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Kristen Stewart For Chanel — Debuts New Makeup With Sexy Smokey Eye
Kristen Stewart is showing off three gorgeous makeup looks in a new ad campaign for Chanel. The brand revealed the images on March 17. See them below and read about Kristen's new favorite products.
Kristen Stewart is the face of a new line of makeup from Chanel Global Creative Makeup and Colour Designer Lucia Pica.
The line is daring and fun, and features OMBRE PREMIÈRE Longwear Cream Eyeshadow, which goes on smooth — like satin. It will come in 8 gorgeous shades, like black, tan, pink and eggplant.
If cream eyeshadows aren't your thing, try one of 16 new shades of OMBRE PREMIÈRE Longwear Powder Eyeshadow. The range features satin, metal and matte finishes. You can also layer the powder over the cream eyeshadow for a more intense and long-lasting effect.
Also debuting is the LE GEL SOURCILS Longwear Eyebrow Gel, in clear, brown and blonde.
There are also new tools — a Retractable Dual-Tip Eye-Contouring Brush and Retractable Dual-Tip Eyeshadow Brush, each $42, for precise application of the new color cosmetics. The entire line hits stores in June 2017.
The ad campaign features Kristen with three different eye looks — one is black — traditional, sexy and smokey. Another is red — more trendy and cool. The third is blue — bold and daring. In all three ads, her brows are brushed up, filled in and gorgeously framing her face. Her skin is bare and fresh, and her lips are neutral. Nothing takes away from these gorgeous new eye colors!
Kristen Stewart Photos — See Pics Of The Star
This campaign was of course, before Kristen buzzed all of her hair off, which she did on March 8 for a role in the upcoming film Underwater.
See the photos in the Chanel ad campaign by clicking through the gallery above.
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Kyle Busch! And the first tour win for crew chief Dave Rogers (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
By Mike Mulhern
RICHMOND, Va.
Jeff Gordon lost again.
And Kyle Busch finally won, with new crew chief Dave Rogers.
Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton and Clint Bowyer showed again that team owner Richard Childress is not only well on the comeback trail but in the thick of the fight each week, and Harvick goes this week to Darlington atop the Sprint Cup standings.
Juan Pablo Montoya did a yeoman's job at a track he doesn't like.
And Carl Edwards fought back to score a top-five and lead his first laps of the season.
Everyone else in Saturday night's Richmond 400 – the Heath Calhoun 400, named for the Iraq war Army veteran – was pretty much so much cannon fodder, even Jimmie Johnson.
Gordon had the dominant car down the stretch of Saturday 400-lapper at Richmond International Raceway, but a late yellow set up a five-lap shootout, with a double-file restart, and Busch – who had the best car early on – outran Gordon to win his first Sprint Cup of the season. http://bit.ly/dklImK
The win was Rogers' first as Busch's crew chief. And it came the night before Busch's 25th birthday.
Busch led 221 of the first 225 laps of the 400, but then Gordon took command. However Busch made a late stop with about 25 laps to go for four new tires, while Gordon, Jeff Burton and Kevin Harvick decided not to pit, to keep track position. Those new tires – again – made a difference, though it's unclear just how much.
Gordon wasn't blaming tires for the loss, but rather Busch's strength.
"I didn't want to see any yellows at the end, and I certainly didn't want to have to race Kyle, he was so good on restarts," Gordon said.
"A lot of people doubted what we were doing, but I didn't," Busch said, referring to the crew chief change he insisted upon, bringing in Rogers to replace veteran Steve Addington late last fall, in a controversial move.
That final restart? "I don't remember how it happened," Busch said. "I just drove it down into turn one and hoped it stuck. I knew I had to baby it in turn three and get a good run off turn four. Then those guys behind me got to racing, and that's something you like to see when you're leading."
"Kyle was so strong on restarts all night, he was head and shoulders above everyone on restarts," Gordon said. "I got a good restart, but Kyle got one too. And I had to settle for second.
"We've got to figure out how to win these races with these late cautions."
Gordon has had eight seven place finishes since his last tour victory, at Texas a year ago.
With Jimmie Johnson having an off-night, Harvick, finishing third, took over the Sprint Cup tour points lead: "It's fun to been racing for wins. We've done that several times this year, and after winning last week (at Talladega) and being close this week, we're leading the points at the end of 10 weeks now...so there is no reason we can't make it after the last ten."
That of course is the 10-race chase.
The race was remarkable calm, with very few incidents, which Harvick conceded was quite unusual for this place, where the action is typically wild. Harvick and Gordon said that was in large part because the cars seemed so skittish that drivers were working hard not to overdrive.
Well, not Busch, the tour's Mr. Excitement. And that last yellow gave him the opportunity he needed to take the game to Gordon, with a side-by-side restart with five laps to go, with Gordon leading and taking the inside lane.
"I figured I'd get the outside for that restart, because everyone had taken the bottom," Busch, who took the lead moments later, said. "I knew if I could just get through turn three okay, and then get off turn four strong....but a plan? No, I was just going to try to make something happen."
Down the stretch it was Gordon versus Harvick versus Burton, with Busch and Juan Pablo Montoya playing catch-up.
Burton, who wound up fourth, is still looking for his first win in a quite a while, but he's had strong cars all spring: "We have been really happy with the way our cars have run this year. We've been in position to win a lot of races...and led a lot of races...and haven't found a way to do it.
"This was kind of like that. Kyle was able to make something happen on the outside that I couldn't make happen. We were good, but we weren't quite good enough to get it done.
"We wanted what Kyle got...but we needed what we got. We've been running really well, and we just haven't been knocking finishes off.
"This is what we needed, to try to get some momentum going and laying some advantages down.
"We were a little conservative at the end because of the way things have been going (like that late-race crash at Talladega last weekend). We needed to not turn a good finish into a 25th or something.
"So we were a little more conservative than I wanted to be.
"But I still don't think we had anything for Gordon.
"Then Kyle made something happen there that I couldn't make happen.
"One of the things I've done a good job of in my career is getting finishes and not making mistakes. This year I've looked like a rookie on a lot of occasions, and I have been really disappointed in myself on a few occasions. I wanted to be more aggressive at the end, but we just couldn't afford to right now."
Johnson ended the race on a thrilling note, when he tangled with Clint Bowyer the last lap. "We had guys on (fresh) tires, and I wasn't on tires, and we were just fighting really hard for that spot," Johnson said. "Clint got inside of me off turn four, and I could hear him in the gas, and I wasn't going to let off.
"We touched tires, and around we went. Luckily I don't think anyone hit anything hard.
"And exciting finish for the fans."
Rogers' first tour win was a big plus for Busch too, who called for the change. And this win was Busch's first tour victory since Bristol last August.
"The team is progressing, communication between Kyle and me is getting better, and we're making progress," Rogers said. "I'm not a guy who shoots from the hip; I'm very methodical."
"I saw a turnaround in the team last year (when he made the crew chief switch)...and this year I've tried to let Dave make this his race team, and we've tried to be patience," Busch said. "I'm very fortunate to have a guy like Dave. All our guys have stepped up our game."
Why was Busch so confident that the crew chief change would work, and why so patient? After all it takes guts to plug in a new crew chief after 13 tour wins with Steve Addington.
"I've worked with Dave before; he's a smart guy, a methodical thinker, uses all our tools, and makes everyone work harder," Busch said. "Dave has pushed things and it's paid off.
"We both have the same personality, which may be scary. We're fiery guys....and that makes us a team that works well together.
"It was a long end of the year last year (with the change). I knew we wouldn't come out of the boxing winning (last fall, after the crew chief change), though we came darned close at Texas, if we'd had another couple miles of gas.
"And maybe we should have won a couple weeks ago (at Phoenix). But we need to keep this momentum rolling to Darlington, which is a tough track for me, though I have won there."
The restarts? Busch was brilliant. But he had to battle head games with Gordon in those. And Busch seemed a little upset with those games Gordon was playing.
But this, Busch said, is 'the new Kyle Busch,' though that is not a new refrain.
The 'new' Kyle Busch? Owner Joe Gibbs said Busch winning the Nationwide championship last season made a difference in his driver: "If this had been last year, you'd have probably seen a different reaction...so I appreciate the 'new' Kyle," Gibbs said, referring a tough stretch midway through Saturday's race.
Busch, in a side note, is embroiled in some odd contracting dispute over the construction of the Charlotte area building that is to house his new NASCAR Truck operation, with liens reported and unpaid bills. Busch says all that is not his problem.
What is going on there? "I think that's in reference to my building," Busch said. "I don't own the building. I have a team that takes care of that. All I know is I'm not in it, and I'm not happy."
Gordon conceded Busch had the best car most of the night. "Kyle was just the class of the field there early...and I don't know what happened to him, but he started falling backwards.
"We had some issues too at that same time. But we were able to maintain, and then get the lead from Burton, and then pulled away.
"I knew I didn't want to see cautions at the end, because our car was not really very good on restarts.
"Then Harvick and Burton were racing each other and we pulled away, and I said 'Please, no cautions.' And sure enough, the caution came out.
"You didn't want to have to race him in a shootout like that.
"A little disappointed again that we are coming up short...but we are getting plenty of practice at this green-white-checkered shootouts. Hopefully when it counts later in the season, we'll make it count."
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The finishing order of Saturday night's Heath Calhoun 400 at Richmond International Raceway
Kyle Busch wins from the pole, a rarity for him (Photo: Getty Images for NASCAR)
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"VIEW from the BRIDGE"
By Muncie
Since I just returned from West Point, New York early Monday morning, I am having a high on patriotism. Wally's grandson, Morgan Wood who is Venetta Morger and John Wood's son, graduated on Saturday the 21st. I have never been to West Point before and the history there is deep seeded. Our American tradition of Memorial Day includes an obligation to honor the sacrifices made by our nation to earn our freedom. To see over one thousand young men who are willing to make sacrifices for their country is overwhelming.
I did a bit of research on my computer and came up with the following. A woman named Nora Fontaine Davidson was credited with the first Memorial Day Ceremony in Petersburg, Virginia. She was a schoolteacher for 59 years. In 1861, she headed fund raising projects to buy equipment for soldiers.
When the Confederate Hospital was established at Poplar Lawn, she volunteered until the end of the war. She and other charter members of the Petersburg Ladies Memorial Association, which was organized on May 6 1866, took as their objective reburial of Confederate soldiers who fell on battlefields and were buried there.
Mary Logan, the wife of Union General John A. Logan, observed Nora Davidson and students putting flowers and tiny Confederate flags on the graves of soldiers. When she returned to Washington, D.C., she related the story to her husband. General Logan, now the first Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic issued on order, establishing a National Decoration Day, which was later passed by Congress.
I mentioned a few weeks ago about flying an American flag. It is a constant reminder of our love of country and of our troops. I am very unhappy when I see the flag at the post office flying at half-mast. It means that another Montana boy as made the ultimate sacrifice.
Make the Memorial ceremony at The Old Bridge a part of your family celebration day. There is usually a large crowd attending but I would like to see an even larger crowd. Bring your children so they may learn how great it is to be an American. Let them learn to say "thank you for your service," when they see someone in uniform. We never can thank them enough.
At the airport last Thursday, we witnessed the "Homecoming" of a group of troops returning from duty. I did not learn where that duty was. There were other troops there with signs that said, "Welcome Home." The thing that tugged at my heart the most was the sight of two little girls, (perhaps three and five years old,) hugging their daddy. He was trying to hold and kiss his wife while the girls clung to his legs. I will never forget that picture. I have seen such scenes on TV but never up close and personal. God bless our Troops.
I would just add one saying by Lee Greenwood. "And I'm proud to be an American, where at least I know I'm free. And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right to me."
I was sorry to miss this event last Saturday. It was a very successful day for the Cancer Support Group as they made $600.00. Many people contributed plants and just as many purchased. This will be an annual event. I give lots of Kudos to the Cancer Support Group for the help they give to cancer patients. They are a blessing to our community.
This fundraiser had to be cancelled on Sunday because of the weather. You would not want to expose those beautiful shades to the rain. The auction will take place during Summer Celebration. Mentioning that celebration brings to mind that it is only four weeks away. Get your phones a-working and invite everyone you know. It is going to be a great one.
I have no idea what is going on this week. Being out of town for a few days has put me out of touch and I have not heard from anyone. If you have events, please get in touch a couple of weeks ahead of time. I will try to get the word out.
The Carter Methodist Church is planning several events. They are a Rummage Sale on Saturday June 4th, from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Carter Community Hall. There will be included a Bake Sale and a Lunch Concession. They would like you to come, shop, and eat. There will be homemade pies and goodies.
A Vacation Bible School begins June 13th through June 17th from 9:00 a.m. to noon. You may pre-register by calling 264-5733 .
The children will conduct the Sunday service on June 19th. Following the service there will be a Community BBQ at the Carter Hall and everyone is welcome. Bring a Pot Luck dish. I say, "This event is what makes Montana unique. It's down home country."
The Church Women's Group is compiling a Cookbook. They are collecting recipes from anyone in the area who would like to be included. Emy Rominger is compiler of the recipes, so send your favorites to her at 444 Rominger Lane, Floweree, MT 59440.
Get your horse and carriages, (named Ford, General Motors, and Chrysler,) packed up and head on over to Carter. It will be great family fun.
I am very attached to following saying. "Practice Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty." I read a story about it in a "Chicken Soup for the Soul" book. In the book someone read it on the side of a building, liked it, repeated it, and somehow it spread across the country.
Today in the Price Rite grocery story, I witnessed it. The man ahead of me in the checkout line was asking the clerk where he could buy a backpack. He had a bag full of groceries. The story went like this. He had picked up a hitchhiker who was traveling to North Dakota by "thumb." He told the unknown man in front of me in the checkout line that he was going to see his family. The unknown man had purchased food for the hitchhiker and wanted a backpack to be used as a food container.
The man disappeared out the door before I got the whole story. It was a great one about practicing random kindness and a senseless act of beauty. It was too late for me to offer some sort of food for this stranger but he was taken care of by the unknown man. I do not know who he is, if he lives in Fort Benton, or is a stranger himself just passing through. However, I do know that there are kind people amongst us. Whoever you are, you made my day.
Have a great Memorial Day weekend. Drive carefully and watch out for the other driver if you are traveling. If you are staying home, enjoy some fun time. Take time off from work just for a little while.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
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(AP) -- Operators of the mountain resort that hosted the 1960 Winter Olympics say they've decided to build fewer hotel-condominium units - 750 instead of 1,100. They're also cutting plans for new hotel bedrooms from nearly 2,200 to about 1,500.
Developers say maximum building heights also will be reduced from eight stories to seven to meet concerns about protecting scenic views of Squaw's soaring mountaintops.
Tom Mooers of the conservation group Sierra Watch says he's encouraged that the public's voice is being heard. But he says Squaw Valley's plans still are larger in scale and scope than anything they've seen before in the Tahoe-Sierra region.


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29 September 1768
29. This morn calm; employd in drawing and describing the bird taken yesterday, calld it Motacilla avida; while the drawing was in hand it became very familiar, so much so that we had a brace made for it in hope to keep it alive; as flies were in amazing abundance onboard the ship we had no fear of plentiful supply of provision.
About noon a young shark was seen from the Cabbin windows following the ship, who immediately took a bait and was caught on board; he provd to be the Squalus Charcharias of Linn[aeus] and assisted us in clearing up much confusion which almost all authors had made about that species; with him came on board 4 sucking fish, echineis remora Linn. who were preserved in spirit. Notwistanding it was twelve O'Clock before the shark was taken, we made shift to have a part of him stewd for dinner, and very good meat he was, at least in the opinion of Dr Solander and myself, tho some of the Seamen did not seem to be fond of him, probably from some prejudice founded on the species sometimes feeding on human flesh.
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April 2010 News Briefs
April Clean up Day Held
We had a spring clean up on April 10th and managed to clear out a room downstairs for the Food Pantry to use for storage. Unfortunately one of the pianos in the room fell apart when we tried to move it so we had to throw it out. We also removed the copier from the premises, moved some furniture upstairs and arranged to have some larger items hauled away. Beth and Brandon also cleaned the sidewalks and gutters. Thanks to everyone that showed up to assist.
Dance Doubles in Attendance
Our second under 21 dance and concert was attended by more than twice the number of young people than were here in March. Entertainment was provided by Project SAR featuring Nevershoutmaggie. We will be having another one in the near future so watch here for the dates.
Flea Market Continued Success
Our flea market was a success again in April and helped us break our fundraising records for this event. Thanks to everyone who supports this event, both vendors and shoppers. Our next one is May 15th and will be an indoor/outdoor event. Check out our event page for more information.
Membership Program Forthcoming
We are beginning to put together a membership program with benefits at various levels for those who want to support and enjoy the Heritage Center to its fullest extent. Please check back here in the next month or so for more information.
New Events Added
Just added to the schedule, our new non-alcoholic fundraiser Good Times (tentative name) social event will begin on June 11th with a Karaoke night provided by L&B. You've seen them at the Palace and now they will be here from 7 to 10:30PM. Please come out and support us. Your $2.00 cover charge will benefit the Heritage Center and bring a canned good if you like for the Food Pantry. Soft drinks, light refreshments and our non alcoholic mixed drinks will be featured.
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STAGE TWO of the 2018 VIRTUAL SWIMTATHLON LEAGUE is in the books, and we really have some wonderful performances!
24 athletes (of 37) completed all five events of STAGE TWO with six new STAGE RECORDS. Congratulations to Pamela Ogden (61) of Eau Claire, Leann Rossi (52) from Atlanta, Bethany Lee (48) in Honolulu, Jeff Enge (30) in St. Louis, Daniel McIntosh (25) in Soldotna, and Peter Branson (62) in Wrangell, for setting their respective age group records.
Jeff Enge of St. Louis continues atop the Mens Results with impressive times and
Leann Rossi of Atlanta is setting the bar high for the Women.
The STAGE RESULTS are attached below. There are pages for OVERALL, BY GENDER, BY AGE, and AGE-GRADED. With the age-grading, I used the formulas published by USMS from a few years back.
THANK YOU for participating in this years League. We have raised $350 to support two worthy causes:
- Swim Guide to monitor the recreational water quality of Flathead Lake -- We've been getting some great local press
- USMS Swimming Saves Lives effort to promote adult learn to swim programs
Finally: DONT forget this years DISTANCE FREE TRIATHLON. Times can be submitted at anytime during the year. Ill even convert open water swims to pool times using my standard factors.
GOOD LUCK WITH STAGE THREE not my favorite!
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GHOULS To Release New Album 'RUN' On 5th May 2017 Through 1471 Records
London-based punk rock quintet, Ghouls, are striding into 2017 with their new 12 track album, 'RUN' set for release on 5th May 2017 via 1471 Records. Continue reading
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Gnarwolves announce sophomore album & UK dates
Brighton punk band and TCOV faves Gnarwolves have announced their 2nd studio album, 'Outsiders'. Continue reading
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Architects share their brand new video for "Gravity", a track from the band's hugely acclaimed, recent UK top 20 album 'All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us'. Continue reading
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London based four-piece NIGHTLIFE release their first full length album 'Salt & Acid' on the 24th February 2017, with a strong individual sound set to please fans of Jimmy Eat World or The Xcerts. Continue reading
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Sophomore Year Experience (SYE)
Elizabethtown created the SYE to tackle the sense of drift—or "sophomore slump"1—reported by sophomores nationwide. The SYE is designed to ease the transition from the structured programs of the first year to the more independent programs, like internships and research experiences, associated with the junior and senior years.
There are only a handful of colleges and universities that have a Sophomore Experience Program, and none does as good of a job as Elizabethtown does at integrating the First-Year Experience Program and the Sophomore Experience Program.
1 Sophomore Slump
soph•o•more slump - Noun
a feeling of being caught between directions and not knowing which path to choose
Download the Compass - Sophomore Year Academic Advising Handbook
Goals of the Sophomore Experience
Traditions and Communal Experiences
Provide ritual experiences and traditions to mark the beginning and end of the sophomore year, and to highlight to sophomores the significance of the sophomore year in their academic, professional, and vocational development.
Integrate CORE learning with Majors/Minors
Promote curricular pathways that integrate majors and minors with the students' Core curriculum, and in particular the Signature Learning Experiences of the Real World Learning program.
Explore Vocation and Life Purpose
To help each student determine his or her distinct path in terms of career goals, life aspirations, and the practical steps (such as engaging in undergraduate research, internships, and study abroad) that will render those objectives achievable.
Sophomore Events:
The Sophomore Year Experience begins with the Sophomore Class Opening Dinner, a formal occasion to bring sophomores together as a group, celebrate the start of the academic year, and initiate conversations about vocation. The Opening Dinner is held every September in the KAV. In the summer each rising sophomore will receive an invitation in the mail. Please look for the invitation at your home address and send the response card promptly.
In 2018, 97 percent of student attendees said that the dinner provided a positive "kick-off" to their sophomore year, and 91 percent indicated that the event helped them recognize the importance of the sophomore year for their academic and personal development. Ninety-four percent of students said that the keynote address and/or after-dinner discussions helped them begin and/or continue exploring questions of vocation and life purpose. When asked to identify their main goals for the sophomore year, students indicated particular interest in pursuing internships and study abroad opportunities; forging deeper mentoring relationships with faculty and staff; deciding on majors, second majors, and minors; improving academic success; figuring out who they want to be; and getting more involved in clubs/activities both on campus and in the community.
Check out what students had to say about the event:
For more information about the Opening Dinner, please contact Professor Brian Newsome.
Are you thinking of adding a minor, a second major, or perhaps switching majors? Come check out all of your opportunities, as well as programming available through Study Abroad, Amizade, Career Services, Community and Civic Engagement, Prestigious Scholarships, the Purposeful Life Pathways Program, and the Honors Program.
For more information, please contact Professor Brian Newsome.
The SYE features an annual Sophomore Retreat where participants learn more about themselves, their talents and strengths; what truly matters to them and why it matters; and their own unique sense of purpose. The retreat was held at Cameron Estate, a beautiful location just fifteen minutes from campus.
After attending the Retreat during her sophomore year, Irene Snyder was inspired to make a difference in the lives of others. A member of the Class of 2017, Irene majored in Mass Communications, minored in Sociology, and served as programming director of ECTV-40. Irene partnered with the Carter Bowman Foundation to create a toy drive that provided games for child and teen cancer patients. Instead of just toys in general, the drive included board games, "to go" games, and card games that children can play with nurses, visitors, friends, and family. The toy drive was a huge success and was able to bring a little bit of fun to those going through a rough time!
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Selection criteria for Emergent Scholars are as follows: Emergent Scholars have attained at least a 3.75 cumulative grade point average at the end of their first three semesters. Qualified students are full-time students who have not previously attended another college or university for full-time study and have earned at least forty-two credits in three consecutive semesters as a student at Elizabethtown College or one of its affiliated programs.
The Dean for Curriculum and Honors hosts an annual springtime luncheon to recognize Emergent Scholars and their invited mentors.
The Sophomore Year Experience closes with a Dessert Reception. You'll get to come together as a group once more, this time to celebrate the accomplishments of the sophomore year and to look ahead to the junior and senior years.
At the end of the evening, each attendee has an opportunity to write words of advice to the college's rising sophomores. In April 2015, students "signed" their notes with handprints. These creations were displayed on the walls at the Sept. 2015 Sophomore Year Opening Dinner. Since 2016, students have penned their words of wisdom on dozens of sticky notes that are subsequently fashioned into tabletop centerpieces for the Opening Dinner the following fall semester.
For more information, please contact Prof. Brian Newsome.
Mentoring Programs:
Blue Jay Vics are seniors who are available to mentor sophomores. Keeping with the Blue Jay theme, when birds fly in a V formation they take turns leading the flock as the lead bird. The British Royal Air Force flies in the same V formation and the lead plane, or lead bird, or in our case lead Blue Jays are called "Vics".
Blue Jay Vics mentor sophomores as they discern a major, a minor, or a concentration in a major, and in selecting from among the five Signature Learning Experiences required for graduation. If you're interested in studying abroad, for example, then you will be paired with a student who has studied abroad so you can learn more about it from a student perspective.
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Knock, Knock | David Tallerman
The familiar thud, thud echoed from outside my flat door. I barely noticed, but Paul shifted nervously in his chair. "What's that?"
Thud…thud…then silence. I replied without thinking. "It's my ghost."
"My ghost." This time I said the words defensively.
"Are you kidding? It'll be pipes."
"It's probably pipes," I agreed.
"Are you having me on?"
I shook my head, not knowing what to say. I'd been in the flat for three months, and this was the first time someone else had heard the mysterious knocking. "That's just how I think about it. I went out to look once. The sound seems to be coming from over to the left, from behind the wall. So probably, yeah, it's pipes or the building's settling or something. I just decided it was a ghost the first time I heard it. Stupid, I know."
"Why would you decide that?"
"Don't you think there's something about it? Like it's trying to get your attention? I don't know, I guess a ghost's better company than pipes."
Paul's face broke into a grin. "Man, we really need to get you laid." He caught himself, seeing my expression. "Hey, I'm sorry. I know it's too soon." Abruptly, he cocked an ear towards the doorway. "Now it's stopped."
"I guess even ghosts have to rest sometimes," I said.
It struck me afterwards that Paul must have thought I was talking about Sam. No wonder I'd freaked him out: 'Yeah, that's just my dead girlfriend walking around.' But Sam haunts me in altogether different ways. No, I'd always figured my ghost was male–though I only realised that after Paul left. I didn't know much else about him. I'd imagined him to be young, late teens or early twenties. I'd no idea where the image had come from, and that was all there was: a youthful shadow, devoid of features. I went to sleep that night, a little groggy from the Glenmorangie, wondering anxiously what his face might look like.
At first, I think there's no light.
I feel constricted, walls tight around me, against my back and shoulders–rough and cold, brick maybe. Something tells me that if I reach out I could touch the far walls too. I don't dare. I don't dare because I'd rather not know–and because I'm not alone.
There's light, a glimmer from above. He's just an outline, black against deepest grey. I don't think he even knows I'm here, though we're so close that if I just stretched my fingers–but I can't, I won't. Why am I scared? Would he hurt me? No, there's no anger left in him, not even fear anymore.
He couldn't hurt me, wouldn't anyway, somehow I understand that. If he knew I was here, though…
If he knew, he might look at me.
I didn't remember at first. When I woke, the dream was just a constriction in my chest. The hour was early, before dawn. I got up anyway, tried to watch TV.
I thought about the last night, what I'd said to Paul. The truth was that I lived with two ghosts. I sat watching the glow of a drab dawn breaking around the balcony and didn't feel alone. Sam kept me company; or, more truthfully, the ache of losing her did. Months ago, just before I'd moved into the flat, Paul had asked me cautiously when I planned to go back to work. I'd said 'soon'. What I'd meant was, when the ache goes away. Paul had been tactful; I'd seen his disapproval, though, the question barely less obvious for being unasked. Was this what Sam would have wanted?
Of course it wasn't. She wouldn't have wanted me to forget, either, and I couldn't see any other way to move on. Leaving our home had been enough of a betrayal. The passing of six months had done nothing to numb the hurt. I didn't believe at that point that any amount of time could hope to.
Yet, sitting there watching muted TV and the creep of early morning light, I realised I didn't have to carry around another ghost as well. The first real sense of my dream came back to me then–claustrophobia, a dim shape barely a hand's breadth away–and I shuddered. Who was he? No one I knew. No one I was responsible for.
I made strong coffee to bring myself round, turned on my computer. I searched for the name of my block of flats. None of the results looked interesting, so I added 'death', and, when that didn't help, 'murder', then 'suicide', 'tragedy', and anything I could think of in a similar vein. There was nothing.
I was sure my logic was sound. The building couldn't be more than five years old, I was on the fourth floor, and if the place really was haunted then its phantom tenant must be a recent acquisition. There was also Paul's pipes theory, of course, and the possibility that I was being crazy. After an hour of fruitless searching, that seemed far more convincing.
Still, I wasn't quite ready to give up. Paul was indirectly response for starting my obsession, so perhaps he could help finish it. I went back into the bedroom, grabbed the phone.
The voice at the other end was barely recognisable as Paul's. "Do you know what the time is?" he grunted.
"It's half six, man."
No wonder he sounded groggy. "I'm sorry," I said, "I didn't think. I need a favour, that's all."
"If I say yes, can I go back to sleep? I don't have to be up for another hour."
"Sure, I'm sorry. I just wondered … if there'd been a suspicious death where I live, you'd have some record of that, right?"
"Murder, suicide? Some weird accident, I don't know."
There was a long pause. "Are you asking me to check police records to hunt for your ghost?"
"I guess."
An even longer pause. "I'm not about to abuse police resources for you. But there's a guy on the Evening Mail I could ask."
"I'd appreciate it."
"Hey," Paul said, "I'm glad you're taking an interest in something, even if it's an insane something. I'll ring if I have any news, okay?"
And he hung up.
Funnily, someone telling me how early it was had brought the fact home, because suddenly my tiredness caught up. Paul was right, though: for the first time in ages I felt absorbed in a subject that wasn't myself and my memories of Sam, bizarre though that subject might be.
I shrugged off my gown and lay down. But my head was whirling, fragments of my dream slipping back into consciousness, struggling against the tiredness.
I thought for a while that the waking thoughts would win out. Then the two started to muddle, and blackness closed down around me.
It's not quite dark, late evening or early morning. Time means nothing here, though, not to him. He's a hair's breadth away, slumped against the rough brick, that's stained a deeper shade where he leans his hands and head. His face–thank God!–is turned away.
Somewhere, a bell rings.
My heart clenches. Has he heard? Will he move?
It rings.
He's heard. He tries to move his hands first, to reach up. They just lie limply against the wall, like two dead birds.
It rings.
He's going to look at me. A shudder of effort runs through him: first his back, the muscles twitching, and then his neck. His face begins to turn…
For a moment the dream stayed real, though I was sat bolt upright, my breath arriving in sharp tugs, the phone in my hand.
A disgruntled sound came from the receiver. "Hey, are you there? Don't muck me around."
I brought my strangled breathing under control. "Paul?"
"You okay?"
"I fell asleep. Just a bad dream."
"It's after lunch. You keep strange hours, man."
I couldn't bear the thought of trying to explain. "Have you got something?" I asked.
"I don't know," he said, "maybe. Not what you asked for, but it's the only remotely strange thing to happen where you are in, like, twenty years."
"It's just that one of the builders of your flats went missing … homeless guy called Billy Sunderland. Not that weird, really, I guess it was a slow news week."
"It's something," I said.
"Well, if you really want to do this, I've got the address of the shelter he was in. Just try not to upset anyone. And whatever you do, don't mention my name, okay?"
The Meadowbeck Refuge took some finding, and when I finally managed it, didn't look like much: a modern building of red brick and grey tiles, oppressive in its lack of character, set back behind high wrought-iron fences and an unlocked gate. When I rang the bell, a petite blonde woman in her late twenties answered, wearing an expression of fraught surprise. I gave my name and told her why I was there.
"Are you from the paper?"
"No," I said, "nothing like that."
"Then what?"
"Look, I'm not a reporter, I'm not some ghoul, and it would mean a lot to me to know what happened to Billy Sunderland. But it's personal, and the reasons would sound crazy."
Unexpectedly, she smiled. "There's a girl upstairs who's convinced amphetamines let her talk to Jesus. Would it sound crazier than that?"
"Maybe not," I admitted.
She stared at me for a long moment with frank appraisal. Then she said, "My name's Caroline. I can spare you five minutes."
I thanked her and let her lead me inside. The place brought back memories of my student lodgings, only reeking of antiseptic and without a single poster or picture anywhere. Down a passage and across a hall, she opened a door and ushered me through. There was a large room beyond, apparently a communal lounge, complete with ancient sofas and an antique television. No one was in there though. She pointed me to a chair, sat opposite, and said, "There's not much I can tell you."
"Anything would be a start."
"Well, part of what we do here is finding jobs for our residents. Billy had experience working on a construction site, so we managed to pair him with a local firm. From their point of view he was good, cheap labour. And Billy was happy doing it–at first."
"At first?"
"After a couple of weeks," she said, "he started coming back hurt. Bruises, nasty cuts, one time a burn on his arm. All we managed to get out him was that he'd had accidents. We complained to the site manager, but nothing happened. Then one Friday he just didn't come back."
"Were the police involved?" I asked.
"We contacted them, but what could we say? Even if he'd been bullied, the most likely explanation was that he'd had enough and left. So what if I had a bad feeling? They weren't about to investigate because of that."
Cruelly, I felt disappointed. What did this have to do with my ghost? A homeless brickie, who'd been pushed about and had drifted on? "Why were you so sure someone was hurting him?" I asked.
Maybe I sounded flippant, because suddenly Caroline was defensive. "Billy really wanted to settle down, too much to just drop everything. And I know all too well that there are people who'll hate someone, really hate them, just because they're different."
I started. "Different?"
"You mean you didn't know? Billy Sunderland was deaf-mute."
I moved out of my flat three days later–after my neighbour found me unconscious, curled in the hallway, face pressed against the plasterboard. I stayed with Paul for a while, on his insistence, before I looked for somewhere else. I felt cowardly doing it, as if I was betraying Billy. Of course, I didn't know anything. I had no proof. All I had were dreams, and theories.
Had it been an accident? A prank that went far too far? It would only have taken a group of them, competing, pushing the bar of cruelty higher each time. Some of the stories Paul's told me, cases he's seen–horrific things can happen when there's no one brave enough to say stop.
I checked the blueprints. There wasn't so much as a cavity outside my flat, which leads me to think it was deliberate–that someone made that place just for him. Maybe they'd planned to let him out. Maybe they'd realised when they returned that they'd done something too terrible to take back.
I have ideas. I'll never know the truth. The only evidence I have comes from that last night, and means nothing to anyone but me. Paul told me in no uncertain terms: what I saw isn't admissible in any court of law.
Still, I look back on that night a lot–most days. Part of me has no difficulty accepting some temporary breakdown on my part. But another part asks, stubbornly, what is a ghost? Could it be a stain, of sorts? Like the darker red of blood on brick?
It was about nine o'clock when the knocking began again, the first time I'd heard the sound since the incident with Paul. I stood paralysed in my kitchen for five long minutes, waiting for that steady beat to end. It didn't. I began to understand, somehow, that it wouldn't.
When finally I moved, I did so through sheer force of will. I walked to my front door, stepped into the hall. The noise was much louder there, loud enough that I wondered why others hadn't come to investigate. As before, it seemed to be coming from the wall to my left. I turned that way, reached out my hands–and dizziness hit me like a hammer-blow, pressing me forward…
He isn't looking at me.
Still, his face is moving, changing through ever paler shades of grey, and where the light catches, the wetness is brighter. I want to look away. I can't. How could I?
I know that for a long time he beat against the wall. Eventually his hands just wouldn't work anymore. By then they were a mess of torn skin and gore that adhered to the rough bricks as though they were a spider's web. He was beyond hungry by then, beyond thirsty. Even the pain had grown distant.
Now, nothing seems real. He no longer imagines he'll be rescued, that'll he'll ever be free. He just wants to be heard. Nothing else matters.
He leans his head back. For an instant, I see the ruin that was his face–the dripping mask.
Then, thud.
David Tallerman is the author of the comic fantasy novels Giant Thief, Crown Thief and Prince Thief, the absurdist steampunk graphic novel Endangered Weapon B: Mechanimal Science and The Sign in the Moonlight and Other Stories, a collection of pulp-styled horror and dark fantasy fiction. His short fantasy, science fiction and horror stories have appeared in around seventy markets, including Clarkesworld, Nightmare, Lightspeed and Beneath Ceaseless Skies, and his genre-bending debut novella Patchwerk is due from Tor.com in early 2016. David can be found online at davidtallerman.co.uk and davidtallerman.blogspot.com.


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She-Ra White, 23, of Wichita Falls, Texas, complained about feeling light-headed and struggling to breathe after she was discovered by another student at the bottom of the steps at the school's Guild Center classroom building, said Liz Medcalf, a Frostburg spokeswoman. White later died after she was taken to a local hospital.
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The OFT described pensions as "complicated products, the benefits of which occur, for many people, a long time in the future".
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While it was the employee who actually took on the risks and rewards of a DC pension, the choice of which scheme they were placed in rested with their employer.
But many employers "do not have the necessary understanding" to make good judgments about the value of pension schemes and their focus may be on factors such as driving down administration costs over making sure the scheme offered the best value for their employee, the report said.
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A lack of consistency in the way charges were presented also made it hard for employers to compare costs, the report said.
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Some old and high-charging schemes containing around £30 billion worth of savings may not be delivering value for money, the OFT said. In addition, some smaller trust-based schemes, containing around £10 billion worth of savings, were also at risk of giving poor value due to low levels of trustee engagement and capability.
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The committees will oversee the value for money of workplace pension products, and make recommendations to pension company boards who must respond on a "comply and explain" basis.
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HighlightsGuided sea kayaking | Lopud Island| Kolocep Island | Sipan Island | Green Cave, Ruda Island | Trsteno | Swimming in sea caves | Island hikes to secret coves | Dubrovnik
Description of Sea kayaking holiday in CroatiaThis week long sea kayaking holiday in Croatia starts in the magnificent, ancient city of Dubrovnik, but from day one, in the hands of expert local kayaking guides, takes you out into the countrys unique Mediterranean archipelago, to start exploring the luscious Elaphite Islands. For five days we will kayak in and around the islands of Lopud and Sipan, not too far from the mainland, but another world by kayak. A world of sea caves and secret coves where we have regular stops for swimming and snorkelling, walking through Lopuds cooling woodland, or the romantic ancient towns on Sipan. And always with time to chill at one of many blissful, sandy beaches.
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After an all important siesta, a stroll or a swim, we kayak again for the rest of the afternoon, heading back to your guesthouse in plenty of time to chill out and freshen up before dinner at a local taverna, all specialising in Croatian food with sea food, local seasonal vegetables and of course plenty of local olive oil. All dietary needs are catered for, and we include three dinners in the price of the holiday.
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Your holiday will help support local people and conservation. We must also reduce CO2. Learn about the CO2 emissions of this holiday and how to reduce them.
All of our sea kayaking guides are aware of their surrounding and they are constantly providing the travelers with suggestions of how to minimize potential negative impacts on the marine ecosystems of Croatia. Our sea kayaking guides emphasize the importance of observing the marine life and leaving the environment as it is.
Our sea kayaks are made of recyclable plastic. They do not cause any form of air or water pollution and they do not produce noise that could be disturbing for marine life.
On our sea kayaking holiday we suggest that our travellers visit historically, culturally and environmentally important sights in Croatia such as the Dubrovnik's Old Town, Renaissance villas on the island of Sipan and Lokrum Nature Park.
On this sea kayaking holiday in Croatia we work with local guest houses on the islands and do not take commission from the local guesthouse owners. For some of our contracted guesthouses, family run B&B business is the main source of income for the whole family.
41 Reviews of Sea kayaking holiday in Croatia
Reviewed on 29 Sep 2019 by Jean LeslieDelightful kayaking round beautiful coastal islands Read full review
Reviewed on 16 Sep 2019 by Linda HardieThe most exciting part of the holiday was the kayaking. Read full review
Reviewed on 29 Jul 2019 by Helen KentThe kayak guide, Johnny, was everything we could have wished for. Not only his kayaking expertise and concerns for our safety and wellbeing, but also for sharing his insider knowledge about Croatian culture, history and way of life. The islands were beautiful with crystal clear blue and green sea. Read full review
Reviewed on 21 Jun 2019 by Luke JefferyThe most memorable part of the holiday was meeting the local people. They were friendly and welcoming. Read full review
Reviewed on 12 Oct 2019 by Jane McBrideThe most memorable part of the holiday was being nn calm seas the day before the paddle along the mainland after visiting the botanic gardens was idyllic. Read full review
Reviewed on 09 Oct 2019 by Carol PritchardBeautiful islands, lovely warm water and the best group of people to kayak with. Read full review
Reviewed on 05 Oct 2019 by Debra VickersThe most memorable part of the holiday was the lovely people on our tour. Read full review
Reviewed on 06 Jun 2019 by Lesley RamseyBoth B & B's were charming, the food was lovely and in good weather the scenery would be amazing. Read full review
Reviewed on 06 Oct 2018 by Tracey AgnewThe most memorable part of the holiday was...jumping out of the kayak and swimming into the Green Cave. We enjoyed all the kayaking and the opportunity to get to know the Elaphiti Islands Read full review
Reviewed on 17 Sep 2018 by John EdwardsVisiting the gardens at Trsteno by kayak was the most memorable. Read full review
Reviewed on 26 Aug 2018 by John EdwardsReally good. Read full review
Reviewed on 03 Jul 2018 by Colm SheehanFab...Well run, sympathetic to the local community, Ivan our fab guide looked after us well and was a valuable resource in guiding us to the best restaurants etc. Read full review
Reviewed on 18 Sep 2017 by Nicola McMeekinKayaking amongst beautiful scenery was the most beautiful. Read full review
Reviewed on 29 Aug 2017 by Elizabeth PaveyKayaking along the beautiful coastline, seeing caves, arches and spotting dolphins. Read full review
Reviewed on 14 Aug 2017 by Belinda HopkinsThe most memorable was the storm on the first day of kayaking & being rescued! Lessons were learnt that day - for sure! Read full review
Reviewed on 13 Aug 2017 by Peter AustinThe islands we visited were beautiful, quiet, and full of interesting sights to explore. Read full review
Reviewed on 17 May 2017 by Samuel BoulterReally enjoyed kayaking through the cave. Excellent trip. Read full review
Reviewed on 24 Aug 2017 by Sophie Wynne-JonesThe most memorable was paddling through crystal clear waters, snorkelling, great food and enjoying lovely company with our group. Particularly enjoyed eating at a local farm on Lopud, fresh produce and lovely family - really authentic night. Read full review
Reviewed on 05 Jul 2017 by Rona McCarthyThe most memorable was getting out in the sea kayaks on the first day. Yoga lesson in some terraced gardens. Walking to a farm restaurant. Local Croatian fish stew. Read full review
Reviewed on 10 Jul 2016 by Vanessa hall5* Read full review
Reviewed on 26 Jul 2015 by Hayley CrippsAbsolutely fantastic. Had an amazing time and started planning the next on the way home. Read full review
Reviewed on 27 Oct 2015 by Aly ThomsonIt supported local people. All lunches were arranged in local restaurants, group tour to a local small farm where a lady cooked an amazing meal with wine and local brandies, all enjoyed on her porch. Very traditional food made by a local. Read full review
Reviewed on 12 Oct 2015 by Suse CoonWe all liked being in smaller guest houses run by local people and finding out how they make a living the rest of the year. These were people who love their jobs rather than people who just work for money and that glimpse of their lifestyle was a very special part of the holiday. Read full review
Reviewed on 16 Sep 2015 by Tori LangFab! Loved it and would do it all again in a heartbeat. Was sad to finish at the end of the week. Definitely up there as one of my best holidays. Read full review
Reviewed on 18 Aug 2013 by Pauline HeslopPerfect...The whole holiday was memorable. The kyaking guides were fantastic, accommodation good, food great and I never felt 'herded' around - it was really relaxing and good fun. Read full review
Reviewed on 03 Jun 2013 by jane chaplinLovely week. The group was great with a real mix of ages and experiences. The pace of the week was just right with some pretty challenging paddles some days and really relaxing ones on others. The attitude was laid back with loose plans flexible to suit the needs of the group. Read full review
Reviewed on 02 Jun 2013 by jane brookGreat fun....the most exciting parts was staying on Sipan and doing a 22k kayak into a 25 km per hour headwind Read full review
Reviewed on 23 Sep 2012 by Josephine PettThe most memorable parts of the holiday were going into the blue and green caves. Being part of a group...Excellent, we had worried about being part of a group but that turned out to be one of the best bits. Read full review
Reviewed on 24 Aug 2012 by Louise AjalaThe entire trip was great, I particularly enjoyed kayaking around the coast of Sipan and Quad biking over the hills of Calvat. I would definitely recommend this trip to friends. Read full review
Reviewed on 04 Aug 2012 by Lis sheridanIn terms of kayaking, the immense satisfaction of being able to skim through actual waves past towering rocks was pretty exciting; after only three days I felt like I'd completely got it...It was superb. I wish I'd booked for longer! Read full review
Reviewed on 24 Aug 2011 by Stephen HawkeWe absolutely loved this holiday because as well as hard work kayaking it was so nice to stop off on the Islands either exploring or going to the local bars for refreshments. The balance between kayaking and having our own time was just right. Croatia is a beautiful country and we will certainly be returning. Read full review
Reviewed on 11 Oct 2011 by Sarah ShawI don't think anything could top the 8 foot waves we encountered on the first day kayaking out of Lopud. The thrill of the waves toppling down on top of our boats was an adrenaline rush we didnt expect Read full review
Reviewed on 06 Oct 2011 by Sally GeeveMost memorable - First day's kayaking in rough seas! Really enjoyable, well run, owners went to some lengths to make sure we enjoyed ourselves... Read full review
Reviewed on 05 Oct 2011 by Peter HiltonExcellent week - well organised and superb kayaking. Read full review
Reviewed on 02 Oct 2011 by Deirdre SheppardEach day was different, so it all added up to a totally memorable experience. We loved the special dinner at the Lopud farmhouse. Read full review
Reviewed on 23 Sep 2011 by Tracey BrettThis was our first trip to Croatia and my boys and I had a fantastic time kayaking round the Elaphite Islands, swimming in the sea, exploring caves and chilling out on Lopud. Read full review
Reviewed on 14 Oct 2010 by Madeline McKercharI gave this holiday 5 stars as although I've had some great trips before I've never felt so much better after just one week. The Elaphiti islands are absolutely gorgeous which makes it all the more amazing that they're so unspoilt - I hope they stay that way. Read full review
Reviewed on 27 Sep 2010 by Sarah HilliarWe had a wonderful time....Our guide made the experience all the more brilliant with his unending knowledge of his country, he was a constant source of enlightenment, enthusiasm and laughter. Wouldn't hesitate to recommend the trip to anyone thinking of going to Croatia or just looking for somewhere to go sea kayaking. Read full review
Reviewed on 14 Sep 2010 by Debbie BrupbacherThe scenery was fantastic, the relaxed life of the island coupled with the flexibitiy of the tour guide... The holiday was an excellent mix of exercise, and relaxation. Plus the relaxed attitude of the guide was great. Read full review
Reviewed on 31 Aug 2010 by Ursula AngererAwesome scenery along the coast and around the islands. My favourite place was the little harbour town Sudurad on Sipan. Good local food and local wine...It was great, would recommend it. Read full review
Reviewed on 12 Jul 2010 by Anne CharltonThe operator provided a way to slow down and kayak around the islands but also walk the villages and the islands seeing the history and fabulous country and culture that Croatia has. Having a guide from the islands was a bonus! Read full review
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Monday, September 25, 2017
Amos Gitai to Teach Seminar on Narrative and Form: Cinema and Architecture
Film - Series | August 29 – September 26, 2017 every day | 370 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
The Israeli film director Amos Gitai (Ph.D Architecture 79) will teach a five week course on film that explores the concepts of narrative and space. CLASS SIZE IS VERY LIMITED SO YOU MUST SIGN UP SOON. OPEN TO ALL STUDENTS ACROSS CAMPUS.
Our free speech week: united against hate
Social Event | September 24 – 27, 2017 every day | UC Berkeley Campus
We bring to you a three-day event, a peaceful moment of reflection and show of solidarity for those vulnerable groups on campus. From faculty and departments to RSOs and graduates, we stand firmly behind the values of our community, and in defense of our loved ones. Join us for any of our events - listen to a speaker, participate in an open mic, or stop by to write a letter to your... More >
Fall 2017 Architecture Sustainability Colloquium
Colloquium | August 25 – December 1, 2017 every day | 112 Wurster Hall
College of Environmental Design
FRIDAYS - AUG 25 through DEC 1. CHECK THE SCHEDULE FOR SPEAKERS. Bay Area Leaders discuss topics in sustainability.
Understanding Human Rights Laws and Policies in Pakistan
Presentation | September 25 | 12-1:30 p.m. | Evans Hall, CSHE Conference Room (766/768)
Dr. Munir Moosa Sewani, Sindh Madressatul Islam University
Center for Studies in Higher Education
CSHE Visiting Scholar, Dr. Sewani, will discuss the challenges and opportunities of human rights laws and policies in Pakistan and highlight how elements of human rights are portrayed by higher education policies.
Two forms of perceptual learning generalization: Immediate transfer and learning to learn
Seminar | September 25 | 12-1:30 p.m. | 489 Minor Hall
C. Shawn Green, Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Neuroscience Institute, Helen Wills
While it is clear that, with appropriate practice, people will improve on most perceptual tasks, the improvements seen from such practice commonly fail generalize to new tasks. However, while this type of learning specificity is undoubtedly the most frequently described outcome of perceptual training, over the past few decades, numerous examples have been described in the literature... More >
Remembering in the Toddler Years
Colloquium | September 25 | 12:10-1:10 p.m. | 3105 Tolman Hall
Simona Ghetti, UC Davis Center for Mind and Brain
The ability to subjectively re-experience our past requires processes that develop substantially during the course of childhood. Children ought to be able form, retain and retrieve detailed memory representations. In addition, they ought to be able to reflect on the quality of these memory representations (e.g., whether they are certain versus uncertain; whether the memories include vivid detail)... More >
Combinatorics Seminar: Pattern Posets and Poset Fibrations
Seminar | September 25 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 939 Evans Hall
Jason Smith, University of Strathclyde
A pattern poset is a poset of combinatorial objects, with a partial order s< t if s occurs in t for some notion of occurrence. For example, the poset of words where s< t if s occurs as a subword of t. A variety of such pattern posets have been studied independently on words, permutations, graphs, Dyck paths, etc. Moreover, many of these posets have similar results relating to their Möbius... More >
Use of PEER Tall Buildings Initiative Guidelines for Peer Review of Tall and Unique Structures
Seminar | September 25 | 12:10-1 p.m. | 502 Davis Hall
James O. Malley, S.E. Senior Principal, Degenkolb Engineers, Degenkolb Engineers
Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE), Pacific Earthquake Engineering Research Center (PEER)
Engineers designing tall and otherwise unique structures are challenged in strictly meeting all
seismic design provisions of the building code. Prior to 2010, there were no guidelines in
place to allow engineers to perform a performance-based seismic design to validate that their
designs were consistent with the performance goals of the code.
Living Stories: Oral History Interviewing and Research
Lecture | September 25 | 1-3 p.m. | Stephens Hall, 220 (Geballe Room)
Paul Burnett, Oral historian, Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library
Townsend Center for the Humanities
Join historian Paul Burnett of the Oral History Center to learn about oral history, the Bancroft Library's massive oral history collection, and a primer on how to conduct interviews yourself!
Love Posters: a space to heal and affirm each other in commUNITY!
Special Event | September 25 – 29, 2017 every day | 2-5 p.m. | César E. Chávez Student Center, GenEq Community Space, Rm 202
LOVE POSTERS: a space to heal and affirm each other in commUNITY! Join us for a week of healing, love, community, and creativity through poster making.
String-Math Seminar: Double-elliptic Macdonald Polynomials
Seminar | September 25 | 2-3 p.m. | 402 LeConte Hall
Andrey Smirnov, UC Berkeley
I will describe a new geometric way to think about symmetric polynomials. We will consider some special classes in the equivariant elliptic cohomology of Hilbert scheme of points on the complex plane (elliptic stable envelopes). It is natural to think about these classes as two parametric elliptic generalization of Macdonald polynomials. All other important symmetric polynomials such as... More >
Bay Area Microlocal Analysis Seminar: Semiclassical resolvent estimates away from trapping
Seminar | September 25 | 2:40-3:30 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Kiril Datchev, Purdue University
Semiclassical resolvent estimates relate dynamics of a particle scattering problem to regularity and decay of waves in a corresponding wave scattering problem. Roughly speaking, more trapping of particles corresponds to a larger resolvent near the trapping. If the trapping is mild, then propagation estimates imply that the larger norm occurs only there. However, in this talk I will show how the... More >
Probabilistic Operator Algebra Seminar: Microstates free entropy: definition, examples and applications.
Seminar | September 25 | 3-5 p.m. | 736 Evans Hall
Srivatsav Kunnawalkam Elayavalli, UC Berkeley
In this talk, I will primarily discuss the work of Voiculescu in the paper " The analogues of entropy and of Fisher information in free probability II". We will motivate and define a free analogue of entropy via approximating matricial microstates, as inspired by the classical Boltzmann definition. Then we will discuss an attempt to resolve the free group factors isomorphism problem using... More >
Arithmetic Geometry and Number Theory RTG Seminar: Rational motivic path spaces
Seminar | September 25 | 3:10-5 p.m. | 891 Evans Hall
Ishai Dan-Cohen, Ben-Gurion University
A central ingredient in Kim's work on integral points of hyperbolic curves is the unipotent Kummer map which goes from integral points to certain torsors for the prounipotent completion of the fundamental group, and which, roughly speaking, sends an integral point to the torsor of homotopy classes of paths connecting it to a fixed base-point. In joint work with Tomer Schlank, we introduce a... More >
Adam Elmachtoub - The value of opaque products
Seminar | September 25 | 3:30-5 p.m. | 3108 Etcheverry Hall
Adam Elmachtoub, Columbia University
Industrial Engineering & Operations Research
Abstract: A product is said to be opaque if one or more of its attributes are not revealed until after the product has been sold. Opaque products have historically been used in the travel industry where airline and hotel brands might be hidden to the customer, in exchange for a discount. More recently, online retailers have also used opaque products, where customers can sacrifice their choice of... More >
Design Field Notes: Jazmyn Latimer
Seminar | September 25 | 4-5 p.m. | 220 Jacobs Hall
Jacobs Institute for Design Innovation
Jazmyn Latimer, Code for America's lead designer for Safety and Justice, will speak at Jacobs Hall.
Seminar 271, Development: "The Impact of Cash Transfers on Local Public Finance: Experimental Evidence from Kenya"
Seminar | September 25 | 4-5:30 p.m. | 648 Evans Hall
Michael Walker, Berkeley
Bay Area Microlocal Analysis Seminar: Resonances on asymptotically hyperbolic manifolds; the ambient metric approach
Seminar | September 25 | 4:10-5 p.m. | 740 Evans Hall
Charles Hadfield, UC Berkeley
On an asymptotically hyperbolic manifold, the Laplacian has essential spectrum. Since work of Mazzeo and Melrose, this essential spectrum has been studied via the theory of resonances; poles of the meromorphic continuation of the resolvent of the Laplacian (with modified spectral parameter). A recent technique of Vasy provides an alternative construction of this meromorphic continuation which... More >
Knight's Moves: The Son-in-Law in Cicero and Tacitus
Lecture | September 25 | 5 p.m. | 370 Dwinelle Hall
Emily Gowers, University of Cambridge
Swahili Weekly Social Hour
Social Event | September 25 – December 4, 2017 every Monday | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | Blue Door Cafe | Note change in location
2244 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA 94704
Speak Swahili with your fellow Swahili students and enthusiasts over a drink at Blue Door Cafe (check for location updates). Each person will support their own beverage purchases, but we will provide the good company! And of course, Swahili speaking only! All skill and experience levels are welcome. Karibuni sana!
SLAM: Starting a Career at a Top-Tier Institution
Seminar | September 25 | 5:30-6:30 p.m. | 106 Stanley Hall
QB3 - California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences
Insights from Professor Michelle Chang (Chemistry) and Professor Reza Alam (Mechanical Engineering) and Phil Geissler (Chemistry)!
Join us for an insightful discussion with our own UC Berkeley faculty members about what its really like to start a career at a top-tier institution. Learn about how to navigate the career change from post-doc to professor and how to position yourself for success.
Lecture by Dr. Diana Matut on Yiddish Song in Early Modern Ashkenaz (c. 1500-1750): Sources, Repertoire, Performance
Lecture | September 25 | 5:30-7 p.m. | Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life (2121 Allston Way)
Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life
The Ashkenazim (Jews of Central and Eastern Europe) have been singing in Yiddish since the Middle Ages. Their historical song repertoires were very different from today's Yiddish songs. Diana Matut's lecture will explore the world of Renaissance and Baroque Yiddish song, and answer a set of specific research questions, such as: What did the Jews of Kraków, Amsterdam, Prague and Frankfurt sing... More >
C3 IoT Info-Session
Information Session | September 25 | 6-7:30 p.m. | Soda Hall, Wozniak Lounge (430)
Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS)
AFL-CIO Solidarity Center Delegation on Illicit Financial Flows out of Africa: Transnational Cooperation on Illicit Financial Flows
Panel Discussion | September 25 | 6:30-8 p.m. | 2521 Channing Way (Inst. for Res. on Labor & Employment)
Joel Odigie, Coordinator of Human and Trade Union Rights, International Trade Union Confederation-Africa; Luckystar Miyandazi, Policy Officer in the African Institutions Program, The European Centre for Development Policy Management (ECDPM); Cloudine Bwesigye, Program Officer, East Africa Trade Union Confederation (EATUC)
UC Berkeley Labor Center, AFL-CIO Solidarity Center
In 2015, Thabo Mbeki commissioned a high level report on Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) from Africa. The report indicated that over $50 billion in IFFs leaves Africa annually, an amount nearly equal to the official development assistance sent to the continent each year. IFFs are of particular concern amidst current changes in development funding trends and increasing environmental degradation.... More >
World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech
Lecture | September 25 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Osher Auditorium
2155 Center St., Berkeley, CA 94720
Franklin Foer
Franklin Foer reveals the existential threat posed by big tech and offers a toolkit to fight their pervasive influence. Elegantly tracing the intellectual history of computer sciencefrom Descartes and the enlightenment to Alan Turing to Stuart Brand and the hippie origins of todays Silicon ValleyFoer exposes the dark underpinnings of our most idealistic dreams for technology. The corporate... More >
ATC: World Without Mind: The Existential Threat of Big Tech with Frank Foer
Lecture | September 25 | 6:30-8 p.m. | Osher Auditorium, BAMPFA, Osher Auditorium
2155 Center St, Berkeley, CA 94720
Franklin Foer, The Atlantic; Nicholas Thompson,, Wired Magazine
Elegantly tracing the intellectual history of computer sciencefrom Descartes and the enlightenment to Alan Turing to Stuart Brand and the hippie origins of todays Silicon ValleyFrank Foer exposes the dark underpinnings of our most idealistic dreams for technology.
Exhibits and Ongoing Events
In-Between Places: Korean American Artists in the Bay Area
Exhibit - Painting | September 13 – December 10, 2017 every day | Mills College Art Museum
5000 MacArthur Boulevard, Oakland, CA 94613
In-Between Places (사이에 머물다) is the story of Korean American artists and their dreams, featuring new work by: Jung Ran Bae; Sohyung Choi; Kay Kang; Miran Lee; Young June Lew; Nicholas Oh; Younhee Paik; and Minji Sohn.
Jennie Smith: New Drawings
Exhibit - Painting | September 18 – December 15, 2017 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | Stephens Hall, Townsend Center for the Humanities
Townsend Center for the Humanities
San Francisco artist Jennie Smith infuses her detailed drawings of the natural world with an imaginative sensibility.
Viewing hours are generally Monday through Friday, 9 am to 4 pm. The exhibit is located in a space also used for events and meetings; please call (510) 643-9670 or email in advance to confirm room availability.
The Russian Revolution Centenary: 1917-2017: Politics, Propaganda and People's Art
Exhibit - Multimedia | September 11, 2017 – January 8, 2018 every day | Moffitt Undergraduate Library
This exhibition is dedicated to the centenary of the Russian Revolution that took place in October of 1917. The exhibition will take place in the Moffitt Library, and it will highlight several print-items from the revolutionary times.
Access to the Moffitt Undergraduate Library is restricted and you'll need the UC Berkeley/ Cal Card for entry.
The Summer of Love 50th Anniversary
Exhibit - Artifacts | July 21 – December 29, 2017 every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday & Friday | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. | Bancroft Library, Bancroft Corridor between The Bancroft Library and Doe Library
Marking a 50th anniversary, Bancrofts rare and unique collections documenting the 1967 Summer of Love are on exhibit in the corridor cases. Presented are images from the Bay Area alternative press, psychedelic rock posters and mailers, documentary photographs of the Haight-Ashbury scene and major rock concerts, and material from the personal papers of author Joan Didion and poet Michael... More >