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NEH Awards Cooperative Agreement to Northeastern University for Digital Humanities Military History Workshop
I'm pleased to announce that the NEH has just awarded a cooperative agreement to NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University to host a two-day professional development workshop on the application of digital humanities research methods for military history. The workshop will be held October 10-11, 2014 in Boston. If you are interested in attending, please see the workshop website.
As a cooperative agreement, staff from the NEH will consult with NEU as they put together the agenda for this training workshop that plans to host about 50 historians of military history and foreign policy. Participants will learn about new research methods with a particular focus on network analysis and on mapping/GIS, two digital methods we hope will be particularly useful for the study of the military. NEU is putting together a terrific group of instructors for the event. Dates and other details to be announced in the coming months.
My congratulations go to Project Director Professor Heather-Streets Salter, an historian at NEU and previous NEH Summer Stipend recipient for work that led to her book Martial Races: The Military, Race, and Masculinity in British Imperial Culture, 1857-1914. I'd also like to thank history graduate student Abby Mullen at NEU who is playing a key role organizing and shaping the workshop.
Also, my thanks go out to Professor Gregory J. W. Urwin, President of the Society for Military History, who will be consulting with NEU and helping get the word out about the workshop to the military history community.
This workshop is part of a larger initiative just announced by the NEH called Standing Together: The Humanities and the Experience of War. This new initiative recognizes the importance of the humanities in helping Americans to understand the experiences of service members as they return to civilian life. To learn more about Standing Together, check out this new press release.


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ANKYLOSAURUS (an-KEE-loh-SORE-us)
Period: Late Cretaceous
Order, Suborder, Family: Ornithischia, Thyreophora, Ankylosauridae
Location: North America
Length: 23 feet (7 meters)
Next to Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops, Ankylosaurus is one of the best-known dinosaurs. Therefore, it may come as a surprise that this dinosaur is known only from three partial skeletons, none of which has been fully described. Its popularity mostly comes from a fanciful life-size restoration made for the 1964 New York World's Fair.
Through the studies of Walter Coombs, we now know that Ankylosaurus and all members of the family Ankylosauridae did not have spines and spikes projecting from the body as shown in the World's Fair restoration. Such spines and spikes only occur in the other ankylosaur family, Nodosauridae (see Sauropelta). Furthermore, there is no basis for showing keeled (ridged) rectangular plates in even rows across the body. Keeled plates have been found with the Ankylosaurus specimens, but these are different sizes and shapes. We don't know the arrangement of the plates on the body because no specimen has been found with the plates preserved as they were in life. The arrangement of plates is known for the nodosaurids Sauropelta and Edmontonia and the ankylosaurid Saichania. These specimens are important because they provide the only proof of how the armor looked in various species of ankylosaurs. The shape and arrangement of the armor is different on all three animals.
Like most armored dinosaurs, Ankylosaurus had bone plates fused (joined) to the outside of the skull and jaws. But unlike Sauropelta where there were many large plates, Ankylosaurus had many small plates. Ankylosaurus also differs from Sauropelta in having horns in the upper and lower corners of the skull behind the eyes. Why Ankylosaurus, and all ankylosaurids, developed these horns is not understood. They may have used them to fight among themselves. The animals would have stood side-by-side and swung their heads into the other's body. Such a blow would be painful but not fatal.
Ankylosaurus had a large bone club on the end of its tail. All members of its family had these clubs, and the lack of a club characterizes the other ankylosaur family, the Nodosauridae. The shape of the club is different for each member of the family. The club of Ankylosaurus was wide and long, but not very tall. The club in all the ankylosaurids was made of large armor plates fused together at the end of the tail. The bones of the tail were modified for swinging the club; they interlocked to form a "handle" to the club. This allowed Ankylosaurus to put force into the swing.


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The emergency communication center was buzzing Thursday with community agencies and law enforcement learning about ways to help prevent domestic violence.
- The emergency communication center was buzzing Thursday with community agencies and law enforcement learning about ways to help prevent domestic violence.
Participating in the training day were Area of Aging, Victims Intervention Program, the VIP witness coordinator, state police from Honesdale and Blooming Grove Barracks, the National Park Service; and Waymart, Hawley, Honesdale Lehigh Township and Shohola police departments. It was sponsored by the Wayne County District Attorney's office.
Jamie Schultz, the violence against women's detective for the District Attorney's office, said the training was to "help educate" law enforcement and community agencies on "better ways" to help prevent domestic violence.
"This is part of the domestic violence stop grant, which allows us to provide education and training in areas of domestic violence and sexual assault," Schultz said. "I hope that through this, people will become more aware. We want to deal with these issues sooner rather than later before they become more violent."
He said that those who attended the training learned about evidence collection, behavioral aspects, indicators and evidence to look for, and more.
Michele Minor-Wolf, Executive Director of the Victims Intervention Program, said it's an "impressive" partnership between law enforcement and counseling agencies.
"We hope to prevent domestic violence," she said. "Law enforcement is learning about preserving evidence and victim advocates are seeing how they can help. We are working as a team and as a community to help prevent domestic violence."
She said that within the last few years, and especially the last year and a half, there has been an increase in homicides due to domestic violence.
"We want to get to the issue before it becomes a homicide," Wolf explained. "We have to catch it as early as we can. We want to hold the batterers accountable and to get better convictions."
She said there is a Wayne County Anti-violence Task Force, who are "key players" in enhancing services as well as policies and procedures.
"We have to make sure there's some kind of safety plan in place for the victim involved," Wolf stated. "This partnership between victim advocates and law enforcement will be beneficial to all involved, and it will also be beneficial to the community."
Wolf also said that Wayne County doesn't have Batterers Intervention Services (BIS).
"Anger management isn't the answer," she said. "Domestic violence is about power and control."
She added while Wayne County doesn't have a BIS, they are "looking into" having one.
The VIP hotline is 1-800-698-4VIP and the local number is 253-4401 for anyone looking for help.
"We are lucky to have Trooper Zirpoli with his knowledge in investigating and education and training," said District Attorney Janine Edwards. "We are dedicating ourselves to do more to not just prevent domestic violence, but to make sure those who commit these crimes are prosecuted to the highest extent of the law."
Edwards said Thursday's training had a "good representation" from all over. She added that money used from the domestic violence stop grant is used for training related to domestic violence and crimes against women throughout Wayne County, which can also be helpful for "successful prosecution."
"The problem doesn't go away," said Edwards. "These issues are important to the community and my office supports prevention. Wayne County has seen a very large increase in domestic violence incidents occurring in the community. With joining together investigators, counselors and prosecutors, we hope we can help reduce the occurrences of domestic violence. If we can't reduce them, at least we can educate investigators, counselors and prosecutors on what to look for so other incidents don't escalate to what we have seen, which is homicides."
Speakers for the training were Edwards, case prep and prosecution; Schultz, domestic violence investigations; Trooper First Class (TFC) Patrick Zirpoli, domestic violence homicides; and TFC Gerry Gustas, crime scene evidence collection.
Edwards said Thursday's training falls just days before Sexual Assault Awareness Month, which is in April.
On Thursday, April 4 at 5 p.m. there will be a Take Back the Night at The Cooperage, 1030 Main Street, Honesdale. Take Back the Night program is about "healing, remembrance and empowerment" in honor of Sexual Assault Awareness Month. The theme is "start a ripple...create a wave."
The guest speaker will be Norman Friedman. Refreshments will be available and entertainment includes Patrick J. Fiore and students.
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19/21SARKIN HAUSAWA STREET, HAUSARI WARD MAIDUGURI, BORNO STATE, NIGERIA PHONE: +2348023586881, +2348055563589, +2348065597160 Email: firstname.lastname@example.com,email@example.com JIDDAH M. A. AJAYI OBJECTIVE To find an interesting job that make the best use of my qualification and experience PERSONAL DATA Date of Birth 24 April 1968 Marital Status: Married State of origin: Borno EDUCATION 1999 – 2002 University of Maiduguri Maiduguri MSc Economics 1992 – 1998 University of Maiduguri Maiduguri B.Sc Economics 1988 – 1990 Ramat Polytechnic Maiduguri OND Accounting & Finance Maiduguri 1980 – 1985 Yerwa Govt. Sec. Sch General Certificate of Education Maiduguri 1974 – 1980 Mafoni Primary School Primary School Certificate Maiduguri SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONS 2001 MSc. Economics (Finance, Money and Trade) 1998 B.Sc. Economics 1990 OND Accounting 1985 Secondary School Certificate 1980 Primary School Certificate WORKING EXPERIENCE 2012-Date University of Maiduguri Lecturer Department of Economics 2007-2012 National Directorate of Employment YOBE Principal Finance Officer, Head of Finance and Supplies National Directorate of Employment YOBE Senior Finance officer / Head of Finance and Supplies National Directorate of employment ,BORNO state 2002 – 2005 Senior Internal Auditor / Head of internal Audit 1996 – 2002 Internal Auditor 1 1991 – 1996 Finance Assistant 1 PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION / PROFESSIONAL SKILLS Member Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria Fellow chartered Institute of economist of Nigeria Member chartered Institute of loans and risk management of Nigeria. Member Nigeria Economic Society Member institute of Certified Public Accountants of Nigeria Member Institute of Certified Economists of Nigeria Registered Student Institute of Chartered Accountants Of Nigeria NATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS • Collation Officer Federal House of Representatives / Senatorial Election Borno North 2003 Elections • Returning Officer presidential / Governortorial 2003 Elections Bayo Local Government, Borno • Returning officer State House of Assembly 2003 Elections Chibok Local Government, Borno • Facilitator Trial Census National Population Commission 2005 Konduga local Government, Borno State. • Resource Person in charge of Gwoza, Askira/Uba, Chibok and Damboa L.G.As. Borno State (Historical Events Data Gathering) • Facilitator Census 2006 Konduga Local Government • Facilitator Jakusko – Post Enumeration Survey HOBBIES Reading, Travelling REFEREES • Director, Personnel management, National Directorate of Employment Head Quarters Nouchot Street Wuse Abuja Phone: 095234420 • Justice Tijjani Abubakar Federal High Court Lagos Phone: 08036966546, 08028370971 • ALH ADO ADAMU(wakilin bade) No 11Nguru road,Gashua L.G Yobe State,Nigeria Phone: 08033492582,08024386992


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Got an email the other day from a fellow I know from the local summer college baseball league. He's at all the games and is the unofficial team shooter. In the email he had several shots posted online by a Boston area photographer. He just wanted to ask a question about them, so there's no piracy of intellectual property. His point was that the shots were nice and sharp and he wanted to know why his shots didn't come out like that. The shots involved were of a vintage baseball game. I just shot a vintage game back in June, so I had a couple shots I could use to explain what he was seeing in his comparison of the Boston photogs shots versus his. The shot on the left in today's image is similar to the one from Boston. The other is the original of the shot. The Boston guy left all the MetaData on his shot, so it was easy to see what he was doing when he clicked the shutter. High shutter speed, slightly elevated ISO, lens cranked out to 200 mm, F4, and the subject was 21' away. I was able to take a SWAG (Scientific Wild A$$ Guess) at what was going on. To find out the secrets I uncovered (sounds like a mystery novel), hit the Read More.
First thing is that at 21' and a full frame (he was shooting a D700) sensor with the lens racked out to 200mm the Boston shot is probably very close to fully cropped in the camera. So he wasn't throwing away any pixels. He tossed a couple pixels that didn't matter by cropping to, what appears to be, a 16 x 9 format. I'd guess he removed some distraction above the batter. The image would still have been the total width of the sensor. Point number one: he was in close.
Second is that he was shooting with a very high shutter speed (1/8000 sec.). At that speed there would be absolutely no blur do to either a twitch by the batter or by really mashing the shutter button. Point number two: he set up his camera to insure a sharp image.
Third would be that his set of images gives the impression that he knows what he's doing in the digital darkroom. We'll just guess that the image was sharpened by some method in whatever post processing he did. The images all had a vintage look to them to set the mood of the vintage ball game. Point number three: he knew what he was doing after the shoot.
So, the Boston shooter did everything right to get a good, sharp image.
Back to today's image. I was standing next to the fellow who asked me the question at other baseball games. Therefore I knew the conditions he was shooting in. I know the lens he uses. It's a 70 x 200 on an FX sensor camera. I was using a 70 x 300 on a very similar camera. The shot on the right of today's image is about the most he could get from behind the fence about 100' away from the batter. We were standing at the first base bag and at about a 45 degree angle from the baseline.
Then we try to "get the same shot" as the Boston shooter got we'd have to do some serious cropping. Getting in to the crop that the Boston guy had means cropping away about 80% of the information the sensor picked up. What looks sharp in the full shot looks kind of soft after cropping.
So, what advice did I give to the local guy? I told him to grab the batter, take him somewhere where he would have a good, non-distracting background and fill the frame with the shot he had in his head. The person viewing the image can't possibly tell if the batter is at home plate or behind the popcorn stand. It's the result that matters. Cropping just doesn't make it to try getting a tack sharp image.
Now, if he wanted to run out and buy a nice new Nikon D800 he could probably (definitely) get away with "some" cropping.


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Moment of Truth
I want to tell you about something that happened a few years ago on a Sunday after services. The congregation I was serving then was gathered for a congregational meeting. I was sitting somewhere near the front and someone came and whispered to me that there was a strange man who wanted to see the minister. I knew what that meant: He wanted money, of course, and what better time to be sure to catch the minister at church than on a Sunday morning.
I could smell the alcohol on the stranger's breath immediately. He said, "I want to pray and to turn my life over to Jesus." Obviously, he didn't know what kind of church he was in. I explained that, although Jesus was quite welcome in our church, we probably would not be able to meet his needs, and I directed him to another church down the street. "No," he said. "That doesn't matter. I just need to be able to pray right now. I have really messed up my life with drugs and alcohol and I want to make a new start. All I need is a place to pray."
"Well, I said, still expecting to be asked for money, "as you can see, we have a meeting in the church. There really isn't an appropriate place..."
"That doesn't matter," said the man. "I just need to pray, now. This is my moment of truth. Now. It has to be now."
"I suppose we could go into my office," I said, still feeling like the man had come to the wrong place.
As we entered my office, the man immediately fell to his knees and amidst sobs he began praying. About that time, I caught on. He really did come to church to pray. As he prayed, I placed my hands on his shoulders, and when he was finished, I asked him his name and offered a prayer, too, saying his name and asking God to forgive him and to give him the strength to make amends to his family and to change. Then I talked with the man for a few minutes about support groups and drug programs and he left and I went back to the meeting.
His moment of truth? Maybe so. But it was my moment of truth, too. Here was this strange man wanting to turn his life over to Jesus. Here was a man who came to a group of UUs wanting to pray, of all things. Well, no wonder I was at a loss. How often do you suppose that happens? Anyone who comes to a Unitarian Universalist (UU) gathering wanting to turn his or her life over to Jesus is likely to get directed to a group of Baptists or Methodists, where we suspect they meant to go in the first place.
That was my moment of truth, because in those few moments when that man was on his knees, I let go of my fears, I let go of my distrust, I let go of my judgments, I let go of my awareness of the tremendous gap there was between what he believed and what I believed. It was, indeed, a moment of truth. It was a moment of presence, a moment of grace, a moment when there was a power at work that brought this man and myself into a common territory—a territory where human souls connect with one another and with the transcendent. I might easily have said to him, "I'm sorry, but your god really doesn't live in this church, and my god is an all-encompassing principle that has neither gender nor ears." And the irony is that my expansive cosmic force would turn out to be smaller than his father in heaven. In the moment of truth that was a moment of presence, it didn't matter. It just did not matter. His god, my god, our god, no god. It did not matter.
What does matter? That is what the moment of truth was about. What matters is that our religion offers us an opportunity for connection—with ourselves, with others, with a holy presence.
Last week, I got a phone call from a colleague. "Do you have a few minutes?" he asked. "A couple," I replied. "I'm supposed to be in a staff meeting in two minutes." "I'm conducting a little survey," he said, "and I would like to know your definition of spirituality." It reminded me of my interview last spring with the search committee for this congregation: "In two minutes, describe your theology."
"The main thing I have to say about spirituality," I replied, "is that we spend too much time talking about it and trying to define it." Then I said, "Spirituality is the experience of holy presence in our lives." Then he said, "What do you think UUs want when they say they would like more spirituality?"
"Sorry—time for my meeting." I was glad to have an excuse to hang up, for I surely could not have answered that one.
Now, as I think about the moment of truth as a moment of spiritual connection, I believe it has to do with both absence and presence. Spirituality is the miracle of birth and the mystery of death; it is the solace of solitude and the despair of loneliness. It is stirred in us by the beauty of ocean swells a few miles away and the ugliness of an unjust war in a distant land. That holy presence speaks to us in the blended instruments of a symphony and in the haunting cry of a hungry child. It is giving and receiving and giving. Spirituality is the flower and the compost heap.
It is probably in our nature as religious liberals to seek the spirit and resist it at the same time. I think of the moment of truth as a moment when we are brought to our knees—figuratively, if not literally. That is not a position you will see many of us in. At the beginning of the first Gulf War in 1990, I participated in an interfaith service. We met in an Episcopal church, and at one point we were asked to kneel for a prayer. It felt awkward at first. I do not remember the words of the prayer, but I remember that there was a sense of unity and power in that room, and it offered strength to people from many faiths. At the end of the service, I told a couple of people from my congregation that I thought we should install kneeling benches in our church. They laughed—we all knew the notion was absurd—but they also shared my appreciation for the opportunity to kneel together at a time of crisis, grief, and uncertainty.
The moment of truth is a moment of connection. It happens when we who value mastery of knowledge take a posture that invites mystery. It happens when we who rely chiefly upon the power of our own willfulness open ourselves to a posture of willingness. It does not happen when we are so full of our own thoughts or opinions that we cannot listen to or acknowledge those of another. It does not happen when we are determined to be in control of everything and everyone that affects our lives.
The moment of truth takes place when we are secure enough in our rational religion to invite the non-rational (Notice I said "non-rational," not "irrational"). And it takes place when we are secure enough in our sense of self to invite the power of community.
Those who seek the spirit without a grounding in reason get carried away with shallow, emotional religion; those who seek a sense of community without a grounding in their own sense of individual self-respect are vulnerable to the abuses of cults. What we seek, then, is the kind of spiritual experience that builds upon science rather than opposing it. What we create in our coming together is the kind of power that calls us to combine our gifts and talents and visions in a way that will make a difference in our lives and in our world.
We do not have to check our minds at the door in order to come to a Sunday morning gathering in this place where we feel the power of community. Even for heady individuals like us, our religion offers an opportunity to connect with each other and with a holy presence—a mysterious and powerful presence among us. It is among us when we sing, it is among us when we pray; it is among us when we are silent. It is among us as we meet this morning for worship, and as we gather together over coffee or to plan an activity.
This moment, this day, and this week, may we be open to the holy and mysterious presence that connects us with our own truth, with one another, with the people of the world and with the rhythms of the earth. Let us be open to its power to free us from our fears and unite us in our hope.


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So this means Beyonce will be performing live on the season finale, right?
Destiny's Child singer Kelly Rowland is nearing a deal to join The X Factor as a judge, Entertainment Weekly reports.
Rowland, 32, would join executive producer Simon Cowell and returning judge Demi Lovato, as a replacement for Britney Spears, who exited after one season. According to EW, Cowell is hoping to hire a third female judge to round out the four-person panel, rather than a second male judge to replace L.A. Reid, who left last year after two seasons. Latin singer Paulina Rubio is reportedly being considered.
"We start X Factor auditions in Charleston on Tuesday. The new panel will be announced Monday," Cowell tweeted early Saturday. "This is going to be an interesting show!" Fox declined to comment.
Rowland has plenty of judging experience. She served as a judge on Season 8 of the U.K. X Factor. Rowland would also be an interesting pick because unlike other singing competitions like American Idol, groups are one of the four major categories of acts on The X Factor. It would be a great fit for one-third of one of the most successful female groups of all time to coach the groups, no?
Rowland reunited with Destiny's Child in February when Beyonce performed at the Super Bowl halftime Show. She is also dropping her fourth studio album, Talk a Good Game, in June.
Do you think Rowland is a good pick? Who do you want to see join the show?


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The Obama administration's classified legal memos justifying targeted killings contain secret protocols with foreign governments and "case-specific" details of strikes, two sources aware of their contents told Krisitn Roberts and Michael Hirsch of the National Journal.
The accords with foreign governments — which include Pakistan and Yemen — are a key element excluded from the Department of Justice (DoJ) "white paper."
A legal expert outside the government "who is intimately familiar with the contents of the memos" told the Journal that targeted-killing memos written by the DoJ's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) are being withheld to protect this information.
The Senate and House intelligence committees have only been allowed to examine four of the nine OLC memos.
The expert told the Journal that the administration believes Congress would leak the information to the public, which could be extremely embarrassing to the U.S. and its foreign partners given the unpopularity of the drone program and the potentially shady details of the agreements.
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I have got used to having a secure "sandbox" where I know I can run things I am not 100% sure about without doing any harm. I think this should be something more programs of this type should develop.
Some programs just have too many bells & whistles which may be included to keep the price high rather than any other reason. For Norton to survive in this field where there are now so many good free products then I feel the price has to drop substantially either by excluding the extras or just dropping it which might not be easy for them to do.
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After 9 episodes, I've been thinking, remember the Hazard?The new game element that "will have a rolling effect throughout the rest of the race"?Yeah right...
The next leg of the race starts now' its not TBCMeans either Bill/Cathi gets eliminated or speedbump next leg, like Season 11 Germany V.1Preview has no Bill/Cathi, Andy/Tommy seen past the DTThis could be the first episode elimination at the start or so
I know some people are a little anxious about the absence of Bill & Cathi in the promos. However, remember that not all the teams are shown in every promo, so personally, I wouldn't go reading too much into this. However, anything is possible on The Amazing Race, that's for sure!
So where is #15 and #19 Chateau? I don't see that street/plaza behind Amani....
I am confused now, Phil said to Amani and Marcus your starting the next leg of the race and said to Ernie and.cindy,your continuing racing.
Quote from: georgiapeach on November 21, 2011, 05:12:57 AMSo where is #15 and #19 Chateau? I don't see that street/plaza behind Amani.... It's right across the river!
So where is #15 and #19 Chateau? I don't see that street/plaza behind Amani....
So, could A/M be running in the Gent Korenmarkt?
Prophet,I don't know but to compare going to Ghent (and obviously back at some point to reach its airport for the flight to Panama) require only a 38 minute one-way ride. This is not in the same league with a 4 hour train ride followed by a 4 hour wait and then a 2 hour train ride to get from Hamburg to Cologne to Brussels.The distance from Copenhagen to Billund is 135 miles (approximately a 2.5 hour drive with superhighways) and the distance from Billund to Hamburg is 154 miles, which I think is also a 2.5 hour drive. Either is 3 times as long as the trip from Brussels to Ghent.
If the waffles or rafting is the Detour in Ghent they must somehow go there and then all the way over to Lommel for the roadblock then come back to Brussels for the pitstop. All this after driving from Copenhagen to Billund to Hamburg then train to Brussels. Who designed this route?
we see bill & cathi in the confesional in the atonium so we can say that they werent eliminated there in the parc elizabeth and we see also in the confesional ernie and cindy faces are of sadness so maybe there were eliminated there all this are SPECULTATION
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Since her first book Teva wrote Loop-d-Loop Crochet, which is also a fantastic book, and now her new book Loop-d-Loop Lace.
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Today I am going to share a bit of Teva Durham's newest book, Loop-d-Loop Lace. The book is divided into chapters that focus on different types of lace: mesh, eyelets, samplers, leaves and doilies.
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A$AP Rocky Fan 'He Slapped The HELL Outta Me!'
A$AP Rocky hasn't had the decency to call the woman he allegedly slapped during a concert ... and she tells TMZ she wants to nail him in criminal court.
Lisa Wade --a self-described fan of A$AP -- called in to "TMZ Live" and gave the blow-by-blow ... which she says was a brutal, unprovoked attack.
Wade says A$AP was walking through a surging crowd of people when he hauled off and smacked her ... HARD.
A$AP's been charged with criminal battery.
It's unclear if he intended to hit Wade. Listen and judge for yourself.
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Microsoft climbed on board the wobbly social networking bandwagon yesterday when it began rolling out changes to it Windows Live services worldwide.
The company said last month it would give Windows Live a Web 2.0-stylie makeover, essentially in an effort to be down-wid-the-kidz in the
Or, as the software giant preferred to put it, its cumbersome web-based offerings - including Hotmail and Spaces - will be "in sync" with customers' digital lives.
The new-look Windows Live is being rolled out globally over the next 24 hours or so, Microsoft said. That's a bold move given that just last month it said customers outside of the US would have to wait until early next year to see the changes to its online services.
Microsoft has added themes to Windows Live as well as upping its free online storage in SkyDrive to 25GB and a new feature that allows users to import contacts directly from Facebook to Windows Live.
It's also added a common header across all the Windows Live properties to offer more "consistency" to its users. Many have previously grumbled about the clumsy interface.
Just last month Microsoft was bitchslapped by hordes of Hotmail fans after overhauling that service. Thousands complained that they couldn't view their inboxes or had lost their sent items since Microsoft revamped its free email service.
As for the El Reg verdict, sadly the new site still looks pretty clunky and uninviting to us. And as for being able to view all of the services on the homepage, it's not exactly going to plan at the moment.
It seems the email service currently has an error. A message reads: "Sorry, we're having trouble displaying your messages right now. Try going to your inbox instead." ®


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Knowledge of how to teach cursive writing is becoming lost at an even faster rate than is cursive itself in the English-speaking world.
Interestingly, this is not the case in many non-English-speaking European countries and their former colonies around-the-world, in which printing is not ever taught. Instead, five-year-olds begin immediately with learning cursive letters.
This post will not deal with the issue of whether cursive should continue to be taught. Instead, it will explain the proper procedure for teaching cursive, since there are few teachers left who really know how.
1. Give the students a workbook and tell them to work through it on their own whenever they have free time. This method is the fall-back approach for a teacher who is asked/told to teach cursive, but who doesn't have time/isn't interested/doesn't know how/doesn't know how to write well (or at all) in cursive himself or herself.
2. Put a letter (and later a word) on the board, and tell students in the class to "copy" it, leaving each child to devise their own different method to attempt a facsimile. Unfortunately, this is the method most often employed in some former French colonies (and many other places), with abysmal results.
3. Tell students to keep their papers or cursive workbooks straight in front of them while writing. This produces an incorrect vertical script, or even a backslanted script, angling upward to the left. The paper or workbook must be turned in order to achieve an acceptable slant, and this habit needs to be demonbstrated and enforced in Kindergarten when children first are learning to print.
Cursive script in languages which are written from left-to-right should be be slanted upward to the right (English, French, Italian, Spanish, or any languages written using a Roman script). Cursive script in languages which are written from right-to-left should be slanted upward slightly to the left (Arabic, and other languages which are written using the Arabic script). This series of articles, however, will deal with teaching cursive writing in the American script (but the methods are the same for teaching any Roman-letter cursive script).
In some countries, vertical scripts are acceptable, but slanted scripts are much more beautiful and generally more highly esteemed.
4. Treat cursive as a subject less important, or less interesting, than math, science, or reading. To achieve a good result, cursive needs to be given an equal (or greater) priority to all these subjects for a short period of time (the 6-8 weeks it takes for the whole class to learn it well).
Teachers can make cursive a very fun class that everyone will look forward to, and techniques for doing so will be described in this series.
Once cursive has been learned, regular attention must be given to cursive for another three months (about 15 minutes, three times a week) for the next three months. (Procedures will be described in this series.)
5.) Start by teaching only the lower-case letters, and save the upper-case letters for "later." This generally results in non-mastery of cursive, because the students never learn, nor master, all of the capital letters. Instead of writing some letters in cursive, and others in printing, students revert back to printing because of not feeling competent in writing cursive captials.
6. Grade the students on the neatness of their writing. This is a BIG mistake. Cursive writing is not about neatness. It is about speed and usefulness, first of all. Secondly, it is about being clear enough to be understood; for most people, it need not be a work of art to achieve these objectives. For those who enjoy it, beauty can be achieved in addition (but this should have nothing to do with grading).
Students should have their cursive writing graded on three OBJECTIVE criteria ONLY: 1.) Are the letters being formed correctly, starting in the right place, looping in the correct direction, retraced correctly, and crossed or dotted correctly? 2.) Are the upper zones and lower zones in balanced proportion to each other? 3.) Is the slant consistent, and within an acceptable range? And yes, left-handers can achieve the correct slant (techniques for left-handers will be discussed in this series).
With these guidelines, most students are quite capable of achieving grades which will motivate them. Keep in mind, the writing of some students can meet all three criteria, yet look messy. If the criteria are met, the student should have an A (grades in the American system fall between high grades of A, and low grades of F.).
This is especially motivating to some young boys who have more difficulty than many girls in achieving neatness. These A students with messy cursive are often the students who later become most motivated of all to improve the neatness of their writing, seeing their success on objective criteria.
7. Have children copy long passages nightly, claiming it is "to improve their handwriting." Copying on one's own, without specific feedback and instruction from the teacher, will NEVER improve students' cursive writing and is guaranteed to make children HATE cursive writing forever, rather than it becoming a useful and enjoyable life skill.
Correct techniques for improving neatness in cursive will be discussed in this series.
–Lynne Diligent, an Expert in Teaching Cursive Writing
Other Cursive Posts by Lynne Diligent:
Why Britain Made a Change to Vertical Handwriting
Part 2: Help for Teachers/Other Adults Who Need/Want to Learn Cursive on Their Own, or in Preparation for Teaching Cursive
Part 3: How to Prepare the Paper for Your Own Cursive Masters
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Tigers 12th After Day One of Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate
SEVIERVILLE, Tenn. – The women's golf team returned to action on Monday after a two-week layoff as they competed at the Bobby Nichols Intercollegiate hosted by Tennessee Tech. The two-day, 36-hole event took place at the par-71, 5,803 yard, Sevierville Golf Club. Day one was played under overcast skies with drizzle at times, as the temperatures hovered around 45 degrees.
The Tigers are in 12th place out of 13 after shooting a 71-over, 355. Murray State leads the pack with a 31-over, 315.
Freshmen Natalie Spicer and Erica Edwards led the way for TSU over the first 18-holes. Spicer hit her third shot from 65-yards out to within a foot of the pin on the par-4, 12th. Spicer was able to make par as she finished the day with a team low, 86. Spicer found nine fairways, seven greens and completed three up and downs on the day.
After not recording a par through the first nine holes, Edwards turned the corner and picked up four over the next six. The first-year hit nine fairways, eight greens, and used 41 putts to card an 88.
Kelly Merkel started slow and registered a nine and a triple bogey through the first ten holes, but regained her form as she pared five of the final eight holes. Merkel hit eight fairways, seven greens and used 38 putts to shoot a 90.
Laura Bremer used eight fairways, three greens and 33 putts for a 91, while Sarah Needleman hit seven fairways, two greens and 35 putts for a 97.
Amelia Dap, playing as an individual, shot an 89 as she hit eight of 13 fairways. On the par-3, 13th, Dap hit a five iron from 159 yards out to set up a two putt for par.
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Be charmed by villages in New Zealand's Matakana
As small villages go, the riverside village of Matakana has it all.
Situated within the picturesque Matakana wine region with its boutique vineyards, olive groves and eateries, the village boasts an arthouse cinema, cafes, boutique shopping and galleries but still exudes that strong community spirit people love.
Every Saturday at the farmers market visitors and locals share in the rich bounty of locally grown food and produce.
Even the public toilets are Instagram-worthy.
However, there's something else in Matakana that you won't find in Auckland, or anywhere else for that matter, and that's Sculptureum.
No, you won't find it in the dictionary but that wouldn't bother Sculptureum's founder and owner, 69-year-old Anthony Grant, whose eclectic sculpture and art collection is a mixture of the conventional and the confounding.
The barrister, who has spent decades amassing the collection, wanted to have something that would attract people from near and far who would normally shun traditional galleries.
Most of all, he wanted people to have fun.
If you like your art served with a dash of whimsy and a big helping of humour you'll love this place.
The Garden of Creative Diversity is filled with sculptures ranging from the classical fountain to life-sized elephants made of driftwood. A giant giraffe rears its head over the palm trees.
But there are also exhibits that have a pulse, like the aviaries full of beautiful birds and the Rabbiton, a sophisticated rabbit enclosure with elevated platforms to keep the bunnies, not to mention their visitors, amused all day long.
In the reflective garden you can rest on park benches made from the roots of giant trees.
Inside are magnificent glasswork and serious works by Picasso, Chagall, Matisse and Cezanne.
Alongside are animals made out of foraged items like forks, corrugated iron, plastic milk bottles, mops and wire coathangers.
A stone path outside takes you through to more artwork and sculptures, including giant pink plastic snails and a life-sized polar bear made from recycled white goods such as dishwashers and dry-cleaning machines.
It's weird, wacky and wonderful – and thankfully is readily accessible because it's also wheelchair-friendly.
Matakana's love affair with artistry continues at another gem – the Brick Bay Wine and Sculpture Trail, a two-kilometre trail with boardwalks winding around a beautiful lake.
Open daily from 10am, the trail features the work of some of the most exciting artists in New Zealand today with more than 50 largescale sculptures set among kauri trees, palms and native bush. Here, however, there is some uneven terrain so it is not suitable for wheelchairs.
Those who don't do the outdoor gallery walk can enjoy a glass of wine and refreshments at The Glasshouse Kitchen at Brick Bay, an award-winning glass pavilion cantilevered over the lake.
Like other restaurants in and around Matakana, the emphasis is on utilising local produce. One of the people at the forefront of promoting the area's food and wine is Mark Griffiths, whose business, The Local Food Kitchen, connects people with some keen and passionate producers.
With Mark in the driver's seat, we are taken to Matthew Quested's free range chook farm in the Whangaripo Valley (is there a better sight than thousands of chooks freely roaming the paddocks?) and call in on artisan chocolatier Nico Bonnaud whose additive-free Honest Chocolat is winning accolades across the country.
We also meet Phil Armstrong, aka "Buffalo Phil", and his 45-strong herd of buffalo.
His buffalo milk is highly sought after for cheeses, fresh buffalo curd and yoghurt. People who are dairy-intolerant can often cope well with buffalo milk and it's said to make the best cappuccino.
We drop in on the region's oldest cellar door, Heron's Flight, to meet owners David Hoskins and Mary Evans and their Belgian sheppard dog Dionysius which, appropriately for a winery dog, means goddess of wine. David and Mary are producing Italian style organic wines specialising in Sangiovese and Dolcetto.
There's so much to see and do in Matakana that it warrants staying for a few days.
There's plenty of accommodation choices but the pick of the bunch is Takatu Lodge and Vineyard which has four luxurious and spacious suites each with its own terrace looking out over the vineyard.
The contemporary design of this boutique lodge set in a working vineyard incorporates wood, stone and marble with a wall of glass bringing the outside in.
There is a lovely lounge where you can settle in by the open fire and enjoy a drink before dinner. Allow at least one night for dining in as lodge manager Sharon Greene serves up a superb meal from local produce.
The cooked breakfast is equally indulgent.
If you're lucky enough to be here during the warmer weather you can enjoy alfresco dining overlooking the vines.
Fly direct to New Zealand from capital cities as well as the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast and Cairns with Air New Zealand.
The premium carrier offers everything from the lie-flat business premier beds through to the award-winning premium economy cabin, full service economy or just a seat and carry-on bag.
After the trans-Tasman flight into Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch or Queenstown, you can connect seamlessly with Air New Zealand's network of 21 domestic destinations – airnewzealand.com.au
Sawmill Brewery and Smoko Room. The independently owned brewery showcases its boutique beer at the front bar and a tasting shed with casual meals in a relaxed setting – www.sawmillbrewery.co.nz
Matakana Oysters at the Green Shed is the place to enjoy quality fresh oysters. You'll find it at 1217 Leigh Road, Matakana.
Rothko Restaurant (at Sculptureum) is where head chef Jarrod McGregor works with local producers and suppliers to deliver a menu which embodies the flavours of the region – www.sculptureum.nz
Other useful websites:
Sue Preston was a guest of Tourism New Zealand and flew courtesy Air New Zealand.
- Read more: Campaign to put New Zealand on the map
- Read more: New Zealand: don't miss a thing
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So, Antonio Margarito's camp apologized for mocking Manny Pacquiao trainer Freddie Roach, who has Parkinson's disease and thinks Manny wins by KO.
I don't think it'll be as easy as Roach, though. Margarito, even without illegally wrapped hands, is pretty bad-ass. When I saw that Manny was galavanting rather than hardcore training, I got to thinking Margarito might just have a chance here. Still do. But not a great chance. And not enough of a chance to get me to pay $54.95 to watch. I will be watching round-by-round updates on the BlackBerry, though, so if you're watching, post away!
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As important as healing our broken economy, perhaps the most long-lasting thing President Obama can accomplish for this country is to end the indefinite war that was started following the attacks of 9/11. It was the insane idea of a global war on a tactic (terrorism) that led Bush/Cheney to be able to convince the American people (and Congress) to abandon our principles as a country and wage an unnecessary war in Iraq.
Because I think this is so important and don't see many people reporting on it, I'm going to commit myself to keeping an eye on this story and will chronicle it all here.
Ending the indefinite war 1/02/12
Major developments in negotiations to end the indefinite war 1/04/12
Obama: We're turning the page on a decade of war 1/07/12
Talking with the Taliban 1/09/12
A way forward on closing Guantanamo 1/11/12
More baby steps towards ending the indefinite war 2/16/12
It's not about civil liberties - it's about endless war! 3/9/12
President Obama lays out the plan for how we'll end the indefinite war 5/1/12
Should we codify the endless war, or end it? 6/2/12
Obama administration continues to work on ending the indefinite war 8/8/12
Ongoing steps to end the indefinite war - Afghanistan and Guantanamo 9/23/12
Arguments that work - and don't work - in a discussion about drones 11/27/12
Obama administration begins the conversation about ending the indefinite war 12/1/12
Pakistan's involvement in negotiations the could lead to an end to the indefinite war 2/6/13
Ending the assumption of perpetual war 2/7/2013
John Brennan's job at the CIA 2/8/2013
A "drone court" could actually end the war on al Qaeda 2/10/2013
As talk about the "drone war" heats up, their use is actually going down 3/17/2013
Could a war end and no one notices? 4/7/2013
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President Obama pivots towards ending the indefinite war 5/22/2013
Ending the war: a refutation of fear 5/23/2013
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OSTC program provides opportunities for students to expand their work and interpersonal skills, build self-esteem, and learn about self-acceptance and self-advocacy, as specified in the individual education plan (IEP).
The program focuses on three special education transition areas:
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Deborah Jaffe
Feed Your Face
What's the new superstar ingredient in your beauty products? It may be spinach. The antioxidant-packed green and a host of other fruit and veggie extracts (cherries! cucumbers! carrots!) are this spring's It ingredients, increasingly replacing synthetic additives. No surprise, considering that 79 percent of shoppers are seeking out natural products, according to NPD, a market research group. In addition, many women are creating their own beauty goodies in the kitchen. "Patients constantly tell me about recipes they make in lieu of buying products," says Jeanine Downie, MD, a dermatologist in Montclair, New Jersey. It's great for cutting back on chemicals and costs. Just steer clear of foods you're allergic to, which "could trigger the same symptoms as eating them," says Dr. Downie. Try these concoctions, products, and tips to get pretty — pure and simple.
Deborah Jaffe
Brighten Locks with a Tea Treatment
Soak your strands for high-wattage shine and rich color, whatever your hue.
What You Need
2 tea bags (chamomile, a golden mix for blondes; rooibos, a rich orange for redheads; or black tea, dark for brunettes)
2 cups water
1. Once a week — or whenever you feel you could use a shine boost — steep tea bags in boiling water for 10 minutes. Let the liquid cool to room temperature. (In a rush? Refrigerate it.)
2. Pour the mixture over wet, just-washed hair, rubbing it through the way you would shampoo.
3. Leave the rinse on for 10 minutes; wash and condition to seal in the silky, glossy results.
Beauty Benefit
"Tea lowers the pH of hair, closing the cuticle for extra shine, softness, and manageability," says Philip Pelusi, owner of Tela Design Studio in New York City. Tea's natural pigments can also neutralize brassiness for more flattering color.
Deborah Jaffe
Berry Skin Scrub
Energize a sallow complexion with this berry-sweet skin scrub.
What You Need
3 medium-size strawberries
1 tablespoon honey
1. Stem strawberries, cut into small pieces, then mash against the sides of a bowl with a spoon until softened.
2. Fold in honey and gently mix until it's evenly distributed among berries.
3. Using small circles, continuously massage the mixture into your face for 3 minutes; rinse with warm water.
Beauty Benefit
Gentle enough for sensitive skin types, "the natural fruit enzymes in strawberries slough the dull top layer of skin," says Jolanta Smusz, an aesthetician at Devachan Salon and Departure Lounge in New York City. It's also ideal for dry and oily skin: The honey hydrates parched patches, while the two-ingredient combo produces a mild antiseptic that can help head off breakouts.
Fernando Milani
Finger Food Manicure
Who needs lacquer? Neaten nails with juicy "finger food" instead.
What You Need
5 grapes (red ones are packed with more antioxidants than green)
1 tablespoon sugar
1. Slice grapes in half widthwise.
2. Dip the fleshy side into the sugar and use it to massage the skin around each nail (one halved grape per finger) for about 30 seconds each.
3. Brush away excess sugar with a soft towel and rub a dot of grapeseed oil or hand cream onto hands and cuticles.
Beauty Benefit
"The sugar crystals remove dead skin and hangnails, and the gentle fruit acids help exfoliate remaining raggedness," says Regine Berthelot, head aesthetician at New York City's Caudalie Vinotherapie Spa, where signature manicures begin with this treatment. In addition, the oil and cream offer the instant shine of a top coat.
Colette DeBarros
Treat Your Feet
Get toe-tally smooth in just two steps with this deflaker.
What You Need
2 tablespoons cornmeal
1 tablespoon mashed banana
1. Stir cornmeal and banana together until evenly blended. The mix should have the consistency of wet sand.
2. Massage the paste all over feet, working it into calluses for about 30 seconds, or until skin feels smooth.
Beauty Benefit
"Cornmeal exfoliates roughness and has antifungal properties, while the banana softens skin," says Kim D'Amato, owner of Priti, an organic spa in New York City.
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Tame Frizzy Hair
Take control of dry strands with this nourishing hair calmer.
What You Need
1 banana
1/2 avocado
1. Mash banana and avocado together, then comb the mixture through dry hair, which absorbs more nutrients than wet.
2. Cover hair with a plastic cap (the heat it creates increases penetration) and leave on hair for 10 minutes; rinse clean with cool water.
Beauty Benefit
"Bananas are full of potassium, and avocados are packed with moisturizing fatty acids — two things that soften hair instantly," says Alex Safar of Salon Acote in Boston, who advises using this treatment every other week.
UV Damage Repairing Mask
Rescue sun-stricken skin with a potent antioxidant-rich mask.
What You Need
10 blueberries
1 tablespoon plain yogurt
1. Mash blueberries with a spoon (you can also run them through a food processor), then add yogurt.
2. Spread the mask all over your face; remove with water after 15 minutes.
Beauty Benefit
Blueberries are packed with vitamins C and E, which repair and moisturize skin plus fend off fine lines caused by the sun," says Cox. Yogurt's lactic acid helps exfoliate the UV-damaged layers of the epidermis.
Sarah Kehoe
5 Snacks with Beautiful Benefits
Beat your biggest beauty challenges with these tasty, healthy snacks.
FOR: Pearly Whites
EAT: 1 cup low-fat yogurt. It offers half your daily need of enamel-building calcium and has tooth-strengthening phosphorous, says Lisa Drayer, RD, author of The Beauty Diet.
FOR: Fewer Wrinkles
EAT: 1 cup kiwi. It has more wrinkle-fighting vitamin C than a cup of orange segments — 220 percent of your daily value, says Allison Tannis, author of Feed Your Skin, Starve Your Wrinkles.
FOR: Soft Skin
EAT: 1 cup baked sweet potatoes. Its hue comes from beta-carotene (it has about as much as a carrot), which is converted into skin-softening vitamin A in the body, Tannis says.
FOR: Glossy Hair
EAT: 1/4 cup walnuts. These nuts are packed with omega-3 fatty acids, which keep the scalp flake-free, as well as copper, a mineral that naturally helps strands shine, says Drayer.
FOR: A Dewy Glow
EAT: 1 cup hot cocoa. Sip this to get twice the amount of antioxidant flavanols as you would from a glass of red wine, Drayer says. They increase blood flow to the skin for added radiance.
Bottled Beauty: All-Natural Treatments You Can Buy
When there's no time to DIY, try these good-as-fresh premixed prettiers:
- Wash your hair happy with Nature's Gate Asian Pear and Red Tea Color Protecting Shampoo ($7.99, natures-gate.com), free of pigment-stripping sulfates.
- Soften skin sans irritation with Verikira Naturals Spicy Citrus Walnut Body Scrub ($36, verikira.com), made with aloe.
- Like a milk bath without the mess, Jergens Naturals Soothe Daily Moisturizer ($8.49, drugstores) hydrates and evens out skin tone with yogurt and soy.
- Blueberries and cherries in Renee Rouleau Triple Berry Smoothing Peel ($85, reneerouleau.com) boost radiance.
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Whether it is your time, your talent, or your treasure, your act of philanthropy feels good, because it does good.
Philanthropy is defined by the leading professional fundraising associations as "… based on voluntary action for the common good. It is a tradition of giving and sharing that is primary to the quality of life."
May we also add to that definition that "Giving feels good. Good because it does good."
Philanthropy is a communion of mission and means that elevates us to a higher plain - for a greater purpose.
The School of Fine Arts has a mission to prepare the upcoming generation for success so that they may give to the next generation, and to the next, and to the next. You may have the means to help make this happen.
You may wish to support a talented musician, actor, or graphic artist through scholarships...
You may wish to provide these talented youth with the best facilities in which they may create their future…
You may wish to support a faculty member through a fellowship …
Learn how far your philanthropy can reach.
Financial contributions
Financial contributions to the University are managed by the UMD Development Office. Generous gifts to the University of Minnesota Duluth from alumni, friends, corporations and foundations provide the resources necessary for awarding scholarships and fellowships to students, recruiting and retaining outstanding faculty and staff, improving and equipping learning and research facilities, and advancing the University's reputation for excellence. The UMD School of Fine Arts accepts gifts in a variety of forms so that prospective donors may choose the types of gifts that best match their philanthropic goals and the needs of the University.
The "Buy a Seat" campaign is one unique way to specifically support the UMD School of Fine Arts. With a gift of $600, payable over three years or less, donors can use this opportunity to honor a teacher, remember a friend, create a memorial or commemorate a birthday or anniversary. A beautiful plaque is displayed in either the Weber Music Hall or Marshall Performing Arts Center to represent each endowment, and your gift will help to continue important programs in the UMD School of Fine Arts. Additional giving opportunities are available within the School of Fine Arts. Please contact Senior Director of Development Rob Hofmann (218-726-7434 or email@example.com) for further details.
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Over the years, many individuals have given sculptures, paintings, period clothing/fabric, building materials, and other types of personal property to UMD. Our facilities and programs would certainly not have the quality collections they do if it were not for the generosity of our many donors. A gift of this nature can involve various regulations, and our Senior Director of Development (Rob Hofmann, 218-726-7434 or email@example.com) can assist you if you have specific questions or wish to inquire whether your donation will be usable.
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Your gift to the UMD School of Fine Arts will change lives. Giving has a way of setting the stage for great success. Just like an accomplished performer, philanthropy plays multiple roles in a civil society. Yet the role you play in partnership with the UMD School of Fine Arts is the lead role to enhance human potential. At the UMD School of Fine Arts your gift makes the difference.
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As you've probably guessed from reading this column, my favorite movies to write about are the obscure ones. There are so many good films out there — great ones, even — that don't have big stars, big budgets or big studio backing. It's those movies I celebrate in this column.
As you've probably guessed from reading this column, my favorite movies to write about are the obscure ones. There are so many good films out there — great ones, even — that don't have big stars, big budgets or big studio backing. It's those movies I celebrate in this column.
Which brings me to "Norwegian Ninja," one of the oddest movies I've seen in a long while — and one of the most entertaining.
"Norwegian Ninja" is almost impossible to describe, but I'll give it a shot: Imagine Wes Anderson made a ninja movie, set in Norway, with his usual obsessive attention to detail. Then base that movie on an actual event from 1984, when Norwegian diplomat Arne Treholt was tried and convicted of spying for the Soviet Union. Reimagine the past to turn Treholt into a master ninja, leading a top secret strike force. Toss in a bit of sharp political satire involving the U.S.A., the U.S.S.R. and the CIA. Finally, lower the budget way past an acceptable level for any Hollywood blockbuster, but include enough imagination and vision to make all the difference.
Written and directed by Thomas Cappelen Malling in his debut outing, "Norwegian Ninja" is amazingly smart and self-assured. From the opening frames, when a set of doors opens to reveal a vintage TV set (a very Wes Anderson-esque image), Malling knows exactly the story he wants to tell and how he wants to tell it. He mixes stock footage, TV reports, action scenes, intricate miniatures and just the right amount of CGI (meaning not much) to craft a strange but strangely believable alternate version of the 1980s, when ninjas protected Norway from certain doom. You can't help but admire Malling's achievement — the fact that he conceived this strange movie is as impressive as the fact that he actually got it made.
And, most importantly, "Norwegian Ninja" is a heck of a lot of fun. The jokes never stop coming, and the story — combining action, suspense and Cold War intrigue — is genuinely involving. There's a plot twist at the end that I didn't see coming, and the whole thing ends on a suitably triumphant note. What more do you want in a movie?
The "Norwegian Ninja" DVD from Dark Sky Films (out Tuesday) includes deleted scenes, making-of features, TV ads and a trailer. One more thing: "Norwegian Ninja" is in Norwegian (well, of course) with English subtitles. But you're not going to let a little thing like subtitles prevent you from experiencing all this fun, are you?
'Wonders of the Universe'
News broke a few weeks ago that Seth McFarlane, creator of "Family Guy," is going to helm a reboot of the popular PBS science series "Cosmos." I hate to tell McFarlane this, but someone's already beaten him to it — and done a darn good job.
Professor Brian Cox (not to be confused with Actor Brian Cox) is the British physicist behind "Wonders of the Solar System," an excellent BBC series that I reviewed in this space last September. This year, he's following up with a new installment — and it's a bit more ambitious: "Wonders of the Universe."
Cox, who has indie-rock good looks and an easygoing manner, examines some big, big topics in this three-disc set. In the episode titled "Destiny," for example, Cox compares our meager life span with the life span of the cosmos. If you want to feel utterly insignificant, but in a really cool, mind-blowing way, I highly recommend this particular episode. Then, if you want to learn about your elemental connection to the universe, watch "Stardust," which describes how the elements that make up you and me also make up the stars, the planets, and every bit of space junk in between.
Other episodes touch on such wonderfully strange (but true!) concepts as the speed of light, the power of gravity and the end of everything. And, as a bonus, you learn why gold is so rare. (It all has to do with supernovas.)
With some impressive special effects and breathtaking scenery from around the world, Cox presents all this big science in a very entertaining, accessible way. Frankly, I don't see how Seth McFarlane is going to top him.
Will Pfeifer writes about DVDs and movies. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com or 815-987-1244. Read his blog at blogs.e-rockford.com/willpfeifer/


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What Gandhi and the Dalai Lama Say
Digging a little deeper, I was suprised to learn that two of the best-known promoters of nonviolence in history were pro-gun. Specifically, Mahatma Gandhi wrote in his book, An Autobiography (page 446):
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest … if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity.
And as quoted in the Seattle Times, May 15, 2001, the Dalai Lama said:
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. Not at the head, where a fatal wound might result. But at some other body part, such as a leg.
I was raised to be against guns. My parents hated guns, and believed that they only lead to crime and to accidental shootings.
Sure, I knew that the Constitution includes a right to bear arms, but I believed that it was no longer relevant and only applied to a previous era when there were "well-regulated militias". I was also taught that the government would protect us, and that private gun ownership was the danger. guns,
And I have long been deeply influenced by leading voices for non-violence, such as Gandhi and King. And I still hope that their non-violent methods prevail.
What the Founding Fathers Said About Guns
A little research showed me that the Second Amendment had more to do with freedom than historical militias. Here's what the Founding Fathers actually said about arms:
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms, disarm only those who are neither inclined, nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants. They serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.
— Thomas Jefferson, 1764
What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.
— Thomas Jefferson
Those who beat their swords into plowshares usually end up plowing for those who didn't.
— Ben Franklin
Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property… Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.
–Thomas Paine
A free people ought not only to be armed and disciplined, but they should have sufficient arms and ammunition to maintain a status of independence from any who might attempt to abuse them, which would include their own government.
— George Washington
Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel. Unfortunately, nothing will preserve it but downright force. Whenever you give up that force, you are ruined…The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able might have a gun.
–Patrick Henry.
Are we at last brought to such an humiliating and debasing degradation that we cannot be trusted with arms for our own defense? Where is the difference between having our arms under our own possession and under our own direction, and having them under the management of Congress? If our defense be the real object of having those arms, in whose hands can they be trusted with more propriety, or equal safety to us, as in our own hands?
— Patrick Henry, 3 Elliot, Debates at 386.
The Constitution shall never be construed to authorize Congress to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms.
–Samuel Adams, debates & Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 86-87.
The right of the people to keep and bear…arms shall not be infringed. A well regulated militia, composed of the people, trained to arms, is the best and most natural defense of a free country…
–James Madison, I Annals of Congress 434 (June 8, 1789).
(The Constitution preserves) the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation…(where) the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.
–James Madison.
If the representatives of the people betray their constituents, there is then no recourse left but in the exertion of that original right of self defense which is paramount to all positive forms of government…
— Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist (#28) .
The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed.
–Alexander Hamilton, The Federalist Papers at 184-B.
To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them.
— George Mason
The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any bands of regular troops that can be, on any pretense, raised in the United States.
–Noah Webster, "An Examination into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution (1787) in Pamplets on the Constitution of the United States (P.Ford, 1888)
[T]he unlimited power of the sword is not in the hands of either the federal or the state governments, but where I trust in God it will ever remain, in the hands of the People.
— Tench Coxe, Pennsylvania Gazette, Feb. 20, 1788.
What Gandhi and the Dalai Lama Say
Digging a little deeper, I was suprised to learn that two of the best-known promoters of nonviolence in history were pro-gun. Specifically, Mahatma Gandhi wrote in his book, An Autobiography (page 446):
Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms, as the blackest … if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity.
And as quoted in the Seattle Times, May 15, 2001, the Dalai Lama said:
If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun. Not at the head, where a fatal wound might result. But at some other body part, such as a leg.
How Useful is a Gun Against Tyranny When the Government Has Bigger Weapons?
Of course, the usefulness of a gun as a defense against tyranny depends partly on the types of arms possessed by the government. Indeed, as I think though it, I now realize that this is why the statements of the Founding Fathers about guns did not resonate with me when I was younger.
As George Orwell – author of 1984 – pointed out in the Tribune (October 19, 1945), the effectiveness of arms in preventing tyranny partly depends on whether the average citizen can afford the current weapon of choice possessed by the government:
The connection between the discovery of gunpowder and the overthrow of feudalism by the bourgeoisie has been pointed out over and over again. And though I have no doubt exceptions can be brought forward, I think the following rule would be found generally true: that ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance. Thus, for example, tanks, battleships and bombing planes are inherently tyrannical weapons, while rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon–so long as there is no answer to it–gives claws to the weak.
The great age of democracy and of national self-determination was the age of the musket and the rifle. After the invention of the flintlock, and before the invention of the percussion cap, the musket was a fairly efficient weapon, and at the same time so simple that it could be produced almost anywhere. Its combination of qualities made possible the success of the American and French revolutions, and made a popular insurrection a more serious business than it could be in our own day. After the musket came the breech-loading rifle. This was a comparatively complex thing, but it could still be produced in scores of countries, and it was cheap, easily smuggled and economical of ammunition. Even the most backward nation could always get hold of rifles from one source or another, so that Boers, Bulgars, Abyssinians, Moroccans–even Tibetans–could put up a fight for their independence, sometimes with success. But thereafter every development in military technique has favoured the State as against the individual, and the industrialised country as against the backward one …The one thing that might reverse it is the discovery of a weapon–or, to put it more broadly, of a method of fighting–not dependent on huge concentrations of industrial plant.
Some argue that violence simply won't work in this era:
Violence will achieve nothing, but will provide them with an excuse to crack down. The violent overthrow of government by the masses simply isn't possible in this day and age, nor is it desirable. Our strength lies in our solidarity and our ability to bring the machine to a screeching halt. When we resort to violence, we have compromised our strength and made ourselves weak.
On the other hand, one anonymous writer argues:
[Violence is not required. But] if armed revolution were required, I have no doubts that it would be succesful. The reason: everyone knows the primary targets of the corrupt class. No amount of sophisticated weaponry will defend them.
Still others argue that resistance cannot work unless and until someone (1) invents a powerful weapon which people can buy cheaply or build themselves or (2) organizes millions of people to act at the same time.
Will It Turn Into A Revolution?
President John F. Kennedy said:
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
I am convinced that it is morally wrong to offensively use violence so long as there are any means whatsoever of preventing fascism through nonviolent means.
Many experts say that the economic meltdown could create unrest. But are there currently peaceful means available to prevent tyranny and lawlessness?
Some – including an essay in the progressive/liberal magazine Utne Reader – argue that non-violence by itself and without the threat of violence has never worked, and claimed that those who think that the non-violent resistance of Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr. or Nelson Mandela was the decisive factor in their victories are ignorant. Others argue that this is a complete misreading of history.
Some argue that violence is wholly unnecessary because fascists in a technological society are highly vulnerable to non-violent acts.
Some people – including me – believe that the only way to get the government to start serving the needs of the people is massive protests, strikes and boycotts. But others believe that it is impossible to organize large protests, strikes or boycotts because the American people are in some combination of apathy, fear, laziness, greed or ignorance.
I hope and pray that we can have change – with government serving the people instead of just the giant banks, insurance companies and defense contractors – by nonviolent means.
Note 1: I strongly believe that safety training is essential. Keep weapons away from kids, and lock up the bullets SEPARATELY so children can't find them. It is also easy to hang weapons above arm-reach of youngsters. Please be safe.
Note 2: Before assuming that I am a right-wing racist, please note that I voted for Obama and was very happy that an African-American was elected president. See this.
Source: Washingtons Blog


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A "Dolce Vita" style tour at Sunset with a typical Aperitivo in a Renaissance Villa
Amazing drive through the hills at Sunset
Breathtaking views
Aperitivo Cocktails and Chianti Wines with delicious typical food
Experience the Italian Aperitivo ritual with finger food and Chianti wines. The Aperitivo sunset tour is a drive on the hills at the best time of the day. After a fun driving lesson we take to the hills in a convoy of vintage Fiat 500s. We head into the Chianti wine region, lined with vineyards, farmhouses and cypress trees, with amazing panoramas with monasteries, olive groves and grapevines, and your guide will entertain you with history and local knowledge during the stops. For a part of our journey we take some of the route of the famous 'Mille Miglia' car rally. The gently curving roads are a joy to drive and each moment is like driving through a slideshow of postcards. After several panoramic stops in which we will have a chance at enjoying the best views of the area and also take a good look at the Florence panorama from atop, we enter the grounds of a stunning Renaissance Villa, where we enjoy our rich Aperitivo time: we stroll through the Italian 15th century garden and finally relax by the pool, enjoying the view, delightfully sipping on a typical aperitivo Spritz cocktail and munching away at the local produce that includes bruschetta, tuscan cut meats and cheeses. But wait! To bring about complete gastronomical bliss, we raise a glass or two of the best Chianti wine! Our tour ends at the villa, and there's no more driving after that, so you can relax and enjoy the wine!
Driving Restrictions
To drive one of our vintage cars you MUST be a manual car driver (regularly, as in every day, not occasionally, and not at some point in the distant past). You MUST have a valid license to drive in Italy. This is a license from Europe. USA, or a license written in the Roman alphabet (not in a language using other characters. es. Chinese) accompanied by your passport. If you don't have one you will need an INTERNATIONAL LICENSE, which is essentially a translation easily obtained from your driving authority. You MUST have a Credit card. This is for the insurance documents. As a driver you have dedicated insurance cover included in the price. You MUST have held your license for 1 year to drive any of the cars. All our routes are very carefully researched to enjoy quiet roads once we are out of town, whilst avoiding some of the busy major roads and complicated junctions.
The legendary Fiat 500 Tour at Sunset on Florence and Chianti Hills with Aperitif and Tasting of typical local products (CAFCT6)
Drive a vintage Fiat 500 at Sunset through Florentine country roads including some panoramic photo stops. After taking in the most spectacular of views we head back towards the villa, where you will enjoy a classic "Italian Aperitivo" with Spritz Cocktails and Chianti wine, accompanied by bruschetta, tuscan cut meats and cheeses.
Dauer : 3 Stunden
Anfangszeit: 17:30
Saison: from March to October - Everyday
Treffpunkt: Florence (further details will be provided after booking)
This Tour Includes: Vintage Fiat 500 rental, English professional guide throughout the tour, Aperitivo with Cocktails, Chianti wines and typical food tasting. Insurance of the driver and transported, gasoline, taxes.


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Why hang up multiple shelves for keys, knick knacks and whatever else, when you can combine them all into one supershelf? Dubbed the "Mexican Army Shelf", this multi-faceted shelf concept attempts to answer that question.
Designed by students at Ludens, a Mexican design school, the shelf has about 4 layers, which reveal places to hang clothing, store coins, write notes or stash your keys. There are even fold out sections that reveal a mirror and cupholders. This is clearly still a concept, and while it seems neat, I could also see this thing getting chaotic if you tried to use it for too many things at once. [Ludens via The Design Blog via Craziest Gadgets]


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The sun sets on Remembrance Day. We remember the real causes of war and conflict. Adolf Hitler admiring the Crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire. Teutonic Knights of the master race were committed to build their own order with a little help from their friends, the theft and recovery of the Crown jewels, the role of the Spear of Destiny in WWII, the secret Nazi crypt at Nordhausen tombs of the fatherland, manifest destiny of the Third Reich - the Bilderberg Group, WWI the end of the monarchies, the G20, American economic collapse a mathematical certainty, the mysterious missile launch off California, the truth of the Gulf seabed, the Earth wobble and the eruption of Mount Merapi. Lest we forget on Conspiracy Cafe.


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Healthy Alternatives to Your Favorite Foods
Craving fast food? Have a sweet tooth? We talked to Elizabeth Staum, M.S., R.D., L.D.N., Nutrition Educator at Joslin Diabetes Center, to find healthy alternatives to your favorite foods. As always, it's important to keep in mind portion sizes of these healthier alternatives, and make sure that the calories per serving fit with the meal plan you're following.
When you want something sweet...
Instead of cake, cookies, or ice cream, try:
- Sugar-free jello or hard candies (but always read the Nutrition Label on every food for serving size information)
- Sugar-free hot cocoa
- Fruit with cool whip
- Lower fat cookies like ginger snaps, vanilla wafers, graham crackers, animal crackers (again, observe serving size)
- No sugar added pudding or fudgsicles
- Eating very small portions of your favorite treat
When you want something salty and crunchy...
Instead of potato chips or tortilla chips, try:
- Low-sodium pretzels
- Air-popped popcorn
- Baked chips or baked tortilla chips
- Cut raw veggies with low fat dip, salsa, or low fat cream cheese
- Pickles
When you want something to drink...
Instead of soda or fruit punch, try:
- Diet soda
- Crystal light or other sugar-free beverages
- Seltzer with just an ounce or two of fruit juice
- Water with lemon juice
When you want fast food...
Instead of hamburgers or hotdogs, try:
- Grilled or broiled chicken sandwiches
- 1 slice of thin crust veggie pizza
- Low fat sub sandwiches
When you want "comfort food"...
Instead of high-fat, high-carb choices, try:
- Macaroni and cheese cooked with fat-free evaporated milk, low fat cheese, and egg substitute
- Mashed potatoes made with trans-fat free margarine and fat-free milk, or replace part of the potato with pureed cauliflower
- Meatloaf made with ground turkey and egg substitute
- Beef stew made with round cut beef, fewer potatoes, and more non-starchy vegetables like carrots, onions, green beans, and spinach
To learn more about Nutrition Education at Joslin Diabetes Center, or to make an appointment with a dietitian, please click here.
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Kent State Fashion Merchandising Student Receives National Retail Federation Award
The National Retail Federation (NRF) selected Kent State University senior fashion merchandising major Brittany Casper to receive its Ray M. Greenly Scholarship that is awarded to the next generation of retail leaders. Casper, who is from Brunswick, Ohio, is among a select group of 24 students nationwide to earn this prestigious $5,000 scholarship.
She received the award at the National Retail Federation's Annual Convention and Expo, also known as the Retail's BIG Show. The Retail's BIG Show is the annual flagship industry event hosted in New York City every January by the NRF. Casper received a stipend in addition to her scholarship to attend the 2013 show that took place from Jan 13-16.
"It was such an honor to be selected to receive the Ray M. Greenly Scholarship, especially since I am only one of only 24 students in the country that will be able to attend the NRF Retail's BIG Show," Casper said prior to her departure. "This show is not just based around fashion retail, but includes companies like Walmart, the Container Store and Coca-Cola, as well."
Casper jumped at the opportunity to apply when she first heard about the scholarship.
"This scholarship opportunity sounded incredible because it would give me insight into retail areas that I wouldn't normally have contact with," she said. "Looking at it from the overall retail perspective will help me learn how the other industries function and how to apply that to what I want to do."
Casper has internship experiences working at Urban Zen, Agentry PR, Todd Snyder and Giorgio Armani. Amanda Monteiro, retail director for Giorgio Armani in New York City, spoke very highly of Casper in her recommendation letter for the scholarship.
"It has become rarer as each year passes to find a young talent with passion, drive and enthusiasm who is grounded in intelligence and humility, but these are the very qualities that I found in Brittany Casper when she worked with me this summer," Monterio wrote. "She exemplifies everything that I could ever wish for or want in an employee.
"I have worked with many entry-level and intern positions before and none were as well rounded, bright, unentitled and eager as she was," Monterio added.
Casper was particularly excited to be returning to New York City after completing four internships in the city this past spring and summer. After returning to Kent State to conclude her senior year, Casper felt more familiar with the workings of the fashion industry and wanted to continue to prepare for her career.
"I want to be a buyer for a major fashion corporation so that I can help shape the industry," she said. Kent State is a member of the NRF Foundation university partner schools, a partnership of schools nationwide that offer future retail leaders high-quality education and access to big names in retail.
For more information about Kent State's School of Fashion Design and Merchandising, visit www.kent.edu/artscollege/fashion.
For more information about the National Retail Federation's Ray M. Greenly Scholarship, visit www.nrffoundation.com/scholarships.
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