He is an entrepreneur and has business cards. He promises modeling gigs and money. He often has his victims sign a contract.
Both the Romeo and the CEO are likely to turn into an intimidator, or gorilla, over time.
Johnson said human trafficking takes many forms and involves both men and women:
� Involuntary servitude
� Debt bondage
� Domestic servitude
� Slavery
� Sex trafficking
"It is all slavery," she said, adding that sex trafficking involving women is by far the largest category. "We have not moved all that far from where we were 200 to 300 years ago."
Tuesday's symposium is part of a yearlong effort by Pacific to shine a light on the issue.
"It is such an important topic right now," said Steve Jacobson, the university's associate vice president of student life. "It is important to be educated on the topic. We are so pleased with the turnout and excited that people want to learn more about this issue."
Jacobson is chairman of the national Enough is Enough campaign, which is devoted to "promoting peace and reducing violence."
According to the latest estimates, 27 million people worldwide are trafficking victims. According to the U.S. Department of State, there are 18,000 to 20,000 victims nationwide.
Johnson, whose PowerPoint presentation was filled with acronyms and a database of information, brought her message home to San Joaquin County.
"It is here. Don't be deceived," she said. "The awful reality is that there are brothels here in Stockton and that women are being trafficked to farm workers."
Jenna attended Christa McAuliffe Middle School before running away from home three years ago.
"It hurts to see those girls hurt themselves," she said. "I want to help. God only gave us one body and one brain. We need to use it wisely."
Jenna escaped before she became another victim.
"I saw my friends getting pregnant and suffering from STDs," she said. "I didn't want that for my life."
After almost two years on her own, she left the street, returned home, and her mother enrolled her at Re-Creation Retreat, a residential treatment center in Fedonia, Ariz., for troubled girls. Jenna hopes to move back to Stockton this summer.
Jenna, taking high school classes online, is only 14 but sounds all grown up.
"I've been sober for two years," she said. "I want to go to college. I am planning to be a probation officer."
Mother and daughter are both thankful for Jenna's turnaround.
"She would be dead without this program in Arizona," Markarian said.
"Yeah, I'd be dead," Jenna agreed.
Contact reporter Kevin Parrish at (209) 546-8264 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter @KLPRecord.


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