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Climate challenges explored in Making the City 2019 speaker series
How do cities plan, design, and implement strategies which address the environmental challenges of the future? The 2019 Making the City speaker series is a collection of six events from March to October, and will examine key cultural and design practices that contribute to the quality, amenity, and character of present day cities.
Hosted at the Peter Shergold Building at Western Sydney University, the May session of MTC 2019 will focus on Resilience. HASSELL Principal David Tickle is included on the panel, tapping into the recent work building social and ecological resilience strategies for San Francisco Bay as part of the Resilient by Design challenge. Other panellists include Beck Dawson (City of Sydney), Adrian McGregor (McGregor Coxall), and Helen Papathanasiou (City of Paramatta), all exploring ways that cities can plan, design, and implement strategies which address the environmental challenges of the future.
Making the City speaker series is a collaboration between Western Sydney University, City of Parramatta, the Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences, and the NSW Chapter of the Australian Institute of Architects.
You can find more information and register to attend the event here.
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The Food Pyramid: Gone and NOT missed! On June 1, 2011 I logged on to MyPyramid.gov for kids and played their Blast Off Game "An interactive computer game where kids can reach Planet Power by fueling their rocket with food and physical activity." I registered as Alan, an 11-year-old boy. The results were slightly less horrifying than when I did this in 2006 (and reported my findings). But just barely.
When you launch the game, you're invited to select food items and physical activity for the day from a list that varies occasionally if you play several times. When you're satisfied with your choices, press the Blast Off button and the game will analyze your diet to see whether it would give your body the optimal fuel to complete your journey.
My Breakfast
To start the day I chose chocolate sugar cereal. Because the nonfat milk it came with seemed rather bland, I added a cup of chocolate milk to go with it. At this point an alert popped up, but perhaps not the alert you'd expect after a junk food breakfast with a double dose of sugary chocolate:
"STAR PILOT! It's clear you know your facts. You've chosen 2 low-fat/fat-free foods. Great job!"
I was still hungry, so I added a white bread English muffin to my white flour and sugar breakfast.
My Lunch
At school I selected a Sloppy Joe sandwich on a white bun and received a 3-star alert, but again it might not be what you'd expect:
"Well Done! You have enough Grains!"
My Sloppy Joe seemed like it was missing something, so I added French Fries (deep fried). My meal still didn't seem complete, so I added a second order of French Fries (deep fried). I was feeling a little guilty at this, so wasn't surprised when an alert popped up – but was surprised at what it said:
"Well done! You have enough Vegetables!"
My lunch was missing something sweet, though, so I grabbed a glass of apple juice. Lo and behold, another alert:
"STAR PILOT! You just grabbed a 100% Fruit Juice. Good job!"
Being called a STAR PILOT is nice, so I went back and added some apple juice to my breakfast and chose apple juice for my afternoon snack, along with a glass of milk. I did receive an alert that whole or cut-up fruit is even better than fruit juice, the best advice I'd gotten so far. For physical activity I did some household chores. I set the table, I emptied the dishwasher, I made my bed, I put away some of my stuff. It seemed like it took an hour, but never got my heart pumping.
My Dinner
It's been a long day! I chose fried chicken for dinner. This time I got TWO alerts. One suggested that more of my grain choices should be whole grains. I hadn't expected fried chicken to prompt a grain alert, but I'm glad it did. This alert was one of two improvements I've seen in the 2011 version (the other is a much broader selection of healthy foods that a child could select. Kudos for that.). I also got another 3-star alert, this one expected given my Sloppy Joe and fried chicken:
"Well Done! You have enough Meats and Beans!"
Still, something seemed like it was missing from my dinner – from my whole day, really. And I knew just what it was: gravy! So I added an order of gravy for my fried chicken. That sounded so tasty that I chose a second order of gravy as well.
Ready for the Test
I was feeling stuffed, so it seemed like time to push the Blast Off button and have my diet analyzed. My food all tasted great, but I was a bit nervous about what they would suggest I change. How was my fuel? The big moment arrived. Mission Report Received! From Mission Control to Astronaut Alan:
- Grains: Congratulations! You reached optimal levels. (Remember my "optimal" grains? Refined grain sugar cereal, white bread English muffin, white bun. Not a single whole grain.)
- Fruits: Congratulations! You reached optimal levels. (Remember my "optimal" fruits? Apple juice. 4 servings.)
- Milk: Congratulations! You reached optimal levels. (I didn't know sugary cereal with chocolate milk was optimal!)
- Meats and Beans: Congratulations! You reached optimal levels. (Sloppy Joe and fried chicken)
- Vegetables: Congratulations! You reached optimal levels. (WHAT??? I don't remember any vegetables. Oh. Right. Two orders of French fries, and I think there were some chunks in the Sloppy Joe mix.)
- Activity: Congratulations! You reached optimal levels. (And I thought I had to run or dance or jump or do sports or play hard or get outside. I'm glad setting the table counts.)
"Based on your food choices the MyPyramid rocket ship landed on Planet Power. Everyone at Mission Control is very pleased with your fueling choices."
My food choices made them happy. And to top it all off, I won a certificate! MyPyramid Mission Control Certificate of Commendation to Junior Astronaut Alan for piloting the MyPyramid rocket ship successfully to Planet Power by making healthy food and physical activity choices.
And that is why…
And that is the story of how I came to hate the food pyramid and why I am celebrating its demise. Viva la Plate!
Could this get any worse? See Part 2 of Alan's Nightmare Food Pyramid Journey.
Alan's Full Menu from his Nightmare Food Pyramid Journey

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Noretta Dunworth School of Dance offers many different styles of tap dancing:
- Rhythm
- Classical
- Jazz
- Stylized Tap
Classes Begin with the basic steps and warm-up and continues with the across the floor combinations, turns, etc.
Noretta Dunworth School of Dance offers many different styles of tap dancing:
Classes Begin with the basic steps and warm-up and continues with the across the floor combinations, turns, etc.
Welcome to the National award winning Noretta Dunworth School of Dance, offering classes in Ballet, (Cecchetti,Vaganova, and non-syllabus), Pointe for advanced students, Tap, Jazz, Contemporary, Lyrical, Hip-Hop, Acrobatics and Gymnastics. From beginners and baby ballet through adults and professionals.
Noretta Dunworth began teaching at the age of 12 in 1940. She started out teaching in her parents basement with just a few of the neighborhood children. It continued to grow into what it is today, 72 years later, one of the most honored studios in the country. Noretta's greatest success is in the quality and consistency of her successful students. Not just in the state of Michigan, but also in all parts of the United States and Canada, her students now have their own dance studios and have been successful themselves.
A Dance Masters of America member for nearly 50 years, and a Cecchetti Council of America member, Noretta is still teaching and producing champion and professional dancers. The Noretta Dunworth Dancers can be seen on Broadway, on tour all over America and in Europe, in music videos, in Professional Ballet Companies, Radio City Productions, Rockettes, Disney, Busch Gardens, Cruise Lines, Television, Modeling, Pageants, and Competitions.
The Noretta Dunworth School of Dance, NDSD, offers a program which covers a full range of techniques necessary for each of the dance arts. The studio's faculty consists of professional teachers who are fully qualified to provide training that will prepare those students that have the talent and desire to enter a career that is professional or recreational. We welcome you to explore our website and learn more about how we get the most out of every dancer that dances at The Noretta Dunworth School of Dance.


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How to Use the Context
Inquiry Question
When English and European immigrants arrived on the North American continent, they found many people whose appearance, lifestyle, and spiritual beliefs differed from those they were familiar with. During the course of the next two centuries, their interactions varied between cooperation and communication to conflict and warfare. The newcomers needed land for settlement, and they sought it by sale, treaty, or force.
Between 1790 and 1830, tribes located east of the Mississippi River, including the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles, signed many treaties with the United States. Presidents George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison struggled to find a balance between the obligation of the new nation to uphold its treaty commitments and the desires of its new citizens for more land. Ultimately, the federal government was unwilling or unable to protect the Indians from the insatiable demands of the settlers for more land.
The Louisiana Purchase added millions of less densely populated square miles west of the Mississippi River to the United States. Thomas Jefferson suggested that the eastern American Indians might be induced to relocate to the new territory voluntarily, to live in peace without interference from whites. A voluntary relocation plan was enacted into law in 1824 and some Indians chose to move west.
The 1828 election of President Andrew Jackson, who made his name as an Indian fighter, marked a change in federal policies. As part of his plans for the United States, he was determined to remove the remaining tribes from the east and relocate them in the west. Between the 1830 Indian Removal Act and 1850, the U.S. government used forced treaties and/or U.S. Army action to move about 100,000 American Indians living east of the Mississippi River, westward to Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. Among the relocated tribes were the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole. The Choctaw relocation began in 1830; the Chickasaw relocation was in 1837; the Creek were removed by force in 1836 following negotiations that started in 1832; and the Seminole removal triggered a 7-year war that ended in 1843. These stories are not told in this lesson plan. The trails they followed became known as the Trail of Tears. The Cherokees were among the last to go and it is the Cherokee's story that is the subject of this lesson pan.


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Luke Bryan released his latest studio album over a year ago, but "Tailgates & Tanlines" is still paying considerable dividends: This week "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" -- the platinum-selling set's fourth single -- tops Billboard's Country Airplay chart. (Hear the song below.)
Bryan has been pulling some serious red-carpet duty, as well, with several nominations at the recent Country Music Assn. Awards and a nod as favorite male country artist at the American Music Awards, to be handed out Sunday night at L.A.'s Nokia Theatre. Next month he'll perform alongside Taylor Swift and Maroon 5 at the live Grammy nominations event in Nashville.
That's where Pop & Hiss reached Bryan by phone on Thursday, shortly after he wrapped a studio session for his next album. "We're just getting it going," he said of the upcoming project, adding that he'd cut five new songs in one day. "My head's kind of fried from all that. It's like I just took the ACT for 12 hours straight. But I'm more excited about this one than about anything I've ever been a part of."
At the AMAs you're up against Jason Aldean and Eric Church, with whom you do a song on Jason's new album. And earlier this month the three of you performed together at the CMAs. Are you guys forming a little club?
We're certainly buddies. The year before last Eric toured with Jason, and this year I toured with him. We've been around each other a lot; our fans are very similar. So we're as good of friends as you can be when each of us is as busy as we all are.
Friends you keep competing against.
We pull for each other. But, yeah, there's definitely a little smirk when we get nominated for something in the same category.
What does your and Eric's and Jason's success say about the state of Nashville right now?
I'm excited to be part of a movement that's progressing country music. There's always gonna be people saying, "It ain't country anymore," but I don't get into that whole deal. I know when I roll into town -- and when Jason and Eric do -- that there's jacked-up pickup trucks and country folks out there. We're performing what they want to hear.
Increasingly, you're also performing what non-country folks want to hear: This summer "Drunk on You" went to No. 16 on the Hot 100.
I'm glad to be in that spot. I try to be a good representative for country music. But as a country artist it's important to move the needle and make a difference beyond your core audience. But you can't ever strategically try to accomplish that; then things get weird. I just cut songs I love and that represent what I want to say. And if it crosses over, that's very flattering. It's cool to know that with people listening to rock and rap, I'm sitting on their iPods along with that stuff.
Does your iPod look like that, too?
I'm all over the board listening to stuff; there's no telling what'll turn up. If I hear something fresh that catches my ear, I'll dive into it no matter what kind of music it is.
You've co-written most of the songs on your three albums. Are you writing for this upcoming one?
When you're fortunate enough to get to a certain level, you start getting great songs sent to you by the best writers in town. And I've got some great outside songs I'm cutting. But, yeah, I've got a good batch, too. I just walked out of [the studio after doing] a song I'm writing that I'm super fired-up over.
A lot of young country stars are writing -- maybe more than in the past. Is that a positive development?
There's always gonna be guys who are just wonderful singers and probably shouldn't be writing songs. Then there's always gonna be guys who move up the ranks writing. I don't know what's healthier or what's the best thing -- probably whatever yields the best songs. George Strait, he's never really written, but he certainly changed the face of country music for many decades; he defined a generation. But then Toby Keith, he's written nearly every song he's ever taken part in. It's about the artist. Jason Aldean is a masterful guy at finding great songs and making great recordings; he's the most successful guy in our format right now. And he [doesn't write]. It's about recognizing what you enjoy -- and what you're good at -- and capitalizing on that.
In January you're setting out on a two-month headlining tour. Have you started preparing?
We're building our set and getting our stage lined up. It's growing from two tractor-trailers to eight or nine; we're going from two buses to seven or eight. We're gonna work hard to make it a great experience.
Will it be a big production?
It'll be big but with some intimate moments, too. I feel like I'm taking everything I've learned and putting it all in there.
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Today at 12:30, the Speaker of the Folketing (The Danish parliament) delivered a speech to the Storting (the Norwegian parliament) in anticipation of the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian constitution on Saturday. Mogens Lykketoft is only the second foreign person to the Storting: the first was Winston Churchill.
(I am indebted to my Danish contact and friend Troels Just for this translation. and for much else besides over an extended period of time. Troels takes a keen and perceptive interest in European and Scottish affairs.)
Speech to the Storting on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the Norwegian constitution, Tuesday the 15th of May 2014.
(translation by Troels Just.)
Your majesties, Your royal highnesses, Mr. President (of the Storting) and Norwegian colleagues, Storting representatives, Ladies and gentlemen.
Congratulations Norway!
Congratulations for it, this week, being 200 years since 112 Norwegian men at Eidsvoll conceived and passed a constitution for the Norwegian people.
The Eidsvoll Constitution became Norway's letter of freedom.
The Constitution's founding idea of civil rights and popular elections set the course towards the modern democracy, and not just in Norway. Since then the rest of the Nordic countries set the same course, and in the most of Europe.
Preceding were 434 years of a common Danish-Norwegian realm.
Many of our common historical characters - such as, for example, Holberg and Tordenskjold - defined themselves neither as Norwegian or Danish. We were twins. We belonged together.
But Norway was governed from Copenhagen by civil servants who were educated down there, no matter whether they were Danish or Norwegian by birth.
The absolutist central government did not secure for Norway real equality with Denmark.
Therefore, the thought of an independent Norway had long quietly resided in many Norwegian hearts. The thought flared up in full bloom when the Great Powers at the Peace of Kiel in January 1814 decided, that Norway were to be separated from Denmark to be with Sweden.
It says a lot about the cohesion between Danish and Norwegian that Norway - both during the struggle for the free constitution in 1814 and by the dissolution of the union in 1905 - chose a Danish prince as king.
Today - 200 years after our divorce - Danes and Norwegians have at least just as much in common as we did back then when we were a common realm. Our mutual relationship is far more equal. Yes, Norway has become the rich relative.
It is deeply anchored in the souls of our peoples that, that which comes from the sister country is OK. We hold no mutual mistrust and we make it a premise that the people of the sister country think, believe and act as we do ourselves. This immediate understanding, a stronger case of which is unlikely to be found between other nations in the world, is based on
that we so easily understand each other's speech,
that we are deeply shaped by the common history and culture,
that we socially, economically and politically has so much in common
that we trade a lot more between ourselves than with the rest of the world.
This community is not just something made up of Danes and Norwegians. It encompasses all of us in the Nordic countries, and it is not slowed down by Norway and Iceland being outside the EU, and Sweden and Finland being outside of NATO.
Since 1952 we have had the Nordic Council, and before the rest of Europe we developed the right to travel and work freely in our countries.
We are among the world's richest societies, and we have a shared agenda of welfare and sustainability. We are strong advocates of a commitment to international cooperation.
Together we are proportionally the world's biggest donor of humanitarian assistance and development projects.
We are at the forefront of international conflict resolution and we are furthering our cooperation also in areas of defence.
In the area of culture we have a lot of trans-national productions in the areas of motion picture, literature, music and art.
All of these examples underline the deep understanding between the peoples of the Nordic countries. With the events of 1814, the wild and warring years of our youth came to an end. The Nordic countries never again became an internal scene for war.
The last 200 years has certainly not been without challenges, but internally in the Nordic countries we have together created remarkably rich and strong societies. We will also in the future need Nordic cooperation to shape the international community. New agendas rapidly appear with strength. For example our common initiative in the Arctic area.
Norwegian democracy has over the past 200 years grown big, beautiful and strong.
In the middle of the unbelievable cruelty that hit the Norwegian people on the 22nd of July in 2011, the Norwegian democracy showed in unique and admirable ways to the world that, even the most horrible and evil impacts can be dealt with, so that the cohesion and sanity of soceity is strengthened.
Dear all Norwegian sisters and brothers:
It is with great joy and honour to be here today. Thanks yet again for the invitation to deliver the Folketing's and the Danish people's congratulations from the podium of the Storting to the Norwegian democracy and the Norwegian people.
From an honest heart, a giant congratulations!


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The family whose silver flying object (perhaps designed off of a Jiffy Pop cooker) has been all over the airwaves Thursday, has a Connecticut connection.
The Heene family was on the ABC show "Wife Swap" with a Connecticut family, the Martels.
Producers set up the episode as a family that lives "life on the edge" meets a family of safety-conscious Nutmeggers.
According to the show's site, Jay Martel is so committed to safety that he runs a child-proofing business. His wife, Karen, swapped places with Mayumi Heene for a week.
"[Karen Martel] is shocked as the Heene kids jump off banisters and run wild," explains an episode guide.
The episode aired in October 2008. Almost makes us wish we watched it.


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The Fellowship of the Geek provide yet another excellent review for the graphic novel, Whore. The book is published by Zenescope Entertainment and is on sale now!
"The book has a sort of James Bond-esque feel to it; Jake does things that we only dream about or watch on the movie screen. And he does tend to go a bit farther than Bond ever would (at least on screen)… this book is an adventure from start to finish. Definitely worth checking out."
The latest SciFi Pulse podcast has an interview with writer Jeffrey Kaufman. Jeffrey's new graphic novel, Whore, is on sale now!
Brandon Borzelli and ComicList gives a great review of Whore, on sale now from Zenescope Entertainment!
"I found this book to start off as a dark parody that turned into a page-turner that left me stunned at the end. For the most part the book is PG-13 (a lot cursing and very soft sex scenes with no nudity) that was a very entertaining and definitely worth a look."
Another great review from Blog Critic


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Shift Knob 2-1/8" Rally With Shift Pattern 6-Speed And Pony Logo V6/GT Mustang 2011-2017/Boss 302 2012-2013
Rally 2-1/8" Shift Knob with a 6-Speed Shift Pattern and Pony Logo for all 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 V6 and GT 6-Speed Mustangs, 2012-2013 Boss 302 Mustangs, and all 2015, 2016 and 2017 6-Speed Mustangs.
Add some race track styling to your Mustang's interior with a new rally shift knob! These knobs are manufactured in America using the finest partek resins available, and are engineered for strength and durability.
Available in multiple color options with the correct, original shift pattern, Pony logos and rally style stripes inlaid and polished smooth. Color options are listed by knob color, then stripe color. The shift pattern and Pony logos are the same color as the stripes.
-2-1/8" knob diameter
-12mm x 1.25 thread pattern
-Correct 6-speed shift pattern (reverse to the left and up)
*All knobs are custom made to order and take 3-4 weeks to ship from CJs.
Please Note: This manual shift knob does not include a jam nut. However, a jam nut or threaded shift boot retainer is required to make sure the shift knob is properly aligned when tightened on the shift handle. A shift boot retainer is recommended instead of a jam nut as it will prevent a gap between the new shift knob and the factory boot. Without a jam nut or shift boot retainer you run the risk of splitting the shift knob in half if you over tighten knob when it bottoms out on the shift handle.
Please Note: For 2015-2017 Mustangs the use of a shift knob adapter (HW3290 or HW3291) is required with these shift knobs to properly operate the pull-up style reverse lockout function. Without this adapter you will lose the ability to shift into the reverse gear.
Purchase a Rally 2-1/8" Shift Knob with a 6-Speed Shift Pattern and Pony Logo for all 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 V6 and GT 6-Speed Mustangs, 2012-2013 Boss 302 Mustangs, and all 2015-2017 6-Speed Mustangs from CJ Pony Parts.
Installation Difficulty
Novice skill is required for this installation.


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Map 2
Historical Context
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Questions for Map 1
1. Find the White House on this map. What is its relationship to Lafayette Park and to Lafayette Square, the neighborhood surrounding the park? Washingtonians have gathered in Lafayette Park to celebrate joyous events and to mourn great tragedies for more than 200 years. Why do you think the park has been so important to people who live in the city?
2. The White House is a powerful symbol for all Americans. Why do you think that is the case? What do you think it represents?
3. In the original plan for Washington, the grounds of the "President's House" were much larger than they are today. They extended from H Street on the north to what is now Constitution Avenue on the south and from 17th Street on the west to 15th Street on the east. Outline this area on the map. Why might the planners of the new capital city of Washington have thought the President's House needed so much land?
4. When Thomas Jefferson was president, he decided that the grounds of the White House were too big. He built a fence around the immediate White House grounds, opening up the north side of President's Park, later renamed Lafayette Park, to the public. Why do you think he might have done that?
5. What kinds of buildings surround Lafayette Park today? How would you describe the neighborhood?
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Message from the President
An Institution in Transition
Photo by Dave Doody
Colin Campbell talks to Nation Builders—interpreters of the famous and the less well known in Williamsburg's history. From left, James Ingram as Gowan Pamphlet, Richard Schumann as Patrick Henry, Valarie Gray-Holmes as Lydia Broadnax, and Bill Barker as Thomas Jefferson. Each interpreter makes special appearances in the 301-acre Historic Area.
IN ITS SEVENTY-EIGHTH year, 2004, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation reached more people, more effectively, than ever before. A key to our outreach success has been to showcase our educational excellence via technology, for example our distance learning programs. It was a year of achievement across the spectrum of the foundation's endeavors, encompassing not only education but our museums, as well as retail and hospitality efforts.
It also was a year of challenge, a year in which the institution faced a continuing decline in the appeal of history museums, evolving demographics, shifting public tastes, and sharp competition from other vacation destinations. It was a year in which we were clearly reminded that this is a time of transition.
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG'S Electronic Field Trips—interactive history lessons televised to classrooms nationally and internationally—reached about 200 new schools, from Hawaii to Italy, from Alaska to Florida, and broadcast three new productions. More than 9.3 million people, a 12 percent increase over the 8.3 million of 2003, visited our five Web sites to explore history and to research our vacation and recreational opportunities.
More than a thousand teachers participated in the Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Institute for Early American History. Each year this program introduces teachers to Colonial Williamsburg's Historic Area and museums and to the foundation's instructional resources, and the teachers return to their schools to share with their students and colleagues what they have learned. The ripple effects are enormous.
The foundation launched initiatives to bring to guests more interaction with interpreters portraying people who founded America—not only men like Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry but free and enslaved blacks, and women. Planning began for an Education for Citizenship curriculum that will inform programming and outreach in the years to come. The aim is to encourage each individual to participate in the public life of his or her community to achieve greater liberty, justice, and opportunity. It will be our fundamental orientation and embrace introductory tours, interpretive programming, our Web sites, and a secondary schools initiative.
In Merchants Square, the foundation completed and dedicated the College Corner Building, an architectural masterwork that includes WILLIAMSBURG At Home, as well as Talbots, Legg Mason, and a planned expansion of Binns. The foundation's retail outlets in Merchants Square were remerchandised and our product line expanded. Catalog and e-commerce sales continued to grow, extending Colonial Williamsburg's "brand," as did product licensing activity.
Renovation of the Williamsburg Lodge began in earnest. When completed in late 2006, the Lodge will be a state of the art conference center with 323 rooms for leisure and conference guests. Across the street, the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum began its move to larger and more accessible quarters adjoining the DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum as we perfected plans to transform its former home into a spa.
The future presents great opportunity for us. We became an active partner in Jamestown 2007, the umbrella group organizing the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of England's first permanent settlement in the New World, by making a $3 million, multiyear funding commitment. As a Founding Colony Sponsor of the observances, Colonial Williamsburg will be an active partner in quatercentennial events, provide our Visitor Center as a regional guest hub, coordinate lodging reservations, and fulfill our designation as the official hotels and conference site for the commemoration.
These and other 2004 initiatives were matched by the record-setting support of the foundation's generous donors. Contributions totaled more than $40 million, and drove the $500 million Campaign for Colonial Williamsburg to 79 percent of its goal. There were more than 100,000 names on the donor rolls again during the year.
The numbers are reassuring in that they demonstrate enthusiastic endorsement of Colonial Williamsburg's purpose: preserving the setting, presenting the story, and underlining the modern significance and relevance of a pivotal time and place in our nation's founding.
THERE IS REASSURANCE that Americans recognize the importance of Colonial Williamsburg's message, and it gives us confidence as we tackle the challenges of declining ticket sales and persistent operating deficits. During the past few years, we have closely monitored the continuing pressure on historic sites across the country, and responded with investments in programming, facilities, marketing, strategic planning, and careful budgeting. Last year it became apparent that we needed to probe the changing circumstances more deeply. We conducted extensive guest research and brand analysis studies to help us better define our current audience and its perceptions and expectations. Importantly, the findings also serve as a guide to broaden our audience base.
The research showed that public tastes and interests continue to change rapidly, that children's say in family vacation planning is growing, that our core audience is steadfast but aging, and that for many an emphasis on education is not as compelling at vacation time as the promise of entertainment. Fortunately, Colonial Williamsburg offers both. The key, though, is to be faithful to the foundation's mission while focusing more on the connections between twenty-first century realities and the eighteenth-century history that sets Williamsburg apart—that is, focusing more on the future. This requires strengthening and increasing the rich personal stories that make our programs relevant, dynamic, and powerfully memorable to our current and prospective audience.
We continue to mine the data for what they say about the interests of our larger potential audience—and we will continue to change as the times demand. Colonial Williamsburg is in transition. It is, however, maintaining its core focus, developing responses, and embracing emerging opportunities, all within the context of a timeless mission: "That the future may learn from the past."
Colin G. Campbell
Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation


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Oona Schmid, Director of Publishing at the American Anthropological Association is engaging in dialogue with Columbia University students this afternoon at the Scholarly Communications Program Panel to Consider Recent Developments in Access to Research. "Protests, Petitions and Publishing: Widening Access to Research in 2012" to discuss how Occupy Wall Street, the Research Works Act (RWA), the boycott of Elsevier journals by a growing number of academics, and other recent developments are informing the debate over access to research and scholarship.
During the discussion, Schmid discusses encompassing the widest possible readership for AAA publications. She identifies that while the publications department has a large number of volunteers, such as editors and reviewers, there still remains overhead and personnel costs of running the Association. She also identifies the academic reward of a formal publishing process, which is still regarded as valuable towards tenure and professional development. This process includes peer-review of the journal piece as well as the necessity for long-term preservation, which aids in access when the article is cited.
AAA is responsible for half million digital objects with articles dating back to 1888 available via AnthroSource. AnthroSource is a service that offers AAA members and subscribing libraries full-text anthropological resources, including: a digital searchable database containing the past, present and future AAA publications; more than 500,000 full-text articles from AAA journals, newsletters, bulletins and monographs in a single place; and 24/7 access to scientific research information across the field of anthropology. Resources older than 35 years are available for free public use.
During this panel, Schmid reviews AAA's 2010 cost structure. From this pie chart (slide 7), you can see how AAA met the costs of its expansive publication program in 2010. If AAA were to provide open access to all of its publications, she pursues the options for replacing the 63% that currently comes from library subscriptions . The first option is that AAA members might pick the cost; however, membership dues would increase enormously (see slide 9). In the second option, the author might pay for their work to be published. This option might lead to students, international anthropologists, and underemployed authors being discriminated against, as they might not afford publication. Commentaries and book reviews, which are a significant role in anthropological publications, might not be funded under this option. The third option might be to reduce costs. While a common perception is that the Association could stop printing copies, ending print only reduces the 2010 costs by 24%, not the 63% that is paid for currently by subscriptions.
As AAA strives to find a way to provide access to the widest possible readership, the Association currently offers the following access to research:
- Sliding scale membership: Access to AAA's digital, online literature is available to individuals on a fair and reasonable sliding scale annual fee structure that ranges from $30 to $306 (http://www.aaanet.org/membership/membershipcategories.cfm).
- Free Access: Access to AAA's digital, online literature is available free of charge to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Tribal Colleges, and qualifying institutions from less developed countries (http://www.aaanet.org/issues/AAA-Gives-Back.cfm). In addition, AAA participates in four philanthropic programs to provide free access to our content in under-resourced countries. These programs are administered by agencies with presence on the ground in these areas, such as the World Health Organization, the United Nations Environment Programme, and the International Council for Science.
- "Ungating" back issues of journals: Access to back issues of AAA's journal American Anthropologist (AA) is available free of charge 35 years and longer after publication. That means that in 2012, all back issues of AA are available free of charge from 1888 to 1977; in 2013, the year 1978 will be "ungated." Sections are encouraged to follow the same plan. To date, three sections have agreed. CFPEP is charged with assessing the success and costs of this arrangement.
- Anthropology News online (www.anthropology-news.org) is open access for two months before content is gated and archived within AnthroSource.
- Grey Literature Hub. With funds raised by the AAA Research Development Committee (RDC), AAA endorsed and is working towards the establishment of an "Anthropology" category on the online open access Social Science Research Network (SSRN; http://www.ssrn.com/) for the purpose of disseminating grey literature, anthropological content that is otherwise not available.
- Author Rights and Permissions: In the author agreement for AAA journals, the author reserves the right (among other rights) to post his/her article on the author's personal or institutional website, and to post the article on free, discipline-specific public servers. Because of these clauses, AAA's author agreement is rated green by SHERPA/RoMEO, a project designed to help facilitate green open access (http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/).
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Vestal, N.Y.- Playing on Senior Night, an inspired Binghamton men's lacrosse squad defeated UMBC, 15-8 at the Bearcat Sports Complex.
Despite the loss, UMBC (5-7, 3-2 America East) will the No. 2 seed and host No. 3 Albany at UMBC Stadium on May 2. Binghamton finishes their season at 4-9, 1-4.
Junior attackman Scott Jones (Port Coquitlam, B.C.) and sophomore running mate Matt Gregoire (Crofton, Md./South River) each scored three goals for the Retrievers. Junior attackman Joe Lustgarten (Wading River, N.Y.) added three assists.
UMBC had replies as Binghamton took leads of 1-0 and 2-1 in the first quarter, as Gregoire and junior midfielder Dave Brown (Coopersburg, Pa.) tallied and Brown's goal evened the game at 2-2 with 6:10 to play in the first quarter.
But Binghamton went on a 4-0 run and took a 6-2 advantage with 10 minutes to play in the second quarter. Gregoire countered with goals 42 seconds apart and UMBC crept within 6-4 with 5:46 to play in the half, but the red-hot Bearcats scored four consecutive goals in the final 3:08 of the half and led, 10-4 at the break.
Back-to-back scores by Jones early in the third period trimmed the deficit to 11-6 with 11:12 remaining in the period, and UMBC had an extended possession after winning the draw, but could not cash in. Binghamton's Brandon Planck, who led all scorers with five goals and two helpers, started a game-sealing 4-0 run by scoring with 4:34 remaining in the stanza.
Binghamton scored on 15 of 29 shots as they outshot the Retrievers, 29-27. They also controlled the face-off x, taking 19 of 27 draws.
The time for the UMBC-Albany game will be announced shortly.


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Nowness: Chefs on Sundays: Animal
The "Dudes" Who Run L.A.'s Meat Temple Have Pork on the Brain
For the second installment of our Chefs On Sundays series, NOWNESS zoned in on Animal restaurant founders Jon Shook and Vinny Dotolo—for whom meat is always the main event. Photographer Marcus Gaab and food stylist Victoria Granof capture their pork loin chops dinner in sizzling stop-motion. Set in an old Jewish district of Los Angeles, Shook and Dotolo's swine-centric, no-frills establishment opened in 2008 to instant success (a seafood joint, Son of a Gun, followed earlier this year). Providing the quintessential "nose-to-tail" experience, the chefs challenged preconceptions of puritanical L.A. cuisine with a menu featuring pig's head, ear, and belly, along with more exotic cuts like veal brains, lamb necks and rabbit legs. With early supporters including Harrison Ford and Benedikt Taschen, Animal has made fans of adventurous foodies and peers alike. Often referred to as "The Dudes," Dotolo and Shook choose to spend their Sundays in the traditional West Coast manner, sleeping late, dipping in the pool and visiting the farmers' market, before cooking up a feast for friends. We got personal with the laid-back duo.
Do two cooks spoil the broth?
No, not at all. It's a team effort. Best and worst is there's always someone to lean on.
Most extravagant kitchen appliance?
Koch vacuum sealer.
Go-to olive oil?
Frankies Spuntino 457 olive oil, made from Sicilian olives.
Name your poison.
Mary Jane. Blue Dream.
Best hangover remedy?
Bloody Mary.
What's an easy-to-make snack that packs a punch?
Onion dip.
Any food phobias?
Eating for thrills. It should be about eating anything that tastes good.
Your menu reads: "changes and modifications are politely declined." What do you say to a vegetarian who accidentally wanders into your establishment?
There are things for vegetarians to eat, not vegans.


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I have seen many organizations looking for developers who have good command over Facebook, Google and other API's. Now I am a bit confused about it. I have developed Facebook fanpages, embedded facebook buttons to websites and used google maps API too but the thing is that these API's are very large to completely master.
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I've read 'all' your posts and you've given me one hell of a much needed lift!
I haven't laughed this much in ages!
My dad met James Randi and got on well with him (still didn't get the million though) lol
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The Anatomy of Being Absolutely Wrong
This is to you and you only, Mr. Krause: You're absolutely nuts. You're absolutely nuts, and you're absolutely wrong. You're absolutely nuts, you're absolutely wrong and your most recent post is absolutely embarrassing.
I have given you a pass on the dumb things that have come out of your posts before — sometimes I merely chided you and sometimes I partook in a bit of playful teasing; but like Hillary and her ill-timed reference to Bobby Kennedy's June primary assassination, this time, you have gone too far, Al.
And you must suffer the consequences.
When asked if hitting .400 was an unreachable goal, you responded with such infantile and insane statements like:
"…the answer is yes, hitting .400 is an unreachable goal today. There
is so much that goes into just simply getting a hit, a guy who can hit
.300 or better is a catch. I mean, first of all you have to make
contact with balls that are coming at crazy speeds and crazy angles and
then you have to put it into a place where a fielder is not. In the
game today, managers and players alike do their homework and
positioning makes it that much harder to get a decent hit."
REBUTTAL: You answered the question. I'll give you that. But your reasoning is reminiscent of George W. in that it's straight out of Crazytown. 'Crazy speeds and crazy angles'? Seriously? The game of baseball (especially this aspect) has changed very little in the last 100 years, Al. 'You have to put it into a place where a fielder is not'? Again, since the inception of baseball this has always been the case. Do you even watch baseball? Do you know how it's played? Have you ever played yourself?
"But the fact of the matter is that the level of competition day in and
day out in the Majors is much greater than it was back when Ted
Williams was scattering the ball all over the field. Besides, he also
froze his head so he can try to come back one day. Only someone who's
that kind of crazy has a chance at .400."
REBUTTAL: Really? So you're saying that when Ted Williams hit .406 in 1941 — when there were just 16 teams in all of Major League Baseball — that the level of competition was less than it is now in 2008? You are aware that there are 30 teams in Major League Baseball now, right? You are aware that nowadays, guys like Geoff Jenkins and Sean Casey and Boof Bonser make it to the majors where as in 1941, they'd be lucky to catch the game on the radio while working at the local laundromat, right? And I'm quite sure that Rogers Hornsby and Ty Cobb didn't have their heads frozen or anything like that, yet they managed to hit .400 and guess what: they're Hall of Famers too!
"…the more important matter is what does it matter if someone hits .400?"
REBUTTAL: It matters, Mr. Krause, for the same reason that it matters if someone hits over 60 homers, or hits safely in 56 consecutive games, or gets over 200 hits in a season or steals 100 bases. It matters because it's really friggin' hard to do, man! Come on! Get a grip! We're talking about hitting .400 here, not hitting for a cycle or some arbitrary numbers-related coincidence. Only 33 players in the history of MLB have ever hit over .400 for a season! And no one — I said NO ONE — has done it since 1941! Ty Cobb, Ted Williams, Rogers Hornsby, George Sisler, Joe Jackson… I'd say those names are pretty synonymous with baseball greatness. Again, do you even watch baseball, Allen?
In conclusion, you wrote this:
"No, I don't think .400 is an achievable goal but I also don't think
it's all that important. And that's all I have to say about that."
Fine. You're definitely entitled to your opinion — as wrong as they often are — that it is ultimately an unachievable goal. Who knows, you might even be right. It still seems that the 56 game hitting streak is unrepeatable, so maybe hitting .400 is too. But to say that it is unimportant is absolute blasphemy, heresy, sacrilege. It is disrespectful of the greatest game on earth and the good people (me) who follow it to the nerdiest degree.
Hitting .400 is certainly important, Al.
Don't hate me 'cuz I'm right.


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As mentioned in our April 25th blog post in honor of World Malaria Day, AAA recognized this important day with a special virtual issue of Medical Anthropology Quarterly. This special edition re-released articles which demonstrate ways that ethnography and human behavior studies help to change care management and public health policy.
Approximately half of the world's population is at risk of malaria, particularly those living in lower-income countries, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). The WHO calculates that every 30 seconds a child dies of malaria. By joining the global movement to roll back these staggering statics on malaria, anthropologists serve as catalyst around the world to research the medical and cultural impacts of this disease and share their findings to help count malaria out.
Over the coming weeks, each article will be featured here on the AAA blog. Here is the sixth of seven highlighted articles:
The Ethnoecology of Dengue Fever
Linda Whiteford
Medical Anthropology Quarterly, June 1997
This article employs an ethnoecological analysis to link indigenous, ethnomedical, and Western biomedical ideas of infectious disease causation/prevention. The ethnoecological analysis is expanded to include the cultural and historical context of political will and community participation in dengue fever control activities in an urban neighborhood in the Dominican Republic. Findings indicate that a key source of dengue fever transmission has been overlooked because it falls between established gender-role boundaries, and that mala union, an explanatory concept central to the failure of previous community-based interventions, emerges from local views of national political history.
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The REVENGE OF THE SITH Soundtrack enters new territory. It's a very operatic piece, more similar to THE PHANTOM MENACE than ATTACK OF THE CLONES. Themes from the other five episodes are interwoven together to create The Fall Of Anakin Skywalker.
The battle scenes are adventurous with percussion beats that are very CONGO sounding in their nature. There is also more choral work in this recording than any other episode. If the main score up were to be broken into smaller sections, it would be; Force Theme, Battle of the Heroes and Padme's Tender Motifs.
01 - Star Wars and The Revenge Of The Sith 7:31
The normal opening crawl is short-lived, unlike other episodes. Whereas normally the scroll fades into infinity, the last part is cut off by a very adventurous yet dangerous motif – the space battle over Coruscant. After this brief motif, we are first introduced into the one of the most constant Themes on the soundtrack - The Force Theme (which is under-scored with a militaristic beat similar to the Droid Invasion Theme from EPISODE I) which continues for quite a while; no doubt following a long camera shot into battle. The rest of the track continues in this fashion.
02 - Anakin's Dream 4:46
A beautiful Viola solo accompanied by a harp opens Anakin's Dream. Across the Stars soon can be heard underneath the solo before the darker string section hits, and uncertainity arises, only to once again fall into the Love Theme. After more dark cues, the Force Theme echoes things to come.
03 - Battle Of The Heroes 3:42
The new major Theme for Star Wars. The theme consists of a busy bass line with choral pieces intertwined.
04 - Anakin's Betrayal 4:04
Sections of the Love Theme again can be heard with strings and horns interwoven.
05 - General Grievous 4:07
A 'congo' sounding piece that no doubt will sound fantastic on screen.
06 - Palpatine's Teachings 5:25
This track reminds one of the soundtrack from The Dark Crystal. A deep male voice 'chants' with a metallic sound over the top. It then moves into the Love Theme which flows into Vader's Theme. Followed is a variation on the Force Theme - kinda interesting. After some more dark music, a brilliant Arrival at Coruscant theme from EPISODE I ends the piece.
07 - Grievous and the Droids 3:28
Standard fight music here. Very much reminiscent of the EPISODE I 'Droid Invasion' piece.
08 - Padme's Ruminations 3:17
Deadly eerie. It doesn't sound like it should be in Star Wars. A long note held on a double bass glides as Amazonian-like flutes and a synthesised female's solo flows over top. This is just very eerie.
It is soon followed by a movement in the lower strings section that reminds one of Palpatine's Chambers in RETURN OF THE JEDI. Horns pulse every now and then.
09 - Anakin vs. Obi-Wan 3:57
Battle of the Heroes starts off this piece before we quickly get into Vader's Theme. Back to Battle of the Heroes; first solo, then the string section picks it up. There is then another familiar theme (the one which was played during the teaser trailer as Vader rises). We then have a busy string section before more Vader's Theme - followed again by that 'familiar' theme. Enter the Chorus and another section of Battle of Heroes that crescendos into strings and soon the Force Theme with a pumping base raises its head, followed again by Battle of the Heroes.
10 - Anakin's Dark Deeds 4:05
Begins quietly then leads to a wall of chorus. After some 'fight-like' music, the piece enters on a really soft section that echoes the way Padme is represented in this score. The ending is so sad to the track before before brass finishes it off.
11 - Enter Lord Vader 4:14
A soft introduction is soon met with variations of the Battle of the Heroes Theme. There is a small part of this that reminds of the music from the Rebels in the Original Trilogy. A miliatristic section soon ends with Vader's Theme and another playing of the Force Theme which is followed by the Emperor's Theme.
12 - The Immolation Scene 2:42
A dark and omnious piece.
1. To kill as a sacrifice.
2. To kill (oneself) by fire.
3. To destroy.
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13 - Grievous Speaks to Lord Sidious 2:49
Most have heard this on Starwars.com. The end of this piece is a variation on the Love Theme which is dark.
14 - The Birth Of The Twins and Padme's Destiny 3:37
A lilting bass line from Across the Stars is over-scored by a harp and glockenspiel. It is then followed by a majestic version of Qui-Gon's Funeral Theme (which may have just become the Naboo Funeral Theme) and is played about three times in total.
15 - A New Hope and End Credits 13:06
This is the longest piece of music on the soundtrack. A beautiful segue into Leia's Theme is followed by the Force Theme. The Force Theme is repeated and grows (but don't expect a big finale) before we enter the End Credit sequence.
Leia's Theme follows the standard Star Wars End Credit Theme. Battle of the Heroes takes off where Leia's Theme finishes. The Throne Room Theme then hits in at the end of BotH. The middle section of the The Throne Room is extremely legato compared to the ending in A NEW HOPE. After this part is finished its back into the main section.
It sounds like it is about to finish as in A NEW HOPE when it suddenly enters a really delicate version of the Force Theme. The Theme then shifts up and plays again before entering the Throne Room Theme once more. This plays out until the finale Star Wars Theme.
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Obamacare figures leave a lot unsaid
About a half million people have taken the first step toward enrolling in Obamacare health coverage, creating applications on the exchanges, administration officials said late Saturday.
The "almost half million" figure the officials reported is the most complete national picture of President Barack Obama's signature domestic legislation yet — but it still leaves a lot unknown or unsaid.
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The figure is a snapshot of applications — the first step toward getting coverage. The administration isn't planning to release until next month the number of people who have actually completed the process of choosing and enrolling in a health plan.
( POLITICO's guide to the Affordable Care Act)
Extensive "glitches," as the administration has called them, with the online marketplaces known as exchanges have made it impossible for most people to get all the way through the signup process, even after filling out the initial online application.
At least 17 million have visited the site since it opened October 1, according to White House figures released earlier this week. The administration hopes to get 7 million people enrolled in coverage through the exchanges by the end of March, and millions more on Medicaid.
But the longer the computer problems persist, the harder it will be to meet that goal. To get covered by Jan. 1, people must enroll by Dec. 15. But they can still sign up for coverage until the end of March 2014.
Administration officials Saturday night would not release any information beyond the raw number of applications. President Obama plans to address health care at a White House event on Monday.
( POLITICO's full Obamacare coverage)
House Republicans, who had predicted for months that Obamacare implementation would be a "train wreck," have scheduled the first hearings into the severe flaws in the computer system for this coming week. So far Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has declined to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
"As the news continues to get worse, it's time for Secretary Sebelius to provide answers to Congress," the committee said in a statement Friday.
There's no consensus on how long it could take to get the system up and running correctly, and HHS isn't saying. But given how rocky the launch has been, some health care experts say even these first-step application numbers show some promise.
"It strikes me as a very positive number, especially given how hard it was to get through the process on healthcare.gov and in some states. Presumably it would have been far higher if not for glitches and hiccups," said Larry Levitt, senior vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation.
But he cautioned, "scorekeepers have always expected that early enrollees would be those who are sickest and most expensive, since they've been excluded from insurance until now. That is likely even more true given how hard the application process has been so far. It will be important to get the websites working smoothly to entice the young and healthy fence-sitters."
Ron Pollack of Families USA, a health care advocacy group, said he found the early numbers encouraging, given how hard it is to get on the site. "It shows that interest is so high that half a million people persevered through the online glitches to start the official enrollment effort," he told POLITICO. "It is clear that many millions of people understand that the Affordable Care Act will be very helpful for their families."


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Quality Enhancement Plan
As an important part of our reaffirmation of accreditation through the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), Valdosta State University developed a Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), as described in Core Requirement 2.12:
The institution has developed an acceptable Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) that (1) includes a broad-based institutional process identifying key issues emerging from institutional assessment, (2) focuses on learning outcomes and/or the environment supporting student learning and accomplishing the mission of the institution, (3) demonstrates institutional capability for the initiation, implementation, and completion of the QEP, (4) includes broad-based involvement of institutional constituencies in the development and proposed implementation of the QEP, and (5) identifies goals and a plan to assess their achievement. (Quality Enhancement Plan).
Valdosta State University (VSU) is a community of scholars in a culture of excellence. The propagation of scholarship through teaching, research, and service is our reason for being. As such, VSU has identified Undergraduate Engagement in Discipline-Based Inquiry as its Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP), a component of the university's reaffirmation of accreditation by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
Valdosta State is a premier residential master's I level institution with limited doctoral programs and a relatively open admission. We aspire to be a nationally prominent institution distinguished for its attention to students and their engagement in significant disciplinary scholarship. Similarly, we aspire to be distinguished for our leadership training and innovative instructional methods, programs, and services. We aspire to rise from prominence in the southeastern United States to prominence across the country.
Despite a 25% reduction ($15 million) in its state appropriations over a two-year period (2008-09 and 2009-10), VSU is a thriving campus, as evidenced by its growing enrollment and new construction and renovations. In Fall 2009, VSU enrolled 12,391 students, 900 of whom were new, the largest one-year enrollment gain in 16 years. The reengineering of financial and personnel resources through reassignment and reallocation as well as new construction and renovations enable VSU to successfully accommodate the growing enrollment. Recent and planned construction and renovations include a Student Health Center (Fall 2008); Hopper Hall – a 513-bed residence hall (Fall 2008); Georgia Hall – a 489-bed residence hall (Fall 2009); Student Union (Spring 2010); the addition of two lecture hall classrooms to the College of Education (Fall 2010); and the addition of a new facility for the Department of Psychology and Counseling (Spring 2011).
It is against this backdrop that our community of scholars appropriately selected Undergraduate Engagement in Discipline-Based Inquiry as the focus of our QEP, further enhancing a culture of excellence. Discipline-based inquiry is defined as problem-based learning in which students learn the analytical and investigative processes of their discipline in an active manner.
Brief Description of VSU's QEP
Undergraduate Engagement in Discipline-Based Inquiry provides students with focused opportunities for engaging with faculty in research and scholarly activities appropriate to the discipline. Through an open competitive process, a call for proposals for Discipline-Based Inquiry Projects was issued for innovative projects that achieve the QEP goals and articulate their student learning outcomes and assessments. In the first of two iterations of Discipline-Based Inquiry Projects, six projects from four colleges were selected that reflect undergraduate engagement in laboratory, classroom, and/or field research. These constituted the projects for the QEP Iteration One. The success of the QEP will be ensured by senior leadership, the QEP Coordinator (the Assistant Vice President for Research/Dean of the Graduate School), and faculty and staff members from multiple offices. On March 7, 2013, VSU issued a call for proposals for Iteration Two of its QEP. The Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs and the Undergraduate Research Council selected seven (7) projects for QEP Iteration II which will span July 1, 2013-June 30, 2014.
*Discipline-Based Inquiry Project is the name given to our Demonstration Projects.
QEP Goals
The purpose of the QEP is to support the development of innovative projects for undergraduate students that focus on engagement in discipline-based inquiry to support the QEP's three goals:
- Students will develop basic knowledge of discipline-specific inquiry skills.
- Students will apply discipline-specific inquiry skills from the classroom to resolve a specific question or problem.
- Students will learn why and how to present the results of discipline-based inquiry in a professional or academic forum.
Compliance with Core Requirement 2.12 and Comprehensive Standard 3.3.2
VSU's QEP is in compliance with Core Requirement (CR) 2.12 and Comprehensive Standard (CS) 3.3.2. Exhibit 1 from the QEP Report summarizes the evidence and lists the pages where the evidence demonstrating compliance can be found for each of the five criteria in CR 2.12 and CS 3.3.2.
|Broad-Based Process for Addressing Key Institutional Issues:
Includes a broad-based institutional process identifying key issues emerging from institutional assessment
|The Phase 1 Task Force was comprised of broad-based involvement and representation. (See Phase 1 Task Force Committee Membership, Appendix A).
|To identify key issues, the Phase 1 Task Force utilized institutional assessments, including a campus-wide needs assessment survey, campus-wide solicitation of QEP topics, and an analysis of results of national surveys conducted at VSU. (See Appendices C and D).
|Focus of the Plan:
Focuses on learning outcomes and/or the environment supporting student learning and accomplishing the mission of the institution
|The mission is reflected in the QEP through the Discipline-Based Inquiry Projects. VSU's mission is to prepare students to meet global opportunities and challenges through excellence in teaching and learning; expand the boundaries of current knowledge and explore the practical applications of that knowledge through excellence in scholarship and creative endeavors; and promote the economic, cultural, and educational progress of our community and of our region through excellence in service outreach.
|The QEP is focused on undergraduate engagement in discipline-based inquiry through Discipline-Based Inquiry Projects that have specific and measurable student learning outcomes.
|Institutional Capability for the Initiation and Completion of the Plan:
Demonstrates institutional capability for the initiation, implementation, and completion of the QEP
|VSU has the institutional capability to succeed in the proposed QEP as the institution is prepared to allocate necessary staffing and financial resources to ensure the success of the QEP.
|The proposed timeline has been carefully designed to accomplish all necessary components of the QEP and allow adequate time for each task, including time for initiation (pre-planning), implementation (Years 1-4) and final assessment (Year 5).
|Broad-Based Involvement in Development and Proposed Implementation:
Includes broad-based involvement of institutional constituencies in the development and proposed implementation of the QEP
|Broad-based involvement in the development of the QEP and the proposed implementation was achieved through a call for proposals for Discipline-Based Inquiry Projects, open to the entire campus. Multiple open forums were held to answer questions from proposers. (See Appendices H, I, and J.)
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|Proposals were accepted from any faculty or staff member; a total of 24 proposals for a Discipline-Based Inquiry Projects were received. Six proposals clearly met the criteria outlined in the Call for Proposals.
|The Phase 2 Task Force was comprised of broad-based involvement and representation. (See Phase 2 Task Force Committee Membership, Appendix B).
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|Assessment of the Plan:
Identifies goals and a plan to assess their achievement
|The QEP has the following three goals:
Goal #1: Students will develop knowledge of discipline-specific inquiry skills.
Goal #2: Students will apply discipline-specific inquiry skills from the classroom to resolve a specific question or problem.
Goal #3: Students will learn why and how to present the results of discipline-based inquiry in a professional or academic forum.
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|Each Discipline-Based Inquiry Project is required to have specific and measurable student learning outcomes that align with the QEP Goals as well as program assessments. (See Exhibits 12 through 23).
|The QEP contains a detailed assessment plan that assesses student learning outcomes, project goals, and supporting activities. In addition, the assessment plan contains indirect measures using intrasubject replication. Exhibit 11 (p. 41) shows the QEP assessment plan that includes the purpose, the QEP Goals addressed, the method for assessment; implementation and data collection, and the anticipated performance criteria.
Additional Resources
VSU QEP Status Report (DOC) (for project coordinators; revised August 9, 2013)
Executive Summaries of QEPs Developed by the 2007 Reaffirmation Class, Track A, Undergraduate Institution
QEP Update (PowerPoint Presentation to Faculty Senate 9/18/2008)
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- Postdoctoral Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Iowa
- Ph.D., Microbiology, University of Iowa
- B.A., Biology, Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
Current Research: The general research interest of the Egland lab is interactions of microbes within communities. These have included communities human dental plaque biofilm communities and bacterial communities in Nicrophorus burying beetles. The aim of one current project in the Egland lab is to isolate native South Dakota microbes, specifically Saccharoyces spp., and Lactobaclilus spp. for use in the commercial brewing industry. These organisms work together to make beer and give the product its characteristic flavors. Isolation and use of local microbes could have the added benefit of a unique array of secondary metabolites, compared to commercially available strains.
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Yes, Charlie & Richard, the babies are gems when visitors come. Heck, even when DH is around they are pretty good. They just like to fuss when they are with me. Sorry about Kieran's colic. Boy, that just must be very difficult to deal with. As a parent you want to do something to stop their tears. I don't like it when they cry...kind of breaks my heart if I can't "fix" it for them.
Saraid, the night fussy's from 7:00-10:00ish is very common. My babies have that too. We give them a bath almost every night because they like that and we find it helps break up the time for both us and the babies. Besides that, we just end up holding them a bunch.
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He said: The One (Who Brings Me Love, Joy, and Happiness) is perhaps the only person I know who can drink finger-singeing mugs of hot chocolate so thick you could upend them over your head and sing the chorus of "I Will Survive" before the contents glug out. Me, I like my hot chocolate thin, layered, subtle, surprising. So give me a Toby mug filled with hot milk and just enough chocolate swirled in to lend body and a hint of heft while still allowing the hormone/antibiotic-free and outrageously expensive whole milk to shine through. Cream? Puh-lease. I don't take enough Crestor for that. Marshmallows? Absolutely, but not the mini (ack!) ones. One or two big ones—homemade, even better.
I am adamant: I have no desire to turn into a Hoover and vacuum up a mug of chocolate ganache masquerading as a drink. I like my Aztecan delight thin, so I can sip it while gazing out the window early in the morning, like people did in those old General Foods International Coffee commercials.—David Leite
She said: Brown water. That was the hot chocolate of my childhood. It was the instant variety, whichever brand my mom found on sale, and even when she made it with milk, it was wan. Wan and one-dimensional and cloying, it tasted just as I imagined the inside of the foil envelope might taste. Though it smacked of soullessness, it was still a tease, and I fell for it time and again.
So I did the only thing a disillusioned seven-year-old could do: I dreamt up a cocoa with superhero powers. It was sufficiently substantial to stand up to winters in Iowa, bullies on the school bus, and homework for social studies. It was thick, sweetly subdued, captured the fudgy essence of brownies yet hinted at life's more elegant decadences that were yet to be known to me. It didn't so much warm my senses as overwhelm them—an omen of far darker vices, those lingering near the 70th percentile, that I'd succumb to some day. The hot chocolate of my musings was like a puddle of melted chocolate with a splash of heavy cream.
I eventually stumbled upon the proper proportions, creating my memory in reverse. Far from thin, not quite superhero thick, and completely worth the wait.—Renee Schettler
Hot Chocolate — To Suit Any Taste
Migoya sagely explains that "one of the recurring defects that occurs with hot chocolate is that after it sits for extended periods of time (cold or hot), some of the fat tends to separate to the top and some of the chocolate solids sink to the bottom. To resolve this problem, try adding powdered soy lecithin, a natural ingredient." A simple pinch, added with the salt, will do you.–Renee Schettler Rossi
Hot Chocolate To Suit Any Taste
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- Makes 10 cups
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- For thin hot chocolate
- 1 1/2 pounds finest quality dark chocolate (64%), finely chopped
- 7 1/2 cups whole milk
- 1/4 teaspoon fleur de sel
- For thick hot chocolate
- 1 pound 14 ounces finest quality dark chocolate (64%), finely chopped
- 5 1/4 cups whole milk
- 1 3/4 cups heavy cream
- 1/4 teaspoon fleur de sel
- Homemade marshmallows, optional, but entirely, utterly desirable
- For thin hot chocolate
- 1. Scrape the chocolate bits into a high-sided bowl.
- 2. Heat the milk in a medium saucepan over medium heat until it just comes to a boil. Careful, it only takes a few distracted seconds for the milk to boil over.
- 3. Pour the milk over the chocolate and stir to melt. Buzz the mixture using a handheld immersion blender, add the salt, and continuing buzzing until you obtain a smooth drink.
- 4. Strain the hot chocolate, if you wish, and pour into warmed mugs. Serve immediately.
- For thick hot chocolate
- 5. Scoop the chocolate bits into a high-sided bowl.
- 6. Combine the milk and cream in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil over medium heat. Be mindful, it only takes a few distracted seconds for the brew to boil over.
- 7. Pour the milk-cream mixture over the chocolate and stir to melt. Buzz the mixture using a handheld immersion blender, add the salt, and continuing buzzing until you obtain a smooth, luscious drink.
- 8. Strain the hot chocolate, if you wish, and pour into warmed mugs. Serve immediately.
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- To infuse the hot chocolate with the following flavors, put them in the milk or the milk and cream before boiling. Bring to a boil and then turn off the heat. Cover the pot and steep the flavors for a few minutes. As a rule, steep the mixture for 5 minutes maximum if steeping teas and 15 to 20 for other flavors. Strain the liquid into another pot using a fine-mesh sieve and return the liquid to a second boil before pouring over the chocolate. The amounts are for the yields in the recipes above.
- Earl Grey tea: scant 1 1/2 ounces
- Jasmine tea: scant 1 1/2 ounces
- Nutmeg: 7 whole nutmegs, crushed
- Toasted star anise: 2
- Cinnamon sticks: 1
- Vanilla pods, split and scraped: 2
- Toasted cloves: 1/2 ounce
- Pink peppercorns, lightly toasted: 1/2 ounce
- Orange zest: 1 ounce
- Lemon zest: 3/4 ounce
- Lime zest: 1/2 ounce
- Crushed candy canes: 6 ounces
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Blue Bell Creamery has issued a voluntary recall on some of its ice cream products.
The selected recalled products were produced in its Sylacauga, Alabama, plant because they were made with a chocolate chip cookie dough ingredient supplied by a third party supplier Aspen Hills, Inc., due to the potential for it to contain Listeria monocytogenes, the creamery stated on its website.
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Did Russ Feingold Just End a War?
The unlikely story of how the former Wisconsin senator made peace in Congo.
On a Saturday morning in late January, Russ Feingold descended a tight path in the hilly forests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kahuzi-Biega National Park to look for gorillas. The former Democratic senator from Wisconsin wore a long-sleeved safari shirt over a blue polo, a coiled bracelet to repel mosquitos, a surgical mask to protect the gorillas from human germs and two pairs of socks, with his zip-off cargo pants tucked into the outer pair to keep out ants. Aside from the cool touch of Ray-Ban aviators, it was the sort of outfit Chevy Chase might have sported if Hollywood had ever gotten around to making National Lampoon's African Vacation.
These days, Rwanda and Uganda get most of the gorilla tourists for a simple reason: They don't have to hike through a war zone. In the 1990s, Congo was home to an estimated 17,000 eastern lowland gorillas, most of which were thought to live in Kahuzi-Biega, but after two decades of offering a convenient safe haven for rebel groups in the midst of the world's deadliest conflict, the park saw its gorilla population shrink to around 5,000 by the mid-2000s.
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Still, as Feingold stumbled his way through the muddy, steep terrain, the park apparently reminded him of the Midwest, and he later mused about the bright tourist prospects for Congo should the country become more stable. Wildlife could be brought back. "We did that in Wisconsin," he pointed out. "There had been elks, and one state senator said, 'Let's reintroduce elks.' So they did, and now they're all over the place."
The hike turned out to be more difficult than expected. At one point, Feingold fell directly on top of the Congolese guide, a compact man armed with a machete. (Fortunately, Feingold missed the machete.) At the bottom of the hill lazed the promised band of gorillas, who took little interest in the American visitors gawking from just a few yards away. The guide drummed his hollow cheeks, a call that convinced one gorilla to briefly beat its chest. Feingold removed his BlackBerry from its holster and took pictures to send to his wife. "I'm in a bit of hot water now," he admitted, "because I've been gone for three weeks, and I can't communicate like I normally do."
Feingold is 61 now, and his hair has grayed a touch since 2010, when, after 18 years in the Senate, he was beaten in his reelection campaign by Ron Johnson, a millionaire Tea Partier. Feingold had lost some weight on this trip, his seventh to the region since last June, when Secretary of State John Kerry named him U.S. special envoy to the Great Lakes region and the Democratic Republic of the Congo—or "SEGL" as his staff call him, pronouncing it like "Siegel." ("It's perfect—a Jewish name," Feingold said.) His mission: to end the civil war that has long engulfed the region.
On the way out of the park, a tire on Feingold's maroon Chevy Blazer popped, so he crowded into the back of another SUV. Reading to him from a BlackBerry, an aide quoted the speech Kerry had just given at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland: "In the Great Lakes region, we just recently helped end an armed rebellion." Feingold looked pleased by the blind shout-out. As the full car rumbled down the red clay road, the snowy streets of Davos seemed a long way away.
Doing diplomacy in a place few Americans can find on a map is an odd career choice for a politician best known for his liberal politics and his decade-long crusade, along with Republican Sen. John McCain, to reform the way politicians raise and spend money. When one Wisconsinite heard Feingold had been appointed special envoy to the Great Lakes, he asked him whether he would be checking water levels. "I think he thought I'd be out at Lake Michigan with a stick," Feingold told me.
And in taking on eastern Congo, one of the most violent places on Earth, Feingold could hardly have chosen a more dead-end assignment. The conflict there dates back to 1994, when Hutu génocidaires fleeing Rwanda set up camps across the border in what was then Zaire. Rwanda then led an invasion that ended Congolese President Mobutu Sese Seko's 31 years of dictatorial rule but also turned the newly renamed Democratic Republic of the Congo into a nightmarish battleground of foreign armies and militant groups. Although Congo's civil war formally ended in 2003, armed rebellion has continued ever since, especially in the two eastern provinces of North and South Kivu. The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the country is the U.N.'s largest and most expensive, employing 20,000 troops at a cost of $1.5 billion a year.One 2010 study estimated that 48 women were raped in Congo every hour, and a U.N. official called it "the rape capital of the world." Estimates of the conflict's death toll range in the millions.
Feingold's assignment came just as a new group of rebels, trained and equipped by Rwanda, was gaining strength in the east and even threatening to take Kinshasa, the Congolese capital. Since last summer, Feingold has undertaken a dizzying round of talks in at least eight different African capitals, cajoling leaders face to face, negotiating with skittish rebels late into the night and strategizing with fellow diplomats, all in a very uphill effort to stop a long-running conflict in a region littered with failed peace deals. "Without a doubt," he said over coffee a few hours after the gorilla trek, "this is one of the favorite things I've ever done in my life."
It has become cliché to lament the decline of American power, and Washington's inability to get what it wants in geopolitically fraught places like Syria and Ukraine only reinforces the point. Yet the diplomatic effort in eastern Congo, where the U.S. government has much leverage but little national interest, offers a tentative example of American power actually appearing to accomplish something, and an instruction in how sustained diplomatic coercion can push a long and bloody conflict toward something resembling peace—especially when nobody's paying attention. "The real lesson here," John Kerry told me, "is that diplomacy works, and persistence pays off."
Congo's latest spasm of violence began in April 2012, when Bosco Ntaganda, a general in the Congolese military, staged a mutiny in the province of North Kivu, near the Rwandan border. Nicknamed "the terminator," Ntaganda had been a leader of a previous breakaway group, the National Congress for the Defense of the People, before joining the Congolese armed forces as part of a peace deal on March 23, 2009. But he eventually revolted, claiming the government hadn't kept its end of the bargain and taking with him hundreds of soldiers fed up with the poor conditions in the army.He named his new group "M23" for the broken agreement, and his troops began taking and holding territory, village by village.
It didn't take long for evidence of Rwanda's meddling to emerge. In early June 2012, Human Rights Watch issued a detailed report showing that Rwandan soldiers had recruited hundreds of young men and boys, trained them in military camps, provided them with weapons and ammunition, and marched with them into Congo.A 48-page U.N. Security Council report later that month also presented exhaustive proof of Rwandan backing: The Rwandan military was supplying arms, uniforms, tents and fuel to the M23. Rwandan units even crossed the border to fight side by side with the M23 against Congolese forces, at times turning the proxy war into an interstate one.