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text: Brothers Present: cDS, TNT, ATR, ARW, WJB, RSB, JDB, NS1, NS2, TJN, NCS, NTA, CMM, MWB, AEB, DMS, JMB, HTNOthers: Mr. Guy, SAMPresident: The basement will not be available on the 15th 5pm, for ASK business and the kitchen will be unavailable sometime earlierVP:Retreat will be in Wichita mountain area, time and place exactly are not detailed, ideas welcomeSecretary: Forms will be handed out and I expect them back next week. Also minutesTreasurer: Budget is handed out, gungho is for random discretionary projectsRush: 3BQ is Friday, need help for flyering, tomorrow at 7pm ish; also want to chalk and buy things. We also need to do the same things for Game nights. Since it overlaps with chapter dinner, we'll do a late dinner. Thursday flyering for gamenight and maybe also chalking after dinner. Remember to cold call for everyone too.House Manager: Things are clean, try to keep things clean. I'll pass onto JeffWJB: We'll be getting the boarders to start help keeping their floors clean so that workdays can be used for bigger projects.Steward:Yea, foodSteward's Helper: Buffalo Chicken Cheesesteak, and fries. Also about the increase in price for meal plan will be put into having an entree and 2 sides, drinks, and a dessert at least for Tuesdays.Scholorship: Study, go to class, talk with your teachers. Also, be sure to apply for the Bagwell ScholorshipHouse Director: I sent out the email about parking, make sure you follow that, from 7-5. The turnaround is for boarders *only*.Old BUsinessIncreasing the meal plan price from $5 to $7WJB: Remember that all this will be going into your foodATR: More food, better food, better leftoversJMB: How about only an increase to $6The motion to increase the meal plan amount from $5 to $7 is passedMotion to increase the meal plan from 1 day to 2 days a week.WJB: Tuesday would be the more comfort food, invite your friends. Thursdays would be more health-concious food.NTA: for the thursday dinner, if it went into effect, would it be complusory or opt-in?CDS: Personally I think it should be an opt-in.WJB: If it's opt-in, would people who didn't opt-in be fine with helping to clean up?CDS: The way I'll do things is have people vote for thursday meal, and then if it passes, vote whether it's opt-in.8 for, 0 against for thursday meal9 for, 2 against opt-in thursday mealThe chapter buying a bowflex for $300.TNT:You have to pay fees for the Huffman center as part of tution. I personally fee that therefore is not worth it to get a bowflex.CDS: Alex, where would the money come from if we decided to buy it?ARW: It would be unbudgeted, and Bagwell is fine with it.WJB: I think I would more be in favor of a proper set of free weight.RSB: You should check craigslist for bowflex, because they're not $350, more like $150TNT: Also before we talk about equipping the weight room, we should probably clean the weight room.JDB: One thing most people haven't talked about is maintentance, if a dumbbell breaks, it's easy to fix, if the machine breaks it's fine.Old business closedNew BusinessBudgetsWJB: One thing that needs to be changed is that the composite expenditure needs to be moved to the spring since we voted on that last semester.JMB: Also for IFC dues, it's $220, not $230, because there are only 13 old actives, not 14.Discussion Tabled until next weekTNT: I would like to formally relinquish my title as Athletics chairCDS: I would lile to formally appoint Nathan Ashley as Athletics chairAnnouncementsRSB:If you're registered to vote in Norman, go vote for expanded Lindsey in TuesWJB:I should be in Burma right nowAEB:Stuff right nowJDB:The event I have been mentioning is probably gonna be on the 8th.NS1:Life's goodCMM:Software engineering isn't as bad as I expectedMWB:GIve me your pencils and money and stuffHTN:Antenna's is awesomeCDS:Concert, wooATR:Can we get this over with, my ball hurtsTNT:Epic conquest of Red Lobsters endless shrimp for 14.99TJN:Second what Clint saidARW:Hw has startedJMB:How am I two weeks behind, school started one week ago.DMS:I hate math teacherNS2:I still need to get booksNTA:Good work this week on excercisingNCS:Stil need to get my CS bookMr. Guy:Puppy Puppies, get PuppiesSAM:I want to throw a house rave, is anyone opposed to this? Maybe in a month from now or so. I'll bring things to new business next week.Quote of the week: "We're streaking today!" - MollyBrother of the week: ATR for taking it like a champ


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Thanks again for the compliments about my recently completed Madder Ribbed socks. I appreciated them and enjoyed these socks very much (even though I had to rip them out and restart)… the patterning is simple yet entertaining and attractive.
I'm not getting notified of new comments, like I want/should be… I tried to fix it, but so far no luck. Plus, I never know if I should reply to comments with another comment. I've seen lots of people do that… I try to respond in a more direct way, either through email or on the person's blog. Sometimes a comment escapes my notice for a few days, though. : (
The leftover orange Prisma kid-size socks are finished! The picture isn't so great, but the socks are. Mom's going to take them to work for a co-worker.
What's that underneath the socks? Well, it's the back of the Cropped Cardigan! More than 7 inches (or 1/3 of the back total) completed. Amazing how quickly worsted weight knits up when you are used to fingering.
This cardi has very little shaping at all… I don't see any armsyce or underarm gusset at all either. I probably won't show another progress picture until the back is finished. I plan to try short-row shaping in the shoulders so I can do a smooth three-needle bind off. Fingers crossed!
I wound a couple more balls of the Bongo yarn used… and they were full of knots. Aiee! I've put them aside to use for seaming… but three knots per skein, that was pretty bad. I hope the rest aren't like that. Toes crossed!
Earlier this month, I sent Fricknits the remnants of my SRC exculsive, STR in Rainforest Jasper so she could finish a pair of cute baby socks. She sent me some Koigu in a fabulous green colorway as thanks. She also included a funny card with suggestions what to use the koigu for, and that limedragon would be a very good name for the colorway. What do you think?
There's also a little bit of blue and brown in these greens. I have a few ideas about how to use this. Thank you Julie! : )
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W: When did Wonder Woman first come on your pop culture radar?
PJ: The '70s TV show was my first definitive memory. I was in elementary school and the prime target for the show. Me and every girl in school were exactly the people whose minds it blew. We were totally obsessed with it.
W: Me, too. Her and Isis and Shazam in the morning.
PJ: You are the only other one who remembers Isis. That's so hilarious. Because I remember so clearly on the playground: you fought to the death to get to be Wonder Woman, but if you didn't get to be Wonder Woman, you scrambled to be Isis.
W: And now you get to direct Wonder Woman, which probably beats everyone else on the playground. As you started working on the film, what were your conversations with screenwriter Allan Heinberg about what you both wanted to see from the character onscreen?
PJ: He was only a third of the way through the script when I signed on. It was a great marriage because I had been pitching something – not exactly the same, but similar – for a long time, too. He had all the plot points worked out, but I really like to have a big arc and themes about the characters.
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It was about pulling that line all the way through and making sure Diana's character arc followed her journey from a young idealistic person with a dream, learning how that dream unfolds and then making a brave choice about it in the end.
W: What did Gal Gadot bring to the character that illuminated the elements of Diana that you wanted the audience to see?
PJ: It's the fact that she's a tremendous actress and such a hard worker that she'll do anything to be great. She fits the bill physically and technically, but I think the thing that makes her special and different is how genuine the qualities of the character are to her. Gal is unbelievably kind, warm, loving, happy and optimistic as a person. When she walks in a room and how she deals with everybody every day exudes the Wonder Woman spirit.
It sounds cheesy, but I don't take those things lightly. I think that if you're going to represent a superhero in our world, it's so incredible if you can find somebody who actually represents that spirit within real life. It's not to put the pressure on her that she has to be Wonder Woman. She's not Wonder Woman but she's as good as Wonder Woman.
W: What was your approach to the mythical island of Themyscira?
PJ: The cool thing about Themyscira is that, yes, they're women, but they are a whole universe of their own. I wanted to make sure there was variety in the Amazon women. They're not all kind in the exact same way. They're not all warm in the exact same way. They are, in fact very varied, but they all have the same origin, they all were created to teach mankind love, and to symbolise mankind. But then mankind turned against them. They had to to fight to free themselves and now they're hidden away on this island where mankind can't find them.
W: When you make the transition away from Themyscira, there's the fish-out-of-water scenario that naturally comes with that. How did you allow Diana to be vulnerable in that situation, but never undermined her sense of self?
PJ: I followed the Superman formula. We would always let Superman have needs. We would always let Superman go into the world and not know how to do things, and that's part of the fun. It doesn't keep him from being Superman when the heroic moment comes. At first, he doesn't know what to do, but then he turns around and he saves the day and catches the helicopter. That's the point. I followed that exact same formula with her.
Steve Trevor is a fish-out-of-water when he's in Themyscira, and then they come to man's world and she's a fish-out-of-water. I wanted to have fun with both of those things, but they both learn from each other because they're both excellent at different things—and by the way, any main character needs to have vulnerabilities and growth in a journey.
W: Steve Trevor has played many roles in the 75 years of Wonder Woman stories. What was important to showcase for him as he functioned as a guide, in a way, into this next stage of Diana's life?
PJ: Not unlike a great romance – you're looking for the best friend character that's also a love interest. Whether your lead is a man and you're casting a woman or the other way around – you're looking for somebody who's a counterpart to the character to create a fun dynamic and journey alongside.
In Steve's case, he's human. He's tough, cool, jaded and knows all about the world, and he's really funny. That was what ended up being important: She's hilarious in the movie, but she's a total straight man. Diana is not playing the joke, so you need somebody who's registering everything about her from our point of view.
W: When you're framing Diana in her action sequences, when she's on the front lines or she's going against Ares, how did you want to portray her style of fighting? Was there something about the blocking that you wanted to set her apart from what the rest of her sisters?
PJ: Diana does not want to hurt anybody. It's not her intention. She wants to solve the situation and to stop the crisis of the violence. That is a very specific fighting style when you intentionally avoid punching people in the face.
This approach influenced her fighting style and even her expression. She's never grimacing. She's never cocky. She's never mean or mad looking Until the end when she's battling Aries, she's not angry. She's effortful looking. She's trying to stop the crisis, whatever the crisis is.
W: What do you hope the film does for the character and the legacy of wonder woman, along with charting a new path for seeing these kinds of women on film, and women directing these films?
PJ: First and foremost, before I ever started thinking about being a woman, I was thinking about being the right director for the film and then loving Wonder Woman. Really, everything's genesis starts there. Wonder Woman is an amazing character and I hope that I bring a character that I love to the world. I feel like I was a perfectly good director to do it because of my love of Wonder Woman. I happen to be a woman.
Then secondarily there is the realisation that people have not always thought that making a successful female action movie was possible. Which I think is extremely late if nothing else. There's a very diverse audience out there, and a huge group of stories worth telling. Wonder Woman to me is a no-brainer. She's one of the biggest superheroes of all time.
I'm not making a movie about being a woman and I'm not thinking about being a woman while I'm doing it. I am just trying to make the greatest version of Wonder Woman that I can for all the people who love the character as much as I do.
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I loved this book when I was like 11, so much so that I still own it and intend to keep it forever, but did anyone ever notice just how creepy Mark Antony is?
Like, dang man, you're like almost thirty and she's literally half your age, and is going through puberty, so can you refrain?
I know this is supposed to be like, pseudo-historical, but could they have made her a little bit older? Even 18 would have been better, so it isn't so pervy. Or since this is a book for children, they could have, idk not written that storyline?
Other than that, I loved this book and still read it sometimes just to feel nostalgic.
Interesting take on Cleopatra's childhood.
79 CE. Teenaged Cleopatra deals with the concerns of being a young royal in a dangerous world. Written in a reflective, diary style, this historical novel provides insight into both the day to day history of Egypt and the thoughts of a young girl growing up.
I love this book so much! I love how they incorporate the history of Cleopatra the seventh but also develop her to be a character in this book.
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Quite a good story of the girl queen Cleopatra, my only question is: Is it based on fact? Or did the author just write what she wanted about this amazing character?
awesome book!! the author did a good job capturing what life would have been like for cleopatra VII
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First off, let me apologize for not updating the site for a while. These last few weeks have been life changing. To sum it up, in the last three weeks I have quit my job, went on vacay (Miami, South Beach), and started Law School, full time. Needles to say, I am a happy camper. I got out of a situation that I did not want to be in (working 9 to 5, *actually 2 to 1030pm* including Sundays & weekend ugh) and am presently in the process of doing what I love. Law School is a lot of reading, analyzing, and writing. But to me the topics are interesting. I made the comparison to someone the other day, that me being in Law School was like reading a very good book, the only difference is I can't put the book down whenever I choose, or I'd be behind on understanding and presentation of my class assignments.
Anyway, that is another story. Another change I have recently made is embracing my natural hair. I have been growing my hair out for over three years now. It went from extremely short and shaved in the back, to the afro you see above (a little bigger now, this pic is was in January). Like a lot of women, my age and ethnicity, I did some damage to my hair that forced me to cut it without having any say so in the manner (if I wanted to look decent). From that point on, I decided, no more chemicals/relaxers, at least not for a while.
Although, for the most part of my adult life I have always been comfortable with msyelf, it was not until recently, when I came face to face with being completely natural (free of weaves), that I discovered I was not as comfortable with being myself, as I would have liked to thought I was. I originally wore braids and weaves to help my hair grow (by having it braided and secure, and therefore free from heat damage and improper care). Even after my hair grew significantly (as in above afro pic), I still continued to wear weaves because I was under the impression that I could not style my natural hair in a way that would make me feel "comfortable" out in public.


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Depression and chronic illness walk hand in hand, and it makes sense why: Painful, long-term illnesses like diabetes, heart disease, or MS (to name a few) can cause a devastating impact on your life, in large part, by stealing your control. Here's how.
When you're healthy, you're in control. To get stronger, you exercise. To boost your energy, you eat healthy. To prevent a cold, you wash your hands. But when chronic disease sets in, that control slips away. Even eating more carefully or exercising harder, you might still feel pain, sluggishness, or fatigue.
"Maybe I can't control this," you might think, followed by the hopeful, "But that's what doctors are for." So you hand them control. They comfort and reassure, giving you hope. "Take this," they say; but there may still be the emotional pain. "Try that," they say, and it gets better! Then worse. Then better! Then worse. One medication or procedure leads to the next -- one specialist to another. It's like a roller coaster ride. The costs add up and the side-effects take a toll -- often exacerbating the emotional distress.
A few years later, you're sitting in your doctor's office. She's explaining the latest "cutting edge treatment." You see her lips moving but you've given up listening. She could have just a few more years of school than you. It's beyond her control, you realize. It's the disease that's in control.
Occasionally, there's a "good day." You feel energetic, strong, pain-free, happy. But then the pain returns. It makes you confused -- frustrated. You decide there will never all be "good days." You realize you might never go back to how you felt before the disease.
Despair sets in and, with it, depression. Some days, you just want to be alone. Nobody knows what it's like to walk in your shoes. One so-called friend has the nerve to say, "Have you tried a psychiatrist?" Some days, you just feel like sleeping. But other days, it's too painful to sleep.
One night, you toss and turn, then try a sleeping pill. But the pain keeps you up. You take another one, eying that bottle a little longer. Maybe that's how you end it, you think. Maybe that's the only way left to take back control.
It's a frightening tale, all too real. An estimated one-third of people with a serious medical condition suffer symptoms of depression. I often see it in patients with Keratoconus, a degenerative eye disease, which left untreated typically slowly steals away vision.
One notable case was one of the Olympic athletes I treated. This athlete was at the height of the career when the world started getting blurry. Various specialists recommended thick glasses, then soft contact lenses, then hard contacts. But nothing worked after a while.
Previously outgoing and exuberant, this athlete became quiet and withdrawn as depression sank its claws. When it became too dangerous to continue competing, this athlete decided it was time to quit -- to give up the dream. One night shortly afterwards, the athlete tried to end it all with a suicide attempt.
The next morning, the athlete woke up and decided to make the most of this second chance at life. The search began for alternative treatments and cures -- which eventually brought the athlete to my door. Fortunately there was a non-invasive procedure to correct vision (called "Holcomb C3-R"). It stabilized the Keratoconus along with other implants to improve vision and the symptoms of depression began to improve -- as I frequently notice after successful treatments.
This athlete is fortunate as are most people with Keratoconus who come to us. It's rare for chronic diseases to have such a "quick fix." Often, people live with the symptoms for years, decades, even a lifetime. And when depression sets in, which it so often does, many figure, "Maybe this is here to stay too." But that's where they're wrong. Depression can be treated, mitigated, and controlled, even when the disease itself cannot. I've developed an acronym -- CONTROL -- to explain a few ways how:
Community: When you're depressed, you feel the urge to retreat from the world and isolate yourself from your community. Resist that urge. Reach out to family and friends or ask your doctor about support groups and other resources. You might feel alone in your struggle, but you never have to be.
Open Channel: Keep an open channel of communication with medical experts you trust. Speak frequently with them about your concerns and questions. Share what's working and what's not. If the depression intensifies, alert them immediately.
Nutrition & Exercise: Healthy diet and exercise are an age-old remedy for depression. Try subbing out sugary foods for whole foods like grains, vegetables, beans, fruits, lean meats, and food items high in vitamins and nutrition. Try exercising at least three times a week, if and when you're able. Exercise releases endorphins, a hormone which can reduce pain and can alleviate depression.
Personal note: I lived in Edinburgh, Scotland for a year which is an incredible city. The weather on the other hand is not so fabulous -- it's rainy and often overcast. I regularly exercised and never got the common "seasonal affective disorder."
Treatment: If depression intensifies, seek professional help from a psychologist, therapist, psychiatrist, or psychiatric nurse. Ask your doctor for a recommendation or get in touch with organizations like NAMI (the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill), which can recommend a professional in your area.
Routine: Develop a routine. Often, when you're depressed, one day seems to slip into the next. So set up a daily schedule and fill it, as often as possible, with activities you enjoy. Even a small daily chore, like watering the flowers every morning, can give you a sense of accomplishment and improve your mood.
Objectives: When you're depressed, you feel terrible about yourself. "I can't accomplish anything," you might tell yourself, so you shirk your responsibilities and give up on former goals. Don't. Keep up your day-to-day objectives and responsibilities. Keep working toward your goals, whether little daily ones or larger life ones.
Learn: An important way to battle depression is to learn everything you can about your disease (as my Olympian patient did). Study up on it. Read everything you can. Not only might it lead to a treatment option, it will give you a sense of independence and restore that all-important sense of CONTROL.
If you -- or someone you know -- need help, please call 1-800-273-8255 for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. If you are outside of the U.S., please visit the International Association for Suicide Prevention for a database of international resources.


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My wife has often suggested that we pay extra towards our mortgage to payoff our mortgage early. But is that a good idea? When making the decision, there are two sides.
On one side, you can payoff the mortgage early, and be free from the debt that much earlier.
On the other side, you can use that money that you would have used for the early mortgage payoff, and invest it for a greater return in the long run.
Our mortgage interest rate is something like 5.75% fixed for 25 years. Plus the interest on the loan is tax deductable. So if you take that into account, the interest rate is like less than 4.5%. If we invest that extra money into the stock market which has averaged over 10% for the long term, we are coming out ahead! It's kind of like Uncle Sam is loaning us money that we can invest.
The second option only works if you actually invest the money, and don't just spend it on junk. Currently, I am maxing out my 401k, and my Roth IRA, and my wife's Roth IRA. She is also putting money into her 401k plan, and we will soon be bumping that up. So are we blowing the extra money? I don't think so.
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A Few Words about Mikeon November 21, 2013 at 10:24 am
In case you haven't heard, there's been a changing of the guard here at Atroxity central, with Lee taking over page coloring duties from Mike. More can be read on that in our previous news post, but the bottom line is real life has gotten hectic enough to make it impossible for Mike to commit to a regular Atroxity schedule, and as such page six of scene 1.3 was the last to bear his colors.
It's a bittersweet moment–bitter because we lost Mike, but sweet because Lee is awesomely talented and his pages look great and we're excited to have him on board. But if nobody minds, I'd like to take a moment to praise our departing colorist a bit, and I'd like to start by showing you the horror of the Atroxity that could have been.
Not pretty, eh? This was my attempt to color a panel of Atroxity, you see, and even though it contained enough yellow skin to pass for a screengrab of particularly violent episode of The Simpsons, at the time it was the closest we had gotten to reaching a colored panel that matched what Luke and I saw in our heads. As such, this panel–yes, this utter piece of shit–was what we circulated to potential colorists as a rough example of what we were looking for.
Michael, one candidate of several, took a whack at it and wound up with this:
This was my introduction to the act of wrapping my brain around an art submission that looked drastically different from what I originally envisioned.
This was also my introduction to admitting that a drastically different art submission was far better.
Of course, Mike went on to hone things further–see the actual published page–and play a massive part in shaping the overall look and feel of Atroxity. At the time we were just throwing vague ideas around with some idea of what effect we wanted finished Atroxity visuals to evoke, and Mike pioneered through all this to arrive smack at our end goal–and then some.
Luke and I had been toiling away for quite some time before Mike came on board, and the protracted birthing process meant that each panel contained the scars of bad ideas cut out and good ideas grafted on late. Mike somehow pulled it all together, smoothed over the seams, and created pages in which countless months of discussion, planning, and drawing could be experienced in finished form.
Not to say that Luke and I weren't on to something cool initially–because we were–but it wasn't until Mike climbed on board that Atroxity was converted into a fully functional creative endeavor with finished visuals.
And so I thank Mike. I thank Mike for two years of easygoing no-drama collaboration. I thank Mike for 42 fantastic looking finished pages. And I thank Mike for the fact that pages of Atroxity even exist in finished form.
I'm not sure what's next for Mike, but it's going to look fantastic.


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In 1982, Deborah married her husband, Jack. It was also the year when she took a position of a copywriter and account executive at an advertising agency. Actually, it was the moment when she began thinking of her fist love and passion – fiction writing. In 1984, Deborah rented a typewriter and started to write at nights and early mornings, when she had some free time and could devote it to writing.
Today, Deborah laughs when she tells a story of her first publication as a fiction writer. In 1984, her husband brought her the 1984 Writers' Market as a birthday gift, and Deborah started sending her offer to every publisher she could find in the book, ignoring though keeping all rejection letters she got from them. Frankly speaking, she had a large folder of such letters on her table, including a letter from Harlequin Books where they asked her to submit a complete manuscript but keep in mind the fact their publishing house did not accept stories about Texans, cowboys, or airline pilots.
The irony was, that Deborah's manuscript was actually about a woman who married a pilot, but she ran away to Texas after he died in a plane crash, and she fell in love with a cowboy there. It must be said, Harlequin Books bought this manuscript five weeks after Deborah had submitted it. Its title was Touch The Sky; this story topped all records for a first-time author and earned a Romantic Times Choice award. Six more books had been published with Harlequin for the next seven years, and then Deborah signed the contract with HarperCollins Publishers. Her historical novel, Blessing, won numerous awards and appeared on the bestseller list of USA Today.
In 2001, Multnomah Publishers made her book, The Story Jar, live. Written along with Robin Lee Hatcher and Angela Elwell Hunt, and including pieces from the work of Lori Copeland, Jerry Jenkins, Debbie Macomber, and Francine Rivers (Left Behind), this story had become Deborah's debut for the inspirational market. This book had been on the CBA Bestseller List for three months.
She had the chance to attend the Jackson Hole Writers' Conference, reading excerpts from The Story Jar and sharing her thoughts about the call she had when decided to leave the market of mass-fiction and followed the Lord. It was the event where Deborah met Jamie Raab, a publisher of Warner Books; today she calls that meeting a real blessing, as she was shipping for a place to publish her new novel-length fiction. A Rose By The Door hit bookstores in 2001, and 2002 had become a year when Warner Books published Deborah's A Morning Like This. Plus, her story Connor Sapp's Baseball Summer can be found at The Storyteller's Collection of Multnomah Publisher, alongside the stories of such authors as Karen Kingsbury, Terri Blackstock, and Chuck Colson.
Deborah and her husband Jack have two children, Jeff and Avery. Besides writing, she has many interests, including shopping with her daughter, cheering baseball, singing praise songs, and fly-fishing.


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The Coastal Structures Conference 2019 will take place in Hannover, Germany. The participants are encouraged to enjoy the local German culture and landscapes. Information regarding local attractions and hotels can be found for Hannover and Braunschweig. A more detailed list of the hotels near the conference venue can be found under the "Accommodations" tab.
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MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — A small group of students in the MTSU Department of Media Arts' animation program will be headed to Guiyang, China, in May, after the university was invited back for a second year to participate in what is now being called "International Students Ocean Short Film Exhibition."
Kevin McNulty, associate professor and coordinator of the animation program, will be leading the group of students, who were part of a larger team of animation students who created a short film about the environment that will be featured at the exhibition.
McNulty said his students chose the environment as their film topic out of three topic choices that included "the old/the child," and "autism," the topic of last year's film.
While four students will travel with McNulty to China in May to present the finished animated short film, a total of nine student have been working on the film this semester — Ryan Barry, Colleen Green, Rachel Huttinger, Shaun Keefe, Carson Kirkpatrick, Ngoc Chi Nguyen, Grace Roberts, Derrick Roe and Yu Ju Shih.
Barry, Green, Keefe and Nguyen will join McNulty on the trip to an exhibition that "is much bigger than it was last year," McNulty said.
This year's event features 24 participating schools from 10 countries including Canada, China, Germany, Italy, Malaysia, the Republic of Korea, Singapore, Thailand, U.K. and U.S. McNulty sees this as valuable experience for animation students and international exposure for the program and university.
McNulty credits Dr. Guanping Zheng, director of the Confucius Institute at MTSU, for helping MTSU become a co-organizerof the exhibition.
"While in Guiyang, we will be going on multiple cultural excursions to learn about the local people and their culture," McNulty said. "With the assistance of the attending professors, students will then be broken up into multi-language, multicultural teams to create short films about local folklore all within 48 hours."
McNulty said the MTSU team plans to submit their work to film festivals around the world, particularly those with the environment as a main theme.
Last year's film, entitled "Sensations" and focused on autism, will also be submitted to film festivals while the team will also explore how the film might help area autism organizations.
Building on last year's experience
Last year, five MTSU animation students participated in the exhibition, joining students from three other countries in developing a film to help raise awareness and understanding of autism.
A partnership with Qingdao University of Science and Technology and coordinated by Dean Jianhua Yang shaped the unusual collaborative arrangement named "The Beautiful World."
Not only did students in McNulty's individual problems class create an animated short film illustrating how external stimuli affect persons on the autism spectrum, but they flew to China to finish the film, meet other students, and take part in a celebration ceremony.
"We joined students from universities in South Korea, Germany, and China — five from each. Although a script was provided, each group followed their own interpretation," McNulty explained.
The MTSU students — Angel Agee, Ryan Barry, Julia Daugherty, Mahkayla Grogan, and Clayton Smith — consulted with a mother of two children, one of whom is on the autism spectrum, to learn more about the condition that affects about 1 in 50 children.
"We based our story on what we learned from this family," said McNulty, explaining that external stimuli — such as light, noise, and touch — can be physically painful and debilitating to persons dealing with the neurodevelopmental disorder. "We personified the external forces as creatures that confront our character Esmond, who was named after the child in the family. We had Esmond do stimming to get rid of the creatures."
Stimming is short for self-stimulation, one of the ways persons with autism calm themselves, and includes hand flapping, rocking, spinning, and repetition of sounds. The film shows Esmond banishing an ice creature that blows snow, a snake-like creature, and a lizard creature with really bright eyes — all so that he could go down a hall to a bathroom, a graphic explanation of the challenges individuals on the autism spectrum face in what seems to others to be ordinary circumstances.
One of the highlights of the nearly two weeks McNulty and his students spent in China last year was a visit to an autism after-hours care facility. They also participated in several cultural excursions with memorable photo opportunities as well as attending a conference where McNulty made a presentation as did Zheng, director of MTSU's Confucius Institute.
McNulty is pleased that the students could enjoy this unique multidimensional experience for a very modest cost. "The sponsor of the project paid for everything in China, but we had to get there," McNulty explained. Combined support from the Confucius Institute, International Affairs, and the Undergraduate Research Center resulted in the students paying only about $200 each.
Animation is one of five academic programs available in the Department of Media Arts, one of the three departments within the College of Media and Entertainment. For more information, visit https://www.mtsu.edu/mediaarts/.


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As a further sign of the growing collaboration between LIU and the University of Salzburg, its Dean of the School of Education, Dr. Ulrike Greiner, came to the College of Education, Information and Technology as a visiting professor and gave a public lecture on "The Austrian Landscape and the Diversity Beliefs of Students."
Dr. Greiner's host was Professor Shaireen Rasheed, who recently became the co-director of the doctoral program in Interdisciplinary Studies at CEIT. They first met in 2016 when Dr. Greiner visited LIU Brooklyn. Last year, thanks to a Fulbright scholarship, Professor Rasheed spent two weeks at the University of Salzburg, working with undergraduate and doctoral students as well as giving a public lecture at the Austrian university. She has also been doing research in Europe on immigration issues—a topic that has become increasingly charged on both continents.
"I found out from my work over there that even though the issues are different, they are not uncommon. They overlap," said Professor Rasheed. "The challenges are the same."
This spring Dr. Greiner and Professor Rasheed virtually co-taught an undergraduate course via Skype and Blackboard so education majors from both LIU and the University of Salzburg could learn about teaching diversity within an international framework. The professors hope to initiate a month-long exchange program beginning next spring with students and faculty.
One of the LIU Post students who participated in last semester's cross-Atlantic class via the Internet was Georgina Peralta, a junior majoring in childhood education with a specialization in Spanish.
"We asked the Austrian students what kind of economic and academic challenges they go through," she said. "It was very refreshing to walk in someone else's shoes from across the world." She found the experience very rewarding. "It made me think about policymaking and what goes into the laws of education."
"We should exchange students so they get to know a broader horizon of how teaching and learning works in different countries," said Dean Greiner. She cited a recent study that found that one of every two students attending Austria's primary schools is multi-lingual, meaning that even though they might be born in Austria, their parents were immigrants—and German was not the only language spoken at their new home.
"We have an increasing number of students coming from a diverse background," she explained, "so we have to equip our teachers to handle a really diverse classroom. We have to adapt our pedagogy."
Student demographics have also been changing in American classrooms, noted Professor Rasheed, who stressed how important diversity training is for today's educators. "When you have teachers who are more aware of cultural diversity, it makes for better students, and it makes for a better climate in the school."
Until now, just the business schools at LIU and the University of Salzburg had formed a relationship, so this collaboration marks the first time for the colleges of education.
So far, five LIU undergrads have signed up for the spring exchange program, and there's room for many more.
"We will really mentor them," said Dean Greiner. The LIU students will be placed in English classes in Salzburg so they can observe classroom instruction firsthand, and they'll be taken on cultural outings to Vienna as well. "One month gives you the opportunity to change your beliefs and have a deeper experience," she noted. In the fall, students from the University of Salzburg are expected to come to LIU. "Our schools want teachers with international experience," Dean Greiner added. "What you gain is experience in adapting to new situations."
In October, Dean Greiner, in conjunction with colleagues in Political Science, Philosophy and the Teacher College in Salzburg, is co-hosting an international conference at the University of Salzburg on the topic, "National Populism and Education," and Professor Rasheed will be the keynote speaker.


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In March we warned that the death throes of the global warming were going to be long and ugly and so it is transpiring. Later we lamented the persistence of the zombie theory. With that theory now well into stage five of Langmuir's Laws of Bad Science, the excuses are becoming as bizarre as would be expected (the oceans ate my homework; why weren't they included in your models, then?). Battle is joined between the faithful and the sceptics and millions of words are being spilt on the internet. The world, however, is neither watching nor listening: even if it did, most would not understand the minutiae of the arguments. Sceptics are winning all the minor skirmishes, yet losing the public war.
The unique feature of the global warming hypothesis is that it is beneficial to so many different, yet sometimes overlapping, interest groups:
· The enemy within in western society (the watermelons)
· Academics seeking cushy financial backing to nourish their personal ambitions
· Bureaucrats in pursuit of more control and taxation
· The new breed of comfortable environmental editors and journalists jealously protecting their niches
· Companies who have developed and rely on the undemanding business of tax subsidy farming
· Politicians who are desperate to justify their existence by seeming to be doing something about an allegedly dire threat
· Politicians in underdeveloped countries looking for large handouts of "guilt" money base on an imaginary menace
· Individuals (particularly failed politicians) who now devote themselves to becoming mega-rich by exploiting the hysteria.
As a result there is an enormous built-in inertia of self-interest to preserve the status quo. There is, therefore, also a strong motivation to maintain The Censorship. People just do not know what is going on. Ordinary households are being systematically robbed, many to the point of real poverty, while vital indigenous industries are being driven out of western countries by complacent governments.
The trouble with Tweedledum and Tweedledee is that they are so absorbed in the details of their quarrel that people at large are excluded. This can only suit the inertialists, who are comfortable with things as they are.
We return without apology to the relatively unpublicised process at the heart of the deception …
It is the vital secret ingredient that is difficult for most people to understand. It is therefore more valuable to the computer-aided conjurer than all the smoke. mirrors and props are to the stage magician.
Feedback is a potent component of system design, creation and description. Within certain restrictions, negative feedback reduces gain and is a stabilising mechanism, while positive feedback increases gain and can lead to autonomous instability. We recently noted that the climate alarmists had almost exclusively concentrated on proposing mechanisms of the positive sort. In fact, both the theory and the modelling on which climate alarmism is based are highly dependent on the selection of putative positive feedback mechanisms and the corresponding relative diminution of negative ones.
Even the some of the simplest of digital computer models defy convenient forms of stability analysis: it is so easy for such systems to include non-linearity, memory, thresholds etc. We are then reduced to testing with simple trial input signals (such as pulse or step). The warmist modellers are so secretive that we do not know what tests, if any, have been applied. The simplest explanation of the common behaviour of the climate models is that they are all inherently unstable, yielding a ramp-like output, almost regardless of input. Ancient modellers, especially those who go as far back as the days of analogue computers, will be familiar with such behaviour in erroneous models of the real world.
Forty years ago, we were trying to teach students not to pre-load computer models with assumptions based their own prejudices, which would predetermine the outcome. Now, professors are doing just that and thereby achieving world fame. Appropriate point for a timely repetition ...
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But, on to other gross examples of profitable exploitation of the populace ...
This month has seen an upsurge in the promotion of statins, to the point that their use is proposed to be forced upon all older people regardless of their condition of health (Millions more told to take statins but Wider use of statins disturbing, according to the Telegraph). The system of drug apartheid that has developed in recent years is one of the most mysterious manifestations of the global lunacy that has been spread by the explosion of communications. The valued medication Vioxx was withdrawn because the "experts" could not read a simple graph, while statins rise immaculate above the murk of dubious practices to become the basis of a world-wide and highly profitable industry. The counter argument to the demonisation of cholesterol has been explained with considerable clarity, yet the medical establishment simply ignore it. Instead they join in on the promotion of statins as magic potions without any serious side effects. There is an international group of highly qualified professionals who are sceptical about the whole construction (THINCS), but their views are ignored and even suppressed. If anyone still doubts the efficiency of The Censorship in the scientific literature, they should have a look at the catalogue of unpublished letters (with some editors' replies) maintained by THINCS. The more serious side effects of statins include kidney problems, sexual dysfunction, cataracts, diabetes, muscle pain, muscle weakness, fatigue, peripheral neuropathy, memory loss, thinking problems and mood or personality changes. You can find accounts of these mainly hidden in obscure patient discussion sites on the web, but one brave university group (in California of all places) is conducting a systematic review in defiance of the establishment bullying.
The other set of pushers who are wrecking people's lives for fun and profit are the promoters of betting.
It is clear from indirect evidence that the gambling industry is expanding at an extraordinary rate. Even in the relatively short time since we identified it as one of the two great plagues of modern Britain, the self-evident wealth and influence of this largely covert economic sector has burgeoned excessively.
The Treasury is keeping quiet because it is creaming off a steady 15% betting duty from the profits of the burgeoning bookmakers. The establishment media are keeping quiet because they are creaming off huge amounts of advertising revenue. The sports industries are keeping quiet because they are getting not only the advertising revenue, but also huge tranches of money from sponsorship deals. Even the supposedly advertisement-free BBC, in its results announcements, is obliged to give free publicity to betting firms whose names are now included in the titles of major leagues that they sponsor. Huge and rapidly growing sums of money are swashing around in the economy and it is being torn from families that are least able to afford it. Furthermore, with so many snouts in this particular trough, the odds offered to punters must be a long way off the mathematically fair odds, so that their chances of avoiding accumulating loss are virtually negligible.
I am a football follower, a relatively harmless form of addiction, because of exposure to it during a childhood in Tottenham, one of the hotbeds of the game. As a result, virtually the only live TV I watch comprises football matches. Every week I am exposed to many offers of free bets. There would be outrage if the offers were for free heroin samples, yet both are cases of hooks to entrap potential addicts. Both are sources of widespread human misery. We only see the tip of this hazardous iceberg when a notable event occurs, such as the bankruptcy of a grossly overpaid footballer, but the underlying growing infestation remains ignored by the commentariat.
I have closely observed the culture of the gambling set at the local social club. They live in a culture of self-deception in which they readily forget their continual losses in exchange for the rare high, with associated bragging rights, when they pull off a coup. It is clear that most of them cannot afford the steady attrition of their income that this behaviour engenders. It is a form of mental illness, a serious addiction that impoverishes families, usually without their knowledge, and this at a time when families are under almost unprecedented financial strain. Is it pure coincidence that nine million families are now in serious debt? Obviously many other blatant political follies are involved here, such as heating bills, but it is inconceivable that one such major and growing drain on family resources is entirely innocent. But hush! We are not supposed to speak of that.
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Print version headline to a full page article in the Daily Telegraph: Beautiful game? Don't bet on it; an eloquent survey by sports writer Jim White. It is pleasing to note that he allocates the political blame to where it belongs, with New Labour, but what has the Heir to Blair done about it?
This is the estimated increase in excess winter mortality in 2011/2012. It is largely caused by the imposition of fuel poverty on much of the population by energy acts and the Climate Change Act. You ain't seen nothing yet. Wait until the green-inspired power cuts start. Time: the future.
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Images from the Contemporary Dance Camp in Craiova
11th - 26th of July @ National Theatre 'Marin Sorescu', Craiova (RO).
The contemporary dance camp 2018 is a choreographic research and individual and collective artistic exploration project which aims to offer, via a summer camp, practice residencies and contexts for reflection to choreographers who have created at least 2 personal works.
Organised in Craiova, between July 11 and July 26, 2018, the summer camp will become an educational and artistic framework for applied choreographic development, focused on the educational-creative dimension of the work process for artists who wish to engage in a creative and assessment dialogue with important names from the Romanian and international contemporary choreographic scene.
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The San Diego State Greek community is hosting a series of sexual assault and awareness discussions, one of which took place last week. Here's a look at one guest speaker who described her experience with rape and how it resonated with some of the students of SDSU.