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The Ben H. Parker Memorial Medal is the Institute's most distinguished award. It was established by the Executive Committee, in 1969, in posthumous honor of a truly great leader and one of the most articulate and effective advocates for the improvement of the profession of geology. The medal is awarded to individuals who have long records of distinguished and outstanding service to the profession. It is a tribute to Ben H. Parker, a person who gave much of his life to improve the quality of geology, geologists, and the services they provide. The following outstanding geologists have been awarded the Ben H. Parker Memorial Medal.
|Martin Van Couvering, 1969
|Ian Campbell, 1970
|Allen C. Tester, 1972
|James Boyd, 1973
|Jerry B. Newby, 1973
|Linn Hoover, 1974
|R. Dana Russell, 1976
|Frank B. Conselman, 1977
|John T. Galey, 1978
|Howard E. Rothrock, 1980
|Adolf U. Honkala, 1981
|Henry H. Neel, 1982
|John D. Haun, 1983
|Robert L. Bates, 1984
|M. O. Turner, 1985
|Robert J. Weimer, 1986
|Ernest K. Lehmann, 1987
|Michel T. Halbouty, 1988
|Peter T. Flawn, 1989
|Grover E. Murray, 1990
|Wayne A. Pettyjohn, 1991
|Robert H. Dott, Jr., 1992
|Daniel N. Miller, Jr., 1993
|Frank W. Harrison, Jr., 1994
|Donald L. Blackstone, 1995
|William L. Fisher, 1996
|Marcus E. Milling, Sr., 1997
|Peter R. Rose, 1998
|Charles J. Mankin, 1999
|Russell G. Slayback, 2000
|Susan M. Landon, 2001
|Larry D. Woodfork, 2002
|Richard J. Proctor, 2003
|Thomas G. Fails, 2004
|James W. Skehan, 2005
|Robert R. Jordan, 2006
|Madhurendu B. Kumer, 2007
|Dennis Pennington, 2008
|Robert H. Fakundiny, 2009
|John W. Rold, 2010
|Robert G. Font, 2011
|Richard M. Powers, 2012
|Jonathan G. Price, 2013
|William J. Siok, 2014
|David M. Abbott, Jr., 2015
|Vincent P. Amy, 2016
|Stephen M. Testa, 2017
|Barbara H. Murphy, 2018
The Martin Van Couvering Memorial Award was established by the Executive Committee, in 1979, in posthumous honor of the first President of the Institute. Martin Van Couvering made the presidency a full-time occupation for the first two years of the Institute's history. His dynamic leadership, diplomacy, and organizational abilities established the solid foundation from which the Institute has grown. Few, if any, have given so much to the Institute. The following outstanding persons have been recipients of the Martin Van Couvering Memorial Award.
Larry D. Woodfork, 1979
|Harold L. Fothergill, 1980
|Al Saterdal, 1981
|James A. Wheeler, 1981
James R. Dunn, 1982
|William A. Newton, 1983
|Andrew G. Alpha, 1984
|Russell R. Dutcher, 1985
Edward E. (Bud) Rue, 1986
|Bobby J. Timmons, 1987
|Charles J. Mankin, 1988
|Stanley S. Johnson, 1989
Sam R. Evans, 1990
|Richard J. Proctor, 1990
|Susan M. Landon, 1991
|Kenneth N. Weaver, 1992
Robert A. Northcutt, 1993
|Daniel N. Miller, Jr., 1994
|Russell G. Slayback, 1995
|William V. Knight, 1996
Robert K. Merrill, 1997
|David M. Abbott, Jr., 1998
|Stephen M. Testa, 1999
|Robert A. Levich, 2000
Thomas G. Fails, 2001
|Madhurendu B. Kumar, 2002
|Kelvin J. Buchanan, 2003
|Robert H. Fakundiny, 2004
|Lawrence M. Austin, 2005
|Richard M. Powers, 2006
|Robert G. Corbett, 2007
|Robert G. Font, 2008
|Larry R. Rhodes, 2008
|Daniel J. St. Germain, 2009
|Ronald J. Wallace, 2010
|Barbara H. Murphy, 2011
|Mark W. Rogers, 2012
|Robert A. Stewart, 2013
|Lawrence C. Weber, 2014
|James A. Jacobs, 2015
|J. Foster Sawyer, 2016
|Michael D. Lawless, 2017
|Dennis Pennington, 2018
The Public Service Award was established by the Executive Committee, in 1982, in recognition of one of its primary purposes; service to the public. In 1992, it was renamed the John T. Galey, Sr., Memorial Public Service Award, in posthumous honor of our fourth President, whose long professional career was a continuum of service to both the geological and the general public. This recognition is important because so many members have distinguished themselves and the Institute by giving expert testimony to governmental units, by serving on governmental commissions and committees, and by providing geological expertise where it was needed by the public at large.
Arthur O. Spaulding, 1983
|Allen F. Agnew, 1984
|William L. Fisher, 1985
|Frank E. Kottlowski, 1986
Cliff J. Nolte, 1987
|Russell G. Wayland, 1988
|Elisabeth G. Newton, 1989
|Linda E. Okland, 1990
Meredith E. "Buzz" Ostrom, 1991
|Robert R. Jordan, 1992
|Robert H. Fakundiny, 1993
|Morris W. "Brud" Leighton, 1994
Edward B. Nuhfer, 1995
|John W. Rold, 1996
|James E. Slosson, 1997
|Kathleen M. F. Benedetto, 1998
Jonathan G. Price, 1999
|James H. Williams, 2000
|John J. Dragonetti, 2001
|Thomas M. Berg, 2002
Vicki Cowart, 2003
|Margaret H. Dunn, 2004
|John G. Parrish, 2005
|Richard M. Lane, 2006
|Ivan K. "Tex" Gilmore, 2007
|M. Lee Allison, 2008
|Patrick P. Leahy, 2009
|James F. Howard, 2010
|2011 - No recipient
|James R. Burnell, 2012
|Scott W. Tinker, 2013
|Logan T. MacMillan, 2016
|Jonathan D. Arthur, 2017
|Thomas A. Herbert, 2018
For the first time in its history, AIPG in 1984 conferred Honorary Membership on one of its most distinguished and illustrious members. This special honor, provided for in the Institute's Constitution and Bylaws, had long been available but had never before been granted. The most important criterion for this award is an exemplary record of distinguished service to the profession and to the Institute.
Grover E. Murray, 1984
|L. L. Sloss, 1985
|Ross L. Shipman, 1986
|Edward C. Dapples, 1986
Doris M. Curtis, 1987
|Wallace B. Howe, 1988
|Robert R. Berg, 1988
|Edward E. Rue, 1989
Mason L. Hill, 1990
|Konrad B. Krauskopf, 1991
|Sam R. Evans, 1992
|Richard J. Proctor, 1992
Elisabeth G. Newton, 1993
|John Shanklin, 1993
|Richard A. Fox, 1994
|Ralph J. Bernhagen, 1995
Robert R. Jordan, 1996
|Charles J. Mankin, 1996
|Adolf U. Honkala, 1997
|Ernest K. Lehmann, 1997
Robert A. Northcutt, 1998
|William C. Gussow, 1998
|John D. Haun, 1998
|William A. Newton, 1999
Larry D. Woodfork, 1999
|Travis H. Hughes, 2000
|William V. Knight, 2001
|Michel T. Halbouty, 2002
John W. Rold, 2002
|Roy J. Shlemon, 2002
|Charles Wm. Dimmick, 2003
|Willard P. Fuller, Jr., 2004
|Rex Monahan, 2005
|Richard H. Young, 2005
|David M. Abbott, Jr., 2006
|Myrna M. Killey, 2006
|Robert H. Fakundiny, 2007
|Barbara H. Murphy, 2008
|Stephen M. Testa, 2009
|Lawrence M. Austin, 2010
|James A. Jacobs, 2011
|John L. Bognar, 2012
|William J. Siok, 2013
|Richard L. Nielsen, 2014
|Dennis Pennington, 2015
|Lawrence A. Cerrillo, 2016
|Dennis G. McGrath, 2017
|Ronald J. Wallace, 2018
Each year, the President of the American Institute of Professional Geologists may award one or more certificates of merit to individuals who, through dedicated and meritorious service, have made an outstanding contribution to the Institute. The award, the Presidential Certificate of Merit, is announced and presented to the recipient at the Annual Meeting.
George H. Davis, 1982
|Russell R. Dutcher, 1982
|A. Gordon Everett, 1982
|Joseph F. Fritz, 1982
John S. Fryberger, 1982
|John B. Gustavson, 1982
|Albert M. LaSala, 1982
|Gary E. Melickian, 1982
Edward B. Nuhfer, 1982
|Arthur O. Spaulding, 1982
|Benton M. Wilmoth, 1982
|Richard M. Winar, 1982
Allen F. Agnew, 1983
|Donald F. Cardinal, 1983
|Randell T. Chew III, 1983
|L. Luke Fournier, 1983
Gene R. George, 1983
|Travis H. Hughes, 1983
|Gary E. Melickian, 1983
|Elisabeth G. Newton, 1983
William H. Park, 1983
|Ross L. Shipman, 1983
|Derek B. Tatlock, 1983
|Bobby J. Timmons, 1983
Russell G. Wayland, 1983
|Kenneth N. Weaver, 1984
|Alan M. Jacobs, 1984
|Stanley S. Johnson, 1984
Bruce H. Mason, 1984
|Richard P. Ortiz, 1984
|D. Theodore Clark, 1985
|Stanley C. Grant, 1985
Rex B. Humphrey, 1985
|Robert Pendergast, 1985
|William G. Murray, 1985
|Serge Gonzales, 1986
Clayton H. Johnson, 1986
|Allan J. Krause, 1986
|Bill A. Street, 1986
|James K. Vincent, 1986
Phyllis M. Garman, 1986
|William J. Gilliland, 1987
|Raymond E. Irwin, 1987
|Stanley S. Johnson, 1987
Elisabeth G. Newton, 1987
|John C. Philley, 1987
|Stephen M. Testa, 1987
|John H. Dayvault, 1988
R. Steven Friberg, 1988
|John T. Galey, Jr., 1988
|Leroy Gatlin, 1988
|Gary B. Glass, 1988
Stephanie V. Hrabar, 1988
|Edward B. Nuhfer, 1988
|James E. O'Brien, 1988
|Larry R. Rhodes, 1988
|John A. Taylor, 1988
Richard H. Young, 1988
|Serge Gonzales, 1989
|Daniel W. Hall, 1989
|Fred B. "Ted" Mullin, 1989
Robert A. Northcutt, 1989
|Robert R. Jordan, 1990
|Norman K. Olson, 1990
|William G. Weist, Jr., 1990
Frederick M. Beck, 1991
R. Steven Friberg, 1991
|Ernest K. Lehmann, 1991
|Robert A. Northcutt, 1991
Gail Waggoner, 1991
|Logan T. MacMillan, 1992
|Russell G. Slayback, 1992
|Lawrence C. Weber, 1992
Don E. Williams, 1992
|Kathleen M. F. Benedetto, 1993
|Thomas Z. Jones, 1993
|Madhurendu B. Kumar, 1993
Edward B. Nuhfer, 1993
|Peter R. Rose, 1993
|David C. Scott, 1993
|Larry C. Simpson, 1993
Robert H. Fakundiny, 1994
|Mark A. Osten, 1994
|Charles Wm. Dimmick, 1994
|John L. Bognar, 1994
Steven M. Testa, 1994
|Fred B. "Ted" Mullin, 1994
|Wendy J. Davidson, 1994
|Robert K. Merrill, 1994
William V. Knight, 1994
|Robert L. DeGroot, 1995
|William G. Dixon, Jr., 1995
|Thomas G. Fails, 1995
Thornton L. Neathery, 1995
|Dennis T. Pennington, 1995
|Thomas M. Berg, 1996
|Wilgus B. Creath, 1996
Thomas G. Fails, 1996
|Margaret Kloska, 1996
|David G. Rensink, 1996
|James H. Williams, 1996
David M. Abbott, Jr., 1997
|Robert N. Braunstein, 1997
|Curtis J. Coe, 1997
|Barbara H. Murphy, 1997
James D. Shotwell, 1997
|Gary E. Van Guilder, 1997
|John J. Dragonetti, 1998
|Robert G. Font, 1998
Dawn H. Garcia, 1998
|Gunnar Hultquist, 1998
|Madhurendu B. Kumar, 1998
|William J. Siok, 1998
David M. Abbott, Jr., 1999
|Eugene Aleshin, 1999
|Ronald E. Alexander, 1999
|Kelvin J. Buchanan, 1999
L. Graham Closs, 1999
|Robert M. Colpitts, Jr., 1999
|Dean Feller, 1999
|Travis H. Hughes, 1999
William V. Knight, 1999
|Manuel Regueiro, 1999
|James D. Shotwell, 1999
|Myrna M. Killey, 2000
Thomas M. Berg, 2001
|Thomas G. Fails, 2001
|Wendy J. Davidson, 2001
|James A. Jacobs, 2001
Catherine A. O'Keefe, 2001
|Ronald B. St. John, 2001
|John H. Talley, 2001
|David M. Abbott, Jr., 2002
J. David Applegate, 2002
|Thomas G. Fails, 2002
|John T. Howard, 2002
|Robert A. Levich, 2002
John H. Talley, 2002
|John W. Hawley, 2003
|Virginia T. McLemore, 2003
|Babtunde A. Oyelow, 2003
John H. Talley, 2003
|Lawrence C. Weber, 2003
|Arthur E. Burford, 2004
|Gary T. Dannemiller, 2004
|Richard M. Powers, 2004
|Mark W. Rogers, 2004
|Myrna M. Killey, 2004
|Madhurendu B. Kumar, 2005
|Richard M. Powers, 2005
|William J. Siok, 2005
|Ronald J. Wallace, 2006
|John W. Hofer, 2006
|Robert A. Northcutt, 2006
|AIPG Wright State University Student Chapter of the AIPG Ohio Section, 2006
|Lawrence M. Austin, 2007
|Nancy A. Price, 2007
|James F. Howard, 2008
|Adam W. Heft, 2008
|Samuel Gowan, 2008
|J. Matthew Justice, 2009
|Ronald J. Wallace, 2009
|AIPG Energy Committee, 2009:
John Berry, Doug Ganey, Don Harris,
Dennis James, David Ryckman, Lee
Smith, and Ron Wallace.
|James A. Jacobs, 2010
|James H. Williams, 2010
|David M. Abbott, Jr., 2011
|Robert A. Stewart, 2011
|Lawrence C. Austin, 2012
|Robert G. Font, 2012
|Christine F. Lilek, 2013
|Stephanie K. Jarvis, 2013
|Vickie L. Hill, 2013
|Dorothy K. Combs, 2014
|Wendy J. Davidson, 2014
|Cathy L. Duran, 2014
|Vickie L. Hill, 2014
|Ramona "Mona" J. Scott, 2014
|Cristie J. Valero, 2014
|Helen V. Hickman, 2015
|Michael D. Lawless, 2015
|Anne M. Murray, 2015
|Keri A. Nutter, 2015
|Kristina Pourtabib, 2015
|R. Douglas Bartlett, 2016
|Wendy J. Davidson, 2016
|J. Foster Sawyer, 2016
|William J. Siok, 2016
|Daniel J. St. Germain, 2016
|Lawrence C. Weber, 2016
|David M. Abbott, 2017
|Kristina Pourtabib, 2017
|Ronald J. Wallace, 2017
|Lawrence M. Austin, 2018
|Helen V. Hickman, 2018
|Christine F. Lilek, 2018
|Anne M. Murray, 2018
|Shanna A. Schmitt, 2018
|John M. Stewart, 2018
|Michael J. Urban, 2018
The Outstanding Achievement Award Major Contribution to the Profession was established by the 1989 Executive Committee to honor a non-member of AIPG who is widely recognized as a major contributor to the profession of geology. The award is not necessarily given annually, but only when the Awards Committee recommends an outstanding candidate to the Executive Committee for their consideration.
|Stephen Jay Gould, 1989
|Ron Redfern, 1995
|John McPhee, 1997
|Julie A. Jackson, 1999
|Charles "Chip" Groat, 2003
|Samuel S. Adams, 2004
|Thomas W. Dibblee, Jr., 2005
A. F. "Fred" Spilhaus, Jr., 2009
|Simon Winchester, 2014
|Karl E. Karlstrom, 2015
|Laura J. Crossey, 2015
P. Patrick Leahy, 2016
The AIPG Section Leadership Award was established by the Executive Committee in 2013 to recognize one or more of our members who have demonstrated a long-term commitment and have been long-term contributors to AIPG at the section level. AIPG has many sections where one or more individuals have demonstrated exceptional leadership for their section and in many instances kept the section together and moving forward. These individuals are commonly not known at the National level or by AIPG members outside of their sections, however, their contributions have been vital to their sections and they perform this work because of their commitment to our profession and AIPG. The award will consist of a plaque (or similar) that will be presented to the awardees at the banquet of the annual meeting of AIPG.
Based on the above criteria the Awards Committee may select multiple nominees for the award.
The AIPG Section Leadership Award is administered by the Executive Committee of AIPG. The selection of the winning member(s) will be decided by the AIPG Awards Committee. The deadline for submittal of nominees for the AIPG Section Leadership Award, to AIPG National Headquarters, is January 15th of each year. The nomination form for AIPG Section Leadership Award is presented below. The awardees will be announced in early July so they may attend the annual meeting.
|Dave A. Sadoff, 2014, CA
|Douglas C. Peters, 2014, CO
|Glen L. Faulkner, 2014, GA
|Martin J. Hamper, 2014, IL-IN
|Adam W. Heft, 2014, MI
|Gary H. Haag, 2014, SD
|Andrew B. Graham, 2014, WI
|Paul A. Lindberg, 2015, AZ
|Eric F. Lowe, 2015, GA
|David G. Pyles, 2015, IL-IN
|Sara V. Pearson, 2015, MI
|Jane M. Willard, 2015, MN
|Curtis J. Coe, 2015, OH
|Michael D. Campbell, 2015, TX
|Christine F. Lilek, 2015, WI
|Stephen J. Baker, 2015, CA
|Logan T. MacMillan, 2015, CO
|Anne M. Murray, 2016, FL
|Dawn L. Prell, 2016, MI
|Bruce D. Johnson, 2016, MN
|Thomas F. Jenkins, 2016, OH
|Thomas V. Durkin, 2016, SD
|Alice C. Fuerst, 2016, MO
|Jayne A. Englebert, 2017, WI
|Dawn H. Garcia, 2017, AZ
|Curtis M. Hudak, 2017, MN
|Ronald J. Wallace, 2017, GA
|Robert A. Zierenberg, 2017, CA
|Troy Bernier, 2018, FL
|Robert P. Blauvelt, 2018, NE
|Ramona Cornea, 2018, IL-IN
|Michael C. Hultgren, 2018, MN
|Dennis G. McGrath, 2018, NE
|Shanna A. Schmitt, 2018, MN
|Brent R. Smith, 2018, OH
|Thomas G. Van Arsdale, 2018, CO
The purpose of the AIPG Student Chapter of the Year Award is to recognize the most outstanding student chapter for their participation in, and contribution to, the American Institute of Professional Geologists. The award will consist of a plaque to be presented to the student chapter, a certificate to each of the officers of the chapter at the time of their submittal, a $500.00 award for the chapter, and a trip for one member of the winning student chapter to the annual AIPG conference and executive meetings. The student that attends the annual meeting will observe the organization and functions of AIPG and participate in the executive board meeting.
|2018 - Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia - AIPG Student Chapter Founded 2011. Chapter Sponsor: Ronald Wallace, CPG-08153 and Faculty Sponsor: Dr. Diana Ortega-Ariza, YP-0320.
Student Chapter Officers: President – Austin Caughey, SA-8907; Vice President – Chance Seckinger, SA-8232; Secretary – Briana Jenkins-Deneke, SA-9254; Treasurer – Coral Marí Torres, SA-9413;
SGE Representative – Brice Lawley.
2017 - Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan - AIPG Student Chapter Founded 2012. Chapter Sponsor: John H. Barkach, CPG-09121 and Faculty Sponsor: Jeffrey L. Howard.
Student Chapter Officers: President - Mara Karageozian, SA-7079; Vice President - Erin D'Hondt, SA-6007; Secretary - Melissa Weaver, SA-7775; Treasurer: Makayla Myers, SA-7779; Event Coordinator: Alex Schreiber, SA-7082.
|2016 - Metropolitan State University of Denver, Denver, Colorado, Founded 2013. Chapter Sponsor: Tom Van Arsdale, CPG, and Faculty Sponsor: Drs. Uwe Kackstaetter and Barbara EchoHawk.
Student Chapter Officers: President - Jessica Davey, SA-4424; Vice President - Jaclyn Coulon, SA-6934; Secretary - Benjamin Eppley, SA-8024; Treasurer - Kevins O. Magouirk, SA-5674; Support Officer - Bryon Clayton, SA-6947; and Support Officer - Colin P. Lamb, SA-6965.
|2015 - Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, Founded 2013. Chapter Sponsor: Anne Murray, CPG, and Faculty Sponsor: David Farris.
Student Chapter Officers: President - Hannah K. Klein, SA-5156; Vice President - Chelsie N. Bowman, SA-5390; Secretary - Janine M. Giambalvo, SA-5422; Treasurer - Meg M. Wilson, SA-5391; Historian - Stephanie G. McColaugh, SA-5393; Graduate Student Liaison - Claire M. Routledge, SA-6296.
2014 - Columbus State University, Columbus, Georgia, Founded 2011. Chapter Sponsor: Ronald J. Wallace, CPG-8153; Faculty Sponsor: Bill Frazier.


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Fifa 13 game review
Kicks balls
Ease off the accelerator…
This new movement creates an appreciable impression of authenticity too. The ball feels its own entity, rather than an object rigidly attached to a player's radius when in possession. You need even more accuracy for passes and free-kicks are just as impossible as before. Even so, I feel far more in control of what I'm doing and less inclined to blame my controller for mistakes made. Give it a month.
Post tip noted
The logical push to slow things down continues with the game's Tactical Defending, introduced in Fifa 12. This aspect continues to put emphasis on positioning and manual interceptions. Those who wish to pressure and tackle opponents with an secondary AI-controlled player can switch into Legacy Defending in the menu settings for that risky crowd-em-out response. Yet the game plays far better when both sides try to preserve energy and see the match out at a steadier pace. This allows for more skill-play, fun one-on-one situations and some rocket blow-your-eyes-out-the-socket goals.
Commentary, is as harsh as ever with patronising remarks highlighting how crap you are following an error. The addition of various personnel – including waffle from old wide-chops Andy Townsend and sideline injury reports from popular Sky host Geoff Shreeves – makes the whole experience incredibly believable. Some commentary inconsistencies appear and repetition soon creeps in, but the system's overall advancements are admirable. I wish there was a customise commentary option though, recording our own clips to overwrite the ones already there. Time-consuming sure, but potentially hilarious.
Walk of game
Naturally, someone who has never played a football title before will struggle to compete against ardent Fifa gamers, however, players can tone their skills between games like never before. Instead of simply kicking the ball around while matches load, EA has introduced a collection of skill games aimed at improving one's Fifa talent. It would be nice if controls alternated to Player 2 occasionally, though.
The training games can be accessed from the main menu too, offering a whole new mode in itself. Mastering the higher echelons of these skills is a challenge, to say the least, but you'll certainly become addicted while making it happen.
Why aren't you in China already?
Unfortunately, a few annoyances remain while churning through matches. A slow response in team management mode frustrates over the course of a season. Also, the cut scenes that gloss over any in-game loads (with close ups of a particular player), always generate impatient button bashing in an unsuccessful bid to skip. Nevertheless, I'll give the engine a little leeway for the occasional dally, particularly as there really is plenty of content to keep up with.
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Impressive April downpours swept across southeast Wisconsin Tuesday, bringing lightning and even some small hail to parts of the area.
What was so impressive about Tuesday's rain storms was how cold the temperatures were/are (in the 30s) and we still had thunderstorms.
Here's a doppler radar estimate of rainfall in southeast Wisconsin over the past 48 hours ending 8 p.m. Tuesday.
Just Tuesday alone brought 1-2" of rain across a big chunk of southeast Wisconsin.
As of 8 p.m. Tuesday, Mitchell Field had recorded 1.77" of rain, tying the record from 1973.
With the recent rains, rivers, creeks, and streams will be running bank full to minor flood stage.
The National Weather Service has issued flood warnings for five rivers in southeast Wisconsin.
- Sheboygan River, near Kiwanis Park in Sheboygan
- Milwaukee River, near Cedarburg
- Oak Creek in South Milwaukee
- Fox River near New Munster
- Crawfish River near Milford
These rivers will crest by Friday and start to recede this weekend.
Be aware for potential flooding near these rivers.
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In the first year of operation the Circle of Life worked jointly with Beautiful Life Nurse Preparation, a separate program funded through another grant. Working with Beautiful Life Director Elaine Borgen, the two teams mentored the first graduates of a new Medical Assistant program at the College.
In addition, many new students recruited by the programs are now enrolled in the Certified Nursing Assistant (CNA) program. The CNA program is the first step in a health care "career pathway" that can lead to employment as a licensed practical nurse, registered nurse, or in other health-related fields.
According to project statistics, there is a severe shortage of health care workers and minorities in the health professions, with only about nine percent of registered nursing positions filled by Blacks, Hispanics, and Native Americans.
The project's goal is to identify, mentor, and help more Native Americans successfully enter and graduate from the College's nursing and other health care programs.
According to Caldwell, the local and regional health care facilities serve a population that is from 55 to 99 percent Native American, yet only a small percentage of the health care professionals are Native American.
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The Circle of Life project is supported by a partnership called the Education Cooperative for Health Industry Professionals or eChip. It includes CEU-SJC, San Juan Department of Workforce Services, Kayenta Health Center, Utah Navajo Health Systems, San Juan Health Services, NATIVE District, San Juan School District, San Juan Department of Rehabilitation Services, San Juan Family Learning Centers, and San Juan County Commission.


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In 2011, the Kenyan media continued to live up to its traditional reputation for vibrant and critical reporting, despite cases of threats and intimidation against individual reporters in regions outside the capital, Nairobi. Improvements in the legal framework for media freedom were strengthened during the year. Articles 33 and 34 of the 2010 constitution have been widely praised for expanding freedoms of expression and the press, and specifically prohibiting the state from interfering with the editorial independence of individual journalists as well as both state-owned and private media outlets. The new constitution also guarantees the right of access to state information, and requires state-owned media to be impartial at all times. While there are potential curbs on the enjoyment of these freedoms with regard to incitement, hate speech, antigovernment propaganda in times of war, and privacy, they are not as severe as those in the previous constitution.
Libel and defamation cases, which can be tried under either criminal or civil law and in which the burden of proof rests with the accused, were brought against journalists in 2011. In one high-profile defamation lawsuit, Deputy Prime Minister Uhuru Kenyatta sued the private Kenya Television Network (KTN) in March for airing a 2008 interview with Prime Minister Raila Odinga in which he claimed that Kenyatta had links with an outlawed ethnic militia, the Mungiki. In July, a High Court judge ordered KTN to pay Kenyatta 7 million shillings ($77,250). Also in March, parliament member William Kabogo sought an injunction against KTN and the Standard to prevent them from publishing or broadcasting allegedly libelous reports about his links to the coastal illegal drug trade; the High Court ruled in favor of the injunction in September. Police Commissioner Mathew Iteere sued KTN for libel in November for a report implicating him in a major drug deal in the coastal city of Mombasa. Kenyan courts maintained independence in several other cases involving the media, including the June acquittal of journalist Bernard Okebe of blackmail charges filed by Lawrence Njoroge, a police chief in western Kenya, in 2008. The court ruled that Njoroge had presented insufficient evidence to support his claims. The police chief is also a prime suspect in the 2009 murder of Weekly Citizen journalist Francis Nyaruri.
The Information Ministry's draft freedom of information bill, published in 2007, has yet to be presented to parliament, but access to information has improved with the passage of the new constitution. New rights guaranteed to the media effectively weaken secrecy laws such as the Official Secrets Act, which prevented the release of information on national security grounds. Fears that Kenya's October military incursion into Somalia would lead to state censorship did not materialize, although independent media experts reported that many media houses resorted to self-censorship regarding the conflict.
The Media Council of Kenya, established by the 2007 Media Act, regulates the conduct and discipline of journalists, but is hampered by a lack of funds. A draft Media Bill was introduced in 2010 to amend the 2007 act. Although it maintains the use of statutory measures to regulate media ethics and standards, the draft bill would provide greater independence to the council and institute a Code of Ethics that is consistent with international standards. The Communications Commission of Kenya (CCK) is responsible for broadcast media licensing and public broadcasting regulation. It also oversees and regulates the telecommunications sector, including licensing internet service providers (ISPs). In compliance with the new constitution, a bill was introduced in 2010 to establish an independent regulatory and oversight body for the broadcasting sector, which would replace the existing commission. Neither the Media Bill nor the legislation to create a new regulatory commission had been passed by year's end.
Several extrajudicial threats and attacks against the media by state and nonstate actors occurred in 2011, particularly in the western and eastern regions of the country. In September, unknown assailants raided the offices of the investigative magazine Nairobi Law Monthly and stole computers and hard disks containing critical information for the October issue. Publisher Ahmednasir Abdullahi told reporters that he suspected government involvement in the raid. The staff managed to release the October edition despite the stolen property. Two KTN investigative reporters, Mohamed Ali and Dennis Onsarigo, faced threats to their lives after investigating cases of drug smuggling along coastal Kenya in May for a series of reports aired during the year. And in December, an anonymous caller with suspected links to a local official in Bungoma, in western Kenya, made repeated death threats to KTN reporter Robert Wanyonyi for his story on a theft at a coffee factory and resulting violence between villagers and local police. Wanyonyi was forced to leave the area with his family after being followed by police with suspected links to the Bungoma official, as well as further anonymous phone threats.
Journalists of Somali-Kenyan origin received the bulk of threats in 2011, often being targeted by Islamic militias based in neighboring Somalia as supporters of the Kenyan government. Threats became particularly acute for some of these journalists after the Kenyan army invaded southern Somalia in October in a bid to secure its borders from attacks by the Somali Islamic militia Al-Shabaab. For example, individuals with suspected links to Al-Shabaab issued threats through phone calls and e-mails, and physically attacked relatives of the Nairobi Star's award-winning journalist Fatuma Noor in late October, after they accused the reporter of assisting the Kenyan police in the arrest of some of their members. Also, journalists who investigated the 2007–08 postelection violence were threatened by supporters of politicians currently facing indictments by the International Criminal Court (ICC) for their role in instigating the crisis. Two correspondents from the western city of Eldoret, Walter Barasa of the People and Mathews Ndanyi of the Star, were compelled to leave the city late in the year after repeated threats and accusations by locals that they were informants for the ICC.
Kenya's leading media outlets, especially in the print sector, are often critical of politicians and government actions. They remain pluralistic, rigorous, and bold in their reporting, although they also frequently pander to the interests of major advertisers. There are four daily newspapers, one business daily, and several regional weekly newspapers. In addition, several irregularly published independent tabloids are highly critical of the government. While the number of private broadcast media outlets has risen steadily, the state-controlled Kenya Broadcasting Corporation (KBC) remains dominant outside major urban centers, and its coverage tends to favor the government. Two private companies, the Standard Media Group and the Nation Media Group, run independent television networks and respected newspapers. There has been a significant expansion of FM radio, particularly ethnic stations, and their call-in shows have fostered increasing public participation as well as commentary that is unfavorable to the government. However, community broadcasting is underdeveloped. International news media, including the British Broadcasting Corporation and Radio France Internationale, are widely available in Kenya. The use of bribery by political actors to influence news coverage remains a concern, as does the allocation or withdrawal of advertising to control content.
About 28 percent of Kenyans accessed the internet in 2011, and in recent years there has been a growth in online news publications as well as the use of social media sites. There were no reports that the government restricted internet access. Due to lack of infrastructure and electricity, internet availability is still limited in rural areas, though expanding mobile-phone usage has increased access. In July, the government launched a website, Kenya Open Data, which made large amounts of official information, including the national census, available to the public for the first time.


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Creditors Practice Bylaws
Article I
This section shall be known as the Creditors Practice Section of the Tennessee Bar Association (the "TBA"), hereinafter referred to as the "section.
Article II
The purposes of the section shall be:
(a) to further the legal knowledge of the members of the section in the areas of the law that most directly affect their practices;
(b) to increase the legal skills of its members through the dissemination of information and material on subjects of interest and concern to their practices;
(c) to provide an opportunity for members to exchange ideas and seek solutions for problems common to the practice of law in such fields, for the mutual benefit and improvement of all members of the section;
(d) to assist in the formulation, administration, and implementation of programs, forums, and other activities for the education of the general membership of the TBA in these and related fields;
(e) to act upon all matters the section deems germane to its purposes within the scope of the authority granted to it by the TBA, as well as those referred by the Board of Governors;
(f) to seek uniformity in, and improvements to, the laws, and court or administrative rules affecting the practices of section members by collaborating with appropriate TBA entities and personnel regarding the same; and
(g) to promote the highest levels of professionalism in its members, as well as to encourage service to the bar and to the public, including providing pro bono representation.
The purposes of the section shall be accomplished through its executive council, officers and committees by utilizing publications, meetings, seminars, projects and other suitable means, thereby promoting the objectives of its members and the TBA.
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Article III
Membership and Dues
Any member of the TBA is eligible for section membership, and upon payment of section dues for the current bar year, such TBA member shall be enrolled as a section member. The term of section membership shall run concurrent with membership in the TBA and shall be renewed annually, along with general TBA membership renewal.
§2 Dues
The annual dues of this section shall be set by the Board of Governors for the TBA, and shall be payable to the TBA upon renewal of the general TBA membership dues. The membership of this section shall be made up of those TBA members in good standing who also pay these annual section dues, as set by the Board of Governors for the TBA. All funds collected by the TBA for section dues shall be deposited into the general operating funds of the TBA, and a budget for the section shall then be established by the TBA Board of Governors.
Article IV
Executive Council
§1 Duties
The section shall be governed by an executive council (the "council"). The council shall supervise and direct the affairs and policies of the section, subject to, and in accordance with, these bylaws, and the rules, regulations, and policies of the TBA. The council shall also assist the TBA Board of Governors and other TBA entities and personnel in carrying out the purposes of the section and the TBA.
§2 Members
The council shall consist of a chair, vice chair, secretary/treasurer, and delegates from each of the three Grand Divisions of the state, to be chosen immediately prior to the commencement of their service. To the extent possible, the number of delegates from each of the Grand Divisions should be equal. In the event that one or more of the Grand Division delegate positions cannot be reasonably filled at a particular time, the council may function as fully constituted until such time as any vacant positions may be filled.
Nominations to the council may be made by the council acting as a nominating committee, by declaration of candidacy filed by a member of the section, or from the floor at any properly called meeting of the membership of the section. Members of the council shall not receive compensation for their service thereon. In the event that any position on the council is not timely filled, the President of the TBA may appoint such officers and/or delegates as may be necessary in order to maintain proper administration of the section.
§3 Terms of Office
The members of the council shall continue in office until their successors are elected or appointed, and assume office.
§4 Meetings
Meetings of the council may be called by the chair or by a majority of the members of the council. Notice of such meetings, including the date, time, and "place" of said meeting, shall be directed to members of the council at least five (5) days prior to such meeting by First Class U.S. mail, e-mail or facsimile. At meetings of the council, the majority of its members shall constitute a quorum for the purposes of transacting council business. Meetings may be conducted in person; by telephone; by webcast; or through use of a combination of the same, or in any other manner generally accepted for conducting business in Tennessee. All other section and council meetings referred to in these bylaws may also be conducted by any of the means described herein.
Article V
§1 Officers
The officers of the section shall be a chair, vice chair, and the secretary/treasurer. Election of the officers of the section shall be either in person, at a properly noticed section meeting, or by mailed ballot. Ballots may be sent by e-mail or by regular U.S. Mail, at the discretion of the council and the TBA Board of Governors, taking into account budgetary constraints and timeliness issues. Nominations may be made by the council, the general membership of the section, or upon application from a qualified section member. Officers shall be elected not later than March 1 of the bar year preceding commencement of the officers' terms. The newly elected chair, vice chair, and secretary/treasurer shall assume the duties of their respective offices at the annual meeting of the TBA in June and shall continue in office until their successors are elected and assume office.
In the event of vacancy among the officers, the council may elect a successor to fill such vacancy. If the council does not act to fill such vacancy, the President of the TBA may appoint a replacement in order to maintain proper administration of the section.
The chair shall preside at all meetings of the section and the council, and shall administer the affairs of the section and council subject to, and in accordance with, these bylaws and the rules, regulations, and policies of the TBA. The chair shall also work with TBA personnel to prepare a section budget for submission to the TBA Board of Governors.
The vice chair shall perform all the duties of the chair when the chair is absent or unable to act, and when so acting shall have all the powers of, and be subject to the same restrictions as the chair. The vice chair shall automatically succeed to the office of chair, after serving one year as vice chair.
The secretary/treasurer shall oversee preparation by TBA personnel of minutes of all council and section meetings and assist with budget requests and expenditures related to section business. TBA personnel will also prepare the section budget, in consultation with the chair and the secretary/treasurer.
Article VI
§1 Standing and Ad Hoc Committees
The chair and the council shall have the power to create such committees as they deem appropriate, including standing and ad hoc committees, for such purposes and for such terms as they deem to be in the best interest of the section.
§2 Committee Chairs
Each committee shall have a committee chair and such other committee officers as may be required who shall be selected by, and serve at the pleasure of, the chair of the section. Such committee officers shall have such powers and duties as authorized by the chair and/or council.
§3 Members of the Committees
The members of a committee shall be selected from the members of the section. The council may, on recommendation of any committee, remove or replace any committee member who shall fail to attend committee meetings, or discharge their duties as a member of the committee or of the section.
Article VII
§1 Meetings and Notices
The section may meet during the annual meeting of the TBA at such time and location as may then be designated by the TBA for the same. The section may also hold such other meetings as may be called by the chair or council upon notice given to the members of the section at least 20 days prior to any such meeting. Notice of the meetings shall be provided by First Class U.S. mail, e-mail, facsimile, or by publication in an official publication of the TBA.
§2 Quorum
The members of the section present at any section meeting, duly called and constituted pursuant to these bylaws, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of section business.
§3 Vote
All binding action of the section shall be by majority vote of the section members present at a section meeting, except with regard to amendments to the bylaws, which shall be as outlined otherwise herein.
Article VIII Fiscal Matters and Reports
§1 Fiscal Year
The fiscal year of the section shall correspond to the fiscal year of the TBA.
§2 Expenditure of Funds
The section shall only expend those funds actually approved in its budget by the TBA Board of Governors and may not otherwise obligate the TBA in any financial matter. Any funds budgeted but not approved during the fiscal year shall not be carried over to the next bar year, but shall revert to the TBA general fund.
§3 Quarterly Report
The chair shall work with TBA personnel to submit a quarterly report of the activities of the section to the TBA Board of Governors prior to each quarterly meeting of the TBA Board of Governors. In addition, the chair shall submit such other reports as may be requested by the TBA Board of Governors or the president of the TBA.
Article IX
Miscellaneous Provisions
§1 Tennessee Bar Association
No action of the section shall become effective as an action of the TBA until it is approved by the TBA Board of Governors. All programs, procedures, and policies of the section shall also be subject to the approval of the TBA Board of Governors.
§2 Publications
The section shall produce such publications as the chair and council deem beneficial for the section and the TBA, consistent with these bylaws and the rules, regulations, and policies of the TBA. The secretary/treasurer, or such designee as may be appointed by the council, shall oversee the publication of said publications. The use of electronic publication is encouraged when practical.
§3 Continuing Legal Education
All continuing legal education programs for this section shall be prepared and conducted in consultation with, and upon approval of, the Continuing Legal Education Committee and CLE staff to allow proper coordination of all TBA continuing legal education programs and provide the greatest possible benefit to all members of the TBA.
§4 Amendment
The council or any section member may propose an amendment to these bylaws, so long as twenty days notice of the proposed amendment is provided to section membership in advance of a vote on the same. Notice shall be given in any manner authorized herein for the provision of notice to section membership of a section meeting. A vote on any proposed amendment to these bylaws may be by ballot or at any properly noticed section meeting, using the same voting procedures as called for in the election of section officers. However, a vote by two-thirds of the members present at a properly noticed meeting, or two-thirds of the entire section membership if the amendment question is presented by ballot, is required to successfully amend these bylaws. Upon the approval of an amendment to these bylaws by section membership as provided for herein, the amendment must be approved by the TBA Board of Governors before becoming effective.
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Reporter Undergoes Circumcision by Bamboo Stick to Get Scoop
Why is Simon Eroro of the Papua New Guinea Post-Courier a great reporter? He's willing to do anything to chase after a hot tip—even if it means only a snippet of news. Also, he underwent a circumcision to secure an interview.
Eroro, who was awarded the "Best Scoop" award by his employers at News International, the Australian appendage of Rupert Murdoch's News Corp., is no softie. Working briskly in the face of cutbacks at newspapers around the globe, in a media environment that favors shortened articles, Eroro followed his story all the way to its very end—even if it meant mo' hell for himself—and walked (or limped) away with more than just a scrap:
[Eroro's story] required him to cross rivers and jungles to reach a group of rebels, only to be told he must first agree to the circumcision as part of a cleansing ceremony. Mr Eroro agreed – and got the interviews.
In his subsequent reporting for the Post-Courier newspaper, Mr Eroro exposed the cross-border movements of Free West Papua militants from Indonesia into Papua New Guinea. The judges of News Ltd's Scoop of the Year prize said the reports had led to a major police operation to tighten the borders.
We applaud Eroro, for his firm sense of duty even in the face of hard choices. You, sir, are a cut above.


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The clock was ticking Tuesday night for "The Voice" coaches to finish fleshing out their teams, and as it did, frustrations flared between the coaches' chairs.
At the end of the night, it was Adam who won some of the hardest-fought battles for talent, and it was CeeLo who lost out on some of his favorite contestants.
Adam's winning stream began right off the bat, with rock scion and young hipster dad Will Champlin, who — decked out in suspenders and white-rimmed glasses — took on Gavin DeGraw's "Not Over You."
"I can't think of one thing that wasn't spectacular about that performance," Adam told him, though he also managed to remind Will of their shared experience as Angelenos. The tack worked, and Will picked Adam over CeeLo and Blake.
Next came a battle between CeeLo and Christina, and CeeLo lost that one too, despite his best efforts. That battle was over Stephanie Ann Johnson, a gospel-fed and classically-trained 25-year-old who works as a lounge singer on cruise ships. ("I'm ready to get back on land," she admitted.)
Stephanie yipped, growled and crooned her way through KT Tunstall's "Black Horse & the Cherry Tree," to CeeLo's obvious delight as he cheered her on.
CeeLo picked up on her gospel roots and said he had heard "soul and conviction" in her performance. And when Stephanie admitted that her niche was "indie soul music," it seemed CeeLo would be her obvious choice for a coach.
But he wasn't. She went with Christina.
CeeLo tried again for the next singer, Sam Cerniglia, an aspiring Chicago crooner cheered on by his two sisters both battling genetic disorders. Sam took on Michael Buble's "It's a Beautiful Day" and earned plaudits and chair turns from both Blake and CeeLo.
"You sounded so sophisticated," CeeLo remarked. "You're a complete vocalist," Blake said. Sam went with Blake.
Next came James Irwin, an indefatigable singer who had tried out at blind auditions last season but failed to make it onto a team.
This time around, the young dad managed to turn all four coaches' chairs with his slow-burn cover of REM's "Losing My Religion."
That four-chair turn for somebody who had previously failed to earn even a one-chair turn marked a "Voice" first, Adam remarked, as he and his rival coaches proceeded to vie for James on their teams.
"You're ready to win this thing now. Let's do it!" Blake enthused. But James, citing his rock background, picked Adam as his coach, giving Adam the first of the two four-chair turns he'd nab all evening.
Next up was Olivia Henken, a Louisville-bred country music poster girl looking to best her litany of lesser singing contest victories. The blonde took on Carrie Underwood's "Two Black Cadillacs" — and with it, she triggered another CeeLo-Christina fight for her talent.
"Something in it just totally connected with me," Christina said, and Olivia chose her as her coach. (She may have bought that over CeeLo's claim that he, like Olivia, counted as "country with a little rock to it.")
CeeLo finally picked up a team member with the next performer, and he managed to press his button in the nick of time.
R. Anthony, a bespectacled, married father of two young daughters, had grown up the quiet, awkward kid in a large family before he discovered his love of music singing with a gospel trio. Now, he said, he was ready to go solo.
He did so on "The Voice" stage with a subtle but gospel-tinged take on the Script's "Hall of Fame," earning a chair turn from Christina and then, at the very last moment, from CeeLo too. To Christina's frustration, R. chose CeeLo, giving the "F--- You" singer his first success of the night.
CeeLo got another team member in Keaira LaShae, while Christina picked up Amber Nicole and Blake picked up Emily Randolph. Blake also got a run for his own country money — as well as a team member — in the form of Alabama-bred Justin Chain, who committed himself to a singing career after a horrific motorcycle crash torpedoed his college football plans.
The toughest fight of the night, though, was the one for single mom, full-time programmer analyst and part-time singer Ashley Dubose, whose confident, joyful take on Rihanna's "Diamonds" won over all the coaches as soon as she hit her first high note.
Adam said her voice "overtook the room," while CeeLo shared a vision of the future that fell somewhere between eerie and charming. "I want to be there for you all the way down the line, you know, rooting for you front row at the Grammys," he said.
But Ashley sided with Adam as her coach, making Adam the coach with the most momentum Tuesday night in the four-chair fights for great singers.
As for those who didn't turn a chair? Recent high school graduate Macey Estes' singing didn't prompt a chair turn, though the rap she wrote about coming on "The Voice" impressed the judges. Jennifer Newberry's take on Bruno Mars' "Locked Out of Heaven" didn't showcase her own personality enough, Christina said.
And while the coaches were impressed at the contrast between 16-year-old Jason Kertson's voice (think Eddie Vedder crossed with Paul Robeson) and looks (think One Direction), that didn't land him a spot on a team.
The blind auditions continue on "The Voice" next week, as the coaches look to stock their teams with as many possible winners as they can.
"The Voice" airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8/7c on NBC.


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Lots of drama on tonight's episode of the Real World: Las Vegas as the roommates discover Dustin Zito's porn past. Last week, we posted a segment focusing on an interview with Dustin in which he detailed his career in the gay porn industry. He also defended some remarks he made that many people believed were homophobic. In the same Ology interview, Dustin spoke of his romance with fellow cast member Heather Marter.
Dustin explains that he initially came to Las Vegas hoping for a wild time and looking for anything but a relationship. He says, "In the beginning, I'm telling myself, don't do this, it's Vegas. But, you know, grandma's watching this! I don't want to be coming home with a different girl every night!"
He continues by saying that while he tried to ignore their chemistry at first, it became increasingly difficult. Dustin recalls, "With Heather, I could fight that initial attraction. But living with her, seeing her 24/7, of course I'm gonna develop feelings for her because she's an awesome girl. By the second or third episode we're together- but what people don't know is that we had a lot of talks. We took our time. We both came into the house with that same mindset that we can do whatever we want. But we couldn't fight it. We were naturally attracted to each other."
You Can Click Here To See Images From Dustin's Porn Past
So far this season it seems that the two are quite a match. However, does their relationship come to a screeching halt when Heather discovers the skeletons in his closet? Dustin admits, "Heather is an amazing girl. She's exactly what I would hope for," but he plays coy when asked if the couple survives his secret past being revealed. Like any good reality star who knows it's all about viewership, he responds, "That's one of those things where you're just going to have to watch. I won't comment on it, because it's such a big deal."
And watch we will. In a teaser posted on mtv.com, we learn that this week Dustin's porn history is revealed, shocking his cast mates and friends, and potentially ending his relationship with Heather. Ousted roommate Adam Royer is still in contact with housemate and hook-up Nany Gonzalez, and we can only assume he is no longer in the mtv created bubble that shields the cast from most forms of technology. During a very telling phone call (where Dustin and Heather are in the background getting cozy), Adam informs Nany that several people have been hitting up Dustin's blog with comments about his past.
Curious, Adam googled his former cast mate and learned that not only was Dustin in porn, but while in the "industry" he went by the name Spencer. Stating he didn't snoop much more, Adam asks Nany not to tell Heather of his discovery. It seems that at this point Adam is unaware that it was gay porn. Nany shares the information with roommate Naomi Defensor and the girls have a good laugh over this new revelation. Will they be able to keep the news from Heather? Obviously not….so the better question is, how will she react? I guess we shall see soon enough…
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Sniffle, cough, sneeze, and repeat. Yep, winter will be here before you know it. The fall leaves begin to pile up in the front yard, you pack the family bathing suits away with a sigh, and all you'd like to do is hunker down on your couch and hibernate for a few months.
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DIY: Firewood Bin
You might have noticed this little detail in Kelly's sketch from the last post:
That is not something just the future when we build the fireplace – it exists now, because I made it!
I had been wanting to keep our firewood in something other than the uber-ugly plastic milk crate it existed in all winter, and got the idea to get a little crafty with a $15 galvanized tub from my local thrift store. (And when I say "local," I mean 6 blocks away, local…)
First, I got Kelly to find a nice modern, but not too cold, font and print out the word "Firewood." Then, after cleaning off the outside of the tub, I used a spray-adhesive to arrange the letters around one side. It was a good thing that adhesive was labeled "repositionable" because it took me 3 tries to get the letters to fit just right.
For a little more detail, I masked off one section of the tub with painter's tape.
Then I started priming and painting. Forgive these next few pictures – I started this project in the late afternoon and by the time I got to painting, it had gotten dark. I was working in the backyard by the glow of the floodlight.
Then, when everything was dry, I removed the letters and the painter's tape and had a cool new bin for firewood!
And here it is with wood in it, next to our (yet to be renovated) fireplace.


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The Association of Surfing Professionals (ASP) World Qualifying Series (WQS) 3-Star Quiksilver Pro Puerto Escondido launched back in to action today in barreling two-to-four foot (1 metre) conditions at Playa Zicatela and saw Clay Marzo (Maui, HI), 19, lead Round 3 action when he earned the event's second perfect 10-point-ride for a committing backside barrel-ride.
Marzo, who was in impressive form in his opening Round 2 heat, took the day's top honors when he nabbed the event's second perfect single-wave score en route to claiming the day's highest heat total of 17.00 out of 20 with an impressive display of backhand barrel-riding on the hollow Playa Zicatela righthanders.
"I was able to find some good rights out there," Marzo said. "I was stoked when I saw that one coming. I almost fell on the drop, but I was able to set my line and make it."
Blake Howard (Carpenteria, CA), 26, who was also a Round 2 standout, found a bombing left to claim an impressive 9.50 out of 10 on the way to his second Quiksilver Pro Puerto Escondido heat win. Howard's solid 15.50 heat total saw him easily advance through to the Round of 16.
"I was just sitting down the beach trying to stay away from anybody and trying to find any corner that came my way and it happened to be a good one," Howard said.
The talented barrel-rider's strategy of staying busy in his heats has been paying off and the Carpenteria native will definitely be a threat to his fellow competitors in the next round.
"I was moving around a little bit," Howard said. "It seems a little more walled today because of the long intervals, but there are still corners. You just have to avoid the rips and find the corners."
Angelo Lozano (Puerto Escondido, MEX), 22, who won the ASP WQS 3-Star Vans PXM International last year at Puerto Escondido, looked hungry to claim his second event at home today and managed to find two high-scoring waves despite the inconsistent conditions in his Round 3 heat.
"The heat started out fast and I got a good left in the first two minutes," Lozano said. "Then when I got out I thought I'd try and find a right, but there were no waves for 18 minutes. Then, luckily I was able to get that good tube to get a second good score."
Quiksilver Pro Puerto Escondido Round of 32 Results: (1st and 2nd advance)
Heat 1: Manuel Selman (CHL) 13.75, Guillermo Satt (CHL) 12.00, Luis Maria Iturria (URY) 10.10, Ricky Whitlock (USA) 5.25
Heat 2: Clay Marzo (USA) 17.00, Ashton Madeley (USA) 11.65, Peter Mel (USA) 5.50, Keetin Devine (USA) 4.00
Heat 3: Angelo Lozano (MEX) 15.40, Andrew Bennett (USA) 10.75, Diego Naranjo (CRI) 9.25, Nils Schweizer (USA) 7.10
Heat 4: Blake Howard (USA) 15.50, Leandro Usuna (ARG) 12.75, Gilbert Brown (CRI) 9.00, Oscar Moncada (MEX) 2.75
Heat 5: Cory Arrambide (USA) 10.00, Felipe Cesarano (BRA) 10.00, Austin Smith-Ford (USA) 5.00, Christian Corzo (MEX) 3.00
Heat 6: Heitor Pereira (BRA) 13.25, Junior Faria (BRA) 13.10, Gabe Garcia (USA) 12.90, Matt Mohagen (USA) 8.25
Heat 7: Magnum Martinez (VEN) 13.75, Jeronimo Vargas (BRA) 10.00, Andres DeMarco (MEX) 6.65, Dylan Southworth (MEX) 6.50
Heat 8: Gabriel Villaran (PER) 15.60, Adan Hernandez (MEX) 14.25, Ramon Navarro (CHL) 12.50, Matt Johnson (USA) 7.25
Quiksilver Pro Puerto Escondido Round of 48 Results: (1st and 2nd advance)
Heat 14: Dylan Southworth (MEX) 9.85, Matt Johnson (USA) 7.55, David Rutherford (MEX) 4.60, Oscar Davo (M EX) 3.85
Heat 15: Ramon Navarro (CHL) 12.00, Magnum Martinez (VEN) 6.85, Adam Lambert (USA) 6.40, Alvaro Bacana (BRA) 5.65
Heat 16: Gabriel Villaran (PER) 9.10, Andres DeMarco (MEX) 7.90, Pedro Fernandez (DOM) 3.50, Kyle Buthman (USA) 2.80


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As Linux Turns 20, Hopes and Wishes for Its Next 20 Years
Aug 25, 2011 5:00 AM PT
Birthdays and anniversaries are a natural time for reflection on what has been and what is yet to come. When they mark major milestones such as 20 years, however, there's a considerable temptation to think bigger.
So it's been in the Linux blogosphere, where our favorite operating system officially turns 20 today. Happy Birthday, Linux!
The celebrations began months ago, of course, thanks to the Linux Foundation's jubilant efforts, which culminated last week at the LinuxCon show. Now that the actual day is upon us, however, that 20-year anniversary is dominating the thoughts and conversations of bloggers far and wide.
'And They Said It Wouldn't Last'
"Linux turns 20, the future is bright," read one headline on ZDNet UK, for example.
"Linux Turns 20 (And They Said it Wouldn't Last)" read another.
"After 20 Years, Linux Looks Better Than Ever," read the one at PCWorld.
It's been like Mardi Gras in the Linux blogosphere's main downtown, meanwhile, where banks were closed and fans gathered on Thursday to celebrate the momentous day.
Braving the din, the confetti and the deafening band, Linux Girl took the opportunity to gather some wishes for the operating system's next 20 years.
'Linux Is a Success'
"On its 20th year, Linux is a success," Roberto Lim, a lawyer and blogger on Mobile Raptor, told Linux Girl.
"It is the dominant server operating system and is threatening to be the dominant mobile operating system," Lim explained. "It is struggling on the desktop, but even there has achieved a relative success, not in the number of desktops it is installed on but in that it has acted as a deterrent as against Microsoft Windows and Office."
In fact, "Linux has kept Microsoft prices down in my neck of the woods," said Philippines-based Lim.
'One Desktop Linux'
For the future, though, "there are too many distributions, too many package management systems and no common application programming interface," Lim opined. "How many is too many? Anything over one."
If the Linux desktop is to gain ground, "there has to evolve a single dominant Linux distribution with a single default user interface," he asserted. "In other words, Linux users would have to agree to give up some freedom and rally around one banner. There is no need to build a better Linux -- there is a need to build a 'one desktop Linux.'"
Indeed, along similar lines, "in 20 years, I hope everyone will finally agree on what sound and video libraries we need to have installed," consultant and Slashdot blogger Gerhard Mack offered.
'The Critical Parts Just Keep Working'
"'Gee, where did all the time go?' is my first thought," began Barbara Hudson, a blogger on Slashdot who goes by "Tom" on the site.
"Things have certainly improved in the last 20 years," she added. "No more 15-disk floppy installs. No more fooling with mode lines to get X to work. No picking just the right network card. No winmodems."
On the other hand, "one update broke my wireless, another broke compositing, a third broke flash on firefox (firefox's fault -- it still works on chrome), and I still have to boot into Windows for the odd print/scan job, even though it said 'Linux' on the box," Hudson pointed out. "I guess, because of the pace of change, some things just never change."
Nevertheless, "despite all this, Linux is still the main OS on my laptop, and the only OS on my desktop, because the critical parts just keep working no matter what," Hudson said. "These problems will work themselves out as time goes on -- certainly before another 20 years have passed!"
'Will the FUD Ever Stop?'
In the next 20 years, what Hudson would really like to see is "less FUD around Linux," she told Linux Girl.
"When it gets to the point that even the Free Software Foundation posts a story recommending that 'companies that sell products that use Android can help out by encouraging the developers of Linux to make the switch to GPLv3,' you have to wonder," Hudson said.
"Will the FUD ever stop?" she mused. "Human nature being what it is, it just may take another 20 years. I guess I can wait."
'Bridging the Digital Divide'
Blogger Robert Pogson's only regret is that "I have only 11 years of GNU/Linux under my belt," he told Linux Girl. "I missed at least five years of good times. I stuck with my old 486DX and Lose 3.1 for a lot of years."
Many PCs, in fact, "remain functional for a decade but are scrapped because of Wintel's greed," Pogson noted. "I expect in the next decade the Wintel treadmill will grind to a halt, with GNU/Linux showing up to keep PCs going by the hundreds of millions as thin clients or thick clients for as long as they run.
"ARM will invade the traditional x86 spaces and GNU/Linux and Android/Linux will be there for the next decade bridging the digital divide, making IT really green and working for everyone, not just the monopolies," he predicted.
'How Did That Happen?'
Slashdot blogger and Windows fan hairyfeet had just one wish for Linux in the next 20 years.
"Can Linus retire, pretty please?" he said. "Because mark my words, it won't even be six months after he is gone when Linux will FINALLY have an ABI, and then, surprise! It might actually gain some real share."
Linux is "really a bunch of guys in a bunch of basements scratching an itch," hairyfeet explained. "Nobody really cares about things like usability or the common man. If I had a single wish for Linux, it would be that a Gates or Jobs would come along and just take it away from the hackers and trolls and give us a true third way where the user was No. 1 and everything was so simple and intuitive both Apple and MSFT were left thinking, 'How did that happen?'"
'A Force to Be Reckoned With'
Chris Travers, a Slashdot blogger who works on the LedgerSMB project, took a higher-level view.
"Linux has shown that classical distributist economic concepts work," Travers told Linux Girl.
"The idea that self-employed programmers and consultants have access to and can own (in the sense of being able to use for any purpose) their own means of production is probably the most important feature of Linux, along with the widespread cultivation of community (something HURD was never able to accomplish)," Travers explained. "As G. K. Chesterton once said, 'Too much capitalism does not mean too many capitalists, but too few.'"
Linux, in fact, "is the most public engine which not only shows that to be true but shows that distributive ownership, and collaborative development by hundreds of businesses of all sizes, collaborating as equals, is a force to be reckoned with," Travers added.
'Linux Will Flourish'
As for the next 20 years, "I hope that we will see the continued development of huge networks of programmers and that Linux will continue to bring the best and brightest into careers as open source software developers, whether in the Linux kernel or elsewhere," Travers said.
"If this happens, then software which demands that one company own and control it (whether that's Oracle or Microsoft, and regardless of the license) will be unable to compete with these networks of smaller businesses," he noted. "Linux and other free/open source OSes will flourish, and the old proprietary model will eventually begin to show itself to be unsustainable in most markets."


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Honors Handbook
Cameron University's Honors Program provides a system of supports and rewards for students who demonstrate exceptional achievement in their pursuit of academic excellence. The Honors Program also provides a central focus on the Cameron Campus.
The program offers honors sections of numerous courses that meet general education requirements, honors options in a number of other courses, and honors seminars in special topics. These courses and honors options are open to students with high levels of talent, preparation, and/or motivation. Typically, they are small, discussion-oriented classes, and they are often augmented by field trips, museum visits, guest lectures, technological enhancements, and team teaching. All honors courses are acknowledged as such on the student's official transcript. Full listings of honors course offerings are published regularly by the office of the Honors Program. Honors course offerings are structured to encourage students to complete a significant portion of their general education requirements in honors courses and to encourage students to reconsider the interrelationship between disciplines and careers in interdisciplinary upper division seminars. The Honors Program also encourages the development of high quality undergraduate research, honors capstone projects, and the development of honors degree tracks in major disciplines. All honors courses and completion of comprehensive honors program tracks will be acknowledged on the Cameron transcript.
The program also coordinates the activities of the Cameron honor societies and works to increase their visibility and to maximize their role as hubs of academic leadership in the Cameron campus community. Through the Forum of Honor Societies, the Honors Program is also actively involved in the encouragement of the development, presentation, and publication of scholarly work by Cameron students. The Forum also administers a program which grants tuition waivers and other awards to students who present outstanding work at scholarly conferences.
The aim of the Honors Program is to produce graduates who have gone farther, learned more, and become more capable of leadership both in the community and in a chosen field of study. View the entire Honors Program Handbook.
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Cameron University Honors Students Society (CUHSS) will help shape, promote, and advance the Honors Program by providing constructive recommendations and by creating a vibrant and intellectually enriching campus environment for honors students. In that spirit, we strongly encourage each Cameron University student who has been accepted into the Honors Program to join the CUHSS and help shape its future and that of the University as a whole. The CUSSH meets once a month during the semester (TBD) in the Honors, PLUS, and Graduate Student Study Lounge in Library room 109. Please feel free to stop by the Office of Extended Learning if you have any questions about Honors Students Society.


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Cook the Book: Peached Pork
There is a peach tree in my backyard, and for the past few weeks I have been paying more attention to it than usual. Ever since those tiny green peaches appeared on its branches, I have been counting the days until they are ripe enough to be picked and eaten. I've been daydreaming about all of the ways that I am going to use them once they are ready—pies, cobblers, sliced in salads.
When I came across this recipe for peached pork in Francis Mallmann's Seven Fires, my peach anticipation was taken to a whole new level. I am not generally a pork loin fan; it's typically dry and dull. But scented with rosemary and garlic and served with caramelized peaches? I cannot wait for my peaches to ripen so I can try this one for myself!
- Yield:6
- 1 boneless pork loin roast, about 2 pounds, butterflied
- 8 garlic cloves, minced
- 2 tablespoons minced fresh rosemary leaves
- 7 to 8 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- Coarse salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 6 small peaches, skin on, cut in half and pitted
- 4 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into small pieces
Lay the meat on a work surface and trim off all fat and membrane. Using a meat mallet, pound to an even thickness of 3/4 inch.
Combine the garlic, rosemary, and 6 tablespoons of olive oil in a small bowl. Season the pork with salt and pepper to taste, and spread half of the garlic mixture evenly over the surface. Flip the meat, season with salt and pepper, and cover with the remaining garlic mixture.
Brush a chapa (a flat piece of cast iron set over a fire) or a 12-inch square or two-burner rectangular cast-iron griddle with 1 tablespoon olive oil and heat over medium heat until a drop of water sizzle on the surface. Add the meat to the hot surface and cook until it is well browned and crusty on the first side, about 10 minutes. Meanwhile, arrange the peaches around the meat, cut side down. Dot the butter around and in between the peaches and let them cook until nicely charred on the cut side and slightly softened, about 5 minutes. Transfer to a platter, and cover to keep warm.
When the meat is well browned on the first side, turn and cook on the other side, adding another tablespoon of olive oil if needed, for about 7 minutes, or until done to taste. Transfer the meat to a carving board, tent loosely with foil, and let rest for 3 minutes.
Slice the meat and serve the peaches alongside.
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