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In the template itself, special %-escapes1 allow dynamic insertion of content. The templates are expanded in the order given here:
%[file] Insert the contents of the file given by file. %(sexp) Evaluate Elisp sexp and replace with the result. For convenience, %:keyword (see below) placeholders within the expression will be expanded prior to this. The sexp must return a string. %<...> The result of format-time-string on the ... format specification. %t Timestamp, date only. %T Timestamp, with date and time. %u, %U Like the above, but inactive timestamps. %i Initial content, the region when capture is called while the region is active. The entire text will be indented like
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Nis a number, starting from 1.2 %? After completing the template, position cursor here.
For specific link types, the following keywords will be defined3:
Link type | Available keywords ---------------------------------+---------------------------------------------- bbdb | %:name %:company irc | %:server %:port %:nick vm, vm-imap, wl, mh, mew, rmail, | %:type %:subject %:message-id gnus, notmuch | %:from %:fromname %:fromaddress | %:to %:toname %:toaddress | %:date (message date header field) | %:date-timestamp (date as active timestamp) | %:date-timestamp-inactive (date as inactive timestamp) | %:fromto (either "to NAME" or "from NAME")4 gnus | %:group, for messages also all email fields eww, w3, w3m | %:url info | %:file %:node calendar | %:date org-protocol | %:link %:description %:annotation
To place the cursor after template expansion use:
%? After completing the template, position cursor here.
[1] If you need one of these sequences literally, escape the % with a backslash.
[2] As required in Emacs Lisp, it is necessary to escape any backslash character in a string with another backslash. So, in order to use '%\1' placeholder, you need to write '%\\1' in the template.
[3] If you define your own link types (see Adding hyperlink types), any property you store with
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Wednesday, Aug. 27 is one of the most significant dates in Mountain West history. All those folks who complained (and complain they did to the satellite carriers, conference office, school administrations and this newspaper) about not getting The Mtn. TV network can now get it.
It's on DirecTV channel 616 within the league's footprint. DirecTV subscribers outside the footprint need a Sportspack subscription, which they might already have.
Dish Network? Don't hold your breath. MWC commissioner Craig Thompson said Tuesday on the conference call a stalemate remains. People have told him they have cancelled Dish subscriptions to get DirecTV.
HD? Not this year. At best, some games on Versus might be in high definition.
Fast start: New Mexico and TCU get league play started in a hurry this week. They already share honors for the worst scheduling. Not only do they have to open with each other, but Lobos don't get a bye week and TCU draws a bye the week before the finale.
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Surprise No. 2 QB: While all eyes in Provo are on returning starting quarterback Max Hall, the surprise of camp came in his back-up. Bronco Mendenhall, at the last minute, named with his best receiver, Austin Collie, as Hall's back-up. "I've been impressed with what I've seen," Mendenhall said.
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Disabled list: As if there aren't enough football ankle injuries this time of year, MWC associate commissioner Javan Hedlund, tweaked an old injury playing basketball and underwent surgery. He won't get to a game this month. Here's a shout out to get well.


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IT WAS THE BOLLITO MISTO that convinced me.
Boiled meats may not seem like a glamorous preparation in comparison to today's trendy foams and sous vide techniques, but it tells me everything I need to know about Poggio in Sausalito and the dedication of chef Peter McNee.
I went to this handsome Italian restaurant last week because of a special menu that featured this classic Piedmontese speciality. McNee was inspired to reproduce the dish after eating the Gran Bollito Misto at the Ristorante Moderno in Carru during one of his trips to Italy to hunt white truffles. For last week's four-day event, he matched his food with selections from host winemaker Paolo Sartirano from Costa di Bussia and San Silvestro wineries.
Bollito misto is not an easy dish to pull off. McNee even had to rent a special cart to house the boiled vegetables and six kinds of meat - brisket, cotechino sausage, veal breast, hen, oxtail and tongue. These are served with four sauces - bagna verde with parsley, anchovies and garlic; horseradish cream; tonatto and red pepper - and a little jar of house-made mostarda.
Even Poggio owner Larry Mindel, who built the Il Fornaio chain, knew that boiled meats ($19) would be a hard sell, but let enthusiasm and passion overrule accounting concerns.
McNee and Mindel proved their point. When done well - and I can't remember when I've had better - this dish has no rival. However, what convinced me that the chef has a similar unrelenting passion as do people like Chris Cosentino at Incanto or Paul Bertolli of Fra' Mani, was his version of tripe soup ($9).
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It's not just these special dishes that deserve attention. Like his equally obsessed compatriots, McNee is continually researching and expanding his artisan repertoire, making sausages, terrines, limoncello and condiments such as mostarda - items that give the mostly Tuscan-inspired menu its depth.
For appetizers, McNee grills calamari over oak and serves it with white butter beans, fennel, arugula and satsuma mandarins ($10). It's a bright, refreshing winter dish that speaks to the restaurant's waterfront locale. The chef also makes the lamb sausage that goes with his clams, chickpeas and tomatoes ($9), and the coppa, pancetta, mortadella and salumi that make up the charcuterie plate ($15).
Since it opened more than four years ago, I've eaten at Poggio many times and developed favorites, which remain on the menu, including ribollita ($11); lamb and ricotta meatballs ($9); wood-fired pizza ($5-$13); chicken under a brick with roasted artichokes, fingerling potatoes and Meyer lemon ($19); and polpettone ($16), meat loaf braised in tomato sauce.
Another reason for eating at Poggio is the wood-oven-roasted whole snapper ($28), served with roasted sunchokes that add a dense sweetness to the delicate white fish. It's simple but totally satisfying.
Poggio's interior has always been a major draw, with terra-cotta floors inset with marble, thick gold marble baseboards and a series of mahogany-lined arches that frame the wine rack on one end and the handsome bar on the other. Large windows that open in warm weather overlook Bridgeway, the marina and an open-air terrace lined with tables and chairs. It's by far the best place to spend a few hours in Sausalito.
While I had a few disappointing dishes when I visited more than a year ago, it's clear that McNee has hit his stride. For just one example, the panna cotta ($7) that on my last visit had too much gelatin was perfect this time around, accented with tart huckleberries.
I'll always remember the bollito misto, because it so clearly illustrated what a good chef can do with basic techniques. However, I now look forward to discovering other recipes that will find their way to McNee's menu.
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I had my nails Shellac'd a few weeks ago.
Shellac is supposed to last for the minimum of 2 weeks without chipping, as it's a hybrid of polish and gel.
I took a photo of my nails exactly 2 weeks after the treatment.
I would say that I use my hands a lot, but to be fair, I don't do much manual labour per se, I certainly don't shy away from using my nails to pry things open or to pick a few noses. With this in mind, here are the images of my nails after the CND Shellac Manicure.
Remember – I acted as I normally would, I didn't give my nails a hard time on purpose, nor did I pussyfoot around them either. I left my nails alone completely, including the cuticles so they are messy!
Ok, so you can see I have 'tip wear' on nearly all my fingers. I expected this really, but you see the weird chip in the middle of the nail? For some reason it started to bubble on on my finger and that's where a chunk of colour fell off:
This happened on a nail on my other hand too – no idea why it did this bubbling but I could have peeled most of the polish off that finger!
From another view…you can see that my nails grow quite fast so the base of it was looking quite jagged. There's not much you can do about this as this stuff is supposed to last 2 weeks, possibly more!
My cuticles are a mess.
In truth, I don't do anything to my cuticles at home because I find that they are quite neat when left alone, and by gum – I do think they have a purpose!!!!! They have a right to exist!
So the only time I have cuticles removed is when I get my nails done. And then I get this messy cuticle thing going on when it grows back….
Here is my other hand:
Another issue I have with the Shellac is that they really dried my nails out. My nails are far from perfect but they are quite strong. The peeling I got on my second and third finger (see photo above) NEVER happens normally.
My nails were just peeling off!
Closer look – my nails are yellow because of this.
You are supposed to go to the Salon to remove it as they use 100% Acetone. I couldn't be arsed, so I bought these CND Shellac Wraps from eBay for £5 and some pure acetone for £3 (also eBay!).
The wraps look like this, a nail nappy:
This is pure Acetone – it's very drying on the skin (hence the whole pro removal thing) but you know what – my hands have had worse:
You soak the pad with the acetone and wrap it around you nail. I tried using a normal cotton pad, it wasn't as good as the special Shellac removers. When removing, you sort of roll the wrap side to side and the polish…cracks off!
If you are a nail technician, turn away now, because I basically winged it:
Well, it came off and my nails are a little tender, but essentially in one piece.
You know how when you get a Boots Meal Deal, you pick the biggest sandwich you can, and a slice of chocolate cake and a fruit smoothie, just because you can and because it's the most expensive combo you can get away with, and then after you've eaten it all you realise that you've consumed like 1000 calories and it's only 1.30pm?
I feel a bit like this about Shellac. It was such a bloody good idea at the time, but now that there is the aftermath (OPI Nail Envy for the win!) I am not sure it was such a great idea.
Obviously – this is just one experience of Shellac. It might be better next time.
My treatment was complimentary, BECAUSE, I had a bad experience the first time and they invited me back to get my nails redone. But if it wasn't comp, it would've cost a whopping £52.
There is no way in hell I would pay £52 for this experience again. £20, yes, £52, I want a signed contract saying that my nails will live long and prosper, regardless of how many cat noses I've picked.


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Let's just answer the question posed in the headline right off the bat: No. Giant, floppity mushrooms will not be the basis of a secondary power grid in India in any conceivable future I can visualize, as delicious an idea as it sounds.
But seeing as exploiting organisms like algae to create electricity is an obsession among some futurists, let's take a moment to consider Tobias Revell's sci-fi story of how slum dwellers in Mumbai flipped their lives around with a handful of genetically mutated fungus. A graduate of the outlandish-idea factory that is London's Royal College of Art's Design Interactions program, Revell has theorized an alternate future seemingly ripped straight from the wet neural material of Michael Crichton.
It begins in Amsterdam, where shady bioengineers are altering the DNA of fungi to create huge organisms with narcotic properties, sort of like Godzilla 'shrooms. The plan is to chop up these primo porcini and sell them as drugs on the black market, but things go awry when somebody makes off with a sample and disappears. The Amsterdam crime syndicate should've known better: It's just smart drug-business practice to make your lab workers titrate and pipette naked.
The sample eventually surfaces in Dharavi, a Mumbai slum full of civil-war refugees that has little semblance of law and order. I'll let Revell explain the rest, via his website:
Sometime later a cache of biological samples appeared through the criminal networks of Mumbai, in the vain hope that it might provide new marketable narcotic opportunities. The collective drive and expertise of the refugees managed to turn theses genetically-engineered fungal samples into a new type of infrastructure - providing heat, light and building material for the refugees. Dharavi rapidly evolved it's own micro-economy based around the mushrooms.
So it's a feel-good story of a community pulling itself up by its sandals to become self-sufficient on humongous, building-shadowing lichens. What's not to love about this idea, aside from the thought of one of these monstrosities breaking off and crushing a dozen families on the street?
Revell's actually made a decently produced faux-documentary about Mumbai's mushroom boom, which you can watch below. After viewing it, you probably won't be surprised that, aside for inflated woodland flora, Revell lists his hobbies as "theoretical physics, explaining theoretical physics, word games, objectivity in conspiracy theories, failed architecture, cryptozoology, unexplained phenomena, forgotten events, music, paradoxes, video games, clever jokes and cycling."
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BOSTON, May 12 (UPI) -- U.S. researchers say they are cautiously optimistic the slowdown in healthcare spending is here to stay.
Professor Michael Chernew, medical student Alexander Ryu, lecturer Teresa B. Gibson and research associate M. Richard McKellar, all of the Harvard Medical School in Boston, say national health expenditures grew exceptionally slowly during and immediately after the recent recession.
During 2009-11, per-capita national health spending grew about 3 percent annually, compared with an average of 5.9 percent annually during the previous 10 years.
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By JOSHUA HICKS Bellevue Reporter Staff Writer
Feb 14 2009, 1:00 AM ·
The love letter is a disappearing art form in this age of instant communication, but Joe and Helen Hesketh still write one to each other every day. They've been doing it for the past 35 years.
The Bellevue couple will celebrate its 55th wedding anniversary in June, but neither spouse is past the point of gushing after all this time.
"My dearest lover," Joe wrote years ago. "Your specialness today was snuggling up to me in bed, holding hands in church, making me an omelet, going back to get blueberries for me, and your concern for the kids shoes and getting what they wanted. Thanks for being my lover. I love you."
The letters aren't all filled with joy. Some of their passages bear witness to a battle-tested marriage.
"I miss you most when we are out of sorts with each other," Joe wrote. "We sort of cold-shoulder one another. Then I miss the warmth of holding your hand, the extra smiles and pleasantness of your voice, your special attention, kisses, and caresses."
The Hesketh's marriage has lasted over five decades, but both spouses admit it took some dedication to get past the honeymoon phase.
Joe was a high-school kid working at a grocery store when he first encountered Helen, a baton twirler who used to come by the shop in her uniform.
"I liked her physique," Joe said.
While Joe gawked, Helen was plotting her first move. She hid around the corner one day to intercept Joe on his usual hitchhike from work, acting as though the whole meeting was a coincidence.
The two began dating and married four years later.
Helen sat behind the wheel when she first stopped to pick up Joe, but she rode shotgun through most of early parts of her relationship with him.
"She jumped into my life, and I didn't jump into hers," Joe said. "Whatever I did, she just went along."
The one-sidedness took its toll until Helen was ready to call it quits around 1973, after 19 years of marriage and eight kids.
The letter writing would prove to be an awakening. It started during a marriage retreat through Bellevue's St. Louise Catholic Church.
Joe attended the outing reluctantly.
"I didn't think I needed the change," he said. "I thought all the problems were her fault, and I had nothing to do with it, of course."
The Hesketh's were experiencing a disconnect, and it would take letters to fling open the doors of communication.
Spouses at the retreat had to write every day about specific aspects of their marriage, and then share the answers with their partners.
The Hesketh's say they grew closer from the experience, learning about each others feelings, as well as about themselves.
Joe realized he was frequently bold-headed.
"I'm often too stubborn to back down and say 'I'm sorry' if I think it's my fault or to forget about it so we can move forward," he wrote in one of his entries. "It makes me feel sort of stubborn like a mule."
Helen, for her part, realized that acted domineering at home to deal with her feelings of inadequacy.
"If someone disagreed with me, I fell apart," she said. "I felt like my ideas weren't wanted, or I wasn't wanted."
The Hesketh's continued their daily letter writing after the retreat, stopping only once when Helen's parents visited their home.
Joe even kept up the routine after going through quadruple bypass surgery, making illegible scribbles on a note pad after waking from the operation. Helen's letter was one of the first things he asked for.
The Hesketh's now lead marriage-counseling seminars at St. Louise, where they are known as "the couple." They have 35 grandchildren, 11 great grandchildren, and 25,000 love letters boxed up in their bedroom closet.
The notes they write are part of a disappearing art form, but it apparently isn't one that will be lost altogether.
One of the Hesketh's grandchildren, 15-year-old Joshuah Gray, says he plans to carry on the tradition once he gets married.
"That's pretty important to me," he said. "I think it'll bring me a lot closer (to my spouse). It's something I think is actually healthy for a relationship."
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In 2015, families with kids under 18 years old are leading the charge in acquiring the newest gadgets and devices, including wearables, entertainment, home appliances and mobile devices. Recent statistics show that families with children are more likely to purchase wearable tech and twice as likely as non-parents to purchase a 3D printer in the next year.
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The hereO GPS watch is the world's smallest real-time GPS location device created specifically for children age 3 and up.
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VestTech tackled the important issue of radiation emitted from mobile devices with a number of new products including a maternity belly band.
Wearables and Fashion
Tech went fashion at the WebMD FashionWare show. Hosted by Project Runway's Nick Verreos and featuring models wearing everything from environmentally responsive clothing to recycled swag, it's clear that CES FamilyTech is fashion forward. Watch Here
What We Learned:
Wearables for Women
From Mother to Muse, from finders of lost things to socks that track health, wearables are making life easier.
"I can bring my brain back to focus and enjoy the moment with brain training,"
"If a small number of people benefit from being freed of wires and could get out and exercise more, I'd be really proud."
"Posing for a photo takes you out of the moment"
Yahoo! Tech's David Pogue Explains the Quantified Self
You can't throw Frisbee at this show without hitting a fitness tracker. "
The Super Smart Home
"In this high tech world we were concerned about breathing. Notice that when one person yawns, it's contagious?
"The smart home should know where your stuff is in the home. And when you're on the go you should be able to crowdsource your missing device." Chris Herbert @thetrackr
"Homes need to increase the use of machine learning, learning from the patterns of your life at home. We need valuable notifications."
" We love to watch the Food Network, but now we're empowering people to cook and take pride in their own cooking."
"Each woman wants a data experience that's precisely tailored to them. It's the personalization that's key."
"Self-tracking for women should be an engaging experience. Women need a host of products for the right moment in their lives, but they call connect to the same app creating a unified system"
"Think about the way you normally see a recipe with ingredients at the top and steps at the bottom, we've organized them together for you so that baking is fluid and satisfying."
"Subtle changes in body temperature can help women understand their fertility cycles"
"For moms, the world is divided into two big buckets. Things that they have to do and things that they want to do. Our job is to give them more time to do what they want to do."
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1867 (undated) 10 x 13 in (25.4 x 33.02 cm) 1 : 4600000
This map was created by William Hughes, printed by J. Bien and engraved by G.E. Sherman, for issued as plate 7 in Sheldon and Company's An Atlas of Classical Geography.
William Hughes (c. 1818 - May 21, 1876) was a cartographer, engraver, lithographer, printer, and publisher active in London during the middle part of the 19th century. Hughes enjoyed and long and varied cartographic career. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1838 and, from about 1840, taught geography and mapmaking at St. Johns College for Civil Engineers. He later taught the same at both Queens College and Kings College, London. For a time he was employed as a map librarian for the British Museum. Hughes began engraving maps around 1839 and worked with most of the prominent British map and atlas publishers of his era, including but not limited to Charles Knight, A. and C. Black, George Philip, William Cassell, and others.
Joseph R. Bien was a topographer and an engineer working the later part of the 19th century. His name appears a number of state and regional atlases, including the important 1895 Atlas of New York. Most of Joseph Bien's work was published in conjunction with the New York Lithographing, Engraving & Printing Company, which was founded by Julius Bien. Joseph was almost certainly related to Julien, though whether he was a son, cousin, or brother, remains unknown.
Sherman and Smith (fl. c. 1829 - 1855), sometimes working as Stiles, Sherman & Smith, were American engravers active in New York City during the middle part of the 19th century. The firm including John Calvin Smith (surveyor and engraver), George E. Sherman, and sometimes, Samuel Stiles. Their work primarily focused on government publications, including the maps and engravings prepared to illustrate the official records of the 1838-42 United States Exploring Expedition (U.S. Ex. Ex.), maps issued for the Army Corps of Topographical Engineers, and various U.S. Coast Survey Charts. They also engraved privately for Thomas Bradford and John Disturnell, among others. Sherman and Smith maintained offices at the corner of Broadway and Liberty Street in New York City and were highly regarded as the finest cartographic engravers in the city. Their non-cartographic legacies include George Inness, who apprenticed with them for two years before going on to become a well regarding American landscape painter of the Hudson River School.


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What is an Internship?
An internship is a structured learning situation where concepts learned in the classroom are applied to the realities of an on-the-job experience related to the student's POE and career goals. Internship experiences facilitate student entry into their chosen profession and can provide them with experience in state-of-the-art facilities, training on specialized equipment, income to help offset educational expenses, academic credit applied toward a degree program and a professional network. In addition, the college gains valuable feedback from employers on instruction, curricula and programs.
Juniata offers Super Internships, stipends of up to $5,000, to students participating in internship experiences in areas where living costs can be prohibitive.
What is the Purpose?
The primary purpose of an internship is to provide an educationally sound platform for the development of the student's human, social and management skills through a field-based activity. Interns receive practical training and experience in a variety of settings through cooperatively arranged placements. Interns are employed in pre-professional (not menial) positions and work side-by-side with permanent employees.
"The Career Development office has helped me to refine my resume, build cover letters, search for companies that interest me, and most importantly, secure interviews with top companies. They have given me the opportunity to succeed in the future, and I look forward to my Corporate Finance internship with UPMC for the summer of 2012."
Rob Strauss '13, Accounting, Verona, PA
Internships provide students with the opportunity to:
- Evaluate fit within a particular career field
- Gain career-related work experience
- Develop professional work habits and skills
- Gain confidence in abilities
- Enhance marketability for future employment opportunities
- Develop a network of professional contacts
In a competitive job market, career-related work experience can be the key to obtaining full-time employment following graduation. Many employers use internships as a means of identifying potential employees and "trying" them out before committing to full-time hire. A career-related internship experience can give you the edge in the employment marketplace.
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Finding the "Right" Internship
Each year 225+ Juniata students participate in substantive, career related internship experiences. The keys to their success are getting an early start and preparing. The following are a few guidelines outlining steps in the process.Determine what is important to you
Must you earn money or can you volunteer? Are there specific things you must have included as part of the experience or is general exposure okay? Can you live anywhere or is a specific location necessary?Know yourself. Develop your marketing tools - resumes, cover letters, interview skills
Know what you bring to a potential internship employer: interests, skills, personal characteristics. Develop a resume (attend a Career Services workshop) to effectively market and distinguish yourself from other candidates. Understand how your qualifications fit with a particular employer and prepare to sell them on how you can assist in solving their problems.Identify prospective employers
The Career Services Office has a variety of resources available to assist you in identifying potential internship employers. Potential resources include employer/internship directories, internet databases, faculty, alumni contacts and places with ongoing relationships with Juniata College. Don't forget your personal network of contacts.Contact employers early
It is always better to be too early than too late. Many of the best formulated internship experiences have early application deadlines. Some as early as January for summer internship experiences. Typically it is appropriate to contact a human resources department (or other appropriate individual) 3-4 months in advance. Call or write to request information and ascertain application procedure.Apply to internship experiences of interest and maintain contact throughout the interview process
Neatly complete (type) any application forms/materials. Ensure that your file is complete. Should you be offered an interview, be prepared. Consider attending an interview workshop offered by the Career Services Office.Follow-up all interviews
Always send a thank you letter indicating your appreciation and interest. If you were not granted an interview, follow-up as well to distinguish yourself from other candidates for the next round of internship hires.
Credit versus Non-Credit Internships
Credit for internships is not given for work per se. Students apply theoretical concepts to the workplace and reassess ideas. Hence, academic credit is given for placing the pre-professional work experience in a conceptual and comparative context. The primary distinction between credit and non-credit internships is the degree to which students are required to reflect on their experience. This distinction is exhibited in the differences in the academic requirements, the degree of college supervision, the investment of college resources, and the student's payment for and receipt of credit. With both credit and non-credit internships, placement is a coordinated responsibility of the student, internship staff, and faculty members. For credit internships, the academic department is expected to lead the effort, while in non-credit internships, the internship staff takes the lead.
In the case of credit internships students may be compensated for internship work as long as the department and/or faculty sponsor believes that the college can maintain enough control of the internship experience to ensure its academic validity. Interns working in non-credit situations are normally, but not always, compensated.
Credit Internships
A student pursuing a credit internship must be of junior or senior status, have a 2.0 cumulative grade point average, and be in good academic standing. Individual departments may set additional requirements including a higher GPA standard.
In order to apply for a credit internship students:
- Obtain forms from the Office of Career Services - Intern Registration Card and Learning Agreement Plan.
- Recruit a faculty sponsor.
- Secure an internship position.
- Complete and present for approval signatures the internship "learning agreement plan" to appropriate faculty (faculty sponsor, both advisors, and the department chair) for review.
- Upon approval, students submit the "plan" to the Director of Career Services and the Registrar for final acceptance and signatures.
- Agency contracts are developed as needed.
Students must register for an internship and an internship seminar (Note: Students generally follow the registration dates and deadlines of the college, however, some flexibility exists as "employment" can begin at times that don't coincide with the Juniata semester). The Faculty Sponsor determines the amount of credit to be awarded, which in turn determines the intensity of the experience. A semester internship carries a minimum of 4 credit hours (2 internship hours + 2 seminar hours) and a maximum of 15 credit hours (normally 9 + 6, except in cases where an outside accrediting agency requires otherwise, such as Social Work and Education). Students can earn no more that 15 internship credits during their four years at Juniata, including a maximum of 6 hours in summer internship credits (unless more summer credits are necessary for certification in a particular area). The faculty sponsor awards standard letter grades (A - F) for the internship and the seminar.
The internship is designated as course 490 within the appropriate department ("Internship") and carries two to nine credits. Credit is awarded in proportion to time on the job as follows:
2 credits = 8 hours/week
3 credits = 12 hours/week
4 credits = 16 hours/week
5 credits = 20 hours/week
6 credits = 24 hours/week
7 credits = 28 hours/week
8 credits = 32 hours/week
9 credits = 36 hours/week
Grading is based on the following criteria: regular supervision by the on-site supervisor; regular contact with the faculty sponsor including on-site visits as necessary; a written learning contract, where appropriate; at least one interim assessment conducted jointly by the student, the on-site supervisor, and the Juniata faculty sponsor; a final assessment conducted by all three individuals; a journal of daily activities; and, if appropriate, a portfolio of work completed.
The internship seminar is designated as course 495 in the same department ("Internship Seminar") for two to six credits. Course credit is awarded in proportion to time spent working with the faculty member as follows:
2 credits = 6 contact or study hours /week
3 credits = 9 contact or study hours/week
4 credits = 12 contact or study hours/week
5 credits = 15 contact or study hours/week
6 credits = 18 contact or study hours/week
Grading for the seminar is based on contact with the faculty sponsor; an organizational profile or systems analysis; an extensive written project, paper, or program as arranged with and reviewed by the faculty sponsor.
Examples of past seminar requirements are:
2 credits
- journal of daily activities, outline of final paper, final paper, share with student group;
- journal of daily activities, portfolio, annotated bibliography, oral presentation;
- journal of daily activities, public presentation, short assignment, term paper;
- meet with sponsor, submit copies of projects, descriptive analysis of operations.
3 credits
- journal of daily activities and annotated bibliography, research project and report, self- evaluation of performance, weekly meeting with sponsor;
- read three books, journal of daily activities, 15-20 page research paper;
- journal of daily activities, abstracts, outline of final paper, final paper, share with student group.
4 credits
- journal of daily activities, two book reviews, outline of research paper, major research paper, weekly meetings with sponsor.
5 credits
- journal of daily activities, weekly sponsor meetings, book review, two research projects.
6 credits
- journal of daily activities, weekly meeting with sponsor, three research projects.
The intern must fulfill any additional departmental requirements provided these requirements do not conflict with internship policies.
Non-Credit, Transcript Notation Internships
Juniata's Summer Transcript Notation Internship Program allows a student to do an internship for transcript notation without a grade. Essentially, this amounts to a pass/fail arrangement. This benefits students by allowing them to do a comprehensive, thorough internship during the summer when it will not interfere with the normal flow of fall and spring semester courses. In addition, summer transcript notation interns are not put in the position of having to pay for extra credit hours (from an internship) that are not needed for graduation. Still, the summer internship, provided that it meets the following minimum standards, can be officially notated on the student's transcript (the equivalent of a "pass" grade).Policies
Academic Validity - The internship must consist of pre-professional, academically valid, practical work responsibilities, and may not consist solely of clerical or menial labor.
Supervision - An intern should be supervised by a professional and work side-by-side with other professional employees. When appropriate, the intern should be given expert training when expected to perform certain tasks or projects (e.g., using scientific equipment).
Duration - It is suggested that summer internships include approximately 240 work hours (e.g., 10 weeks at 24 hours/week).
Relation to Courses - The intern must have completed a minimum of 12 credit hours in courses directly related to the internship prior to the internship.
Verification - The supervisor's evaluation will serve as verification of the internship experience. Should questions or concerns arise, the Director of Career Services may evaluate the quality of the placement and/or the progress of the intern.
Evaluation - The on-site supervisor agrees to complete and return a written evaluation of the intern at the end of the internship. The intern will make an oral presentation about the internship experience and its academic validity upon return to the campus in the fall. The internship committee has the authority to make decisions as to the worthiness of the internship for official transcript notation.
Remuneration - Typically, though not always, summer interns are paid with the average pay range being $7.00 - $9.00/hour. While the college encourages compensation for the interns, the decision to offer pay is entirely up to the employer. Students who choose to volunteer or work for a small stipend are still subject to all above listed expectations.
These standards provide the basic expectations for a summer internship. They are not exhaustive and have been formulated with some flexibility for unique situations. Upon successful completion of all requirements, a non-credit internship appears on the academic transcript as course number 001 ("Internship" followed by the title as approved by the Internship Committee) in the appropriate department. Students may complete more than one non-credit internship and receive transcript notation each time (course 002, 003, etc.).
Role of Career Services
The Office of Career Services serves as the central administrative arm for all aspects of the Internship program from the beginning with the student application to the end with evaluation. Career Services:
- Assists students in identifying potential employers.
- Facilitates student "placement."
- Orientates students to the Program; provides Learning Agreement Form required to register.
- Maintains intern student files.
- Acts as a general resource.
- Schedules and conducts job-site evaluation with employer and student for non-credit internships.
- Coordinates Transcript Notation presentations.
- Resolves problems as they arise.
Role of the Faculty Sponsor
The Faculty Sponsor plays one of the most important roles in implementing credit Internship experiences. It is the Faculty Sponsor who works closely with the student and the employer, approving the internship, facilitating the seminar component and grading the overall experience, and thus maintaining the academic integrity of the program. The Faculty Sponsor:
- Discusses and assists students in determining job description/learning outcomes.
- Approves Learning Agreement Plan (signs off on them) and forwards them to Career Services via the students two advisors and the Department Head.
- Schedules job-site visits with the student and employer for the purpose of assessing progress toward completion of Learning Objectives.
- Determines the final grade for credit internships.
Role of the Worksite Supervisor
- Assists student in developing relevant job description.
- Provides work opportunities conducive to learning.
- Allows and participates in site visitations by Juniata College Personnel.
- Completes evaluation of Intern student and program as requested.
Role of the Student
- Actively seek an internship position, they are not given to you.
- Students are expected to assume their share of responsibility for the successful operation of the program. Students on assignments represent Juniata College to their employers and influence those employers' continued cooperation with the college.
- Complete all applicable paperwork and related requirements.
- Report any changes in work assignments, supervisor name, contact information, etc.
- Not leave an internship assignment without the approval of the Faculty Sponsor and/or Career Services.
- Participate in the Student/Employer evaluation process.
The Internship Process
- The student applies with the Career Services Office.
- A student who is currently employed in a position related to his/her academic studies may "petition" the Career Services Office and/or the Faculty Sponsor to determine if the position satisfies all internship program requirements.
- A student who is not currently employed in a position related to his/her academic studies with be provided with assistance in conducting a search to secure such an internship experience.
- The student then secures a Faculty Sponsor (Credit Internships ONLY) to oversee the internship experience.
- The student then completes Learning Agreement Plan by meeting with the Faculty.
- The student registers for internship and internship seminar credit (as appropriate).
- The student begins the internship work experience.
- The Office of Career Services or the Faculty Sponsor sends a student evaluation form.
- The student completes the "Student Evaluation" form.
- The Faculty Sponsor grades the experience.
Forms to Complete
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Twas a while before christmas,
when all through the house
A Leb she was stirring, a sweet Polish Mouse
Undies were hung, by the balcony (sans care)
The children were nestled, all snug in their heads
While kidnappers lay waiting, just under their beds
And Manda in her Zimmy, and Bub in the nude
Had just settled down, for some takeaway food.
When out from the street, there arose such a clatter,
I really didn't care what was the matter.
Away to the window, we lolled like dead Cows
Rolled open the blinds, what the hell was it now!
The moon, on the boob, of some soon fallen smog
Made the objects below look as dull as a bog.
When, what to our jaded eyes should appear,
But a drunken boozehead, smelling strongly of beer.
With a stumble and fall that was anything but quicked,
But there was still a small chance, our cars would get nicked.
More rapid than eagles his chunder it came,
As he gurgled and choked, and cussed them by name.
Now, Johnnie! Now, Jack! Now, VB and Jim!
Out, Vodka! Out, Scotch! Out Tonic + Gin.
To the bottom of the gutter, all the way down the street.
Now dash away, dash away, all the stuff I did eat.
As rubbish that before the wild winds does fly,
It splatters, and splotches and brings forth a cry.
All down the gutter those courses they flew,
With some choking, some gasping - to stagger the spew.
And In a twinkling, I heard through the ceiling,
Our bloody neighbours, with no neighbourly feeling.
As I drew in my tongue, trying not to say Fuck
Frustrated, angry and Shit out of Luck.
Came a parking inspector: Evil, from his head to his foot
Bending down near the tyres just under my boot.
A bundle of tickets, he had flung on his back
And he looked like a target, about to get whacked
His eyes, so beady, his forearms - so hairy!
His snarl like pythons, his eyes so damn stare-y!
His mean little mouth was drawn up like a fist,
The beard on his chin - clearly never been kissed.
The Stump of his pride, he held clenched in his jaw,
And the smugness it circled his head like the law.
He had a poxy face and a round little belly,
That shook, when he smirked, like a chubby girl named Kelly
He was mean and unforgiving, a miserable elf
And I laughed when I saw him, In spite of myself
A wink of his eye, and a flash of a ticket
Made me aim daggers at him, as though he were wicket
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled in my rego, that insufferable jerk!
And laying his finger inside of his nose
And giving a nod, down the street he goes
He sprang to his ride, to his partner - fived high
And away they all flew, with my savings - Oh, My!
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight
I'm telling the cops, about your broken tail light.
Ah! Cake + Knifelfs! Truth be told, I've felt more christmassy than I do this year. Christmas hasn't been shaping up well here, no, not at all. We're doing alright, don't get me wrong. We're in a pretty good set up, no mangering going on - and there's certainly a lot to be happy about. But it's still not adding up! Failed jam and a case of ants in the pants. But besides some snide poetic offerings tinged strongly with cinnamoned-cynicism - I do have something from a friend of far purer heart than I, a Polish friend, who starts getting into christmas some time in mid-October. This is her hallowed, traditional recipe for Polish Christmas gingerbreadtypestuff. Spiced in nice, warm, sweet and innocent - and in all the playful shapes of seasonal cheer. Kinda makes me want to puke.
Just kidding! These are whimsically wonderful little biscuits, pure and simple and gorgeous to make. Lets call them Edward Scissorhand Cookies - you don't need blades instead of digits to make them, but, if you do make them the trays and trays of the perfectly honey-nutmegged geometry flowing from the oven like Bach for the Nose, might remind you of the beautiful fancy of Tim Burton's flowery imagination and the opening scenes from the mansion high up on the hill, where the inventor lived.
These are magical to smell, magical to watch being made and even more magical to bite into. Battered shapes become golden and full with the breath of baked life. If you want to get your festive cheer on, this is one way to do it...
My little inventors will need:
400g good raw honey
250g brown sugar
100g butter
Charming Cinnamon
Some Quaint Ground Cloves
1kg plain flour + 6 tspn baking powder (or 1kg SR flour)
2 eggs
A pinch of Salt
Some festive Love (ah, who are we kidding, good ol' fashioned Hate'll do)
Wonderously sweet cookie men and moons and stars and trees begin by bashing the honey, sugar and butter into a warmed pan and letting it all lusciously melt over a steady heat. Once melted, add the cinnamon and the cloves, mix it, let it cool. Once the mixture is cool mix in the flour, the eggs and the baking powder with hands. Hela does this with some good polish pounding technique that I doubt any Australian could easily imitate. Let this all rest for one day. If you live in Poland where it is cold, you put it in plastic bag on your doorstep. In Sydney, doing so would cause the mixture to melt, assuming someone didn't St Nick it first - hence, in our Southern Hemisphere, Polish Accent: We Use Fridge.
Take it out of the fridge the next day. Let it acclimatize itself back to room temperature, then roll it good, like a teenager with some new Nikeys, onto a floured surface. Push it down into about a 0.5cm thinness, you don't want a bulky cookie. Well, you little gluttons probably do! But that's not how they roll in Poland (that was a pun). Pick your shapes, any shapes you like, I have little puppies and turtles etc, anything goes. You could find guns and daggers and guillotines depending on your mood. Smash it, upon lined baking paper, into a 200 degrees celc. preheated oven for about ten minutes, and then put in the next tray and the next.
Believe it or not, you're actually not supposed to gobble these right away. You let them cool, like Fonz. Hela then dips hers into melted chocolate with just an Eastern European dash of milk, or leave them as in, but closed in a tin. They taste delicious the next day but you're supposed to have enough will power to leave them in the tin for a whole week, allowing them to soften into perfect, traditional Polish cookie delight. The entire tin above was polished by Papa Bechara in about 3 minutes when my body tells me to eat something sweet, I listen to my body, that's why I'm 72 and I've never been in Hospital. Not Once...That's why I can't fit into my Nudies, Dad!
There you have it, polish shapes and bits and clovely pieces. Hooray for Hela!
That's about all the cheer you bastards are getting from me. Have a great christmas, lots of turkey, lots of mince pie and even more subtle (or depending on your origin: blatant) family tension around the festive table. Do try not to kill any relos or gouge out any eyes, now for some of you, I know that'll be a big ask - but for crying out loud, it's christmas! God damn It!