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I'm a little sketchy on this one, can they actually do this? I mean, the users signed up under the expectation that copyright law would be honored. I don't think that they actually have a legal leg to stand on here. You can change the TOS so that new material uploaded will be owned by Facebook, but changing the TOS and expecting that to change the copyright on a lot of media retroactively? I only pray that this is what kills facebook so I can stop hearing people rant about how great it is and how I should join.
I only pray that this is what kills facebook so I can stop hearing people rant about how great it is and how I should join.
I'm an atheist, so forgive the expression.
Why is it always amen? What about bmen? And why stop at men? Why not awomen? =]
I'm a little sketchy on this one, can they actually do this? I mean, the users signed up under the expectation that copyright law would be honored. I don't think that they actually have a legal leg to stand on here. You can change the TOS so that new material uploaded will be owned by Facebook, but changing the TOS and expecting that to change the copyright on a lot of media retroactively? I only pray that this is what kills facebook so I can stop hearing people rant about how great it is and how I should join.
FB was already gambling that old users who no longer have accounts wouldn't know their content is being used for internal advertising, etc (since they no longer have accounts with FB), so now they're just taking the next step of saying they own you (they say they can use or relicense your _likeness_ , not just your original content, forever and ever). You read the ToS and object? Well, you had to use FB to cancel your account since there's no external email, phone, snailmail contacts, so they own your stuf
I guess I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around why I should really care too much about this, though?
I've had a Facebook acct. for a little while now (only "social networking" type site I ever really got into using), and the thing is FREE. I assume they ARE using me and my info as an advertising/marketing tool in some way, or else they wouldn't generate enough revenue to justify keeping it online.
If you post any original content there you believe is of enough "value" so you'd be upset if they got to keep it after you left? Then I'd say YOU were the one being foolish, using their system as its distribution point in the first place!
Any reasonable judge would throw such a clause out, especially given the sketchy way the TOS was agreed to in the first place.
On their sign up form, below the "Sign Up" button is the text "By clicking Sign Up, you are indicating that you have read and agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.". I'm pretty sure that doesn't count as an legally binding agreement.
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change or delete portions of these Terms at any time without further notice. Your continued use of the Facebook Service after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms.
Yes, but if you discontinue use and disagree with the current terms, can you get them to delete you like they would under the old ones?
You will have to log in first in order to delete your account. So either log in now, which constitutes use of Facebook after the TOS have been published, and FB will keep the content you're about to delete, or never log in again and leave your content online for FB to do whatever it wants with it.
Facebook: helping you give away your privacy since 2003!
While that might be or seem how they planned it, they have to give you an obvious way to opt out. You can't trick people into compliance to some arbitrary rule that takes something from them. You can't trick people into losing copyright or any right protected by laws.
Now please don't confuse that with people who don't do due diligence and fail to read or understand the contracts they participate in. that's an entirely different story altogether.
Your continued use of the Facebook Service after any such changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms.
Well golly, that clause should hold up well in court.
That's like McDonald's posting up a sign on a random wall in small print "by eating our food you agree not to sue us for any reason".
Actually, it would be more like a sign on the McDonald's door saying, "By entering this door, you agree to any terms posted within."
Or better yet, "By parking in our parking lot, you agree to be bound to any terms presented."
I have always wanted to put a sign on my front door which says, "By ringing my door bell, you agree to be squirted with a fully-loaded SuperSoaker, confronted by an angry naked man, or some combination thereof."
I have always wanted to put a sign on my front door which says, "By ringing my door bell, you agree to be squirted with a fully-loaded SuperSoaker, confronted by an angry naked man, or some combination thereof."
You're supposed to warn people before doing that?
Fortunately that is a completely invalid contract point. You can not wish for more wishes, and a contract one side can change without notice or renegotiation is not a valid contract.
But it is probably valid. The courts have found that cell phone contracts, which allow the company to later determine terms of billing, are valid.
It is a scam and a waste of time.
It is a scam and a waste of time.
At the danger of being wooshed, what the fuck are you doing talking about a waste of time on slashdot? ^_^
You get what you paid for.
I pay dearly to use Facebook. It is definatelly not free. Try adding an app and you'll see the garbage pit of advertising that has soaked into Facebook while you scan your entire monitor to find the "skip it" or "no thanks, just add it" link in 6 pt font, narrowly missing the "Continue" button that is strategically embedded into the commercial.
If it has advertising, it's not free... downloading the advertising media is using up your ISP bandwidth, besides the work required to dodge or not pay attention to t
including that picture of you at the beach with your shirt off when you were 17...
I don't think _anyone_ at
Who cares if Facebook can technically now use whatever you post forever. So could anyone who archived the page, or even took a screenshot. Not to mention that Facebook really aren't going to have the slightest interest in the average user, nor in using their content if and when they leave the site.
If that's true, then I'd like to know why they added that into the TOS. Why claim the rights for something they supposedly don't even want?
On the face of it, this policy makes sense if FB realized that they could not assure timely clean-up when somebody quit. Too much risk of being sued.
Avoidance of lawsuits is almost certainly the reason for their policy of taking ownership of anything posted to FB. It is an easy way, and perhaps the only way, of assuring that they can kill stuff that needs to be removed without being hassled with nuisance suits.
I don't see any way of running something like FB without these kinds of policies. The only surprising thing here is that FB didn't realize it needed ownership forever until recently.
On the face of it, this policy makes sense if FB realized that they could not assure timely clean-up when somebody quit. Too much risk of being sued.
The only reason facebook would be unable to clean up material left by a given user in a timely fashion would be technical incompetence. We're not talking about a campus full of cork bulletin boards here, we're talking about a dynamic website backended by one or more databases. If they can't find all the data left by a given user, it's because they're completely incompetent big fucking idiots. So while that may be true, it's still no excuse.
The only surprising thing here is that FB didn't realize it needed ownership forever until recently.
They do NOT need ownership forever. They want it, and their customer
The only reason facebook would be unable to clean up material left by a given user in a timely fashion would be technical incompetence. We're not talking about a campus full of cork bulletin boards here, we're talking about a dynamic website backended by one or more databases. If they can't find all the data left by a given user, it's because they're completely incompetent big fucking idiots. So while that may be true, it's still no excuse.
And what database system do you use that can cascade deletes to the pile of tapes in the locked vault on the other side of the continent?
There still was this thing called copyright, though. Anything you post is by default copyrighted to yourself. You don't even need to do anything special. So, yes, people could still have your photos in their browser's cache, but weren't legally allowed to do much with them.
E.g., just because I saved your family photo on my hard drive, doesn't mean I can cut and paste your daughter's head into an ad for condoms, nor as an ad for Adult Friend Finder, nor on top of a porn-star's body and sell subscriptions to that site, nor pretty much anything else.
A TOS which grants any entity full rights to your stuff, including to license it further, means pretty much just that: you forfeit any legal rights or recourses you might have had. If they want to use it for any purpose whatsoever, they can. You just gave them that right.
Well I know one girl who was being stalked on Facebook.
So she immediately closed her account, which the original TOS said would erase everything and thereby "disappear" from the stalker's attentions. But if facebook can keep information and publish it, that means the data could still be available to said stalker (or future stalkers), and YES that means the new policy causes harm.
Or worse, an employer uncovering photos of your sorority sister drinking party which you thought was deleted, but facebook still has published somewhere publicly. Just a few months ago a local teacher was fired for an old college drinking photo from ~5 years ago.
Not to mention that Facebook really aren't going to have the slightest interest in the average user, nor in using their content if and when they leave the site.
Exactly. The people that really should be worried about what they put on there are those that stand to lose from the property they use to gain, ie corporations or entertainment personalities. I see this as a good thing. I find it annoying that grass-roots people form communities that later get raided by corporations looking to exploit and plunder them. I find it goofy when corps redirect you to "Go look us up on Facebook/MySpace/etc."
Anyone who would aspire to a career in politics should find this very chilling I would imagine. Nobody cares that I wore a KKK costume to my last Halloween party, but I'm sure that the picture I posted of it would be worth a lot more when I am running for senate.
(note: I didn't actually wear a KKK costume)
Particularly for a public figure like a politician, an accusation doesn't necessarily have to be proven or even be true in order to have serious repercussions on one's career. Public opinion has much less rigorous standards than a court room, and opponents will generally be absolutely shameless in peddling negative stories about you, even if they know it's not true.
You hereby grant Facebook an irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, fully paid, worldwide license (with the right to sublicense) to (a) use, copy, publish, stream, store, retain, publicly perform or display, transmit, scan, reformat, modify, edit, frame, translate, excerpt, adapt, create derivative works and distribute (through multiple tiers), any User Content you (i) Post on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof subject only to your privacy settings or (ii) enable a user to Post, including by offering a Share Link on your website and (b) to use your name, likeness and image for any purpose, including commercial or advertising, each of (a) and (b) on or in connection with the Facebook Service or the promotion thereof.
I know it is hip to get all hysterical over personal information that is already "out there", but I've highlighted the part that really matters.
In short, they can't do anything with it after you close your account that they couldn't do with it before you closed your account. And since you can change your privacy settings before you close your account this is pretty much a non-issue. Change all your settings to "Only My Friends", then remove all your friends.
Really, people, the only difference here is that they don't do you the service of making all your data inaccessible to the people who could access it before. And why should they? That would be like slashdot removing all your old posts when you remove your account. Yes, I know it's "personal" data, but my guess is your 'friends' are more of a threat to your privacy than Facebook. After all, the only legal consequence for your friends sharing that information is that they can be kicked off Facebook for violating the terms of service.
How exactly do they define "User Content"? It seems that's pretty important.
Also - how well do these draconian EULAs hold up in court? Has there been a landmark test case yet? If their definition of "User Content" is a log of absolutely everything the user has uploaded/done then surely this must infringe on the user's right to privacy.
IANAL, but could someone, even if YANAL, please tell where this would come in under the UK's Data Protection Act?
Surely they can't keep such information if you want it to be removed.
IIRC the Data Protection Act doesn't allow you to demand removal of personal data by someone that you have previously provided it to.
They would, however, probably be required to provide you with a copy of any personal data that they hold on you at your request and they obviously wouldn't be allowed to provide it to anybody else without your express permission (Although the TOS may have granted them that permission when you signed up - whether it's legally binding or not is another matter entirely).
I guess I'll stop backing up my code to "My notes".
if you don't want your drunk, party, family reunion, college, work and so on photos being used as leverage against you in any way someone can find fitting, you still have the option of not posting them.
I hate "internetlackofprivacyphobia" (hey I just made that up.. bush has tought us so much)
if you don't want your drunk, party, family reunion, college, work and so on photos being used as leverage against you in any way someone can find fitting, you still have the option of not posting them.
That may be true but it doesn't stop me from posting that picture of you at the party with a lampshade over your head naked as a jaybird screwing that goat does it? Worse, it doesn't stop me from tagging that image "Anonymous Coward screwing around at the party. A must see" and allowing Facebook to index it.
That's like saying laws against murder don't prevent you from murdering someone.
You'll be in violation of Facebook's TOS (many times over from what I can tell, moreso if the AC has not also agreed to Facebook's Tos). You'll also be in violation of several laws and I imagine open to civil liability as well.
Of course, you don't need Facebook (or even the internet) to distribute pictures (real or fake) of an AC having goat sex, so I tend to side with the GP on this one. A lot of the hysteria regarding privacy
Sorry, according to recently released Whitehouse records the term is "Intarwebsprivatelessnessscardycats" or AmericaHaters for short.
Truly, people who posted pictures of themselves or their friends doing stupid things is just... well, human nature. Just look at the list of contenders for the Darwin awards. People are stupid, on the whole. I tried to tell my stepson that pictures of him dressed up like a gay looking movie character should not be posted to the Internet, even if it was just for Halloween. Seri
It's FACEBOOK.
Frankly, I'm even willing to say "If you put it on Facebook, it doesn't have any value anyway."
If you're such a creative genius, spend the 6$ per month for web hosting and make your own website.
Facebook doesn't have an actual "deletion" procedure for accounts. When someone wants to "delete" their account, it is simply disabled and their profile is no longer accessible, nor does it appear in search results. Their name will still appear in tagged photos and on wall posts, etc, but it will no longer be clickable.
The only way to truly delete one's account is to remove oneself from all tags, delete all posts, remove all pictures and videos, and all other user stuff manually , then "delete" the account. The only way not to leave a trace is to bomb the footsteps.
I think the reason this exists is because Facebook does not handle foreign key deletion well, if at all. The deletion of a user profile record would have to cascade down through every table in the database, removing every instance of that user. Who knows how long that could take. It's easier to simply mark the profile inactive and handle that in software.
This license change allows Facebook to hold on to all of the stuff a user has uploaded even after the user has "deleted" his or her account. IMO, Facebook is using legal means instead of developing a technological solution to the problem.
and they were being valued as being bigger than GM.
These days, the knitting that my grandmother sells at the yearly town fair is viewed as bigger than GM.
even though they have made this change to their Terms of Service (and you've agreed to arbitration), you could still prevent this from applying to you (since users were not notified of this change in ToS). An example of such a case can be found at http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20070729165004428 [groklaw.net].
well.. thats was FB says anyhow.
but we have yet to see this tested in a court of law, and I rather think we will.
after all, the bank could change their TOS to allow them to remove as much money from your account as they wanted - but they would soon be challenged in court and more importantly face a mass exodus.
so at this time, I'll take this with a pinch of salt.
besides, they are welcome to my trivial rantings and boring posts - its not like I would put anything important up on there.
That's been the rule of the Internet for nearly two decades.
Is that why at the bottom of slashdot it says "Comments are owned by the Poster."?
You are wrong in so many ways I can't even figure out where to begin. Luckily there is an excellent counterexample at the bottom of every slashdot page. Posting a comment like this to a site which explicitly states that you retain copyright proves only that you should never be allowed to post on slashdot again. Come back when you have two neurons to rub together.
Parent's post is the practical reality even if it isn't the legal reality. There are no practical means to stop anyone from using uploaded information in any way they see fit. Sure you can sic lawyers on them but that is dicey enough in your own country much less any other.
That's been the rule of the Internet for nearly two decades.
Is that why at the bottom of slashdot it says "Comments are owned by the Poster."?
With respect to text or data entered into and stored by publicly-accessible site features such as forums, comments and bug trackers ("SourceForge Public Content"), the submitting user retains ownership of such SourceForge Public Content; with respect to publicly-available statistical content which is generated by the site to monitor and display content activity, such content is owned by SourceForge. In each such case, the submitting user grants SourceForge the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform, and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed, all subject to the terms of any applicable license.
They MUST have that right, otherwise you could sue them for posting your comments, and your comments stay INDEFINITELY. If you delete your Slashdot account, your comments still stay archived online, so exactly what's so evil about the new ToS?
What about all of the 3rd party apps on Facebook that require your Gmail or Hotmail or whatever password? Don't get me wrong, giving anyone your e-mail password is just asking for it, but there are plenty of people who already have. What guarantee is there that their user info isn't being sold off to who ever? These days, a Gmail password is almost of good if not better than an SSN. Tax returns, notices from your creditors, all that fun stuff, virtually non deletable and waiting for exploitation.
A PERSON could go mad trying to pinpoint the moment he lost a friend. So seldom does that friend make his feelings clear by sending out an e-mail alert.
It's not just a fact of life, but also a policy on Facebook. While many trivial actions do prompt Facebook to post an alert to all your friends -- adding a photo, changing your relationship status, using Fandango to buy tickets to "Paul Blart: Mall Cop" -- striking someone off your list simply is not one of them.
It is this policy that Burger King ran afoul of this month with its "Whopper Sacrifice" campaign, which offered a free hamburger to anyone who severed the sacred bonds with 10 of the friends they had accumulated on Facebook. Facebook suspended the program because Burger King was sending notifications to the castoffs letting them know they'd been dropped for a sandwich (or, more accurately, a tenth of a sandwich).
The campaign, which boasted of ending 234,000 friendships, is history now -- Burger King chose to end it rather than tweak it to fit Facebook's policy -- but the same can hardly be said of the emerging anxiety it tapped. As social networking becomes ubiquitous, people with an otherwise steady grip on social etiquette find themselves flummoxed by questions about "unfriending" people: how to do it, when to do it and how to get away with it quietly.
"If someone with more than 1,000 friends unfriends me, I get offended," said Greg Atwan, an author of "The Facebook Book," a satirical guide. "But if someone only has 100 friends, you understand they're trying to limit it to their intimates."
Mr. Atwan, a recent graduate of Harvard (where Facebook got its start), recommends culling your friend list once a year to remove total strangers and other hangers-on. Keeping your numbers down gives you more leeway to be selective about whom you approve in the first place, he said.
(While some people prefer the term "defriending," a quick survey of user-created groups on Facebook shows "unfriending" to be the more popular choice. A Facebook spokeswoman, Brandee Barker, said there was no officially preferred term.)
Of course, not all unfriendings are equal. There seem to be several varieties, ranging from the completely impersonal to the utterly vindictive. First is the simple thinning of the herd, removing that grad student you met at a party two years ago and haven't spoken to since or that kid from middle school you barely remember.
These were the people whom Steven Schiff, a news assistant at Vault.com, a career services Web site, sacrificed to get his Whopper.
"I found there were quite a few people on my list that I'd never even spoken to, much less been close friends with," he said by telephone.
Mr. Schiff, 25, said he experienced only the slightest guilt at eliminating those people. While he didn't feel the need to write to them individually to explain things, he did use his personal blog to address them en masse.
"Let's be honest here, questionable Facebook friend," he wrote. "We've been keeping you around all this time because we'd just feel bad if you ever found out that you got the ax. It's just, well, up until now nobody offered us a Whopper in exchange for your feelings."
This was just the sort of sentiment that Burger King and its advertising agency, Crispin Porter & Bogusky, were aiming to evoke when they set up the campaign. Burger King decided that it would do the talking for this article rather than its agency and delegated the task to Brian Gies, a vice president of marketing who said he was not a member of Facebook and therefore had not participated in the "Whopper Sacrifice."
Mr. Gies explained the marketing team's thinking about Facebook. "It s
How does Burger King know you've unfriended someone?
If they managed the program with a Facebook application, any user who signed up would have given the application full run of their friends list. I suspect that the application itself was used to execute the defriending.
Thankfully, the hype cycle is just about done and everyone will move on to something else soon. Don't believe me? It's just part of a cycle that's been going on for a long time. People moved from AOL, to Yahoo, to MySpace, to Facebook
And if that's not enough to convince you, consider the millions of teenagers who get online every year. The *last* thing they want to do is join the same online community that their parents are on! That's SO NOT COOL!!
From a practical point of view, Facebook's "walled garden" approach has failed before. Just ask AOL. A site that requires that you totally immerse yourself in it just to get a feel for what it's about is not sustainable. A while ago I wanted to poke around just to see what all the fuss is about, only to find out that you had to create an account in order to do so. WTF? So I created a throw-away account with a fake name. Then I went to browse the profiles of people I knew were on Facebook, only to find out that you have to "friend" them in order to read their profiles, which would of course subject you to an incoming torrent of high school bullshit from everyone on their friends lists.
No thanks. After seeing the way some people go into withdrawal if they don't check Facebook every 15 minutes, I'm happier than ever to NOT be a part of this particular clusterfuck. I want online tools that SAVE time, not CONSUME more and more of it.
People like you don't "get it", honestly.
I say that because I was one of them myself.
I DO happen to agree with you about it being cyclical, though. That's given with practically anything out there. Even a basically "here to stay" type of web site such as eBay is more likely part of a longer boom/bust cycle. (I can remember when sites like Amazon auctions were every bit as good and viable a place to buy and sell as eBay. And eBay is steadily angering people with their changes to their feedback system, merger with PayPal and subsequent attempts to force its use for payments, etc.)
But the thing is, I didn't care much for my high-school days either -- yet I *did* build up a list of former friends over the years who I lost track of. That tends to happen when people get married and have kids. They get so involved with "family", they don't have time to just hang out with all their old friends anymore -- and next thing you know? It's a holiday or something and they try to make contact, only to find out that friend has moved and they can't be reached.
Facebook added a lot of "value" for me, giving me a way to re-connect with many of those people I had been wondering about for years. Yet, it still lets you keep them at "arm's reach" if you prefer. (EG. You can make them a "friend" online, allowing you to view their photos, status updates, etc. so you have a current idea of what they've got going on. But you don't have to invest the time required to start calling them on the phone or hanging out in person, which you might otherwise do as a thinly veiled excuse to collect that same info.)
People can get addicted to anything, and Facebooks addicts are out there too. Myself? I check mine once every 1-2 days for a few minutes. It's a small investment of time to gather a lot of current info on people I'm curious about. Saves me more time than it wastes, really.
People like you don't "get it", honestly.
Having been online in one form or another for 27 years, I think it's safe to disregard allegations of ignorance. I've watched online communities come and go for decades. In that time I've learned that small, focused communities tend to have better longevity than those which attempt to be all things to all people. Facebook will be supplanted by someone or something that doesn't try to take over the world.
Cynics with few friends and seething disdain for for people in general are not Facebook's target audience.
That's a clause that only matters if Facebook is in decline. On the way up, the fate of the information about departed users doesn't matter. On the way down, it matters a lot.
Social networking sites have a life cycle, which is reflected in their long term traffic statistics. They open, they may become popular, the cool people move in, there's a herd effect that makes them grow more if they start to become popular, the losers move in, the cool people leave, growth starts to flatten, and then the long decline starts, usually leveling out at maybe a quarter of peak. This works just like cool nightclubs and restaurants. Anybody who goes out frequently in a major city knows this pattern.
AOL, Geocities, EZboard, Salon, Nerve, Bebo, and Tribe all peaked years ago. Myspace peaked in early 2008, according to Alexa traffic stats. Facebook hasn't visibly peaked yet, but it looks like their management sees the inevitable coming and is getting ready.
This is a hint that it's too late for Facebook to IPO. That had to happen on the way up, or it won't happen at all. There was much talk of a Facebook IPO in 2007 or 2008, but now the word is "2010, if ever". Probably never. They should have gone public earlier.
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For a long time I thought I made this film up because every time I mentioned The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T, I'd get blank stares or questions about my sanity. I'd say, "You know that movie about a kid who didn't want to practice the piano? Ends up in this strange place with an evil Dr. T who wants him to play the piano all the time. Written by Dr. Seuss? No?" Well, the films exists! And fortunately, I'm far from being the only one who's seen it. The only film Dr. Seuss ever wrote is a work of mad, understated genius.
This was no box-office bonanza when it opened in 1953, but many great films aren't. Must be one of the strangest kid films ever and I love it.
Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

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Registered voters will have an opportunity to cast their ballots for a number of local and state races this Tuesday. Polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. in both Gloucester and Mathews.
In Gloucester's contested races, voters will have an opportunity to cast their ballots for Holly Smith, the Republican nominee, or Conrad Bareford, an independent, for commonwealth's attorney. Incumbent Bob Hicks is not running for reelection.
For sheriff in Gloucester, voters will choose between the incumbent Steve Gentry, an independent, and challengers Larry Rilee (the Republican nominee) and independents Ted Koehl and Clarence Bowser.
In board of supervisors races in Gloucester, Andy James, an independent, and Katie Thompson, the Democratic nominee, will face off for the Ware district seat, which is being vacated by Gregory Woodard, who is not seeking reelection. Robert "JJ" Orth, an independent, and Tommy Wheat, the Republican nominee, are vying for the Abingdon district seat, which is being vacated by Buddy Rilee, who is not seeking reelection. Voters will be able to choose between Richard Elmore, an independent, and Ashley Chriscoe, the Republican nominee, for the at-large seat on the board, which is being vacated by Michelle Ressler, who is not seeking reelection. Finally, in the Gloucester Point district race, voters will choose from the incumbent, Bobby Crewe, an independent, or his opponent, Chris Hutson, the Republican nominee.


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Former Manchester United defender Phil Bardsley was the unlikely hero as his first-half strike claimed another huge Barclays Premier League win for Sunderland, as Manchester City were beaten 1-0 at the Stadium of Light.
Despite Gus Poyet's side's torrid start to the season, their latest scalp after the Tyne-Wear derby win secured a fourth straight single-goal victory over City, whose struggles away from the Etihad Stadium continue.
Manuel Pellegrini made five changes to the team that gave a five-goal, five-star UEFA Champions League performance against CSKA Moscow on Tuesday, while there were just two changes to Poyet's 11 that beat Southampton in the Capital One Cup on Wednesday with Steven Fletcher and Sebastien Larsson making their returns.
Larsson was lucky to stay on the field, as his dangerous studs-up challenge on the ankle of Javi Garcia was deemed not even worthy of a yellow card from referee Mike Dean.
Still with 11 men, Sunderland took advantage on 21 minutes as another former Red and man-of-the-match Wes Brown sent a long ball forward, which was latched onto by Bardsley.
A lapse in defence between James Milner and Martin Demicheles allowed the full-back time to cut back onto his right foot and finish brilliantly beyond Costel Pantilimon.
This was the first goal the Romanian had conceded since replacing Joe Hart between the posts, but his side should have drawn level as Sergio Aguero nodded Aleksandar Kolarov's cross wide from six yards out.
Bardsley then displayed his defensive duties well early in the second half, as he blocked substitute Jesus Navas' shot on the line from Aguero's cutback.
At the other end, Ki Sung-Yueng almost grabbed his first goal for the Black Cats as he fired a 25-yard effort narrowly wide of Pantilimon's goal.
Aguero and substitute Edin Dzeko drew good saves out of Vito Mannone as the hosts withstood City's pressure.
Dzeko nodded wide again soon after, and Kolarov fizzed a shot just off target as Sunderland held on for another huge win.
City's form on the road is a major cause for concern which will need to be addressed by Pellegrini, with just four points from their opening six away fixtures so far this season.
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IRVINE, Calif. - Chris Spencer's blocked shot with under two seconds remaining preserved the lead and ultimately gave the UC Santa Barbara women's basketball team a 57-55 victory over UC Irvine on Wednesday night at the Bren Events Center.
It was also Spencer's two free throws with 1:28 remaining that gave UCSB (12-16 overall, 9-7 in the Big West) the two-point lead and some tenacious defense by the Gauchos in the final 90 seconds, helping to contribute to a 24% shooting night from the Anteaters.
A shot clock violation against UCI (9-19, 6-9) with under a minute left gave UCSB the ball back, but the Anteaters also played good defense, opting not to foul, and forcing the Gauchos into their own shot clock violation with eight seconds left.
Jade Smith Williams gathered a missed shot and her attempt with 0:02 left was blocked by Spencer and gave the Gauchos the victory.
"We played tough," a smiling head coach Lindsay Gottlieb said.
The Gauchos still have a shot at fourth place after the win. Should UC Riverside defeat Long Beach State on Saturday, UCSB clinches fourth place and a first round bye. Big West Tournament tickets are available for purchase by clicking here.
The victory was UCSB's fourth in a row - its longest winning streak of the season - and guaranteed its 20th straight winning season in conference play. Emilie Johnson, hounded all night long by UCI's Keyonna Johnson, finished with a team-best 15 points while Ariana Gnekow tied her career-high with 12 points.
Mekia Valentine, who was plagued by foul trouble in the first half, finished with 12 rebounds and three blocked shots. Spencer added nine points and five rebounds while Meagan Williams and Jordan Franey each had eight points.
UCSB finishes its regular season schedule this Saturday with a non-conference game at Cal State Bakersfield. Listen to the game on AM 990 or streaming live online at UCSBgauchos.com. Tip-off is at 5 p.m. with the pregame show starting at 4:30.
All men's and women's basketball games will be broadcast live on AM 1490 and AM 990 again this year, and those games will also be available online, by clicking here.. And, UCSB Athletics is proud to announce that the baseball team will have over 20 games broadcast live on the air and through our website, UCSBgauchos.com.
UCSB Athletics has a new weekly radio show called Talk'n Gauchos which airs every Tuesday from 6-7 p.m. on AM 1490 KIST. The show is broadcast live from State & A Bar and Grill, located on the corner of State Street and Anapamu Street in Santa Barbara. Fans are encouraged to attend the show for free gear and ticket giveaways or to even e-mail a question in to one of the guests and have it read live over the air. The show also airs live online via audio streaming and fans can click here to check out the entire lineup of live audio streaming online.


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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- President Barack Obama is at it again. Unable to manage the government or the economy effectively, he threatens to victimize taxpayers and stick Republicans with the blame.It appears likely sequestration will require $85 billion in cuts to defense and non-entitlement government spending. Unwilling to acknowledge the government has a spending problem -- over the last five years, outlays are up $1 trillion and three times the amount required by inflation -- and that tax revenue are short because his policies have instigated the weakest recovery since the Great Depression, Obama is threatening draconian measures if Republicans don't agree to more taxes. Obama has announced meat inspectors will be furloughed and food shortages will result. His cabinet secretaries have threatened three-hour waits at airports to clear security, reduced embassy protection and border patrols, cutting the Persian Gulf Naval presence from two aircraft carriers to one, and the list goes on .... Repeatedly, the Obama has exclaimed if congressional Republicans don't cooperate, spending cuts now could derail the hard-won recovery. It puzzles me how $85 billion in a $16 trillion economy could make such a difference, especially when tax increases of similar size, implemented on Jan. 1 at Obama's behest, had no similar effect in his mind. The U.S. Constitution charges the President of the United States with running the government effectively on the money Congress provides. While appropriation legislation limits the fungibility of funds, the administration has considerable discretion allocating the 10% cuts in non-entitlement spending. Military marching bands have more personnel than the State Department's Foreign Service has employees. I would rather jettison some tubas than Marine guards at embassies. The Agriculture Department has one of the largest staffs of economists in the world, and the Social Security Administration employs a similar crop of dull number-crunchers. I fear for my brethren, but safe food is more important than yet another dull research paper. To provide fuel and munitions to maintain the carrier presence in the Gulf, it would be better to trim ballooning military health-care costs, something Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has expressed sympathy about addressing.
That would require longer-term reforms, but Obama has refused to look at skyrocketing spending with a critical eye. He talks about balanced approaches to deficit reduction -- half spending and half taxes. However, instead of matching increases in payroll and income taxes imposed Jan. 1 with spending cuts, he pushed through more spending on unemployment insurance and other initiatives. Now Obama is unwilling to manage effectively $85 billion in cuts across a $3.8 trillion government. Remember, administrative, research and public affairs outlays associated with entitlements are fair game, too. What about the White House budget? Instead, he would rather blackmail Americans with food shortages, long lines at airports and the like, and invoke the specter of another recession to gain political advantage over the Republicans. Whether a second recession occurs is already baked in the cake. Obama's high taxes, and those imposed by Democratic governors from Maryland to California, have forced consumers to trim purchases, retailers and wholesalers are reporting weaker traffic and are trimming inventories, and corporate leaders have announced plans to cut new investments and hiring owing to weak demand and more burdensome health-care costs and regulations. When you can't get hamburger at the supermarket and unemployment rises this spring, Obama will do what he does best, cast blame on Republicans for permitting sequestration, but it is the American people that bear the burden of presidential disregard for the responsibilities of his office and the harmful effects of his policies. Perhaps, Obama should read less Lincoln and behave more like Truman, the man from Missouri for whom "the buck stops here." Follow @pmorici1 This article was written by an independent contributor, separate from TheStreet's regular news coverage.


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We grew up watching the rivalry and that's why a lot of us came to BYU — to be part of the rivalry. It's really sad we don't have it anymore. —BYU defensive back Drew Reilly, on the rivalry with Utah
PROVO — It was a typical BYU spring football game on Saturday: kickoffs without tackling and a hermetically sealed quarterback, both designed to keep injuries away. A sizable number of the star players sat out.
But there was something even more obviously missing than, say, linebacker Bronson Kaufusi or running back Jamaal Williams, and it had to do with scheduling.
No Utah.
As defensive back Drew Reilly noted, "We grew up watching the rivalry and that's why a lot of us came to BYU — to be part of the rivalry. It's really sad we don't have it anymore."
Which in a way took some of the fun out of the Cougars' spring game.
Half the thrill of looking ahead is viewing your archrival coming over the hill.
The Cougars pulled everything off just as they should have on a sunny-then-overcast afternoon at Edward Stadium. Nobody got trucked off in an ambulance. The game had all the violence of a picnic. That's a good thing. An estimated crowd of 6,500 showed up just to be there. They got what they came for: a reason to be in the house.
For them, there's never an offseason. April through July are just timeouts.
Certainly next season has a dose of intrigue. Though they play a less ambitious schedule than last year, that doesn't mean the Cougars have lowered expectations. BYU has been ranked No. 25 in a USA Today preseason poll. Central Florida, BYU's Oct. 9 opponent, was rated No. 21.
In addition, there are dangerous games against Houston, Boise State, Utah State and a road game at Middle Tennessee.
Texas, a big loser to BYU in Provo last year, was rated No. 23 by Athlon Sports. A road game at Cal could even provide drama.
BYU opens the season in the longest road game imaginable — at Connecticut. It makes you wonder why the Cougars didn't just get it over with and schedule Cambridge.
"We definitely have a chance to win them all," Reilly said, "but they're going to test our guts. We travel far. We're not just going up the street to play Utah and Utah State."
Actually, going up the street to play Utah would be a welcome addition. In case you hadn't heard, for the first time since World War II, the Utes and Cougars are taking a break, for the next two seasons. The bad part is one of the country's great rivalries is pausing, the byproduct of conference realignment. The good part is that maybe next fall there won't be so much nonsense.
As tension built toward the 2013 game, the sideshows took over. Spencer Hadley's suspension and a mock baptism video involving Utah players made the rivalry seem more personal than bitter than ever.
After the game, a few BYU fans pelted officials with debris.
Utah has its reasons for not playing BYU. With nine annual conference games, and upcoming games with Big Ten opponents, it has become increasingly hard for the Utes to fit in the Cougars. At the same time, they don't necessarily want to. With nine potential losses, why schedule others? (They do play Fresno State this year, which might be as worrisome as the Cougars.)
Meanwhile, BYU will take any respectable opponent it can get.
All of which leaves a gaping hole in both teams' schedules. For a series that started as early as 1896 (1922 in BYU's record book), a two-year absence is downright strange.
"In previous years, I think it's been the biggest motivation we've had, playing Utah and trying to beat our in-state rival," said offensive lineman Ryker Mathews, who prepped at American Fork. "I'm just as bugged and weirded out as you are Utah not being on the schedule."
Included in the crowd on Saturday was former Ute Trevor Reilly, there to watch brother Drew, who transferred from Colorado State.
"Honestly, that's lot of the motivation we had, when we come in December, and come in in the spring, and every day we remind ourselves, 'Hey, we've got to beat Utah.' We don't have it anymore," BYU's Reilly said. "We're going to miss that."
In fact, the more you look at the schedule, the more it resembles a spring game. There's some good action, but also some places where key components have purposely been removed.
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With four different storylines featuring characters from Samurai Warriors and Dynasty Warriors, Warriors Orochi 2 includes three new game modes: Dream, VS and Survival, as well as "Tag Team"-style matches that pit fighters in head-to-head arena combat.
A star-studded lineup boasts 96 playable characters from the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series including the massive boar-like Gyuki and the faceless Dodomeki. New playable characters not found in the original console release include the graceful San Zang and the warrior-monk Benkei.
New features exclusive to the PSP system also include: 2-Player VS mode plus Co-op play in Story, Free and Dream modes, 12 new scenarios in Dream mode, and a Japanese and English voice option.
Shattering time and space, the venomous Serpent King Orochi kidnapped history's greatest warriors in a scheme to test his might. The heroes eventually defeated Orochi and his menacing army. Now the slain Orochi lies in the netherworld, and a mysterious alliance is hatching a plan to resurrect Orochi.
Gamers can pre-order the game now from Amazon.com, GameFly, and GameStop.
Key Features
- 96 playable characters from the Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors series including new characters: Gyuki, Dodomeki, San Zang and Benkei
- 2-Player VS mode plus Co-op play in Story, Free and Dream modes
- 12 new scenarios in Dream mode
- Install function to Memory Stick Duo improves loading times
- Japanese and English voice option!
- Improved draw distance compared to the original Warriors Orochi for PSP
- Storylines for the kingdoms of Wu, Wei, and Shu, and the Samurai Warriors continue the events from the original game, plus a new Orochi storyline looks back to the first series of wars to expose the secrets of the Serpent King.
- The game's newly added Dream Mode features an original storyline different from that of Story Mode.
- Two-player Versus Mode comes action-packed with four different games including the awesome "Tag Team" matches that pit individual fighters in lethal head-to-head combat.
- The "Team Battle System" lets you create your own three-person fighting unit.
Warriors Orochi 2 is coming to PSP on August 25, 2009.
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Spirit Lake improves to 4-1 on the season and is 1-0 in the Lakes Conference.
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Texas Outdoor Family Workshops – Go Camping This Fall!
A Video News Report and press release is now available on our site called "Texas Outdoor Family." If your family's always wanted to try camping but doesn't know where to start, Texas Parks and Wildlife can help. Texas Outdoor Family weekend workshops teach folks everything from setting up a tent to paddling a kayak – all in a safe and comfortable state park setting.
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(Neb.) - Special City Council meeting Monday
By: John Thayer Posted at: 05/04/2012 10:49 AMNotice is hereby given, that a special meeting of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Chadron, Nebraska will be held at 6:00 o'clock P.M. on Monday, May 7, 2012 in the City Hall Council Chamber at 234 Main Street, Chadron, Nebraska, which meeting will be open to the public.
The Mayor and Council reserve the right to adjourn into executive session pursuant to Section 84-1410 of the Nebraska Revised Statues.
An agenda for such meeting kept continuously current is available for public inspection at the office of the City Clerk at City Hall during normal business hours; provided, the City Council may modify the agenda at the meeting if it determines that an emergency so requires.
Individuals requiring physical or sensory accommodations, who desire to attend the meeting or participate, please contact the City Clerk's Office at City Hall at 234 Main Street no later than 4:00 o'clock P.M. on the business day preceding the meeting.


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Some teachers may get their jobs back Monday night. The Rockford School Board meets to on how to spend some newly acquired state aid.
The Rockford School Board will vote on whether to restore a portion of the $10 million in jobs and educational programs the board cut earlier in the year. The cuts were part of the districts solution to balancing next year's school budget and trimming down their sizeable debt.
The school district is set to receive nearly $7 million in new state aid that the governor has approved. Now the school board will have to decide whether to use that money to restore jobs and programs or put use that money to pay down their debt.
But the administration is recommending that the board restore positions in nursing, clerical, administrative and school security. Other recommendations are to bring back the schools gifted program for exceptional students. This all adds up to a price tag of nearly $2.5 million. The State Board of Education is requiring that some of these positions be restored. But some board members are more concerned about what may not be brought back.
The board has previously stated that they would restore this zero hour program. If the board restores all of the administrations recommendations, they will be left with more than $4 million in surplus. Some board members want to use it to pay down the debt while others feel it should be put into a rainy day fund.


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – Coming off of their 6-3 win over Barton College on Friday, the King University hosted Limestone College on Saturday afternoon. The Saints showed they came to play early, and took the duel match 9-0.
Limestone (12-7, 5-1 CC) grabbed control of the match by taking all three of the doubles matches. For the Tornado (9-6, 3-4 CC), Leo Brigato and Patrick Jones dropped a narrow 8-6 decision at No. 2 doubles.
The Saints took all six singles matches in straight sets, with Daniel Lopez falling to Limestone's William Boyce 6-2, 7-5. Pablo Vidal and Rafael Francisco both fell 6-3, 6-3 at No. 2 and No. 5 singles, respectively.
The Tornado will be in action again on Monday when they travel to Pfeiffer University for a 2:00 p.m. start.


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When it comes to research, CEE's undergraduate students hit the ground running. They'll certainly encounter research in their class lab experiences. Students may also participate in laboratory research with a faculty member, working with graduate students and sometimes their peers, and are encouraged to seek independent research opportunities.
Students may undertake a research project as an elective with the proper approvals. Options available include:
This program encourages innovation and initiative while teaching teamwork, leadership and communication skills. Students are encouraged to work on projects with their peers from other disciplines, including architecture, computer science, economics, industrial engineering, marketing, materials science and mechanical engineering.
This NSF-sponsored program takes place at our ATLSS Engineering Research Center over the summer.
EWB is an international non-profit organization with a flourishing chapter at Lehigh and in the greater Lehigh Valley. This association empowers budding engineers by facilitating humanitarian efforts around the world. EWB gives students the unique opportunity to apply their knowledge and gain hands-on experience in the field, while providing necessary services to people in need.
This CEE student team competes in a regional competition sponsored by ASCE-AISC. Students are required students design a steel bridge based on a set of requirements that includes fundraising, fabrication and construct the final project. Students get the chance to design the bridge using computer software and to cut, grind, drill, and weld steel in the fabrication process.
Each year, undergraduate students throughout the Rossin College of Engineering get the chance to display their research projects and practice their presentation skills by taking part an undergraduate research symposium.


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During the month of October, the Humane Society of Tampa Bay is celebrating "Adopt a Dog Month."
Celebrate the 31 days of this dog-honoring-month with reduced-rate $31 adoption fees for all dogs over 6 months in age.
Regular adoption prices are $75 for larger dogs and $150 for small dogs, 25 lbs. and under.
Each HSTB adoptable has been vaccinated, health-checked, de-wormed, de-fleaed, microchipped and spayed/neutered prior to placement. Pets who are 4 months of age or older receive a rabies vaccine. All dogs receive a DHLPP vaccine and are heartworm-tested at 5 months of age or older.
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A former music manager who used to photograph and hang with rock bands such as KISS, Bad Company and Foghat, 59-year-old David Slania of Rolling Meadows "outs" himself as a man with Parkinson's disease by declaring, "I used to be a rocker and now I'm a shaker."
If he wanted to accentuate that Parkinson's joke with a rim shot, the uncontrollable tremors in his left hand wouldn't allow it.
"If I were a drummer, the rest of the band would not be able to keep up with me," Slania quips. He says some of his involuntary movements make him look as if he's re-enacting the painfully uncoordinated "Elaine Benes' dance" from an old "Seinfeld" TV episode. "This shoulder will hit a wall, this leg will hit something and you just don't know where it will go," says Slania, who adds that Parkinson's tremors have robbed him of the ability to take non-blurry photographs.
While there is nothing amusing about having an incurable progressive disorder of the nervous system, people with Parkinson's still can be funny, Slania says. TV and movie icon Michael J. Fox hopes to prove that Thursday when he returns to the TV sitcom world with the NBC premiere of "The Michael J. Fox Show," about a TV news anchor with Parkinson's disease.
"That's the beauty of the show. It's going to make people think," says Slania, who hopes to do the same. Working with the Michael J. Fox Foundation, Slania has organized a free and public "viewing party" Thursday night in the auditorium of Northwest Community Hospital, 800 W. Central Road in Arlington Heights. At 6 p.m., Slania will show "Just Around the Corner," a documentary about Parkinson's disease featuring Slania's friend Bob Benjamin. Fox's show debuts at 8 p.m. Thursday with a special one-hour premiere. Illinois is home to 50 such viewing parties, from small gatherings in private homes to large fundraisers.
The last time a TV sitcom fueled that kind of buzz might have been in 1997, when Ellen DeGeneres' character on the "Ellen" sitcom announced she was a lesbian.
"That's the power of a courageous role model," says Deborah W. Brooks, a finance executive who joined with Michael J. Fox in 2000 to launch the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research, which funds medical trials, including some in Illinois. People touched by Parkinson's want to share that moment when the affable Fox makes his disease part of prime-time comedy.
"They appreciate the audaciousness of it," says Brooks, the foundation co-founder, who has worked at Fox's side for 13 years and is now executive vice chairman of the charity that has grown to become the world's largest private funder of Parkinson's research. Seeing a fictional TV character tackle life with Parkinson's through the performance of a star who does the same thing in his real life can motivate people.
"They shift from being admirers to emulators," Brooks says.
Humor always has been a part of Fox's life, so now he finds humor in his life with Parkinson's. In the show, his character tries to call his wife's cellphone but his shaky fingers accidentally dial 911. The situation gets worse and funnier when he explains to police that he mis-dialed because "my drugs haven't kicked in yet."
Documentary subject Benjamin, who lives in New Jersey, says that happened to him.
"The thing about Parkinson's is that we all have our own version," Fox says in a video promoting his show. "No two of us are alike, so that's both frustrating and encouraging."
On his own path since he was diagnosed with the disease in 2006, Slania, a husband, father and grandfather, says he remembers originally getting ticked at Fox after the celebrity called Parkinson's a "distraction."
"It's a distraction, but when it's on your body, it's a huge distraction," Slania remembers thinking. "There's a lot of denial that goes along with it. People look at it as a sign of weakness, and no one wants to be weak."
Trying to ignore a barely noticeable tremor in his left hand, Slania finally visited a doctor, who diagnosed him with Parkinson's.
"I went in scared and came out terrified," Slania remembers.
As a coach for his young son's baseball and soccer teams, Slania remembers worrying that he would not be physically able to coach, or that a player might make fun of him in front of his son. Still coaching, Slania says he's never heard an unkind word. And now he's come around to embrace Fox's acceptance of Parkinson's.
"We've all got something. As soon as you can say, 'I've got this,' then it's OK," Slania says.
Part of his newfound attitude comes from his friendship with Chris Errera, a gifted musician and performer from Schaumburg. Working as Errera's business manager, Slania says he draws inspiration from Errera, who was born with a rare growth disorder, barely tops 4 feet in height and manages to play beautiful piano in spite of stubby fingers that are difficult to move.
When he heard Slania was organizing a viewing party, "I told him, 'I'm proud of you,'" says Errera, who often finds humor in his own physical limitations. "You show people how comfortable you are, the more comfortable they become."
Thursday night's viewing party at Northwest Community Hospital "is just a show of support for our Parkinson's people and all of those whose lives are touched by Parkinson's," says physical therapy assistant Sue Gribbon, who, along with speech pathologist Karuna Maddava, chairs the event and oversees a variety of exercise programs and therapy for people with Parkinson's. They host a support group that meets from 6-8:30 p.m. on the third Wednesday of every month at the Arlington Heights Senior Center, 1801 W. Central Road in Arlington Heights.
Slania says he's slowly come around to embrace Fox's feelings toward Parkinson's, and appreciates how the disease has helped him slow down and appreciate family, friends and the nonmaterial joys of life.
"Life is good. If you want it to be good, it's good," Slania says of his life since his diagnosis. "I've met so many people of character, it's been wonderful. I'm not a Parkinson's sufferer. I'm a Parkinson's recipient."


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By Kathryn Kopchik
LEWISBURG, Pa. — Bucknell University will host the symposium, "Envisioning a Sustainable University," Thursday, March 28. Events in the symposium are free and open to the public.
"The goals of the symposium are to include, inform, and envision," said Dina El-Mogazi, director of the Campus Greening Initiative of the Bucknell University Environmental Center. "We're hoping to include the entire campus in a discussion about sustainability, inform everyone about initiatives taking place, and envision a more sustainable future for the campus," she said.
Highlights of the symposium include talks by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Hylton and a keynote address by David W. Orr, who is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College.
Thomas Hylton
A journalist from Pottstown, Hylton will give the talk, "Save Our Land, Save Our Towns," at 4 p.m. in the Forum of the Elaine Langone Center.
He is the author of Save Our Land, Save Our Towns and host of a public television documentary based on the book that has aired frequently on PBS stations nationwide.
Hylton conceived and organized Trees Inc., a non-profit corporation that raised nearly $500,000 to plant and maintain street trees. He co-founded Preservation Pottstown, an organization dedicated to preserving Pottstown's historic neighborhoods. As chairman of the Pottstown Planning Commission, he wrote an innovative zoning ordinance in 2004 with a grant from the William Penn Foundation.
He has given numerous presentations in Pennsylvania and 34 other states on land-use planning and community building, including a keynote address to the nation's governors at their annual conference in Washington. His commentaries on land-use issues have appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Philadelphia Inquirer, and other leading newspapers.
David Orr
Orr will give the talk, "Education in a Black Swan World," at 7:30 p.m. in Trout Auditorium of the Vaughan Literature Building.
Orr, who is also senior adviser to the president of Oberlin College, headed the effort to design, fund, and build the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies at Oberlin, which was named by an AIA panel in 2010 as "the most important green building of the past 30 years," and as "one of 30 milestone buildings of the 20th century" by the U.S. Department of Energy.
He is the executive director of the Oberlin Project and a founding editor of the journal Solutions.
Orr is the author of seven books, including Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse (Oxford, 2009) and co-editor of three others as well as nearly 200 articles, reviews, book chapters, and professional publications.
He has served as a board member or adviser to eight foundations and on the boards of many organizations including the Rocky Mountain Institute and the Aldo Leopold Foundation. He is a trustee of the Bioneers, Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, and the Worldwatch Institute. He has been awarded seven honorary degrees and a dozen other awards including a Lyndhurst Prize, a National Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation, and recently a "Visionary Leadership Award" from Second Nature.
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#1 Will Benghazi be Mentioned by Romney?11-03-2012, 01:30 AM
I noticed a banner by a group called American Future Fund, saying we need a stronger president in the White House, duh, think most of us here understand it.
But I've been surprised that Romney has given Obama such a complete pass on it. Possibly he thinks folks like Hannity will drill it into the consciousness of the American people. But not everyone watches Fox. CBS and a few others are starting to make some references to it.
Do you think that the use of surrogates to discuss this is enough? The inability or unwillingness to help our citizens in our own embassy in Libya enfuriates me. Listening to the father of Ty Woods breaks my heart and makes me want to scream when I see how the MSM is complicit in the cover up.
Do you think that this will be just an afterthought to the electoral process? I know it sounds tired, but if it were Bush he would be pilloried by the press.
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He's going to stick to the basic points. Jobs, economy, debt and getting this nation moving again.
He's going to try and avoid any other topic. Rightfully or not, this close to the end, so close with the polls, he can't afford to get off the basic topics in the hearts and minds of the majority of voters affecting their immediate lives here and now.
Worse yet, get caught up in some thing that could potentially distract his campaign, or trip him up if new info comes out showing Obama didn't F' it all up.
I have to say, stick to the basic and keep hammering them. Jobs... Jobs... Jobs. And he will win it.Klaatu barada nikto
It's a disgusting shame but I'm pretty certain oBAMA and his crew are going to skate on Benghazi. The MSM is overloaded on Sandy and the election as a large picture. It's too late for this to have an affect.
It Romney wanted to use this he should have nailed POTUS at the end of debate 2. For some reason he let him off the hook. Either there are additional facts that we don't know about that show oBAMA made the right call or Romney and his crew are idiots.May the FORCE be with you!
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'The Sabres would rather have more immediate help, thank you very much. They need an offensive defenseman to lead the power play. They could use another scoring forward, too.'
Archives for June 19, 2003
Senate honors state government critic, B. Thomas Golisano
'''Tom Golisano is a cornerstone of our hope for the future when it comes to things that help our society,'' Republican Sen. James Alesi said. Alesi also called the Rochester businessman ''the George Eastman of the 21st century'' for charitable giving around Rochester that Alesi said rivals that of the founder of the Eastman Kodak Co. Golisano stepped in earlier this year to buy the financially troubled Sabres. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman said Golisano's $92 million purchase will keep the team in Buffalo.'


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This past weekend I learned quite a bit about God. My fiancée and I decided to go to Cracker Barrel for lunch, a favorite of ours. We sat down and we started talking about family and the issue of pain, suffering, and evil sneaked its way into our discussion. Evil, pain, and suffering are very serious issues that I do not take lightly. I lectured on the problem of evil a couple of weeks ago to one of my philosophy classes I assist/teach. I have the hardest time talking about pain and suffering and teaching it was difficult for me as well. I spent the first 40 minutes emphasizing how important the issue is ranging from its permeation into culture such as the movie I Am Legend film (Will Smith's character denies God's existence because of the evil), September 11th, and to Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov. I thought about our response to pain and suffering and then it dawned on me… a response of compassion, sympathy, and real spiritual anguish over such pain and suffering is when we are most like God.
I'm not going to say that this is the moment when we are closest to God, but for me, it's when I am closest to him. We are commanded to do good works and bear spiritual fruit. I find myself trying so hard to do good things and to bear fruit but it's often for impure reasons. Perhaps it may be because I know if I repent from a sin I will feel better, but my repentance isn't for God, it's for myself. It may be the case that I do it for self-exaltation but claim to do it for God's exaltation. There will be some selfish reasons that I may want to deny and really say that they are for God, but most likely it's not. However, I find that the least unadulterated reflection of God that is present in me is the pain and compassion I feel for others who are in pain and suffering.
In 2005-2006 my brother was in Iraq. His six-month pregnant wife died while he was in Iraq (for causes that are still unknown to us). Her funeral was the most painful experience I've ever been through. Yes, I lost a sister-in-law and a niece, but to be honest, the most painful thing was to see my family experience that. Consider September 11th. Is your heart too hard to break to watch human beings jump from a height of 80 floors to their death? Those who jumped really believed that their jumping was the better option between staying where they were in a burning building, condemned to suffer for only a few more minutes before their assured death at collapse, and yet they chose suicide believing that to be the best choice.
Consider Kevin Carter who won the Pulitzer Prize and not long after winning it, committed suicide in April 1994 because of the very thing he won it for while he was in Africa. He photographed a starving little girl being watched by a looming vulture as she literally starved to death right in front of him. He left a suicide note which said, "I am depressed… without phone… money for rent… money for child support… money for debts… money! … I am haunted by the vivid memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain… of starving wounded children, of trigger-happy madmen, often police, of killer executioners… the pain of life overrides the joy to the point that joy does not exist… I have got to join Ken (a colleague of his) if I am that lucky." He then hooked a hose to his car exhaust and fed it into his car where he sat, the act which took his life away from him. Is your heart not broken and shattered by the weight of compassion and pain for both Kevin and the children and carnage he witnessed?
Compassion and reciprocated spiritual pain for those who are suffering is the least likely aspect of the image of God in us that will be adulterated when it comes to fruition. Many of Jesus' miracles were because he felt compassion for those around him. God's compassion and spiritual pain pales in comparison to what we experience. Does God suffer? Absolutely. The divine suffering is the manifest effects of our sin, this divine suffering, which I cannot ascribe the most articulate and specific words to express an equivalent apprehension of the meaning, bears witness at the cross of Jesus Christ. I didn't expect to find that when I am most Christ-like is when I am in the midst of pain and suffering or when I experience the spiritual pains of others and feel compassion. I pray that my sin doesn't adulterate my compassion and pain for those who are in pain any more than it already has.


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As you know Google announced new meta tag "news_keywords".
I'm trying to create a code that would generate the content of the meta tag "news_keywords" in Google Blogger.
I think that this can be implemented using the labels.
While there is a version of the code but it does not work.
<b:if cond='data:blog.pageType == "item"'>
<meta name="news_keywords" content="<b:loop values='data:post.labels' var='label'><data:label.name/><b:if cond='data:label.isLast != "true"'>, </b:if></b:loop>"/>
Paste this code into template your blog on Blogger. Open the source code of the post which has a label.
If you look in the code source of the page we see the construction of a meta tag:
<meta name="news_keywords" content="TEMPLATE ERROR: No dictionary named: 'post' in: ['blog', 'skin', 'view']"/>
Could you help me finish the code?
You can open the source code of the page of my blog use CTRL-F and you will find the meta tag "news_keywords".
While this meta-tag is displayed in the < body > only. This is not correct, but in < head > it does not work.


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Bill Wallace, a real estate agent, has said "growing the town's tax base" is his top priority. He supports encouraging growth and development. He doesn't mention the infrastructure needs and the expense to support such growth or that our schools have reached capacity.
Joe Dumas has said "limited town government and low taxes" are his top priorities. He supports privatizing basic town services and reducing taxes by divesting the town of ownership and support of such amenities as our athletic fields, tennis courts, parks, playgrounds, the gym, the pool, and the Mountain Arts Community Center.
For six years, Mayor Bill Lusk and Councilwoman Annette Allen have proven that their first, second and third priorities are listening to the community and acting on its behalf. They worked to address 30 years of deferred maintenance, gave us a land use plan based on citizen input and a commitment to smart growth. They voted to expedite the payment of our $6.3 million school debt, which will be paid off in 2016 when we can look forward to a reduction in our property taxes.
Vote for smart growth and for saving our town amenities. Vote for Annette Allen, Bill Lusk, and Frank Preston.
NANCY WOODSON CALDWELL, Signal Mountain
I ask support for Marc Gravitt and Denny Manning for the two available East Ridge City Council seats.
I am concerned about the future of our city. As we look to the future in an ever-evolving world, it is important that our leadership reflects our values and has a clear understanding of what it takes to truly build community and lead a city. It takes business knowledge and experience to understand how to help businesses succeed and to provide a core for community stability and growth. It takes strong values and a commitment to making the right decisions for the right reasons to help build a strong community.
We have all seen the tattoo parlors, cash-advance operations and fireworks vendors move in to storefronts once occupied by quality retail stores, banks and professional offices. We need a change in course to reverse the trends.
Marc Gravitt is businessman with deep family roots in East Ridge. He is a veteran of our military with the strength and discipline to lead. He represents the leadership our city needs for the future.
I would appreciate your support for Marc Gravitt and Denny Manning on Tuesday.
KEN MEYER, East Ridge
Since I retired 21 years ago, I have had no increase in my pension. I knew that in advance, planned for it, and have managed it satisfactorily.
Last spring, The Economist magazine carried an article about financial distress in Providence, R.I. It cited an example of a civil service employee who had retired the same year I did. That person had had his pension increased by more than 200 percent because of COLAs and apparent failure of city managers to adequately allow for such. The increase, by the way, was based on his full salary at retirement, not on a pension payment that was less than his working pay.
Because my company is still reasonably strong and financially solvent and Providence is on the verge of bankruptcy, this proves again that governments at all levels need more people with real business skills and fewer orators. I would only hope voters would keep that in mind as they vote this year and in the future.
BERNARD COOMBES, Hixson
Ann Pruett's dedication to the East Ridge community remains unmatched by any other opponent during this year's City Council election. Ann Pruett has taken an active role in the East Ridge community for years and displays an understanding of our city's potential for growth and success.
With East Ridge's close proximity to I-24 and I-75, we have witnessed the revitalization of neighboring cities, but now it is our turn. Pruett has identified the opportunity for growth and promises to complete her mission of revitalizing East Ridge and attracting jobs to the area. Considering her mission for revitalization, understanding of our city's politics and the display of teamwork showcased through her marriage with Fred, Ann's dedication to the city's success runs deep.
She wants us to have an East Ridge to be proud of. Please cast your vote for Ann Pruett on Tuesday.
SUE BOND, East Ridge
The condemnation by the DesJarlais campaign manager of recent disclosures regarding Scott DesJarlais as a "personal smear campaign that hurts families" with a "focus on a 14-year-old divorce" is a gross mischaracterization of the issue.
First, bad behavior hurts families. Mr. DesJarlais has only himself to blame for his bad behavior. Second, the focus is decidedly not the divorce. The focus is on unethical behavior as a physician and hypocrisy as a person. Viewed from this perspective the claim that these issues "have no place in politics" rings hollow unless unethical behavior and hypocrisy are now acceptable in politicians.
It is ironic that we set higher standards for athletes than politicians. Unethical athletes are often banned for life. Unethical politicians can be -- and all too often -- returned to office. Should we not set a higher standard for politicians?
Surely both Republicans and Democrats can agree that ethical behavior is beneficial to all and that all would benefit by electing politicians who adhere to the standards they would impose on others. When we fail to sanction unethical and hypocritical politicians we all share in and are accountable for their unethical and hypocritical behavior.
As a lifelong resident of East Ridge and a very close friend of the Gravitt family, I ask my friends in East Ridge to vote for the most capable person to be on the East Ridge council -- Marc Gravitt.
It is evident that he has done his homework as far as the city of East Ridge is concerned by attending council meetings and knowing what is right for our city. This was evident at the candidates meeting. He is a proven business person and would definitely help control wasteful spending in our city. Marc has proven that he's not afraid to answer tough questions. He's been an advocate for East Ridge for many years and has shown the type of leadership we need in East Ridge. Please join me in voting for Marc Gravitt for council for the city of East Ridge.
MYRA J. ROSSER, East Ridge
Signal Mountain Town Council: Move along folks, nothing to see here.
In a letter supporting the re-election of Annette Allen to Signal Mountain Town Council (Oct. 30), Bill Fronk suggests a rumor about Ms. Allen kicking me off the Parks Board is false, stating, we should "not allow rumor to replace fact."
Because something is rumored doesn't preclude it from being true. It's puzzling that Mr. Fronk would bring this to our attention. It seems akin to a cop standing in front of the murder scene telling passers-by "there's nothing to see here."
Whether I was "kicked off" by Ms. Allen is a matter of semantics. The bottom line is that I publicly disagreed with her proposal to relinquish control over town-owned public lands. She subsequently asked that I relinquish my seat. I respectfully declined. Within weeks, my term was allowed to expire without a vote or public vetting. You decide.
Openness and diversity of opinions are essential for sound governance. In this regard, I believe Ms. Allen is missing the mark, and I plan to vote accordingly. There is in fact something to see here -- a political practice lacking in principle -- and it's time for a change.
DR. JEFF DUNCAN, Former Signal Mountain, Parks Board Member
I am sick of hearing that Obamacare is bad. That is absolute baloney. That's all you get from the Republican Party; how Obamacare hurts Medicare, like they would care, and Romney and Ryan are going to save it. That's bull. If you believe that, you've been under a rock since the''60s.
Republicans hate Medicare, and they want to privatize Social Security. They tried hard to do that under Bush. They will try harder under Romney with the Ryan budget. Are you people blind? They told you what's in the Ryan budget, and it is not what Romney has told you. All he does is lie. All he cares about is the Mormon Church. If being a Morman and being a Christian were the same, why did Mormons write their own bible and decide not to believe in Jesus. They only believe in their founders.
Republicans don't believe in anything. They are Grover Norquist robots. The only true Romney you've seen was the one behind closed doors talking to his rich donors about the 47 percent. President Obama is a good man and wants to help people. He's had to fight hard to try to do that. So think about it! Stakes are high!
CAROL PROCTOR, East Brainerd
It is amazing to hear voters who are going to vote for Mitt Romney. They seldom if ever tell you they think Mitt Romney will be a better president than President Obama.
They will not brag on his accomplishments, especially when he was governor of Massachusetts. He took Massachusetts from 37th in job creation to 47th. Not too good for a man who touts himself as a job creator.
The poll in Sunday's paper (Oct. 28), explains it pretty well: 58 percent of white men have a negative attitude of blacks. If this is a national poll then the numbers are surely 70 percent negative of black people in the "Bible Belt."
The national polls show the election a "dead heat." If a poll was taken that did not include the "Bible Belt" the president would do quite well.
Some Republicans say flat-out they cannot vote for Barack Obama because he is black; some give other lame excuses, but it always comes back to because he is black.
I have yet to talk to a tea party member or supporter who is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.
DON MYERS, Hixson
Residents of the 3rd Congressional District face a crisis with a direct impact on the commercial and recreational boating industry on the Tennessee River. The rebuilding of the Chickamauga lock is at a standstill. Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., and Democratic congressional nominee Mary Headrick realize the lock is vital to our economic well-being and must not fall victim to partisan gridlock. They both support a marine diesel fuel tax increase to help fund the lock replacement.
If the lock closes, Chattanooga will be cut off from 319 miles of navigable river upstream. A local operator told me his company moves on average 20 barges a week through the lock. Is it any wonder the barge industry supports a tax increase on diesel fuel to help fund the lock replacement? But it is not just commercial traffic that is in peril. If the lock closes, recreational boating as we know it on the Tennessee River will end. Marinas on Lake Chickamauga will lose navigable access to downtown Chattanooga.
Mary Headrick has made it clear she will work across party lines to keep the Chickamauga lock open. A vote for Mary Headrick is a vote for leadership and results.
JIM AND ANNIE HALL, Signal Mountain


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But two of Judge Alito's supporters who participated in the murder boards, speaking about the confidential sessions on condition of anonymity for fear of White House reprisals, said they emerged convinced that his demeanor was a political asset because it gave him an Everyman appeal.After all these elaborate practice sessions, no one helps the man with his grooming? Or did some stylist tousle his hair and select ungainly glasses and a brown tie? "That is a very useful look" -- it announces that he's the not-Roberts. Would it be mean of us, then, to look critically at the substance of his answers? The same informant -- who has a way with words, right? -- said:
"He will have a couple hairs out of place," one participant said. "I am not sure his glasses fit his facial features. He might not wear the right color tie. He won't be tanned. He will look like he is from New Jersey, because he is. That is a very useful look, because it is a natural look. He's able to go toe-to-toe with senators, and at the same time he could be your son's Little League coach."
Judge Alito displayed a "street smart" New Jerseyan's willingness to talk back to his questioners. Unlike Chief Justice Roberts, Judge Alito often turned inquiries back on the lawyers who were quizzing him, politely asking them to spell out exactly what they meant, two participants said.Crafty! This is an excellent technique. Lawprofs use it to avoid elaborate answers. It's a good way to avoid confusing and boring listeners. It helps students mobilize their reasoning powers and practice speaking in the professional mode. With Senators, the goal is less beneficent. I'm sure they/their staff are reading this article and feeling intimidated, vulnerable. What they should do now is hone their questions. But is there any hope the Senators will give up their ridiculously verbose questions? They must preen. And how will the usual preening look when the man in the chair is from New Jersey, with ill-fitting glasses and a rumpled suit, and decades and decades of honing his skills as a prosecutor and a judge.
Judge Alito "had no bones about coming back for clarification," the same person said, adding that the judge sometimes stumped the legal experts acting in the roles of senators and suggesting that he could pose an even greater challenge to actual senators reading from staff talking points.
There's always the hope Alito will blow his cool:
Some Democrats, however, say Judge Alito's less-polished style may also be a vulnerability. Two Democratic aides briefed on his meeting with Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, said that when the senator pressed him about an opinion he had written involving the regulation of machine guns, Judge Alito grew defensive - something else Chief Justice Roberts never did. The aides, speaking anonymously because the meeting was private, said the episode led them to hope he might lose his cool in front of the committee, as well.In other words: "a 'street smart' New Jerseyan's willingness to talk." Why must everything always be cool? We have some real issues and disagreements. Let's cut through the blather and really engage for a change. What would this defensiveness be? I'd guess, for example, about the machine gun case, that Schumer led with the usual policy talk about gun control and the usual self-serving insistence on endless congressional power, and Alito insisted on nailing down the actual doctrine as expressed in the Lopez case and as duly interpreted by a lower court judge one year later. If he did that with questions to Schumer, designed to make Schumer reframe his question as one appropriately put to a judge, I'm sure there was some loss of cool in the room.
Bring it on! I'm so ready to blog that.
IN THE COMMENTS: OhioAnne writes astutely:
Interesting choice of words made in the article.
People participating in the administration meetings spoke anonymously "out of fear of White House reprisals," but Schumer"s aides spoke anonymously because "the meeting was private."
No chance that the White House aides spoke anonymously because the meeting was private and Schumer's did because of fear of reprisals from him?
Any chance at all that both sets of aides spoke anonymously simply because they knew they were being unprofessional by failing to adhere to confidentiality restrictions?
UPDATE: Scott Shields at MyDD calls the linked NYT article "one of the most brazen examples I've ever seen of the media rewriting Republican talking points." What's gotten under his skin?
Alito's Republican handlers are pushing this silly "Everyman" narrative in an attempt to manage public expectations. Oh, he's not being combative -- he's just a Jersey Everyman. But is that really what people want in a Supreme Court nominee?...It sounds to me as though Shields is just trying to keep the anti-Alito folks fired up and resents any positive press (especially from the newspaper he thinks he ought to be able to count on to keep up the heat). And this press isn't even that positive.
I have no idea what Alito's confirmation hearings will look like. But the Republicans who do seem to think it's not going to be pretty. After such a clean confirmation with Roberts, messy hearings for Alito do not bode well. "Everyman" or not, it sounds like Alito's in for a bumpy ride.


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Top-seeded Andover Central asserted its dominance against Circle to start the Class 4A regional tournament at McDonald Stadium in El Dorado Monday.
Nicholas Johnston pitched a perfect game, and the Jaguars' offense got a on roll on way to a 10-0 win via a run rule after five innings. Johnston did not allow a single baserunner the entire afternoon.
Offensively, the Jaguars got on the scoreboard quickly. Ryan Banwart led off Central's first with a single, then stole second. Lucas Milner put runners on the corner with an opposite-field single just over the outstretched glove of Circle's second baseman Cameron Parr. Kier Stamp followed that with an opposite-field roller for a single to drive in Banwart. Circle got out of trouble by turning a 6-4-3 double play to strand a runner and limit the Jaguars' damage.
Central opened it up more in the second inning, with some help from the T-birds. Austin Clark reached on an error to lead off. Circle pitcher Chase Ellison then made a throwing error on a pickoff attempt, which allowed Clark to reach third base. Johnston drove him in with an RBI single for a 2-0 lead. Brock Shaffer later hit an RBI single, then stole second base. Circle tried to pick him off while stealing third, but the relay was high and went into the outfield as Shaffer scored another run for a 4-0 lead.
Ellison made it just three innings on the mound for Circle. He allowed six hits and two earned runs with three strikeouts and no walks. Braden Kirkpatrick relieved Ellison to start the fourth, but he couldn't slow down the Jaguars, either. Central got two walks, three base hits and three runs before he could get an out. Shaffer crushed a two-RBI double to deep center to push Central's lead to 6-0.
Parr relieved Kirkpatrick with runners on, but it was too little, too late. The Jaguars loaded the bases for Blake Meier, who hit a sacrifice fly to left field to score one run. Clark then hit a sac-bunt to score another run to give the Jaguars a 10-0 lead.
In the fifth, Johnston went 1-2-3 to complete the five-inning perfect game. He finished with six strikeouts.
The Jaguars will face the winner of the Augusta-El Dorado contest later tonight. Augusta swept El Dorado in two games earlier this season.


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The daughter of Redeanna and Frederick Terry, Hobbs said she plans to major in broadcast journalism with a minor in psychology.
"Am I in trouble?" Senior Torriuna Hobbs said it was one of the few reasons she could come up with after being called to the Stuttgart High School office.
Hobbs couldn't have been further from the truth as school officials presented her the President's Volunteer Service Award.
"I was surprised," Hobbs, 18, said. "… There's a letter personally from (President Barack Obama) with his signature congratulating me on my community service. I was so happy."
The President's Volunteer Service award recognizes Americans who have volunteered significant amounts of their time to serve their communities and their country. The Prudential Spirit of Community Award program presents the award on behalf of the president.
"I am so proud of Torriuna and she absolutely deserves this award," Stuttgart teacher Madeline Dragich said. "She is such a driven young woman."
Hobbs received the award after completing 140 hours of community service in the Stuttgart Summer of Solutions program from August to June 2012. La'Taaka Harvey said Hobbs was introduced to the program after she sought out volunteer opportunities for the summer — which is rare by itself.
"She is a good kid who just needed an opportunity to help," Harvey said. "I'm very proud of her."
The eight-week program sought to "give a voice to youth through community service and leadership development exploration." There were 12 participating students overall who spent 40 hours volunteering each week.
"She volunteered as at a teacher's assistant at the PAE summer school in the mornings and then participated in ACT prep and leadership development courses in the afternoons for eight weeks during the summer," Dragich said. "She was always upbeat, energetic and ready to dive into community service as well as develop herself as a leader."
Hobbs said she worked with second graders to help build their reading and writing skills.
"It's a good program — it teaches you a lot about community service and helping people," she said, adding that the students "were a handful. Each and every one of them I got to have a bond with, especially John William (Holsted.)"
Her favorite experience with the students was making paper maches.
"It was a four-day process working with the students," she said. "It was messy and sticky and we had fun."
The daughter of Redeanna and Frederick Terry, Hobbs said she plans to major in broadcast journalism with a minor in psychology. She will be attending PCCUA-Stuttgart upon graduation before transferring to the University of Arkansas-Monticello.
In addition to her volunteer work, she is in the school's Key Club and Leo Club.