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The General Education Taskforce was initiated in fall 2003 and completed its charge to propose a new general education program for Saint Xavier University in fall 2006. The Taskforce's proposal was distributed to the SXU community and discussions occurred prior to a faculty vote on the proposal in late November. Subsequent meetings in December and January led to minor revisions, with the final approval in late January 2007.
After examining curriculums at peer and aspirant institutions and reviewing the 1997 NCA evaluation of the core curriculum, the Taskforce composed vision and mission statements, as well as general learning objectives. Guiding principles were also established with specific goals for revision, including making general education an explicit focus and topic of faculty interest and conversation, drawing a distinction between general education courses and courses designed specifically for majors, establishing an administrative structure and strengthening the relationship between general education and the particular characteristics of a Catholic and mercy education.
Next a framework and specific requirements for the curriculum were developed. This three-level framework accounts for students' transition into university learning by creating a first-year learning experience, for the need to broaden learning in the liberal arts by creating distribution requirements in the arts and sciences and integrating knowledge by instituting a interdisciplinary seminar at the junior-level and a general education capstone experience during the senior year.
Other new requirements included a first-year seminar, an introductory philosophy course, writing across the curriculum, diversity and global studies, and a foreign language requirement for all undergraduates seeking a bachelor of arts degree. Revisions to transfer and adult student requirements are also included. In addition, specific learning outcomes were established to foster student achievement in and integration of learning in three areas: understanding of human culture and the natural world, intellectual and practical capacities and individual and social responsibility.
The administrative structure developed by the Taskforce is to be housed in the School of Arts and Sciences. Its purpose is to promote and maintain the vitality and quality of the program, especially the effectiveness of its curriculum. The administration of the program includes a General Education Committee, a director, assistant director, and the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. The General Education Committee has the primary responsibility for ensuring the quality of the program, its curriculum and related activities, including responding to course proposals, promoting faculty discussion and development and assessing the curriculum. This committee draws its membership from tenure track faculty; all elected by faculty with one member appointed by the dean of the College of the Arts and Sciences. The director and assistant director are appointed by the provost in consultation with the General Education Committee and the deans and are responsible for coordinating and publicizing the activities of the program, including working with academic support units and the Dean of Students Office.
Designed as a response to faculty and accreditation assessments, advances in higher education, and a revitalization of the University mission, the General Education Program at Saint Xavier also accounts for the developmental journey that leads students into the University, introduces them to the disciplinary perspectives to be found there, challenges them to think about how their studies bear upon one another and helps them enter the world beyond college. It is also designed to enliven and enlarge the imagination by promoting questions, knowledge and actions that investigate and contribute to human understanding and the common good.


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Game #7: Royals at Blue Jays
Kansas City (2-5) at Toronto (4-2)
at 7:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Today's lineups:
David DeJesus, CF
Mark Grudzielanek, 2B
Mark Teahen, RF
Mike Sweeney, DH
Alex Gordon, 3B
Emil Brown, LF
Ryan Shealy, 1B
Jason LaRue, C
Tony Pena Jr., SS
PITCHING: RHP Zach Greinke
Alex Rios, RF
Lyle Overbay, 1B
Vernon Wells, CF
Frank Thomas, DH
Troy Glaus, 3B
Matt Stairs, LF
Aaron Hill, 2B
Jason Smith, SS
Jason Phillips, C
PITCHING: RHP Josh Towers
NOTES: Day off for LF Reed Johnson, C Gregg Zaun and SS Royce Clayton. Manager John Gibbons said Rios may get a day off in the next few days, too. … Smith made his first start of the season at short, spelling Clayton against Greinkie. The Jays will likely give Smith a handful of starts against right-handers this season. … Raptors PF Chris Bosh was at the Rogers Centre and threw out the first pitch.
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Nothing like a B lineup to get Josh Towers the support he needs. Just like that a pretty decent, possible seven/eight inning outing turns awry after a plethora of errors and brain farts.
I'd love to hear the reasoning behind trotting Stairs out there for the whole game. Reed Johnson needs a rest? Fine. This was the wrong time. The team left JT out to dry.
I think Gibby should have rested even more guys. With a guy like Towers on the mound we all know its a guarenteed loss anyways. Gibby was proved right in the end; so next time JT pitches im sure youll see even more people getting some rest.
Yes, that makes a ton of sense.
I don't even know why I'[ responding to that post but 6K, 0 BB, 1HR in nearly 6 innings looks pretty **** good.
Sometimes I wonder if people even watch the games. If Josh pitches every game like he did yesterday, we're looking at a 10-12 win season from him.
People need to get off the "Josh Towers was bad last year thus he must be bad this year" horse and wake up to the truth. Regression (or in this case Progression) to the mean, folks.
I agree with the first comment. Obviously Towers' confidence is a bit fragile given his poor season last year and what does Gibbons do? He trots out a spring training lineup and the result? Errors, no offence and Towers getting booed as he walks off the field. Great job Gibby. Why don't you rest Wells, Glaus and Thomas on Sunday when Josh gets his second start?
Gibby definitely didn't give Towers a fair shake last night. Did anyone catch his postgame interview? Towers was right in saying the game was ugly and what do you expect with Matt Stairs in the outfield?
To his credit, Towers pitched pretty well – remember, he was pitching on 10 days rest. Once he gets into the flow of things, he'll be a pleasant surprise again this year, since no one is apparently expecting anything from him.
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I wonder if Halladay gave up 6 runs, 3 of them earned if fans would be booing him.
If Towers can pitch like that every game, he is going to win his fair share. He was better than I expected, but also it was one of the weaker teams in the league. He has some things to work on but so far so good for the Jays pitching. Im getting a good feeling about this year.
It's pretty bad to be dumpin on Towers they some are. I have said it since Spring Training began that he deserves to be a starter with the Jays. He pitched a good game and just wasn't given the defensive support he would have had if they were playing all their regulars. Either way, put Josh back on the mound with the regualr roster and you will see that this loss was his fault. MANY other pitchers have had outings worse than this and were not booed off the field. I can't believe people who call themselves Jays fans would do that!!!

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NATO's International Security Assistance Force said the blast was on a road close to the Kabul International Airport and that initial reports indicated it might have been set off by a suicide bomber, CNN reported.
The Afghan Interior Ministry said the incident occurred on Qasabah road, north of the airport, the report said.
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Sling Media has launched its Slingbox location-free TV system in the UK, pitching the product at consumer who want to watch British digital television broadcasts anywhere they can get hold of a broadband internet connection.
The UK-edition Slingbox supports both digital and analogue TV. The unit has an aerial pass-through port so it can be connected in series with other AV kit, such as a regular Freeview box, a PVR, a VCR and a TV. The gadget also has s-video and composite-video I/O ports - SCART devices are supported with a bundled adaptor.
The other key connector is the Ethernet port - the Slingbox hooks into a router or broadband modem to transmit the channel it's tuned to out across the net to software running on a PC or Windows Mobile device. A Mac version is in the works and due early this summer. The remote device can control the Slingbox's tuner and connected devices using bundled infra-red dongles.
Unfortunately, the Slingbox isn't a wireless device and it's limited to one remote viewer at a time. Available now exclusively through Dixons Store Group outlets - Curry's, PC World etc - for £180 - rather less than the £349 Sony is asked for its rival LocationFree TV product, the Sony's box will work on a home WLAN. ®
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Jagdish Bhagwati's opinions aired on NDTV and his op-ed in LiveMint are both laughable and obnoxious.
In the op-ed he begins with the classic Friend Argument. Talking about how his family and friends are 'minorities' and how that makes him "pro-minorities", whatever the hell that's supposed to mean.
He then goes on to use the not-all-Hindus rhetoric, painting a picture of the likes of Mohan Bhagwat (who controls the biggest Hindutva group, the parent organisation of the ruling party, and not to mention the fact that he is the mentor of the Prime Minister) as being outliers among Hindus. He also denies that the Modi government has any responsibility over nutjobs like Bhagwat. While I do not think that every single Hindu is responsible for Bhagwat or the attacks, shrugging them off as fringe elements, when they clearly are not (especially when they are afforded generous platforms in national public TV and radio by the present government), is at best irresponsible and at worst enabling of such lunatics.
Then he has the nerve to ask Christians to "relax", while denying communal motivation in any of the church attacks. His only reference for the denial being Rupa Subramanya (yes, the same person who shrugged off untouchability as a matter of hygiene), whose "admirable investigative report" is nothing but an anthology of police statements which she gulped down as facts without any questions asked.
Then he ends it all with such nuggets as Hinduism is "inclusive, not exclusive" and "… why did (Ambedkar) not pick Islam or Christianity? He instead picked Buddhism because Buddhism is not into conversion in the way in which these two religions are."
Jagdish Bhagwati is what you get when you combine Hindu pride with neo-liberalism, and articulate it in academic mediocrity and dishonesty. It's pathetic!


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I continue to get mixed signals regarding how advanced CFOs are with their journey to become the "strategic advisor" that is so frequently mentioned in finance and accounting magazines and consulting firm's centers of excellence (CoE) websites. There are countless articles describing the vision of CFOs and their staff after completing a successful financial transformation of their processes. And I have also written inspirational blogs and articles about accountants transitioning from bean counters to bean growers. But I am unsure how much the evidence supports the vision.
The CFOs who are bold will candidly describe their managerial accounting practices and systems as aged and Medieval at the extreme. The bold ones are unafraid to admit that their existing reported information is both flawed and incomplete. The flawed aspect deals with continued use of non-causal cost allocation factors that lead to misleading simultaneous under and over-costed products and services (because cost allocations must have a zero-sum error to reconcile). The incomplete aspect deals with not tracing the channel and customer-related expenses reported below the gross profit margin line. These channel, selling, customer service, and marketing related "costs to serve" are arguably more important than product costs. Why? Because as products and standard service-lines are increasingly viewed by customers as commodities, then suppliers must shift to differentiated services, deals, and discounts that are tailored to grow sales and profits from different types of customer micro-segments.
Strategic CFOs – reality or myth?
The basis for my consternation is a result of many conversations I have had with CFOs and financial controllers at AICPA, IMA, CIMA, and other finance and accounting conferences that I regularly present at. The large corporations may have had some success, such as implementing an activity-based costing (ABC) system to remove the grotesquely costing distortions. My concern is with the small and medium size businesses (SMBs) and smaller divisions of corporations.
When I converse with them the truth is exposed. The CFOs or their staff reveal and confess that they continue to apply decades-old managerial accounting practices such as single burden rate-based standard costing. We need vanguard CFOs. The definition of a vanguard is the leading part of a military formation to scout and secure ground in advance of the main force. Vanguards also help shift power from the powerful to the powerless.
There are commonly accepted explanations why companies continue with arcane managerial accounting practices, but I believe there is a less accepted reason for this behavior. I will explain my opinion after listing a few commonly accepted reasons.
Why do CFOs hold back?
The commonly accepted explanations for lack of progression include:
Financial accounting dominates over managerial accounting – CFOs' attention to regulatory compliance and investment community reporting is a fiduciary responsibility, but it detracts from time to improve internal reporting for insights and better decisions.
Misconception of complexity – CFOs often view the effort to produce more detailed and accurate costing as excessively complicated and therefore not worth the effort. So the status quo holds. In practice, costing is modeling and not T-account journal entries. Successful costing models are not over-sized and complex. They are successful because the cost assignment structure is designed as right-sized. The design stops when there are diminishing returns on extra accuracy for the incremental level of effort to collect, validate, calculate, and report the information.
Fear of two sets of books – Some CFOs recognize that if they use alternative (and of course better) cost allocation assumptions compared to GAAP, then managers and employee teams will have two different reported costs for the same product. CFOs fear this will confuse their managers. Which cost is correct? Of course the correct one is the cost that models the consumption relationships of resource expenses through work activities into the products, services, channels, and customers.
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Although there is some validity to those three explanations, I believe the impediment preventing CFOs from being more progressive is that they do not sufficiently understand the decision-making needs of the various departments they serve, such as marketing, sales, and operations. Today, with increasing global volatility, faster moves from competitors, and the shift of power from suppliers to buying customers, a company's internal department users of managerial accounting information need a much sharper pencil than in the past. They need to know the ROI on a marketing campaign and how profitable a customer is, not just how large a customer's sales volume is.
A CFO or accountant with an MBA is not enough to fully appreciate what it is like to walk in the shoes of a CMO, VP of sales, or VP of operations. As progressive CFOs take more time to understand the goals and processes of these functions, they will cross that bridge to become the strategic advisor and contributor that so many magazines proclaim that CFOs already are. They will be vanguard CFOs.


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The Constitutional Crisis at the Fed
Throughout its history, the U.S. Federal Reserve has faced accusations, on the left and the right, that it is the mere institutional puppet of powerful bankers who control it from within. Marriner Eccles, the liberal Fed chairman during the 1930s and 40s, called it the "instrument by which private interests alone could be served." Ron Paul, the former Republican Texas congressman, writes that through the Fed "our money and credit are constantly manipulated for the benefit of a privileged class."
Today, because President Obama and, to a lesser extent, Senate Republicans have mismanaged the appointments to the Fed's governing board, these views have become harder to dismiss. Under the Obama administration, for the first time in its history, Federal Reserve Bank presidents—essentially private bankers—have held a majority of votes on the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the arm of the Fed that sets interest rates. In other words, by legal structure, private bankers, and not public appointees, can dictate U.S. monetary policy from the inside.
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The debate over private control of public money is nearly as old as the republic itself, dating back to the days of Alexander Hamilton, who built America's first attempt at a central bank, and Andrew Jackson, who dismantled the second. By 1913, at the founding of Federal Reserve System, two rival views had emerged of what a modern central banking system should be. Some Democrats wanted a system in public hands—that is, a government-controlled central bank that could not be a front for the "Money Trust" dominated by New York City bankers. But Republicans almost uniformly argued that a government-run system was tantamount to socialism. They preferred a private-run system, based in New York, over which the government would have essentially zero control. Woodrow Wilson's election in 1912 led the way to a compromise that put most monetary policy decisions in the hands of 12 privately run Federal Reserve Banks—all but one located outside of New York City—but subject to mostly ill-defined supervision by a government-controlled Federal Reserve Board based in Washington, D.C.
This Wilsonian compromise produced a failed experiment in central banking. In the absence of statutory clarity, personalities clashed within the system as Reserve Bank presidents fought each other and against the Fed board for dominance. In 1935, at the Roosevelt administration's insistence, Congress abolished the old system and replaced it with one where the private bankers would wield significantly less power. In fact, the administration's proposal originally eliminated the bankers from the business of monetary policy entirely. President Roosevelt's proposal created an FOMC of purely public appointees, all based in Washington. But the bankers' supporters in Congress pushed back and preserved a minority status on the FOMC. The new design would give the committee 12 spots, with seven for presidentially appointed, Senate-confirmed members of a new Board of Governors and only five to represent the private Federal Reserve Banks.
This seven-to-five public majority is the source of the FOMC's democratic legitimacy today. It's also key to the constitutional integrity of the Fed as a whole. Under a recent Supreme Court precedent, the FOMC structure almost certainly couldn't pass constitutional muster; its only potential saving grace is the governors' numerical majority.
For decades, the public majority held strong. From Truman to Ford, under presidents and Senate majorities of both parties, vacancies on the Board of Governors were filled promptly, as they became open. In fact, the governors lost their majority on the FOMC for just 16 days over the course of 32 years.
But after declining slightly in the 1980s and more in the 1990s, that majority has become increasingly fragile. Under the five years of the Obama administration, the public majority has held just 42 percent of the time, according to my calculations.
It gets worse. There are now only four sitting governors out of the required seven: Janet Yellen (the chair), Jerome Powell, Jeremy Stein and Daniel Tarullo. Powell's term has in fact already expired, though the administration has nominated him for another term, along with two new potential members. Stein has just announced his resignation effective May 28. So if May 28 arrives without the confirmation of these pending nominees, there will be just two governors serving within their appointed terms.
Since the FOMC's modern creation in 1935, there have never been five vacancies at one time. Until now, there had never been four vacancies. And there have been three vacancies just three times in history—all of which have occurred during the Obama administration. The Reserve Banks' representatives can now, if they act in concert, take control of the nation's monetary policy. The public has no say on their appointment. Neither does the president. Nor the Senate.


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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's next Prime Minister Shinzo Abe plans to send senior ruling party member Masahiko Koumura as an envoy to China as early as next month in a bid to repair ties between Asia's two largest economies, the Nikkei business daily said.
Abe, a hardliner who has questioned claims by China and others that Japan's army forced woman from occupied territories into prostitution during World War II, wants to bolster relations with his nation's biggest neighbor after anti-Japanese protests there this year, the paper reported, without saying where it obtained the information.
Komura will carry a letter from Abe for China's leaders, the Nikkei said. Komura is a former foreign minister who served as Abe's defense minister during his first administration in 2007. As head of the Japan-China Friendship Paliamentarians' Union, the lawmaker is known for his strong ties with China.
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BOSTON, Mass. – A Brian Clarke (Miramar, Fla.) layup with 6.6 seconds left on the clock and one final stop by the defense earned men's basketball a 65-64 Little East Conference win over Plymouth State University Monday evening in the Clark Athletic Center Gymnasium on senior day.
With Monday's victory, the Beacons improved to .500 (11-11) overall, 5-7 in the Little East Conference as they closed out their final home game of the 2012-13 regular season. For the Panthers the tough loss dropped their record to 6-17 overall, 2-10 in the conference.
Clarke's game-winning lay-in would cap off a wild final minute of play, which saw the Beacons score seven of the nine points, with five of those coming from sophomore guard Vinny DeLucia (Miami, Fla.). DeLucia sparked the Beacons rally after Plymouth State jumped out to a two-point lead following a deep 3-pointer from Kevin Eisenberg which made 62-58 with 1:13 left on the clock.
On the Beacons next possession, DeLucia pushed up the court and just as he was fouled by the Panthers laid the ball in for a huge two. The reigning conference Rookie of the Year completed the and-1 to make it just a one point contest.
Plymouth State would turn the ball over on their next possession, giving UMB the window of opportunity they needed, and with another amazing lay-up from DeLucia found themselves leading by one (63-62) with 40 seconds left on the clock.
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Down by one yet again, the Beacons inbounded the ball and immediately went to DeLucia. With two players in his face and time running out on the shot clock, DeLucia threw up a shot that fell just short grazing the front of the rim. Luckily the ball landed directly in the hands of Clarke who was battling in the paint. With the ball in his hands the sophomore big-man laid in the game-winning field goal with less than seven seconds on the clock. One final timeout by the Panthers would set-up what would be the final play of the night. Plymouth State quickly got the ball in play, but was met by a wall of Beacons who prevented them from getting off any type of clean shot as the time was about to expire.
The victory marked the first conference regular season sweep for the Beacons over Plymouth State since the 1995-96 season.
Clarke's second half heroics capped off a team-best 16 points for the sophomore as he went 8-for-11 from the field. He also grabbed seven boards to help the Beacons cause. DeLucia dropped in nine points on 4-of-10 shooting. Junior Rahshjeem Benson (Boston, Mass.) finished with 12 points and a game-high nine rebounds. Seniors Mike Mitchell, Jr. (Dorchester, Mass.) and Yusuke Fukata (Osaka, Japan) combined for 10 points in the final regular season home game of their college careers.
As a team UMass shot the lights out of the Clark Center finishing the night 31-for-60 (51.7%). Plymouth State was also solid all night as they shot 44.3% (27-for-61). In total there was only five 3-pointers made in Monday's contest, all of which belonged to the Panthers. On the glass Plymouth State held a +6 advantage over the Beacons (35-29), but it was UMB's defense, which forced a combined 12 Plymouth State turnovers that made the different. The Beacons also used their size and strength in the paint to account for 50 of their 65 points, with the bench also contributing 18.
Alex Burt was the big scorer on the night as he finished with a game-high 18 points. After Skevas' 16, Uche Nwokeji and Kevin Eisenberg each recorded 10 points. Nwokeji and Mark MacGregor also managed a team-high eight boards as well.
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I made an incredible discovery yesterday afternoon. I think I have found the single most annoying DJ on the radio (at least in Austin). He has that annoying, syrupy "DJ voice" with the constant fake enthusiasm, talks over the first half of every goddamned song, calls up his buds and talks to them over the air, and just generally grates on the nerves (naturally, I had to waste 20 minutes of my life listening to this goober just to make sure he was as awful as I thought he was).
Why does morning drive-time radio have to suck so hard? Does anyone actually listen to these goobers? Do people actually prefer schtick over music (although, given what passes for music now, maybe that's true)? If I want to hear people jabbering, I'll switch over to NPR's "Morning Edition". At least I'll hear something interesting.
One of our local "classic rock" (oldies for boomers) stations had their own morning show that was okay, but didn't bring in the ratings. So they fire the DJs and run a nationally synicated morning show for about a year. The ratings fall even more, so they drop the syndicated show and just start playing music again, and the ratings go up. The lesson learned? "We needed a different morning show", so now they've picked up another syndicated show, and I think the ratings are dropping again.
Argh. Sorry, just needed to rant.
I made an incredible discovery yesterday afternoon. I think I have found the single most annoying DJ on the radio (at least in Austin). He has that annoying, syrupy "DJ voice" with the constant fake enthusiasm, talks over the first half of every goddamned song, calls up his buds and talks to them over the air, and just generally grates on the nerves (naturally, I had to waste 20 minutes of my life listening to this goober just to make sure he was as awful as I thought he was).
Well, because of the poor nature of music on the radio I do like the morning shows. I usually listen to Rob, Arnie, and Dawn. They are syndicated over the Sacramento-Tahoe-Reno/Sparks-Carson City area. Maybe wider. But it's usually pretty decent.
Up here in the Baltimore area (MD), I usually tune into DC 101...Elliot in the Morning. It definitely passes the time of the morning commute.
I know what you are talking about. In the morning I have a choice between the redneck radio show of John Boy and Billy, the crappy pop/mix station drole or the local 'classic' rock station (GnR is 'classic' I guess). In the afternoon the 'classic' station has the most annoying asshole I have ever heard, named Robbie Rags. He is a Howard Stern wannabe in the worst way.
I listen to the same thing on the way to work every morning. I don't have a terribly long commute so I only hear about 15-20 minutes a day. Not bad at all, and better than the morning show on the classic rock station from Reno.
NPR r0x0rs.
You offered a solution to your own dilemma: NPR's "Morning Edition." Listen to it and you'll get all edumacated about teh news and stuff.
Actually, I think radio in general just plain sucks. Where have all the good indy stations gone? Here in Philly there's one station that I would classify as "decent " (WXPN) and one that I would classify as "good enough" (Y100)...however, listening to either one for too long gives me headaches and I have to switch over to NPR or the combo classical/jazz station (and don't even get me started on why a metro area of 5 million people doesn't have a SINGLE decent full-time classical station).
This is why a Hardrive mp3-player connected to the aux-in on the car-stereo is so good. And then I just activate the TA-function on the RDS so that I don't miss any major traffic problems... Good music all the time and no bullshit talking...
I ususally stay away from Music stations in the car. It makes me feel old, but I end up listening to AM talk radio for the most part. Tony Kornheiser on ESPN radio in the morning, and Game Night in the evening. If I need to relax or am getting fed up with the number of commercials on AM, I switch to the local classical station.
Anyone got XM radio yet (satellite radio with a per month subscription, for those who don't know)? Supposedly they have *good* DJs - ie ones that don't just pull what they play from the approved list. If it works, that might improve drive-time a bit. Also, you can get the signal anywhere in the country, so no more fiddling as you move out of a station's range...
I generally listen to 104.3 in the Bay Area.
6 cd changer.
Drive time FM radio DJ's are so annoying, except perhaps those on the "classic rock" station (but who wants to hear More than a feeling for the 20 bazillionth time) that I now listen to either sports talk or news talk, both of which are annoying in its own right, or CD's and thus miss traffic developments. The other thing about AM is that there is 5 minutes of programming and then 5 minutes of commercials.
Here in Portland KNRK (which is played on the 'net if you wanna check it out) has a really good morning show, Gustav and Daria. Daria roXors my boXors. They're smart, they're funny, and they don't try too hard or use phony DJ voices. I actually miss their show now that I commute on the train instead of in the car.
Noodle - I was going to post the same thing. Marconi/Tiny in the afternoons is quite the treat as well.
I have to say that I like Howard Stern and usually find him entertaining in the mornings.
Here in Dallas there are only two options for me.
three letters = NPR
I gave up on radio years ago. I just play CD's. The only time I ever really hear the radio is in the morning when my clock radio wakes me up. I put it on Howard Stern so that I'm forced to take some sort of action when it goes off, just to make him shut up.
What's radio?
since I discovered NPR (6? 7 years ago?) I cannot tolerate commercial radio. Not only are the DJs atrocious in most stations, but the godamn commercials are enuf to make me crazy. If I want music, I pop in a CD. If I want to keep myself awake, sane, and informed for the drive, it's NPR all the way. My only complaint is that my local NPR has a real awful jazz show in the evenings (some kind of light jazz) - in that case I switch to AM talk radio and CDs during the commercial interruptions
I do, and the DJs are great in that you rarely hear them... and the channels I listen to mostly (34, 41, 42, and 150) are uncensored (no annoying bleeping out).
Jim - how much is it and where do I sign up (aka too lazy to ask t3h Google)
Go NPR, or find a station carrying Sean Hannity.
The Dawn Patrol here in Cincy (WEBN 102.7) http://www.webn.com pretty much has the morning market. They mix a little talk with a lot of Rock and Roll. They are funny as hell to boot.
I checked out XMradio.com but it didn't answer my biggest question.
I've got a $500 "XM ready" Pioneer deck, but I don't know if being XM ready means that I can just sign up and start receiving.
Is "XM ready" the same thing as "HDTV ready" which basically means jack shit? You still have to buy a receiver or something along those lines?
Bob & Tom, people. Bob & Tom.
Screw that. Drew & Mike is where it's at.
Basically. "XM Ready" means that the head unit has the capability of interfacing with an XM tuner. You still have to buy a tuner and antenna.
And you won't likely see a head unit with the XM tuner integrated for quite some time. There's no room in most radios for another PCB, so the tuner pretty much has to be off-board.
I do listen to NPR most of the way in every morning (it and BBC World News are my primary news sources), it's just that the only opportunity I have to listen to music anymore is while driving, the truck doesn't have a CD player, and even if it did, I want to listen to stuff I don't already have. We do have a Triple A station that's pretty good, but "pretty good" still equals about 25 minutes of ads and happy talk per hour of broadcasting.
I agree 99%.
However, I live in Indianapolis, home of Bob and Tom. They're the only morning show worth listening to (when their station isn't running yet another fucking advertisement for a jewelry store or a car dealership).
I think aside from Bob and Tom, it all pretty much sucks the goat's ass.
I usually listen to NPR myself when I'm driving around, but my only complaint about the local Boston station (WBUR) is that on Saturday nights at midnight, instead of my beloved BBC, they broadcast some stupid spanish music program instead.
Hooray for the CBC it's like NPR only 1000x better and with no commercials. View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
I have to say, NPR is teh win.
Drew & Mike bore me. All they ever do is make fun of some lame show that was on the night before, call up random people from the tabloids and attempt to make them look stupid, and act like general dorks. The only good things they do are the sports talks with Redmond and Porcher, and the song parodies.
Bob & Tom, on the other hand, are actually funny, with regular guests, hilarious shorts, and are just generally less ascerbic and more fun than D&M.
I only listen to D&M when B&T are on commercial. View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_razz.gif
"More fun than a barrel of monkeys... with dynamite strapped to their backs!"
Chick McGee is my god. View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_biggrin.gif
livin in columbus, oh I have my choice, Bob N Tom (gag), Howerd Stern (rather have my nuts run over by a steamroller) or Waggs and elliot... of the 3, Waggs and Elliot is actually pretty funny... they have good guests, and play good music.. its a classic rock station, but alot of stuff i listened to in the 80's as a kid is becoming classic rock real fast View image: /infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif
AM Talk or NPR for me.
Another vote for the KNRK crew in Portland. I miss listening to Daria's Local Entertainment Guide.


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With Halloween right around the corner, I thought I'd prepare some ghoulishly delicious thumbprint cookies. I know, I'm a dork...
I flavored the cookie dough with cardamom. Cardamom is a very versatile spice that goes well with just about everything. For the filling, I used lemon apeels and swirled in a little dark chocolate for contrast. If you're artististically inclined, you could try to draw little bats or scary faces. No matter what you do, I guarantee it'll be terrifying how fast these cookies disappear!
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Chile and CSV to join together for volleyball development
Santiago, Chile, August 16, 2013 - The Chile Volleyball Federation have put forward a project to the South American Confederation (CSV) to create a Volleyball Development Centre with the objective of enhancing and training young volleyball players in districts with high social risk factors.
Since March, Desiderio Farias (FIVB Level III international coach) has been responsible for the local Development Centre, which currently operates in the Cerro Navia and Pudahuel communes of the nation's capital, Santiago.
Activities at the Centre take place on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, with each including the participation of 20 girls between 10 and 13 years.
Farias has been impressed with the high motivation shown by these girls. As he said, "I see a lot of motivation, because until now they never had done a project in this area, which includes the communes of Cerro Navia and Pudahuel. In Cerro Navia there are former players, who are also mothers who send their daughters to the Centre while they work."
One of the long team aims of the Centre and of Farias is to see some of the young player invited to train at the Olympic Training Centre.


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The "Monuments Men," were a group of men and women from thirteen nations, most of whom volunteered for service in the newly created MFAA section during World War II. Many had expertise as museum directors, curators, art historians, artists, architects, and educators. Their job description was simple: to protect cultural treasures so far as war allowed.
On June 23, 1943, President Roosevelt approved the formation of the "American Commission for the Protection and Salvage of Artistic and Historic Monuments in War Areas" widely known as "The Roberts Commission," after its chairman, Supreme Court Justice Owen J. Roberts. The work of the "Harvard Group" and the "American Council of Learned Societies" contributed to its establishment.
Thus was born the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives ("MFAA") section under the auspices of the Civil Affairs and Military Government Sections of the Allied Armies. Together the Monuments Men worked to protect monuments and other cultural treasures from the destruction of World War II. In the last year of the war, they tracked, located, and in the years that followed, returned more than five million artistic and cultural items stolen by Hitler and the Nazis. Their role in preserving cultural treasures was without precedent.
The Monuments Men remained in Europe for up to six years following the conclusion of fighting to oversee the complicated restitution of stolen works of art. During that time they played instrumental roles in rebuilding cultural life in the devastated countries of Europe by organizing temporary art exhibitions and musical concerts.
Upon returning home, many of the Monuments Men and women had extraordinarily prominent roles in building some of the greatest cultural and educational institutions in the United States. They became directors and curators of world renowned museums such as the Met, the MOMA, the National Gallery of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and many others. Other revered institutions, such as the New York City Ballet, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Endowment for the Arts, were the tangible results of ideas of the Monuments Men.
There are currently six Monuments Men still living: Harry Ettlinger, Richard Barancik, Nicholas Defino, Rouben Sami, Motoko Fujishiro Huthwaite and Anne Oliver Popham Bell.
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The UMBC men's lacrosse team is midway through its journey in Japan, and in addition to the reports of the team enjoying a fascinating cultural experience, the squad has demonstrated some outstanding lacrosse in victories over the U-22 Japanese national team and the Japan National Squad.
The team arrived on May 30, and, became fully engaged on June 1, when they put on a clinic for Japanese freshmen players in the morning and then took on a determined U-22 Japanese national team in the afternoon. UMBC jumped out to a 6-1 lead after the first quarter, but the hosts used a 5-0 third quarter run to knot the affair at 8-8. But the Retrievers outscored their friendly rivals, 4-2, in the final quarter to prevail, 12-10.
Nine UMBC players scored goals in the game, led by two goals apiece by rising junior Ty Kashur (Manassas, Va./Stonewall Jackson/CCBC-Essex), and rising sophomores Pat Young (Ewing, N.J./Christchurch (Va.) School) and Drew Borsody (Laytonsville, Md./Seneca Valley).
A day later, on June 2, the Retrievers put on an impressive defensive display in a 10-4 triumph over the national squad. UMBC led, 4-1, at halftime and 8-2 after three quarters en route to the victory. Attackman Matt Gregoire (Crofton, Md./South River) scored three goals and was named UMBC's Most Valuable Player of the Game. Rising sophomore attackman Nate Lewnes (Arnold, Md./St. Mary's) added three goals and rising senior David Campbell (Severna Park, Md./Severna Park) added a pair of scores.
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Author: Hailey Moore
Neighborhood: Carmel Valley
Age: 24
Occupation: Freelance writer
When asked where I'm from, I often hesitate to respond. I pause and vacillate between versions of the truth before finally settling upon "San Diego." But often this answer is too vague and requires further specification. A more precise, slightly more glamorous response would be "Del Mar"; however, this is borderline dishonest — as in across the borderline of Interstate 5. The un-vague, less-glamorous, honest truth is this: I'm from Carmel Valley.
I was in third grade when we moved here. To my unseasoned eye, Carmel Valley wasn't like other places. Life here was still developing, and we were on the forefront of it — pioneers ushering in the progress. The settlement was characterized by newness. New housing developments, new schools, new strip malls. My family moved into a model two-home in Cantamar, custom tailored to my mother's tastes, right down to the periwinkle tile in the kitchen. I chose the room with the window seat, and my brother settled for the walk-in closet. Heaven was having your own room.
The sparse geography was a blank canvas for our minds. My brother and I needed only hop over our back wall to explore the infinite possibilities of a dirt lot or walk our dusty street to scour the skeletons of houses undergoing construction. We rode our bikes to investigate this new territory. Spurred by the limitless landscape, our imaginations took shape.
Carmel Valley would soon gain a reputation as a family's paradise. It was the promised land of good schools and safe cul-de-sacs. The community grew exponentially, dividing and multiplying like out-of-control cells. Housing developments, roads, grocery stores, gas stations, schools: it was the stuff of the Sim City computer games we played in school, and it was happening all around us.
In time, my inner snob would emerge. I started to notice the stuff other families were made of: the interior decor of their homes, the cars in their driveways, their yards landscaped with fresh sod, their sparkling, azure swimming pools. The subtle differences between us and them set my family apart in an otherwise homogeneous neighborhood. Ours was the only house on the block still without landscaping, and unlike anyone else, my mother drove a 1984 Honda Accord with screeching brakes and a ceiling that billowed like a Bedouin tent.
After assessing our net worth, it was clear that my family didn't measure up. I managed this indignity by learning to tactfully evade embarrassing situations. Concealing the humiliating truth about my ill-equipped family became an art. I discouraged my friends from coming over: "Let's hang out at your house instead. My parents are vegans," I'd say, as though it were some disease. Driving past highly visible areas where I might be recognized by someone I knew was always a convenient time to tie my shoe.
High school only inflated my insecurities. There I was surrounded by kids from some of the wealthiest communities in the nation. I was a measly goldfish in a very expensive fish tank. The parking lot told the story: teachers drove the Hondas and rusted-out Oldsmobiles while students flaunted BMWs and Mercedes the second they turned 16. Preoccupied with pretense and perfection, I did everything I could to keep up appearances.
In the years to come, I would move to Seattle to attend college. I would mature and grow a social conscience and come to see the great blunders of our culture — the wasteful, consumerist, narcissistic, money-driven culture — all of which I associated with suburbia. Upon each return home, I was stabbed by a pang of disgust for this vast urban sprawl. The completion of Highway 56 only affirmed my distaste — Carmel Valley now joined together a slew of neighboring suburbs, making it one colossal indefinite conglomeration.
The suburban paradise lacked the flavor of some of its more noble counterparts. It lacked the history of a Del Mar, the iconic stage for the glory days of surfing and horseracing. It didn't have the eccentricity of a community like Encinitas, which resonates a kind of offbeat eclecticism and nonconformist attitude. The conventionality and practicality of suburban living came at the expense of personality and individuality.
It has been 17 years since my parents moved into the model home in Cantamar. A few cosmetic improvements have been made, but the house has largely remained the same (including the periwinkle kitchen tile). It is now landscaped, with a flourishing garden and a koi pond.
Everything around the house has changed. An athletic club the size of a small planet, inhabited by svelte blonde women in pink velour sweat suits, has taken over the dirt lot. Only two of our original neighbors remain; everyone else has moved into newer developments. We no longer keep track of who lives in which house but refer to our neighbors by their home's original owners, like, "the people that live in the Millers' old house."
Growing up in Carmel Valley meant watching my neighborhood transform before my eyes — from nothing to housing development after housing development of stucco and concrete. But in an ever-changing world, our house seems like a monument of stability — the one thing that my family can count on. I now understand why my parents scrimped and saved for this house. This house — mortgaged three times — has put both my brother and me through college, it's seasoned wildfires, and it's seen us through economic and personal crises. As we weather all kinds of storms — Hurricane Ikes and stock-market crashes — those of us with a place to call home count it as a rare blessing. These walls hold our lives together.
Carmel Valley may not be a true-blue, picturesque American neighborhood with mom-and-pop grocery stores and milk deliveries to your front door. It may have a few glaring eyesores of a suburb, but nevertheless it is where I am from. And at the end of the day, I'm cool with that.
As Peak Oil asserts itself (and it will, despite the fluctuating gas prices currently), suburbia will become know for what it is: the greatest single mistake in human history. All those resources. All that arable land. All that waste.
May we learn from our mistakes and take care to do what we can to correct them before the Age of Oil ends!


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