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COOKEVILLE, Tenn. – Special promotions are in store during the next two months for Tennessee Tech basketball fans as the Athletics Department hosts three more "county" nights, Basketball Alumni Night, Pack The House Night and a handful of other events surrounding Golden Eagle games in Eblen Center.
Tech has already hosted White County Night, and will also entertain fans from Jackson, Putnam and Overton Counties. There are special dates planned for youth who participate in Vision and Upward Basketball leagues, Military Appreciation Night and Think Pink for breast cancer awareness.
The first event comes on Sunday afternoon (Jan. 2), when Tech hosts the second "Church Bulletin Day" at Eblen Center. Fans can purchase tickets to the doubleheader for just one dollar each just by presenting a church bulletin (limit four per bulletin). The women's team hosts St. Louis University at 2 p.m., followed the men's game against Bluefield College at 4 p.m.
Jackson County Night is planned for Thursday, Jan. 13, when the
Golden Eagles host UT Martin in an Ohio Valley Conference
doubleheader beginning at 5:30 p.m. Residents of Jackson County may
purchase tickets for one dollar at the ticket office on the night
of the game.
That night is also Vision Basketball Night, so all youth who play in the Vision program are invited as guests just by wearing their game shirts.
Putnam County Night is set for Saturday, Jan. 15, when Tech entertains Murray State in an OVC twinbill, also beginning at 5:30 p.m. The same one dollar offer is extended to residents of Putnam County for the games.
The Murray State doubleheader will also be Basketball Alumni Night, with special recognition to several past OVC championship teams. All former men's and women's basketball alumni are invited to attend, and should contact Grant Swallows (931-372-3940) for information and registration.
The evening will also offer fans a chance to meet and visit with the former players. Addition details will be announced later.
Military Appreciation Night takes place on Thursday, Feb. 3, when Tech hosts Eastern Kentucky for a doubleheader. In addition, Tech will host its annual halftime for "Recognizing Academic Excellence" and present its most recent Athletic Director's Honor Roll student-athletes.
Youth players in Upward Basketball are also invited guests for the games on Feb. 3, with free admission for wearing game shirts.
Residents of Overton County have their special night on Saturday, Feb. 5, for the powerhouse doubleheader against Morehead State. The one dollar ticket offer is extended to residents of Overton County.
One of the biggest nights of the year comes on Saturday, Feb. 19, when Tech hosts a mixed doubleheader. The women will play Austin Peay in the opener, while the men's team hosts a BracketBuster opponent, who will be announced later. It's Think Pink Night as the women's basketball teams hosts the event to increase breast cancer awareness. Fans are encouraged to wear pink to the arena.
That night is also "Pack The House" Night as coach Sytia Messer's team hopes to break the school attendance record for a women's game. Special ticket offers will be announced for "Pack The House" Night.
For information on any of the upcoming special promotions,
please call the Athletics Ticket Office in Eblen Center
(931-372-3940). The ticket office remains closed this week, but
will be open Thursday evening (Dec. 30) beginning at 6 p.m. for
that night's men's game with Crowley's
Ridge College. It will also open Sunday at 1 p.m. for that
day's doubleheader.
The ticket office resumes regular business hours on Monday, Jan. 3. It is open weekdays from 8 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 2- Church Bulletin Sunday
Thursday, Jan. 13 – Jackson County Night / Vision Basketball Night
Saturday, Jan. 15 – Putnam County Night / Basketball Alumni Night
Thursday, Feb. 3 – Military Appreciation Night / Academic Excellence Night / Upward Basketball Night
Saturday, Feb. 5 – Overton County Night
Saturday, Feb. 19 – Think Pink Night / Pack The House Night


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Tony Sparano spent some time today talking with enigmatic outside linebacker Matt Roth. The coach said he wasn't cutting Roth on the spot, or trading him on the spot, or begging him to come back to practice.
"I like to get a feel for how he's feeling after these conditioners we have and that stuff," Sparano said. "It's just getting feedback. I'm constantly trying to get feedback of where he is and how he feels."
Sparano was asked if the Dolphins are closing in on the moment when they have to make a decision on Roth's roster status -- either trading him, or cutting him, or placing him on either the injured reserve or physically unable to perform list, or just getting him on the field and working.
"We'll see," Sparano said.
That answer should raise red flags. The last time Sparano said, "We'll see," the Dolphins cut Eric Green. The time before that when he said, "We'll see," the team signed Connor Barth to compete with Dan Carpenter.
We'll see translates to something is about to happen.
So what is about to happen?
The Dolphins will not be cutting Roth. No team simply releases a player that has worth and is that young unless the player has other "issues."
Moving him off the roster? It is still early to make a decision that would sideline Roth for a significant time, as Miami is not hurting for a roster spot. So putting him on injured reserve, which sidelines Roth for the season, or placing him on PUP, which sidelines him until after the sixth week of the season at the earliest, is probably not something the team must do now.
A trade? That is possible.
The Dolphins can envision a time that Matt Roth is not in their plans. That time is right now, in fact.
"The truth is, and I don't mean this in a bad way because I care about all my players, but you have to worry about the guys that are out there," Sparano said. "You have to go thinking what if [the situation] doesn't get ... I don't know. We'll see where this thing is. I have to worry about at this time, Jason Taylor, Quentin Moses, and the guys that are out there playing."
Sounds like Roth is gone. But it's hard to believe another NFL team will be giving up what Roth is worth at a time he's injured or hurt or whatever he is. It is also hard to believe the Dolphins would jettison Roth in a bargain sale. So the timing for a trade -- right now, at least -- simply doesn't feel right.
That leaves the possibility of Roth returning to practice in the near future. It would not be surprising to see Roth back on the field in the next week or so. If he fails to make it back by Sept. 5 when the team must finalize its 53-man roster, then all the other options, except for cutting him outright, open up.
But right now? We'll see.
As for the rest of the stuff surrounding the Dolphins, Sparano called it "business as usual."
On cutting Ernest Wilford: "I mentioned this a hundred times if I mentioned it once. When you play this many games in this few a days, you have to eventually get your team ready that you think will be your team."
On trading Andy Alleman and Ikechuku Ndukwe to Kansas City: "You're not trading away guys not feeling comfortable with some of the pieces you have here," Sparano said. "Now there are still some things that have to unfold over the next 10 days in that group. But I'm starting to feel more comfortable with that group and where we are and what I think the final vision might be."
On Greg Camarillo playing only 13 plays vs. Carolina while Patrick Turner got 20 meaning something: "We're planning on trying to get him involved a little more this week ... We have five guys, six guys, seven guys that we've been rolling through there. We're trying to get reps for [Anthony] Armstrong. We're trying to get [James] Robinson in the game. It's not an indictment on anybody right now. the the nice thing is some of these people we do have history with, we do know what they can do. So whether [Camarillo] gets 10 plays or 15 plays, it's not relevant to me. It really isn't. I see him out here getting a ton of plays in practice. He's coming along nicely."
On how Vontae Davis played vs. Carolina: "I was pleased with what Vontae did in the game. I liked his look, I said that after the game. Sometimes you can see a player in pregame and see his focus and I thought the kid was pretty focused. He went over and played on the other side which was a good benefit for us. I thought he was active in the game. He had several situations where he made one-on-one tackles and he closed the deal on most of those. And I thought when you watch the film in some of our man stuff, he was in good position most of the time. Now he did make a couple of mistakes in the course of the game that go unseen to the naked eye that we have to make sure we clean up."
On Miami's atrocious special teams play that included allowing a 58-yard punt return and suffering a 15-yard penalty on a kickoff: "We seen some guys get bumped out of their lanes a few times so lane discipline hurt us. [We had] guys not finishing, meaning they're getting to the play but they're not finishing, not tackling, not breaking down properly, a lot of fundamental stuff. It certainly wasn't scheme stuff."
The Dolphins worked on correcting their special teams problems in practice today.

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When David Tiegen, a senior majoring in creative writing, first transferred to Florida State University, he got the usual run-down of where to go — and not go — around town.
"Kids told me to stay away from Frenchtown," he recalls of the historic Tallahassee neighborhood a short walk from campus.
The hollow warnings not only didn't deter Tiegen, they spurred him into digging deeper.
"The usual image of crime and homelessness prevailed among the student opinions I heard," he remembered. "And from a first glance, I could see how it might appear that way. But it also sounded too simple."
A talented comic book illustrator and writer who has since been awarded a Public Service Research Fellowship, Tiegen is using the opportunity to create a "journalist comic" book about Frenchtown. His idea for the book has changed many times, but he has settled on focusing on how we examine truth.
"I want to take the bias Tallahassee has with Frenchtown and break it down by providing the facts, but also providing the story of how popular stigmas are formed," Tiegen said. "The story has two main paths: you follow me, a journalist for this story, in order that we can see how many truths are thought up until we settle on one and then you also follow history for factual comparison, context, and to see whether the truths seem to be real. The ultimate effect will be a story about recycling the same facts over and over again to get multiple truths. The idea is to develop a complex understanding of places like Frenchtown and to understand how media has created its stigma."
Before coming to Florida State, Tiegen wrote a weekly comic while a student at Florida Gulf Coast University in Fort Myers. Tiegen, who attended Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts in West Palm Beach, calls himself a "cornerstone to the usual lineup at Williams Reading Night every Friday," where he likes to "test" his new stories.
He says he's more writer than artist but loves both.
"The earliest intuition of a passion I can remember is being amazed by storytelling. I can draw, though I am not trained by any means," he said. "I only have confidence in my art skill insofar as journalistic comics and Web comics, since both of these forms support autobiography through style or learning how the author sees the world by how he illustrates it."
Tiegen, who hopes to someday professionally create and illustrate comics as well as teach at a university, believes that "journalism itself is in a great transitional phase along with the rest of printed text."
The comics genre, he said, is no exception.
"New creators and companies are emerging all over, and with that, new genres of comics are starting to flourish," he said. "Some of journalistic comics has spread to newspaper infographics. Their ability to condense information is useful for quick information and complex information, and thinking of comics in this way has begun to appear useful to all kinds of publishers."
Studying comics at the university level — which he calls an emerging field in academia — has long been his goal. The research grant reaffirmed that goal because it provided a tangible — and meaningful — project to pursue.
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text: MainEurope/EurasiaSpecial Olympics Unified Volleyball takes to the world stage at the 2013 FIVB World Beach Volleyball Championships in Poland Listen Special Olympics Unified Volleyball takes to the world stage at the 2013 FIVB World Beach Volleyball Championships in PolandAthletes with intellectual disabilities show off their skills at the World's Biggest Beach Volleyball Tournament Unified on the World StageOne of the World's greatest ever volleyball players, Vladimir Grbić, will join Polish volleyball stars to play alongside Special Olympics athletes in a Unified Volleyball game at the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championships, to promote greater respect and inclusion for people with intellectual disabilities. Taking place on Centre Court at Stare Jablonki on Sunday, July 7th before the FIVB Beach Volleyball World Championship Finals, the All Star game will feature four Special Olympics athletes from Poland and Serbia playing alongside Olympic medalist Vladimir Grbić as well as former Poland national players; Sebastian Swiderski, Pawel Papke, Zygmunt Chajzer and Cezary Pazura. This Unified Volleyball® exhibition game, will bring together athletes with and without intellectual disabilities as teammates to showcase the power of Special Olympics in helping to unite communities and foster an environment of acceptance and inclusion. It will also serve as the perfect opportunity to celebrate Vladimir Grbić 's new role as Special Olympics Ambassador for Volleyball and the appointment of Paul Papke and Sebastian Swiderski as Ambassadors for Special Olympics Poland. Prior to the all-star game, Special Olympics athletes will demonstrate to fans how a Unified Volleyball game works with an exhibition match with teammates without intellectual disabilities. Each team will consist of two players with intellectual disabilities and two without. "The participation of Special Olympics at the Star Jablonki Championships is a great honour for us - saysVladimir Grbić , Special Olympics Ambassador for Volleyball. "To showcase the power of Special Olympics Unified Sports on such a huge global stage like this presents an incredible opportunity for Special Olympics to increase awareness and educate communities about acceptance and inclusion for all people." Stare Jablonki Championships is the biggest beach volleyball tournament in the world. The 192 best athletes in the world will play at the specially prepared courts. The Championship will be transmitted to nearly 1.65 billion TV viewers in over 130 countries across five continents. Unified Volleyball is quickly growing in Poland. To date 100 Special Olympics athletes play volleyball with trainings and games taking place on a daily basis throughout the country. Worldwide more than 100,000 Special Olympics athletes compete in Volleyball across 100 National Programmes. In In 2012 Special Olympics signed a partnership agreement with the European Volleyball Confederation (CEV) designed to promote greater opportunities in Volleyball for athletes with intellectual disabilities.


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Click on Fine Arts Events to see our calendar for the semester. If you have any questions about the events listed on the calendar, call Lori LaRue at 254-968-9639.
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'Patriotic Progressivism', The Moron's Oxymoron
Posted on | January 22, 2013 | 15 Comments
by Smitty
The best Inaugural Addresses make an argument for something. President Obama's second one, which surely has to rank among the best of the past half-century, makes an argument for a pragmatic and patriotic progressivism.
This country remains founded upon individual liberty. That a pack of liars over the last century have sold an unsustainable falsehood is neither deniable nor right. 'Progress' remains the most expensive and destructive scam in history, and Brooks is truly a false prophet for peddling it.
Modern problems like globalization, technological change, widening inequality and wage stagnation compel us to take new collective measures if we're to pursue the old goals of equality and opportunity.
Obama wasn't explicit about why we have failed to meet these challenges. But his critique was implicit. There has been too much "me" — too much individualism and narcissism, too much retreating into the private sphere. There hasn't been enough "us," not enough communal action for the common good.
Oh, you Devil. And I mean that in the theological sense of a deceiver selling the very causes of the problem as solutions. Human nature remains constant, technology, the variable. It's a fine sales pitch that the variable can be used to tweak the constant. If your audience is totally fools. Peaking out at the current 51% is not likely to cut it. The implicit critique of 'too much "me"'. Has any President ever been so immodest as to deploy the personal pronoun like #OccupyResoluteDesk?
Emphasis mine here:
I am not a liberal like Obama, so I was struck by what he left out in his tour through American history. I, too, would celebrate Seneca Falls, Selma and Stonewall, but I'd also mention Wall Street, State Street, Menlo Park and Silicon Valley. I'd emphasize that America has prospered because we have a decentralizing genius.
When Europeans nationalized their religions, we decentralized and produced a great flowering of entrepreneurial denominations. When Europe organized state universities, our diverse communities organized private universities. When Europeans invested in national welfare states, American localities invested in human capital.
America's greatest innovations and commercial blessings were unforeseen by those at the national headquarters. They emerged, bottom up, from tinkerers and business outsiders who could never have attracted the attention of a president or some public-private investment commission.
I would have been more respectful of this decentralizing genius than Obama was, more nervous about dismissing it for the sake of collective action, more concerned that centralization will lead to stultification, as it has in every other historic instance.
What in the world are 'entrepreneurial denominations', you clown? Do you really think sincere sacred business is secular? Sure, people sell books, and yes, one might argue at length and in detail about the contents, but that's peripheral to the question of faith. Come visit my Sunday School class, Brooks, for some desperately needed insight.
And what is the point of being 'respectful of this decentralizing genius' in a speech? Obama is more honest in his contempt for the fundamentals of American greatness than you, Mr. Brooks. He tosses our seed corn under the bus with a personal pronoun on top. You're making some wistful nod to what, were you actually a conservative, you'd be snarling a ????? ???? and defending.
Reinvigorating a mature nation means using government to give people the tools to compete, but then opening up a wide field so they do so raucously and creatively. It means spending more here but deregulating more there. It means facing the fact that we do have to choose between the current benefits to seniors and investments in our future, and that to pretend we don't face that choice, as Obama did, is effectively to sacrifice the future to the past.
Our first task for recovery is to ignore false prophets like yourself. Our political Winter, while cold and bitter, can be followed by a Spring of reform. But that involves understanding that the centralization of policy is the garrote about the neck. Your 'patriotic progressivism' piffle is absolutely not the answer, Brooks.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Madness Monday -- Asking for Help #2
I hope you all like my same, old blog. One quick question, how in the heck do I make my photo go all the way across? Before this new version, it went to within 1" on the right, then I removed it to try again, and I get this small photo.
Les Larrabee of Bits and Pieces wrote the following to me, as he was trying to leave a comment on my Foote blog, "I can't always post a comment to the type of comment field in your blog and others using that style. I use firefox for a browser but Explorer doesn't work either. Do you ever have that problem?" Later, he provided more information, "I just tried it using Explorer and got the same results but this time it gave a message that the comment would not process. And again it's not just your blog, its any with your style comment field. The google blogger style and the one that asks for and email address both work OK. It does drive me crazy so it fits Monday madness" And, he is asking me? Is there anybody who can answer his question? Thanks Les. I seem to receive quite a few comments, so I'm not sure what is going on. Can anybody help Les? And, thanks Les, great question.
Happy follow up. Thank you to Apple at Apple's Tree. She was able to resize my blog photo, and I'm very happy. It is almost like having a "Brick Wall" come down, the blog looks normal!
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- reh ncw said...
I can not help. I have been unwilling to even try ----- so many of our tried and trues have changed just since March 1---making trhis a true March madness for many of us. Good Luck but as for me I am still trying to learn the new Family Search, new Ancestry.com and get a handle on Gensmart.
- March 15, 2010 at 10:16 AM
- Barbara said...
Ruth, I loved this reply because I can see I am not alone. Just imagine all the new researchers trying to learn these things. Keep on plugging, I'm with you all the way.
- March 15, 2010 at 10:26 AM
- Heather Rojo said...
Barb, I can't seem to make the photo on my new blog format fit the way I want it either. So I'm just leaving it as is, or I'll go nuts! It will have to do, and that's it! Also, I've experienced Les's problem on some blogs (not yours) and sometimes I have to just keep pressing "post comment" and eventually it takes it. Sometimes I just have to give up and write an email!
- March 15, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- Kathleen Brandt, Professional Genealogist said...
I was checking Google Reader and noticed one blog of mine appeared 3 times. It was posted on the day I finally went to my new blog after about 3 days of work on it. I'm pleased, but it wasn't snap, crackle, pop, as I had expected. It was more like fuss, pout and scream! I say...stay with your format, and keep writing. It will add variety to the rest of our rather "commonly" formatted blogs.
Kathleen, a3Genealogy
- March 19, 2010 at 12:06 AM
- Barbara said...
Thanks Kathleen. And now with the good weather coming, I'm less likely to play around with my blog, as in trying to make it "perfect."
- March 19, 2010 at 7:55 AM
- Barbara said...
Thank you to Apple at http://appledoesntfallfar2.blogspot.com/. She was able to resize my blog photo, and I'm very happy. Thank you again.
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Sunday, January 16, 2011
Braylon flips out
Nice win by the Jets tonight. Next week's championship games will be a lot of fun to watch, if you count Bears backup QB Todd Collins, there are Michigan players on each team's roster. The Steelers (Woodley), Packers (Woodson), and Jets (Braylon Edwards and David Harris) have former Wolverines playing important roles.
5 comments:
- Reed said...
Trevor Pryce also on the Jets. Kinda counts. Kinda.
Also, Prescott Burgess getting backup minutes on the Ravens.
I'm being a nerd. Sorry.
- January 17, 2011 6:38 AM
- gh said...
Larry Foote is a backup LB for the Steelers too.
I remember Braylon doing a victory formation backflip circa 2003. Couldn't find a YouTube of it (though Manningham doing the worm after Penn state in 2007 was awesome too.)
- January 17, 2011 10:20 AM
- Reed said...
Ah, so the Ravens lost, eh? I should just never talk about the NFL ever. My apologies again for being a stupid nerd.
- January 17, 2011 12:08 PM
- Andy said...
I realize there are several other Michigan players on the rosters, I wanted to point out those former Wolverines that were significant contributors to their playoff teams.
Interesting fact: The Green Bay Packers have three former Central Michigan players and only one Michigan guy on their roster. Go figure.
- January 17, 2011 2:00 PM
- dtw2phx said...
For the original YT poster, that'd be a round-off into a backflip. (Somersaults are for children...in sweatervest onesies.) At least Andy got it right! Just sayin.
That was my favorite part of the game. lol
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Ed Miliband has attacked the "snobbery" that suggests only an academic education is worthwhile, insisting that the UK must give more respect and value to vocational learning and apprenticeships.
The Labour leader called for action to open up the "closed circles" in elite professions and make it easier for disadvantaged children to go to university.
He accused the government of taking "backward steps" on social mobility by allowing inequality to grow and denying bright youngsters from poor backgrounds the chance to succeed.
"Tackling social mobility is a huge mountain to climb and the last Labour government took some important steps," Miliband told a Sutton Trust conference in London.
"But now Britain is sliding backwards. This government seems to think we can let those at the top take whatever rewards they think fit and somehow everyone else can just play catch up. You can't claim the mantle of social mobility and then make your priority, cutting taxes for millionaires while raising taxes for everyone else."
Miliband stressed allowing young people from poorer backgrounds to reach university is crucial to improving the situation.
"I know how much more there is to be done to open those closed circles of Britain. Not just to the universities, but to journalism, law, finance - and politics too," he is to say.
But he will also insist that there must be options for people who choose not to go to university.
"The debate has been too narrowly focused," Miliband said.
"We should reject the snobbery that assumes the only route to social mobility runs through university - as if there is only one pathway to success."
Miliband said a Labour government would include a requirement for companies bidding for major government contracts to offer apprenticeships.
But Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg will dismiss Miliband's criticism in a speech to the same conference on Tuesday.
He will insist that social mobility is the "impulse" that lies behind the government's education reforms, including the pupil premium.
And he will promise to address the "corrosive" rift in Britain's education system, citing new government data showing children educated privately are three times more likely than state pupils to attain top A-Level grades.
"Education is critical to our hopes of a fairer society," he will say.
"Right now there is a great rift in our education system between our best schools, most of which are private, and the schools ordinary families rely on. That is corrosive for our society and damaging to our economy.
"I don't for a moment denigrate the decision of any parent to do their best for their child, and to choose the best school for them. Indeed, that aspiration on behalf of children is one of the most precious ingredients of parenthood."
The Liberal Democrat leader will go on: "But we do need to ensure that our school system as a whole promotes fairness and mobility, that heals the rift in opportunities.
"We are committed to narrowing the gap in our school system - state and private - and ensuring that all children are given the chance to rise. The way to do that is to make the state education system better - to level up - and ensure that anyone can get ahead."
He is expected to reaffirm the coalition's drive on reforming the pre-16 curriculum, plus improve teacher and school quality.


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US Capitol Police defend pulling Tactical Team from Navy Yard | News
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new report says a specially trained tactical Capitol Police squad was recalled from the scene of the Washington Navy Yard rampage in part because of concerns about possible threats to the U.S. Capitol.
That is according to a two-page document released Friday by a panel investigating the police agency's response to the Sept. 16 shooting. The report says the four-person unit wasn't even able to make it to the scene because of traffic.
The investigation was launched days after the shooting amid reports that a Capitol Police supervisor told a tactical response team to stand down rather than respond to the Navy Yard shooting.
The gunman, Aaron Alexis, a former Navy reservist and government contractor, killed 12 people inside the building where he worked before dying in a police shootout.


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The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE) Continuing Pharmacy Education Commission and the ACPE Board of Directors recently granted an extension of the provider status held by the Lloyd L. Gregory School of Pharmacy at Palm Beach Atlantic University.
The accreditation term granted for the Continuing Pharmacy Education Program is effective through Jan. 31, 2016. The pharmacy school received provider status for continuing education in 2010.
The designation allows the pharmacy school to provide CE credits to all pharmacists across the country according to the ACPE guidelines.
Dr. Mary Ferrill, dean of the Gregory School of Pharmacy, said the extension will allow the school to expand its continuing education offerings.
ACPE is the national agency for the accreditation of professional degree programs in pharmacy and providers of continuing pharmacy education. The mission of the organization is to assure and advance excellence in education for the profession of pharmacy. ACPE is an autonomous and independent agency whose Board of Directors is derived through the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP), the American Pharmacists Association (APhA), the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABP), and the American Council on Education (ACE).


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Re: Missed January Sparkly
I don't know exactly you have those issues but I can tell you it won't work going back in time because the sparklies are tied to the server's clock.
Re: Markers in marker game
I read the whole discussion about 'bosses' & relation with other explorers. I tend to visit the public city in Ae'gura in MOULa once every 3-4 months for few minutes then I set sails to calmer seas. On TOC, I had good & bad experiences, so the grass is not always greener in small communities...
CoD floors are void when I reach the age
As the title informs you... I cannot set foot on CoD. As soon as I'm linking in, my avatar falls through the ground and reach her Relto. If I'm fast enough I can type "/spawn" and reach a solid spot...like the opera balcony :lol: but then...I'm trapped there because as soon as I spawn agai...
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A miracle has happened: Filtik found an issue in the database. Marker games are fixed! Really? Wow!!! I'll have to set up a whole new "Creative Department" in TOC. :lol: I'm almost done with my quests in URU:CC (not published yet apart from 5 in early Dec 2013). I have some old stuff made...
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That's so nice. Thanks for this new pub. I really like the lights everywhere.
Thanks janaba for sharing those pictures. You even had to suffer a non-existent floor to take them .
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I'm only whispering
I think that BIG ISSUES needs big impacts, like I have a BIG ISSUE, so let make it clear by capitalize it
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Ah Wow!!! :D I didn't think of touring the whole CoD yesterday. For the Christmas Tree in our Relto, I'm a bit puzzled :? ...I didn't see it yesterday and it should be very visible :lol: Maybe it's an on-going thing. @janaba: I'll be part of TOC party that's for sure. The CoD is really the best plac...
Winter/Christmas Stuff on TOC
Hello all, I found the time to play out in my winter relto & I made a nice snowman, here's a picture http://imageshack.us/a/img600/9918/eq6t.jpg ...and since I'm a good girl that behave perfectly all throughout the year :lol: , Santa left me a nice big gift on the Ferry, see for yourselves http:...
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Wow that's a nice summary Abjab!!!
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@ Nicole: Anyway, you won't find any added features trying the version of TOC TPoTS. It's only good for explorers who do not play on the Deep Island shard; it gives another way of enjoying these 4 ages. I always found TOC TPoTS a little bit less user-friendly and with all the issues I had once with ...


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Storm Styles has been told she can learn something new every day, but never know everything about anything.
The Lemont native is living by that lesson during her internship at Porsche, where she is a human resources intern at the car company's corporate Lisle location.
"I saw (this opportunity) and it attracted me because it was for a year and I thought it would be awesome to have a year of human resources in their department," said Styles, a junior who is double majoring in psychology and human resources at North Central College. "It is a real, credible business and it attracted my eye."
In her internship, Styles does everything from checking vacation requests, ordering supplies, and working on payroll, and she has also helped plan a couple events and benefits.
"I asked my career development counselor if this would be a good internship for me," Styles said before she took the position. "I didn't want to be getting coffee and bagels."
What interested you in psychology and human resources?
Psychology was my primary major and I had a statistics class where my statistics teacher is an industrial psychologist He recruited me to his industrial psych class and I fell in love with it. He said industrial psych is very similar to human resources and I took a couple business classes and found out I liked human resources. I guess I am always interested in people, which is why I major in psychology.
What has been the best part of the internship?
I think my favorite thing I have helped with is recruitment. I go through resumes and choose applicants that I feel would be able to do the job they are looking for. I like doing that a lot. That's something you talk about in class but don't get a chance to do. I also got to help one of my supervisors organize how much a new employee would get paid. I think this will help me a lot because you learn how everyone is an individual and how that individual will fit into the organization as far as compensation, skills and ability.
Did the cars attract you to intern at Porsche?
It was definitely the HR opportunity. I had heard of Porsche but I don't know that much about cars. I have learned how prestigious Porsche is and they are from Germany and very proud of their culture.
What does the future look like for you?
I am staying on this internship for the next year. I will be a senior next year and am hoping I can find another internship to get involved with and get experience and have an edge in the job market. I am not hesitant to go into human resources because it's not that big of a field and it's growing and they are hiring people.
"Storm Styles" — that's a very unique name, what's the story behind that?
My parents wanted to give their children unique names. When my mom was growing up there were a lot of 'Christies.' I think they wanted us to be the only person with the name. A lot of people ask if that is my real name and ask to see my driver's license.
RESIDENCE: Lemont
FAMILY: Parents Kevin and Christie and brother Dakota
EDUCATION: Junior at North Central College in Naperville; Lemont High School graduate
HOBBIES: Hanging out with friends, scrapbooking and shoppingPorsche


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Paquito D'Rivera
NEA Jazz Master and National Medal of Arts recipient Paquito D'Rivera brings his band—and his jazz saxophone and clarinet prowess—to the Millennium Stage for a performance as part of the 2017 NEA Jazz Masters celebration. After his performance on Millennium Stage, D'Rivera will also perform at the 2017 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert, at which five jazz artists will be saluted in a 90-minute, all-star concert starting at 7:30 p.m. in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall. Free tickets for the 2017 NEA Jazz Masters Tribute Concert will be distributed in the Kennedy Center Hall of Nations.
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DCPS Music Festival Week: The Kennedy Center Youth Council
5/24/2018 at 6:00 PM
DCPS Music Festival Week: The Kennedy Center Youth Council, comprised of 25 outstanding teens from the DC metropolitan area, serves as advisors and ambassadors to the Kennedy Center to support the Center's impact on youth and how the Center can be impacted by youth. This evening's performance, curated by and featuring some Youth Council members, showcases a variety of art forms on the theme youth activism.
DCPS Music Festival Week: Vocal Music Program at Woodrow Wilson High School
5/23/2018 at 6:00 PM
DCPS Music Festival Week: The award-winning Vocal Music Program at Woodrow Wilson High School, a Kennedy Center DC Partnership School, is comprised of the Concert Choir, Women's Choir, Vocal Jazz Ensemble, and The Wilson Singers. This John F. Kennedy Center DC Partnership Initiative School performs a varied repertoire of music, under the direction of Lori Williams. (www.lorijazz.com)
DCPS Music Festival Week: The Columbia Heights Educational Campus (CHEC)
5/22/2018 at 6:00 PM
DCPS Music Festival Week: The Columbia Heights Educational Campus (CHEC), a Kennedy Center DC Partnership School, is proud to present the Lincoln Middle School Band, CHEC Orchestra, CHEC Concert Band, and the CHEC Choir in an evening at the Millennium Stage. Performances will feature a wide variety of styles within each ensemble as well as several outstanding soloists.
Washington National Opera
5/21/2018 at 6:00 PM
Join us for the Millennium Stage preview of Washington National Opera's 2018–2019 season! Learn more about next season's operas including La traviata, Faust, and Eugene Onegin in a program featuring excerpts performed by the talented members of WNO's Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program, and discussion from the program's Principal Coach, Ken Weiss.
Artes de Cuba: Tiempo Libre (Miami)
5/20/2018 at 6:00 PM
Three-time Grammy® nominated Tiempo Libre are true modern heirs to the rich musical tradition of their native Cuba. Celebrated for their sophisticated performances of timba music, an irresistible, dance-inducing mix of Latin jazz and Cuban son, Tiempo Libre has introduced Cuban music to new audiences through appearances on shows such as The Tonight Show, Live from Lincoln Center, and Dancing With the Stars, and through concert performances at many of the world's major venues.
Presented as part of the Kennedy Center's "Artes de Cuba: From the Island to the World" festival. For all festival programming, please click HERE.
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Wild Down Florida In Overtime Shootout
The Minnesota Wild downed Florida 3-2 in an overtime shootout Thursday night. Erik Christensen and Matt Cullen each scored a goal in the shootout and Florida failed to score a goal in the shootout. Kyle Brodziak and Matt Cullen each scored a goal in regulation and Niklas Backstrom had 41 saves for Minnesota.
The Wild are 27-24-9 and with 63 points are in 12th place in the Western Conference standings. Minnesota is 3 points back of Dallas, Calgary and Los Angeles for the 8th and final playoff spot in the West. The Wild play at Dallas at 7:30 tonight, pregame on WJON at 7:05.


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US halfpipe team dominates Copper Mountain
Kelly Clark and Taylor Gold lead U.S. Snowboarding podium sweeps
The halfpipe team of U.S. Snowboarding has ruled this season's third halfpipe contest of the 2014 FIS Snowboard World Cup tour with podium sweeps in both, the ladies' and men's competition.
On the women's side , superstar Kelly Clark (98.00) celebrated her career's eighth win, a World Cup three-peat thus being the first US freestyle snowboarder to secure her ticket to Sochi. Clark will go into her career's fourth Winter Olympics.
"To be honest, it's hard for me to compute right now. You plan, you dream, you train, and then it happens and you're just kind of in awe. I just had a conversation with my dad. He's pretty excited, and perhaps in the next few days it'll settle in," she said.
"I love the Olympics. I love the opportunity to get to go every four years. But for me, it really is about the tricks. It really is about my riding. It's about pushing myself.
So even though I had the contest wrapped up at the end there, it was still important for me to go out and put down a good run that I could walk away being really proud of. I was happy to put down a good first run in finals and to come out and land the run that I wanted second run," the team veteran added.
However, Clark was able to throw down despite some stomach problems which didn't hold her back from adding a 1080 to her second run stepping up things in her victory lap (frontside air, backside 540, frontside 1080, cab 900, stalefish).
"I had a bit of a bug this morning and I literally got off the couch at 5:30 for practice. People were bringing me soup and Gatorade all day. I was hurting and trying to conserve my energy in practice. That was the first 1080 I did all day, just because I was trying to make sure I had enough energy to put runs down when I needed to."
Reigning World Champion Arielle Gold took second (91.25) with Gretchen Bleiler rounding out the podium as third (86.00).
Rookie upsets elite
On the men's side of things, Taylor Gold, who just had sneaked in the finals as 16th of the qualifiers claiming the last spot of the finals, sealed the contest with 90.25. It was a career's first for the rising talent in his seventh World Cup start and an unexpected victory.
"It's just amazing. My approach is on landing runs. Not really focus on the results. I just want to land my run and ride my best."
The 18-year-old shredder thus looks good to make the Olympic team due to a third rank finish at last weeks Dew Tour and his win in Copper Mountain.
"I just gonna let it flow and see what happens. If I got to the Olympics I'll be super excited. I hope I go now," Gold said also having something in store in case the race for the national Olympic spots heats up again.
"I got another trick that I could possibly add and a couple of more things in mind, but right now it's mostly about cleaning up what I can already do."
Team mate Gregory Bretz finished in second position (87.75) and thus joined Clark leading the World Cup tour. Ben Ferguson jumped on the third spot of the podium (87.00).
The best non-US riders were Sophie Rodriguez (85.00) and Arthur Longo (86.75). The two French athletes missed out the podium in high-class finals finishing fourth each.
The next halfpipe contest will take place in Stoneham, Canada, from Jan. 16 – thru 18, 2014 thus offering the last competition of the Olympic qualifier process.
Meanwhile, the snowboard freestyle weekend continues with a slopestyle contest at Copper Mountain, Sunday Dec 22 at 11 AM MST (7 PM CET)


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The Philadelphia Eagles have released defensive end Jason Babin, the club announced Tuesday.
Babin signed with the Eagles as a free agent in 2011 and racked up 18 sacks over 16 games to earn his second straight trip to the Pro Bowl.
The 32-year-old followed that effort with a team-high 5 1/2 sacks through 11 games this season, but the Eagles, who fell to 3-8 after Monday's loss to Carolina, decided to part ways with the defensive end.
"We appreciate everything that Jason has given this team over the last couple of years," Philadelphia coach Andy Reid said. "We wish him all the best as he continues his career. By releasing him today, this gives us an opportunity to give more playing time to some of younger guys in the defensive line rotation."
The Western Michigan product was selected 27th overall in the 2004 NFL Draft by Houston and has compiled 53 1/2 sacks and nine forced fumbles in 109 games, including 69 starts, over nine seasons with the Texans, Seattle, Kansas City, Tennessee and the Eagles.


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Civic Engagement Grants awarded to five in District 3
July 19, 2011
Neighborhood groups and residents throughout Pittsburgh City Council District 3 were recipients of the 2011 Civic Engagement Grant Program.
The grant program, organized by intern Blake Plavchak, awarded five grants of $200 for community projects.
"The response we received was fantastic and the projects will all benefit their communities and the people who live in them," Mr. Plavchak said.
"We were excited to announce this program and we are even more excited to announce the grant recipients. The diversity of applicants and projects shows how much people care about these communities" said Councilman Kraus. The grant recipients will bring their projects to the communities of Allentown, Mt. Oliver City/ St. Clair, South Side Flats and South Side Slopes.
Grant recipients and a brief description of their projects were:
Maisie Taibbi: With the closure of the South Side Library for renovations, she will organize a 'South Side Story Series' to provide story time to children. Ms. Taibbi plans to provide books for the children at each event and hopes to hold the events at the Brashear Association.
PA Resources Council: Will work with schools in District 3 to expand upon an annual event, "Fall Stash The Trash," by recruiting students to participate in beautification projects in their communities. PRC also plans to engage students from both Duquesne University and the University of Pittsburgh to participate in the Fall Redd up Weekend, which takes place on the same weekend as Stash the Trash, and participate in litter clean ups throughout the South Side Flats.
Allentown CDC: Will work to expand on a beautification effort that has already begun. The grant money will be used to purchase spring bulbs to plant at the corner of Warrington and Arlington Avenues. The Allentown CDC has already invested more than $5,000 on landscaping in this area and will use the grant money to bring this project to completion.
Mt. Oliver/St. Clair Block watch: This project is part of a larger beautification effort taking place at the intersection of Mountain and Wagner Streets. The grant money will be used to purchase materials and tools to prepare the site for a garden and welcome sign to the Hilltop.
South Side Slopes Association: Is taking on a project that will enhance the entrance to Stella and Shelly Street. This project will remove graffiti and re-paint the area.


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Checking In On… The Big EastPosted by jstevrtc on December 2nd, 2009
Rob Dauster of Ballin' Is A Habit is the RTC correspondent for the Big East Conference.
Despite the holiday, loyal readers of RTC may have noticed something missing last week.
Where was Checking in on the Big East? Without BIAH waxing poetic about the happenings within the nation's biggest conference, how were you able function?
For that, I must apologize. But, you see, it wasn't all my fault. For starters, the editors at RTC are ruthless. Not only did they have me traveling up and down the eastern seaboard during the busiest travel weekend of the year, they forced me to cover the semifinals and finals of the Preseason NIT for RTC Live.
Brutal, those guys. I guess that's why they pay me the big bucks.
Anyway, I probably could have found the time to put together a recap for you, but apparently grandmas don't realize that having dial-up isn't the same as having the internet. Old folks, you gotta love 'em. She made me a mean Thanksgiving leftover sandwich as a peace offering. She's not all bad, that one. I forgave her, just like I hope you all will forgive me.
Back to the point, since we have a lot to go over, and seeing as the first few weeks of the college hoops season are a bit hectic, the structure of this post is going to be a bit different than future posts. But never fear, as your trusty Big East expert is here to guide you through it. So tuck the children in, strap on your seat belts, and, well, you tell them, B.B…


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Learn How to Find and Apply for Jobs at the University of Michigan!
Wednesday, May 14 5:30-7:00 p.m.
Milan Public Library
Looking for a job? Join Anissa Majer, JM Human Resources Office, to learn about searching and applying for jobs at umjobs.org. Learn tips like saving job searches, connecting with Careers at the U on Facebook or Twitter, and subscribing to emails and news feeds. Registration is requested. Call 439-1240 or email email@example.com


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Book Discussion: Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card
"In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut -- young Ender is the Wiggin drafted to the orbiting Battle School for rigorous military training. Is Ender the general Earth needs?"
Join us for a discussion of the Hugo and Nebula award-winning book, now a major motion picture.


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2018 State of the County Address
Sullivan County 2018 Adopted Budget Executive Summary
Sullivan County 2018 Adopted Budget Detail
County Managers Potosek's 2018 Tentative Budget Presentation
2018 Tentative Budget Executive Summary
2018 Tentative Budget Detail
Charter Revision Commission Final Report
Shared Services Panel
Program Guidelines For Legislative Contracts(Program Year 2018)
Sullivan County Title VI Documents
Establishing a Standard Workday for Elected Officials
Proposed Electrical Licensing Law
NY State Storm Recovery Website
Solid Waste Appeals Form
(Monticello) - County Manager David Fanslau took administrative action Wednesday
to correct solid waste user fee billings that were erroneously issued. The
Solid Waste User Fee Local Law was not intended to be applied to vacant land;
however, certain real property class codes were erroneously billed.
"The specific real property class codes that are to be corrected will be
removed from the warrants of the Town Tax Collectors, and corrected bills will
be issued", said Fanslau. This action will preempt any unnecessary charges or
fees associated with the real property class codes that were erroneously
The Solid Waste User Fee schedule was approved by the County Legislature in
December 2009, and was effective for fiscal/calendar year 2010. The Solid Waste
User Fee generates revenues to fund the Solid Waste System, and is applied to
all real property parcels that have improvements on them, including parcels that
are exempt from the real property tax system. In past years, the County's
Property Taxpayers subsidized the Solid Waste System through the County"s
General Fund.
There has been a Special Revenue Fund established to fund the all-in costs of
the Solid Waste System of the County. This Special Revenue Fund was created to
prevent the use of the proceeds for any other purpose but for costs directly
associated with the Solid Waste System.
"Many years ago, the County issued bonds to fund the Solid Waste System;
however, during those years a debt service reserve was not established. The
landfill has reached capacity, but there remains a $40 million debt to be repaid
through 2022, as well as, about $1.2 million in annual post-closure costs that
the County will have to fund for a thirty year period," Fanslau said. The Solid
Waste User Fee will partially fund the expenses of the Solid Waste System, with
the remainder funded through disposal fees at the Transfer Stations and
convenience centers.
The County has executed an agreement with IESI Corporation to manage a
portion of the Solid Waste System. The County Landfill in Monticello is now
closed, having reached capacity.
All Municipal and Commercial haulers will utilize the Ferndale Transfer
Station Monday through Friday, on an interim basis, until Commercial haulers may
be received at the Mamakating Station, and until the centralized Transfer
Station is constructed in Monticello.
New Operating Hours for 2010:
The operating schedule for the Convenience and Transfer Stations for 2010 is
as follows:
Convenience Centers:
-Open to Residential Waste Only
-Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 7:45am - 2:45pm
Western Sullivan:
-Wednesday and Saturday, 7:45am – 2:45pm
-Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 7:45 – 2:45pm
Monticello (Landfill):
-Monday – Friday, 7:45AM – 2:45PM, Saturday 7:45AM – 12PM
Transfer Stations:
-Temporarily Open to Residential Customers Only, Will be Open to Municipal
Sanitation Departments and Commercial Waste Haulers in Early 2010
-Wednesday and Sunday, 7:45am - 2:45pm
-Open to Residential Customers, Municipal Sanitation Departments and
Commercial Waste Haulers Monday – Friday, 7:45AM-2:45PM (scales close at 2:30PM)
and Sundays 7:45AM-10AM for non-residential and 7:45AM – 2:45AM for residential
Special Notices (Including Pricing Changes):
The Ferndale Transfer Station will no longer be accepting cash, effective
January 18, 2010. Only coupons, checks or money orders will be accepted at this
Existing coupons may be used through February 1, 2010, at which point the
coupons must be used in denominations commensurate with the per bag fee, or
turned in for new coupons reflecting the current per bag price.
Coupons may be purchased at any of the transfer or convenience stations
throughout Sullivan County, but only checks or money orders will be accepted as
The following rates are only applicable for Sullivan County residents.
Out-of-county residents seeking to use the Solid Waste system must pay the $85
solid waste user fee to access the system.
Please take note of changes in Solid Waste Disposal Fees, Effective
January 1, 2010:
The tipping fee for Municipal Solid Waste at Sullivan County Transfer
stations equipped with scales will change from $75 to $85.
Please take note that Sullivan County will no longer accept
commercially-generated roll-off containers with construction and demolition
debris until further notice. The tipping fee for residential-generated
Construction and Demolition Debris and Bulky Waste at Sullivan County Transfer
Station in Ferndale equipped with scales: $125 per ton.
Please take note of changes in Solid Waste Disposal Fees, Effective
February 2, 2010:
Individual Bag Fee for Non-Clear Bags: $4.00 per bag
Individual Bag Fee for Clear Bags (containing no recyclables): $2.00 per
The following real property class codes have been removed administratively
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Linda Cullen and Paul Davidson, both of Sarasota, have been selected by a panel of judges as the 2012-2013 Big Brother and Big Sister of the Year.
When Davidson met his Little Brother, Antrone Thomas, he was a nervous wreck. Davidson and his wife did not have children, and he did not know how he would fare. After more than four years, several schools and with the challenges of a Little whose father has been in and out of his life, Davidson and Thomas are inseparable and are permanent parts of each other's lives.
Since that first encounter, Thomas has developed into a remarkable young man.
"Too few people realize, and I was one of them, that they are able to mentor a child," Davidson said. "We just need Big Brothers Big Sisters to choose the path of being able and willing to mentor a child. You get back much more than you put in. You can only imagine what it means to the child."
Davidson and Thomas have been matched for four years.
Cullen said she experienced a wonderful journey with her Little Sister, Brittany Probus, over the past 12 years.
"It was faith, and the right time for us to be perfectly matched," Cullen said. "I never had children, was recently divorced, had just lost both parents and without a big family and sibling connection, it was time for me to act on something I placed aside for a long time."
Brittany's father, Rob, had a Big Brother early in his life. He thought it was time to introduce his two daughters to the program.
"I am so lucky to have experienced this small, shy, young girl's growth into a beautiful young lady," Cullen said. "Hopefully, the many roads we have traveled, the many detours we have taken will give her the guidance next year when she graduates high school and chooses her next journey in life at college.
"I truly believe everyone, if they want to dedicate a small part of their life and time, can make a world of difference in a child's life."
— Submitted by Gina Taylor, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Suncoast
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Suncoast names Bigs of the Year
Linda Cullen and Paul Davidson, both of Sarasota, have been selected by a panel of judges as the 2012-2013 Big Brother and Big Sister of the Year.


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In a nontraditional move for the orchestra industry, the Memphis Symphony Orchestra has formed a dedicated community engagement department, with the goals of educating and enriching the Memphis community with innovative projects and services while at the same time attracting new audience members for the concert hall.
Rhonda Causie, center, with key collaborators Joseph Nelson and Susan Miville. Causie will lead the Memphis Symphony Orchestra's new community engagement department.
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"The job of the new department is to build some infrastructure that will allow Memphis to understand the work that we do, and maybe it will help us get more support for it, because the projects can't run on grant funds forever. They have to reach a point where they are sustainable," said Rhonda Causie, who will lead the new department as vice president of community engagement. Other department members are Joseph Nelson, director of community partnerships, and Susan Miville, director of education.
The MSO was established in 1960 and now includes more than 400 musicians, staff and volunteers.
After Vincent deFrank Hall Downtown was torn down in 1996, the symphony had no place to play until the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts was completed in 2003.
"We had so much audience attrition during those years that when the new hall opened in 2003 it was a wonderful thing, but we had lost so much of our core audience that we were not able to really recover," said Causie, who previously served as MSO director of grants and innovation. "We began to recognize that we would need to go out and build a new audience, and we could do it with a community service structure."
In 2007 the orchestra began forming a network of community partnerships with key organizations across the Mid-South, including Youth Villages, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Memphis and Community LIFT, which teamed with MSO during the past year to produce the successful Memphis Symphony Soul concert series at the revitalized Memphis Music Magnet community center. The MSO/Community LIFT pairing came about after both had applied for the same grant from ArtPlace America.
"We noticed that our applications were centered around the same neighborhood, so we were able to combine two applications with the Memphis Music Magnet at Soulsville plan," said Eric Robertson, Community LIFT president.
"We consider the partnership to have been very successful," Robertson said. "The project was part of a larger plan for the community, and the relationship with the symphony helped to animate the neighborhood and create a buzz about events and music on a regular basis, as well as to expose the neighborhood to people that normally would not visit there."
Attendance for the shows exceeded expectations, bringing out an estimated 5,000 to 6,000 people to the various events.
The idea for community work in Soulsville dates back to 2007, when the MSO was selected as one of seven orchestras (out of 300 applicants) in the country to participate in the New Strategies Lab program in Princeton, N.J.
"From that workshop we emerged with two key projects: developing a leadership program for FedEx and music mentoring at the Soulsville Charter School, and we are very pleased that those programs continue today," said Causie, who points out that MSO players are union contract employees of the orchestra, so a revolutionary move was necessary to ratify the union contracts to allow MSO to pay their musicians for their community work.
MSO musicians now have the autonomy to decide what type of community work they would like to do, whether it is coaching kids or playing for seniors at an assisted living facility or doing arrangements for education ensembles at schools.
"We believe the community work we do is vital and it changes lives," Causie said. "The amount of community work we do has grown so much over the past eight years, to the point where we decided it was time to dedicate some staff to it."
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National seeds
North Carolina
North Carolina State
Cal State Fullerton
Oregon State
Changes: Florida State out, N.C. State in
In the mix: Indiana, Florida State, Kansas State
There was only one significant change when it comes to national seeds with N.C. State replacing Florida State. The Seminoles still have a solid overall resume and head-to-head series win against the Wolfpack. However, they're 4-6 in their last 10 games -- a crucial metric the NCAA Selection Committee looks at -- along with a 14-15 record vs. RPI Top 50 and 11-9 mark on the road this spring. Additionally, the Seminoles went 0-4 this week, including three losses at the ACC tournament.
In a perfect world, I'd like to use the head-to-head metric as the go-to in this situation, but Florida State's skid in the last week is too much to overcome. Though the Wolfpack dropped the head-to-head series to FSU, they continue to have a strong resume, along with a good showing at the ACC tournament. Also in this perfect world, I think the ACC deserves four national seeds, but again, I won't believe that until I see it, as history would suggest. North Carolina State has an RPI of 7 with a 44-14 overall record, 18-10 mark vs. RPI Top 50 teams, and perhaps most important, they're 7-3 in their last 10 contests.
As for other teams to watch as Selection Monday nears, it's important to keep close tabs on Indiana, Kansas State and perhaps even still Louisville.
The Ducks got some good news late Saturday night as the Hoosiers dropped a tough contest to Nebraska, creating a second Big 10 tournament title game. The Hoosiers continue to have a rather average resume to say the least, but a high RPI is their saving grace at the moment. IU is 9-9 vs. RPI Top 50, 15-9 on the road this spring, and are 6-4 in their last 10 contests. Indiana has to win the tournament title on Sunday to keep hope alive.
Kansas State might've wasted its chance at a national seed Saturday with a tough loss to Oklahoma. With the loss, the Wildcats head home, while the Sooners head to the Big 12 tournament title game. With that said, KSU might still get a strong look with an RPI of 18, 7-5 mark vs. RPI Top 50, 8-2 record in their last 10 contests and 12-9 road record.
Mississippi State and UCLA are no longer in the mix for one of our eight national seeds. The Bulldogs really needed to reach the SEC tournament finale to have even a chance after finishing fifth in the Southeastern Conference regular season standings, while the Bruins dropped a tough series to Stanford.
In the end, we get the feeling the final national seed is down to Oregon and Indiana, unless the NCAA decides to surprise us and give the ACC a fourth national seed. For now, though, we're liking Oregon's chances.
Regional hosts
Mississippi State
Florida State
Kansas State
Virginia Tech
South Carolina
Changes: none
In the mix: Arkansas, Clemson
Surprisingly to some, there's no change in this department after Saturday's games around the country. We thought there might be an opportunity to move Arkansas in as a host site with a win over LSU, but the Razorbacks dropped the bout against the Tigers, thus didn't move in as one of the hosts.
With that said, it wouldn't be surprising if the Hogs had an NCAA Regional host on Monday. Though the Hogs still only have an RPI of 32, you're talking about a team that swept South Carolina on the road, has a 37-20 overall record, and of course, finished Southeastern Conference play with an 18-11 record. The Hogs also have 17 wins vs. RPI Top 50 teams, but also are just 5-5 in their last 10.
By comparison, Virginia Tech is the team gaining the most steam for a host site, replacing Clemson in Saturday morning's postseason snapshot. The Hokies are up to 11 in the latest RPI with a 38-19 overall record. Additionally, the Hokies are 9-1 in their 10, winners of eight-straight contests, and are a very respectable 13-8 on the road despite having the nation's No. 4 strength of schedule. The big strike against the Hokies at this point is a 13-14 mark vs. RPI Top 50.
Also by comparison, South Carolina, we're hearing, is in good shape to earn a host site going into Sunday. The Gamecocks stumbled in the SEC tournament, but still finished the season with a 17-12 league record, 39-18 overall record and 11-8 road record. South Carolina also had an 11-14 record vs. RPI Top 50 and played the nation's No. 17 strength of schedule. By comparison, Arkansas has played the nation's No. 49 strength of schedule.
On a lesser note, also keep an eye on Clemson. Though intel all points to the Tigers not being an NCAA Regional host, what may seem true isn't always the case. So, for comparison purposes, the Tigers, who struggled in the ACC tournament, have an RPI of 14, 39-20 overall record, 13-17 mark vs. RPI Top 50 and are 5-5 in their last 10 games.
What fans must know going into Sunday is that you have two NCAA Regional host sites with essentially three teams vying for them -- South Carolina, Arkansas and Virginia Tech, with Clemson at least somewhere in the discussion.
Take your pick, it's a close race.


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Ross Perot to Help Texarkana College
The financial woes of Texarkana College are well known at this point. The termination of the athletic programs has been a hot topic around town.
Now, one of Texarkana's most notable former resident has taken notice and is about to do something about it. Billionaire Ross Perot is coming to town on Thursday to be make a probably donation and a challenge to the community. No one knows for sure what the donation will be or the challenge, but Perot will likely call on local business leaders, industry and common ordinary folks to step up to the plate and help save the college that gave him his post high school education start.
The TC Tomorrow Community Challenge Event will be this Thursday afternoon at 1pm on the college lawn at Robison Road and Campus Drive. Area public school students have decorated over 10,000 pennants to showcase their visions for a brighter tomorrow.
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In this 2-credit independent study course students select and examine taxation topics of particular interest to them. The student is required to prepare an analytical paper comparable to one in a professional journal. This option is available only with the permission of the Director of the Graduate Taxation Program.
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Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini has declared Mario Balotelli is staying at the club.
The striker has been linked with a move away from the newly-crowned Premier League champions, Mancini admitting after his sending off in last month's defeat at Arsenal he would "probably" sell him.
Reports in Italy have suggested Balotelli could head to AC Milan this summer in a swap deal which would bring Zlatan Ibrahimovic to the Etihad, but Mancini told Gazzetta dello Sport: "Mario has been very clear and I reiterate: Balotelli will remain at Manchester 101%."
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Horn Field Campus Corn Maze Schedule 2012
October 13, 2012
Oct. 13, 2012
MACOMB, IL -- Due to inclement weather conditions this weekend, the Horn Field Campus Corn Maze is closed today (Saturday, Oct. 13) and Sunday, Oct. 14.
Posted Sept. 25, 2012
MACOMB, IL - - Autumn has arrived, and fall fun lies around every corn maze corner at Western Illinois University's Horn Field Campus.
Staff members at WIU's Horn Field Campus (HFC) have once again created the popular corn maze, which will be open from 1-4 p.m. every Saturday and Sunday in October. HFC staff will also be hosting "Flashlight Nights" from 8-10 p.m. every Saturday night in October (individuals must bring their own flashlights).
This year, Horn Field Campus will host its Haunted Corn Maze from 8-10 p.m. on Halloween (Wednesday, October 31).
Admission cost for each corn maze event for those who are 13 and older, as well for the Flashlight Nights and the Haunted Corn Maze, is $5 per person. For children ages 6-12 admission is $2 per person; for children ages 5 and under, admission is free. A parent or guardian must accompany children and teens under 16.
Directions to WIU's Horn Field Campus
HFC is located south of Macomb on China Road. From South Johnson Street (past Macomb High School), turn right on China Road and follow the road one-quarter of a mile to the Horn Field Campus entrance. Parking is permitted on the HFC lot.
For more information, contact Horn Field Campus at (309) 833-5798 or firstname.lastname@example.com. Visit HFC online at wiu.edu/hfc or find Horn Field Campus on Facebook at www.facebook.com/hornfieldcampus.wiu.
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Terrible Advice From Merideth Goldstein "Love Letters" Column On Boston.com
She can't be this naïve can she? Here's the column from Boston.com and the right way to handle it underneath from your boy Joey C
Here goes-
He's taking a break
Q: Hi Meredith,
I have read your column for years, but until now have never found the need to seek your advice. You see, I was in a happily-ever-after relationship for 7 years, and we were supposed to start planning our wedding until … we started a long distance relationship, and 2 months in, he asked for a break over text message.
It was unexpected for me, and it broke my heart. I love him, and I respected the break for a while, but then I started questioning everything. Every time I try to reach out to him, the end result is the same: he pleads for more time (usually over email/text), gives no answers, and seems to avoid me. I have decided that it is over, but I can't bring myself to move forward. I feel as though I need to let him know it's over, so we can both be on the same page (he would have to return my call first). I feel it's important to show the respect to our relationship of at least a phone call even though he has not done the same for me. I'm embarrassed by how much I have reached out to him with not much/anything in return. Is it okay to just end this over a text message or email? Should I wait until he's ready to at least talk over the phone?
Any advice would be great.
– Break Up by Text, MA
Answer: I really wish you could do this in person, BUBT. At the very least, you deserve an email.
My advice is to send him a long note (email) that explains where you are with this. Also leave him a voicemail telling him that you want to confirm your breakup. If he responds to these messages by asking for more time, explain that he's run out of it. Because you just can't do this anymore. It's too confusing and painful.
If he doesn't respond to the messages within a few days (like, four), end it with an email. Don't do anything by text. It's passive-aggressive, and you don't want to have to keep anything too short.
As soon as you hit "send" on your email and leave that voice message, go out to dinner with some friends. Stay surrounded. Find the people who respond to you immediately. Keep them close.
Readers? Should she follow his lead and do this by text? Is it possible he doesn't want to break up? How can she get him to communicate? Help.
– Meredith
and here's the Joey C real answer-
Listen honey, don't waste another second listening to Miss Goldberg. All I had to read was-
Every time I try to reach out to him, the end result is the same: he pleads for more time (usually over email/text), gives no answers, and seems to avoid me.
#Boom! The dude is just not into you. Don't waste another second waiting or wondering about this schmuck. Go get yourself some fresh meat. The guy has moved on.
Miss Goldstein would have you send a long email asking for confirmation? Uhmmm really? You need to know anything more than the guy is avoiding her, gives no answers and won't even return a call?
Like I said, don't waste a second. Get yourself dolled up to the nines, join The MAC or some other athletic club. Get yourself looking all sexy and find some young dude that wants to pound the farts out of you. That ought to get you over this schmuck real quick.
The worst thing she could do is go back to the wishy-washy spineless dude because he might call around and try to hit her up for a drunken booty call late night when he strikes out at the bars. Then she'd get all those feelings back like he was really into her only to be left hanging by the phone waiting for him to call. Screw this dude. No wait, don't screw him, screw some other guy that's much more deserving.
#Boom! Pearls of wisdom right there baby!
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Slow Dance
Released: 28-03-2009
Buy Now
- We Were There
- In This Lonely Town
- Gallop
- Canter Canter
- Slow Dance
- Winter Wonder
- Will You Dance With Me?
- Breaking The Ice
- Slow Dance 2
- Where Could We Go Tonight?
- Love Everlasting *
- Lite Beam *
- Jet Stream *
- Love Everlasting (Winter Version) *
- Love Everlasting EP
Jeremy Jay walks where a winter theme pervades, where the backdrop for the scenes from his new album Slow Dance take place.
Slow Dance starts with a bang. It navigates listeners through forests and over star streams as easily as walking through the streets, before it shifts to dance floor romance and night-time escapades. There is a consistent, mysterious sway; a strong will backed by noble guitars and shiny synths. Amidst, Jay is protective and candid, inviting listeners to dance with a whisper. A romance of dreams and realities, full colors, ice skates and disco lights.
Recorded in winter-time at the Dub Narcotic Studio (Olympia, Washington) in a succession of silhouettes, Jay (synth and guitar; joined by Derek James on bass, Nick Pahl on drums and Ilya Malinsky on guitar) varies speeds with smooth precision. "Slow Dance" and "Winter Wonder" have a repetitive, loose charm. "In This Lonely Town" and "Breaking the Ice" maintain a strident beat; "Will You Dance with Me?" and "Where Could We Go Tonight?" end with questions where the response feels limitless. The glide on ice transfers to the dance floor with ease.
While working on Slow Dance, there was an icicle-caked excitement that resulted in a snow-flurry of extra recordings. The cozy, insulated vibe of Olympia, Washington and Dub Narcotic Studio took hold and Jeremy, along with Ilya Malinksy (guitar), Nick Pahl (drums) and Derek James (bass) crafted the EP Love Everlasting (released in Australia as the Slow Dance bonus tracks).
These extra songs, recorded with a fiery compulsion, were written in Jeremy's Los Angeles apartment and expanded in studio. The song "Lite Beam" took shape with a solarized hi-hat and synth bass – a real disco dance cut; "Jet Stream," has that special synth bass that propels it to a dance floor climax, and the single itself, "Love Everlasting," twinkles magnificently with a sensual glide.
Jeremy Jay toured extensively across the U.S.A., Europe and Australia in support of his recent album A Place Where We Could Go (out now on Popfrenzy). Chances are looking good he will be back later this year.
"Jeremy Jay [possesses a] frail ingeniousness, creating a warm, inviting space … Dream baby dream." - Pitchfork Media


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Friday, July 13, 2007
Today is a very, very special day for Danica, because, I had first comment left , and there is someone who wants to help! I feel so guilty for not having time to do a new post every day. I will try my best, because if there is only one person who comes to this blog to see what is new with Danica's shelter - I must do it!
Danica told me yesterday that her sleep is almost non existing, because, the moment she closes her eyes, she starts having nightmares of the pound people coming and knocking on her door. She heard from some neighbours that they lately have renewed thier visits to the diffrent parts of the city, simply taking cats from the street, basically, to be killed.
Danica gave Majkan away to one of her good friends. Here is his picture, and when I asked her why she picked him, she said that he is currently the only kitten and a very, very friendly one on top of it, so for sure doomed to be easily caught and killed.
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you have done well.keep it up
- July 13, 2007 at 7:53 PM
People in USA, my name is Frank at email@example.com. I am going to make it my business to help drum up support for the animals of Novi Sad and Danica, their patron saint. Please contact me.
Danica, you cannot imagine how well you have done!
- July 25, 2007 at 9:02 PM
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Junior Navy ROTC students cheer for Navy SEALS, discuss the death of Osama bin Laden
Mondays are "intel" days for students in the Navy Junior ROTC program at Boca Raton High School.
For civilians, that's "current event" days.
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Sleepy Tigers EP (Available on ITunes only)
Released: 11-10-2008
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- Just Another Day
- This Seat Is Definitely Taken
- Same Song Sing Along
Sleepy Tigers is the lead off single from Her Space Holiday's upcoming full-length, XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival (available November 8). In addition to the title track, three new compositions are included on the release. These tracks are not outtakes or throwaways from the recording of the full-length, but are in fact fully realized works completed in a fit of inspiration as the single was being compiled. For longtime fans of Her Space Holiday, those anxious to hear the new creative direction taken on XOXO, Panda And The New Kid Revival, or new listeners yet to discover what makes Her Space Holiday such a beloved act, Sleepy Tigers is the perfect preview of what's to come.


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In 1971, Barbara Jane Reyes was born in Manila, Philippines, and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her undergraduate education at the University of California Berkeley and her MFA in Creative Writing (poetry) at San Francisco State University.
Reyes's most recent collection of poetry is Diwata (BOA Editions, Ltd., 2010). Her first book, Gravities of Center, was published by Arkipelago Books (San Francisco) in 2003, and her second book, poeta en san francisco (Tinfish Press, Kaneohe, Hawai'i) received the 2005 James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets.
She has taught at Mills College and the University of San Francisco. She lives with her husband, poet Oscar Bermeo, in Oakland, where she is co-editor of Doveglion Press.


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Dynamic Database Access from Client-Side JavaScriptby Donald Bales, author of Java Programming with Oracle JDBC
A Lightweight SQL Applet Architecture
Figure 1 is a architecture diagram for using JavaScript, an applet, and a servlet to query a database from a Web page. Starting on the far left, a JavaScript in a Web page calls the applet's public method to send a SQL statement to its servlet peer. The SQL applet uses HTTP to send the SQL statement as a GET request. The servlet peer executes the SQL statement, using JDBC to communicate with the database. Then, the servlet appropriately sends back either a result set or the number of rows affected by the SQL statement as tab delimited text. In turn, the SQL applet parses the returned data. The JavaScript then uses some of the SQL applet's other public methods to access the data from within the script.
Why an applet-servlet pair and not just an applet? You can write an applet that can perform dynamic database queries, but then you'll have two problems to contend with. First, you'll have to add your JDBC driver's classes to your applet's archive. This will cause your applet's archive to grow from 4K to about 1.5M. That will be a major performance problem if your user base is not on a high-speed network. Second, you'll encounter socket security exceptions. These exceptions vary, depending on the version of JDK and browser you're using. To get around these two problems, we can utilize the services of a servlet that can perform dynamic SQL queries, while using an applet to exchange information with the servlet via HTTP. With a servlet performing the actual SQL statements, the database driver is not part of the applet's archive, so the size of the applet's archive can be kept to 4K. By using HTTP as the protocol, there are typically no socket security issues. Assuming we have a database that's accessible from our servlet container, let's start a detailed examination of this architecture from the ground up by first looking at our SQL servlet.
A Dynamic SQL Servlet
Our dynamic SQL servlet, appropriately named SqlServlet (Example 1), leverages the truly dynamic
capabilities of JDBC to execute a SQL statement. It can execute not only a
statement, but any kind of DML or DDL. Execute a SQL statement simply by sending it as the value of the
sql. For example, if the
servlet is located in a context directory of "learn" on host "dssw2k01:8080", then
you can get a list of all the tables you can access at this URL: "http://dssw2k01:8080/learn/servlet/SqlServlet?sql=select * from all_tables".
Figure 2 shows typical results.
When your browser sends the SQL statement to SqlServlet, the servlet's
method is executed. In
doGet(), the method starts out by getting a connection.
As I have noted in the code, this is not the best way to get a connection, but it suffices
for a sample program. Next, SqlServlet gets a copy of the passed SQL statement by calling the
HttpServletRequest object's
getParameter() method. Then,
it allocates several variables: three
ints to keep track of the number of columns
in a result set, the number of rows in a result set, and an SQL error code if a
SQLException occurs; a
Statement to dynamically execute
a passed SQL statement; a
ResultSet to retrieve the results from a
SELECT statement; a
ResultSetMetaData to dynamically determine
the number of columns in a returned result set; and finally a
used in the process of tab-delimiting data.
Next, the program enters a
block where a
Statement object is created and then used to execute the
SQL statement using its
execute() method.
execute() returns
true if a
ResultSet is available, in which case the program retrieves the result set
using the
Statement object's
getResultSet() method.
Given a
ResultSet object, the program then gets the result set's metadata object
by calling its
getResultSetMetaData() method. The program then gets the
result set's column count by calling the
ResultSetMetaData object's
getColumnCount() method. Next, the program loops through the result
set, tab-delimiting the data into the string buffer
If no result set is available, the program gets the number of rows affected
by the SQL statement by calling the
Statement object's
getUpdateCount() method.
At this point, the program has determined the number of columns, rows, any error
code, and has tab-delimited any data. It proceeds by getting the servlet's
in order to the write the contents of the string buffer,
data, to the user's
browser. and then sets the content type to
text/plain. Next, three
custom headers are sent,
Sql-Rows, and
Sql-Cols, which are used to send
any error code, the number of rows in the result set or the number of rows affected by the SQL
statement, and the number of columns. The contents of the string buffer
data is
sent, and the stream is flushed. At this point, the job of SqlServlet is done and it's time
for SqlApplet.
Example 1: SqlServlet
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class SqlServlet extends HttpServlet {
public void doGet(
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException {
// Normally, I'd never get a connection
// for a servlet this way, but it's OK
// for an example.
// Load the JDBC driver
try {
catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
"Unable to load class " +
// Get a database connection
Connection conn = null;
try {
conn = DriverManager.getConnection(
catch (SQLException e) {
// Get the SQL statement passed as a parameter
String sql = request.getParameter("sql");
int cols = 0;
int stat = 0;
int rows = 0;
ResultSet rset = null;
ResultSetMetaData rsmd = null;
Statement stmt = null;
// This StringBuffer will hold the output until
// we're ready to send it.
StringBuffer data = new StringBuffer(8192);
try {
// Create a Statement object from the
// Connection object
stmt = conn.createStatement();
// Execute the SQL statement.
// The execute() method will return
// a true if a result set is avaiable.
if (stmt.execute(sql)) {
// Get the result set
rset = stmt.getResultSet();
// Get meta data (data about the data)
// from the result set.
rsmd = rset.getMetaData();
// Get the number of columns
cols = rsmd.getColumnCount();
// Walk the result set
// tab delimiting the column
// data as you go into the
// StringBuffer, data.
while(rset.next()) {
if (rows > 1) {
for(int col = 1;col <= cols;col++) {
if (col > 1) {
// Let go of the meta data object
rsmd = null;
// Close and let go of the result set
rset = null;
else {
// If there's no result set
// then the execute() method
// returns the number of rows
// affected by the SQL statement.
rows = stmt.getUpdateCount();
// Close a let go of the statement
stmt = null;
catch (SQLException e) {
"Can't execute query: " + sql + ".");
stat = e.getErrorCode();
finally {
// Make sure the result set
// and statement objects
// are close if there is a
// SQLException.
if (rset != null) {
try {
catch (SQLException ignore) {
if (stmt != null) {
try {
catch (SQLException ignore) {
// Close the connection
try {
catch (SQLException ignore) {
// Get the output stream
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
// Set the content type
// Set the "custom" headers:
// Sql-Stat returns any SQLException
// error code.
// Sql-Rows returns the number of rows
// Sql-Cols returns the number of columns
// Send the data
public void doPost(
HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response)
throws IOException, ServletException {
doGet(request, response);
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Abstract: Some went down to the Sea in Ships: Mediterranean Seafaring in the Bronze Age (3000-1200 B.C.)
For the ancient societies ringing the eastern basin of the Mediterranean Sea, contact was
carried out primarily by sea. The study of seaborne exploration, trade, migrations and
colonization depends on understanding the nautical capabilities of the various cultures. A
knowledge of their ships and seafaring practices is a prerequisite for any understanding
of the mechanisms and directions of Bronze Age cultural flows.
For what reasons did these cultures go to sea? What types of ships did they build? How
efficient were their ships and seafaring practices, and perhaps, most importantly, what
insights into a culture can be gleaned from studying their ships and the manner in which
each culture interacted with the sea?
As early as the Early Bronze Age, the Mediterranean had been transformed from an
impassable barrier into a superhighway by means of which cultures communicated. This
new-found freedom of movement was primarily due to the ability to build wooden-
planked vessels capable of withstanding the rigors of open-water travel and the seafaring
knowledge required to use them.
This lecture gives a broad overview of the blue-water ships of the major Bronze Age
cultures of the eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze Age, including those of the
Egyptians, Syro-Canaanites, Cypriots, Minoans, Mycenaeans and the Sea Peoples. Using
contemporaneous archaeological, iconographic and textual evidence, this lecture follows
the evolution of ships and delves into pertinent aspects of seafaring, such as trade,
warfare, navigation, as well as others.
Short bibliography on lecture topic:
Wachsmann, S., 1998. Seagoing Ships and Seamanship in the Bronze Age Levant.
College Station, Texas A&M University.
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