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Most citizens of the United States are either immigrants themselves or have in their family trees relatives who immigrated to this country. Despite this fact, the American public has always remained ambivalent over the issue of immigration. Anti-immigration sentiment had reached one of its peaks in the years immediately following the end of World War I. Historians have identified a number of factors contributing to these nativist feelings. During the 1880s and 1890s the nation faced a sharp economic recession with significant rates of unemployment. Many citizens believed that immigrants flooded the labor market and reduced job opportunities and wages for those born in the United States. The new immigration of the late-nineteenth century, brought immigrants from eastern Europe and from southern European countries such as Italy, Spain and Greece. Many American citizens viewed these people as racially inferior. Finally, it was believed that southern European immigrants brought to these shores political ideologies such as anarchism, and communism, which most Americans saw as both radical and threatening. This editorial reflects all of these sentiments.
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EDMONDS — The public is not flocking en masse just yet to newly designated parking spaces for Sounder train commuters in Edmonds, but for some riders, the spaces already are making a difference.
The first week, an average of about eight cars per day were parked in some of the 53 newly set-aside spaces at the Waterfront Antique Mall, near the train station, after they became available Dec. 3, Sound Transit spokeswoman Kimberly Reason said.
Last week, the numbers were in the teens and 20s, with a high of 23 on Thursday, she said. December ridership typically dips because of holiday vacations, she added.
The new owners of the antique mall property, Salish Crossing, of Bothell, agreed in October to lease 103 spaces to Sound Transit for commuter parking.
The Sounder trains run from Everett to Seattle and back four times on weekdays, with stops in Mukilteo and Edmonds. The trains have been shut down since Monday morning because of mudslides on the tracks in Everett. Another slide occurred at 5:50 a.m. Tuesday, said Gus Melonas, a spokesman for Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway. The railway, which owns the tracks, requires a 48-hour waiting period for passenger trains to resume service on the line for safety reasons, so the next Sounder service will be Thursday morning, barring more mudslides.
Closures from the slides have been frequent in recent winters. These have been cited as a factor in low ridership on the line, as well as the parking shortages at Edmonds and Mukilteo.
In Edmonds, Sound Transit last month agreed to pay $150 per space per month to Salish Crossing for the parking for five years. This will amount to $15,450 per month or $185,400 per year for all 103 spaces.
The lot at the train station, which is shared by riders for both Sounder and Amtrak trains, has 156 spaces that are usually full by the time the third train of the day departs at 7:11 a.m., riders say. Those hoping to park at or close to the station and catch the fourth train at 7:41 a.m. have been out of luck.
Amie Armstrong, of Lynnwood, had been taking the 7:11 a.m. train to downtown Seattle to avoid losing the game of musical parking spaces at the train station. On Tuesday, for the first time, she parked at the antique mall and caught the 7:41.
She previously tried taking the bus, but the Lynnwood park-and-ride lot was full, she said.
"I don't want to drive," Armstrong said.
About half the 103 new spaces are not yet available because they're part of the owners' remodeling plans for the mall, said Nick Echelbarger, a manager for Salish Crossing, a subsidiary of Echelbarger Investments, a Lynnwood real estate firm.
The work includes tearing down the southernmost building on the property and creating new parking in that area. The job is expected to be done next May.
In the meantime, the company set aside 53 spaces around the perimeter of the antique mall for Sounder train commuters. Signs mark the areas designated for train parking.
"I'm glad they're doing it now. I'm glad they didn't wait until May," said Melody Harris, of Edmonds, who had been parking downtown and walking about half a mile to the station.
She parked in one of the new spaces on Tuesday, as did Greg Banasek of Edmonds. Like Harris, he had been walking from downtown Edmonds.
"I think it'll be a huge benefit," he said.
Readson said Sound Transit will spread the word about the new spaces "via customer outreach, social media, and other marketing efforts."
The Sounder North line averages about 1,100 boardings per weekday, less than half of what was projected when the service began. Sounder service between Seattle and Tacoma averages between 8,500 and 10,000 boardings per day, according to Sound Transit.
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By Matthew Heimer
Jay Leno said goodbye to viewers after 22 years as host of NBC's "Tonight Show" on Thursday night, hosting his final episode before passing the reins to the show's new host, Jimmy Fallon. Leno's audience of about 3.8 million viewers a night is tops in the high-profile if not always profitable arena of late-night television. But it's also one of the oldest, with a median age of 58 — and his departure raises the question of how a generational shift among hosts might affect a boomer-age audience.
If you harbored any doubts about the status of the 63-year-old Leno as the king of mainstream, boomer-culture comedy, the farewell episode was tailor-made to abolish them. (Christopher Farley of The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blog captured it deftly in a running commentary last night.) The list of celebs who paid tribute to Leno included a few youth-culture paragons (Miley Cyrus, a Kardashian), but it was dominated by performers over 50. Leno himself did a Muhammad Ali imitation, and the centerpiece of the episode was Billy Crystal leading a chorus of celebs in a parody of "So Long, Farewell" from "The Sound of Music" — two moments dear to your heart if you're old enough to clearly remember the 1960s and 70s.
It's a truism in the TV business that the viewers you really want are those who are under 49 (or better still under 35), because they're the ones for whom advertisers drool. Fallon, at 39, will be the youngest host of any major late-night show when he takes over on Feb. 17, and NBC executives have said they're hoping he brings the average age of "Tonight Show" viewers down a notch. (Joe Goldman at Equities.com has an interesting commentary here about the late-night landscape and the show's value to NBC and its parent company, Comcast /quotes/zigman/89307/delayed /quotes/nls/cmcsa CMCSA .)
While Gen X television writers would sometimes grouse that they'd watch Leno to see what kind of jokes they should avoid, some producers hail Fallon as an icon for a social-media-savvy generation — note, for example, his many viral YouTube videos ("Hashtag, I'm 38").
That said, Fallon's current audience, on NBC's "Late Night," isn't exactly teeny-bopper-ish; even though the show airs later than Leno's, its average age hovers around 50, according to Ed Pilkington of the Guardian, and the same goes for the audience of 46-year-old Jimmy Kimmel's show on ABC. Interestingly enough, the average age of Conan O'Brien's viewers on TBS is only 39; when O'Brien briefly hosted the Tonight Show in 2009 and 2010, the average viewer age sank, but so did the ratings.
Pilkington points out that Leno's audience is down more than a third from its peak a decade ago. In other words, the size of the audience has dropped far faster than its average age is likely to do. My guess is that any changes in the late-night audience age will continue to be incremental. The talk-show format, with stars seated decorously next to potted palms to promote the movie or album of the week, is still comfort food for people 40 and older, but viewers who grew up with smartphones and series like "Adult Swim" won't have the patience for it.
One final thought: The age difference between Fallon and Leno is almost exactly the same as the difference between Leno and Johnny Carson, whom Leno succeeded in 1992.
Also in Encore:
Who watched the Series? Mostly boomers
Did Medicare break up the Captain & Tennille?
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MindFire needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 23 designs submitted by 6 freelance designers.
I have been involved with developing a variety of commercial and consumer websites over the last 10 years. We have used 99Designs in the past and have had great success. Our company culture is progressive, casual, and professional. I personally love artistic cutting-edge designs, as long as they are flexible, simple to read, and reproduce in print as well as various online applications. Thanks for wanting to help with our most current project!
The logo design for our BoilerHub.com project would be medium to small business owners or equipment purchasing personnel. The purpose of the website is to create a better market for business owners to find new and used boiler systems and to have the option to rent boiler equipment in order to save money for start-ups or companies who are struggling. I would like the logo to convey a simple, clean, and effective service to help these people find what they need.
I am looking for a nice logo design that can be used on the website, business cards, e-mail stationary in a couple of various sizes. The standard file types will work for our purposes.
From a design standpoint, this obviously deals with industrial equipment and a business to business application, but I am really looking for something cool, creative and eye catching. I want to stand out from the boring, conventional business logos in this space.
I would like to highlight an industrial flare and maybe some symbol(s) that represent power plants, machinery, or steam in this case. Get creative! Ultimately, the site will be a marketplace for buyers and sellers to meet and discuss used equipment options and needs for all types of industrial equipment, so symbols relating to connecting people will work as well.
All color pallets are open.
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Departmental E-mail: sphsdept [at] indiana [dot] edu
Departmental URL: www.indiana.edu/~sphs/
The graduate curriculum in Speech and Hearing Sciences combines training for students wishing to pursue clinical careers in speech-language pathology or audiology, as well as graduate studies in speech, language, and hearing sciences, speech-language pathology, and audiology for research or academic careers. The department is accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
Degrees Offered
Master of Arts in Speech and Hearing Science, Doctor of Philosophy in Speech and Hearing Sciences, and Ph.D. minor in Speech and Hearing Sciences. (The College of Arts and Sciences offers the Doctor of Audiology degree.)
Special Departmental Requirements
Adequate Progress
Individual student progress will be evaluated annually by program faculty. Students who are judged to be making inadequate progress on the basis of poor grades, incomplete coursework, or insufficient research accomplishments may be placed on academic probation. Students on academic probation will be offered a timetable for remedial work and re-testing, and will have restricted access to coursework and clinical experiences. If deficiencies are not corrected according to the revised timetable, the student is likely to be dismissed from the program. (See also general University Graduate School requirements.)
Master of Arts in Speech and Hearing Sciences
Course Requirements
A minimum of 36 credit hours, with no more than 6 credit hours in S780.
Students wishing to receive certification must enroll in clinical practicum (S561, S563, and school practicum) each semester, and must complete at least three semesters of practicum with grades of B (3.0) or higher. Students who wish to earn the M.A. degree but do not choose to complete practicum requirements and clinical certification may complete a non-clinical M.A. degree.
Each student must pass a written comprehensive examination evaluated by a faculty committee.
Doctor of Philosophy Degree in Speech and Hearing Sciences
Course Requirements
At least 90 credit hours with grade of B (3.0) or above. This coursework must include S685, S683, two or three area courses (S686, S696, or S702), and courses required for an outside minor. In addition, students must complete 6 credit hours of graduate coursework in experimental design and statistics or demonstrate equivalent competency. No more than 12 credit hours of coursework in experiemental design or statistics may count towards the required total of 90 credit hours for the degree. Additional required coursework may be determined by the student's graduate advisory committee.
After completing the required coursework, students must pass a qualifying exam consisting of written questions and oral defense of the answers. Exam questions are tailored for each student by their faculty advisory committee, which also evaluates student performance. Students who do not pass the qualifying exam will be placed on academic probation and given a second opportunity to take the exam. Students who do not pass after two attempts are likely to be dismissed from the program.
Research and Dissertation
Each student must complete three research projects: first-year, second-year, and dissertation research projects. These projects will be evaluated by the students' individual advisory and dissertation research committees.
Ph.D. Minor in Speech and Hearing Sciences
Students wishing to obtain a minor in speech and hearing sciences must have a faculty advisor from the department. Adjunct faculty must receive approval from SPHS faculty to serve as the advisor for the student's minor. The advisor will approve the student's program of course work in the minor and will serve on the student's advisory committee, research committee, or both. The student is required to complete at least 12 credit hours of graduate course work in the minor department with a grade of B or higher. A written qualifying examination is not required, but will be administered at the request of the major department.
Ph.D. Double Major in Speech and Hearing Sciences
Students who are admitted into the double major Ph.D. program must complete the requirements for Speech and Hearing Sciences and the other major department as specified in the University Graduate School Bulletin. The advisory committee must include at least two members from Speech and Hearing Sciences and two faculty members from the second major field. Qualifying examination format will be determined with input from both major fields of study. A minor concentration is optional, but if a minor is undertaken, there must be one additional advisory committee member to represent that discipline. At least 30 graduate credit hours must be completed in Speech and Hearing Sciences or cross-listed courses.


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# CE hours required and length of licensure period:
30 hours over two-year licensing period
Type of CE
29 hours in health/safety/welfare; 1 hour in professional ethics roles, responsibilities, and conduct of professional soil classifiers, or review of the SC Statute and Regulations.
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The Council may disallow claimed credit for continuing education hours. The registrant has one hundred eighty (180) calendar days after notification of disallowance of credit to substantiate the original claim or earn other continuing education credit which fulfills minimum requirements.
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Credit will be allowed only for participation in continuing education activities where independent verification is provided. "Independent verification" means documentation of attendance by a sponsor or the sponsor's designee. Please note that the Council does not pre-approve continuing education activities or courses.
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2. The following types of activities are acceptable:
a. Attendance at technical presentations or workshops on soil classifying subjects which are provided by independent sponsors or held in conjunction with colleges, universities, conventions or seminars and are related to materials use and function;
b. Self directed study may include:
i. Webinars on practice related topics.
ii. Public service activities that draw upon the soil classifier's expertise.
iii. Articles or other study materials that the soil classifier has not previously utilized for self directed study.
iv. Hours spent in soil classifying self directed study programs such as those organized or sponsored by SSSA, NSCSS, SSSSC, or similar organizations acceptable to the council.
c. Teaching soil classifying courses or seminars:
i. A maximum of one (1) CE credit may be claimed per class hour spent teaching soil classifying courses or seminars.
ii. Licensees may not claim credit for teaching the same course or seminar more than once. Teaching credit does not apply to full-time faculty.
iii. Each semester hour of credit from a college or university shall be deemed to be fifteen (15) hours and each quarter hour of credit shall be deemed to be ten (10) hours. University and college courses offered in a degree program are permitted so long as the course is not taken to meet the education requirements for licensure as a professional soil classifier.
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Reporting Records Accepted for Audits:
Certificates of completion, agendas, or sign in sheets that show the number of hours credited for the course. Licensees are required to maintain these records for a period of four years.
Disallowed activities:
The Council has final authority with respect to approval of courses, credit, continuing education hour value of courses, and other value of content. The licensee will have 180 calendar days after the date of notification to substantiate the original claim or to earn other continuing education credit to fulfill the minimum requirement if the Board disallows a continuing education claim.
Failure to Comply With Continuing Education Audits will be considered a violation of the Soil Classifying Law and will be subject to disciplinary action.
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Facebook, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, and other leading IT users think the open-source movement is ready to shake up the hardware industry the way Linux did in software.
In the past, only the very biggest companies -- the likes of Amazon, Google, and, yes, Facebook -- could afford to customize servers, storage, and networking systems to their precise needs. Instead, most companies have filled their datacenters with off-the-shelf, mass-produced hardware from the likes of Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, Cisco, and Oracle.
But an open-source initiative called the Open Compute Project is trying to upend this hardware production process in two ways simultaneously. First, Facebook and other companies are sharing their hardware designs through OCP. Such sharing could put leading-edge designs in the hands of many more user companies. Second, shared hardware specs let IT organizations mix and match parts from different suppliers, which opens hardware manufacturing to new players. As a result, open-source hardware could produce significant new competition for existing hardware vendors -- and a new bargaining chip for buyers.
Open-source software such as Linux, Apache, Python, and Android rewrote the rules of the software industry. With open-source code, any company can take, say, a Linux operating system and alter it exactly for its needs. Linux by no means put an end to proprietary Windows server software in datacenters, but it made for fierce competition (and for a while, considerable anxiety in Redmond). Open-source Apache software, meantime, became the dominant web server software. Android is now the market-leading operating system for smartphones just six years after Google launched the open-source OS.
Open-source hardware, on the other hand, still has everything to prove. Is Open Compute at the cusp of doing for hardware what open-source code did for software -- make a valuable technology asset available to a much broader set of developers and users, while lowering the usage costs? Or is the project caught in a cloistered community, one that helps Facebook burnish its image as a tech innovator while benefiting only a handful of financial services and other companies with massive computing needs and tech-savvy staffs?
Fidelity is among the true believers. The investment giant is rebuilding its IT operations around a private cloud datacenter architecture, and it's embracing OCP-inspired hardware as part of that change. OCP designs now account for a third of Fidelity's servers, and George Brady, executive VP of IT, expects that figure will grow to 80%. HP and Dell designs will provide the other 20%.
Fidelity has been moving away from Tier 1 suppliers to custom or "white box" suppliers such as ZT Systems, Avnet, Penguin, and Hyve, Brady says. The prices Fidelity pays for servers have declined 50% over the 2-1/2 years since the company started buying OCP-inspired systems from the custom builders, he says.
Goldman Sachs, like Fidelity, joined OCP when it was founded in April 2011, but it's not as far along in putting OCP systems into production. The co-head of Goldman Sachs's technology division, Don Duet, says he doubts that OCP, still in its toddlerhood, deserves much credit for reducing server prices at the firm, since hardware prices were already in a steep decline.
The economics of open-source hardware are different from open-source software. A beginning programmer can download an open-source software program and make significant changes to it at no out-of-pocket cost. A beginning hardware architect can take an OCP design and ask a manufacturer to produce a different component, but it's going to cost that architect at least $400,000 upfront to retool a production line. Fewer than 10 manufacturers are building OCP-certified products today. So there's no guarantee that open-source hardware will follow the same path as software. But as corporate computing demands keep growing, open-source hardware will go somewhere.
It started at FacebookThe Open Compute Project began around designs for stripped-down motherboards for servers in Facebook's datacenter. It has expanded to designs for servers, racks, network switches, and even the design of the entire datacenter itself.
In one simple example, Facebook's IT hardware dispenses with the manufacturer's logo on the front of legacy servers -- the "vanity plates," as Facebook's Frank Frankovsky, VP of hardware design and supply chain operations and Open Compute's founder, puts it. Such adornments impede the airflow needed to cool redesigned server motherboards, and they only add cost.
Frankovsky's team is responsible for placing these servers in Facebook's massive datacenters in Oregon, North Carolina, and Lulea, Sweden. Other huge web companies such as Amazon and Google also design their own hardware, but they keep those designs secret, believing their engineering provides competitive advantage. Facebook's leap of faith is that by sharing its hardware designs, it can get more volume and new ideas behind those designs, and thus lower the overall cost of generating computing power to run its social network.
OCP backers have formed a well financed foundation and attracted a community of contributors around seven hardware projects. (See opencompute.org/projects.)
Participants in OCP include chipmakers Intel and AMD, which have produced designs for Decathlete and Roadrunner motherboards, respectively. Servers based on the motherboards are available from several manufacturers, including HP and Dell. Or a company can choose a design from among several OCP specs and hire a manufacturer to build custom servers based on it. That option is slowly giving rise to a new class of manufacturing from little-recognized manufacturers, threatening to disrupt the big three of HP, Dell, and IBM. The triumvirate commanded almost two-thirds of the x86 server market in third-quarter 2013, according to IDC. (IBM is in the midst of selling its x86 server business to Lenovo for $2.3 billion, precisely because it's low-margin.)


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Apple Inc. shares made a swift reversal higher Tuesday amid a wave of Twitter chatter about a possible stock split and special dividend. Shares rose 1.2% to $448.04 in early afternoon trades after hitting an intraday low of $437.66, or a drop of as much as 1.1%. Volume picked up as the widely held — but recently battered — stock climbed to its highs of the day.
What gives? For a start, hedge fund manager Doug Kass tweeted that he was very long Apple — and then said he was hearing about a stock split. An Apple spokesperson declined to comment.
High above the Alps my Gnome is hearing a rumor that Apple will announce a stock split at tomorrow\'s shareholder meeting.$AAPL
— Douglas Kass (@DougKass) February 26, 2013
@dougkass jumped in some 440 calls earlier just waiting now. AAPL will eventually issue preferred stock?
— Philip Blair (@udubfan13) February 26, 2013
Here\'s what the intraday chart looks like.
Talk of a split, which has cropped up before, comes a day ahead of Apple\'s shareholder meeting. The topic of the company giving back more of its cash to investors has been a hot one, recently resulting in activist investor David Einhorn successfully suing the company over its ballot proposal to allow shareholders to vote on future issuance of preferred stock. Einhorn is pushing his own plan for Apple: to create a special type of a preferred stock that would pay out a perpetual dividend (iPrefs). Read Therese Poletti: Apple cash drama is far from over and Einhorn touts plan for Apple \'war vault.\'
Not surprisingly, there were plenty of Twitter skeptics on the rumor and as trading wore on, Kass started to publicly hedge his comments.
Don\'t know if we\'ve ever seen a company announce a stock split after a 35% decline. $AAPL $$
— Bespoke (@bespokeinvest) February 26, 2013
So Doug Kass starts a rumor while being long $AAPL stock and then pretends that he wasn\'t the source of the rumor? Makes Sense.
— Arctic Gambino (@a_bh_a) February 26, 2013
i\'m glad i\'m not the only one confused about why investors are so excited about a stock split $AAPL
— Michael Flannelly (@MTFlannelly) February 26, 2013
Apple is now trading near $449, up from the day\'s low at $437.65.Prudence dictates that I sell off some of this outsized position $AAPL — Douglas Kass (@DougKass) February 26, 2013
More from Kass:
Apple continues to climb – now up by over $8. I continue to pare back as the rumor seems to be baseless based on current share authorization
— Douglas Kass (@DougKass) February 26, 2013
Nonetheless, shares extended gains, trading up 1.5% at $449.32 with about 20 min before the closing bell.
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English Majors: The news is good
By Susan Andrews
November 4, 2011
Why major in English if you're not going to teach? Dr. Rob Prescott, chair of the English department and professor of English at Bradley University, can provide you with dozens of reasons why majoring in this discipline can give you a competitive advantage in today's dynamic marketplace.
When thinking about the skills acquired by an English major, invariably the development of strong oral and written communication abilities comes to mind. However, Prescott would argue that the answer is far from complete.
"Today's English major has the opportunity to develop a complex skill set that includes differentiated analytical, critical thinking, creative problem-solving, research, computer technology and robust interpersonal skills.
"This skill set is not limited to English majors but includes psychology, political science, history and international relations, among others," he continued.
In his book, "Why to Major in English If You're Not Going to Teach" (Kendall Hunt Publishing Company, 2010), Prescott quotes distinguished English professor Stanley Fish who in the January 6, 2008 edition of "The New York Times" questioned the questioning of the value of the humanities.
Fish said that the only honest answer to the question "of what use are the humanities?" is none whatsoever … "An activity that cannot be justified is an activity that refuses to regard itself as instrumental to some larger good. The humanities are their own good. There is nothing more to say."
Prescott's book contains an impressive list of successful government and business leaders who majored in English. These individuals, representative of only a few among the many, have brought their skills into the world and applied them to make a positive difference.
The impressive lists demonstrate the vast potential of an English major. Prescott said that English majors can and do become anything they want. In fact, he said that English [humanities majors] majors score higher than any other major taking the MCAT and this includes all four of the exam's individual sections.
Prescott added, "This does not in any way dismiss the vital importance of a business education which we encourage our majors to begin at Bradley, and that which they will clearly need to learn as their careers begin after graduation."
In business and government, managers can train their employees on a multitude of skills and competencies, but not writing. An employer simply does not have the time or resources to give one-on-one writing instruction.
"English majors and their parents might ask what relevance and significance the major has today and question its worth," Prescott said. "English majors do matter and there are jobs out there for them."
And they do matter: Prescott includes a comic ode from the Broadway musical "Avenue Q" (music and lyrics by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx) that begins with "What do you do with a B.A. in English?" and ends with "A diff'rence to the human race!"
Prescott said that the English curriculum hones critical thinking skills, spurs creativity and helps students to stand and deliver their ideas. "English majors think innovatively and compassionately, hone research skills, understand their audience and base decisions on appropriate and authenticated data."
Students who possess a combination of technical and communication skills are particularly attractive to employers, Prescott said. "A wonderful example of this blended skill set is senior Amanda Wenger. After completing three years of engineering coursework, she switched her major to English," he said. "Now in the first semester of her senior year, Amanda has been hired by Target Corporation as a management trainee, a position coveted by many of her friends."
"Aspects of the English skill set, as well as the quantitative skills I learned through my experience as a civil engineering student, were essential throughout the interview process at Target," Amanda said. "The interviews required both technical and communicative skills to advance through the process. Thankfully, in my time at Bradley, I've had the opportunity to expand my knowledge of both skill sets."
Prescott's book provides valuable information about workplace internships, securing an entry-level job, developing a résumé and exploring career paths for the English major.
According to Prescott, the outlook for English majors continues to be good but the reporting of it is abysmal. He is spreading the word through his book and giving talks across the U.S. This includes an upcoming talk to an association of colleges and employers devoted to the development of internships in which he will address the nature of the liberal-arts skills set and the need for humanities.
Visit Bradley University's Department of English website.


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BlackLight's new "Hydrino theory" process, which directly produces electric energy from the conversion of water vapor to a new, more stable form of hydrogen, has received validation from a leading group of energy and industry experts. The group has said that the company's discovery "represents a fundamental breakthrough in clean energy technology".
Of course the potential of energy being generated from water is massive, and it could hold enormous promise for a wide range of commercial applications. And while it has always seemed like a pipe dream, BlackLight has recently completed a $5 million round of financing to support commercial development of the new process.
The academic group, which included PhDs from the likes of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the California Institute of Technology, discovered in six separate, independent studies that BlackLight has achieved a technological breakthrough with its CIHT (Catalyst-Induced-Hydrino-Transition) clean energy generating process and cell.
The entire process is fueled by water vapor which is harnessed by the CIHT cell and turned into energy as electrical power output. It is also suitable for essentially all power applications including transportation applications and electrical power production completely autonomous of fuels and grid infrastructure at a small fraction of the current capital costs.
"BlackLight's continuously operating, power-producing system converts ubiquitous H2O (water) vapor directly into electricity, oxygen, and a new, more stable form of Hydrogen called Hydrino, which releases 200 times more energy than directly burning hydrogen," said Dr. Randell Mills, Chairman, CEO and President of BlackLight Power, Inc., and inventor of the process.
While hydrogen is not naturally available and has to be produced using energy, H2O vapor is ubiquitous and can be obtained from the air. BlackLight has raised a total of $75 M for the development and commercialization of its breakthrough energy technology, and has license agreements with companies to use its patented commercial processes and systems in heating and electric power generation. The company aims to produce a 100 W unit for completion by the end of 2012 and a 1.5 kiloWatt (kW) pilot unit that can serve the residential power market. As an initial target commercial application, it is expected to be operational by 2013.
Dr. K.V. Ramanujachary, Rowan University Meritorious Professor of Chemistry and Biochemistry said of the breakthrough: "The CIHT cells constantly output stable, very high-gain electrical power for more than a month, with H2O as the only source of fuel for the process. The trace H2O vapor was supplied by a water source, or alternatively, it was extracted directly from the air, resulting in generation of electricity from water alone. This process and system that I have confirmed is truly exceptional."
Images: BlackLight Power and Mike-wise


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A replica Gemini spacecraft has center stage in the Space Flight building of the museum. "After Project Mercury proved that humans could operate in space, the next step was to perfect the techniques needed to go to the Moon. The Gemini, built by McDonnell Aircraft, was designed to do just that. With a 2 man crew, it allowed astronauts to perform space walks, rendezvous and dock with other spacecraft, and demonstrate that humans could live in space for up to 2 weeks. The ten Gemini missions paved the way for Project Apollo. This replica Gemini was built by the Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center for the HBO mini-series, "From the Earth to the Moon." (narrative from the museum)
The United States is one of the most diverse countries on earth, jam packed full of amazing sights from St. Patrick's cathedral in New York to Mount Hollywood California.The Northeast region is where it all started. Thirteen British colonies fought the American Revolution from here and won their independence in the first successful colonial rebellion in history. Take a look at these rolling hills carpeted with foliage along the Hudson river here, north of New York City.The American south is known for its polite people and slow pace of life. Probably they move slowly because it's so hot. Southerners tend not to trust people from "up north" because they talk too fast. Here's a cemetery in Georgia where you can find graves of soldiers from the Civil War.The West Coast is sort of like another country that exists to make the east coast jealous. California is full of nothing but grizzly old miners digging for gold, a few gangster rappers, and then actors. That is to say, the West Coast functions as the imagination of the US, like a weird little brother who teases everybody then gets famous for making freaky art.The central part of the country is flat farmland all the way over to the Rocky Mountains. Up in the northwest corner you can find creative people in places like Portland and Seattle, along with awesome snowboarding and good beer. Text by Steve Smith.


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One muscle group many people often forget about in their training routine is their rear delts or posterior deltoid. These muscles are the ones you cannot see in the mirror and are often underdeveloped. This muscle group is vital however for not only creating an optimal look but for the proper total body functioning as well. Let us look at a few reasons why training your posterior deltoids is essential and then go over some of the best exercises to perform to hit that muscle group.
1. Why Train Your Rear Delts? When you miss out on training these muscles, one of the most prevalent issues that can start to occur is you may develop a hunched or stooped over appearance. Having nicely developed posterior deltoid muscles helps to pull your shoulders back, helping you sustain better overall posture.
If you happen to have a powerful chest, the chances you develop this hunched or stooped look will be even greater. Your strong chest muscles will pull your shoulder girdle forward, resulting in a concave-like appearance.
Second, having strong rear delts can also help to protect your shoulder girdle area from injuries as well. If you are only strong in your lateral and front delts, this may lead to your shoulder being pulled in an unnatural position, which then can increase the risk of pain and soreness once movement begins to take place.
By training your posterior deltoid muscle, you can strive to build better overall balance.
2. The Best Exercises To Work Your Rear Delts. So now you know why to train this section of the deltoid muscle, what are the best exercise for doing so?
Cable face pulls are one move to consider adding to your workout routine. They are great for isolating the posterior deltoid muscle and helping you develop a reliable muscle pump.
Alternatively, rear dumbbell raises can be used as can a reverse pec deck. All will help you generate maximum tension on this single muscle.
If you want to hit them using a compound approach, rows will allow you to achieve that. Doing any rowing exercise is going to help work your rear delts as well as other muscle groups in the mid and upper back, along with your biceps. This is an excellent choice for really helping to develop maximum strength because you can typically go heavier on these movements.
There you have the main points to know about rear delt training. Are you overlooking these points in your workout routine?
Although managing Type 2 diabetes can be very challenging, it is not a condition you must just live with. Make simple changes to your daily routine - include exercise to help lower both your blood sugar levels and your weight.
For nearly 25 years, Beverleigh Piepers has searched for and found a number of secrets to help you build a healthy body. Go to http://DrugFreeType2Diabetes.com to learn about some of those secrets.
The answer isn't in the endless volumes of available information but in yourself.
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Exercises and Workouts - Why Training Rear Delts Is A Must
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Screen printing
|Part of a series on the
|History of printing
Screen printing is a printing technique that uses a woven mesh to support an ink-blocking stencil to receive a desired image. The attached stencil forms open areas of mesh that transfer ink or other printable materials which can be pressed through the mesh as a sharp-edged image onto a substrate. A fill blade or squeegee is moved across the screen stencil, forcing or pumping ink through the mesh openings to wet the substrate during the squeegee stroke. Basically, it is the process of using a mesh-based stencil to apply ink onto a substrate, whether it be t-shirts, posters, stickers, vinyl, wood, or other material.
Screen printing is also a stencil method of print making in which a design is imposed on a screen of polyester or other fine mesh, with blank areas coated with an impermeable substance. Ink is forced into the mesh openings by the fill blade or squeegee and onto the printing surface during the squeegee stroke. As the screen rebounds away from the substrate the ink remains on the substrate. It is also known as silkscreen, serigraphy, and serigraph printing. One color is printed at a time, so several screens can be used to produce a multicoloured image or design.
There are various terms used for what is essentially the same technique. Traditionally the process was called screen printing or silkscreen printing because silk was used in the process prior to the invention of polyester mesh. Currently, synthetic threads are commonly used in the screen printing process. The most popular mesh in general use is made of polyester. There are special-use mesh materials of nylon and stainless steel available to the screen printer. There are also different types of mesh size which will determine the outcome and look of the finished design on the material.
Screen printing is a form of stencilling that first appeared in a recognizable form in China during the Song Dynasty (960–1279 AD).[1][2] It was then adapted by other Asian countries like Japan, and was furthered by creating newer methods.
Screen printing was largely introduced to Western Europe from Asia sometime in the late 18th century, but did not gain large acceptance or use in Europe until silk mesh was more available for trade from the east and a profitable outlet for the medium discovered.
Early in the 1910s, several printers experimenting with photo-reactive chemicals used the well-known actinic light–activated cross linking or hardening traits of potassium, sodium or ammonium chromate and dichromate chemicals with glues and gelatin compounds. Roy Beck, Charles Peter and Edward Owens studied and experimented with chromic acid salt sensitized emulsions for photo-reactive stencils. This trio of developers would prove to revolutionize the commercial screen printing industry by introducing photo-imaged stencils to the industry, though the acceptance of this method would take many years. Commercial screen printing now uses sensitizers far safer and less toxic than bichromates. Currently there are large selections of pre-sensitized and "user mixed" sensitized emulsion chemicals for creating photo-reactive stencils.[3]
A group of artists who later formed the National Serigraphic Society coined the word Serigraphy in the 1930s to differentiate the artistic application of screen printing from the industrial use of the process.[4] "Serigraphy" is a compound word formed from Latin "sēricum" (silk) and Greek "graphein" (to write or draw).[5]
The Printers' National Environmental Assistance Center says "Screenprinting is arguably the most versatile of all printing processes."[6] Since rudimentary screenprinting materials are so affordable and readily available, it has been used frequently in underground settings and subcultures, and the non-professional look of such DIY culture screenprints have become a significant cultural aesthetic seen on movie posters, record album covers, flyers, shirts, commercial fonts in advertising, in artwork and elsewhere.
History 1960s to present
The Father of the Serigraphic process was an artist by the name of Guy Maccoy. In 1933 Maccoy left the Art Student League to begin work within the Work Project Administration (WPA) under Dr. Herbert H. Spenden and directed by Ben Knotts. Maccoy is credited with murals that were created for Central American Arts and Girls Industrial High School.
The following year, New York Mayor La Guardia instituted a large poster project, in which Guy became deeply involved. During the Great Depression, many artists were searching for a means to reproduce their original works faithfully, to offer additional revenue options from painting singular originals. Maccoy had been developing ideas for a printing process utilizing a silk screen and experimenting with various components and mediums to produce the desired results.
Maccoy held the first one man show of the newly named "Serigraphs" at the Contemporary Art Gallery in 1938, featuring his works, "Woman Holding Cat" and "Still Life". In 1940 Guy graduated from Columbia University with his Bachelor of Arts in teaching and moved to Vermont where he took up work with the Poligraphic Lithographic Company as a color separator and dot-etcher on the zinc lithographic plates. During this time Maccoy continued to refine the serigraphic process. In 1941 he got involved with "The Workshop" which was the predecessor to The National Serigraph Society, where Maccoy was directly involved up to 1947. In 1945 Maccoy left Vermont for Los Angeles, California. Other Artists and Serigraphers followed Maccoy to the West Coast. In 1948 Maccoy formed the Western Serigraph Society and became its first President.
Credit is generally given to the artist Andy Warhol for popularising screen printing as an artistic technique, identified as serigraphy, in the United States. Warhol is particularly identified with his 1962 depiction of actress Marilyn Monroe screen printed in garish colours.[7] Sister Mary Corita Kent, gained international fame for her vibrant serigraphs during the 1960s and 1970s. Her works were rainbow colored, contained words that were both political and fostered peace and love and caring.
American entrepreneur, artist and inventor Michael Vasilantone started to use, develop, and sell a rotary multicolour garment screen printing machine in 1960. Vasilantone later filed for patent[8] on his invention in 1967 granted number 3,427,964 on February 18, 1969.[8] The original rotary machine was manufactured to print logos and team information on [9]
In June 1986, Marc Tartaglia, Marc Tartaglia Jr. and Michael Tartaglia created a silk screening device which is defined in its US Patent Document as, "Multi-coloured designs are applied on a plurality of textile fabric or sheet materials with a silk screen printer having seven platens arranged in two horizontal rows below a longitudinal heater which is movable across either row." This invention received the patent number 4,671,174 on June 9, 1987, however the patent no longer exists.[10]
Graphic screenprinting is widely used today to create many mass or large batch produced graphics, such as posters or display stands. Full colour prints can be created by printing in CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow and black ('key')).
Screen printing lends itself well to printing on canvas. Andy Warhol, Rob Ryan, Blexbolex, Arthur Okamura, Robert Rauschenberg, Roy Lichtenstein, Harry Gottlieb, and many other artists have used screen printing as an expression of creativity and artistic vision.
Printing technique
A screen is made of a piece of mesh stretched over a frame. A stencil is formed by blocking off parts of the screen in the negative image of the design to be printed; that is, the open spaces are where the ink will appear on the substrate.
Before printing occurs, the frame and screen must undergo the pre-press process, in which an emulsion is 'scooped' across the mesh and the 'exposure unit' burns away the unnecessary emulsion leaving behind a clean area in the mesh with the identical shape as the desired image. The surface to be printed (commonly referred to as a pallet) is coated with a wide 'pallet tape'. This serves to protect the 'pallet' from any unwanted ink leaking through the screen and potentially staining the 'pallet' or transferring unwanted ink onto the next substrate. Next, the screen and frame are lined with a tape. The type of tape used in for this purpose often depends upon the ink that is to be printed onto the substrate. These aggressive tapes are generally used for UV and water-based inks due to the inks' lower viscosities. The last process in the 'pre-press' is blocking out any unwanted 'pin-holes' in the emulsion. If these holes are left in the emulsion, the ink will continue through and leave unwanted marks. To block out these holes, materials such as tapes, speciality emulsions and 'block-out pens' may be used effectively.
The screen is placed atop a substrate. Ink is placed on top of the screen, and a floodbar is used to push the ink through the holes in the mesh. The operator begins with the fill bar at the rear of the screen and behind a reservoir of ink. The operator lifts the screen to prevent contact with the substrate and then using a slight amount of downward force pulls the fill bar to the front of the screen. This effectively fills the mesh openings with ink and moves the ink reservoir to the front of the screen. The operator then uses a squeegee (rubber blade) to move the mesh down to the substrate and pushes the squeegee to the rear of the screen. The ink that is in the mesh opening is pumped or squeezed by capillary action to the substrate in a controlled and prescribed amount, i.e. the wet ink deposit is proportional to the thickness of the mesh and or stencil. As the squeegee moves toward the rear of the screen the tension of the mesh pulls the mesh up away from the substrate (called snap-off) leaving the ink upon the substrate surface.
There are three common types of screen printing presses. The 'flat-bed', 'cylinder', and the most widely used type, the 'rotary'.[6]
Textile items printed with multicoloured designs often use a wet on wet technique, or colours dried while on the press, while graphic items are allowed to dry between colours that are then printed with another screen and often in a different colour after the product is re-aligned on the press.
Most screens are ready for re-coating at this stage, but sometimes screens will have to undergo a further step in the reclaiming process called dehazing. This additional step removes haze or "ghost images" left behind in the screen once the emulsion has been removed. Ghost images tend to faintly outline the open areas of previous stencils, hence the name. They are the result of ink residue trapped in the mesh, often in the knuckles of the mesh (the points where threads cross).[11]
While the public thinks of garments in conjunction with screen printing, the technique is used on tens of thousands of items, including decals, clock and watch faces, balloons, and many other products. The technique has even been adapted for more advanced uses, such as laying down conductors and resistors in multi-layer circuits using thin ceramic layers as the substrate.
Stencilling techniques
A method of stencilling that has increased in popularity over the past years is the photo emulsion technique:
- The original image is created on a transparent overlay, and the image may be drawn or painted directly on the overlay, photocopied, or printed with a computer printer, but making so that the areas to be inked are not transparent. A black-and-white positive may also be used (projected onto the screen). However, unlike traditional plate-making, these screens are normally exposed by using film positives.
- A screen must then be selected. There are several different mesh counts that can be used depending on the detail of the design being printed. Once a screen is selected, the screen must be coated with emulsion and put to dry in a dark room. Once dry, it is then possible to burn/expose the print.
- The overlay is placed over the screen, and then exposed with a light source containing ultraviolet light in the 350-420 nano meter spectrum.
- The screen is washed off thoroughly. The areas of emulsion that were not exposed to light dissolve and wash away, leaving a negative stencil of the image on the mesh.
Another advantage of screen printing is that large quantities can be produced rapidly with new automatic presses, up to 1800 shirts in 1 hour.[12] The current speed loading record is 1805 shirts printed in one hour, documented on 18 February 2005. Maddie Sikorski of the New Buffalo Shirt Factory in Clarence, New York (USA) set this record at the Image Wear Expo in Orlando, Florida, USA, using a 12-colour M&R Formula Press and an M&R Passport Automatic Textile Unloader. The world speed record represents a speed that is over four times the typical average speed for manual loading of shirts for automated screen printing.[9]
Screen printing materials
- Caviar beads
- A caviar bead is a glue that is printed in the shape of the design, to which small plastic beads are then applied – works well with solid block areas creating an interesting tactile surface.
- Cracking ink
- Cracking ink effect is when the ink produces an intentional cracked surface after drying.
- Discharge inks
- Discharge ink is used to print lighter colours onto dark background fabrics, they work by removing the dye of the garment – this means they leave a much softer texture. The cons with this process is that they are less graphic in nature than plastisol inks, and exact colours are difficult to control. One of the pros of using this process is they are especially good for distressed prints and under-basing on dark garments that are to be printed with additional layers of plastisol. It adds variety to the design or gives it that natural soft feel.
- Expanding ink (puff)
- Expanding ink, or puff, is an additive to plastisol inks which raises the print off the garment, creating a 3D feel and look to the design. Mostly used when printing on apparel.
- Flocking
- Flocking consists of a glue printed onto the fabric and then flock material is applied for a velvet touch.
- Foil
- Foil is much like flock, but instead of a velvet touch and look it has a reflective/mirror look to it. Although foil is finished with a heat press process it needs the screen printing process in order to add the adhesive glue onto the material for the desired logo or design.
- Four colour process or the CMYK colour model
- Four colour process is when the artwork is created and then separated into four colours (CMYK) which combine to create the full spectrum of colours needed for photographic prints. This means a large number of colours can be simulated using only 4 screens, reducing costs, time, and set-up. The inks are required to blend and are more translucent, meaning a compromise with vibrancy of colour.
- Glitter/Shimmer
- Glitter or Shimmer ink is when metallic flakes become an additive in the ink base to create this sparkle effect. Usually available in gold or silver but can be mixed to make most colours.
- Gloss
- Gloss ink is when a clear base laid over previously printed inks to create a shiny finish.
- Metallic
- Metallic ink is similar to glitter, but smaller particles suspended in the ink. A glue is printed onto the fabric, then nano-scale fibers applied on it. This is often purchased already made.
- Mirrored silver
- Mirrored silver is a highly reflective, solvent based ink.
- Nylobond
- Nylobond is a special ink additive for printing onto technical or waterproof fabrics.
- Plastisol
- Plastisol is the most common ink used in commercial garment decoration. Good colour opacity onto dark garments and clear graphic detail with, as the name suggests, a more plasticized texture. This print can be made softer with special additives or heavier by adding extra layers of ink. Plastisol inks require heat (approx. 150 °C (300 °F) for many inks) to cure the print.
- PVC and Phthalate Free
- PVC and Phthalate Free is relatively new breed of ink and printing with the benefits of plastisol but without the two main toxic components. It also has a soft texture.
- Suede Ink
- Suede ink is a milky coloured additive that is added to plastisol. With suede additive you can make any color of plastisol have a suede feel. It is actually a puff blowing agent that does not bubble as much as regular puff ink. The directions vary from manufacturer to manufacturer, but generally up to 50% suede can be added to normal plastisol.
- Water-Based inks
- these penetrate the fabric more than the plastisol inks and create a much softer feel. Ideal for printing darker inks onto lighter coloured garments. Also useful for larger area prints where texture is important. Some inks require heat or an added catalyst to make the print permanent.
Hi Build A process of using a Hi Build varnish against a lower mesh count that uses many coats of emulsion or a thicker grade of capulex emulsion. Once the varnish passes over spot area an embossed 'raised' area of varnish is created. once cured at the end the varnish feel like a brail effect, giving the name 'Hi Build'
Screen printing is more versatile than traditional printing techniques. The surface does not have to be printed under pressure, unlike etching or lithography, and it does not have to be planar. Different inks can be used to work with a variety of materials, such as textiles, ceramics, wood, paper, glass, metal, and plastic. As a result, screen printing is used in many different industries, including:
- Balloons
- Clothing
- Decals
- Medical devices
- Printed electronics, including circuit board printing
- Product labels
- Signs and displays
- Snowboard graphics
- Textile fabric
- Thick film technology
Semiconducting material
In screen printing on wafer-based solar photovoltaic (PV) cells, the mesh and buses of silver are printed on the front; furthermore, the buses of silver are printed on the back. Subsequently, aluminum paste is dispensed over the whole surface of the back for passivation and surface reflection.[13] One of the parameters that can vary and can be controlled in screen printing is the thickness of the print. This makes it useful for some of the techniques of printing solar cells, electronics etc.
One of the most critical processes to maintain high yield. Solar wafers are becoming thinner and larger, so careful printing is required to maintain a lower breakage rate. On the other hand, high throughput at the printing stage improves the throughput of the whole cell production line.[13]
Screen printing press
To print multiple copies of the screen design on garments in an efficient manner, amateur and professional printers usually use a screen printing press. Many companies offer simple to sophisticated printing presses. Most of these presses are manual. A few that are industrial-grade-automatic printers require minimal manual labor and increase production significantly.
Rotary screen printing
A development of screen printing with flat screens from 1963 was to wrap the screen around to form a tube, with the ink supply and squeegee inside the tube. The resulting roller rotates at the same speed as the web in a roll-to-roll machine. The benefits are high output rates and long rolls of product. This is the only way to make high-build fully patterned printing/coating as a continuous process, and has been widely used for manufacturing textured wallpapers.[14]
Example images
See also
- Dye
- Glass
- Gocco
- Ink jet
- Multi-layer
- Metal
- Plastic
- Printed electronics
- Printed T-shirt
- Roll-to-roll printing
- Seriolithograph
- Svecia screen printing machines
- Textile printing
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Further reading
- Jacob I. Biegeleisen: Screen Printing: A Contemporary Guide. – New-York, 1972.
- Andy MacDougall: Screen Printing Today: The Basics. – ST-Media, Cincinnati, 2008.
- Guido Lengwiler: A History of Screen Printing. – ST-Media, Cincinnati, 2013.
- Steven Abbott: http://www.stevenabbott.co.uk/content/How%20To%20Be%20A%20Great%20Screen%20Printer.pdf
External links
- American Screen Printing Association, Inc.
- The Federation of European Screen Printers Associations
- Who's Who in Screenprinting


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The End Of The Global Internet? Google's Blogger Starts Using Country-Specific Domains To Permit Local Censorship
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Twitter has taken quite a lot of heat for putting in place the capability to block tweets on a geographical basis. This begins to look a little unfair in light of the fact that Google quietly adopted a similar policy before Twitter. That's shown by the answer to a question on Google's Blogger site about blogs being redirected to country-specific URLs, which at the time of writing was last updated on 9 January 2012. Here's what it says:
Q: Why am I seeing a URL change?
Google is quite frank about why it is doing this:
A: Over the coming weeks you might notice that the URL of a blog you're reading has been redirected to a country-code top level domain, or "ccTLD." For example, if you're in Australia and viewing [blogname].blogspot.com, you might be redirected [blogname].blogspot.com.au. A ccTLD, when it appears, corresponds with the country of the reader's current location.
Q: Why is this happening?
This is not only what Twitter is doing, but employs exactly the same topsy-turvy logic: by enabling local censorship, we are promoting free expression. That in itself is obviously troubling, not least because Google may be setting off down a slippery slope that sees all of its services segmented by geography to avoid local problems. But there's an even deeper issue.
A: Migrating to localized domains will allow us to continue promoting free expression and responsible publishing while providing greater flexibility in complying with valid removal requests pursuant to local law. By utilizing ccTLDs, content removals can be managed on a per country basis, which will limit their impact to the smallest number of readers. Content removed due to a specific country's law will only be removed from the relevant ccTLD.
If more and more companies follow the lead of Google and Twitter, as seems quite likely, it could represent the beginning of the end of the truly global Internet. In its place will be an increasingly balkanized online world subject to a patchwork of local laws. Looks like geography just made a comeback.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Saint_christopher_cynocephalus.gifWhy have such a strange...if not worse...picture as an icon? This appears to be taking a very strange legend and then taking it way to far. Any explanations as to why this is accepted?
...you can imagine so-called healing services of the pigpen. The books that could be written, you know: Life in the Pigpen. How to Cope in the Pigpen. Being Happy in the Pigpen. Surviving in the Pigpen. And then there could be counselling, for people who feel unhappy in the pigpen, to try to get them to come to terms with the pigpen, and to accept the pigpen.
If you spend long enough on this forum, you'll come away with all sorts of weird, untrue ideas of Orthodox Christianity.
I would suggest most persons in general avoid any question beginning with why.
The story of the strong man ferrying travellers over the river on his back is of much later origin (probably 12thC), considering St Christopher of Lycia was martyred in about AD 250 under Emperor Decius. All paintings and images of Christopher carrying the Christ-child date from the second millennium AD, and are all of Western origin. There is no iconography of this saint in this type of portrayal prior to this; rather, he is portrayed as a warrior, which fits with the earlier story of his life as a soldier. St Ambrose of Milan wrote of the many thousands of pagans who were converted to Christianity by St Christopher.How St Christopher came about to be portrayed with a dog's head is an unfortunate misunderstanding on the part of the iconographer who first painted him: St Christopher came from a region in Thessaly (northern Greece) called Kynoskephalai. This place-name means "dog-headed". So poor St Christopher was painted with a dog's head, where the iconographer mistakenly thought the name "dog-headed" referred to what the saint looked like, not where he came from. Other iconographers, unaware of this error, simply copied this form of portrayal.There is also the story that St Christopher disfigured himself to detract from his handsomeness, lest any vanity cause him to stray from his life in Christ. This poses some problems in Orthodox thought and teaching, as self-mutilation, or the seeking of it, is generally regarded as wrong. However, irrespective of whether this story is true, it is not proper for an iconographer to portray such disfigurement in any saint. Icons are portrayals of a saint's spiritual reality, of a saint's perfected state in the eyes of God, and not of imperfections which illustrate mankind's fallen, imperfect state.For example, a saint who wore spectacles during his earthly life should not be wearing them in icons. Examples include St John of Shanghai and San Francisco (1896-1966), Hieromartyr Benjamin of Petrograd (+1922), and St Luke the Surgeon of Simferopol (1876-1961). Another example is St Matrona of Moscow, another 20th C saint who was born blind. There are indeed many icons of her with her eyes closed (as they were in her earthly life, there are a number of photographs of her), however, the proper iconographic portrayal of her is with her eyes open. Though physically blind all her earthly life, by her life showed herself to be a model of spiritual illumination. Her physical eyes were useless, but her spiritual eyes were wide open. Thus she should be portrayed with her eyes open, to illustrate this spiritual reality.Depicting St Christopher with a dog's head, or with an otherwise disfigured face in an icon, therefore, is quite wrong.
Just an intersting interpretation shared with me by an iconographer from Russia that he had been taught by a monastic father that the "dog-faced" was a term used for people who had a hairlip.As that is often a heriditary disfigurement that at one time often meant a short life for the child due to the complications of a cleft palate a village that had many cleft palate children were known as "dog faced people". He thought that it was likely that St Christopher may have been such a person. For those who have had the struggles of life with a cleft palate he often gave an icon of St Christopher as a special patron for those who had cleft palate and their parents.Thomas
St Christopher came from a region in Thessaly (northern Greece) called Kynoskephalai. This place-name means "dog-headed".
If anything I have posted has been illuminating, please remember that I merely reflect the light of others...but also it's me.
QuoteSt Christopher came from a region in Thessaly (northern Greece) called Kynoskephalai. This place-name means "dog-headed". Who names their region "dog-headed"?Thanks for the explanation, LBK
Who names their region "dog-headed"?
Quote from: Cognomen on October 02, 2012, 12:55:19 AMWho names their region "dog-headed"?I read it sounds similar but isn't exactly "dog-headed".
Quote from: Cognomen on October 02, 2012, 12:55:19 AMWho names their region "dog-headed"?If people's surnames (English or any other nationality) are anything to go by, you'll be surprised, if not alarmed, by the meanings of many of them. Why would place names be any different?
Quote from: NicholasMyra on October 02, 2012, 01:15:38 AMQuote from: Cognomen on October 02, 2012, 12:55:19 AMWho names their region "dog-headed"?I read it sounds similar but isn't exactly "dog-headed". What a let down that would be. Figured you would show up in this thread, as your unwavering support of cynocephaly knows no bounds.
Isn't this the canonical icon of St. Christopher?VV
Quote from: Apostolos on October 02, 2012, 08:45:32 AMIsn't this the canonical icon of St. Christopher?VVNo, it is not. The posted image is derived from post-schism western religious art, and painted in an iconographic style. There is no Orthodox tradition of a St Christopher who ferried people over a river on his shoulders, and who once carried the Christ-child, hence his name Christophoros (bearer of Christ).
So, the canonical icon of St. Christopher is depicting him with a dog's head?Do you happen to know the specifics of his icon?Thanks
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Women outvote men to build activity hall in the Solomons
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While leaving leaving the LoLoMo eco-resort, the rain seemed to carefully time its return for our last leg of the trip. We were heading back towards Munda, and then turned to yet another island to visit the Buni Village Women's Project. This was project was in its first year of implementation. A large hall, together with rooms for guests, toilets (not standard in the rural Solomons), benches and a large blackboard was almost complete. The local carpenter was busy there in the building, planing wood for tables and benches.


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ROME, Ga.--The Birmingham-Southern tennis teams traveled to Berry College today, where the men's team defeated the Vikings 8-1 but the women lost 6-3.
The men move to 6-4 overall and 2-2 in the Southern Athletic Association. The women fall to 7-2 overall and 2-1 in league play, losing their first match since the season opener on Feb. 20 against UAH.
For the men, the Panthers were victorious at every position but two singles. In doubles play, senior Sawyer Voges and junior Stewart Thrash combined at the top spot to win 8-0, while juniors Tony DaMaia and Christian Matthews won at two doubles, 8-5. Sophomore Brian Brandt and freshman Patrick Hire won in the third doubles position, 8-0.
In singles, Voges won in the number one spot, 7-6, 6-3, while Matthews lost at two singles 6-2, 7-6. Hire and DaMaia won at three and four, and junior Lance Mengel won at No. 5 singles and sophomore Ben Reardon won in the sixth position.
In women's action, BSC took two of three doubles matches, with junior Emily Holst and freshman Sara Cohen winning a thriller at two doubles, 9-8, and junior Terria Punturo and freshman Lindsay Farrell winning at three doubles, 8-6.
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The Provenance
This story was written for Little Eagle, a 12-year-old foster child whose foster mother shared materials from The Wounded Healer Journal with her to further her healing from sexual abuse. Members of TWHJ wrote stories and wishes for Little Eagle and she put them into a scrapbook.
This is my contribution — a true story — which is also the story of how The Wounded Healer Journal community came to be. — Linda Chapman
Dear Little Eagle,
When my grandmother, Pauline, was born in Texas in 1888 her father wrote a letter to his mother, telling her to hitch up the horses to the buggy and come see his lovely little daughter, who was born just before harvest-time.
Pauline grew up and she became a hard-working farmer's wife, and when I was born she was already sixty-seven years old. I remember her soft roundness, and the way she almost always had an apron trimmed with rickrack tied around her waist, and how she smelled like lavender powder.
Sometime after the turn of the century (even before my own mother was born), her mother (my great-grandmother) moved to Arizona. On a trip back to Texas, she brought my grandmother the gift of a basket made by a Papago Indian weaver.
It was about fifteen inches tall and about a foot wide, woven of yucca and devil's claw and bear grass. In basket-maker's terms, it had "the female form" – round and curvy at the top – with a big bottom.
My grandmother used the basket in many ways over the nine decades of her life. For many years, it sat on a shelf, filled with quilt scraps of all colors and patterns.
It sat in the sunlight so long that it became faded and pale on the outside, but you could still look inside the basket to see the designs the basketweaver had woven. I have often wondered what story those symbols told.
From those scraps of cloth, my grandmother made quilts for her seven children and their children and their children's children, too.
I still have mine: It's a rainbow of fabrics stitched together in strips, and on the reverse side it's bright red like a fiery Texas sunset.
When I look at my quilt I remember my grandmother's gentle and kind ways. I remember her grace and quiet dignity and the way she always thought of others first. (Sometimes I feel a little sad about that, and wish she could have given to herself a bit more. But that's another story.)
Little Eagle, I've made quilts, too, and when I make them, I think about and pray for the people I am planning to give them to. I wonder if that's what Granny was doing as she sewed my quilt. I'd like to think so.
Granny died about twenty years ago. When she did, I was allowed to choose something from her home to remember her by. I chose the basket, the Papago basket, which sat in a corner, dusty, filled with Guideposts magazines, overlooked by everyone else.
A few years later my son was born. When he was about a year old I found him sitting inside that basket, with only his head popping out! His eyes were bright and shining and he looked very mischievous and cute. It's an image I'll remember for a long time.
But my life changed a lot over the next few years, and I eventually came upon some hard times. I was homeless, and my son had to go away to live with his father. It was a sad and scary time for me. I felt like I had lost everything. But there was something I still had — my grandmother's basket. I had kept it all of those years.
I took it to an Indian art gallery, where a kind woman wearing a silver and turquoise necklace lovingly examined it from top to bottom. I told her the story of how it had been passed down to me, and she wrote it all down. (The story of where something old and valuable originated and how it came into someone's hands is called its "provenance," I am told.)
She called to her gallery assistants and said, "Come look at this Papago basket. I'm thinking of buying it for the gallery. Isn't it fine? It's old, very old." She told me she thought it was even quite old when my great-grandmother herself carried it from Arizona to Texas around 1920.
I took a deep breath, and told her how I was reluctant to let it go.
She quickly understood, and said something wise which helped me release it. She said, "It has done its work with you."
I knew that this was so.
With the money she gave me, I was able to find a place to live. I was no longer homeless; My son could come home again — and he did! I had another chance at life: We had another chance to be a family.
All because my great-grandmother, who died before I was born, passed on a gift that helped me cross a difficult bridge in my life; a gift that enabled me to survive.
And all because the Papago woman passed on her own gift when she traded the basket to my great-grandmother. (Perhaps it had done its work with her, too?)
So you see, the reason that I am here today to write to you – and so The Wounded Healer Journal – is all because of a simple basket!
Do you think the weaver was thinking and praying for the people she would be passing the basket along to? I believe that is true. But I am sure she had no idea of all of the lives that would be touched and healed because of the prayers she wove into her basket before she let it go.
And I am thinking and praying for you, Little Eagle, as you undertake this difficult part of your journey in life.
If you ever think that things are so difficult that you can't face them anymore, I want you to remember that the answers we need are often very close by, and that sometimes they can be found in the simplest of things — things we might ordinarily overlook.
Have confidence, Little Eagle, that somehow you will receive everything you need to move forward in life. I will be thinking of you and praying that this will be so.
I give to you the story of the Papago basket to carry with you as you move forward on your healing journey. Some day, when it has done its work with you, it will be your job to pass it on.
Until then, hold it close, and with it — hold close the knowledge that many here, including me, are thinking of you and wishing you well.
Linda Chapman
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Liberty News
Library campaign surpasses $1 million in donations
The Jerry Falwell Library Campaign, formally launched in April, has received over $1 million in donations to help fund the first building at Liberty University to be named for its founder.
The four-story, 170,000-square-foot library is Liberty's largest investment in any one structure to date and is the frontrunner of the university's five-year campus transformation plan. It is scheduled for completion in late 2013.
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The library will serve as the academic heart of Liberty with innovative technology and bountiful resources all provided in a casual, trendy environment offering the latest amenities.
Donors have been giving generously to the campaign, which offers anyone an opportunity to contribute to the project through commemorative bricks, naming opportunities, or private donations.
With several naming opportunities for various areas and landmarks of the library, like a newly created lake, grand entrance hall, four-story book tower, automated book retrieval system, and other high-profile spaces, faithful donors have been able to leave a lasting legacy on Liberty's soon-to-be most prolific structure. Already over $900,000 has been pledged or given in naming opportunities. Read about these opportunities and view pictures and descriptions online.
Likewise, individuals are able to etch their names in Liberty history through commemorative bricks, which are available in three different sizes and can be custom engraved to record the achievements and gratitude of those whose lives have been touched by the university. The bricks will line the walkways at prominent entrances to the library, as a constant testament to the impact Liberty is having on current students, alumni, family, friends, and supporters all over the world. More than 970 bricks have already been sold. Bricks can be ordered online.
The Class of 2012 made the library part of its class gift at Commencement, raising over $14,000. In all, the Class of 2012 has donated $24,500. Other alumni classes are following suit in the Class Giving Competition (view updated totals on the campaign website).
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Since Chinese Democracy's release last November, Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rose has done little to promote the album he labored over for 13 years.
But now the band's bassist Tommy Stinson (formerly of The Replacements) has spoken out about the excessive recording sessions - and came to Rose's defense.
"I really don't know if there was one thing," Stinson said, explaining the record's inordinate delays. "I think it was a multitude of things. That's my straight-up answer without getting into specifics, because I think if I get specific, it can be taken as sort of negative, and I don't want to go there."
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One place Stinson did go, however, was in pointing a finger at what he cited as a lack of record company involvement.
"I think the main thing is, we just didn't have a lot of help doing it, " he said. "Geffen merged with Interscope; that definitely changed what was going down with the record. For whatever reason, because of the merger, it seems to me that that was the point when things slowed way, way, way down."
Now that Chinese Democracy has been out for several months, Stinson admitted to having "bittersweet" feelings of his decade-plus experience recording with Guns N' Roses.
"It took so long [to record the album], which is a drag, but the sweet thing is that it's actually out now, and people can actually check it out and judge for themselves on its worth or not. But ultimately for us, [the experience] was totally worth it. It turned out great, and I think it turned out right. I don't know if it would have turned out right a year ago or four years ago."
The passion of the Rose
And what of the mercurial Axl Rose? As the longest-standing member of the post-original Guns N' Roses lineup, Stinson said, "I think [Axl's] passion was always in the right place. He was like, 'You know what? When I feel that it's done, that is when it is going to be done,' You can look at that any way you want. And if you're the leader of the band, it fucking falls on him anyway.
"Good or bad, successful or not. I think whatever he had to go through to get to that point is totally cool. There's none of us that could have ever gone to him and said, 'Dude, I think you're taking too long.' That wouldn't have made sense. He had to do what he had to do to make it the right record, and only he knew in his head what that was going to be."
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